Thank you all for coming today. We will like to present seven pillars of our public safety community safety proposal. Each one of the pillars has an immediate action step as well as several other proposed action. Some components of our proposal or action steps you've heard from us many times over the last two and a half years that just haven't happened yet. Some of the ideas are new ideas that came over several community conversations we've had over the past few months. It's a proposal we've invited many community members to co-create this with us, but we haven't invited everyone. So we are still open to feedback and we're open to changes. All of this is really just to start a different conversation about how we create a safe community and to move us toward meaningful action. I'll hand it off to Joe for the first three pillars. The first pillar that I'm going to touch on is gun violence prevention. Concerns about gun violence in our community are valid and we should be working proactively to interrupt cycles of violence and keep everyone safe. In order to do that, we have to start by engaging those communities who are most affected by gun violence, predominantly victims of domestic and intimate partner violence, communities of color, and poor and working people. Succeeding in this work requires us to acknowledge that those most impacted by gun violence often have deep mistrust of law enforcement and as a result are unable to work with police on prevention strategies. We must address root causes of violence and support organizations that have the trust of these communities. We must recognize the role that domestic violence plays in gun violence and homicides, with 50% of homicides in Vermont attributed to domestic violence, including recent gun deaths here in Burlington. We also must engage and support local partners who have strong connections with new American and BIPOC youth. This is an area where we agree with Mayor Weinberger and we are grateful to Director Carson for taking a leadership role in the newly created city task force on gun violence prevention. We hope the task force will consider looking at the care violence model and other community violence interruption models. Care violence works at the hyper local level to reduce gun violence and homicides with the ultimate goal of shifting culture over time. Studies from the Bronx show a near immediate decrease in gun violence with the 63% reduction in shooting victimizations and 37% decline in gun injuries. In Philadelphia, data suggests that implementation of care violence is responsible for a 30% reduction in the rate of shootings and the data also show a steady decrease in the number of young people choosing violence. The second pillar that I want to touch on here is increasing capacity for alternative responders. We continue to ask too much of police officers and EMTs here in Burlington, especially with rising cases of mental health crises and overdose that we've seen in recent years. It is not fair to them or to the community to expect police and EMTs to be primary responders to public health crises without the tools or the training to do so adequately. We need trained mental health clinicians, medical support staff with first responder capacity to be able to address acute mental health crises with the goal of reducing harm and using trauma-informed care. That is the purpose of the crisis response team modeled after the CAHOOTS program in Eugene, Oregon. At around 2% of the police department budgets of Eugene and Springfield, CAHOOTS responded to nearly 24,000 calls for service and only called for police backup and 311 of those calls. They also saved Eugene $8.5 million in public safety costs and nearly $14 million in ambulance rides and emergency room visits. This model has been partially funded in the past two city budgets at $400,000, but the implementation continues to be delayed as we wait for additional funding to bridge the gap. Given the rising calls for service related to mental health and overdose as reported by BPD, it's clear that this resource is sorely needed and we need to do everything we can to get that off the ground immediately. Additionally, since 2020 progressives, especially Councilor Hightower, have asked the administration to increase the number of CSLs. We've traditionally had two. We now have three, and the Council approved up to six positions. Now the department is in the process of hiring the additional three positions. They've had the funding approved since July since we approved the city budget. So it's long overdue that we get these alternative responders in the field. In that budget we approved additional CSO positions as well. We brought the total number of CSOs up to 12 from 8, and we are seeing these positions be very successful. They have responded to nearly 20% of the incident volume that BPD has seen in the last year. The bottom line is this. Officers acknowledge that they don't have the tools of the training to adequately respond to calls related to homelessness, mental health, and substance use disorders. At the same time, we are seeing these alternative responders have a big impact in the short time that they have been on board. As we've seen in communities like Eugene, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado, increasing resources for alternative responders will have positive and near immediate impact in improving outcomes, responding to calls traditionally handled by the police department and the fire department. And I'll hand it off to Councillor Hightower now to go through the next pillars. I'm going to talk through our next two pillars which are addressing root causes and increasing support survivors and victims of crime. We as a community, as a state, and as a country have been underinvesting in community care for decades. What we're seeing now are the holes in our outdated safety net combined with the stress of COVID. We didn't put care systems into the place and it shows in the number of people who have fallen through the cracks. We know this is not happening because of the loss of officers in our department. Other departments without a loss are having the same uptake in car theft and gun violence. This is happening across our state and across our country because we've left too many people on the margins who didn't have the means to weather a shock to their life, be it a car breaking down, an injury, or an increase to their rent. Lack of resilience became systemic with the shock of COVID. Doubling down on crime and punishment doesn't help us much in the short term and it certainly doesn't help us in the medium term or the long term. We can double down on drug dealers. We're not, but we could, but if we don't address addiction, what good have we done? What have we actually fixed? Billions of federal dollars show that we can't war our way into a drug-free America. We can double down on theft, but if we don't address people going into debt due to healthcare needs, what have we done? What problem have we solved? We can double down on camping in our city, but if folks have literally nowhere else to go, what have we accomplished? Right now we're talking about tough guy fall spandades on the symptoms and leaving the disease untreated. We need to start thinking about the disease. Research is clear that real safety happens when communities invest in taking care of each other and make sure people have what they need to thrive, which is affordable housing, strong public schools, vibrant public spaces, and access to healthcare, which includes substance misuse treatment and mental health resources. Criminalization is not the answer and never has been. What could we achieve if we spent the $57,000 a year that it cost incarcerates someone on proactive support instead? What if we spent the salaries that the officers we currently don't have on real community care? We need to right now stop doubling down on our old playbook of crime and punishment and integrate plans for reducing bias, housing access, little wages, corrections reentry, and healthcare. One of the ways that that looks like is focusing not just on the folks who are doing crime, who are probably also historically victims, but also focusing on victims. The police have only gotten involved if a crime happens and there is a suspect. No suspect or way of obtaining one, no police action. Not historically, not today, and not in the future, but a crime still happened and it happened to someone. We spent so much time focused on punishment that we as a society have chronically undervalued what victims actually really want or need, and they don't always want police action. University of Vermont researcher Kathy Fox noted in VT Digger last year, overwhelmingly, victims report higher degrees of satisfaction with restorative processes than traditional criminal proceedings. Similarly, a 2060 study shows that by a margin of three to one, victims believe prison is more likely to make people commit crimes than to rehabilitate them. Victims seven to one would rather see investments in mental health than jail and four to one and drug treatment. Let's listen to victims and let us support them. If for every $10 we invested in crime and punishment as a society and as a city, if we could spend even $1 in making victims whole again, be that fixing a broken car window or providing free access to mental health treatment after a violent crime, we would be a different community. The 2020 racial justice resolution requested demanded that we spend the funds of any attrition and BPD on community care. We've had plenty of attrition, but no reinvestment in community care or supporting victims. Let's change that this year. I want to talk about transparency and community control. It's no secret that we witnessed police excessive use of force against young men of color. Officer involved shootings and fatalities and scandals that led to the resignation of two police chiefs. Police Commissioner Stephanie Seguino has documented racial disparities in police stops for years. This did not start in 2020. And all of this has eroded community trust in the police department and trust is crucial for public safety, for all of our safety. To restore and maintain trust, we believe there must be greater community oversight and transparency. When the mayor vetoed the community control proposal two years ago, he and others said that the existing near monopoly of power of the chief over discipline was an aberration in our democratic system. He promised that they would strengthen the role of our police commission, which is the existing appointed community oversight body that's embodied in our charter already. But he did not. And it is disappointing that the mayor's next steps to advance public safety did not include a commitment to push for the reforms to strengthen the role of the police commission. It is disappointing that he and the acting chief have taken an adversarial position with the commission. And if you want some specifics, look at the commission's 2022 annual report that they presented to the council on September 19th. And if you look at the tape of that footage, you'll see some of us commenting about it as well. To build trust and transparency and fix the monopoly aberration, we should formally strengthen the powers of the commission through the adoption of the ordinance that it requested. And we should also fund the police monitor and staff attorney positions that they have asked for. I want to now move to address the proposed community control board that thousands, thousands of Burlington voters petitioned for. We supported an independent community control board two years ago and it passed the council seven to five. So did the ACLU Vermont at that time and hundreds of Burlington residents spoke in favor of it at that time. It was positively, positively vetted by the National Association for Community Oversight of Law Enforcement, NACOL. The CNA report also supports greater community control in the discipline process. Now, after the veto, thousands of Burlington voters petitioned for the right to vote on an independent board. And we want to say right here and now that we support those voters and we support their oversight proposal and we hope that the voters approve it. Let me speak on a few specifics in relationship to what the mayor criticized about this proposal. The mayor is wrong when he says that the proposal gives exclusive authority to the BPD to a board of over the BPD to a board of unelected officials. The proposal focuses on investigating disciplinary problems alone. Supervision, training, deployment, rules and regulations, host of all the operations are still vested in the chief. The police commission still has the oversight over monitoring and auditing that the charter through the council gives it. Fearmongering, this fearmongering is just plain wrong. The mayor is wrong when he says the proposal will exclude the chief from all discipline of department personnel. There's a whole section on the department's powers of investigation and adjudication of complaints. You should check it out. It's right there in the proposal. The fearmongering is just plain wrong. The mayor is wrong to complain about an unelected board having the power to investigate and discipline police misconduct. Look at the diversity of the board and the selection committee for the people who are actually going to be choosing the board. Who among the listed types of people and groups is the mayor afraid of? The board will be appointed. That's just like the existing police commission and every other single commission. The city council and the mayor appoint a selection committee. It's made up of representatives of community based organizations, but we get to choose them. Plus the mayor, plus the REIB director and a city counselor. I believe that the proposed board is much more democratic and inclusive than investing absolute authority in the chief like the current charter does. It's more democratic and inclusive than the current appointment process for commissions that we have right now. Finally, on just making this critique, the mayor's position is wrong in claiming that the proposal will undoubtedly undermine our efforts to rebuild the department. And accelerate the department of current officers. One of the problems is that that claim itself can be self fulfilling. The CNA report speaks to a lack of consensus among BPD members and community stakeholders regarding police services. The attack on this proposal is no way to build consensus. We should embrace a democratic community control over our police department. The proposal simply codifies the principle that the police should not police themselves, but they are accountable to the communities that they serve. I want to focus on the seventh pillar right now that is the elimination of racial disparities in policing. When we talk about community safety, it's important to make sure that we're talking about safety for everyone. The CNA assessment of the BPD noted what we've known for years now that data shows racial disparities in BPD traffic stops, traffic stop outcomes, arrests and use of force. Without eliminating racial bias in policing, many members of our community will continue to avoid calls for service and see the police as a threat rather than a resource. And I would just point you to the seven days warning shot story. It made that absolutely clear. A key reason for the lack of community trust is that BPD still hasn't taken accountability for the ongoing racial disparities in our policing. The last report that was issued by the department doesn't address that, although their data year after year has shown those discrepancies. We need to do better if we're going to come together as a community. The BPD must acknowledge the reality of bias in policing. It's telling that one of CNA's recommendations was simply that the BPD consider accepting what local data has shown repeatedly about disparity and traffic stops and use of force. And just to quote or pretty much quote the report. Key training topics such as procedural justice, implicit bias, fair and impartial policing, restorative justice, response to mental health calls, cultural competency, and de-escalation are either covered insufficiently, not required, or not covered doing either new officer training or annual in-service training. The mayor's position on partnering with the Center for Police Equity does not fully address this problem. It should. We're glad the mayor's plan includes increased training on bias. We're concerned it simply calls for A training. Training has to be ongoing and not just a box that gets checked. And finally, we should act on the request by the Commission to engage the Center in data assessment and propose solutions for departmental racial bias, whether that is intentional or it's implicit or systemic. The mayor's plan is silent. The Commission asked for this a long time ago. We believe it should be done. Thank you for your attention. As we've outlined here today and will share broadly this afternoon, there are many areas where Burlington can and should choose to lead on public safety transformation. The document that will release this afternoon is intended to serve as the foundation for a broader community conversation. We welcome and encourage folks to read it, process it, and provide feedback. This is just the next step in building a community where everyone feels safe. And we are called to participate in imagining what that looks like. Thank you all and we'll now take some questions. Yeah, so certainly part of it is state funding. You know, I think we we've known since we were engaged in budget conversations in the late spring and summer last year that the money that we had allocated for it wasn't going to be enough. We passed a budget resolution that called for this program to be off the ground by October 31. So I think it is a it's a mixture of a lack of awareness around capacity to actually get that program off the ground and the state not being as quick with with funding support as well. And by capacity, we have a community partner who's ready to implement the the model we just don't have the final funding to make it happen. In the budget process, we asked we said we know we're not allocating enough to this what's our plan for if the state doesn't come through. Are we ready to fund it because we know that we needed this program yesterday. Now we know we don't know when the state funding is coming or if it's coming and I think we just need to say as a community we know that we need this. We have to find a way to fund it even if that is within our own resources. The majority on City Council, how do you hope that you can get some of these really ambitious measures off the ground and get them, you know, to the city to work. Well, we've not had a majority in the City Council and the whole time I've been here we've only had a half which always meant that it's the same it's the same strategy we've always needed another vote to pass anything. Which continues to be the case so it's working across the aisle making compromises finding ways to push things forward. The difficulty maybe with not having half is that we don't have the same leverage to say this isn't okay we need you to compromise with us. Again that just means now also on the other side not just on passing things but also on saying no to some of the mayor's initiatives working across the aisle and saying can you stand with us until we get some of the more important things that we think into the proposal. I was just going to also note that, you know, many of these proposals that we've been talking about for two and a half years have support from Democrats and independents as well. So, you know, progressives aren't standing alone in calling for some of these things but that doesn't mean that the delays aren't still happening. Let me just add one other thing which is that if you recall when the Board of Health brought forward the gun resolution asked us to do that. We had had conversations with them but that also included working with Democratic counselors. And it was in that context that we raised, progressives raised the need for research on gun violence. And I'm happy that the mayor has included this in his proposal that you saw. I totally support that and it's the type of thing where when we start to float these ideas they become part of the public process. They become seriously considered and there is an example where it got picked up. And I'm just really pleased that that was the case and I think all of these things are things that we'll continue to do in that vein. Some of these initiatives can be enacted. There was fairly low turnout at the caucus just wondering if some folks could speak to that. Coach, that's to me. We are excited about, I mean, we are excited about our candidates. I think we've got a great suite of candidates in many of the districts and for the Ward 8 election. In 2020 was the first time that we got to the half. It's not going to happen for us every time. I'm hopeful that we'll get there again in 2024 and that we'll run those competitive races and try to get at least half of the council again. But again, I feel like progressives especially are power very much rests in people power. So that as much means getting folks excited about volunteering and on the doors. We did have progressives still hold the record for the largest caucus turnout. But yeah, I think we're excited to run competitive races. I would note that the 860 some odd of the supposed I don't know for a fact that I'll take it as truth. A thousand Democrats came from word five. We did pretty darn well when you think when you have to weigh the numbers up. Are we going to see calls for more going forward? I certainly think that we should be investing in these positions more. You know, during the budget process last year for the current fiscal year, the acting chief came with came to the board of finance with a proposal that asked for still increases, but smaller increases than we actually ended up with. And I think the fact that we are seeing CSOs and CSLs responding to such a substantial number of calls with relatively a little lead time in terms of how long they've been with the department. I think we're seeing the success already and these are positions that we can hire much more quickly. We can deploy them much more quickly than we can with uniformed officers. So yes, I think we absolutely have to be investing more in those positions. And just to add to that, I think a couple years ago, I know there was a progressive counselor that was basically laughed at for proposing an armed police officer. The fact that we have 10 now is a huge move from that position just a couple years back. And so I think sustainable growth is going to be important. So definitely make like analyzing the data. We already have some of the early data in terms of how many calls those folks can handle basically almost independently and some early data on how much not just even if they're not doing it independently, how quickly an armed police officer can leave the scene after making sure that it is stable and safe and then can have a much more long term proactive addressing of like, okay, let's have a conversation about what's going on. Let's have a community service liaison follow up the next day or the next week or the next month or whatever is needed. So yes, I think there is opportunities for growth. I think we're still waiting for some more additional data on how effective that program is before we expand it. I just want to say it in my work around my ward in particular, I've heard folks talk about safety in Palma Ray Park, talk about Roosevelt Park, talk about Battery Park. And when I have raised the question of presence saying that we need to have presence uniformly, people in those neighborhoods have said that having presence does not mean that they have to be armed officers. Park Rangers, CSL, CSOs are all part of a solution because presence is really important. So I think that we'll obviously, as Araya said, we'll see data. But this is something that from my interactions with folks, people are definitely supportive of and I think it only makes sense in the anecdotal experiences that I've had out there. Sort of like getting followed by a cop when you're driving, you do tend to slow down. Having people present is a good thing. In terms of all these priorities today, would you say they are a response to the mayor's conference last week or were these things that were in the works anyway? How would you describe why today essentially? So I would say it's a mix of both. We've definitely, over the last year, heard the mayor's tone change from transparency, accountability, transformation to rebuild back to normal, which so we've heard the shift over the last year. So half of this is a response to that. The other half is we've definitely started being more proactive on having community conversations and distilling that into what the themes are that we're hearing and what we really want to prioritize. So this is coming out of feedback and input from a lot of different organizations and folks in the community. And then to some extent it is a response to what we kind of expected to hear on Friday based on what we've been hearing over the last year. So we wanted to, we're glad that some of the things that we've been talking about, like being more proactive and reaching out to communities who are most affected by gun violence and some other things are in the proposal, but we expected there to be gaps and we're happy to be presenting those gaps. So I guess I have two points on that, which one is we, back when I was on the Public Safety Committee, we had for a long time, we did a whole review of the CNA report and I heard the one of the assigned delegate of reviewing the CNA report from the Burlington Police Officers Association to say that they're not opposed to community oversight. And I think, which is a different position than the Chief, but who in that meeting very much said he was very, when we already knew he was very opposed to community oversight. I don't think that this is a universal opposed to. I think that this is the beginning. I think if the department wants to rebuild trust and wants folks to be supportive of the department, this is a great first step. It's just saying having more transparency. I think there can be some compromise and conversation around what that looks like. But I think one of the reasons it's hard to be a police officer now is because of the lack of trust and the lack of trust comes from all of this. And so I think this is actually the start to improving the system. It's not in any way an attack on the officers. Just like when we do a financial audit, it's not an attack on our accountants. It's us doing our due diligence. There's another point that I have, but I'm sure somebody else will say it. I mean, I addressed that in my prepared remarks. I just think that at its basic point, it is fear mongering that creates a tenor, which actually reinforces that. So the opposition to that, I think, is not helpful. I just don't buy it myself. Oh, I remember my second point, which is that the city council has done everything essentially that the acting chief and the mayor have asked in terms of rebuilding. That's everything from salary increases, bonus increases, a really historic kind of new union contract that is supportive of officers. And I'm not sure that that's getting at some of the problems. I think ultimately the reason it's a hard department to work for is trust. And so we have to start with addressing that. And I think there's other departments in Vermont who aren't having the same issues that we are because they're committed to transforming and transparency. His points in regard to rebuilding that were in his plan for the most part, with the exception of this one point, seem to me to make a lot of sense. So if you're looking to build a community that's not divided, if you're looking to build consensus, then I believe that we should be focused on those things. And I think that there is agreement on it. The initiatives that you find most opposition to are things that you don't like the most out of his plan. Have you got to compromise on those? Well, there's some things that I don't like, but I think a big part. For me, I'm more focused on the gaps. I think, for example, Jean mentioned this in his statement, but when the police commission came out with their report, the mayor started the speech on how could they be focusing on bias when we should just be focusing on rebuilding the department. And I was like, Maro, you're focused on rebuilding that we can't all like, if you're not focusing on transformation anymore, at least let the police commission focus on transformation. And so I think this for us is as much as about having the other conversation about what makes community safety, which is all of the things that we just talked about. And so I'm, I think, less worried about getting rid of some of the things in the mayor's proposal and more worried about having him address a lot of the things that weren't in his proposal. I don't know if the other counselors feel differently, but. He did add the study, right, for gun violence. That was not part of his thinking before we brought it to his attention and asked that it be included. So I think, as Zariah said, they have asked and where they have been reasonable. We have given them our support and so bridging that. I mean, things are two way streets, right? So, you know, we have put out desires and we hope that they'll be matched with the good faith that we're all trying to provide. I'm wondering if you could weigh in on how you plan to vote on John Muir as your appointment when that comes up. And if you could say why? Sure.  I think council progressives were very clear this time last year when the mayor brought that appointment forward. We were very clear with what we wanted to see change to have the department acknowledge that racial disparities still exist and that bias is the result of racial bias. I still haven't seen the acting chief take that position. And worked proactively to address it. And, you know, we just continue to see an adversarial relationship with the police commission hearing from folks the way the acting chief presents himself is not effort at collaboration with with folks that all have a very a vested interest in seeing transformation and progress move forward. And in most cases are willing to have conversations with him to make that happen. And so for those reasons I am still opposed and I don't know that there's much that could change that would flip my vote. And I'm going to add to just because I have a slightly different position is I a year ago laid out to the mayor the four things that I needed to see which are very public. And you've seen them on what I would need to see change. So I for me this is as much on the mayor as it is on anybody else as the acting chief supervisor is. I just wanted a performance improvement plan and some outcomes before I and now a year later I don't have those things and I'm being asked. Maybe asked to have the same vote and my answer won't change until I see the concerns that Joe just laid out being addressed, especially on the. I don't think you can ask the current city council to appoint an acting chief who still hasn't said that the racial disparities that we see that they see in their own data are real, or that isn't willing to create a plan to address some of the confrontational energy, especially when experts disagree with him. So I think that's on the mayor to create a plan for that. I am more aligned with Zariah on this one when I met with the mayor before I was sworn in. I said if there was a real commitment to transformation that I would be very open to changing my position. It was a position that I posted on the front porch forum prior to his the last appointment vote and explained the reasons I have not seen the motion that's necessary to change that. And I've heard continuing problems with regard to demeanor. I am I'm concerned that our police chief, even well intentioned, even really smart will have the type of relationships and not embrace the type of transformation that. That he has in that we need talking about the demeanor and in the transformation. So at this point, I will not vote yes, perhaps if he were to hold off and can do and do that work plan, you know, that would, you know, hope springs eternal and dies last. I'm going to make one more point, which is one of the other requirements. What for me was oversight supporting oversight as we've to the question of, will that affect morale? The, the mayor put out his own proposal for oversight that hasn't gone anywhere, but he did put one out two years ago. And so I say that at a minimum, if we're having a transformational chief, they have to support the mayor's version of oversight, which I think is a fair bar. Which again, like the BPOA seemed open to discussion. And I don't think I think if we have an acting chief who's opposed to any kind of oversight of the police department that is going to create a. I don't believe in trickle trickle down effect into the officers in terms of how that is perceived as a threat as opposed to as a opportunity. So one thing that strikes me, I frequently hear people say that we need to restore the trust that the community had in the police department. And that to me is an incomplete phrase, because we need to remember that so many members of our community never felt that trust. They never had that relationship.  But I can't give you an answer right now, because I think that community safety really comes down to relationships. If we feel safe in our community, it's because we have strong relationships with our neighbors. We have strong relationships with our institutions. We have trust and we have faith in each other. And so I don't want to give you an answer because I haven't talked to acting chief mirad about it. And I think that it's really important to put that faith in and trying to build a relationship. Right. Thanks. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for our questions and we'll be sending out the full proposal as well as a press release shortly.


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You never make variations easy in this That would be every too easy for us grand prix lewham. Nice one there steven slash young yi There's pure ghastly. Nice one there two two ninety nine On the mini diamond Or alphatari. Yeah, very larkin sweet man. That was a really cool very larkin. What was your other auto too? I forget now Just lando norris on the uh dual color refractor parallel one per box and pure ghastly yuki sunoda Yeah, but you crushed it in that random teams, uh Uh, what's it called a few days ago? There's a max for stappin card number one Five nine six not the variation. I kind of do like the uh, the mini diamonds, too. I think they look pretty clean Uh, jay. They're clean love for sure. There's charles of clerk carlo signs or Ferrari Haas on kim. Yeah Yeah That's right lando norris Refractor Sergio pares driver of the day netherlands They're so trashed There is a charles leclerc On the x-fractor Trying to see what the checker flag checker flag x-fractor one and 18 packs not bad leclerc And it was a tfie speed demons It's a cel ticks logo jay Fernando lanzo refractor five nine six and another uh checkered flag. That's for stappin One and 38 packs number to 199 very nice an orange coming up Sergio pares Another auto this time toto wolf going to mercedes on the principal auto 20 of 25 There we go, steven. Congrats, buddy toto wolf that's sick, dude. You could probably nag this one. I would say release the Yeah, there you go, steven. Congrats, buddy.   Congrats, buddy. That's awesome. So awesome Yeah, toto is awesome, dude Speed the image george russell back to back mercedes oranges unbelievable, dude trials the clerk For ferrari i'm into nova lock And purple a lynch stroll so 399 nice one there. I just look at you and i'm like i would Merk that kid in fortnight Voltaire bocos and uh, about the voltaire boats awesome zaguan you for alfa romale I'll do it for box number two really good, uh two boxes.  Yeah, what'd you say? It's a real barn burner Babies babies, we're dealing with to be honest all day every day Yep here at ghastly yuki su nota. I hear you j We hear you loud and clear it's unbelievable, dude. They are so addicting. I love cards Silver Sergio Perez If anything's messed up it was your son exactly france tossed Louis Hamilton George Russell There's jahan daravula Uh checker flag x-factor silver daniel ricardo silver sebastian betel Silver trials the clerk ferrari silver mataya bonito That's like very look at this just look at the cut on this thing Very off-centered unfortunately, we get to end the box and wrap up with that one Let me see Uh ferrari I don't go into ferrari. Sorry about that ferrari Very bizarre cut right there Off-center just like banato He got the morning energy for work. There we go. It's even Silver Louis Hamilton. There's yuki su nota 40 of 50 Congrats on that. That is sick Who's got alphatari that is gonna be Uh tack-chun c congrats tack-chun nice yuki on the gold max for stappin That close to tiffy max for stappin on the refractor Zhaoguan Yu rookie Louis Hamilton there speedy man glance stroll It's my team right there Aston Martin I remember I was It's my one of my boss like my boss my old job is a huge f1 thing to heart out and um Silver Louis Hamilton. There's a green jq's on the f2 for answer foot answer 4 2 99 It's got literally about literally probably already do a sponsor.  He loves red bull. I think land stroll It was like a big first app in fanboy And um, I was like, oh, my favorite team is mclaire. It is uh alpha Romeo No, is it alpha? No, no, aston martin aston martin uh silver opmar for alpine and oscar piaz tree on the purple to 3 99 nice one there um And he's like well congrats your two drivers crashed into each other this last week during a race and I was like, oh, that's not good Carlos signs for ferrari refractor and last pack last packeroni Purple mix schumacher very nice on the dual color one per box silver valteri botas zao guanyu for No, alpha romano alpha romano Yeah, I know I know i'm coming in tomorrow my first break super After like I literally like we rip personals tonight until two and then i'm back in we go live at 10 tomorrow So i'm doing like a back-to-back, but I have I have saturday sunday monday off. So I can't put a whole we do Speed demons esabano con There's mix schumacher and uh magnuson forget it first and kevin kevin magnuson silver fernando alonso Alpine I don't know if I want to play with a bot like you though You're crazy Charles the clerk say gold extractor george russell for mursadies 48 out of 50 congrats on that mursadies Steven is just killing it man.  It's really low. No you come in and clean it up I was flying the tube on myself. Alexander albaugh. He just left me there Well, I was right behind you. I was like, all right. Let's wait and you go. Oh, I'm already very shooting at me He's blue. He's blue Like thanks. Sean tack lewis amilton speed demons Oh, I don't know yet worm. I don't I'm not a hundred percent sure yet to be honest Sergio Perez Not numbered on the x-factor And yuki sunoda. I'm not sure We haven't really a hundred percent figured out the schedule yet silver is ali caldwell purple niclas latifi to 199 chilling by chilling chilling There's silver max for stappin grand prix silver danily rickardo from mclaran val terry botas Refractor for alpero man. So you say there's a george russell Yeah on the computer Yeah, this mark is armstrong to 299 Not on the playstation. I'm sure one of the cards on a few packs back has randomly had the card number Circle Was it a refractor? Was it a refractor Jeremy? Jeremy said that That means some pizza waiting for our antics. Oh, yeah, you know that goes I'm not seeing it I don't know interesting I have to um, I guess the numbers maybe I don't think Check these I check those. Yeah, I checked all the base too Uh, yeah, I checked those as well. So they're just there. I'm pretty sure Purple louis hamilton Nice one there on the dual color Nicholas's tv just open up the ps a sub. Oh, come on, baby. Let us know von von sub that l2v super I pulled for him out of cosmic the ps a nice. What do we got? What do we got mark is armstrong? You clicked it when you saw okay We'll go in and check it out too. That's weird dude.  Jeremy. You can take a look for it uh, Liam Lawson Jenman tan baby on the l2v Let's go Lando Norris daniel ricardo hell yeah von That's what we like to see right there Callan williams was it a base callan williams? Or a refractor Jeremy or was it numbered This one said the car numbered was circled by a marker It was just the car. Oh the car the car. Okay Looking for that callan william. It's a car. It's a car. Is it horizontal? Hold on guys. We're just taking a look for something someone in chat saying that uh, There's a card that had like a marker mark on it or something Horizontal. Okay horizontal This one right here Keep looking for it too.  Well, we'll send an empty box and wrapper with uh Who is this tried it? That is bizarre. Thank you guys for catching that by the way good catch good eye on that one Jeremy and worm Thank you guys. Let's send that send a box that tried it dude. That's I've never seen that Never seen anything like that. That's so weird, dude. What the hell that's so bizarre, dude That's like the weirdest thing I've ever seen Jeremy thank you for clipping that dude and seeing that I appreciate that man Came in huge right there Dude, that's so that's so strange. There's callan williams speaking of the devil right there At least that one's not randomly circled. No circle on that one. Hold are we kevin magnusson on the dual uh nick lispy, uh, I'll I'll bone as well And what are we using these is like our coloring books now Losing f1 is our coloring books crescent horn for red bull principal. I packed this George Russell speed demons daniel rickardo Louis Hamilton grand prix and yuki su nota on the purple to 3.99 for Alphatori Fernando Alonso a refractor. Okay, this is oh boy Chem. I know it's chem Chem bollock bockey Bullock bashee bollock bashee right chem pull it bullock bashee. I think that's what it was bullock bashee Mike crack Mike crack Russell refractor. Hey, let's go Carl putting together his first psa. So yeah, I got a couple cards. I got to send out Keep saying man. Just never do it Liam Lawson future stars There's mick shumacher Kevin magnusson Sergio Perez on the checker flag x-fractor and speed demons carl of signs and Yuki su nota nice gold wave coming up Sergio Perez And gold speed demons alexander albin. I saw on there for williams 13 out of 50 Your return time is getting much better. I know I only took us three years to get there Shout out psa There's kevin magnusson I got it back in three weeks. That's kind of wild actually going They've been quick man Make a little tf speed demons when you don't have people spam grading jared culver prism base for the Thousand at a time makes it a little easier That's when I that's literally what I've started calling.  Was he three? Hey, middle school must have been top for him, man. He must have had a really tough time in middle school Silver mixed shoe mucker That's amore cordial for van amster foot to 299 it is the junk slab era 100% like 2019 prism football and basketball garbage, dude The base is worth nothing Max for sap and Sergio Perez What's up, Jacob? Jacob Spam grading spam grading in the junk slab. Honestly silver ball terry botas Like dude, I remember there was a time I sold a ps a9 cam reddish base for like 45 dollars That card's probably worth like three dollars now uh, Fernando Alonzo The card is terrible I'm chillin jake. Oh, yeah, what's up, Jacob doing well, man?  So did Sean Everybody's cutting their fingers out here.  There's Charles the clerk. Carlos signs It's like what's his name?  That's tough. Those things are dangerous. Yeah Especially a freshy George Russell refractor got another auto it is opmar uh Sovnauer for alpine nice one there not numbered on the refractor auto Congrats alpine Chrissy Pulls his one on one out of dynasty. It's just kind of nasty there's Zao Guan Yu and orange Charles the clerk 14 out of 25 Boom go into Ferrari There we go, brian b nice one there, buddy Get that mag for a three oranges in a half case not bad orange Alexander elbow Do they get to uh, what do we got tonight? Nothing hopefully we have XR There's daniel rickardo refractor checkered flag purple Charles the clerk to 199 another one there Sergio Perez There's max for stappin grand prix winner. Thank you Daniel rickardo Another orange this time yuki su nota Not numbered because it's the orange multi. This is a troll right here The multi color because it's so it's like it's like orange and red That's a troll nice still a nice yuki though for alphatari and Sebastian Vettel that lance stroll Just enough and then they're like nope That's harry boatos Lando Norris And jihann duro valla going to f2 Prima i'll do it for the break guys do a quick recap here for some color and Autos We had a Svanour and maria marino sato Uh yuki su nota marcus armstrong yuki su nota Kevin magnuson louis amilton mixed shoe maker to toto wolf land stroll Oscar piaz tree jacky jq's to 99 George russell gold to 50. That's yuki su nota gold to 50 lando norris Uh not numbered louis hamilton not numbered and alexander albon gold to 50 We had our mags cards gold of max forstappen sergio pares Orange charles the clerk had toto wolf orange auto to 25 for mercedes and louis hamilton Driver of the day that will do it for the break. Thank you guys again for the fill next up. We have another one of these


A CIO is not something that every single person I'm sure would find interesting, but it is a great position. It is the position that really ultimately can craft that vision, make those high-level collaborations, make things happen, can make decisions that impact the university's IT strategy and for all the people that are working in those organizations. Very exciting. When it comes down to you is if people see it and they think, well, you know, Mark or whomever doesn't seem to be having that good of a time, they seem to be stuck in these quandaries, you know, where we can probably do a much better job of showing a more balanced perspective and talk more about what's happening. I think as far as those people that come up and maybe are thinking, I can never do that, and I know I referenced in the article being at one of the regional conferences for EDUCAUSE and having some great conversations with folks, but some of them are just like, well, I could never do that. And they could. They absolutely could do that. They're very talented. And so I think from that view, they're perhaps getting hung up on one portion. Perhaps I'm not comfortable public speaking, or perhaps I don't feel like a deal with the politics at the top or whatever it might be. I think that those are things we all learn, and we all go through that. And I think if you're interested in it, there are certainly resources available in paths that you can, you know, trailblaze in terms of how you get there. So I think from that view, I would certainly encourage people to try. There's still institutions that haven't really hired a CIO before, but I think more and more of those are coming. I think we could use some help even within our own professional development of understanding what is on a president's mind, a provost's mind, dean's minds. We have some sense of that. We have sense of that from our experience. But I think it gets back to the basics where, you know, the president or the chancellor that I work for, you know, interested, but not particularly high priority to understand more about my world. I need to understand what his priorities are, what he's laying awake at night trying to figure out how to solve. If I can understand that, then I'll be adding value and I probably will be at the right table.


In this video, we're opening Yu-Gi-Oh's rarest packs ever to celebrate 1,000 straight uploads on the channel. What's up guys? We are back with another insane opening. In this video, this is our 1,000th straight upload. We have had live streams, mostly videos, and an occasional, I think it was two times we just uploaded a short back in 2021, but since that date of February 26, 2021, I have had a video live stream or short on this channel every single day. And to celebrate my dedication to you guys, I'll be dedicating another epic video for you guys. This is going to be pretty amazing, but first we do have a classic giveaway. I'll be giving away a 25th anniversary LOB booster box. I have one somewhere. I just didn't feel like digging it up because I've got a lot of cases piled up. So you won't see it, but you will get it if you win. And speaking of giveaways, they're on the community tab, so go check that out if you guys haven't seen it. And by the way, if you message me, it might take me a while to get back to you because there are a lot of giveaway winners and stuff. So don't freak out if I don't answer within the first couple of days. You will get your giveaway, so don't worry. Do you ever want to buy cards from overseas? Yes, Ruxen, we do want that. Okay, just do it then. But Ruxen, the shipping is so expensive. Shipping. Now that's a problem. Unless... I often want to buy things from card market, but because they only ship to European countries, I'm just out of luck. Or am I? Shipping begs to differ. Shipping is a parcel forwarding service that enables you to shop from over 20 countries throughout the world. One of these countries is Japan, the country that invented Yu-Gi-Oh! You know they got some nice shiny cardboard! I even sent my own sister to Japan to get me some OCG cards in the past.  This is what we're working with. They have a lot of different kinds of cards. I didn't learn like any kanji, so I can't read all these. But whoever this guy is, I'm kind of feeling his vibe. But in case you don't have a sister to ship off to Japan, shipping's got you covered. I worked with the shipping team to obtain a card from card market, the European website I previously mentioned. Since I've been interested in maxing out my Edison deck, the shipping team hooked me up with an Ultimate Rare Miracle Fusion to upgrade one of my current copies. That's an awesome looking card. Rare cards often have few listings or sales to compare to when buying or pricing out certain cards. Plus, if you've ever faced the sorry we don't accept your card blues, shipping's buy for me service and their host across the globe have got your back. They'll handle the purchase hassle so you can land a better price on the card you're chasing or finally get your hands on that rare gem that's been just out of reach. Oh, and shipping isn't just for buying cards. They also have access to things like the Pokemon Center in Japan, which has tons of insane Pokemon merch as well as other collectible items. If shipping sounds like something you want to try, use my code ruxen15 with the link in the description and you can get 15% off your purchase. Thanks again to shipping for sponsoring this video. Okay, back to the important celebration. I have a massive amount of awesome packs here. We have 24 retro packs here. We have some turbo pack sticks, dark arm dragon potential, we have some legacy of darkness, we have LON, we have Magic Ruler, our last first ed, LOB happy pack and a blister of first ed metal raiders. So obviously my favorite set had to be in here. This is going to be a crazy opening guys. It might be a little longer too because we're definitely going to take our time on these old school packs. Sit back, relax, grab your popcorn and please send me a little luck in the comments that we can pull something amazing like a blue eye shiny dragon, dragon master knight, arby's bad dragon, we got PSA 10, but still I'm excited. Let's get into it. I've been pumped through this opening. I've had this idea to open up these specific packs for a while and I was like, you know what? Let's just record it today. I've been waiting like for months. I was like, I could record it really early and I could do it now. I'm like, no, I should probably wait until it's actually kind of close to, you know, the day. So here we go. I'm excited. Let's open this thing up. First pack of retro pack is a very expensive opening today. Very expensive. I mean, this is one of the more expensive ones we've done probably this year, maybe the most expensive. So here we go. One, two, three, four. I'm excited. There's going to be a pretty big opening coming on whatnot in just a couple of days. So you haven't seen that. Go check out the whatnot link. You have $15 for free, but obviously this is a big one too. We're celebrating. I'm going to pull the blue eyes. Just get us ready to pull the blue eyes in a couple of days. Parasite, parasite. We have a Gemini Elf, Thousand Eyes Idol, Insect Imitation, Spear Message, L, Grape Thieber Spy. We don't like to see that L. That's not a good sign. And a Dark Jeroid. The L's already coming through and giving us L's. Okay. A lot of retro pack too, but I am going to go to one of the Legacy of Darkness. This is Unlimited Unfortunate. It's still really cool. $4.49. Not actually the case. Okay. Unfortunately, not $4.49 any more. Maybe one day. One, two, three, four. Let's see what we can get. We have Robotic Night. Got to make sure we're recording on this old school. Classic Celebration Opening. I'm hoping we can have an amazing pull in this video. At least one. Troop Dragon, Fanching Mirror, Petition of Darkness, Affane Plan, and Opti Clops.  That's fine. We've got a lot of awesome cards coming up. I'm excited. I know we can pull something good. And we're going to do it right now. Why wait? Why wait? Why does it need to be late in the video? It doesn't. We can pull Blue Eyes Shining right now. We can pull Blue Eyes at the end. Why not? One, two, three, four. Retro Pack 2 does tornado some pretty amazing commons in Retro Pack 2. Mask of Restrict. Card of Safe Return. Four Star Gladiabug of Duel and Ghost Source. Creature Swap. Light Force Sword. Yadagrasu. Pretty awesome card right there. And a sea spy or another rare. Okay, not that crazy. And before we keep going, I do want to remind you guys that I have started putting stuff on my store, ruxant34.com, besides just box breaks, which we will have box breaks up there. We probably have one currently right now.  But I also put up other singles, PSA cards, stuff like that. So if you've not seen that, go check it out down below. It can help support me because, you know, this is a pretty big L, but you got to take the spirit message out every once in a while to open up some amazing packs. Right? That's how this is how it works on this channel. One, two, three, four. Guardian Spinks at the front. We have Opti Clops. So far, no foils. We're still looking. Reckless Greed. Book of Taiyu. Appropriate. Guardian Spinks. Grave Keepers of Salem. We have Premature Burial. Come on. Lighting Blade, Ann. Oh, an Injection Berry Lily. Ultra Rare. Okay. That's one of the better Ultras in the set. Genzo's probably number one than this one. That's a really solid Ultra. That's as good as it gets, basically, when it comes to Ultras. That's amazing. All right. That's a good way to start this opening. Our first foil pull. Oh, I just noticed, by the way, this has some foil bleed. I don't know if you guys, yeah, you can kind of see it in the text box. A little bit of hollow going on. That's pretty cool. Not that unique for a Retro Pack too, but still pretty cool. Let's do a little Legacy of Darkness action. We have open one pack already. Let's see if we can go Injection Berry Lily back to back. Secret Rare and get the Ultra Rare. That'd be pretty, that'd be pretty insane, actually. Let's see if we can do it. Disappear. I mean, if that happens, we're in good shape. Gray Wing. Nutrient Z. We have Ruxen Special. We have Heart of the Clear Water. Omnisfortune Telling. Possessed Dark Soul. Mysterious Guard. And finally, will it be Injection Berry Lily? No, it's another Optical Ops. Is he having one eye? It kind of looks like he has two eyes, actually. I'm just noticing this, but I'm assuming it's one. Yeah, it's definitely one. I think that those little triangles on the side kind of look like eyeballs. Okay, it's pretty cool when you're like fluff pack as a Retro Pack too, you know? It's just like we have so many of them. But I am going to be out of them after this, basically, I think. So yeah, this is the last of my Retro Pack two stock. We bought like 70 of them or 60 something of them a long time ago at this point, but I've been holding them for a special occasion. This is a special occasion. Book of Taiyu. Appropriate. We have Grave Keeper's Chief. Ruxen Special. Or Raskin Restrict. Good card. Premature Burial. Pretty nice. Spirit Message Elf. Not good. We do not want to see that. Spirit Message Inn. Okay, we can handle that. Kai Guthi Ghost Retro. Really crazy card for Goat. And Seize Fire. Okay. All right.  What can we really expect? What I can't expect is a secret rare. I do want to pull one secret rare out of these at least. If we get more than one, it's going to be insane. Really, any of them would be great. I've pulled a couple before Blue Eye Shining, being one of them. I would love to get a dupe of that. We have pulled the Harpy Spat Dragon, which eventually graded a 10 after two tries. What else did we pull? We pulled the... What's that dude's name? He's like a... Oh, what's that guy? Archfiend of Guilford? I think it's somebody's called. Okay, Dust 20. We pulled that. Spirit Message's Eye. We have Grave Keeper's Chief. Goblin Attack Force. Pretty classic. Light Force Sword. Stop that Exodia. Good job, Yugi. Curse of the Masked Beast. Pretty awesome. Mad Sword Beast. Also pretty awesome. Spirit Message in. And we have Revival Jam. Another classic. Let's go to LOIN after this. This is our bridge to LOIN. Let's see if we can get that super rare from LOIN. I do love that card. I pulled one of these at Collecticon, a Revival Jam, and then instantly got waxed by a magic cylinder pull. One, two, three, four. What in the world? Look at that. Look how dark that card is. It looks like a fake card, actually. It's so red. That's interesting. Let's see if that's a foil. Flame Dancer. We have a Fire Sorcerer. Biomage. This is the... The red card usually is like an LOB thing, so I don't think it's fake. It just might just be a weird printing. Lightning Blade. Groot of the Wind Spirit. We have Emperor's Holiday. The Gross Ghost of Fledreams. Let's see if this is a foil. It'd be weird if it is. No, it's not. It's just an extremely red rare. Interesting. Very dark. Just a rare. All right. I haven't seen one that red other than those fake LOB cards. We should open a Turbo Pack after this. Turbo Pack 3 or 6. I mean, we have three of the Turbo Pack 6. Potential for Ultimate Rare Dark Arm Dragon. That would be insane if we got that. Let me pick some up at Collecticon. If those actually have a Dark Arm Dragon, then it might be nuts. Goblin Attack Force. We have a Nobleman of Crossout. Give us something crazy. So far, we have one awesome pull and that's it. Massacre Strike. We have Octoclops. Gilosaurus. Thousand Eyes Idol. Sometimes this is worth money for some reason. Grave Keeper's Spy. We have Book of Moon and Magical Hats. These retro packs are very iffy right now. They've only got one Ultra for us so far. Now, let's try the Turbo Pack Booster 6. Ultimate Rare Dad could be in here. I think it's right at the front. I really don't remember. So I'm just going to do this. I'm pretty sure that it's not this way. Yeah. Okay. I think it might be at the front. So we're going to do this. Flip it around. We have the Green Kappa, Bountiful Artemis, and... Oh, Quick Draw. That's actually crazy. A Hollow card. Getting a Hollow out of a Turbo slash Tournament Pack is actually really difficult. Okay. Quick Draw Synchron. That's amazing. That's actually a really awesome card because Edison Format and everything. That's probably pretty valuable. Okay. I can't believe those Turbo Packs from Collecticon actually had a foil in them. That is amazing. Okay. Wow. Okay. I'm happy. I'm happy. That's an awesome Super. An awesome Ultra out of Retro Pack. Going pretty well so far. One, two, three, four Retro Pack. I mean, I could accept you getting a secret here though. No, I've got the Four-Face Bees. We have Tornado. I can't believe there's a Quick Draw in there. That's pretty awesome. Magic Ring. That is one of the better cards too. I'm pretty sure I never pulled a Quick Draw when we opened the entire box. Right? Something weird like that happened. Goblin Attack Force. We have Premature Burial. Thousand Eyes Idol. Call of the Haunted. And is it next? No. It's one more. Insect Imitation. Weevil Underwood. Will you give us a secret rare? Here we go. That's another jam. All right. More Jam. That's fine. That's fine. Let's open a Magic Ruler Pack. Unlimited, but original unlimited. So we could get some pretty awesome cards. I hope it's a Blue Eyes 10. That'd be pretty cool. Blue Eyes 2 and Unlimited. MRL is actually kind of expensive. So it's like a hundred bucks for a new mint. So mint would be even a little bit more probably. Turtle Oath. Let's see what we can get. Twin Long Rods. Numero Dos. Course of Sanctuary. Mechanical Snail. Whiptail Crow. Performance of Sworn. Giant Turtle who feeds on flames. We have Magical Labyrinth. And we have a UFO Turtle. So a dud on that one. That's fine. We still got a lot of packs left. Two foils pulled, but both really awesome ones. All right. Back to Yugi and Gaia on his horse. The Archfiend of Guilfors actually a cover card. I didn't even realize that. So just now. All right. Creature Swap. Pretty crazy card. 1, 2, 3, 4. That could bridge us over to a Legacy of Darkness. You can pull that in there in Ultra Rare. Opticlops. Azurup Priest. Book of Chayu. Barrel behind the door. Creature Swap. Light Force Sword. Yadagrassu. Used to be a $3 card. Not so much anymore. Torrential Tribute. They get an Ultra Printing in one of the Battles of Legends, I think. And Hey! Weevil! My Insect Queen has been pulled. Oh, Weevil. We bring out the voice that we pull his top notch card. You'll love to see it, Insect Queen. All right, Retroback. I see you making a run. As I said, let's branch over to Legacy of Darkness. Let's see if we can get Creature Swap Ultra now. We've pulled the common. Let's pull the Ultra. That is not ripping the way I was hoping. Let's do that. Okay. 1, 2, 3, 4. Let's see what we can do. Convulsion of Nature. We have Woodland Sprite. Dragon's Gunfire. A Winged Beauty Giant Dragon. A Fane Plan. Smoke Grenade of the Thief. Skull 9, number 2. Dragon's Range. And the Royal Oppression. Big, big Rare card. That's actually money. So first day, it's like $15. I don't know about Unlim. It's probably like $8 to $10, something like that. It's still crazy for an unlimited Rare. Also, I believe this video comes out the day before the new set was at Valiant Smashers, I think. It's like two weeks before. So I'm recording it a little early. I couldn't wait, guys. So you should be seeing new video tomorrow for that. So get excited. Let's get back to RetroPak, too, though. I'm pumped. Two foils so far out of RetroPak. We just need the secret to have all the rarities. Card of Save for Turn. A Zero Priest. Melchid. Guardian Sphinx. We have Insect Imitation. Curse of the Masked Beast. Skull Invitation. And destiny board. That's a hollow. You can't really see it, but it is a hollow. This is the Labyrinth of Nightmare Bridge. This is telling us we got to open LO in. That's a super. It's only hollow like right there and on the F. That's pretty cool, though. Two supers out of RetroPak. It's definitely picking up. Good job, RetroPak. Now, help us with a Gemini Elf pull. How about that? Gemini Elf. Our last Labyrinth of the Nightmare Pack for this video. Let's see what we can get. Old School Galore here. One, two, three, four. We have a Headless Knight. Lady Panther. Grand Tiki Elder. Cure Mermaid. Drugonic Attack. Spirit's Lady. Fusion Gate. Shining Abyss. And the Return of the Doom. Not the Gemini Elf. Okay. I mean, RetroPak, we've probably opened close to half of them. So three foils is not bad, but we are really hoping for a secret. Last time we opened 24 Packs in was it the 200k special? We got the Heartbeats Pet Dragon at the very end. It's like the third to last pack. Zero Priest. We have Melchid. I would rather not have that much suspense in this video. I mean, it'd be good for the video. Not good for my, you know, my heart. We have a Gemini Elf. I asked for it. We got it. Premature Burial. Three of those in this video. Cure Message in. We have Kaikou the Ghost Destroyer and an Ultra! Swift Gaia, the Fierce Knight. Another cover card. Very nice. Swift Gaia, the Fierce Knight. Two Ultras. Two Supers now. We just need that one rarity. Okay, I think we can go... Let's do another Turbo Pack because we do have two of those left. So we caught a Hollow in the last one. I'm not expecting much here, but I was right. We need to open it backwards and we need to flop it to the front or to the back like that. So we have a Transforming Sphere, Creature Swap, and can we go back to back? It's impossible. No way. Zombie Master. That's like a pretty good card, but we did not get a foil. Not surprising. Still, I mean, that's still pretty amazing. We got Quick Draw. RetroPak too. Come on. Let's go. Let's do this. One, two, three, four. I believe in you. Emergency Pro Visions. Gonna be a little bit of a longer video today. I hope you guys are enjoying the old schoolness. Nobleman of Crossout. Gemini Elf. Again, Appropriate. Dark Room of Nightmare. Call of Dawn, dude. Creature Swap. Come on, Bones. Torrential Tribute. And infinite cards. The cards are infinite, but the secrets are not. Okay, let's do our last Legacy of Darkness. An Honor of Infinite Cards, which is in this set. Here we go. One, two, three, four. Can we get Yatta Injection Fairly? I don't know if it's a Retail or not. Robotic Knight. Devil's Snad. Devil's Snass. So, we have Convulsion of Nature. Ominous Fortune Telling. Mysterious Guard. Stamping Destruction. Spring of Rebirth. And Fatal Abacus for Accounting. Back to RetroPak. We do have that Metal Raiders. Don't forget about that heavy L.O.B. coming up in this video. Lot of potential here. One, two, three, four. RetroPak. Just get us that Shining Dragon again. It's been like two, three years since we pulled it. Bear behind the door. I think three years. Spirit Message Eye. Parasite, Parasite. Emergency Provisions. Gravity Bind. Call of the Island. A Legendary Ocean. Mad Sword Beast. And Yamada Dragon. A Spirit. You got a two Tributes. What is he? Wipe the monsters or the back row? No, this is, oh, this is draw. Yeah. Inflict Battle Damage, you draw five. It's kind of insane. Let's do Magic Ruler real quick. Let's do a little MRL action. Our last one of the video. Still a lot of packs to open in this video, but we are slowly whittling them down. One, two, three, four. Give us that Tune Dragon, please. Mechanical Snail. Guardian of the Throne Room. We have Labyrinth Wall. We have the Liquid Beast. Boar Soldier. Hamburglar Recipe. Psyche Kappa. Fairy's Hand Mirror. And Manga Raiuran. He's got an eyeball. I never noticed that. Is that the Raiuran eyeball on his stomach? Is that his belly button? I have never noticed this. That is, that's horrifying actually now that I've noticed that. All right, belly button eyeballs. That is just a little bit much for me. And let's go back to Retro Pack 2. Come on, give us that big one. Give us that Epic pull real quick. Just make it happen. Epicness right here. One, two, three, four. Come on, we have Bottomless Trap Hole. Dust Tornado. Dark Spirit of the Silent. Book of Taiyu. Grave Keepers of Silent. Thousand Eyes Idol. Spear Message. L, again, not great. Curse of the Masked Beast. Give us some luck from the L. Come on. Oh, a Buster Blader. It's a super, but you can barely see it. They're so subtle on Retro Pack supers, but Buster Blader, another foil. I'll take it. I'll take it. That's five foils, I think, for Retro Pack 2. That's not bad. We're still looking for a secret though. I think we have to go back to back Retro Pack because we do have a lot left. Could probably do the last Turbo Pack soon because it's so unlikely there's a foil, but that kind of makes it exciting because it's like, if there is a foil, we're going to get pumped. Doesn't matter what it is. Are these upside down? Wait. Okay, we got some upside down Shanagan's going on here. We have Emergency Provisions. Barrel behind the door. Come on. Nobleman, give us some luck. Parasite, Parasite. Mad Sword Beast, please. Light Force Sword. A Legendary Ocean. Gilosaurus. Ah, Neutoria. All right, a little My Hero Academia action. Let's go to Turbo Pack. Last one of the video. We are one for two so far on these, which is pretty insane. It's like ridiculously lucky. Okay, let's not spoil it. Ulti Dad would really, I mean, that would be really insane. It would be really insane. Let's see if we can do it. Gemini Spark. Kinetic Soldier. Right here. This could be it. Come on, Dark Arm. Dad, come home. Oh, it's just a Black Garden. Okay. No dad this time, but we've got a quick draw out of three packs. I cannot play. All right, we still have 10 retro pack two. We got a heavy LOB. We got a first-edit blister of Metal Raiders. There's still a lot to come in this video. A lot of potential. I mean, we could have the best pulls yet. Still unopened. Here we go. Four-star Ladybug of Doom. Book of Taiyu. Tornado Wall. Emergency Provisions. Skull Invitation. Come here. Premature Barrel. Another L. This is just not good. Pure Messagen and Magic Cylinder. The L was telling us nothing was coming. All right, we're going to do a couple more and then we'll do the Metal Raiders and then we'll finish it off with LOB after the last few. Come on, Retro Pack. I'm excited. I believe in you. I believe you can do this. Barrel behind the door. Let's make it happen. I need a PSA 10 Shining Dragon. I have my nine still from back on the day. We could get a PSA 10. That'd be pretty amazing. I mean, I would take it if it's a seven, but a nine or a 10 would be pretty incredible. Legendary Ocean. We already got one on the Harpy's Pet. Took a little effort. Kaiku. Curse. Let's go. Skull Invitation. Blue Eyes. Infinite Cards. Okay, Infinite Cards. That's fine. Couple more Retro Pack twos. I mean, these are like really expensive packs that we're going through just like their brand new sets, which is like, it kind of hurts a little bit. So I'm hoping for something big guys. I'm hoping for something huge here for you guys, for an epic video and for me. So I can have an epic pull. Dark Spirit of the Silent. Bottomless Trapple. Opti-Cloth with his one eye. Reckless Green. Guardian Sphinx. Insect Imitation. Curse of the Masked Beast. Skull Invitation. And another My Hero Academia. Not good. Okay, we're going to open this and we're going to open Metal Raiders. Give ourselves one more shot before Metal Raiders. One, two, three, four. Let's go. Come on, Blue Eyes shining. Mask of Restrict. Make it happen. Melk it. Four Star Ladybug of Doom. Magic Drain. Spear Dragon. Dark Room of Nightmare. Call the Haunted. Creature Swap. And Gear Freed. Okay, Gear Freed. For some reason, I thought that was something. Maybe next time. Okay, Metal Raiders. First-Ed Blister. Here we go. Not the best condition. So we're going to just do that. Just pop it open. It was ready to be open for us. Really cool looking blister, to be honest. I might keep that. Looks solid. Looks amazing. I've pulled someone's skull out of a blister before. I love to do it again. I would really love a gate guardian. Can't be pulled out of here. Has to be Thousand Dragon. I would take that as well. Beast Skull would be awesome. We've created many tens of those, but it just doesn't get old. There's so many good cards. Solemn Judgment would be cool. Really, any foil is going to be awesome. If it's an Ultra or above, we're freaking out. One, two, three, four. Here we go. We have the Armored Zombie. Check out that defense. That armor is working real well. Flame Cerberus. We have Battle Steer. High Sube. The Cheerful Coffin. Lady Defei. Look at these first-Ed cards. Where's the Pakenio Moth? Blue Ink Crown. Give us the Pakenio, please. Lava Battle Guard. Oh, okay. I think that's it. Is that all the cards? Okay. Nope. Pakenio Moth. Foil time. Let's go. Lava Battle Guard. Oh, which is a Brinnis. Okay. A whiff of a Metal Raiders Pack, to be honest. Lady Defei is pretty cool, but Armored Zombie is a classic. Okay. Nothing in our favorite set. I would take a Blue Eyes. We can get nothing on a Retro Pack. Get a Blue Eyes. If I get a Blue Eyes Shining or a Blue Eyes White Dragon, this is considered an instant massive success. Either one of those.  One, two, three, four, 1,000 straight uploads, guys. It's been pretty amazing. It's been insane that we've been able to do this, make it happen. I'm really thankful to you guys for watching and joining the channel for so long, and I hope that you guys continue to watch. Pretty cool. Dark Spirit of the Silent. 1,000 uploads. Maybe we can make a 2,000. Who knows? Opti Clops. Three years from now. For sure, our priest. We have a Spirit Message L. Has appeared way too often in this video. It's just a sign. Spirit Dragon. We got Grave Keeper Spy. We have the Lightning Blade, and our final card here is a Freed, the Matchless General. Okay. Not the Mattress. The Matchless. Yeah. Just want to clarify there. Retro Pack 2. Come on. I've given you a few chances. 24, in fact. 2, 3, 4. We've gotten some Ultras, some Supers. No secret today. Gemini Elf. All I need is one. I don't care which one it is. It'd be great if it's one we haven't pulled. That'd be cool. Spirit Message A. Dust Tornado. Goblin Attack Force. Mad Sword Beast. Spirit Message N. Yadagadasu. We have Bugamoon. And we have a Mage Power. Okay. It's just a few rares in a row. It's leading us up to the end. We have 4 more Retro Pack 2. Heavy LOB Wavy Pack. Wow. What a video, guys. What a video. It's been crazy. It's been insane. I hope you guys have enjoyed it so far. I'm pumped. We have Goblin Attack Force. Card of Safe Return. Tornado Wall. Dark Spirit of the Silent. Torrential Tribute. Premature Burial. Come on, Blue Eyes Shining. Idol. Call the Haunted. Come on, Dragon Master Knight. Let's go. Another mattress general. No, not again. Three left. Okay. Third to last, I think, is when we pull the Harby's Pad. So let's see if we can replicate that right now and get another secret. Secrets out of Retro Pack 2, man. They are not easy. One, two, three, four, obviously. Gemini Elf. Spirit Message A. Dust Tornado. This has started to a somewhat long video. Goblin Attack Force, but we are opening some nice packs. So we want to take our time. Yadagrasu. Book of Moon. Dark Room of Nightmare. And Kaiser Seors. This is a rare in Retro Pack. I didn't even realize that. Kaiser Seors. Okay. A little cover card from SKE. Only two packs left for Retro Pack 2. Did we get all the good stuff in the 200k opening? One, two, three, four. Or is there something in the last two packs here? Come on. Give us some last pack magic. Come on. For the Ruxen special. Here we go. We got the Crossout. Parasite. Gemini Elf. Come on. Card of Save for Turn. Spirit Message In. Skull Invitation. Come on. Come over here. We got Guardian Spinks. The Gravity Bind. And we have an air knight. We have pulled this. I pulled that earlier. In an earlier video. I mean, that was earlier today, but it was not in this video. So not really earlier, but you guys have seen that video already. Okay. Retro Pack 2. Last pack. Last chance at a secret. It's going to kind of suck if we don't get one, but that's just Retro Pack 2's brutal. I've opened a sealed box for Retro Pack 2 and not gotten a secret. So it's a thing that can happen. And unfortunately, it looks like it's going to, unless we get lucky here. Gemini Elf. Last pack of Retro Pack 2 to celebrate 1k. Appropriate. Dust tornado. Every time we do Retro Pack 2 for a celebration, except 200k, I guess, they do terrible. Massacre Strike. We have Mad Sword Beast. Darkroom and Nightmare. Gilosaurus. Creature Swap. Come on. One more chance. Just give us a secret. Any secret. It's all I'm asking. Okay. Those weren't the best Retro Pack 2 packs. We at least got the injection fairy, Lily, and we got the Swift Gaia, which is not a very expensive card, but it's an Ultra. But it all comes down to this. It doesn't matter what else we got. If we can pull any Ultra out of this set, I don't care if it's an Exodia Lim. Gaia, I don't care what it is. I'll be pumped. We have pulled all supers for my heavy packs. It's going to be a bummer if they're all supers. So be prepared for me to be bummed if we pull a Super Rare. Because if we pull nothing, if it's not a Hollow at all, then I'll just be shocked because it's a happy pack. But I'm expecting a Super and hoping for an Ultra or a secret and just hoping for the best. So wavy first edition packs. Like a $1,000 Yu-Gi-Oh! pack. My last one. These were quite expensive. We've taken a huge L on these so far. It's been all supers. So we had one card get damaged. You know, crazy stuff has happened. One, two, three, four. Just hoping for that to be the Blue Eyes White Dragon. If it is the first at Blue Eyes White Dragon, it'll all be worth it. Dark Magician will be worth it. Red Eyes will be worth it. Exodia head. All that stuff. Basic Insect. First dead. Beautiful. Ray and Timbertoota. Awesome. First dead. Dragon Treasure. These are legitimate looking cards. No weird font going on here. Fire Yard. I mean, the others were legit. So we're not that worried. Fire Yard. The Furious Seeking. Of course, I have hiccups right now. The One-Eyed Shield Dragon. Come on, Blue Eyes. Just make it happen. Umi. Let's go. Come on. We have a Hino Tomasoul. Okay. Is that seven? Okay. It's the next card, guys. Our last Heavy Pack. Will it be an Ultra Rare that we'd look for? Will it be another Super? Let's find out right now. Blue Eyes White Dragon. Dark Magician. Red Eyes. We really want the Blue Eyes. Come on. Another Super. Okay. Yeah. I told you guys, I am going to be disappointed if it's a Super. So we went five Supers on our Heavy Pack. So that is quite unfortunate because I know the guy who got the other five packs got two heavies and one was a Dark Magician. So I kind of got killed on that. So that is unfortunate. I mean, Maneater Bug is a pretty cool looking card. I had high hopes when I saw the darkness and like, it's going to be something crazy. Should have realized it has to be vanilla to be good. So a little bit of a disappointing ending this 1000 straight, but this is just how it goes when you open booster packs. You're going to get unlucky sometimes and lucky other times. So we had some decent pulls in this video. If you guys enjoyed it, don't forget to subscribe. We're going to be uploading a lot more in a row. Continue our 1000 video streak. And don't forget to check out the new sets coming up and whatnot this Friday. It's going to be pretty crazy. We're opening the first 11 booster boxes ever.


Frick! Dude! Because I had my shirt off! Dude, you know what that- Oh my gosh, what the frick? You know what his voice reminds me of? Uh, Aladdin the Tiger Sand, uh, dungeon. I haven't seen this part yet, no. Wait, put it- put it- Oh my gosh! Dude!   Dude, I was not ready at all for this. Dude, there's gotta be a gimmick. There's gotta be some gimmick! Frick, man! Everyone dies here? It's because I had my shirt on! I wear a shirt! I was weak! Deserved. Turn on the heater next time. Dude. Dude, I stepped out for lunch and I'm seeing a level 7 now. What happened? Someone set up us the bomb. Why was he so hard? Dude, I was taking so much damage! Dude, I was taking so much damage! Underleveled? I thought it's scales! Campaign doesn't scale. Wait, really? It has a minimum level. Look at this one. These ones have shaved chests. I'll say it to you in mind, no. Like, I actually, like, straight up lost. Should have backup gear and a shared stash. Wait, you can save gear for other characters? Yes. I did not do that. I salvaged everything I had. Is this your first Diablo? No, I've played other ones. Okay, this time... I'm already level 4. Okay, we're gonna be fine. Don't curse the run, take it off. What the heck? Why is he all amazed at the very, like, how is that even... Dude, it's crazy how much faster this game is, by the way, whenever you don't watch cutscenes. Are you turning hardcore again? It's like, why play if it's not hardcore? I don't know, there's something about, like, Diablo, like, ARPGs, that it's like, you kind of have to play hardcore. I don't know why, like, my brain just thinks that way. Dude, that... Wait, what the frick? That's sick! Oh my gosh, I forgot to get the... I always forget to get that waypoint, dude. Where's your shirt? You died with your shirt on. Yeah, that's why I died, is because I was wearing a shirt. I didn't have complete and total character immersion. The first day I played Diablo with a shirt on, I died. What are the chances? 100% are the chances.  I went Earth Barrier and I should have had the Bloodhound man. I should have had Bloodhound on that boss. I wasn't Kriparamos for a frickin' boss, dude. Okay, uh, am I crazy? Or is my character way stronger? With this build and the other build that I was doing. Like, everything's good at low level? No, I'm definitely hitting harder than I was originally. But I don't want to talk about it. Why is he naked again? My wife is going to leave me. Hey, you're welcome. You're welcome. I love how the lightning, whenever they do it, it like burns them into a crisp. Dude, what if I died? If I died right there, I would actually put Diablo forever. I had the follow male buba stream. Thanks, man. Welcome to the stream, dude. Like, I'm cosplaying my druid, except right now I'm wearing a shirt. Oh, wait, hold on. I have to put my shirt back on. Run is doomed. No, it's not. I'm matching. I'm matching. But I don't remember this Rahaksa Elite. Sick. Dude, man, I think this druid build has been in the other one. I was not this strong. I had level one before, dude. Whenever I did this boss the first time, I was super not this strong. Back to scratch. Wait, I still have all my gold. Do I still have these? Oh. I thought when you guys said that I had to put something in the bank. Okay.    You are horny as fuck, man. You're a freak, man. Thank you. Okay, I'm muted early.


So let's do this problem and we can really emphasize the effect of an external magnetic field on one of these atoms, okay? So remember we said if you have unpaired electrons in one of your orbitals, the atom itself or particle will be affected by an external magnetic field, okay? And if it is affected, we call that paramagnetic, okay? So let's go ahead and draw the condensed orbital diagram of silver, okay? So everybody help me out with that. You can help me out just by calling it out. So what would we start with? Crypton. Crypton, yeah. And then 5S2, well not with silver though, right? 5S1, that's all right. Or D10, is that everybody okay with that? Okay, so that's the condensed electron configuration. Let's draw the orbital diagram, okay? So just so we can see the unpaired electron. So this is going to be paramagnetic. Why? Excuse me, because it's affected by the magnetic field, external magnetic field. What would you expect the ion for silver to be? So let's draw the condensed, well let's draw the electron diagram, or the electron configuration and then the condensed orbital diagram, okay? So silver is going to be plus one. Why would you expect that? So what's its condensed electron configuration? Crypton, 4D10. Yeah, Crypton, 4D10. So it lost that 5S electron. As hopefully you would have expected. So when we draw the condensed orbital diagram, it's still got the filled 4D, right? But does it have any unpaired electrons? No, okay? So in fact, if you put this through the same experiment as the silver atom itself, it would not be affected by the external magnetic field, okay?  So why is this paramagnetic? Because we've got that unpaired. And why is this diamagnetic? No. So you should be able to figure out if something's paramagnetic or diamagnetic. Any questions on this?