There we go. That should be good. Alright. Give it a couple minutes. It's very uncool. We crashed, but hey, we're back.  Great. I love when we just PC crashes right at the end of a break. Alright, cards are where I want to finish the end of this video. Hey, sorry about that. We are back. Some technical difficulties. PC crashed, but we're good to go. Last thing we needed to do for this part two of 2022 upper deck goodwin champions. We need to randomize one last card. The historic relic currency 1979 Washington quad quarter. The sand relic already randomized to spot a and Curtis. This last one we'll do real quick. The dice roll was seven. We got lost unfortunately, but seven times for this last hit. The quarter. Good luck everyone. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Seventh and final time. M. Another spot that hit kind of a lot here. That's going to go to Aaron with spot M. Aaron, thanks again. Congrats. Getting the quarter. 1979 Washington quad quarter. Sorry about the technical difficulties once again everyone. We are all good to go. I'm going to upload both of these videos part one and part two. We got more on the site right now. We should be good for the rest of the night at jaspyscasecrakes.com. Thanks again y'all. I'm sorry again and bye. Man, that is so annoying. That is so annoying. It'd be very funny if there was just you know we fall into the the core of the earth. Very this is the end style. No, nothing too crazy like that. Just just a piece just a computer crash. Very annoying. Very very annoying. Let's go to the YouTube. Those videos should have, oh man, is it gonna be corrupted? It might be. If that's how we get Vernon Fraser in here, I'm a hundred percent okay with that. That says it's good. We'll see how it goes though. I'm gonna have to do like a hit recap on here too. This YouTube link. That's so annoying. And apparently it's like the nicest guy in the world. Like absolutely deserves, deserves all of his success. Me neither. I feel like I should. Cool tease. Let me do this. All right, I'm gonna give this a few minutes, see if this uploads to Z this way. A little easier for the sorters. Should be good. Take this off the site. Oh, love stressing me up before I head to dinner. Isn't that so great? Well, how dangerous are they? That is a great question. How dangerous are these things though? And like, you know, got a few orders here. Tristan, how's it going? Grab the bangles in the two box spectra and NT collegiate. We're a big team down. Also grabs the nuggets and Don Russ optic. Six box half case. You're raining NBA champs. Emma grabs the D-backs in NT baseball. Thank you, Emma. Thank you, Tristan. And the last one I got Corey grabs a straight up spot in the 15 box quick hit mixer. We got thank you, Corey. Thank you, Emma. Thank you, Tristan. Alright, there we go. They should be off the site now. I think it's 6 30. I'm gonna head to dinner. I think aliens is probably the choice or be close to getting done here potentially. I get if we sell out these next five spots, I can cancel a filler put in 10 more. But nothing particularly close. We got a lot of stuff on the site right now, obviously. Some pre orders, obviously finance baseball and tribute baseball, obsidian basketball pre order for tomorrow. Yeah, I think Bigfoot's kind of the odd man out just because I don't know. I don't really think Bigfoot really exists. I think Bigfoot is just just some guy. You know, I don't know. So I guess aliens, aliens than dinosaurs than Bigfoot. If they're not trying to kill me. Yeah, aliens can get a lot. They can do a lot, man. Technology is far beyond anything that can comprehend, you know?  What if Grimace really existed? 20s or 30s kidnapped by Bigfoot, forced to stay with them until he gave. Yeah, okay. That's that's just some dude you dressed up. It's like, hey, give us some tobacco. I don't think the Loch Ness Monster is real. If anything, it's just like some crazy look, crazy looking whale. We're using the we're using the R word just in full just in full force, huh? That's crazy. Let me clear that up. All right. I'm sorry, Justin. I can't have it on here. So 18 teams left in the NT baseball. That's crazy. Can't believe we allowed that word in here. That's another one. I don't have to add to the blacklist. 18 teams of the NT baseball. We have 12 teams get picked up in the last couple hours with the biggest teams being the Mariners and Yankees picked up to raise the biggest team up for 350 Red Sox Cubs, White Sox Guardians, Rockies, Tigers, Astros, Royals, Dodgers, Marlins, Mets, Phillies, Padres, Giants, the Rays, like I said, Rangers, Blue Jays and Nets. All for grabs. 18 teams left. Five spots left here. Five spots left. Potentially canceling a filler. A family of three Sasquatches. Was it a family, though? It's not just three people. Let's see. It's your previous haircut. No, shockingly enough, I give them a real picture of a human being and not one of the two. Let me grab this stuff off my break sheet now. That's the first thing. We did number 10 of the finest. Put that R and B in there too. Oh, baby. Just in case. I don't know if we're counting that. I got a beard. I don't think I can ever do just the mustache. I know a lot of people my age got into it because of Top Gun. I don't know if I could ever do that, man. It's a lot. It's a lot of commitment. Yeah, okay. That's annoying. And my hair is way shorter than Joe's. I had like a three. Yeah, I just think it's a really big gorilla or monkey or something. Just like how they say that we don't know anything about like the species living in the ocean because the ocean's so big. There is so much uncharted territory. Like people say like, oh, we've scoured all over the world or whatever for whatever it's like. People love that joke. People really love that joke. Tough. That's a tough one for Joe. That's a good one for Jason now. Some breaker on breaker crime right there. Let me order my food. Yeah, it's just a big shark. That's all it is. Just a big shark. I just don't believe any of these things. It's just bigger version of such and such or so and so. That's it. Isn't it Wyoming? It's something crazy like that, right? Dreaming, talking. You guys got, you guys got crispy rice? Yeah, no crispy rice. I really want crispy rice.  No way. There's no way. That's just not true. What is I've seen this thing. Where's this on it? That's like, that's going to be a nightmare to get to. Yeah, like, that's not a lot of people. Well, it was pretty big. See, if it was Jaffas after dark, I would have said an appropriate job.  Okay, I can work. I mean, I can wear that. I work a size 13. You know, if this ever doesn't work out, yeah, some of the like Mike, I appreciate it. Alright, I'm going to head to dinner. We got plenty of fun stuff on the set. I'm going to go to the NT baseball. If we grab a few teams on there, I can either put it to a team random or most likely an R&B but 18 teams left on the 22 Panini National Transit Baseball baseball four box case big PYT number 51. Alright, y'all, I'll see you in a little bit. Has to be good. Yo, how's it going? Few orders. Will will grab three spots showed up in the hit parade basketball. Nice. Thank you, Will. Lance will grab the chiefs in Texans in the Spectre NT collegiate. Nice. Thank you, Lance. And last one Landon grabs a spot in the Mochise choice baseball number 34. 10 spots down there. Nice. Just now David will grab the twins and find us number one pre orders for tomorrow. Nice. Let's throw the Dodger game. Go Dodgers. Bass Nog. That's who Freddie Freeman bomb. Quick to a lead coach. I'm ready to play. Whoa, it's a nasty slider. Joe Jaspy, man.  He's been in all all these major like, you know, very important moments throughout time with the live in. He is isn't he? Alright, so 18 teams, 18 teams left in the NT baseball, 20 spots left. And our Mosaic choice baseball one box break number 34 for a 190 box hit parade at wax party makes your spot. Turn that $60 into a $1,700 spot. Just finds a glove that a fresh half case of one football R&B style, 10 boxes with a free spot giveaway, three spots total given away that fourth final spot with two of those spots being given away in 22 Mosaic football hobby pack number 19, a fun little two box mixer 2021 special and 2021 National Treasures Collegiate 22 teams left. Falcons, Ravens, Bills, Panthers, Bears, Browns, Cowboys, Broncos, Lions, Packers, Colts, Vikings, Patriots, Saints, Giants, Eagles, Steelers, Niners, Seahawks, Bucks, Titans and Commanders. Got a 15 box quick hit mixer on the site as well five boxes each of 2021 Obsidian team all 2022 prison retail and 2022 classics hybrid H2 five spots left straight up. We have two floors to do for it. But if we sell out these five spots in a pretty reasonable amount of time, I'll cancel number 38 and make 37 our one and only filler. We're going to make 10 of these mixer spots for the basketball still work on 22 23 anti collegiate two box half case break. R&B number two, I think Jason started this last night. So I have the other two cases. Gee, it's two boxes ready to go. Whenever we have pre orders for tomorrow on the basketball Obsidian basketball 12 box case full case all card ship. Looking at two hits per box. So 24 hits to insert a pair of Lester base cards. All card ship random team style $100 a spot. A Dharma's object basketball hobby six box half case breaks. The Celtics Nets, bowls, calves, pistons, warriors, rockets, Lakers, Grizzlies, heat, T-Wolves, Pelicans, Knicks, Thunder, Magic, Sixer, Sons, Blazers, Kings, Spurs, Raptors and Wizards left in this one. I want you to sell out this one. We do not got number two put that one on the site as well. So I'm crying Royale basketball 16 box case. We're in a team one all card ship. Once again, guarantee kaboom in here. You pretty dope to get a little cowboy right there. I fill her for it being the 1920 mosaic hobby pack number 397. And then 25 spots left in our hip breed basketball autograph Platinum Edition 70 bucks a spot 10 or so. Our first regular day was number 10. So number 11 will be from a fresh case. 21 22 tops finest UEFA Champions League soccer four box. First four boxes from a freshie. And our other soccer break the Manco soccer one box break R&B number three. Yeah, that's that's the site pre orders for finest new release for tomorrow and pre orders for tribute still rocking for next Wednesday. Golly. Nick Gonzalez. And once you that NT NT baseball 18 teams left. This may have to go into an R&B. So gravity info you still can't. What was she thinking? She's been famous for so long. It's a good thing I'll be here tomorrow to rock and roll on it. Famous fans. The famous fans insert. Just want to be just want to be just want to be. Okay, taste of this. Oh, that's pick Freddie. It's like I forget what product it was but Peninio like a famous fans. Chuck Norris, Steph, Mark Wahlberg.  Try to find it. It was for sure football. It's like don't recently was something like that? Let's start with Mark. What's my alter? I can't imagine. Yeah, fans of the game. So just don't miss football. That's close. Just do the same thing. It's like grab like a random. I did not know of Mark Wahlberg. I don't look back until just now. Yeah, it's fine. See worse. Hey, you know, just like just steal that like when Thompson's baseball or basketball stuff finally just you know, Victor and Britt with the ramen the ramen hair. I always like Justin like I'm always been a big Justin Timberlake fan. He is so lucky for Timbaland and Pharrell. If those two were not there when he went solo, Justin is like doing you know, like those celebrity game shows.  I'm a celebrity and like celebrity big brother like oh, remember Justin Timberlake from in sync. Very lucky.  What is his name? Alfonso Robiero. Yeah, same thing. Like, it's very clear that this guy could dance right? I've lost the plot. I forget I said anything. That is not Giovanni Robisi. Oh man, that's good. I needed that. Yeah, but like, whatever dancing with the stars has like a former dancer like oh, shocking. This guy can dance like that's cheating. No, when it should be when you do when it would be this way. So hit the home run. Yeah, that should be doing the Carlton. He did it first. I'm shocked. Like in retrospect that they didn't make a song about it because in the 80s, they just made songs with athletes all the time. Like, what was it? Who made the Super Bowl Shuffle? Was it the Dolphins? Super Bowl Shuffle. The Bears in 1985. What was it? That was like a year later in Boston. Like just do it. They were they were doing songs for no reason. The Reds, the Red Stockings doesn't count in the Reds. 1984 1981. Like, look at all these. This is a gross list of people. Seahawks did it next year. Patriots did it the next year. Come on, they just didn't make a song about Carlton Fisk and doing the fist. It is this wasn't a dance move sleep in the nation. Come on, it's right there.  Now, man, I'm going back in time and making Carlton Fisk do the Fisk or do the Carlton. Like, that's what it should be. Yeah. But no, in this parallel universe, where I go back in time to tell Carlton Fisk the catcher to do a dance after his home run, his walk off home run. Yeah, that's called doing the Carlton. Oh, I'd make him do it. Just find a way. I'm a very resourceful human being. I know exactly what I'm doing. Nice pick Max nice pick Freddie. Excuse me. It's so weird to look outside and see that it's still bright. I don't know the last time I covered I have my early shifts obviously here. But I don't know the last time I I covered for Joe or Jason. How has Henry Davis been? Not Henry Davis Thoreau. So 288 354 394 744 OPS. Got a danger a few doubles. Two steals. Oh, okay. Number one pick in 2021. And then the white socks were the white stockings. Yeah. The South Bend Cubs sick of sniffing at the South Bend Cubs. Yeah. No hater. Come by. Oh, it looks so sad. You look so sad. I don't look sad. South Bend Cubs mascot. Combined no hater took out the box but they went forward to nothing. James Trinatus is out there. Kevin look on Tara and Howard. It is moistest basterus. Blue solid. The Cubs were the white stockings. Who's this to him? 332 Ezekiel Pagan. Pretty good here. That's a long time ago. What was I doing in 1871? I was not alive. That's what I was doing. How has James Trinatus been? Pretty good too. More walks and strikeouts like that from the 20 year old. The Midwest who is in the Midwest division? How do I see that? We got the Quad City River bandits. It's great name. Great logo. Dressed like a bandit. We've got the bell oi skycarp. I'm getting real glacial. It's nice. That's the Marlins. The Chieftes. This is the Cardinals I believe. We have the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. It's a good one too. This is the Padres. Brewer's Brewer's. Is this an ear of corn? The Cedar Rapid kernels. That's a good one too. Good stuff except for the Chiefs. There's a good hat. Strong hat. The Rapid Colonel. Good stuff. The Midwest has my seal of approval from a logo standpoint except for the Chiefs. Just okay. Can't believe they dropped a great name like the Orphans. Can't believe it. No, I would imagine not. Not too correct at the moment. Alright, so the YouTube comment like it didn't load. So, just as Chris, were you ever a? I assumed you were about to ask me if I was ever an orphan, which I was not. I was never an orphan. But no, the only Final Fantasy games I played, I played 10 on the PlayStation 2 and then I played Final Fantasy 8 in the version in the form of the Pizza Hut Stuff Crest demo desk. There were two of these bad boys. This is the one I had. Crash Team Racing, Ape Escape, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Cool Borders 4, and Final Fantasy 8. This, this is a very, like a very formative part of my childhood. Even Cool Borders 4. Look at all these icons of Sony and PlayStation. There was a second one too that had a Metal Gear Solid and Spyro. Tetris, Tomb Raider, Spyro, Green Turismo 2 and Bloodstorm. Yeah. These are the only, that was the only one I had. I didn't have the other one. Good times. Yeah, it was just, I think it was the first two levels of Tony Hawk. It was for sure the warehouse. Louisville Eclipse. I feel like that's a pretty good sports name. Colonel's not as much. I feel like I'm shocked some, some sports team hasn't just taken the Eclipse. Sorry, I'm gonna do some stuff with the moon, some sun stuff. You can have like a moon uniform and like a sun uniform for the solar and lunar eclipses. I don't know if like, you can get a lot with that. I know I have never really been a Nintendo kid. I had a Game Boy color, like I think everyone my age had a Game Boy color.  But I had a ween. That was it. I really like I played like no more heroes and we sports on it. That was it. I've never played a Zelda. I've never played a Mario Brothers game. I've never played Donkey Kong. None of them. The N64 controller. How did anyone think like, yeah, this is a good idea. Like this is our controller and people are gonna love it. This is a pretty fun home run derby class. That's Max. I haven't had pizza hut in a long time. The pizza is a pizza hut like two blocks up from my house and it closed. And I haven't gotten pizza sense for three or four months. I'm actually sad. I love stuffed crust pizza. Very tasty. Very yummy. I did play concha. I played my parents had a a Super Nintendo before we got the PlayStation one. And I do remember playing concha. I remember being very hard. I remember being very annoyed at that game. Contra as a banger, though. I'm shocked that they haven't remade concha in the last like 10 years.  What? This is like a mobile game, right? Nope. That's crazy. I've never heard of this. Yeah, Konami put it out too. It's crazy. Contra code, baby. Konami code. I don't I didn't know this was a thing.  The only thing from all of the games that I wish they'd bring back is like the fun arcade style of a sports game. Like NBA GM doesn't exist anymore.   But I don't know, I think it's like a player association or union thing like doesn't want those games to come out anymore. Are there any Jaspies cheat codes? No. Legendable. Let's come out. Two years ago. Well worth the wait. I'm assuming it's like a fictional. Nope. This is the Raiders of the Charges. Well, that might be a mod. Yeah, it's a mod.  What's the one that just came out? It's like super mega baseball or something like that. Yeah. So I know there are like some old players in this I know David Ortiz is in this. But like they don't have the rights to anything. Over 200 former baseball players it says Tecmo Bowl. I see I had Tecmo Bowl on on my Game Boy. That's a good one. They they got some on there. Some of these guys aren't even a number of the show. That's pretty cool. There's a there's a cool TikTok creator that will do a two bit eight bit 1632 and 64 bit versions of pop songs and they all kind of just like you can see you can like listen to the progress of it. It's cool. I like what's that called chiptune chiptune versions of of popular songs. It's pretty cool, Mike. I like I like some of them. Bo Jackson the Tecmo Bowl. Oh yeah. No no shot. Bo Jackson and Tecmo Bowl. Uh Mike Vick and was it Madden 04 or 05? Cheat Codes. Those were that's the real Jaspers cheat code. Why did anyone call Bo Jackson BJ? Bo Jackson baseball. Did Bo Jackson was on baseball? Wow. That's no joke. I don't griffy had as a baseball game. It was released by Mindscape as TV Sports Baseball. Five to nine innings. The players are purely fictional. It cannot be edited. Some of the player names are parodies such as Baltimore's Ken Rip. I did not know that. Griff. Yeah, the Ken Griffey baseball game. Not baseball card. Guys, come on. Presents Major League Baseball and then the N64 one. I know people like that a lot. Get it for nine bucks. That's easy. Frank Thomas big hurt baseball but pinball. I feel like a lot of people and things had their own pinball machine. I'm sure you've heard it, but we've had the pinball machine pinball machine in the store. Little Marvel Avengers. I like pinball. I wish I was better at it, but it costs money to practice, you know?  Little Joe Montaigne football? That's true. I wish I uh I wish I could give out of the park a try out of the park baseball. Probably big into a pinball museum in Vegas. Do you think that's the only song that they play in the pinball museum that's played pinball wizard? I went to the Margaritaville. Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville in Vegas once. They played Margaritaville like every 20 minutes and they they make the entire weight staff. The bartenders all sing Margaritaville. It is just if I worked there I would shoot myself wasting away. It's a tough one. So, you know, the pinball museum could just play pinball. People in Vegas are weird.  Isn't the uh isn't that hotel actually kind of onto two? I'm staying in uh in a haunted house, haunted hotel. I'm doing that to write a peaceful early history in the years following the publication of The Shining, the San Diego Hotel Gator reputation as a setting for paranormal activity. Okay, so like are they doing it as a bit? Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures.   I hit the national anthem. Why dude? I mean I guess they only have to do it once. Yeah, see like he was he was you know he was fated. A military themed barbecue place. Oh, go foul. Go foul. King dislikes the keeper. Oh, okay. I know he likes some more than others like I think I think it's Psycho or it's like oh yeah this is why I don't even bother reading the book just watch Psycho. He's got a few of like this is so good. This is so much better than my book. I like his approach to uh writing in a way that it's just a job. Yeah, I don't even like writing that much. I'm just kind of good at it. I just write to work. That is not surprising. I just, Freddy working hard on the picks today. Stored matches of people who died in the hotel. Yeah, I would, I'm not saying that. I do think the moon landing is real. I do not think the moon landing is fake. What I do believe is that the moon is made out of blue cheese though. But I don't like blue cheese so I'm not going to know. Sasquatch Bigfoot is an alien. I think we may have something behind that. I think we're gonna start pushing that. I am a real human man. The Texture Chinatown Massacre I didn't know. That's why I think the first one is so good. I think the first Texture Chinatown Massacre is like a masterpiece. It's such a good movie. It is, it's not jump scary. Although there are some jump scares. It's just nasty and gross and real. Like people thought it was real. People thought it was like a snuff film.  Like it wasn't like it was a snuff film. Like I don't want to hear it okay. So people thought Jaws was real. They made a couple like what is it the front of the 13th game that came out. People liked it a lot and then the Dead by Daylight game has a lot of like I think Ghostface is in there. There's a couple like horror movie monsters in Dead by Daylight which is pretty cool. So I would imagine that a Texture Chinatown Massacre game would be in development I believe that. That was yeah it was like that was kind of one of the one of the more popular based on true stories yeah.  Mila Jojovic is in a movie called The Fourth Kind. This is supposedly based on a true story and it's just so it's pseudo documentary. This movie is not good. Derived from the expansion of J. Allen Heineck's classification of close encounters with aliens. That movie stinks and they say that it's based on a true story. I don't know it's just so hard to say that. That Jaws that shark saved the town. I watched Jaws in theaters like a few months ago it was it's still hold Jaws will hold up till the end of time it's just like a really good movie. Mila Jojovic is in a lot of bad movies. She's in a lot of movies that her husband directs. They do a lot of the video game movies and they're all really bad and it's upsetting. It's a far cry from Fifth Element. Jack Sawinsky loses the ball in the light. Miguel Vargas ends up at second. You don't have me in here. Needed that. The Forest. One thing I know the Forest. I know the game. There you go. The Forest in 2016. A young woman's desperate stretch for a twin sister. Oh Japan's on a live forest. Natalie Dormer. What are you doing in this? You're talented. Who directed this? Jason Zara? Big music director. Big music video guy. Trace Oz. Baby Bash. I'm gonna use the bathroom here. I'll be back in a minute. I always love the reaction to when there's like the people who are sitting right behind home play with the netting and a foul ball goes back to them and like most of them are like oh yeah you know it's your first instinct right? What if I just like completely slid underneath the table right? Screaming and yelling and hooting and hollering just being you know there's a demon getting me bro. Would you guys do anything? I would hope so. I think this should be Julio's last ten and he's throwing some cookies right now. All right two out here. Man on second. Let's get out of the Julio. Nick Robertson who was just called up today in the pen. Eight keys for Julio though. Looking like he's maybe figuring it out after the injury. A little over an hour. Loud order. You know I get it. A lot of stuff coming out tomorrow. Finest and obsidian. Some fun stuff and lots of fun stuff on the side right now but we may have some stuff tied in for it tomorrow but it's all right. You know if we can do something like this filler by the end of tonight if we can get this filler to the music choice baseball I'm very happy with it too. Just you know gets us closer to actual breaks tomorrow. Eight team teams on the NT baseball. Twenty-two teams with the Donbass Optic Basketball Hobby. This will be a quick and easy one too. Ten R&B spots in the two box NT collegiate basketball. Twenty-two, twenty-three. I'll be here for another couple of hours at least. Carl Santana just spits on that. Get there. Nice Freddie. Freddie Litov, Singy. Muncie. Max Muncie's 20th? Yeah. Dodgers take the lead. A bomb from the months gone. Left center. That's a bad pitch. Over number 20. Let's go. That's a very Dodgers game. Hit a couple to run home runs. Some good defense. Some good pitching. Let's just hope the bullpen keeps it keeps it close. I think Julio's done. Six strong getting some Julio. 88 pitches. Six innings. Two earned. Three hits. Eight strikeouts on a walk. I know Nick Gonzalez has had a couple of good games since his call. How is Nick Gonzalez doing? Pretty well. All he's doing is doing pretty well. 988 OPS. It's only 12 games but you know. I think he was their most major league ready prospect even last year. I thought he was pretty good. And seeing him get the chance at the major league level is always fun. This Pittsburgh team, man. They're still pretty young. But I mean 40 and 46. They'll be sellers obviously. But I think it's a great veteran leadership on this team. Kutch. Chris Santana. Carlos Santana. You know guys who have been around. Brian Reynolds obviously. Connor Joe. Vince Velasquez. Rich Hill. Obviously Rich Hill's been pitching. It seems like longer than any of us have been alive at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if the Pirates with a healthy O'Neill cruise do what the Reds did this year but next year. Why some guys on this team, man? All right. Andrew. Andrew wants that NT baseball done. Grab my Dodgers. I'm watching the game right now. Grab the Dodgers and baseball. 17 teams left now. Thank you. Thank you, man. Let's grab something nice. I would love to see Henry Davis have a big sophomore season like I have the Russians having right now. Johan Oviedo. You know what I like about this kid? I've watched him start a couple of times for the Pirates. He clearly wants to compete. I always think that's admirable in a picture. Like I'm getting shells. Which he's not by the way. He's going to have two bad pitches really. The home run to Mookie and the home run to Max. And yeah, there were some bomb or the home run to Freddie and the home run to Max. Like yeah, there were bombs. Like he's insane in it. I think it's 70 pitches through six. 76 pitches through six. He's got some good ABs. I have the main thing the Pirates see right now is pitching. He's got pretty nasty stuff. He just didn't see him. Sequence. I like a young pitcher who seems kind of like a psychopath on the mound. I felt like Manoa last year. Manoa was just like, that dude had so much passion to take them. That's not something the Wax Party. All right. So the Wax Party has 45 left, but just from counting there's 15 coming off for the Wax Party. So there's 30, 30 spots, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Let's take off 35 of those. I know. What am I telling? Am I an idiot? 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. So take off 20 of the 45. So rather are going to be 25 Wax Party spots left after these breaks that have it on here. Nick, I think last time through another like how there's 190 bucks, make sure that's going to 15. He may do the same thing with the basketball and the football. So 45 total after the breaks that are on the site, it'll be 25 left. Let me see if I can do the math on this real quick. So we have the two spots straight up 11. One of them is going to be R&B number four. And then probably a few more of those. And then a few more of the Mosaic choice one boxes. So we have 34 up right now.  And then the two should appear. You're good. You're good, man. So 11, 11 spots left for the 190 box. Sean comes in and grabs the first spot in top finest champions league. Number 11. Nice. Thank you, Sean. That was a great pitch, Skip. I don't know how to tell you. Man, people are the worst. Wait a minute. The Blue Jays won this second game so quick. How long did this game take? They won 5-4. I swore in like an hour and a half. Well, nope, nope, nope. That's a pretty cool thing that you can do. But I don't need to be seeing all that. I just want to see how long the game. Classic joint right there. That's it. That's all I want to know. Two and a half hours. First pitch is at eight. I swear this game took like no time to finish. And then let me see game one. 305? That just doesn't seem true. I swear it doesn't seem true. This seems like a lie. I feel like this is a lie that major league baseball is trying to report on. Maybe I'm going crazy. I feel like it's one of the more regular-friendly songs for Sublime. You know, let's know what I got. April 26, 1994. I may be forgetting wrong, but Rick, your store just has a playlist. I crowbarized it like a playlist already made, right? Over here, it was still out here. Good for him. Good for the kid. It's all unshuffled too. It's not like I'm assuming a post-closing playlist where you know maybe the rules get a little lax and you can kind of listen to some more, I don't know.  It doesn't matter what time of day it is. Okay, don't mind me. I'm just dropping my phone on the grounds. They use the music at different times to cost you to buy more. Sublime, Sublime, Sublime in a way. It's a stretch. Sometimes I got to do what I got to do. All right, nice. Sean gets it on the NT baseball action. One of the bigger teams down grabs the Kansas City Royals. Nice. Hi Sean. 16 teams left now. That's smart though, honestly. No, no, no, just today and tomorrow and Saturday early. Jason will be back in on Saturday and then Joey will be back on Sunday, of course. You know, him and Jason got lives to live. Me, not so much. I'm out. I'm out here cooking, brother. I'm in the labs. Three, two, two out double. It's a perfect Mookie Betts pitch. Flat fastball, low on a way. He just pokes it to right for the double. I don't think I like these white Dodgers hoodies that the guys on the dugout are wearing. I just don't really like a white hoodie and I'm in just a t-shirt today. I think I'm going to wear some a little more dressy tomorrow.  I'm on camera, you know. I want some shaky's pizza parlor. I want some wings and mojos. I cannot tell you the last time I've been to a shaky's pizza. No, it's a, you know, it's a classic around here. Pizza, chicken and mojos. Some good stuff. It's like a very thinly sliced potato. It's like a round potato wedge kind of beers, juice, white coals and wines. Shaky's is very good though. It's so crazy that like like gas station food in like every other state except for California. It's like an actual thing because when I think about like gas station food, I think of like really suspect like sandwiches, salads, you know, like glorified 7-Elevens, but you know, it's just like not a thing here, but in other places, like I have a friend. Her mom owns, they don't own a gas station, but they own like the cafe inside of one. And it's like, it's like chicken.  Look at that barbecue brisket sandwich on a king salami roll.  Man, the one, two and three of this line on Mookie, Freddie and Max just have great nights, but like, I'm so jealous of like, like Hawaii, the Hawaii 7-Elevens, but essentially just like restaurants.  The egg salad sandwich, look at that moko loko, look at that, it's a good looking fried egg, some gravy, the beef patty, you know, like it's a, it's a thing, I don't know about the spam cheese Masubi, I don't know about all that, I don't know about all that. Did Freddie just steal a base? He did. 7-Eleven was doing a sausage pizza, like a breakfast pizza, I heard this was just a great way to really ruin your day before it starts.  Like eat it, you should eat it at the McDonald's and just go to, you know, to spend the next half hour in the bathroom, in the Charleston, not the Charleston, that's the twist, my apologies, I love chicken and cheese. Guys, I had to get some chicken strips from a place close by, but you may have heard Mira Joe talk about top tenders, so good, turn it, if I had to live the rest of my life on one of those three, well, obviously I don't care very much about my body and I don't really care about eating too much red meat, so you didn't throw pork out the window, pork is not an option, although I wouldn't miss bacon and pork belly and pork shoulder, so it's really just between chicken and beef, I can probably do more with chicken because I like chicken on more stuff and I like beef, but I wouldn't mistake, steak is a big miss, but far chicken is my favorite food, so I just think, you know, from a food ranking standpoint, I gotta go chicken, I don't really do love chicken, what did you pick Rex? I wouldn't miss out on burgers too, you know, it's a tough one either way, you know, I love chicken thighs and a lot of stuff, I like a chicken sandwich, I like, you know, chicken salad, ooh, chicken salad, very underrated, chicken with gravy, oh yeah, good call, but you can do chicken and pasta still, that's pretty true, I just think, you know, I think the highs of beef are just like, the ceiling, I'm a big floor and ceiling guy, the ceiling of beef is so high, it just is, I think if I was given that choice, I would just shoot myself, that was a joke for legal reasons, that is a joke, March to October is so funny to me, I've only, oh David Peralta, Gapper, I've only finished one, I finished a Dodgers one for season, or series one for the Team Affinity stuff, and then I'm like halfway through an interesting one before I uninstall it, just gonna listen to it and have fun, the trade you can make are so dumb, that's why my blood pressure is really high, I should be concerning, yeah, that's, see, I was talking about this with Joe, I haven't been to the doctors in like a decade, so technically, to my knowledge, there's nothing wrong with me, even though that's very probably much not the true, not the, not the truth at all, but uh, I don't know, it's uh, I just like eating, it's just getting rid of some of the snacks, you know, some, most snacks are really bad for you, it's all about moderation, that's right, how was the knee, Joe's in Vegas, good, very good, yeah, I feel that for sure, I'm gonna try and do the fasting, where I just, you know, I uh, you know, I wake up at like 530 to work at seven, and I don't eat, I get off of three, and then I eat, you know, I get like a meal, and I rarely have the one meal a day, but it is a big meal, because I just like eating like a lot of food, I don't think it's doing anything though, I just, you know, I eat the one time and you know, I'm pretty much good for the day, instead of eating like a big meal at lunch and then a big meal at dinner, maybe we should go on some walks, I think maybe we should start exercising, just, you know, calorie deficit, you know, calories go in, calories should go out, I don't really do a whole lot of the calories going out part, I just like being inside too much, Alex Vessia in for the save, yeah, that does not help either, of course, like we work next door essentially to a sushi place, across the street is Chipotle, and Jersey Mike's, a burger place, like a place called The Habit, you know, there's just good food all over the place, really I think the hardest part for me is just the moderation, you know, just not, I don't have to eat all of it, but you know, as a kid, you know, I learned to like finish my plate or bowl of food, all right, it would be ungrateful, and that's a very silly thing to think, you know, you can just not eat, well it's not that, the animal can be eaten later, Max the defense all night, kid is working hard, and Freddy's been quarreling for us tonight, go Dodgers, go Dodgers, we are so back, the one goes deep, he's pumped, see a nice angle, what's it so upset for, is that falling, sick girl bobbles it around scores, I want to check, I mean, this is pretty crazy, pretty good, he started off cold, but he has just been getting on base like crazy, Brennan Donovan in year two, 26 from Germany, there's not really a lot of German baseball players, 44 players, no Max Kepler has gone to the big current one, but well Brennan Donovan now obviously, I didn't know that one Jackson was German, anyone else cards, Phoenix Sanders who played in a game last season, okay, so Brennan Donovan and Max Kepler, oh my, oh the bad bitch, been a little about 40 minutes, I got an order, I think I make close up shop at 10, I'll be back tomorrow obviously at 2, the usual start time on Fridays, see if we can get some some new release momentum, a little slow second half of the night, but there's a lot of stuff on the site that's kind of splitting a lot of people's 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Rod Peter Lonzo I'm forgetting guys that's right Randy Rosarino Adolas Garcia and Ali Rushman and just he has to show me the bracket when I google the bracket just show me the bracket the bracket like in a just whatever anyway so Lou Bob versus Adley you're one verse eight Peter Lonzo verse Jay Rod as your two verse seven Mookie Betts verse Vladdy Jr in your three verse six and Adolas Garcia and Randy Rosarino at four and five only two in all guys usually they'll do the four and four but just Pete and Mookie perhaps then your NL let's go they have done realistically Ronald I was a rather cool he isn't doing it but you know it's fun to see guys like uh Adolas and I mean people know Randy or Rosarino is because of the postseason stuff but I feel like Adolas Garcia still a little under appreciated he's been good for the last few years he's an all-star in 2021 was even better in 2022 and is you know now having a career year age 30 by the way you're called up so late at a full-time starter in 2021 at age 28 years old and has just been really good on both sides of the ball this year offensively and defensively it's it's Kyle Schwarber is turning into Adam Dunn in front of our very eyes I want to see his fan graphs page his fan graphs page is so insane so he's hitting 189 sub 200 but is still hitting two he's still has 22 bombs or do you think it's like third in the nl he's still got 22 home runs in 48 RBI's the 437 slugging in a 321 OBP he's like a net positive hitter a 104 WRC plus um he's just been he's just he's a very interesting fella that Kyle Schwarber he's what 30 yeah he turned 30 this year yeah he's just he's turning into like white socks Adam Dunn he's just a he's just a weird little guy at Kyle Schwarber like it's so similar to these white sock seasons you know just crazy OBP guy crazy slurring guy but the banning average obviously sucked and they're both bad defensively to the point where they both just became DHS like we forget like Adam Dunn was like a right fielder like he played the outfield get 462 home runs he's like fifth or sixth uh this century in home runs it's like pools miggy a rod david Ortiz and like Adam Dunn that's kind of crazy those that's like some real elite category I thought he could have turned into a really interesting all-fane case study because he retires at like 33 years old like if those I still think he had a couple more years of like 20 30 home runs he retires at what 462 if he gets a 500 let alone like 550 what do you do as a voter you don't hit 550 home runs if you're not good at baseball this I think I am going to get out of here in the next 10 minutes well that was my last order in the last hour like I said I know we got a lot of stuff coming tomorrow some fineness some obsidian well you know we'll rock and roll again tomorrow there's gonna be opportunities you'll have to edit that up next look at yon dome still getting it done here's what I'll do I'm gonna do the immaculate grid for the seventh Rockies Tigers there's usually like a big one with some of these like oh there's like a very obvious Rocky and Tiger like Davis with a royal we'll skip Tiger and brave well you know what I think Austin Jackson played for both of these teams I couldn't be wrong though Austin Jackson seemed like he'd been around after going to Detroit I don't know though or even like a uh Joaquin Benoit rock my brain for Joaquin Benoit he was in Texas for a while Detroit's what I really cannot remember him on I never liked doing relief pitchers it seems like cheating let's just do the easy ones here Cardinal 40 homeran season Google pools to Google Big Mac not so obvious one 40 homeran season for the Yankees everyone's gonna be thinking of judge or Babe Ruth I'm gonna go Curtis Granderson if tool even made it out of spring training for the Yankees I don't think he did I'm just gonna go for it 24% though there goes my rarity score there goes my rarity score Yankee brave I'm just gonna go Andrew Jones Rocky Cardinals I could probably go Larry Walker Matt Holiday Carmel Rock you have a Dexter Fowler I'll take a five percent I'll take a five percent easily here I Needle I need a Raphael for Paul. 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It's a lot of fun But man, is it it's a challenge sometimes If this is if this is true And obviously you just want to get it done, but if you can get them all correct and have a very low rarity score So that's all I care about. I just I want the really Just just out of nowhere picks I'm trying to also think of like Like who are the Rajee Davis teams? It's been so many And I was in Detroit You know, Detroit, I think you're doing that A couple of those miggy prince fielder v-mart teams, but I don't think it's on one of the Rockies Good one for Detroit Atlanta If this guy is it both is above 3% I'd be shocked Or I'll take it Look it out I don't think a lot of people would think of him, but I'm just gonna pick I'll take that Got it. I got it 28 I have both my answers. All right I don't have any answers or any orders since I finished my maculet So I'm gonna call it there. Uh, I'll be in tomorrow though. I'll be here at uh to our usual start time So uh yawn rex Anyone else who may be in the chat just listening to me do the immaculate grid. I'll have a good night. I'll see y'all tomorrow Anyone lurking take it easy. Have a


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Good afternoon and welcome to today's energy seminar. I'm delighted to introduce our speakers today to talk about a really big project they're working on. So our two speakers today are Margaret Cedarup, who is the head of planning and sustainability for the California High Speed Rail Authority and Aldi Chisreza, who is a CEO of Tara Verdi Energy that specializes in managing big projects from what I've read, and this is a really big one. And they're here to talk today about the whole project, but really to drill down on the where all the power is gonna come from. I did read on their website that this project, when completed, will be the biggest single consumer of electricity in California, which is pretty big. That's what it says. So their topic today is resilient and renewable power for California High Speed Rail. So Margaret and Aldi, thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Well, thank you for that gracious introduction and we are really pleased to be here today because we are certainly amongst a cohort of people who are poised to be taking fullest advantage of the High Speed Rail system when it's in operation. And we love making sure there's good information out there around the project, what's happening on the project. And Ali and I specifically love talking to an informed audience of people about the topic of energy and energy systems and the renewable energy system we have planned to allow the system to operate entirely on renewable energy, which is, I think, a hallmark of being a mega project in California. So with that, I would love to give you a bit of background, just a quick overview of the project because I can't tell you the number of times I talk about California High Speed Rail and say, yes, I'm the director of planning and sustainability and then the next thing that happens is people look at me and say, well, that project's dead, isn't it? There's nothing happening. So I want to give you a little overview then we'll dig into some of the sustainability goals for the project and then, of course, have a deep dive in renewable energy. So the mission of the California High Speed Rail Authority is to deliver a fully functional, truly high speed rail system to California. And when we say fully high speed, that means of speeds greater than 220 miles per hour. I think you all are very familiar with traveling around California.  We are the fourth or fifth largest economy depending upon what metric you're using on any given day. And we are one of the few major economies in the world without high speed rail amongst our transportation network. And it is a pretty crucial tool for making some crucial distance trips. Kind of that 100 mile to 600 mile trip is most efficiently handled on something like high speed rail. You've certainly seen those types of, you've certainly seen this borne out in many countries around the world. So it's been a germ of an idea for a long time in California and we have been actively planning and delivering it since a bond measure in 2008 which identified kind of $9 billion of seed funding to get moving on delivering the system, finish up design work and environmental clearance work. And that money was actually incredibly attractive and valuable and helped us to attract federal funding as well. So we've been putting those funds into practice in the Central Valley in construction but not just focusing on that test track which runs roughly between Madera and, oh, let's see if this works. Oh, it does, between Madera and sort of the Kern County border here at Poplar Avenue. I'm very curious of folks in the room who are from the Central Valley. Okay, two, fantastic. Can I just ask where are you from? Sacramento. Oh, Sacramento, okay, excellent. And Fresno area, oh my gosh, the epicenter of High Speed Rail, okay. So I'm a transplant, you can tell from my accent I'm from Chicago, Illinois, but it's been my privilege to work on this project for the past 12 years and I've learned a lot about California and one thing that strikes me is how many people there are in the Central Valley, about six million people and how much it will change California to connect, spatially connect the economy of the Central Valley to the economies in the Bay Area and the Indian Empire and LA Basin. So this project is intended to do that. Again, 220 miles per hour, we're connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles with trip times of under three hours which is embedded into our enabling legislation and we are of course running this system on electricity and our board committed us to running the system on renewable electricity. So if you take nothing else away from this presentation today, you know that we are in construction in High Speed Rail and we're focused on getting passenger service up and running by 2030 which is seven short years and we have a lot to do, but it's all in progress. So we have environmentally cleared more than 422 miles of the entire system which is critical. The environmental clearance phase answers incredibly important questions about the alignment, where things will go and we do enough engineering to understand the broad range of impacts but then we take a deeper dive into much more detailed engineering work on other segments including construction work on the Madera to popular avenue section which you can see in yellow on this. But we are not waiting just or only doing that investment in the Central Valley. Here on the Caltrain Corridor we've also provided about $720 million to help the overall, we'll double check that fact. We've actually provided a significant amount of funding for the Caltrain electrification project and that allows High Speed Rail trains to use the Caltrain Corridor once we get to San Jose. So we're doing investments in Northern California as well as Southern California in order to use that section as well in what we call kind of a blended service and this is something that is done in many different types of High Speed Rail segments around the world and this building out in phases starting with kind of a core trunk section where we can do testing and certification of the system and then building out from there is also very common for High Speed Rail globally. We, one of our crucial goals is focused this summer around completing our first construction package which then allows us to get that segment ready for trackway and systems which means then we can start on testing and commissioning trains. So I'm the director of planning as well as the director of sustainability so that means I have a very specific focus on delivering our stations which is incredibly important because that's where the people get on the train and are kind of a crucial element in terms of sustainability writ large for the system. The system when we received the bond when the bond act passed in 2008 you can see embedded in it is the philosophy that is very much a hallmark of California which is to deliver a transportation service that enables the economic development and quality of life and growth and continuance of the economy but without sacrificing environmental quality which is also a hallmark of California. It's a beautiful state with amazing natural resources which if done well with High Speed Rail we can continue to protect but then having that travel time that connectivity that you get through the speeds of High Speed Rail also means continued economic development and the diversification of the economy in the Central Valley but without sacrificing the environment. So running entirely on electricity was one of the first focuses electricity, zero emissions but then we've also as you'll hear today taken a deep dive into how to run the system on renewable energy as well which does again just continue to enhance the environmental quality of the project and operation but as the director of sustainability we've understood that we don't wanna wait for that future great outcome and objective of sustainable development. We actually wanna look at how we can deliver this mega project and materially change or move the needle on construction practices so that in operation, in construction we are delivering truly sustainable infrastructure. Our board has adopted this sustainable sustainability policy statement. You can see that we focus across environmental, social and governance topics as well as across all of the aspects of delivery from planning to design to siting the stations construction practices and then operations and maintenance as well. These are a summary of some of the long-term objectives we want to achieve reducing greenhouse gas emissions by mode shift from automobile travel including zero emissions vehicle, automobile travel and air travel to high speed rail but then we don't wanna focus on just that long-term outcome. As I noted, we've made a number of critical requirements in construction so that we are looking at and have already achieved some pretty notable aspects already including reducing the amount of criteria air pollutants produced in construction by requiring cleaner equipment and furthermore engaging in offset activity kind of direct sequestration activity either through conservation easements or tree planting in urban areas as well as urban areas so that we have a net zero construction emissions and criteria air pollutant emissions construction projects writ large and we're one of the only US based mega projects any project to have that as a goal which thankfully we have a really good bank balance at the moment. We've done a lot of really good work in terms of delivering those offsets and that sequestration activity and then we're continuing to drive down the overall emissions we produced by making some pretty strict requirements for how construction happens. And I think one of the elements that isn't quite on this slide is maybe that social aspect or the focus we have on making sure that the benefits are accruing to disadvantaged communities in California. We have a very strong focus on making sure that this is providing jobs to targeted workers as well as some of the economic investment going to small businesses which are engines sometimes of job creation in disadvantaged communities. This is quite a large graph. I don't think I've ever seen it this large before but it's exciting to see. Everybody can spot that yellow trend line which is the ever diminishing use of the types of equipment that have engines that are of tier two or lower or worse is really how you wanna think about that. This refers to the tier of off-road engine. So off-road equipment, it's a large construction site, we're a mega project and we want to make sure that we are phasing out the use of these older pieces of equipment. I'm sure you're familiar with seeing a construction site and seeing the equipment belching sort of black smoke and that is not what happens on high-speed rail. We've been very focused on using the cleanest available equipment which is tier four or better. And you can see that that overall this shows you the usage of vehicles. We also focus a lot on what that means in terms of the air basin in which we're constructing and it means our site is about 67, between 50 and 70% cleaner than an average construction site. And that's pretty crucial for the people who are working on the site and for the communities adjacent to it. We don't want to stop there. And luckily we're in California which means if we wanna focus on zero emissions of vehicle usage, we can because there's a number of policy moves the state has made to focus on the usage and the uptake of heavier duty construction equipment as well in the zero emission space. So we've identified that I think about 50% of the existing carbon footprint of construction comes from people just traveling on the site which makes sense because the site is 119 miles long. So somebody just doing a quick visit to double check what's happening with stormwater management or even just going out to the sites driving a pretty heavy duty truck right now. But luckily we have quite a range of electric vehicles that are coming onto the market. One thing we've noted and one thing that is incredibly important when you have the sort of market difference maker that a mega project is, we've set the expectation with the industry that we would have 100% on-road fleets be zero emissions by the time of our next construction package which is probably going to be in the next year or two when we release that package and then go to construction. This helps reduce the carbon footprint of the project. This means we don't have to do offset activity. It means we're just reducing the actual emissions produced but it's also critically important for the surrounding community and as well as having a much more quality quieter construction site. That is our focus and then we've also focused on that larger scale of on-road hauling type activity as well as offered equipment as it becomes available. I think one of our key things is to look for an all electric construction site as soon as possible. So that's a little bit about what's happening now. I'm going to turn to Ali who is going to give you a very deep dive into what we've been exploring in terms of powering the train and operation because we have made some strides in terms of using solar batteries. Thank you Meg. First round of applause for Meg. Thank you. Okay. Just so you all know, how many years have we been working on this project? 12. 12 years. This is a labor of love many years in the making and many more years to go and this is a very important job that Ms. Siddharth here has appointed by the governor himself to be in this job. This is a ever-challenging project. It's a multi-decade long project and I could not be even more proud to be part of this project with Meg and the team to do the small portion of the job which is helping figuring out how to power these trains with renewable energy and that's what we're going to talk about. So this sentence up here is capturing one of the goals, one of the objectives of this project which is to power these trains with 100% renewable energy. This is not a greenwashing campaign of buying carbon offset credits somewhere. This is not about going to buy power from another state or another location off the tracks and deliver the power and assume it got mixed in the wash and you are green. This is actually about physically talking about the word power as we studied in physics books and propelling these trains forward utilizing renewable energy primarily using solar which is what we're going to talk about. A lot of contests on this slide but it's important to go through this. So you see in the map of the track this is the central value portion as we call it. What you see on this map are four or five dots labeled TPSS. These are the traction power substations which is where the nodes of the electric grid connect to where the trains collect their power. That is also the location where we're going to have the solar and battery storage systems connect so that we can meet the grid, meet the train, have this tri-connection to make sure these trains can actually physically receive the power that's generated by solar on site to help move these trains forward. These stations are about 30 miles apart. A lot of work has gone into figuring out where to position these things, how does it make the most sense, a lot of collaboration with the utilities because we're working with them to bring the transmission line to connect to us here. The goal that we want to accomplish at these locations is to be able to supply sufficient amount of solar so the trains can operate so we can provide backup power and also start to change the relationship between the utilities and yourself. Traditionally, utilities provide power, we're all consumers of power. Now we're entering an age that you can actually generate your own power with battery storage, you can do load shifting, you can do demand response, a lot of exciting programs that you can actually become a prosumer. You can send power back to the grid. You can actually support the grid when they are constrained to be able to take power from you when they need it. So what we're trying to figure out with this project is not just how to make sure the trains operate but also how can we be a good provider of energy to the grid when they most need it. Here's a block diagram of what those locations look like. So at each of those dots in a block level view, what you see here are generally those three components that come together. The utility power coming in in the purple, the switching and the power system equipment needed to generate the power, connect to solar, meet the utility there and then the overhead collection system which is powering the trains and taking power from that what's called a switchboard. So all of these power lines come together. We have to make sure that there's sufficient amount of electricity being generated by solar or by batteries. If needed through the grid, make sure the exchange is happening, deploy micro grid controllers to balance the load so that those trains can come and go, pick up the right amount of power, especially as they come to a hard stop and start. Because when you stop with these electric trains, you have power that gets regenerated back that you have to capture. And when you get going, there's a big power spike. So this is the level at which we have to do the engineering to sort out the right sizing, the right optimization, right controls, make sure these trains are getting the right power they need. At a high level picture as to how much electricity we're talking about and how much solar and battery storage, this is about a annual consumption at these four stations only, which is just the Central Valley segment of the rail. We're talking about using 90 gigawatt hours of electricity per year. To meet that, we are producing just about 100% solar electricity at each of these locations, paired with the right amount of battery storage to be able to absorb the excess solar when the trains are in use of them. So we can have the battery powered ready to go and provide power over nighttime operation or in the evenings, or when there's a cloudy operation or have the batteries ready to go for when there's a grid demand response requirement. But in general, at the moment, what we're looking at is 62 megawatt of battery capacity. We're looking at two hour battery durations. This could actually extend longer as technology is evolving, we're finding new solutions as we go and paired with 43 megawatts of solar. And as it was mentioned earlier on at the beginning of the talk, this will be high speed rail when it's all fully operational with all segments, the single biggest user of electricity in the state of California, which is huge. California next to Texas is one of the biggest electric users or electricity consumers in the nation.  All right, how do we get to figure out the energy supply? So there are three objectives we wanted to solve for. Cost optimization because the cost of ridership is very much correlated to the cost of power. We want to be 100% renewable and this is 100% renewable with our power generated and we're aiming for an hourly matching supply and demand and energy resiliency because why we are having outages, brownouts, public safety, power shutoffs. We want to make sure these trains actually meet their destination when they go in motion. But to start the process, we have to go through a modeling assumption because when we start doing this work, well there are no electric trains running in California of this capacity. There aren't even that many of them in the US. There are some electric trains in Europe but they're all operated in a very unique way. Nothing is really that replicable or that applicable to what we wanted to use a model. So we had to make the very hard decision of we gotta go figure this stuff out and to do that, we started with physics. This is the basic principles of motion. Newton's second law of motion was our best friend here. We built a model utilizing Python and Excel to go through and start to simulate what does moving a mass of this size take to go from point A to point B. And at that point A and at point B has some wind resistance, has some traction resistance, there's turns, there's uphills, there's downhills, there's speed. All of that, if you are an engineering or a mechanical engineering program, this is the stuff that we had to use in order to build up this model and model every minute of the operation of this train across the track the whole way. So we could figure out as this train moves how much electricity does it draw so we can figure out the amount of load it's going to put on the grid. Doing models, programs, code is pretty easy when you're not testing it against anything or we all know if you want to test your model to figure out does it actually work is you apply it against the test case. So what we did was we grabbed the power curves from similar type trains like from their engines. We spoke to some of our peers and our contacts over in Europe that had electric trains in operation. We picked up graphs of performance of these trains, how much power they draw depending on the resistance, slope of the road, and corrected our models against these curves to make sure we could match each of these lines of power and power draw so that we could make sure that what we were simulating in models actually would represent some of the real world test cases so we knew we were in the right sizing angle for these projects. Once that was all done, then we could actually go ahead and figure out given how much power we need, how much we're using it, when we're using it, the volume and value and location becomes very important. Then we could go ahead and lay that over with the transmission with the attraction power substations so we could see at which locations how much power do we need and then how much solar to go build so we can go ahead and offset that demand and make sure we have enough built to operate those trains. Once we had all these scenarios figured out and we knew how much solar and battery was needed to actually operate these trains, then we had to have the conversation about how do we go get it? This is where the hard conversation started to happen with the stakeholders involved around do we go buy it and build it ourselves? Do we go get third-party contractors? Do we assess figuring out how to supply our own power elsewhere? This is where the hard decisions are made and the authority through a lot of great work that MEC has done, has decided that they want to go and own and operate these systems themselves. As they're not only are they building the trains, the attraction power, working with PG&E to build the transmission lines, but they're actually going to be building and owning and operating the solar and battery storage facilities as well. So this is a very much a vertically integrated operation where you are being self-reliant and supplying your own power needs. The general picture of these systems looks something along these lines. Big utility scale solar farms along the central valley locations will be pointed out earlier. We're going to be needing a lot of battery storage systems to be able to supply the or store the surplus solar power that gets generated to be able to do a time matching of demand and supply. But most importantly, figuring out how to utilize these batteries beyond just a storage and load shifting opportunity to provide the back of power that we need knowing that what we're heading into is a lot of more frequent power outages and brownouts. We've all experienced some of the fires that we've had, the power shutoffs that we've had over the past few years. This was top of mind and we know this is coming. This is part of the climate mitigation efforts that everybody is working towards. So we wanted to make sure we had the same solutions here for the high speed rail. This is where things get a bit more technical but it's actually very simple in a high level summary. When you are connected to a power supply, what you want to plan for is contingency, knowing what would, if something goes wrong, do I have enough power to be able to sustain myself? This is like homes right now getting a battery backup power. When you do, if you go through the calculations, you realize you might have enough power to only operate your fridge or maybe your critical loads. You're not going to be running your whole house, dishwasher on, dryer on, TV on, if there's a power outage. You're going to conserve it, you're going to make sure how much power do I have to ride through this outage. Those similar scenarios very much apply in the power systems world. When you are connected to the grid or you have a solar system that's powering your systems, your operations. And we go through these scenarios called N minus one and minus two. And that's basically how many things go wrong, how many fees get lost for you to still be able to operate. So you test out your systems through each of these connection points that we have along the way. We went through all the series and permutations of what would happen if one transmission point got disconnected. Do we have enough power with solar and batteries to still operate all of the trains? What would happen if two of them go down? What would happen if two of them go down in summertime when we have peak solar production? What would happen if it was in wintertime? So all that math had to go through for us to come down to a summary result which is very impressive given that everything we simulated tells us that we can power these trains 24-7 with these systems. And even if we have the worst case scenario of a failure of all grids N minus two event in the winter months when we have the lowest production, we can still safely operate these trains because why? It's electric. We can throttle the speed down to half, draw much less power. For those of you who've driven electric cars, the slower you go, the longer range you get, the faster you go, the more power you need. It's a bit of an exponential. Same thing here. If you have passengers on trains and it has to operate, we'll just have to go slower. There'll have to be operational schedule changes until the grid comes back on. But given the fact that we have solar and battery storage paired at these sites and we are vertically integrated, we can actually continue to operate these trains through the worst of the events. And I pass it now back to Meg for procurement. I think I'm gonna, again, the people who have lived in the Central Valley, I think you understand exactly how hot it gets there. So the last thing we want is for a train to, is for PG&E to throw off the grid or have a brownout in the middle of July or August and have a train full of 400 people sitting in King's County because that would get hot very quickly. So what we wanted to make sure could happen was that we could get everybody into a station safely and efficiently. And then as we started analyzing what those battery resources did for us, we realized it could actually keep the trains running at full speed for multiple hours, if not more than a day in the summer. And then in winter, when we have winters like this, which was a little bit cloudy and a lot rainy, we still see that these are resources we can draw on for a good six hours if we run the full system at speed. But what Ali has talked about is you wouldn't necessarily run a 220 mile an hour train because these are types of pretty severe events. So I think at that point, we would look at a scenario where we would just run the trains at slightly lower speeds. All of these are resources that our operator who will come online once we have the infrastructure completed, the operator can really use these resources to be as efficient as possible and do that calculus of ridership, cost of electricity, cost of operating the system and making sure we have a reliable system because everybody knows you love it when the trains run on time. I took Cal train today and it was in fact very much on time. So just to close out a little bit on the topic of sustainable procurement, you know, we, as Ali said, we recognize that we, it's probably more cost effective for us. You know, we have a large procurement team, we have a large set of capital we can go do procurement of these things at scale, but as we go do that procurement, we want to be considering the full life cycle and supply chain of what we're purchasing. So the authority has a sustainable procurement policy that asks us to focus across that life cycle and understand what are the sort of major elements that we're buying and what are some of the either environmentally, environmental harm or social harm that might come from some of these materials that we will be using and to also look at ways of using the power of that procurement to improve that supply chain and to improve the recycled content and recyclability of what we're looking at. So this is just a quick summary of what the objective is and then of course we'll be putting it into practice once we get through the final design of the system and move toward procurement in the next 18 months or a year. So I am excited to hear questions today. I think it's kind of nice when you get to talk with somebody who can dig deep into the physics of the system that we're thinking about. We're more than happy to take a range of questions across any of the things we've talked about today, but we did want to emphasize that this is, I don't know, this is very much a part of I think being a California high-speed rail system really thinking about how to use all of the tools of the industry and the innovation and the policy instruments that California has to deliver a system that is truly going to run on renewable energy and run for the next 100 years and be of service to our economies and our communities. So that's what we have in summary and I think we're eager to answer any questions you all have. Thanks, very exciting. I have a lot of questions myself but we usually start with audience questions and particularly with students. So please raise your hand if you have a question. I love it. We've been that informative, no questions. Okay, nice to meet you. All right, there you go. Well, that works. I can remember that. That was a good trigger, huh? Hello, thank you for your time. Okay, I have a question. Do you guys have any metric that you measure? Like how costly it is to abate carbon emissions? Because I think like changing technologies to more cleaner infrastructure and stuff is probably more costly. So there's probably an abatement cost there, right? That is a good question. I would say we've, in doing the cost benefit analysis or sort of the, yeah, total cost of these elements, we've actually done it on just a financial basis. We haven't added in a carbon component of it but for other projects my team undertakes, we actually do measure the zero emissions vehicle goal, for example, for our construction. We realized we were probably paying between $10 and like $500 for an offset for just a ton of carbon to be offset. So it's far more cost effective to have a vehicle that is a zero emissions vehicle and doesn't emit anything rather than pay for that offset. So we do actually use kind of that total cost of carbon in some of our cost benefit analysis for policies. Yeah. One of the components that we put into the studies was the value of the low carbon fuel standards. Oh, yes. Which is essentially a credit towards those that operate or buy vehicles that are zero emission. That's largely how, for example, Tesla makes a lot of their revenues because they are essentially allowing other companies to buy their LCFS, low carbon fuel standard credits that they get which is like carbon credits, similar type model. The interesting thing about that is when you project into the future, if you're right, if you do all of our works right, the value of those credits should go down to zero because our goal is to decarbonize the grid. We want energy abundance with renewables. And so at some point in the future, call it next decade or so, we want those credits to go to zero. And that's our goal. We don't want to be relying on those credits. We want to be operating in a world where the standard is what high speed rail is doing. 100% clean energy supply for your operations. So while those will come into effect and I'm sure it will be the right thing to do to be able to generate those credits, but over the long run, we want to make sure we're just operating on what we have. And the benefits will be coming from, I would say sources that are not really that easy to calculate, like noise abatement, right? For those of you who've operated or been on Caltrain, it's a lousy machine. It's loud, right? Like it's not quiet, it vibrates and imagine riding that for 300 miles. But doing that in electric, it's like going in an electric car versus a diesel truck. That rattling actually tires you out. It has health effects. The noise that it brings to community. If you've, I used to live on Forth and King, I was just telling the story. Those trains, they hum all night. They're loud. But when they're electric, they don't. Those benefits are stuff that you can't calculate. There's no credit for it, but we're gonna bring it. Hi. Thank you for being here. I really enjoyed the presentation. It was really informative and engaging. I had two questions. One of them was, did you guys investigate the application of regenerative raking technology on the high-speed rail? And then also, you've discussed a lot about renewable energy and how that contributes to carbon reduction. But I was curious, because this was such a heavy concrete project, if there was also a lot of innovation in how to reduce the embodied carbon of the concrete that you laid down. Right. Oh my gosh, my favorite question of all times is always about embodied carbon, just because you can't deny the fact that, like, A, concrete is great when you want something to be very durable and long-lasting, but cement has a really nasty footprint relative to carbon. So we have investigated that. We have actually been looking at ways of kind of creating a ceiling for the global warming potential for the concrete and mixed designs that we use so that we're holding, the contractor is really the actor in that. So we want very durable concrete with as low a carbon footprint as it can get. And it's a very hard problem to tackle. And we are actually looking across a range of different techniques to try to keep driving that down and reducing it overall. I would say, though, that, you know, even with the uptake of zero emissions vehicles, operating high-speed rail, you know, in a couple of weeks, eliminates the footprint we created in production. And I recognize there's a lot more we could talk about with that, but we'll leave it at that for the moment, but always happy to dive into that topic in detail. And we're also looking concrete, the copper wire, across a number of the different materials that we're using to deliver the system overall. The first question was about... Regenbreaking? Regenbreaking. And the answer is yes. That's built into the model and that's why we can optimize the size of the storage and solar knowing that the trains actually give power back. It's not all lost. Really, I know Ali's really excited when we start modeling the system once we leave the Central Valley because then we start climbing into the mountains and then climbing out of the mountains. And so that's gonna be a very different equation. The train itself is a battery storage.  Hi, thank you so much. My understanding is that the two key indicators, like objectives of this mega project is to help the economy and then also help the state decarbonize. Is that correct? Correct, yes. So I was just... I mean, just on basic intuition, this seems like a great thing to do for those two objectives. But I was just wondering if there's any analysis done to see the use of the dollar because it's gonna be a mega project. So a lot of money's gonna go into it. So I was just wondering if there was any analysis done to see if the best use of the dollar, the amount of money that's going in, is through something like this or there are other ways to get better economic returns and decarbonization impact through the kind of investment that's being made. Was it like, let's say making a lot more of renewable capacity and just adding that to the grid or other infrastructure projects that could have done that? So was there any comparative analysis done for that? We've done over the course of the past few, several years, a couple of different types of analysis. The one that comes to mind that addresses your question most directly is a capacity analysis where we understood how, what are the vehicle miles traveled that are going to be coming to see it? How do you provide the type of capacity or equivalent capacity of what high-speed rail can deliver through other means? And the other means are, 10 lanes of 600-mile roadways, which is ridiculous, like the state of California would never be able to get that environmentally cleared or the equivalent of like three new runways at each airport. And again, our airports are really difficult to expand. And so when you look at the need to fulfill that transportation objective, high-speed rail is incredibly cost-objective or cost-effective. I think that we've also analyzed, you know, this state looks at its carbon footprint, 40% of it is transportation. And so this is one of many instruments that the state wants to use in terms of decarbonizing the transportation sector at large. And then of course there's other elements like we need to focus on the grid, we also need to focus on our industrial sector as well. So in terms of looking at transportation, it's an incredibly powerful tool. And much more cost-effective than other means. It's a good question. Oh, okay. I don't know if this one's live, is this live? Yeah. Okay, my question has to do with kind of, you might think of the reliability or robustness of the distributed storage and generation in the sense that this is a very big system. It spans many hundreds of miles. You could imagine a credible thing like an earthquake occurring. So in a case like this, how do you envision you can basically load shed or, you know, if you lose one of the storage facilities or whatever, what kind of control and configurability do you envision and design? And how would you wanna handle something like an earthquake that occurred near Palmdale or an earthquake on the Hayward Fault or something in terms of the operation of the system? Yeah, great question. So this is the crux of the world we're stepping into. Historically, the power grid, which is a great invention, it is about a hundred years old. It's a very much, as I mentioned, a one-dimensional relationship. Like we had big power plants, nuclear gas coal, tried to operate them as steady as possible, respond to loads that consumers had. As we're stepping into a world where we get to actually, as consumers produce our own power, we need to figure out how to interplay that power that we generate, the load that we have, with the grid that we are connected to, which is part of the economy that's built upon the state, and operate in a smart way to make sure we can load balance the right way. Because if we don't, then you'll have problems like curtailments, like shutoffs, like nuclear plants tripping off, which is disastrous. So how we go about solving for this problem is when a trigger event happens, whether it's an earthquake or a flood or a power shutoff due to some heat event, that sends a signal to the microgrid controller that you would have at your solar and storage facilities. Based off of that, you will know the amount of load profile that you're trying to supply. And if there's a mismatch, the microgrid controller responds by either self curtailing or discharging the batteries, whatever is needed, to make sure we supply the right amount of power if, for example, the grid connection is not available. So that smart connection managing your generation to smart load is how we're going to navigate this next phase of the power grid and the world we're going in towards. Thank you very much for the presentation. So I have two questions actually regarding renewable energy. And the first one is, since the bulk, if not all of the energy generation is from solar, and you have an edict for recycling equipment, what is the useful life you're using for your calculations for the PV panels? And then the second question is, what sort of considerations or analysis was done regarding the use of wind energy? Good. So for the solar panels, useful life, you do typically warranty for about 30 years. So that's historically what you model and the degradation curves for those are very much available and proven. So the amount of power generally solar panels produce every year degrades by about 0.25, half a percent. So those are all modeled into the overall life cycle of them. Typically though, what ends up happening is 10, 15 years down the road, we expect technology to improve, things to get better, and the cost of new installation for retrofit. If things break, you replace them with newer panels and off you go. And that's a very much a typical process in the industry, even today. You recycle broken old stuff, put new ones in, you end up getting a lot more power per square footage because efficiency of these technologies go up. As far as wind energy goes, that was not part of the modeling for generation. At least I wasn't involved in that. No, and I can say why, which is we, one of the things that maybe we glossed over in the presentation. So I think everybody's familiar with kind of how we divide land in the United States in these nice 160 acre parcels. And I think you're also very up on physics. And so when we're moving something at 220 miles an hour, we go in a very straight line or a very wide curves. And so what has ended up happening is the purchase of these large parcels and these kind of well configured square parcels that are approximate to our traction power substation. So first we had land. So we were like, this is a great asset that we can use for energy generation. The problem is our safety and security team has highly discouraged us from having wind turbines anywhere near the high speed rail line because they are worried about, there's some like artful phrase for when a wind turbine degrades or shreds a blade. And so that was one of those, it's interesting when you are trying to implement some of these goals because you think, oh, well, what a great idea. That's an incredibly efficient form of energy production and our safety and security team say, yes, but we don't want a wind turbine hitting, they can't narrow lines or running into the train or following the tracks. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, I have two questions. One is, have you modeled the participation of solar and storage in the electricity markets and how that kind of impacts the cost benefit of those resources? And then the second question is, what is the status of your work with KAISO on interconnection? Because we know that's a big issue in terms of timeline of getting a project done. Absolutely. So yes to the first question, did we study the interplay with the grid? Absolutely. There are multiple threads.  That was a whole study, whole assessment and it made more sense to partner with the utilities and be a retail consumer that you get to self-generate, take advantage of net energy metering, for example. And with that, we get to the interconnection side. The interconnection application for the solar projects will be going in with the procurement cycle that's coming up in a few months. The load connection to the grid where we want to get basically notify the utilities, hey, this much load is about to come online. Let's start studying that. That cluster study is in the way right now. So we will be within the study period for about six to 12 months. But the PG&E has so far signed up and wants to be a partner and build a transmission line to bring it to the sites and meet us with the solar generation. KAISO understands what we're doing. And KAISO is very much in the loop, yeah. Hello, and thank you for the presentation. So two questions. One is actually partly already responded to by Ali. So the first question is that what were the specific issues?  What were the specific issues why this project has been delaying for so many years and how those issues you see unfolding in future? So how does the future look like? And the second that Ali pointed out, procurement of the electricity, I just wanted to understand the, if we can get some more details on how that decision was made, that you become a retail consumer of the energy or you, because you have a stable source of electricity demand and then probably it makes sense to set up your own units also. So it might have been, as you have pointed out, considerable debate on that decision. And if we can get some material on that, how that decision was made, thank you. Absolutely. Can we take part one? Yeah, please. Okay, so great question. And our CEO has been incredibly transparent with sort of our legislative oversight body as well as generally the state of California that we received these federal funds back in 2008, actually 2009 and then another large grant in 2010, which is fantastic. It is fantastic to get a federal partner to help us deliver high-speed rail in California and not just have it be all about the state of California providing the funding. But with those funds came a spending timeline and a requirement to get to construction as soon as possible. And in our grant application for those funds, we actually identified four different corridors where we could get started. The federal government said, you know what, focus on the central valley. At the time it was kind of lagging behind the rest of the economies in terms of recovering from the global economic meltdown that happened in 2008. So we were asked to focus on the central valley. We were asked to get those funds going as soon as possible. And our strategy at the time was to use a design build delivery method. Unfortunately, the procurement of the right-of-way took much longer than one would have wanted or planned. And with that, if you don't make the land available to a contractor to move through construction, quickly the contractor cannot move A quickly and then of course is subject to claim. So that is probably described in a nutshell one of the reasons why we've seen some of the delay relative to the system. And we, you know, with good intention it was trying to move forward as quickly as possible but we've along the way also been learning important lessons about the level of design we need to execute as the public sector in order for those bids to be much more secure and certain. And so now having learned that lesson the team is much more focused on, we're right now engaged in final design work of the two segments that will get us from that 119 then up into Merced and down into Bakersfield. So that adds another 60 miles to the overall construction. So those we will have all of the right-of-way in hand. We will have design documents done before we go to construction. And that ironically though, you know those steps all add time to project delivery. They also add a lot more cost certainty. And for us I think a lot more time certainty as well. And I'll just add to that. Building big projects is hard. It's an ultra marathon. You gotta enjoy the during because in a like democratic process to actually build a public project like this you have to go through a lot of hurdles. Like clearing it right away. That just sounds like a few wars but it actually means like lawsuits you have to fight against endangered species. Clearing utilities. Clearing utilities. I guess there is you would be surprised as to how much work you have to go through to want to do good things here. And there's a good book I recommend reading about the history of BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit which talks about what it took to actually build that system and how much opposition to God and how many times it was pronounced dead before it actually got built. I think the high-speed rail would be another one of those stories. What was your second question? It was about power. Talk about your ag ground the other day. Yeah, so that there's a lot of these details we can take that one in. So the considerations there are building the rail operating trains is big enough. Building solar and powering is another big thing. Becoming either a just a retail customer or versus a wholesale provider is a whole other thing and there's agency related to that. In California, we live in a regulated, re-regulated power markets and there are a lot of considerations around if you want to become a load-serving entity as in producing your own power, selling power to yourself. That there are cost benefits, pros and cons to that that we're studied versus can we be a retail customer of power from one of the regulated utilities. So we went through this whole process. There is political, there is legal, there's commercial applications of it or considerations that have to be made and we decided on the retail side. One last question, Green Hat. Oh yeah, I guess I was just gonna ask if in terms of this being a big economic driver, would there be like the transportation of different goods via the train, like I know it's going through a lot of big agricultural zones as well as briefly if there's any migratory species or other environmental concerns due to wildlife in these areas. Okay, so two great questions. One of the interesting elements of our sort of enabling legislation and rights and authorities is that the mission is passenger rail. You know, I think our focus is to make sure we get dedicated, grade separated, focused alignment, passenger rail, because I think, I mean, a show of hands. How many people have taken a train in California and it's been delayed because you're waiting for a freight train? Oh, feel our pain, the rest of the room. It's painful how long we have to wait for freight because of goods movement. And so the focus has been on, okay, then let's stand up a dedicated passenger rail service. I think when you look at long-term operation and the opportunity for sort of smaller packages and goods movement, I think that opportunity is there, but we don't wanna be carrying bulk freight on something designed for high street rail passenger service just because of the way we've designed the infrastructure and the way infrastructure degrades if you put really heavy loads on it more than just passengers. And yes, in terms of environmental review and the analysis of migratory, we do have a lot of wildlife crossings and culverts on other aspects to make sure that the line is permeable for those species that we've identified in the corridor, so. That said, we're unfortunately out of time for the public part of the seminar, so I'd like to thank Meg, as I know that you were called, and Ali for this incredible vision with great tangibility. So it's a vision for inter-regional transportation in California with enough detail to believe that it just might work. It's gonna work. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.