Welcome back to the two-wheel revolution here on thinkdeck.com. I'm Peter Rossick. Today we are going to continue our discussion of electric bicycles with somebody who really knows what he's talking about for a change, an author, a blogger, and an avid electric bike rider. His name is Dave Hogan. And he's talking to us from Florida, but he's got fingers in all over the country, as I understand it. And just so Dave, welcome to the show. Thank you, Peter. It's just a pleasure to be here. All right. So let's just dive right into the book, because I think that's what, you know, among the many things you're doing seems to be one of the most valuable. Tell us, the book is called E-Bikes, putting the fun back into cycling and life at any age, which I think we're both in that certain, you know, men of certain age. And so that's really interesting to me, although I think there are a lot of younger riders. So tell us about, tell us, tell us about the book. Give us, give us the pitch. Why should we be buying it? Yes, the book is written really for anyone who might be interested in E-Bikes, but especially for senior adults. That seems to be the largest target market so far here, particularly in North America for E-Bikes. And as an E-Bike rider, do you probably have the same experience, Peter? I constantly would, would run into people who would stop me on my bike, ask questions about my E-Bike and the motor and just very curious about it. A lot of seniors were interested in the E-Bikes. And so there didn't seem to be a book that fit that niche. So I worked for about a year putting this book together, interviewed a lot of people and it came out in December of 2021. All right, so it's not, I know there are a lot of books about E-Bikes out there and some of them are pretty technical and pretty, pretty nerdy, but I take it this is much more for what we would call the average reader or everyday reader. Yes, exactly. It's for the kind of layman version of the book. It's not a mechanical, you know, how Terry Biker Park put it back together type book. It's how the average consumer who maybe, you know, doesn't have a background and bicycling at all can learn everything they need to know, you know, how to choose an E-Bike, how to ride safely, how to protect the bike, you know, from theft and other risks. So just a broad based look. It's not brand specific. I'm not promoting any one bike or brand in the book. Try to be careful about that. Just give a good introduction. All right, that's terrific. So it sounds like it's a soup to nuts kind of thing for, you know, the person who isn't really used to dining at this table and needs looking for really kind of advice from somebody who isn't pushing, except for the E-Bike riding, pushing a cause. Which I think, yeah. So Peter, my favorite part of writing this book and the part I've had probably the best feedback on from readers is each chapter ends with a profile of a senior adult E-Bike rider. And I got some amazing people to share their stories with me. Many had had significant health problems. They were unable to, you know, literally walk around the block, but E-Bike gave them a new lease on life, something to get excited about, improve their health. And so I interviewed 12 people from all over the world really, you know, from Europe and North America at least. And it was fascinating. I was inspired here in their stories and how many different ways E-Bikes are improving people's life. And so I'd encourage you to pick up a copy of the book, be sure, if you read nothing else, read those 12 profiles at the end of each chapter. Well, for the next edition, I think you should go to China or Japan and get it really to be worldwide. But so give us a story. Give us an example of, you know, whether you use names or not or whatever. Give us a story of somebody whose life really was changed by getting on an E-Bike. Yeah, Dr. Miriam Lieberman, she's a retired doctor now in California, had had significant health problems over 20 surgeries. She was largely disabled. There was a time in fact when she couldn't even drive her car and she was introduced to electric bikes by, you know, friends there in Southern California who saw her predicament. And she started actually riding her bike. She was still working at the time to work. It was not a short ride. And she began to build up her stamina and realized, hey, I can do this.  Here's another woman, Jane Borden-Kiplinski, who had had health problems since childhood. She was diagnosed as a teenager of rheumatoid arthritis. And then, you know, the problems just kept compounding. Later in life, she fell and broke a hip. And so she too was pretty much disabled. She still walked with a limp and she's, as she tells me, she was in pain pretty much every day. However, oh, she has balance issues too. So two wheel bike is out, but put her on a three wheel electric trike and she's off to the races. So that has been her key to adventure and independence is to ride an electric trike. And so each of them have different stories, but just so inspiring. Wow, that is a great story. It sounds sort of like the person who stutters, when they start to sing, the stutter goes away. So you get on the bike and you're ready to travel there. All right, but that's terrific. We'll get a picture of the book up on the screen pretty soon here. And tell us just, we're all enthused. How do we get a copy? Okay, it's available through most of the online sellers from Amazon and Apple and Barnes and Noble, those types of online book distributors. So you can go in there and look for, e-bikes, putting the phone back into cycling life, the age is the name of the book, or just look for my, my visa or search for my name, Dave Hogan as the author, but it's really available. It's in a paperback format, which is popular. There's a e-book version format. This is of course the cheapest version. And then there's also a hardback version. All right, very good. How are sales going? Steady. I don't have the marketing budget. This is a self-published book. So I didn't go through a known publisher. And so I've done some marketing and it's still, the sales have held up really well on, you know, a low, but steady number. And I'm pleased with it. We're of course left to see. I'd like to see more people give the book, not so much from my benefit, because I think anyone who's interested in e-bikes, particularly seniors will really find the book beneficial. Perfect. So let's go back a bit and talk about you and your life before all this, about your career and what you've done up to now. Yeah, interesting Peter, you and I have a somewhat similar background. I was a journalism major in college and was a newspaper reporter for about five years while I was a young man. And it's a young man's job, believe me. Yes, it is. And my last job was covering finance and business for a daily newspaper here in Florida. And that kind of led me up into a tangent and became a financial advisor and got my certified financial planner license, which I still have. So I have never though lost my love for a good interview and for writing. And so that's why now that I'm at least semi retired, I'm still working, but not full-time, I started the blog and wanted to have that creative outlet. Honestly, it's not really a money-making venture for me. It'd be nice if it was, but it's not. But I enjoy it and feel I like to find stories I can write about that will be beneficial to the readers. Yeah, and you seem to have done that. People's stories are the best stories in my estimation. I read somewhere that you and your wife when you married some 46, 47 years ago, gave each other matching bicycles. Is that right? We did, yeah, back in the days of Raleigh, three-speed bikes, if you remember those. That does stay the same back in the day of the three-speed Raleigh. It does. They were beauties, Candy Apple Red, the White Wall Tires, they were pretty bikes. So we rode those for many years. And when we had our first child, we got the bike seat on the back, a bike for the child. So those were, I guess I really fell in love with bicycling as a child, like many of us did. It was our first play of getting some independence. You could be free to roam around the neighborhood somewhat, especially back in those days. You had four cell phones and so much crime. I was a typical kid back in that day where what time is dinner? Okay, I'll be back and I'd be off for hours. So my bike parents had no way of contacting me or vice versa. So it was my way of exploring my town. So I've never lost that love or enthusiasm for it. Oh, terrific. I think, you know, you look at children today, but you think there's so many things that you can do as a child and somehow or other along the way, there's some turning point where you lose that child-like enthusiasm for things of the inquisitiveness or whatever. But it seems like for bicycling, you've stuck with it all along. Is that, you've been bicycling all through or did you kind of interrupt and then come back? Yeah, kind of yes and no. I've always owned a bike. It was honestly, after those young adult years when I got busier with my career and family, the bike sat in the garage more than I wrote it, to be honest. But it was always there. I always kind of consider myself a bicyclist, but I didn't ride much. And it really wasn't until the electric bike came out, I bought my first one, oh, probably not more than about five years ago. It's really not been that long. And oh boy, you know, that was a whole new game and my love of biking really took off. And I ride far more now than I ever did before. Okay, so for the record, how many electric bikes do you have? Two right now, that's not nearly enough. I have two. I can't tell my wife and I need a few more, but. Yeah, and she probably says, well, you can only ride one at a time. So I know you in the book, you don't want to go into specific brands, but I think a lot of people would wonder, what kind of bikes does the guy like you have? Yeah, of course, like all of us, I have a budget. So I have some dream bikes that would be nice to have, but I have good quality bikes, but not terribly expensive. I have a Pettico boomerang bike and a good solid bike that has given me a good service. Actually, I think that's the Pettico in the photo there with this. Yeah, I think we'll get that photo up. Step through frame. And then I have a smaller 20 inch bike Magnum Pathfinder. And so really, I love both of the bikes. They're very different ones, 26 inch ones, 20. But it's a somewhat different for short rides. I enjoy the Magnum for longer trail rides. The larger Pettico bike is very comfortable. Interesting. Neither of those are fancy or frankly, terrifically expensive. I don't think, are they? No, Pettico more than the Magnum, but no, compared to, you know, Gazelle or some of the other brands out there that might be on my dream list someday. Yeah, they're reasonably priced and good quality bikes. Yeah, I think you can obviously spend almost skies to limit, but you really don't have to, especially getting started. You can start on something like the Pettico, which I think is just very functional. Yes. Okay, so but only two bikes. Yeah, that's a problem. So how did you start, what got you to start? Did you have some kind of a health issue or if you want to talk about it, but what brought, you know, you had those, maybe it's still those Rollies or whatever in the garage, but then one day you went out and bought an electric bike and what, what was it that made that happen? Well, you know, part of it was, people don't believe me when I say this, but not all of Florida is flat. The section I live in here in central Florida actually has quite a few hills. And we had, we had a couple of, since we're talking brands, Electra bikes is a common brand when you're made by Trek. We had a couple of, you know, Don Electric, my wife and I did, Electra bikes. And in our neighborhood and surrounding area, it was pretty hilly as we were getting into our 60s, it was becoming more of a challenge and just not as much fun to ride those bikes anymore. And I heard about electric bikes, started doing some research, you know, went to a couple of shops and looked down and made the switch and never looked back.  They have all kinds of good bikes out there, but to me, I would never own one now that, you know, it's not electric. This is much more fun and easier to ride, particularly at this age. All right. Actually, you know, my story is somewhat similar. My wife and I were doing a lot of bicycle touring in Europe on conventional bikes. And one day in Holland, we were going along the coast and we were riding up and down these dunes. And it wasn't the most fun I've ever had. It was kind of wearying. And then all of a sudden, these two people go whizzing by and, you know, they were old. Even today, I would have described them as old people and they were just going as fast as they could imagine. And I looked at them and when we got to the next stop, there were their bikes. I looked at the bikes, sure enough, they were electric bikes. And these people were, you know, out and certainly enjoying themselves that day more than I was. So it is something that when you can, if you've ever ridden and most of us have, you can come back to it in a whole new perspective. So I really, I hear you. It's really terrific. Yeah, pick it up. The other thing on your blog, I guess you talk about places that are good for bicycling. And I noticed there was a town in Michigan and I imagine they're good places in Florida. What makes a good place for bicycling? What makes a town bike-friendly? Yes, of course, good infrastructure about that. I mean, good bike trails, you know, my preferences were paved, but there are some really good trails that aren't necessarily paved, but if they're in good condition, that's okay. But where you can feel safe riding your bike, that's one of the big factors that keeps people from riding bikes, period, because they don't feel safe, particularly, of course, here in North America, compared to, say, in Netherlands, where you were riding over there, the bike infrastructure's so good. But over here, you know, people don't feel safe, particularly, you know, in North America, we think we're doing a good job with paint a little white line on the existing street and call it a bike lane, and it's three feet wide. I mean, really, it was to be a three foot wide bike lane, not right next to a truck doing 45 to 50 miles an hour. So, you know, people don't feel safe unless it's good bike infrastructure. And then some towns go out of their way to cater to bikes, you know, they provide good bike racks in the downtown areas, and, you know, cafes and things are welcoming to bikes, maybe let you recharge your battery while you're having lunch, you know, all those sorts of factors, just where you feel like, hey, this is the town where I'm welcome as a biker. And then, of course, scenery is always nice if you have some beautiful scenery to look at as you ride. Yeah, that's for sure, and, you know, I couldn't agree with you more about the safety consideration. This program talks about electric bikes, we also talk about electric scooters, even though I hear Hawaii electric skateboards are big, even electric one-wheels. But the main thing I think that keeps people off of them is the feeling, the perception sometimes true that they're not safe. Yeah. And the infrastructure here in North America is improving, but it's still way behind, you know, at least the better parts of Europe. And yeah, but I think it's gonna get better. You know, it may not help you and me, Peter, but I think in another 10, 15 years and a generation, America's gonna be much more bike friendly than it is today with some exciting plans on the way, on the drawing boards. And I think that city planners and traffic engineers are beginning to wake up to the need to make our streets not only bike friendly, but pedestrian friendly. You know, it's unsafe to walk in America, which is a sad commentary, but it's true. Yeah, I agree with you, you know, the Netherlands obviously, Copenhagen places like that. And it all looks probably in Amsterdam, for example. First of all, bikes have a number of people, not to mention cars, but the difference and there's the infrastructure is much better. But I also think in Amsterdam, every automobile driver has been and probably is now a cyclist. And every one of them has had, you know, has their kids, has their parents, grandparents on bicycles.  But they know in their, you know, in their being that safety is important and that they don't wanna be responsible for something terrible happening to somebody else's kid or grandmother or wife or whatever. And so you see people, you see well-dressed women bicycling along, you see them riding side saddle, kids riding side saddle on the back. I wish I could, which there were a few more helmets in that town, but that's their look out. So, and what's your feeling? I noticed your pictures obviously are all, you're helmeted up and you talk in the book about helmets and the importance of that kind of thing. I do. I think helmets are very important. Even a fall at a low speed. If you just, you know, some people are getting on their bike, kind of tumble and fall over the first time and... I've done that? Yeah. I mean, it doesn't take much. Me or your head is not that well, but technically skulls can break and you just don't wanna hit a skull against pavement. It's not an equal match. And so even in this even at a low speed. So, you know, particularly if you're going a bit faster, but I treat it like a seatbelt. You know, you just don't start the car, you don't back out of the driveway without the seatbelt in place. I'm the same way on the bike. I'm just, I'm gonna have to help me know before I turn the motor on on the bike. All right. So, what's next for you?  Well, of course I've got lots of, just a personal note, I've got lots of trails I want to ride. I keep a good bucket list of trails I haven't ridden yet.  And it might be a trike in a few years. So who knows or a motorized scooter, but I'll be out there as long as I can. Interestingly, you mentioned about in Europe, my wife and I are making our first trip to Europe for bike riding this summer. And I'm going to Harlem outside of Amsterdam and do a five-day self-guided bike tour down through Lieden and probably mispronounce some of these towns. Leiden, is it Gouda? Is that the two? Yeah, Gouda is cheese. Gouda is good. Yeah, Gouda is good. Maybe down the theft. Yeah. And of course, Udrik back up through that way. It's gonna be a fun adventure for me. I've never done that before. And then I'm going down to, in southern Germany, there's a large resort lake called Lake Constance, or the Germans call it Bodensee. And there's an excellent bike trail that runs around the entire lake. I'm not doing the entire trail, but I'm going to do portions of that. We're gonna stay along the lake for about a week. And so this is gonna be a real adventure. That's coming up later this year. Yeah, I'd love to do Lake Constance as well, but we have done two or three trips in Holland. And I guarantee you, you will love it. The towns you mentioned, we started also in Harlem, stayed overnight there and got our bikes and then rode, sounds like pretty much the same route. But I would also suggest you take a look at the North Holland route where you start in Amsterdam and you go up the, I guess you'd call it the Northwestern Coast. And we did that on a bike and barge. And when you get, after you've done a few of these self-guided hotel to hotel trips, like I think you're doing, where they move your luggage for you, right? Yes. You will see you and I think your wife will want to look at barges. The barge goes along the rivers and meets you at the next place. So you get up in the morning, they take your bike off the boat, you ride for 20, 30 miles, whatever it is. And by the time you get to the next stop, there's the barge, you know, a hundred passenger or so river boat. So you don't have to pack and unpack. Your hotel comes with you, so to speak. And the tour we did in North Holland on a boat called the Arcona was one of our, out of the eight or nine tours, we've done one of the best. So, and I think you'll love Lake Constance also, just because you're going to be, you know, along the water and that's going to be awesome. So, any last words of encouragement for those people, for my two or three listeners who might be considering getting an e-bike, give them the pitch. I would recommend as a first step, go to a local bike shop, test ride, one or more bikes, maybe rent a bike for an hour or for a half day and see what you think. Bikes are different. I don't recommend particularly first time e-bike buyers to buy online because you really need to test ride the bike. You need to make sure it's the right fit for you. Some of these bikes are pretty massive. I mean, I don't feel comfortable on that. You know, they look at motorcycles. So, you've got to be a big guy to maybe be comfortable on those bikes. Other bikes are much more petite and lighter weight. So, you really need to test the bikes and make sure it's the right bike for you. And a dealer also can provide, of course, a lot of advice. They can help fit the bike for you, assemble it properly and then provide warranty work. As a matter of fact, my pedicure bike is in the shop today for warranty work. Nothing wrong with that, but just they do a one year check that keeps your warranty in place if you come in once a year for a check. So, that's all the advantage of using a local dealer. And, you know, don't be that concerned about what we're talking about, the mechanical details or where it's mid-drive or hub drive and cadence sensors or torque sensor. You know, oh, your first bike particularly, you go have fun no matter what you buy and as long as it's a proper fit for you. That is great advice. Go try it out. And pretty much every bike shop, every town has a bike shop or two and pretty much every shop now are rental places.  They'll show you what to do. It doesn't take long. That's terrific advice. Try it out before you put the thousand or whatever number of dollars down on something. And buying online is risky, I think. But, you know, if it's the way, if it's the only way that works for you, that's what works. But really having a dealer who knows what they're doing is the best thing. I really want to thank you. We're coming to the end of our half hour here. You know, it really is encouraging to find somebody who's willing to spend the time and effort to promote e-bikes not because they're going to make a fortune out of it, not because they're, you know, they're in it for the business but because they really want to have people take advantage of them. So I really appreciate what you're doing. Thank you for being on the show. Come to Hawaii. We're getting more and more bike structure all the time. I would not, too. Yeah, we're still, we're kind of halfway between the separated bike lane and the painted stuff on the street. The city government here is committed to making the place more bike-friendly and we have a good bike share system and a lot of stores. So... Thank you, Peter. It has been a pleasure to talk with you. Have a great trip in Amsterdam and Lake Constance. You will come back after you do that. We'll have another show and you'll tell us all about it. I'd love to, anytime. All right, Dave. Thank you so much. It's been a real pleasure and thank you both of you for all three of you for watching the 2L Revolution here on Think Tech Hawaii. We'll be back in a couple of weeks. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please click the like and subscribe button on YouTube. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Check out our website, ThinkTechHawaii.com. Mahalo.


Hello, my name is Kim Doherty and I am the career advisor for the iSchool.  And we want to make that process for you as easy as possible. So when I talk about creating your career launch plan, what we're going to be talking about is all the things that you want to be doing in order to position yourself to have job opportunities as soon as possible. When you think about your career, and I want to go over a couple of concepts with you before we jump in. The first one is, when you think about your career, it comprises three elements. The first one is what I would call your domain knowledge. And that's basically what you're going to be learning in your grad school program. So every one of the courses that you take is going to broaden and deepen your knowledge of LIS and information skills, which is terrific. The second element of your professional equity is going to be your network. And I'm using network as shorthand for a broader concept, which is basically your community of colleagues, the broad range of all of the people that you have come into contact with and built a relationship with either personal or professional or often both as you've gone through the program and done your assignments and worked with colleagues, fellow students, gotten to know your faculty, gotten to know the administration, done internships, all of those different sorts of things. This becomes the basis from which you build your career network, your professional network, your community of colleagues. Your community of colleagues is going to become critical for you as you go through your career and are looking for seeking new career opportunities. And that's not because you didn't love a job, but you were just ready to make a change, or you had discovered a new passion that you wanted to pursue. The people that you know and that you count as your community of colleagues are going to be the ones that help open up those opportunities for you. The third piece of your professional equity, and this is what you're building over the course of your career, is your professional reputation. And shorthand for professional reputation is your brand. But basically, this is who people think of when they think of you. So I'm going to pick on Jillian because Jillian and I work together. When I think of Jillian, I do not think of someone who is reserved, hesitant, lacking in energy or enthusiasm. Because I've worked with Jillian, I think of Jillian as this incredibly fun, smart, out there, creative, really energizing person to work with. That, for me, is Jillian's brand. And the way that translates for you is if somebody asked me for a reference for Jillian, which I, of course, would be happy to give, they would say, what comes to mind when you think of Jillian's strengths? And I would be able to tell them incredible things about Jillian. As you go through the program, you are going to be building your reputation in a number of different ways. And I'm going to do another workshop on building your brand visibility and your reputation. But for right now, just assume that no matter what you're doing, you are contributing to how people think about you and what they think about you and how they assume you would perform as a coworker. So professional equity is what you want to be working on building all the way through your grad program. You don't want to wait until you've graduated. You want to start working on it now. All right, so laying your groundwork. And again, I was assuming we were all getting ready to graduate at this point. So instead, what I'm going to talk about is a slight spin on this. We're going to talk about how to create an action plan that is a process you can replicate to achieve any goal that you have in your career, in your grad program, in your job hunt, in your life. And that's basically how do you put together a plan to get from here to there? So we're going to look at how to do that. As a process, I'll give you an example that using myself as the guinea pig here, what that looks like. And then we're going to walk through how you would apply that process to you're getting ready to launch or changing a job or developing a new knowledge base or building your network or whatever is important to you in terms of your LIS career. So, okay, here's the process. When you are putting together an action plan, it comprises three elements. The first one is identifying the goal that you are trying to achieve. That's the big thing that you're going after. So for example, your goal is to land an internship at the Library of Congress while you're going through the program. The strategies are sort of the broad actions that you will take to achieve that goal. So what are the things that would have to happen, that you would have to make happen in order to qualify for that internship at the Library of Congress? And then the tactics are the action items within those strategies. So goal is your big thing that you're going for. Strategies are your directions, how you're going to get there. Tactics are within those strategies. What are your action items going to be? And the reason you are looking at that delightful picture of Carl von Klaaswitz there is that he's the guy who came up with this. He was a Prussian military officer who wrote the seminal book on battlefield tactics. And he came up with this concept of goal strategies and tactics. The book he wrote was called On War. And I am happy to tell you that that's all you need to know about it because I actually had to read this book for one of my clients and it's essentially a doorstop. It's huge. So just keep in mind, all you need to think about is goals, strategies and tactics. And now let's put those in play. OK, so two different ways of thinking about this. The first one is creating your plan. And when you create a plan, what you're thinking about is, for your goal, what do I want to accomplish? For your strategies, what kinds of things will help you achieve that goal? And sort of this is sort of like broader thinking of, I'm going to have to accomplish these, say, three things. And we'll use three as an easy number to work with tonight. But basically, your strategies are your major ways of directions of getting to your goal. And then for your tactics, again, what actions are you going to need to take for each one of those strategies? So that means you'd have one goal. You'd have maybe three strategies to achieve that goal. And then you'd have, for each one of those three strategies, maybe three tactics. And again, what we're looking at here is a process for achieving any goal, including getting ready to launch from grad school, in a way that's easy for you to manage. So that was creating our goal, thinking through what it is we're going to need to do and putting that sort of lining that out. But when it comes to executing that action plan that you've just created, there are a couple of things you need to keep in mind. And I'm telling you this because as we go through, here are all the things I think you should be doing. I don't want you to become overwhelmed by those and think, holy moly, I can hardly manage my classes and my coursework and I'm working and life is crazy right now. How am I going to fit this all in? And the answer is you're not going to try to do it all at once. And that's the great thing about creating your action plan, is that once you've created it, you know what you need to do. And you can just do it when you have time. When you have bandwidth, when you have a day that, you know, you thought you had four appointments and they all went away, which means you can go back to your action plan and you can see what it is that you need to do and you can pick it up immediately. That's the great thing about having an action plan in place is you don't have to waste time thinking, hmm, if I had a day, what would be a smart thing to do? You've already thought that all through. So when you are executing a plan, the way that I do that is to figure out what it is I'm trying to do and then how do I create the environment around me that enables me to move that forward? And so big things here lower the barriers to act, make it easy to do the things that you have said you're going to do, create the circumstances that enable you to comfortably, consistently do what you're trying to do. And here's an example of that. One of the things I am trying to do these days is to make sure I'm getting regular aerobic exercise. And so I have an elliptical trainer and I was trying to figure out how the heck I was going to get caught up on all of my professional reading because it kind of fell behind. And so I realized, OK, there's time that I can combine two things. If I know I'm going to be on my elliptical trainer for half an hour every morning, I can start reading all of my professional journals up on that little platform thingy while I'm working out. So that is an example of creating an environment that makes it easy for me to accomplish my goal, which is getting through my professional reading. The best book I've ever read on how to achieve goals and how to do what's called behavior modification, which you kind of have to use to achieve your goal is Chip Heath and Dan Heath's book on Switch. And I would would strongly recommend it to you as a great way to make all of your life easier. All right, so here's an example using me as a guinea pig of how I might use goals, strategies and tactics in my own life to achieve something. So here's my goal. I want to become a backup singer for Beyonce. You know, everybody needs to have a stretch goal in life. So that means I'm going to need to be able to do at least these three things in order to achieve that goal. I'm going to have to learn how to sing. I'm going to have to learn how to dance. And then I'm going to have to figure out a way to get Beyonce to hire me. As we all know, all three of these will be challenges. So those are my strategies that will help me achieve my goals. But now each one of those strategies needs a set of tactics that will move me forward to achieve those. So for strategy number one, which is learn how to sing. Here are my tactics. First, interview three singing coaches and choose one within six weeks. And I want you to pay attention to those numbers there. Because when you are designing tactics to accomplish a goal, if at all possible, you want to have them be measurable. How much will you do? How many of whatever's will how many informational interviews will you do within what amount of time? How many questions will you ask during your informational interviews? How many how many professional meetings will you attend? Or webinars will you attend? You want to put numbers to your tactics, if at all possible, because that's sort of how you know you're making the progress that you want to be making. And that's how you know you're going to hit your goal. So as you can see there, I have four tactics that I will use to achieve my learning how to sing. And as a matter of fact, for my I won't say for which birthday, but for a recent birthday, my son gave me a set of drums for my birthday. So I actually have soundproofed my basement so the neighbors aren't killing me. All right, so that was strategy number one. Strategy number two, learn how to dance. OK, so now what are my tactics for that? Well, I'm going to have to find some dance coaches. Choose one. I'm going to sign up for dance lessons. I'm going to practice dancing two hours a day. Of course, that's quite a stretch, but maybe 20 minutes a day. And then most important of all for me is to purchase a back brace and pain meds prior to beginning my dance lessons. So those are my tactics that I will do for achieving my learning how to dance strategy. The big one, figure out how to get Beyonce to hire me. So I really struggled with this, but I think I've come up with good tactics here. So my first one is to knock off her backup singers. The second one, which I read a lot of things about demographics and the new positive aging. So I'm going to explain that hiring me opens up an entirely new market demographic to her. So that's my second tactic. And then the third one is just get right down into it and say, I will pay you double. If you're super bulky, if you'll let me be your backup dancer, and if I fall off the stage, I will triple it. So there is an example of a goal, strategies, and tactics that drive those three strategies forward. All right, now let's take a look at how we're going to do this for you. And I say for your career launch, but this is also what you can be doing while you are in grad school. So our goal is to land a post-graduation LIS job. But depending on where you are in the program, it might also be to land the internship of your dreams. It might be to get a part-time job with the Fashion Institute and Archives while you're going through grad school. It could be anything related to your career. So here's how I would approach this. The first thing is to understand these are my strategies. Understand the responsibilities of the position or the opportunity that you're targeting. Then understand your fit for those responsibilities, which means if you really, really, really want to do an internship at the National Institutes of Health, if you in a previous career have been a medical librarian, you've got a great fit there. You're beautifully aligned. If that's not the case, then maybe you want to take a course in medical librarianship. So that's an example. And then the third strategy is to prepare to get whoever needs to give you the OK to convince them that, yes, they should give you the OK. So again, that could be for a job. It could be an internship. It could be working on a really cool project, even as a volunteer. So now let's look at tactics against those strategies. First one is understanding what it is that the position you're interested in requires. So here are three tactics that you could use to get there. First one is go through the wonderful process. If you haven't done this before, you need to learn how to do it. And if you don't know how to do it, send me an email. And I will send you a guide that I put together. And that is how to do informational interviews. They are one of the most valuable tools in your career development and opening up career opportunities you can possibly imagine. So you would do informational interviews with three people who know something about the organization or the job or the internship or the organization, the archives that you're interested in. You want to talk to people who can tell you more about the opportunity you're interested in. Another way to understand what it would be like to go after this target position is if possible to find similar job descriptions. Now I've tailored this to, again, landing an LAS job when you graduate. And this specifically refers to that. But it's the same thing. If you were looking for an internship in an archives and the archives organization that you were interested in didn't have anything posted, go look at other similar archives and see if they have internships posted and then read what they are saying, how they're describing that so that you have that as background if you were going to pitch this as a potential internship with the archives that you're interested in. The last thing, again, is built around going after a specific job. But it also relates to going after a signature volunteer project, internship, part-time job, whatever. Talk to people, if you can find them, who've held that position previously. One of the things that we'll give you is, is this really the right job for me? If they're telling you or they're not willing to tell you why they left the job, that gives you very, very valuable information. So our first thing is to understand the responsibilities of that target, whatever. And these are three, excuse me, three tactics. You might come up with three completely different ones. Good to go. Second strategy is to understand, as we had mentioned, is to understand your fit for those responsibilities. And that's basically determining how your skills align with that opportunity. And I'll call them opportunities rather than jobs at this point. Another really important piece here is to determine how your soft skills align with the job or the opportunity. Because these days, your domain knowledge is important, but your ability to work collaboratively and effectively and positively with a team and in a team environment is almost critical to being hired or being brought on to any initiative.  And then lastly, your last tactic for looking at fit is what we would call a gap analysis. Where do you have gaps between what the opportunity wants or is asking for and what you currently can supply? How you fit with that? And then you can decide how you're going to address any gaps that are there. So that was how you would do tactics for strategy number two. Strategy number three is how you convince a decision maker to bring you on board for that job, for that internship, for that project. Here are the things that I would recommend as your tactics. And this goes especially to anything where you're having to really sell yourself and your ability to do a terrific job. First one is to identify examples of great student or professional work that you have done. The reason this is so important for you to think about now as a student is that as you're going through your program, you're going to have a lot of opportunities to be in a leadership role, say in a student organization, to be the team lead in a group project, to propose a new initiative for the grad program, to work on a cross-disciplinary initiative. When you can say yes to those opportunities, because what you're going to want to do is as you go through grad school, work on as many signature projects or opportunities or initiatives as you possibly can so that you can talk about these and reference these when you are job hunting or when you are going in for that internship interview. The more things you have done that are significant in terms of this was a really cool project or this was a really cool team accomplishment that we had, the easier it is for you to convince people who are decision-makers that you are exactly the kind of person that they're looking for. So that's why I think this tactic is so smart for you to think about not just when you're getting ready to graduate and do job hunting but equally so while you're going through grad school so you can be keeping an eye out for these opportunities and making the most of them. And then the last thing I would say in terms of convincing decision-makers and this goes for both jobs and internships because you are trying to apply for a similar situation which is bring me on board to do this work. I would strongly, strongly suggest that you work with the Career Center's mock interview platform. It's amazing and I'm gonna mention it once more because we have an amazing contact there. All right, so if we sort of put this in a clear, easier to read format, this is what we just walked through. Goals to land a job, the three strategies and then the tactics related to each one of those strategies. These are ones that I just created but as you think through how this would work for you you could have completely different goals, completely different strategies and tactics depending on what it is that you want to achieve. The important thing to understand here is that this process of organizing your action plan can be replicated over and over again to help you accomplish literally any goal that you are trying to reach. All right, so just to recap, identify your goal, what are you trying to accomplish? Your strategies and your tactics and again, this doesn't have to be just professional. It can be your goal is to move to a new community, to move from the Bay Area to Anchorage, Alaska. So you'd be looking at a huge lifestyle change. This could help you figure out how do I make this change personally and professionally and organize it so that the leap is comfortable and enjoyable for you. All right, so that's the process. Now what we're going to go through is your pre-launch checklist. And again, for those of you who are graduating shortly this can be how you get ready to hit the ground running so that you don't graduate and then think, aha, now I have to think about getting a job. We wanna get you there sooner. But on the other hand, also if you are a student in the program and you're not close to graduating all of these things are equally applicable to what you're doing as you go through the program. You can be building these all the way through the program.  This all relates to those three areas of professional equity. All right, so the first thing is to make sure that you have secured or strengthened key relationships. Those could be relationships with faculty that you really, really liked and admired and had sort of a bond with. And if you're uncomfortable reaching out to your faculty members and just saying, I'd like to stay in touch after I graduate, almost every faculty member that I've ever known and certainly the ones at San Jose State who are some of the most student focused faculty I've ever seen, if you say I'd like to stay in touch they'll be jazzed that you do want to. And so don't hesitate to reach out to any faculty member and say, is it okay for us to connect on LinkedIn? And is it okay if I check in with you now and then just let me know how things or let you know how things are going in my career. Most faculty members would be absolutely thrilled and they then become part of your professional community of colleagues.  We're on the same footing. And so I would encourage you to think of yourself as professionals in training rather than students and prepare to think about what you're doing along those lines. Next one is to vet your professional reputation and visibility. And the primary way of doing that is online. And here's why. When you apply for a job, the first thing that a hiring manager is going to do is look at your application and then check you out online. If they don't find anything about you online, they're gonna think you're very odd because life just doesn't work that way anymore. And it makes it very easy for them to toss your resume or your application. And you don't want that to happen.  You want to make sure that one of the things that comes up is a dynamite LinkedIn profile. And we have some information about LinkedIn in the career development section. We also have some terrific resources for you on how to do that if you're thinking, oh my God, no, not LinkedIn. Don't panic, it's okay. But you do want to have what I would call online marketing materials out there speaking to your strengths 24 seven because when somebody looks you up, you want them to find killer information about you. So look to see what comes up when someone searches for you online. This is gonna be kind of tough, but in order to keep you from going just flat out crazy, I would encourage you to try to narrow down your job hunting focus to three career paths. So for example, I'm interested in working in healthcare for a for-profit healthcare company. I'm interested in working in reference for a public library. I'm interested in instructional design in whatever area instructional design jobs are flourishing, which is basically everywhere. If you narrow things down to only three paths, and of course you wanna do probably the three things that intrigue you the most, it will enable you to focus on a manageable amount of information. One of the challenges about going through any LIS program is that you will get about three-fourths of the way through and realize, hot damn, there are 400 different things I'd like to do with my LIS skills. Which one should I get a job in? The great news is that just to alleviate some pressure here, your first job is only your first job. And so whatever your first job is, is just whatever your first job is. And then once you get that first foot in the door, you start building your career and you go over here and then you go over here, no job that you have at any point in your career precludes you from doing a pivot into that other thing you'd been thinking about doing when you graduated and now you're thinking that would really be fun and now it's 10 years into my career and I've enjoyed what I'm doing but I'm really wanting to try that other thing as well. You can do that. So when I'm telling you to narrow it down to three initial things that doesn't preclude any of the other of those 400 things that you want to do, it's just saying let's just get you started from a manageable position. So if you're a student still going through your program, one of the things I'm suggesting that you do is sort of constantly have this back and forth with yourself of is this one of the three things that intrigues me enough that I would like to learn more about it? I would like to do more of this kind of work is metadata absolutely fascinating to me. What about digital asset management? What about special collections? Because if you start thinking about this now, you can start using informational interviews and your assignments to start sort of vetting your assumptions and exploring a bit. So this is a way of learning more about what your options are, not having to commit to any of them but just sort of reflecting on them and saying, what do I think? And the more I learn about this, is it even more engaging to me and more intriguing or was that enough? And I think so I'll go into something else. The reason I'm harping on this, harping, the reason I'm emphasizing this is because again, I don't want you to panic or feel overwhelmed as you go through the program and realize there are so many different things you can do with your skill set. That really is the great news. And coming from someone who has used my LIS degree in a gazillion different ways and had gazillions of different jobs, it's more fun than you can imagine and it's incredibly rewarding. So yeah, it's great, but we'll start you with three jobs and I'll help you move forward through those when that time comes. The last thing is to prepare your marketing materials. If you are a student still going through the program for a while, get your LinkedIn profile up now. I did an article at one point on headlines that LIS students could use in their LinkedIn profiles that didn't say San Jose State, high school grad student. You don't want to say that. You want to say something more compelling like students totally engaged in my love of genre fiction or my love of data management, data science, whatever. So if you're ready to start working on your LinkedIn profile, send me an email. By the way, I'll have my email at the end of this and I will send you that article to help you get started. That said, I want to point out the bottom of this slide. Your best friend in the world is our secret weapon, Kerry McKnight. Kerry is the grad student's liaison for the career center and she loves the iSchool program. She loves our students. She loves hearing from all of you. She knows how to do all of the cool stuff at the career center, but she's an absolute whiz at resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles, which all of us struggle with. They're hard to do. So if you are to the point where you want to work on your LinkedIn profile or a resume or a cover letter, you've got Kerry McKnight's information, her contact information there. I'm the person who can help you figure out sort of your career and career strategies and career paths and those kinds of things. But when it comes to your marketing materials, which would be your LinkedIn profile, resume, career cover letter, Kerry is just dynamite. Kerry is also your tuition dollars at work. So you want to make sure to take advantage of that while you can and Kerry will be thrilled to help you as I mentioned. Okay, what else? You want to do your job hunting research now rather than waiting until you're ready to graduate or until you have graduated because the better prepared you are to make a move, to send in an application, to reach out to someone, to do whatever. If you can be ahead of everybody else who graduates and then is just thinking, aha, now I have to look for a job, you will beat all the competition out, which is what you want to do. So I would say, don't wait. If you're going to graduate now this summer or spring, don't wait to start applying for jobs. Start applying for them now, saying I am soon to graduate. Give a graduation date. Most hiring managers, if they look at your application and they think, wow, this is just the person we want or wow, this might really be the person we're looking for, if you say I will be available within two months, they'll probably wait. They'll be willing to work with you. So you want to start doing your job hunting research now so you can get those applications out there well before it's time to graduate. You want to beef up your interviewing skills and again, Carrie is your friend. They have got really cool tools at the Career Center to help you with all of these different kinds of interviews. As we know right now, it's a lot of it is phone interviews and video interviews and that is sort of disoriented for everyone involved. So I would encourage you to check in with Carrie and have her sort of coach you through this and tell you what you need to be thinking about and how to prepare for these in ways that you might not have been thinking about otherwise. And then most important, not most important, but very important, if you are in professional associations as a student and if you're not, every one of you needs to join a professional LIS association while you're a student because they have these incredible student discounts. And that gives you the opportunity to look at the entire membership list and that can be very valuable when you're looking for people to interview. So if you are, first of all, if you're not in a professional association, I would say join the association of your choice now and then second, you wanna renew it the day before you graduate because it allows you to get that student discount one more time. So next, I would strongly recommend this because this is an obstacle that is very difficult to overcome if you are thinking about working in a public school or academic library. That is that you try, if at all possible, to get in some type of work in a professional library setting. So depending on what you're interested in doing, working part-time in a school library, working part-time or remotely for an academic library, doing whatever, working part-time or volunteer or doing whatever work for a public library. That's sort of the cutoff line when jobs are competitive and hiring managers are looking at who to hire. If they are looking at an application from someone who's had no library experience whatsoever, it can be challenging to get a job.  LA Public Library will actually recruit and train people who have not worked in the library before, especially if you have retail experience. But it's just so, so much easier for you if you can have done an internship somewhere that you can talk about or point to or have volunteered. Paid work is the best, but if it's not possible to line up paid work and sometimes quite frankly, it just isn't. See if there's anything you can do remotely. See if there are any projects that you can help them with that they haven't been able to get to before. There's a thing called the student halo, which is when you are a student, almost anyone in the LIS profession will talk to you. They will respond to your emails. They will, excuse me, take phone calls from you. They will answer all your questions and they will be happy to do so. That's just the nature of this profession. So you wanna take advantage of that as much as you can while you're in the program, while you can still say, I'm a student in the San Jose iSchool program. Once you graduate, people are somewhat suspect and think perhaps you are reaching out to them because you're not really looking for an informational interview. You're actually sort of trying to sneak in a job application here and you're actually going to really be applying for a job. So they're much less open to talking to you. Once you get a job, they'll talk to you for hours, but it's the whole, I'm unemployed, I'm not a student. That situation makes them a little bit nervous. So take advantage and build your connections, build your visibility, build your domain knowledge and do all that research and do your informational interviews. Vet your assumptions about various career paths while you're still a student, if you can. Another thing is to help people help you. When you graduate, people will know that you're looking for a job and most people who know you and like you, I assume, will wanna help you with that, but they can't help you unless you tell them very specifically, this is the help that I need. So for example, are you looking for someone who's worked in the Gilead corporate library so that you can talk to them? Are you looking for someone who has been a school librarian so that you can talk to them about the various school districts in California and what it's like to work in them? Are you looking for someone who has a connection to a hiring manager in a public library? When you let people know I'm getting ready to graduate, I'm gonna be looking for a job, tell them how they can help you because if they don't know, they won't be able to do it and so they can't help you. Part of that is being able to articulate your value proposition and your value proposition is what is going to convince a hiring manager that they want to hire you rather than everybody else that they've interviewed. One of the conversations that Dr. Hirsh and I had once with a number of Bay Area library directors was about the fact that they were having people come in who were recent graduates, not necessarily the San Jose program, but just MLIS programs in general, who would not be able to say why you should hire them. They would, these new graduates would come in and the hiring manager would say, why should we hire you? And the new grad would say, well, I always wanted to work in a library and I think I would be a good librarian and sort of like that. You don't wanna be able, you don't wanna do that. You wanna be able to say, I would be a great asset for this organization, I believe, because here's what my strengths are and this is what you have said you're looking for in the job. You also wanna be able to talk about why you're interested in that organization. So you want to, before you start actually talking about specific jobs with potential hiring managers, you wanna be able to say what it is you're good at and why that is a value. All right, so with that, I hope I haven't overwhelmed all of you and I'm going to open it up to questions. Now, I don't think I've seen any questions come through. I'm looking in the chat box. So, oh, I just saw 70 messages. Let me see what happens here. Oh, Jillian is saying that Carrie is amazing. Absolutely, all right. Okay. All right, so first of all, if you have a question, if you would either unmute yourself and ask it or, and I'm looking in two different directions so I just realized this must seem really weird because I've got your videos over here and I've got your chat room over here. If you would let me know what your questions are, I would be happy to have you to answer them and or I would be happy to respond to an email just coming out with a question, something that we've talked about tonight that you have a question about that I can help you with now or six months from now or right as before you're getting ready to graduate. I'm here to help you and I love to do it. All right, so I have a question from Robin. Do you have any advice for those who are transitioning from a different industry into library and information science? And Robin, that is a terrific question because so many people come into this profession from a different profession. So basically what you're trying to, you're trying to do two things. You are trying to transfer the skill set that you had in your previous profession into the LIS universe. So for example, if what you did before was maintain all of the records for all of the inventory in a retail setting, that's actually records management. So half of it is learning and Ingrid, I'll get you next, half of it is learning how to translate what a previous skill was into LIS language. Carrie can help you do some of that and I can help you do some of it as well. So that's the first thing is that skills transfer. Second thing is you are going to need to build a bridge or a platform into the LIS community because assume that you've built up visibility and a community in your previous career, now you're gonna need to do that again in the LIS profession. And the easiest ways to do that are again to get to know and build relationships with your fellow students, with your instructors and by having professional memberships. So join the, if you're in California, join the Colorado, no, California, sorry, Association of Libraries and volunteer. Get on committees, get to know people and have them get to know you because when you do that, they no longer think of you as Robin, the person who is this other thing, they start thinking of you as Robin who is a part of our professional community. So a lot of it is just building that visibility and building those connections from scratch, really, in the LIS profession. So great question, Robin. And if you want more feedback on that, give me a holler and we can brainstorm it some more. Okay, Ingrid, for someone new to the program, can you talk about information? Okay, do you recommend, yes, a friend of him finds out if you're starting the program and says, I have a friend who works at Yale, Yale. Okay, I would do them right now. Ingrid is basically saying, when do you start doing informational interviews? And I would say, as soon as you identify an interest that you have, like as soon as you hear somebody in your class mention special collections and you think, huh, I wonder what it would be like to work in special collections. You wanna do some research about what special collections are and what special collection librarians do. And then once you feel like you have a basic level of knowledge and understanding about that area, then you start reaching out and asking for informational interviews. What you don't wanna do is ask questions in an informational interview that you could easily find out on your own through just a little bit of background research because that then kind of is wasting that other person's time. But as I said, I've written up a guide that I think sort of outlines how to do that and how to ask for an informational interview and what questions are kind of questions that will help you figure out how to approach this. And Ingrid, if you want more information about that, give me a holler, we'll follow up. Okay, for Corey, for students who are also working full-time, how do they balance an internship and a job? How have students done this in the past? This is the huge, huge ongoing question. Some students have taken vacation time to do like a two-week internship. Other students have identified internships they could do remotely. So they could work it in sort of around their work and schoolwork. Other students have taken a semester off or decided to only do one course rather than two or whatever. So they could work an internship in. It is not easy under any circumstances. It's also something that you might want to ask other students about who you discover are doing internships, asking them how they're doing those. A lot of it depends, especially now, on whether or not you can do it remotely and that is more and more the case with internships. Okay, Erin had a community college where I previously attended contact. Okay, contact me about an internship course they were offering this semester. They connect you with a site. Should I utilize this opportunity? That's an interesting question, Erin. And here's how I would evaluate this. So I'm assuming that this is not, this would not be focused on information work if it's through a community college. I'm not sure it would be worth it to you to, if that's the case, I would say it wouldn't be worth it for you to do an internship because it wouldn't give you attraction in a hiring situation if you weren't working in a library kind of environment. I would also question whether or not you would have to pay them. You might want to talk to an academic advisor about that and see how that fits into the iSchool internship requirements. Interesting question. Okay, Toby, is it possible to get an internship from those posted before reaching 18 credits? That I don't know. The person to ask that question to would probably be Dr. Mayne, Dr. Linda Mayne. She would be able to answer that for you and I'm sorry that I don't have the answer to it. Okay, okay, follow up from Erin. It was a library technician program. In that case, if they were gonna place you in a library, and you could work it in, it might be worth doing just to get your foot in the door in a library setting. I can't emphasize enough how important it is if at all possible to have some library experience before you graduate. So Toby, excuse me, Erin, I would say if you thought that was the only opportunity that you would have to be in a library setting, it might be worth doing so that you could have that on your resume. I'm just not sure how it would count with the iSchool program. So that might be a question. All right, so I'm now running overtime for you and I appreciate all of your patience. So with that, I will wrap up for the evening. It's been delightful talking with you and I appreciate all of you being so patient as we go through this. And again, I'm here for you. I'm here to help you and make it as easy as possible for you to excel in the program and to have a career that you love as much as I love my Elias career and have loved it for many, many, many years, too many to mention. So with that, I will say I hope you all have a wonderful evening and don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions.


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Well, it looks like a magenta coming off here Cutcha Stuck is a cow Raleigh Castro please now got Kyle Tucker is The magenta 65 out of 399 nice one there For you ammo with the astros and we got a Jake burger on the prism rookie the white socks first auto It's gonna be Chas McCormick for the astros one of the best Best autographs I would say best like photography on an autograph in the set so cool and Refractor of Jay Ram Yeah, you'll go today for sure again Tim, but there's a little bit of a cue still probably like a good ten orders before You had a couple orders come in as well But yeah, you'll go today. Just a little bit later on I'll be long go Tate's there's a Joey Callow on the prism for the inks and Jesse Winker refractor So are you bossing all the way around on your team?  Give me one second. We're seeing I can answer that for you Bobby's all back Joey Gallo George Springer our gold is gonna be Chris Taylor That is a vet Auto 9 out of 50 for the Dodgers max crannick We can't we like we can't show you what the queue looks like we're seeing just because it's like it's on our back End of the website So basically when I say cue it's just all the orders and they're in order of like when they got When they got ordered I said order a million times there But everything's in order and then we just go from the earliest to the most recent So like we're still ripping boxes from like like ammo awarded this at 714 a.m. This morning So we're ripping boxes that are ordered earlier this morning. There's a sep beer rookie Jake Myers heart of the city Gavin sheets throwback Adam Frazier Yeah, so we're seeing you have Seven or eight breaks in front of you. I would say Nothing super base heavy. Everything's pretty Pretty easy, which is good Zack wheeler is gonna be the prism a stuff refractor auto of Ivan Castillo that is 266 out of 499 for the Padres nice one there for you ammo and Raphael Devers on the Andre Jackson rookie Lothar Joe Ryan Woodruff Jeff Chisholm got you well as rookie on the prism for the Diamondbacks and refractor for sale But touch that card. He might get injured again. We're like boy part But all Bruhan rookie there you go for the rays nice one there Al Hendricks Amber G Connor Wong got pinch stripers Jose Ramirez P. DeLonzo refractor Anthony Rizzo I still don't get why so why are you not a dolphin fan?  Holy cow. Dude. This is a huge card right here We will get this right into a mag for you. Thank you. Oh my god.  What a pack right there.  That's so sick There's a large new bar rookie the Cardinals iron bucks then they look who's got Bobby doll back on the prism and rookie autos John Heasley for the Royals that is not numbered That's been a really solid box because then we got rookie refractor branded March right behind it Very very solid break right there Or a very solid box There's an O'Neill cruise base rookie so we pull the cruise and a wanderer very nice No big wonders yet infamous I'm just a base rookie. Hey, Susie, Lazardo is gonna be a prism and refractor rookies Kyle more for the And let's do box number two here ammo. Good luck again, man. This stuff has been so hot I Pull a wander redemption auto out of here a wander super fracter. That's what I'm feeling. I might like going to Genuine like shot I might not be able to move Point Park Grisham Trey and Brigitte kind of won. He see my he's got the dog Ruham on the throwback and Poo Halls refractor. Mr. 700 Congrats again to him on hitting two home runs in one game That's good. I'm glad he didn't like going a slump on 699. I'm glad he just got it out of the way Jake burger rookie Matt beer lane rookie Louise Garcia future stars got Jesse winker and a dole scarcia I'm very jealous of that The first variation I pulled of soda this year's got pulled the Jaren Durand like three times Of course, I'm a Yanks fan. So it's like just Shoving that in my face got Trisha Mackenzie on the hyper. We've got cutter Crawford aqua wave auto 195 out of 199 for the Red Sox And cutter what a good name for a pitcher And a manual classic he doesn't have a cup fastball a cutter fastball What's up Nick Trying to pull a one-on-one dude large new bar rookie Best I can do is a large new bar Tyler Gilbert Brian De La Cruz. There's a wander new classics. We've got Trevor Lornaq on the magenta 303 out of 399 twins followed by a Josh Chisholm prison and Te Oscar Hernandez Excuse me guys. Let me grab something to drink really quick. You guys like my shirt Volkswagen rabbit That was pretty cool. I got a friend $7 at TJ Maxx Max crannick Gavin sheets on the rookies Josh Lowe Hard of the city is out too bad. There's a trout throwback Got auto Jackson Reets not number for the brewers. Thank you. I care and read that murders refractor rookie for the angels Nick wants a one-on-one. So now we have Brian Hayes Shet Brandon Marsh rookie Alexander Wells got yellow and Ronzi Contreras is gonna be the refractor on the back rookie for the Pirates Couch Cal Raleigh Curtis Terry Redolfo Castro got Jackson Reets on the rookie that is 87 out of 199 aqua wave Mani Machado Prism Got auto Miguel Sanchez pitcher for the brewers on the base rookie auto not numbered and refractor rookie Emmanuel Rivera for the Royals Every now and then you'll run into a path like that where you got a top load like four hearts You get some with none, and you'll get some that like you have a bunch just dull law of averages on that one Sadly Fred's got Austin Riley on the prism and Edward Cabrera rookie on the refractor got any questions on anything to Only say it was a stupid question when we're Don't Carlson base. There's a wander base again. That's number two of the break very nice Bobby Dolbeck Pinched right there's gonna be Nolan Arnato Throwback of Gavin sheets. There's a Keston here off. That's a third brewers auto out of this box Kess daddy on the base bet auto not numbered for the brew crew It's been a brewers box right here. Hope you're a brewers fan ammo And we've got Jackson Reets on the refractor rookie. I've got a rosin rain on Set beer base rookie for the diamond back Laddie G like snow yada your Molina pinstri Freddie Freeman and Austin Meadows refractor rates to to go here. Good luck on the last two animals pull some nice color So you can get a super out of this. Why not why not Andre Jackson? Hebert Reese at Lothar Woodruff, there's an Acunha got new classics showhead Kristen Yelich on the prism and Verlander refractor and last pack of the break here super fracture this pack Easy here is the wander super. Nope. There's a purple though Zimmerman You know how Jake Meyers on the rookie as well There's some adult Bruhan rookie for the rays got a prison Ronald Acunha. Nice We've got Kyle Muller on the purple rookie auto 96 out of 250 graves Very solid right there. Grats on that one ammo. That's cool and refractor is Nelson Cruz That will do it for your break there ammo congrats again on the hits man the mccar and the soda were huge We'll get those right out to you buddy appreciate it