Everybody forced here ripping 2022 NT baseball hobby four box case over 27 random team style find the results anytime at latent sports cards Com we'll go ahead and get started just a moment here Thank you everybody for joining results links also in chat for you. How you doing Vaughn sure your checklist Favorite baseball card Donnie Icon icons. Yeah You're gonna start out with two color patch card Ray Shane McClanahan. Oh, yeah, it's gonna be cold, huh? It's getting cold everywhere. Well, I'm not here Jersey Kart dance v. Swanson's 99 for the Braves. I guess a little bit It'll get chilly here. Let's call that. They'll be in the 40s Colossal Jersey Kart of Vladimir Guerrero Juniors in 99 blue jays It's been cold a lot this year, right? It has been it's been a big fluctuation all the time Like it's been like in the mid 80s every day this week here like two weeks ago. It was It was like 40 and like the high 30s at night. Yeah Colossal Jersey Otto is Brenton Doyle Rockies to 49 Apprentice Inc. Cubs DJ hers or hers or Hertz Cubs on card the 99 DJ Hertz or hers. Oh, that's cool midnight signatures Cubs Jake Arietta to 49 That's a Chicago legend right there It's from last year's NT Jake Arietta midnight signatures Cubs got a great signature It's a fantastic autograph RPA twins Royce Lewis 39 to 49 noise Royce. Is that what Sam would say a Rolls Royce O'Neill Check this out we got a Jackson holiday auto 91 of 99 Orioles great prospect Otto just a great hit Baltimore who had him who had him Edward P. Congrats, man Jackson holiday auto Geez Vaughn What's that coming up? Let's go to this first Jersey Otto Roman Gonzalez White Sox to 49 and we have a legendary signature stat line variation two of ten Is it gonna be?   Yeah, sounds Sounds I sounds like you could still get a Pick up game of basketball in I like it when it's some on something like that where it's not I don't know Yeah Like it wasn't signed for the intention of being in like a like or like it wasn't in sign as a piece of like a Maribelia or like a collector piece. It was just something that was signed. That's those are the best kinds of cuts What was that like for his first? Colossal Colossal patch guard Austin Hayes Orioles. It's a 49. I don't know It's got a pretty nice signature read his first check Jersey card Gil Hodges Dodgers to 25 That is a game worn Gil Hodges Jersey card for the Dodgers Pirates Jersey could Brian Hayes the 99 Rookie Auto Blue Jays Auto Lopez the 99. Yeah, probably a lot colder where you're gonna be Devin a clutch factor Jersey Auto Seattle Jesse Winker to 25 Yeah, see Carl Carl gets it. Yeah, you just got to hurry up You don't want to get like you still want to get frostbitten Jersey auto Hunter Goodman Rockies eight of 49 RPA raise stars and stripes Josh Lowe 20 of 25 look at those patches. I'm looking at the patch Crazy There you go Tampa Bay nice Josh Lowe. That's Daniel. I with this one stars and stripes RPA 240 right probably you can get in the sleeve of it. That's the thing right there that Relic Auto Red Sox Jim Rice to 49 Hall of Fame material signatures nice rice Rookie signature jumbo material book at Luke Williams Phillies to 99 or I open that box Nice more orders coming in for mosaic and iMac It's more gilded They've been dating for a long time 13 to go in that first iMac mixer now. Let me go ahead and put the Josh Lowe in a 360 Just because I don't you know, I mean, that's fine 13 to go on iMac and mosaic the first one 15 to go Cheap way to get into some immaculate basketball Retro materials Padres wheel mires, right? Yeah, will mires to 99 couldn't read it for a second Jersey card blue jays whit mariefield to 99 Jersey card debacks Randy Johnson six of 15 that'll be game use in the Randy Johnson Jersey auto Rockies Colton welker to 99 MPP MPP stands for make pop proud Draws in the infield dirt every game That's pretty cool. There you go Rockies. That's what's on the back. Yeah, that's cool Dual relic auto for the nationals Brandon Boissier to 25 Got Brewers auto Corbin Burns to 99 Rangers rpa ajalexie 5 of 49 the four color patch with the rpa Yankees Hall of Fame's materials Jersey auto to 49 Dave windfield dual signature materials to 99 Uh blue jays auto Lopez and kevin smith go blue jays little dual jersey out of book there 12 and 99 couple of rookies We got a jacky robinson a treasure jersey numbers seven of 42 What an awesome card. I love the inserts this year one per case on the inserts Treasure jersey numbers that is the most treasure jersey number All right Last one everybody then we'll do a recap Colossal Jersey Mariners Abraham Toro to 99 Colossal Jersey William Contreras Braves 9 of 99 Astros biography materials Alex Bregman to 99 Century auto or century signatures luchas fox to 25 nationals DC comics character luchas fox. I think about that every single time I hear his name get bold That was a bad way to have die-cut patch auto Says dray day 13 Uh, andre jackson on the patch auto dodgers 13 to 25 or 18 to 25 to 25 is a relic auto tim hudson braves tim hudson game used tigers rpa matt manning 80 of 99 Redemption goes to the Padres treasure material signatures fnando tatis jr Nice one Padres It'd be crazy to see that whole lineup together this year Jersey auto for the diamondbacks ryan bliss 32 of 49 prospect jersey auto ryan bliss and legendary materials yankees go mcdougal 39 of 99 Nice old relic there game worn. Alrighty. Give me just a second. We'll do a recap before we do Just pacers clippers kings and raptors For iMacs on everybody Again, they're all on sale. It's pacers clippers kings and raptors Relics first we had an abraham toro William contraros alex bregman will mires wit merafield randy johnson as a dback gill hodges kibrian haze austin haze vladimir guerrero jr. Dan's b swanson a shane mclanahan Books we had gill mcdougal for the yankees Was it just a relic book kevin smith an auto lopez dual jersey auto book blue jays luke williams philly's rpa book harman killabrook cut auto to 10 For the twins congrats twins. That's what that was a really cool looking one To watch the recap go back and check it out First box of the break Autos now we had ryan bliss Padres redemption for nato tate's jr Matt manning for the tires tim hudson for the braves lucius fox nationals andre jackson corbin burns ajalexie Dave winfield as a yankee Brandon voicey air for the nationals Hey, what's up ryan? Yeah, man. I'm looking forward to it colton welker jersey auto for the rockies is a really cool card Jim rice bat relic auto red sox hunter goodman rockies jesse winker as a mariner auto lopez romeganzales rois lewis rpa jake arietta midnight signatures cubs. That's from our previous year so 2021 Nice arietta god dj hurts for the cubs or hers or hurts whichever one of this brenton doile rockies Stars and stripes rpa rays was josh low 25 and a jackson holiday Jackson holiday to 99 Thanks again, everybody. We've got more baseball coming up


Hi, this is Adam with a brand new PhotonerdsUniversity.com and today I want to show you how to use the hue and saturation adjustment layer to target specific colors inside a Photoshop. In the spirit of the 2016 fall season that's just began, I thought it would be cool to go ahead and edit a photograph from last year's fall season. In particular, what I wanted to do with this image was punch up the yellows just a little bit more and actually desaturate some of the reds just a little bit because if you look over here on the right hand side, there's some fall colors where the red is almost abnormally red and I think that it needs to be toned down a little bit. Even though that was actually the color, it's a little bit too punchy for me. One of the cool features built into Photoshop is the hue and saturation adjustment layer and on the surface it's actually a pretty easy tool to use but there was actually some hidden features in here that you might not know about and I wanted to show you because in this photograph it'd be perfect to use. So let's go ahead down to the bottom and grab a hue and saturation adjustment layer and the first thing that you'll notice is the hue, saturation and lightness adjustments. You actually have these same opportunities inside of Lightroom to do the same thing but in particular there are some things that make this tool a little bit more powerful than the Lightroom adjustments and I'll get to that in just a second. One of the things that we have the ability to do is if we go here where the master slider is we can choose which colors in fact we want to target whether it's reds, yellows, greens, cyan, blues or magentas. I've already said that I wanted to target the yellow colors so I'm going to start by choosing the yellow channels. Once I choose this channel to help me better see exactly what yellows are being selected I'm going to go ahead and take the saturation all the way up to 100%. This isn't how I want the picture to look. This is just so that I can better see exactly what colors are being targeted here and in fact you can see that not only are the yellows being targeted that even some of these oranges and reds are being targeted as well. And so this is where the hue and saturation tool differs a little bit from let's say the Lightroom hue and saturation adjustment layers because I can actually choose exactly what colors I want by going down to this little slider over here and when you look you'll see that there are four little arms or four little dots on this color wheel here and as I pull on them I'm deciding to include more colors or reduce some colors and any one of these little arms that I pull on I can pull them in either direction I can even pull the arms in the center. So watch what I'm going to do here I'm going to pull these arms in and as I do I'm actually tightening up the selection and saying I don't want any of these reds or oranges to be selected I really only want the yellows to be selected and on the far right hand side I don't want really any of the greens to be targeted either so I'm going to just move these arms until I see some of these other colors disappear and that looks pretty good and so if I turn this adjustment on and off now you can see how really it's just the yellows that are being targeted and not really any of the greens but I could continue working this even further if I felt like I needed to get it even better something like this. Once I have that where I want it I'll go back to the saturation put this back at zero and make my adjustments from here just to pump up the lightness on the yellows only so it's really this slider which is a powerful tool that allows you to target exactly the color that you want now that I've gotten the yellows where I want them let's grab another hue and saturation adjustment layer and we're going to do the exact same thing but this time we're going to choose the red channel I'll move my saturation all the way up and then I'll begin to move this slider until everything except for the reds that I want is actually what's being affected here something like that looks pretty good I'll move my saturation back down to zero and then from here I can make any necessary adjustments that I want to do in this case I said I wanted to desaturate some of the reds just so that they weren't so punchy and I'm even going to pull the lightness down just to deepen those reds up just a little bit more and so between both of these two hue and saturation adjustments you go from here to here and I've been able to target exactly what color tones I wanted to use and you can do this for anything you can even do this to change a color characteristic altogether for example if I go back to the yellows and decided I wanted to change the hue of those yellows I can actually make the hue of these something completely different and you see how well that targets just those colors and those colors alone for example if I wanted to introduce a little bit more orange and less yellow into those colors I could do exactly that because this slider is controlling what colors are being affected I'm going to go ahead and reset that back to zero because that's not what I wanted to do but what I might do is add just a little bit of lightness to these yellows just to brighten them up and soften them up just a hair so again here's a quick before and after of just those two color adjustments and that was pretty painless hopefully you enjoyed this video if you did give it a thumbs up and as always we appreciate when you subscribe if you're a new viewer and if you haven't checked out the new photonergyuniversity.com website we'd love it if you head on over there and check out all the free content that we have on our website thank you so much for watching and we'll catch you in the next episode


This is stock number 11505Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2018 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Big Horn Package. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Delmonico Red is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. It comes with the 18 inch polished aluminum rims and as BF Goodrich All Terrain TA tires. These are 35 by 12 and a half R18 LT's and they have right around 50 to 60% of the tread left. So this one comes with some Bilstein shocks and springs, frame and other bodies in really nice shape. Front fenders in excellent condition as well. I didn't see any dents or dings in there. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. Comes with the factory fog lights and the front bumper is in excellent condition as well. The hood is in really nice shape as well and you do get the chrome trimmed grille with the big horn package. Passenger side fender, no dents or dings on there. Looks really good. And the passenger side front rim, no scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck and of confidence in what you're looking at before you can get here so that when you do get here there's no surprises. And that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment code, even appraise a trade-off from the comfort of your own home so when you do get here all you gotta do is drive the truck, love it, you'll be all set to go. 60 to 70% of the tread left on the back tires a little bit more than the front and the frame and on your body. Didn't see any corrosion on that. It's like that all the way underneath. Has all the remaining factory exhaust. Comes with some nice rough country painted step bars. And the box is very clean on this side. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. As we come around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper, great condition as well. Full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring, and the tailgate is in a very nice condition too. Has a gator soft tonneau cover, shock down assist, spray and bed liner. This one does come with the LED bed lighting. You see that bed a little bit better. Didn't see any major imperfections back here. Looks really good and it's a really nice bed liner. You get the tailgate shot down, assist. There's a locking tailgate and you do have a backup camera on them. As good on the driver's side, just as clean as a passenger side, no dents or dings on the box. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Driver's side doors look really good. Has the heated power mirrors with the built-in directional signals. Inside the big horn package gives you the gray cloth interior. There are no rips, there are no tears on the seats. They are in very nice shape. Power driver seat, weather tack floor mats. Both these front seats are heated. You get auto headlamps, audio controls on the back of the steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors. And these mirrors do power fold in. I was like showing both sides so that you know both sides are working properly. As we hop inside the vehicle here, you can see that this one has. Turn the ignition on here so you can see everything. 34,652 miles. So it says license plate light out because it has the LED license plate lights, which will throw that code. Digital speedometer, you get a time range to empty, current miles per gallon, trip A, trip B, you can change those to read whatever you'd like. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. This one has the six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. Comes with the 8.4C radio, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. Also has AM, FM and Sirius XM there.  You can also check out your heated seats, heated steering wheel, and you can check out the backup camera at any time. You also get your apps in here, including your projection manager, where you can project your cell phone to the screen through Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, and you can project your screen to that screen. It's like you have, if you have a different navigation system such as Waze or Google Maps that you like better than the factory, you can project that. It works with music and media as well. We actually did a demo on Android Auto in the upper right-hand party screen. If you want to check that out, click that and check us out there. Turned-out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller, heated seats, heated steering wheel buttons down there. You have your more tactile climate controls, including your volume and tune controls right there. 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears on there. The headliner is very nice and clean. It comes with the map lights, the power sliding rear window button, and your home like buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems, assist, and SOS buttons. In that rear view mirror, you'll check out the back seats and then we'll start it up and check out under the hood back seats. Just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here.  Power sliding rear window with the built-in rear, I'm sorry, no built-in reader for us, but power sighing rear window. You do get load floor, which is a really nice feature. If you got muddy boots or tools, put them on there. You're not going to get your seats dirty. Also, if you got Pets, you can put both sides down. They got a nice flat place to lay. You do get storage underneath here as well. Then you get in-floor storage. Looks like it comes with a set of factory formats back here. Alright, back floor mat I should say. And then in-floor storage with removable containers for easy cleaning. Child safety locks on the back doors as well. Bottoms of the doors all look really good. And we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around. You can see it does have the LED fog lamps and head lamps. Under the hood we have the 6.4 liter V-Hemmy motor. Engine day is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half-tons, three-quarter-tons, one-tons. You name it we got to go to that website right there at summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel in the upper left. A link to more Ram 2500 truck videos like this one in the upper right. A link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and a link to our latest YouTube video in the lower right. Click those, check us out. And we're super excited to be offering this really clean 2018 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Big Horn and Delmonico Red Metall. Thanks again for checking out the video.


What's up y'all, it's your girl Kinsey here from Layton Sports Guards and I'm ripping 22-23, Panini Daunress, Optic Basketball, Hobby Six Box, Half Case Break, number 36, pick your team. Got Brad M. Pacers, Can-Y with the Heat and Wizards, Cards S with the Cavs and Sixers, Catiano G with the Pelicans, Chenkai W. Hawks, Christopher J. Blazers, Chris G with the Celtics, Danny C. Warriors, David V. Nicks, Douglas V. Clippers, J. Alfred J. Raptors, Jeffrey H. Magic, Jim J. Lakers, Joelle E. Pistons, Mark S. Sons, Nick S. Kings and Hornets, Peyton W. Bowles and Nets, Patrick G. Bucks and Nuggets, Paul G. Thunder, Ryan S. with the Rockets and Grizzly, Sean H. Jazz and Spurs, Thomas C. Mavs and Victor F. with the T-Wolves. All right, here we go. That's what we asked for. Let's see if we can get it. Again, y'all, more great group breaks tonight with a Force, starting at five, starting off with some Star Wars, baseball, basketball and football, I believe. Gonna roll the dice here, one, two, three, left, four, five, six, right. That'll go for the rest of the break unless it's a one-one. It's a four. Gonna go to the right. Julie's Randall on that. Right this break. Pink Velossi coming up, Christian Brown.  Nice to Daniels. We have Red, Talon Horton, Tucker to 99, Jazz. Hollowed, Kennedy Chandler, Raider Rookie, Harry Trenton Jr. Pippin Jr., Lyme Green, 149, KD. Norquish. Thank you, Timmy. For the bucks, a Hollow Raider Rookie Auto, Marjan Bochamp. Nice one there. This auto's pretty consistent throughout stuff. Yeah, it is. It's funny. More lights out, Horton. Hollow, Jackson, Jason Preston. Hollow, Ianis, Connington. Nice. Christy Orange, Tyler and Hero to 199. Hollow, Joellen B, Delete Dominators. Moses Moody, Davis, Raining Threes, Van Vleet. Hollow, Jalen Brown. Watson, The Rookies, Chet Holmgren, percent. Hollow, Jordan Poole, Raining Threes. These optic cards are so slippery. Got Orange, Halliburton to 199, Joel Inglis. Gonna go right, Dirk. Old one, Jr. Right, Vince Carter. Got Photon, Jabari Smith Jr. Photon, Raider Rookie. It's a King and Murray for the Kings. There you go. Sack Town. Going to Nick S. Congrats on that one, Nick. This is sick. Yeah, it is. Get that in a mag for you. Siakam. These cards coming out today for sure. Hollow, Curator. Cassler, Raider Rookie. KAD, Delete Dominators. Hollow, Miles Turner. Jalen Williams. Got basketball, Raider Rookie. Wendelmore, Jr. T-Wolves. Hollow, Starr, Gazing. Jalen Green. Donovan Mitchell. Chet Holmgren, Raider Rookie. Raining Threes. Lamello Ball. Roddy, we've got Bax. Basketballs. Victor Aladipo. Hollow, Trayman. Yabate, Cunningham. Lights Out Hollow, DeMar DeRozan, Bowls. Got another Photon here. It's gonna be a Jimmy Bucket. Wow, great time to get this card. There you go, Miami. That's sick. Heat is gonna be Ken Why. Kimmy Butler. Clay Thompson. Yeah, it is. Hollow, Jeden Ivy, Raider Rookie. There you go, Pistons. Coral. Neymar, Red, Raider Rookie. Payton Watson, the 99. Nuggets. Have a good one, Simmy. Thanks for stopping in, as always. Our Otto Spurs. He's got him again in this, too. Malachi Branham. Looked beautiful next to that gold we got you earlier. Grats again on that one, Sean. Stargazing, Celtics Tatum. Harry Eason. Box, too. Hollow, Dearon Fox. Wiggins. Hollow, Cody Martin. Got Red. Lights Out. This is such a cool color match. DeMar DeRozan for the Bowls. That's 88 of 99. Pulse. Kevin, 49. Evan, Kevin. Hollow, Tobias Harris. Juarez Smith Jr. Orange. Jordan Poole, a 199. Neopage. Got Hollow, Lights Out. Deontay Murray. Walker Kessler, Raider Rookie. Stargazing, Romano Ball. Hollow, Diabatte, Raider Rookie. Jalen Williams, Raider Rookie. Orange, LeBron, a 199. There you go, Lakers. Nice one there. LeBron, Lights Out. Sean Clarkson. Good luck, y'all. We've got a Josh Minot, Raider Rookie Signatures, Green. That's going to be the five. There you go, T-Wolves. Wow. That's going to be Victor F. Congrats on that one, Victor. Again, Green is out of five. Chet Holmgren, Raider Rookie, Rating 3 is Bane. Roddy, we've got a Dyson Daniels, Raider Rookie Basketball, Pelicans. Diabatte, Snape Kerr. Barnezing, Trey Young. Red, Raider Rookie, Walker Kessler. There you go, Jazz. Very nice. 82 of 99. Jazz is Sean H. Having a freaking day with some optic, man. Grats on that one. We'll mag that too. Melton made the final three for a few of the year. Hollow, Rozier. Neymar to another photon. Raider Rookie is a David Roddy Grizzlies. Ryan with back-to-back raider rookie photons. They were different rookies too. Just need the Lofton Junior now to get all three of them. Got to go for the photon rainbow for the Grizzlies. Closer mojo for you. Bear, Hollow. Carrying over to this break. Tarry, Easton, Raider Rookie. Gonna go right, Middleton. The rookies Hollow, Jane Ivey. Trayman, four. Good luck. Second half of the break. Sohan, Raider Rookie Base. Hello, Tarry, Easton, Raider Rookie. Josh Hart. Matherin, Raider Rookie. Basketball, Raider Rookie. Mark Williams. Hornets. We have Blazers, a base Raider Rookie Otto. Jabari Walker. Stargazing, Sixers. Ty Ty, Bradley Gale, Hollow. Got Orange, Dale, and Tarry for the bowls. Raider Rookie to 199. KD. Mike Conley, Vince Williams Jr. Chet, the rookies. Al Horford. Hollow, Elite Dominators. Yannis, Chris Middleton. Max Stress, Jane Ivey. Got Blue, Elite Dominators. Joellen B, nice one there to 49. Sixers. Hello, Grayson Allen. Jane Hardy, Raider Rookie. Lyme Green, Jane and Hardy to 149. Let's go, Mavs. Nice hit there. Lou Dort. Kegan Murray base. We've got Orange, Nurkage to 199. Hollow going to go right with Draymont Green. Go right, Dirk. Palo, Raider Rookie Base. Zion, Elite Dominators. Wright, Vince Carter. Last pack, boss four. Got Trevor Kiehl's. Black. Velocity is a Kelley Ubrey Jr. at 39. Hornets and Markinon. Orange, Mark Helfholst, to 199. Angles. Dominators, Murray. Brandon, Raider Rookie. Edwards, Raiding Threes. Not basketballs of Aaron Gordon for the Nuggets. Seattle. Johnson, Hollow, Beyonce Murray. Back of Walker, lights out Tatum. Hollow, Joellen B. Wesley, basketballs of Jason Preston, Clippers. Hollow going to go right to Grant Hill. Raider Rookie, Tatum, Elite Dominators. Isaiah Mobley, Keegan Murray, the Rookies. Bruce Brown. Hollow, Raider Rookie, Usmani Day. Thunder. Boat Champ, Raider Rookie. Basketball, Chris Paul. Kind of a color match there. That's a cool one. Nice CP3 for the Suns. Another redemption here. Going to go right. Trey Young. Scott Barnes. Good luck, y'all. We have a Wendelmore Jr. Raider Rookie signatures. Wendelmore Jr. T-Wolves? Wendelmore Jr. One second. Yeah, T-Wolves on that one. T-Wolves Redemptions out of the sprake. Hollow, Russell Westbrook. Bajie, Reds, a bonus to 99. Alonzo. Hollow, Zach Levine. Jalen Derran, Raider Rookie. Going to go right to Cat. Aspect. Aspect, box five. Hollow, Elite Dominators. Devon Booker, Cam Rich. Box here, y'all. Great. The second half to the face. Three match cards already. I like it. Nice and Daniels. Lyme Green to 149. Malik Beasley, Lakers. We're going to go right. Elijah Worm. Watson, Jaw, Sexton. Raining three. Speak, bang. Red, Cam Thomas to 99. Raining silence. Collins, Raining three. Lamello. Hollow, Raider Rookie. David Roddy. Grizzly. I think Velocity here is going to be a Bobby Portis to 79.  This is where it's every picture of his. Another redemption here. Tatum, Stargate. Good luck, y'all. We have a Mark Williams Rated Rookie Signatures. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, Hornets. Can like picture his Rated Rookie card now in my hand. Johnny Davis, Lights Out, Cade, Brogdon. Hollow, Oladipo. Arabia. Got Hollow, Diallo. Lo, Diallo. Christian Brown, we got Lyme Green 149. Mo, Bomba for the Lakers. Hollow, Raining three is Chris Mullin. Mo, Bomba again. Hollow, Mo, Bomba. Three Mo, Bombas within two packs. Got Alec Burks, Orange to 199. Hollow, Josh Hart. Got more Junior. Last packet of the break, y'all. We'll do a recap. Hollow, Stargate is in KD. Damar, DeRosen. Oh, Royce. Quick recap here. Photon, Hammy Butler for the Heat. And David Roddy, Grizzly's Rated Rookie. Black to 79. 39, sorry. Kelly Bray Jr. Hornets. Redemption, Hornets. Mark Williams. Teal's Redemption. Wendell Moore Jr. Base Rated Rookie Autos. Jabari Walker. Blazers. Malachi Bram Spurs. And a Hollow, Marjon Bochamp. Bucks. Our Magikars. We have a Keegan Murray on the Photon for the Kings. Stick one there. A Red Walker Kessler to 99. Jazz. And Green, Redemption to five Teawolves of Josh Minott. All righty, that will do it for 36. Nice way to end the day there. Thanks again, y'all. More group breaks tonight with force.


Hello. Thanks for watching this edition of OES News. I'm Sean Boyd. We're here at the scene of a major disaster in San Luis Obispo, but don't worry folks. It's only a drill. In fact, it is final exam day for hazmat teams from around the state. Let me set the scene for you. There has been a big earthquake and what you see now is the carnage. So let the response begin. Liquid leaks out of a rail car. The scenario is very realistic. It's just a big wreck, okay? You've got rail cars upside down behind me. It's loosely based on the hazardous materials challenges responders faced immediately after the Northridge earthquake. It starts with fuel, your basic fuels right? Ammonious, chlorine is another big one. Helpful hazmats that become dangerous and often deadly when they escape their containers. A man lights gas on fire that's leaking from a metal tank. There's a lot of different chemicals out there that the folks that come to here, hopefully we train them so when they go out to get into it, they don't get themselves hurt. So another group of firefighters from various departments around California are here at the California Specialized Training Institute in San Luis Obispo to get certified as hazmat specialists. Cal OES dedicates a lot of funds to keep this training site current with prompts, equipment, and the instructors are top-notch. This week-long training starts in the classroom. But it's out here, students put their education to task, facing problems one after another. Firefighters and hazmat suits work to stop liquid leaking from a metal tank. Nothing here is in perfect condition, okay? It's all set up to fail and it's set up for them to mitigate it and fix it. Okay, guys, so we have two protection lines down from two separate engines. Firefighters and hazmat suits breathe through respirators. Under the watchful eyes of instructors, they learn how to safely cut into tankers filled with acid. Firefighters and hazmat suits use a drill to cut into a metal tanker. And how to secure a ruptured cylinder leaking gas in the dark. They're put through the paces of top rail cars to seal a simulated chlorine leak. They have to work quick because see how it's frozen up. And if they don't seal it quickly, then it gets brittle and breaks. What was the most difficult part of what you just did? Trying to talk to each other. Yeah, communications was tough, but we had a good game plan going on to it, so. This is our building of concern.  Our biggest objective right now is to contain the leak. A man is zipped into a self contained hazmat suit. The team is on air, starting the clock. They need to stop the leaves in the dark, obscured by smoke and under time pressures. The hazmat situations, all of these trainees must successfully conquer will prepare them to act quickly, safely and effectively in the real world. But if you see these guys in your in your neighborhood, that means there's very something significant going on and you want to give them the space to work around and let them do their jobs because basically they're going to be the guys that will save the day. So after a very long day and now that sunlight has given way to firelight, these 21 hazmat students will return to their home fire stations and take their newly certified skills and put them to good use. If you'd like more information on what you've seen here today, go to oesnews.com and click on this story. For all of us here in San Luis Obispo and at Cal OES headquarters in Sacramento, I'm Sean Boyd. Thanks for watching. Visit our online newsroom at oesnews.com to learn more about this program and get the latest news and information from our team. Don't miss our next video on your Facebook timeline. Like our page and you'll get the latest posts as they happen. If you're an Instagram user, you can see the latest snapshots by following our Cal OES Instagram account. And Twitter users can get instant access to our tweets from across the state by following Cal OES. Facebook handle typed as California underscore OES. Instagram and Twitter Cal OES handles are typed as Cal underscore OES.


Okay, we're going to get started this evening. Welcome everybody to Virtual Playhouse. I'm Dan on the Director of Development Programming for the Bedford Playhouse. I want to thank you all for tuning in tonight for what is going to be a really fascinating conversation about a really, really great book. For those of you who have read it, I'm sure that you have a lot of questions for Sam. For those of you who haven't read it, you should definitely run out and get yourselves a copy. It's a really, really great read, very quick, very, very enjoyable book. A couple of very quick housekeeping items. For those of you who might be using Zoom for the first time or not that familiar with it in this format. You should all should have at the bottom of your screen if you're on a laptop or near the top of your screen if you're on an iPad, there's a Q&A button. Please feel free at any point to ask a question using the Q&A after they talk for a little bit. 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All right, without any further ado, we're going to introduce our founder, Playhouse founder, John Farr, who is your moderator for this evening, and I'd like to invite John to come on now and he will get the festivities rolling. Here I am. Welcome everybody. Thank you, Dan. Really excited to be here tonight. I am thrilled to introduce Sam Wasson, a fabulous writer who writes mainly about filmmakers and filmmaking, which is our favorite topic here at Playhouse. I've always been, I've been a fan of his for quite a few years now, ever since picking up his book, Fifth Avenue 5 AM, Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. I basically picked it up, and I never put it down. It's that good. So if you haven't read it, you should. I recommend it to you. And his new book, which of course I've also read, The Big Goodbye, Chinatown in the last years of Hollywood, is also a real tour de force, detailing a fascinating transitional period in the movie business, as well as the making of a true masterpiece.  And so please do that as we welcome Sam Wasson. Oh, hello. There he is. Hi. Yeah. Well, I'm good. You're in LA. So it's all, it's nice out there. Well, it's nice, but we're under curfew. But it's nice at my house. It's a good place to be. Better than the White House. But we won't go, we won't go there. So, I'm going to jump right in. What was the genesis of this particular project, Sam? Is this something you wanted to do for a long time? The White House actually was the genesis for this because when, when, when Trump won, I turned to my friend Graham, who I was watching the election with. And I said, what's the precedent for this? What's the myth? What's the, what story are we going to latch on to, to try to give this a frame? And, and Chinatown came to my mind pretty soon thereafter that. So I thought, wow, this is the, this is the moment for Chinatown. But I don't think Donald Trump is anywhere near as cool as Noah Cross. That's my personal feeling. He's, he's about as evil. But maybe not as snazzy. No, no, no. Not as glamorous and as evil. No, he's not as glamorous. I don't think so. So the 70s that the period that you're covering was obviously a trans transformational period in Hollywood. That's been written about before, but you wrote about it in a very personal way, really talking about four key characters, the producer Robert Evans, the director Roman Plansky, Jack Nicholson, and the writer Robert town. Very clear. Did you actually get to interview all of them? No, I interviewed Evans and, and Polansky. I did not interview town or Jack. Hmm. I'm curious as to why Jack would not want to be interviewed about about this. I don't know if Jack's doing interviews so much. So many interviews right now. I spoke to Sandy Bressler, his agent and Bressler said to me, you know, Jack just is going to, he's not doing a lot of interviews. Yeah. And I said, all right, that's okay. He's been on the record pretty voluminously about this period. So there's was, you know, more than enough, it was just disappointing that I didn't get to, you know, shake his hand. It's the same for town. You know, he's, this movie has been famous for 40 years, 45 years. Yeah, for now, 45 years. Yeah, so, so all these guys are on the record. So in fact, the only two who weren't so much on the record were the guys that I, I got. Yeah, and you got Robert Evans, obviously before he just recently passed away. Yes. And of course, I got, I spoke with many other people who've never been on the record before about this movie. Yeah. I love the Silberts were one of the Richard Silbert and Anthony Silbert. Are they both, I'm sorry, are they alive? I should know that. Yeah, is alive and in Greece, as we speak, she lives in Greece and Thea Silbert was a costume designer that yes, Mr. in law of Richard Silbert who was the great production designer and production designed the graduate and who's afraid of Virginia Wolf and carnal knowledge than Mike, Mike Nichols movies and then Rosemary for Roman and, and obviously China. What was your take on Polanski. He is he bitter about what happened with regard and not being able to return to America. He feels that in an injustice has been done him somehow. Yeah, and I understand that he is a, as he says he is a fugitive from injustice. Which isn't to say that he wasn't guilty of a crime. Yeah, he certainly was, and a terrible crime, and confess to that. And in the plea deal with the, the judge, the, the both, both Polanski team and the, the prosecution made an agreement. Everyone was agreed and then the judge reneged on that agreement. So that's pretty unjust. And there was really nothing Polanski could do. I really don't know what I would have done in that situation. Yeah, and it was, it was almost like, he didn't officially renege it just came through the pipes that he was going to renege right I mean, or the possibility. It came through the pipes that he was going to renege, and he called the lawyers into his office and, and, and both lawyers and laid out exactly how he wanted this to unfold for the benefit of the press. Yeah, he reneged in the first place because he didn't like how the press was betraying him as someone who was quote easy on a celebrity. So, there you go. Oh my God. Yeah, now the Robert Evans fascinating character. Yeah, 74 was one of the best years for paramount pictures.  Right. And so that that always I mean and you, we, you talk about it in a film it was there part of it was that he wanted to be fired me in other words he was obviously better as a producer than it was a studio and he must have enjoyed it a lot more. So was it more of a mutual thing or I mean I should have picked it up but you, I'd love you to talk about that. Yeah, no that was a great that was a great point it should be said just to clarify for people who are watching that Evans was in the nearly unique remarkable position of running a studio, and also producing movies at a studio with fabulous because he could divert the studio's resources to his own pictures. But of course not so fabulous for those who had the resources diverted away from them, like Warren Beatty for instance was not happy that the parallax view was sort of dumped, and felt it was because Evans was putting a lot of emphasis on China town, which there was validity So to answer your question john yeah I mean Evans was of course disappointed because he had reached the height of the summit, but he understood why he was being demoted and of course like you said, he's a producer in his heart anyway he never loved being the businessman. He never loved that he really wanted to be a filmmaker. And he could do that obviously as a producer more effectively than as a studio. But this really was I mean for all these four people these amazing for human beings that you focus on. It was in a sense, they're pinnacle. I mean Polanski made a couple of really really good movies since including the pianist, but Chinatown was special I don't think that Evans had really certainly Evans and town. We're not going to reach that pinnacle in terms of creative excellence again. Well town certainly wasn't Evans of course had produced Godfather one and two. So, but that was before right. Oh yeah we did. Yeah, yeah. And, and Jack would have any number of great performances before this fewer after this because the business would change I think for the worse. And that's part of why I picked this particular movie, not so much because I love the movie, but because I think this moment is the moment at which Hollywood became Chinatown so I really wanted to talk about the metaphor of Chinatown to talk about Hollywood to talk about America, and to talk about what was beautiful before Chinatown, before we became Chinatown, and then what it looked like afterwards. Yeah, wanted to take a snapshot of the last, the last good moment. You talk about Diller, the arrival of Barry Diller and Michael Eiser, the TV guys. Yeah, and then the release of Jaws and how that was distributed and how it was marketed. So that that almost blanket distribution and a tremendous amount of marketing push behind a film versus the sort of the old slow build technique. All of a sudden, they were minting money, and that changed everything forever and it hasn't changed much since has it. No, it hasn't changed much sense and and the problem with this is not the minting of money. We all want Hollywood to make money. And the problem of this is that when all of your, when so much of your budget goes into the marketing and promotion of a movie. It's taken away from the budget that would be spent on the development of the screenplay and the hiring of the various artists who would be making the movie. That affects the art form because this is let's face it a very expensive art form that's part of this beautiful about it. Yeah, that moment when Hollywood realized that it could buy a hit. It then shifted from making trying to make a hit and all into buying a hit. Yeah, and it was all about reducing risk. And you had a lot of people sitting around conferences making decisions who did not know a lot about movies necessarily did not necessarily love movies. The way whatever you may say about the founding studio heads of the old days, they all love they weren't necessarily all terribly well educated but they loved movies and they cared about making a films. They love movies, and they also had respect. They also being for the most part, you know, immigrants or the child of immigrants, really wanting to assimilate into American culture. Yes, they were doing it was by making trying to make art now that isn't to say that they knew what art was. Yeah, but they knew that they wanted to be the ones to make it. Yes, that's exactly right. Um, say done away fascinating character. I gather you didn't talk to her did you know she asked me it was a great, great moment in bad moments. She, she asked me what her participation in the book would be. She wanted a piece of the action.  It's not we're not really making, you know, the Avengers six. And I don't know how ethical that is. So what could I do. Well, she got along well with Jack but everybody seemed to get along well with Jack but she didn't get along so well with her director what it what was. Can you talk a little bit about what the friction was there. Well, well, no one gets along with Fay done away it should just be that Fay done away is. Easy but I know a lot of people who aren't easy Fay done away is difficult. Yeah, yeah. And it's not her movie to make. Yeah, it's Romans movie to make and Roman has the vision. And when Fay done away doesn't like that vision. She complains. Now, the, the, the threshold, the, the, the, the, I guess the crisis point of this came when Roman reached over and plucked a hair out of Fay done away his head, which was catching the light just plucked a hair.  You know, she called him a tyrant stuff like that. He just over a little hair plucking. Yeah, a little hair plucking. It's not that big a deal. And that was not Romans first resort to try to, you know, fix the situation. He smoothed the hair down. I realize I'm not telling the story in the right order, but he smoothed the hair down. He tried to make it better. It didn't work. And finally he just reached it and he's just plucked it. And she she lost, she lost her mind. Oh my God. You know, one of the things you, you also point out is that the effect that drugs had on both town and Evans and everybody, I mean, the cocaine, the fact, I mean, the cocaine was pretty responsible, well, was partly responsible for really hurting Robert Town's career going forward and wasn't good for his personal life either. Yeah, I, I, I, you know, there, there was a period before cocaine in Hollywood cocaine really started to come in around 70, right after Chinatown, around before 75. But before cocaine, it was a, you know, if there were drugs on set, it would be, it would be marijuana. Right. The great director Hal Ashby was stoned all the time. Yeah. So, you know, that, but it was Coke that got Ashby, you know, he's the perfect example of, while pot may be freewheeling and maybe even good for the work cocaine was definitely not. And that's a, that's not the entire reason why the story is a sad one, but it's a, it's a, it's a major one. But it's the same with town, isn't it? I mean, he got into it in a big way and so did Evans. Yeah. And everyone was sort of surprised that Evans, who was kind of persnickety that it got into it and it just, it kind of hurt him. Evans, Evans loved work and he loved sex and I should say he loves seduction. I think he loves seduction more than he loves sex. But, you know, cocaine does not go with work, with quality work, you know, it goes with panic work, quality work, and it doesn't go with seduction. So it did not suit Evans personality. But of course, by that point, you know, he already had a problem. I wanted to ask about the ending. Every great movie has a great, every truly great movie, every fantastic movie has a great ending. And certainly Chinatown has one of the great endings, in my opinion, of all films. But, but the way of reading your book was obvious that the ending that we ended that they, that they settled on was not the original ending. But they didn't know what the ending was going to be. Can you talk, can you talk about the iterations and the considerations that went into trying to figure out how to finish the picture in terms of an ending? Well, this is a, this is a major question because it gets into, it doesn't just get into storytelling and what the right ending for America was at that point. It gets into the biographies of the people who are debating over which ending is appropriate. And by that I mean town and Polanski and town being more inclined to a romantic vision of the world. And a sort of romantic, bittersweet ending. And Polanski being a survivor of the Holocaust and a survivor of the Manson murders was quite convinced that there's no way that you could tell this kind of a story and have it end all right. And so he and town fought over it. And, and I'm glad Polanski had his way because I also think the metaphor of Chinatown would have been compromised. If there was an ending in which there was some kind of hope or success, you know, Chinatown represents, as town said, the futility of good intentions. So there must be total futility. There must be total annihilation. And that's also what makes this so significant a metaphor in the history of American storytelling because our whole country, the dream is based on agency and hope. And this is futility, which is the opposite of agency and hope. So that would have been wrecked if town had his ending, I think. As I think as we discuss it also Chinatown itself was this challenge for town to figure out how do I bring in Chinatown. How does it become because when you think about it, it's really not very much a big part of the movie until the end, you know, you're not in Chinatown. And Robert Evans, and this is a great story about what Hollywood used to be. Robert Evans didn't understand why this movie was called Chinatown. And in his defense, it is confusing. The original draft of the script had no scene said in Chinatown. It's a joke. Can we at least get some Chinese food in here? So the audience knows that they at least bought a ticket to the right movie. There was no Chinatown was a state of mind in the script. And that's what that was town's point. But the reason that's a significant story is because Robert Evans said okay anyway, even though he didn't understand the script. And even though he didn't have good reason to think that the audience would, he still said okay, because he was betting on talent and his friends. Right, which is the mark of a great producer, frankly. Absolutely. It's really an easy job. It really is an easy job, because all you have to do is just have an incredible amount of courage. And if you have that, it's easy. And you're only only having courage in people who've already been, people who you believe in. So if you can place your bets, like town did, like Evans did, place your bets on the horses you think are going to win, you have a good deal. But that's not the case anymore. No, it's very different. Now it's a very hard job. A very hard job for the exact opposite reason. I did think one thing that was very touching is how Nicholson was so loyal to Evans when he was sort of down and out. Because he really was down and out for a while. Yeah, Nicholson is loyalty Nicholson, Nicholson. Nicholson is there for you. He, you know, he will, and not just as your friend, but you know, he'll, if you need help with the movie, he'll, he'll help write the movie. He'll sit in the cutting room with you. He'll get the movie made by virtue of being in it, you know, if you're his friend and he believes in you. He's kind of the, he comes out pretty, pretty clean in my mind. Oh, he does. And also great sense of humor. That line, my favorite line was when he said to Faye Donaway, I think, and he said, you know, how do you think I feel? This is my first leading man part and I got to wear a god damn bandage for like three quarters of the movie because of his nose. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty egoless gesture. I, I, you know, I think. Well, he wasn't, he didn't, he was beyond just being a leading man. He wasn't Warren Beatty, but he, my God, he was so good. I really think you captured what made him so powerful and so unique as an actor. I wish, I wish to God, we saw more of him. But I love, I love Jack. I did want to just show the audience. If you don't mind my, my, my Jack. This is my Jack. I'm sorry about the reflection, but that's my Jack Nicholson autograph. Obviously, that's Jake Gittis. And I don't know, I'm kind of glad. I know how you feel, Sam. I'm kind of glad that it wasn't a trilogy because this was originally thought of, or it's been said that it was thought of as a trilogy. There was, there was the two jakes, which is not anything that, yeah, but there wasn't the third one. There was going to be three of them, right? Right, right. The third one was going to be called Gittis versus Gittis. And it was going to be about Gittis's divorce and, and no fault divorce in California. And it was going to be, and each one of the three had an element. The first one was about water. The second one was about oil, which they did make. And this one was going to be about the air and it was going to be about smog. You know, it was going to be one of the motifs that runs through this three, three part movie about LA made, made the same number of years. Am I saying this? If Jack aged 12 years in real life, the movie would be set 12 years later. Right. So kind of real time. But there's no story after Chinatown. I mean, it's a lobotomy. There's nothing, there's nothing after annihilation. You know. Yeah. And it's very interesting about Nicholson's relationship with John Houston. And his reverence for John Houston. And then also his, the relationship with Angelica. Are they still, I might have missed this, are they still friends? Angelica and Jack, do they talk or? You know, my research ended at 1975. So we don't know. Yeah, they didn't pay me to find that out. I'm in Bucks, John. I'll make a couple calls. I don't know. We know they were together for a long time. I'm inclined to believe they are because that's the nature of Nicholson is to stay, stay close. Yeah. That's wonderful. All right. Well now I want to open it up to some other questions and I think I know what I need to do. We have a couple right here. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and read this. I bought your book and are just beginning to read it. We would love to know what you discovered during your research that you did not know about the movie and its creators before you started the book. Congratulations. That's from Sharon Swatos. Well, I discovered a lot. The astonishing thing was, was the existence of a fellow by the name of Edward Taylor, who was towns. It was a man town described as his editor, which I think is a fairly euphemistic way to characterize someone who sits in the room every day while you write. I found Edward Taylor's notes, which were pretty extensive. And I didn't know he existed, let alone that I would have the ability to speak with his widow and his daughters and his friends and read some of his own emails about working with Robert. And although he would say I work for Robert, not with Robert, which I also think is a bit of a kindness that he is paying his friend, and they were friends going all the way back to their college days, when Edward Taylor would read all of Robert's English papers. And from there they worked together on Roger Corman movies and on and on and on. So he never got he never got I'm sorry he never got credit right he never wanted credit. He never wanted credit that's that's right he never wanted credit. He never wanted credit to collect his paycheck and Mr town paid him, and, you know, not have to go home with the, the headache that comes with having your name on something. Yeah, he's actually pretty smart guy, or he knew what he wanted and what he didn't want. You got what he wanted. He got what he wanted. There's a million other things. But that was the one that was like, Oh my God. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, I never heard of it. I knew Robert town but I did not know Taylor, I did I never heard of him. Okay, here's the next one Sam, please talk about the symbolism of Jack's cut nose and wearing bandage and wearing a bandage for the majority of the film protection from society mask. What are your thoughts on that that's from Lawrence Friedman. No, that's what Polanski says to him when he's when he's getting round kitty cat right you're nosy.  This is a really edible story, you know, in the sense that that you know the eyes carved out when he learns the truth.  It's not a good thing to learn the truth because it damages you. I would just add that that there's a, and you brought this out to that his character Jake is a is a close horse, like style likes to look good. So there was a little bit of a on a more superficial level a little bit of a vanity thing there this is a man who does not like to. It wants to look as best and he does not like being deep basically deformed. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point and it's part of the story of, which is very subtly drawn in this movie of get us starting out being a guy who has got it together and thinks he knows what the world is all about. He's cool. Yeah. He really doesn't know the world, you know, just like all of us and the world we're living in we we thought Nixon was was was as bad as it got we thought that that was knowing the world we thought we had seen evil. You know, yeah, but then we then it gets darker. Yeah. Yeah, that's for something to think about. Okay. From, from Claire Clutty I know her. Sam with your skill as a writer and your knowledge of film and film history. Would you ever write your own screenplay. I have done that. I have done that and it's fun. Screenwriting is fun. Are you shopping it. I've, I've sold it. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. But I like doing books more I like doing books more. Because I'm, I'm, I'm more excited about the era when Hollywood was great, then pushing through a little movie to probably die in the era when Hollywood is not Not is not so great. That is so true. So I will just throw in another question. Not certainly not off topic but what do you think about the the future of movie theaters and watching movies communally. I'm very dubious. You are. I think we're in big trouble and I don't, I actually don't think it's about the movie theater so much as it is about film education. And, and America sense of what is a movie, which in the popular mind has been conflated with television. And, and I heartily believe that these are two totally separate, but related things. Yes, we could define what a movie is, which requires a certain amount of education. Then I think movie theaters would come back, because people would understand that a movie needs to be seen in a movie theater not just for a sentimental reason, you know, but for the same reason you need to see Guernica in in in the flesh, right, to really see it and looking at it on a postcard is not seeing it so that missing pieces education it and and how in the midst of what's happening in the world that someone is going to hold up their hand and say excuse me we need to, you know, we need to talk about David lean. I just don't we have bigger fish to fry. But also the communal experience. I always talk about this. It's one thing for me to see a great film on my own but when I'm seeing it in a room full of people, all experiencing at the same time that is magic. That is going to be lost. And I am a little more optimistic than you are Sam I think that that I think there'll be fewer movie theaters but I think they will survive. But oh my god I want to get you to Bedford to see Chinatown or the movie of your the old movie of your choice on the big screen with a crowd, because it's a it's a different experience than seeing it on your, you know, on your screen at home. And it is it is something that that makes me that makes me very sad so what's your next book Sam was what are you thinking about what are you contemplating. I'm writing a book about the history of zoetrope Francis Ford Coppola's great production company, which I think of as the greatest undertaking in in the history of American independent film. And I, I, I almost like a fairy tale that story and Francis has said yes and so I'm getting his help on it and that's so exciting and gratifying and Wow, and watching all these movies again I mean, we talk about a movie on the big screen, you cannot apocalypse now. You, if you don't feel that five channel and feel it in your body. I mean those helicopters. Yeah, you feel it in your body it is not just in your ears. That is an immersive physical experience. And you cannot, you cannot, you simply cannot have that. Yeah, at home. It's like watching watching that or Lawrence of Arabia on your iPhone. No, no, no, no, no, no, you can't do that. Right. That's wrong. Well and what makes Francis so one of the things that makes Francis so heroic is that of course he put, you know, millions of his own dollars into this and that's something that no director has ever put so much of their own money gambled their livelihood. You know, it makes me wonder, where's Lucas now that you know movies are in danger where's where Spielberg now that movies are in danger where are these. I mean Scorsese is doing his part with his film foundation but I don't know where where where are those guys. Yeah, you think about the feature film. What I say to my my young people they're not that young they're in their late 20s early 30s. But I say to them, if you watch 10 feature films you have 10 different stories 10 different experiences. If you watch a Netflix series is fantastic and I watch Netflix series to you're taking the same amount of time and it's telling you one story. It's a longer story. It's longer formats can be fantastic but love the feature film because they're contained stories and for the same amount of time, you could experience so much more variety and and walk in different shoes and all those different things. So I directed your favorite episode of Netflix television. It's very hard to know.  In other words, it doesn't matter who the director is in television. Yeah, we can all name the directors of our favorite movies, but the directors of our favorite television is it doesn't matter and and if you believe as I do that the director makes the art form. And that tells you right there. That something is seriously wrong in in in television. I will the other thing that I lament is the sense of history. I mean, I really have worked hard with my own children, again, they're older to teach them to say listen, you don't, you know, don't say I will never watch a black and white movie. I will never watch a black and white movie. Are you kidding me? You have to watch black or a movie. There's certain black. You have kids say that young people say send them to me. I will believe sending them because it is it's an issue and you really have to push to get them to watch certain things and expose them early for them to have any sense of the history of moviemaking. I mean, it's one of the proudest achievements in America, the last 100 years of moviemaking. I agree with you. And if people if they're not even aware of it or say no, I won't, you know, I'm not going to watch anything before before 1980. You're you're you're missing a lot, particularly comedies I have to say the great comedies many of the greatest comedies were made earlier on, in my opinion, my humble opinion. So I'm going to see now whether we have some more questions. Here we go. Okay, hold on just a second. Please articulate more fully how the film is representative of complete annihilation. Is it simply that evil always wins out. Yes. I mean corruption, you can't fight city hall is what this movie is about. Yeah. Yeah, that that that makes sense to me. Okay, on the topic of zoetro. Can you discuss any relationship between Chinatown and Godfather one and two. Well, they're both made it, they're all made a paramount all under Robert Evans sound stages right across from each other. Period pictures, the period pictures. Yeah, but I mean it goes to show you, it goes to show you that this was that that we're not being sentimental, or nostalgic, or curmudgeonly, or elitist to say that there used to be a Hollywood. I was just talking about Godfather one, Godfather two and Chinatown, just three of the movies to come out of paramount in a, you know, few year period. These are not esoteric works of art these are popular works of art made in a studio in in Hollywood. So what they have in common is that they're paramount movies. Which is an important point. Yeah. The conversation was that that wasn't paramount was it. It was paramount it was part of a deal that paramount struck with what was called the director's company, which was a partnership between Coppola, Friedkin, and Bogdanovich. And they didn't really work out did it. Well, it didn't really. Well, I don't know, depends on what you mean by work out because it did give us Paper Moon. Yes, give us a conversation. Yeah. And it gave us Daisy Miller, which I don't think really works but I think the fact that it exists means that the studio was working. Yeah, yeah. It's just what I meant by that was, it was one of those lovely utopian ideas that would that you can look back and say, Oh that never could have lasted. Because it's such a lovely idea.  Well, that that that's not so that wasn't so unusual, you know, in in in a period of Hollywood. It was just it was just never. It was just never stated as such, you know, well they gave it to Orson Welles and then they said we'll never do that again. That's another time that's another time but you know in in in the you know when Arthur Fried was producing at MGM. There was no reasonable expense spared. You know, all the great producers, all the great producers know that Sam Sam Spiegel, you know they all, they all would not they all would work the way the director's company worked. Yeah. And in fact the reason it went down is because Friedkin never made his movie. And because it was a based on a profit sharing model, the two other guys said, Billy, you know, you're taking our money. So the damage wasn't between the studio and the filmmakers it was amongst the filmmakers themselves. Friedkin have a project that he wanted to make or I missed that bit. I don't know how far he got. I'm sure he did but he never. He never made a movie for the director's company. Yeah. I mean, you know, French connection I think is one of the greatest movies ever made. I mean, exorcist is pretty good too so he made some good made some good pictures. Okay, here we go from Vincent LaRusso this do you have a favorite movie Sam and if so did that help you in the writing of books. I have a lot of favorite movies. It helps me in the writing of books. Nothing helps you in the writing of books. Nothing. No, but I have a I have. I have favorite directors, you know, I have I can list favorite directors easier than I could favorite movies. Billy Wilder is a favorite director looking at my job right now. Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes. Paulansky. Bob Fosse. No love for John. Lubitsch. Lubitsch. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no John Ford I don't respond to emotionally I don't understand. I don't understand John Ford so it's hard to get that excited about. What about George Cucor. I didn't put him up there with the other with the other ones. Yeah, I'm always happy to be in his company. Yeah, Preston Sturgis. Yeah, a great time. He doesn't transcend like like the other ones. Sturgis movie, you know, I know this is sacrilege. I don't think that they are very, I think that they're fun, but you know, not so mature. Well, they're certainly not mature. Yeah, I don't think they're they're intended to be mature. When we talk about Billy Wilder, my movie is yeah, my movie is the apartment. That movie breaks my heart and I will tell you something I've always been amazed that people refer to as a comedy. I don't see the apartment as a comedy at all as comedic moments or elements, but it is a very serious drama really. It's a romance drama with with funny with funny moments. Yeah, with funny moments with a nebish. Yeah, we showed at the Bedford Playhouse in a 4k digital prints. And it looked really good.  Yes, Robert Altman said that to me he said you always get better to see a great movie again than an average one the first time.  What I saw the last time was that Shirley McClain. Oh my, I've always been here, but that boy was she good in that movie. You want to see great Shirley McClain see some came running by Minnelli with. Oh, very good. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shot to beautifully shot and a great performance from Dean Martin. Great. Yeah. Those are the movies we got to celebrate there's no question about it. John, if you don't mind jumping in, we have a question that was submitted by email. So can I read this to you. Oh, yes, go ahead, Dan. Okay, so this person actually there's two very quick questions that were submitted by email a couple minutes ago. The first one is, is there any significance to Polanski being the one who cuts Jack's nose. And then the second question is, can you talk about the casting of John Houston. He seems so perfect in the role was anyone else ever considered for it. Yes. Now, I, I don't think seriously. I think it was pretty much Houston all the way. And the slitting of Roman slitting Jack's nose. That was just an opportunity for Roman to terrorize Jack, which they had a good time doing. Jack was a little nervous. Yes, he was very nervous because Roman had to invent that prop that that switchblade, and it was hinged on one side. And Roman went in and nicked him with the other side it wouldn't give and could therefore really cut Jack's nose and Roman would torture him. Well, that's the there's no significance no story significance. It was just two friends. You know, needling each other. Very good, Polanski really when you see me sort of Polanski is an actor Polanski isn't is an actor, you know, I mean, what an amazing you know people think, you know if he if he were just a director he'd be a giant but he was an actor and a fabulous writer. Yeah, great, great screenwriter. I didn't know until your book, Sam I didn't know how much of that script was was Roman Polanski's. He was amazing well and I always remember. Those of you out there if you want to see Roman Polanski's first feature knife in the water is still an amazing film. I saw it a couple of years ago again. It says triangle on a boat and, you know, lots of foreboding. He was a genius, without any question, it still is. Yeah, he really is he's still a genius. And I hear his new film is one of his best is one of his best movies I haven't seen it of course it doesn't have a release here but people who I know have seen it say it's one of his best movies. I was talking to people who say they're they're trying to work on it but I don't know it's about it's about the Dreyfus affair. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Well, we will hope so. I'm trying to see if there's anything else I've got here. I think we've I think we've covered everything. Now we can go back and look at real life and all the amazing things that are happening in our world right now out there in Chinatown. It's almost as dramatic as Chinatown. I was about to say that. Well, Sam, I want to thank you. It's been so delightful meeting you and and you and I are going to are going to stay in touch if you don't mind. Because we love the same things and I get out to LA and I'm sure you get to New York every now and again. I do. So it's wonderful. Thank you for this great book and ladies and gentlemen really do do do read all his stuff. I mean, they're all they're all great. They really are all great but the big goodbye is absolutely fabulous. I also really love Fifth Avenue 5am Darling Audrey Hepburn and Blake Edwards and all those. I mean that that movie which we also showed at the Playhouse and everyone's crying and the Henry Mancini score.  So thank you for celebrating it. And thank you for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you for bringing people together. Absolutely. Okay, Sam, we'll be in touch. Hi everyone. Thanks everybody. Hi. Good night. Good night. Good night.


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Everything on the website looks really good, so I'm kind of like, I'm gonna go ham, I'm gonna go ham, I would admit, yeah. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. I'm sick as you can tell from my voice, and I'm always looking at people who do sick videos and I'm like, girl you're sick, just relax. But I know this is like the one video, this is the video of the year, so I could not do it. So even though I'm getting over a cold and my voice is short, I just really had to do it because I know so many of you look forward to it. And I look forward to it. So here we are. This is my Black Friday, small business Saturday, everything down to Cyber Monday. Sale tips, buying tips, and natural hair product tips for you guys. I want you to get the best deals, I want you to be set for the rest of the year, if that's what you want. And I want you to just get good quality products that work great. So I spoke about this before in previous videos, but to get yourself set up for Black Friday, follow people like me on Instagram. It's a good first step really, because I repost a lot of the great sales. So if you just want to one-stop shop to find out what the good sales are and maybe get product recommendations, follow people like myself on Instagram, because that's where I do most of the blow-by-blow play-by-play for Black Friday. But if you're not doing that, you can always make sure you add yourself to the main list of all the brands that you're interested in, and follow the brands that you're interested in on social media so that way you can keep up to date and you can find out when they have their sales. And you can get on it as soon as the sale is announced. Because I know especially like Sultanika's fans and a lot of fans will set out their favorite items in like 2 seconds flat. I know a lot of people even fill their cards before the sale is announced, so they just have to kind of click check out. Like the Sultanika Superfans, like I mentioned. I don't go that far, but I do try to have an idea of what I want from each brand. Most brands do free shipping with a certain amount. A few will have free shipping just for Black Friday as well. So that's always something I look for. So for example, Bekura. I love the products, really expensive. If they don't have free shipping, I may not get it because usually their sales aren't the best, but their products are so good. I would buy at 30% off, maybe even 25% off if the products are good enough and there's free shipping. If I have to pay for shipping, I want the sale to be up there like 50% or 40% off.  I want the sale to be higher just so that I can kind of get my money's worth because sometimes you pay for shipping and I mean, first of all, trying to get up to $75, $50 worth of products. You tend to sometimes buy more than you want, so be careful of that. And when you get to that card, make sure you re-value it in life and decide if you really want all of these. How much is the shipping with them, without them. Do some adjustments in your card to make sure you don't have any bias remorse and you're completely happy when your products come. And if you buy a lot, write a list so you don't forget. So you can like make sure you track the mail to make sure you get all your stuff. Because if your mail delivery is shifting your area, I know my area, my mail delivery is horrible. So I have to kind of know when things are coming to keep an eye out for them. So I make a list of what's coming and when. So that's for the Super PJs, I guess. A list is good after you order. So those are my warm-up tips. Ready, set, go. Kind of warm-up tips. Get to what you're all waiting for, which is the sale numbers. So these are SMS, these are forecast, these are not set in stone. But I come up with these predictions based on previous years, based on last year in particular, as well as previous years. So without further ado, let's get into it. So I'm going to link my video from last year because it's going to have a lot of the product suggestions. So I may not do as many product suggestions this year. I will try to mention a couple. But check out my video last year. I think I did a really detailed product suggestions for each brand as well. So I mentioned Sultanicals. I'm going to start with them because they tend to give 50% off, at least at some point. If not Black Friday, then by Christmas. So again, don't blame me. But if you see less than 50% off on Black Friday, you could probably give them a couple days. See what they do on Christmas and see what they do on Simon Monday and stuff like that. But last year they had 50% off on Black Friday. So I'm hoping that they come big like that again. I love a lot of their products. My favorite is the Frisbee's Leave-In. I love the Slippin' Slight Knut Proof Hair Glide Leave-In. I like their Repair Mask DC, their MonoidC. I'm kind of digging the Cocoa Conditioner. I don't know if she'll have it. The Cocoa Conditioner and Butter Shampoo. Cocoa Butter Shampoo, I like those also. She just has a lot of like novel interesting things. So like she has some henna stuff and some detox stuff. You know, just go for it I guess with Sultanicals. I almost said I'm not going to get anything. I always get stuff even though I have lots of stuff just because the sales are so good and she tends to have like new and interesting stuff which you know is my kryptonite. So I see some new. I see some interesting. I have to try it. She got me. You know, so yeah. Honey Time Made was also 50% off last year. So they had like a pre Black Friday. So I think probably Thursday was 50% off, I think. Or like before season time on Friday was 50% off and they went down to like 45% off which is still a good deal. But I guess started looking out for them from Thursday to get an idea of what their numbers are and when. I got this Honey High Biscuits Deep Conditioning Mask which I really liked from them. I think I mentioned it in my last Seasonal Review. So I'm going to be buying from them again. Everything on the website looked a little different but looked really good and I liked that her products were really natural but worked really well. So I'm looking forward to trying more deep conditioners from her. Like especially. But I may try some leavings and other things as well. Miaw had a 50% off bundle last year.  And then I think it was just 45% off in general. So I'm just putting that in there because I know you guys love Miaw. I don't hate Miaw.  I mean I haven't tried that much. I like how the stuff I've tried from her works so far. Some of her sets are a bit strong for me. But I do want to try more and I am open to trying more. So that would be a maybe for me for Black Friday. But definitely if you guys are Miaw fans. 50% off or 45% off is a good deal. I'm not sure about Kirbsbys but I think they do sometimes have 50% off. It's really hard to get their really popular items because they sell out really fast. The blueberry bliss and all of that. You can probably try to get them for 50% off. Just make sure you watch to see exactly when their sale is announced because stuff sell out fast with them. And I think main choice is also up on that 50% off level. But I haven't tried them yet. You guys know that story. Don't know what to try. So one day, one sweet day, I'll try main choice and let you guys know. Definitely watch my review video when I do. I think Sprouted Curly's also does 50% off. I'm not sure. I've been trying their DC's and I really like them. If you're looking for a thick creamy DC that's not a sitter. Give these a try. They smell great and they have great ingredients. So I want to do a full review on them and I definitely like them. I've tried two so far. The Agave Nectar one and the Banana Cream one. Look out for them and see if they have a 50% off sale for Black Friday. Special mention to Melanin Shop which also does 50% off sale usually. I think it's great. It's fabulous because you can get all different brands. 50% off. Hey. Hey. You know. They have lots of different brands. They probably have something. You try something you haven't and it'll be great. Shipping is reasonable in everything so look out for them. Jaren Connor has like 50% off usually on Cyber Monday. Probably 40% off on Black Friday. So that's one I would probably wear to see what she does on Cyber Monday. Sometimes she even has like 75% off just on select items. Which would sound great for me because I'm able to get really cool stuff. Like there are a lot of cool less popular stuff from her original line. Like some of the oils have really great ingredients. I like the Curly Finding Cream. I like the Leaven Spray in the original line. In the Curls to Go line you guys know. I like the Leaven. I like the gel. But a lot of people get flased with the gel. Make Beautiful does a five dollar for each product. And the products are usually like nine dollars. So that's a pretty good sale as well. Something like 44%. I have some products from them to try. I do think that they have really good quality ingredients for their price. And I want to do kind of a value review, value demo, value watch they're using some of their products. So that's coming up next year. I do like it. It's more affordable. I'm using full size products for five dollars. I can't go around with that pretty much. You're not going to get better quality, cheaper products for Black Friday. I think Eatin' Body Works does a similar sale. But I don't think it's as low as five dollars. So check out Eatin' Body Works. Maybe they might have like a seven dollar per item sale. If you like Eatin' Body Works check that out as well. So going down I bet to 40% off I have a lot of favorites.  I love. I'm definitely going to be picking up. She sent it. I've been mentioning I want to get more of a pomegranate line. I loved it. I'm going to check out her new passion fruit line. Which looks super exciting. She just had like the Royal Honey Argan. She'll love to serve you one in my giveaway. I want to try some of that too. You're going to have to hold me back. I don't know what's going to happen. But she sent it and I have a date for Black Friday. And I'm going to be buying a lot. So look out for my haul video. Curly Richie also has 40% off. I love the protein treatment. I love the Maracuja deep conditioner. I haven't tried overnight deep conditioner yet. I still haven't but it gets rare reviews. So I'm confident in recommending those as well. I'm definitely going to be going over to the website and seeing what I can see. Tempting myself to see what else. Because I do have a lot of them in my stash right now. But if I see something I haven't tried I'm definitely going to be in it to win it as well. Blue Rose Beauty is also 40% off. I'm also going to be hitting that. Definitely want to stock up on my chai hair tea treatment. It's really moisturizing. It's a great deep conditioner. And it helps to control shedding. So my mom has been visiting and just using it. I don't know. It's fine. It's fine. You know. But I do need to get some more. So I'm definitely getting that. I love her cocoa cream shampoo as well. I love her soap berry cold wash as well. I love pretty much all her butters. Her cocoa cream gel. Her livens. If you like lighter products that are still moisturizing and creamy I recommend giving them a try. Be mine Organics was also 40% off. They seem like a really good brand. The ingredients look great. So I do recommend giving them a try. Let me know which of these products you like and let my other studies know which of these products and brands you like. Just help each other out. Put some recommendations down below. And also let me know about some other sales and stuff down below for sure to help each other out. Then we have Obiah Natures 35% off. I'm definitely going to be trying those soon. So I'm looking forward to trying them. I've had my eye on them for a long time. Again, the ingredients look really good. And there may be some things in the way that Obiah Natures is coming out soon. So look out for them. And if you love them you may be able to get them for 35% off. Then I'm down to my 30% off. The career which you guys know I love I've mentioned them before so I guess I don't have to mention them again. But I'll definitely be looking out to see if I can grab a thing or two based on whether they have free shipping or not. But 30% off is pretty much the best you're going to see from them. So I do keep an eye out for them on Black Friday. I love all the deconditioners. I love their Latte and kind of even. These are so like fluffy and be fine and stuff. Check out my previous videos, my reviews for a lot of these products I mentioned because I use them in a lot of my previous videos including the Becura. So check that out. Camila Rose also used to be doing 25% off but last year she opted to 30% off. Okay. I still have lots of stuff from her so I think I'm good this year. But definitely next year I guess I'll be buying and I definitely recommend. I love the pink line with that little butter gel. I love the Curlade. I love the Curl Maker. I love the Caramel Coal Wash from the original line. Oh, I do love the Latte and leaving from the leaving collection as well. And I love the Honey Leaving from the leaving collection for like twists and protected styles. It really helps retain moisture. So the Latte is good for my washing goals because it really helps to define and moisturize and everything. The Honey helps to moisturize but doesn't do that much for definition. But if you're looking to keep that moisture in for weeks definitely recommend the Honey for that. And I use the Oil Leaving just for taking down twists. I know it's great for that and it smells divine. But for me I probably use like my DIY oils or other oil mixes that I have over buying that Leaving in particular. I'm not sure which I haven't tried yet but which seems really good and I'm really excited to try and I actually have a mustache. It's also 30% off. I want to try their whole system. I have their whole system. So look out for me trying all of that next year. I don't have a deep conditioner. I think you just cleanse and then use their leaving and use the gel or something like that. So look out for all that works on this here next year. Caravada is also 30% off. I do enjoy using especially the gel. I also enjoy using the spray leaving as a leaving. Spray leaving can be a fee but I was able to successfully use it as a leaving. So yay for that. And I wouldn't be curious to eventually try more from Caravada. And last but not least I wanted to leave it for the last so I can give you guys my last happy energy to talk about Baskin Loom which you guys know I love which I'm currently a brand ambassador for Baskin Loom. They're also 30% off. I love the Bramie Hair Mask. I love the Urban Cleanser. I love the Kitties and Crews Moisturizer. Yes I use it on my hair. And I love the Twilly Hair Gel. So I'm definitely going to try more Baskin Loom. I love the Vibrant Radiance Space Moisturizer also. So I'm going to be trying more from them to look out for that. I definitely get you some. You can still use my code if you love me. I have a 20% off code but 30% off is what they typically have for Black Friday. If you miss it or don't get what you want to get then you can go back later when they reached up with a 20% off and still get your stuff. Yeah. So that's it. I made it true. Yay. Short and sweet-ish. Short-ish? Sweet-ish? I don't know. But thanks for watching. Definitely subscribe for more content. I do a lot of product reviews. I always come out to help you guys on Black Friday. My Black Friday haul is coming up. My best of 2018 is coming up. I want to do a roast about 2018 this year. I want to finally go for it. Yeah. And it's like the best time, my favorite time as a YouTuber in terms of like the cool videos I get to do. Definitely comment down below what you're getting from Black Friday, what you're interested in, what sales you've heard of, what products you recommend. For me, I'm going to get she-centered for sure and getting glurals for sure. Coloration I got recently so I probably may not get. So time goes, I have no business getting when I probably will get because she will get me because she always gets me. Honey's handmaid I definitely want to get because I just think she has so much cool stuff. Melanin shop I'll be peeping at. Jen counter I'll be peeping at. That's my list. What's your list? Let me know down below. See you in the next one. Thanks for watching. Bye.