Hello. Hello. Hey, Ella. How's it going? Hi, Seth. How's it going? I'm doing great. So you and I are I would say a bit Closer than most most fireside chat duos in that we Have started a company together In which we currently run We we live together We are we're raising a baby together In this case a real human nine-month-old baby and unlike most Co-founders we we sleep together Yeah, we've got that and so I guess the kind people at slush Some of them are inspired by our work in our lives and so Asked us to share a little bit of the behind-the-scenes of How things work in the world of Ella and Seth and so this this Talk is very unusual for us. Normally we are Talking about how to combine profit with purpose or how to commercialize scientific research or how to build legendary companies This is much much more personal Yeah, and there's two things to get off out of the way one is We fully acknowledge we're the last thing between you and the party and the second thing is that Yeah, unlike the two characters in the mr. And mrs. Smith movie We are not super spy assassins working for competing agencies Or are we? It's true. Our our our life is not very Hollywood, but it is I would say very Silicon Valley We or two entrepreneurs we met in Y Combinator Silicon Valley startup bootcamp fell in love And then ended up starting a company together which which we now run a tech tech firm And so we we've found a great meaning by being able to back entrepreneurs solving the world's biggest problem is their technology Entrepreneurship our entrepreneurs are addressing the climate crisis defeating disease ending malnutrition connecting the unconnected but we've also managed to Infuse the organization that we run in 50 years with a lot of the values of our relationship empathy vulnerability humor and even love Yeah, and I think in the early days we were really struggling to like So we started six years ago and in the early days we were like, you know, we were trying not to lean into too much into the fact that like we're Partners in life and we're partners in the firm And I think we thought it would be this impediment for the founders we talked to and for the investors we talked to for LPs and and For the team we ended up when they ended up hiring and I think Yeah, like there were those moments when when we I know you were like dreading questions about that, right? Yeah, when we would be pitching LPs LPs are investors in VC funds We would be dreading the moment that they would inevitably ask wait a minute. Are you two a couple? And we dreaded it so much that we we worked to find other examples Maybe there are some of great organizations founded by by romantic partners and it turns out that there are quite a large number Companies like event bright and Cisco and VMware and the gap And even some great VC firms so what my combinator of a true alumni was founded by a romantic partners lowercase capital Arguably the most successful VC fund of all time. Yeah, and I remember also You would commonly have this question when you were getting off 50 years off the ground like how can can this ever work like has there ever been a Successful VC firm that was started by partners and then you know Arguably one of their also most more successful firm venture funds is is why combinators started by PG and Jessica So when I think when we fully internalize that we're going to lean into this thing. This is who we are Things became really much more productive. So in preparation for today. We're thinking, you know, the slush team Was very excited to have us talk about sort of work life behind the scenes of 50 years and we wanted to make sure this is also Generalizable and and there are some principles that that that we realized that we have and we will tell you more about them that Hopefully can be useful for everyone else. So there's a few of those operating principles that That we we've seen and the very first one and the one that is the most guiding principles of everything We do at 50 years and I think it's it's a common guiding principles of many entrepreneurs is Throw your cap over the wall. And what does it mean son? so This phrase throw your cap over the wall actually is an analogy The it comes from this old Irish story about a bunch of Irish kids who are on this great adventure And on this adventure they came across a wall that just seemed too high to possibly scale They really wanted to continue the adventure get it get over to their side And so they took off their caps and they threw their caps over the wall Forcing themselves to figure out a way of climbing over and in you know, if we all think about our own lives There are so many times where we come across a wall that seems Impossibly high to climb there are times we come across obstacles that just seem too difficult to solve And what we found is that approaching these obstacles with this mentality of throwing your cap over the wall Just taking the first step such that you then have to figure out the next step to actually get to the conclusion You want is a really really valuable valuable way of thinking about things. Yeah, so we even when we were just getting started I was a partner at another fund said was still running his white combinator company And we would always have this vision that one day we're going to start this firm that's only backing Companies that are using technology to solve biggest problems in the world and it was always this mission this vision that you know One day when we're done doing what we're doing, you know, maybe five maybe ten years from now We're going to do it and I think in like a very entrepreneurial spirit. I think Two or three months into this conversation. We emptied our bank accounts. We at that time live We're living in the in New York City we moved to move back to Silicon Valley when when we first met at YC and we Moved in to a house and this I think will make some some some some of you happy Which was called the Moomin house It's a house in San Francisco that looks exactly like the house from the Moomin cartoon And we lived with 14 with 12 other people so 14 other people because this was And we lived there for two and a half of the initial years of running a venture fund because this was what we could afford Having emptied our banks accounts. It was before my other company was acquired. We we were Definitely even went in debt to get things off the ground But it was it wasn't waiting for the perfect moment It was essentially saying we're doing it and and it's going to get done by the nature of us Committing to getting it done and I remember when we first it sounds quite dramatic when you when I talk about it right now But the experience of what it meant to throw the cap over the wall at that time was that I remember the night we signed our first dogs first very small fund And we just started with like a prototype fund of a little over four million dollars six years ago We sign our first dogs. We had our first LP first investor I think we immediately committed to back a company and and that experience of that was that I was Crying that night and I was like, oh my god I really hope we can like raise the rest of the fund because like otherwise we're like in real financial trouble So like throwing the cup over the wall It's like not always the easiest way but it's it's like the fastest way to start sort of the snowball of the progress and the personal side of the story is I think it's it's it's a it's a personal example But I think it's exemplary of how we operate and how now 50 years with this bigger team operates is that I was in New York City In between jobs on a sabbatical and I was studying contemporary dance just for fun And I had a student visa, but I was already working as an investor So I stopped going to the dance classes and I got a phone call from my school.  We were like, okay, let's just bike to the city hall and get married So we can stay in the country and it was the same sort of like let's Do it and then commit to making it work six years later. It's working out. Yeah, we have I have a baby my incredibly romantic email It was just a email and all it had was a link to the immigration services website on getting a green card through marriage And my my romanticism paid off there so, you know This idea of throwing a cap over the wall if you're gonna start if you want to start a VC fund Right, you could spend months and months researching. How does one do that? You could talk to a lot of people or you can just Immediately start one and then figure it out along the way and there are a lot of advantages of throwing your cap over the wall You you get started faster the pace of learning through doing tends to be much faster than just studying without doing But there are also a lot of downsides because if you are learning through doing you are inevitably going to make a lot of mistakes when we started the fund we leaned on our own entrepreneurial experience raising money and so we thought it would work the same way and so we We pitched a lot of VC funds to invest in our VC fund And so we get a lot of these funds would take the meeting and then we'd have these great conversations And then it would come time for the ask and we'd say hey Do you want to invest in our fund and and then we would just get a lot of a lot of chuckles Didn't always work out so well. Yeah Yeah, so that's throwing your cap over the wall another operating principle that we have is one that This guy is deeply passionate about and it's this our very specific riff on Work-life Balance said what does work life balance mean to you? That phrase fills me with intense rage. I I I despise that phrase work life balance It's it's very it's very bizarre to me that it's even made it into the lexicon because we don't you know We don't have the same phrase about hobby life balance or Friendship life balance or family life balance right when you when you talk about balance you sort of imply that there's a scale And you have two things on the scale and they're sort of Opposing each other right they're pushing against each other But you know friendships Augment life and they're a part of life and hobbies augment life and they're part of life And if if you're if you ever feel like your hobbies are out of balance with your life You just get new hobbies and same thing with friendship family Maybe a little bit harder to get get rid of family But I think this idea of work life balance that sets up an expectation That work and life need to be opposed to each other and so we we much prefer approaching Work and life through the lens of work life harmony right where you you can have these two things Become sort of integrated right where your some of our greatest friendships are with the entrepreneurs that we work with we have Invited some of our entrepreneurs to join us at our burning man camp and camp with us That the head of our burning man camp joined our team And we've attended I think maybe two two or three weddings of our founders over the last last year and yeah And I we love European tech But I think one of the one of the special things about Silicon Valley is that this idea of work life harmony is It's pretty core to the culture of the place and it allows for much deeper bonds deeper connections Which can then lead to both more fulfilling friendships, but also much more productive professional relationships yeah, there's many problems even with San Francisco as a city, but but still it's a place where a lot of people intentionally move to Make something happen. So there's this like very natural flow between What people are working on and like what and and just the friendships they make and and it is just a very dense network of People who are sort of on a very similar journey, which which is really which is really great in many ways And so I think is this this sort of idea of integrating Work and life is very core to who we are. I don't think we could really imagine ourselves living any any other way Which which brings us to Another principle that we like to live by yeah another another principle that We live by is leaning to who you are and it there's there's many levels of it. And I think it comes with Sort of us doing what we're doing for the last few years and just there's some confidence in us being able to do it Well, but it's essentially trying to you know, we are partners in life or more partners At 50 years we were humans and we're humans with very specific set of values and interest and We see that in many of the companies we back that that the cultures They create and then when those come there with those companies kind of operate that their best It's really when they sort of fully and I'm not unable logically infuse who they are into those organizations and and actually Lean into their eccentricities and lean into those things that like often there's this like Initial instinct to like hide it because there's something really vulnerable about that. So I think we realize at some point. We you know that When we lean into the fact that you know, we We are together and then like we maybe thought like maybe that would be uncomfortable So some of our team team members or for some of the founders we back and we actually learned that And people really love it. I mean there's it's it's just kind of us showing up Authentically and and and people see that authenticity and I think there it sort of is helpful and many of the really vulnerable Conversations we end up having so we think companies and organizations should lead into who they are and and embrace it and there's also There's also a personal side of it where Sort of everybody comes I mean most founders we work with and and I'm sure everybody in this room has some superpowers And then the question is like how can you even stronger lean into those superpowers and and then acknowledges things You're not great at and then hopefully surround yourself with the people who are great at what you're not great at but you know for for For for said I guess the superpower would be that like he really cares about something he doesn't he doesn't He doesn't mind what people say like he's like not afraid to like rough Some feathers which is like not the skill that I naturally would have like I'm I'm much more of a Of like a conflict avoidant like wanting wanting to make maybe not a maybe that's not maybe the full fullness of it, but This is that superpower and then like he's not definitely not a spreadsheet person and definitely not a process person And then instead of like trying to become great at this. It's much more important For him for example to lead it and lean into this and and for me like I'm extremely sensitive And that comes with the baggage of maybe occasionally getting overwhelmed, but like my superpower is Being a people X-ray and like I just have really strong intuition in that in the world of tech and in the world of Everything we do. It's still very much a world of people operating those companies and that ends up being very very impactful for early stage Investing and that makes me a really great investor and it came with some, you know a degree of Vulnerability for me to to acknowledge that as well and very pragmatically Leaning into who you are and being authentic to yourself and letting your eccentricity shine comes also with some downsides, right? Because it's very scary because you think oh some people might be turned off by this You know, I think one concrete examples of Forbes Poland decided to do a cover story on Ella And they sent a Photography crew while she was eight months pregnant and so the photographer was sort of asking like oh Do you want me to you know hide hide the pregnancy and she said no, this is who I am. I'm a business woman I'm eight months pregnant, you know show it and so the article, you know Didn't mention anything about the pregnancy But in the photo she was clearly pregnant and there's no doubt in my mind that there may be some very conservative You know people out there who who might have been turned off because of that, right? But a lot of especially younger female entrepreneurs were really attracted to the fact that LFL comfortable doing that and just sort of Pragmatically the way we integrate some of these things into our culture, you know, you probably have been able to tell we don't really like corporate Corporate culture or corporatist mentality We much prefer a more human approach where you get to know people in a more casual way And so one way we've incorporated that in the 50 years culture is every every headquarters. We've ever had has been a residential home That we just happen to not live out of but work out of and always the offices convert to guest bedrooms So when our founders are in from out of town They'll crash with us. It's a shoes off policy. Our current one actually has a sauna Which if there are fins in the audience, you'll be happy to know it was actually made in Helsinki and imported into San Francisco Which we're pretty happy about another way we we incorporate this very pragmatically into 50 years is Empathy and a particularly empathy for the founder journey is very important to us And we realize that a lot of the common lingo of venture capital Tears one away from founder empathy a lot of the very common terminology that people don't think much about For instance Oftentimes this turn to this term exit is used right when I come in to get sold or IPO They say oh, it was a great exit right and it seems innocuous But if you really think about it the founder journey does not end when a company gets sold or a company IPOs If a company IPOs the founder might be with the company for another 20 years If the company gets sold the founders almost certainly with the with the acquiring company for two to three more years Right and so this idea of VCs calling it an exit is actually not really accurate to what the founder experiences And so we avoid we avoid words like we avoid words like that Yeah, we have a whole list of forbidden words and there's a swear jar where You it swearing is actually for for a game when it's actual swearing but when you use words that Diminish the founder empathy. That's when you end up paying money to the to this to the 50 year swear jar Yeah, and I think the had the final the final Operating principle that we thought it would be good to talk about is This idea of us being a happy warriors and what that means happy warriors is this term that we started using to To talk about the team and talk about the 50 years of founders that we partner with maybe about two years ago I think we like it crystallized and it's this idea that like for the work that we're doing and for the work that many of the founders are doing it's it's very important to like to have that the mindset of a Positivity and it's not you know either some people are born with more of this mindset on some people are Not it's this it's this constant work to be showing up In a way that's that that helps advance the work So we have founders who are working on the climate crisis We have founders who are working on ending animal agriculture. We have founders who are working on, you know ending malnutrition And it's it's hard. I mean, there's like days that are good. There's days that are bad and the way it We cultivate the culture of happy warriors is we We take care of ourselves.  What are the things I can like lower the cortisol levels that we have which is like you know stress hormone And it is sort of exercise good diet sleep For me personally, I mean said is more naturally a serotonin factory where he just essentially wakes up happy and jumps out of bed And he's like ready to do the work For me it was much a much bigger journey of of you know discovering meditation and and running and we have We encourage founders to go Through therapy if they need to and have coaches and it's just creating the support environment when where people Can be the happy warriors and do the work because it's you know We're talking about hopefully trying to contribute in a really positive way to some really massive massive challenges and and that just hard on individuals so Yeah, we're leaning into that every day That's why that's one that like we discuss every day and like it's people's personal responsibility, especially on the team to be happy warriors So we've been super fortunate to have built together an organization. That's thriving a Romantic relationship that's deeply fulfilling and now started a family with a non-corporate a human a baby The principles we shared have been have been super useful to us and navigating both of those things and hopefully they're They're useful to all of you and so at first I want to thank you for being a great partner in all of the things Yeah, and then and then second I want to thank you guys for for going the abundant free drinks And and food at a lot of the after parties to hear us ramble on for for 20 minutes Cheers. Thank you


Bad people's personalities, all the people's personalities you've ever seen.  That's enough. Hello friends, welcome back to my channel. I hope that you are well, I hope you're keeping yourself well, both physically and mentally at the moment because it's very stressful, obviously. I don't want to get too much into it because I want this to be a place where you can come to escape everything that's going on but I just hope you're really taking care of yourself and taking all the precautions that you need to at the moment. Anyway, anyway. Today I wanted to change myself and since I'm back with all my books I wanted to ask you guys for specific book recommendation requests that you want. Something you've always wanted to see more in books, you've always wanted to read more of books like but just struggle to find them and I'm gonna see if I can tell you any books that fill that recommendation. I don't know if I am because I feel like I haven't read a lot compared to some people on here. I've only been reading a lot, really the past year and a half so I'm scared. I'm just gonna stand in the middle of the road and if a car comes I ain't gonna move. And if I can't come up with something I'm just gonna try and recommend a book that fits that similar vibe that gets as close to the request as I can but this is either gonna go really well and be great and I'm gonna give you loads of recommendations I've never given you before or on the flip side I'm gonna, you know, struggle to come up with recommendations. Let's go and see. I'm gonna scroll and I'm gonna click one randomly. Okay. Oh, okay. So this is a bit easy in the sense that like, I feel like I've got a lot of scope to work with but what I don't wanna happen is I give a book recommendation that I later wanna rely on. So, okay, I'm gonna have to think about that. Anyway, Rachel says book for a mum with two kids who's tired as f- AF, me. Okay, Rachel. Let me think. I use your imagination. Okay, so I've come up with a recommendation and I don't know if Rachel reads graphic novels so I'm hoping this will still apply but I think if you're tired and maybe struggling to read a lot then graphic novels are a really great way to read more, read stuff quicker and feel like you're reading quicker and so then you do actually read quicker. Now, there's a graphic novel which I'm sure we all think of that I'm gonna recommend, right? I talk about it all the time. If you're a regular on the channel there's a certain graphic novel series I talk about all the time but I can imagine I'm gonna wanna recommend that later for a more specific recommendation. So, for now, I have gone with Laura Dean keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero O'Connell. This is a female-female romance graphic novel where our lead character, Freddie who is the one here is dating Laura Dean and loves her in that kind of like adoration-obsession kind of way but it's a very unhealthy relationship Laura Dean keeps breaking up with her keeps pushing her to the side and you feel for Freddie you feel so much for them and you just want them to not be in that relationship. I hate Laura Dean so much but this really is a story about learning yourself worth and a story about friendship as well I really love Freddie's friends in this for me they're like a real highlight of the book and so I just think this is a really quick read you can probably read it in a day especially as most of us have stuck at home now and I love the illustration style to just give you a sense I wanna find a page that really is like amazing okay that's a nice page so it's all in this colour scheme of like black, grey and pink so if I like click through it you can see that pink is on every page and it's just I really enjoy when graphic novels have a really cohesive colour scheme like this I think bloom is all blue I haven't read that I really want to though I think this is great if you're tired and just want an easy read so that's my first recommendation okay I feel like this is going okay right I'm gonna scroll again oh Keras I hate you this isn't part of the deal this isn't fun slow burn enemies to lovers with secret hidden secret slash hidden slash unknown identities like renegades but not renegades can I recommend you arch enemies the sequel to renegades I don't think I read a lot of enemies to lovers hang on I'm really trying to think so Keras knows I love this this series and it's a series I try to be quite vocal about I'm constantly trying to recommend it and some books I recommend and people go okay Meg I'm gonna read that like loads of you I've never made a mystery video loads of you said you'd read the guest list still haven't had any opinions but loads of you said you're gonna read the guest list right I speak about this series endlessly and still none of you are telling me that you're reading it so like what's the situation so I've gone with winter of the witch by Catherine oh no hang on this is the last book I'm holding up cause I don't have the first book with me third bit oh my god what is that the winter night trilogy this is the final one in the series in fact only really the Bona Nightingale fits this request I don't want to give too much away but the love interest in the Bona Nightingale for a while you are not completely sure of their identity of what their I don't want to give any spoilers but what their identity encompasses like truly who they are and you're really not sure if you can trust them you have a very also what I'm looking for it's just a very tenuous relationship to begin with you're really not sure if the love interest is a person that you can trust and like and I didn't really like the love the relationship initially because like there's certain things that may be a bit iffy about it like age maybe anyway um so this is a fantasy series set in old Russia where Vasya discovers her magical powers and she has to first save her town in the first book then her city and then this one she's trying to save the entire world it's based a lot on old Russian folklore and when you read it you feel like you're reading old Russian folklore you feel like you're reading a fairy tale like someone's reading you a fairy tale it is some of the best writing I've ever read and I really want to try and get to rereading it this year or maybe next year I don't know maybe at the start of next year I'll reread it because I only finished it summer of last year so it's been about maybe 7 months since I finished it and I already want to reread it it's a bit of a weird recommendation it doesn't quite fit it because you know Vasya's identity she doesn't have a hidden identity but the love interest is a bit of a weird one it's a bit of a unique one but in the end I like it a character driven and or slice of life with a mum character what date is Christmas Day traditionally celebrated each year Wednesday okay when she said mum character I don't know if she means a character that acts like a mum like is caring in the friend group or a mum but she put like a face with heart emojis as if like the mum is really kind and we love the mum but in this book the mum is a bit of an antagonist anyway so my recommendation is going to be Poe X by Elizabeth Acevedo I literally just read this I didn't vlog it I just needed something to read that wasn't very heavy at the time and so I just kind of let myself not do it and she probably noticed I missed a few Sunday uploads recently but I don't know if anyone else is but I'm struggling to read a lot with everything that's going on at the moment I feel like I'm just about to get back into the groove of it but I've been struggling a little bit if I'm honest this in this we follow I think her name is pronounced Xiamara I don't want to pronounce it wrong hang on let me look up how I pronounce it Xiamara yeah I was right so we follow her as she's kind of navigating her relationship with her family but her mother in particular her mother is extremely extremely religious and Xiamara kind of wants to explore life in New York a lot more she wants to meet boys she wants to have fun and she wants to write poetry she writes poetry every day and the whole story is over quite a short space of time so that's why I think it fits the slice of life prompt not a lot happens which is why it's very character driven and the whole story you've probably heard this but the whole story is told through the poems she writes so it's basically our look through her art at her life and the mum is definitely a big character in this and Xiamara have a very troubled relationship where you kind of have to act like everything's fine and she's not really able to speak up to her mum that the relationship isn't working for her and is really controlling I don't think it's the wholesome mum energy you wanted but in terms of the words themselves that you gave me it fits the prompt okay last night this is Meg like hey oh I clicked my neck then I don't know if you heard last night I really just wanted a book that featured a cute boy in a band but not in a mega famous way I couldn't find something that wasn't totally cringe for life of me so I haven't read a whole lot of boys in bands fiction but the first one that comes to mind and it doesn't fit not in a mega famous way because they are mega famous but it was I was born for this by Alice Osman so I listened to this in an audiobook we follow essentially it's dual perspective one is Jimmy who is in a band and they're super famous and then we follow Angel who is a really big fan of the band and basically they're passed into time in a really cool way Jimmy really struggles with anxiety and it's kind of him falling out of love with fame the whole story and Angel kind of learning that everything is what it seems when you love a boy band in a way that people love one direction or love five seconds of summer there's a lot maybe in those people's lives that isn't great and that is hidden from you and as a fan you sometimes try to ignore that I love Alice Osman I love everything she writes and I really like the audiobooks for her novels so I'd recommend picking up like that okay so Nicole says adorable sibling relationship siblings who would take a bullet for one mother in terms of ones I've recommended the Bear and the Nightingale I really like the sibling relations in that and the Poget X has a great sibling relationship as well oh okay sorry to keep recommending Alice Osman but I didn't love Solitaire by Alice Osman but I think for me the highlight of that book was Tori who is a protagonist and Charlie who is her brother their relationship as many of you know Charlie is the protagonist in the Heartstopper graphic novel series and I definitely love that a lot more than Solitaire, Solitaire wasn't great to me but I think that the sibling relationship in that is really good I've connected the two dots you didn't connect shit but I've connected them some supernatural dark academia new adult or adult that is borderline horror and has an air of mystery like a murder or a heist a book like Ninth House or the Library of the Unwritten well I just want to recommend Ninth House to you I feel like everyone loves Dark Academia but it's actually hardly only Dark Academia books or at least books that are really popular okay so this isn't necessarily there's no academia in this but I'm just going to say it so look every door by Riley Sagan this in this book we have an apartment sitter who stays goes and stays at this old New York apartment and for me that's where kind of the dark academia vibe comes in because the way that the apartment complex is described with like all the gargoyles and the kind of architecture it has I think it's very similar vibe to dark academia in terms of the way it visualizes do you know what I mean I think that sort of architecture is the sign of kind of architecture that I imagine in dark academia and so they just give me similar vibes in terms of the supernatural element I don't want to spoil anything but in this I guess one of the there's a lot of I don't want to spoil anything but there's kind of tied into the ending but there's a lot of theories of what is going on and the supernatural one is it supernatural? I'm going to have a little bit of space okay because in a minute you might see a tear I refreshed myself with what happens and there are a lot of theories about what is going on and a semi supernatural one is one of the theories of what's going on I'm not going to say anything more than that because I don't want to spoil anything but essentially in this apartments it is keep going missing at the apartment that lead character is staying at and you are not allowed to have anyone over to stay you're not allowed to spend any nights away stuff like that it's a really weird situation that this girl's in but she's poor she needs the money she needs a place to live and so she takes it and it definitely seems too good to be true and so even though it's not set like in a school or in any kind of academia setting I think it definitely gives off that same dark vibes and it's a thriller so it's definitely got a really strong mystery element so a few people asking for time travel have I read any time travel stuff? this is just showing me how little I read so for other people if she asks time travel and Nicole asks time travel and there may be some dispute there's dispute over all my recommendations because I'm really stretching what you guys are saying I'm going to recommend the Starless Sea by Erin Morgeson which many of you know was my second favourite book of last year I adored it I wouldn't say there's necessarily time travel like I don't know what I think intentional time travel but the laws of time especially more towards the end start to bend and start to get very confusing so I think if you're looking for a time travel book that is a bit all over the place people aren't turning their clocks and going I want to go back 5 days you know what I mean it's not that kind of thing but the laws of time the laws of reality definitely start to bend if you don't know the Starless Sea is a story about I have to give it in concepts because I can't even describe the plot to you but a man a boy somewhere in between Zachary finds a book that one part of it actually describes part of his life in great detail and he doesn't understand how anyone could have known that could happen he was the only one who knew it had happened and he soon gets sucked into this underground world of libraries and cats and the Starless Sea and you don't have to kill why are you shouting at me tangled stories and it's so good this book is a bit of a mind mess up it messes with your brain a bit but it's just so good someone said I'm sitting on the floor a slow book with an interesting concept or romance I'm just gonna say a secret history just read it just read the secret history I don't even just say anything other than that because I speak about this book every bloody week but it's my favourite book ever I'm hoping to reread it soon and it's incredible and it's messed up and it's got a murder between friends and it's just the best look at people's personalities bad people's personalities I'm not gonna even stand up for that one that's enough why does everyone say enemies to lovers someone else said a book that weaves books cozy, beautiful writing, lovely characters an amazing story all into one perfect reading experience you have just summed up the Starless Sea as well so go read it honestly the fact that people still haven't read this book things like the secret history I can excuse because it's been out forever and like if you're not interested in it you're probably not gonna be interested in it but the Starless Sea like guys this is we're all in self isolation right now let's be honest and this is the perfect book to just be in your pyjamas light a candle and just like feel the happiest you've ever felt my guys, my guys it is so good and someone else said pirates this is a pirate in it the first line let me give you the first line if you've watched my first sentence video with Tom you'll know there is a pirate in the basement come on and the next line is the pirate is a metaphor but also still a person the basement could rightly be considered a dungeon the pirate was placed here for numerous acts of piracy nature considered criminal enough for punishment by those non-pirates who decide such things get out! honestly everyone else get out there has never been a better beginning to a book get out, get out I had faith fame grief fame grief romance in one incredible book if that is what you're looking for you probably have read it already but I have to recommend the 7 husbands that Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins read this is a wonderful book about this starlet and this amazing green dress which I wish I owned Evelyn Hugo who is one of the most famous actresses kind of of the old Hollywood 1950s to 80s period for her that was when her career spanned it's about the 7 husbands that she had it takes you through all of them and in that way taking you through her life and you learn who her true love was and it has fame and it has grief and it has romance it has it all Taylor Jenkins read can write characters and in that way the grief and the romance just come out so strongly in the series her series is really play emotion lead not even character lead character lead sometimes implies to me thoughts motives whereas this is all led by emotion and what people are feeling if you're looking for fame in books both of her books are really good Gabi said a story taking place in a very remote location where they are cut off from the rest of the world she said bonus points if it has magic paranormal elements but sis I don't read that that often so for the rest I just don't get bonus points I have to recommend the guest list by Lucy Foley I just read this in my murder mystery video which I will link and boy is this so good this is a murder mystery there is a wedding on this very very remote Irish island no one has lived on the island for years and years but now a couple have kind of done up the stately home and are hosting wedding events there and a super rich couple are having an event a wedding there and we find out at the beginning that the body has been found on the island and so we switch between all of the members of the wedding parties POVs everyone has kind of dark secrets and you are trying to work out who has been killed for most of the book you don't know who has been killed and then you are trying to work out who the murderer is and it is so good I think they are remote less of this location it's something Lucy Foley seems to do in both of her kind of thrillers so far her murder mysteries very Agatha Christie and the remoteness just really kind of amplifies a lot of the characters decisions and amplifies a lot the emotions and you would hate so many of these characters I think something that is good about the guest list and something that the hunting party by Lucy Foley needed I didn't like that one as much is we have at least one character who is kind of our eyes into everything the plus one Hannah is very normal and so you feel like you can trust what she is saying but everyone else are mad they are not good people but I haven't read a book in a long time where I have not liked the people and been okay with it as much as I am in this so yeah if you are looking for a remote location you can literally not get more remote than this and I want everyone to read this a lot of you have said you are going to read it so that makes me so happy I just want to start hearing what you think but yeah I love the guest list that some of those have been good recommendations let me know down below if you want another video like this I would love to give you more specific recommendations just don't ask me for paranormal stuff again because I don't read that I don't read anything paranormal really as I've read is it Tunnel of Bones by V.E. Schwab I didn't even really like that I am interested in reading more paranormal I guess the divine is paranormal but I don't think that will fit any of the paranormal requests so anyway long story short I hope I've done an okay job and yeah let me know down below if you have any other book requests book recommendations request that you want because if you leave them down below I could use that for another video so yeah I hope you enjoyed this video and yeah keep yourselves really really well I will see you very very soon and keep well until then love you lots bye


Welcome back to Think Tech, I'm Jay Fiedel. This is you from the North, where we look at things in terms of North America. Today we're gonna talk about agriculture in Canada. We talked to Ken Rogers. We'll be right back after this moment. Dr. Ken Rogers, retired businessman who lives in British Columbia, joins us to talk about agriculture in Canada. It's a really interesting time. I was thinking about, Ken, I was thinking about wine. You know how wine has moved up from California to the Pacific Northwest? How wine has moved up from France to the UK? And I wondered if wine has moved up to Canada, to the Okanagan. Is that what's happened in Canada too? Well, there's been wine in the Okanagan for quite a while, but importantly in the moving up, there's two main factors. One, climate change has contributed, but the main reason that a variety of wines have been growing in more northern climates has been the technology. You've got research facilities around the world, dealing with agricultural products in general, but since wine is a high value agricultural product, countries will look at what variety of wine will grow in a more northern climate. For example, in Europe, you always had some of the best red wines, like Cabernet, Sauvignon, and grown in sort of southern France, places like Burgundy, where you had fantastic white wines in the Rhine country in Germany, where it was far colder climate. Well, that same idea in northern places, you'd say, how much do you have to play with the German wines before they could grow in a more northern location, such as England probably as similar weather to most of Germany, but probably you have other climate factors, but the research in agriculture is quite fantastic. I mean, that's the future in agriculture is really gonna be based on what technology can do rather than all the problems with climate change. Canada has a lot of technology. I have some great universities. I'm thinking of McGill, come and stuff that my brand. And it must be given the fact that Canada has such great resources or agriculture, we can talk about how that breaks down. There must be plenty of technology going on, in the experimental area through all of the provinces and in the universities. Yes and no. One of the main things in Canadian agriculture is we have a lot of land and not very many people. Well, when you have lots of land and not many people, you can grow something like wheat or flax or barley or rye or oats, grain product. Where if you were taking New Jersey, it'd be kind of hard to have a wheat farm in New Jersey. If you take my example of the complete contrast with Canada would be the Netherlands. The Netherlands has the second greatest agricultural exports in the world and it's really just a little bit bigger than the state of Maryland. It's like take New Jersey and double the population and double the size and that you'd have fallen toward the Netherlands. And they produce a fantastic amount of agriculture, like 50% of the land in the Netherlands is used to produce agricultural products. And that's not a coincidence, they weren't hard at it. Well, yeah, but they also have a major difference from Canada. I mean, in the Netherlands, you've got a fantastic development of greenhouses and then carry that a step further and you start to get hydroponics or equivalent in inside the greenhouses. And then eventually you'll evolve to where you got vertical agriculture where you're dealing with artificial light. Well, the future of the world for food is never gonna be a problem, can we produce enough food? It's really, can most the world afford any? Yeah, I have a Calabash son in Singapore who's working on vertical farming which has great prospect over there. But you know, and very little of it in the US, I think there's a particular plant in Pennsylvania but it's nothing compared to other more advanced vertical farming areas in the world. And what troubles me about the old of that is that if you have a lot of land, you're kind of spoiled. I mean, it would be hard, for example, for Canada to move over the vertical farming because it has so much natural farmland. Why would it do that? Why would it make the investment? Well, it's not so much the farmland as the population. For example, there's only a couple parts of Canada that could justify even a bunch of substantial greenhouses. You know, like you can have a greenhouse that can use hydroponics or even without that to develop or grow tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers. Those are the first three that seem to be most easily done in a greenhouse. Well, you could have a greenhouse somewhere near the city that I live in, but the market's so small that you have trouble justifying it. So if you took all of Canada, you really have a substantial ability to have something in Southern Ontario, just let's say not far from Cleveland or Buffalo or Detroit. About 40% of Canada's population is between Montreal and Detroit. If you were to pick a geographic item, well, you got another pocket of reasonable density right near Vancouver. You know, what's called the Fraser Valley, but you couldn't have any high-tech agriculture involving greenhouses and hydroponics in a place like Saskatchewan or Manitoba or most of Canada because there's not enough population to support it, it's not worth doing. I want to talk to you about Saskatchewan and Manitoba. My research, 34% of all the agricultural products of Canada are in grains and oil seeds, you mentioned a couple of them. And that comes from Saskatchewan and Manitoba, doesn't it? Midwest, so to speak, in Canada. Yeah, what are called the prairie provinces. You got to include Alberta and that, but Saskatchewan's in the middle and a higher percentage of the land in Saskatchewan is suitable for things like growing wheat or canola. Canola is really an example of scientific evolution. You used to have a product called rapeseed and it had a lot of problems with, you needed herbicides and pesticides and you couldn't grow it in a climate as far north as Saskatchewan very successfully. Well, Canadian agricultural research modified rapeseed developed a product called canola and it's just about the largest agricultural export Canada now has, the canola oil. Well, it's a staple worldwide, isn't it? It's a staple just like wheat, yeah? Well, soybean oil is a bit larger still than canola oil, but certainly they're similar in terms of what you can do but you can grow the canola in a harsher climate than soybeans. You know, we know that Ukraine is the best basket of Eastern Europe. In fact, maybe more productive than Russia, which is way bigger. And we know that wheat in Ukraine has been stopped by the war there and there have been real difficulties in getting what wheat there is out, by shipping it because Russia has stopped the shipping. Real problem for the world, for Africa, for example, and other developing areas. And I wondered if, you know, Manitoba, the sketch one, British Columbia, was it Alberta, rather? Whether these places have had a boom in terms of exporting and whether prices of these staples have gone up because of the shortages in other areas because of the war, the invasion in Ukraine. Well, there's a fair time lag for production.  You gotta have a whole bunch of irrigation. Well, that's a problem too, isn't it? Well, water is a major problem and that's where, you know, greenhouse growing is really, you know, the way of the future. In the meantime, without the greenhouses, without the vertical farming, through those prairie provinces, seems to me that you probably have the same water problems that Colorado and Colorado River and the whole basin in the Western US, you probably have the same problems about getting water. I mean, you may have floods in one place and drought in the other place and if you run parallel to the US, those provinces are probably having trouble, no? Well, not yet, but it's, you know, on the horizon there's measures being taken to correct it. You know, the simplistics are that the glaciers that feed a lot of the streams that run, let's say, those provinces get all their water from the Rocky Mountains or rainfall.  Well, it's not anywhere the size of, say, the Missouri River that has the same kind of starting position, you know, it starts in the Rockies, in, you know, Montana and Idaho and Wyoming, you know, where that water flow is less, but they, you know, have started to take measures to preserve it. Like the US many, many years ago, the big political thing was to have these mega-sized water projects. Well, you haven't done any for, you know, I don't know whether it's 50 years or more, you know, there are no main water projects that the US federal government has endorsed to really solve a problem like the Central Valley in California.  I don't know, they say it is dying. There's plenty of footage on TV, you can see it dying, but at the same time, the floods. Somebody said, well, I wanted to make a pipe, big pipe goes from the flooded area to the agricultural area. What do you think? Well, you know, you can't, the flooded area is temporary. You know, if you're gonna build a pipe and have a decent project, you might as well start near Portland, Oregon, you know, where you've got the Columbia River is probably the second largest amount of fresh water flowing into the ocean in the United States. I mean, the Mississippi would be larger, but not a heck of a lot or certainly, you know, the Columbia River would be a great source of fresh water for California without disrupting anything upstream. You know, if you just took it from the mouth, most of the Columbia. Something else that troubles me. And my research shows that 24% of the agriculture in Canada is from red meat and livestock.  And, you know, of course the cattlemen promote the meat and a lot of other people are opposing the meat. And so there's a controversy over red meat. Where it is a very big export from Canada. How does that look for the future? I mean, there's a global aversion these days or potentially a global aversion to red meat. What's gonna happen to Canada's red meat exports? Well, one thing about exports is you need to put something in perspective, you know, red meat and calves and cattle exports from Canada are the largest of the agricultural exports and they're about five billion a year. But just to compare that, automobile parts are about 30 billion. You know, that agriculture in dollars is pretty tiny compared to most parts of a modern society.  I mean, why is Nebraska and North Dakota and South Dakota, you know, not overly prosperous states? You know, they have tons of agriculture. You know, Iowa at least is upgraded a bunch of theirs, but Iowa has more processing stuff. But even if you have a wonderful level of agriculture, you don't get very rich at it. Well, but you mentioned earlier on that food is gonna be a problem going forward. There'll be shortages of food and the markets and food and food products will have to adapt to that. Not only in North America, but in Latin America and in Europe and Asia. And so isn't it a good bet right now to get into agriculture in the thought that as we go forward, there'll be problems. These problems will cause, you know, the need for greater investment. They'll cause the need for higher prices and food will become more expensive, maybe even more lucrative. What do you think? Well, the opportunities in agriculture, you know, as I spent most of my life as an entrepreneur and, you know, I certainly would not go into the agricultural business as an entrepreneur in those parts of the world that are gonna have a problem eating. I mean, would you set up a business in Pakistan or in Ethiopia? You know, I wouldn't. You know, even though they're the places where the people are gonna starve. You're talking about geopolitics. You're talking about instability, right? Well, there's no aspect of any of world trade that has more constraints than to deal with food and agricultural products. I mean, Canada, for example, you know, most people would think of Canada as pretty open for trade, you know, and has lots of trade and doesn't have too many miserable constraints. Well, you know, we have one aspect of agriculture that really stands out as an impediment to trade and that's anything to do with dairy. You know, if you want a gallon of milk in Canada, it'll cost you about twice what it will rate across the border in the United States. So you're not exporting much dairy then?  Really, you know, I threw chicken in there just for something to do with, but really it's a constraint.  You know, the best... Yeah, and we have very strange things going on in the US like price supports in agriculture. And for example, you know, recently there's been talk about eggs. I'm not sure I know why, but eggs are hard to find now in the United States. I don't know about poultry, but eggs are hard to find. And for reasons that are not clear, you can't find eggs sometimes and they're very expensive. So that's a marketing or a market problem, right? It's an irregularity in the market. And what I'm asking really is if we can get by these irregularities in the market, if we can export things around the world, then the concern about Somalia and, you know, other not particularly stable governments is overcome by the fact that the market will deliver, maybe likely from Canada and the US. That's a dream. That's a dream. That'll just never happen in our lifetime or the lifetime of our children, you know? It's just, you know, it's like saying, you know, how many, well, certainly for my entire lifetime, there's been a dispute between the US has always had that softwood lumber exports to the United States. You know, and I think of that as it's almost agricultural-ish in the sense that it's a pretty raw material type of thing. And, you know, and you've got a problem with the price of housing and the price of lumber, but, you know, there's still always a huge penalty at the border on all lumber coming from Canada.   And here we have where the whole country has a housing problem. I can tell you that Hawaii has a housing problem and part of the solution to the housing problem are construction kits, wood kits, prefabricated houses that come in a big kit. You open the kit, you build the house, real simple. But we have problems in importing those things for one reason or another. Maybe it's federal, maybe it's, you know, competition, lobbying, and in Hawaii, it's the unions. They don't want to make it too easy to build the house. And the result is we don't have the benefit of all that lumber coming from Canada and that could help us deal with our housing problems. It's really tragic. But let me move on to something about human resources, you know? I noticed in my research that, you know, you can make a decent living working in agriculture in Canada, as opposed for example to the... Who said that?  But that's... No, well... Look at the big 50,000 American working in agriculture in Canada. No? Wrong? Oh, well, yeah, okay, that may be a reasonable living at a low end, you know?   Like the United States, when I went to university in New York City, I had a professor that had written a book, you know, and it was called The Great Farm Problem. You know, and it was really the U.S. could produce enough food to feed the whole world.  You know, like the big problem in the U.S. is the ability to produce far more than can be consumed. And yet the price of whatever you produce goes up and down. I mean, if the weather's a little better and the corn crop is large, then the price of corn goes down. You know, and so the farmer doesn't do too well.  Well, it takes us back to technology. I mean, for example, you can inspect your field with a drone. You can figure out how well it's doing. You can take measures to make it do better with certain kinds of chemicals, herbicides, whatnot. And you can deal with the weather at least to some extent using the technology. Isn't that where it's going? That's how it can go. And that's how, you know, a farmer in Iowa that, you know, has pretty easy access to big populations in, you know, Chicago area, et cetera. That might make sense.    Well, let's talk about human resources a little more. And that is, you know, in the US, we have people who are undocumented aliens working in the fields. They're not making $50,000. They're making peanuts. And it's, you know, it's a marginal existence. But in Canada, you also have a labor shortage. And I'm not, I'm not sure it's the same kind of labor shortage. I'm not sure you have the undocumented aliens working in the fields. I think you can't find anybody. It's a recruiting problem. And maybe it's so, especially in COVID. And this is a problem. Maybe this is why it's as much as $50,000 to work in the fields, because you can't find anybody to work in the fields. Can you talk about that? Well, undocumented aliens or whatever, undocumented workers is not really a term that has any meaning in Canada. Because how can you, you can't walk across the border into Canada. You know, and if you just think of Canada geographically, how'd you ever get there by a boat? You'd need a pretty good boat because you got to cross the whole ocean to get there. You know, and why would you go from, from, you know, New Hampshire to Canada or from Montana to Alberta or whatever, unless you had, you know, some, you know, odd reason because there's no great reason for anybody to come. Now, Canada has a foreign workers program. And, you know, where I live in British Columbia, that's very, very relevant because they bring in particularly Mexicans and, you know, tons and tons of them every year to deal with all of the orchards. You know, like, you know, we have a fantastic export program for cherries. You know, you can have a cherry that's picked it at nine in the morning, they start to pick it and an orchard, you know, a couple of miles from my current house. And by nine the next morning, it's in a market in Tokyo.  It's been picked, it's been sorted, it's been washed, it's been packaged, it's been transported, you know, by vehicle to get to an airport to Japan and you got these fantastic fresh cherries, you know, tree pick the same day.  The Mexican's happy to come to Canada and send most of this check home for his family where the Canadian thinks that who would wanna do that? I mean, we're sitting now where we've got 65% of young Canadians are getting college degrees. You know, and now if you've got a college degree and you think of agriculture, well, you'd like to work at one of the gigantic research centers like Canada has 20 large agriculture research centers, like the, I just mentioned cherries, well, there's one of those 20 research centers was about five miles from where I used to live in another area of the Cologne area, it's called about 20 miles south of Cologne. And that research center, you know, has gone through different varieties of fruit and what fruit will grow best and, you know, to have different varieties. So you've got about 20 different varieties of cherries that can grow in our area. Now, those cherries are still, you know, in open land.  You know, much of the world can't do that. Yeah, well, much of the world needs Canada. It seems to me that, you know, the four corners of this conversation is that, you know, you're growing grains and oil seeds, you're growing red meats and livestock, you're growing dairy, you're doing horticulture by my reading substantially, and you have poultry and eggs. What do I need to go outside of Canada? I got it all right there. Why should Canada have to import anything? Does Canada import anything? Or is it self-sufficient and beyond self-sufficient? Is it a, you know, a food bread basket for the world? And will that increase? Well, Canada exports about 50% of what it produces a agricultural product. However, and the biggest market for that is the United States. No, the United States has a, let me think it's a, I saw the statistics the other day. The U.S. has $196 billion of agricultural exports, but it has 194 billion of agricultural import. You know, so it really only has a surplus about two and a half billion in agricultural exports. Now the U.S. is the largest exporter of agricultural products in the world. Surprisingly, the Netherlands is second, you know, just comparing the size of it and sort of, and that points to the future. Well, the United States, if there was a market, the United States could provide the food or the agricultural product to satisfy that market. It's just, you know, Ethiopia isn't gonna buy more U.S. agricultural products because they can't afford it.  You know, like they definitely, that's a problem for them.  You know, how do you produce more?  Well, in India, you know, they got all kinds of parts of India where they can't even afford heat, let alone to have, you know, LED lighting in a greenhouse. Yeah, and these vertical spaces, the vertical farming areas that don't use as much water, it's more efficient with the hydroponics, isn't it?   Well, you'd say, well, gee, what's the United States doing about that? Not much, because who needs it? Right. So my last question to you is a look into the future. I know it's hard with so many variables to get a perspective into the future, but here, you know, we talked about the, what do you call it, the irregularities in the global marketplace. We talked about water problems. We talked about labor problems. We talked about diet changes around the world. We talked about technology and how it changes things. All these variables all in play, but it seems to me that Canada has great prospect, assuming we can deal with some of these challenges and take advantage of some of the variables, great prospect in terms of being a great source of food in all continents, even continents that are capable of growing at least some of their needs. Do you see Canada going that direction? Where is Canada going? That's my question. Well, I do not see a major growth in Canada's provision of food for the rest of the world. You know, that if you used wheat as an example, wheat is often thought of as the queen or the king of all grain products. Well, you know, where else in Canada would somebody start a new wheat farm? And how can you produce more wheat from the same acreage? Like there is no more acreage that you could, you know, you know, convert into farmland for growing wheat. I suppose you could mow down some forests, but you know, the forest's worth more than the wheat. So I don't see any growth in those simple products, like I call them simple ones where you're just growing in a field, you're growing something. You know, you have, Canada will probably be importing less vegetables and less fruit in the future than it is now. You know, and that will be because there will be some, you know, near Vancouver, you'll have very large greenhouses and those will gradually improve in their stuff and they will produce the food that will be sent to Alberta in Saskatchewan, you know, by truck rather than it coming from California. However, you know, things like, you know, meat production, I don't, you know, that that's one Canada could increase quite dramatically, but the U.S. could increase its significantly as well doing it with exactly the same technology. You know, you touch on a point, we're out of time, but you touch on a point that we really haven't covered and that is the variable of transportation. If I give you a side of a cow and I tell you to move it around the world, that costs money and we don't exactly know how the cost of shipping is going to change in the future. That's the great advantage of greenhouses near big cities. Yeah, yeah, sure. You know, and the aquaculture or dealing with hydroponics in a greenhouse, you know, you've got to, the big expense is the building and the artificial lighting, LED lighting, and it's being offset in part because you have a much, much higher yield, but also the, you know, efficiency in water usage, less herbicides, less pesticides, you know, and shortened transportation. Yeah, your market is across the street. That's where eventually it should work out for India and China, you know, in places like Pakistan, but you know, you've got to have some entrepreneur in Pakistan that can amass the money to get the piece of land to build it. There it is. The export is not necessarily the food, it's the technology. That's what we have learned. Yeah, Ken Rogers. In fact, the Ken Rogers in Kelowna, British Columbia, and discussing with us agriculture in Canada will be back in two weeks with more. We want to educate you about Canada, its prospects and its relationships with the United States. 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I Love anybody would like to trade trade windows gonna be open for the next minute or so Mark St. Texans are for trade already. All right, you guys want to trade Texans and Giants together or is that gonna be a guys? Actually, I got a couple orders to go through this. All right guys. Remember. This is a three case break Three case break. All right, we go this First one is Dishon Watson 2017 Leaf All-American 95 So for Dishon Watson and anybody of course, this is like college rules I'll double check to make sure there's no checklist because I know group a checklist does create them We always go by checklist first But if there is no checklist and that's when we go by college rules and of course now currently team It would be the Cleveland Browns was just Jason So let me just double check that now But just remember this is a repack product. So there's no specific checklist tied into it So if there is collegiate stuff like that as long as there's no checklist on group break checklist or anything like that then then You don't have to worry. It could go all straight college rules, but sometimes there is and 2017 leaf draft So again, that's just to the way the rules we do it. So okay, so group break checklist has a leaf metal draft football, but It doesn't have it where the team is affiliated to it. He's they're just telling you what team what players are part of it So they must have obviously released as well before the draft So we'll go by college rules for this specific card, which of course is going to be Cleveland Browns now of course All right, next one Mean Joe Green University of North Texas tonight, you know, and so that's from a Mac in it I don't think Joe Green played for anywhere else, but the Pittsburgh Steelers, right? What year is this? 2021 I hope these are not all collegiate cards Yeah, I know Mark, but trust me there's people out there I rather announce it on the stream then Then not say anything trust me We get emails buddy Yeah, they have Joe Green under the Steelers checklist So there you go Steelers Victor's borrow Max one O'Neill Smith Defensive and therefore the chiefs of 1989 score supplemental So Kansas City that's going to Steve Birch and Jason Taylor ring of honor autograph from limited four of ten for the Miami Dolphins Carson once ready to rookie nine five Eagles going to Joe Flores and we have a Jerry Judy RPA to 15 to 15 for the Denver Broncos Steve with the Broncos a Nick Chubb Origins RPA two color patch to 49 23 out of 49 We have for the Browns Jason And Alvin Kamara leaf draft 9-5 and that'll be still New Orleans Saints. I Thought everything's good John. I thought he was released and they dropped the charges Joe Montana one of 20. How about that 49ers? that 49ers which we're going to Joe Flores and then we got a Calvin Johnson in motion 2013 select 9-5 I want to say the charges are dropped. I want to say I thought I thought I seen that on my Twitter because he was just like Taking photo shoots with Russell Wilson like for the season and everything. So I mean I Guess they still probably have to take photo shoots and stuff like that But I wouldn't I don't think he'd be just doing all that if they didn't think that was gonna happen Lightning strike at Reid for the Ravens. How about that from the city in one of ten? Ravens one Eric I'll see they go chess confirming other were dropped Which you got lucky right and a Derek Henry looks like an in-person Raider Ricky autograph From 2016 dollars Tennessee Titans going to Craig him All right, well interesting nice little mixture of products there and autographs Good thing is that this is a three case break. So we still got two more cases guys I'm gonna thank you To AJ Dylan in-person autograph from a mosaic debut that's for the Packers Packers DJ Nice and a Larry Fitzgerald. That's a rookie Larry Fitzgerald. Nice. She doesn't afford Bowman For the Cardinals going to come no Cower. Wow autograph dirt at 25 Hall of Fame Immaculate Steelers. That's another one there for Victor. We got Mitch Trubisky And again, this didn't have a checklist, which I believe now is a stealer stealer is there Mack Jones, Raider Ricky 9-5 Patriots Chad Coleman And a Marshall Falk legendary contenders Take it to 25 That's for the Ranzack Cowpits In-person autograph there so that it's going to go to Atlanta Falcons Chad B. There you go DTO and a DK Metcalf from Unparalleled patch autograph there Number to 150 for the Seahawks. That's going to Carlos And another to Sean Watson. That's gonna go to the Browns And Steve Young Legends patch autograph to 25 for the 49ers It seems that they put one kind of card right and then they put a one better card Some boxes I'm sure are much different than others, but Doug Flutey Back at autograph 10 Bears That's going to Nico And another Alvin Clamaro this time. It's a rookie XR to 25 Saints that's going to Steve Birch Camden War Moon Select great. So that's Panthers, which is Michael Robinson and Houston always would be tensi times craig So that'll be a little randomizer at the end And then we have a Justin Fields authentic autograph So that's going to go to the Chicago Bears going to Nico Christian McCaffrey to 9-5 League metal draft So that is Panthers OJ Howard. Wow 101 NFL shield. How about that? Tampa Bay bucks going to Zachary Perfectly placed on an NFL shield, too There you go. And is that a rookie? No, it's 2021 Steve Young From black football 2 out of 10 Which is another one there for the 49ers and Joe Flores And that's Chris Godwin 9-5 One for the bucks at three more boxes to go guys I know man. Niners having a good break. All right, so it seems like UFC is moving Fillers moving both fillers are moving nice Well, let's add on to some more 49ers there Chad speak of them Charles Haley 1987 tops super rookie 49ers again, Joe nice break buddy And Andre Johnson, look at that future all-famer I think this guy definitely deserves to be an all-famer 2 out of 10 little two-color patch and eye block from 2020 and back of it That's a try to trade couldn't trade mojo mark. There you go Rod Woodson authentic auto looks like it's kind of bleeding into it, but still very nice one there for the Steelers Steelers is victor And ladanian Tomlinson from Luminance 2019 25 Uh 18 out of 25. That's for the Chargers and Ryan Preston. All right guys last box here luck Another AJ Dylan The Greenway Packers. That's uh DJ Last one here Should be a better car Josh Jacobs for the Radis. That's a patch autograph there rpa to 15 Raiders that's going to chris parents And there you go guys So some nice stuff in there little one-to-one shield some nice rookie rpa's rookie autographs buyback or in-person autographs We have to do this one randomizer, but I appreciate it guys. We don't have no more So that was gonna be our last one there All right, so let's uh click dice roller here and it was Panthers and Titans It's oilers, but Tennessee Titans now obviously Roll it Six out of three nine times one two three four five six seven eight nine Go on to the Titans, which is correct All right, so appreciate it guys Again, this was a three case break gold rush premier players football ran on team number one. Jasper's case breaks.com