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I'm not mad good game. I just like it's just escape artists.  That's what it does So honestly escape artists is really the best it's really the best and now they give you zero like it really is the best ability It's like there's you should have no other ability.  Let's go man About time you made a play with eight AP over there Do I swear you got this game would be like eight out of ten for Madden without escape artists It might even be like a nine out of ten, but they put escape artists in the game And it's just like the way it's like honestly, it's just Suppose that yeah, it's great defense there boys great good work boys probably it would be a good game It would be really a legit good Madden game without escape artists Y'all don't be catching pigs like that y'all don't everybody say drop picks No, y'all don't play defense y'all not y'all not did steal curtain everybody says drop pick drop pick No y'all getting doubted y'all think if they don't a truck if y'all don't they doing the coverage is a drop pick I'm gonna be honest They really don't if they don't if you days if they put their hands on it They really don't drop it if it's a contested catch you're not going to catch it that often Neither is the offense contested catches aren't interceptions.   Are you serious man? Brown touchdown never mind just got absolutely strapped. I mean that's not the play I got a run down there That's my fault I knew his man coverage. I really set up so I could just go to that route And he just didn't beat him as much as I thought he would yeah, it's time to run the ball now That's why I hate to run dude.  What's going on with you my feel dude Malcolm Jenkins so bad just everybody is just running They just like this game.  I told y'all drop picks are a problem. I told y'all I Told y'all I mean dude I don't know how I'm getting shetted just so obnoxiously bad man by one person.    Let me tell you about thrust masters. This is the controller I've been using for over a month now. I was having trouble with all my other ones You know, they're not the best made things so the people at thrust master partnered with me sent me out their new controller To try it out and show you guys man. I used it for a month to see if I liked it I didn't want to tell you about anything. I didn't like I absolutely love it all the parts are great They actually make flight simulators and racing simulators for all the professional circuits of flight simulating and racing So they said let's take our technology and bring it to Xbox. They've made this controller You guys can click the link below make sure you check it out over there. It has buttons on the back You know, most people have paddles. This actually has buttons embedded so much better than that Every single thing on this this controller is customizable. You can actually take off the grips on the side You know and they can change whatever color you want I actually got the standard black ones You can take these out if you want blue ones red ones green ones You see I just got the all black with a little bit of red That's more my style. Whatever you want, man I have green ones orange You can do all that if you want to change the layout switch your deep head and your thumb stick You can do that as well. All the buttons are super clean Love this controller, man You guys click the link below and check out the control that I'm using myself to put all these gameplays together Dude, it's Jenkins. What are you doing Malcolm? Why are you flowing to the middle like this is miserable, bro He's gonna do the deep bomb play a thing.  Can we get like like boys? Can I get one interception or something?  He's just back.  We get nano detected and he catches a touchdown on the run with his back and We get nano detected up the middle We get nano detected and then he runs away from seven eagles and just throws the ball up man. This is a blast I'm having boys. I hope you guys are enjoying this. I hope you guys are I hope you guys are locked and loaded I hope you guys are having more fun than me Yeah, I played PUBG before I feel like you got to give a game as honest just do really Right you can't play like for like 10 hours and say I don't like that game You know, I don't know what's your favorite BR ever boys. I Mean fortnight. Oh gee fortnight.  I fell on the ground. Yep. I Clicked in the stick and it made me like hit stick cuz I it's just this is like he cannot get a person open Like he cannot legit get a person open out here. It's sad Step out of balance. This is just it's just scramble city, dude. It's just run around like a Run around like an absolute This dude had a skate bar to see me the best player in the world Do you understand how good this guy would be with a skate bar? It's a good dot. Of course divert. How does the vert hook not guard that? Oh my god How does the vert hook not guard that one? Man Go get him. Thank you. Oh my god Dawkins like Dawkins like bro bouncing ends on me winning this game This dude's playing McDonald's Wi-Fi I let the ball bounce there cuz I could have gotten got to the 25-yard line And if I got to the 25-yard line if I got to the 25, I think he's gonna try to use a rush me dude And if I got to the 25-yard line We would have had life with 13 seconds, but without 13 seconds Christ, bro, I can't lie. This whole line is so oh my god, man.   It's miserable, man. It's just miserable. He's just guard doing nothing I'm spamming this stick. I mean My my now we're in bunch tight and he just he don't know what he just sitting there listening to me I tell him what to do. Yo kid. You should run inside zone again here and he was here goes McDonald's Wi-Fi again Let's go. Yo kid. You should run inside zone again here kid. Definitely the move run another inside zone. Come on kid It's gonna work. Jesus Christ, man. Like slay again slay That's what I'm doing right here. Yo, we're putting a golden ticket on that side.  Holy hell, man He's just chucking hot. Oh my god. Oh my god He was throwing the ball right at my whole team. He was throwing the ball right at that spy for a pick Wasn't he he was throwing the ball right at that spy for a pick? Wasn't he? Oh my god. Oh my I just gave up. I gave up I just gave up cuz the dude I just know but I just get I'm just not mad at the game But I see the field look at this dude. Look at this dude.  But this head throws right literally right at me Literally right like you just cannot make up how terrible this guy is anybody with a brain Anybody with a brain just dumps the ball off for the hitch I should have called time out with that like I just cannot believe that like that's my fault like Just cannot believe it.


Thank you very much for staying so long. So yeah, I'm gonna talk a bit about Postgres. Migration may or may not be a problem for you, but I present you here something which we believe is quite new, quite innovative in the way we can handle downtime. And yeah, so very shortly, yeah, that I'm working since three years now at Audubet in Berlin. And we're doing some pretty nice stuff for restaurants and bars with live things. I have quite a fuzzy stack. And actually, I'm also like one of the core maintainer and recently also an owner of Mongo Engine. So strange for a guy doing so much Mongo presents something at Postgres, but it's possible to use both. And yeah, maybe we will see that actually using other database technology can help you also to bring new concepts to Postgres. Maybe to start, who he is using Postgres in production. Okay, who is making migrations? Okay, the other one you are lying. And who already had problems with migration or has problem with downtime sometimes? Yeah, okay, nice. Maybe we'll find something. So, okay, basically there are two main cases with migration so we can have something quite simple. You may, yeah, extend, add new table, new column, alter it, and generally it's the kind of stuff Postgres is quite good at. It's going out quite fast. You don't have big problem, very small downtime, hot migration sometimes. There are actually some possibilities also to combine basically two versions of codes and to combine actually to make migrations realized. Like one week deploying something, the next one, rolling back what you made, et cetera. But here's something quite different because there are still some cases which the guys who raised the hand lastly know about. We have really very different business logic. You may have also like a strategical change in the company also, which requires a huge migration which unfortunately needs a lot of also data handling and needs several, eventually dozens of minutes of downtime, kind of stuff nobody really likes to do. And yeah, even more if you have some non-tech oriented company. For this we're gonna use Postgres 9.4 and strictly 9.4. 9.5 will bring also some other things. Who knows here about logical decoding? Okay. Yeah, it's unfortunately not so known, but it's actually really great. Basically, logical decoding is the level of replication. Everyone last question. Who is using replication in Postgres? The one from Postgres, not from extra provider, extra drivers. Okay, not so many people. Basically, when you're using replication, there are some right ahead logs which is the system of Postgres to make the replication work. And you have different level of replication. Some hot stand by this kind of things maybe you already heard about. This logical decoding is basically a next level which was introduced in 9.4 which allows basically to describe what is happening on a database while doing the replication in a logical way. As it says, meaning precisely, here's an insert, here's an update rather than having some blobs and diffs. So this allows quite a bit of stuff because basically you can extend it with output plugins. And what is also very nice in Postgres is replication slots. Other database just do replication and you are speaking to other database which handle replication maybe with some parameters on their side. But on Postgres you can have really slots which means different slays and so can read from different slots which you can start at different time which can have different levels and different outputs. So you can do a lot of stuff. Now you are all a bit lost but slowly it will start to make some sense I hope. Yeah, basically this is what is possible. Our toolbox, we're gonna use a Walto JSON which is a great tool which was not written by Ethan Snyderfight, this is the fork which we are using because there is some help for the compilation. It's something which was proposed to go inside the core of 9.4. Unfortunately it didn't made it. It's actually really great. Wal, as I said, is the writer headlocks so this internal Postgres replication language. And if you expose it to JSON, you understand that you can do some stuff with it. PG Migrator is a toolbox or a kind of module we built purely Python and Psyco PG2. This is why we're here. And which allows to do some fancy stuff. There are two main modules basically which one is switching from a traditional physical replicating slave to a logical replicating second master because basically when you start to do is logical slave, is logical replication. You are not anymore or you can choose not to be anymore in a master slave. We're gonna have two master and here will come the trick that we will see later. Still replicating but two masters. And JSON receiver which basically allows to parse JSON as you can read and apply some transformation. So what we're gonna do to have a migration which for whatever size will at the end just cost a very few seconds of downtime is the following. We start with the classical replication. We switch to logical replication. We pause it. Then on the new switched second database form a slave which is now a master replicating logically. We apply the migration locally there. Then we replay the migration. So we paused it. We replay what we missed in the time transforming data on the fly. Then we have deployed the application. So the Python application, the backend site and we write directly to the new master. This is the concept. I hope you follow a bit.  So this is starting point. I guess this is fine. Then the second part, as I said, yeah. We change a bit the way basically both communicate. The second master, the old slave becomes a new master. When the migration is there. Then we enable basically wall to JSON. I didn't decide this is actually a C plugin writing directly or communicating directly with Postgres. We replay that. We go through our toolbox which is PgMigrator which updates what needs to be updated. Adds, transform, delete, remove, filter. Everything is possible. And write what we want to be written in the new database that has the new schema. And basically, when you are at that time and you have your data which is transferred, your old backend, your old logic which is transferred there but which still arrives there, you make a small downtime, switch. You can have blue, green deployment even more but the easy case is you make a downtime, you switch. You have your new code base which writes directly to the new master. The old one, you can do whatever you want with it. Actually, if you're in production, you won't have just two database but you will have three or four. You can serialize replication in Postgres very easily so that the new master directly has a slave because yes, security matters as we all know. Yeah, I guess I'll continue directly with the live demo except there is some very urgent question and as we have a slightly longer live, yeah, question. Q and A session. Okay. There are a couple of tasks who knows me, know that I like this. I tried to make it somehow visible to play a bit with the colors. We are on the first, on the left. It has a blue color. Blue is when I'm talking to master. So basically here I'm on Vagrant and I have two Docker containers for master and slave. They start as master and slave then they switch but just for keeping it easy. The green one is the slave, yeah, as usual and the two last are gonna be for some fun and tests. All right, so here we're gonna run master. Okay, it starts database. This is some classical output. I could also have less tasks but here we can have the output, the database. This is quite nice. Here we can start the slave. Ah, interesting. Just retry it this way basically. I had, yeah, this was my mistake. I had deleted indeed the tests before and forget the most important part, excuse me. Right, here we continue. So we can see that these are the kind of, so the right head lock which is the kind of thing for the replication. Okay, this is basically the setup. We can see on, no, there isn't. Here we're gonna, yeah, just log basically to the, so have a small dash on it. All right, so we can do some fancy thing by masquerades. What do we have here? Flower table, another one. All right, here we can basically check insane pain. Nice name, no, you'd like it. Basically our slave, it's not really a slave so we need some random name because you never know about the state actually. We can do the same thing here. Ah, excuse me. I added to prevent some disruption to change boards. Yeah, and also so that you believe me that I'm not cheating and have the same thing in the back. All right, so as you see, yeah, I don't want to show replication. Replication works and you may know about it. Just to make it even more obvious, we can do something like this. Oh, it's gone and what about the slave? Oh, it's gone. Now we can do something else where basically we're gonna insert some thing to the database. Let me, I'm still not used to how to move here between the produce windows. All right, just fire this first. So yeah, I don't think I need to explain what it is but what it's doing is basically creating table data and inserting some value after a small sleep. So nothing extremely fancy until now. Yeah, we can check that again. We can also do some this, all right. No, also here, this is quite trivial but now it's, this is basically a case where this tab is basically your customers which are still putting new stuff and you want in parallel basically to do your deployment to start your migration. So you're gonna use now the tools we're working with whether in PgMigrator, we'll use this first component. So yeah, Python and PsychoPg to switch. I see so bad from here. I should have made a replication of the screens. All right, excuse me. So we have, we can define some source database, source user, definitely source password, et cetera. And we can define some slot for the testing. That, excuse me. Yeah, sync this three. Okay, we created the slot. The slave is in a good state. We use the trigger file. So this is a classical way in Postgres when you have replication to use a trigger file to make the slave become a master. This is also in case you want to have some fallback strategies, you're gonna use that. So now we have a master and we are eating the changes basically which are what we want. Okay, so now basically I'm gonna go back to the shell here. This is the slave shell. It's maybe not very obvious before. So this is the master slave. The master, excuse me, the master shell. The master shell is still eating later. And the slave is stalled. It is planned because it became a master. So we don't have exactly the same replication. So now basically what we want to do is to do some fancy things which is basically our migration. So for example, we're gonna alter the table and add a new column. And eventually we can also run. So this is the schema migration and we can do some update where we're gonna basically say some new info and we're gonna take the old info seeing how it works. Logically, 224 rows updated. This sounds quite good. And now we can go to the next step where I'm gonna paste it because it's gonna be too long and continue here. And the slot, yeah, let's take the third slot. All the rest should be fine. Ooh, so this is JSON receiver. Basically now we are still in the state we are not replicating directly from Postgres. We have updated the migration but the new master is doing nothing. So now we're gonna start the JSON receiver which basically will eat up what we want to eat which was basically in the slot. It was quite fast for a while because basically it went back all what we were missing. It replayed what we were missing and now it's going slowly because on the fly, as you can see, it's adding info and new info with the values. But what is done here actually is what is done here. So we can see now the max ID which goes up because it's the max ID from here. So basically now live, we have two masters and the second one is working. You could already write some other data. If you really want to have like two systems right in parallel to things also synchronizing, you can try. It can be tough but you can try. But basically what you will do at that time is the moment where you usually switch your, we make it into the small downtime to be sure that they are not parallel right to be really sure and you switch your system, you switch the code behind. So basically now we can actually kill that. We saw that this works. We can make sure that here 623 and on the old master also 623. And on the slave we can also do, it's on the new master which is this green one. We can also check if there is someone which has like where new info was null and there is zero. It's quite good news. Just the new code base writes to this new database. That's the new master. It worked. And now, oops, this is done. Yeah, just some words about the future. So for sure we'd like to develop an open source bit of the package. The last time we had a bit less time to develop it. So we implemented, but really on a beta, alpha, version style, some components for adding a column for doing the updates, et cetera. But it would need a lot of more details for really more complex stuff. It would need some serious testing, some serious documentation, these kind of things. But later we could integrate it with Python frameworks and eventually, so like if there is interest for that and we see community willing to work on this, I guess it's possible to have a Django package which would just basically check out the migration file and automatically create the transform object to allow to have that for a very cheap developer cost. That was it. And I would like to thank Ethan Snyder for his colleague, not here today, but who worked a lot also on that project. And now it's time for questions I guess. Thanks for talking. Be able to show the code that does the transformation? Sure. Kind of prepared that, wrong screen. The structure you see, the test is about that. So this is basically, so there are two main components. The migrator basically for noise implemented, we have a class, like a transformer class which register, so against the one or the other operation and which defines basically how you do the transform value. So this is like the base class for it and you will, for example, here, so you cannot see very well, but this is basically the way you will have to add new data which you could do this way.  And yeah, this is like a very simple main. As I said, it's really alpha. That was for prototyping, but basically you have transformer, you register whatever you want and you have some, the receiver, it's connects directly to the output plugin and writes new JSON, which is then taken on the other side. Is it okay? Or were you, okay. Some more questions. We'll be happy. Thanks for talk, very good. Did you test the solution for more advanced structure like HSTOR or full text search fields? I mean, full text search, I don't think anything can go wrong, but HSTOR must be more complicated. I guess the problem will be basically to write the transformer here, but since this is a quite flexible structure, I guess everything is possible, but I didn't test. So I can't, but JSON, HSTOR, having a list, then I guess it sounds doable. A possible setup for a hot standby of Postgres could be implemented using similar way. So hot standby is a level of replication and the logical replication is basically the level higher. The logical replication decoding, and I will also put the presentation on also on the your Python site, and I will publish it, and I will add also some links to documents. But basically, this is just the levels of replication. And when you do this logical replication, you have included the full hot standby. It's just something on top. You lose nothing. Yeah, there's one step and you can bring it further. Thanks for a great talk. I'm not quite understood. Do you know, when do you know that you can switch your application? When do you know the replay is done? This is basically something which for now is not automated. I don't know if it's completely automatable. Basically, you could listen on what is written on the master and check the moment where nothing more is written. So it depends which kind of fade out you have. You could also use some kind of caching mechanism for the new one. If you have a blue, green deployment system, you could even do really hot switch. Like the main problem there is actually the sequences. There is actually, except the sequences, there is nothing which prevents you really completely of making a complete hot switch. With sequences, you would have to trick a little bit by resetting them on the slave to allow a space which is high enough for what you expect to come in from the master. It's doable, but yeah, it's quite kind of tricky. Else basically, you would shut down your data input and if you have a system that you monitor well enough, that you know well enough, you know then when is the right point to start to write on the new master. The only problem could be some clash between the sequences and this is why you should make sure nothing else needs to be written afterwards on the old master. That's basically it if you want to have it for moderate cost. Is this possible to have the interplay between two different database systems? I mean, here you synchronize Postgres with Postgres, but is it possible to think about synchronizing Postgres with something else? Like, I don't know, MySQL or whatever? MySQL, don't ask me, I'm sorry, but with Mongo for example, if you have JSON afterwards, it's, I think it's quite obvious that you can do it. It's basically completely out of scope for that, nothing to do with the migration itself, but since you have this flexibility with the replication slots and the replication flows and even output possibilities, you can definitely use something slightly similar to that to indeed write some output to some, like for example, if you take JSON to some new SQL Mongo database, I guess this didn't try it, but it must be interesting and I'm quite sure it's possible. Even more like for example, in Mongo, you generally have documents which are more complex and contain data from several tables. You can have some intelligent listener over several tables to aggregate and write nicely, prepend output, even transform on the fly. Also possible. Then I have a follow-up question. Have you looked into symmetric DS? No, no, I don't know about that. So I have to admit, there are a lot of other possibilities to replication, master master schemes in Postgres and so, we wanted basically to be a bit afraid by all these tools which all claim to be the best also and like half sponsorous and supported by Postgres. So we wanted to work actually with really the internals of Postgres, checking also what are the next upcoming developments and yeah, build our system on top of that. There might be for other purpose, other or better or different solution. Any more questions? No? Okay, so.


Now, I am very excited to introduce Richard Cho, head of recruiting at Robinhood, in a conversation with Betsy Bula, an expert in remote work and talent branding here at GitLab. Distributed work completely transforms the talent game, but in wonderful ways. In the future of work we're now entering, the best people can get the jobs that are right for them, regardless of where they happen to live. Now, that's a huge boon for organizations and teams that can get it right, but to really take advantage of this opportunity, most companies will have to redesign their talent acquisition and people management systems. Richard sat down with Betsy for a fireside chat on Robinhood's processes and what they've learned. As leaders in a still evolving space, these two have plenty of insights to share. Hi, everyone. I'm Betsy Bula, and welcome to our session, The Evolution of Global Talent Acquisition. I'm an all remote evangelist at GitLab, and I'm honored to be sharing the stage with our speaker for this session. Richard Cho is the head of recruiting at Robinhood. So throughout the conversation, be sure to ask any questions you have for Richard, or leave comments in the session chat. So we have lots of topics that we want to ask you about today, Richard, but before we get started, I'd love for you to introduce yourself. Thanks, Betsy. So glad to be here, and especially talking about a topic that's so top of mind for so many leaders in talent acquisition. As you mentioned, I'm the head of recruiting currently at Robinhood. I've been doing recruiting for probably over 22 years. 14 of those 22 years have been focused on hyper growth companies such as Facebook and Dropbox and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. And here I am doing it all over again at Robinhood, currently leading an organization of about 300, spread geographically in across the entire United States in very different geos. So this topic is something that I'm super interested in, both contributing and learning from. Awesome, and such exciting growth to experience, too. So tell me a little bit, I'm taking a step back. Prior to the pandemic, was your team remote in any way at that point? It was not. Our team was 100% co-located in two different offices, one in Lake Mary, Florida, and the other in Menlo Park, California. Awesome. So talk to us a little bit about why Robinhood is now considering remote. Yeah, I think this all started when we first moved into the pandemic. The company, Robinhood, wanted to research, is this something that we wanted to sustain coming out of the pandemic? And then all the massive announcements started to roll out from Google and Facebook announcing their strategies and then all the companies that we compete with, they started talking about their work from home strategies. And we thought, wow, if we don't actually take this very seriously, it's very possible that we would miss out on some top talent. So in earnest, we probably started this research over a year ago. And this is when I also reached out to GitLab's very own Darren Murph to hear how GitLab is doing this. And so it started to really lay the foundation for the direction that we're going today. That's awesome. Yeah, it's exciting to kind of see history being written throughout this transition. So let's lean into a little bit more about the recruiting side of this. So from your experience, what have you really seen change in recruiting with this move to embracing remote work and remote first practices? Yeah, one is just from a general change in landscape standpoint. What we're finding is that recruiting organizations now realize that it'll be really hard to go back to the traditional sense of on-site interviews, where people are taking half days off of work. If not full days off of work based on commute to arrive into an office with very little guarantee that they would have an opportunity to get an offer at that particular company. So now it hadn't been an issue in the past, but given that both that the industry is moving to a work from home format, it is so much easier just to do interviews over VC now. So that transition to creating the format that allows people to interview really on demand from their homes requires you to really up level your tool set, requires you to rethink how you think about the candidate experience. You want to differentiate yourself in that virtual environment. And then it also creates a ton of opportunity going away from just sort of the core things that you need to be successful. It creates a ton of opportunity for innovation, which that's the area that I'm most excited about, given that the virtual world starts to provide a little more access to things that we didn't have access to before when we did physical on-sites. Absolutely. And there's some exciting things happening in that innovation with tools and some of the things that you mentioned. So I'd love to hear more about that. How are you all innovating in recruiting while sort of navigating this new world and in a hybrid model, for example? Yeah, there are things that we were excited about, even just going into this virtual environment, but now that we are more reliant on them, we're starting to see that these technologies offer a lot more utility and use case than the intended or marketed feature. So here's what I mean by that. We use a company called Carat. Carat was always a company that allowed us to supplement our technical screen in ensuring that we can reserve our own engineer's time for on-site interviews, and we relied heavily on them to conduct interviews on behalf of Robinhood. And they've done a great job calibrating to our bar. But what they really offer is exactly the on-demand anytime during the day. It could even be evenings or mornings, depending on where they live. And it's really convenient for them to have a tech screen at their most convenient time. What we've seen is it's created a faster time to that first screen. So that's just one element. When you start to offer Carat at a higher volume, you start to open up more doors for folks that maybe they're not in particular regions that we all know that tech resides. So because of that, because of their flexibility, we can interview literally anybody around the world at any time zone. The second is we're now using these virtual tools to conduct these interviews. In the first time ever, we have the ability to be able to be in the interview room with individuals under the premise of we would like to help to teach them to be better interviewers, provide them a tool that transcribes the interview. And we'd never had that before because there was no one sitting inside the physical interview room unless you were doing like an interview shadow or reverse shadow as part of the training process. We never had that opportunity. But now we can do this at scale. And we're using a company called MetaView to help with that premise. The innovation there also goes into as they apply their own machine learning to flag opportunities where we can teach the interviewer to be more effective and compare their interviews against other interviews. It actually opens up the door for how these interviewers may or may not be able to proactively detect where bias occurs. We all have some sort of bias. So we're really excited about the next steps that MetaView is taking in order to provide better insights into the interview process now that we have a way to be in the interview room with them in the background. Kind of like how we're recording this interview session. There's no one sitting there with a notepad looking at you saying, oh, Rich said this wrong thing. It's all done in the background using machines and that makes it so much more seamless. So we're really excited about MetaView. And then ultimately the whiteboarding tools are getting so much better that allows engineers to interview from anywhere around the world. So those are three that come to mind, but there's a whole plethora of things that are coming down the pipe that I'm super excited about. That's awesome. It's it's really cool to hear about all these new tools. And I know our audience is going to appreciate those kind of actionable, tangible things they can look into. So and what about, you know, we've talked a bit about culture and how you're sharing culture virtually. How are you all approaching that? Yeah, they're so there are a lot of hacky ways that we we try to recreate the environment, which was our best exemplar of our culture, which was our office. So we did videos, we did all these things. But moving forward, I think candidates, especially as we start to navigate the this new virtual world, candidates will want to have access to what it's going to feel like to be in that office, is over absorbing all of that culture while in the convenience of their homes. So what we've done is we've put in a lot of effort into investing into our various medium blog posts. We've invested a ton in other virtual ways in which we can share the the environment by using videos and photos. And then finally, during the interview process, we'll try to create a bespoke experience for that particular individual, whether whether it's some sort of fancy virtual background to, you know, giving them a glimpse or an opportunity to speak to somebody that is within the organization to give them a day in the life of what it's like to be a Robin Hoodie. So those are things that we're working on. What I believe will be incredibly innovative is, you know, that I still think it's a is a is a blank slate. But if you can give the individual an experience like they were in the office, that's really going to be where that or where that company starts to differentiate against the competitors. That's so true. It's going to be so important to be able to give those authentic experiences. And I love that you all offer the opportunity to speak with someone who's already part of the team to kind of bring that to life. So kind of taking a higher level view, as far as like a system to create and get access to the best talent pools, how do you sort of approach that given the remote environment? Does that change at all? Yeah, the cool thing is we're now seeing that more and more organizations going through this analysis are realizing that they can manage either a full time remote workforce or some partial remote workforce. So in in technology, you had three major hubs. And then we can talk about tier two hubs or three to four hubs. So it's no longer required that you're within drivable or commutable driving distance to some place in the Bay Area or someplace in New York City or someplace in Seattle. So what you're seeing is that because of some of that flexibility, people are living further and further away from the people are living further and further away from the those particular areas where the companies reside. The other is now that teams are realizing that companies can support full time remote workforces. Now we're starting to recruit in regions that we never thought that we would. And this, in my mind, absolutely opens the doors to candidates that are in regions that you don't really associate tech with, but they have really bright, bright candidates that we should we should engage. And now it gives them the opportunity to have access to companies like Robin Hood, Facebook, Apple, Google, whether they live in, you know, Arkansas or, you know, Illinois, it don't have to necessarily be concentrated in those hubs. So from a recruiting strategy standpoint, it's now putting a lot more focus on where are where are these talent pools using LinkedIn's insights tool allows us to see where this talent is going and residing what companies that they're that they're going towards. And that really changes the game. It opens up the market, increases the pipeline, also puts a lot of strain on companies that need to focus on debiasing their interview process. And so as a result, I think all of those things are starting to really coalesce into something pretty amazing. That's it's very cool to see how we're able to be more inclusive by opening up that talent pool. So as far as when your actual team is working with candidates and having discussions with them, what ways do you kind of help them along with the decision making process? And how might other remote managers better sort of understand candidates across geographies, time zones, languages, all those differences? Yeah, really, if you do this well, you actually create a unbiased objective way to evaluate candidates. Now, it still doesn't prevent companies where we when you start to adjudicate ties. And so I always this is actually something I say a lot. Having done this analysis so many times, the vast majority of interview outcomes are in this category of maybe yes, maybe no, people, people are just uncertain. They think this person could be a great hire or not a great hire. It's hard for them to adjudicate just based on feedback alone. So then you lean heavily on where do they work? Where do they go to school? In a in a borderless recruiting environment, you no longer have those things to be able to lean on to adjudicate. Yes or no. So it's going to force companies to be better at creating those objective interview questions that give you the signal that allow you to have that confidence in that in that particular candidate. I think it's a good thing. It's going to put it's going to put a lot of pressure. It's going to pressure tests, you know, decades, old interview practices that have resulted, unfortunately, in a highly bias and, you know, low diversity environments. So both of those things where we have borderless recruiting and forcing companies into thinking about more objective ways to evaluate talent is really going to start to change the game in helping companies become more representative of the talent pools that are that are available out there. It's going to be great to see that continue to improve as we move to this transition as well. So I know we're sort of getting close to the end of our session and I want to be able to allow time for continued questions. So before we get to that, though, I'd love to hear from you. What are your closing predictions and things that you're looking forward to seeing in the coming years? Yeah. So I said this earlier. I truly believe that, you know, remote or hybrid mode is really the standard way of working moving forward, which also what I said earlier is going to really put a lot more pressure on companies to figure out in virtual interviewing environments. So how can you virtually share the culture of your company? How can you ensure that you have a high level objectivity in the interview process? How can you differentiate the experience for the candidates of the memorable so that you're the company that they think about when they think about the offer? Technology obviously is allowing people to work anywhere in the world. And so what candidates are going to want to know definitively is that this company is capable of managing a remote workforce in a fair, unbiased way. In an environment where if I lived in some state that doesn't have a concentration of technology or is close to the home office, that I'm not looked over for promotions, that I have a thriving career. But additionally, even if companies can prove that, candidates will want to know that, you know, how to communicate with me. So I'm not, I don't feel like I'm in a silo, you know, somewhere, you know, in parts of the US that no offices reside. So those three things are going to be things that now candidates will expect you to be able to prove beyond a reason to doubt. And companies that focus on tooling and creating those environments are going to be companies that really have the advantage in this ability to bring in the best talent in the world. Absolutely. Like we've said, it's exciting to see this history being written. And Richard, thank you so much. We're thrilled to have you a part of Remote by GitLab today. And it was just a pleasure to have you share all these insights. And we're looking forward to continuing the conversation with everyone in the chat afterwards. Thank you, everyone. Thanks, Betsy. Thank you, everyone.


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspiesCaseBreaks.com coming out to you with 2023. Bowman Baseball, Jumbo Edition, 8 Box, Pick Your Team number 24. Full case break. You know about all card ship except paper vet, paper non-Bowman first prospects. All Chrome, all Bowman first paper, all rookie card paper, everything else numbered and what not, ships. Autographs obviously. Big thanks to this group for making it happen on a Thursday. Chris Butler, you ended up with last spot mojo with the reds before we pulled the remaining teams for the filler. And that capstone break number 31. Pop open this, you can see Jumbo case 7 and 8. Alright, in these Jumbo Boxes, we're looking at three autos per box on average. I've seen some with just one auto box. I've seen some with four autos a box. Let's see what happens. Good luck everybody. I'm going to pop all these open first. Let's take a look at some baseball scores. I don't think there was too much baseball going on tonight. NBA Finals Game 1 was tonight. And I think the Nuggets cruised to a double digit lead. Double digit win. Baseball wise, Blue Jays beat the Brewers 3-1. Kevin Gosman striking on 11. Bichette and Chapman had homers. Metz beat the Phillies 4-2. Marcona hit another homerun. I think second or third day in a row. Max Scherzer was on the bump. And they swept the Phillies. Well, three game sweep. Padres blew out the Marlins 10-1. Musgrove had a no-hitter into the sixth. Well, Fernando Tatis had three doubles tonight. Looks like he's rounding into form. The Diamondbacks beat the Rockies 5-4. Corbin Carroll looking the Diamondbacks with a two-out two-run single in the ninth. I need a little walk-off action there. Red Sox beat the Reds 8-2. Devers breaking the tie. And a six-run eighth. Twins beat the Guardian 7-6. Royce Lewis gave him a tying homerun. And an eighth Caster winning it in the ninth. The Sac Fly. And then the Astros beat the Angels 5-2. Bregman Abrayou Tucker helping the Astros get back. Win of 5-2. We've got Juan Chacon to 75. Yellow Paper. Edouard Julian. He's playing right now. He's up in the Biggs right now. There's Brock Jones. The Brock Lobster, first auto raise. That's going to be for Jeremy. On the board with the second round pick. Edouard Julian going to Greg. And then Minnesota Twins. So all these bow and firsts will ship, right? That won't ship. Brooks Lee won't ship. Miguel Belize won't ship. Justin Crawford will ship. So if you just wanted an example. And obviously all the rookie card paper will ship. And there are some, some sort of higher tier rookies that were, or prospects that were pulling a little, taking care of a little bit early. Justin Crawford, Edward Julian is one of them. Let's see the others. Cam Collier is one of them. Reds, Chris Butler. Who else? Who else? Oh Spencer Jones is another one of those guys. Drew Jones. And there's Alex Ramirez. Yellow Chrome to 75. For the Mets, that'll be for David. And the next group. And we've got our next auto. That's William Lugo. 110 out of 150. Blue. Chrome Auto. Mets. David M. I think these parallels look pretty cool too. Obviously those inserts ship. There's our first Spencer Jones siding. Tristan with the Yankees. And once again, Greg with the twins. These aren't numbered by the way. Those, that light green lunar parallel. Obviously ships. Riley Greene went down with the injury recently. We've got, should be one more autograph out of here. Looking for one more. There it is. It's Jorge Ruiz. For the Halos. Some good penmanship there. That's going to go to Paul and the Angels. And that is one of their top prospects, I hope. We're rooting for him. We're rooting for all these guys. We've got one more parallel here. It's Blaze Jordan. To 150 for the Red Sox. That's going to go to Carl M. And the Bow Sox. Alright, box one in the books. We'll do an autograph recap at the end. Next one. What else is happening in baseball? The MLB strict clock oversight, frustrating Max Scherzer, even in his win. I guess Guardians' Quantrill off toward the IL. With some inflammation. Yankees activating Stanton, Donaldson, and Canley. My fantasy team is happy that Giancarlo Stanton is back. Gilo, what's going on? He caught us right here in box two of eight of this Bowman Jumbo break. Dodgers Rangers swap minor league pitchers. Slow news day, ladies and gentlemen. When Dodgers Rangers swapping minor league pitchers is on the ESPN's MLB headline group. Los Angeles Dodgers acquired right-hander Ricky Venasco from the Rangers for lefty Luis Valdez on Thursday. Right-hander Zach Burdy was also designated for signing by the Dodgers to make room on their 40-man roster. Venasco 15th round kick out of Texas in 2017 was designated for signing Monday. Allowed six runs in two and a third innings for two games for AA Frisco after being activated from the injured list. He's three and five with a four, six, eight ERA between 23 stars between Frisco and high A Hickory. The 19-year-old Valdez was 0-2 with a 3-1-2 ERA in eight games for low A-Wrench Cucamonga this season. He was signed by the Dodgers in minor league region out of Mexico in 2019. Imagine being a GM. I mean, there are some random deals like that. Texas GM College is like, hey, you know, maybe you can do something with this guy. You want anything? Who do you like for this guy? Yeah, we got this 19-year-old kid from Mexico that we signed in 2019. He's got potential. Maybe you might do better in your organization. All right, let's do it. Jonathan Mejia for the Cardinals. That's for Carl. Was that two days off? I wonder how often that's going to happen this season. Two days off? How often do baseball teams get two days off? I don't know. That probably won't happen many times this year. This season. We got Juan Brito. 65 out of 2.99. Specolotto for the Rocks. David M. with the Rockies. Memorial Day thing. I think they're like, hey, let's give these guys a federal holiday. Give them a federal holiday. Listen, guys, we're the Royals. We're not going anywhere this playoff-wise this season. Here's Marcos Cabrera refractor to 4.99 for the Yankees. That'll be for Tristan. And we've got Jason Curio. 37 out of 125. Aqua Shimmer. Brother of Jackson Curio, who's in the Brewer's organization. Both players. I think Jackson's the allegedly better prospect, but I think Jason Curio's pretty good too. Here's Andres Mesa. That is for the Rangers. That's going to go to Carl. One of the Rangers in the filler. There you go. Yeah, Royals haven't lost in two days as well. So that's a good thing. So am I going to bet on the Royals tomorrow? Gio. There's Jason's brother, Jackson Curio. And there's our first, I think that's our first true Jones siding. All the Drew Joneses will ship. So if I missed a paper Drew Jones or something like that, don't worry. They'll still get to you, Chris Butler. You can find some parallels, Ming, that'd be even better. So if the Royals are going to be well rested, yeah, maybe I should make a play on the Royals tomorrow. Who do they play tomorrow, Jilo? And we got Brock Jones, the Brock lobster. 92 out of 250. Reyes. Jeremy Locke with the Reyes. I wonder if it's Locke. Locke. Locke. Locque. Locque. Locque. Jeremy L with the Reyes. Oh, wow. Jeremy. First off, let's just be happy with the hit. Second of all, second of all, we're only two boxes in. Play of the whistle. You can, you can lament that not being the player that you wanted when we're around here. We've got a long way to go. Hold on to him, Jeremy. What if, what if he ends up being the, being the stud major leaguer? Charles was GM for a day. GM for a day. For Hatterberg. Oh, you'd make Scott Hatterberg play first base. I think Billy Bean already had that idea. Yeah, you never know, Jeremy. That's why with all this Bowman stuff, I would, you know, even like the ones that aren't highly touted now. Just hold on to him, throw him in a drawer, see what happens. There's Taj Bradley for the Reyes. To 125, Bowman scouts. Top 100, number 15 on the top 100. Nice, that's for Jeremy and the Reyes. And we got Juan Jacón to 499. That's for Boston and Carl. Like, I don't know how many people were holding on to James Altman, Bowman first. Back in the day. Might have a shot at rookie of the year. And we got Tristan Casas, rookie auto. Nice, 32 out of 100. Atomic refractor, rookie auto for Carl M. And the Red Sox. How has he been doing? Last couple weeks, hitting 204. Home run, couple RBIs. 10 hits and about 50 at bats. But he's playing, he's getting playing time. A couple of paper bits here. We've got Drew Jones and Edward Julian. Chris Butler with the diamond backs. Greg Dash with the twins. And we got an Ariel Almonte autograph for the Reds. That'll be for Chris Butler. So we've got the Casas and the Almonte, two Reds, two Red teams. Is he a big dude? 64, 252. Yeah, that's a big dude, right? You could say he's built like a house. You could say he's built like a casa. Right, well now, he's just listed at 250, right? It's Christian Yelich to 499. Brewers, Carl. The listed size thing reminds me of something I stumbled upon. Watching Ben Affleck interviews. As he was promoting the movie Air, I think he had some interactions with Michael Jordan in the prep for this movie. But I think he said he was, he was, got paired with him in some sort of charity golf tournament or something like that. There's Juan Brito Greengrass to 99 for the Rockies, David M. Something like that. And I think he would, Ben Affleck and the rest of the golf group, I think it was, was goofing with him a little bit, saying, oh, you're not 6'6 or whatever. I think Jordan's famously listed as 6'6, 6'7 maybe. But I think many people are like, nah, he's not. And I think they were ribbing Jordan about it. And Michael Jordan said, oh, fourth autograph, JT Ginn. I thought I was done with autos. I was going to continue my story, but JT Ginn has interrupted us. JT Ginn has joined the chat. JT Ginn, where do you go? Your minor league stats. He's currently a Midland Rockhound, which is part of the A's. It's an A's affiliate. So this is going to go to Oakland, Tristan. That's all right, James, you try. That was a good guess. Justin Crawford for the Phillies, that'll go to Chris. Next box. All right. So to finish the story, Ben Affleck, Michael Jordan, they're hanging out. Ben Affleck in some of his group, golfing group, maybe charity event. It was goofing on Jordan. You're not 6'6. Not like your list, not 6'7. You're like 6'4, man. And Jordan replies, yeah, well, if I was 6'4, this makes what I did all the more impressive, doesn't it? MF'ers. And they were like, they kind of fell silent. They were like, yeah, I guess you're right. I think there was a photo recently of Michael Jordan standing next to, I think he was at an F1 race, maybe. He was standing next to Lewis Hamilton and a couple other celebrities or something like that. Jordan looks, although he was in the back. He was standing in the back, so there might be some forced perspective making him look just a little bit taller than Lewis Hamilton. But every once in a while, that does crop up. Michael Jordan actually shorter than he was. Next one. All right, another three autos. Here we go. And we'll do an auto recap at the end, of course. There's Averson Artiaga to 4.99. Giants, that'll be Jeremy and the Giants. Gilo enjoyed watching Jordan on the Wizards scoring 40 points at 40, mostly without shooting 3s, yeah. Yeah, he's pretty good. Oh, and a plate auto. Wow, nice. That's Hayden Younger on plate autograph for the Bluebirds. Carl with the BlueJays. Nice, Carl. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Yeah, Jordan at an early age worked on that, his shooting game a lot. I think in the early years, I think a lot of people just thought, oh, he's just a guy that's going to drive to the basket or just dunks, you know, something like that. But he really worked on that mid-range game and then just became unstoppable. It's Christian Yelich Pink to 175. I mean, imagine if, imagine if Giannis Antidecumpo develops, you know, a mid-range game or a three-point game. There's Christian Serda to 150, Blue Shimmer, Chris Butler.  Giannis would be unstoppable. He'd be like, he would rattle off multiple MVPs in a row, I would think, like Yokech. Yeah, I think the, you know, it is a less physical game today. You know, as long as Steph Curry takes care of himself, he'll probably last for a decent amount of time, if he was, you know, if he was born in the 80s, late 70s. There's Carlos Jorge to 499. That is for Chris Butler and the Red Legs. Last spot, Mojo. Another Edward Julian for Greg. Spencer Jones and Holiday. Jackson Holiday, 48 out of 50. Gold Shimmer on card autograph for Aaron Billingsley and the Baltimore Orioles. Not his first. I think he was in draft, right? That's where his firsts were, but very nice. Matt Holiday's kid, number one overall pick. Real nice. Yeah, still sells. Still sells well. We got one more parallel here. Ariel Almonte to 199. And that's for Chris Butler and the Reds. And there's Josh's brother. That was a nice box. The plate, the Carlos Jorge refractor and Jackson Holiday. That was a personal box. Be pretty nice. All right, folks. Box five. We are halfway through this full case break. That was Jackson Holiday doing. He's playing with the Aberdeen Iron Birds. High A-ball through 156 at bats. How many games is that? That's 156 divided by four, about 39 ish games. Yeah, he's crushing. He's hitting 372. Six home runs, 37 RBIs, 12 stolen bases. He's got an OPS of 1.128. Think about that. An OPS of over 1,000. 1,100 OPS. 600 is okay, right? 600 keeps you a major leaguer. 700 ish. Oh, you're an all-star. 800 ish? I mean, that's MVP caliber. I don't think he's going to be... Well, it's still high A, Shilo. But I think he should be moving on to... Moving on to single A. No, he's already in single A. So he's played... Let's give you the splits here. He's played 14 games in single A. He got promoted already. Still raking. 396. Two home runs in 14 games. 16 RBIs. 14 more walks than strikeouts. 14 walks of 13 strikeouts. Three stolen bases. Six doubles in 14 games. And a triple. Wait, no. He went from A to high A. Well, it's still raking. 359 in high A. Through 29 games. Listen, long story short, he's pretty good. Maybe double A? If he keeps doing this, you've got to give him a cup of coffee at the end of the season, right? Just give him a little taste of the bigs. There's Jackson Kuryo at 250. And another Brock Jones speckle this time to 299. Jeremy with the raise. You don't think they're going to rush him? I guess he's only 19 or so, right? Probably don't have to. Yeah, well, not with the intention of playing. Not with the intention of playing. Not with the intention of just kind of absorbing, you know, sort of absorbing major league baseball, how these ball players work, how they are.  Maybe he doesn't need that, because his dad was a big leaguer. But there was a story I read recently about Will Smith. The Dodgers catcher, how even before, I want to say, was a minor. He was a couple of years away from even being considered to maybe battle for a starting job. But he wasn't even on the roster. They just had him travel with the Dodgers for a little bit. I think maybe after the minor league season it was over. Maybe there's like a month or so there. There's Emmanuel Bonilla at 75. But he was able to just kind of absorb how other Dodgers catchers were prepping for games, just working pitching staffs, all that sort of stuff. It was really good. Yeah, I'm sure his dad did prep him about life in the majors, but I don't know about you. My dad's told me a lot of things about life that I haven't paid attention to. He didn't realize. He was right until I was much older. I think sometimes it's good to have some players just get a taste of just that big league, not even lifestyle. Just how big leagueers work.  Right, yeah, I didn't pay attention. Now look at me, opening baseball cards and talking about how I could have been a big leagueer. It was Logan L. Hopp to 399. Had a good start to the season before injuries. Is that another Jackson holiday? It is. Another Jackson holiday for Aaron and the Orioles. Yeah, they do that in spring, but spring only gives you so much. That's why at Jeremy they give guys cups of coffee towards the end of the season. You know, having them up there for a week or so at the end of September, it's not going to mess with the clock that much. They'll just add that week back in the year he's supposed to get called up and delay that another week. They're masters at clock manipulation. Because like I'm saying, I don't think service time is... You can't just be strictly beholden to service time. Sometimes there's some benefit in giving young players a taste of big league life, even if it is someone with pedigree like Jackson holiday. Yeah, Baltimore is loaded in their farm system, which makes me wonder. If Baltimore is within striking distance of a playoff spot, do you think they're making moves? Baltimore is in second place four games behind the Rays. I'm sure they're well at 35 wins. I'm sure they're well within a wild card spot, right? They are. Do they become sellers? You can't play the entire farm system and not all the farm system is going to work out. They're going to make some hard decisions with the young kids, trade some of those guys in the middle of the season, get some bonafide talent there. At what point do you... What point do you hang on to... Can't hang on to everybody and everyone can't play? We know that. There's Gunnar Henderson. We're just talking about him, yeah. What if he's not looking good? There's Samuel Muñoz. Or he's looking okay, but it's clear that what if he's like a little ways away? What if they get Otani? That would be crazy. That would be a headline that would just blow my mind. If you're the Orioles, who would you have to trade? Or another Carlos Jorge. Refractor to 499 for the Reds. Chris Butler. You'd have to move Colton Couser. Probably Jackson Holiday. They won't because the Royals will get Otani. What will it take for the Royals to get Otani? In a trade. Royals aren't getting Otani in free agency. That would be another shot. That would be even more shocking than the Orioles. Yeah, every case of Bowman with 24 autos in here, you are gonna get duplicates in here. More often than not. Although, I think I've probably seen more duplicates here than usual. Two Jackson Holidays, two Brock Joneses. Actually, three Brock Joneses actually. Two Jackson Holidays, two Carlos Jorges. No, obviously we're joking, Jeremy. There's no way Otani goes to Kansas City. And Gilo as a die-hard Royals fan, as much as he hopes he knows that Otani is not going there. Even if they give him all of the Royals minor league affiliates. Would that even be allowed? There has to be some sort of some sort of rule in Major League Baseball, do you think? There's Jayce Young. But minor league teams are only affiliates, right? They're not owned and operated by they're not owned and operated by the big club. There's Jayce Young. Nice blue autograph for the Tigers. That'll be for David M. If Mahomes can do that, they better give him like 51% of the Royals. They better give a majority share of the team if Mahomes can do the unthinkable bring Otani to Kansas City and have him sign a contract longer than five years. You make him the mayor right on the spot. He already brought us Whataburger? Anything is possible? I think Otani is worth more than that Whataburger franchise. Oh no, here's another Midwestern Rex. Cubs fan Rex. Where is Otani going to go Rex? Jeremy, I know you're new here but you're going to have to deal with these regulars and their wild ideas. They're over-inflated in the sense of what they think their clubs can bring. I'm pretty sure Otani wants to go to at minimum a regular World Series contender. Not even just maybe if we have a good season we can make the wild card. You don't want those teams. He's already on that team. There's Sameel Delarosa for Carl and the Cardinals. Are you a Braves guy Jeremy? Braves are doing alright. Otani is just one man. Or I guess two men. I think we can pitch and hit I guess. Alright, two boxes to go. We're getting there. We're almost there folks. Stay on target. I think the Mariners could be a wild card for Otani's big stakes. Everyone's saying Dodgers. As a Dodger fan, I certainly wouldn't mind that. Dodgers have the money to do it. You know, they've got certainly have the need for Otani. Their perennial World Series contenders. You don't think Jeremy doesn't think so because of each row he's like to see in Seattle. There can be only one Japanese star for each team. What if it turns out that each row and Otani went to rival high schools? There'd be nothing more that Otani would like. High school baseball in Japan, massive. And what if Otani was like there'd be nothing more that I would love than to really stick it to each row? To really stick it to Ichiro Suzuki who's on my high school's rival with my rivals in high school. F those guys. I don't know if they went to rival high schools. That'd be funny if they did. Turns out turns out Otani and Hideo Nomo are like best friends and he's like I do not want to tarnish that relationship. I respect Hideo Nomo's legacy in Los Angeles way too much. That would be a plot twist. Who's looking to that? That's the kind of reporting I want to see from major sports media outlets. That's Jason Dominguez to 125. That's for the Yankees. Spencer Jones is for the Yankees. Maybe I have to look into that. Dodgers are certainly the logical landing spot but if the angels trade him he can go anywhere. That's true Rex. Not by his choice. Nice Justin Crawford autograph. Carl's kid. Carl Crawford's son. Going to the Phillies. Going to Chris Butler. There you go Chris. That'd be the cubsiest thing that they would do Rex. Dump their farm system. Get Joey Otani for three months just to have him leave in free agency. Leaving the cubs with a depleted farm system. Starting from scratch. Hey you're welcome Chris. Thanks for grabbing the Phillies. Although in reality I really don't think that's what you said Gilo but with the cubs I'd be like I could actually see them doing that with the royal I don't think they do that but I don't think in reality I don't think Artie Moreno and the angels I don't think they want to move I don't think they want to trade Otani because then they'd be the ones that they'd be they don't want their legacy to be were the ones that traded Otani. The GM, forgot who the GM is the GM's so peri-menessian or is it someone else? Yeah I've brought that question before I think if you sign Otani to a 10 year deal you just have to have a handshake acknowledgement that listen later on you know if it turns out you got to pick one we're going to have to have that conversation just know that or you have to pick the pitching side of things or the hitting side of things just to preserve your career here is Damon Keith Blue Lunar to 150 for the boys in blue, my Dodgers, Travis with the Dodgers yeah I'm sure they don't have plans to move Otani and even if they did Rex they wouldn't say that they had plans to move Otani but I don't think they can I mean they can't have the legacy they don't have the legacy I'm the guy that traded modern-day Babe Ruth they'd rather say hey we gave Otani a fair offer in free agency and he declined it and puts it on Otani if they took that to Rendon imagine if they took that Rendon money the Pujols money, the Josh Hamilton money and just gave it to that guy instead I mean for most players Rex you got to try to get something back but you have a generational player like Otani and Travis would be quite popular do you want your legacy for the rest of your working life to be you're the guy that traded Otani it'd be like the guy who traded well I don't know who it's it'd be like the Red Sox who traded Babe Ruth they'll always be they'll always be talked about in that sense in history forever I don't want that there's N'Kow Poku Grego that is for Chris Butler and the Phillies pick that up straight up there's Framie de Lyon to 125 Trout made his bed though there he is he made his bed with his team he didn't have to Trout's going to request a trade to Philadelphia when his golf course opens up Jeremy I don't know when that golf course is opening 2026 absolutely Jeremy he's got that golf course opening um the Tiger Woods design golf course opening who knows when gotta get the Eagles games a little bit more easily imagine he could play a day game at citizens bank right and then walk across the parking lot he's not walking across the parking lot he's on a golf cart and goes right to the football game a Sunday night football game could be that easy especially with games being shorter these days he could play a one o'clock game on a Sunday that game would be done by 3.30 after post game stuff press stuff dinner you know post game meal it's like 5 o'clock and just pop right over the game football game hang out with the Eagles players before the game right that's what on the east coast that's probably a Sunday night football it's a 5.30 5.30 start no 8.30 starts 5.30 for us in LA he'd love it Trout would love it last box ladies and gentlemen last box another case of this I have to check and if we do this picker team kind of took a while to fill maybe we'll reconfigure it that's Edwin Arroyo for the Reds for Chris there's Roderick Arias purple ray wave to 250 that's going to go to the Yankees that'll be for Tristan should we do a full case random team maybe does that move the needle for anybody Cam Collier nice 114 out of 499 Bowman first autograph for Chris Butler and the Red Legs stick with picker team feel like the high end teams do get snapped up it's just those middle end teams that we're having a little trouble moving I guess I could do a thing where do the thing where we do a picker team and then you know put the next 15 to 20 teams in a team random make it a random team you don't mind waiting, I appreciate that new release day we were doing multiple cases of these a day for about a week and after everybody kind of burned out on it and it just depends in subsequent weeks we've had some cases sell within a night sometimes that case just kind of sits there for a little bit but just all depends on if we get some if we get some Bowman people hey here's Matt Mervis 74 out of 150 what color match there blue chrome for the cubbies Paul with the Cubs how's he doing I only got called up recently hmm not so hot last seven games spending 111 couple hits a home run, 3 RBI's 4 walks 6 trycasts but I'm sure they'll give him a decent leash the Drew Super Bounty was out so I died down yeah it's not like there's no more Drew Joneses to chase plenty of Drew Joneses that's just one card well a nice card that's just one card plenty of other Drew Joneses to look for in here there's 62 out of 299 Frederick Ben Cozme speckle for Aaron and the O's is that what everyone wanted I don't have that data Jeremy you pulled everybody and they said that's it I feel like the same people who buy the same small group people that buy the dimebacks you're still buying the dimebacks in our picker teams it's not like everyone was able to afford the dimebacks anyway especially since we were doing picker teams I disagree with that logic Jeremy at least for our side of things there's Shea Whitcomber third and final auto of the box third and but in our 24th auto of the break let's see if we can find any still out there still other autographs out there that'll still go for a lot sure everyone wanted that bounty but not everyone was at least on jaskyscaserates.com I don't think we've have we even done a random case maybe on new release I think we did a random case anyway yeah who was we were talking about that Jeremy who would actually do the one million I mean what kind of guarantees would you get who was doing it again was it Dave and David Adams blah here's your recap like that plate it was a pretty solid break actually overall kind of look at it from a top down view some pretty nice stuff let's give away that wax party invite alright so let's flip back to this list here it's gathered the names one through thirty yeah kind of from a top down view when you do the recap was a nice case wasn't I think it was pretty solid now what makes this break even more solid Jeremy and everybody else you have a chance at a wax party invite chance to win some nice some nice wax so that was from a different dice roll that's from a different I didn't clear out those dice alright new dice new list name on top after seven at the time snap right there name on top after seven we'll get an invite to the wax party good luck everybody one two three four five six and fingers crossed seventh and final time name on top gets the invite to the wax party ah Ryan very close but no cigar not this time but everybody there are many wax party invites still remaining plenty of them so keep trying jaspyscasebricks.com top name after seven is Chris parent and I was busy calling Chris Butler's name a lot during this break I don't think we got a Chris parent shout out here what teams you have Chris I don't even know what team you have Padres I mean there's all card chips I'm sure you'll get something but I don't think there are any Padres autographs so Chris parent you're in the wax party fingers crossed whenever we eventually do that randomizer hopefully you'll get something nice for not getting anything for the Padres there you go man congrats to you thanks everybody for watching and for breaking with me I'm Joe for jaspyscasebricks.com and I'll see you next time for the next break bye bye