scroll and formula one sapphire edition Uh racing random pack style So i'm gonna take you guys over to the random screen again as again You can find these under the results tab on the website as well as the link and chat Scroll down for you guys There it is What oh my bad. There is not one on either. I meant to save that One sec guys Sorry about that Trying to do like four things at once for a second there. Here comes your uh, your link. Sorry about that again My apologies. Um, we'll go back to that for just one second and I'll show you guys. There it is Um, so that's that I'm gonna go ahead and organize or uh sort this by pack number The random is In the website under completely randomized. So Uh, so i'm gonna open the pack or open the first box and usually they're pretty good in here But just gonna take them out and as they lay in the box. That's what we're gonna have the uh pack number as So they're completely All facedown at the moment That's how I just took them out They're gonna go like that. So that is pack one right there. That's an empty box. There should be eight packs five boxes equals 40 Uh spots in the brain. So pack one go into logan s. Good luck logan Lewis hamilton and tonio giavanozzi max Verstappen and marcus armstrong There you go logan pack one Pack two is going to troi a good luck troi and I have these all organized now by number so I know who's who valteri botas That is uh estaban okan Yellow 110 out of 199 congrats on that one. We've got lewis hamilton and pier ghastly One second again here guys. That's two There you go On shoe number three. That is talon h. Good luck here talon We've got george russell Uh liam zandelli card number 62. Felipe drugovic car number 60 and max Verstappen That'll do it for pack three On to pack four for scott f. Good luck scott We've got a green david beckman green is gonna be dan tickdom For carlin. That is 62 out of 75 nice green Congrats on that one Got jory vips And pier ghastly grand prix winner nice one there. There you go scott On to victor c at number five. Good luck here victor. We've got grand prix pier ghastly uh bent viscale marino sado And lewis hamilton on the formula one team award winners There you go victor on to alex p in pack number six six albin Uh roi nasani for f2 on the yellow 188 out of 199 nice hit there congrats on that one alex We've got ecebano con behind that and liam loson I'm doing for pack six on to pack seven talon h again Good luck to your talon. That is Sergio pares jory vips franando alonzo And ralph bosham There you go talon and on to victor c pack number eight. Good luck here victor Uh george russell. We got a gold that is andreas Cytle for mc laren nice principal card 42 out of 50 congrats victor nice hit for you there We've got pier ghastly And yuki sunoda That'll do it for box one Pack eight congrats again on that one victor on to box number two and we are starting with logan s with pack number nine Pack number nine will be logan that's pack number nine. This is going to logan s valteri boatos That is antonio giva nazi on the yellow 21 out of 199 There you go logan nice one there on the yellow valteri boatos and daniel ricardo That'll do it for nine on to pack 10. That's troi a good luck here troi max verse steppin uh luis hamilton That is charles leclerc and mix schumacher There you go Troy with pack number 10 on to logan s pack number 11. Good luck here logan We've got dan tick tickdom That is robert schwarzman on the sepia 39 out of 100 There you go logan some nice color there for you. That's f2 Fernando alonso and uh guan museau Or uh guan yu zao excuse me Pack number 11 on to number 12 troi a again Sergio pares charles leclerc car number 11 Degree eight. Uh, that's max for steppin. Yep. Not the red uh Not the uh variation on lecler and marcus armstrong There you go. Troy Number 13. That's scott b Good luck here scott. That is gunther steiner Nice yellow lando norris card number six to 199 congrats scott There it is Nice lando congrats, buddy. Got a luis hamilton and pierre ghastly always good to get one of those portrait cards And uh a color right we're on to zack c with number 14 zack c Got a green here Mick schumacher green roi niss uh nissani. That is 75 out of 75. There you go zack Nice roi nissani Uh felipe drugovich and max for steppin I'll do it on that one. We are on to victor c with uh number 15. Good luck here victor Uh, I got a gold in here. It looks like valteri boat sauce gold luis hamilton 27 out of 50 Congrats on that one Mercedes amg Congrats victor nice hit man. That's awesome luham Jory vips and pierre ghastly That'll do it for 15. We are on to willis p with number 16 Good luck here willis Uh, that is max for steppin Uh christian lungard marino sado and luis hamilton That'll do it for box number two. We are on to box number three pack number 17 with brian c. Good luck here brian You'll be starting us off brian c on top pack number 17 Uh mataya venoto green luis hamilton again Whoo 31 out of 75 congrats brian Nice hit man two luhams back-to-back boxes Nice pole there brian also a land stroll and jody egenton Not the variation on stroll. All right. We are on to uh, oops Uh victor c with number 18. Good luck here victor We've got sebastian bettel Uh bent this call kimmy rykonen and luis hamilton There you go. Uh victor logan s number 19. Good luck here logan carlo sines. That's nasty 54 uh Antonio jivan azi on the yellow That is card number 16 179 of 190 or 197 out of 199 nice one there. Grats on that uh, logan We've got sebastian bettel and charles leclerc That'll do it for 19 on to 20. We've got scott b. Good luck here scott luham robert schwarzman pure ghastly and oscar piastre Uh brian c at number 22 Or 21 21, excuse me. Thank you. Yeah. No, you're right 21. I know why I said 20 does look at the wrong thing Uh luis hamilton got roman groeschine. That is again yellow 180 out of 199 There you go, brian Got estabano con and uh, uh, alessio delida uh delida Got zack c has 22 and 23 so both of these next two packs are going to be for you zack Matteo nannini max for stappin max for stappin again and luis hamilton That's number 23 22 and now 23. Sorry went a little bit too far there appreciate you shan Uh james allison mix schumacher Uh guanyu zao and max for stappin Now on to 24. This is victor c. This will be the end of box three. Good luck here victor Kimmy riconan. We got a red Good luck here victor red james allison Mercedes amg principal five of five Congrats buddy There you go victor nice red Heck yeah, dude. We'll take a red Oh, sorry. I forgot you gotta do the new one Uh, we'll her me samaya And sabashin of a tell there you go victor congrats again on the red We'll be starting with 25 john k in box number four Again, just so you see how I do it. You can see in the over cam. I just reach in grab put down That is all it is 25 john k. Good luck here john George russell Carlos signs on the sepia nice one there 22 out of 100 card number 54 Her ferrari got max for stappin and louis hamilton Uh, there you go. John. We got zack c with 26 now Robert schwarzman Nicholas latifi uh guanyu zao and max for stappin There you go zack Onto scottf with 27 roi nissany Got louis hamilton again. I'm the aqua 78 out of 99 congrats scott card number 40 big lou ham Very nice I forgot how I keep reading. Sorry Gil herme samaya and sabashin vettel That'll do it for 27 scottf Zack c you've got 28 and 29 so these next two packs Will be yours. It's going to let shawndoos thing and then we'll get started on 28 and 29 for zack zack c lando norris louis hamilton baltari botas and matthew nanini That's 28 for zack c onto 29 for zack c Got uh tenio jivanazi got green uh kimmy riconin nice one there 35 out of 75 Congrats on that one zack Got max for stappin and uh dan ticktum That's 29 for zack c onto 30 for joseph r. Good luck here joseph We've got baltari botas liam zandelli louis hamilton and uh richard uh vershore There you go joseph onto alex p It's gonna get this where I could see everything alex p with 31 uh george russell uh andreas seidel mclaire and principal 91 out of 199 grads on the color uh charles leclerc and uh nakita mespin That'll do it for 31 onto 32 joseph r. This will be the conclusion of box four david beckman up here ghastly sebastian vettel and lando norris That'll do it for box number four. We are on to box number five and final Good luck here everyone. All right. We've got pack number 33. That is john k. Good luck here john mcshumacher that is liam lawson on the aqua 34 out of 99 f2 There you go Got nicolas latifi and uh john luca petticoff On to 34 willis p. Good luck here willis louis hamilton george russell uh roya nissani and louis hamilton Number 35. We've got victor c. Good luck here victor Got george russell. That's richard vershore on the f2 yellow 28 out of 199 Congrats victor That's vershore again and uh romain gross uh gross jen Uh 36 willis p. Good luck here willis uh daniel ricardo. We got gold george russell There it is card number 19 Wow 40 out of 50. Congrats willis Oh you do Nice george russell willis. Congrats buddy Uh, antonio giavanozzi and max versus tappin There you go willis nice spot our nice pack there jennifer p. We've got 37 here. Good luck here jennifer charles leclerc max versus tappin max versus tappin and uh, theo poor share 37 onto 38 troy a good luck here troy We've got lance stroll sebastian bettel louis hamilton and david uh beckman There you go troy willis again at 39 See if you can uh replicate that willis We've got pierre ghastly uh frejik basur john lukapetikov And kimmy rykonin And jennifer p to finish us off at number 40 Good good. Perfect Good luck here jennifer Got a green coming up valteri botos. That is robert schwarzman Three out of 75 nice hit there Congrats on that jennifer We've got theo uh pusher and mercedes amg racing That is going to do it for the break everyone. Thanks again for getting this filled. I really do appreciate it Next up we got personals Oh, perfect. So I did upload the 2022 elements So I just gotta get uh half case number 14. That's the only one All right, give me one second guys gotta reply to a couple emails All right, let me go get that uploaded guys. Thank you again for getting that filled that was really awesome Like I said kin literally could not appreciate that more pretty solid break we had there too Um, we'll just have to go through like pry and stuff really quick too shon Cool. All right, awesome Um, let's get some personals in guys See what we got in queue here Like I said, we are pretty I would say pretty much full for sure um Got leaf lumber six prisms And optic Choice Only one 22 optic choice. All right, be right back guys. Give me one sec here Donner's optic basketball choice. When do we have this? I didn't even know we had this in stock Oh, interesting Oh, all right All right. Yeah Uh, is that russell probably pry that Most of this stuff's pride at this point, I think Unless it's hamilton or just that minute This one Yeah Hold on a sec guys, that is landon norris probably pry that Um, we got to find pack 37 39 40 I'm checking right now guys. Hold on. I don't think it is. No, there's no there's no luis hamilton 37 And then she had 40 as well. I guess Yeah, no, no luis hamilton's in either of jennifers 40 or 37 Oh, we're staffing. Sorry. Yeah. Oh 37. Whoops. My bad. My bad. My bad. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry That is that is the variation Good call on that one. Yep. Let's get that magged and pride for number 40. Sorry about that guys. Geez I appreciate that poke. That was the variation I had no idea that it was vertical to be honest I apologize on that. I got to go grab a couple more boxes really quick for uh, our Personals. Thank you again Donner's choice and four. Yeah, that's a big card right there. Thanks big. Appreciate that man Seven We are good to go. Yeah, appreciate that big. Thanks for pointing that out again Like I had no idea that was a vertical one because I mean a horizontal because hamilton's vertical Hamilton basically looks the same Uh, got andrew each Yeah, I was going to get through as many personals as possible. Whatever doesn't go tonight will Uh go tomorrow All right, here we go guys What's going on everyone sam here with latent sports guards We are doing a one box break of 2022 leaf lumber baseball for andrew h Uh, good luck here andrew. See what we got in here for you, buddy These are always fun. This is good stuff in here, man Good autos good bat knob bat barrels all kind of stuff. It's a fun product man. Leaf does well I gotta be honest. Leaf has stepped their game up Uh travel is daryl strawberry from the Mets to the Dodgers to the Yankees 14 out of uh Cool one there Grat's on that there uh andrew we've got dick allen six out of nine Game use lumber Nice one there I'm gonna try zack. I I don't know dude If not, I'm just gonna get to it tomorrow. There's a lot of personals in queue We've got eight way that is Al rosin Rocky colovito kenny lofton joe carter albert bell mani ramirez joe charbonneau buddy bell 10 out of 35 nice one there Congrats on that andrew. That's cool And we've got bat rack. That is call your stremsky jim rice fredlin Dwight evans for the socks four out of nine all game use bats Very cool piece there congrats on the hits andrew that'll do it for your break Uh, we'll get them right up to you. Thanks again as always buddy We got to as many as I physically can tonight. I believe we got two prism hobby If not sack, it'll go tomorrow though. I'm doing personals again tomorrow after group breaks So no matter what it's gonna go to tonight at There's like a two percent chance it'll go tonight and if not, it'll just go tomorrow relatively earlier Um, all right, we've got for uh, huesong sea Got four prism hobby All right, let's do it guys Going on everyone sam here with latent sports guards We are ripping four boxes of 2022 punini prism baseball hobby for huesong sea. So good luck here huesong See what we got in here for you looking for like 12 autos, which is pretty cool Looking for exclusive tiger stripes and giraffes. Those are always fun. Love the animal prints and prism and uh, you know other punini products jake lats red yachty and josh lobe I got a gold coming up here veerling puredwall stained glass soda gold katel marté Uh, three out of ten one off jersey number for the diamond bags. Nice one there Uh, blue jake cronin worth not numbered austin riley There's a torque rookie. Oh, yeah, that's awesome That's true blue josh lobe for the race, you know, that's a good point, honestly Oh, yeah, yep Is he good Yeah, uh, sorry jackson reeds rookie auto red that is 67 out of 99 and red rod caru continue But he was a study That's wild Even quan. Yeah, I mean he was Trevor story, uh, elie morgan blue mojo to 199 guardians Uh, blue bright elder habibias That's cool This is an abram's rookie. We got a redemption. Uh, oh Uh, that's a red ronzi contrares rookie eloy Jimenez We've got rookie autographs prism red Wander franco There you go Hugh song congrats, buddy. That's nasty That's gonna be sick. Oh, yeah, that's like extra Extra material on the bottom left. So we'll just send you an empty box and wrap for hugh song Just in case you want to get that up with me Probably just All right next pack here. Yeah, that was now. I'm wandering nasty nasty nasty nasty Um, that's kind of double check make sure this is all card ship. I can imagine it is right now Uh, silver mckenzie gore rookie. There you go for the Padres fireworks or rosa rena Oh, no vet base ship if live. Whoops Hold on a sec. That's why you gotta look before No, it's annoying though because they're not in any certain order. It's all like random Isn't he got to do all the rookies and everything too? Like All right, so this is non-shift stuff It's that and I'm let me get this ship. Whoops. I apologize on that Sorry guys And non Rookie yes, all right, there we go non-shift. All right, sounds good. Let me organize everything now as we go Sorry about that guys uh rookie See that's they're every which way Donaldson loud with martyre There's a sheen boz rookie Fearless and judge Uh, Camillo Dove all the way of rookie auto for the Giants 47 out of 75 So Just for you There's the carbon mag today y'all here nandeds blue championship Kyle Hendricks I blame that on panini. Yeah, absolutely planahan Max scherzer gavin sheets silver there's a mike ishramsky red not numbered rookie class ronzi kontreras Jonah don The cow Raleigh rookie old school cow ripkin Uh chat jazz chisel and that is 114 out of 149. There's another old tiny stained glass back to back Well, it's a conchera Case it case it Uh, so this is ship stuff rookies and such and then this is all uh base Do my best to just organize as I go here Alrighty fox two. Good luck here, uh Uh, huesong There's a bobby wit rookie. Uh, we got steven kwan. Nice debut rookie for the guardians Hit the kwan hit the kwan nice one there Uh, blue brian red or uh blue red ryan brian reynolds austin riley That's literally a red Long day man. Yeah, it's illumination cori seager Uh silver j rod nice one there huesong. Congrats on that buddy. How's the albis emergent? Zika haven't cheats red starling martin mike trout right here Hunter green who's a siri? Uh, mike bowman, uh, bryce harper stained glass. Wow Uh, illumination that is six out of 125 for uh, gladi jr Fearless simian and rookie class marsh Yanni elder. There's an o'neill cruise base rookie There the atoms or devours lubeb Ridings that is greg deekman on the rookie auto going to well that's a cubs hit There you go nice rookie auto for a huesong and a couple of uh Silvers and Yeah Yeah, I mean they don't own panini yet No So if they do buy panini then they'll be able to do like prism baseball. That's like actually But right now they'll be able to just do like, um Uh, gabriel arias rookie blue emergent tim anderson right now They could do like top scroll basketball And like top scroll football because they own tops and they have to license the basketball and football as well They did not buy not as of right now. They do not own panini shadow by a Scherzer silver dolos garcia red yellich and a pita lanza I know right ricks Honestly, we freaked out earlier. We did yeah, we got like two more and they call pass. Oh my god, great We freaked out over nothing Uh red mojo tyler mcgill 49 out of 149 silver george brett rookie class is jake burger Might be a stop at taco bell time tonight As it is every night river sin martin To be fair though it is this only the second meal and I went to the gym this morning, so Fasting from what seven to 11 From 88 p.m. To probably 2 p.m. Nice It's a way to do it honestly say a zuki rookie. There you go Okay, I don't get up to 11 Right I don't do much till two right also true. There's an adult brujan. We got kody potit debut silver, uh, rookie auto going to the uh, marlins john heesley blue eloy Shrout there's an itchy row got a josh low rookie auto For the rays nice one there Anthony bender going to the marlins. That's a red Mackenzie gore sort of crawford There's no rhyme or reason for how these are packaged. Uh, we've got snakeskin many machado 20 out of 50. That's kind of nasty That's really kind of nasty for the padres. That's so sick Blue kyle muller and rookie class josh low. So this is ship stuff And this is not all right box three. Here we go. There's a j-rod rookie Barlow there's marsh Also more in Long way there Killibrew uh silver in anderson carlos korea emergence Next up there's a wander rookie Shet jonadone Without brujan illumination shroud uh, red miguel cabrera not numbered and wet marifield lumber Devers That is casey my eyes red mojo 52 out of 149 tigers blue rizzo and rookie class andre jackson And we'll school. We got zack short 75 out of 75 red wave auto for the tigers Silver cinder guard and lubab mick ledolo full cash row set beer joe ryan peter base uh, korea seager red or a blue matte veerling Aaron jug sluggers hit his 60 second today championship stage one soto. That's kind of cool Red hose a siri fireworks mookie This is steven quanigan illumination to grom blue wave john heesley 26 out of 60 for the royals Uh, silver scherzer and rookie clash joe are shane boss Cooper chriswell traceturner There is a red charlie blackman azi albis championship stage cj abram's rookie beekman T smite trout staying glass.  No way we just did a show hey otani Staying glass.  We got a gold steven matt's auto for the cardinals one out of ten Nice another gold each hero red stargazing soto shane boss Old school griffy red wave ronnie thawson 93 out of 99 It's blue cedric mullins rookie class o'neill cruise last pack of box three Illumination brice harper that is joe ryan rookie auto. There you go the twins Some arm there might found in red and slugger freddy freeman And then this is none Last pack or last box of your break here, uh, q song. Good luck buddy empty All double Illumination cedric mullins Leja Lopez silver set beer red on the color match castellanos Ashby There's another wander rookie And then wow silver matt veerling rookie here cool josh donaldson Red max crannick josh donaldson Juan kyle moeller on the snakeskin two out of 50 There you go. Congrats on that. Uh, huesong Cedric mullins silver and husker hans kraus rookie class rosa reina Anthony bender reverson martin 111 out of 149 blue illumination jose abray cj abram's rookie christopher sanchez on the red Redulfal Castro on the rookie laid Illumination freddy freeman akunya That is uh hirakazu sama mora for the red socks cool one there That's uh silver debut signatures cool auto he's got there too ricky And that is mullins beer ryan wells. Holy cow. That was all rookies right there That literally that entire pack is getting shits or upside down nice Tag or deep man This is all vets Gorman burns got nick allen on the rookie silver auto going to the ace debut six juellis blue rookie walker beuler There was judge trinket turner ajalexie is gonna be your silver rookie auto for the rangers That's a number illumination josh donaldson and alex bregman Shoil tani third stained glass of the sprake Zach wheeler uh red one Lopez or jack Lopez 17 out of 99 And last pack of your break. Good luck here. He's saying j rod rookie sherserrally that is dylan colman on the rookie autographs not numbered going to the royals Joe ryan and a slugger's abolas garcia That'll do it for your break there. Houston. Congrats on all your hits and cards. We'll get them right out. See you Thanks again, buddy.  Anyway Two more prism baseballs Continue on here guys Cory. Yes. All right. Let's do it. Cory What's going on everyone sam here with latent sports cards We are doing a two box break of 2022 panini prism baseball hobby for cori s So good luck here, Cory. See what we got. Uh, just so you know, Cory That base does not ship all of your inserts colored hits rookies. They all do Just know that base. So I'll be organizing them as we go here smell zilla fireworks or rosaranna. There's a jake burger red not numbered jaren duran rookie Salvador Perez illumination Connor wong Uh debut signatures say a Suzuki. There you go. Cory. Congrats, buddy. That's awesome Um, Edward Cabrera red and bachette. That is a great card right there. Congrats, man We just pulled two of those and pulled a wander. So not too bad honestly There's a Suzuki rookie Riviera, there's a torkelson rookie There's terry reedell lindor silver jackson reed's rookie and shizzle him on the fearless remote moriano an orange old school of no one ryan 79 out of a hundred silver garret coal sluggers devours red miggy and rookie class kevin smith for the uh, blue jays Milo doval That's don't even have the energy As you get later As it gets later, it all slows down, dude Like i'm sitting here like cross-eyed Juan soto fearless. That's 23 out of 75 on the checkerboard Milo doval This was 10 bucks, dude. He's there. I'd be screaming at you.  There's a wander Uh, we saw him like a few times. I'll call it out next time I see it Should be in here somewhere though Bruhan, uh, blue one marshal and christian yellich. I like to have some like retired guys in here. That's kind of cool uh, trey turner fearless There's a curtus terry 95 out of 99 on the red auto for the rangers Silver skew ball the grom, uh, there's an abrams Mike trout on, thankless Uh, her mom marquez and marcus simian. Here we go here guys trout ichiro Uh, ronnie thawson 91 out of 99 going to the astros on the rookie red autograph Uh, red old school frank thomas and rookie class santian And last pack of box one here for you. Cory Cory awesome Peyton henry that is logan web on the red mojo 88 out of 149 blue mike. Yes and stan So I'll do the box ones of your ship. All right box two Good luck here court The grom there's a vato blue fearless 156 out of 199 marcus simian buxton arias thompson doshlove adab ruhan margie mike trout. There's a jake burger 35 out of 50 blue wave auto white socks rookie red lewis and maddison ronnie wade Louise heal ichiro devers. There's a mike trout green stained glass 18 out of 125 It's not only are they not chart printed now Even the numbered stuff has been super sharp printed ryan feltner Not laughing at the card. Cory. We're just we shawn and i pulled a uh, shohio tani one of these in a mixer earlier And like freaked out because we thought it was a super short print And we pulled like four of the same So a nice looking card. They're obviously they're still gorgeous Old school brian. De La Cruz rookie auto for the marlins Not numbered a non-hollow glen auto red ronnie conturas stained glass jeez that's huge I don't what had a hobby no Retail Wow So Even Juan silver Wilson conturas etn what? Oh, wow Wow wild bobby wit Scrum dust sorry Kyle moeller rookie autograph for the me uh, brace Not numbered on that one silver Austin warren jaren jaren. I got it This guy's weird. I don't like this guy user and we got to go put this on Numbers only That guy's weird that guy's just very like strange Numbers only Uh, nobody knows Yeah Easley zack luther, uh, there's a tattis stained glass mike trout Chasmacormick blue rookie rafael devbers There's a mzika Colton welker rookie lopez curvy pocket Bias silver big dumper. There he is. There he is jake mccarthy red siri trout Scherzer old school ken griffy got an orange. That's ryan mountcastle on the color match five out of a hundred jt rial muto silver yellow Yanni hernanda's brice elder elimination harper ian anderson santheon kormick rookie Our poohalls has a dodger Got about that era Zach luther 44 out of 50 blue wave auto for the oils. There you go Tim anderson and john carlos then steven quann So i friends realas yellich red tyler glass now any merchant catel martyre That'll do it for your break there. Cory. Congrats on all the hits, buddy. We'll get them right out. Yeah. Thanks again Uh so ship So i think we're gonna be able to fit in two more. We're gonna have eric w and then jonathan q I think that's who we'll be able to get so i'm gonna go grab jonathan's boxes as well and then um We will Be good to go. I'm gonna go grab those really quick got eric w coming up next Uh, can you need the armrest optic choice? And so i just have to put that one. I'm just gonna go put that one back No, it's tagged really quickly Eric w. Hey, eric. Let's do it. What's going on everyone. Sam here with latent sports guards We're ripping a box of 21 22 peniniton rust optic basketball choice Uh for eric w. So good luck eric See what we got in here. Let me do a quick wipe down the rest everywhere See what is in here. Good to see what this is all about. All right. We got silver tim hardaway Uh auto is going to be matt barns for the clippers optographs not numbered We've got jason preston that is green and uh red green choice I'm assuming that's uh Like the obviously going to be the exclusive Uh red deandre eighton 39 out of 88 Uh xyre williams is your rookie as well as myles mcbrott That'll do it for your box there eric congrats on the hits. We'll get them right out to you buddy. Thanks again Sounds good. All right. We got jonathan q's gonna be the last personal night here Everything else that is in q and ordered right now. We'll go tomorrow Uh, we'll definitely have some more time to be able to do personals tomorrow We ended about an hour late because of scheduling issues Um, so we've got elbert jeff david dylan scott jesse zack.  I don't have anything crazy Click uh pro debut WWE revolution and jesse's got optic choice and zack with select wwe Yeah, so nothing that's gonna take too super long. So we'll easily be able to crank through all those tomorrow But we got a little bit knocked out tonight, which is always good I would stay longer, but i'm breaking tomorrow night. So uh more personals come in I'll probably stay if I have to stay after two. I probably will stay after two tomorrow Just tonight. I gotta get my sleep Be well rested for tomorrow jonathan q's got two legacies Let me um, just double check on what gets shipped out of this Oh, nice perfect. All right. Let's do it jonathan. Good luck here, buddy What's going on everyone sam here with leighton sports cards ripping two boxes of 2021 uh, no 2022 peony legacy football for jonathan q. So good luck jonathan See what we got in here for you, buddy everything ships Got two autos per box. We're looking for four in this entire break See what we can get in here seeing kyle hamilton 57 out of 100 ravens Got jaylin tolbert that is rookie auto going to the cowboys not numbered on that on the chrome Peyton manning. I don't know dude gotta be back on noise, right? I don't know dude I don't know you'd be surprised generation kurt warner a lot of people just like lurking like i'll do the same thing a lot of times Let's just watch something and not say anything Even if i'm just having it out of my house or something say i'm howl under the lights See a dare to tear come out of here Kind of cash money, uh, orange eddie george to 199 from titans There there just to tear it What's up whips? Yo, what up, dude? There's somebody there he is. There's some some life form whips is in the house Uh, 1975 george kill on the mini here one talent is uh, timeless talent is uh Curtis martin whips where you located? Yeah, honestly, i'm all in Arizona nice. Yeah, so it's not super super laid out there Uh, romeo dobs on the chrome pretty cool Here it was Uh, orange trailance to 199 second here. God, so weird to say that We're just based there Whips you born and raised out there? 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I think uh sauce gardener orange to 149 dual burrow and a size Solid picking up a dare to tear 120 boxes on board.  What did you do?   I'm just gonna lose it. I hate it.  Good luck buddy That's awesome dean Uh orange terry mclauren that is 103 out of 125 and brian dawkins That'll do it for the uh your break there jonathan. Thanks again for jumping in. We'll get these right out to you That's awesome. That's funny. That's funny dean Dean, what do you play on? The playstation xbox xbox pc ps5 out of board nice real man real man All right guys that is going to do it from shon and i tonight uh tomorrow 10 10 11 a.m. Start time with forest panini mosaic road to the world's cup soccer releases That is all forest is doing tomorrow morning. I come in at five o'clock. I'll be doing Two cases worth of that. I think four three boxers and two half cases And then back to regularly regularly scheduled sports. So take a look. Let me drop you guys the break or the Schedule link really quick. 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On June 18th, 1986, a young basketball player named Lynn Bias was celebrating. The Boston Celtics had recently selected him as their first round draft pick and Reebok offered him a multi-million dollar deal. Even before he played in the NBA, he was a national star. At night, he went to lie down saying he didn't feel well and he never woke up. At 8.55 in the morning, on June 19th, he was pronounced dead from heart failure. The autopsy revealed that there was cocaine in his system and the ramifications from this would be enormous. Now, it's worth clarifying here that the medical examiners did attribute the cocaine to his death. I've heard some people argue that they never concluded that cocaine was the cause of his death, only that it was in a system, but the medical examiners did conclude that cocaine overdose was the cause of death. However, the media and the government jumped on a few things about the story that are under dispute. One is that Lynn Bias was smoking crack. In reality, they don't know how he consumed the cocaine, but it probably wasn't crack. One report speculated he could have smoked free-base cocaine, though that wasn't really popular in 1986, but others said he either snorted it or swallowed it in a drink. Nobody knows exactly how he consumed the cocaine, but I personally remember being taught in school that he smoked crack and his death occurred right after crack was starting to make national news, so it was a convenient narrative to jump on. I also remember being taught that it was the first time that Bias had ever used cocaine. Some of his teammates claimed this to be fair, but these accounts are obviously suspect. The primary reason that it was reported that he used cocaine for the first time was that the media and the government had already been cultivating an image of cocaine use that it was instantly addictive. So using cocaine and crack one time could make you completely addicted. I also remember being taught this when I was younger, but it's completely untrue. That narrative about cocaine addiction is an absolute fabrication. Part of the reason it was easy to spread this narrative in the case of Lynn Bias is because prior to his overdose, the media was presenting him as this squeaky, clean kid from a good family. So they just concluded that this must have been his first time using cocaine. It probably wasn't, and some reports have contested this, but nobody really knows for sure. Regardless of the actual specific circumstances of Lynn Bias's death, this was the exact kind of catastrophe the government couldn't let go to waste. On the morning that his death was reported in the press, Lynn Bias was all anybody could talk about in Congress. Tip O'Neill, the Democratic representative of Boston, who was the speaker of the House at the time, was screaming for blood. There had better be some anti-cocaine legislation, and it had better not be something that the Republicans could take sole credit for. With the death of Lynn Bias, the cocaine scare of the 1990s had reached its apogee. I'm Chris Calton, and this is the Mises Institute podcast Historical Controversies. In this episode, we're going to look at the so-called crack epidemic that dominated both news and politics in the second half of Reagan's presidency. The death of Lynn Bias wasn't the beginning of the cocaine scare. It was merely the tragedy that the government and the media needed to finally get nationwide attention of the stories they had been trying to generate for the past few years. In the summer of 1981, Times Magazine ran a cover story titled, High on Cocaine, a drug with status and menace. But despite the demagogic title, the article presented cocaine as a relatively safe drug, at least compared to heroin, and cocaine users were painted as the wealthy elite, such as Richard Pryor, who made the news a year before for setting himself on fire while preparing freebase cocaine. By the mid-80s, things were changing. The Colombian drug trade was exploding with the infamous Medellin cartel, which is the one that Pablo Escobar was a part of, and their rival, the Cali cartel, supplying huge amounts of cocaine to the U.S. and driving down the price. So it was becoming more widely available. By this time, cocaine in its powder form was being used by more middle and upper-class people who would work during the week and party on the weekends, referred to colloquially as weekend warriors. But it was really the illegal cocaine trade that first started getting attention rather than the negative effects of the cocaine itself. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times ran the first story about a new form of cocaine called rock, or basuco. Now, crack, rocks, and basuco are different things, but this wasn't known at the time. The three smokable forms of cocaine that have been popular in different regions and times are freebase cocaine, basuco, and crack. Basuco is a cocaine paste that is produced in the process of producing cocaine powder, but it never became popular in the United States. It was only ever very big in South America. Basuco's cocaine is the cooking of cocaine with ether that pretty much turns it back into basuco, but it was never widely used either. But in the 1980s, somebody figured out that if you cook cocaine with baking soda and water, you get smokable form that you can sell very cheaply, and they started calling this rock after its shape, or a crack, after the noise made when smoking it. And in 1985, the press and the police thought basuco and crack were the same thing until the police in the South Bronx started interrogating heroin addicts about it and found out that dealers had tried to sell basuco, but nobody used it. But crack was everywhere in LA and New York. What made crack popular was the fact that you could purchase a hit for maybe $10. So where powder cocaine had largely been a rich man's drug, crack became the poor man's drug. And also, the hit from crack was far more intense, though the high only lasted for about 10 minutes. But in terms of how dangerous it was, crack is chemically virtually the same thing as powder cocaine, but by making it smokable, you're no longer limited by the nasal membranes, so you're able to take in far larger and more potent dose at one time. So the media started jumping on this. Later in 1985, the CBS Evening News ran a story showing images of a baby shivering from withdrawals. The reporter, Susan Spencer, she reported that the baby was exposed to cocaine as a fetus and was now suffering from withdrawals, and she called this a cocaine baby. Now, the interesting thing is that this was completely untrue. Most likely the baby they were showing did inherit heroin addiction from the mother, which is a thing. But the reporter was simply saying it was a co-addicted baby. But cocaine addiction doesn't cause withdrawals. The addictive aspects of cocaine is very different from heroin. Cocaine addiction is more aptly referred to as reinforcement, which means that using it makes people want to use more, but you don't suffer chemical withdrawals when you stop. But the report of cocaine-addicted babies was based off of a single study done by Dr. Ira Chasnoff that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. And the study looked at 23 women and suggested a possible link between health problems and cocaine. The problem in the study is that the women were also drinking alcohol. They were smoking tobacco. They were smoking marijuana, all while pregnant, and they had poor preminal care and other variables that were not controlled for. But the media ran with the story and started reporting on cocaine-addicted infants. Another scientist, Dr. Claire Coles, who specializes in babies who had fetal exposure to these substances, tobacco and alcohol and marijuana, she read the study and incorporated cocaine into her own research and started trying to set reporters straight on the matter when they called to ask her for her expert opinion. And instead of reporting the truth, which is that there was no discernible link between fetal cocaine exposure and health issues, the reporter stopped calling Dr. Coles and started instead simply interviewing hospital works, even clerical workers, about the cocaine baby problem. So basically, the media crafted a narrative saying that babies who were exposed to cocaine suffered from cocaine withdrawals and other health problems, and then they interviewed hospital employees with no actual expertise on the matter and aired to the hospital workers repeating the media narrative back to them. By the end of the year, the cocaine baby had evolved into the crack baby and any child suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome or heroin addiction or other health problems was being counted as a crack baby. So suddenly, this condition with zero scientific basis was an epidemic and the legal consequences of crack babies had other negative consequences as well. In 1989, the Washington Post ran a story with the headline crack babies. The worst threat is mom herself. And another story titled, She Smoked Crack, Then Killed Her Children. So the government started treating it like child abuse. Now, there's certainly a case to be made that if you're smoking crack while you're pregnant, whether it's bad for the child or not, you aren't really fit to be a parent. So I don't want to make an argument like it's all right to smoke crack or anything else, because that's obviously not the case. Crack is a very dangerous substance that hardly bears repeating. But we still have to look at the negative consequences of the government policies imposed to combat these issues. One is that women who wanted to get treatment for their drug addiction would actually avoid getting treatment if they were pregnant. Now, if policy were designed based on the actual facts, which is that crack use is bad for the mother, but harmless to the fetus, then you would think the policy would encourage women to seek treatment. But if the women got treated, their child would be taken from them so they would simply avoid seeking help. Another was the issue of toilet bowl babies. Now, these were children who were born essentially in secret where they or the mother could not get medical attention if needed. One San Francisco deputy city attorney reported on seeing a drastic increase in these kinds of cases following the crackdown on crack babies. But the worst cases were the women who simply tried to induce miscarriage before birth because they were going to go to trial and they didn't want to face the harsher criminal charges for using drugs while pregnant. Now, again, despite whatever case may be made about how bad it is to use drugs while pregnant or while raising children, we have to be able to acknowledge the contradictions in imposing policies which were largely driven by pro-life Republicans that do have the real effect of driving women to deliberately induce miscarriage. So regardless of what your position on any given issue is, we have to be aware of all the real world consequences of the policies being imposed on people. And no matter how you feel about the people who use crack while pregnant, the way the government came down on them is nothing short of evil. In 1989, a woman named Jennifer Johnson was a crack addict who was pregnant and she actually admitted to being a crack user because she wanted to get treatment. And on more than one occasion, she sought help and found nothing. And when she gave birth, the doctor recorded that her baby, quote, looked and acted as we would expect a baby to look and act. So the baby was perfectly healthy. But she admitted again to the doctor that she had used cocaine while she was pregnant. So the hospital reported her child as a crack baby. So Jeff Dean, the assistant state attorney for Florida at the time, decided he'd test out a new strategy for prosecuting her. He decided to charge her with delivering cocaine to a minor like somebody selling drugs at a school. But because abortion laws had made it so that a fetus was not considered a human in the eyes of the law, this argument was that the delivery of cocaine took place in the 60 seconds between the birth and the cutting of the umbilical cord.  Even if fetuses did receive cocaine through the umbilical cord, which it appears from the studies that they do not, Jennifer Johnson was obviously not smoking crack while she was giving birth. But the judge bought the argument and Jennifer Johnson became the first woman ever to be convicted for this particular drug crime. And when the judge gave his decision, he said, quote, pregnant addicts have a responsibility to seek treatment, which completely ignores the fact that Jennifer Johnson had sought treatment and simply found nothing available. And I'm not saying that the government should subsidize treatment, so that would at least be better than spending tax dollars on police and prisons to arrest drug offenders, but the government's policies on drug use actually create barriers for even free market in charity treatment centers because the people who would use them are in many cases afraid to seek treatment because they have to admit to a criminal felony to do so. In 1986, only a few months before the death of Linbias, Newsweek ran a story entitled, Kids and Cocaine, An Epidemic Strikes Middle America. In it, the author Arnold Washington said, quote, there's no such thing as recreational use of crack. It is almost instantaneous addiction. Now, Washington had no basis for this claim, none. But once the claim was made, it was spread without a critical thought. Suddenly, crack cocaine could make you addicted with the first hit. It was being reported as the most addictive drug ever created. Once Linbias died a few months later, all of these fabrications made it very easy to suggest that his cocaine use was really crack use. And it was his first time using crack and that just goes to confirm everything we've already been saying, right? It's just government finding a way to cycle their own narrative to reaffirm it. So of course, these claims about instantaneous addiction were patently false. Only about 10% of the people who have ever used crack use it regularly. So while we may say that crack is addictive due to the reinforcement characteristic, it is less addictive than things like heroin or nicotine. The idea that cocaine was heavily used among teenagers was also unsupported. In fact, at this time, even marijuana use was declining among teens. But deaths from cocaine overdoses were grossly inflated because anybody who came to the emergency room for any reason and simply had cocaine in their system was counted as a cocaine overdose. This was true even for the people who had heroin in their system or alcohol in their system. But even with these methods of inflating the numbers, 1984 only saw 604 deaths related to cocaine abuse according to the Drug Abuse Warning Network statistics. Not long after this, Newsweek ran another story titled The Plague Among Us. And this article literally compared the cocaine epidemic to the bubonic plague. So 604 deaths is pretty much the same thing as the bubonic plague according to Newsweek in 1984. The government couldn't get enough of this. In 1986, Senator Alfons DeMotto and the U.S. Attorney Rudolph Geolani, they posed as a UPS driver and a member of the Hell's Angels respectively to go and purchase crack from a street dealer while an unmarked van videotaped them to show the world what a crack deal looked like. Around the same time, ABC News aired footage of a crack house raid, which was the first time the news had ever shown footage of a drug raid. And the head of the New York DEA called it combat footage and compared it to coverage of the Vietnam War. A couple of months later after that, CBS aired a news documentary entitled 48 Hours on Crack Street and NBC countered with their own special called Cocaine Country. So they were getting the best ratings they'd seen in years. People were eating this stuff up. Now there's one quick story that I have to bring up as well. The Reagan administration was obviously thinking of all the different ways it could take advantage of the crack cocaine hype. So in one meeting, customs commissioner, William Von Raib, brought up the idea of using the Air Force to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugs. This was actually a step too far for most people in the Reagan cabinet. But there was one guy who spoke up and defended Von Raib's idea, saying that the Supreme Court has ruled that police can legally shoot a felon who is about to commit a violent felony. So this precedent could be used to justify using the Air Force to shoot down potentially drug smuggling planes. And you're gonna love this. The person who defended this idea was none other than the assistant attorney general, Bill Weld, Gary Johnson's vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in the last election. I think I mentioned this in the Cocaine episode, a few episodes back when they shot down a plane and killed a pastor's wife and their seven month old daughter right over Peru. So these policies were essentially put into action eventually. When George H.W. Bush came into office, he wanted to keep the momentum against crack going. So for his first televised speech, he wanted to show how easy it was to purchase crack. And the way he and his team decided to do this was to show the American people that you could actually purchase crack cocaine right across the street of the White House. And this is exactly what George H.W. Bush did. In the speech, he held up a bag of crack and told the American people that an agent actually purchased this right by the White House. And he technically wasn't lying. What he didn't tell them was how difficult it was to get a crack dealer to come to the White House to sell the agent the crack. So the DEA got one of their undercover agents, a man named Sam Gaye, and asked him if he could make a crack by near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. So Gaye had a drug dealer named Keith Jackson.  And Jackson asks where that is and Lafayette Park is just across from the White House. So that's what Gaye tells him. And then Jackson says, where's the White House? So Gaye has to give him instructions on where to bring the crack. So when Jackson and Gaye meet to make the crack deal, which was actually the day after, because the first time Jackson didn't even show up and Gaye had to do all this again. So when he finally did show up, the White House had a hidden video camera set up to film the incident. But they never got their footage because a homeless woman started attacking the cameraman saying, don't take my picture, don't take my picture. So the White House did get their crack even though they didn't get the footage of it. They bought it right in front of the White House just like they wanted and they didn't have the video footage to prove the crack by to the American public. But nevertheless, President Bush had his bag of crack to show the camera when he gave a speech and he could technically truthfully say that it was purchased right by the White House even if he conveniently left out the trouble that his undercover agent had to go through to get it in front of the White House. But two weeks later, the Washington Post ran a story revealing the details of the crack by. Now with egg on their face, the White House staff had to do something. So they reacted by going and arresting Keith Jackson, this 18 year old kid who was lured into this crack deal and they had him tried for selling crack cocaine, putting him up for a 10 year sentence. Now the best news is that this story might show the first signs of the public getting fed up with the government's tactics in waging the drug war because the jurors were deadlocked after some refused to rule him guilty because they felt he had been set up by the police. There's one other major story about cocaine that I would be remiss if I didn't talk about but it's a big one so I'm only gonna be able to give the highlights in this episode and that's the story of the CIA's complicity in smuggling cocaine out of Latin America. For most of the 20th century, Nicaragua was ruled by the Samosa family and they had the support of the US government because they were faithfully opposed to communists. But when Jimmy Carter came into office, he yanked all of the USA to the Samosas because of the brutal and oppressive tactics used by his National Guard, which was basically the domestic military he used to keep a tight rule on the country. With the funding cut, Samosa had a much more difficult time suppressing the communist revolutionaries and in September of 1980, some Argentine communists actually shot a rocket-pelled grenade and fired a handful of M16s right into the Mercedes-Benz of Anastasio Samosa while he was in Paraguay and this, of course, killed him. So throughout the 1980s, Nicaragua would be ruled by the communist Sandinistas and this was unacceptable to the Reagan administration. So the scandal most people know about from this was when Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North was secretly and illegally selling weapons to Iran and then funneling the money into a Swiss bank account and then secretly and illegally using the money to fund the Contras, which was a group of former Samosa supporters who were fighting back against the Sandinistas. This is the infamous Iran-Contra affair. But this was not the only way that the CIA was helping the Contras get funding. The other major source of funding came from smuggling cocaine into the United States, particularly in Los Angeles.  The CIA did not invent crack cocaine and they were not using cocaine to target African-Americans. The goal of the CIA was to combat Latin American communists and because Congress had made it illegal to provide direct funding for the Contras, they had to fund them secretly. So the CIA simply didn't care that the funds were obtained by bringing cocaine into the United States. The drug war was the problem of other agencies. That was the DEA's problem, right? Not the CIA's. So the actual complicity of the CIA has been exaggerated as well. The CIA wasn't itself smuggling the drugs, it was just supervising the Contras. But the Contras who were smuggling the drugs were paid CIA agents who received legal protection in their illegal drug trade. Most of the reason people think that the CIA was itself directly smuggling drugs is because of the confusion over the title CIA agent. An actual United States CIA employee is called a CIA officer, not an agent. A CIA agent is a foreign person who is paid by the CIA to conduct certain tasks that are in line with the CIA goals. So when most people talk about the CIA agents, they actually mean CIA officers. So it is true that CIA agents were smuggling cocaine in the United States, but this only refers to the members of the Contras who were paid by the CIA to help organize against the Sandinistas. The CIA was essentially supervising the operation. So it's still quite a scandal, but not as much of a scandal as a lot of people believe. The story broke in the mid-1990s by a reporter named Gary Webb after the girlfriend of a drug dealer named Rafael Cornejo called him to talk about Cornejo's case, and she told him that he'd been sitting in jail for three years awaiting trial, but his case was not coming to trial because the man he worked for had ties to the CIA. Cornejo's employer was Norwin Menises. The chief witness in the Cornejo case was a drug smuggler named Oscar Danilo Blondone. Like Menises, he was a contra-cocaine smuggler with a connection to the CIA, and what interested Gary Webb the most about Blondone was that he was only at the trial as a witness. When Gary Webb visited freeway Rick Ross in prison, where he was incarcerated for being one of the major cocaine dealers in Los Angeles, Ross told Gary Webb that Blondone had sold many times more cocaine than he had. So Blondone testified at Ross's trial, and there, under oath, he admitted to smuggling cocaine for the CIA. So Gary Webb wrote up a story about this for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, it was a three-part story actually, and now Webb knew that the story he was writing sounded very far-fetched. So he made a website for the story where he uploaded the source documents he used to back up his claims. He knew that he had to document this very meticulously because of how far-fetched it sounded to most people. So after Webb's story hit the news, he was invited onto some radio shows and people started connecting the CIA smuggling to the crack epidemic in Los Angeles. So people in the LA area were flooding the press in the government with demands for investigation into the story. Webb's website, meanwhile, was getting more than a million hits a day. Now, it might be worth mentioning here before I talk about the smear campaign that would be waged against Webb that a number of internal investigations by the government have actually confirmed and vindicated Webb's claim. So there are some conspiracy theories that have evolved out of Webb's story like the claim that the CIA invented crack and other nonsense that I mentioned earlier, but none of these stories came from Gary Webb himself. So it was pretty much been vindicated. What he was reporting on was absolutely true. So shortly after the story blew up, Gary Webb was invited into Lou Water Show on CNN to talk about the story. And another guest brought into way was Ronald Kessler, who had written the book Inside the CIA. When Kessler was asked for input, he laid into Webb. He said that Webb had zero evidence to back up his story, which was patently false since Webb had been carefully documenting all of his evidence and making it publicly available online. These were declassified FBI documents, DEA documents, plenty of official government documents that verified everything Webb had been saying. So Webb defended himself in the interview quite well, but it would be a little avail as this was only the start of the media slander of him. After this interview, there was an onslaught of attacks on Webb's story coming from the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, just to name some of the major newspapers attacking him. So people all over the media were now calling Webb a conspiracy theorist and denouncing him, his story, and the mercury news that printed it. One of the most vicious attacks came when Webb gave an interview to Chris Matthews. Now Matthews had previously worked for Tip O'Neill, which if you remember from earlier in the episode, was the representative in Lynn Bias's district and was one of the major pushers for a new drug law following Bias's death. Matthews' interview pretty much hit all the talking points for the attacks against Gary Webb. He claimed that Webb gave no supporting evidence, still choosing to ignore the documents Webb had made available online, and he argued that the story couldn't be true because the Contras had plenty of CIA money, so they didn't need to smuggle cocaine, which is just kind of a laughable objection. Webb actually fought back so well against Matthews that after the interview, Matthews reportedly stormed off the set, accusing his staff of setting him up. But despite Webb's fact-centered defense, the media kept attacking him and mercury news for reporting the story. The Washington Post ran multiple stories, including one front page story titled, CIA and Crack, Evidence is Lacking of Contratide Plot. Other reporters started praising the post for supposedly discrediting mercury news. At first, the editor of mercury news fought back to Fending Webb, but the post wouldn't even publish the letter from mercury's editor. So he actually, Gary Webb's editor wrote a letter to the Washington Post saying, look, here's all this evidence, here's everything that's been done, here's the story. They wouldn't even publish it, right? Which is kind of unconventional in a situation like that. So mercury news put another investigative reporter, Peter Carey, on the job of verifying Gary Webb's story. Carey looked into the documentary evidence and backed Webb up. It all checked out. But the pressure remained on mercury news, and they started putting more pressure on Webb. He was told, for one thing, not to take any book or movie deals, which is pretty much the dream of an investigative reporter. So that's a very hard demand to take. And because it would make him look like Webb had a vested interest in making stuff up, apparently that was the claim that he was given. Then on a single day, both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ran a story attacking mercury news for printing Webb's articles. The LA Times story was a three-parter put out by 14 reporters and three editors. The stories were basically reporting on the hype that Webb's article had received and were painting it ironically as an example of media lies getting out of hand, which was more true of the smear campaign waged by the major outlets. Finally, mercury news had enough of being tapped for defending Webb and they turned on him as well. The editor, Jerry Seppos, who had previously been defending Webb, decided to publish a letter in the paper admitting, quote, mistakes in Gary Webb's series. And he informed Webb that the letter was going to be published, but he was all but admitting that he was doing so just to get the attacks against mercury news to stop. Now the attacks on Webb continued, but he no longer had the support of the paper he published his stories in. In 1997, mercury news even ran a story titled, CIA clears itself in crack investigation. Oh geez, that's a shocker. So Webb resigned from the paper and his resignation was presented by the media as essentially proof of his guilt and having fabricated the story. I mean, it's just absurd that people were buying this. So the next year, two different internal investigations, one by the CIA and one by the Department of Justice would actually vindicate Webb's story, but it would hardly matter by then. In fact, when these investigations were completed, new documents were declassified that showed that Gary Webb was actually understating the level of involvement the CIA had in cocaine smuggling because they showed that both the CIA and DEA were protecting smugglers from arrest, which was something that he did not include in his original story. That is where I'm gonna close this episode today on the crack epidemic. 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IMAGIN Thank you for keeping us company. If you just tuned in, this is Y254 Discussion Monday tonight, we'll be looking at the political drum beats that have been ongoing only three years to go and we have our politicians here and they are trying to drum up support and the question is, should we be having politics at such a time? I'm speaking to Ngunjiri Kajuki, he's a political analyst. How are you Ngunjiri? Thank you very much for having me tonight. You're welcome. Yes, we have had a long weekend and of course, traversing three counties, or is it four counties, that is Nairobi, Vika Moranga, Amtu Kirinyaga. Alright, in these four counties that you are traversing with it, are they political issues or something personal? Of course, we have what we call public opinion on the ground. This is basically what people feel and the attitudes that the citizens have towards the government. Alright. Now we have only three years to go. We had the general election in 2017. Those who won won. But now we have groups of people moving around, politicking and our president has been very undermined. Let's work. Tems for politics will come. But that has not been happening. You should be having this. What we have been having is basically two groups, that is the Kieliweke and the Tangatanga. The Kieliweke Trim is a team that claims to be the mouthpiece of His Excellency Uhuru Mikaike Nyata, where the case is otherwise, the president has not given anybody a job to be his spokesperson. On the other hand, we have the Tangatanga team, which is drumming up support for the deputy president, William Samoe Luto. In that case, then perception has it that these guys are campaigning early. So let us try to dissect these two issues. That is the Kieliweke factor and the Tangatanga factor. The Tangatanga factor becomes a nuisance when we have members of parliament that are following the deputy president to each and every corner of this country. Well, it's a freedom of movement. We must be careful because they also have their constituencies. During weekends is an opportune time to meet with the electorate and go and hear their concerns, attend barriers and water views. But these MPs have defied the natural call, which is why they went and seek a mandate from the people. So I think that as long as we continue having leaders who are not going to their constituencies on weekends, perhaps what we should be talking about because the deputy president is a national figure and he's the deputy president of the Republic of Kenya. He can move to any corner as he wishes, but at least those adjutants, that is the MPs in the Tangatanga team, should go slow because the deputy president has got his team. If he's going to Muranga, for example, let the member of parliament who is the host, let the neighbouring member of parliament also come. Let the governor be there, the women representative, the senator also be there. But now when we have somebody coming all the way from Ishiro to Muranga, then that one becomes a campaign. On the other hand, the Kiheleweke team is advancing a narrative that look the deputy president is disrespecting the president while we have not had the president complaining of his deputy. So we get a Kiheleweke team that is trying to control the perception that look, if you don't do the line, then come 2022 will not grant you what you want. So the Kiheleweke team is taking advantage and capitalizing on the president's silence upon his deputy moving around and using that opportunity to advance an agenda. In a short term, I would label that Kiheleweke team as agents of deceit. On the other hand, the Tangatanga team I would label them as empty rhetoric. But now you just said the president and the deputy are together. It's only the groups, the Tangatanga Kiheleweke, the one who are bringing the perception that there is no unity. But then would you say because we have not seen that would you say the Jubilee House is divided? Remember we have a government that was elected on a Jubilee ticket. And the majority of... Yes, that comprises of the executive and it and every body that is within the executive. Then we have a party, the political party Jubilee. Remember Jubilee has never held any grassroot elections ever since it was started. We only had interim chairman, we only had interim county chairman, interim organizing secretaries. We have never had elections from the grassroot. So when I look at the architecture of the Jubilee party I can see a problem because politics of realignment as Donna J. Dalton, a political scientist who in his book Citizen Politics are somehow complex and when the citizens interest are not captured in the political alignment that get into the elections then yes the candidate that they like would in a high probability win that election but the people won't have their hearts within that party. So what is happening in Jubilee is that it is a party that has a very nice office along Kangani. It is a party that has a secretary general, is a party that has an interim chair, is a party that has not a vice chairman. I don't even know who is the chairman of Jubilee. I think he is not active at all. We don't have county representatives, we don't have constituency representatives, we don't have word representatives and on the various occasions that have spoken even within this state broadcaster I've always said that the Jubilee party hold its primaries, no not primaries but grassroot elections. Actually without these attributes Jubilee party strong enough with it last. That is where I'm coming to. Without a very nice foundation as a political party then you are bound to fail and they are unrecure and I'm happy because I saw the secretary general of Jubilee respond to such concerns when he said that they are going to start a political party academy and also hold elections. So for me as a young public intellectual I would wish to have a country that has two or very few strong political parties that are built on ideologies. So that when there will come a time perhaps when I want to seek the mandate of the people I will have certain beliefs and I will align myself to a certain political party because I believe in its traditions but the case is otherwise. Now we are just speaking of the Jubilee party but just recently actually over the weekend we saw the former CES for sports HSA now supporting Honorable Mosali Mudavati and ANC now. They are now with Kiliopa Malala the senator for Netkaramega so they are supporting now the ANC and they put it clearly we want to be there when 2022 comes in. Now the question is they have been claiming the Jubilee House is campaigning and specifically the Tanga Tanga team they have been like these people are campaigning but now they have joined the work on what should the narrative change? Let me say that of course politics is a game of interest and it is perception that works in politics facts rarely works so when you have a guy like Rashid Chesa who was a very close adjutant of the deputy president and not once he has declared his intentions to support the deputy president in 2022 when you have him they come to Mudavati ANC party then you see a situation of he comes from western you see a situation whereby the western people want to make an in-house overhaul they want to have a rejuvenation of their own community because when you look at the political traditions of the Luya people I think they are the second majority in the country but have never been united every time that we have elections ever since the days of Kijana they are always looked at as a swing vote so when I see them when I see a Chesa align himself to ANC then I see an in-house rebel but again we must speak and speak loudly to shan any empty political rhetoric that is happening in this country especially at this approach because we are three years to the next generation when I look at advanced democracies here and these are countries like the United States and do a comparative political study I get my country as a phenomenon I have never understood what happens in my country we have finished an electioneering period but people have begun to rearrange themselves again no work can happen at such environment however politicians are paid to politic but what I always and I will always be against is those empty political rhetoric let if people are going to traverse various regions of this country let them go and build a school let them go and build a laboratory let them go and build a bridge that is what you want but this is a politics of doing press conferences answering who I don't know who is answering who we are coming to our economy and we cannot wish to have a height political temperature so what I would wish to see if leaders that are given the mandate buy the people to work let them work even if they are going to they are traversing various regions of this country let them stop the 2022 narrative because I can assure you the people on the ground are bitter what they want to see is development and they want of course they already know who fits the bill and who will not even be a multiple choice for them so what we want now as a country is development and development nothing else now as a political analyst so the opposition one of the opposition leaders that is Kalonzo Musioka joining with Gideon Moi and now it's like they want to work together he has his party Gideon has Kano now are we seeing a unity between Kano and Waipa okay in politics anything is possible because we normally say that there are no permanent enemies in politics and who could be the flag bearer look at it this way I saw Gideon Moi yesterday was invited a link in Ukambana and that is a signal and as you have seen when the handshake happened in March in March between the president and Reilo Dinga yes there was something called the building bridges initiatives and a mofa's group that has no provision in the constitution yes we agreed as a country to affirm peace and uphold peace but this building bridges initiative group already has an answer we wanted to achieve which is like you will see the means let me now say the end will justify the means will justify the end they want a referendum and in this referendum they have already given themselves an interior of what will happen and already I know in their minds you should know who can be the prime minister who are the two deputy prime ministers and who are the others in the top cream of that leadership when you had Kalonzo Musioka during his father's Bahariwe Dink lament that nitaku wa mutu wa mukono wa huru kenyata that was a signal that we will do this and by view of the handshake is that it has always been good but one thing that people have maybe not taken into account is that Reilo Dinga is a smart politician and what he did was what we call a cost benefit analysis but yes I will agree to join you and I will agree to meet my political activities but at the end of it I will have something an open check so already they know that uhuru kenyata is the only person the president is the only person who holds their political future on his palm because if he decides to support the referendum and as the political spokesperson of the Mount Kenya region then chances are that perception in the Mount Kenya region will shift to that direction so Kalonzo has seen a leeway that if uhuru supports the referendum and in the guise of inclusivity then it is going to be a deal done and in that case the deputy president who depends on the Mount Kenya region will have been fixed so I know there is already planning and politicians will never sleep I know they always think about their political future so when you see someone like Gideon Moi visiting Kalonzo Musioka this is a gesture that the two of them could be in for a coalition and especially what is being talked as a change of the governance system would would be a reality now at this point would you say because it has been denied time and again since its inception would you say the handshake was a sabotage to one of the politicians the handshake was not a sabotage to one of the politician the handshake was a pact we will be remembered by generations to come that two antagonising sides can shelve their political interest and join together for the sake of this country but they shelve their interest anyway because we are seeing them trying to contest in other means I'm saying you asked me whether it was a sabotage so I'm saying of course in between there are people who have affected interests and as you can see the referendum issue it is not a miracle that now His Excellency Uhuru Mugai Kenyatta is a good person to the Nasa people is not a miracle so they have what they want to advance and this is a political card setting of 2022 what has changed is the president whom they competed with and ask yourself and I even invite Kenyans to ask themselves why would they be opposed to the deputy president and yet play down to the president is all about political interests the president had good intentions when he shook hands with the eternal brother Odinga so we are going to experience interesting times ahead again before I forget yesterday something happened in my county Muranga county in a church in Kandara constituency whereby a member of the Kiereweke team got a hostile ground in a church first of all let us not break this is a holy place this is a place where we are supposed to go and worship and go on our knees before our maker we are not supposed to go and do any kind of chaos but the politicians claim it is the only time they could have a moment with their electorates and remember the church has a position because the church is the moral compass of any society they must fit in the rightful place in the society so the church must not allow leaders that are sparking divisions among a peaceful people a podium they must not be given a podium if somebody is given a microphone and they start digressing division and politics of hate and empty political rhetoric let them be stopped and I'm happy but not to support huliganism I'm happy that we have seen on several occasions certain leaders being stopped from speaking because those are politics of division as we come to an end I view for the referendum and do support the ongoing politics wow am I for the referendum what I can be able to say at least for this moment is that a referendum could be inevitable at the backdrop of the circumstances that our economy is going through of course there are discussions of reducing the number of members of the agast house there is also a discussion of reducing the wage bill that could be the discourse that I as Kayuki Ngonjiri would want to be involved in because in a way is a discourse that credits Wanjiko any other discussion that seeks to create positions for people I would not be in for that so what I would advise yes we are talking of inclusivity and there is that discourse of the expansion of the executive but is it only the expansion of the executive that would cure the problems that have been dealing in our country no let me give you an example and this is a problem that has been tested some years ago I think over a century ago is it not a century over half a century ago in the current day Germany there was a country then known as the Weemer Republic whereby power was concentrated at the center and there was no checks and balances the Nazis were given all the powers by the people and the fruition of that was the fall of the Weemer Republic that is in the wake of the end of the Second World War so let us not have a situation whereby we have very strong powerhouse at the top and then centrifugo forces of power are concentrated at the same center because in a way when a prime minister is in government and when we have a president then that one means that is one government again we don't want to have a situation whereby a representative of the people comes from parliament because in such a case mostly even in advanced democracies the president is in charge of the foreign policy and the prime minister is in charge of the domestic policy so we want direct representation if it is inclusivity we have positions of cabinet secretaries let us not satisfy an ego of few people and sacrifice the future of our country if we don't sacrifice for our country we shall be the sacrifice alright thank you so much for your sentiments and many thanks Bakum for keeping us company he has been my guest Karyuki Gonjiri and now coming up next is why Masha Riki ICDD TSK is very much ready so keep it Y244 have yourself a good night my name is Dereva Hilewi


There is going to be an enormously important caucus here in Idaho. The caucuses begin at 5 p.m. Pacific time, 6 p.m. Mountain time. And here is the story. First of all, I think it would be just extraordinary for this country if what is perceived to be a conservative state like Idaho stood up and said, we are part of the political revolution. Now, my own state of Vermont is not a conservative state. I got 86% of the vote in our primary. But if we could win here in Idaho, it would send a message throughout this country that even in conservative states, people are prepared to stand up, take on the billionaire class.