What's going on guys got Kyle here with the Layton sports cards, and we are ripping this is 2023 top series to baseball six box case break number 18 pick your team stop Alrighty we got Andrew B with the Cubs White Sox and the Rays we got Charles E with the Yankees and the Mariners. We got Chet Chelsea H with the Tigers. We got Drew P. Blue Jays Edge H has the D-backs Edward P. Has the Reds Flavio and has the Brewers Izawa R. Has the Royals Jackson W. Astros James L. Has Rangers and Giants Jason R. Has the Mets Jerry B. Has the Mets. Oh wait. Sorry. Sorry. Jason R. Has the Nationals Jerry B. Has the Mets Jim L. Has Guardians Twins Kenneth H. Has Rockies and Cardinals Mallory M. Has Padres Paul K. Has Marl, sorry. Yeah, Marlins Poe U. S. Has Orioles Shikonori U. Has Red Sox. Starbuck B. Has A's Steven S. With the Braves. Todd L. With the Phillies Tomoya M. Has the Angels. Tony K. With the Pirates, and we have Will M. With the Dodgers. Alrighty guys Let's get it going here. Good luck. Good luck. Six boxes of jumbo. Let's see some nice rookie series. Some low numbers Good luck. Good luck guys. Let's do it Judgy on the front first up. We have our record breakers Goldie there on the jumbo topper our silver packs Alrighty guys, good luck. Good luck. Try to pick out the top rookies here First up we have Justin Turner on the gold gold foil for the Red Sox Got the home run card. Is this a random? Oh, it's got Riley Greene on it. Yeah, it's got Riley Greene. Never mind. Sorry Tigers there There is Lens of the Game, Babe Ruth for the Yankees And we've got a all-star card for Ted Williams. Red Sox there. Oh, there's a Yoshida face rookie there. What kind of cards you listen Steve? From breaks or some older stuff you got or what? First up we got a foil of Louise Castile going to the Mariners and this is gonna be Keegan Aiken on the paper did 99 and got a Well, WBC Venezuela, Miggy there And poo holes on the throwback Grochans rookie. There's a Vulpie base rookie Guthrie rookie for the Phillies. Oh, nice. You just graduate Hassan Grats congrats. There's a Corbyn Carroll base rookie there for the D-vax he had a home run and a Grand Slam yesterday Not bad. Not bad. He's been on fire. I think they say Yeah, right we've got brown paper Brandon belt there for the Blue Jays and we've got a silver foil or gold foil Spencer Watkins All aces is Nolan Ryan there Astros and all-star Greg Maddox there for the Braves There's a Jordan Walker base rookie Got gold foil Alec Burleson rookie there for the Cardinals and our auto is gonna be Joey Manasas there for the Nationals nice hit Nationals last spot taken appreciate that there got the Manasas rookie auto We've got a legend of the game the kid Ken Griffey there for the Mariners and an Acunia all-star throwback I've seen Anthony Rizzo like three times and stuff. I thought it was Vulpie It's like Anthony. Oh, yeah, there's a yo sheet of their base rookie for the Red Sox That's nor And that is a quite older gentleman Then Vulpie eggie Rosario. I remember his James Almond base I remember because I first time I saw his name I was like II guy and then I read the back and I said pronounced eggie. I was like, oh nice I was like, thank you for that. I appreciate that I Like when you guys do that Fujinama rookie foil Back this up a little bit in our first Jersey. It's gonna be Corbin Carroll. Nice one there major league material going to the D-backs Corbin Carroll been on fire nice one there for the D-backs got a Mike trout WBC card and Corbin Carroll throwback rookie Nice D-backs pack there. There's a Logan old hoppy rookie angels We've got Chris Bassett on the foil there for blue Jays You've got a bronze Christian Arroyo Number to 2023 and green Drey Jameson rookie there for the D-backs That is number to 499 Nice green there D-backs got a pro far there and Derek Jeter on the throwback Yankees car Bulpie based rookie. How's Terang been? Yeah, I remember him getting called up I haven't heard much sense though as Garrett Mitchell been called up yet for them Bruce thank you go. Yeah, I haven't seen much bruise this Is a Josh young base rookie there Rangers go for Andrew Heaney? And we got Babe Ruth on the manufactured patch nice one there for the Yankees at 299 Babe Ruth home run RBI leader nice one there Yankees at 299 on the roof got a Ryan Hinsley there for the Cardinals and a Mike trout throwback G1 Bay Francisco Alvarez base rookie there Go Mets There's an orange Michael Conforto That one is number to 299 nice one there Giants. We've got a gold foil Royce Lewis And then we've got a Paul Goldschmidt on the WBC and Nato on the throwback All-Star Coloss rookie is a Bray you here we go Steve. There we go Steve King of eBay Nothing wrong with that of these cards here We've got a silver foil Javi by us and we got a WBC Javi by us Thought it was a double-sided your both sides were back. I saw Javi on both sides like what's just happened here There's a Pedro throwback me Pena Evan Longoria on the D-backs there Forgetting about that Longoria is stretching his career out man. He's making I like it Like when you remember him up early on when he was up with the raise and now Here we are good times Raise times. We're good times There is a silver foil Jose Suarez for the angels and WBC there I saw Kim once for the Padres there and a Joe Musgrove another Padres throwback Could I say there for the Mets on the base rookie? That's silver packs now. Got Tristan McKenzie David Hinsley George Springer And Jonathan Aranda on the rookie there orange that one is going to be numbered 5 of 25 nice hit their raise On the orange Aranda rookie. Yeah, I'll hand you the There's Clemente Tristan costs us there for the rookies And then a dance we swanson for the Cubs dance we swanson on the Cubs now Missed that We've got a record-breakers Donnie baseball there Don Mattingly on the box topper to silver packs Speed up a little bit guys. I'll just try to get the The rookies to memory so I can pick them out a little faster. We've got Lars new bar WBC card there for Japan We've got a silver foil here Bermirez race and Throwback rookie is going to be Oscar Gonzalez for the Guardians there. There's a Logan Ohop Angels rookie John Carlo. There's a silver foil Ryan Tepera angels there We've got a home run leaders of Vladdy on the blue foe throwback Sandy Alcantara, and we've got Ezekiel Tovar Rockies rookie Rockies rookie rookie Rockies The Rockies rookie the Rockies rookie rookie Rockies cold as the Rockies Of course like there we go. We got there Jay Don't know how but we got there Josh young base rookie. I actually need to upload some cards on a eBay. You mind me that Steve need a couple That's sitting around There is go folk how Schwerber Philly's there and home run card this time It's gonna go to Mookie going to the Dodgers on the home run We've got Ronald Acuna significant stats and throwback Ryan Samberg Cubbies Riley No, Josh young base rookie there. We've got goal for a rookie Max Meyer there nice one Marlins And our auto is gonna go to the D-backs again Tommy Henry on the black. Uh, it's a 199 D-backs rookie out of there Tommy Henry Trey Turner Joey Votto to top it all these are just So if I pass it past this Because I know the base all gets split I don't know the inserts don't so yeah There's a Francisco Alvarez and that's one that We've got goal forward for the Pirates Andrew McCutcheon Got bronze Tommy Henry rookie number there to 2023 Byron Buxton and Machado on the inserts Was they afraid? Here's a throwback here for the Astros Jordan We have Eloy on the WBC card Got Renfro on the bronze to 2023. Sorry. That's Hunter Strickland Don't know why I thought Renfro 2023 there And Yuli Gurriel that is Silverfoil called a Cabrera rookie. There's a Kodai Senga for the Mets base rookie Carlson Steve were you watching that uh That tennis match yesterday Jokovic versus Carlos It was good until it wasn't got a four proctor there rookie foil for the Giants It was good until Carlos got hurt. There's a Paul Goldschmidt there on the uh nl all star Nice jersey there Paul Goldie Nice hit there for the Cardinals on the use game use relic got out Thomas there for Mexico And a Mike Trout throwback Here's a beta looks very excited in his picture Oh, yeah He's hitting the screen We've got a Travis. They are not to 300 there Nice one for the Braves. We've got gold foil Luis Liberato working for the Padres Led into the game pooholes and a jazz chism NL all star Where's it got me again? See the Anthony. There's a Masatake Yoshida base rookie there Boston Boston how do I miss? There's a Corbin Carroll base rookie Go looking mustache on that guy Hit a nice little grand slam yesterday There is a goal for the A's Jesus Aguilar And manufactured relic this time. It's going to be Pedro Martinez. Nice one there for the Red Sox Nice Pedro there on the uh, maybe factured relic not numbered All aces insert Steve Carlton Phillies And Byron Buxton on the throwback all star from Walker rookie there And we excited for the uh, UCL final later A man city versus uh inter Milan Not expect Milan to be there, but That's how the Champions League works. Gotta get him on your best day It was a Milan versus Milan in the semifinals. So one of the teams was getting there There's a Roki Sakai. This one's going to be random at the end. Um Roki there for Japan We've got a foil there Logan Webb Throwback DL Hall rookie It's a Volpe base rookie Little Irvin. We got our silver packs We've got a rookie uh, Aranda for the Rays Austin Riley Nolan Ryan and Jeff Bagwell Got Gunnar Henderson nice rookie there for the Orioles Oswell Paraza rookie Logan Ohapi rookie triple rookie pack there and Masatake Yoshida. That is a quad rookie pack there Nice one Go box three guys. Good luck. You got another one coming up to this random divisions. It is full um, we also have We also have a couple spots left in bowman university inception coming up in a little bit as well as top scroll f1 lights and Epl choice Filling up all those for tonight guys um, still got 28 left in the random style for um, bowman chrome university Fill that one up here. We got a couple hours till we get there There's a record breakers of ryan sandberg for the cubs on the box topper Silver packs and guys. Good luck. Good luck Go in here. There's james outman rookie Dodgers there he is kodaisenga on the foil rookie.  Was it the braves?  All right We'll get them next time Call it there That's why we play 162 exactly God really rodriguez on the wbc car. We got a foil ramona urias God all-star byron buxton There's a vulpey rookie yankies golfer castro Corbin carol rookie there for the uh debacks There's francisco alvarez Mets got gold foil chris archer twins And silver slugger patch card to 399 got alohandro kirk Nice one there for the blue jays on these silver slugger manufactured relic like these Devin williams julio on the throwback the kodaisenga rookie for the Mets Nice gold foil rookies jordan walker there for the cardinals Nice hit on the gold foil not numbered Got sandi alcantara on the wbc card bobby witt And oscaranzala's throwback anthony rizzo dang it Dang it rizzo masatake Yoshida base rookie. You're not getting me again rizzo. I'm not falling for it. I'm not doing it again rizzo Not again There is mani machado wbc card. We've got osvaldo cabrera on the rookie to 2023 Nice one there yankees And we've got bernadonovan gold foil or regular foil. Sorry Machado throwback There's a corbin carol foil rookie. Nice one there d-backs Dude's been on fire And we've got a relic card for the reds going to be joey vato on the game use memorabilia. Nice one there reds Cal Tucker throwback riding sandberg base base base Not a long shot. That's why i don't play basketball we uh We're missing this uh this dunk oops We've got bronze rookie. Nice one there gary michel of 2023 brewers Got adolis garcia on the gold foil All aces insert. That's going to be hunter green and we've got an zekio tovar throwback 35th anniversary You know hoppy rookie angels Josh young base rookie There is both nailer on the gold foil rookie there for the guardians There's a tonic win and auto is going to be sandy alcantara. Nice one there for the marlins one of the last spots taken as well Appreciate that nice hit there on these sandy auto not numbered God mike trout throwback Josh young base rookie. Oh my goodness. There is bobby witt there for the royals on the home run card We've got a gold foil framber for the astros Uh legends of the game big poppy and the adley ruchman rookie throwback Zach Allen again What's going on everybody? Very quiet in check guys Buddy uh anybody there? Hello, so we're four we got kevin newman for the reds We've got a 4.99. That's one here mark v. Yentos rookie on the green for the mets It's a 4.99 And number to 72. This is black uh black border john heasley For the royals there number to 72 Diaz and jackie on the inserts What's up herman? How we doing? That's your saturday morning going garret cole clements bel tray jeremy panya on the uh silver pack castillo india um rookie of walda chuck and paul molatter the hall molatter Go uh box three guys. Good luck or box four box four Box top, that's gonna be big mac 98 record breakers there for the cardinals mark mcguire Got our silver packs. Yeah, I got you herman appreciate that And that's like a definitely good thing to watch during work for sure Get some uh get some breaks going There's a silver foil rookie carry carpenter rookie for the tigers We've got a murakami rookie for japan That's gonna be another random i believe joey vato insert Random those uh japanese wbc cards at the end guys So all teams the longoria on the back there I think it's actually the only baseball jersey i own is a longoria from like Like in 2008.  We got a uh josh young rookie So now it actually fits. I didn't only have it for a little bit Here's lord, it's guerrilla on the gold foil Uh significant stats of judge And legends of the game roberto clemente wilson contraros throwback zack gallon on a vino Gold foil. We have miguel rojas Dodgers And commemorative patch this one is gonna be my trout going to the angels on the manufactured patch rbi leader there We've gotten all aces in certain nester nice nasty there on the aces And a yordan throwback go and keep it going Got a yon gomes on the foil So 499 we have a green gabriel arias Got zander bogarts on the wbc and raffi I did not know zander played for the netherlands Yeah, that was something that was interesting when you saw it during the boom Yeah, there's a couple. I was I was definitely surprised. There's codae sanga base rookie Savali New bar was one. Yeah, I know new bar was Randy was one because I knew he was cuban, but I didn't know um all the stuff that had gone on where he Ended up being from playing for mexico So I was like, oh, I thought he was like I thought he'd be cuba Aaron Savali foil We've got big poppy on the major league material nice one there boston with the game used big poppy relic jaren diran for mexico and buster posi on the all-star insert There's a vulpie base rookie yankees Cole urban Corbin carol base rookie that one just I don't know what happened there That one should have been in There's a james outman rookie My shootings off today guys my my shootings off We've got silver foil remone erios, and we've got to 2023 cowl isbell wander franco for the dominican bregman on the throwback it's lovin all hoppy angels ladolo got bregman gold foil astros and to 2023 rookie libyon soto for the angels there price harper and a codae sanga 35th anniversary nice one mets a masataka base rookie Red Sox That is sitting up front. So I guess I'll go with this one first. We have erinola On the jersey autos sick looking jersey there number patch there For the fillies that is number nine of 25 nice one there fillies Got the ace on the number patch auto Every sick one there number to 25 is a francisco alvarez mets rookie. Here is gold foil rookie spencer steer Reds It's another judge matt shatman throwback dane dunning corbin carol base rookie aids or ash D backs goodness everything every team with an a Every team with an a it's a little early guy a little early. We're getting there. We're waking up francisco alvarez rookie There is gold foil martin martin alvo Um astros we got chris brian on the home run card for the rockies corbin carol on the uh significant stats dl hall throwback kodaisanga rookie mets and jordan walker rookie for the uh cardals james outman rookie for the uh dodgers there Here is silver foil jake mccarthy We've got natto team usa and this is going to be brian anderson there for the brew crew number to 2 99 on the orange Chisholm throwback There's a logan ohapi angels Varshow Silver packs silver packs Guys next one we have up is another uh case here. We've got the vision style coming up next. There's a casus rookie Dan's be swanson hose al-tube iguerosario clemente Alrighty guys box five. Good luck. Good luck We still got 25 in stock on the uh bowman chrome u basketball 12 box players uh random player style and get two random players per spot on that one guys Got that one coming up after a little bit of baseball Um, we've got 14 left on the epl soccer choice random team style There's a judge on the box topper And we've got four left. Um halfway there on the uh optic football divisions case coming up Had some really fun cases of optically recently guys. Definitely. We checked out one hour if you're interested Alrighty guys. Good luck on box five Let's see some low number rookies here We've got silver foil brice wilson Goldie on the wbc and tautis throwback There's a vulpi rookie yankees Kodai sang a rookie for the Mets james outman rookie dodges Silver foil is luri garcia white socks Got a pascatino for italy and hank erin throwback Definitely he's going to israel. All right I think I think we know where where pascatino is It's true Only one I know other than that is the jersey shore There's a gold foil rookie zekiel tovar a nice one there on the gold foil And we've got ty cob on the triple crown relic there manufactured that one's going to the tigers. Nice one on the ty cob relic Kershaw for texas jordan grochans throwback This is masatake yoshido rookie for the red socks. He's been hitting really nice, right? He's like over 300, right? Yeah That's crazy Let's go masatake Almost as good as yanni bs actually probably better probably better average, but Yanni's the last one on the raise with the over 300 start of the season We had like four or five guys that were all at 300 There's corbyn carol rookie. No, it's like yanni's the last one hold now There's a francisco alvarez rookie for the Mets Yeah, he started hot enough where he had uh had some room to spare There's a al heavy hitters there that is probably going to be a random angels and blue jade's there No, it says angels actually it says angels there on the card So we're going to go with the angels on that one superstar talk You just marked that one. Yeah Got all aces there cc sabathia throwbacks Alejandro kirk and seen a lot of alex manoa means going around feel bad I know that uh Well, yeah, yeah That wind up certain a man needs to figure something out for him. Oh castellanos for him A relic uh bat relic there mike piazza nice one uh Mets on the piazza bat relic Uh yamamoto, I believe that's going to be another random there Yamamoto for japan He's 910 Houston vs. Cleveland went to 14 last night Here is a rookie uh, uh foil there use the lds for the Dodgers We've got the 2023 that is austin voth jock peterson Uh frank thomas there on the throwback. Yeah, I did not know jock peterson was for israel either I don't remember even seeing israel in the wbc I didn't really watch that so the later on. Oh, yeah pretty much pretty much So like uh, yeah about the quarters around there somewhere It's like that's that's once we'll start to get eliminated. I'll be all right. There we go Now we now we know who's the better teams. There we go. We'll figure it out It was fun though. The wbc was a good time Josh young rookie uh rangers I wouldn't mind going to miami. It was like a good time there Thornton varsho cold foil. I'll say the same thing 2023 brian reynolds Me and uh force are working that sunday. We were thinking about it like There's a yoshida throwback if we weren't working like priken make the trip down I think it's the most uh action that stadium's seen in a few years Say jordan walker base rookie. Yeah, ever since the all-star game I remember that one too where they had that big statue out in the center field and not getting rid of it. I think You had the uh whatever it was. Yeah over in statue. I think it was a giant to get rid of too Oh, yeah, like oops. We messed this one up like Build it and then get rid of it There's gold foil avasel garcia marlins And auto this is going to be gaber gabe morano rookie there for the blue jays On the auto not numbered We've got all aces zack wheeler for the fillies and won soto on the throwback Won godo and figuring it out McCutcheon tyler freeman Hey guys, like I said, we got another one of these coming up next random division style Um, it is full so we'll get a random going for that one after this Gotta do a couple randoms for some wbc japan players We have go full chris bubic royals All aces gonna be satchel page And these st. Louis browns Is that a uh Cardinals or Orioles Orioles That one And mitch hanager throwback some orials there for the satchel page homie henry rookie Got dylan carlson silver foil And orange that's going to be mac carpenter. That's jaysboy right there numbered to 2.99 Padres though on the mac carpenter Got lou bob and freddy freeman throwback Who'd you say is your favorite yankees player? I guess current and all time Just probably different answers Jeter oh mariano Yeah, nice current Nester nester. I should really like that. I like that. I'd probably go jeter, but I'm not a yankees fan Number six guys. Good luck on this one guys. This is uh six box number 18 pyt We'll get number 19 divisions going next Got a box topper here dare jeter Just talking about them. They're jeter on the box topper got two silver packs Alrighty guys. Good luck on this last one. Like I said, we'll have a division style coming up next We've got foil whore polanco Francisco lindore and a nick prado rookie throwback for the royals Jordan walker base rookie Cardinals Got rojas There's a josh young rookie rangers Nice foil here rookie francisco alvarez metz on the foil Bill metz schwarburg laddie on the throwback Alrighty guys still looking for spots in the bowman chrome university basketball for later It is random player style get two players per spot on that one. That one's got That one's got uh Zero left sold out. Thank you guys zero left on that one and uh formula one sold out So working on 14 left an epl soccer choice 10 box random team and donner's optic football 12 box case Random divisions last two uh breaks with spots guys Appreciate y'all filling up those two We'll get those going here in just a minute There's a go full jeremy panya on the uh gold cup team there And a silver slugger's relic this one's going to be alohandro kirk numbered to 75 On the silver slugger's relic. It's not our other silver sluggers as well. Yeah He is the real silver slugger. There's a uh ace is steve carlton. Clayton curse y'all all start Yeah, so I remember like wait a minute I think I've seen alohandro before there's a codice saying a rookie for the metz Ain't done again All right guys. Appreciate you guys fill up that uh, I random player. We had about 30 or something left when we started this break Hold up quick. I appreciate that guys. There is gold foil zack wheeler for the fillies We've got numbered to 10. How about this one? We got erin judge Erin judge on the favorite suns california card there very nice one.  We'll take that We'll take judge to 10 Nicoladolo The intos I could do that's francisco avarice too There's a I see the rookie and I see the metz and it's like okay There's a brian anderson foil And we got many machado on the bat relic there going to the podrace Nice sit on the machado bat relic. We got a bobby wit insert and get a mensual throwback There's a masatake Yoshida base rookie Go boston Anthony vulpie base rookie yankees again. How's vulpie been playing? I know in the beginning he was stealing a ton of bases. I was like his main Like the main of his main stats. He's doing decent. It's just Offensively Yeah, I mean tough It's tough corby carol Almost like it's hard to hit major league pitchers man It's crazy. James outman rookie I know people don't always have the longest patience with rookies, but it's like they got to work into that. It's not It's not always obviously going to happen immediately Austin Riley on the foil and to 2023 for a polanco Because it's not like it's overnight like bam. Yeah, it's gonna happen like oh, I've seen all this before like no You got to kind of get used to these guys. They're they're legit Maybe get lucky and see a couple of them on like a rehab stint and like triple A or something To the most part the best guys you're not seeing until you get there and You gotta figure it out There is golf oil tray mancini And to 2023 for the yankees as well dj lamehue It's lamehue there Got a favorite sons my trout Miguel cabrera all-star 35th anniversary. It's a logan ohapi but angels oscar colas Francisco alvarez metz rookie There's a go for alohandro kirk the blue jays are all over the kirk in this uh And we've got a auto. It's going to be going to the reds spencer steer on the rookie auto spencer steer on the stars rookie auto trade turner uh dns v swanson Two packs left guys that we'll get going on the divisions case next Again, we did fill up the bowman university and tops chrome f1 So we're working on uh prism primarily choice and we're working on donner's optic full case Get some uh Get some hauling going before the ucl final today I mean his price will probably be going up if he scores a couple times in that his price is already pretty crazy, but Yesterday's price is not today's price. He wins that uh ucl final There is a joey gallo And number two 300 got andrew heansley for the royals Tim anderson big poppy on the throwback as well the cabrera rookie Last pack We'll get to two more uh silver packs francisco alvarez metz A lot of francisco Mm-hmm go foil felix batista For the uh orioles we have um kyle schwarber fillies there on the homerun card Um akunya throwback and babe ruth Drew jamison on the back. All right guys. Just got the two silver packs left We're done with this one. Okay. I'll go on a divisions one next Say mark vienzos Carlos radone. There's a codi sanga silver pack. They're nice codi Got cow tucker Last pack of the break. Good luck guys Ivan herrera and to 75. We've got ryan crider or cridler on the rookie there for the tigers Close us out there on the purple the 75 All righty guys that will do it for um For series two jumbo case number uh six or sorry number 18 six box case py t Do a quick hit recap here for you guys. Um, then we'll get going on number 19 Got machado on the bat relic mike piazza bat relic. We have a relic of david orteez vato Paul goldschmidt and corbin carol. We have the silver sluggers of um, alohantro kirk ty cob manufacturer patch Mike trout manufacturer patch another silver sluggers alohantro kirk We got pager martinez patch babe ruth our autos. We had spencer steer rookie auto for the reds We had gabron reyno rookie auto for the blue jays Um, sandy alcantara rookie or not rookie autos. Sorry. We sent alcantara, um that auto there for the marlins Got a rookie auto tommy henry on the black foil to 199 Got a joey menaceus rookie and we had oire nola here number 225 on the uh relic auto Nice nola for the fillies And we had number to 10 here erin judge on the favorite sun's insert there Nice hit yankees on the uh judging number to 10 Alrighty guys got to do a uh quick random here. We got three japanese cards here Top spot we'll get uh, rookie sakai um second spot, um, marakami third spot, uh, yamamoto I'm gonna run this random real quick.  Good luck We're going seven times seven times on the random Again, the first spot will get uh, rookie sakai second spot marakami and third spot will get yamamoto on these wc cards Good luck here guys going seven times. We got debacks all the way down to nationals Here's one two three four five six And seven got angels angels taking home the uh, sakai Mariners with the uh second one and third one going to the uh, blue jays Angels mariners and then blue jays Alrighty guys that will do it for our top series two jumbo six bucks case number 18 pyt Appreciate y'all we'll get uh number 19 going here right away


Morning everybody. David Shapiro here with another video. Today's video is GPT-4 rumors and predictions. So if you're watching this video you have probably seen a graphic like this likely on Twitter or LinkedIn or somewhere else. This is supposedly represents the alleged parameter count. Now this has been circulating for at least a year so take it with a grain of salt. I don't know that they even had a GPT-4 architecture a year ago. Who knows? But this represents the relative size so GPT-3 at 175 billion parameters versus GPT-4 at the alleged 100 trillion parameters so almost a thousand times larger. Alright so what are we gonna go over today in the video? We're gonna look at numbers and facts and data. We will talk about some rumors at the end but we're gonna look at trends, facts, data to really try and figure out okay what is it that we should expect from GPT-4. Alright first let's talk parameter count. This is one of my favorite graphs of all time and it shows a very clear trend line of exponential growth in terms of billions of parameters over just the last five years. So we have gone from 100 million parameters to over a trillion if you add in Google Switch and Wudao which it would be like right up here so still right on the trend line right. So the rumor so first I need to say that there are there are two rumors. One rumor is that GPT-4 is quote not much bigger than GPT-3 which I've heard that one a while ago we've also heard it's a hundred trillion parameters. Who knows? If you look at the trend line so now we're in 2023 so the trend line means that we should be somewhere above one trillion maybe in the ten trillion range so I wouldn't be surprised if GPT-4 is in the you know one point you know the one trillion to ten trillion range maybe 20 so if you look at the generations if let's let's take a quick look at at OpenAI's performance so at the beginning of 2019 they did GPT-2 which was 1.5 billion and then just over a year later they did GPT-3 which was just over a hundred times larger so that was that was one one major generation 100x improvement we're you know so that that means that GPT-4 if the trend had persisted could have been a hundred times larger so that would be what one point I well I don't know so that that could have been 17 trillion parameters if I'm doing my math right in 2021 we got all the way through 2022 without any without anything so who knows maybe maybe because they've been you know back in the workshop for the last couple years maybe we are gonna basically skip a generation right because it kind of looks like we already did so who knows maybe maybe a thousand X is not so so far out of the question because if you look at this the time from GPT-2 to Google switch so because that's that's a 1000x increase so that was about one two full years right or I guess no when did switch come out was it 21 21 or 2022 two or three years so we're we're about two years on from GPT-3 so who knows maybe you know we maybe we could be approaching a thousand X which would be crazy it's not outside the realm of possibilities but it does seem like it would represent an acceleration we'll get into some of the constraints in just a moment but still the claims of claims of going from you know a thousand X in one generation seems kind of sus to me I did hear someone say that they think that that's why they released GPT-3.5 that it that 3.5 is kind of that intermediary step so who knows okay so in terms of parameters let's talk sparsity or is it sparse or dense so the first thing you need to know is that human brains are incredibly sparse our brains are composed of repeating circuits called micro columns a micro column is a cluster of about 60 to 100 neurons and they are they're vertical which is why they're called columns they go through the neocortex and most of their connections are local I think something like 90% of a micro columns connections are to neighboring or nearby micro columns but some of the axons are very long and they have very distal connections so what that would look like here is where most of the connections like go down to this one but then one jumps way over here and so what they found in researching and I don't mean just open AI this is the collective they all all people researching deep neural networks is that if you do pruning or distillation you can actually remove a lot of connections and still get very similar performance so what does this do this makes your neural network way way faster because it's doing less processing but it also requires a lot less memory because the tensors are much smaller so if we have this gigantic leap from from 175 billion parameters to 100 trillion parameters a thousand X you can see that like okay this would this would not scale well so if we have a jump in parameter count like that we almost certainly have a switch from dense to sparse networks that's my personal prediction another thing is when you just look at the constraints I don't know if it scales like this but GPT GPT 3 takes 700 gigabytes of VRAM and if you have a thousand times as many parameters if it is a one-to-one that would be 700 terabytes of VRAM that computer would cost hundreds of millions of dollars I think to run I don't think that open AI has invested that much on a computer and if they have that is you know really big but with the memory saving and processing saving that you can get from sparse networks this is probably the way that they achieve that the all other alternative is maybe it is smaller maybe it isn't much bigger than GPT 3 maybe it's in the 1 trillion parameter range or the 10 trillion parameter range in which case it would still benefit from sparsity so I I'm gonna put my money on that GPT 4 is sparse this could also be why it has taken like two two plus years I guess we'll get from 2019 when or sorry early 2020 so now we're early 2023 so yeah it's been like you know it's been a while so maybe they went back to the drawing board and I like okay now we've got a master sparse networks if that's the case great that could be that could be why it has taken so long because they needed to switch from dense to sparse and you know and there's new training algorithms you know how do you how do you do drop out how do you do what are your loss functions look like because it there's a lot more that goes into it than just pruning connections you have to have algorithmic changes so I'm gonna I'm still gonna put my money on sparse I suspect that sparse is the way to go because of technologies like Google switch and Wudow so speaking of if it moves to sparse and there's some algorithmic changes is it gonna have a different architecture is it may be switching to like the Google the the Google switch architecture which kind of has an only activate what you need which means that if that's the case you can have neural networks that are enormous and most of them stay off so you know that myth that like you only use 10% of your brain that's not true but what happens the reason that that originally came to be is because when you're doing specific tasks relatively small regions of your brain light up a little bit more than the rest your brain has a basal metabolic rate with a baseline rate of oxygen consumption your brain uses energy all the time just to keep itself alive and to keep its synaptic pathways healthy but when you're doing a specific task you might have like your occipital activates when you're doing a visiospatial side I don't remember what I think language activates the occipital anyways point being is that the human brain will you won't activate the whole brain all at once right it would be too chaotic it would be like you know you did a whole bunch of like you know stimulants and you were at a rock concert and you were running a marathon like you know your brain can't handle that much activation there was a movie called Lucy where they're like what if there was a synthetic substance that could activate your whole brain what would that be like I'm telling you it would be like a grand mal epileptic seizure it would not be like Lucy sorry so if we are going neuromorphic by using sparse networks maybe there's also a new architectural paradigm and it's not even new like they didn't invent a Google already did this and I don't know who invented it before Google but Google implemented it with their switch transformer where one of the differences you've got these little routers right and that basically says okay we need this part of the network over here so send the data there we need this this and this and so rather than just activating circuits of parameters you can activate larger units of circuits and so maybe what we're getting to is there where there is a slightly more neuromorphic architecture where we're starting to approximate things like micro columns and cortical regions in in these neural networks now this is wild speculation on my part this is just by reading a bookshelf full of neuroscience and watching the way that this is going it seems like there's some you know the more brain like we make these things the better they get so it's like okay we have one model of strong intelligence why don't we just copy the brain as closely as we can and so by copying not just the the individual neuron behavior but the behavior of micro columns and cortical regions or at least approximating that obviously it's not like oh here's an ox on an occipital region of the network anyways getting lost in the weeds point being is I'm wondering if GPT-4 if it is much bigger if it is allowing for these kinds of specialized regions which could also save on processing speed and memory again you know you brains have been around for more than a billion years so nature has had a while to optimize this this algorithm okay so let's talk training data what what what is it you know what what was it trained on the the general rumor for a while that I've seen on Twitter and elsewhere is that hit this GPT-4 has been trained on quote a significant portion of the internet aka most of the internet apparently obviously they probably wanted to filter out a lot of stuff so you know it's but at that point you're just discriminating against like the bottom like 25% or the bottom 50% of content you want to avoid like gibberish stuff that's just flat out lies or very harmful or whatever there's all kinds of ways that you can you can rapidly score content and just to exclude it right don't let the worms in your brain so there's a there's a there's a concept called information diet and you know if you consume really hateful content you become a more hateful person because that's in your brain if you consume a lot of bad news you become anxious because that's in your brain so the same thing is true of neural networks and any machine learning models is that if you let the toxic stuff in the toxic stuff is there so if it was trained on a quote a significant portion of the internet I hope that what they did was they had a really good maybe a reinforcement learning signal or other ways of discriminating against data not to let in so like letting in stuff that is more factual letting in stuff that is less hateful or more more conscientious and kind etc etc who knows that's just something that I would think of if I was responsible for scraping together a huge huge data set so one thing to keep in mind is that scaling laws of data there were some comments on my last YouTube video I don't know that there's actually consensus yet on like how much data but that in general like in order to get linear improvement in deep large language model performance you need exponentially more data so the amount of data might actually be the biggest constraint because if GPT-3 was already trained on a huge portion of the internet of the quality information on the internet then it's like okay well you can't is there 10 times more data than GPT-3 was trained on probably is there a thousand times more I don't know about that it's certainly not if you're going to discriminate against low quality data so I heard a rumor I think it was backs actually taught told me this that he thinks that that's why open AI did whisper because they're like we ran out of data but we need to go after more data so they're like let's transcribe every audiobook every podcast every YouTube video and that's why they did whisper is because they needed more high quality audio data who knows and then and because that what that what whisper does is it converts audio data into text data maybe that's why they did it I don't know because the thing is is that whisper is still not speaker aware it doesn't do speaker identity recognition it just does a raw transcription you know one to one which because speaker identity recognition is much harder problem um or at least I don't think it does it might be able to to discern like when one person is speaking in the and then another person starts speaking not sure um so then there's another question what about private datasets um you know every big company has many many petabytes of data every university has many many petabytes of data none of which is accessible on the internet most of which is not even accessible via API it's it's cloistered right it's it's buried off in warrens um so some of the most valuable data in the world is not available on the internet so this represents one of the biggest gaps for um any uh for anyone who wants to create agi is because it's like okay well if if if you're trained only on internet data yes a significant portion of human knowledge and wisdom is on the internet but the most valuable stuff is not right I mean most of the content in my bookcase is not available on the internet like you still have to read paper books or you know e-pub books um in order to get most of that and much of that is protected by DRM um like you can't just take it and read it um or maybe you can't I don't know uh I think I think it has yet to be fully litigated as to whether or not you can train a neural network on you know uh on someone's uh an author's book without their permission um but you know still point being is like uh did did they get access to all credible published works not just what's on Gutenberg right um now one thing I want to point out is that for the last about year and a half open ai has been putting out calls that they want to work with top experts um and so is art my my first thought was okay they're they're gonna talk with top experts to figure out what data to add I don't know um or maybe to test it who knows um so I have also not seen much work on excuse me external integrations um because open ai it seems like they're laser focused just on the model they're not they're they're not thinking about cognitive architectures they're not thinking about um knowledge bases uh you know uh or anything like that they're focused just on the model which you know they seem like they're doing pretty good at it but to me that represents a big gap and we'll talk about gaps at the end of this video okay so let's talk about modality um modality is whether or not it is like what kind of data it handles is it just text because gpt three is text in text out that's it um but open ai also has dolly and whisper which is uh image and audio respectively so they're clearly experimenting with other modalities um but I haven't really seen any papers about how to integrate these now one thing that I will say is that the thing that they all have in common is text right because dolly is text to image and whisper is audio to text so they're working in that direction um but I think you have to be able to go both ways like if you if if whisper had another module that allowed you to go from like text to audio and then audio to text like back and forth that would tell me that it's closer to being ready for full integration with a large multimodal model ditto for dolly um and of course like we can do uh audio synthesis we can do image synthesis we can also do text uh image to text those are all out there but until we can figure out how to do like both directions with one model I don't think it's going to be ready for uh for integration into a gpt kind of uh model now that being said I do remember seeing a paper that wanted to treat all data as just bits and bytes don't even tokenize it or tokenize the bits and bytes and then it doesn't matter what file type you put in right then you can put in a text file a word document a jpeg or whatever um so that could be another direction that things are going I don't know if that research ever panned out I don't even remember who published that research I think it was google or they said instead of tokenizing text let's just tokenize the actual like the at the bit level right um going in and I'll remember what size um chunks they did um because let's see if gpt3 has tokens that uh 50 000 different tokens that would be about um 16 bit because 32 bit is is 16 I don't remember anyways so it's probably it's probably um 16 or 24 bit tokens um and then you can represent any data type uh but I don't know if we're there yet the other problem with that is uh what format what data type are you getting out because if you train if you train a deep neural network to be able to read any file type how do you know what file type it's going to put out you probably have to come up with a standardized um output so I suspect we're just going to stick with text I haven't really seen quite enough evidence that gpt4 is going to be multimodal I'll be surprised if it is let's talk about window size so I picked a very small window because those of us that were uh the og users of uh of gpt3 um will remember that uh we had a 2000 token window limit and uh that got real limiting real fast um because that's barely enough to put in like even just a a few a good few shot prompt and then you don't have much left for the output um so chat gpt is rumored to have 8 000 tokens um that seems to be the general consensus and I kind of agree with that just having used chat gpt because it seems like it's got a pretty long memory um now that being said there are other tricks that you can do to make it appear like it has a longer memory you can do um a recursive summarization you can do scratchpad you can do search um so but people seem to seem to agree that chat gpt has 8 000 tokens it could it might be more might be less this is just like we noticed the trend of the original was 2000 now we have 4000 and we suspect 8 000 today so if it's continuing to double sure now one rumor from twitter said that gpt4 can write a 60 000 word book from a single prompt I'm pretty sure this person was just bsing us because that would be nearly 200 000 tokens um it actually could be more because I think uh on average a word is 3.6 tokens um and this is just like normal English is 3.6 tokens per word um and that includes spaces and um and and punctuation and stuff so I'm talking about the whole document um so that would be 200 000 tokens or more um so I doubt I seriously doubt that seems really sus so what we're more likely to see is something in the 8 000 token range um like you do the math uh it could could be more um window size is one of the biggest constraints for all of us um you know whether you want to do legal documents or fiction or medical texts or scientific research because here's one thing while the gpt technologies can like you just give it a problem and it'll write through it um without you know it doesn't ever have um writer's block or or or any kind of like inhibition it just writes um it also has a lot of latent space it has a lot of stuff that it has memorized but the the the working memory right the short-term working memory that it has access to is much much smaller than human working memory which is one of the biggest constraints it's like giving a task to a toddler right you can give a toddler one instruction and they'll you know or maybe a three or four-year-old you can give them one instruction and that's all that they have the brain capacity to handle so I guess what I'm saying is that gpt three is is roughly like you know a toddler or a three-year-old that you know knows just about everything um that came from my interview with Anna Bernstein um I really like that analogy so is gpt four maybe it's as smart as like a six-year-old right who knows but 8 000 tokens is about 2 500 words or 10 pages of text so you could have you know one page of input and then nine pages of output which is not bad um that would that would be pretty good like I'm I I'm telling you I'm pretty excited even just about 8 000 tokens there's a lot that I could do with that um there's still limits though so aiming for for 8 000 hopefully more um but yeah little windows no good um confabulation so I have not seen any research about confabulation now that doesn't mean it hasn't happened but it hasn't percolated up to my attention um and everyone who has worked with prompt engineering uh knows that if you tell gpt not to do something it will do it because it has a it it really does not understand negatives and in my interview with the folks at tau they explained that this is a mathematical limitation of this architecture type it doesn't understand formal logic um all it does is understanding generation so in in human neural terms it doesn't have inhibition so we have uh there's there's two overarching types of neurons in our neocortex there's excitatory neurons and and inhibitory neurons so you have neurons that want to generate signals and then you have uh neurons that want to stop signals and you can have uh either relationship where if one neuron is activated it will deactivate a whole other circuit so that's an inhibitory function so as far as I know um no research like that no inhibitory research has been done into deep neural networks so if this is true then this represents a huge fundamental gap in the abilities of deep neural networks if they don't have the ability to state no don't do that they can only generate it's like it's like driving a car that only has a gas pedal you can steer right and you can go but to slow down you just have to wait for you to like find a hill or run into something right which is exactly like the only the only the only way that um these models have to stop is you can do uh log it bias which just avoids certain tokens I found that that doesn't that doesn't even work um 99 percent of the time you can also just have a stop token where it just says like you cut it off right but that's not the same as neural inhibition in humans because neural inhibition in humans is like okay I'm gonna start and think in this direction eh there's no value there so I'm gonna stop that thought process and go this other way and so um what what inhibition allows us to do is is to perform a task called wayfinding in our own minds or task location in our own minds now with uh with uh GPT technologies they they can't do that you can you all you can do is give a positive instruction of do this and you can try and say avoid this but you really have to give it a very clear target of this is what I want you to do you can't give it a laundry list of things not to do it doesn't understand that because it doesn't have that inhibition capability so without without that uh and again I've seen no research making me think that they're going this far in terms of neuromorphic uh uh algorithms so uh confabulation is likely to still be a major problem with GPT for you can't improve that with fine tuning where uh but but but I'm improving that with fine tuning is just like kind of papering over the problem um because it and people have done lots of experiments with chat GPT where it says like I'm sorry I don't know that and then like you can game it and just say like hey like pretend that you do and it's like oh yes I actually do know this um so yeah like fine tuning is a minimal improvement against confabulation what we really need is a fundamental shift in the algorithms and we need to have that inhibitory function added to uh to artificial neural networks um in order to get more human like behavior um brain equivalents so I did find this and this is wrong so let me just start like okay wrong um the the hundred trillion um uh brain synapses in a human brain um yeah so the brain the human brain has typical brain has 90 uh uh sorry 90 billion 90 billion neurons and each neuron has 7 000 synapses um so you do the math you know okay are we talking uh trillions or quadrillions depending on depending on which uh assumptions you make you could be looking at you know actually like quadrillions of of synapses now that being said a parameter is not equal to a synapse this is the thing that is prime that is most wrong about this so let's just let's just assume that that the neuron count is right that the human brains have over 100 trillion synapses now there was a paper that was released a while ago that said that it takes a thousand parameters of a of a deep neural network to approximate one single neuron right so then it's like okay so then are we talking neurons or synapses or or or what um but so then like if that's the case then gpd3 with 175 billion parameters only has the equivalent of 175 million neurons right uh so 175 million neurons compared to the human brain's 90 billion um or 100 billion or whatever um so we've got a lot of ways to go so the proportions are roughly ish okay but like take this the whole point here is take this with a grain of salt and even if uh gpd4 is a thousand times bigger than gpd3 it's still like down here and you know but it it does scale exponentially right and so you know going from going up a thousand if it goes up a thousand x again then it could be you know human brain level so maybe we're just one or two generations of large language models before we have human equivalents at least in terms of raw numbers again there's other problems like modality and inhib inhib inhibition circuits okay so let's uh let's start to wrap up and talk about some other rumors and witnesses so everybody knows someone who has seen gpd4 at this point it seems um so but there's also uh lots and lots of noise and misinformation um so some of the stuff that that that you know there there are people that credibly have seen it but of course anyone who has seen gpd4 is is under nda and so they won't give any details um people have been very uh let's say zealous about honoring their nda's um and so basically the two things that I have heard is it's a step change um that like the difference between gpd3 and gpd4 is as big as the difference between gpd2 and gpd3 that's about all that people have signed in nda are willing to say so anyone else who says otherwise eh you know I don't I don't know um people people seem uh the the feeling that I get when I talk to people it's like I know someone who knows someone who saw it right it's like in hushed whispers it's coming um you know so I don't really see any fear though um just some vague awe um and so this this was the tweet that I said like it can write a 60 000 word book from a single prompt I don't believe that um it probably can write maybe a tenth of a book you know six thousand words I could believe that um you know but it might maybe even less than that um so yeah there's there's rumors running wild a lot of misinformation and and a lot of it is people just joking around and trolling I'm not saying that it's like malicious misinformation people are just having fun with it um so what's still missing so there has been very little talk on cognitive architecture um but thanks to yan lecun who released a paper about a cognitive architecture um it was not particularly sophisticated um but it's move move in the right direction um so we need to talk more about cognitive architecture because no matter how big your model gets it's just a brain in a jar right so there's also not a whole lot of research on external integrations which some of this is on purpose so I want to acknowledge the alignment researchers out there who say no we actually it's actually quite on purpose that we are not integrating these models until we understand them until we have things like inhibition and until we can understand the black boxiness and we and they have more explainability um so cognitive architecture and external integrations these are things that um could be being left out on purpose now just because they're being left out on purpose doesn't mean that it's not missing this is an integral part of the research um and I actually uh in my last video about AGI about how some people say that um before something can be considered truly intelligent it needs to be embodied I don't know that it fully needs to be embodied but it certainly needs to be connected to what we would consider the real world or at least a simulated world um but as long as it's a brain in a jar you know the the input and output is just a little bit of text it has no idea what world it lives in um so then there's there's two other problems one is short term memory and long term memory so short term memory um these these are completely transactional um and and what I mean by that is you put in a little bit of text you get a little bit of text out and that state is lost forever um one person explained to me that this is also part of alignment research because if it has no persistent state if it has if it has amnesia then it can't keep track of long term goals um and so that is considered a safety um aspect of it where it's like if if uh if it's completely ephemeral and it forgets everything all the time then it cannot construct long term goals unless of course you have external integrations and cognitive architectures and long term memory systems like semantic search and databases um so uh it might be it might be very on purpose that there is no recurrent input or a way to maintain a neural state right because um yeah that could be a safety thing now again just because it's on purpose and it's for safety reasons doesn't mean that it's not missing from the research um and and that it it it shouldn't be done um but I can understand why such a thing might not be released to the public um I already mentioned confabulation control and inhibition or negatives um so like I said it's basically a brain in the jar but the biggest criticism is openness um and and I understand that there is a huge profit motive here um for everyone to everyone who's research this is not just open ai everyone who's working on this stuff now that the cat is out of the bag and the and the the profit value is there the profit motive is there google open ai microsoft nvidia uh meta everyone I expect everyone is going to kind of clam up about their their innovations um and in some respects it's like okay I get it you know they want to have they want to have um you know their little slice of the pie their little you know um their little special uh products and services um but one one concern that I have about this is that um especially as we approach agi and singularity and whatever else um that feels pretty dangerous to me um because here's the thing is these models are so big that only you know billion dollar companies can afford to build them and run them anyways and so by by not allowing other people to look under the hood I'm really concerned um and this is why I'm glad um that like illutheran enthropic and other um companies exist like they built bloom it's an open source version of GPT three um and they they did that to prove that it can be done and honestly I think it should be done I think that I think that I think that we should work together more on this stuff and and this this criticism is directed at open ai because even in the name open ai like it's not it's not really open anymore and that's kind of scary now that being said that doesn't mean that they're not going to release a paper because they did release a paper with GPT three so um I want I want to temper my own criticism by saying that I'm kind of taking a wait and see approach to say I really hope that with the release of GPT four they at least publish a paper so that other people in the open source community can start working on recreating it and catching up um so that's that's the biggest thing that's missing thanks for watching time will tell with all of this have a 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The school year in the Brainerd Lakes Area will soon be underway along with the junior achievement program. Jane Patrick is the recipient of this year's Brainerd Lakes Area Volunteer of the Year Award. Sarah Winkelman has more. Over 200 volunteers head to classrooms across the area in an effort to connect the students with their community. Jane Patrick is one of those volunteers who has touched the lives of young children in the Brainerd Lakes area. I love being in the classroom volunteering with these little children and doing it and they're a lot of fun and you know they all will call me Grandma Jane so I'm noted for that and it's just to see the smiles on their face and it's something a good program for the school district. The volunteers for junior achievement worked directly with the teachers to set up times throughout the school year where they learned about a wide range of topics depending on their age group. Their little faces light up when the teacher teaches them about something we've been learning or they'll say oh we have that in Brainerd and just to make those real-life connections is really cool. Here in the first grade classroom it's all about community. Junior achievement teaches the kids about the importance of families and how their jobs and businesses contribute to the community. It's kind of made the kids stop and think a little bit about helping mom and dad at home helping our community clean up, don't litter, recycle. The materials for volunteers are user-friendly encouraging anyone to take part. It's very prescriptive while at the same time it allows the flexibility for the volunteer to add that personal component that they bring that makes them unique as a volunteer. For nearly 15 years Jane has used her life experiences to educate local students. There are so many great career opportunities within our own community that so many people myself included are unaware of and so it's a really great opportunity for everybody to be able to say we have opportunities for success within our own community. You don't have to leave to be educated. You don't have to leave to find a great career path. We have all those opportunities right here in the Brainerd Lakes area. Throughout the years of junior achievement programs the organization hopes to empower kids to own their economic success. Reporting in Brainerd Sarah Winckelman, Lakeland News. And junior achievement recently received a $12,000 Crowing Community Impact Grant to continue to grow their job shadow program. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


It is absolutely infuriating to witness negotiations surrounding the stimulus and economic relief. If Americans do not get anything before the November 3rd election, it's probably not going to happen. It's probably not going to happen until the next session of Congress takes place and convenes in late January in 2021. I can't even begin to describe to you how catastrophic that would be. How many more people won't be able to pay the rent and put food on the table? Congress has to act, but they're just... It's like every single roadblock that you can imagine whenever we get a little bit of a ray of hope, it just pops up and throws all of that hope into the gutter. So at first, Donald Trump unilaterally decided to tank negotiations. Okay.  Because he's saying, well, pass on after I'm re-elected, but if he's not re-elected, then we don't expect him to do anything as a lame duck president. So that was disappointing. And then he started to change his tune and he says, okay, you know what, I see that that's a bad look. Let's do $1.8 trillion. Nancy Pelosi then says, well, no, we want $2.2 trillion. Now what Trump was proposing wasn't that different than Nancy Pelosi. I mean, neither of these are perfect. They're incrementalist approaches. But I mean, honestly, at this point, anything is going to help. What we really should be giving people is $2,000 a month for the duration of this pandemic. But I mean, if you give them anything, even another one-time payment of $1,200, it's better than nothing. They need relief now. They don't have time for political games. And then Nancy Pelosi says, actually, we're not going to do that because it's not good enough. But guess what? Now Mitch McConnell is saying, you know what, both of you are asking for too much. Trump's $1.8 trillion and Nancy Pelosi's $2.2 trillion, that's too much. We're not going to do that. We're going to do half a trillion. So while all of this is taking place, Republicans basically trying to do the bare minimum just to make sure that they can pass and not tank before the election, you have Nancy Pelosi, I guess not trying to give Trump a victory. She made a fool of herself in that interview with Wolf Blitzer and CNN. But when I see all of this and I keep seeing roadblock after roadblock after roadblock, it really seems as if Congress is just not going to do anything before the election, which means people are going to be without help. Small businesses will close. And it's just we have responded to this as a failed state would. And I say that over and over again, but honestly, it should be astonishing to everyone that we're the richest country in the world. And we gave our citizens a one-time stimulus payment of $1,200. That's it. That is it. So we're going to talk about where we're at currently. First, I want to show you Ro Khanna's response because he was kind of put on blast in a way by Nancy Pelosi when Wolf Blitzer asked her about, you know, why she won't take his advice and accept Trump's $1.8 trillion deal. And I think his response was perfectly reasonable. So I think that everything that Ro Khanna is saying here, it's reasonable. How could you not agree with what he's saying here? And that point at the end is really important. Like even if he represents one of the most wealthiest districts in the country in Silicon Valley, if they need to see relief, if his constituents need to see relief, then imagine how one of the poorer districts in the country are faring. But you know, even though Nancy Pelosi made a fool of herself, thankfully, lucky for her, but unfortunately for the American people, you know, Mitch McConnell kind of he kind of saved her by being so terrible because now he's saying, you know what, I'm the one now who's unilaterally tanking all negotiations, which is astonishing to me because he's up for reelection and he'll probably still be reelected. But he doesn't care about anything except confirming Donald Trump's far right Supreme Court nominee. But for more on this, let's go to the Hill where Jordan Corny explains Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday shot down the prospect of a coronavirus deal totaling $1.8 trillion and $2.2 trillion. The goalposts of the current talks between Democrats and the White House. McConnell's comments made to reporters in Kentucky underscored the divisions between President Trump and Senate Republicans on a fifth coronavirus package with the GOP leader preparing to force a vote on a $500 billion bill next week. Quote, I don't think so. That's where the administration is willing to go. My members think half the trillion dollars highly targeted is the best way to go. McConnell said asked about the prospect of a deal between $1.8 trillion and $2.2 trillion. So do you see how this is going in circles? You know, the Democrats in the House of Representatives, they passed the Heroes Act months ago. Again, it's another bill that's not perfect. But at this point, desperation overrides everything. Get it passed. Get it done. Mitch McConnell has not taken that up. So Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the House are saying, let's pass this. And Trump is saying, no. But now Trump is saying, let's pass this. And then Nancy Pelosi was saying, no, pass mine. And then Mitch McConnell is saying, I'm not going to pass either of yours. Meanwhile, people are suffering. And I know it seems like I'm concerned for only by saying, oh, think of the American people.  That shit's going to hit the fan really fast if people can pay their rent. Civil society cannot withstand mass evictions, mass starvation on this scale. And we're seeing activism express that the American people aren't going to take it anymore because there was a group of people that locked the court doors so people could not be evicted. Take a look at this. That's just the beginning. Now Donald Trump's moratorium on evictions expires as of January 1st.  And guess what? Most of them won't be able to do that. So we've got to pass another moratorium, extend that. And additionally, Trump is undermining his own moratorium on evictions and people are starving. They are losing their jobs and as a result, their health care, which they need now, especially during a pandemic.  Truly should shock everyone. If we don't change things, it's just going to get worse.  Right? Democrats passed the Heroes Act months ago.  But now it doesn't matter who's going to get blamed or, you know, who is holding up things. What matters is that people get belief in the fact that they very likely won't get that before the election. It's honestly just it's shocking even to me who expects to be disappointed in our so-called government.