Thank you. Hello everyone. Thanks for coming My name is the meter and I don't know and this is my first ever Europe I can talk so I'm I'm quite passionate about pandas and I hope by the end of my talk you might want to try it as well So let me first tell you a few things about myself So I have been a software developer for over 20 years now I started back in the day with basic and Pascal went through C C plus plus C sharp even PHP for three years and then I discovered Python through jungle and Python became my favorite language by far since then I've used it for pretty much everything server-side software scripting web apps mobile apps and all sorts of other things so I Was working for canonical for four years and I was working on a port from Python to go of a cloud deployment suite and After that I decided it's time to get on my own. So I Went full time into freelancing with Python again happily and Founded my small own company devulated so What about pandas? So seriously How many of you have used pandas before? All right. Great. So have you used it for anything else than scientific and statistical software Okay So just a quick introduction for those of you who don't know about it. So pandas is an open source Python Library, it was created in 2008 by Wes McKinney It has high performance and easy to use data structures and A great API for data analysis built on the solid foundation of NumPy And it's also very well documented too well, you know in a way so I first heard about pandas in Europe-Python 2012 I think and since then I kept hearing about it from all sorts of people All the time and I decided to look into it and see Actually, what is all about? I'm not from a scientific or financial background so That was my first experience with it Basically, I liked about it Be that it's easy to install it has a very few requirements Especially on Linux. It's trivial, but also on Windows and macOS It's as fast as NumPy yet a lot more flexible and I Personally don't really like NumPy that much because I found it somewhat counter-intuitive and awkward to use Pandas also reads and writes formats in pretty much any format you might have to deal with especially CSV, Excel and HDF5 To name just a few which was an obvious advantage for me and Also since I'm quite a visual thinker I like how easy it is to plot stuff with pandas with matplotlib So I did try it, but I found some quirks and pain points which kind of put me off and I want to share a few of them with you So it has a good documentation, but at the time there were not a lot of tutorials and hand-on hands-on guides You know, it was a bit intimidating to read all that documentation and know where to start from There are also confusingly many ways to do the same thing kind of un-Pytonic in a way at least then Also, there are lots Lots of indexing like every sort of indexing operation which was it's also its power but I didn't understood it then and it was kind of Seem to be pointless especially the multi-index and It has same defaults for most things it can handle lots of types of data intelligently however, not as fast as you might like so You might want to actually be specific when you want to deal with specific types of data like data Date time or floats or integers and do some conversions in between So let me tell you about the project of mine, which I kind of found unexpectedly how Good Fit pandas for some of the tasks. I have to deal with so the project is an SVG mail labels Generator, which means send personalized mail in senders labeled on the envelope in sender's handwriting and This is done by following a few requirements so one of one of them is acquire sample of the user's handwriting on on a tablet and It's acquired in a vectorized SVG format then extract individual letter or symbol SVG files small ones from each of those sample pages per user Then out of those compose arbitrary word SVG files and Make them look as if they're written by hand and finally Generate mail labels from those words sticking them together into multi-line multi word labels so first the acquisition of handwriting samples is Done on a tablet stills with or pen Every user gives one or more of those samples. They're saved as SVG files and This is an example of One of those so basically it's a standardized text that you every user decides what to write and It writes them. It writes that sample on several different pages. So to have base for comparison basically and each of those things are basically SVG the pen strokes are recorded individually in the SVG file as vectorized curves and This is for example, how it looks like one of the outputs of that process Which is a mailing label Done for force one of the users So Sorry the zooming is kind of Weird, so this is the generalized process. It's a multi-stage pipeline of sorts So it first starts with the parsing of the SVG sample page then enter pandas pandas is used to Read those in Present them in a tabular fashion In a data frame so they can be easily hand-off Then there is a letter extraction process which heavily uses pandas to extract individual strokes and combine them as they were on the page so that you can Come from single individual strokes to actual letters and Then reuse those Then there is a classification step which is done manually and Basically labels each of those extracted letters as a BC door sign and so on After we have this there is the word building stage where we select Letter variants for a specific word stick them together apply some alignment and so on and Finally, there is the labeling stage which is Producing labels out of those words and aligning them ready for printing so let's Look into the parsing first The problem is how to extract meaningful information from that XML SVG in Python and what I found is this excellent SVG path tools library Which has a lot to offer so it has a path base class And a few subclasses there like line cubic bezier a quadratic busy a and few other top-level utilities Each of those classes have rich API for path intersection calculating bounding boxes transformations scaling and all sorts of other things you can cut paths you can Like translate them and so And also it allows you to easily read and write lists of SVG paths into or from SVG files and also apply some like scaling and other things so And it just takes a single line. So this is basically an example of how How it is how easy it is to to get those paths from from a file and this SVG To paths takes a file name and a bunch of other optional arguments Deciding how to convert and what to convert so it converts everything to those three Primitives line cubic and quadratic busy a it handles arcs circles and all other things You know it converts them all into those And returns the list of path instances and a list of dictionaries which contain the extra XML attributes of each of the paths So once we have these This is the easiest and simplest way I found so We use Pandas data frame dot from records a class method which takes an iterable or in this case a generator of dictionary like objects with the same structure and In this case what I cared about is the actual Index of that path instance within the file and it's well It's a bounding box so the minimum and maximum horizontal and vertical coordinates that fully encompass that stroke and We get the structure that looks kind of like this then Onto the letter extraction so the problem is Quite computationally intensive if you address it from a knave You know Algorithm so you need to compare each stroke with all nearby strokes Which might have something to do with it and merge them together as letters And what I found is that using a data frame simple iteration and filtering Obey it over multiple passes. You can do that that easily and in quite quite quickly as well So the multiple passes are done by basically taking the data frame and Returning it modified along with two sets of indices one for merged paths and one for yet unmerged paths, which You can see here using the data frame. You can easily extract those And then the each of the steps which I'm going to show one of them Which is this merging the fully overlapping paths Basically, all of them look look like this. So we iterate over each over the data frame taking each path in sequence and then we Filter the data frame For example in this case all the paths that fully overlap their bounding box fully overlap with this current path We take this as candidates like a subset of the data frame Then we run run a fairly complicated merge procedure, which I won't show because it's like a Page and a half, but basically what it does it updates the data frame so that When you merge two paths, they have the same bounding box So updates the X min X max and so on of both to match the combined bounding box of both and Also updates those merged and unmerged Sets and returns the data frame and after each of those steps We run Update data frame step which calculates additional properties for each of the paths and since pandas allows this quite easily you can chain Assignments like this You know like for example calculating the width or the height of the bounding box the half width half height which is used in some of the merge steps also the area With with multiplied by height and the aspect we divided by height and finally we need to sort the values So that they come in kind of natural writing order top to bottom left to right So then once we have this we have a bunch of smaller files letter files, which we then Need to classify and this is a deliberately manual plot process as per the client requirements There is an external tool they used already for for this sort of thing. There is no pandas unfortunately So it loads the merged and unclassified letters and letter SVGs Shows them one by one to a human allows the human to align them, you know in the box of the letter for the background and Also allows them to label them like this is a door sign. This is an end capital A. This is a lower case L so on Once we have these we have labeled SVG letter files letter variants and then we come Down to the word building. So this is an example of an intermediate output of the algorithm, which is a debug version showing the letters their bounding boxes in green and the running baseline of the word which is The line along which all the letters are aligned. So it looks like they're written on the same line So it takes a single word as an input for example testing It does a selection process for for each letter Either sequentially or randomly with the seeds it picks a labeled variant for that letter Then does horizontal composition merging selected variants with variable kerning which is a typographical term for the spacing between the letters And then there is a vertical alignment step which According to the running baseline aligns Certain letters like for example g y and others too Are there up there either below the baseline or above the baseline as needed and Outputs a single SVG file for that word win the same Size so the label ink just to remind you how it looks Basically, it takes as an input an excel file with mail addresses No surprise here pandas works great with this. So the structure is one roll per label one column per line Is as simple as parsing using pandas read excel and The generation stage builds words with variable spacing one for each column and the alignment is done with so-called variable leading so the leading is the vertical equivalent of kerning so the spacing between the lines and That's it. Basically. So I think I should tell you what I learned from this process basically So pandas is great for any sort of table-based data processing. That was kind of an unexpected discovery for me So it might be intimidating at first if you haven't used it. There's what to read, but if you learn just a few things and start from there like filtering and iteration you can go a long way Also Take time to understand the indexing and the power of multi-index because that gives you the power to deal with multi-dimensional that that in a very Comprehensible way Then also, of course any time you need to deal with CSV or Excel Which is quite a pain. Otherwise with pandas is trivial and fast doesn't have to be, you know financial date or anything and Also dot the documentation is great. There is a lot to read. So it could be a bit confusing at first But I would suggest start with 10 minutes of To pandas, which is one of the main sections of the documentation There are also a lot of tutorials now a lot of cookbooks, you know Hands-on guides and it grew a lot. They were actually Recently a documentation sprints forced for pandas, which expanded up even further. So With that I have just one more thing to say Please consider buying West McKinney's book Python for data analysis because it's great and it will help you a lot with your journey into pandas and I'll be happy to take any questions Thanks very much. Are there any questions? We've got lots of time Sorry, I may ask a silly question. I know you said we need this panda To have you meet any I mean you in your practical user keys in your practical life Work, have you meet some the limitation of pandas? Oh, yeah Well, there are things quirks that you tend to learn to live with but you tend to overcome as well Like for example dealing with any sort of numerical data that can have gaps in it or possibly strings or anything Like they turn up as nans instead of you know something else So if you expect to get integers, you might get floats instead But yeah, that's yeah, the type converges one one thing another use case I Would like to rise to our community to to pay attention to is from my work a other case the data the data input we got is a Jay nice to the Jason Jason file is a Jason Jason Nice to the Jason string. So the pandas, you know, use pandas read Jason can only process one level Yeah, so I make it a very I haven't used it personally for Jason I think postgres is better for that if you can afford it. I mean if you can have it I was no, I mean my solution is I have to write my personal Library to process this one into a data frame, but that's quite a static So I was I was always thinking if the pandas can can absorb this feature basically he analysis the Jason's files Because the output always even it's nice to the Jason the output will be pandas will be pandas data frame So so I was thinking if it pandas can absorb the the feature basically and Firstly step one analysis the Jason fail to identify the you know, these like keywords you can do just the crunch and get the different Oh, it will be a proof improvement for Panace, but that is splendid. I agree My question is the limitation of the pandas Yeah, so I'm sure you can go a long way using pandas for some of some part of that process, you know reading the Jason the nested Jason And for sure if you can convert it to something more tabular You'll get a lot more out of pandas Are there any other questions? No, I hope you try it


Jake Paul and Erica Costell just broke up and in this video we're going to be talking about fake relationships, unrealistic expectations and how they're affecting your mental health. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. So no, I am not a drama channel but what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to help you improve your mental and emotional well-being.  So if you're into that kind of stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton, a ton of videos, alright? But yeah, for those of you who don't know what's going on, Jake Paul and Erica Costell broke up and I'm not here to talk about the rumors that this was a fake relationship and all of that but there are some topics that we need to discuss. So we're coming in off the heels of the Mind of Jake Paul series and I've done some videos about that. I've mentioned their relationship a little bit and just how Erica was made out to be this woman who was teaching Jake how to love again and all this other stuff and being held on a pedestal. But anyways, you can check out my Shane Dawson playlist if you want to get some more updates on that. But anyways, Jake Paul did put a note up on Twitter yesterday and a bunch of channels are covering it and he's saying, yo, we broke up. It's hard on both of us. Leave us alone. Right? Okay, cool. That's cool. But anyways, like there's some really valuable, valuable mental health stuff to talk about when it comes to relationships from this situation and I was actually inspired by two people. Yes. Two people. The first one being my man, Peter Mon. So if you don't know who Peter Mon is, he has like four or five YouTube channels. His biggest one is his drama channel. Right? If you like me, you'll like what he does if you haven't checked him out yet because he talks about problems, but he focuses on the solution. He's not just like all drama, like he gives his opinion and he and I have a lot of the same views on things. He's also someone who's in long-term recovery. He has way more time than I do. But anyway, some of you have asked me like, you know, my opinions or thoughts on Peter Mon. I love Peter. Has he screwed up? Yes. But I truly think that his heart is in the right place and he's always trying to learn and grow. But maybe it's just because I know a lot of people in recovery and I'm a little bit more empathetic to that. But Peter's a good guy. We talk in DMs and I love that dude. So that's my opinion. I'm not going to do a whole video about it. So the second person I'm going to shout out is Leslie. Leslie was talking to me on Twitter when I was saying that I was watching the new Peter Mon video about the Jake Paul and Erica Costell situation. So thank you, Leslie, because Leslie brought up a very good point about these unrealistic expectations. So here comes old man Chris real quick. And back in my day, we didn't have all the social media, but this is a fun fact about me. I used to be obsessed and I'm talking obsessed with romantic comedies. I would sit and watch romantic comedies growing up. I loved watching them as I got older. I turned into an alcoholic. I would get really drunk and watch romantic comedies. But what we're going to talk about today that is going to lead into modern times in social media. Well, romantic comedy still exists, but yeah. This is more relatable to social media. But anyways, what happens? And this is a huge issue. This is a huge issue because I want the the core idea of this video to be your unrealistic expectations. So when it comes to me watching rom-coms or even TV in general growing up, I was getting unrealistic expectations of what real relationships were like. Right. So when you watch romantic comedies, they always follow the same formula. Right.   I'm quirky, too. We have this in common. And then through some random like series of events, they run into each other. They follow them up. Then they get into a big fight. Then they make up and come back together and it ends. Right. And that's what I thought relationships should be like. Right. Like, you know, you'll have like a little, a little spat here and there.  Like something I thought about more as an adult and someone who's matured more emotionally and mentally is like, where are these people five years from now? Right. And it's kind of funny when you think about it and you look back at wrong comes, but I was brainwashing myself by setting up these unrealistic expectations about what relationships should be like. And it's screwed up a lot of my relationships moving forward. So now when we're looking at Jake Paul and Erica Costell in this YouTube age, in this social media age, like there's all this like hashtag relationship goals and stuff. And you have to realize you have to realize that you are only seeing the best, the best of what these people want to show you. Okay. Like Peter Mon brought it up in his video when he was talking about this. Like he was talking about how, you know, people are shocked or surprised or let down or whatever, because all they do is show you the best parts. Like I watch every episode of the Shane Dawson series, right? I don't watch Jake or Erica, but if you watch the Jake Paul series from Shane Dawson, like you see, it looks like this amazing, beautiful relationship, but clearly stuff was going on that we didn't know about. Right? Like in Jake's tweet, he said, we broke up a while ago. Like the Shane Dawson series just ended. So how long is a while ago? But not only when you're watching like YouTubers and their breakups, like think about what you're doing, like how depressed you are or how lonely you are when you're scrolling through Instagram, when you're scrolling through Facebook, like I don't think that social media is what's making people depressed. I think it's the way we look at social media, which is making us depressed. And you have to figure out, like when you're scrolling through Instagram, you're seeing all these happy couples and you're sitting there beating yourself up like, Oh, I wish I had a relationship like that. I wish I had this. I wish I had that. Like they're only showing you the best parts of themselves. And you have to remember that when you're going through social media. So when that depression kicks in, you have to realize that those are unrealistic expectations. And here is the best example I can give you. The best example I can give you. I had a really good friend that I worked with. Her and I, we worked together and then we ended up working in the same department and like, I forgot how we became friends, but we talked a lot. And she was dating this guy for about two years. But anyways, like she confided in me and, you know, told me about all their relationship problems and she knew I was in recovery. So a lot of times she was asking me like if he was an alcoholic, but every time we would go outside to have a conversation, like she would just tell me about their terrible relationship, just awful relationship, just how he's texting other girls and flirting with other girls and how he fights with her and gets mad at her for the dumbest things about how he's always angry, always in a bad mood. All sorts of things. Like she would just tell me just how terrible the relationship was. Like she would leave him on a regular basis and go stay with family. Or I think even one time she like rented a hotel for a week or two just to get away from him. Just all these things that she vented to me about. But when you went on social media, when you went on social media, like all it was was just every time they went out, how happy they were. Right? Every time they went out, it was these couples' goals. Every time they went out, it was how much she loved him and everything. I'm sitting there and it's just this is something that people do. And it really it really baffles me, but we're always trying to put on this facade. Right? I talk to you guys a lot about caring way too much about what people think. Like we try to put these things out here to make everybody think we're in this happy, perfect relationship when we're not. Right? And what ends up happening is we stay in toxic relationships way too long. We lie to ourselves, you know? And then there's people like you who are scrolling through social media wondering why you don't have that person, that perfect relationship. But I'm giving you a real life experience I've had where I knew what they were posting on social media was not the reality of the situation. So I want you to remember that as you're watching these couples or anything on YouTube, you know, some YouTubers have talked about like forced happiness and fake happiness. And like that's why I love YouTubers who just get real with you, who just get real because that's what real life is, is ups and downs. Like perfection should never be your goal in any situation. You should never try to make your relationships perfect. You should never try to make yourself perfect. Like just strive for better, right?   This is awful, right? Because movies, TV shows, social media, YouTubers, whatever, taught me that relationships were supposed to be perfect, but that's not the reality of the situation. So those of you who've been following me for a while, you know about my beautiful girlfriend, Tristan. And I talk about her a lot on here. I talk about a relationship. I don't talk about everything, but I think she's OK with me talking about this right now. So for example, Tristan and I are moving in a week. OK? And Tristan has her own anxiety. I have my own anxiety. Maybe we can do a video sometime about two anxious people making a relationship work and we love each other so much. But anyways, moving is stressful, like moving is stressful. If you've ever moved in your life, it's stressful. I used to move once a year, right? And now I've been in this place for, like, I think five years now. And now we're finally moving. We're getting our own place. It's supposed to be this happy event, but it's stressful, right? Transferring all the bills this morning. Tristan and I are talking about like moving stuff and packing stuff. And it's only a week away. And, you know, she is much more organized and structured than I am. I am a mess and chaotic and like I get things done, but not in that same organized way. And that's where her and I kind of, you know, we we butt heads a little bit, but this morning we had a great conversation and like, you know, we were we're both getting a little upset about the move and we're both stressed and like we we brought it back down and we compromise and we work with each other and we communicated, you know? And I want you guys to know about that stuff because that's the perfect relationship for me is Tristan and I are people, you know? We don't always agree. We don't like, man, some of the videos I put up, she completely disagrees with. You know what I'm saying? Like I take her opinion into account all the time and then we kind of find this happy medium ground. So I don't want any of you to ever look at like me and Tristan's relationship and say, it's perfect.  That's why I try to be real and honest with you guys. So anyways, the moral of this thing is look out for these unrealistic expectations that you're seeing on social media, that you're seeing on YouTube, if you're seeing in romantic comedies, whatever it is and lower your expectations, have realistic expectations. I swear to you, your relationships will get better. Your depression will start to calm down. If you're somebody who's single watching this, um, but like, please, please, please work on this and let me know, let me know down in the comments below, do you feel, do you feel that you have unrealistic expectations of relationships or life in general, just because of what you see on YouTube or on social media? Let's have a conversation down in the comments below. Okay. Or if you have a story that's similar to mine about my friend who was always having problems with her relationship, but then posted that everything was perfect online, maybe you've done it or you've had a friend who's done it. Like let's talk about it in the comments below. Okay. Anyways, that's all I got with this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You are all amazing. And if you would like to help me write a message of hope when it comes to mental health, you can click or tap on that Patreon icon right there and sign up for as little as $1 a month. All right. Thanks so much for watching. Have realistic expectations and I'll see you next time.


teacher's capability. This is the time to go down in Texas way before you were born. Okay, okay. And my mother, before she died. How old do I look? What's that judgment for? Well, my judgment is I'm 70. Okay, okay. That was when I was young. All right, all right. In no way are you that age. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. All right, so like I said, five-minute timer. Got a belief that any two people that have a conversation, is there anything that really motivates you? Anything you think is true? Anything you strongly believe? I strongly believe I need to turn down my email. Anything you want? Love your hair, by the way. That's such a great color. Thanks. Yeah. It would go with your pop there. Yeah, thought it popped today. Trying to decide, frankly, I'm working in a political campaign and I thought at first this must be what you were doing. Oh, no. And then I thought what a great pop idea. Oh, really? Okay. To engage people and talk to me about that campaign. So I'll probably take a picture of this before we're done. Sure, not a problem. But that's not really my agenda. I just wanted to see what you're up to. Go for it. I'm all for every political. As long as you're positive. No. I don't want to try politics. I've been dealing with politics all day. I know, right? I strongly believe that. Anything that you think is really should be everyone should do anything like that. Community, whether that's Lexington, the larger US or whatever community needs to I don't want to word this make a much greater priority in helping people uncover their innate abilities and help them develop those to their fullest. Whoa, that that is a mouthful. Yes, it is. It sounds like you, can I try to rephrase enough? Yeah, sure.  Well, they don't have to go out. They can do it in their family. They can do it in neighborhood. They can do it in their children's schools. They can do it in their church. Okay, okay. They can do it in a pub. They can do it in a bar. Although usually that doesn't work all around. You want to knock that out real quick? So the goal of this is just to have a chance to think about something that you strongly believe. So I guess, you mind telling me a little bit more about this? Why did you come into this belief or how did you get to here? I grew up in a family of people who were deeply religious. Okay. And they were also innately good teachers. Oh, really? Either one of them was a certified teacher, but they taught Sunday school and my dad coached anything they did. They were all about what can we do to help develop whoever just we're working with. Okay. They worked with interracial churches and helped developing their Sunday school teachers capability. This is a long time ago down in Texas, way before you were born. Okay, okay. And my mother before she died was... How old do I look? What's that judgment for? Well, my judgment is I'm 70. Okay, okay. That was when I was young. In no way are you that age. I appreciate it. Okay. You see what I look like when I don't shave. So... So I was going to say, my mother who'd studied a little Spanish worked at a migrant center where people came up to pick cotton and she went up there to help them learn English as a second language. Okay. That was when she was in her 60s. Sure. So that's the background I grew up with. And I have a degree in English in a minor in education, which I don't really use as a job anymore. But, you know, I think everybody needs to develop their capability like you're doing right now with this project. Why do you think that's important? And I normally gently challenge no matter what... Okay, no, that's okay. I don't feel that as a strong challenge. Why do you think that's important? Because I think there's a lot of neurobiology or more cultural biology that says this notion of survival of the individual. There's awful lot of other research that says we don't survive unless we survive collectively. Oh, interesting. Okay. Don't survive unless we survive collectively. Yeah. Yeah. Unless... Unless we survive in community. Okay. And I grew up in what started out to be a small town in Dallas and turned into a suburb. Sure. And this whole notion of what is a community is disappearing. And our community is do you believe the same thing I did? Yeah. That's not what it used to be. Okay. It used to be we live next door to each other when it was a small town where I grew up. If you did something wrong, your parents knew about it before you got home. You know what I'm talking about? So I grew up in a really small city. We're militaries and women around the place. But I had to move to a place where we're the only black family in the entire city town. There you go. And it kept me out of trouble because everybody knew who my mom was. And they'd be like, what's Tyrone doing here? You're supposed to be home, aren't you? Your mom's waiting for you. I was like, oh, sorry, I was trying to paint a wall. I was like, no, no, no, no. You go home. So yeah, you get that a lot. Yeah, we're into the military. So my mom and dad are both army. I got my family in the Navy, Air Force. I think Marines is the only ones that we aren't in. Well, sort of my family. My dad was in the Navy. My brother was in the Air Force. I've got a nephew who's at Fort Bragg right now, although his station is Fort Campbell, who's a black helicopter pilot. And, you know, they've moved around some in the military tries to create community for the people they're moving around all the time. Because if you're getting moved, it's hard to make new friends when you're grown up. Are you saying then that people who are living alone or solitary or more individual aren't living through their full potential? And is there any benefit at all to living by yourself or having a more of a solitary mindset? Could that be healthy for you? No, I'm not necessarily saying that I live alone. Okay. And I've lived alone for a long time, but I have a community. Okay. That's interesting. I have a family of choice. I have a family of birth in Texas and North Carolina. Okay. But I have a family of choice here of people that I've known for years. Okay. You know, if I got sick or years ago, I had a friend who had hepatitis C and died in the medicine and waiting for a liver transplant. We had a care group just like cancer patients do who went over there every day. Before she went into the hospital, we went to her house every day, prepared meals, helped do all that kind of stuff. Just like churches do still for many people, but a lot of people are on church these days or they go to a church where people don't routinely do that kind of stuff. What's your opinion of churches, by the way, or like churches that are out now? I think they're the good, the bad and the ugly. Good. You want to score that or what? Do you need to say more about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just a little bit. We still got some time. All right. I think they do provide a sense of community for a lot of people. Not everybody has a lot of churches you go in and nobody is too big. They don't know each other. Yes, you get that a lot too. I grew up in a church that was really heavy on doctrine.  That's kind of the negative side. Do you think it would be better to have, for example, in the church that you had just mentioned, the community outreach presence and maybe less of the doctrine or the doctoral dogmatic approach to thinking? Do you think they both need to be there or is one more important than the other? Well, you're asking somebody who does not go to that church anymore. Okay. So for me, and this is typical of my generation. I grew up in the 60s, early 70s. We tell you in the right. We're more about spirituality and the experience of spirituality than we are about the doctrine. Okay, very cool. And I have, you know, I've done some practice on meditation and some other things that are away. I mean, I believe that there's something bigger than we are. I believe that there's some way to tap into that. You could do that in music. You can do it in sports. Some people have a Zen experience doing sports. You can do it sitting down and playing the piano.  Is that something bigger, the community, or is it more of like an agent that's like controlling things? I think it's both. Oh man, that's so interesting. And I don't know whether it's controlling that my sense is that something bigger is whatever the life principle is in the universe. What's, what is, I don't know what that means. What's life principle in the universe? Sorry, we are out of time. So anytime you want to go, just totally fine. You want to do five more? I can do as much time as you're willing to go. Okay, that's fine. But life principle of the universe, could you? I don't believe in a totally mechanistic, I don't believe it's just, well, let me start at the beginning. Okay. Um, whatever is here had to come from somewhere. Okay. It's hard to imagine coming from somewhere without some sort of first cause. Okay, yeah, I know it's hard to think that, yeah. Okay, so to me first cause is that whether it's a being, whether it's an entity, an organizing principle, or whatever, could it be, could it be God, whatever, whatever term you want to use for that? Is it okay if it's something that we just don't know yet? Absolutely. Whether it's an agent or not an agent, it could just be an unknown. Oh yeah, I mean it's sort of like if you go back and look at how ancient people would describe God or what we thought about how the universe works, they didn't know as much as we do, so they define things differently. Right. We don't ever, we don't have a, we don't know everything there is to know. It would be nice if we did, maybe you'd kind of scare you. Not certainly not as interesting. But you know we're still learning and our whole vision of how the universe works and all that stuff may change. But go back to the one principle is I work a lot with healthcare and there's a lot of research that says people who are disconnected and whether that's living alone or whether you can have a lot of married people who are disconnected. Yes. They live in the same house and they're not connected. Yep. If they are emotionally disconnected they're more likely to have physical health problems and then we're likely to have mental health problems and then we're likely to die prematurely. Even if they are in the same house they can still have that. Oh yeah, that same house can create a lot of stress. Oh, that's true too. Yeah. Okay. All right.  Are you taking a course or is this just... It's a personal hobby. Can I ask just one last question? So with regard to like the life principle and like the meditation, okay just a quick summary. I think it's really cool how you have like this motivating belief that makes you want to go out and help people and like connect with each other and that this idea of like this greater community that you can like tap into and get energy from. That's really, really inspiring. I hope you keep that up. Thank you very much. Do you want to take a picture of this set up? Yes, that's okay. Yeah, go ahead. I'm vacating this chair. He's not trying to convince me to do anything. He's just... He's not. No, we just had a chat. No, we just had a chat now. No, no, no. Yeah, you can talk about anything. I didn't even get your name. I feel so bad.


Welcome to Adventures in Small Business, a collaborative effort by the U.S. Small Business Administration Hawaii District Office, the Hawaii Small Business Development Center, the Mink Center for Business and Leadership, and the Veterans Business Outreach Center of the Pacific to showcase stories of local entrepreneurs and small businesses. I'm Colleen Macaluni from the Patsy T. Mink Center for Business and Leadership, and today we have Liberty Peralta from Papokian Tea. Welcome. Hi, thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for being here. Really appreciate it. Yeah, of course. So let's get started and tell us about your business and how it got started. Sure. So I visited several cat cafes. I used to travel a lot for both for work and for pleasure, and this was sort of in between, this is before I got my cat that I have now, and I had actually heard about cat cafes from a former boss. He had supported a Kickstarter campaign for a cat cafe that's now in Washington D.C. So that's how I initially heard about the concept, and then I got curious and visited a bunch up and down, like LA, Seattle, Portland, and just really like the concept of using a business to also help promote some sort of social cause, and that causes for animals and animals can't speak for themselves. So that really, I really spoke to me as someone that grew up, I grew up in Waianae, and my dad, my dad had all these animals. So from a young age, I was just used to having animals around me. And the thing was we never really had cats growing up, and through the influence of my boss and just other friends that liked cats, I was like, oh, like cats are actually really cool. And going to these cat cafes kind of helped solidify that, and then I just thought like, oh, it'd be really cool to open one here. So I kind of came back from my traveling and did a bunch of research, reached out to other cat cafe owners, and kind of picked their brains a little bit about running a cat cafe. Oh, terrific. So can you explain what the concept is? Yeah, I was just going to say, I should probably explain what a cat cafe is. So a cat cafe is, so picture a regular cat cafe. Starbucks likes to use the phrase third place. It's sort of a place that's not work and not home.  So you take the concept of a cafe and you add cats to it. So a lot of cat cafes in the US have a separate room where cats that are available for adoption are in this particular, it looks like a cat lounge where people can pay a cover fee and hang out with cats. And the idea is it's, there are several purposes for this. The idea is to kind of alleviate shelters or fosters from taking care of these cats and having them in this sort of third place. And that way they can intake more animals because there's always going to be a need for, I guess, houseless animals. It's a revolving door, right? So if we can help alleviate some of that and also provide a place for people to socialize, then it's sort of a win-win for everybody. Right. Yeah. So does your cafe, will your cafe, follow that model? Yes. Of having the separate lounge, cat lounge. Yes. Yeah. And it's to hang out with the cats. Yeah. And part of the reason for that too is because it's also to comply with the permanent health regulations because they don't want animals intermingling with where food is being prepared. When you go to other countries, particularly in Asia, it's kind of a free-for-all where the cats are just all over the place. But in the U.S., it's a little different. Yeah. Okay. So separate area for the cat lounging and separate area for the cafe. Right. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's fantastic. Yeah. So okay. So now we know what motivated you. So you have a love of animals? I do. Yeah. And it was instilled in me from very young. Again, like because I grew up in sort of a rural area and my family just always had animals around. So I think and I think also introducing kids to animals, it kind of teaches them a lot of things. It teaches them empathy and learning how to think outside of themselves. And I think it helps develop good citizens of the world. So that's kind of one of the things that I hope to accomplish with Papukinti. Sure. Understanding that others than themselves need caring. Right. Oh, okay. Okay, great. And then so explain your business model at the moment, your current business model. Right. Yeah. So actually, so Papukinti has been operating as a pop-up for the last year and a half. We started doing pop-ups in June 2018, primarily in Kaimuki because I as a cat owner, I have one cat and she has needs. She has, you have to feed her. Yes. So I'm a customer of this pet supply shop in Kaimuki called the public pet. Okay. And we had started talking. This was very early on a couple of years ago when I was still thinking about this idea.  And Jordan, the owner just like love the idea because his pain point was his dog adoption events are very successful, but he had a really hard time with cat adoption events. And kind of attaching sort of this cat cafe concept to it, I think really resonated with people. So when we started doing the pop-ups at his space, I think it we kind of found sort of an untapped audience.  And yeah, it's another sort of win-win situation. Right, right. Well, that's so nice that you've been able to collaborate with another small business owner in helping both his business and in getting your business up and running and off the ground. Yeah, for sure. And it's part of a community, right? So I live in Kaimuki too. And when you're part of a community, you just kind of want to see everyone all succeed. And he's a friend too, I consider him a friend. So yeah, just kind of everyone's boats are a float. Yeah, that's fantastic. So when you're at the public pet, how do you handle the cafe? Are the cats are there with everybody? Or is there a separate area? Yeah, so that was sort of one of the things we had to figure out in the beginning was it wasn't like how a permanent cafe would have two separate rooms because a public pet is one big room, right? One big shop. So the way that we do it at the pop-ups is we have the kittens in an area in the back and we have we have them in like small kennels in the back and people can kind of like take them out and pet them or like carry them around. Right. And for us on the food and beverage side, we actually prepackage all of our cookies and our tea. So that was sort of our way of getting around that because the Department of Health just really doesn't want like any food prep happening when there's cats around. Sure. Yeah. Sure. So okay, so why don't you explain the food cafe section of your Papokian tea? Oh yeah, sure. What do you offer? Yeah, so we specialize in milk tea and Bulba tea. And the reason for that was just because I have just like a genuine love for milk tea and Bulba tea. And I also felt like there weren't a whole lot of other cat cafes that we're doing that we're that we're focusing on that product offering. A lot of them that exist kind of focus on just the traditional, you know, primarily coffee. Oh, but also we have a small tea menu. And I've always been more of a tea person anyway. So it just kind of made sense to go that direction. Oh, definitely. Yeah. And there also seems to be sort of this small subculture of people that really like cats and Bulba tea.  It is. Yeah. It is. It's very cute. And your logo is adorable. Yeah. Yeah. I made this actually in PowerPoint, I think. Yeah. Excellent. That's great.  Yeah. Figure it out, right? Right. So how often are you doing the pop ups than at public pet? So only at public pet right now? Yeah. For the most part, we did. We did a couple of others at this other Kimuki business called 10 Tomorrow, which is a boutique because the owner Summer really loves cats. She has two cats of her own. And so we also tried out pop ups there too. And the advantage to doing it at her space was she had separate rooms. Oh, okay. So we were able to experiment with that model, like a traditional cat cafe model. But yeah, we primarily do them at the public pet just because we kind of want to, well, there's several reasons we want to help them out. They've been such a great partner. And also kind of getting people used to the idea of coming to Kimuki and coming to the public pet because the space that we've since secured is actually right next door. Oh, okay. So brick and mortar. Yeah. Oh, congratulations. That's fantastic. Yeah, thanks. Yeah. Super exciting. So you're already making that transition then from pop up to a brick and mortar store. For sure. Yeah. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah. And so maybe share with us a timeline on that if you know it. Yeah, sure. So we're still finalizing the blueprints for it. And it still has to go through the whole permitting process. So we're hoping sometime in early 2020, we'll open. Never know how long that's gonna take. Yeah. Right. Oh, that's thrilling. Oh, thanks. That is fantastic. Yeah. So you had mentioned that you had visited other cat cafes along the West Coast. Yeah, primarily. And are there, so I wanted to ask you a couple questions about competition. So what would your competition be in Hawaii? I kind of look at the competition as everything that a person can do in their spare time because, I mean, our offering is an experience. Right. And in Hawaii, the challenge is how can we convince people to come to our cat cafe instead of staying at home or going to the beach or, you know what I mean, there's so many things that you can do on this island. I think in terms of direct competition, there is another cat cafe in Kapahulu. Oh, okay. So but yeah, I just, I was kind of thinking about this the other day because there's this book called Blue Ocean Strategy, maybe you've heard of it, but it talks about sort of the difference between a red ocean strategy when companies kind of operate within the competitive set that already exists. So like, take for example, hotels, we're all competing against each other within a framework that they all know, versus operating with a blue ocean strategy, which is which is focusing not so much on beating the competition because there really is no such thing as beating the competition because success is temporary. Really, it becomes more about what what what value do you offer to the market? And how can you be the best version of that? And what are your what is your mission? What do you want to bring to this world? And I think that kind of sets businesses that do that kind of set themselves apart. Like then the then the competition becomes irrelevant because now people are just gravitating toward you because they're into your into you. Yes.  Right, right. Yeah, that's really an interesting take on on competition and dealing with your own business and not having a negative, not necessarily negative, but more of like you're saying that competitive feeling, but worrying just more about yourself and your business, how it's doing. And then also you've already started collaborative relationships with with similar type businesses, which is fantastic. Yeah. I mean, again, it's it's a community and you want to you want to see other people in your community succeed, right? Right. And you know, I mean, any cat cafe that exists now or will exist in the future has the same goal of eventually finding these cat's homes. Right. So it feels kind of silly to be like, I'm going to beat that. You know, it's kind of it kind of is a small game to play right when it really should be about how can we offer the best experience for for the people that come in. Oh, definitely. And I'm sure it's an amazing experience. Yeah, for sure. Okay, well, we're going to go to break now.  And it's really sweet. Yeah. It's fantastic. Anyway, thank you so much. And we'll be right back. You should watch Talking Tax with Tom. And this is Tom. This is Tom Yamachiki, president tax foundation of Hawaii. And we meet every couple of weeks, we talk about tax tax policy. What else do we talk about Tom? Well, you asked me a whole bunch of hard questions. I want that. Yeah, that's what we do. We recover tax fiscal policy, economics, 101, 102. We try to explore how the state works economically and in terms of fiscal policy and in terms of tax. And if you don't think that affects you, look again. Okay, Tom Yamachika and me I'm Jay Fidel talking tax with Tom every couple of weeks. Watch our calendar. You'll see us. Aloha. Aloha. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of think tech Hawaii's law across the sea program. My program airs every other Monday at one o'clock on think tech Hawaii. Most of my programs deal with my own life and law experience. Recently I interviewed Alex Gempel, who I have known for over 30 years about his voyage across the sea as a lawyer from Tokyo to Hawaii. Those are the type of stories that I like to bring and like to talk about human stories about law and life. Aloha. Welcome back to Adventures in Small Business. Today we have Liberty Peralta from Papoke and Tea joining us to share about her pop ups seem to be brick and mortar store. Yeah, yeah, congratulations. So we're going to take a look at some photos of Papoke and Tea. We'll see her logo here. Great. Yeah. Was there some kind of inspiration behind the logo? I know I wanted to keep it simple and shapes. I mean, like all the very iconic logos that are out like Apple's logo or Nike's logo, they're very simple. And so I that was basically what I was going for. And also I didn't have all the fancy tools. I literally like designed that in our point. So it was like a circle and two triangles. Yeah. Oh, it's really cute. Yeah. Okay, great. And then there's some photos of the of a kitten. Yeah, that's actually from our second pop up, I think. Yeah. So he's one of the very first kittens that were adopted. And his name was Luigi. And those are the teas that we sell at our pop ups. We bottle them. So do you usually have four flavors? Yeah, usually at the pop ups, we have we have one or two sort of plain tea options, because not everyone likes milk tea. Right. And we have a couple of milk tea flavors as well. And we kind of switch them should switch them out depending on like the season. So right now we have a it's November. So we have a pumpkin spice latte. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's great. So we'll have that actually at our next pop up. Okay. On a Saturday, November 30, which is actually the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Small business Saturday. Small business Saturday. So Kaimuki is going to have a lot of things going on as part of that. But one of the one of the things that people can do is come to our cat cafe pop up at the public pet. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So let's see, there's a couple more photos. I think there's oh yeah, that's it one of is that at the public that actually is. So I wanted to kind of show people what my vision was for the cat lounge. And so my friend who has a photography studio in Kailua, she set up this whole photo shoot for me. Oh, nice. And that was one of the pictures from. Oh, that's great. Yeah, that's cute. And then let's see, there's one more, I think. Oh, there you go. This is from the, it was either from the first or second pop up. Okay. Sometimes have lines that look like that. Oh, wow. Because we only let impressive. Yeah. We only let a certain number of people in the shop at a time. You don't want to scare the animals. You don't want to scare the cats. Yeah. It can get overwhelming. So we let about 15, 20 people in the shot at a time. Yeah. That's good. That's why the line. Right. Well, and you must have some boba followers also. Yeah. Some tea fall. Yeah, we do. Yeah. That's great. That's ingenious. I love that. Oh, thanks. Fantastic. I'm a lover of both. So yeah, for me, it works great. Yeah. Okay. So let's talk about your affiliation with any of the SBA partners. Oh, yeah. Maybe how, if any of those services helped you to get your business started. Oh yeah, of course. So, so the very beginning. So I was talking about how I was talking to other cat cafe owners. And one of them in particular was very helpful gave me an outline of basically like a roadmap of what I should do. And one of the things that he stressed was, take, if you can, take a local workshop or class about how to start a business. If you've never done this before, because they did the same thing and it was invaluable. Like you couldn't stress enough how invaluable it was. Right. And that's actually what led me to go on a search engine and look up what offerings we had here in Honolulu. And that's how I found Launch My Business, the program that, so it's a program that the Patsy Teemink Center at YWCA downtown has. Yeah. And at the time, it was a seven week program. Right. And it's, yeah, it's like a crash course on how to start a business. Oh, good. Terrific. Yeah. It was very helpful because I don't know how I would have done this without it because, again, it gave me a roadmap. Structure on the path. Yeah. Because otherwise, I'd be like, okay, I file this paper and then I file this paper and then like what order do I do this in? And that program really nicely. And it kind of went in depth with each section. So that was good. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. And then now you're currently working with another partner? Yeah. So now I've been working with the Small Business Development Center in Manoa. And Lori Hiromatsu has been my counselor. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. I actually just met with her and she's also really good about giving me some structure. Well, you're moving into a big phase of your business development now with the build out. Yeah. So I'm doing things like financial projection. So I actually already had that as part of my business plan when I was working with Launch My Business. Yes. But updating it and she's also having me create sort of a mock-up employee schedule. Like how do I envision? Because that'll help determine how many people I need to hire. Of course. And then how much that's going to affect your timeline too. Exactly. Oh, terrific. Yeah. Oh, I'm so glad that you're getting resources that can help you. Oh, yeah. And that are affordable. Right. Right. Exactly. So yeah. That's fantastic. The Small Business Development Center and the Mink Center for Business and Leadership. Yeah. Oh, yay. Yeah. Oh, I'm excited to watch your growth and expansion and to see the fruits of all your efforts because that's a lot of hard work. It is. It is. Yeah. So in this process, do you have any takeaways or any insights for people who are considering starting a business or who are maybe in the same situation you are in a growth phase of really getting their business up and running? I would say for people who are thinking about starting at maybe do some research, talk to some people, see if it's a viable concept. Maybe test it out and sort of that's actually another reason why we did the pop-ups because we wanted to test the market out and see if there is even a demand for this. Right. And clearly that photo of the people standing in line. Yes. There is a demand for cats and teens. Yeah. Because I think one thing, if I could do this whole thing over again, I think I waited kind of a long time. I spent a lot of time kind of hemming and hawing about, oh, should I do this? I'm not sure. I don't know if this is what I want to do. And it took me a while to be, okay, just talk to people and get outside of your own head. Is that after you had visited the cafes and it was an idea in your head? Yeah. Oh, okay. You already had the idea but it was just taking that next step. That's a frightening step. It is. It is. Because it makes it more real. Right. Exactly. Right. So it took you a little time before you set up the appointment to come and see what services or even look it up. Yeah. Or even just like talk to other people that own businesses too. I mean, that also really helps me. Because yeah, it wasn't without reason, right, the whole indecision part of it. Because it is a huge step. Yes. But other people have done it. So it's not impossible. It's just a lot of work to get there. And a lot of it takes a lot of mental grit too.  Because I think sort of even a version of myself a couple of years ago, I think I needed to develop that strength. Because you come across a lot of things that get frustrating. And you kind of have to learn how to keep going and find that strength within yourself. Build up a network of people that you can reach out to for help. Your support group. Right, exactly. Because it's not easy. No, it's not. I'm a small business owner. I think I say that on every show. It's so hard. It's 24-7. Right? And then once you have a actual brick and mortar in a retail location. Oh yeah, that's a whole other beast. It's another level of commitment. Right, exactly. For sure. Yeah. Oh, amazing. Yeah. All right, let's see. What else have we got? So your vision of success. Oh, okay. What do you see maybe short and long term? Well, short term. I mean, I think the overall goal again is to help find permanent homes for more cats. Because the more that we can do that, the more cats that are non, so we partner with a nonprofit. That's where we get the cats. I should have mentioned that earlier. Yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah. So the nonprofit that we work with is called Cat Charities. And they're based in Pearl City. They're foster-based, meaning that they have a network of fosters that take care of cats that have either been rescued or abandoned out of their private homes. And so they're developing a system where the cats will be spayed, neutered, de-flea, deworms, basically prepping them for adoption for the cafe. Oh, wonderful. So that's how taking care of by the time they would come to you. Exactly. Oh, that really, I think, increases the likelihood of the cats being adopted. Right. I mean, it's also you, again, that goes back to having, building the best experience for your guests too, because no one wants, you know, you want to play with clean cats that have been taken care of, right? So that kind of fits into that too. Sure. Yeah, right. But we actually already do that with the pop-ups, but it's just another kind of step for the permanent cat cat. Right. So that's what we work with, because people sometimes ask me like, oh, do you foster all these cats in your house? And I'm just like, have you seen my, I live in a 400 square foot studio, like I can't have 10 cats in my house. No, I don't do that. Yeah. No, but that's also, that's an important part of your business. Right. So it's great for people to know right, you know, how the cats have been so well cared for, and where they're coming from. And it's also, again, helping another nonprofit or another organization that's already doing this work and giving them a public platform, because the thing with these foster-based organizations is they don't have a shelter that, where they can showcase these animals that are being taken care of. Right. Because they're being fostered out of homes. Right. So you're giving them a place. Right. Exactly. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah. And so let's see, we're going to wrap it up just a little bit. So maybe what's your, where do you see yourself in five to 10 years? Oh, right. So find as many homes that are committed to giving the best life possible for the cats that are in our cafe or at our events. It would be great if we could adopt out hundreds of them, maybe even hit a thousand at some point. And you've hit, what, right now? So right now we're at about 80 kittens, and we started doing these monthly pop-ups in June of 2018. Right. So it's been a year and a half. Oh, that's fantastic. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. It's pretty good. Yeah. And then are you hoping for multiple locations or right now it's just focused on the one kind of key location? Yeah. Right now, right now I want to, we haven't opened, we haven't opened the first one yet. So I want to make sure that the first one succeeds before looking at expansion, but. Excellent. Excellent small business sense there. Yeah. Yeah. That's fantastic. Yeah. Oh, great. Yeah. Well, I want to thank Liberty for being here today and sharing her story with us about Papoke and Tea. So please be sure and visit her store, her pop-up store at Public Pet and Chime Key on Small Business Saturday, November 30th. And then also, I just want to mention, I always like to plug our Shop Small Hawaii. So Shop Small Hawaii is an initiative to help support small businesses. Papoke and Tea is a registered small business, and we help small businesses through workshops, promotions, and also promotions through our Instagram. So please be sure and support a small business on Shop Small Saturday and actually throughout the whole holiday season and the year. So Shop Local and Shop Small. And then one other thing that we're doing now is we have, we actually have a small business collaboration with Rapoli and Punky Aloha. And they created a wrapping paper for Shop Small Hawaii this year that is three sheets of paper, $10. It's a wonderful way to help support our initiative to support small business. So thank you so much for joining us today. Of course, thanks for having me. Thank you so much, Liberty. And we look forward to seeing you next month on Adventures in Small Business.


Meanwhile, the tussle between the federal government and doctors seems to be getting worse as the Association of Resident Doctors has erected its lawyers to appeal a ruling ordering its members to return to work. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by North President Dr Ilawa Oyakusuyi and the Union Secretary-General Dr Jerry Ishogun on Friday. The doctors said they have begun the process to appeal the ruling.


Wow. What's up, guys? We're back with another epic video. Today I'm going to be showing you guys a collection that I bought that's all old school sealed Yu-Gi-Oh products. So it's going to be pretty cool, but first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these three cards. We have DD Warrior Lady, Necro Valley, and Free the Matches General. This is a near-met first edition, by the way. So like the video, be subscribed, and leave a comment down below what your favorite item is that I bought, and let's get into it. Let's start off with the box over to the side. It is fairly large, so I'm going to open it over here and show you guys the products one by one. Okay, first item. Oh, this didn't even realize that this was in here. We have a instructional CD video Yu-Gi-Oh when complete Exodia set. Wait, really? Exclusive review, English Labyrinth and Eimer set. Is that the Exodia set? Doesn't look like a real Exodia set to me. World's best price guide. Oh, we can see if there's prices in here. That's actually always fun to see. Let's see if I can find anything. Editor's letter. Very cool. Cool to see that. Oh, look, Jim and I. This is OCG stuff. Wow. Let me back this up a little bit. There we go. Very cool. Swordsman of the Land stuff. So yeah, it's a little end of First Edition English. Humanoid Worm Drake is actually very hard to pull, which is kind of weird. There's the stuff, the two secret rares, 17 rares, 10 super rares, 10 ultras, all that stuff. It is always kind of weird that they did the same number of ultras and supers. I guess to make them more rare kind of makes sense. Where's the price guide? Enter to win five pieces of Exodia. Should we do that, guys? That's such a cool giveaway actually. You could win an entire Exodia set back then. I'm sure like kids would have loved that if you won that. Maybe we should send it in and see if we can still win. Send it over to New York. Somebody would get that like whoever has that sweet now and be like, uh, oh, here it is. So it was unlimited LOB. That's still amazing though. That would be pretty awesome. That's the five pieces. Winning a duel. There's the basics. Where's the prices? All right, here we go. Here's some prices. First Edition Starter Deck. Is that Yugi? Yeah, the Yugi Starter Deck. $30. Was it really that much? I guess at this point maybe. I thought it was like 20 or 10 on the shelves. There's a Kyber Starter Deck. There's only one. Well, the Blue Eyes was $28 back then. Blue Eyes, White Dragon SDK First Edition, 28 bucks. I missed those days. Here's Legend of Blue Eyes. Let's see if we can find the Blue Eyes, White Dragon. It was $45. This is actually really good price data for a video that I'm working on. Wow. $45 for LOB First Edition. So it was more than the SDK at that point, which is interesting. All right. That's really cool. Let's not take too long on that, but that's really awesome to see that stuff. Next up we have, oh, what is this? Some stacks, Yugi Opax. Oh, wait. I think these are the ones that John has been opening, the House of Champs. Yeah. Okay. I got to send him these. Oh, no. Maybe it's not these. I can't remember. I can't remember. Yeah. I don't know. He would enjoy this though. I'm going to send him a picture of that. That's pretty cool. Then we have a very cool First Edition Starter Deck Kyber Evolution. This came out in 2004. It does have the Kaiser C or such a weird choice for a cover card. Still really cool. In ancient Egypt, there existed a force so powerful. It had to be locked away for millennia. Now, one boy has released the power. It's time to duel. Yeah. So this Starter Deck, there are a few Starter Decks in here. I think they're going to be for sale on ruxam34.com. So I'm going to have put them up before the video comes out. So if they're still there, go check out ruxam34.com if you want to buy them. Next, we have a Geofreed, the Iron Knight. That's actually a very cool tin. If this was Gendo, it would be insane. But Geofreed's still really cool. Inside you can get, of course, the five packs, Legend of Blue Eyes, Metal Raiders, Magic Ruler, Pharaoh's Servant, and Labyrinth of Nightmare. This is 2003-10. Very, very nice. All right. What else? We have a, oh, first edition, Ferranic Guardian blister pack up top. It's a little bit, but, you know, it's pretty tough to keep those things in nice condition, especially for like, what, 19 years at this point? Yeah, it's pretty tough. First edition, Ferranic Guardian. Very cool. There's that Hell Palmer on the back. Man, I just love these old school blisters.  You're like, Mom, please, please let me buy it. And she's like, no, you're like, well, okay, maybe next time. See if I can do this without damaging anything. And then we have, speaking of Ferranic Guardian, a first edition, I don't know if this, yeah, this is hobby because it would have 36 and be retail. Yeah. Hobby first edition booster box. Very cool. Pretty underrated set from the originals.  First edition, Ferranic Guardian booster box. Either going to sell this or do a box break. I'm not sure what we're going to do with that yet. I'm not sure. Maybe I'll hold on to it. I don't even know. Here are some loose packs. So here we have, speaking of Ferranic Guardian, another first edition loose pack. So for the loose stuff, I'm going to be opening these for sure because I don't, you know, they could be weighed or something. So I'm just going to open them myself and it would be a fun video. Look, this used to be $399. Keep that in mind. That is insane. Then we have a $499 first edition Labritha Nightmares. They like that more. Here's an unlimited. We have a $499 L.O.B. Pack and a $499 L.O.B. Pack. Both original print unlimited, beautiful. An original print. Metal Raiders unlimited and an unlimited Legacy of Darkness. So that's going to be fun to open up those at some point in a video. Let me know in the comments if you want to see that. Then we have what feels like another starter deck. We have, yeah, we have the one with the Blackluster Soldier Ritual card. This card is really cool. They picked a much better cover card for Yugi. Unfortunately, his, his hair got a little damaged there, but this is still a really cool starter deck. Very, very cool.  Then we have what appears to have fallen apart in transit, a Ferranic Guardian two-pack blister. So this is like one of those fake blister packs where it's from like Target or something. So it fell out of this, it looks like, which is probably was going to open this anyway. So it's not the biggest deal in the world, but it's very hard to ship these blister packs and like have them not get damaged. So I guess we're going to, at this point, just open up the other one. It's going to be a little painful. Let's do it. Oh, it's already coming apart. Okay. All right, let's just do that. So we do have a couple of more first edition Ferranic Guardian. Those will be fun and potentially in a video. That's not all of the loose packs. We have a few more epic ones. Magician's Force first edition. Yeah, we're talking about first edition Magician's Force. Three packs could have some amazing cards inside. I don't know if they're hobby or retail. I'll have to check the IPC later. But either way, they're going to be cool to open at some point because, as I said, loose packs. We're probably going to open them up if you guys want to. Oh, wait, one more. We have another Labyrinth of Nightmare first edition. Very cool. And then we have some, is this cards? We have some McDonald's cards. You guys know I love these. Gravekeepers assailant. These old school slaves. You remember these? It made your card look like a starlight. Let's see if any of these things are like worth anything. It looks like all Commons right now, St. Joan. Jowg in the spiritualist school. Rejuvenation. That was actually worth something for a little bit. And yeah, nothing. Oh, last turn, there's a card. First edition, LOD last turn. Let's check out the condition on it. Shockingly pretty good condition actually. That one sounds worth a couple bucks. Oh, wait, somehow I passed this. There was a first edition Tunesum and Skull in there. It's a little, it's definitely warped. Has some damage on the top. But either way, wow, that is very warped. It's got a little damage. Yeah, that looks like an old school, old school collection card for sure. But still a nice card. I didn't even know that was in here. Oh, these are awesome. The old school duelist card protectors. Look at these. These are the old school sleeves. Yeah, these bring back some serious memories. Official Konami sleeves, I guess. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, that is amazing. Then we have a couple of these. We've seen something similar to this before. Two-pack Yu-Gi-Oh Magician's Force third party blisters. So it looks like there's two MFC packs in there. Are there any bonus cards or anything? Two-pack Excel marketing. So it's the same ones you did, the single pack. That is very cool. So we've got a couple of these. I don't know what we'll do with these. It's tempting to open them for sure. Then we have some more sleeves. It looks like, yeah, these are the shiny ones. These were used, I guess, so they were opened up. Then we have an unlimited starter deck, Pegasus. This is always the deck that I love. This is the one that I, one of the ones that I got, because I was like, oh my gosh, look in there. It's the Relinquish. That card's amazing. Do you watch the show? I always thought this was a really cool deck, so it's awesome to get this one in this collection. I think this is the last of the packs. We have Pharaoh Servant Unlimited, more pharaonic. We've got a lot of pharaonic guardian going here, so that's pretty cool. More of this. The Grocery Store had them for $3.99. I wish that was the case still. More pharaonic guardian. Wow, we are going to have some pharaonic guardian fund. That's for sure. And one more Magician's Force. Very, very cool. So a lot of this stuff is based around 2003, so it looks like that's when this was collected. And speaking of our favorite set, Pharaonic Guardian. We've got a couple more of these blister packs. These are, this one's actually in very good condition. This one's got a little bend on it. Let's see how much it was. $3.99 at KB Toys. Wow. Talk about a throwback, a $3.99 set pack. There even is a Millennium Puzzle. Check that out. Dark Magician 3 out of 6. That's pretty cool. That thing's like heavy duty. It's not a very janky little thing. It looks like definitely a kid's at some point. More blister packs to come. It looks like we do have pharaonic guardian again, but then we have Dark Crisis, which is pretty cool. Another 2003 set. It looks like this is the latest set so far. Very nice looking blister packs. Oh, you love to see these blisters. So nostalgic, like insanely nostalgic. All right. There's some stuff going everywhere. We've got a couple more Dark Crisis, which is pretty cool.  This one has tape on it. So that's kind of interesting. Here's a few random cards. Witty Phantom, Deanne Keto, and Maneater Bug. Classic SDY cards. Oh, no. We have another casualty. Invasion of Chaos has been falling apart, but this is a first edition pack. So it looks like we will be opening at some point. This is going to be a pretty crazy opening or openings once we do these. That's going to be pretty fun. So, Rip, this seems like it was like, was this third party? It looks like Yu-Gi-Oh! Interesting, but it's not like the original blister. Guaranteed to contain one, and so that's what the three additional cards came from. Okay, this was repackaged by SNB Collectibles. So we haven't heard of that one before. So it looks like SNB Collectibles made this blister. So it was not originally Konami or Yu-Di or anything like that. And the final items we have are a first edition LOD blister pack from K&B Toys for $3.99, man. K&B Toys.  I mean, it's kind of what Leonhardt's idea with first thing was, which is pretty cool, but dang, this is crazy. All right, Ferranic Guardian again.  That's very nice. So those sealed Ferranic Guardians are probably going to go up on the website because we have a bunch of loose ones we're going to open up. I think the sealed ones are better kept for collection, etc. So we're not going to like ruin them or anything, even though I tend to do that. Another K&B Toys one. Very nice Legacy of Darkness. We have a lot of Legacy of Darkness too, but still really fun. And finally, we have a three pack trading card games pack, $11.91 for it looks like three first edition invasion of Chaos. That is a really awesome blister pack. Probably going to open that one. All right, that's it for this collection. Some really awesome sealed product. A ton of it will be open on the channel. Some will be on ruxon34.com, etc. If you guys want to see openings for that stuff, make sure to let me know in the comments. If you enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe for more epic content. Shout out to CCGTrustGards. TomFo Show. It's made of you, Stanley, Mike, Nance, Mivick, Echo. It's made by Fr.G Grader, Daxter, Ian, Musa, and Junior Barting. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. And I'll see you guys next time. Peace.