Unscrew the spikes of your floor-standing loudspeakers, screw in the guy are isolators and they supply what was always promised spikes would do. Two weeks ago I reviewed the Tansun podium isolators and was very pleased with what they offered, sound wise. But in my situation the aesthetics were prohibitive. For others the price might have been a problem, although I consider them to be worth the money. Shortly after the review went online, I got several tips to try the Isoacoustics Gaia isolators. I milled the Dutch distributor and within two days I received two sets of Gaia 2, the right types for my audio-physics corp here loudspeakers. There are three versions, called Gaia 3, 2 and 1, for respectively loudspeakers waiting 32, 54 and 100 kilos or 70, 120 and 220 pounds. I reviewed the middle one, the Gaia 2. These are small metal pots which measure 51 by 43 mm. The metalwork is finished in dark chrome with a logo that identifies the front side, which is important for their directional. They come in sets of four with three sizes threads, M6, M8 and quarter inch 20 on one side to fit the speaker and on the other side M8 to fit the Gaia. On the thread you screw a locking nut to fix the thread to the loudspeakers, a locking thumb nut to fix the position of the Gaia and the Gaia itself. Optionally special solutions are available for speakers that need a different size thread or mounting place. I've been wondering about the idea behind spikes for a long time. I can see that when loudspeakers have to be placed at a long pile carpet, spikes are the best way to place them stable. But the stories about spikes earthing the speakers or flowing vibrations down to earth I never understood. Agreed the weight of the loudspeakers vest on three or four tiny spots, so the pressure per square centimeter is very high and thus the contact with the floor must be firm. This means that cabinet resonances will travel down to the bottom of the loudspeaker and via the spikes to the floor, where they will be reflected back into the speaker. But might you say, I can hear improvement when I put spikes under my speakers? Of course you do hear a difference. The floor might absorb some of the resonances, depending on the properties of the floor they will differ though, as will the spectrum of the energy that is reflected back into the speakers again. Don't think concrete floors are too stiff to be excited by audio. My house has concrete side halls, floors and ceilings. The front and the rear are brick and mortar. It is the third house of the block and when I play my music really loud, the neighbor at the end of the block can clearly hear me playing. Luckily he is an old colleague from when I worked in a high-fiveshop 45 years ago. I can't complain about the other neighbors either, they never complained to me, so I am the lucky one. Back to the spikes. It depends on the spectral balance of the reflected energy what happens with the sound quality. It all depends on the speaker design and the floor construction. What you want is to absorb the vibrations over the entire audio spectrum by converting the energy into heat. This is what devices like the Gaia do. Not that the Gaias become warm, the amount of energy is limited in the heat terms. But as we have seen in the review of the Townshend platforms, speaker movements at normal listening levels are only one or two microns in the mid-range. If you then realize that a human hair is on average 70 microns and even a red blood cell already is 8 microns, you understand that a one or two micron movement is minute. A cabinet resonance can easily cause coloration to the sound, especially in the time domain for resonances are slow by nature. How exactly the Gaia works is not described by Isoacoustics. There is a cut-through drawing, but that doesn't give away much. They do have published measurements, they did at the National Research Council of Canada using what looks like a focal Cora A26 loudspeaker. They first compared the frequency response using both spikes and the three Gaia models. As you can see the four measurements are as good as identical. The paper concludes that there is no coloration, which is a slightly confusing way of describing that in the amplitude domain there are almost no differences. They then use a laser vibrometer that scans the speaker's surface to measure vibration levels at various points. This produces a second graph in which again frequency and amplitude measurements can be found at the top of the graph. Below that the blue trace is the velocity or vibrations of the speaker on spikes, while the green line shows the same when placed on the Gaia IIs. The heaviest peak show a large difference on movement of 7.5 microns per second for spikes and 3 microseconds for the Gaia IIs. In other areas the difference is less but still significant. I have no equipment to reproduce this but it correlates with what I hear. ISO Acoustics has published clear instructions on mounting the Gaias on their website and on YouTube. But in short you have to select the threads that fit your loudspeakers, screw them in and secure them using a locking nut and the supplied wrench.  You have to lock the Gaias so that the ISO Acoustics logos are pointing to either the front or to the rear of the loudspeaker. Apparently they have different damping, sideways and front to back. You best put the loudspeakers on his side or back on material that doesn't damage the loudspeaker finish. Since my loudspeakers are deeper than white, I put them on one side on the couch.  ISO Acoustics advises you to place the speakers on towels if you want to show them around to find the optimum placement. To keep the same reference as used with the Townsend podiums I use my setup 1A again. The Air Acoustic AX520 amp drives the audio of his Scorpio loudspeakers. Connected to the amp is the Chord Dave DAC that receives its signal from the Chord Jugo M-scaler. The Aurelic Aries, used as Roon Endpoint, is connected to the M-scaler and talks to the network over the Network Acoustics Eno system and the SOtM SNH 10G switch. The Intel NUC runs Roon ROG on a M.2 SSD and has music stored on an 8TB Samsung SSD. Added to that are subscriptions to both Tidal and Kobuse. Roon is controlled on an Apple iPad Pro. It was immediately clear why so many viewers advised me the Gaians. The effect they have on the sound quality is liberating. The sound cleans up, basses are tighter and deeper, mid-range has more resolution, the spatial projection is roomier, the stereo image more precise, the background deeper black, micro-dynamics are more convincing, overall it makes the sound more real and very convincing. A set of Gaians will set you back € 339. Since you need a set per speaker, the cost will be € 678, € 188 more if you need the Gaiac Carpentis as well. There is about half the price of the cheapest Townsend podium. I must say that the podiums performed a tad better but the difference, at least in my case, was limited. And the Gaians easily get approval from both the aesthetics and the finance committees. The best way to buy them is to order them under the condition that you can return them when you are not satisfied. But don't order them if you can't spare the money, for you will become very unhappy. And with this warning we have come to the end of this program. There will be a new video next Friday at 5pm central european time. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you will be informed when new videos are out. Help me reach even more people by giving this video a thumb up or link to this video on the social media. It is much appreciated. 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Sequence of rocks observed in estuaries are different than those in deltas. Estuaries form when sea level is going up and flooding a river valley. So if you were to look at a sequence of rocks that represents accumulation in an estuary, you would see that evidence of the increase in sea level. So if we were going to draw a stratigraphic column through time using Walther's law, the ocean water is going up. And I've mentioned that this is a flooded river valley. So if we took a point right here, originally it was an environment with a fluvial channel. And so there might have been some mud deposited, but then the channel itself is erosional on one side. And if it has pebbles, it could have quite coarse-grained sediments. And then we have it finding up, representing the migration of a point bar in a meandering river. So this shows the grain size change. We have our mud here. And then we can have trough cross stratification, maybe some upper planar cross lamination here. Some trough cross stratification. And then at the top of the point bar, it's often rippled. And if we had fluvial deposition for quite a while there, we might have another channel. Again, finding upward with a sequence of structures, including, say, trough cross stratification and ripple cross lamination. So these represent the fluvial deposits. When the ocean starts going up, you start to see the evidence of tides. I drew this as a tidally influenced estuary here. And so as the sea level goes up, maybe you end up reworking some of the sandstones. And you see the two directions of flow. So I'm going to draw my current ripples showing opposite directions of flow here, which will be a shorthand for herringbone cross stratification. It could be that you also start getting more mud. Even though there's a river coming in, if the tide's coming in strongly, you can get mud settling from suspension. So we will add a little bit of mud in here. And it can be exposed at low tide. And so we might have some mud crocs. And then maybe we actually have an area where marsh develops. And so we have some root casts in the fine grained area. Maybe there's a little bit of sand in there. So this part in here, the mud cracks and the roots and the plants is consistent with either an estuary or possibly a floodplain deposit. But then the tides keep working the sediment back and forth. So then maybe you end up with this bar, like the one the star is right next to. And in that bar, you'll see evidence of tides again, including the ripple cross lamination. Sometimes you can also get trough cross stratification. And then maybe there are some mud drapes in that zone as well. And reactivation surfaces would be another feature. As the water level keeps going up, the water depth might get finer. You still have transport in two directions. I should say the water depth will get greater, not finer. The grain size gets finer. Maybe you see a lot of mud cracks in this zone here, but the estuary floods and you get mud, but there are no longer any mud cracks and there are no longer any roots because the water is too high for that area to be exposed. But especially if there are times when there are floods with the river bringing in a lot of sediment, you can still get some of these sandstones and you might still see evidence of two directions of flow. So if we look at this in terms of the change in depositional environment through time, we're going from something that's dominantly fluvial to something with tides, and maybe more evidence of mud cracks and roots at the bottom and deeper water deposits at the top. So if we looked at the environments through time, an estuary shows the sequence of environments getting deeper with time. That's the opposite of what you see with the delta, building the sediment out through time. You can see these same rock types, these same faces, but the order would be different because the delta's environments get shallower through time. So deltas and estuaries can transfer back and forth between each other, so estuaries almost always form when sea level is rising, but if it falls again, the river will extend out towards the ocean again and it could start building a delta on top of the estuary. And if that was going to happen, we'd sort of see the opposite of these faces again. We'd start to see the shallower environments with the mud cracks and then go back into the fluvial faces with the river channels. Thanks for watching.


The great search brought to you by digikey and Anna fruit. Thank you digikey This is a time of the week when lady to the user part of engineering help you Yes, you find the things that you were looking for on digikey.com lady to what are you looking for this week? Okay, so on the new rosary pie five, which I just got today. There are these cool new extra connectors Can you go to the overhead will fast enough to point them out? So this connector here is the one I'm most interested in it's called you are So traditionally if you wanted to connect to the you are the debug port of a rosary pie You'd kick to like these two pins up here like power power ground RX and TX and you'd use something like this This USB Console cable and you would plug this, you know into the GPIO and then you could get to the console Which is really helpful if you're running like a headless setup. You don't know the SSH Maybe it's not in the network. You want to just like have root access immediately So the good news is now that there is this new RP one chip. I'm I'm assuming I'm still experimenting I just got this like working yesterday that this is a separate Connection to the hardware you are for console Then the pins over here, which would be connected to the hardware serial port and the hardware serial port is how you'd connect stuff like GPSes and before you could only have one or the other you either have a console or you can have a GPS You couldn't have both but now I'm pretty sure you can have both because the you are it is on a separate connector So I would like to make a little adapter cable that takes this from the old style pie into This but this has actually not been The documentation for this connector hasn't been released that I could find so I thought I'd show how you could determine What the connector is now I kind of know what it is because I just use these connectors all the time But what if you don't know what if you're like I have never seen this before a really good skill on how to reverse engineering determine What connected is so first I'm going to turn off the pie So yeah, I love that on off button and I'm you only use it like 10 times already. I'm like this is my number one fan I mean, this is the fan connector over here. So that's the number one fan, but this number two fan Okay, so unplug this So let's get in here and let's zoom Okay, so what we're looking at here is a three pin connector. It's vertical and It's definitely not point one inch spacing But we don't know what the spacing is and it's I got this tan connector and you see there's these little Nubs on the side So we want to we want to find the cable that connects to it But the easiest way to get the cable is actually to first find out the connector is because it's like way Easier to identify connectors by image than cables especially because like there's often the shadowing isn't very clear Whereas here it's like you can see the outline very nicely. So the first thing you want to do is find out the connector pitch So what I do is first off Most connectors are in millimeter pitch not always big ones aren't but small ones tend to be in millimeter So what we want to do is we want to measure between the centers of the two They of the two farthest pins now you're probably wondering why don't I want to measure from like two pins Close to each other.  The difference in pitches can be like really small and you want to average that An in clarity over a larger number because if you're like having difficulty getting to the center of the two pins At least you have a bunch of pins to divide by so Okay, so if you have error, you know the error divides out so let's see let's let's try to get I don't know. No, this is this is definitely gonna be easy. So I want to get kind of in the center of the two And I'm gonna do this by looking above She turns out you can't look at a screen while measuring connector pitch Okay, that's pretty close. Okay, so I got one point nine one and you know just so you know like Connector pitches aren't gonna, you know, they can be like point nine five, but they're pretty much never it's always on the quarter Millimeter, so it's like one millimeter one point two five one point five two millimeters stuff like that So probably I'm just my hands aren't as steady. It's two millimeters between two pins. So it's one millimeter pitch So let's go to Digi-key site so you can go back to the computer and let's look for Connector I know you're like that's kind of vague but We can then look at images to see which one is the closest so we want something that's Closest to this it's it's pins and so rectangular connector So let's scroll down look at some images. Yeah, I mean like this isn't the connector But like that's the that's the idea we've got something like this, right? But we want a surface mount version. So let's start paring it down So first up we want active and It has one row with three pins And that should cut down like a ton and the mating So I should do you know, I usually do the number of rows First like the number pans the number of rows first because then I can see like what pitch is available And like I said, if you know, I had measured one point eight millimeters between the two pans and Point nine was available. I'd be like, well, maybe that's a possibility point. Oh three five inches But given that the only options I've got are either point eight one or one point two or one point two five It's it's definitely gonna be one millimeter pitch. So, you know, it's just very calipers. It's really hard to get Perfect, you're gonna be a plus or minus like ten percent. So just be flexible. Don't be like oh has to be exact Okay, and then All right, so that already pared down a lot. I think it went from yeah from 500,000 results to 85 So that's great Okay, and then I want surface mount and You know Upward right angle is actually across the board and Not right angle is pointing straight up So that's good. Let's do that apply and then Let's search for, you know, normally stocking get get rid of some of the the weird connectors and Then shrouding that's it. That's another thing. So, you know, some connectors I think there's a lot here like this is unshrouded. There's no There's nothing going around it and there's also sometimes connectors that have only like partial shrouding But we have a shrouded connector. So we might as well Select that Okay So apply All right, great. So it's only like 20 options now So now we can actually look and see which one is the most similar. So let's Let's actually look Sorry, can you go back to the computer over here real fast so we can just take a look at this connector All right, so it's a tan connector and it's got these little ears and it's got like these, you know, three contacts And there's these like kind of metal bits here So you don't have 20 options, it's actually not that bad. Can you go back to the computer? So There's a couple good-looking ones. So this one Let's take a look at this one. I like the 360 So this one It's close But it doesn't have the metal metal bits on the side Like the other one does so that's not it and Let's look at this one from Molex Let's look at the data sheet because there's only a one image this one Looks like it has a little notch Which this connector doesn't have a notch Looks pretty similar. It also doesn't have the little ears And also it looks way taller than that this contact this this this actually let's measure the depth It's not a bad idea. I should have done that to start the depth is four millimeters So sorry the height of it should been four millimeters if this is This is not this is five point one five point four. So since this is not right either I don't know if they have the height and oh insulation height. They do so let me actually Let me pare down by the insulation height So like for maybe I'm off, but it's about four millimeters Let's see how that does Okay, so what we've got left You know, this doesn't look too bad Te Very similar, but this one is definitely the closest match So it's up to the 360 Okay Okay, so you can see it's got those ears And it's got the metal on the side. It's even got the little dots. So this is it. This is the connector. Yeah, okay We found it. So it's this the BM-03 V SRSS. So now we know the connector So now if you want to match with the cable Oftentimes at the bottom here you can see associated products and these are items that go with or mate with This connector sometimes they even have there's a lot of information here, but Yeah mating sometimes they have like, you know mating contacts Yeah, here you go mating products. So this is like if you want to build your own cables This is like the matching connector, but there are cables available. So let's Let's check this out So yeah, so this cable you can get this cable cut in half and they can splice it on to The cable I've got here to make a York cable for the Raspberry Pi and there it's also available. This is a new thing alternate length It's kind of neat. So if you don't have you know if happened They didn't have in stock the 12 inch or if I don't want the 12 inch I can get the 4 inch version Which yeah, you can see the little ear sticking out here And they've got 999 in stock So this is my pick for the great search to connect to the UR port on your Raspberry Pi 5


Hello again. So today's question is quite topical. It's, what do you think of Extinction Rebellion and is it the right approach? Well it's certainly in the news, something that we can certainly say about the movement is that it's got, as paying attention, it's got governments paying attention, it's been in the media, it's basically put a big roadblock literally in the middle of London and got people thinking about things, whether they get annoyed or not about it. And so it's important to be aware of when we're looking at things like permaculture, we often think of permaculture as being about gardening and growing food and that kind of thing for ourselves. But when we're trying to change a system like the world is currently is, to improve it, to fix the things that we'd be messing up, we have to work on different levels. So in the same way that if I'm growing things in my garden, I'm thinking about irrigation, I don't just think about how much water I need in my water tank. I think the water tank is going to be basically is for irrigating the plants in the garden. So how can I reduce the need of the plants in my garden so I don't need such a big tank? Because of course a big tank where you've got a bind, it takes up space, we can look at it and say well a water tank full of water which won't always be a particularly in the summer months. But yeah, a water tank has thermal mass and so that thermal mass can be useful in the winter time because it can store some of the heat in the day and create a nice microclimate. And so these things have other purposes. But essentially a big water tank in a small garden is going to take up a lot of space and I would always start from the perspective of how can I reduce my need to water. And of course permaculture has many techniques that we can use. Things like improving the organic matter content of the soil in order to increase water holding capacity, to use mulching to reduce evaporation and to increase infiltration because of course a hot soil will just directly evaporate material. Whereas if soil is covered with a mulch then it keeps the soil cool and the water can percolate down through into the soil rather than being pushed out by the warm air coming out of the soil. So I look at soil first and then I go up a scale. So when we're talking about extinction rebellion we're talking about national and international scale of things. And it's very important for us to be taking personal action at home. But it's also important for us to raise the alarm if you like. It's many of us, if we look at a beehive. Okay I'm going sideways again but I love to do this. If you look at a beehive, if somebody approached, so I did this a few years ago, I approached a beehive that I was unfamiliar with without any protective clothing. And I didn't think I got quite close, you know really that close, but I suddenly found myself being hit on the head with a bee. And I got out of there pretty quickly because I took that as enough of a warning. And bee colonies are dangerous when instead of just having one bee coming at me at that distance they all come at you. So basically it's about what's called response diversity. Some bees will respond more quickly than others and that's good because essentially if I only need one bee to scare me off then one bee is enough for the job. If I continue to get closer then more bees join in. And it's the same with us. Some of us get concerned about the climate. I'm already concerned about the climate and feel that something needs to be done and others of us are not so fast. But it doesn't need all of us to be raising the alarm. And what Extinction Rebellion is doing is basically helping the alarm to be raised. Putting that big sign up saying perhaps we should be doing something about this. And in order for that to work really on a global level we need to be working with governments and such who create rules. And in systems thinking rules and incentives are very powerful are they? There was a thing recently about plastic and campaigning against plastics and the fact that so many I mean what horrified me is wet wipes have become really popular. I had no idea at all and that they're really full of plastic. Most of wet wipe is plastic and yet the packaging doesn't label wet wipes as having any plastic at all. So on the TV program they were just basically writing to the company saying why don't you put plastic on and they went and approached them. And the response was basically well we didn't we'll do it when EU legislation says we have to do it. So rules and regulations can be very powerful. Some of us respond to incentives like it could be a really horrible place to live. Food might run out. Perhaps you know it's and also it's nice to grow food for ourselves because it's fresher where healthier is less carbon involved and so on. So different things different people respond to different things and we need to pitch at all levels. So to come back to summarise what is the difference or the connection I'd say between extension rebellion and permaculture. Well we need to raise the alarm we need to raise awareness that there is a problem and we need to do something about it and we need to think ahead rather than be stuck in this. All I care about is today which I suppose is epitomised in that I'm trying to get to work and this is a bit of an inconvenience which is a little bit we tend to be aware of things that are happening now rather than things that might happen in the future. Yes why might sea levels rise by two or three metres in the next century and London will be under water but so what because I won't be here. But right now I'm trying to get to work. So things that happen in the moment tend to draw our attention and be more important but we need to be thinking bigger picture a longer term and the extinction rebellion movement are trying to raise the alarm and permaculture fits very nicely with that because permaculture gives us the tools to do something about it because whilst campaigning for change on a global and international national level is very important those things take a lot of moving and needs a lot of people to stand up and say hey let's do something about this to really push that because it's a big very difficult to move object whereas the choices we make for ourselves they may seem small but they're really easy because we just get up tomorrow and say okay now I'm no longer going to x y or z you know buy single use plastic whatever it is so extinction rebellion is basically raising the alarm permaculture gives us the tools and if you haven't got some permaculture training yet then it's a really good place to start because it helps to give you a yes somewhere to start somewhere to focus back on ourselves and say okay how am I going to change in order to make this whole thing better


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's case breaks.com. Happy new release day, a special new release day on the 12th and a Choo Tuesday As well, we've got two boxes of Super Jumbo coming at you brand-new 2023 Bowman Draft baseball big Thanks to this group for making it happen appreciate you No combos all 30 teams are in and Let's do it. Let's roll it randomized names and teams one into three four times each one two three and four That EA down to the Porter house steak one and a three four times for the teams one two three and four You got the Mariners down to the White Sox All right EA with the Mariners Harry you got my Dodgers Porter house steak with the Reds EA With the Yankees branded with the Rangers Brian With the Pirates Harry with the Rockies Brian H with the Nats Karen with the Astros Harry with the rays and the Cardinals Adam With the Red Sox Steve with the Mets Adam with the Brewers in the Guardians Nicholas with the Cubs Bill with the Marlins Adam with the Giants Nicholas with the Royals Jared with the Padres Nicholas with the Blue Jays Eugene with the A's Chad with the Phillies Bill with the Tigers The Porter house steak with the O's Simon with the twins Harry with the Angels and Braves Jack last Bob Mojo Diamondbacks and Darren with the White Sox Let me alphabetize by team And we're gonna pause the video just for a little bit when we come back. We're gonna see if there's any trades And then we'll have a break stick around. We'll see you on the other side All right. Welcome back everybody a little bit of trade chatter, but in the end no deals were done So that list right there remains the same 1212 you can tell why they With Tom Brady in this that I think it's pretty obvious why They moved the release date to today instead of the traditional Wednesday All right now, let's see which two we're gonna do so one two three for the left side four five six for the right side I've marked these random seems so you know they're from the same case. Good luck boxes It's gonna be three one two three left side.   We got our love the super jumbo with the sausage link packs You're calling the authorities for what for for talking about an animal on the live stream Well, I'm sorry Just talking about an animal We have five autographs in here by the way an all-card ship, of course stretch out the old hands a little bit Let's get prepared get loose. All right once again all card ship Now I know I'm gonna definitely miss some of the Some of the key players here, but Matt Shaw is one of them but our Sorting and shipping team have the same key player lists that we do so Whatever I missed that they will catch But that match I'll go to the Cubs that'll be for Nick There's a no, there's two why it's in this set. There's a white crow You know why at Langford is the one does the main one we're looking for Here's our first auto. That's Braden Taylor for the raise Harry with Tampa Bay 107 out of 499 We'll do an auto quick little auto recap at the end of this break as well One of those guys How many names are on this key player is one two three four five six? but that's not to say Those are just the players that we're just gonna kind of identify a little early on and have them top-loaded. That's not to say that that That there aren't other good players In this set as well and who knows these this is prospecting right? Here's Tommy Hawk 28 out of 150 you know in Three or four years You know in three or four years they might not be The key players anymore other players on this checklist might be No, they're not the only chase cards there. There's also some honorable mentions on this list as well that includes these players and Again, this is Bowman Bowman draft, you know all of those players that we've listed right there They could end up being you know, they could end up being a busts three or four years from now and so and then a Completely different set of players may emerge as the as the key players. There's Jake DeLeo to 499 But that's the beauty of this product Beauty of Bowman draft there's Luke Shilb Sliger I'm gonna go a sliger That'll that'll be for Adam and the Giants Yeah, Simon's suggesting check out down in the farm's breakdown or cheat sheet if you want to in depth look at prospect teams in the product I Use prospects live But I'm sure both Simon's resource. I'm sure it's fine as well But yeah, there are there are a number of resource they can find where they'll they'll break down Prospects and prospects as it relates to the hobby as well Baseball America and fan graphs are a little more kind of mainstream sites that do Talk prospects as well. Nice. We've got a nice Paul schemes. I think what he's called glass stained glass Correct. Yeah, people. Yeah, they do the work. They do the work for us Nice one for the number one overall pick Glass not stained glass. He's called glass. There's Yankeel Fernandez to 125 that lunar Design which which I like. I think it looks pretty sharp Rockies. That's gonna go to Harry in Colorado And we got a Charlie Soto to 199 Simon with the twins and there's Garrett Forrester Finding Forrester for the Pirates Brian You got the Paul schemes and now an autograph Wild Langford paper. That's gonna be for Brandon in the Rangers Max Clark is another Prospect name here at Langford Chrome These speckles Not numbered but again all cards should another stack right there. Good luck. These refractors aren't numbered by the way And we got Brock Rodin. That will be for EA and the M's The Brock lobster Cole Emerson also for the M's and then we got a nice Jacob Wilson Glass nice one for the A's. It's gonna go to Eugene And we've got an Andrew Pigney 118 out of 250 for the Nats. That'll be for Brian Brian H For the Nationals Remember the Nationals get exposed to And we've got a Kendall George nice to 499 for my Dodgers Harry has my Dodgers 311 out of 499 What's a good 311? Amber is the color of my energy Whoa Number 311 What did what did the beaver say to the tree? Boy we're gonna walk right into this one ladies and gentlemen. All right Rex And it's been nice gnawing. Yeah, we asked for it. I said Here's a noble mire. That's a noble a noble mire. They had a max mire I Think they still have max mire. Did they trade him to the A's? No, maybe they trade JJ bladed Do they have two mires? They have a max mire and a noble mire? 139 out of 199 sounds like a Where would noble mire be on the periodic table? Blake Mitchell and There is there is the noble mire to 250 There's a lot of matter. Are there a lot of maxes? I guess there is Max Muncie Max mire Yeah, Max Clark Max Scherzer, is there a max Kepler? Max Kepler a Max Mo Costa, isn't there a Max Mo Costa? Wait Rex. Were you saying that someone? I forgot to respond to this because I was gonna wait during the break Uh, yes Rex had let me know that the Giants an outfielder Korean outfielder Jong-ho Lee Are in agreement on a six year hundred thirteen million dollar deal There's an opt-out after four in addition to that the Giants will owe a posting fee to the Ki-Won heroes the KVO This is according to mletraderovers.com Lee 25 years old has been in a highly anticipated free agent for a long time I was ported in January to the Ki-Won heroes of the Korean baseball organization would post him for the MLB for MLB clubs after the 2023 campaign At that point Lee was coming off an excellent 2022 campaign strong plate discipline But took that game part of the game to new heights Walking in ten point five percent of played appearances while striking out just five point one percent That'll play in any league No power though. I haven't hit more than 15 15 homers in a season I'm gonna finish with a nice slash line of 349 421 575 file got the uh Got a gold glove for the fifth straight year and also mpp 2022 Apparently slipped a little bit in 2023 ankle injury this and that but But yeah, he's officially with the Giants sort of a similar profile to Yoshida But yeah for a 25 year old player It's not a bad deal six years isn't bad Sounds like a nice top of the lineup kind of guy nice jake wilson to 499 wilson Goes to eugenia the a's Matt Shah bowman first paper for the cubs for nick Yeah, it does sort of seem like that More uh more players from japan and korea Being highly touted than more recent years. There's jake de leo That's for the fish bill with the marlins And younger players as well I feel like a lot of times Players being posted from korea japan Don't leave until their late 20s or something like that But the fact that there are a couple players that are You know in their mid 20s I think also gives them a little more value as well Cubs may not even get a meeting with young moto Well, he's taking meetings in la so you better Someone better fly out here if they really want to We got hurston walder wall drip Atlanta braves harry with the bravos We got hunter haas That lunar not numbered though Right another stack Yeah, I really haven't Things have been kind of quiet on the cody bellinger front I thought that I mean, I think once they got once a yank. He's got one soda. It seems like Seems that they're not gonna make a big play for bellingeries Probably will end up with a decent paycheck this year. Here's jack mahoney Or ma honey For colorado harry. That's what I thought I heard. Maybe i'm wrong me. I don't know Silly season, you know, who knows what you can really believe anymore But I thought he was meeting people here in la I think the yankees representation have flown out here But yeah, I don't know if bellinger's gonna go there.  He didn't go. I'm sure they made otani a big offer they made You know, they got to they got to try to lure some free agents there But that hasn't been too successful Here's a blake mitchell glass for the royals That'll be for nicholas I think they're trying to giants are trying to sign some big names, but Does he sign korea, but the medical didn't work out? So that's not to say the giants are here's another there's max clark. We're just talking about maxes Bellion boars are asking 250 million I mean, I guess the I think the pitching free agent market is is strong. I don't know if the hitting market is terribly strong so Maybe bellinger does get that paycheck Let's see what's back here. I think anything special all back here Yeah, a yellow lunar 6875 colton ledbetter That'll go to tamp bay. That's going to be for harry Well, that's the thing. I mean try to give bellinger 250 million dollars One good season out of the last like three or four Which which bellinger, you know I guess if they convince everybody. Hey, it was just health Not a decline in skills if they can convince people of that someone will do it It's hans montero to 199. I'm not sure if I want to be the team that that takes that gamble On a long-term deal I mean at 250 million dollars. I mean, we're probably look talking what six years. There's paul wilson six seven years or something like that 53 out of 99 Yeah, that's true Rex yeah bellinger kind of revived his career with the cubs and jays and harry did the same with the dodgers although To be fair the dodgers are a little more Are are well known to have uh Take take on reclamation projects and for the most part be successful with them Not sure if the cubs have that same refutation So it was a surprise to see bellinger bounce back in in such a way Yeah, I still think I I still laugh at that. I think that's should I wouldn't give bellinger more than three years I still laugh at that seven years 150 There's max clark and a felonine celestine It's max clark for detroit. That'll be for bill The celestine will be for ea and the mariners. He's one of their uh top prospects And of course white langford's bowman first final stack coming up Forget bowman first paper paul skeins I mean Some team has to be pretty desperate for bellinger services if they're gonna risk 10 years 250 or something like that I mean, I I personally obviously I don't have the medical information, but I personally would be could be A little scared to do that. Would I give bellinger like a three-year deal? Sure Here's kem alderman Nice good segue dunkin. That's a professional segue right there speaking of bellies bell check in the patch Are they party ways at the end of the season? That seems to be I don't think I've ever I don't think I've heard anyone actually Have a source even an unnamed source even mentioned that But I feel like a lot of people have been connecting dots and speculating on the that you know bell check may get like some sort of Golden handshake or something. Hey You know, here's another max right there max anderson, you know, kind of give him a golden handshake or whatever they call it and Say hey, thanks for your service to the to the new england patriots We have a What's this nice jacob gonzalez? Are these short prints?  I don't know if this is a shorter print or not, but Still looks pretty cool. I haven't seen those And that's your break ladies and gentlemen that was uh two boxes of 2023 bowman Uh draft baseball super jumbo the last two box of the case are in the store right now So get into it jaspy's case breaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


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Welcome to the 21 report. I'm Frank Pesci and I'm here with Zan Perion. Hello. How you doing? I'm author, speaker, relationship expert, and CEO of Ars Amirata. Ars Amirata. Great to be here with you, my brother. ArsAmirata.com. Come find me. Awesome. How you doing? I'm fantastic. My voice is a little scratchy because I did three talks over the last two days, and I just did an interview before, so I'm good. I did the events go so far. I think it's going great. I've had some great discourses with some great men. I think the real thing, like I've been, I've done a lot of speechifying in my 20 years of doing this, and I've done a lot of preaching, you could say, right? And, but where the real conversation happens and the real understanding and the real camaraderie comes in the gatherings, and so I've been hanging out every night. That's why my story's gone, too, because I've been talking until 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock in the morning with the guys, yeah. Interesting. You're joining us from Romania. Yes, I'm Canadian, but I live in Bucharest. Yes. How's life in Bucharest these days? Perfect for me. Yeah. I've shifted into a new phase in my life and getting old now, and I shifted into a new phase where I used to travel and speak and do conferences, and my own conference is all over the world. And now I just sit in Romania in my rocking chair and I'm surrounding myself with books. It's getting higher and higher and higher, which I love. That's the phase. Well, what brought you to the 21 convention halfway across the world, at least, right? Well, I came in 2015 and 2017, and Anthony said, you know, we want to have this kind of this alumni thing you want to come.  Interesting. Yeah, I'm kind of the same way, man. I'm happy to do it because you're fulfilling your purpose and your role in life. If you're doing your devotions in the morning, which people call meditation or setting intention into the universe, whatever, if you're doing that at all, if you're trying to have a purpose driven day with intention, and somebody invites you to something, you have to go. That's what you're asking for, right? How old were you when you felt that you discovered your purpose? Oh my goodness, I never discovered my purpose. Yeah, is that true? Yeah. Okay. I really, I don't think we have to, wow, that's another conversation, but I think Joseph Campbell had the proper alignment with this. Instead of find your purpose, which is a, which is something that people try and do, I think more it's like, follow your bliss, what leads you down a path of light, what invites you forward, you know. So the journey more or less? Yeah, as opposed to the being driven by obligations and stuff to be drawn towards something, which is what we're longing for, you know. Me myself, I have been somebody that's always been, I'd beat myself up, let's say, if I felt like I diverged from my purpose or diverged from the journey in pursuit of my purpose. I think that that might be a common frustration among men, particularly in the times that we're living in now, uncertainty on the horizon and men becoming less valuable to society, right? Well, I mean like young men are unmoored. They're, you know, they're unguided. I mean, like even in the Bible, that the Israelites clamored for a king. We need, we're unrooted here. We need somebody to be a king over us. So they, you know, Samuel got Saul, right, the first king. And because they felt they needed something, they needed that benevolent king over them. And I think that the guidance that, and men don't have a message, young men, you know. So I think there's a lot of, a lot of unrest in the hearts of young men, for certain. Well, I've been doing it for 20 years. I've been talking to men for many, many years, and I've seen it, how it's evolved, how it's changed.   Yeah. I mean, get my wheelchair. All right, I'll just sit back and listen. I'm 58 years old. So I've seen some things. And when I was meeting women back in my 20s, it's analog. There's no digital dating, right? There's no YouTube videos, no dating coaches, no programs, no nothing.  And we've had 10 years now of Tinder, I'm approximating. And they ask, say, three years of pandemic. So that entire group of people that are coming to age has never had an analog experience. Their dating is digitally based. So they've never had that, you know, that feeling of trying to go forward and putting myself with intention and authenticity of the world, I think. So it's changed. This is what I'm trying to say. It's changed from when I was first doing it. Absolutely. And what you said when we were talking about purpose is that you see a lot of unrest in young men today. So as a relationship expert, your dating guy, what do you tell these guys? Well, I think we're focusing on the wrong things. That's the truth.  My thesis is this, and I really believe this with all my heart. My book, The Alabaster Girl, if you say, what does that book about? It's a book about beauty. And I think in our modern society, our modern age, the unrest and the dissatisfaction and anger that we have, that we feel is because we've turned our face away from beauty. We no longer contemplate beauty. The Bible says, whatsoever things are lovely, think on these things. When I was a kid, you'd do your daily devotions, you'd read a Bible verse, you'd sing a little song, and it sets your intention for the day, right? Your tone for the day. Now you scroll social media and you watch all the unrest, the trouble out there, that sets your tone for the day. So my advice to young men, doom scrolling. Yeah. Aristotle said the only life worth living is one of contemplation. I think that that's what's missing, to contemplate beauty. And where is it? Because beauty exists, independent of us. I think the beauty is a real physical thing as in metaphysics, as in electromagnetic physics. I think it's real. I think it's like gravity. And I think that you look at art. Art used to be about the artist, I mean about the art and giving you a picture into something that makes you contemplate and transcendent. Art has a beauty in art, has a way of dawning on you, because you're in contemplation, you have to think about it. And art is now about the artist. How can I shock you? It says, look at me, look at me. Architecture, how can I shock you now? As opposed to the golden ratio and blending into centuries of buildings and stuff like that. So art, architecture, relationships, politics, it's all, I really do think our deficit is because we've turned our face away from beauty. And that's what I think. Beauty is not at the forefront anymore. It used to be for the Greeks, right? Beauty, truth, goodness.  I have been busy a lot, it's been going on. I have been here for the entire event, but I haven't been in any speakers. Reason I ask is because there is a prevailing consensus around here, at least at this table, I've interviewed speakers about two main themes. Spirituality, spiritual focus and growth, art. Art has come up several times. As a person who's been in business a long time, lived a long time, seen a lot of things, what do you make of those trends? Does that predict anything for you? Well, I do, yeah, I think so. Nietzsche said, God is dead and everybody knows that quote, right? And he was a staunch atheist and said, Nietzsche, yeah, he's celebrating atheism. But they missed the rest of the quote, which is God is dead, God will remain dead and we have killed him. And what he was really saying was, good luck, because you strip out God and the transcendent, even though he was an atheist, the concept of the transcendent out of society, and this is what you get what we have today. We've lost the anchoring of a good message of a community. Christianity is what the West is built on. And to strip it away, whether you're an atheist or not, you have to believe this. To strip out that sense of family and home and community and responsibility, we used to have responsibility and duty was a word we used to use. My duty to my country, to my family, to, that's gone. It's not like, look at me, what can you do for me? And that's an art that's turned her face away. I could go on and on and on. So when I was in the army, there was a popular cadence. Duty on her country, I'd give my life. Before that, it was duty, God and country. And what do they have now? But like you said, the West was built on these ideals and it was ingrained in who we were. It was a matter of fact of our society, which is what allowed us to be prosperous. And whether or not you conform to Christian ideals from a doctrine perspective, or even if you don't want to believe it, it still provides guardrails for society that creates law and order and morality. And you strip it out. Good luck. And that's what Nietzsche was saying. Yeah.   If you claim that word, it's a biblical word, but it's real. Because when you have the feeling that this is my beloved, then something shifts in you and something shifts in the partner, 100%. You can feel that. You feel that it's a perspective, a conscious choosing of a different way to look at life and to look at your partner, this is my beloved. She can feel that. Talking as a man, you know. Yeah. And even more so as you behold beauty, what you manifest is love. That's great.  You're going to feel it. Right? And if I behold beauty, I'm just taking what you're giving me, right? That I manifest love and interactions.  There's a real antagonistic, warm, wet blanket that's hovering over the earth and there's no light for people to turn to, you know. So you've got to seek it. You've got to... Guys say to me all the time, you say, then you say head toward the light and only the light. Contemplate the things that are beautiful. What if there is no light? Right? What if there is no light? Then you have to be the light. And I think, you know, they're talking about the patriarch here a lot here. And I think what's missing in the hearts of men is the idea that it's incumbent upon them to set the tone of how they want their life to be, you know. So in other words, you choose... It's when we were little boys, if we skinned our knee or were hungry, we run to mom or dad or we could run to somebody and at some point that went away. Now it's on you.  You know what I mean? And there's that anger, like there's this idea of toxic masculinity, which I don't buy. And I think that's a sin that society is saying to us that masculinity is toxic. I think masculinity is divine. God given, we're created that way, you know. And to say that it's a sin, like men are... The tone is that men are one step away from being a rapist, you know.  Or if they walk too slowly past the playground, yeah, there's a pedophile there. And that's wrong. That's a sinful thing to say. I really do think that it's wrong. So I'm a crusader against that. And the thing is this, you know, the idea of the masculine... masculinity is not toxic. It's absent. That's the thing. That's the message, right? Amen. Right? It's absent. And so you have this anger and my metaphor is this, you've got a cave here, okay? And the caveman's outside the cave and his loved ones are behind him inside the cave, okay? And he's fighting a saber-toothed tiger with a stick. That's all he's got. And he's going to get hurt. But he has the capacity to do his best to defend and protect what he loves, home, right? And his family. And he has this ability to go out there and he's got danger in his heart. He has the capacity to destroy, okay? Which modern man doesn't have. Well, they do, but let me explain this. So he's out there and he's attacking this tiger, etc. And where it goes wrong is when that anger that is in the heart of men, which is a good thing, that ability to destroy and to protect, and that great energy, that great masculine strength, is turned inward towards the cave. Then you get spousal abuse, molesting children, school shootings, incels, that anger is turned in and not out. And that's my metaphor where we're gone. Dude, I'll tell you what, that is eerily frightening and scary. And I can see very clearly how that metaphor is true in a lot of ways. Yeah, right. So men need a place to direct that energy that is productive. Correct. We need a venue. We need a challenge. We need an opportunity. Something to look forward to. We need to be purpose-driven. Yes, 100%. 100%. If you have nothing, you know, this miasma of depression and stuff that's blanketing the earth is because people have nothing to look forward to.  Yeah. And my message to men is I say, what exists because of you? Pause and think about that as opposed to what can I get? What exists because of you? Because you're on this earth. And I really do believe that it's purpose-driven. You're driven. You're called. You're called. This is a calling for men. My message that I speak about what I wrote in the alabaster girl, this is a call. I really believe it. I believe with all my heart that there's a call. And I really have a lot of faith in men. I don't have end in women, too. I believe in women. I believe in men. And I don't wander into the social issue discourse at all. I never talk about feminism in 20 years. I never talk about pornography. I never talk about gender, fluidity, all these things. And I get it. It's there. It's impacting everybody's life. I get it. But there's enough voices. I want to talk about this concept of let's reclaim the Holy Spirit and the idea of beauty in our life. It's wonderful. How long would you write your book? How long? Yeah, like when did you first publish it? 2013. Okay, 2013. And at least for myself, when I go look for a book on Amazon, I always look at the published date to see if the information is up to date and accurate. Yeah, yeah. Right? Not to say that time necessarily makes things obsolete. Yeah. I'm just curious to know if you have any updates that you would add to the book or if your views- Well, I'm writing a book right now and I've been struggling with it because I'm not very prolific and the alabaster girl was a book about women. Written to women. And I wrote into there why I explained to women in this book or the guy did. I abstracted it for myself as a guy in the book. And he basically is explained to women why they respond to certain men and not others. What does he do and say that they respond to? So basically that's the premise of the book. And that came out of my years of experience and struggling and trying to figure things out with women. So that came out of my heart. I took me 10 years to write and I didn't read another book while I was writing it. And now I'm trying to write the second book and it's the concept of what is a life well lived?  How can we restore that in our hearts and minds? What is the creative process? Like, where does that come from? Where does the inspiration come from? I'm writing about all these different things and it doesn't come from my experience. I'm going back to literature and stories and philosophies and stuff like that because that's not my experience. But I want to write about beauty and how it can restore our society and our faith and everything. But I can make a definition of beauty. If all the artists and scientists and physicists and alchemists in the history could never define beauty, who do I think I am? But I can certainly write around it. You know, try and circle it. Well, your book flew off the table as you know, it was very popular. You haven't been here since 2017. That's true. Do you think it's important for men to attend the 2011 summit? And now it's a summit so there are women here at the 2018 summit as well. I do think it's important. I think that what we're missing in this modern age is for certain. And if somebody, I think you were saying that you saw the guy shaking hands and hey, how's your year been? And that sense of camaraderie and gathering that we used to do, we used to gather around the fire to tell the stories of the day, that's missing. That's why men are unmoored, a good part of it because they don't shake hands and say, they don't come together and break bread like we used to. And that's a real, because you don't need to. You've got Zoom and you've got Facebook and stuff like that. You don't need to. But I mean, I have a membership called the Amorati. And I have a conference I do twice a year in Bucharest. We just had it two weeks ago and I had like 60, 70 guys coming from around the world. And we had like this, we have speakers and we have a lot of fun. And I've known some of these guys and they've been part of my membership for 15 years. And you see them every, you see them twice a year. Hey, how are you doing? I was in Bali. I was in Columbia and now they're here. Shake their hand again and you know, and they stay, they come for the weekend, but they come days early and they stay days later because there's a real celebration of coming together like we used to do to congregate and to fellowship. Fellowship is another word we don't use anymore, right? Beloved fellowship, all the devotion, all these words that have gone from us. And if we reclaim these words and start to use them, we'll feel it. Love it. Zan, where can people find you? Um, I'm in zanperian.com and arzamerada.com. Spelled like it sounds, arzamerada, alabastergirl.com. Spell it out, spell it out. Okay, arzamerada is A-R-S-A-M-O-R-A-T-A. Okay, very good. It's fake Latin for this part of it. But if you want a copy of my book signed by me, because I've signed like thousands of coffees by hand and sent them out in the mail, I've probably done 5,000 coffees that I've signed. And I've still got a couple thousand or so books in Romania that are printed there. And every week we send out signed copies. So if you want a signed copy of my book, it's free. It's my gift to you. You just have to pay for the shipping and the cost.  Yeah. Okay. And I'll sign it and send it to you. Awesome. Well, for the 21 Report, I'm Frank Pesci with Zanperian. Thanks for joining us. Zan, thank you. Thank you.


Hello and on everyone. Sam here with LadesportsGuard, German 23. Penini Prison Football Hobby, 6 box, half case break, number 21, pick your team style. List off a read, read off a list of our names and teams, my God. There we go. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate that, brother. What's up, Tony? Albert E with the Cowboys, Andrew J. Rams, Anthony D. Chiefs, Ashley W. Bengels, Brian D. Bears, Colin J. Cardinals, Dan M. Falcons, Greg V with the Bills, Guy C. Commanders, Jaime D. Niners, Jason Z. Jets, Jason B. Browns, Jeffrey H. Texans-Ravins, Joseph C. Vikings, Joseph R. Patriots, Josh T. Giants, Justin L. Jags Chargers. Fair. Jeremy with the Colts, Matt J. Broncos, God Matthew G. with the Titans, Nathan A. Packers, Nicholas U. Saints, Peter K. Steelers, Phil K. Panthers, Philip T. Bucks, Randall C. Lions, Robert M. Dolphins Raiders, Sean F. with the Eagles, and Troy S. with the Seahawks. So good luck here, everybody. Let's do it again. Just the Raiders available in the last break, last spot of the day. Last spot of the day. Good luck here, everybody. Let's do it. TJ Watt, Blue Ice, Bruce Halt, and 99. Darnell Wright, K. Sean Houtti, Portals of Nick Chubb, Lou Wave, A.J. Dillon, and 199. Christian Gonzalez and Zach Sharp. Purple Ice, Broderick Jones, to 225. Steelers, Dalton Kincaid, and Rashid Rice. Silver, Brett Farf. Purple, Manuel Wilson, to 125. Marvin Mims, and Darius Davis. Silver is Adam Thielen, Yahya Diabi, to 175 for the Bucks. On the Rookie, Dorian Williams, and Jared Hall. Blue Ice, to 99. Diving single, Terry. Texans. Texans. Ivan Pace, and Deuce Vaughn. Deuce Deuce. We've got Redemption of Will Anderson Jr. on the Green Scope, to 75. Nice one, Houston. H Town. It's very sweet. Not gonna lie. H Town. We are, if I'm not mistaken, sold out on the last one. Bob S. Sell this out. Thank you, brother. Sold out on the day, everybody. There we go, guys. Boonmaker, Nolan Smith. Be able to pretty much get right into the next one after this. Is Christian Gonzalez, to 149. Jaylen Carter-Rookie, and Sean Clifford. Silver, Nolan Smith. Blue Wave, Thurman Thomas, to 199. Peter Skoranski, and Clinton Johnson. Justin Jefferson. Stefan Gilmour, to 225. CJ Stroud, and Ty J. Spears. B. John Silver, Prismatic. Hyper, to 175. Panthers, to 202. Jonathan Mingo. Subad, Vankers. And Zach Charme, Silver Rookie Auto, going to the Seahawks. We've got Seattle, Bryce Young, and Jamie Reed. Silver, Jaylen Hyatt. Orange, Luke Keekley, to 249. To 202, and Jonathan Mingo. Silver, K.J. Osborn, to 249. Byron Young. Bryce Young, as well, on the rookie, and Jayden Reed, rookie. Navy Camo, Davis Mills, to 25. Congrats on that one there. I loved Luke Keekley, man. So sad. Towards the end of his career, it was awful. He was so good. Silver, Jason Hill. Purple, T.J. Hawkinson, to 125. Hark. She-Rice, and Dolan Kincaid. I'm home for his Matic, Green, Scope, Michael Meyer, for the Raiders. Last game taken at 75. Nice one there. Congrats, Riz. Big Macintosh, and Felix, on the weekend, who's home. Five works to Nick Bose, out of 175. Nice one there. Got Ivan Pace, and Duzelon. Right. Oh, he would literally be right there. It's unbelievable how good he was. Truba Hubbard, to 149. Ivan Pace, for the Vikings. Zay Flowers, rookie. Devon, Shane, rookie. K. Von Tibodeau, to 149. Mariah Overshown, and William McDonald, rookie. Silver Fireworks, kind of Walker. Sean Clifford, silver rookie, out of going to the Packers. That's on that green bay. Jalen Carter, rookie. And Sean Clifford, rookie. Silver, Aaron Rodgers. Blue Wave, as Mack Jones, to 199. Mack. Musgrave, and yeah, yeah, yeah. Silver, all-purpose, DJ Chirk. Joey Porter Jr., to 199. Skoronsky, and Quinn Johnson. With Michael, with a random spot tonight. Drake London, Orange, of D'Nico Autry, to 149, for the Titans. Elijah Dodson, and Deontay Banks. Portals, dependent hooker. Blue Wave, Josh Downs, to 199. Anthony Richardson, rookie. And PJ Lujolari. Tyree Kill, Derek Forrest Jr., to 249. Dorian Williams, and Jernal. Blue Ice, Aidan Hutchinson, to 99. Luke Schoonmaker, and Nolan Smith. Silver, Jalen Phillips, Orange, Trey Tucker, to 249. Justin Shorter, and Jordan Addison, rookie. Super Mario Cooper. Purple, Stefan Gilmore, to 125. Mazzie Smith, and Henry Keith. Orange, Jordan Love, to 49, for the Packers. CJ Stroud, rookie. And Ty J Spears. Merchant Garrett Wilson, Kyren Williams, to 175. And going to the Rams. Tulip, Tulip Lutu, and Jonathan Minger. Irish Breesaw. Bobby Trees, Robert Woods. Nice one there, Silverado, for the Texans. Texans. He reached out. Jeremy, happy Friday to you as well. My friend, Will Lest. So I picked up a nice little case for yourself. Let me take a look really quick for it. I know that you ordered it. Let me look. Silver, a columner. Red Wave, a sunray. Whoa. To 149. Byron Young, and K. Sean Bootsy. I did, I saw that. That is awesome, man. Let me see. I think you should be fine. I don't see why you want to be. Yeah, you're literally first. Wow. You're literally first in line tonight, Jeremy. So as soon as group breaks are over, it'll be the first one to go. It'll be the first one to go, my friend. First up? First up. They are really nice looking, man. The Bowman's Best University looks great. Dalton Kimcaid. Her place, Mike Evans, the 225. Absolutely, Jeremy, no problem at all, buddy. Christian Gonzalez, and Zach Charme. Silver Derrick Carr. Josh Downs, Silver Rookie Auto. Congrats on that colts. Very nice. That's gonna be a lot of fun, man. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Rashid Rice, Dalton Kimcaid. Howard Patrick, Sir Tan, to 49. Blue Wave, Rashad Penny, to 199. Marvin Mims, and Darius Davis. No, it is very different from last year, for sure. Very different. It is so different from last year. So different from last year. Which is good. I think it's a good thing that it's different, though. You want to change it up from time to time. It's very different from basketball. It's the best university basketball there, sure, too. Really? It is very different. Silver Jire Alexander. Not a bad way. So 125 is Quentin Johnson. Like, in a good way, it's just different. It's not the same thing, just the sport, which is kind. You need to, you need, stuff like that needs to be... Differentiated from each sport to sport. Silver Heddon Hooker. Dylan Horton, to 199. Skoronski and Quentin Johnson. Is it really not? Yeah, I think they're still not a checklist. I think somebody was asking that this morning. That doesn't look like it, not yet. Here's Vergey with an inception, personal. Orange, DTR. Dorian Thompson Robinson. To 249, Bryce Young, and Jayden Reed. Rookies. Emerging Penny Pickett. Blue Wave, Calvin Ridley. To 199. Dave Dunn, Wicks, JSN. Silver Chua Hubbard. Fred Warner. Nice one there on the rookie... Not the rookie, but the Silverado for the Niners. Fred Warner. Tank Bigsby and Zach Harrison. Silver, Cam Jordan. To 199, Nick Bosa. Bosa. Blue Wave. Kenny Mackintosh. And Felix in the Week 8 is on. Snake Skin, Jaren Hall. We got Snake Skin Rookie. Wow. Very nice Minnesota. Congrats on that. We'll get that into a mag. Minnesota. That's awesome dude. Take Snake Skin Rookies all day. Face it, short print. Jaren Hall. Orange. To 249. Is Blue Mack. And Smith. DTR. Didn't notice that when I first opened the pack. Usually you can kind of tell from the bottom, but... Snuggle born it. See it, yeah. Now you pick it. Tyler Smith. To 225. Zay. Ann Ashing. George K. Silver Prismatic. Ooh, wow. To 75. Bijan Robinson. Wow. On the green scope auto congrats on that one there. Atlanta. That's nasty, man. Go to Dan M. Congrats, Dan. Get that into a mag for you, buddy. Green scope Bijan. Over Shown and Will McDonald. That is going to play just fine. I will. That will play. Blue Ice. Jay Jettas. To 99. Purple. Jason Kelsey. To 125. Israel Abner Kanda. And Lucas Van Ness. Red Wave. Lucas Van Ness. To 149. That's on that. Hackers. Chase Brown. And Kendrae Miller. Silver. CJ Stroud. Throwback rookie. Congrats on that one. Texans. Orange. To Sean Gibson. To 249. Luke Musgrave. And Ya Ya Diadi. Lawrence. Orange. John Tavion Wicks. To 249. Manuel Wilson. And Zach Evans. Purple Power. Will Anderson. Nice one there. To 49. Congrats, Texans. Purple Power rookie. There we go. They're just fine. Very nice. KJ Henry. And Statson Bennett. Green scope. James. To 75. Crab Legs. Frames James. Yes, sir. Tariq Stevenson. Isaiah Foskey. Silver. Kyle Branson. Green scope. Miles Murphy. To 75. Charlie Jones. And Jake Heiner. Silver. Devon Bubernay. Isaiah Hodgins. Red Wave. To 149. Mira Gibbs-Rookie. And Derek Hall. Nice. Instant Impact. Super sharp print. Jordan Madison. Vikings killed it, man. There we go. Minnesota. That's sick, dude. Who had Minnesota in this one? Uh, Joseph C. Good stuff. Buddy, get that into a mag. The Instant Impact. Evan Ingram to 149. That's nice. Nice. To 149. Jackson Smith and Jigba. Man. And the auto on the red wave. Killer. Wow. Let's go. Very nice. Julius Prentz and Parrish Johnson. Pajman Holland. Purple A. Smiles Murphy. To 225. Cosh Downs and Michael Meyer. Silver. Jiren Hall. The Vikings. Orange. John Randall. Also for the Vikings. 249. DJ Turner and Will Anderson Rookie. Lockdown. Silver. Chavondix. Nick Folk. To 149. Or 199. Excuse me on the blue wave. Michael Wilson. And Trainshawker. Strutting on. Silver. Drake London. Fireworks. Orange. Darren Walk. To 249. Hopefully we pull a decent amount of JSN today. Actually Phil. Hopefully you get you one. It's huge. Silver. Antoine Winfield Jr. Jaden Reed. At 25. On the native Camo Auto.  This has been killing me. That's awesome. Congrats on that. That is eight ladies at 18 of 25. The Packers. That's on that. We'll also get Max. And we'll forms and Pukinakua. Last box. Good luck everybody. Come on let's see a black finite. So awesome. That's literally let's just end there. And then do it again in the next case. Sure. Run it back. Silver is Jordan Brooks. Orange. Jay Caner. To 249. That's in Bennett. Tarik Stevenson. Silver. Eddie Jackson. That's Hunter Renfroves. Silverado. Congratulations. Nice one there. Tyler Scott. And Brian Breese. Dave Rock. Perry. Hype. Antoine Winfield. Jr. To 199. New Wave. Pressproof coming up. Pressproof is Robert Woods. Bobby Trees on the press proof. Congrats on that. Super short print. Blue Wave is Justin Jefferson. To 199. And then Hooker and Joey Borgina. So funny. Like before the check this came out we hit one of those in the photo. I was like is this an error? What is this? Silver. TJ Watt. Got another redemption. That is the bot chain. Go to the offense. Nice one there. Congrats to the offense. Very nice. Get that written down. Congrats on that Mayan. What's up Josh? Joshua. Josh. How you doing buddy? Josh Downs. All right. Tomorrow Chase. Orange. Jay Chetis. To 249. We do Josh. We do. Yeah. Play it in tune. Or it'll be fixed before it's a nice stream. It'll be fixed before it's a nice stream. Fuea Loa Khan. Purple Ice is Mike Singletary to 225. Michael Wilson. Michael Maher. Mack Jones. David Smills to 75. Juju Brunson. Parris Johnson. Josh Allen. Orange. Kenny Pickett to 249. DJ Turner. Will Anderson. Rookie. Silver Rookie. Emmanuel Wilson. 149. Jake Ferguson. 199. Tate Dell. Blue Wave. Nice one there for the Texans. That's awesome. Eric Gray and KJ Henry. Excited to see what he does in the years too. Yeah. Really exciting. Bryce Young. The Rookie. Purple. Dorian Williams. 125. Manuel Forbes. And Kuka Nakua. All right. Quick recap here everybody. We've got the press proof of Bobby Trees. 299. Justin Jefferson. Ian Hutchinson. Devin Singletary. Bree Salt to 75. Janice. Davis Mills. Miles Murphy and Michael Maher. To 49. Will Anderson. Patrick Sertan to 25. Davis Mills. We've got Autos of Devon Ashing. Will Anderson. Hunter Renfrow. Fred Warner. Josh Downes. Sean Clifford. Robert Woods. Zach Sharpenay. Ivan Pace Jr. Insta Impact. Jordan Addison. On the short print for the Vikings. Snake Skin Rookie. It's Jaren Hall going to the Vikings as well. I guess that's what they were waiting for. Wow. Red Wave of JSN. Nice one there for the Seahawks. Greenscope. Bijan. And a Forest Gammo Auto of Jayden Reed. I'll go for the break everybody. Thanks again for the fill. Up next is number 21.


Transcribed. Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. Here comes the star-studded show train. The Association of American Railroads presents one of the best-loved musicals of all time. Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's unforgettable Roberta, starring Gordon MacRae and his two guests, Ginny Sims and Edna Best. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, paired and conducted by Carmen Dragon.  And now, here is our star, Gordon MacRae. Tonight we're bringing you the charming and tuneful Roberta. I'll be a fellow named John, Ginny Sims will be the lovely Stephanie, and Edna Best is Roberta. And so we're off for Autumn in Paris, in the salon of the world's most famous fashion designer, Madame Roberta. Stephanie, where are you? Right here, Madame Roberta. Look, another letter from my nephew from John. You know, for a football player, he's a very romantic boy. Is he handsome? Oh, yes, Stephanie. In America, you have to be handsome to play football. It's required. You know, John is the only relative I've ever liked.  When is your nephew arriving? He doesn't say. There's just a copy of a song, and there's a note on it. Dear Aunt, this song will tell you why I am coming to Paris. The girl I'm in love with has just arrived there, and I'm coming after her. This song will describe her to you. I'll be seeing you sooner than you think. I'll be stating she is, please, Stephanie. I told you that I had a romantic nephew. My, that's a lovely song. I'm Madame Roberta. You're crying. Oh, darling, no. I just look at you, and I think of when I was young, so many yesterdays ago. You're still the most beautiful woman I've ever known. Forgive me. Memory is the nicest companion when it's autumn. It gives you such courage, just remembering all the golden days. Sit by me. Sing to me. Help me to remember. All right, Madame Roberta. They're not good for the heart, you know. Would you see who's in the shop, please, Stephanie? Of course. It's Stephanie, a young man. He looks a little bit like Apollo. Apollo? Oh, nothing. That's my football player. Aunt Minnie. Aunt Minnie? John, I'm so glad to see you. Hello, Aunt Minnie. How's the youngest old lady in Paris? John, this is Stephanie, my assistant. Hello, Stephanie. Hello, John. Isn't it true, Stephanie? Everything that I said about you. Those aren't shoulder pads. They're real. Oh. I know that that was my real name. Did you, Stephanie? Well, I couldn't very well be Madame Minnie. Why, take any fashion designer with a fancy name, and you'll find that she was originally Tilly, or Bessie, or Gussie. We all started out just as good old-fashioned needle pushes. Welcome to Paris, John. Oh, thank you, Stephanie. What's wrong, quarterback? You look unhappy. I am a little. I suppose it's that girl. She has big ideas about marrying someone rich and successful. Well, then we'll have to make you successful. How? Go into business with me. Oh, Aunt Minnie, I'm a football player and sort of a singer. I couldn't go into the fashion business. Well, fashion is something of a football game. You've no idea how many ends we go around. Oh, darn it, a customer. I'll go, Madame. Oh, no, no, no, you stay here. John, you tell her about football. Don't be sad about that girl, I mean. You know, Stephanie, when you're in love, it can be the most wonderful thing or the most terrible. Well, that's because when you're in love, you can't see very well. You mean love is blind? Not only love. People in love. Well, they can't see a thing. Ask me how I knew. Maybe I am. The freight train pulling out of the departure yard of a terminal headed for points beyond. And hear that. That's another freight train on its way. And still another will be starting somewhere in the United States in the next five seconds. And there'll be another and another, one about every five seconds throughout the day and night. These trains are made up of the cars of many railroads, carrying the products of many regions, delivering to every part of the United States the things that America eats and wears and uses, delivering to the factories the raw materials and the fuel which are necessary to make these things, delivering to the munitions plants, the essential materials and parts which go to fashion the weapons and supplies our fighting men must have, and laying down at the ports the tons of food and ammunition, supplies and equipment which must go with them as they go overseas and must follow to enable them to keep in the field. Each week more than 850,000 railroad cars are being loaded with freight, 50,000 cars with grain, another 50,000 with forest products, 80,000 cars with ore, and 150,000 cars with coal, 400,000 cars with manufactured goods, all in all an unending parade of the things America grows and raises, makes and uses. Freight loadings on the railroads are running 15 or 20 percent higher than they were a year ago, and the shippers advisory boards whose quarterly forecast of loadings is regarded as one of the most accurate barometers of future activity, predict a still greater volume during the last three months of this year. You will be hearing even more often the rhythmic roll of the trains, the very pulse beat in the arteries of a mighty nation at work. Two of Roberta starring Gordon Macrae is John Ginny Sims as Stephanie and Edna Best as Madame Roberta. There's one in particular named Stephanie. Wait a minute. I'm supposed to be in love with somebody else. Well, fellas, that deal isn't working out too well. I'm busy trying to learn my aunt's business. I don't laugh, don't laugh. Even a football player can appreciate a beautiful gown, especially if there's something beautiful inside it. But it's like I always tell my aunt many. Huh? What do you always tell your aunt many? Oh, just that I'm a singer, so I hope it won't upset the designs of the designers if I just burst out with a tune occasionally. You see, it's this way, aunt many. Don't ask me not to sing, I've simply got to sing In two or three, four time, I'm always entertaining I waited oh so long I felt so low so long The desire to vocalize recognized me strange Maybe you will view my efforts with pain Even so, you'll know I cannot refrain There's not a thing about for me to sing about But there's no reason I won't furnish you a song Don't ask me not to sing I simply got to sing In two or three, four time, I'm always entertaining And you can bet your eyes a juicy steak or chop I don't stop my refraining Afternoon, I croon Then I sing in the dark Sing like a lion Though I may lose the soul biotl as I grow There's not a thing I'll only sense this wet and dipping, daily dipping You sing any time you want to and don't let anybody stop you The most beautiful thing in the world Aunt Many, are you all right? Just a bit tired, John, dear It's time to rest Well, sit down, sit down here, darling You've been working too hard Call Stephanie, will you? There's something that I must do I've been postponing it, but I must do it now Of course. Stephanie! Stephanie, would you come in here? I must do something for Stephanie In my will Because you see, she'll be Madame Roberta Now, don't talk like that, Aunt Many Is anything wrong? Madame Roberta I'm just going to close my eyes for a moment Stephanie, dear, will you phone my attorney? Now, there'll be plenty of time for attorneys after you've rested Rest, please, dear Maybe I can If you and Stephanie would sing to me, John That might make me feel better Of course We'd like to She wanted it She told me that before she died That's why she tried to call her attorney But the Madame Roberta salon belonged to you, John Now, how can a quarterback be Madame Roberta? Don't you see, Stephanie, you've got to be Madame Roberta now That's what Aunt Many planned Oh, no, John You know something? I think she planned it all She wanted us to be partners She, partner But I'd be in the way What would you think if you had another girl for a partner? It just wouldn't work What girl? You know something, Stephanie? I'd almost forgotten about it About being partners? Before the smoke gets in our eyes First ladies miss Edna Best who played Madame Roberta and to our entire company Roberta with book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and music by Jerome Kern was dramatized for the railroad hour by President Lee The railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American railroads Last year some 700 million people rode America's trains As you might expect, some of these folks occasionally need advice or assistance while they're traveling It is for just this sort of emergency that the Traveller's Aid Society was established Operating in major railroad terminals all across the country, courteous and to give skilled help to young and old to the handicapped and confused to the rich or poor of any race or creed Traveller's Aid is one of the many red feather services provided for you by your local community chest By giving generously to the current community chest drive you can be sure your money is going where it is most needed By means of this one campaign once a year the maintenance and growth of worthy services to the community is assured So when you see the red feather symbol in your hometown remember friends everybody benefits everybody gives Now here again is lovely Ginny Sims Thank you again, Gordon It was really wonderful being aboard the show train Well, you made a wonderful dress designer Ginny Well, I had designs on you too Well, as a football player, I made a few passes myself Say Ginny, take time out from your own show at Botany Song Shop and visit us again real soon I'd love to. Thank you, Gordon And say, what's on next week? Well, Ginny, we're all going waltzing to the music of Countess Maritza and Dorothy Warren's show will be our guest song I'll be listening. Good night, Gordon Good night, Ginny All aboard! Well, it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next week Goodbye The show was presented by special arrangement and will be seen starring in the Warner Brothers production The West Point Story Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon This is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the American Railroad Preceding program transcribed This is NBC, the national broadcasting company