From The Conversation, This Is Don't Call Me Resilient. I'm Venetha Srivastava.  It's a texture that is it's not no one's going to relate to that texture unless they have it. So then you have to address the fact of that loneliness. It's very real. Deanna Denham Hughes, Jenny Mitchell, and Sierra Claiborne. These are three black women in the United States who are facing long uphill battles with cancer and reproductive problems. Problems that are now linked to their decades-long use of hair relaxers. Well, these women are now fighting back and seeking justice. There are among the roughly 1,200 people in the United States suing dozens of cosmetic companies alleging their hair care products made them sick. And now two Canadian women, Shamara Hutchinson and Elle Wayura, have added their names to that list. The pressure to straighten their hair to comply with European standards of beauty for work and school is an issue that many black women are familiar with. It's an issue Cheryl Thompson has spent a lot of time researching. She is the author of Beauty in a Box, Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture. And she is a professor of performance in the creative school at Toronto Metropolitan University. Thanks so much for joining me, Cheryl. It's so good to speak with you again. It's good to talk to you as well. More than 1,000 women in North America have now filed lawsuits against cosmetic companies alleging that their hair relaxers caused cancer and fibroids.  How surprised were you by these lawsuits? Oh, not surprised. Excited. To be honest, excited by them that people are finally going to be holding these corporate companies to account for what has actually been known since around 2008-9. Oh, that long, 2008-9? Yeah, yeah. Like the first dermatological studies really started to be published around 2008-9. And at that time, they were only saying that there was a causal effect. They were not saying it was a direct cause and effect. It was like maybe there is some association between using chemical relaxers and uterine fibroids and other certain types of baldness, alopecia, right? They were making little correlations. But by the mid, I would say mid 2010s, they stopped making those correlations and they started saying, no, we pretty much can say cause and effect using these products will cause uterine fibroids and alopecia. I saw one lawsuit that you mentioned in your book about the Brazilian company, I think Rio. You talked about that. It was like, that was crazy. Yeah, that was what in the early 90s. And it was this product that was essentially branding itself as all natural from the rainforest of Brazil, basically, and come to find out it was like 10 times more toxic than even a standard chemical relaxer. And the scariest thing about Rio is that they had a lot of celebrity endorsers, right? And it was on back then, young kids won't remember this, but infomercials. So it was an infomercial on at night, right? So back then it was like, it would be like 20 minutes of all of this content of there. And then they would have all these like testimonials of how great the product was. And it was literally, I think there was one case where it burned a portion of someone's scalp off. It was extremely toxic. You can imagine and you're sitting to yourself and you're thinking, how could they allow a product like that to be sold? That's a really good question. How could they allow a product like that to be sold? You got Health Canada in Canada and you've got the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration in the US, but they actually don't regulate these products. No, and often when it comes to especially the demographic who is mostly using the products, which are black women and some men as well, it's just an uncared for population. How long have these products been around? We're talking about hair relaxers and what made them so popular among black women? Well, I feel like popular needs to put in air quotes. Like most things as it relates to, especially the black population in what is essentially the Atlantic world, we do have to go back to transatlantic slavery. So we do have to go back to a moment of black people actually being in really acts of deprivation, I would say, as it relates to self-care because you're just not able to self-care, right? And you're having to use what's in your environment. And so in the you could go back to there's early examples of lie, for example, like the product that that idea of lie has been around for hundreds of years. So you will have cases in especially during in the US southern plantation where they would mix lie with potatoes and other kinds of things because it was a known kind of caustic chemical that could straighten the hair. So they realized that and during slavery to speed up this story, you had a division of labor.  So there was more of an imperative to straighten or wear a wig so that they felt more comfortable with you in their home, essentially.  If you want a good job, it's now generations that pathology of hair has to look near the employer who is white. And in the 1910s, the 1920s, you have a lot of people experimenting with chemical relaxers. So you say popular in quotes. Can we go back to that for a minute? What is he talked about the pressure? We talked about the slavery era and you said that it goes back all the way to that time period where I'm sure it's upward mobility. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. If you live in a world where every message you're getting that the symbol of beauty is straight hair, a certain even skin tone because the same time with the chemical relaxers, there's obviously the skin bleaching is going in tandem. And in fact, in the early days of Ebony Magazine, which I talk about a lot in my book, it's nothing but skin bleaching ads and hair straightening and skin bleaching ads. They were seen as the two necessities for black mobility, especially in the post World War II era. If you didn't straighten your hair and bleach your skin, it's almost like you were left out of a conversation on the new black in America. Right. And I think when you don't understand that you take it out of context and you think, oh, those people hated themselves. Actually, no, they were doing that for self love at that time because that's what it looked like at that time.  Sure.  Oh, yeah. When I was younger. Yeah. When I was younger, especially most black women of a certain age can remember gym class and swimming in gym class and the awkwardness of that moment of if I go in this pool, what my hair going to look like and then I got to go back to class after this. Like that just the anxiety of that and then having white teachers who really didn't understand and would almost make a joke of it. Like, why are the black girls don't know how to swim? Aren't you from Africa? Like, I remember a teacher actually said that and I was like, okay, I don't know what to deal with that. So I felt that pressure of if you use a straightener and you chemically straighten your hair, you actually don't have that worry anymore. Going into the pool is not a problem anymore. Like your hair won't change or revert back is what they used to call it, right? Or turning back. It won't do that. So in my mind, I thought at the time I'm just doing this for function, but I was also doing it to avoid like being teased or bullied and other things that I felt like might have happened if I'd followed that pattern.  Yeah. It's the same thing when I started working full time. I haven't always been an academic. I worked in the business world and in industry and I definitely straightened my hair because I felt like that was just more appropriate for appropriate again, air quotes for the setting. And I use the chemical relaxer from the age of 13 to 30. Oh, so 17, 17 years. I use one. Yeah. It's a long time. That is a long time. So there's a lot of money that you've also spent on this. Every, every six to eight weeks. Yeah. You've got to get the kit. You got to get the neutralizing shampoo. You got to get the aftercare conditioner, the spritz. I was probably spending at least $100 a month at least. So you have written about the companies like the, how the companies have profited from black women and black women's hair in North America. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Yeah. I mean, just to keep it digestible, it really is in the 2000s. The first decade of the 2000s was a really a shift, a major shift in the beauty culture industry. Before then you had established African American owned companies, Johnson products. You had Carson products. You had soft sheen products. They were like all these really big companies and they were all offering different, like hitting different segments. Then in the 2000s, it was just a mergers and acquisitions frenzy, as I've explained in my book, where suddenly the sort of the transnational consumer goods company, they started to realize, and it was really Revlon who started this trend, the lipstick company. They started the trend in the 70s, but it really didn't pick up until the 2000s where they're like, we need to diversify and look at all these African American beauty companies. Their profits are only ever going up. They have a growing and loyal consumer base. So the proctor and gambles. L'Oreal you talk about. L'Oreal is an interesting one because L'Oreal bought two companies, soft sheen and Carson. And then they merged them into their soft sheen, Carson division that still exists. So there are people who are loyal to that brand and they didn't change the brand name. They just merged them together soft sheen, Carson. So if you were a black consumer, you would have recognized either one of those brand names that you would have been using. So you're thinking, oh great, soft sheen and Carson merged. But what you don't realize is that behind that is the parent company L'Oreal because L'Oreal doesn't put its name on these products. That's the other thing that I've always felt was so stealth about the chemical relaxer product industry. If you go and look at those products, you have to look at the fine print to see who the parent company is. Whereas when you look at the other products that are quote unquote for everyone, you know exactly who the parent company is. So one of the things my book has always said is why are they hiding? Yeah, yeah. What is it that they don't want to admit to when they're making so much money off of us? Yeah. You're talking about it like so many black women including yourself are now are wearing their hair in natural ways and using natural products. I read a story probably every month, especially in the New York Times and coming out of the US about black folks getting pushed back for wearing their hair naturally. There's a story in Texas about a young man or in braids or locks at work or at school.  So how much are we hearing about this? Do you think in Canada? Are we talking about this here in Canada? No, this doesn't get talked about at all in Canada. But I think what it is again, what is the origin that the association with black people and our natural hair is a political association. So the way you're talking about the black is beautiful. That was a rallying call at the protests during the civil rights era, right? Yeah. That was that's what we said as part of demanding rights like civil rights, social rights and economic rights, right? And that's what we look like. So in the psyche remains this association of, oh, if you're, if you wear your hair like that, you're going to bring a certain politics. And then let's bifurcate that. And there's also the idea of, especially in the US context, a lot of black men who go to prison come out of prison with locks. And so that is now there's association with locks and like criminality or law. And meanwhile, maybe when they went to prison, they actually grew a consciousness. And that's the reason, right? Like we're not associating it with a positive thing. Yeah. They're associating it with like a negative. Like you're going to be involved in criminal behavior, especially when you see black boys being like punished for wearing their hair in locks or natural. A lot of it has to do with that. I think of that case several years ago where that young black boy was wrestling and in front of all those people, you cut his hair. In what world? It's, it was just so shocking. It was traumatic to watch. I cannot even just hearing you say the story again. I feel very like emotional. So awful that you would think that you could actually have any right to do that to someone. And also it's really important to understand psychologically.  You will. Because one, it's even more so than wearing it like in an Afro or crop style. One, you are completely disconnected from how most people wear their hair. Like the texture, right? It's a texture that it's not no one's going to relate to that texture unless they have it. So then you have to address the fact of that loneliness. It's very real. Like I know in my lock journey, I've worn my hair this way now since 2007. So I've gone through all the roller coaster of emotions of, oh, was this the right decision? I feel like I'm being treated differently now, like then I was before. To be honest with you, especially it's going to sound really bad, but it's true. I feel as though a lot of black men look at me very negatively. Almost like, why are you here? Because I don't have this aesthetic that is deemed beautiful. That is a psychological wear that it could take on a person. You can really start to feel like, oh, I'm just like you really feel othered is what I'm saying to you. And so it is a process in your life to get to love yourself and to really appreciate the fact that you're wearing your hair like this for a reason. And you actually don't have to explain it to anyone. So when I saw what happened to that boy who was wrestling, I thought to myself that person who did that literally cut their vocal cords. They didn't just cut their hair. Yeah. I'm just wondering, have you seen that show that's streaming right now? It's from a book. It's called The Other Black Girl. Yeah. No, I've heard about it though. I have heard about it. So it's a horror satire. And the whole idea is that it features this magical hair grease that makes black women more complacent in the white corporate workplace. I mean, when I heard the premise, I'm like, isn't that blue magic? If anyone's old enough, you know what blue magic is all about. What's blue magic? I don't know blue magic. I tell people this story. I was like addicted to blue magic. Like I would just slick my hair with blue magic and you'd almost, my ponytail would be shining. And I remember back then I played soccer and sometimes we'd have night games. And you know what night in the summer, there's something to do with the humidity point is I'm not even kidding you. My hair would be steaming. Like my teammates would be like, you have steam coming out of your head. I'm like, I do. And then it took years before I realized I think that's that blue magic. When that chemical hits the sweat, it just, yeah. When I heard that premise, I was like, oh my God, that's so funny. But I actually think it's based on true real life. Maybe the writers around the same generation as you, it's possible that she wrote the book and now it's made into a series. But it's, of course, it's horror satire. It's this whole genre that I'm just wondering what role do you think a book like this or show like this can play in this conversation? I think for me, it like thinking how maybe they're also playing at the fact that depending on the hairstyle and the product, it does engender a kind of docility, right? A certain behavior modification. It's just real. I used to have a friend, she had what she called a Whitney wig. And sometimes when we would go out to the club, she would put on that wig. And if she would not be a different person, if she would not have a certain energy and just feel more in a way, I'm sure that book is written with that kind of understanding of seeing how when people put on certain aesthetics, they really do change. I had another friend who worked at a certain retail establishment that was higher end. And for whatever reason, same idea, she had to wear a wig. Even though in her private life, this is not a person who wore a wig. Right. In that context, she chose. They didn't even ask. Oh, she chose. Yeah. She chose to wear a wig. And I remember going and seeing her at the place and it's like she was a different person. She was a little more docile. So again, I feel like whoever's writing that book probably has similar experiences that they're tapping into. But this is the idea of right, you're one person at work and you're another person at home too. That's partly what you're saying too.  The mask goes on. To be very honest with you, anybody who is the offspring of especially that generation of Caribbean immigrant who came in the 60s, 50s and 60s and 70s. My parents had to do that. Yeah. They wore a different face at work. And they did that for survival. Yeah. Right. And they changed their mother tongue. They changed the way they spoke. Yeah. And I remember as kids, me and my sister, we would hate it so much when my mother would run into someone that she knew. And then she would put on that work voice that was like, you do not talk with that at home. Right. And we didn't understand it.  Obviously, as you grow, you realize that's called work tone because she wants to keep that job. And that's called assimilation. That's forced assimilation. Yeah. And that's why it's really hard for me now in my professional life. To be in instances where it's almost like I have to do that. I'm registering, oh my gosh, it's like I'm living my mother's life, but I was born here. Yeah. Why am I having to assimilate again into a system when this is actually the country of my birth? And I know there are thousands of black women, Canadian born, who experienced the exact same thing. I think what you're also saying is no judgment here. Like no judgment for those who are on one side of this. They are going to continue to straighten or use relaxers and or use particular. There's no judgment here because there's an understanding of all of the necessity or all of them, maybe not necessity. Maybe they don't even see it as necessity. I don't judge anyone. I don't judge anyone. But when you know better, you really need to do better. Yeah. Yeah. That's not me, right? That's my Angela, right? There's a lot of information now. Even this semester, I'm teaching a classroom of 135 students.  Forget being black just with hair like this. Right. They probably have never, I'm their influence. Right. Of these first year. Yeah. That is huge, right? And that makes you feel like on some level, that's the reason why people should start to be more of who they really are. Because that's going to leave such an impression on the young generation. The older eras, they had to hide. It was a different time, right? They were facing a lot of different challenges. I really believe this, every generation should benefit from the struggle of the last generation. Yeah. They went through that so we don't have to. Yes. So for you to continue to do what your parents had to do, but you're not learning the lesson, that's how I feel. Even as I don't judge the choice because I really do understand it, I also think we live in an era where you can make a different choice. Coming back to the lawsuits for a minute and just before we wrap up. It's like we have this incredible research team and led by this amazing researcher. And the study came out last year that really does link a lot of these products to really significant health issues. So I'm wondering how do you think these lawsuits are going to impact life in the hair and beauty aisles? Do you think that we're going to see different types of beauty aisles at the pharmacies or the drug stores? I don't know. I think that's a much more complicated conversation because to me that conversation is about do you think we can let go of the straight hair aesthetic? As the standard of beauty. We live in an era where there's a lot of different hairstyles. If you just go in a city and you see every day you're going to see people with their hair in plaits or braids or dreads or an afro or maybe someone's wearing a weave. Someone's using a chemical straightener. So there's so much variety out there that I think what we need to lean into is that we live in a time where there shouldn't be a beauty standard. Right. Because there's so much variation now and yet there still is a standard and it still is like imposed onto people. Right. And I think if we go back to how we started this conversation with all the lawsuits and the reasons for the lawsuits. I think unfortunately I don't want to be Debbie Downer but I think they will lose because these corporations have great lawyers. And they're really great at pointing out the one single fact about the consumer culture industry is that you have a choice. You have a choice and you chose to repeatedly use that product. We didn't force you. I have to say that I was shocked like when I read in your book that Health Canada and the FDA Food and Drug Administration in the US do not regulate beauty products. I as a citizen of this as a person who lives in Canada who goes to the store. I think if it's something I'm putting on my lips or my face now I have a teenage daughter who uses beauty products. I just have an assumption that these things are going to be safe because they're being sold in the store that we can all go to. Yeah. I hope that coming out of these lawsuits at least there's a greater awareness. Remember that these are global companies. These products are being shipped around the globe. So we have no idea what health effects we might be seeing in the Caribbean, in Africa, in even parts of South Asia. We have no idea in Europe. It's these are global conversations that we see manifest in this case in the US and now in Canada. But I'm sure there are thousands of people around the world who are like having serious health problems and they have no access to information to know where the problems are coming from. Other than and I think the mentality would be this can't be the chemical relaxer I'm using because this is a brand name product. Yeah. I can see the logic. How can a company be held responsible for these few people who are bringing this suit when we're not hearing from the millions of other people who have bought the product. That is the logic of the corporation. And I think what when we're dealing with that kind of logic. It's like I said at the end of my book. That's why a consciousness movement is actually what's needed. Everyone has to really wake up. I think we need to get back to forget the look. Let's get back to health. And hopefully, even if the claimants in that lawsuit lose, I hope what comes out of it though is just a more enlightened conversation about the fact that these products do have a physical impact on your body. There's just no question about it at this point. Thank you so much, Cheryl, for all of your time. Yeah, I mean, I could talk beauty culture all day long. That's it for this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient. It's always a pleasure to speak with Professor Cheryl Thompson. It's like speaking to an old friend who was also really knowledgeable. To find Cheryl's book and other resources on this issue, you can go to theconversation.com and look for the podcast section. 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Hey, this is Brett and this 2019 Ram 2500 Megacab Short Box Laramie Level 2 Group is stock number 13941Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2019 Ram 2500 has the 6.7-liter Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFV automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Per the state of Wisconsin inspection process, it has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath. Start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation that I can. Granite crystal is the color. Shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com. 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All right, so I check this out and I saw your email with all the questions And a couple things so to me there's some things where I feel like you're going into That the balls have character and they're alive, but then there are moments where they're purely Physical in terms of you know pure physics where just the life is not in them anymore So to me the couple things are a bit contradictory That's the way to put it so Also energy to what energy wise it's all kind of slow. He feels kind of Doesn't like life depressed There's something going on here, which is interesting But then I'm not understanding Just from a physics point of view too as this comes down Because it seems like at this point. It's just pure physics, right? It doesn't feel like it is bouncy or it wants to do anything now This ball hitting this is not going to make this stop This is too heavy for you know, this ball is too light basically to bring this guy up But at the same time, there's no reason for this ball to stop So I'm not understanding why it would just roll out so that's a problem and Then I like this. That's all great Excuse me the animation school Timing is great, but then after that it's kind of like it's gonna roll over and then you got a little pop there It's a bit much. Where's it? As it gets off the ground right there That it's a weird strange like it suddenly pops down But then we need to hear the spacing is slow again It's not like that pops only like an elevation change where it's only accelerates for a little bit and then he slows down But then it just kind of slow. So you have this thing of it starts of Slow and it ends So so there's not real energy in the shop then The relationship is kind of on in a way where I Know it feels like this ball is also kind of heavy But then this guy is here at the beginning but then suddenly is able to speed up Like he feels like this guy suddenly is as springy and fast as this one And then once we get to here, I don't know again It's just the physics and why is it suddenly not alive anymore So I'm just slightly confused about what is when in terms of when you want your character to be alive or not But I like the idea of this happening right can't get up And it gets that guy out there I mean also if you're doing squash and stretch already you won't stretch on this frame And maybe one more here so have a smooth exit. So what could we do? Surprise or humor? Like right now this guy feels like he has zero urgency or zero agency like there's nothing It's not like he knows that something is behind him. He just kind of goes there goes down Suddenly stops for no reason and then goes down and that's it. So there's no real relationship Where's it here between these two? So it could be something where you know, like it's a slow roll doesn't get up goes back down tries Doesn't work and maybe maybe that's when this ball is pushing and pushing and pushing to get somewhere And then maybe they get to this point and then the ball is bouncing backwards as he goes down But then again, it would just it would just go out there. I'm not sure. I'm not sure It depends what you want to do You want this to be just something is he's just going along and it just happens to him You want them to be together in terms of their relationship, you know, they're trying to help each other You do kind of like the Miyazaki clip She kind of depends what you want to do I Will give this in general if let's pretend I would just look at this right? This is all done It just feels also very slow. I would give this a bit more energy bigger bounces It's still weird being that it's a bowling ball Like it's also visually a bowling ball trying to be heavy how I can suddenly get up here is kind of strange and This sudden stop makes no sense unless there was a wall right here You know, I mean like there's something that comes up and it can't get out of there And then you just stop here and then you don't do that roll off That could be something so I don't know. I'm as Unsure as you are it just depends where What focus you want to have also just in terms of stuff that's happening. You can probably also That so this is your framing Hold on those off-screen You mean that's your framing so you could have higher bounces stuff could happen could be happening It could be on here the little guy could be jumping and when he gets out you just see more like right now. It's all a bit Centered and with a lot of room here that we don't need Almost feels like we get you know, we cut out of this. We don't see much Even here like you want to see those bounce. I don't feel like you want to have that more in frame So I would say if you could let me know what you want in terms of Their relationship might you might tell me what I don't know that's why I'm asking you so Then I would say you could do something like this. Hold on I'm someone else and he had this relationship But it's not like the big one does anything But that could be something right not that you want to copy this But what if your bowling ball just happens to be there and it's a smaller springy ball That is doing something to it. One is alive one is not and because of that You know, you could push push push push push and then it stays there in perfect balance and then maybe Pushes one more time and then it comes down I don't know. I'm just not sure how to reconcile that of if the ball starts to roll down like here Why this would suddenly happen? Also in a way if this is bouncing here And it comes from a higher place, right? Why isn't it bending more because now it's not as high. There's less energy. Why is it suddenly bending more? You know, I'm very logical here So some things just are not quite making sense So how could we fix this in general?   It was like Slowly rolls onto the thing but not really then he goes Pushes pushes pushes until the black ball is on here and then the yellow one goes Doon doon doon doon doon is on here and then waits a bit and then nothing give it some pause and then goes Come on jumps and jumps and nothing happens and then he pauses again It's this longer ish pause like why are you not doing anything and he got that one frame back and forth of All that jitter like come on jump And then this ball waits and then we'll go Suddenly does the same thing as this big jitter jumps up Which brings this down a bit and then pow comes back down and then Then it flies off and he could fly off maybe away from us. So then It's far far away and then he kind of Rolls off again off-screen So kind of keeping some elements that you have And then combining some other things and doing some other new things I don't know. Let me know that could be something I would just take those bowling holes out and just make this a different ball once heavy You once light and you're implying it and you're not showing it by the texture or you know the model And it could be that I don't know. Let me know All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want You can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you You


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2017, or I'll check that 2020, Prism Football Hobby Pack Break Number 2, where we're giving away spots in 2017 at Prism Football Blaster Edition. We're going to do one more of these packs to sell out that break. So let's knock out another one of these and let's make that happen. So let's do the break first, the pack break first, and then at the end we'll re-randomize those names. Big thanks to everybody here for getting into the action and all 32 teams are in for this quick little pack break. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Three and a six, nine times for names and teams. One, two, and nine's the final time. After nine, we got Oliver down to Dustin. I want a paste. Copy my mousework not strong today. Okay, paste. There we go. Oliver down to Dustin, Oliver down to Dustin. All right, nine times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and a ninth and final time. After nine, we got the Jets down to the Bills. Buffalo! All right, so here's the first half of the list right there. All right, Ben, Eagles, Jalen Hertz, Possibilities, I mean in this quick little pack break maybe. Chargers for Jeremy. All right, Bangles for Joseph. We'll see what happens. All right, let's get all this on one list. No trade windows and stuff like this. And remember folks, when something is sold out, always check the website to make sure that there's no filler break or random number block or something like that attached to it. So keep that in mind. Always some kind of filler break. Could be attached to some breaks. Keep an eye on that. And always check the break schedule. That's frequently dropped into the chat. And I'll do my best. When I'm on air, I'll do my best to make sure that I have filler or mini break information posted as well. So you know what needs to be accomplished before a break can be complete. So please consult those. Josh, yes, if you are, are you local? Yeah. If you get hits, we are, you can arrange for local pickup. We got a number of customers that do that. All right, there you go. There's the final printout right here. Just give us a heads up beforehand by hitting the support button on jazzy's casebreaks.com. And usually it takes, I don't know, a day, two, three, maybe depending on the break to get that prepared for you. But if you reach out to us, then they'll be able to give you a timeframe. All right, we've got a silver here. Silver rookie, maybe? No, silver Sam Darnold. That's for the Jets. That'll be for Oliver. We got Antonio Gandy-Golden, 18 out of 49. Rookie and then Donovan People Jones and Jaylin Régor. I was hoping it was Jaylin Hertz, but Jaylin Régor will go to the Eagles and Marlowe. You know what? Quick little thing. There was one break that we did where the back of these base rookie cards were completely different players. It was, I think we saw that in a break, which was very weird. It's like a misprint. I think some of you in Prism Hobby number nine and ten might experience that. But anyway, we sent it to the rookie, the name on the, the name on the fronts. All right. Now let's get Matthew down to Jesse and collect all those names and save them in there. So it's going to be the top nine after five, one out of four, five times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, and once more, right? Once more, fifth and final time. Now from 10 down to 32, my apologies. We'll get them next time. In fact, we have to do one more of these. So if you want to give this another shot and chase Patrick Mahone's rookies, I think it's, I think it's worth another, a spot or two in the next pack. All right. Better luck next time. And congrats to the top nine, Tyler, Jay, Joseph, Eric, Raymond, Ryan, Jeremy, Troy, and Eric. Eric with two of the nine spots in here. Congrats to you. There you have it. Thanks everybody. I'm Joe for jazzycasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.