All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Today, we are very proud to announce the launch of a citywide curbside organics program, the largest in the nation. And reusing food scraps is not new. Not new at all. The irony is how long it's taken us to get here. For centuries, every society around the world understood the value of food waste. It's long been an important fertilizer allowing us to grow more food. However, our smart modern societies not only devalued food waste, we actually began paying others to take it off our hands, to send it to other communities backyards, costing us millions and generating carbon emissions. And today, we're getting back to our common sense roots, led by a refreshing common sense mayor and a mayor who stands apart for his focus and understanding on the integral role of food and food conservation and what it means for our individual and our collective health. And with our amazing operational executor, commissioner of sanitation, Jessica Tish, at the helm of the Department of Sanitation and with the critical daily work of the women and the men of the Department of Sanitation, we are launching the nation's largest curbside organics program. And it's common sense for many reasons. It's curbside. We're not asking people to fill out multiple forms and wait for every alternate day to set out a specific bin. It's integrated into your normal trash routine pickup. It's common sense because it makes fiscal sense. It's the most cost effective program to date. It's common sense because it takes a third of our trash out of our trash stream and away from rats.  That's helpful, but we have to cut off their food source. That's a better way. And it's common sense because instead of paying other people to dispose of our valuable asset, food scraps, we're using it ourselves to compost, make biosolids and renewable energy. It's a big step for New York City after a history of incremental starts and stops. And so to introduce our nonstop mayor, I have Ingrid Martin, our chief advisor. It's also common sense because we have a great common sense deputy mayor, Mirish Joshi, who was one of the anchors to ensure that our great common sense commissioner who I had the pleasure to work with to close the deal to bring it to fruition is at the helm. So I was asked to share a little story with you. I was one of those who just throw my food anywhere. I didn't really care about recycling or paper goods, bottle goods, food scraps. But in working with our mayor from our days back in the Senate, all the way to our tenure here and under the leadership of our sanitation commissioner, I have been brought to the light. I don't know another way to say it. And I understand the value and the importance of composting. I am excited about this program going throughout all five of our boroughs. I am excited about it coming to my neighborhood in Prospect, Liffords Gardens in Brooklyn. So Brooklyn, get ready, be prepared. We cannot allow Queens to out do us. So it's a great program when we worked really hard to have happened in our city. And it happened as a result of the dedicated and students of our 110th Mayor, Honorable Eric Adams. Thank you. Good point. And I think your story is really something that we often don't acknowledge. You know, how did we communicate with people to in a language and in a conversation that they understand? Because even as we rolled out these initiatives, we rolled out in a monotone language as though everyone received it the same way. Many communities like Crown Heights, where you are from, Brownsville, Besties, South Jamaica, Queens, for far too long, even in NYCHA, they were not allowed to have farmers markets. We were overpassing them in a recycling program. We cannot have a language that just communicates to certain parts of the city and ignore others. That's why people are reluctant to embrace these concepts because they don't feel as though we are speaking to them. And, you know, when you have a highly educated person like Ingrid, a homeowner, is saying that, okay, I don't feel as though this is speaking to me. And for her to see that, okay, this program is speaking to me, we're going to get other Ingrids. We're going to get other people who have been historically left out of this process because of what Commissioner Tish is doing and how she's communicating. She's communicating in plain simple language that people understand. Today, we signed a bill that was introduced by Councilperson Velasquez. And some of the advocates stood up and talked about the items that we receive and takeaways that we could discard. And the advocate stood up and she stated for years, we've been trying to accomplish this, but this administration has gotten it done. That has been a universal tone that you don't hear often when people report what we're doing. Over and over again, people are saying, we have been trying to do this for years. We've been trying to do this for years. Just go back and do an analysis as some of our announcements.  No one wanted to listen. And finally, we have an administration that is actually not only listening, but we're getting it done. The largest composting program on the planet, on the planet. And it's because we're willing to take these steps. We started off in Queens, 13 million pounds. Commissioner Tish was clear that we're going to get it done right away. We're not going to sit around and just over analyze the process. We're going to be smart in how we're doing it. And she was able to accomplish that. But we're going even further. By 2024, New York City residents will have access to clean, convenient, curbside compost pickup from the Department of Sanitation. First time ever, many people have tried this. You got it done. You were able to accomplish it and it's really commendable. And for more than two decades of past administrations, great mayors like Mayor Bloomberg has attempted to do this. He did some amazing things around and learning from what other mayors have attempted to do, we built on that so we can actually get it done. Until now, New Yorkers had to bring their compost to a neighborhood drop-off location. Just was extremely not that convenient. I'll deal with, you know, all they had to deal with a one collection program or a once-in-a-while collection program. This was just was really unacceptable to New Yorkers.  And it was just not working. And we wanted to make sure that we were successful. So by the end of next year, New Yorkers in all five boroughs will be able to challenge like they did in Queens, as Ingrid said, Brooklyn's not going to lose. They're going to be able to place their yard waste and food scraps out on the curb year round. It would be the largest as I stated, composting in the nation. And it is a win for New Yorkers. And it's a win for all of us. The only one that loses are those rats. And you may not know it, but I hate rats. And our goal is to zero in on whatever it takes to address that. Separating food waste.  This is extremely important to keep moving forward. And we're saying loud and clear that this city deserves better and taking steps incrementally in each area that feeds our trash problem and our landfills is what we are focusing on. This this is an important initiative that we started last year in Queens. And now 8.5 million New Yorkers are going to be able to participate if we were able to remove 13 million pounds out from Queens. Imagine what we're going to do citywide. And that's where this energy is coming from. And being focused on this black goal, fertilizer, food waste, turning it into a way for people to be able to use it to grow healthy food. This is what Mother Nature always intended when she stated let's recycle that which is trash can become that which grows healthy food and feed us in the future. And we're going to return the composting to parks, plantains, and personal gardens. People will be able to pick this up for free. And of those who love gardening or growing urban farms have become extremely successful in this city. This is an opportunity to participate in that. So this is a real win. It's a real win for all of us and even the advocates, Julie and I, we've been talking about stuff like this for years. You have been a real partner and we cannot say thank you enough. And again, I want to thank the commissioner for a job well done. She's really continued to knock it out the park. Thank you. Now I want to introduce our sanitation commissioner, Jessica Tisch. Good afternoon. When I started at DSNY, Mayor Adams laid out for me his vision for composting in New York City. He didn't want just any old curbside composting program. He went much bolder than that. Something effective, something cost effective, something easy, something big, something built for everyone and every corner of the city. Not a niche program designed only for the truest of the true believers, but a mass market one. That is why this administration has developed a new model for curbside composting. Positioning it as a service that we offer New Yorkers rather than acting like placing composting at the curb is a favor they're doing for us. As part of that, we remove complex restrictions and requirements, signing up, opting in, expressing interest, ordering a specific type of bin. We made it simple. Just give us anything from your kitchen or anything from your garden in our bin or in your bin once a week on your recycling day and we'll come pick it up. We like to say if you cook it or you grow it, you can throw it and you know what? It worked. In the borough-wide program we started last October eight districts in Queens each diverted more material than park slope. Think about that. The beating heart of the composting belt where they've had curbside service for over a decade being outperformed by more than half of the districts in Queens and one district in particular Queens 12 which is Jamaica and St. Albans, they diverted more material than the entire seven district legacy program combined. Three times the material on average at less than one-third the cost per district compared to the old legacy composting programs. We knew that New Yorkers wanted to do the right thing and that if we just made it easy they would. If we talked to them less about reducing greenhouse gas and more about reducing green ooze, less about CO2, more about PU, less about methane, and more about giving rats hunger pain. Yatsy, this spring service restarts in Queens following a brief winter pause and becomes year round. There will be no further seasonal breaks in any borough. This fall service begins in Brooklyn and the following spring trucks begin rolling in Staten Island and the Bronx and finally on October 7th 2024 service will come right here to Manhattan completing the rollout of the first ever citywide curbside composting program. On that day the rats will be cowering in fear but there is more. Today we lay out a holistic approach to getting the rat food out of the black bags and out of the landfills once and for all. To that end we have just completed installation of 250 of our popular orange compost, smart composting bins where New Yorkers can drop off material 24-7 using an app to find and open the bins. Even while installation of these bins was ongoing, many of them had been regularly filled with pristine compostable material. We have placed them in a number of traditionally underserved communities including Bushwick Bed-Stuy, Washington Heights, Harlem, Castle Hill, Parkchester, Highbridge, the area around the Queensbridge houses and the North Shore of Staten Island. And with Manhattan receiving curbside collection service last today we are announcing that we are going to add an additional 150 bins across that borough from a small pilot of 25 bins in Astoria to 400 bins citywide in about one year. I can also reaffirm that we are on track to be conducting curbside composting service at every DOE school by the end of next school year. Finally we are announcing a special thank you to the people of Queens who helped prove this program to be a success. This spring all Queens residents will be able to pick up 40 pound bags of New York City compost for use in their yards and their gardens, at least one event per Queens community board. DSNY will continue to conduct more compost give back events in every borough as the program proceeds where the material that residents put out for composting is given back to them the following year as usable soil. Every piece of this holistic wraparound approach we are announcing today is a huge win for cleanliness, a huge win for sustainability. Any single piece of it would have been huge on its own but this mayor wanted composting to be easy in every corner of the city and now it will be. Do you want to use a bin? Next we'll hear from Julie Tai from the League of Conservation Voters. Thank you so much. I am one of those people who I am a true believer. Thank you all know that. I composted in my backyard when I lived in Albany. It was very easy, no rats, I promise. I'm Julie Tai, I'm president of the New York League of Conservation Voters. We're a statewide advocacy organization. I'm really happy to be here today with the mayor and the commissioner and the deputy mayor, special advisor, senior advisor to show our strong support for citywide curbside composting program. It's been a long time coming, you talked about that, it's been going back where we've been talking about the last few mayors. We know that this mayor actually is getting stuff done here. We're not just talking about it, we're not just having a plan about it, we're not talking about rhetoric, we're talking into real action. So we are excited. Now we asked during the campaign, as you mentioned, when you were in the when you were president, as you took office, I talked to the commissioner the first week she was in office and you listened, right? You are taking action to make that happen and we're really excited to see this move forward. Since the rollout can't happen overnight, we're really excited to see the expansion of the bins so that people can drop them off. They're really popular, personally. I'm using the Hudson River Park has some facilities that they make available on their park near the intrepid, that's where I go. Jeff asked me earlier if I compost, I do. We know that they're a big hit, as we already heard. It is really important to make sure that people are educated about it, that they know this is not just about methane, but I'm going to tell you it is also about methane. We know that we produce over a million tons of food waste every single year and it's four percent of the city's greenhouse gas emissions. That's 11 pounds of food waste per week per household. That's going to go a long way to maybe satisfy our rap population, but it's really bad for the environment. It's really bad for garbage. We know that when this material ends up in landfills, it releases methane and that greenhouse gas is three times more potent than carbon dioxide.  We make sure that we're getting that food waste and that yard waste out of our waste stream. We'll put it in a much better position for composting. I'm really happy to see that we're going to be giving that away because it is it is not a waste. It is a resource that we can and should be using. I mean it also can be turned into renewable energy just like DEP is doing at their anomeric digesters in Newtown Creek working with waste management to take food waste and sewage sludge. So that we're not only enriching our environment in our soils, but we're also creating new renewable fuels and fighting climate change. So on behalf of the New York League of Conservation Voters, I want to thank Mayor Adams for your leadership on this issue. To our fellow New Yorkers, we're confident this program is going to bring out about positive change to our city and our environment. And finally to the Mayor's least favorite New Yorkers, to our rats. The message is clear. No more free lunch, no more open dining. So thank you. A few questions. Commissioner Mead. Hey Mayor, I wanted to ask, I know rats keep getting brought up and it might have been too short of a trial to actually get any data, but is there any information that shows because of the composting program between the growth reduction of rats? A question. Do we have any data? That's a good question, Kate. You always ask good questions. Katie, I think it was, it was, the program was three months, so I'd like to look at it over a longer time period to really get meaningful results for you. So that's actually something that we've been discussing with the Deputy Mayor is like once we have more data looking at hope to see decline in rat complaints. I see a lot of rats and a lot of, I don't know if there's a larger plan for composting within restaurants because that... Yes, there are a number of rules that have kicked in over the past two years around requiring restaurants and food service businesses, a lot of different types of restaurants and food services businesses to separate out their organic waste. Obviously, when the commercial waste zones are implemented, that will make policing that much more straightforward. Thank you. Things that a lot of advocates in composting call for is mandating composting. Other cities that have composting programs rolled that after a couple of years. Is it something that you're planning to do? I know, you know, people seem to get used to it, but I can say that's really a way to make a dent and make people take part in this. Yeah, and we, it was in mandatory in Queens and we have an extremely successful program and so this is the first phase. Let's get New Yorkers used to it and we're seeing a participation that we were looking for and then as times move on, if we want to require it to be mandated, we would do so. But clearly, we're seeing the results that we want because I think New Yorkers want to do the right thing. I think Ingrid Comm is really touch-based. I know the community of South Jamaica Queens, I grew up there. For South Jamaica Queens to be leading the way, it's clear that we are speaking to people and not at people and I think that if we just automatically say we're going to mandate it, you know, people, you know, New Yorkers, whenever you say something is mandated, they start, you know, just responding differently. So we're doing a good job. 13 million pounds was great. So let's, we're going to continue to map it out. I trust Commissioner Tish, she got this. She knows what she's doing. As you pointed out, other mayors have tried to make progress on this issue and it failed. Come budget time. Composting is often on the chopping block. Are you promising now that that's not going to happen looking forward with this? When it comes down to budget, I can't promise anything. The asylum seekers this year, 1.4 billion. Next fiscal year, 2.8 billion. I cannot promise anything. I don't know what's going to happen at the border. I said it before and I'm going to continue to say, and I'm hoping, I'm happy to see a lot of my colleagues are now joining me. We need to, we need the federal government to get involved. This is going to impact every service New Yorkers receive. Every service. My goal is not to hurt those services that we could use to benefit our city, but everything we must look at. I have to continue to manage this real budget crisis we're having and it's being aggravated by the assignment crisis. I just want to ask the percentage of compost movement you guys want to Okay, different. I almost wanted to defer to you, since it's another crisis. Okay, to defer it. It's either a question for you mayor or the commissioner. When I went on the composting app, I noticed that it encourages people to use bags to throw out the compost with, including plastic bags. And I'm wondering if the sanitation department had a way separate out the plastic or doesn't it taint the compost? No, it doesn't taint the compost before it goes into the composting facility or the anaerobic digester. It's taken out of the bags. So we, it's separated. I assume once people start composting, it becomes regularly and the bins will fill up. I'm sure their bins at home will fill up. It seems like it's only weekly. Is there a plan if there's a lot of compost to increase the amount of service? Because then obviously racks will come. So is that a part of the plan? So that would be a great problem to have. I will be very happy today. I have that problem and I hope to have it. I think that that's why we're not just announcing curbside composting today. That's also where the smart bins come in. The smart bins are available 24 seven. They're collected regularly every day. So there are different options if you want to get rid of your compost material sooner than your weekly collection. There's also a number of green markets. Like it's not just the bins. There are hundreds of places across the city and in every community district where you can go and drop off your composting. So we just finished deploying 250 bins. That's complete as of last week. And they are across all five boroughs. And today we've announced that we're doing 150 more in Manhattan because Manhattan will be the last borough to get the curbside composting service. Let's see the app. I want to play with the app. We're going to monitor that. Okay. Yes. And you want to take your compost? These are my vegan scraps. This is right here. Rats are attracted to. And I'm going to hit unlock bin. What's in there? Is that your lunch? Done. Well, for this demonstration you're going to see them outside. How much can they hold inside? Enough that the bins don't get full regularly. So we have to collect from them and busy locations every day. This is the way you want to open it. Okay. So you don't have to touch it. Exactly. You ain't around because the press is going to be talking trash in a moment. And I need you to be here with me. So if I got to take that avocado and throw that bird of debt. Yeah. Okay. Mr. Mayor, what did you ask President Biden yesterday about the migrant crisis? Did you ask him for money? And what did he say? And then also separately, Huckle has her budget presentation today. She said that the state is going to be providing a billion dollars. But then the city and the feds are also going to be on the look for a bird. I'm not sure how much that is. How much are you anticipating the city will have to pay? Oh, we, you know, the budget proposal is new. It just came out. We're analyzing it. And, you know, Jock will give us an analysis of exactly of what it would be. And I shared with the president that what's big for me is the coordination. Having someone that's going to coordinate the entire effort that we have to deal with this crisis. And that was my primary conversation.  Yeah, we, the Omnibus bill passed with the 800 million. We don't know exactly what we are going to receive. We will look at that and make the determination, they'll make the determination, but we we're sure there's going to be some federal funding, but we want to get the issue resolved completely. Again, we're looking at the budget. Just, you know, just it was just recently released. We're looking at it and we'll come back and give a statement on exactly the governor's budget. And a question for you. Today as part of Governor's proposed budget, she proposed that New York City contribute more to the FDA. 500 million each year for access or ride and discount fairs for students. What did you think? We are looking at the governor's budget. We're going to analyze and give a statement on it once we dig into exactly what she's proposing. You think the city should contribute to the MTA's budget? I'll look at it and analyze it. We're refusing to go to the Herc, Brooklyn. It's not a standoff. We had over a thousand people who were in the hotel of the overwhelming number of them move. From my analysis, about 30 are still there. And I'm not even sure they're migrants. There are some agitators that just really I think is doing a disservice to the migrants and doing a disservice to the children and families. We're moving into the hotels that we are moving children and families into the hotel. Single adult males all over the city are living in congregate settings. Single adult males, children and families. We don't want to put them in congregate settings. And when I went to the Brooklyn cruise terminal, because you all know me, I like to go on the ground, I heard all of these complaints about no heat, no hot water, no food. When I went there and saw that clean bathrooms, heat, warm, some people were wearing shorts in size, and the migrants and asylum seekers, what they said to me, they said, thank you, Mr. Mayor, we would like to work. And that's why I'm pushing to make sure that they're able to work. We have, we did not hear one person there saying that they did not want to be there. And then yesterday, Commissioner Castro, some people were reluctant because of what they were hearing from some of the agitators, that they were going to be shipped out, and that's why we were taking them there.  Are you thinking about changing anything in order to make more people approve of what you're doing? Listen, I haven't seen the poll, and you and I know polls go up and down, up and down, and we're just going to continue to do what we do, and that's produced for New Yorkers. I am really pleased with the administration and where they are, and we're going to continue to stay focused, no distractions, and grind. You heard that on the campaign trail, didn't you? Well, and I think that you are right. When you do an analysis that it is just unbelievable that we have an immigration policy that states for six months, you come into a city and you can't take a job for six months, and even after that six months, there's still a process. It's just unfair, and so we're saying that New York, Chicago, Houston, Washington, and the other cities, El Paso, that you have to pick up this tab for six months. Now, some of you are a long way from being 18, but can you imagine 18 to 24 year old men being told you could do nothing for six months? That's just unfair, and what we are calling for Congress to do, particularly our Republican congressional delegation, is to come with some real comprehensive immigration reform, but we need to make some real decisions right now, and I think that we should allow people to work, and some are working, and we're not receiving those tax benefits, so it's just a lose-lose for us, and that is why we're advocating for it.


I am so happy that the University of Southern Mississippi is a part of the training with Interpol for their project, Stadia. One of the things that the University of Southern Mississippi prides itself on is really being a model public institution in the United States and in the state of Mississippi and this partnership really is in line with what our goals are in terms of being a model for public higher education. As you know, there are 190 countries that are a part of the Interpol institutions and so the opportunity for us to work with those countries through Interpol is an outstanding opportunity for our students, for our faculty and our staff and we're glad to be a part of this new project.


All right, awesome. Welcome back, everyone, from lunch. So for those tuning in, this is the Innovations in Capital Support Conversation. I'm Ari Rosenberg. I'm the Program Director for Ambitious, which is an initiative of the Center for Cultural Innovation. And all of us just have the other panelists introduce themselves. I'm Janelle Orsi from Sustainable Economy's Law Center. Woo! Oh, supportive audience. Mama's house, co-operative, and the art of motherhood. Awesome. Thanks to everyone for being here. So I'm just going to set the stage a little bit before we have the panelists talk. With Ambitious, we want to be pretty explicit about our view of capital and how it can be leveraged to sort of catalyze support for different initiatives that we're supporting and that we understand that grant capital and sort of traditional philanthropic dollars are actually sometimes very detrimental to the initiatives that we're trying to support and that we've been explicit in our communications and in our actions with the folks that we're supporting, that we want to make sure that we're providing capital in ways that are actually useful. And it was brought up earlier when we were talking about the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative and sort of the work they were doing. And we wanted to make sure they weren't doing something just because they thought we wanted them to be doing it. It's because it was really what was best for their community. And so through Ambitious and through CCI's work in general, we want to be explicit that we're not trying to ask people to work in a certain type of way. And we're also not trying to get people to ask for a certain type of capital. We want to understand from them what will actually help leverage their work and be supportive to their community. And so in this panel, in this conversation, we're going to talk about that and talk about sort of how capital can be used in different ways. So I'm going to start with Amake and just invite you to share a little bit about your mama's house and then also about your fundraising, your crowdfunding campaign. OK, your mama's house has been going on for 10 years. And it was only last year that I decided to start making it a business. I did not want a nonprofit. I did not want it to be a regular traditional business. But I had no idea about cooperatives at the time. I did start to go fund me to start looking for a house because mothers came consistently to the program when we had a house. We learned that it was the spaces that the mothers loved. It was the safety. It was being comfortable, sitting in a fireplace, been a cushy couch, plants, candles, the ambience of a lit fireplace, being able to eat together, the children playing in the gardens that mothers really were able to open up and feel safe and make art together. So the concept of your mama's house is to have that house that continues to do that, but also have that house that's a working space for artists, activists, and healers. Those are the women that tend to be attracted to what I do. After having the very generous donation from ambiguous, it's like money's like honey. It attracts bees. It attracts ants. It attracts flies. So I've had a lot of things happen that are good and some are questionable. But what I am seeing is mothers are saying, this can be done. This is something we want to be a part of. Yes, it's good that we hung into it. I've seen over 500 women in probably 10 years, and there's probably a core group of 40 that consistently will get together. So we envision your mother's mama's house having the spaces to do the things that they already do. But most of them are renters and cannot do a lot of the messy artwork, or they can't drag a lot of stuff in store, or they can't be up all hours of the night because they have other people in the building. So we're envisioning a four or five bedroom house within a finished basement. We have rooms. I have 20 women already who are ready to go. They have already said, this is my commitment. As a member, I can pay X amount of dollars a month. If every woman that commits, 20 women commits to one day of being in your mama's house and paying for that membership, that's $19,000 a year. So we're looking at what can we do with that to continue to put in with the things that they do. They make canned goods. They make clothes. They do fashion. They do a lot of things, but they want to make more money and be more resourceful with that. So that's where we are right now. I would like to point out one more thing. The things that mothers do when they don't have money. We make plates. We have Patreon. We have GoFundMe. We have started auctions. We barter. We make good medicinal medicines.  Great. Thank you. And I just want to share that for ambitious, participating in the crowdfunding campaign for us was important because of the public validity that it gave to the work that Imake is doing and to leveraging our capital so it could support the campaign and getting more capital afterwards. And I know Imake you shared with me that after the support from ambitious, they were able to leverage more capital and had a fundraiser that was useful in order to have more money for the down payment on the house. And so for us, that public validity was really a key piece, even though it was difficult legally to set up the relationship. Yeah. And then I also wanted to acknowledge on our agendas and online that Stephanie Gutierrez from Hope Nation Consulting was also supposed to be here today and unfortunately was unable. But we still wanted to uplift her work. And so I'm going to ask Fran just to talk a little bit about the conversations we've been having with Stephanie and sort of how we're thinking about capital in terms of the relationship, especially in Indian country, to make sure that it's not being used in a way where people are beholden to us as a funder. Absolutely. Thanks. Yeah, I actually want to tell you a little bit about Stephanie. I also want to talk about crops and about them. So I'm going to tell you about all of them. So I'm going to start with crops. This is actually the first big project that I think a collaborative approach. And Lauren earlier said, people endeavor, community endeavor, you know, that's really what I feel Angie and Ari try to do here. And so we met with Lauren and other crops partners and with Ari and Angie. And we sat down and we co-created what crops would look like. We came up with a canvas of options. I mean, it was a full PowerPoint that went through, I don't know how many iterations of different options of what they could do, but really co-creating and we sitting to find out what would mean successful Lauren, what would mean successful crops and how she wants to use the money. And what was wonderful about this project is we structured that first as more consulting engagement and sitting around the table and figuring out what we want from that. And that learning we put into a document and CCI and ambitious could use that for next projects. Now we're in a separate engagement with crops, but it became a full document that they could use. And I just added to that that part of our engagement with crops is we were explicit that we don't care what the outcome is. We want them to be building whatever is best for them. And so we just wanted to be able to sit in on those conversations so that we could get the learning. But if they decided not to be a cooperative, we were still going to support that. And we did explore other options. In the end, we landed on a multi-stakeholder co-op. But we looked at 501C3 with subsidiary for profit. We looked at a single member co-op. We looked at many options. So we indeed did land on the co-op models. Ben Stephanie is not here. She started Hope Nation and it's an LLC. Just from their website, because I don't work for them, obviously, they do social enterprise development, organizational management, program planning, and general development of community empowerment practices in indigenous and rural communities. So what I appreciated about this process too was that all of us got on the phone and we had an hour and a half of brainstorming of how Stephanie could use these funds. But it became so philosophical. It was a fun conversation. And we started talking about recoverable grants or forgivable loans. And that's not a truly legal concept. I think the Ford Foundation came up with it. They are also, I think, PRIs. They also did the PRI work on it. So it's a grant where the funds require repayment if it's successful or if it's not successful or if there's some kind of certain conditions attached to it. And we spoke a lot about not paying it that model, but rather a paying it forward model. Like how can Hope Nation use the money to do what they need to do? And then when they are successful, use what they've made to pay it forward instead of paying it back. Now, in the end, we didn't use this recoverable grant. We went another route. But again, co-creating something that would work for Hope Nation and for Stephanie and figuring out what success would look like for them and not for the Foundation. Yeah, and I think for us, the pay it forward model was really interesting specifically because for us, it's not about holding onto the financial capital. It's about getting the financial capital out to the communities that need it most. And we also understand it's a weird relationship as a funder that ultimately we still are making decisions about who gets capital and who doesn't from ambitious or from CCI in general. And that that's a weird role to be playing when we're saying that we're trying to create economic systems that work for everyone. Why do we get to make the decisions about what works and what doesn't or what fits into this lens? And so this pay it forward model would also lead to us not holding on to all the decision making. It puts some of the decision making into the hands of the communities that we're supporting. And so that was interesting for us in sort of trying to tease out that piece. I didn't want to be a 501c3, but there was this crowdfunding campaign and what was incredibly important in this project was visibility. So how do we make your mama visible to other people so that it's more accessible and other people can invest in it? And we figured out a fiscal sponsorship relationship where the money was funneled through the crowdfunding website and then into a separate bank account. Now the bank account became a little bit of a problem. And I hear. But the thing with fiscal sponsorships, I'm sure most of you know about this, but it remains responsible for the money aspect. Your mama can do everything else, but the fiscal sponsor needs to keep an eye on the money. And we figured out that they will open a bank account, which proved to be difficult. I'm not sure why. It proved to be difficult for a couple of reasons. One, we wanted to make sure we were opening a bank account that garnered interest because we knew that Amake wasn't gonna spend the money immediately. It was for a down payment on the house and she was still fundraising. And so we wanted to make sure that the money could earn money in this bank account. And then the other piece, the bank that had to be in CCI's name and Amake needed to have access to it. And so that with the interest became very difficult. We found one bank in the whole country that was willing to work with us and luckily within Minneapolis. So it made it easy for Amake, who lives in Minneapolis, but that it was more difficult than we thought it would be to do that. But again, it's not a failure, it's a learning as we discuss it. Next time we will know which bank to go to. Exactly, exactly. Great, and so Janelle, I'm gonna have you talk about Next Egg and sort of how that's opening up new capital for communities and then also the city of Berkeley, the work that self did there. Cool, thanks. So the Next Egg, it's a project of sustainable economies law center and Lyft economy. It's a play on the nest egg. You know, like this idea that we're all saving for retirement, we put away a nest egg. It came out of the strong desire to be like getting capital to the projects that we love. Like sustainable economies law centers given legal advice to 1,300 micro enterprises and cooperatives and grassroots groups and just sort of seeing over and over again the lack of access to capital being a challenge and just thinking what are the pools of capital we can tap? And of course we've talked a lot about like philanthropic capital but for us community capital is really powerful and by community capital I mean like money from everyday people in our communities, the people who are participating or in or impacted by these cooperatives and enterprises. And so, but that's challenging too of just sort of like having an everyday person put some of their savings into an enterprise and knowing that it's at risk. And you know, only about a quarter of people in America have any form of disposable savings that they could write a check from immediately. But about half of people have retirement savings. It's just that most people view retirement savings as something they're not gonna touch until a very long time from now or money that's being like invested in Wall Street tied up in institutions. And so we were like, all right, how do we tap this pool of capital? And so the next egg is it's an online community first of all the next egg.org. So it's a community of practice, a community of people who are learning together, sharing stories about how they're investing. But it's also sort of a bargaining collective of people who are getting access to low-cost tools that give them actual checkbook control or power over where their retirement savings is invested. And so I'll use my own example. I'm about to turn 40. I only have, by the end of this year I'll have about $12,000 in retirement savings. But I do not wanna single one of those dollars to be doing anything on Wall Street, to be doing anything that's not contributing to a world where I can actually retire. So I'm starting a 401K and it's a solo 401K where I will literally have a debit card and a checkbook to control where this $12,000 goes. I'm of course gonna write a check to the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. I'm gonna write checks to a variety of other social enterprises and cooperatives and the local community. And we're trying to build up a cooperative not really cooperative, but just sort of a collective, a community of 100 people who are gonna do this along with me in the next couple months. So like 100 people who suddenly have checkbook control over their retirement savings and we're having conversations about how we're investing it, that's really powerful. And what's especially powerful is this is not money that I'm gonna need anytime soon. I'm, you know, keep my money for 25 years. Do good things with it. And particularly do good things that is actually gonna create a planet that can nourish us by the time that we retire. So the next day, it's a very, like we're creating a lot of practical tools, but it's also, I think it's shifting some of the culture around how we think about money.  Yeah, and I think one thing for us, like one reason we were interested in supporting next day is that it really feels like it's opening up new capital because it's targeting people who probably are not saving for retirement right now because there's not an easy mechanism for freelancers or gig workers to be participating in 401Ks. It's mostly done through your employer.  But then all that money flowing into communities is new capital that we can be investing in local cooperatives and theater companies and anything we want right in our community. And so for us, that's also like looking at capital in a great way where it's like, well, how do we leverage our individual dollars to be supporting our community? And it's not just about philanthropic dollars, though those dollars also need to be flowing into the community. And you know, one thing that's powerful about it is I'm gonna put $5,000 into it this year. I cannot get a charitable deduction. If I were to donate that $5,000, it would have no impact on my individual taxes because I take the standard deduction, which 90% of Americans take the standard deduction now, thanks to the tax bill. So by putting it in my 401K, then I get a tax deduction. It's more of like postponing my taxes until I take it out much later. But in a way, I'm still investing it with a charitable mindset. So it's actually a nice tool to sort of starve our military industrial complex from funding right now by putting in our 401Ks. Great, great. And can you talk briefly also just about self-work and Berkeley and sort of how you're supporting a municipality and sort of leveraging capital for cooperatives? Yeah, so we're trying, where our hope is that cities everywhere will start adopting policies to prioritize worker co-op development, prioritize worker co-ops and procurement and purchasing and technical support, but also lending and grants. And so a few years ago in Berkeley, we started advocating, and we actually organized the local worker co-op community. We got worker owners from various worker co-ops to lead a lot of this advocacy, but ultimately the city of Berkeley adopted some amendments to its Revolving Loan Fund that made it a lot easier for worker cooperatives to access this capital. And one of the things that it had to navigate is creating a more accessible or usable guarantee program. So rather than having every worker owner and a worker cooperative guarantee alone 100%, they created some workarounds that make sure the workers aren't all taking all of the risk. Great, great. So now I'm gonna open it up just more conversation within our circle. We, you know, in our prep calls, we were talking a lot about how these conversations about around, excuse me, around capital are actually really difficult to follow and not everyone feels even included in it because of historical trauma, because of language that's used and definitions that are used. And so let's talk more about sort of that and how to make this accessible. And, you know, Janelle pointed out like, it's silly that we need lawyers and accountants to explain this to us. You know, why can't we have tools where we understand how to utilize capital and be innovative on our own. Lead it to any of you to speak to that. I'm the one who was saying, I don't understand what you guys are saying. I've got a PhD, so I don't get things done and just keep going. But I'm very excited to be in the presence and know what they did to make it happen for your mama because it's very hard to explain. I would also like to say that I do still do other ways of making money. I used other, my art practices to do that. So I was also able to save $10,000 of my own money for the house as well. And I also write grants that continue to keep your mama programming so people know what we're doing. So this year I was able to give 50 women emergency bags and for us to create plans to, for them to take care of their families one to three days in case all hell breaks with the government or some national disaster or in Minnesota, they could be negative 34 at any given time and snowing and then sunny the next day. So we're able to do that. I'm also educating women about water, the access of clean water and taking care of themselves in a free way by drinking water and dehydrating themselves. Dehydration brings on diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer, allergies and asthma which plagues the black community. So I continue to program and get in kind services from other agencies by partnering with them. Okay, there if you wanna speak, speak, speak, sure. I don't know, I was just like contemplate, I actually printed a part of a poem. I'm like, would that be weird on a panel about capital? Maybe not because like to your question of like, how do we make this a little bit more accessible and down to earth? All right, this is a poem that's been kind of like the theme of my year. So this is Mary Oliver's Wild Geese. It's just the first few lines. Well, a little bit of background.   And so this particular, this last line that I'm about to read is like, that's been like a guiding principle for kind of healing myself, but also like applying it to my work. So, but think about this in terms of finance. Getting access to capital. You need access to capital? So you do not have to be good.  You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. So what does it look like for an enterprise to let the soft animal of its body, or you know, entrepreneur, you know, we as human beings, like how do we create relationships that let the soft animal of our body feel like human? And for the investors, and when I say the word investor, it's like community members, everyday people. We are all investors. Like how do we let the soft animal of our body love what it loves when we think about where we're putting our money? So I get a little shaky just talking about this, because like this is really like, it's meant a lot to me, it's really strengthened my resolve to stop ever like falling into the tendency as a lawyer. And as someone who works in finance of being kind of like intimidating, hard to understand, confusing, like anytime I'm in a room, and usually it's somebody else who will say something like, well, you should talk to a financial advisor, or have you gotten advice from a securities lawyer about this and it just shuts people down, like the soft animal of our body just sort of shrivels up. And it just, yeah, I'm tired of like the disempowering effect that professionals like financial advisors, accountants, lawyers have on like our clients. And so for me, it's like, we create cartoon legal documents. We create securities offerings documents with cartoons in it. We have branches where we talk about finances of the co-ops that we work with. We have just ongoing relationships. So the relationship between an enterprise and the investors should feel like family. It should feel like a mother and child relationship. It should just feel like the soft animal of our body loves what it loves and that's what brings our resources to the table. Yeah, thank you. And I have to say, CELC's cartoons and EB Prex cartoons are in your bri laws. Like they do make the documents more accessible and we send them to people. We're like, have you looked at this yet? Because a lot of people get really confused about, especially cooperative law, it's different in every state, right? If you're not a lawyer, you might not know the nuances of all of those things, but to be able to see someone else sort of demonstrate it as a cartoon and with little stick figures with signs, it does make it much easier. Yeah. This is more of a bylaws' story. Yeah, to Jenna. Yeah. However, since I drew your cartoon bylaws, a lot of other people have started getting inspired to put cartoons in legal documents and it's actually gonna be, I mean, just give it two to three years, it's gonna be the new paradigm. It's gonna be a thing. It's gonna be a document. I just have to say, Jason actually came to me and he said, don't you like drawing cartoons? Which is like, hi, I'm good at PowerPoint, but. So, I was at a conference in BC a couple of weeks ago and some of you were there. It was the NCBA CUSA Impact Co-op Conference and Ed Mayo, who's the, some of the things that I'm just secretary general about co-operatives in the UK. He had this really nice quote about co-ops and he said, co-ops should create a space where we can all be fully human. And that made me think, and your beautiful poem also kind of connects to that, how, what is my role in this Oceans 8, Oceans 11 space? To create a space with everyone to be fully human and in a co-op space and whatever. And I have a certain skill set, yes. But unfortunately, and I am the lawyer and I'm gonna say this, but our industry is broken. The fact that we have to bolt per hour is sad and it makes us exclusive and it makes us huge. I mean, it's a justice gap, it's all sorts of gaps. It makes it inaccessible. And I appreciate Ari and Andy so much for making us more accessible to everyone in this room. But it's hard and I think self kind of figured it out. But it's difficult to make this profession. That's why we're siloed and that's why we're on the side. Everyone talks between each other and then they come to the lawyers and then we say, but that can't work, that can't work. So then we need to come into the conversation and it becomes more expensive. So I don't have a solution for this, but I do think we need to talk about how professionals, what is our Oceans 11 role in this? Yeah, and we know it's also unique. We just told self last week that we're supporting them and they're a nonprofit law firm, which is not a traditional structure for a law firm and we know that most foundations won't support law firms, even nonprofit law firms because they think of lawyers as charging $250, $300 an hour and why would you support that work? And for us and ambitious, we really saw that the work that Selk is doing goes beyond just like traditional legal expertise. They're helping incubate EB Prec. They're helping support art and culture makers like build businesses and understand financing and all these tools and they're doing it in ways that are actually accessible and sharing the learnings. It's not just about legal expertise. And so for us, we're like, yeah, no duh, like this is a big fit, but we understand that most foundations see lawyer and are like, well, why would you give them a grant? Like they have access to money and we know that your firm is very different than that. And it's not just different in how you build clients, but it's also even different in your structure and like all the employees are paid the same and that you're very transparent about that. It's on your website. And so I think for us sort of also trying to figure out like how do we make sure that legal expertise is more accessible? Because people need it in the current system, even though we might know what's best for us, we might not legally know how to do that right now. Yeah, and I could maybe move quicker and you can see the bigger picture from a legal point of view, I mean not from every point of view, but from a legal point of view, faster so that you can move ahead. Yeah. And one thing that's nice about our salary structure, so everyone at Sustainable Economies Law Center makes 60,000 a year right now. That's actually higher than average locally, but we are in a closer ecosystem with our clients, meaning we make not too much more than our average client, meaning that if clients are paying us, they could afford to have us in the room and have it be part of an ongoing relationship rather than just paying lawyers for a few hours to swoop in at the last minute. And so we are, it's a much more natural, like we're part of the family of a cooperative as it's growing and for the lawyers, it just feels like a lot more like being a human. Yeah. Rather than, I don't know, the ocean's lovin' thing cracks me up, but it's like, yeah. I don't, I like more of a family metaphor. Yeah. Well, I have the black skillet, so if they survive, they crawl to you guys. I assume this approach to Jason Winer, if you haven't met him, he's a great, he's my boss, my partner colleague. He doesn't like being called a boss. He started the firm five years ago. He worked for Namase Solar, and he was in our legal counsel there, and then started the law firm, and he's really just focusing on co-ops and employee ownership. And I believe he's a thought leader in this, in the country. He's great. And his approach to the law firm is also, it's very similar. We're trying, I mean, it's still an hour in fee thing, but we also have many fixed fees to make it more accessible for clients. If people come to us and say that, you know, this price point is too high, can you help us at this price point? We work stuff out. So, to make it accessible, we don't charge, sorry, $250, $300 is pretty low. I saw a legal engagement the other day where a junior associate's fees was $750 an hour. So, yeah, definitely not that high. And that's real. Yeah, it's real. Yeah, and I will say that, you know, what you were talking about before is like thought partnership. I think one thing that we've really appreciated is being able to jump on the call and be like, can we just ask you a question?  And I think part of that has to do with the philosophy of the firm specifically, right? And like Jason's understanding of cooperatives and why they're important for the system that we're trying to build. You know all lawyers think that we need to be building a different system. So I just think that that is a unique role. Great, so we can turn off the live stream. We're gonna do it early. And open it up.


The title of this story is James and the Kindergartener. The Lion and the Mouse Remixed. Meaning a new version of the story. Written by Connie Miller and illustrated by Victoria Astonnelli. It was recess time. James' favorite time of day. He loved to sit under the big oak tree and read his dragon books. Today the sun was warm. A breeze brushed over him. James held the open book on his lap. He felt himself getting sleepy. Then he nodded off. When James woke up, his pesky little sister Claire was standing beside him. A group of kids from Claire's kindergarten class stood behind her. James pretended that he was still asleep. What was Claire up to this time? Claire whispered to her friends, Watch this! She pulled a marker from her pocket and poised herself to draw a mustache on James' face. Before she could make a mark, James grabbed his sister's wrist. What are you doing, Claire? Claire jumped in surprise. Nothing! She replied. But James knew better. You were going to write on me, he said. I think I will take you to the principal's office. Claire's eyes widened. Don't tell the principal, James. It was just a joke. James was annoyed. Claire begged, If you let me go, I will help you one day. James laughed. How could you help me? You're only a kindergartner. But James let her go. After school, James didn't wait for Claire. He usually walked home with his little sister. Today, he was still mad at her. James pulled out his dragon book and read as he walked, About a block from school, there was a large branch on the sidewalk. James didn't see it. He tripped. His book went flying. He stumbled off the sidewalk and rolled into the bushes. James couldn't get up, no matter how hard he tried. His backpack was stuck on something. He was just about to yell out for help when he heard small footsteps. When he looked up, it was his annoying sister, Claire. She'll probably laugh at me, he thought. Will you help me? James asked. To his surprise, Claire reached into the bush and freed James. Now, where's my book? James asked. Here it is. Claire yelled. She had found it under a low bush. James was too tall to have seen it there. James didn't feel angry at his sister anymore. He smiled and said, Thanks, Claire. I guess you were right. Small friends can be a great help. This is the same story as the lion and the mouse. What happened in the story was once upon a time, there was a lion. The lion was taking a nap.  The lion awoke and grabbed the mouse in his great paw.  One day I will help you. The lion thought this idea was funny. He didn't believe the mouse could ever help him. The mouse was too small. But one day, hunters caught the lion in a trap. They used ropes to tie him to a tree while they went to get a metal cage. Just then, the little mouse happened by. He gnawed away at the ropes until the lion was free. The moral of the story is, Little friends can be great friends. This was written by Aesop.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBreaks.com, brand new release day, happy Friday, and we're going 24 hours today folks. We're in the second third of the 24 hours, Jason did the first third, I'm doing the second third, Nick Jaspy doing another, doing the final eight hours. We've got this new release coming at you, 2020 Panini Select Baseball, Select Baseball, nice to see baseball getting the select treatment. Pick your team number one, six box, half case break, big thanks all of these folks for getting into the action, really appreciate it. And let's pop open this fresh case and see which six boxes we're going to do. One, two, three, four, five, six, there's six back here and six right here. So we're going to roll the die and you can see the other six boxes on the camera above my head. All right, so I'm going to use that die right there and we're going to go one, two, three for the back six and four, five, six for the front six. There it is. You see it? It's a six. So we're doing the right side, right side boxes with six, one, two, three, four, five, six. So we're going to save these for break two and mark these just so we know that they're coming from the same case. All right. So there you go. All right. Here we go. New for 2020, Yordon Alvarez gracing the cover of Select, two auto two member BLA cards per box on average, tri-color cracked ice parallels, ultra zebra parallels, artistic impressions inserts. All right. And I think everyone's pretty familiar with the, with the Select brand. And remember in Select all card ship because of the field level, premier level or concord and concourse level. I think those are the different tiers. All right. So number one of six, pick your team one, packs open real nice. If I was in a pack ripping, like speed contest, if there was a pack ripping combine, I would definitely use these. My 40 pack time would be pretty good, I think. All right. Matt Silverfield needs Kenny Lofton. Do you have the, well, Kenny Lofton's fine. They listen to you. Oh, these are, these are nice. Nice Lynn to 199 Michael Chavis. Those are the tri-colors. And we got a Trent Grisham. That's our first autograph, Padres Trent Grisham going to Derwin 89 out of 99 Sean Minaya to 35. And I guess we'll show that Matt Heiss right here too. That's pretty cool. I like that pattern in the background, three color patch and autograph. I don't have the proper top loaders for this. What do you need? I don't know. What will fit this? Want to eyeball it? 130 maybe? Angels.  Tanks. All right. Looks like Nixon to help me out a little bit here with, you know, maybe not. Maybe that's just a, sometimes the 130s are cut a little weird. No. This is just slightly bigger than a 130, Nick. How annoying. Come on. No, I think I got it. It's snug, but it's good. I got it safely in there. 30 out of 49 for Henry Benton. I heard that we found more 180s. You know, over here, Jason Jaspie say that. That there was a case of 180 toddlers like hiding in the corner or something like that. He also brought some here. Oh, maybe he brought some out there. That's good. Did he give us a good price? I don't know. I wasn't doing the negotiating. Four out of 10, Anthony Rizzo. Gold at Carter's Gold. EA with the Cubos. They don't call them the Cubos, but. I thought that was a weird smudge there, Eric, for a second. But no, that's just part of the design. It's kind of hard to tell, but it's like a little lightning bolt. Nice one, though. Dakota Hudson Blue for the Cardinals. That'll be for Adam Richards. Nick's helping me out up there, as most of you know. He wasn't just dealing boxes. He's not stealing cards. There he is. So you can see that right there. So he's just helping us. So this goes a little bit more quickly. Once again, all card chip in this because of all the different tiers. Usually they say on the back what they are. There is Justin Dunn. 250 out of 250. eBay one of one. Jeremy 33 says that that's a loud shirt. It's a loud shirt for you. It's a Laker shirt. Yeah, we're my most comfortable shirt. So there's Premier level. I think these are just the regular level. Concourse level. It's nowhere at the jazzy, but you had it on inside at once. No, we should have been jazzy's twinsies for 24 hour break day. I don't know what the... I'll show you what a field level looks like. Those are the shortest principle. We'll find another one. Marsal Azuna Tri-Color. I think is that a field level? No, that's Premier level. Robbie Ray. That's... Oh, Diamond level. I don't know what the different levels are. Thank you. It's getting there. Alright, so... I'm looking at cardboardconnection.com. Oh, this here, there's just... I guess there's just base. Premier and Diamond level is the shorter print. So the base ones won't be numbered. There you go. Oh, Jeremy 33, you're about ready to make your own jazzy shirt? We're about ready to get our lawyers fired up for trademark infringement. Yeah, we got C and D's coming at you. Let's family show you guys. Max Scherzer. We got Louise Robert. Big relic there for the White Sox Henry Benson. I actually don't know Nick's basketball affiliation. It's private, he says. Jeremy thought you were a Sixers fan. Sean Murphy. That goes to the A's, Jason Hosner. Ramon Laureano had a good shot at Rookie of the Year, I think, last year. But he got landed with an injury that knocked him out for like a month. Yeah, he would get some rawl. Ooh, and a one out of five Zach Collins. Ooh! Not Zach Collins, well, maybe, I don't know. Maybe he's moonlighting as a baseball player. So the Portland Trail Blazers is Zach Collins. It's also a baseball player, ladies and gentlemen. There he is. One out of five. I don't think he's. One out of five, but I don't know, for sure. Henry Benson. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo! Out of fives and under, get the train whistle. Nice. There's Luis Castillo. Excellent pitcher for the Reds to 99. Jamie with that one. Yeah, Josh Kay is also wondering why you're here so early. You're gonna... He might take a nap. He lives close by. He can run home and take a few hours and come back. 11 out of 49. We got a few couches here, too. Phillies. Chris Hale with the Phillies. There you go. Mr. Mike's Daddy with an autograph. I'm building a loft. Machado to one. We should build... We could build a loft here with the ceiling space we have. Yeah. That would be sharp. Another box. And another... Oh, no. These are very slippery. I think we have this little rubber mat right here to protect the hits. We got Brewstar Greater All, Zebra, and Rico Garcia. Triple Relic, or no, single Relic, two-color patch, and autograph. Apologies about that. Apologies to Rico. That's for the Giants. That's gonna go to Derek. Select a little too smooth. Jamie, 33. These are... Not case hits, but I think the Zebra prints are pretty rare. That's Brewstar Greater All, who's on my Dodgers now. Hopefully... Hopefully he'll play this year, but hopefully shoring up that Dodgers' Middle Relief. Maybe Future Closer. Can they dance and not getting any younger? This is precarious. Let me slide this over just a little bit. All right. We got Logan Allen, Tri-Color, Mike Trout, and Manny Machado, Cracked Ice to 25. Nice one for the Padres, Darwin. And there's a Mike Trout premiere level, Silver. Remember, Mike Trout autographs are exclusive to Tops. So you're not gonna see too much of Mike Trout and Panini set. Relics. Let me get some Relics from Panini sets. Mike Trout. Ronald Acuna Jr. autograph. Silver Auto for the Braves. BJ Jordan with the Bravo's. Bravo. 29 out of 49. There's Kyle Lewis right here, too, for the M that's gonna go to Darren already. Mariners have low-key, low-key good prospects slowly making their way up the ranks. There's Louise Robert, Silver, Nick Ahmed, Jacob DeGrom, White Prism to 50 for the Mets. That'll be for Mary Lou. And Jose Altuve to 75. That'll be for Ron and the Astros. Jalen Davis to 199. San Francisco Giants, Derek. Derek A. And Rafael Devers for Mr. Halpin. Devers, Jersey. Not numbered. Carefully get this guy out here. There's Jonathan Hernandez. That's for the Rangers. That's gonna go to Mark. Mark L with Texas. 94 out of 199. We've got Mitch Garver to 50. White Prism for the Twins. Jared Kaye. We've got Aaron Saval. Cracked Ice Autograph. I think that's the Spark Parallel and Cracked Ice. Cleveland. That goes to Matt Sebelfield. Six out of 25 on that one, Matt. On the board. He's looking for Kenny Lofton though. Hayesu Salzardo to 199. A's. That'll be for Jason. Juan Soto. Nice. Got a little bit of that Silver action going on for Mark L. Silver's in select baseball. They didn't do select baseball. It's been a while. It's 45 out of 75. Frank Thomas. So I don't know if those Silvers react as well as they do with, say, basketball, but set those aside so they can be taken care of. Lance Lynn. They'll be all top loaded before they go out. To 149. Rangers. Robbie Bradley. Danny Santana. And we got Domingo Leba. Arizona Diamondbacks. That's going to go to AP Arthur with his Diamondbacks. Yeah, I know. When's the last time we saw select baseball? I do like that look. I like the different tiers. I like their Silvers. The tricolors. Different relics. I like that we get more blank cards. We were kind of running out. Shipping team uses them a lot. So here's a couple short stacks right here. That should be a box. And that should be a box. There you go. Two boxes right here. All right. Coming up in a little bit, we'll be going to go through some orders and then we'll see what's coming up. I think that mini break filled to fill up that mixer. So stay tuned for that. We'll get it. We'll get an exact order relatively soon. Miguel Suno and a Juan Soto to 250 relic. I thought I was looking for this autograph is guaranteed by dot dot dot. Nationals. That'll be for Mark L. Rafael Devers, red for Halpin. That's to 199. Nick Solak, Rangers for Mark L on Hernandez. The tricolors aren't numbered, by the way, but everything ships in select. We've used select, we've used select 2013 select football as mini breaks or filler breaks. And that, yeah, those used to come in mini boxes. There's AJ Puck, Oakland A's. That'll be for Jason. Manny Machado, red to 199 for Padres 007. Now to 199. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Dustin May, relic for the Dodgers.   That'll be for Matt and the Indians. It's actually top loaders because these are a little more fragile here. Dustin May goes to my Dodgers. Jeffrey with the Dodgers, by the way, there he is. Top loaded properly. Matt Romandese, Robles, Machado, Mead. Any guesses on that redemption? Callie, what's up? I got the second third of the 24 hour shift. Jason did the first third. He completed that. I'm doing the second third and Nick Jasper doing the third third. What's up, Mothra? What's going on? Oh yeah, I think we did do 2013 select baseball too, right? For fillers, football and baseball, I think. Rico Garcia for the Giants. That'll be for Derrick. The Blue Hunter Dozier for the Royals. That'll be for Balraj. Erciz Aquino to 99. Hopefully he shows off more of that bat if we get baseball this season. Aquino will be for Jamie. Matt Salvafield guessing Kenny Lofton for the redemption. That sounds right for a redemption. An old school player that hasn't signed in a while, maybe isn't used to getting the autographs in on time process. There's David Dahl to 99. Maybe a rookie that was just too busy. Prospect that was just way too busy. Hot rookies Nick Solak. Kind of like that flame design behind him. And we've got Sheldon Newsy. Oakland A's. That'll be for Jason H. Mr. Mike's Daddy, what's up? To 149. We've got a Mauricio Dubon who I think is a big prospect for the Giants if I'm not mistaken. Derrick Abad with that one. I might want to look that up. I think he is one of the bigger names in their farm system. 81 out of 99. And there's Tony Gonslin for the Dodgers. Redemption. No one else's guessing. It's just Matt. It's Luis Robert. Rookie Jersey autographs. There you go, White Sox. Henry Benson. Henry. Focus. There you go. And there you have it, boys and girls. Pick your team number one in the books. Let's do a super quick recap. Not too shabby. I love that select design. And now that it's getting the baseball treatment after a long time. Acunha Jr. So I'm pretty happy about that. That's a filly right there, Chris. Mr. Mike's Daddy getting this filly. You see it? Davey Gruyon. Nice relics. No Zebra. Oh yeah, didn't I top load that? Where did I put the Zebra? I don't think you hit one. I thought I did. Oh, I did. It's right here. No, that's a die cut. Are you sure you hit a Zebra? Yeah, it was a Dodger. Miguel Amaya? Brewstar Graderall. Hot rookies. Zebra. I was losing my mind there for a second. There you go. Big arm. Big arm. All right. There you go. Thanks everybody. Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. We'll see you for the next one. Bye-bye.


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