Fantastic. Hello, I'm Colin McFadden. I'm from the University of Minnesota. I came across the river. I'm specifically with our College of Liberal Arts, and I'm going to be talking about a new tool we've created in the sort of digital asset management, visual resource management, learning object management space that gets very blurry. I think we're trying to challenge some of the assumptions that we've seen in other tools in this space, and we think it's pretty cool, and we want to share it with other folks. I'm going to start out by talking a little bit about how we got to the point that we're at today. I'm going to talk a little bit about what we think makes our new tool a little different, and then I'm going to talk about what I'm doing at a Moodle conference, talking about a digital asset management tool. First off, how do we get here? Ten-ish years ago, people in our art history department started noticing that there weren't as many slide projectors in classrooms as there used to be, and they had an awful lot of slides, hundreds of thousands of slides, and so we needed a way to get those into the digital space so they could continue to be used in presentations and then increasingly in online classes. I would suspect that we're not unique in the case that the initial solution of this was FileMaker. This was our first tool. It's called the Digital Content Library, and it grew very organically to meet this need for getting, initially, these actual physical slides online in a digital format. Over time, other departments started to have similar needs, so we added content from the School of Music, our College of Design, the Weissman Art Institute that's right next door here, and we've got this sort of organically grown collection of content. We eventually added some support for media formats like video and audio, and it's grown to hundreds of thousands of assets and many terabytes of content. Still based on FileMaker. It grew a web front end at one point and then lots of scripts in between to make all those bits talk together, and it's a highly curated collection. As you can see, there's a ton of metadata here, and this is actually all entered by professional curators, people with library science degrees who are spending their time adding assets to this collection. How is this used? We see a few different use cases for this tool as it exists today. The first one I'm calling an archive case, which is I have some content, and I want to make sure it doesn't go away, but I don't really know what I'm going to do with it, and so it's sort of this write once, read never approach. I want to put it somewhere and know it exists, but I don't have a plan for using it in the immediate sense. The next is at the other end of the scale, this content hosting model, which is I have some content that I need to use in my class next week. I have a stack of slides or some VHS tapes or some digital files from a digital camera that I need to get online so my students can see it next week, and that's very much all I need is a link to my content. I don't really care about discovery and all that other stuff. The next use case is discovery, and that is people coming in and actually searching our collection, just like they would search Google or any of the awesome resources that come out of our libraries, and that's really leveraging all that rich metadata to come in and search for a specific artist or a location or a material that a piece of art might be made of. And then the final one is this idea of understanding the context, the relationship between all the objects we've got, and being able to start at one place and end up somewhere different, sort of how you do on Wikipedia. That's one we don't do very well right now. This tool has some real limitations, though. As I said, it's intensively curated, which is awesome for metadata but bad if you have 100,000 assets that you need to put online by next week because we have limited number of people and entering all that metadata takes a ton of time. And so that becomes a real roadblock, especially because our workload tends to be very variable. Right now, semester is about to start, things are going to go crazy, and it's hard to serve all the needs that we need to serve. The next real issue we see is this fixed file format support. I said we added audio and video at one point. I was around for that transition. It was not a happy time. And none of us really want to ever have to add new file formats to this tool again because it wasn't designed with that in mind. It was designed for slides. And then we sort of glommed in these other things. And no one wants to touch it because no one really understands how it works anymore. And then finally, really expensive scaling. All this stuff is still running on hardware that lives in a data center across the river. And so when we want to add storage, that means like adding hard disks. And those are like data center hard disks, which are the expensive kind. And so it creates real issues for scaling because it comes in these big chunks and we can't sort of scale organically. So we did go out and look at the market because I'm really aware that in education, the answer of, we'll just build it ourselves. It's almost always the wrong answer. And so I'm fully aware of that. So we looked at a bunch of tools. We looked at things that come out of the commercial world, like CatDV, which is really a digital asset management tool. And we looked at more traditional tools like DSpace and Resource Space. And then we looked at stuff on the learning object side, like Aquela. And what we saw is none of them really met our vision for where we see the use of digital assets going on campus. You know, the commercial tools don't really think in the same way we do in terms of access control and having some things be fair use, you know, free to everyone and some stuff be locked down. And they didn't quite meet the bill. And some of the tools on the Aquela side, Aquela is Aquela, they can be pretty painful for users to use. And they don't really encourage the discovery and the fun that comes with some of our assets. So we decided to build our own. The new tool is called Elevator. And very briefly, Elevator is an open source tool. It's up on GitHub. We are really excited about getting some partners who want to collaborate really actively on this. It is cloud based. This is how we deal with those scaling costs. It all runs on Amazon's AWS web services. So we're using EC2 and S3 and all the wonderful things that Amazon provides, which means that we can scale nice and linearly. And it's very easy and very granular for us to grow the tool. It's metadata agnostic. What does that mean? Elevator doesn't have any core metadata. It's not Dublin core. It's not VRA core. It's whatever you want. And it can have many different metadata schemas so that you can pick and design the metadata schema that works for describing the types of objects that you're working with. So if you're working with art history objects, you might work with something like Dublin core or VRA core. But if you're going to catalog all of the trees on campus, you might want to create a different type of metadata schema. And so our tool is really designed around the idea that you build metadata schemas, you change them over time, and they become these templates for describing objects that are really specific to the types of objects you're describing. And finally, we support any file format. And the idea here is that I don't know what the landscape of technology is going to look like in five years or in 10 years. And so we built the tool from the beginning with the assumption that we would be adding support over time as technology develops. And so that's a core design feature. I want to talk a little bit about how Elevator works without getting into the techie side of things. And so I just want to take you through what the different components are, how they stack up. And so the very first thing in Elevator is something called an instance. And that's like a domain, a website. So Elevator.umm.edu or whatever. And that's going to take you to a custom website with its own design and its own look and feel and a collection of content that might be our history content or School of Music content. Next, we have these metadata templates. Each of these instances has whatever templates make sense for their objects. And so the School of Music has decided on a very different type of schema from, for example, the medical school. On top of that, we have permissions. Because we understand that sometimes we want our content available to everyone. And, you know, obviously that's, that's amazing when we can do that. But sometimes we want things restricted to just a course or just a unit or just a specific person. And we want to control, say, you know, undergrads can come in and view content, but maybe we don't want them to download content. Or maybe we want some people to be able to edit content and others to be able to just go in and pick and choose and, you know, curate little collections of content. On top of that, we build collections, which are like folders where you can group content together to share with a course or something like that. And then finally, we have more permissions. So we can say this collection is available to everyone or this collection is available to no one. And our assets live on top of that. So what does it mean? Oh, one more slide. The other cool thing we can do, I said originally our tool grouped together all of our content into one big bucket, which meant school of music content was mixed in with art history content and design content. And that tends to not be that useful because rarely are you coming in saying I need this, you know, painting and, oh, look, an opera recording. You know, that kind of organic discovery isn't usually helpful. It's actually detrimental. And so we design the system so that we can really easily split these apart. And the whole system behind the scenes doesn't really care. We can have 100 of these running without any additional system load. They're just different pointers, basically. And so the idea is we can really break up these sites for our different users. So what does it mean when I say that we are metadata agnostic? I'll take you back to our existing tool in FileMaker. We've got all these fields and this is really awesome. It's great to have all this metadata for this type of content. But when you think about that sort of content hosting model, if someone brings you 100 images they need online for next week, really the only thing they care about is maybe the title and then the digital asset. And all the effort you're putting into adding that other stuff, that's not effort that's being really, you're not really seeing a benefit from that any time in the foreseeable future because that person has put that content up to use in a very specific way. So with Elevator we've designed a system where we can create a metadata template that just has a title field and a file field. Or we can create a metadata template that has a folio field and a page number field and a material field and all these amazing things that we catalog content based on. And we can also have really smart metadata that understands things like location. And so if you want to have a location metadata field we're going to give you a map and you can geocode an address and drag and drop a pin. We've really smart date fields that understand the relationships between objects and time so that we can let you navigate your content with a timeline and you can say, you know, how does this object relate to this object temporally or spatially. And so we've really tried to make metadata a smart part of this curation process but also make sure that it's not getting in the way of the user. Because anytime a user sees a hundred fields and thinks, I don't have the time to fill out a hundred fields, I'm just going to put this on my Google Drive account. That's content that we're losing access to that we're not keeping under curation and that's a problem. The other big thing we're doing with Elevator is trying to challenge this idea of file format support. Anytime a user sees a dialog box like that where we're saying we're not going to accept your file, I think that that's really problematic because that's again a file that's going to go up on Google Drive or Dropbox or a USB disk sitting on a shelf and that's content that's not being backed up and that's content that's at risk. And so with Elevator what we did is we said we're going to take any file. If you upload a file, even if we don't know what it is, we're still going to store it for you and you can get back to it anytime, you can download it again. But then we wanted to build in support for adding really interesting ways to work with files as well. And I want to give you an example of how that's played out in production so far. So maybe six months ago some users were doing some beta testing for us and they started uploading files in the OBJ format, which is a 3D object format. What they were doing was they were doing something called photogrammetry where you have an object, you can take lots of photos around it and you create a 3D model. And it's a really beautiful 3D model. It's got a texture and it's really cool. And so they were uploading these. And Elevator, of course, it didn't know what they were but it wasn't rejecting them. It was saying that's fine, I'll store it, you can download it again, no problem. But they sent us an email and said, hey is there anything cool we can do with these OBJ files? And because of the amazing open source world around web technology, people had already created web viewers for these formats and there's tools like Blender for making thumbnails out of these images and all that kind of stuff. And so within about something like four hours we went from OBJ not being supported to having an interactive 3D viewer as part of Elevator, where you can go in, see one of these objects, you can grab it and spin it around, you can measure it, you can change the lighting on it. And suddenly that's a rich part of the tool. And because we were accepting all those files already, we were able to retroactively add that support to all the files the users had already uploaded. And we've seen this again and again because once you say, hey we can do cool things with lots of file formats, suddenly these come out of the weeds, all these very niche file formats that are created in specific disciplines created by for example MRI machines. I didn't know what file format MRI machines created until fairly recently but it turns out they create a format and it's pretty cool. Some of the other cool things we can do once we're having really flexible file format support is we can say, well you uploaded an OBJ file but what if we automatically convert that into an STL file? And I'm sure STL is kind of a weird format for most of you but I will say that is the format used by most 3D printers. And so now we've got this workflow where a user somewhere can photograph an object, make a 3D model of it, upload it to Elevator. Another user can come in, search, find this object, play with it, download an STL of it and print out a 3D copy of it and then hold it in their hand and look at it. And that's kind of magic. So that's kind of what we're trying to go with this tool is we really want to understand the new ways in which people are going to be using technology, not just for images and audio and video but really to start to push the boundaries of, my microphone went away. That is sad. Okay. Hello. Anyone? Anyone? Okay. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. It's all come back. I was too squeaky and it went away. That is my, that is my life. So that is what we're doing with file format support. We really want to understand not just where our users are at today but where they're going in the future and we want to be ready to grow with them. Another thing we can do in this maintaining connections category that I talked about, this idea of context is that we can understand the relationship between different file types. And so this is a test asset but this is a orchestra recording from our school of music where they have uploaded not just the recordings of the individual performances but they've uploaded the PDFs of the program from the event and elevator went in and scraped all the text out of the PDF and made that searchable. And so now if someone comes in and searches for a specific performer they're going to get to the record of the music being played without anyone having to go in and type in all that metadata and you can actually also go and interact with the PDF right within the browser as well. And so we're trying to understand how we can relate together different types of assets, understanding that a lot of times our users are creating content across many different formats but it all is related together under one project umbrella. So Elevator is a destination, it's a website, people can come, they can search and browse, they can see the assets with all kinds of metadata display, they can interact, they can download. We've got things like a more like this button which will use the knowledge we have of our assets to say hey here's some other pieces of art by the same artist or here's some other films that were shot at the same location or that have the same actor and so we can start to understand those relationships between objects but Elevator is also a repository in the Moodle sense and so we have a Moodle plugin that basically does everything you can do as a consumer through the Elevator website, you can do through Moodle directly and so you can go in and search and browse and you can click and add content to your Moodle site and this works through the image picker that's attached to any of the sort of whizzy wig text entry boxes but it's not just images that you're adding, you can add 3D objects in this way and videos and word documents and they stay fully interactive within your Moodle site and so this becomes a way to bring all of that rich interactive content into a Moodle lesson for example anywhere that you have that image picker box basically and you can now begin to add any of this content all on one page without your users ever having to leave your Moodle site and really importantly without your faculty area your instructional designers ever having to go and cut and paste links that then break when you upgrade a system or something like that and so there's this really tight coupling going on behind the scenes and from the user's perspective it's just this magical collection of content that lives within Moodle and then they can access and as an added benefit for our infrastructure people there's not files being copied back and forth this is all seamless behind the scenes but there's not an extra demand on our Moodle site to store all these assets. One of the other cool things is that it's not just media and so if you go to add a SCORM package our plugin says hey I know that you're trying to add a SCORM package I'm going to just show you your SCORM objects and now we're going to let Moodle download those SCORM objects and unpack them and run them right within the Moodle interface and so it becomes a way to store things like SCORM bundles as well within the elevator system but then use them seamlessly within the Moodle interface and so we really think that we can be a fairly flexible repository that can meet the needs of our users who don't want to jump into the rich metadata curation space and to meet the needs of our users who are really interested in building these rich collections that are going to have a long lifespan and might be syndicated elsewhere. So that is what I've got to talk about. We've got a website at elevatorapp.net where you can learn more. We've got a Google group you can join and we have our code up on GitHub. We're still sort of doing our convergence right now on what our final shipping code is but you can take a look at that as well and we'd love to talk to other institutions that are interested in either checking it out we can set you up with a demo site or we'd love to find some people who really want to partner for active open source development as well. So thank you and any questions I will take them. Oh, I saw the microphone. So Colin is one of your pilot sites. Thank you for an amazing app. This is really an exciting tool. So at the medical school we're doing his daikon images radiology x-ray. We're very serious about putting other assets we don't have homes for. So one of the things I was going to ask you just to talk a little bit about is if we got serious about using your metadata to flexibly annotate our video would there be management tools and if we went from a hundred videos to let's say terabytes of video that we might be able to track the load on the system and make sure that we're staying ahead of that or does Amazon web services just dynamically handle that. Yeah that's one of the really cool things about being on a cloud platform is that you know I always keep reminding myself when I start thinking boy this is getting really complicated this is like computationally intensive and then I think you know what Netflix runs on Amazon as well and if Amazon can handle Netflix I think they can handle the University of Minnesota's little software project and so things like the storage back end S3 is really designed with that in mind and so it doesn't really care if you're streaming 100 videos or 100,000 videos or 10 million videos it's designed in a very smart way to scale like that. So since you're running this in somebody else's computer in the cloud what does this cost monthly, annually whatever? So the real driver of cost is just the storage demand so the compute is $30 a month or something like that for the actual web server side and then the primary ongoing cost is the storage with S3 which works out to about a penny a gigabyte a month and so for us it's a couple hundred dollars a month and compared to what it was costing us to run physical machines plus the FTE of someone walking over to swap tapes in a data center for example it's basically an order of magnitude reduction from our existing system of the same scale and the cool thing about these cloud platforms is that the cost curve gets cheaper the more you add so and basically every six months as well Amazon cuts their prices in half which is pretty awesome. I was wondering if it's tied just to Amazon or it gives a different cloud or your own? Yeah we've tried to walk a line on that because Amazon you know they're very tempting because they have all these amazing services and it's very tempting to go fully in and we've tried to walk the line of using them smartly and so our biggest dependency in terms of what would take effort moving away is that storage side of things the S3 where you'd have to change some of the code to use Azure or to use some of the other cloud platforms but beyond that the web app itself is a fairly standard lamp stack we're using Postgres we were using MongoDB and we've just moved over to Postgres for NoSQL stuff and then we use a few other Amazon components said to be easy to swap out but most of it's all in house run by us just on EC2 so pretty easy to move. I'm going to cheat and ask a question Colin just have you ever seen tools Omega and there's some tools built on it one's called create escape do you does this have a narrative or a creation to create narratives on top of it structure tool? So that is the space that I'm probably most excited about and I really right now I'm seeing elevator as a tool to power some of those things and so we've been working with some other people on campus because elevator has a full API to do some links where elevator can help drive some of those experiences because I think our interface for managing content is stronger but I didn't want to try and cover all of that within one tool right now and so I'm really excited I mean that's a space where we've got some users who are working with things like Oculus Rift to do interactive 3D environments for that narrative experience we've got some users using the leap motion for things you can touch so it's a really cool space and I want elevator to be the behind the scenes component.


We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These words from the Declaration of Independence are familiar to many of us, and yet it took 143 years for women to get the right to vote and 189 years for Black people to get the right to vote. And still today, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are still only words for many people. Here in Boston, life expectancy varies by 30 years depending on where you live. In Roxbury, with many poor and Black people, life expectancy is 59 years. In the back bay, wealthy and mostly white life expectancy is 91 years. It's tough to have liberty when you are in prison. The United States incarcerates 716 people for every 100,000 people. Our rate of incarceration is more than five times higher than most countries in the world. Millions of people in our country don't have health care, a decent job, good education, a home they can afford, and that makes it pretty hard to pursue happiness.  People today who are making the words of the Declaration of Independence come true. Hello. My name is Michael Jacoby Brown. I'm the host of We Hold These Truths, and we're very lucky to have today our guest, Jose Palma, the Massachusetts TPS Committee Coordinator. Jose, welcome. Jose was born in El Salvador, and I wonder if you can tell us a little bit what it was like growing up there and how you came to Massachusetts. Yeah. Thank you, Michael. As always, nice to see you, and nice to see everyone who's going to be watching the video. I grew up in El Salvador. I was born in 1976. Right after I was born in 1980, El Salvador went into a big civil war where my parents who were farmers and were working and know how to work the land were pretty much forced to move from the countryside and move to the city. So I grew up in a city called Usulutan. Growing up there as a refugee is pretty much my parents lost everything starting from scratch. And life was rough, but I think and after my age at this time, I start to believe that sometimes life is training you for what's coming forward. And that's the way I take it. I think it was rough. It was a little bit difficult for some times, but here we are enjoying life with my beautiful kids and what can I say more than that was a training for what was coming. Right. Could you describe how what it was like coming here and how you decided to make the journey and what that was like for you? Yeah, it's a combination.  She got a visa like maybe like four years ago. We didn't see each other for a period of time of like 14 years. Then we saw each other and then you know she was able to get a visa. So how was growing up in El Salvador? For example, we used to play just counting the airplanes and dreaming with that opportunity that one day to you know fly in an airplane and you know as close as we can be was just seeing them flying by and counting them playing as a kid like who can see more airplanes. And also growing up in El Salvador during the Civil War where the United States has a lot of influence in what was happening.  Yeah, you know like people in El Salvador speak Spanish, but we were listening English music and then you know like receiving also all the time hearing that the United States is that great country where if you can make it, you know you will have an opportunity to you know achieve your dreams and education and different things. So there is a moment when I was growing up that I was like I am 22 years old. If I haven't been able to go to college and if I haven't been able to achieve higher education, how will my three little sister will be able to do it? So and then not seeing any opportunity in El Salvador you know and hearing so much about the United States, I took the decision and I said I will try it and you know the first question many people ask is like why you didn't come with visa for example. But then when you start explaining the process that in order to get a visa if you are let's say from El Salvador you pretty much need to be a millionaire.  So I didn't have any other choice but more than just you know coming as many other people come undocumented and doing what anybody around the world will do. Trying to get to that place where you are willing to work hard and hoping that you will achieve your dream. So I decided to take that risk. I crossed Guatemala and then Mexico and then I made it to the United States. It sounds like a three steps easy but there is a lot going on and in between that you know I can go on and on and on for sure but there are experiences that sometimes marks your life. For example one of them is that when we were crossing part of Mexico we were told you know you are coming you hire a coyote and the coyote usually tell you don't worry about it the trip is gonna be easy. We're gonna you know we're gonna go in buses and in some part of depending where we are we may go in you know in an airplane things like that but they don't tell you the difficult part. For example when when we were crossing one part of Mexico I remember like you know it was like midnight they say we're gonna go into that tank and that was like a big tank where I usually explain and that is like this the tanks where people transport gasoline you just see the big tanks running around so I remember that night they said like about midnight they say you guys gonna go inside that tank and we're talking about 125 people fitting within that tank. We went in and they said it's gonna be a short ride yeah that short ride ended up being 22 hours so 22 hours 22 hours with everything about midnight like pretty much people telling you like grab four bottles of water no food no nothing and good luck we will see you on the other side so you know experiences like that is what sometimes make you feel like oh man I'm so lucky that I'm still alive like you know you see on the news or so many people dying and trying different and then there are some other experiences that I can you know I can probably share too and you said you were in the desert in Arizona locked for a while yeah yeah that was another another also another difficult part of the trip that there are some part like especially in my case I I came into the United States crossing the the desert so I remember I I don't know I think you know like I think if I were to be forced to go back to El Salvador and had that opportunity to try it again I probably won't do it I won't do it because it's like it was so hard yeah so when we were ready to cross the border we were in Mexico Coyote said we're gonna walk like 10 hours and we're gonna go to the other side somebody's gonna be waiting for you guys you guys gonna go in a minivan and you guys gonna go to Phoenix Arizona so we start walking 10 hours the middle of the night walking the desert without even like you don't know where you are you just pretty much following the lead so that day we were able to cross the border and we went to the highway ready to be pick up and then a minute a minivan came we went on and the minivan broke down oh man now we have to go back to the desert and wait for another one to come to pick us up so what happened is that never came back and after like two or three days some of us were like especially one of my friend who was traveling with me he was like I'm not dying here I don't care I'm gonna walk to the highway and if I get arrested I don't care I just don't want to die here so um and because this is one of my friends who actually decided to take the trip because he knew I was coming in that trip so I said like I said to myself you know like why would I let him to go alone if something happened eventually his family is gonna be asking me like Jose what happened with my you know my son with my brother and then so we decided to go to the highway and somebody offered us rye and it was an old lady driving a pickup truck and offered us rye so we were unable to go on the car and then drive to Tucson Arizona and then I remember we we got to Tucson Arizona and then the woman was talking to us in English but we didn't speak English I I knew a few words like you know very basic table chair things like that the words that you learn in El Salvador right I was bad at studying anyway in that class teacher was coming here and I was going out the other one thinking like when I would use English I don't need to learn but that day uh I you know I I hoped I knew a little bit more because the woman looked like she wanted to help us but we couldn't understand so she ended up just saying like pretty much like jump off my car and she continued her role and you know we by that time we were like maybe two three days that we haven't eaten just drinking some dirty water from the you know the desert and that we were competing with some cows like who's going to drink that water that day so it was it was hard it was hard so eventually um you know we saw an immigration officer and my friend was like hey there is an immigration office let's go when many other people will run away we actually went to him and say hey can you arrest us we really want to go back to El Salvador it has been so hard that we want to go back so um you know the officer actually was very friendly and and everything and took us to the detention center we ended up in detain in uh Florida in Arizona I spent like 27 days there um after the 27 days I I was advised that I was and you know one of those people that can apply for political asylum and that's how I ended up applying for political asylum and being released and came to Massachusetts actually I came in June 1998 so 23 years ago 23 years ago you were out there in Boston and what and what were you doing then I know now you're the leader of the Massachusetts temporary protective status committee but what was it like when you first came here now that you know like I I always share that I I feel proud of what I have achieved and also about the opportunities and and friends and relationship I have I have gained during my 23 years here I came with a plastic bag with a bunch of paper immigration papers that those are pretty much just telling you when you have to go back to court and probably eventually get deported so when I came I actually my plan was come here for work hard for two years and go back you know like most of the time if you were to ask to an immigrant uh let's say from El Salvador I always say El Salvador because it's where I where I am from and in the community I really know um people will say I am coming here for two years I will work hard get enough money to buy a house maybe a car and then I'm gonna go back no one wants to stay for too long but eventually you get into this trap of like you never make any money because things are so expensive and everything that you ended up here and you know things start getting a little you know taking a different way but when I came I I have done different type of jobs I have done pretty much everything I at the beginning I worked in the construction then I work and I was doing maintenance then I was cleaning buildings in Boston I I have been a truck driver like doing milk delivery delivering all over the place in Massachusetts New Hampshire um I have been also at the same time as I was raising my family of four uh kids born here uh I also have been taking classes um and so that taking classes learning English you know I finish it in a social degree of but illegal dreaming about continuing my education and everything that's how you know like maybe I bought a house in 2006 then we lost it with the whole thing about the economy we lost like maybe like $30,000 there but we bought another house this time this time around a single family home which is a little more safe in a way um so I have my house I have my kids and kids are going to college and everything um and through my education also I have learned and eventually got involved in the community organizing when it comes to community organizing jobs I have done you know organizing to pass the dream act which many people say now DACA that easy but it wasn't that easy uh we want DACA based on organizing and rallying and doing different activities then I have been also lucky enough to help people to apply for documentation funny enough I don't qualify but I have been able to help people to apply for citizenship permanent residency and everything um I have been also I was a political director for three years I actually was part of the political director team for people's action where we were interviewing former candidate Hillary Clinton uh Bernie Sander and all those candidates and then supporting some different issues here in Massachusetts like when we won um earned sick time I was coordinating 37 cities up in the North Shore area uh when we won so many people say nowadays like oh we have earned sick time we raised minimum wage but there is so much of work that we have done and I feel proud of being part of those uh teams but lately I have been kind of like fighting my own fight since in 2001 I was able to get TPS temporary protective status which is an immigration status that it gives you the opportunity to get a work authorization social security driver license but it doesn't give you the opportunity to move forward and apply for permanent residency but that immigration status is actually the key for all the things that I have been able to achieve in a way because I have been able to apply for the job you know take classes but you can't apply for permanent residency but I can't over 20 years you have to every year or so you have to pay how much $400 or more to renew when it has been $485 get fingerprinted to make sure you background checks and cleanest life of anybody in this country that said if you if you commit two misdemeanor you lose TPS and therefore you can get into deportation procedure so TPS has been protecting me since 2001 20 years about 20 years and that was the difficult part when the Trump administration came in power one of the programs he was targeting was TPS and he was pretty much saying you guys have six months prepare your things and go back to your country and that was you know his intention but we kind of like resist and instead of like packing we got organized right after 20 years owning a house having four children being a homeowner like you know most uh I mean most probably aren't homeowners but are working here paying taxes paying the annual $480 fee yeah and how will you pack when your kids don't even know the country you come from you know born here they were all born here like and and and TPS doesn't also also doesn't allow you to travel abroad like you are allowed to live here but you cannot go back to even to your countries and if you want to travel to your country you have to apply for a permit and that costs $360 so it's like asking the US government to allow you to travel to your country and be able to come back and that costs you $360 so if like let's say my wife and I we apply once to go to El Salvador just the permit to be able to travel and come back more than $700 plus if you pay somebody who you know who does your application and everything people are spending more than $1000 just for the permit to travel and then you you know you add everything else but um so in 2017 the Trump administration tried to uh take our TPS but I think many of us have done different things and we have learned different things that we decided to get organized I actually helped to start a group here in Massachusetts and and also I helped to to build something at the national level actually in 2019 I was able to get one year of my regular job to be the national coordinator to lead this effort that now we can say we feel proud of the work because we not only survive the Trump administration intention of kicking us out I mean we are about 400,000 families you know like how can you do that things things like that when people are not asking for anything more than just allow people to continue living here so we were able to survive by using the courts like we saw we saw the government for the way the Trump administration was canceling TPS and then we organized and worked with legislators to to move legislations like HR6 the the Dream and Promise Act which I feel proud to say that at the beginning a stage of that of that legislation is the one I testify in Congress and kind of like justifying why they should they should pass a legislation to provide permanent residency instead of you know kind of like cutting short our dreams and trying to kick us out so now I think we were able to survive the Trump administration through different organizing tools but then you know we and now we continue talking with the Biden administration and the Democratic Party and pretty much pretty much telling them we don't want to continue being protected by TPS we want permanent residency I think we have earned it through everything we have done after over 20 years all your children are here your families here you own a home been paying taxes and everything else for over 20 years so where does it stand right now in terms of being able to become a permanent resident is like if somebody were to ask me right now when will you become permanent residency I don't know I think opportunities to start opening in different ways like for example one probably opportunity in my case will be when my one of my kids turn 21 which is going to happen next year there is pro that there is the possibility that will open one window to do a family petition and eventually my wife and I which are the only two TPS then everyone else well we have my nephew who is not a US citizen he's actually already qualified for permanent residency but the rest of the family US citizen and my wife and I who are they like the one bringing the money to pay the bills are the one at risk of you know like losing our immigration status but if I if I were to say by when maybe through a family petition I will have the opportunity next year but then for everyone else who for the family that don't have kids or are not married with a US citizen or there is no other opportunity people don't know kids are younger you know kids are younger or they don't have kids in some cases pretty much what we know is that for right now we are protected until October 4th if nothing let's say nothing were to happen between now and October 4th but by October 4th people will lose their immigration status that's of this year 2021 yeah 2021 so that's a little bit of disappointment even with the new administration that even with the new administration they came in they have been more friendly we have met with a little more often and talk about the issue actually one of my colleagues another TPS recipient was meeting with the president a few weeks ago to talk about TPA so there are conversations and there is a hope that something will happen in the next a few weeks but a month but right now what we know for sure is that October 4th is the deadline and if nothing were to happen on October 4th close to 300,000 families will be losing their immigration status yeah because all the countries have been able to get another extension but countries like El Salvador which we are close to 200,000 people from El Salvador protected with TPS people from Honduras who are more or less like 50,000 people from Honduras Nicaragua which is a smaller community but you know two or three thousand people and then Nepal with another 15 15 so what could people who are US citizens do to allow you and thousands of other TPS holders to stay in this country after 20 or more years of contributing paying taxes working raising families yeah what what do you think they could do what's your advice to them if if we see the campaign from Massachusetts I think that we need to pressure a little bit we need to pressure a little bit more the Democratic party as a whole because sometimes legislators you have some good legislators and they will try to do as much as they can but there are some other people within the Democratic party who are more conservative they don't want to take you know like the right they don't want to do the right move I think people can continue pushing the Democratic party through their own legislators especially the the federal representation I think we should be people should be pushing a little bit more the federal representation and asking them to take more leadership role within the political party if people have all the family member of friends in other states that's another way also how contacting your family member and friends for them to contact their local federal representation and if people want to get in touch with you what's the best way to do that I know you have a website yeah it would be the best way I think you go go into the website mass tps.com mass tps.com yeah that's the way to go and then they can send us you know message or email uh also on facebook we are on facebook we have a massachusetts tps community uh and facebook so they can send us emails or messages to get in contact and ask any questions and just uh we're almost out of time but for all your from all your organizing do you have any particular you know sort of short advice for people either people in this country and also from other countries about you know what they can do uh to organize themselves for whatever problems they have I mean my advice is like most of the time and this is what I said in a rally last weekend I said usually big corporations and billionaires come together and they see the problem and even if they don't get along they decide to put a few million dollars together to fight and protect their industry or their corporation and I said for for those of us that are no millionaires and are not rich we have the people so we really need to work with people we really need to get together and this is the thing sometimes we have been in the united states specifically people have been trained to one to say we don't have enough we cannot share with everyone but how can that be that the billionaires are getting are making way more money than before but poor people are getting poor no matter where you come from where you black latino asian whatever you come if you are poor you're getting poorer you're getting less money and the other thing in the united states is also always making you afraid of others others mean whatever issue they want to raise even you are afraid they want to make you afraid from terrorists if from those latinos that are coming to steal your jobs always like that because that's the way they they take advantage so I would say we need to talk about issues we need to get together and we need to organize billionaires have the money we got the people you do okay i'll say palma the massachusetts coordinator of the tps committee thanks for being here and we hope you'll stay in touch with us so i'm michael jacoby brown for talking to you today and thanks a lot for tuning in


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspeaskasebrakes.com with a multi-team R&B random number block for picker team 21 tier 1 21 Works just like our number block breaks Some of you are familiar with those you get a block of numbers redemptions all go to the zero spot Even if it's a one-of-one redemption just for those teams though now remember for tier one There may be some cards that are unnumbered in this set. They're they're usually are right. They can include autographs and relics So all unnumbered cards in this break will be collected together as one group and Randomized to one person the break So yes, if there's a non-numbered Ken Griffey junior a non-numbered Luis Robert a non-numbered Ryan Mount Castle and a Non-numbered Pudge Rodriguez all of those will be collected as one lot and randomized to one person in the break So big thanks everybody here They're all the numbers right there Let's roll it randomize it one and a four five times for names and numbers one two three four And a one fifth and final time. I guess if we pulled all those heads that'd be a good problem to have Rex down to David one and a four five times for the numbers one two three four And fifth and final time We got zero down to three Now remember zero gets any and all redemptions including one-of-one redemptions But Brian you'll still get live one-of-ones Rex has zero Chad with eight Jackson with five Brian with seven big boys 007 with nine Mac with two James with six and David with four and three Let's order those numerically And in a separate video will be the act it will be the actual tier one break itself We'll see you for that Jaspie's case breaks calm


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From San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Day2IQ. Brought to you by Day2IQ. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at Day2IQ's headquarters in downtown San Francisco. They used to be Messel Sphere, which is what you might know them as, and they've rebranded earlier this year. And they're really talking about helping enterprises in their journey to cloud native. And we're really excited to have really one of the product guys who's been here and seeing this journey and out there with the customers helping the company transform. And it's Chandler Hozington. He's the SVP of engineering and product. Chandler, great to see you. Thanks. So first off, give everyone kind of a background on the Day2IQ. I think a lot of people knew Messel Sphere, you guys have been around, making noise. What kind of changed in the marketplace to do a rebranding? Sure. Yeah, we've been obviously Messel Sphere in the past and Mesaus, I think a lot of people watching theCUBE knows about Mesaus. As we were going along our journey as a company, we noticed that a lot of people are also asking for Kubernetes help. So we've actually been working with Kubernetes since, I don't know, 2016, 2017, something like that, for a while now. And as Kubernetes ecosystem started to evolve and mature more, we also wanted to jump in and take advantage of that. And we started building some products that were specific to Kubernetes. So we thought, look, it's a little bit confusing for people, Mesaus and Kubernetes. At times, those two technologies were seen almost as competitive, even though we didn't always see it that way. The market saw it that way. So we said, look, this is gonna be confusing for our customers, being called Mesausphere. Let's rebrand around more what we really do. And we felt like what we do is not just focused around one specific technology, we felt like we help customers with more than that. More than just Mesaus support, more than just Kubernetes support. And we said, look, let's get us a name that shows what we actually do for our customers. And that's really helping them take their workloads and put them on not just a Mesaus platform, but actually take their workloads, bring them into production in an enterprise way that's really ready for day two. And that's why we called it day two. And let's unpack the day two, because I think some people are really familiar with the concept of day two. And for some people, they've probably never heard it, but it's a pretty interesting concept. And I think it packs a lot of meaning in a short number of letters. I think you can kind of just think about it if you were writing software, right? I mean, day zero is, okay, we're going to design it. We're going to start playing with some ideas. We're going to pull in some different technologies. We're going to do a POC. We're going to build our skateboard, so to say. That's kind of your day zero. What do we want? Okay, we're going to build a data analytics pipeline. We want Spark. We're going to store data in Cassandra. We're going to use Kafka to pass it around. We're going to run our containers on top of Kubernetes. That's just kind of your day zero idea. You get it working. You slap it on a cluster, things are good, right? Day one might be, okay, let's actually do a beta or put it in production in some kind of way. You start getting customers using it. But now in day two, after all that's done, you're like, wait a second, things are going wrong. Where's our monitoring? Oh, we didn't set that up. Where's our logging? Oh, I don't know. Who do we call? Our container runtime we think has a bug. Who do we call? Oh, I don't know. What support contract did we cut? So that's the things that we want to help customers with. We want to help them in the whole journey, getting to day two, but once they're there, we want them to be ready for day two. Right. And that's what we do. I love it, because one of my favorite quotes I've used it a thousand times, I'll do it a thousand one, right? Is that open source is free like a puppy. Right. Exactly. It's free when you leave. You're not writing a check necessarily to the shelter, but there's a whole lot of other checks you got to write and take care of. That's right. And I think that's such a key piece to enterprise, right? They need somebody to call when that thing breaks. Yeah, I mean, having come from an enterprise company, I was actually a customer of Mesa Sphere before I joined. Yeah, that's exactly why we are customers, is that we wanted not only that insurance policy, but someone to partner with us as we started figuring this out. Right. I mean, just picking what container runtime do I want to use with Kubernetes, that one decision could take months if you're not familiar with it and you put a couple of your best architects on it, go research container, you go research cryo, go research Docker, tell me what's the best one we should use with Kubernetes. Whereas if you're going, if you have a partnership with a company like day two, you can say, look, I trust this company, they are experts at this, and they see a lot of this. Let's go with their recommendation, it's a lot easier. Okay, so you got your whiteboard, you've got a whole bunch of open source things going on, right, and you got a whole bunch of initiatives and the pressure's coming down from on high to get going, you've got containerization and cloud data and hyper cloud and all this stuff. And then you've got some port CIO and his team been trying to figure it out. You guys have a whole plethora of services around some of these products. So as you try it, and then you got the journey, right? And you don't start from the standing start, you gotta go. So how do you map out the combination of how people progress through their journey, what are the different types of systems that they want to put in place, and to prioritize and have some type of a logical successful implementation and roll out of these things from day zero, day one, through day two. No, that's a great question. I think that's actually how we formed our product strategy is we've been doing this for a while now and we've gone on this journey with really big advanced customers like ridesharing companies and large telcos, customers like that. We've also gone on this journey with smaller, less sophisticated customers like industrial customers from the Midwest, right? And those are two very, very different customers. But what's similar is they're both going on the same journey we feel like, but they're just at different places in it. And so we wanted to build product to find the customer where they're at in that journey. And the way we see it really is just, at the very beginning it's just training, right? So we have a bunch of support and, or sorry, services around training that help you understand not just Kubernetes but the whole cloud native ecosystem. So what is all this stuff? How does it work? How does it fit together? How do I just deploy a simple app to it, right? That's the beginning of it. We also have some products in that area as well to help people scale their training across their whole organization. So that's really exciting for us. Once that customer has their training down, they're like, okay, I need a cluster now. Like I need a distro of sorts. And Kubernetes itself is great, but it needs a lot of pieces to actually get it ready for prime time. And that's where we built a product called Convoy to say, okay, here is your enterprise grade ready to go Kubernetes distro right out of the box. And that product is really, it's what you could use to just fiddle around with Kubernetes. It's also what you put into production right out of the game. That's been scale tested, security tested, mixed workload tested, everything. So that's kind of our Kubernetes distro. So you've gotten your training, you have your distro and now you're like, okay, I actually want to run some apps on it. So let me hold your, is it open core? Or there's a lot of conversation in the way those distributions get. Actually the way we built Convoy, it's a great question. The way we built Convoy said, okay, we want to pick the best of breed from each of these. Have you seen the cloud native ecosystem, kind of like pie chart or whatever it is where they have all the logos and all the different spheres? I don't think so. It's crazy. It's like thousands of logos, right? And we said, look, we're going to navigate this for you. What's the best container runtime to pick? And it's almost as if we were going to build this for ourselves using all open source technology. So Convoy is completely open source. There's some special sauce that we put in on how to bring these things together and install it, but all the actual components itself is open source.  I don't want to be tied to any specific vendor. I want to run only open source and that's what comes. Yeah, I was just thinking in terms of Hadoop as a reference, right? And you had the Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR strategies which were radically different in the way they actually packaged Hadoop under the covers. Yeah, you can think of it similar to how Cloudera approached it possibly where they had CDH and they brought in a lot of open source, but they also had a lot of proprietary components to CDH. And what we've tried to get away from is tying someone into us. I know that sounds counterintuitive from a business perspective, but we don't want customers to feel like if I go with D2IQ, I always have to go with D2IQ. I have to drink the Kool-Aid and I'm never gonna be able to get off of it. It's kind of not, doesn't really go with the open source ethos. Exactly. And it's not right for our customers. A lot of our customers want that optionality and they don't want to feel locked into any specific vendor. So when we built Convoy, we said, look, if we were to start our own company, not an infrastructure company like we are right now, but just a software company, build any kind of app, how would we approach it? And that was one of the problems we solved for us. And we don't want to feel like we're tied into any real income. Okay, so you got the training, you got the products, what's next? What's next is, if you think about the journey, you're like, okay, a lot, what we've found, and this may or may not be totally true, is one of the first things people like to run on Kubernetes is actually their builds. So CICD, and we said, how can we help with this? We looked around the market and there's a lot of great CICD products out there right now. There's GitLab, which is great, they're a partner of ours, it's a great product.  But what we wanted to do, if we were customers of our own product, is something that was native to Kubernetes. And so we started looking at projects like Tecton and Prowl, some of these projects, right? And we said, how can we do the same thing we did with Convoy, where we bring these projects together and make it easy for someone to adopt these Kubernetes native CICD tools. And we did some stuff there that we think is pretty innovative as well, and that's the product we call Dispatch. Okay, but do you got more than just products, you've got professional services? That's right, so now you need help setting all this up. How do you actually bring your legacy applications to this new platform? How do you get your legacy builds onto these new build systems? That's where our services come into play and kind of steer you through this whole journey. Lastly, what we, next in the journey though, those services complement really well with the kind of the rest of the product suite, right? And we didn't just stop with CICD. We said, what is the next type of workload we want to run here? So there we looked at things like Red Hat Operators. And we said, look, Red Hat's doing a really cool thing here with this operator framework. How can we simplify it? We've done a lot of this before with DCOS where we built what we called the DCOS SDK to help people bring advanced complex workloads onto that platform. And we saw a lot of similarities with operators to our DCOS SDK. And we said, how can we bring some of our understanding and knowledge to that world? And we built this open source product called Kudo. People are free to go check that out. And that's how we bring more advanced workloads. So if you think about the journey, back to the journey again, you got some training, you have your cluster, you put your builds on it. Now you want to run some advanced workloads. That's where Kudo comes in. Okay. And then finally, at the end of the trail is, hell, 1-800, I need help. Well, almost. At the end of the trail, there was one more. Things are still moving well. There was one more step, right? The last one, the very last one. Actually, we said, okay, what's next in this journey? And that's running multiple clusters at the same time. So that's kind of the scale. That's the end of the journey for us, for our products as it stands right now. And that's where we build a product called Commander. And that's really helping us launch and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters at the same time. So it's so great that you have the perspective of a customer and you bring that directly in to what you want.  But I'm just curious, if you put your old hat on, kind of the CIO hat, your customer, you just talked about the cake chart with Lord knows how many logos. How do you help people even just begin to think about the choices and about the crazy rapid change in what the, I mean, Kubernetes wasn't a thing four years ago, to help them stay on top of it, to help them both kind of have an eye to the vision, make sure you're delivering today and not just get completely distracted by every bright shiny object that happens to come along. Yeah, no, I think that's really challenging for the buyers. I think there's a, especially as the industry continues to mature, there's a new concept that gets thrown out all the time, service mesh or some new cool way to do monitoring or logging, right? And you almost feel like a dinosaur if you're not right on top of these things, you go to a conference and are you using BPF yet? And they're like, what is that? You didn't even feel out of the loop, right? Exactly. I think most importantly, what customers want is the ability to move their technology and their platforms as their business has the need. If the need isn't there for the business and the technology is running well, there shouldn't be a reason to move to a new platform or a new set of technologies. In fact, with DCS, with Mesa Sphere DCS, we have a lot of happy customers that aren't gonna be moving to Kubernetes even if they wanted to anytime soon. DCS does some things that Kubernetes currently doesn't do, it may never do, because the community is just not focused on it, that DCS is solving. And those customers just wanna see that we'll continue to support them in the journey that they're on with their business. And I think that's what's most important is just really understanding our customers, understanding their business, understanding where they wanna go, what are their goals, so to say, for their technology platforms and making sure we're always one step ahead of them. That's a good place to be, one step ahead of the demand. All right, Chandler. Well, thanks for taking a few minutes and sharing the story, appreciate it. Okay, thank you. All right, thanks. East Chandler, I'm Jeff, you're watching theCUBE. We're at day two IQ in downtown San Francisco. Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.


This is Larry Pesaventa for TFNN and we call this Green Light City today folks, almost everything is up and some of the things that we've been long like crude oil and gold are doing quite well. I didn't get quite involved in that last run in the stock market but we'll be ready when that bell rings to turn it to the downside. It hasn't happened yet but we're getting pretty close I would think because we're getting a little bit oversold. Now also the treasury notes and treasury bonds are still rallying, gold's rallying, silver rallying, metals are rallying, grains are relatively quiet but we have some things going on in the stock market that we're going to be talking about when my show comes on in about six or seven minutes from now. So we need to pay attention to what's happening, where the money is moving folks. We've had this big move in the dollar, we've had this big move in interest rates and we need to talk just a little bit about that to give an idea of where these markets could go so they were extremely oversold as we mentioned in notes and bonds over the past five or six trading days here that we were expecting a rally and whether this is it or not I don't know because it's been rather shallow so far. The bonds are up about four points and the notes are up about three points which is a substantial amount but remember this is basically a rally in a bear market and we want to remember to look at that as we see that. My guest on my show today will be by one of my very dearest friends and one of my oldest friends from the 1960s, Jim Twentiman. Jim's been with me through the whole gamut of Conti commodities and Clayton commodities and Drexel Burnham Lambert, the floor of the exchange. We work together at Commodity Corporation and I'm going to put him on the griddle and ask him to share some of his life stories with him. I'm going to share some of them because some of them are pretty doggone funny to me and it's a great part of my memory system and so I think you'll enjoy it. Try to like getting sardines out of a can but usually he'll warm up a little bit so if you have any questions you know call in at TFN-877-927-6648 and we'll try to get some information out of him when we come to the full break at the half hour. So far things are strong, it's halfway through the day, anything can happen and it usually does so we'll be right back after these words from our sponsor.


Everybody forced here ripping 21-22 Donors optic basketball hobby 12 bucks full case number six tiered random teams There are the results of the random you can always find these late sports cards calm. Thanks everyone for joining. Good luck. That's what I'm saying Carl Good old Patriots man, like McDaniels is leaving to go be a head coach.  To call the offensive plays all right a full case of optic Let's see if you can pull something like that green K dot we pulled last night I don't know when I was saying Trevor Lawrence is gonna be good. I didn't think it was a very my very much of a hot Take I just thought it was a very like There's a layup. You know it was a layup of a take We'll see what feels though Feels pretty solid book Knight rated rookie All stars hollow Demi Lillard Donovan Mitchell gonna roll it die. This is gonna be for the whole case here Blazers on the left Jazz on the right one two three left and four five six right Let's see That's a five. It's gonna go right side now if there's like a low number like a gold or Even lower than that. I'm gonna random it instead of it. Just going to the right Right side there that one goes jazz on that right side for the whole break 75 years John Stockton. Yeah, hopefully it's not a serious injury Carl. There's a blue rated rookie Kings Davey on Mitchell 53 59 You go Kings Kate Cunningham base rated rookie at pistons and a hollow for the Cavs Isaac O'Coro First auto the break is rookie for the Pelicans dominators auto Trey Murphy the third 31 of 49 on the TM three and the rookies insert Jalen Suggs for Orlando Joe Weiss camps Jackson Cavs hollow Jazz legend Colin Sexton bronze Wagner rated rookie with a dimple in it. I've got a boxer rapper for the magic With a dimple in that promise Wagner rated rookie Kaminga base rookie Lighted up KD. Great Brown. He got hollow bulls Lanzo ball Scotty Barnes base rated rookie Raptors Rating threes Kings hollowed buddy healed Mavericks hollowed Tim Hardaway Jr. Aaron Wiggins Durant and Rose Scotty Lewis Giddy base. Okay, see lime green warriors dream on green 650 149 on the lime green green All right guys, who's got it tonight Broncos are Niners Quentin Grimes week dominators Jamarant. I think Broncos. I think Broncos Those similar rated rookie Chicago Orange Hawks rated Ricky Sharif Cooper 60 501 99 Think Broncos got it tonight Clippers rated Ricky hollow Jason Preston That's the only narrative. I'll buy for the Niners tonight is a Jimmy G revenge store. That's the only narrative all by Jalen Johnson 75 years LeBron James remember LeBarn James Yeah, the dude that was like shooting on that hoop like Yeah LeBarn James that was like five years ago true The farm goat 75 years Dwayne Wade, holy cow, man Jaguars, dude Doug Peterson coach of the year. I'm telling you guys it's happening now I didn't predict it earlier, but I'm not I'm not being late to that bandwagon Josh Giddy rated Ricky Pistons lime green. I say a Stewart 118 of 149 most improved player Trevor Lawrence Say Jackson hollow dominators Joel and B. Hello Bulls Zach Levine Say livers 75 years Jason Tatum Celtics Spurs blue rated Ricky Joe Weisskamp 33 of 59 Dude, that'd be amazing Vaughn Herbert Jones got hollow Grizzlies dead in vain. Maybe I'll just jump ship from being a Patriots fan of a Jags fan It looks more fun right now We could dodge it slide it up Mavericks Demption after curry dominators is Josh Christopher rated Ricky signatures Rockets Josh Christopher for Raptors Should be Rockets, right? Yep, Rockets cool. I want to make sure Him and David Johnson. I get confused David Johnson is Raptors Those guys confuse me both rated rookie Bulls. I had a soon move 75 years LeBron James Son of Browns one in Pittsburgh was 1999 is I'm guessing that's regular season because they won that playoff game Couple years ago Heat hollow Jimmy Butler. Yeah, that's pretty crazy Hollow dominators out of Mitchell jazz and the guy that won that game. They just got rid of them Covey Jacoby for set Jacoby for set though Hollow for the Warriors Andrew Wiggins. I will say I think she's the fan. He's a pretty good coach Rating threes blue Ray Allen 35 of 49 Sonics going to the Thunder that's their excuse dude. We lost by 28 because Herbert had his ribs hurt He's cutting bars Lost by 28 to Jacksonville at home Because of Herbert's ribs hurt Our defense they were hurt to Chris Paul orange 89 of 199 Sun's color match Hollow rated rookie Rockets Alper and Shengyun. All right box three. Thank you, Jake. You know, I can't count Like Billy Madison, I gotta go back to school hollow rated rookie Rockets Josh Christopher Did you imagine Billy Madison real life?  You can't do that 75 years Pete Marovitch Maybe I'm Mitchell rated rookie Brown and Levine bucks hollow Bobby Portis. Yeah, dude Chris Farley with the best like Not even like a role character just like a cameo honestly Lighted up hollow Kevin Durant for the Nets That's gonna be sneaky Clippers are gonna be sneaky this year, man They go in the West you watch orange for the bucks Bobby Portis 163 of 199 the bucks legend right there Actually a buck's legs Pistons hollow Sadiq Bay was this Nix miles McBride rookie optographs 59 of 99 and the rookies Cade Cunningham wise cam Chris Paul Franz Wagner base rated rookie a pink velocity Bulls Lonzo ball 51 of 79 Love the velocities Jake, could you beat LeVar ball one-on-one? Make it take it play to seven got a one by two hollow Clippers Eric Bledsoe That doesn't sound like a very one-on-one ask got ready to Johnny Kimming or he's just dribbling it into the corner Good idea be a ballhandler dribble into the corner. That's my best chance Soon threes I can't drive on him The rookies hollow magic Jalen Suggs We should get a hoop for the shop we put in the warehouse rated rookie hollow Spurs Joe wise cam like the office Yeah, man Keep saying we need to hoop Pistons rated rookie Cade Cunningham got 75 years Jason kid And wizards blue Spencer Dinwiddy 14 of 59 I Don't think insurance would like it if we had a basketball here. We're playing games at work They would just like take away our insurance like the son of like a nerf hoop Like we got like a Something yeah, the ones you hang in the back of the door that really get really a Fisher price hoop You have one of the corner. That'd be awesome. I put the shack carburetor. I'm dunk on shag See like that stuff I'd probably fail We're gonna get shacked to the shop Hello all stars my gradient Carter hollow rated rookie Pacers Isaiah Jackson Photon after the Cade rated rookie base photon Hawks John Collins nice one. That's a color match pretty much Short-printed parallel about one a case on these quit grime 75 years Charles Barkley Yeah So soon we rated rookie Latin Green Nuggets Aaron Gordon 136 of 149 Wizards hollow Ruby Hachimora Jalen Johnson the rookies Jalen Suggs Mavs hollow Chris apps for zingus Rating threes Warriors hollow Steph Curry. We knew raining threes Jake card Black Velocity nice sons Cameron Johnson 20 of 39 That's sick. I would look good if he was wearing the the valley uniform there still good stuff sons CJ Crowder's does not want to go back to the Sun Celtics hollow Dennis Schroeder Demsion are not redemption, but auto Austin Rivers Whatever Park High School legend 85 and 99 dominators auto Austin Rivers. I was back in my day kids Think he think he was I think it was same class as me Think or maybe he was younger rated rookie magic Franz Wagner now he's younger 75 years Moses Moody, but yeah, I remember watching him They came to a veto Go watch that game. They were like one apartment naturally ranked them though comminger rated rookie for the Warriors did a few D1 guys on that team Cavs orange Jared Allen 114 of 199. That was all we can adopt money though Great brown you got hollow Pacers miles Turner. All right box five 75 years Trammer for the third. There's a ding on that card as well. Let me get a box out to the pelicans here Scotty Barnes rated rookie and they hollow light it up Jason Tatum for the Celtics Aaron Wiggins hollow for the Knicks RJ Barrett Broncos got it tonight.   Yeah, I think Broncos somehow win tonight the rookies Scotty Barnes Josh get irrated rookie thunder lime greens. I really was Grizzlies Rated rookie 133 of 149. Yeah, let's get eminence filled up guys last I broke eminence pulled a Jamar chase diamond shield auto Hollow for the Rockets John Wall They guys like Peyton Manning in there you pull Tom Brady and Mahomes Bar Cards Lakers red stargazing LeBron James 20 of 99 RPS of all the big quarterbacks vet quarterbacks said Manning Elway, Montana Marino Karino doledge bar 75 years Lakers Bucks hollow Chris Middleton James book night hollow elite dominators pelicans Zion Williamson Kita 75 years Tim Duncan Kate Cunningham base rated rookie pistons They read Grizzlies Brandon Clark number 18 of 99. I think there's gonna be a gold vinyl second half of this case Spurs hollow Brinn Forbes. So one of these last six boxes here Grimes got retro series auto Josh Howard 34 of 99 Mavericks Dude, there's the butt punt. I missed it Soon move orange blade Griffin nets 66 of 199 So good that guy's gonna show up in the injury report tomorrow. Holler rated rookie Hornet Scottie Lewis Probably gonna have like bruise on his bucks or something like that. So where Mark Sanchez is like, oh, thank God I'm not the only one that's involved in a play like that awesome bills lost Yeah Look at that dude total yards 500 to 212 pretty much Jalen sucks rated rookie double the first downs double the time of possession And it meant nothing 75 years Alonzo morning Moses moody rated rookie and a hollow dominators LeBron James Lakers Cavs hollow Jarrett Allen Highlands Lighted up Jason Tatum turn butler pink velocity nice warriors rated rookie Jonathan Cumminga 36 of 79 Big card warriors. Congrats Good-looking pink velocity. Love these man. Like I said earlier this case. I love the velocities big card there We'll get that mag for you congrats dubs Mobley base for Cleveland's Hollow rated rookie spurs Joshua Primo. Do you have any options Lane, or you just want me to spit ball here Red Lakers pistons it goes right side. Correct on these Right side goes pistons on the magic and Isaiah Thomas all stars 87 099 pistons. We should do Orlando magic almanac 75 years. I give this Alexander Forests favorite The Red Sox Patriots Bruins and magic hollow rated rookie Pelicans Herbert Jones Sorry Williams hollow stargazing Kauai Leonard Clippers Edward 75 years Chris Middleton Lane easing in sports specific or Jillian green rated rookie Rockets Red for the Kings Rashawn Holmes 34 of 99 Could we do like a basketball almanac since that's that's coming up? Hollow for the Hawks Bogdan Bogdanovich. I'd probably pretty expensive almanac though a Nick's Raymond Felton auto off to grass number 89 of 99 do anything rated rookie shengun We got orange great brown rated rookie 167 of 199 Portland's Basketball would kind of cool. I think hollow Lakers Taylor Norton Tucker. I Know you've always wanted to do bowman almanac, but maybe save a bowman almanac for like the spring If we could even get that together that'd be sick basketball would be cool Soccer almanac As a Jackson pink velocity Bucks Bobby Portis 29 of 79 hollow for the Pistons Kelly Ullinick Bowman almanac would be pretty sweet. I I agree with that Tony Lane was talking about he's been talking about that for a while now at least since he started working at LSC Lillard and Mitchell hollow It's way nashbridge almanac Celtics blue Jason Tatum nice one there 47 of 59 You know be really cool to do is like a non-sport almanac Cristuarte rated rookie like non-TCG just like pop culture like Star Wars something a Star Wars almanac would be actually bonkers That doubt take a long time to put together. I think lime green Clippers Terence Mann 82 of 149 That Star Wars market is legit though Hollow for the heat Duncan Robinson. Yes, in victim spitballing right now Lane and I are spitballing Cory Kisper lighted up Russell Westbrook Dude May 4th Star Wars almanac. That is a golden idea last May 4th. There was a big release Like a major release So we didn't get to do any Star Wars breaks. I've made it for us bummed Say Todd Hollow rated rookie Thunder Josh Giddy nice Clippers Matt Barnes gold optographs That's awesome Clippers one of ten. That's a really cool card Dude Matt Barnes magic legend when you put the blonde Coby's face 75 years James Harden orange for the Hornets Terry Rosier 170 of 199 Nick's Kemble Walker Yes, and I still got to watch the VOD. I slept in I needed to sleep in today. Oh green Green It's a rookie.  Oh boy. It's a rated rookie. It's green. Could be like Brandon Boston Bones bones bones green bones Congrats nuggets five of five Green bones, that's awesome man Congrats Denver green bones sounds like a disease you've got like the 1300s Like uh, I got over the bionic plague when now I got green bones Damn it Congrats Denver seriously, that's awesome. Who's got them Denver Denver Denver Denver Tyler B. Congrats Tyler Dude, I keep all green rated rookies out of optic back-to-back nights. I'll get you a pick lane So let me get that like hard stand to draining raining threes hollow buddy healed for the Kings Hollow Kings Harrison Barnes So I think Lamar Jackson is solely in the MVP lead. I think I probably him it hurts Doesn't have the numbers though Okay, he's got the he's got the one game Green bones, baby Well, I said we get a gold vinyl. So let's still see that as well. It'd be a crazy case We got a big gold vinyl as well. She got a green rated rookie. I'm gonna say gold vinyl veteran big veteran Josh Christopher Steph indeed Yannis LeBron Luca something like that Tatum maybe 75 years Barkley Franz Wagner Lyme green T Wolves D. Angela Russell 51 of 149. They'd be cool if they were in those alternates Get color match There's a I think one of the I think Anthony Edwards optic rated rookies have the Lyme green color match It's like a black one to that with that neon trim Hollow Nuggets will Barton Comminga rated rookie for the Warriors Yeah, Nuggets could definitely be scary with full health And if MPJ plays to where he was before he got the contract Was like a good number number two or three option on that team bones. Highland rated rookie Nuggets black velocity is magic Terrence Ross a human torch 10 of 39 maybe a cool color match because they were in the blacks Been so close to some cool ones hollow for the Rockets John Wall How many games did wall play for the Rockets got me less than like 15, right? Redemption John Moran Dominator signatures Ryan be with the Grizzlies Great case congrats on the jaw So the dominators base number 99 I imagine the jaw is gonna be lower number than 99 Mobley base got 75 years Moses Moody Warriors 75 years shy Gilders Alexander Jilin sucks rated rookie magic Bryston says that he played at least a few games of Hardin before Hardin got traded That sounds right because I was right after the trade. I think Moody rated rookie Warriors hollow Mavericks Tim Hardaway, Jr. Yeah, yeah, this past season. He didn't know hollow stargazing Yanis for the Bucks Well, then he kind of like a holdout like an injury but also would hold out Your thunder color match rated rookie Jeremiah Robinson Earl 178 of 199 You don't want the same one. Yeah, hollow Celtics Jalen Brown He got us. Yeah Elite Dominators hollow Trey Young Hawks Walker that's a Rockets legend right there hollow thunder rated rookie Josh giddy another one for you thunder More boxes left guys. Let's get that eminence filled up. It's been at six for a while now I'll get you the link just six bots guys again We're guaranteed to hit you get a random hit from the case Last time we opened eminence is one of the was the week to make sure I want to say we pulled a diamond shield auto of Jamar Chase Also hit obviously a bunch of vets like Montana rice L way Emmett Smith Get Brady and Mahomes go a gold silver Platinum bars Legends like Ray Lewis Bruce Smith Tons of potential all the rookie QBs, of course you get fields RPAs Lawrence RPAs a Lawrence RPA would be gigantic Nets hollow rated Riki day run sharp with a ding on the right side of it Get a box in a wrapper to the Nets. I say Broncos Dario It's like a gut call honestly Hollow stargazing luka Donchich There's not like like the Niners. I think you're probably playing better right now, but gut call I think the Broncos take it at home on on prime time Pink velocity Hornets rated Riki Scotty Lewis 51 of 79 Hollow for the Warriors play Thompson 75 years Moses moody. It's where the Denver's biggest issue is coaching Damie Louis hollow dominators hack it has no idea what's going on he hired like a Like a specialist Assistant coach to help him like with decision-making. I think hollow jazz down of a Mitchell, which is an insane thing to do Three games into your coaching career head coaching career Just wild 75 years I guilty to Alexander Orange Pacers Miles Turner numbered 146 of 199 Jazz hollow Rudy Gobert Dennis Rodman retro series auto for the Bulls numbered 92 of 99 nice Rodman Curry Isaiah Jackson Duarte rated rookie Tramer for the third followed by black velocity Kings Harrison Barnes 20 of 39 on the color match We kiss for a hollow rated rookie thunder Jeremiah Robinson Earl You get that piece of dust Who's one gruba lighted up gold Donovan Mitchell Five of ten jazz. That's sick. That looks amazing with gold Yeah, Von Miller's in Buffalo hollow for the Blazers. He's in McCallum That happened the offseason that happens every offseason for me now though They'll be like, oh, yeah, it's not with the bills and then when it comes like preseason I'm like he's on the bills every time now Josh giddy rated rookie thunder 75 years Julius Randall Nets rated rookie orange day run sharp eight of one of 199 Nuggets hollow Michael Porter, Jr. There's a ding on that one too a lot of hollows of dings on them to get a box and wrapper to you Cade Cunningham base rated rookie Detroit Blazers pink velocity C. Jim McCallum is six error fifty forty six to seventy nine Just signed an extension with the Pelicans Just signing by New Orleans, I think Grizzlies hollow rated rookie son T. Aldama. He really It's weird how he changed the team so much. He opened it up a lot for them assuming rated rookie bulls rated rookie Nick's auto hollow Clinton Grimes Montaigne 75 years Ray Allen comminga rated rookie warriors 75 years Jason Tatum Pacers hollow Malcolm Brogdon Keith got hollow all-stars goes to the right here Zion Williamson and LeBron goes pelicans on that one Blazers blue Damian Lillard 58 of 59 Cavaliers hollow Darius Garland Darius Starland Pistons Luca Garza rated rookie auto There you go Pistons Scotty Barnes rated rookie Raptors You you like Collinsworth Victor a lot of people hate Collinsworth.  It wasn't like a hate, but they like made fun of them Y'all people like Romo color commentary, but 75 years Chris Middleton I used to like Chris Berman a lot as a kid now. I'm glad he doesn't really call games anymore Grizzlies blue Desmond Bain 51 of 59 nice Bain As they livers hollow Nets Kevin Durant got Grizzlies rated rookie Otto Zaire Williams. Nice hit Grizzlies Lighted up Jason Tatum son's hollow Cameron Johnson jazz hollow Joe Engels tree Cooper Charles Bassie Yeah, buck has definitely gotten better Trey man. I'm green Cavaliers. Jared Allen 127 of 149 Well, where's that gold vinyl? I said we were gonna hit Cavaliers another one here is equal Coro 56 of 191 99 in the orange Mavericks hollow Reggie Bullock 75 years Alonzo morning lighted up hollow LeBron James leakers Josh Giddy bass rated rookie okc Grizzlies rated rookie hollow Zaire Williams And clippers hollow reigning threes paul george last box. Good luck everybody You sound a little fox, right? Ten year or something huge deal to be a you on Fox Yeah, I guess it's like whenever he retires it starts People are gonna like that. He's there. Yeah He's gonna be very like Buttoned up. I think you know what I mean Like I got you guys probably don't watch a lot of hockey, but Wayne Gretzky's I'm like TNT and he's like the Straight arrow of the group. You know what I mean? Like he's the Just knows a ton about the game basically and then the other guys are like the ones at Google It's like Ernie with Shaq and Chuck Orange for the heat victor aladipo 170 of 199 He'll kind of just be there, I think. Hello sons Chris Paul Be cool to see him start talking smack up people used to Play against and coach again Coaches against him and stuff Here we go. I'll say I do need a big game from Kittle here Shaq Gilgis Alexander Mike McLean she Hollow all-stars Dwight Howard Carmelo Anthony goes nuggets on the right side there Cameron Thomas Shreve Cooper Nice a hollow pistons rated rookie Cade Cunningham Rating threes hollow for the Warriors Clay Thompson 75 years Alonzo morning Chris Duarte rated rookie followed by black velocity Pistons Kelly Ullinick four of 39 Cavaliers hollow Jared Allen Been a lot of calves in this No big mobiles though Tray Murphy the third Pacers rated rookie auto hollow Isaiah Jackson Mavericks hollow Chris out Sporzingus Sorry, William just Jalen Green based rated rookie Raptors not Raptors Rockets. Excuse me Rockets Lime green for the Wizards Kyle Kuzma 43 of 149 Shengyun rated rookie and on the back is a Knicks hollow rated rookie Quentin Grimes Recycle through this recap here All right, so we had a black velocity Ullinick pistons the 39 Kings black velocity Barnes the 39 Magic black velocity Terrence Ross the 39 Suns black velocity Cameron Johnson the 39 a gold lighted up jazz Donovan Mitchell Really nice one jazz photon Hawks John Collins Uh hits now we've got a rocket Josh Christopher redemption rated rookie signatures Grizzly Zaire Williams pistons Luca Garza Pacers hollow Isaiah Jackson Knicks hollow Quentin Grimes Retro series bowls Rodman auto to 99 Josh Howard Mavericks to 99 Knicks Raymond Felton 89 of 99 Knicks Miles McBride 59 of 99 Austin Rivers for the Nuggets 85 of 99 Tray Murphy the third Pelicans dominators 31 of 49 And optographs gold Clippers Matt Barnes one of 10 Grizzlies dominators signatures John Morant redemption congrats Grizzlies We had pink velocity rated rookie Jonathan Kominger for the Warriors And green rated rookie for the Nuggets bones Highland Big time bones congrats nugs five of five Big time bones And that's gonna do it. Thanks again everybody. We got football coming up