Welcome, everybody. So maturing your platform engineering initiative. So my name is Nikki Watt. I'm the CEO and CTO at a company called Open Credo. We're based out of London in the UK. And we're a hands-on software development consultancy. And we help our clients to build sort of cloud-native architectures, data platforms. And one of the key areas that we work in is around platform engineering. So what I'm going to do today is speak to you about some of the experiences that we've had in trying to help our different clients to mature their platform engineering initiatives, but also have a look at it from how can the CNCF maturity model actually help with that. So there's some of the experiences that we've kind of worked with, different types of clients. And I'm going to try and pull on some of those in order to tell the story. So in terms of what we're going to cover, we're going to start off just with a bit of an introduction, have a look at what is the platform maturity model, platform engineering maturity model, and then go into the main part, which will be around the sort of typical scenarios and journeys that we see our clients going through, and then to finish off with some key lessons, takeaways, and a conclusion. So first of all, where did this platform maturity model come from? So I haven't made this up. This was actually originally donated by the good people at Cintasso and the wonderful Abby Bankza, actually leading the charge there. And I did help to contribute to some of the sort of the precursor to being donated to the CNCF. And so I'm going to try and give our view on how this fits with how we do things. But essentially, it was donated to the CNCF. And then in November 2023, it was actually released in the first version. I think Colin from the working group, the platform working group, actually spoke a little bit about that early on. So I've got the sort of URL there. So if you want to have a look at it, please do either Google it or go to that URL in the slides moving forward. So let's dive into the model and just kind of have a look. What is the actual sort of model? So at its heart, I'd say it's really it's sort of a correlation of trying to find the sort of patterns and wisdoms that various people have gone through to try and sort of put together in a handy matrix style sort of setup and show the different sort of characteristics and the different sort of practices that exist at different levels of maturity as people go through this process. It'll hopefully also provide you with a way to sort of orient yourself. So where am I in this particular process? And also highlight like what maybe are the limitations for where I am and what are the opportunities for where I can move to. Now this is not meant to be dogmatic. So there may well be sections that don't apply to you. And it's really meant to be you kind of take the pieces that work, maybe even add some in. But it's trying to give you a framework to be able to do this. But at a high level, there's these two angles. You've got the aspects that you want to kind of look at. And then you've got the maturity level. So if we start off with the aspects, one of the first one that is kind of looked at is around investment. And this is really around how are the staff and the funds sort of allocated to platform capabilities. So you may find if you're in an organization, it may come from the sort of grass route to get people that are starting to try and cajole it forward. And then it may also come from the top down. But no matter sort of which way you sort of come about it, making sure that you have the right funding and the people available at the right time to progress your initiatives will be really key to making sure that you can actually progress forward. So optimizing for the time, the people, and the sort of money is really going to be crucial to moving forward. So this aspect will have a look at that. Then you've got the adoption. And this looks at how and why do users actually sort of discover your platform and the sort of platform capabilities that you have. So we want a platform that users actually want to use. We don't want something that is non-desirable. So one of the things that we want to do here is really kind of find out where are users on this journey. So in some cases you might have users that they don't even know they have a platform. They just have a collection of sort of common tooling maybe on the one sort of end. But as you mature along you'll find that actually there's more of that curated experience that Matthew Skelton kind of speaks about. And you've got these different sort of levels that people kind of work within. And on the one end you might also have users that are more kind of forced on to the platform. And then on the other end you've got users that really sort of self-serve. They want to be there. And they're actually trying to encourage other users to get on but also to contribute back to the system. So that's on the adoption aspect. Interface-wise this looks at what's the maturity around how your users actually interact with and consume the platform capabilities. So with this you're really kind of looking at interfaces which look at things like provisioning, the managing and maybe the sort of observability of some of the capabilities that you're looking at. And on the one end you might have things where there's ticketing systems. It's actually quite manual. So the systems that you interact with are very manual. They take quite a long time. Maybe even portals that don't have APIs. But then as you mature along the sort of spectrum you get to more API driven setups and more CLI type of setups. And this will have a look at sort of where you are on that spectrum. Operation-wise this looks at how are the platforms and their capabilities actually planned, prioritized and maintained. Now from this perspective, if you think about it, there's a saying which goes, a dog is not just for Christmas, it's for life. And it's the same thing when it comes to platforms. You don't just kind of build a platform and it's only for a day one capability. You really need to have a look at what is the operational aspect moving forward. And this aspect will have a look at that. So this will include things like how do you deal with your users when you need to upgrade the platform or the capabilities around it or you need to create new features. What does that look like and how consistent is it? And this is looked at throughout the whole life cycle. And the final one is really around measuring it. So what is the actual process that you go through for gathering and incorporating feedback and learning from it? So as the saying goes, if you can't measure it, it generally sort of doesn't exist. So how will you know if you're maturing, if you don't have those feedback loops that are kind of coming into you and getting the feedback from your users? So this aspect will have a look at things like do you have explicit or implicit feedback loops coming in but also not just that it's about the actual quality and how consistent is it as you get up the more sort of mature level of the spectrum to where you're going. So that's really around the aspect. So these are different kinds of things that we have a look at. Then you have the maturity levels themselves and this is generally sort of labeled from sort of one to four with some kind of descriptions for the titles here. But the key thing to note is that there's no sort of single standalone definition which says this is what it means to be provisional. You generally need to have a look at it in the context of the aspect that you're actually looking at. So what we'll typically be is you'll find there's more tactical type of characteristics and outcomes that you find on the sort of left-hand side and then as you progress to the right it's a little bit more strategic. Now this doesn't mean that if you find yourself in level one or two of a particular aspect that that's bad. It just means that maybe you're at a place where you need to have a particular tactical setup in order to progress forward. So it's really more about where you are and how you can improve moving forward. So I'm not gonna go through all of the details yet because we'd be here for a very long time but you can go to the CNCF and actually have a look at this they've got this available in a PDF and I would advise you to go and do that. What is worth noting however is that as you are looking to mature your platform engineering initiative the more level, the more sort of maturity levels that you wanna go up you need to be aware that you are going to need greater funding and you are going to need more of people's time in order to move forward. And practically that means that you may not want to automatically aim for being at level four everywhere. You need to be sort of pragmatic and say what is it that, what are the constraints that me and my business has in terms of where I am in terms of people and time and then work within that. So this actually fits in nicely with there was a panel which spoke about build versus buy and there's a lot of different ways of cutting the sort of costs and things and this is an angle which you can have a look at. So let's recap what is the point of this maturity model? Is it to get some kind of comparative score like I'm a 3.5 out of five? Absolutely not. Is it to find the one true way for how you actually kind of mature your platform engineering initiative? Absolutely not. There are many ways to do this but really what it's about is trying to provide a helpful way for you to really understand what are the outcomes, what are the practices that exist at different maturity levels in these different aspects? Where are you currently? And also then what are the limitations and the opportunities that exist for you to mature and move forward? So and finally also to cement the idea if you have a look at all of these different characteristics that the really way to get a good outcome is to make sure that you balance your people process and technology alongside your technology. So that was the sort of platform engineering maturity model. Now we're gonna have a look at the typical scenarios and the journeys that we go on. So here are some common scenarios or we have customers that come with many different reasons for why they want to mature their platform engineering initiatives. And there's a variety of them and I'm not going to be able to sort of explore all of them but we can explore one or two of them. But what I would say is that irrespective of the scenario that you start with, there's a couple of key kind of points that are common across everything when you're getting started. And the first one is that you really need to understand what are your ultimate goals and what are the constraints that you're working within. So this is really important because what it essentially means is that you want to have a look at what are your main business drivers? So am I trying to scale my organization within a particular point in time? Or am I trying to migrate or some legacy technology? Because depending on where you start or depending on what your main drivers are you may land up going and trying to end in a particular sort of different place. And you can have multiple, there may be sort of a mixture of these. But you want to make sure that you can figure out what are the strategies that I need. So once you've done that, you then need to say, okay, I know where I'm going but where am I at this point in time? So you need to understand what your landscape is. You need to try and plot yourself as best as you can sort of in this matrix to see where am I. Now it's not necessarily gonna be perfect and you probably won't find that you fit nice and neatly into a category and that's okay. You can even add extra categories in there. So for example, one of the things that might come up is you might have ESG as another sort of category. So different teams, different customers will have slightly different things but this matrix does give a good indication of what the main sort of aspects are to consider. And finally, once you know, okay, this is where I've started, this is where I'm ending. You then want to sort of plan and say, okay, what are my particular steps that I need to take in order to go from where I am to where I want to be? And you always want to aim to take sort of baby steps and iterate and then rinse repeat as you go along. Because a lot of this process may be experimental to a certain extent. You may not know exactly what's going to work. So if you do sort of little and often, it's much easier to be able to work out whether things are working. If you've got a good feedback mechanism than trying to do everything in a big bang. Okay, so this is a scenario that comes up quite often when clients approach us and there's a desire to improve a particular technology. So they want to improve their Kubernetes platform. But I would argue that this is not a business driver. This is a desire to improve technology. And when clients come to us, we generally need to dig a little bit deeper and say, well, what is actually the reason behind you wanting to improve your Kubernetes platform? And then you kind of get into the scenarios where they say, well, actually, the developers are overloaded and they can't develop fast. And you say, okay, well, that's the reason that's why we actually need to optimize for not just Kubernetes per se. And that's why the title of the talk is also about trying to go beyond just Kubernetes. It's to Kubernetes and beyond. So we want to have a look not just at the technology, but at the overall sort of aspects in order to mature our platform engineering initiatives. So Kubernetes will be a key part of it, but not the main thing. So the scenario we're going to spend a little bit more time on in this talk is around scaling an enterprise, what I call center of excellence. So the scenario is that we want to sort of grow and we need to scale. We also want to sort of deliver a little bit faster and more effectively. Now this could be, your starting point could be a startup actually, but and that will have a very different starting point and a different endpoint than if you're an enterprise. But we're going to focus on the enterprise one from this perspective. So what does that look like? So the first thing, as we said, what we want to know is what are our particular ultimate goals, what are the constraints that we are working with? So in an enterprise center of excellence, we would kind of say, all right, in this particular case, we have some key business expansion that we're trying to do. We probably need to onboard and maybe another sort of 20 plus teams. Maybe that is as a result of some mergers and acquisitions and it'll probably scale up even more after that. But in the initial phases, we need to onboard say another 20 and we've got sort of 12 to 18 months to do this. And maybe we probably need to conform with some sort of security regulations as we go along as well. So we say, okay, the main thing is the scaling as well as trying to go fast. So we are generally aiming to be in the sort of scaling maturity angle, but we'll see as how we go along. So where are we? Now we get to the point where, okay, we need to actually kind of plot ourselves. So this is where if you're looking at the platform engineering maturity model, you would go to it and you'd kind of have a look at the description and maybe the sort of example scenarios and the characteristics and try and plot, as I say, as best you can where you think you belong. What we have found as a sort of a typical setup and this is not necessarily always the case, but often an enterprise that is, they have a platform team, sorry, in an enterprise center of excellence scenario, your people will generally have central funding. So there is a team already or it's maybe called the center of excellence and there is central funding, but it's often treated as a cost center at this point in time. You'll generally have people that are actually dedicated to trying to provide common tools, but it's mostly going to actually be your technology folk that are doing things. You won't necessarily have a lot of other, maybe sort of product type folk in there as well. Just all right, this is maybe where we are from an investment perspective in this particular scenario. What about the adoption? So when it comes to enterprises, one of the things we find quite often is that there's very much a sort of an imperative and a directive for users to get onto the platform. There's generally some sort of, as I say, directors which will say, you need to use this particular type of framework or this particular setup and the users don't generally have the choices to whether they want to be on the platform or not, but they're kind of forced into it. And sorry, and another characteristic that we found with enterprise center of excellence type setups is that you often have a wiki so people have actually got a lot of documentation out there and say this is exactly how you adopt the platform, but it's often out of date and it doesn't actually sort of keep up. So this is a typical kind of setup. Interface-wise, this is a bit of a mixed bag. You can sometimes have a sort of standard tooling there, but it's not necessarily set up in a way that it allows you to be consistent. So it's semi-consistent. Typical sort of characteristics here is that you'll find the interfaces that are provided will focus on things like bootstrapping. So it's like how do I get people maybe onboarded fast, but then once they're actually up to speed, there's not necessarily the sort of ability to carry on in an automated and a consistent way after that. So that is on the interfaces. In terms of the operations, and again, this is not exactly the case for everybody, but we have found that with many of the enterprises, operations tends to be one of the areas which is a little bit less mature, and it tends to happen more sort of by request than in a reactive manner rather than sort of proactively. So what you will typically find, or what we've typically found when we've worked with these type of setups, is that the focus is really on the sort of day one requests and not so much on the day two requests. So a good sort of example of this is if you have, so you may discover a vulnerability in your setup, or maybe actually you've got an operating system that needs upgrading. So you'll know your different sort of teams that are out there and you'll say, okay, we've got 20 or so teams already, and we know that they need upgrading, but you won't have the capability as a platform team to actually be able to do that. You'll need to kind of schedule that onto their backlog and get them to actually do it for you. So that means it's more kind of by request than actually sort of centrally tracked. And finally, so we've also got on the measurement side of things. So this can be generally, there might be some measurement, but it's generally some sort of basic technical setups. There's not necessarily stuff that is customer focused and user centric at this stage. So there may be initial surveys that are done, but if they are done, they tend to be a little bit more sort of custom and a one-soft type thing, but there's not a consistent measurement at this particular point in time. So it's okay, this is a rough sort of indication of where an enterprise might be. Let's have a look, how do we move forward? So what we will typically do if we go into a client is to lay the foundation for building what I'd say the right thing and not just anything. And that means that we want to kind of look at certain kind of key areas that will really help us to make a difference moving forward. And one of the first things that that will be in the investment sort of area. So with this one, if we're gonna scale up to multiple teams, you definitely need more funding. So if you don't already have C level buy-in, that is generally something that it needs to be part of this. But also the key area here is that we need to move from a project type mindset to a more customer focused and more platform as a product type mindset. And we've spoken a lot about that sort of moving forward as well. And practically what that will also mean is that some of the members of the team that will actually sort of be part of your platform team will differ. So now you might actually get some product managers type involved as well. And this is going to be a little bit different. And you actually could have moved to a profit center model as well. So these extra people also gonna help us to be able to advance some of the other aspects that we have looking at as well. So once we've set that in place, so we've got our funding, we've got a few more product and customer centric types in our team, we then wanna have a look at the measurements. So we're not gonna know how we're advancing if we can't measure it. And what we wanna move to if you're in the ad hoc space is at least get to some what I call reliable, reliable Intel. And this is where you can use some of these new roles that people have come in with. So maybe the product managers and the researchers to be able to design you some qualitative research surveys. So how are your users actually using the platform and are they able to progress as things move along? So it's not just gonna be a once or thing you design this so that you can work out if you're actually progressing. You do the same on the operational side. Make sure you move to a more sort of centrally tracked setup. And yeah, it's a more centrally tracked setup. And this will be maybe to the point where you have, you may not have, it may not be manual, sorry, it may not be automated at this stage, but you do want to understand what is my estate, what do I have, who's responsible for what so that I can actually know how I move forward. So making sure that you have this sort of centralized documentation of where you have will allow you to then automate and move things forward. Don't forget to do your technical due diligence. So when we go into our clients, we will often actually do a lot of technical due diligence as part of this. So have a look specifically at the architecture, the observability, automation and infrastructure as part of this. So the things I had spoken about previously weren't very, they weren't necessarily that technical, but don't forget that this is a key part of what needs to be done. And the reason I say this, a good example here is if you kind of look at different multi-tenancy models. So if you're trying to scale your organization up to sort of 20 plus teams, the decisions that you make here technically can have a big impact on the sort of size and complexity of the operational setup that you're trying to do moving forward. So you want to be able to make sure that your technical people and your business and office people all work together to make sure that you can come up with an optimal solution. So as I noted before, you know, you try and do your best to plan and move along. And what you'll find is that you'll make a lot of progress in all of these aspects, but the one you'll struggle with will be adoption. And this is because we found that even if you make various sort of good sort of technical, make technical progress along the way, there are certain things which just act as a barrier to adoption. And these are some of the ones that we have found. So the first one is a lack of confidence. So what we found is that if you go into an organization, you've done things that the developers are still not adopting. And quite often it will be because they're just not confident that the platform is actually going to be able to support them when it goes into production. Or maybe they're the first ones going into production and they're just not actually happy with that, or they're not comfortable with that. The other thing that is also a drag is that there's not enough features. So they may need like a database and a queue and you've only given them a few things. And so they're like, if I don't have all of my pieces, I'm not going to go. And so this is why it's important to make sure that when you choose the teams that you want to progress through as your first sort of exemplars, that you find ones that are champions, but also ones that can take you all the way through the system so that you will be able to learn about the operational aspects and give confidence for others as you go forward. And also finally, you need to make sure about the developer relations. So we found this is really important. So evangelizing to the developers about the platform and how they can use it is really important to getting them to adopt and become more sort of self-selecting rather than having the stick approach, which is what typically happens in a enterprise center of excellence. So that was a little bit of a whistle-stop tour in terms of what it might look like in an enterprise center of excellence type of setup. But as I said before, it's not going to be a big bang approach. You would typically take little steps along the way on your journey. So there can be a lot of different scenarios out there for why you might want to mature your platform engineering model. I'm not going to be able to go through all of them and fortunately due to time. So I'm just going to finish off with some key lessons and some takeaways from this. So basically as part of your sort of strategy for moving towards a more mature platform model or more mature platform, what you really want to do is start with understanding what is your ultimate goal that you're trying to achieve? Are you trying to scale up? Are you trying to develop a productivity or is it something else? Because that is going to inform where you want to get to but also some of the trade-offs you might need to make along the way. Make sure you know where you're starting from so that you can work out what that gap is and then do plan baby steps in order to sort of move forward. Try and lay the foundation for some of the other steps that you'll need to take. So things like investment, making sure that you've got the right people in the team will be crucial to getting this right and then don't forget that this has to all be done sort of collectively. So consider people process and tech together as part of your decision making. So the conclusion is basically in addition to the key lessons I've just highlighted, the maturity model can be a really helpful way to sort of plan your journey as you are maturing but it isn't the plan. You will still need to work out for yourself what are the particular steps that I need to take to move from point A to point B and that is going to be context dependent. As you try and mature your particular initiative, you will need more investment in people and time the more you want to go up those models but that doesn't mean you always need to aim for everything to be at level four. It will be horses for courses in this case. But whatever strategies and the approaches that you take you need to just make sure that you balance your people, process your policy and your technology. And with that, thank you very much. Don't know if there's time for questions. So questions for Niki? Any question? Hi, what would you consider a lot of time when we're talking DIY versus buy when we're talking about the platform? Sorry, can you say that again? What would you consider like rule of thumb when you're considering buying or DIYing your platform? So yes, I said one of the angles to have a look at is generally cost, like there's not an endless sort of monetary supply of money in any organization but also the developers and the skills that they have and the time that you have to be able to implement your setup. So when it comes to build versus buy it would be a combination of looking at do I have the team and the capability to actually build something brand new? Do I even need that? Or actually is there something that's out there that I can use that I'll get 80% of what I need? And maybe that's good enough for a starting point. So it really kind of depends on what your particular constraints are and that's why I say it's really important to understand what it is you're aiming for and what the constraints are. So combination of cost, people's skills would be part of figuring that out. I also have a question, thanks for your talk. So what do you think about the buy versus build versus compose, like adopt something? Yep. What's your point of view about that? It depends, which is always a consultant's answer. But if I have to, there's not a rule of thumb, but I would generally say it's customized, basically. Quite often the build will not do everything that you want. You will always have to customize to a certain extent. But building everything from scratch is also over the top. So there's generally some happy medium, I would say, in the middle. I think the key thing, and this has been spoken about by many people before is to make sure that you do it to APIs so that you can adapt different things. So if you're going to buy something, make sure that it has an API and that you can integrate with it from other things, because that gives you flexibility rather than just portals and things. But in most of the clients that we are in, there's always a customization that tends to happen. It's never just one or the other. Thanks. What would you advise if a customer comes to you and says that one of their drivers to go on with their platform initiative is to streamline the cost profile of the organization or the engineering body? So cost is an angle that some people come at. But I think there's different ways of looking at this. So it's digging, what aspect is it of the cost that you're after? Because there's different paths that one can take. So is it just to cut costs, because what you don't want to do is necessarily just cut the workforce type thing. But there are ways to optimize that. So it's definitely something to look at. And it's a very valid concern, if I'm honest, that people generally come with. But I wouldn't look at it just in isolation. I would also say, well, what are the other things you're trying to achieve? So there's the cost angle, which is the primary sort of thing. But you don't want to sacrifice some of the other initiatives that you're also looking at. So a platform is one of those things that if you get it right, it will allow you to do that. But it's generally not something that happens straight away. It's actually something that takes a little bit of time to get there. So there is initially sometimes an investment that's required. So if people are expecting a quick result, that's not necessarily going to help. So the time horizon for when people are trying to actually optimize for costs, they need to have a bit more of a longer term look at. And so that's the one thing we were generally says, yes, it can come. But it's not going to happen sort of chop chop. You mentioned about needing buy-in from the C-suite. So how do you get that buy-in in the first place? Yeah, well, a lot of pleading sometimes. So I think sometimes when people come to us, it's all gone horribly wrong. And there's actually a recognition that it's gone wrong like three or four times already. And so things need to change. And the C-suite has been impacted by that. And they've recognized the desire. So sometimes, if I'm honest, the C-suite have actually sort of recognized that. However, when you start with organizations where the initiative starts from the grassroots and then you're trying to actually convince management to take it on, that is far more difficult. And so part of that is to find out what are their particular challenges. So the type of things that the C-suite often cares about are things like risk and security. And so if you can speak in their language and say, part of this platform engineering initiative, we will be able to look at risk and whatever. And in the long run, we'll be able to potentially reduce the risk profile or make things a little bit more streamlined. Those are the type of things that they are generally interested in. But if you just talk about Kubernetes and this type of stuff, it goes absolutely nowhere. So it's working out what is their challenge and spending time with them to find out what is the key driver. And often, if you chat with them, you'll kind of find that out and say, well, actually, this is how the platform can help. But it's been able to kind of map what their challenge is to how the platform will be able to actually help that. OK, thank you very much, Nicky. We have no more time for questions. So a big round of applause for Nicky.


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We'll get back in like energy Barbara Gates obviously one of my favorite gyms and we're filming and I'll be with Bard and the homies So to be excited to deem and Justin But I think gym hopping is kind of it's part of the culture already a little bit, but it's like a low-key Part of the culture that's dying I feel like or at least like isn't as much of a thing We're used to be a very common thing to choose a day with some homies or your gym goes and visits another gym for big deadlift day Grab a couple day passes or have multiple memberships You know like all these people are so spoiled They need the perfect combo rack a laco bar or they can't get better at powerlifting or they choose their gym that way Where I'm choosing the gym with the culture and the people in that equipment second Yeah, I want my plates to match and maybe not a bent bar but even then dude like I Early days powerlifting Me prepped for like five years with bent bars and plates that literally didn't match let alone competition plates plates That did not match pound plates did not match different heights different sizes colors rusty getting tetanus from a fucking, you know Deadlift bar. That's just like part of the game. That stuff doesn't bug you But if the culture is good the people are good. I'm there Not that barbecue is like that by any means They're literally the gold standard of powerlifting gyms looking clean and being clean will still be in like hardcore gritty But the gym hopping culture I think it's moved or changed or because people are just obsessed with these comp plates and yes specificity matters But it doesn't matter that much man. It doesn't matter that much So that is something about the culture. I love a lot You know, hopefully with these vlogs and my travel will bring it back a little bit show you some gyms We're heading to a couple different cities in the next few weeks and we'll be in prep So I'll be showing you guys those gyms because I got a train So off the bar brigade filming for them and then the talk show all day yesterday was a little chaotic because I landed and went straight to JK news So shout out to them for having me on but we didn't get a lot of time to vlog that lift my shit is sore Sure What's up, baby on this guy What's take a down dude honestly, I know it isn't take the fighting game on dream cast that's taken Taken taking fighter. Yeah.  So so this is probably something on rice You don't know what take a isn't your loss. No, you're expertise ends there. I know what don't is but isn't what's the What's the thick noodle? But that's one word that's you throw an O in there now Are you in there don't yeah? Yeah, so what's the go-to post-workout best?  Yeah, so like if you don't work out at night only junk food at night Yeah, so you jump food at night, then you're going to bed. I'll go to bed with the stomach ache in the parts Yeah, yeah, but if I got the rest of my day, you know me like Chipotle is a great post-workout But you go chips nacho sauce all that now we got a little bit her pizza in sushi We're probably one of these guys Josh. Yeah. Hello.   But there's a constant battle within my head besides the demons of like a savory sweet savory sweet tug-of-war So you have sushi It's all savory and slimy. Yeah, and then now I gotta get something to eat I think I could one up you on that you got a tug-of-war Even more so than that. What's your tug-of-war? So I got the savory of the sweet, of course Yeah, I'm the inner fat kid on the inside.   Yeah, so I wouldn't eat like let's say we got katsu, right? Yeah, savory and crunchy and yeah fried or fried chicken or something like that.  Yeah. That's also sweet. Yeah Textures are it so that's why I went with gummies. Yeah, peach gummies peach gummies slap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So we got those for the texture. You got some peach gum. Yeah, dude I'm gonna share with you. Don't you worry because now we're not dieting. I don't know what he's doing anymore Dude on dieting today, but gummies are diet. Are they yeah diet gummies I got that I got the sugar-free calorie free one, but I kind of went. Oh, you did yeah high protein sugar-free calorie-free That'll make those trolleys.  Yeah, cuz the bubbles What about it the texture? I love bubbles. I love the things in my mouth. I know you do. Yeah Yeah, you do too. I do crunchy slurpy Sorry didn't vlog more y'all Things are a little crazy, you know trying to balance this be a kind of CEO CCO We got multiple positions at their string good company plus my other business is my other company plus the content creation Plus now I'm powerless. I'm trying to get strong So balancing all my hats and still get a vlog out for you. I'm doing the best I can again I'm sorry. I didn't vlog a little bit more, but we're heading home to sack We got a lot more trouble on the road a lot more vlogs and big list on the way So stay tuned like this thing we over me be a part of something bigger in yourself, man So I'm like, I'll catch on the next one new videos Monday Thursday. Share this thing out join discord I'll talk to you guys soon a new video coming soon


So, CCD Smiles is an organization to help people with cladocranial dysplasia. I have this condition. You guys might remember that I talk about it in the first episode of season one when the bullies are making fun of me because of my teeth. And I still don't have my teeth, actually. I didn't realize that crack was going to be so audible. Sorry, I usually am the only one that hears that, but right next to the mic. But it's a condition. You're always born with it and it affects the growth of pretty much every bone in your body, but mostly your collar bones. You're born without your collar bones. Of course, it affects the structure of your jaw. And a lot of people think that they don't have enough teeth. They actually have more teeth.  You're going to stop growing. No. With CCD, they don't, your baby teeth don't want to come out. Your adult teeth don't want to come in. And you more than likely have more teeth than you should.  Don't worry. That's pretty much what happened with me. And they didn't know that they weren't coming in. And they needed to apply chains or some other way of pulling the teeth down manually. And that is the process that I'm going through right now. And I think CCD smiles is not just to raise money for people who can't afford these surgeries, because a lot of times people have to pay for all of it, even if they have insurance, it doesn't even cover it, because there's always that battle. Is it medical? Is it cosmetic? Is it dental? I personally think it's medical. I think everyone should think it's a medical condition. It's a bone condition that you're born with. It's medical. And I think it's disgusting to say that it's cosmetic. You need your teeth. You need your teeth. Thank you. I think it's not just to raise money for people who can't afford these surgeries. I think it's to educate a lot of doctors who can help a lot of people with this. And thankfully, I have great doctors that are able to help me with everything. And thankfully, I started early, but I can't say the same for a lot of people. So it really is to help everyone out there. You can go to ccdsmiles.org and donate whatever you can. You can donate money. If there's a fundraiser or something nearby, you can even volunteer if you'd like to. If it comes your way. I mean, we're still building it up right now. I mean, it isn't all that big just yet, but I think everyone here can help out. So thank you guys. I appreciate the support. Thank you for the question. I appreciate it.


to redo that. Test, test, test, test, test. No, I think it's good. Y'all can hear. Should be good to go. Another revolution came through. So Jeremiah, let it down to two. Another two on that one. Nice. No, he sold out in the first few. Yes, got 13 to go on the second break of the Night Mosaic Premier League. 13 to go on that on sale for $59.99 a spot. 13 to go. There's a link for that. Yeah, appreciate you hanging out, watching, supporting us. What's up, Jeremiah? How you doing, buddy? 16 number nine a spot came in. Spots starting to come through. Again, plenty of spots left for group breaks tonight. As for personals, they are full for tonight. Six to go. Two, eight, eight, eight, 14, six, 18, seven, 14, 13. Nope. All right. We're gonna go ahead and do the random here for the first break. What's up, everyone? Doing the random for 21, 22. Panini Prism Premier League Soccer Choice, 20 box case break number three random teams. Got the names here first. Let's roll our dice. Five times on the random names here first. Here we go. One, two, three, four, five. Jackie Y down to Andrew B. And five times on the teams. Good luck, everyone. One, two, three, four, five. Crystal Palace down to Leeds. All right, we've got Jackie Y Crystal Palace, Mark O. Everton, Kinesis W. Tottenham, Zach E. Brighton, Alvin S. Brentford, Zach E. Chelsea FC, John M. Ashton, Bal T. Burnley, Wojcik B. Arsenal, Jeremy W. Westham, Kinesis with Wolverhampton, Sean T. Watford, Mark S. Newcastle, Scott B. Norrick City, Jeremy W. Mann U, Mark S. Liverpool, Brooks B. with Leicester City, Mike B. Southampton, Tim A. Mann City, and Andrew B. Leeds. Let me get this poster. We'll get started in just a few minutes, everybody. Is it Leicester or Leicester? I've heard Leicester, I've heard Leicester. Yeah, I've heard people told me both on that one. Yeah, that's how she's more like a preference thing. Yeah. Leicester, Leicester. Someone messed up my printing chain. I don't like it very much. Uh-oh. All right, thanks for subscribing, Matt. There is the link for the random results if you'd like to take a closer look. Let's get this next soccer break filled up. What is a half-case, 12, a six-box half-case mosaic Premier League soccer? Again, definitely did a lot better on this year's mosaic than they did last year, so definitely check that out. 13 to go, I believe spots were what, 59.99 on that one? Yeah, on sale for 59.99, 13 to go. That breaks right after this one does. What's next Wednesday, Jeremiah? Is it like hockey pre-season? No, no way, it's hockey pre-season already. The draft already, yeah, what's next Wednesday? All right, so. Oh, the new products. The revolutions is sold out. The break at 6, 18, 13, 18, 7, 10, 14, 10, 14, 13, 8, 8, 14. All right, the list is updated there for you. Black Diamond release day, nice. That's, yeah, that's a hockey product, isn't it? Black Diamond, that's a really nice hockey product. Prism Choice is up first. Yep, you see our schedules right here on the front for ya. Starting with Prism Choice soccer, and then we've got mosaic Premier League. Starting off with some soccer for the first hour here. 13 to go. There is the link, again, 13 to go on our next break, which is Prism Premier League Soccer. Or I'm sorry, mosaic Premier League Soccer. Doing Prism first here, 350 a box, six cards a box. Nice, I don't think I've ever ripped any of that. Yeah, I've seen it ripped, and it's pretty solid. Yeah, yeah, same. Got a couple more minutes before we can get started, but yep, plenty of break spots left for today. We're been soccer, baseball, basketball, and football tonight. Again, next break up has 13 to go. We gotta get that filled up. It is a half case of mosaic Premier League Soccer. Hobby Boxes, a random team there, 20 spots to that one. Then we're gonna get into some baseball. We've got two half cases of pristine baseball, random team with six and 18 spots left. Definitive is sold out. Then we're gonna hop into some basketball. We've got a lot of T-malls. All T-malls actually for basketball, so those are always fun to rip. We've got illusions. You're looking for the red exclusives there, the mosaic T-malls. You're looking for the gold wave and the red waves, beautiful looking cards. Those are all random teams. And then one of my favorite T-malls that we have ripped so far here at LSC is the impeccable basketball. Those have been beautiful cards. Really nice. Those are numbered, the red exclusive as well, to 81 and 31 and even some to eight. Then we're gonna get into some football. We've got a full case break of contenders. First off, the line random teams. That's a nice one. I haven't ripped contenders here in a bit. And T-full case break, pick your team. There's eight teams left in that. And then ending the night with some flawless on tiered random, a case break of that one. Oh man, I was feeling you Brandon. That was me like three weeks ago for my fiance and I, seven year anniversary. We had reservations for a beachfront hotel for the weekend and then found out we both had COVID. So we were stuck at home for our second anniversary in a row with COVID. Yeah, happened. Same thing happened to us last year. But hope you feel better. Make sure to rest up. That's really the only, only way to get over that thing pretty quick. So just rest and sleep it off and relax. Don't try and exert yourself too much. Five to go. 18, we'll check this real quick and then we'll get started. Seven, 10, 14, 12, 8, 8, 8, 14, awesome. All right, well we are gonna go ahead and get started. Best of luck everybody. If everyone it's your girl, Kenty here from Leighton Sports Cards and I am ripping 21, 22, Panini Prison Premier League Soccer, Choice 20 box case break, number three, random teams. Again, here's a look at the random results. You can always find these at leightonsportscards.com underneath the results tab and the link is also in chat for you. All right, best of luck everybody. Here we go. Kenty Expensive, I mean the T-Malls for basketball that we got going right now are really nice. Some nice exclusive cards that you can hit out of there. That's a cheaper price point. Also, Pristine Baseball that's up here soon is another nice one. I think that is about 60 bucks. Spot two. Football, the football that we've got going tonight is a little bit pricier. But yeah, I would definitely suggest maybe a T-Mall basketball or some of the baseball that we've still got up. All right, there we go. There's a view. 20 boxes. See what we can get. Let's just share it up high. I don't work this yet. It's top loaded for course. When he was with us at the national, I was like, yeah, you can do this soccer. Got Silver, Terney, a Joe Pedro, Rocky, Watford. We've got our choice exclusives. Popper, Martial, and we've got Scope Auto of John McGinn for Ashton Villa. John McGinn, I really feel like this chair is up high. I don't know how to bring it back down low. Then we've got Green Rookie of Lokanga for Arsenal on the green. That is one out of nine. Wow. Arsenal with a big hit there. Wojciech B, one of nine on the green Scope Rookie. We will mag this one for you. Oh, we just sold out of Revolution. Yeah, Jeremiah, that one just sold out. Only had two spots left when we went live. Yeah, it was $39.99 on that one. U-Fireworks, Joe Rodan, Rocky, Brighton, Agbana. We've got Romeo and Perez on the exclusives. Out of 10, we've got Gold Scope Auto Patrick Bamford for Leeds. I like the gold scope. Look, that's beautiful. That's cool. Nice one there, Leeds. And then Tiger, Max Arons. Love Tiger. It's one of my favorite inserts in Prism. That is so sick. Beautiful one there. All right, off to a hot start here. Yep, exactly. Yeah, that was a fantastic box. Solid. Fantastic. Perez, Arons, Velasic. We've got Jack Clark Rookie. Hey, Edison. We have Scope Signatures of Eze, Easy, for Crystal Palace. And we've got Tiger Stripe of Kyle Walker from Man City. Another beautiful Tiger Stripe there. Yeah, I like, what was it? It was Select, I think, Retail last year. The Elephant Prince. Those were cool. And Basketball. Then you got the Odyssey, the Zebra, the Goldfish, and Spectra, first off of Man School. We've got Ivan Tony Rookie, Bamford. Rookie on the Choice Exclusive of Jenelle Sarice James. Got Redemption here of Declan Rye. Signatures, Signature, Prism's Choice. We just pull up the group read checklist real quick here to double check what team that goes to. Soccer, 21-22. Prism, EPL. English for Knightley. What is this one? This is E. Phil. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is E. Phil. Plum, team checklist. Declan Rice is West Ham. West Ham on this one. Very nice hits. Those got him. Jeremy W, there you go. Nice, Declan Rice Redemption. And Formino on the Red out of 29. Little color match there with the jersey. Oh, that sounds cool. I like that. I like snakeskins too, those are really sick. But one of my favorites is definitely Dragon Scale. The limited run on those are pretty short print, too. Barnes, we've got Armando, Broha Rookie. Greenwood are exclusives. Andre Gomez, Everton, and a Shelby. Next auto up is Wolverhampton. Signatures of Connor Cody. Cody for the Wolverhampton. And Rookie Tiger Stripe of Impeyu for Brighton and Hove. And Mwepu. See ya. What did I say? Okay. Gotcha, thanks, Lynn. Mwepu, nice one there. All right, again, everyone, let's get this next break filled up. It is a half case of Mosaic. Premier League breaks next. Random teams, Harvey Elliott on the silver. Rookie, nice. Lossy, Rookie are exclusives. Che Adams and Astruji. Auto, we've got signature scope of Isaac Hayden for Newcastle. Isaac Hayden. And we've got Red Martial. That is six of 29. Another red color match there. Man, you this time. Seven to go now, everybody. Seven to go, again, 59.99. This spot is your random team and a half case break. Looking for those beautiful stained glass out of Mosaic. It's gonna impact John Stones. We've got a penne, Rookie, silver. Stuart Dallas, our exclusives. We've got Gabriel for Arsenal. And DeGay, Manu. One out of five. Gold Scope, Auto, Giovanni, Los, Celso. Celso for Tottenham and Hotspur. Tottenham, Hotspur. Kinesis W, Kinesis W. Out to five on that one. I did, did I see? There is a slight like mark on the back. You can kind of see the indent right there. On the back of the autograph.  Just in case. You want to agree that it probably won't gem with that little dent there. So we will send the box just in case. And Red Tillman's for Meister. Ramsdale, we've got Silver Dennis for Watford, Rookie. Exclusive, Christian Romero and Max Kilman. Autograph, we have a Jack Harrison Signatures for Leeds. Leads with another auto there. And Tiger Strape of Luke Ailing. Nice one there. Beautiful looking car. I love the Tiger Strapes. Just pop. Get everyone's personal's art full for the night. So if you order now, it will get ripped tomorrow. Sam will be doing those after group breaks tonight. We've got Exclusive of Los Celso, Zaka Arsenal. We've got another redemption here. We've got a Alexis McAllister Signature Prisms Choice. Let me double check where he is. Alistair, Auto Signatures car number 57. That is Brighton. Brighton on that redemption. And then we've got Red Solly Marsh out of 29. Xbox, Armstrong, and Weppu, Silver. We've got the Choice Exclusive. We've got Norgard on the rookie. And Gabriel Jesus. We've got a Rafina on these Signatures Auto Leeds. Leeds killing it with all these autos. Again, I believe that's like the third auto there for Leeds. We go Andrew B. And Tiger Strape of Matt's Target. Target. Next box up, Romero. Walker Peters, Rushford. We've got Choice Exclusive, Tom Davies. Everton, a Adam, Messina Rookie. Swatford. And we've got for Ashton Villa an Ollie Watkins Signatures. Ollie Watkins. And another green here, a Michael Keane for Everton. Nine of nine. Very nice. I definitely think like Forrest was saying the Choice boxes are the way to go for Prison Soccer. Oh yeah. Such beautiful products. Absolutely. The exclusives, you get an auto. Just very nice cards. Bowen. We've got Choice Rookie, Jacob Ramsey. And a Pickford for Everton. Our auto. We've got West Ham Signatures of Michael Antonio. Jalen Toyo. And Tiger Strape of Patson Daca from Leicester. Nice Daca.  Another soccer break. It is a half case, six box break of Mosaic Soccer on the Premier League. And that breaks right after this, 59.99. A spot will get you a random team. All right, Choice Exclusive Rookie. We've got Adam Armstrong. Vladimir Kufal. Out of 10. We've got Gold Signatures for Leeds. Illian Messler. Leeds is killing it. There you go, Andrew B. And a red Martinez. 29, 19 of 29 on that one. Seven to go still, everyone. Again, seven to go on the very next break. Let's get that filled up. I'll break here in about 10 minutes or so. Gotta get it filled first. Gallister, a Uza Rookie. Watford, Choice Exclusive, Soli March. Isaac Hayden. Our auto. We've got signatures. It is pretty like, I'm kind of seeing. Little string out once we put it in a top litter a bit, but it is pretty, it's the word I'm looking for. Warped Creests or yeah, Warped. A. James Justin for Leicester. Nice. Yeah, Jew, I did notice that. One Gold was out of five and one was out of 10 for some reason. We've got Tiger Stripe of James Tarkowski. Going good, going good. Practicing my soccer names, that's for sure. They're literally the same. It looks the same, yeah. But one was to five and one was to, that's like an optic football, pulling a base looking auto and it was out of five and like, what the heck? The Kylan Hill. Yeah, mine was a Greg Russo. I think I did that twice actually. I was like, what the heck, Mason Mount? Choice Exclusives, Rookie of Giannullis. They've got Phil Foden, nice one there. I love this guy's name. How Maddy Cash on the signature scope. Ah, Ashley and Villa on that one. Geez, I hear more lightning. And Green Bissuma for Brighton, that is eight out of nine on the Yeves Bissuma. Nice. Yeah. I don't know. Walker, we've got a Ioanni Wisa, Silver, Brentford. Ailing, Choice Exclusive of Audard, Arsenal. Jordan Henderson for Everton, or sorry, Liverpool on that one. Next auto, we have a Harry Winx for Tottenham. Harry Winx, doesn't that look like Steph Curry's auto? Yeah, it does. I was like, wait a second, what? Kind of looks like Curry's auto, doesn't it? That's funny. A little bit. And Tiger Stripe of Jose Sa, or Wolverhampton. Couple boxes left, then we will do a recap again. Let's get this next break filled up, everyone. Half case of Prism, I'm sorry, Mosaic Soccer. English, primarily, 59.99 is Spokatea, a random team. Roberts, we've got Tri-Color Rookie of Mathias Jensen for Brentford. Jack Cork, we've got a Matt Target for Ashton Villa on the signatures. And Red, McLean to 29. I know we haven't seen Ronaldo yet, or a Martinelli. That's the rookie you're really chasing out of this year's stuff. Martinelli rookies, of course, Rinaldo's. I think KDB is, does he have autos in this? Yeah, he's got autos, he also has sandas too. Yeah, Silva, a T-Bow rookie for Watford. Our exclusives, Trossarn, Brighton, and Jordan Ayu. Our next autos, signatures of Tariq Lampti for Brighton. Lampti. And Red to 29, Fabian Char. Come on. Forrest pulled a Nebula at the National. I can't remember who it was. I was in a popular form, but yeah, he pulled a Nebula out of this, beautiful. Yeah, that's what people are saying, Jude, they're looking forward to that. Redman, Havertz. We've got Taizolis on the rookie, exclusive. Mendy for Chelsea. We have another hit here of Harry Wings for Tottenham. Yeah, another Curriotta there. Really looks like his autos. That one does. And Red to 29, Milo, Milo Jevich. Jevich. Millie. That one. Last box here. Like I try and say it slow sometimes. Like I either have to say it really fast or like try and break it up and it's like. Yeah, it really is. Last box here, then we'll do a recap. Bach, Obama Yang Silver, nice one there. We've got Exclusive Danny Inks. Rookie Harvey Elliott, there's a nice one there for you, Liverpool on the Exclusive. Last auto is one of five flashbacks of Clint Dempsey for Tottenham. There you go, that's a cool one. Tottenham did very well too with the autos. Kinesis W. Well, Mag, this one for you as well. And last one here, we've got a Timo Werner for Chelsea on the Tiger Strait. Nice. All right, give me one second, we will do a recap. But in the meantime, let's fill up this next break, everyone, breaks right after this half-case mosaic soccer. We are starting off hot tonight with some soccer. All right, here we go. We had Harry Winx, Tariq Lampy, Matt Target, Harry Winx, Maddie Cash, James Justin, Messley are on the goal, this one was out of 10. Antonio, Ollie Watkins, Rafina for Leeds. We had Brighton Redemption of Alexis McAllister, Jack Harrison, Isaac Hayden, Connor Cody. We had a West Ham of Declan Rice Redemption, congrats on that West Ham. Easy, or is it? For Crystal Palace, a gold of Patrick Bamford, this one is out of 10 as well. Josh McGinn, and then for our Mags Cards, we had the Green of Michael Keane, that is nine of nine. Rookie Green of Locanga for Arsenal, out of nine, one of nine on that one. Gold Giovanni Losa, Celso for Tottenham, this one was one of five. And then the Gold Flashbacks of Clint Dempsey for Tottenham, out of five as well, one of five. Yeah, two golds out of 10 and two golds out of five. I don't know, maybe because they're insert autos, I'm not too sure. But very solid case there. Thanks again, everyone, we got more soccer coming right up. Yeah, I don't know how to put this, oh, there we go. Now I feel super low, but it helps my back. That was like one of the best feelings of being back breaking here, because we got the lazy boy chair, because there we literally had like plastic chairs that we were sitting in the whole time.  I was like, for real. All right, let me upload this and I will get you a link to this next break, gotta get that filled up before we can get ripping. Publish, complete that. Let's refresh this, couple spots came through. Two to go, awesome, only two left, everybody. Two to go, breaks now.  Two left on that one, gotta get the names typed in once we do fill that up. So number nine is sold out in Christine, 16 to go in number 10. See allusions, is that six? Mosaic, is that eight and 14? Impeccable, is that eight? We've got eight, four to go in contenders. Few spots for that came in. Eight on NT and 13 on flawless. So spots are coming in, slowly but surely here. Two to go on that, everybody. Two to go. Still on my breaks. You're gonna get chirped every time you come in. Open up some more for Christine. Coming. That was her tier one. Looks like, I believe soccer is now sold out. Two more spots just came through. It's like in the middle of, like, sold out. Yes, awesome. Thank you all so much. Give me just a second to get all the names typed in. Then we'll do the random and get ripping here. All right, that was that. Let's get this one. So now the next break is a four box of Christine baseball, number 10 random team, 16 left in that. So next one we gotta get filled. Adam M, Andrew B, Anton H, Ben A, Brian S, Adobe S by Jeremy Z twice. Yeah, we do Mitchell. Once a month we ship internationally. John N, John M. Yes, we do ship to New Zealand. It is free international shipping. You're just responsible for any taxes, tariffs, or import fees that your country may charge. But it is free shipping. Kengo T, a lot of international people see that and they're like, is that a mistake? Like I live overseas. Are you sure it's free? It is free, yes. M-I-H, Patrick T twice. Steven C, William M. Double check this. Adam M, Andrew B. Yeah, that was literally yesterday, FL. Anton B, Ben A. You're not the only one though. So don't think that was just me talking about you. There's a lot of people that are surprised we have free shipping. Brian S, Adobe S five. Jeremy Z, John M. Kengo T, my hell P, Patrick T. Steven C, William M. Let's put it here. We'll do the random and we'll get ripping. Man, it's about to storm. We should have work glasses just in case that decides to explode again. I'm like freaking out here. I need to go back and watch the stream because I know I'd for sure jumped when that popped because I had no idea what the heck it was. All right, let's do the random here. What's up everyone? Doing the random for 2122, Penini Mosaic Premier League Soccer Hobbies, six box break number 15, random teams. Got the names here first. Let's roll the dice. Seven times, names first. Here we go. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Patrick T, down to John M. And seven times on the teams. Good luck everyone. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Got Chelsea FC, down to Southampton. All right, Patrick T, Chelsea FC, Steven C, West Ham, Dovey S, Everton, William M, Tottenham, Dovey S, Brighton, Andrew B, Man City, Patrick T, Norwick, Kengo T, Newcastle, Michael P, Ashton Villa, Anton H, Crystal Palace, Jeremy Z, Brentford, Dovey S, Wolverhampton, and Leeds. Adam M, Watford, Ben A, Man U. We've got John N with Leicester, Jeremy Z, Burnley, Dovey S, Arsenal, Bryan S, Liverpool, and John M with Southampton. Like at this post-it, we'll get started right away. I'm pretty sure the building yesterday got struck by lightning and one of our boxes like exploded and popped and hit Sean, like a spark hit Sean in the face. And we lost internet for like 15 minutes. I'm glad Brad was here because I would not have known what to do. He was doing something with all the stuff here. We lost the stream. Yeah, it was crazy. It was storming really bad last night. Like lightning was just like, Ro was telling me, even at the house, like it was like a lightning show. Yeah, same and the while it was like. No, yeah, I'm serious. Like one of the routers, like it just exploded. Like it was a big popping noise and it was weird. All right, let me update the sheet real quick and then we'll get ripping. I think I need to put the seat up a little bit. I'm down way too low now. Got 15 to go on that. If you can hear that, that's thunder in the background. Three, we've got mosaic has seven and 14. And we've got impeccable eight, four, eight, 13. All right, so that's updated. All right, we're gonna go ahead and get started best of luck everyone. What's up everyone? It's your girl, Kenzie here from Layton Sports Cards and I'm ripping 21, 22, Panini Mosaic Premier League Soccer Hobby, six box break, number 15, random teams. Again, here's a look at the random results. You can always find these at LaytonSportsCards.com underneath the results tab and Link is also in chat for you. Best of luck, everybody. Here we go. All right, stained glass. They're beautiful and they really are. I'm pretty sure we have a surge, all surge protectors, Howard. There's no way we don't. I just, I don't know how that happens. I really don't, Andy. We've got red mason mount for Chelsea. Gray mosaic. Yeah, it's like the perfect height for that chair. This horse likes to sit up high. So, in my back, I was like this. Conte Barnes, Silver, Lampy, Brighton. Got mosaic, Joshua King for Watford, Montage and Pitchmasters of Mainz. Again, everyone, next break we're looking to fill is baseball. It's a half case four box break of pristine baseball, random teams. I believe that is 60 bucks a spot too. Sterling, Norgard, Rookie. We've got red Rookie of Perard for Southampton. Did you, that's funny. A Chukwik Mika, Chu, Chukwu Mika. Rookie for Ashton Villa. Sarm and Perez, 15 to go on that one. Again, pristine is a fun product. A lot of nice encased cards and encased autographs in those. We've got to 10 Scripps. How about Gold John Terry? Chelsea. Love the gold on that Scripps. The whole card just pops on that. Very beautiful card. I can't sleep, there we go. Harry a go. Chelsea FC to 10. Patrick T. I know along with myself that the chat is also happy that we're back. So we don't have to do our own stream deck noises. We didn't have one at the national. We've got Mark Gouy on the Rookie Crystal Palace. Hugo Loris, Mosaic, Pitchmasters, Tillman's. We were like, I love gold. The force is like, I'm still gonna do my own. I was like, go for it. I will stick to the stream deck on that one. We got Martinelli Rookie. We got Arsenal, that's one of the rookies you're looking for, Pitchmasters and Char. Harvey Elliott, that's another one we're looking for. Let's see some color of those. Jalent Silver Rookie. We've got Norgard Rookie, Brentford, Montage. Looks like it's extra hot in here today. Let me go check out the air zone. All right, down we've got Ronaldo base. There we go, I didn't see him out of Prismuttle. We got Red Joshua King for Watford. Marcus Rashford, there you go, man, you. Loris. Lukaku got the Cure on the Silver Everton, Mosaic, Westwood, double packs left in this first box. Again, I thank you everyone for getting this one sold out so quickly. Appreciate it. Don't rip soccer air. A huge amount here, but when we do it usually sells out pretty quick. We've got Harry Kane on the Silver Tottenham. Blue on the color match of Lukaku for Chelsea. Beautiful looking card there. That is out of 99 on the blue. And Montage, Harry Kane. Last pack, box one. Palmer, we've got Monet on the red, Liverpool. Wilson and Nick Hope Pitchmasters. All right, that'll do it for the first box. All the first box there with the gold auto. Can you mark those last ones, if any were fine or anything like that? A little bit better than I did. I didn't really think of anything, I needed it. Not even the ones out of five? I can mark those. Okay, just making sure. Tarowski, yeah, Conte on the Mosaic for Liverpool. Pitchmasters, Lukaku. Yeah, I think those would probably be the only ones. Yeah. I think so, pretty low number. Palmer, Pogba, we've got a red soccer for Arsenal. A lot of color matches here with the jerseys. Agera on the rookie Mosaic. Ronaldo, men and mastery Mosaic for Manu. Declan Rice, Ben Dyke. Got Ming Silver, Gallagher Mosaic. Ben White, James Addison. Er, Madison, James Addison. One of the coolest cars that I did see at the national was out of, I think, Force that it was transcendence after I showed it. So we've got Charlie Taylor, red, Burnley. Cornet on the Mosaic. Men's Sun, Pitchmasters Mosaic. Was a cut auto of Martin Luther King Jr. It was really cool. Yeah, I've never seen something like that. You see cut autos, but like that's just one you don't. Yeah, that's cool. Trinaco, we've got red of Castagne. Castagne, blue for Leiser. It's a 99, another color match there. Sergeant on the Mosaic. Echo Rookie. Yay, full gates. We've got Jamal Lewis, red, new castle. Mosaic of Brownhill, Vardy, and La Porte. And Lane got out of here just in time too. He did us, he timed it yesterday perfectly. Browse, we've got Conos on the Rookie Silver, Redbird. Bless you. Parade, Rookie. Coming to Brian and Quink. A little, like a fullistic there. Nervous because I think we're on Wi-Fi. I think the ethernet is what went out yesterday. So if the Wi-Fi goes out, I don't know. Kai Havertz on the red shell, see? Zola's Rookie Mosaic. Havertz again, Mosaic. Couple packs left of box two. Yellow. Nice, Silver, Harvey Elliot, Liverpool. Nice rookie there. Liverpool, Brian S on the Harvey Elliot. Very nice. Mopay, Moreno, last pack, box two. Andrew, I think that's the same Andrew who was in the last soccer that killed it. There you go. Nice. Five days I pulled a KDB auto. We have pulled one out of the, did you see the impeccable I pulled last night? It was out of three. A patch auto. Yeah, we've gotten red today. Did you send it in the group chat? Yeah, yeah, that was really nice. That impeccable soccer is very, very nice. And I really liked the, what are those tiny boxes we were just talking about? Team all-ins. The team all, that's a city-in, a city-in team all soccer. Those are nice. Hey, for 200 bucks, like I would buy that and rip it for fun. And I, you know, that's something Ro would like. He likes soccer. I don't, you know. You guaranteed autos in that too. No, it's either two, like two autos or memorabilia, but out of four cards, literally half of them are hits. Yeah, that's kind of nice. You know, for 200 bucks. I have to get one of those. Got red, Rafina, Leeds, Charley Taylor, Salah, and Katie B. Essex. Yeah, that's awesome. We've got Lees Melu, for Norway, on the Silver Rookie, Polisic, on the... I'll say Hyper. Moseg, Chelsea. It's a nice half case. Now we just need to see a stained glass. Got a gold auto, Katie B. Auto already, another Polisic, Venice. Rico Henry, on the Silver Rookie. We've got Pink of Edward Mendy, for Chelsea. Another nice hit there. That one is out of 25. Nice one there, Chelsea, heating up. Patrick T. With Chelsea. Again, everyone, let's get this pristine baseball filled up. I believe that's the last baseball spot we've got open for today. We've got Gaka, Gakia, Rookie, Watford on the red, DeGay, Moseg, Foster, Maximon. That is a half case, four box break. Random teams on that. Fun product, for sure. All the encased, the nice beautiful base cards even. Sar, Conos, Rookie, Moseg. Like keeping an eye to make sure the streams don't go over this storm. It's making me nervous. Fibinsky, Moseg. Dachlan Rice, Pitchmasters, Moseg. With Martinelli, Rookie. Got red, Locanga, Rookie for Arsenal. I'm loving the color matches. A lot of them. Jacob Ramsey, Rookie, Ashton Villa. Got Harvey Elliott, Rookie base. Sweet Gods, Otto, for Leicester. Scripts of Esteban, Cambiasso. Okay, look at me, with some of these names. Gonna pretend like that's right. Cambiasso, I mean that's what it looks like. Esteban Cambiasso. It's good as you're gonna get. Yes, it definitely is. I like the Scripts, Moseg, too. Mendy, Red, Chelsea. Like I'm saying, this year's Moseg compared to last year's soccer Moseg is so much different. This one looks a lot nicer. Ronaldo base. Colgate, Silver, Quang. Leon Bailey, Last Pack, Boxer. Crock made a good point, too. I think they're gonna do an even better job next year because Holland's moving into the main league. Yeah, I know, I think Caleb and Lane both picked up Chrome but in this Liga. So last one with Holland in it. They were like 75 bucks a hobby box for Chrome. It's like, man, if they had any left, I would have bought one just a stash, you know? Genpo for Southampton, Colgate Moseg. Yeah, I opened a personal for someone last Monday and we pulled two Holland number cards. Like one to 199 and one to like 150. There's money back, plus some. Yeah. All right, box, Diallo. Bowden, Tony. Got Red Leeds, Mellou, Norway. Rookie, Willock, Audicard. Let's see, A, Stain Glass, Pedro, Henry. Jacob Modar, Silver Rookie, Brighton. Got Lokanga, Arsenal Moseg, Rookie. Cody, Glita, Parva, ABB, Tillman. Joe Ellington on the Red for Newcastle. Kavani, Jorah. He's like, these, it's close too. Like these lightning strikes are not hitting far away. There you go, Armstrong. We have here, it's like a throwback. Tottenham, a Jurgen Klinsmann. Klinsmann. Tottenham on the throwback auto there. There's William M. Red, Mings for Ashton Villa. It also take a overdrive, short front too. We got Mendy Moseg, Bach, Stain Glass, just looks so sick. Martinelli Rookie Base. Got Ivan Tony on the Silver for Brentford. Nice, Raleigh, thanks for hopping in. Ben Foster, down to seven, awesome. What were you just at, 15? That's crazy. Spots coming in fast, everyone again. Quite a few spots open for group breaks tonight, but I would not wait too long as the order's starting to come through for sure. Rico Henry Red for Brentford, Robertson. I remember when Klinsmann was the coach of USA. Just a very solid six-boxer so far. Walker Peters, we've got Moseg of Angakia, Rookie Watford. Got Ronaldo Base, couple of Naldos, that's nice. Sergeant Bamford Silver, we've got Pink of Jadon Sancho for Man U, that is out of 49. Nice little number there. Last five spots, four. We've got Red Harvey Elliott, there you go, Liverpool. Silver and a Red, congrats on that one, Brian S. Beautiful color match on that. Trossard, saw. I'm gonna say Elliott and, of course I forgot it.


Very pleased to be joined for this week's Nissan Insider Titan's Quarterback Will Levis. Will, thanks for being on the show. Thanks for having me. Has any part of the entire last eight months, including the football season, gone as you would have expected it to back when you got drafted? No, I mean, I tried not to have any expectations. You know, I had a mindset of not letting the circumstances and, you know, whether personal or team or everything affected how I came into the building and worked every day. So, you know, there's always going to be those things that you can never expect. And there's been a lot of those things happen, but I feel like I've kept the right mindset to just be able to roll through them. Looking, Levis, throwing, deep, Levis trying to get into Hopkins. He's got it in the five, into the end zone. Touchdown! Throws deep downfield. There's Hopkins all alone. 20, 15, 10, five, end zone. Ladies and gentlemen, give him 61 yards! Touchdown, Titans! Overall, that Atlanta game couldn't have gone much better. Have you, have you ever had a first start at any other level that went that well?  Well, it was obvious that you checked yourself right after that game. You knew every game wouldn't go that smoothly and you handled it that way. What in your training led you to know to do that or did somebody else help to kind of make sure that you did that? Yeah, I think that there's been a lot of people throughout my athletic career that have helped me just with my mental and with my emotions, especially I think when I was a younger game or more immature player, I would let bad things affect me. I'd let good things affect me and you got to be able to keep in that neutral space that we talk about. I mean, I gotta thank coaches here in this building for being those guys for me right now and Coach London and Coach Kelly and that we meet with every day in the quarterback room. They do a good job on the sideline as well, just making sure that I'm getting back to neutral. You talked about that in training camps, that you were working with mental coaching, that you after practice you would do some things to let the bad plays go because that was something you wanted to get better about leading into your pro career. Explain that and talk about what you've done with that mental sort of part of the game and the coaching and the training you get. I think it's just reaffirming with myself that bad things are going to happen and you turn on any game in the NFL, bad things are going to happen. The best team in the league is going to have a three and out. The best offense in the league is it's going to have turnovers and once you accept that and realize that it's just more about how you respond and how you're able to overcome those things, you stop fretting about it. So the more ball I watch, the more I understand the game, the more I realize how small a mistake is in the scheme of things and the more I just mature. I think I'm able to be able to handle those situations and move on from them better. We knew here in Ascension St. Thomas Sports Park, even if we're not involved in the draft room and things like this, we had a pretty big feeling that they would try to take you because the Titans really, really liked Will Leathers. What do you think they got right about you that allowed them to push forward in that way, make the connection and then put you in a position to be successful as a rookie? I think they just saw my competitiveness my drive, my spirit, but I'm glad that the Titans were able to see kind of my true me. The tape speaks for itself. Obviously, they liked what I do as a player at the bare minimum, obviously, but I think they just saw through and realized who I am as a person. They really got to know you. Is that fair to say? For sure. Yeah, I mean they checked all the boxes. They visited with me more than anybody else. I had as many meetings with them as a lot of other teams combined, you know, so I knew that they were interested and they wanted to, you know, poke and prod and understand me at a deep level, which I thought was really great because they, you know, were taking me seriously and they wanted me to potentially be here as a guy that could lead this team. Let's go. They know coming. Who cares? Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Good drive. Good drive. Go get in the shot right quick. We all get it tightened up. Get this. Let's go. Just give one score. Give one score. What would Will Leviss of today tell the Will Leviss of draft night when you're sitting in that green room that you wished that Will Leviss would have known that night? What would help him? That he's not getting picked in the first round. At least I could have saved me some stress some time maybe, no, but that's good. No, I would tell him to, you know, just trust the process and that this is what was meant for you. And despite it kind of feeling as screwy as it did when it did all happen that, you know, a couple months from now you're going to realize that you're in the right spot and that the people, you're here because the people want you and they love you. And that would have kept me out of use. I definitely thought I had a little bit jacked up mindset when it first happened at that time, but I was able to flip it there pretty soon after, but could have gone or could have at least gained a few hours of sleep that night if I was able to get my mind a little more clear. Well, we're thrilled you're here. It is so much fun watching you play and Titans fans all over excited about the rest of this year. We're not giving up anything, but certainly excited about what's to come. Will Leviss, thank you so much for the time. Thanks so much, Mike. All right.


Colder. Hotter. Longer. Noodle. That's its tagline. This might as well be on the state flag of California. I don't know if it's cursing, but I do think that it is putting some kind of spell on me. Noodle does know what happened to JFK, but he won't tell us. See I can't do this because this is so inappropriate. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's episode of Tools of the Trade. My name is Jonathan. This is Noodle, and this week we are going to be going through the box curated by Chris and Elsie of Deluxe Screen Printing in Los Angeles, California. Now these two bad ass ladies have a combined experience of more than 30 years in screen printing, and they do everything from t-shirts to uniforms to massive, massive decals, and they do it all with an eye coming from the lens of fine art. They're incredibly meticulous with the work that they make, and they try and use the best materials as possible. I'm so excited to go through this box, mostly because I just moved into a new apartment, so I've been buying a lot of things that have been screen prints, and I'm absolutely fascinated by how people do it. And I really want to point something up before we get started. Noodle once took a class in screen printing when he was at community college, and he failed. The first item we have in the Elsie and Chris box, I'm going to call it the E and C box. I love that. Oh my, ah! For those of you who tuned into the Garo Sparrow episode of Tools of the Trade, this might come as very familiar. It is a storage case for a singular avocado. This might as well be on, I think, the state flag of California. It's so, because I think it's like a lot of our entrepreneurs like all use AirPods, or they all always have like noise-canceling headphones, or, you know, a snack. You'd never think to see another avocado holder. Obviously, you know, you could store an avocado in here, but I think, you know, you're in LA, right? Your car keys, raw, unsalted nuts, anything, really. I would encourage you to think outside the avocado holder. So the next item we have in this box is a book called How to Invent Everything, a survival guide for the stranded time traveler. Elsie and Chris love to watch YouTube videos when they get stuck on how to do something. That's self-starter to the umpteenth degree. And again, Noodle and I are working on our reading, so I want Noodle, if you could just pick up right here under paper. We will get there one day. That's okay, sir. That's all right. Okay, the next item we've got, oh, I have this. Oh my gosh, I have this. It is a Bluetooth wireless speaker. Okay, so you know what? I don't know what people use this for.  I am obsessed with serial killers, like how could you do that? And I've tried to ask Noodle so many times, like he's totally cognizant of every single conspiracy theory. I think that's ever happened, like Noodle does know what happened to JFK, but he won't tell us. He just won't say anything. Oh, like there's a little shower thing right on the side of it. I didn't even see that. I didn't even see that. Other people do it. Oh, and then there's a photo of someone just like spraying it with a hose. So I guess they're, you know, really hardcore about how wet this can get. But then they show a photo of it underwater, and they say no. So don't drown it, but otherwise you're in the clear. Okay, the next item we have in the box is organic coconut wraps. They look so good. Not like this, they're just like a wrap, but even just the fact that they say that they're gluten free, there's just three ingredients. I can imagine one of them is coconut, right? It must be only four net carbs. Noodle, look at this. Noodle doesn't believe in organic food. Noodle's like, a lot of times when we have food products in here, I always think it's about mindfulness and how you take care of your body. It's very clear that Chris and Elsie, with their business and trying to be so conscious about the processes they use and the materials they use and the effect that that has on the environment and animals and such, this makes absolutely perfect sense. The next item we have in here is so I can imagine that most of you know what this is, but if you don't, it's like an apples to apples for adults. This is such a fun game to play. And I think this speaks to their sense of humor. See, I can't do this because this is so inappropriate. Noodle, do you want to draw a prompt? What is Batman's guilty pleasure? All right, you got three more carbs. Half-assed foreplay. At least he could go full tilt foreplay. You're Batman. I'm sorry. You don't half-ass anything. Okay, the next item we have in the E&C box is, oh, it's coffee. And it's decaf coffee. Oh my God. Wow. Okay, so this really has been a day of honesty. In our first episode, we talked about how we recently found out that my cholesterol is high. So now I've tried decaf and I find myself very zen during the day, mostly because I just don't feel like my heart's gonna jump out of my mouth. But this also looks like real nice coffee. There are two kinds of people who drink decaf coffee. There are people who can't have caffeine like me, and there are people who just love to go against the grain. Or in this case, against the bean. And I think that these two must be both. Woo! My God, there's a lot in here. The next item we've got in the box is, oh my God, it's so LA. These are charcoal sticks to put into a water bottle that provide excellent purification and absorb impurities from water and air. And the charcoal is from the Kishu region in Japan. So what I really like about this, again, is these are two women who are very conscious about what they're putting out into the environment, what they're putting out into the world, and clearly what they're putting into their own bodies. And now they can also hydrate themselves in a way that I guess humans haven't done in a while. I'm not gonna talk about skincare because all I do is talk about skincare and apparently not my cholesterol. But I will say that if you want to take care of your skin and your body and everything about yourself, drink water. Hydrate. That's it. If you're tired, you're dehydrated. If you're nauseous, you're dehydrated or you could be sick or you could be dehydrated. I wonder if you could put this in like whiskey. Do you think it would make whiskey healthy? You know what? We're gonna try that after this is over. Effective reusable is awesome and that you can put them in plants. So drink water and drink charcoal. Okay, the next item we have in the Elsie and Chris box is, what is this? Oh, it's like one of those like mega swell water bottles. So this is one that's like keeps things cold for 24 hours and hot for 12 hours and it's so big you put soup in it. Colder, hotter, longer, noodle. That's its tagline. This is just a brilliant thing to keep on hand. I bet they stick their charcoal in here. Bam, keeps it cold, keeps it charcoal. I got so excited that I just like came back. This is amazing.  It's not an ad. Okay, the next big money, Spotify. You can't break it. They've already got a portable speaker, music, podcasts, everything. Once again, going back to Hilary to have 2004, all of Metamorphosis is on Spotify. Also, $99. Super important thing for anyone to have, whether it's a Spotify or Apple Music or you know, title, whatever it is, having access to a streaming service, music at your fingertips is something that I value and I know that everyone that I know values. So this makes perfect sense. Whoever wins this box, put this to good use. Okay, the next thing we've got is a small velvet bag with a necklace with the letter D on it. He looks so good in gold. So this is a necklace that they sent through. It's got the letter D on it for deluxe screen printing and I love it because it's their, this business is their baby. It's something that they built from the ground up and you know, I know a lot of people with like a lot of grand jewelry or lockets or things like that, like they keep it for sentimental value and there's something really special about keeping the name of your business around. There's like a really wonderful sort of connection that happens there and again, oh my god, I'm in such a LA mindset now. I'm talking about the connection between a necklace and like you're maybe I should think if I lived in Los Angeles, I'd be super chill and noodles like always meant to be by the beach. We're both just going to be like old, you know, women longing to live by the sea. But I really do love this. I think it's super sentimental and noodle. You're actually going to keep that up. And the final item we have in the LC and Chris box is a babble ball. A babble ball is a really fun toy for dogs. He couldn't tell. They have a dog in their shop. Her name is Lola and what's great about this little toy is it's a wonderful way not only to keep dogs. Oh, it actually, it actually babbles. I feel like I should have known that. It laughs at you too. I love this. Okay, so Lola is a fun little mascot in their Okay, so I'm not going to move. Does it have a mind of its own? Okay, so I put it down. So it's not going to talk anymore. But the babble ball is a great way to keep your dog occupied. And I also have to say that as someone who does get to bring my dog to work, they are amazing to have in the office. Obviously, you know, they're loving, they're caring, they're super sweet, they're dense. But a lot of times they'll also like keep you on your toes. Like noodle loves to just like run under people's desk and unplug all of their wires when he thinks they've been working too hard. All right, noodle, you want to play? I don't know if it's cursing, but I do think that it is putting some kind of spell on me. That being said, you can clearly see hours of stimulated fun. That's the Chris and LC box. And I have to say there was a lot of stuff in there. And I absolutely loved it. They're both true artists with what they do. And it's very clear from what's inside of this box that they love working with each other. They have a good time doing it. And they take care of themselves and they use good products. I'm going to now never drink water without charcoal for noodle, for myself, for LC and Chris. And from honestly, we're going to do from the charcoal. Thank you again so much for watching. And we will see you next time. Thank you so much for watching. Please make sure to subscribe on YouTube. If you did like watching this video and be sure to tune in next time.