Mae'r dyfodol eich cyfgau o'r Gweithreit Phaith, ond nid o'n neud o'n eu cyflyddio. A hynny sydd y byddau arall diolch i'r Gweithreit Phaith yn cytuniaeth. O gydych chi het yn Cyflydd jae? Yra Bryd. I am four mighty four. But that doesn't necessarily mean I'm on the side of the current director of football. I do like the model a lot. So mine doesn't mean I'm not on the side of the current director of football. You just don't like directors of football. You know why? This is what it is, right? When I think about it, not logically, when I think about it taking Everton out of it, you're looking, you go right, this fella comes in, you plan to all this and you run along on a train, track brilliantly and this is what you do bang, bang, bang, bang, great. And that's great. It looks great. Theoretically, it looks great. But looking at the way it's kind of working at Everton and particularly this, the reason I thought about this today is based on what we've done the Tuesday topic thing about some Allerdychus comments. I think what it does is it gives people a chance to use to kind of blame other things and go, that's what I want to do with me. I don't want my manager doing it.  Gen Towson, Gen Towson was the best player, best centre forward. Now I'm hoping he comes good and I think he's a good player and I think he will. I think he will do right. But he was the best striker we could get according to our manager. Within 10 days of him being in, we don't know if he's going to do it. It's a gamble, he mightn't settle and there's been every execution under the sun. Now apparently he's just said again, not sure whether he'll even do it now.  And where's that coming from? So we can kind of go to side your far up and share it. Well, I didn't buy him. Steve Walsh sold me that he was the best. He can look at that team and go, why have you got Davey classing? He said he was good. Nothing to do with me. None of these players are mine. Where I think if you're a man, and now listen, it'll always happen because managers come into a club and the new manager comes in and goes, I don't like him, I don't like him, I don't like him. And if you're trying to move forward as a football club, and then you've got someone giving players to you, you might look and go. It's a bit, I suppose, like Antonio Conte, Chelsea, Ross Barclay. Does he really want Ross Barclay? Or do they just go, I'll have him because he's a midfielder. And I just think, I think it's, I think we operate a little bit differently over there. I don't see any issue with the manager making the decisions. A good chief scout, decent CEO, and the manager going, listen, I want him and he's my number one. And as a manager, you should have three players for each position in your head because you're supposed to know football. You get an extensive scout network and they report back, like David Moyes probably, but his wall, and you know different things and all that. And that should really be what you, what it falls on, because then, just for me, I'll finish up now, just for me, the book then stops it here. And that's your team. And you can go, you know what, I bought Jankt Ocean and he hasn't been good enough and that's on me. It's not on anybody else. And you're not giving me plays you I don't want and spending millions of pounds and I'm going, I'm getting my team, I wouldn't have bought you. There you go, that's where I stand. I think I agree with a lot of the things you've just said, but a lot of the things you just said is why I want to director of football. And I think what what I'm going to agree with some things you say. What we actually, what we actually don't have at Everton is clarity on what the roles are at saying people that ever on football club. I think that's a big a hindrance through the role of director of football. At the general meeting, that's when the question should have been asked when it was when he was sitting on that stage when he had basically sort of had to when all those people were there. I think I like the model and I like the model because it creates what it does is it creates consistency at a football club. But as a caveat of that, you only you only want consistency when things are going well. So if you've got a director of football, let's say someone like Monty, right? Who did brainlyts a bill, right? Is that Roman now? Is that Roman now headhunted? He was very good at his job, right? So it's like having a manager. If they're very good at the job, you want them, right? But if they're not good, then you don't want them. So if you've got someone, if you've got, if you've got a defined role, right? So it has to start at the top. If you've got a defined role or you've got defined roles, you've got your, you've got your CEO, your director of football or whatever he's called where you are.   And I don't think your director of football should leave the club if it's all set up correctly. I just don't think it ever and it's set up correctly. And that might be even problems because it's the, it's the first time we've had one and also because the man we've brought in isn't a director of football, wasn't a director of football. He was an assistant manager at Leicester and a chief scout. They basically just looked at all the things that he'd done and gone, you're the director of football. I don't know if he can do the job or what he does. And I think that's one of the biggest things and I think it should have been defined early on what his responsibilities were. So that, that finger pointing couldn't become a thing where Cuman could duck out of situations. Otherwise he can duck out of situations by going, I don't do that. Now I understand things like contracts and all that. That shouldn't have anything to do with the manager. I do agree a manager should have input, but on by and place only. But Conte uses that excuse, but he's got no right to use that excuse because he knew exactly what he was walking into at Chelsea. All the managers at Chelsea know what they're walking into. They're walking into a place where the manager gets given the place like a lot of teams have done. No, I understand that, I understand that, but that's a defined role, right? And I don't necessarily agree with that. But what I'm saying is, it's like we had this argument last week about the offside rules from VAR on the footy show. And you kept on telling me it should be offside. Now I'm saying, but it is offside. But actually it shouldn't because the hands, a goal can't be being clarified. A goal can't be scored with your hands. So therefore it can't be the needle. No, I know what it is. The point being is, we argue for things that we want, but they're not the things that actually, you can't argue all day about whether you like somebody. No, but what I'm saying to you is your manatee is often seen as the most important. But I understand that, right? So he should have clarity over who he is. But I think they do have clarity. I just think they use the excuse that they don't to bamboozle us and create doubt. Or maybe they don't and that's what I'm saying. Get the defined roles. Make sure it's known. Make sure it's consistent so that I can't. So I don't mean I just mean that. If a manager comes to the director of football and says, I like this fella, I think he's really good, good player, right? I want him. The director of football says, okay, we're going to do exactly what we do when I want a player. So we send X amount of scouts out to go watch him. And whether you like him or whether I like him, we send the scout out. Right? Send them back, come back and they go, bad the scout reports, don't like him. Send 10 different scouts out and they come back with all the same things. Don't like him. Sorry. And that's the same if the director of football wants them or the scout wants them. And this becomes because, and we know for a fact, every scout that was sent to Senias come back with a negative report and Martin has wanted them regardless, right? Now, it hasn't turned out as wholly as bad as it could have been, but for a while it was looking bad. And I just think, well, that's what I'm saying. It leads to a level of consistency. And they go through the same channels, but it's consistent. I don't think it's been consistent. If I'm trying to build a team, you've got an idea of what you want, how can... But that's...  OK, that's fine. So that doesn't have to be the model. What if the model, Liverpool have got... Liverpool have got a director of football, right? But their model is now. It used to be under Brendan Rodgers. Brendan Rodgers wanted a player. He went, took it, went to see the committee. The committee had to say yes or no. Now, he says, I want this player. You're going to get it done for me. And then that player will also bring another hour left back. You're going to tell him he clocked when he got Robinson from Hull. He wouldn't even know where Hull was. But he probably went, someone probably come in him and got a kid there. Fits all those specs. Watch it, watch it, eh? I'll have a bit of that. And the director of football will come in and go. Because even if he's shit, he's played for Liverpool and will get £15 million for him. Because that's like the Chelsea tax. And I think that's... But imagine that conversation happening between the manager and Elston. It's not the same conversation. Doesn't know anything about football clearly. I just don't want a situation where we're giving players, we're giving managers a collection of players. Doesn't this happen to Willis Bowis? He got given some players and he didn't want half of them, the seven. Then he shouldn't have took the job. And where he was in the job was... But he shouldn't have took the job. But he was in the job. You see, now with Potatino, what happens there? Because they don't really buy anyone, do they? Because they've got a great side. He buys them or they're talking about them. And he doesn't care. I think this idea of what a director of football does has lost its way through the Chinese whispers of football. I think...  I always go back to buying me an oxana. A brilliant example. Ex-footballer, he was an intelligent man. And we're going to get more of them. Every footballer wants the hassle of being a manager. Don't want the day-to-day hands-on. They've got brains. A lot of footballers got brains. I think these are either. Pardon a bit. Do you know who will be a brilliant director of football in a few years? Theo Wolcott. You can see it now.  Do you know why more middle-class kids are playing football now? Right? Because their parents are probably happy for them to become footballers. In the past it was like becoming a doctor or because there's so much money involved now. So I think there'll be more. I don't know if day-to-day football is their level. No, it will become one. Vincent Cymru. Vincent Cymru become a director of football. Got the brains. Knows how football works. Knows what it takes. I'm actually surprised that Patrick Vieira didn't become a director of football rather than a manager. I think he's got that. That's a book though, doesn't he? Yeah, well fair enough. But I imagine company will. So I imagine more football as well. And it'll become more. It'll actually maybe it'll change a bit when there's more actual football brain people in there. Look at Ajax. They've got Overmars in there now. And I think it's just that link between the manager and the people who've tried to the pain. That is key. And it keeps that consistency that when a manager gets sacked, it doesn't have to be a matter. I don't think that ever. I think other people are in the way of Steve Walshers. So isn't that surely then there's too many chiefs at Everton and not enough? Maybe, but I don't want my manager having an excuse. To hide behind. But that's what I'm saying. Take away the excuse by bringing clarity to what is going on.  I'm not saying there isn't a mess.  I think too. Have fun. I think you've got to have someone who's done it. You've got to have someone who's experienced at it and who's good at it. I know we've been like with Marcel Brands. You know what that brings, though, don't you? That brings contacts. If you've been a director of football and you've gone into all these clubs. Do you know one of the things now? Just to be a... Notice if you want to be a journalist, right?  And you want a job like the BBC or Sky, right? Do you know the first thing they'll ask you? Who you got in your back book? That's the first. Who can you get so long? Who can you cut? Well, I've got an interview with so-and-so. Pep Guardiola's her. I can get him on the phone. I don't have a kid who works for the BBC that David Olenstein. Right? Oh, yeah. Look at Joyce. Like that mate. Winters. They've got the contacts. Straight away. That's the first thing they'll ask you. Who you got in your back book? They've got the contacts. Straight away.   He's in the know. And that's what they want. It's all about. It's all about networking now and contacts.  Brands is like speed dial, Barcelona or whatever. That's what it takes now. I think that's where we've gone wrong. We should have gone... All we wanted, Monty, didn't we? That's who we wanted. We went after Monty. We offered them big money. They wouldn't release him. But when he became available, we should have gone back for him. But surely, to be our first one, the first one should have been someone... Who's done it? Who's established? I mean, to be fair to Monsieur, that's what he wanted. Didn't he? He wanted an established. He wanted the best one in the business, which was allegedly Monty. And he couldn't get him, and then he went for obviously... Steve Walsh was available, and someone probably went to just help Lester with the leaf and he probably looked them and said, what the hell, yeah? But got Jamie Vardy, got Brad Madden. In fairness to Walsh, but I'm not here to praise him anything, but in fairness to him, he's had three different managers, and he's had to... And if he wanted, if the manager wanted certain players or wouldn't take certain players, then that's where it all falls down, isn't it? I just don't believe he's... I don't believe he's the director of football. I believe he's probably a good chief scout, and he might even be a good coach on the football side. I know he's on the same ground at Lester doing stuff with them. He might be good at that. But don't forget, he was at Lester for a while unless there was shite. And then, you know, Vardy was very good and Brad Madden was great and they all clicked together in brand year.   Can I just point out that everyone he signed after they won the league is now left Lester. There you go. So let's, you know, let's not... That's fine. Right, but that's not... I'm not... Don't get me wrong, I'm not... It's not all about him, because like I said, I think there's pathways and I'll have it in a block, which sort of stuff he does. So, I just wonder then if it's just the bad experience we've had or this very English idea that we have because it's funny how I was talking about this on Saturday in the pub reminding... I can't remember what he's talking about, but it reminded me of when Clive Woodward got the job at Southampton and all the football people had under their mouths, like Redknap, because he didn't understand what his job was to do, because we were watching the rugby actually and we were talking about what he'd done and how Dave Brailsford... I should be calling these people safe, Dave Brailsford had done the same for the cycling, where they're not doing coach, because Woodward was the same. When he was in charge of England, he wasn't a coach. He was like a director of football for the director of rugby. He found the coaches, he set up how... He found the inches, like Brailsford does for the cycling team, he finds the inches. He's not hands-on, Dave, but he finds the inches and I wonder whether that's what... that's what we need and whether that's what this... The coach, coaches or the managers does his job, but the director of football or cycling or rugby is looking for the inches and we just haven't got the clarity yet Dave, what's supposed to be going on, because you said Dave Monty does it, there's someone at Barcelona and they'll do it, there's someone at Ajax or do it by Munich City. I've got the biggest one now. So it works, but now I don't ever hear anyone say, oh, I play the city side because of... You get the feeling, pep cheesers down players, don't you? But you get the feeling that there's a relationship where there's trust and the roles are clarified. And just what I'm saying is yet, our experience, I think I thought when we got it, yet it will have this will set a line and we'll follow the pattern. We seem to be well off the path, right? And I can see why. Shall Danton have it? And it's done then. It's kind of treated them well. Less leads, more players. They've done quite well this season of struggling, but in general, over the last few years, they've followed the line, things have kind of worked for them. But what if... OK, well, let me ask you this question then. What if this summer we go after the best manager available in Europe, let's say. And there's a couple out there. And they turn around and go, I need the director of football. Does that make me walsh? But they say I need the director of football because actually I'm coming into a Premier League club. I've got to hit the ground running. I can't be dealing with that. I need someone in that role. I'm used to someone in that role. I need someone taking that day to day pressure of looking for players. Think about how much time must be taken away from a coach, coaching from almost the admin of doing that job. I know. And that's what I'm saying to you. The bits of it I do agree with. I agree with that. Maybe it's about clear lines then. Maybe it's about removing the uncertainty of who chooses the players. Maybe it's about that. And my manager, you're the director of football. Listen, I need a sense of woe. This is the one-on-ones. And you go and get them.  Like you said, you come back and go, just then. I don't know whether that works. There's three strikers. And I go, well, like Cumin. Well, I only want you rude. Yeah, but I can't get him. But just them three.  I'm not having any. Or listen, I need a striker. See, that's it. Well, in that situation then, right? In that situation, should the club have overruled them and said, no, we can't get you this plate. See, because this is funny, because this is the flip side of it, isn't it? This is where the club maybe just needed a good manager. That would help. But maybe look at that though, right? That's a manager saying, I want that player.  And that manager's like, I'm not asking. But the club and the director are like, we need one. We need a centre forward, right? So we're going to buy one. Whether you like it or not, we're buying it. Because ultimately that decision, right? It's cost Cumin, his job. But that was his own. I think the problem are Everton. Just looking at the Everton one. For me, there's two big problems, right? One, we got a director of football in, who wasn't a director of football. And two, he came in after the manager. Right? So we got Cumin, and then we got Steve Walsh August before the windows. So that relationship might not have been there, wasn't it? As we know, when Cumin spoke to the Dutch press about the transfer, he might have blamed it all on Steve Walsh, didn't he? So there's issues there. So I suppose it will come down to the manager and you're happy to work with the director of football who's going to do this, this and this. Now that manager might go, if there's no issue working with the director of football, but I'm having the final say on players, on who we buy. And the director of football might go great. That manager, the director of football might say, we'll have your choices and I'll bring you options as well. And the manager again. What about this then? Not necessarily, I agree with this. But what if the club say something? No, the only thing you will have the final say on is you start on Saturday. So we will buy you a striker, right? If you don't play him, that's up to you. But this is what we're kind of seeing now with Jeng Towson. So we're seeing, we were told this lad was the best and he may still well be, I'm not writing him off by any set of the imagination, but we were told he was the best striker in Europe, right? In Europe that we could buy. We bought him on the 4th of January, 5th of January, he signed his contract. So and we went out there on December, we went out there on the 23rd or the 22nd of December to sort it and interact on. So we knew we wanted, we've now got our manager telling us this fella doesn't like the cold, gonna take time, might not even wake. So where the fans are going? Can we just bought some of it on the 27th of January? And who do you think is coming out where for me? Another manager? Yeah, but this, but the strikers also, getting different pieces. But ultimately, right? Ultimately and it's the same with, with Cooman, for your, should you do it? They're cutting their own throat. But this is the point that we're all looking at it. From a fans point of, You know what the problem is. But don't look at it from a fans point of view because actually there's no point looking from a fans point of view because we're not getting told, but look at it from the manager's point of view, right? It's just self-harm. It's just self-harm. You're fighting a system, but there's only going to be one winner. That's the way I'm looking at it. If Mishiri wants it, right? And the thing you'll want it at Chelsea and they want it at City and they want it at Paris Saint-Germain and they want it at Barcelona, right? You're fighting a system that you can't beat. So what are you doing? You're ultimately cutting your own throat, right? Cooman is going to have to, he's going to work for, he's going to work for Holland but he isn't going to direct it to football because he's got nothing or he's got to play that just happened to come from Holland, right?  This ain't going away. More clubs will have directives of football and there's too much financial responsibility now. There's too much going on. Well, then we need a good one, innit? Well, that's it and that's the way I look at it. We need a clear pathway and when that good one comes in, we need press, no the press or everything. Yeah, we know you watch.  No, they're on Peyton.  Do you have an interview with them? Do you've got a black account? 100% though. I know a couple of that. Do an interview with them. 15 minutes. Everything he does. What he does, clarify it. Do you buy the players for the manager and if he goes, no, what do you sit down? Manager will come to us with players and we'll have a few options and we'll go and do the best we can. Do you know what? Once that comes out, we all know and it removes all the deals. It would be like goal line technology.  If they haven't sat down and a proper chat with either Meshiri or Dingel about being director of football, Welsh, it would be made for brilliant headlines in terms of speaking to the fans and the press would love it about what the job is. They'd get a great video out of it. But I just think that one manager is already cut his throat by not just getting on with the job he was giving and not getting on with it. Now I'm not saying Steve Walsh is the man. I'm just saying he could have started the season with a decent centre forward and rejected it and now, and then found himself out of work. Now, Alan Dice might be right about talking, he might be. And I've got no funny enough, I've got no qualms about the work. People are like, I should be playing. That's not how I feel about it. But I think you should you know, you shouldn't be talking about a player like that. Like you've got doubts out of him. You're talking about him in a positive way going. Waking with him every day and he's getting better, he's getting used to the air. Don't forget it. He's finding it out and all this. You speak to him positive. It's going to take a bit of time. Not always questioning. But for me, the more he talks publicly about the system being wrong, the more he's cutting that. Because the manager, the owner will just go this is the system and if you don't like it there's the door mate. If you're resistant to this system. I just think, like I said to you before the reason why I don't like it is because for those reasons. I want the book to start with the manager because the minute you start giving we've just done another video about all the excuses he rolls out and this is just another one for me. I think in this and we mentioned this in the video we've lost sight of so many things in football. So many things and one of the things we've lost sight is coaching. And it's no coincidence that the top managers who can coach who can grab you bring them over here and make you a better player at all of the top clubs. We have managers like Alan Dyson and Rednap and Rednap and Pulus and all these and Moise was a good coach at heaven and that's probably why he got them on United job because he was a good coach but they wheel and deal and they do things by wheel. But they wheel and deal and that's how they manage them but that sight of things is going away from them because number one that's not how football clubs want to do things anyway because of headlines attached to some managers including that own but the best clubs want to get back to good old fashion coaching and want to make players better, improve players and that's why players now as well don't forget will sign for you instead of me because if I've got a choice of two managers right or two clubs you're willing to offer me £400,000 a week I'll give you £400,000 a week you get to live in a nice man city man United let's just say for pregnancy you live in the same city you get everything what's the difference in you and me well the player might go we've both raised this the player go let's say Stale he's gone man city or John Stones I want to go to man city rather than Chelsea because Pep Guardiola is going to make me fucking boss I know he is because I know he's a billion coach and then you might have Alexis Silver he's gone I like Marino because he's going to give me £750,000 he's going to give me £750,000 he might go because he's the kind of manager that will get the best out of me he'll push me and motivate me I don't need any more coaching I'm 29 I don't need coaching I need this and that's what he gives me but younger players who are hungry who've got skill will go Guardiola it will get me on the training pitch and make me better and if you've got those two choices in nowadays the choices clubs


The investigation of a body discovered in a heavily wooded area continues as the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and other agencies worked to determine how a Brainerd man died. Sarah Winkelman has more from the scene. A search crew set out yesterday to look for John Greenwald, a 29-year-old Brainerd man. The search resulted in discovery a body located in a wooded area about 150 feet off of Hattie Street in Brainerd. Three thirty or four o'clock law enforcement did a ground search with numerous officers from the Brainerd Police Department and during that time during the ground search the Brainerd police officers had located the the unidentified body. Initial indications lead officials to believe that this is the man they were looking for, but no formal identification has been performed. Officials are currently processing the crime scene just off the 300 block of Hattie Street. Now once that investigation is complete the body will be sent to the Ramsey Medical Examiner for identification and cause of death. John often came to this area but the question if foul play was involved is yet to be determined. This time we just don't know we're continuing to work with the the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and still processing the crime scene. It's still a very active crime scene. The N's family lives right next door to the scene and all Jamie N's can think about while watching the investigation unfold are her four kids. I kept thinking man if one of us had you know been out there with the kids and we had seen that body you know how would they have reacted you know with this how upsetting would it have been for these boys I have no idea. As scenarios played out in her head nothing compared to the reality of losing a child. I was here when the family was over here and seeing the mom just in grief and tears you know there's the sense of I'm glad they finally have answers but my heart just broke for them. More answers for the family will begin to arise over the next several days as the investigation continues. Reporting in Brainerd Sarah Winkleman Lakeland News. Anyone with information about the investigation can contact the Brainerd Police Department. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


So our team goals this year are to get back to the Mac Conference Championship. I think that we've been working really hard in the off-season under our leadership to be able to do that. And I think that we do have the personnel to do that. In order to get to that goal though, we have to be able to execute offensively. I think we can get scoring from a lot of different people this year. And we have to, you know, maintain our culture and our backbone of good defense. So the surprises were, you know, our two fifth-year seniors being able to come back and try to fulfill their last year that, you know, the pandemic kind of stole from a lot of people. Also, our Division II transfer in Asia Ferguson was a big help for us in the recruiting area along with the two freshmen that we have high expectations for. I think you take all of that with our really strong returning class that we were supposed to have in Kelly Johnson and Morgan Peneck. And I think that, you know, we could be really solid. And just all those pieces are starting to fall together right now in preseason. So our leadership this year, I mean, Kelly Johnson is our only returning true senior. And she has really taken the lead along with junior Morgan Peneck in our captain position and has organized all our summer activities with pickup, communication with our new players. So that's been a huge help. I mean, they are both so competitive and they want to win and they want to do it the right way. So just their leadership is showing the younger players our culture and what we need to do to be successful. And of course, Dania and Olivia just being so seasoned and veteran. I mean, they are just such great role models that it's hard not to follow them in doing the right things as well. So, yeah, we've been fortunate to be able to add a few new assistants to our staff. So we're pretty excited about Coach Manasseh Seifrall comes to us from Towson University as the women's club coach there, just young, energetic, wants to learn. So I think that he's going to be a huge asset for us.  So he's been doing everything that we've asked him to do. So we really appreciate that. And then a surprise. I got a phone call this summer from Johnny Curry that most of you guys will know the name from her playing days here at Stevenson and probably one of the better players to ever go through Stevenson's women's basketball program gave me a call over the summer that she would like to come back as a volunteer assistant while she's working on her master's program. So very excited to have her. It's just always fun to watch our players grow and mature and become those adults and even more fun when they come back to work with you.


What's good everybody Chris from jashescasebreaks.com doing our second case of 2023 tops finest baseball eight box case break PYT number two We're all ready to go all-card ship our first case was pretty dang hot PYT to Tristan with the D bags up top and will grab the last bottle with the Miami Marlins Michael down He wants some jewelry manessas, let's go get him some and some jewelry manessas. Thanks again everyone for getting involved Five more cases of this up on the site right now. Jaffie's case breaks up on one of our two new releases for the day All over mr. Four site or maybe All the more you do it that weekend in San Diego, huh?  Did you Did you hurt my trout and show you don't it's gonna weird kind of suspect let's do it It's a nice quirky color in the first case of this Couple big vet autos. Let's keep it going case number two. Thanks again to everyone get involved in this I won't I won't say anything Don't leave the ball. Don't leave the ball put this here. I had a red and yellow Pretty hard to handle a non-numbered super short print. I know a lot of Influences People I take talk you're funny. Let's call him funny. They're saying oh, this is gonna be show his tryout for Toder Stadium I'm like, he doesn't a tryout. Everyone knows how good show yet on here I think everyone every baseball thing in the Southern California area has like gone to see show a Not a tryout But it is a bomber. I always like the freeway series and Two big bombers like that go down Show me easier games. Let's not lose. All right box one. Good luck some gold Put on out of 50 on dress Jimenez second year for the Guardians It's gonna go to Jacob as gold to start us off Our second-year guy 285 out of 300 O'Neill Cruz Pittsburgh Pirates and James And our first auto refractor Byron Buxton Minnesota Twins Put a lot of DH this year. I want to keep them as healthy as possible Minnesota Twins. I'm gonna go to Jose Grab the Buxton auto Alex Bregman 174 out of 175 Houston Astros and Jared the Gunner Henderson Red hot right now for the Baltimore Orals and Aaron Shane Bieber potentially on the block here 158 out of 250 for the Guardians one more for Jacob On his way out Cards can't stay competitive Our first Corbin Carroll get well soon youngster. It's going to Tristan in the D-vax Francisco Alvarez Going to James and the Mets Orange shimmer Michael Bush Michael Bush rookie Dodger All I'm out 25 on the other going to Ed P. I would hope so. I like Shane Bieber I was how it should be before the first Jordan Walker finds variation Christopher Morrell There's an Adley you got Vargas reviewer factor and a Josh young Josh on for the Rangers gonna Tristan And a nice Josh young out of 300 in the first case See what you double dip for that Adley going to Aaron the Christopher Morrell going to James in the cub The Jordan Walker going to the Cardinals and Ed P. I Think be potentially to the Dodgers. I think if the Reds are for real like they say they are Just you know a little cross We'll crosstown trade from Cleveland to since I think the Phillies may be in on him I think before Trump show hey went down. I think the angle grand on him We'll see Shane Bieber is a head of the picture places. I don't want him to go, uh, Arizona Uh, San Francisco Just not my division, please. Oh, no, not the please not That pod just started pitching kind of put a whooping on the Dodgers last post season But definitely not like to see that happen again. Even if it's just them playing spoil No, no, I don't think so Although that Cleveland to San Diego pipeline Kind of active. It feels like every year they they make some sort of trade Mike Clevenger a couple of years ago Just you know, they're always kind of talking. They're just chatting, you know, just talking All right box two Purple wrong Akunya jr. 76 about 250 MVP front wire For the Atlanta Brakes and dy gosh young Nice Anthony Volpe silver Nice refractor for the Yankees Go to max Smith But another nice rookie here. Gabrielle Moreno former top prospect rookie for the d-bags on the finest rookie's variation auto But a Tristan and Arizona That's Tristan. I mean, I don't know. Can we get done today? The 190? Nice rose gold Joe ran. Jose Ramirez on the rose gold 18 out of 75. Just a great looking parallel Cleveland looking good so far here Jacob grabs one more Guardian Cal Rowley 103 out of 199. Seattle Mariners Austin on Grisham refractor Looking for the Braves all-card ship here Mullen aeronado 42 out of 99 St. Louis Cardinals and ed So nice. We got them twice 20 out of 99 Byron buxom on the true green auto One more for Jose and the twins Buxom out of 99 Oh, nice 84 out of 150 on the blue Jordan Walker Nice rookie for the St. Louis Cardinals and ed p Well, keep color. Pretty abundance on some of our bigger names in the first case. Let's hope that's the sign of one of the same Just talking about green speckles show. Hey, Ohtani. Good. Well soon, man 107 out of 125 For the angels and rob big dog That's two cards in that second box What is this giant drunk? In the middle of our first case grizzled bees Let us know that there is a Potentially a box in here that will have all cards numbered to 50 or lower The tops confirmed as something called a treasure chest box So if we see one of those like I said in that break If we see a treasure chest box, I will speak like a pirate For the rest of the box It will be bad. Oh, yeah, it'll be horrible, but I am gonna do it. I'm a man of my word Furries furries Great twitter follow and a great tiktok follow too. All right box three Wow throwback On the finest moments gold Ryan Howard 2006 nl mvp that is 17 out of 50 for the Phillies and James So much for the sophomore jinx In 2006 Howard became the first party to receive the nationally mvp award in the season following a rookie of the year campaign The edge pools after leading the majors with a Phillies record 58 home runs in 149 rvi The only players to ever pair those two stats have been Babe Ruth Jimmy Fox and Sammy sister Ryan Howard the former mvp out of 50 on the gold moments honor he was so good From my 06 to like 2010 he would look at a ball and it'd be a home run whoo And a gold rookies variation Francisco alvarez new york max james 7 out of 50 On the gold Francisco alvarez nice manking rats. Let's keep it going JJ bidet former top prospect won 12 out of 300 for the oakland a's It's going to go to eric m your dawn alvarez 12 out of 250 Houston astros and jaren next auto going to be even small Rookie refractor milwaukee brewers and brian Even small on the rookie auto nice adler and a gunner Adler on the rookie refractor the gunner base going to erin and the o's All-star starter behind the plate adley ruchman Looks like the first of many men that kid is something else What's up keenan? Oh, what's up keys? What's up bud? Box four please I would love to pull some jomar Incoming two arm bucks So I need a slouch obviously Uh, let me check on number three sold out Uh, if it sells out whatever it sells out will be next I see three teams left at number three But nothing else went out besides that so Hey, we missed If those three teams get picked up by the time this break is done, it'll be It will be next box for Volpe But baby on the variation and for the Rockies brian setter 81 out of 150 on the blue working for the Rockies and derrick. I I am not a hugger I am not a hugger. I'll pass the word long though. I see a sheet of refractor And a purple oswaldo cabera working for the Yankee six out of 250 It's going to go to matt smith not a hugger and I don't think Don't think uh, teddy is a hugger either.  I'll see what I can do. No one are not him 61 out of 150 Let me have passed them. Oh nice And an extra auto going to be james ailment refractor auto for my dodgers It's going to go to ed p Looks like he's heating back up for for my dodger six. I hope that's for real James ailment on the rookie refractor off And one more jordan walker to add and the card Max meyer to 14 out of 250 rookie for the marlins will christian a little last spot mojo from our first rounder Green is aq we were 75 out of 99 for the fillies It's going to the steven and last auto of this box going to be starlin marté Refractor for the mess i'm going to go to james It's a marté Marté all right second half of the case here. This is box five So looking for one of our die cuts. There's usually a couple per case And it can be autographed too I wonder they're usually it's like, you know one side is the Yankees one side is the red sauce If it's an auto one if it's you know One on each side Maybe it's like a long card Dual autograph the long way We'll see what more for james Green lava one out of 99 hundred book book and book beginning but another ebay 101 Francisco alvarez one out of 99 green lava Double dip it on the francisco nice one for james Next auto carlos parets 103 out of 150 on the blue rookie aisle Chicago white socks and james up out of 150 And a gold second year bobby wit jr. 27 out of 50 Kansas City worlds. It's going to go to dawn See if we can start getting a little lower here. Maybe an orange Maybe even more than that other o'neill cruise want to wait at a 199 hitsburg One more o'neill for james o Blue max mayor Maya max mayer 78 out of 150 one more max for one more last bob mojo will and the marlins Corbin care on the rookie variation and nice one for the dodgers Got both of them all three of the big rookie so far. Wait a minute. Hold on Dodgers case here for ed p Miguel Vargas on the rookie refractor auto the michael bush the outman and now the vargas nice Cleaning up so far Volpe and a spend your steer Work your refractor i'll throw a sleeve on mash rookie for the reds and henry One more volpe from matt smith and the corbin carroll Find us rookies variation for tristan and the debacks Get that out of you. You know marino on the rookie variation Next auto Gonna be germane palacios for the Detroit tigers and steven To refractor auto main palacios the corbin carroll world's finest shell hey otani More jordan walker for a nice world's finest World baseball classic. They had a trout auto On the world's kind of had a 25 on the last break. Can we get his angel's teammate? Other world's finest gonna be louise robert for the whites on He is just dead. You're nuts this year too You kind of needed it one of the lone Bright lights for the white socks and james o purple seya susuki 133 out of 250 a lot of second year guys It's one for the cubs and james our next auto will be gram ashcraft on the rookie refractor gram ashcraft rookie refractor One more cow rolly 92 out of 300 for the seattle mariners and austin An ultimate box here box seven Haven't seen a red and yellow or a black and yellow yet box seven Teal shimmer cool guys saying that 151 out of 175. I have a nice rookie season one more for james m next auto Winton bernard caroto rockies on the rookie refractor auto to go to dare On the vapor 113 out of 250 adley rushman rookie Aaron with the baltimore orals That is nice right there. Aaron congrats Some more rookie killer ziki old iran out of 300 for the texas ranger of a nice rookie for tristan 54 out of 300 Brett baity rookie refractor in there for the mess one more for james m a fiercest rivalries Our finest rivalries just the derrick jeter for the new york yankees and matt smith It's our first die cut As our black and yellow and it's a nice one headliners black and yellow vladimir guerrero jr Toronto blue jays ed p all-star 28 out of 100 chris bryant colorado rockies Derek d on the wava Next auto going to be dermis garcia oklonej rookie refractor eric ann and then There was one final box here See if we can get a little last box mojo. This is tilted right? This isn't just me I'm not gonna mess with that We're in a dutch took for the rest of the break apparently Yeah, and final box everyone. Thanks again Three four five six and seven on the site right now jasses case breaks.com Brian's baseball has been nice so far. Let's keep it going There's a hall of fame right there. Dennis Eckersley Oklonej's addition going to go to eric all of fame closer And started to hear some pretty good years and started from moving to the pen workies variation von grisham for the braves and dy local nohapi 208 out of 250 On the vapor for the angels coming to rob. Hello, Matthew Hello, buddy Corbin carol on the rookie I can't I got to work on the rhythm laugh nice Nice rookie color into the former top prospect 34 out of 175 Gabrielle morena for the debacks and tristan I think he was number one last year for a minute. Ooh nice red Cody clements two out of five on the rookie auto I wish it was a bigger name, but we'll always take some red The red wave Phillies and steven I don't know about that Nice Jordan Walker rookie refractor. We were just talking about that. Um We'll see We'll see how long Corbin's really out for it. It'll be an interesting one though One more Ezekiel Doran 90 out of 199 for the Rangers and the josh young base Another Adley Matt Scherzer 121 out of 300 Mets addition going to go to james m Last few cards here That is a wrap another pretty dang good case A finest some great rookie color got our first red of the day All these cards I have sleeves Gonna get top loaded a lot of big rookies Lots of color obviously and then I'll show up what I've got Top loaded Hey, that's some moments those Phillies have been super hot. You just swept the race The first time the race have been swept all season. So the Cody Clements two out of five Nice black and yellow Vladimir Gareau junior Adley out of 250 Francisco Alvarez out of 99 James Almond Miguel Vargas and a coming up Michael Bush rookie auto Gold Francisco Alvarez out of 50 Ryan Howard cold auto out of 50 Jordan Walker out of 150 And Michael Bush out of 25 and two buying bucks and auto starting this off. All right, there we go That was number two of the top finest baseball p y t's. They got three through seven on the site right now at jassescasebricks.com Thanks again y'all for watching


Today I'm getting over my fear of tier makers to bring you the definitive list and ranking of all the murder mystery books I've ever read. And so welcome back to my channel I hope you're all good. Today that's right we are going to tier rank all of the murder mystery books I have ever read. I've put them all into tier maker and we're gonna rank them together. Well today is going to be the best day ever. A lot of you often ask me when I do videos like my top murder mystery books etc but I thought of this murder mystery or this murder mystery or you know ask about all the different ones I've read. So this is the definitive list but before we get into the video I want to say a massive thank you to the sponsor of today's video which is Serious Readers. So Serious Readers make reading lights. This is mine and I love it so much. 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have to rank in this video so first we have get that fire rick signal I'm off so this is the worst get me out of here did not like this next we have I don't remember I don't remember love I don't remember at all I really don't because I know for a long time ago this is one I don't really remember right sorry I don't know her don't have much recollection of reading it it was pretty un unremembrable it's pretty forgettable then we have pushed me up against the wall give me a kiss then I might get excited so this is books that like were fine but just didn't excite me they were boring they didn't have any flavour to them it's mad why is mad on the links on here three times what is going on here everything is duplicated hang on what is going on you can't delete images I have to make a whole new one okay we're back we're back we're back it worked oh my god so pushing me up against the wall is the books that just don't excite me right they're fine they're just not exciting then we have I'm an acquired taste you don't like me acquire some taste these are books that I really enjoy but I can see why people wouldn't because they're an acquired taste you know this this tier isn't necessarily gonna be like the highest rate at the top lowest rate at the bottom it's more vibes you get me also the bin men are outside just as I'm starting to feel like then we have the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough this is ones I love I think they're great they're great solid books from beginning to end I really love them and then we have I'm gonna collapse no I don't I feel fine I've struck gold ladies this is the best of the best we've struck gold like top tier amazing great wonderful fantastic amazing great the best the best the best right I'm gonna like try and reserve we struck gold for the top of the top there may be five stars they put in the album's amazing song to song right that is really reserved for the top top of the top okay so let's get going fatal crossing by Tom Hindle I read this earlier this year it was fine I didn't love it I think that's gonna go and push me up against the wall like it just didn't excite me it was fine didn't love it okay now we've got a few te kinsies let's do all these in the order that they came out in so quite life in the country or say hmm this one's tricky because I can see why some people don't love it because it's cozy mysteries it's simple it's like you know just I'm gonna say I'm a quiet taste no I'm gonna say quite life in the country I was amazing song to song then in the market for murder let's find that that's the second one that's my favorite one where is it that's gonna go I feel faint we've struck gold I love in the market for murder that's my favorite in the series then death around the bend I'll put I'm an acquired taste and the picture of murder I'll put acquired taste see I'm being harsh this is like death around the bend I still gave four stars picture of murder was like a 3.5 but um I do love that is my favorite cozy mystery series the next one set in January so I'm very excited to read it in January you know if you like cozy mysteries with like a really lovely duo it's Lady Hardcastle and her made flow and the books are told from flow's perspective and they've been friends for many years they were secret spies together back in the day they're just a comfort route for me I do love them shiver by Ali Reynolds get our fireworks at door I'm off I didn't like it how do you know what's good for me that's my attention I just wasn't a fan of the reveals in this I found the whole thing pretty boring an unwanted guest by Shari Lapina the album's amazing song to song I feel like I didn't I feel like I read this in an era when I was having really good luck with murder mysteries and I didn't appreciate it fully for what it's worth you know and I want to guess it's such a good isolated close circle murder mystery like they're all snowed in at this inn it's so atmospheric I think this would be a great one to read around Christmas time it's my favorite Shari Lapina I've ever read definitely and then though and then back at the Chrissy okay this is where I'm gonna get controversial I don't love and then the Wenan I really don't I've learned that it's just something about the format I don't like because we may see a few other and then the Wenan retellings in this list and I just don't tend to like them why would you say something so controversial yet so brave I don't like scheduled killings I don't like knowing like okay someone's gonna die soon I like the killings to be shocked like I want to be shocked right if I'm not shocked by the murder what's the point what are people dying for when the reveal happens at the end it's like oh my god it's so annoying I really didn't like you know the how this was done moment I didn't like that it's gonna go push me up against all gimmick is that I might get excited like I can see why people like it but it didn't do it for me big little lies we struck gold I loved big little lies it's not exactly a murder mystery really this was like really 50-50 but I wanted to put in here anyway because I loved this I read this when I had covid it was the only thing I could do when I had covid was read this book slowly and I just loved the campiness of it I tried to watch the show and I couldn't get into it because the show was like all dark and brooding and we're in a lay down this serious and I'm like no I liked about big little lies how ridiculous it was and how it was all these mums fighting like I love that I love that I can't wait till I have kids and they go to school and I'm gonna be embroidered all the mum drama I'm not gonna be starting it but I'm just like it's fun to watch from afar I'm checking the boy in the red dress I don't remember it wasn't even that long ago I read this this summer I don't this is like a historical murder mystery where it's about a boy in the red dress he's like a drag performer he's accused of a murder mystery and his girlie here is gonna try and save him this was just like I just I don't remember I couldn't really tell you anything that happened in this book dead dead girls by nakisa afia uh I'm I'm gonna say I'm gonna acquire taste I liked it I'm gonna continue on with the series but it was like a debut and there was some like debuiness about it yeah this is another historical murder mystery set in Harlem all these girls are getting killed and our main character takes upon herself to find out what is happening death on and all about eichler christie we struck gold this is one of my favorite eichler christie I read this this year and I really did enjoy it because here's the thing miss agatha had two husbands right the cheating lying scumbag that was mr christie I can't remember you know when he cheated she like had a bit of a breakdown ran away was missing listen we don't we don't recognize him but then she was with this like I think it was like an archaeologist guy and she like traveled the world with him and that's why she has all these like death on the now murder on the orn express like she starts traveling sis starts traveling pro starts going on travels and I love that for her I love that for her death and now I can bodies her freedom for me okay devil and duck what is an interesting one because I really did enjoy it but I think it's going to go in an acquired taste like I gave it five stars this is what I'm saying this is not like although I'm tier ranking it I'm kind of tier ranking it for other people maybe not for myself because I gave it five stars but I can I can understand when people wouldn't like this another historical one this is set on a ship this is another one that's like only it's like not really a murder mystery but I included anyway like this is in my top 10 murder mysteries I think video that I made but I'm putting it here because the ending especially is ridiculous like I couldn't really understand if people wouldn't like it like it's a very unsatisfying ridiculous ending like my mum didn't like it oh a good girl's guide to murder easy we've shot gold the best maybe the best love it my favorite probably my favorite YA murder mystery that I've ever read I love a good girl's guide to murder very nervous for five survived by holly jackson coming out late to this year I'm like rattled I'm nervous about it but I'm excited but it's more thriller so that's what makes me nervous because I just think she did a murder mystery so wow the hongin murders that's amazement song to song I need to continue on with seshi yokinizo's work he's basically the agate christie of japan he has this detective the detective sitting in the hongin murders he's written like I don't know 60 a hundred books I don't know loads and loads of books and detective and they're being translated into English and I have I own two more of them and I think one more has been translated as well than what I own I really loved this it was such an interesting murder mystery it's a locked room murder mystery a husband and wife are murdered on their wedding eve and it's a locked room they were staying in a cabin that was locked on the inside there was been snow overnight and there's been no footprints around the cabin and so it's really like how this is done is crazy it's like a murder mystery of these reveals I never read so I definitely need to read some more of his stuff how we fall apart I read it this year for my book club on patreon I don't remember I think it was fine I was just a bit bored I also remember feeling like it was young YA which I just think is not necessarily a bad thing like I think that should exist I remember saying if I was like reading this when I was 12 I would have eaten it up like I would have been obsessed with the drama in this but it just wasn't for me as an adult in my dreams I hold a knife I've just read and the reading vlog for it is coming this weekend I'm gonna put the album as amazing song to song it's not quite we've struck gold for me you'll see all my thoughts this weekend but it was it was good like I really enjoyed it really enjoyed it marion lane get that fireworks at all I hate her I tell you now this was so disappointing for me I loved the cover of this so much I remember I bought this I still remember I bought this book for myself as a reward for finishing my documentary like my dissertation for my year three of uni it was like my reward this was like I was so excited for this book no did not like it really didn't like it this is another series I did not continue mid-winter mad about agatha christie um this one's tricky we've got three agatha christies here to chat about I'm gonna go push me up against all I did enjoy this like I read this on christmas day I think last year and it was fun to read on christmas day I would really like to read proro's christmas or there's another like christmas one that has a special edition I'll put them here I would read I don't own any of them but I would like to read one of those to you probably this christmas it's an enjoyable experience but I didn't love this was short stories and I just there was some I preferred more than others you know so it was just fine murder only on express we've struggled absolutely we've struggled I love murder only on express this is the first I think the first murder mystery I really ever read definitely the first agatha christie I've ever read and it's still probably my favorite agatha christie I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I mean I'm I'm so passionate about it here's the thing I love like some stuff that people would see as boring murder only on express is literally all interviews it's all into like most of the book is him interviewing every person who's been on this train when the murder has been committed and I love that like it's formulaic but I love that because I think it really gives you the reader like the chance to put clues together because you're in the setting and you're just getting interviews and a murder on the express is one of the best reveals ever it's so good miss you're the blue train I don't remember don't remember her or maybe even get that farx dorm off um no I don't remember her this was like a two star for me I did not love this not a happy family by shari lapina this was like another two star I'm gonna say get that farx a dorm off did not enjoy this this is another book club one I don't always have the best luck with book club fix yeah this wasn't it this is probably my least favourite shari lapina I've read the reveals were so predictable I knew who it was the entire book and it's about um this family where the three kids go to visit their parents for dinner and the next morning the parents are found dead so you think one of the kids or one of the kids partners have murdered the parents and it was just obvious who it was the entire time and I just didn't enjoy it one by one by Ruth where it's going straight to the top I don't care I want to fight the battle I want to fight the battle oh yeah I'm gonna fight the battle people did not love this when it came out I love this this is maybe my favorite Ruth where yeah I love one by one I loved it this is another isolated snowed in murder mystery we've got this company called snoop who are there together on this retreat and they start getting killed off one by one I just thought this was a really well done mystery it had a few unique elements to it it has a great chase scene near the end that I felt so tense in and what is really special about this book without spoiling much is that for a good chunk of the book you the audience think you know who's done it right you think it's not like a big like unmask reveal at the end necessarily and how the tension builds in those parts when you think you're pretty sure you know who's done it and the way the tension builds and you feel sick and you're like oh my god like please don't let it be them like it's so so good so yeah Ruth where I disagree with everyone else on that pro investigates I don't remember that I think that might be short stories is it I think that's like because I read the pro series in order I think that's like the third one in the pro series and I think it's your story is I read the audiobook I don't remember a thing about it reckless girls by Rachel Hawkins mmm well silly I was amazing song to song I really I read this this year and I really did enjoy it it's pitched us and then they went on retelling and it's not so I didn't mind it this is about these characters who go to say on this deserted island and death ensues basically bad stuff ensues people being bad ensues this was one of the quickest books I've ever read I think this I it's like 300 pages I read it in like two hours you could not stop me reading it it's such a compulsively readable book so yeah I really enjoyed that sleep by Seattle Taylor I just read it was a three star I'm gonna say push me up against will give me a kiss I might get excited it didn't do what I don't want to guest it and that's what I wanted it to do it's another like at a hotel a group of characters who don't know each other stuck in a storm basically in that ensues and I just like when I've read I wanted guests sleep just can't compare it just couldn't compare you never will be on my level do not compare yourself to me I liked the writing I liked the main character but I just didn't feel like the tension was really there and there wasn't many twists the appeal by Janice Hallett now this is a tricky one because this is a book that I wanted to love so badly that I think when I read it I gave it a 3.5 out of like disappointment that it wasn't the favorite book I've ever read but I did enjoy it so I think I've raised it to a 4 I'm gonna say and I'm a quiet taste so this book is told entirely through emails after a murder has happened and you're supposed to be these students who are like are these students I don't know like investigators who are reading through all the emails and trying to figure out who committed the murder the big full bags Christy get a fire exit door well just as I thought trash this is my least favorite ice Christie I gave this one star so this one I will forgive her though because this one was originally a series of like periodicals in a newspaper I don't think it was ever supposed to be a book but then miss Agatha had her like had her break down and she was writing the mystery of the blue train but she wasn't happy with it I think you can see that this was like through a difficult period of her life because I think you can see that it was tough for her and so she she wasn't ready to publish that but she had to publish a book and so then I think it was like her brother-in-law suggested publishing the big four as the next book so yeah I just didn't love this I think that because it was a newspaper like periodical the pacing is off and it's got some bad Christie racism in it all of her books not all of her books some are not as bad as others but when you go into them you have to accept that she's writing in the 1930s but a lot of the ones I've read at least because I've read a lot of her earlier ones you see you see aspects of the time in them but also flawed opinions that she had as an individual and you know I think it's different reading that kind of stuff in an Agatha Christie book versus reading it in a modern day book but I don't believe that she should get off the case you know get off scot-free because oh it was in the past also you know but I do continue to read her stuff because I do love murder mysteries a genre and she you know when you read books you can see that she is the originator of so much but yeah the big four was not for me the broken girls by Simone St James there's we struck gold ladies I loved it we struck oh my god broken girls were so good speculative multiple two murder mysteries that we're trying to solve across different time periods dual timeline that I actually liked great characters oh it was good oh and the guest list we have to put at we've struck gold as well I can't not was one of the first murder mysteries I ever read and I loved it I don't know if I read it for the first time today if I would love it as much you better f***ing take that back right now you better f***ing stop right now I think she just does simple murder mysteries so well she's probably the closest I've read not in terms of writing I don't think she writes like her but I think in terms of like how the murder mystery is framed the closest modern writer to Agatha Christie that I found you know you have these archetypal characters you have like maybe six characters you know that they're your suspects and then you kind of start going about investigating them um so yeah the guest list is a very important one for me the islanders another and then they were non-retelling get that fire except I'm off I did not like it I didn't like it this is like a love island murder mystery so it's like you know the show love island they've gone on that show and then they start getting killed off one by one I hate this one I really did I'm so sorry I feel so bad but I didn't like it the last by Hannah Jameson is the epitome of I'm an acquired taste don't like me acquire some taste like literally the epitome of it I loved it I think I gave it maybe I only gave it a four but it's one of the books I think about the most it's set in the apocalypse a nuclear apocalypse you and like 30 other survivors are in this twist hotel you don't know if any of the rest of the world has survived and a body is found I love the tension that's built up it's a really fun book but the ending is so ridiculous like the ending is not good but it's so bad that I kind of think it's amazing like I kind of think it's genius but I can't understand why people hate that one the maid the maid the maid the maid I gave it four stars I'm gonna say acquired taste yeah it was good this is a book I actually conversely to the last I feel like has gone down a little bit in my ratings um since I've read it it was a very simple murder mystery but I'm not sure in the best way I enjoyed it when I read it but I don't look back on it as like wow that was incredible you know rich loss men let's do the two Thursday murder card books Thursday murder card we struck gold one of my favorite books I read last year one of my favorite books I'm gonna put the second one even though it was five stars I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song because I didn't love it as much as the first one I don't think it's as strong but it is good like I just I do love this series it's just the perfect like modern mainstream cozy mystery I love that we're following elderly characters I love the relationships that are built up alongside the murder mystery I just think it's it's amazing and I'm very excited for that to miss the murder of Roger at Croyd we have a few Agatha Christie's again um murder of Roger at Croyd hmm now here's the thing in terms of like the ending we struck gold one of the most ingenious reveals I think by Agatha Christie again I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song because I think the beginning of the book I found a little bit boring when I read it not boring but like I just didn't love it as much as say murder on the urine express because it is more of like a small town cozy slow mystery and then the ending is amazing but I'm going to put it in the album's amazing song to song murder on the links I don't remember I think I remember really not liking it but I don't remember well enough to say there's a few Agatha Christie's in here I don't know this is the thing I like Christie I either love her or I don't like her the mysterious of her styles are actually put in the one above this is her first book and I think it's really good for her first book like it was literally her first one of those prora as well and I think it is a good stately home murder mystery the Paris apartment by Lucy Foley will put the album's amazing song to song I did give us five stars out of this year I did really enjoy it again I know a lot of people didn't love this but I just think Lucy Foley just gets the vibe that I want I loved the Paris location there is a reveal in this book that is like it's really good that I didn't predict before it got revealed like I had no idea and when it got revealed I was shaking I'm shaking I'm physically shaking so yeah the Paris apartment is a good one the sanatorium by Sarah Pierce I don't remember much I'm gonna say push me up I would say an acquired taste I didn't love this I think I gave it like a 3.54 it's set at this like revamped sanatorium right it's been turned into a hotel and I think this is a great like thrilling murder mystery there's a lot of twists throughout it that really like oh my god like we're really scary almost and really tense but the ending again wasn't great it was to make a point and I just didn't think it paid off seven deaths Evan Hardcastle pushed me up against a wall I didn't love this I much preferred Devil in the Darkwater even though Stuart um Stuart Tarkin's other book Evan Hardcastle was much more popular but I just this one was just like it was a bit too much for me and the I didn't like the ending reveal either um and this is the one where like he's jumping around in people different people's bodies every day he wakes up he relives the day where the murder happens again and I just thought it was a little bit complicated for its own good I feel like Devil in the Darkwater was good complicated good clever this one was a little bit too much I'm gonna put three dahlia's I gave this four stars I just read it so it's a bit more fresh in my memory I'm gonna say the album is amazing song to song I think this is a solid murder mystery it's very fun um I just read it in a vlog where my cats picked what I read for Halloween like this book is very referential to Eichel the Christie and I think it does it very well and I really liked the mystery but it was just a fun book as well it's set at a convention like a super fan convention for this fictitious female murder mystery author from the 1930s I just thought it was a very fun fun book true crime story by Joseph Knox I don't know if it's quite we've struck gold like when I look at the we've struck gold ones I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song I did love this I read it recently I gave it five stars but I feel like it's not quite up there with those like top ones you know like the Devon Darkwater is in my top 10 like that is amongst those but it isn't a quiet taste it goes here so this isn't quite I don't know do I put it in we struck gold no I'm putting in the album's amazing song to song I'm putting in the album's amazing song to song because I would have liked a little bit again a bigger mix of mixed media I don't know I think like interviews they needed to be like a few other stuff there was ints and emails um this is like a mixed media murder mystery about a girl well I guess it isn't really a murder mystery it's a girl who's gone missing but sometimes I allow missing person like the Paris apartment is kind of a missing person murder mystery like they're missing have they been murdered kind of thing you know the wintery can mystery I'm gonna quiet taste I did enjoy this this was a book where I tried to solve it so I read it and like had like a crime board up on my wall and like tried to solve the mysteries I went along and I really loved the experience of that it's the only classic crime book other than i could christie I've ever read and it was a really fun experience to read you know a different a different classic crime book but I guess it wouldn't be for everyone and then woman cabin 10 uh hang on let's put it in the album's amazing song to song I think that's where it deserves to go that's where we're gonna put it because I did I did really really enjoy this this is a very good truth where it's up there again is one of my favorites so there we have it that is my tier ranking of all the murder mystery books ever read this feels pretty right to me like I feel like this this ranking it feels right to me you know I could have a few up top she'll a few down the bottom yeah I hope you enjoyed this video of me tier ranking all the murder mystery books I ever read this is a pretty good place to come if you want murder mystery recommendations I guess again it wasn't like oh the five stars at the top the one stars at the bottom it's also in between there's a few nuances because the last is one that I think about the most devil dark watch I gave five stars you know so thank you so much for watching if you got into the end comment the magnifying glass or knife emoji down below thank you so much for watching make sure you check out series series again and use my code thank you so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in 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Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute, narrated by James Foster. Freedom, Rights, and Political Philosophy, Part 2 In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974, Robert Nozick wrote, The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy? Since anarchist theory, if tenable, undercuts the whole subject of political philosophy, it is appropriate to begin political philosophy with an examination of its major theoretical alternative. According to Nozick, exploring the problems that would arise in an anarchistic state of nature is of crucial importance to deciding whether there should be a state rather than anarchy. Nozick's use of a hypothetical state of nature might seem to place him in the Lockean tradition generally conceived, but there is a significant difference. No political philosopher during the 17th century and, for most of the 18th, questioned whether there should be any state at all. Rather, the need for government was taken for granted and used as a premise by all sides in political debates, defenders of absolutism, and individualism alike. If one's political theory was unable to sustain this premise, if it failed to provide a credible justification for government, then it was the theory itself, not government, that was condemned and rejected. In other words, if a philosopher began with a state of nature, he had the burden to explain why reasonable people would ever leave that anarchistic condition voluntarily and agree to submit to a government. This is what John Locke attempted to do in his second Treatise of Government. According to Locke, all men are by nature equal. The state of nature that state all men are naturally in is not only a state of perfect freedom, but a state also of equality wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another. The most fundamental among these equal rights is the right to freedom of every individual to his own person, which no other man has power over, but the free disposal of it lies in himself. The import of Locke's notion of equal rights may be described as political reductionism. This is the doctrine that all rights and powers claimed by government must ultimately be reducible to the equal rights and legitimate powers of individuals, as they would exist in a state of nature without government. Natural rights can be transferred, delegated, or alienated only through consent, according to Locke. Therefore, no person can lay claim to a natural right of sovereignty, legitimate political power, which supposedly entitles him to rule others without their consent. Nor, contrary to Samuel Pufendorf and some other natural law philosophers, are their special rights, most notably the right to punish, that emerge and can exist only under government. Hence the significance of Locke's argument that even the right to punish would be possessed by individuals in a state of nature. Beginning with the premise that there exists no natural dominion in a state of nature, Locke attempted to explain the origin of political obligation. How can we move from the equal and reciprocal rights of man in his natural condition to the political dominion and subordination of governments where rulers claim rights, such as the right to punish, that are denied to individuals? Locke was responding to Sir Robert Filmer, a dead adversary who had written his tracks decades earlier, though most were not published until 1680. Filmer's defense of patriarchalism, a popular method of defending the divine right of kings based on the natural authority of fathers over their children, was not very persuasive even to many 17th century readers who were sympathetic to biblical arguments, so Locke, in his first treaties, was able to dispose of Filmer's muddled arguments for patriarchalism with relative ease. But there was a more impressive aspect to Filmer, namely his criticism of the doctrine that a legitimate government must be based on the consent of the governed, a theory that was grounded in a premise that Filmer characterized as the natural liberty and equality of mankind. Although this nascent libertarian doctrine had roots in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially Stoicism, and had survived in the writings of various Catholic philosophers, its explosive potential was not fully realized until after the Reformation, when both Catholics and Protestants searched for a rationale to strip heretical or tyrannical princes of their legitimacy and thereby justify the rights of resistance and revolution. This is the primary critical task that Filmer undertook in Patriarcha and other tracks. He articulated arguments against a consent theory of government, especially against social contract theory, which is the traditional form in which consent theory has manifested itself that would later be repeated by a host of more famous philosophers, such as David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham. According to Filmer, the supposed natural equality and freedom of mankind is a desperate assertion whereby kings are made subject to the censures and deprivations of their subjects. If this first erroneous principle is refuted and exposed for the sham it is, the whole fabric of this vast engine of popular sedition would drop down of itself. Filmer's reference to popular sedition is highly significant. Prior to Filmer, some philosophers, both Catholic and Protestant, had used some version of social contract theory to justify the rights of resistance and revolution. This is what so alarmed the absolutist critics of political individualism who resolutely denied those rights. The most absolutists would concede was the right of passive disobedience, that is to say, if a law violates a divine commandment, then subjects should disobey that law, but they should also submit to whatever punishment is prescribed by law. Under no circumstances are subjects permitted to use force against their sovereign, even when confronted with an unjust law. The revolutionary implications of natural rights theory troubled not only absolutists, but also later philosophers with liberal tendencies. Many of these liberals did little more than repeat the arguments that had been stated many decades earlier by Robert Filmer. The upshot of these arguments was that the individualistic theory of natural rights, especially as manifested in various theories of social contract, can justify the rights of resistance and revolution only at the expense of government itself. No government can meet or ever has met the rigid criteria demanded by radical individualism. So we are left with no justification for government at all. Such theories will strand us in the anarchistic state of nature with no means of escape, so all such theories are absurd on their face. We find this line of criticism in the writings of the liberal English clergyman Josiah Tucker, who in his criticism of the American Revolution, trenchantly observed that the Lockean system is an universal demolisher of all civil governments, but not the builder of any. Writing shortly after the American victory at Yorktown, Tucker argued that if Locke's principles were to be executed according to the letter and in the manner the Americans pretend to understand them, they would necessarily unhinge and destroy every government upon earth. Tucker complained that the wise Maxman politics, not to be very inquisitive concerning the original title of the reigning powers, had been destroyed by John Locke and other defenders of natural rights and the social contract. According to the Lockean system, consent is the basis of legitimate government, but this is a test that no real government can pass. Americans had accused the British of violating their rights by imposing taxes and other measures without the consent of colonial assemblies. The Americans had appealed to Lockean principles in their effort to rid themselves of an old government, but would they remain true to those same principles in establishing new governments? Would those inalienable rights of mankind, which had supposedly been ravished by the British, remain sacred and pristine when the Americans were in control? No, argued Tucker. This was an impossible task. The Lockean system can justify the demolition of an established government, but it cannot provide a secure foundation for establishing a new government. Did the victorious Americans give their citizens the choice of living in a state of nature without any government at all? No, Americans were given only one choice. Who should govern, Americans or Englishmen? Neither the states nor the Continental Congress truly ruled by the consent of the people. Tucker wrote, Was any one of these civil governments at first formed or is it now administered and conducted according to the Lockean plan and did or doth any of their congresses, general or provincial, admit of that fundamental maxim of Mr. Locke that every man has an inalienable right to obey no other laws but those of his own making? No, no, so far from it that there are dreadful fines and confiscations, imprisonments and even death made use of, as the only effectual means for obtaining that unanimity of sentiment so much boasted of by these newfangled Republicans and so little practiced. Some Americans such as James Madison were painfully aware of the appearance of hypocrisy. After achieving independence, how could American governments claim political jurisdiction over people who refused to acknowledge their legitimacy? After noting the pestilent operation of this doctrine of consent in the unlimited sense, Madison appealed to another feature of the Lockean paradigm, namely tacit consent. I find no relief from such embarrassments but in the received doctrine that a tacit assent may be given to established governments and law and that this assent is to be inferred from the omission of an express revocation. Is it not doubtful whether it be possible to exclude wholly the idea of an implied or tacit consent without subverting the very foundation of civil society? Filmer's argument that natural rights and social contract will land us in anarchy and should be rejected for that reason alone is found in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790. It is also found in a much earlier piece of indication of natural society, 1756, in which a young Burke writing anonymously presents himself as a radical Lockean who argues against the violence, wars, and other brutalities of governments. Governments originate in violence and conquest, not in consent. So, according to the sure and uncontested principles of that great philosopher, Mr. Locke, the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies, imposters, violations of the natural rights of mankind and worse than the most disorderly anarchies. Burke, of course, intended this as satire. By embracing the anarchistic implications of consent theory, he was attempting to illustrate its absurdity. But Burke's vindication was so well done that some readers, most notably William Godwin, took it seriously, thus making it unintentionally the first modern defense of anarchism. In 1765, as Burke thought of entering parliament, he wanted to remove all doubt about his satire, so he prefaced the second edition with a disclaimer. His defense of natural society, that is, anarchy, was nothing more than a lesson in the abuse of reason as practiced by consent theorists, those who live in the fairyland of philosophy. Jeremy Bentham, who explicitly acknowledged his debt to filmer, raised the specter of anarchy repeatedly in his criticisms of natural rights. Natural rights are terrorist language, according to Bentham. By justifying the rights of resistance and revolution, the doctrine of natural rights made it impossible to justify any kind of government, so the doctrine should be rejected on that basis. Natural rights are nothing more than anarchical fallacies. Bentham illustrated his point in a colorful passage. Suppose we agree that individuals have the right to resist laws they regard as unjust. Here is how Bentham portrayed the anarchical consequences of this doctrine. Whenever you are about to be oppressed, you have a right to resist oppression. Whenever you conceive yourself to be oppressed, conceive yourself to have a right to make resistance and act accordingly. In proportion, as a law of any kind, any act of power, supreme or subordinate, legislative, administrative or judicial, is unpleasant to a man, especially if, in consideration of such its unpleasantness, his opinion is that such act of power ought not to have been exercised, he, of course, looks upon it as oppression. As often as anything of this sort happens to a man, as often as anything happens to a man to inflame his passions, this article, for fear his passions should not be sufficiently inflamed of themselves, sets itself to work to blow the flame and urges him to resistance. Submit not to any decree or other act of power of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced. If a constable calls upon you to serve in the militia, shoot the constable and not the enemy. If the commander of a press gang trouble you, push him into the sea. If a bailiff throw him out of the window. If a judge sentence you to be imprisoned or put to death, have a dagger ready and take a stroke first at the judge. The foregoing sketch sets the historical context for understanding early debates over natural rights and a consent theory of government. Unlike Nozick and other modern libertarians, no major participants in these debates viewed anarchy as a legitimate option. On the contrary, if your political theory logically entailed anarchism, then you lost the debate and your theory was rejected out of hand. So what was the major point of these debates if not the justification of government per se? As I shall explain in my next essay, the primary bone of contention was not the justification of government and political obligation in a general sense, but the justification of political allegiance to a particular government.