Hello, good afternoon. I'm Melissa Lubke and I used to be a baseball reporter with Sports Illustrated Magazine. That was back in the 70s. And used to be means that my time around baseball about four decades in the rear view mirror. It was then that I wore this press credential pass that you're seeing and I wore it at the 1977 World Series. And that is the World Series where I ended up becoming a plaintiff in the federal court case that battled commissioner Bowie Kuhn in a women's rights case. In the end, it gave female writers the equal access that they needed to interview players alongside their male colleagues. Yes, they interviewed them in the locker room. This is the kind of comic strips and cartoonist vision of my story at that time that I became quite familiar with. It obviously brought up the question of whether he actually understood whose equal rights were in question. I'm grateful today to be moderating this conversation that's convened by my friends at the National Archives who are taking such loving care of the documents from my legal case, Ludkey V. Kuhn. I'm also thrilled that the National Archives has invited four women, myself included, to lead off its conversations about its new exhibit, All American, the Power of Sports. This exhibit just opened last Friday. It will be open until January 2024 and you can visit it in Washington, D.C. until then. You can also visit it in a 10 minute wonderful YouTube video that's been put together on the exhibit and we will put that link in the chat. We know that documents breathe life into our history as we can revisit long ago written words and feel sometimes as though we're touching those events. Today, we will use our voices to breathe life into the past and the present and look ahead to the future experiences of women in sports by speaking to the challenging issues that are still in play as women compete at the highest global levels of athletic performance. With increasing visibility, with increasing financial backing, though let's be clear why gender gaps still remain. To do this, I am joined by three women who apply their talents and their temperaments to the job of telling stories about how sports are played and also explore sports vital role in propelling societal change. Let me briefly introduce each one of them. I'm joined by Claire Smith, who is the director of the Claire Smith Center for Sports Media, a former baseball writer and as such the first and only woman ever inducted in to the Hall of Fame. There is also I'm joined by Iliana Limon Romero, who is the assistant managing editor for sports at the LA Times. She also is the chair of the Association for Women in Sports Media and the co-chair of the National Association of Hispanic Journalist Sports Task Force. Carrie Stett is a writer and athlete and she has most recently directed the Turner Broadcasting System feature film, Title IX, 37 Words That Changed America. She also has done a short documentary called First Down, an award-winning film about an underdog team in America of the first female youth tackle football league for girls. Okay, I'm gonna start with Carrie. And what I'm gonna ask you is in your visual explorations, you looked at the evolving impacts of Title IX, whose 50 years as a powerful level for gender equality we celebrate this year. You tell the stories about women in sports as a filmmaker and for your recent film, Title IX, 37 Words, you trace the evolution of Title IX through the life-altering sports experiences of basketball star, Candace Parker. Here you are interviewing her for that film. So here we go. As many of you know, the word sports is not included in Title IX, 37 Words, yet arguably sports is used by many Americans, if not most, to measure the progress that women and girls are making towards equality. So Carrie, I'm gonna ask you to remind us of the one word that is written into Title IX that did enable girls and women to pry open this education law to enable the courts to intervene when student athletes don't receive equal treatment. The word is activity. That one word changed everything and enabled sports to be part of the conversation. It did take years for that to happen, but now we have so much change that's been enacted over the last 50 years because of that one word. That's fantastic. Let us look at this point. I'm gonna ask you to leap ahead across Title IX, half-century of really transformational change to give us a sense, a sort of setting up a foundational sense of the distance that girls and women still have to go in achieving the equal treatment that this law carved out as its mission 50 years ago. So are you asking how far we've come or how far we still have to go? Well, it's sort of a mix of the two. I really wanted you, what I know in like 40 seconds, right? To tell us the whole societal change. Basically, I'd like you to sort of take us from where we are and but give us a sense of how we got there and also a little sense of what challenges we still have ahead of us. We'll dig into these a lot more as we go ahead. But if you can kind of set that framework for us, I'd really appreciate it. I would say, you know, here's an example is that when I was an athlete, we were issued men's sized clothing to wear. That most likely is not happening today. But that's an example of we, in the beginning we were lucky to be there and now today we're there but it's still not quite the same. And so how do we then lay the groundwork for girls and women of color? And everyone, there's the question of trans athletes. There's so many more ways that we need to push for equality, equal playing fields, literally. This happens most often in softball versus baseball, things like that. So it's sort of, we've come a long way. We have opportunities for sure. But are they equal? Are they meeting Title IX standards and our girls being given the same amount of opportunities to play from grade school up? It's not just about college. And so I think there's still a lot more work to do.  It looks to me like it might be a practice. Could you give us a sense of why you chose to focus on girls, it looks like high school, girls wrestling as an example in your film of showing the evolving story of Title IX? Yeah, absolutely.  And that's why, you know, I focused on tackle football and other films, but in for the Title IX film, wrestling is an area that's right now having a huge growth spurt for girls. And so they are in, you know, in a situation where they are breaking barriers, the girls that wanna play, whereas, you know, the sport of tennis, for example, has already been through that. Each sport is now going through their own trajectory and wrestling is one of the, you know, most, you know, fastest growing sports for high school girls right now. So I, you know, threw out the idea that we go visit a team at a high school in Chicago. We took Candace there and it was an incredible experience. I think, you know, she was inspired by them almost more than they were inspired by her. We were all quite moved at what it meant to them to be able to play and what it did for their confidence and how it was improving their lives beyond just, just, you know, when they were there playing sport. And so you see that time and time again that they should have the opportunity. Girls wanna play. They actually don't know that they can wrestle. And that's where the state of affairs right now for many wrestling programs. Thanks, Carrie. We'll come back and maybe talk a little bit more about wrestling later, because I know that in states like Texas and the rest where girls have not had a wrestling team at their high school, there's been a great controversy. There about whether they can in fact wrestle with the men's team, et cetera. So we'll come back to that in a little bit. But Claire, I wanna turn to you next as I let our viewers know what you said from the stage at Cooperstown on the hot July afternoon when you became the first woman ever in our nation's history to be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame. So I'm gonna read your words as we look at a photo, another photo of you taken that day. In fact, I took this photo because you were generous enough to invite me to be your guest at this incredible occasion and took a picture of you with Rachel Robinson, the widow of Jackie Robinson, who was the first black to play in the major leagues. So let me just read briefly the some words from that talk, the speech that you gave. You said, today I humbly stand on this stage on behalf of every single person in my profession, in baseball and beyond, who was stung by racism, sexism, and other insidious biases, but persevered.  So let me just begin by saying we know that girls and women have used Title IX as an essential lever in pressing for equal treatment. But in our shared journeys as sports writers, we relied on a different lever, the Constitution's 14th Amendment, while at the same time, we're lying on the collective strength of social movements happening in our lifetime, the civil rights movement and the women's movement. I'd like to ask you to speak for a moment to the ways in which racism and sexism have shaped and continue to challenge the opportunities and experiences that girls and women have when it comes to sports. Claire? Are you there? So if you can- Hello, yes. Let me start first referring to something that was said already, and that's about being handed men's clothing to play sports. And everything that's old is new again. I think back to the Olympics and the controversy over bathing caps that were better suited for women of color, given our hair types, textures, lengths and everything, and how the International Olympic Committee and others, their first reaction was to immediately outlaw something that made it more palatable, if you will, for women of color to swim. It's not that the bathing caps after test, after test, after test gave us an edge. It just allowed us to shove all of this into a bathing cap. Our hair is thicker and at times our styles are longer and jumping into a pool just didn't seem like a good idea if you couldn't protect your hair. So it's like whack-a-mole. You can go decade to decade to decade. You can think that you've buried one issue only to find something awfully similar popping up out of another hole. Are we told to go to the back of the bus? No, but the WNBA players, unlike their brothers in the NBA, hadn't until now had access to charter planes. They were walking through airports and running like OJ after planes and hoping not to miss their flights. That hasn't happened in the four major sports, men's sports in forever, okay? So it's just always equal treatment doesn't always necessarily mean dollars. It doesn't always necessarily mean that a front office isn't integrated or look like it has women in very important roles. But if you put all the women and all of your former players who are black in human relations and public relations, they're not necessarily helping you form the product on the field. And that's another subliminal way of saying you're not smart enough to play in this playpen with us.   But please don't try to push into the inner offices where the big boys play. Same with newspapers, same with the media. We do a great job of telling the sports that we cover what they should look like without looking in the mirror and seeing what we look like. So we've changed a lot. There are no Larry Dobies in fear of their life if they insist on eating at the lunch counter in Woolworths. Nobody with a badge is going to come and haul them off to jail. But there are just other ways and I think they call them microaggressions that just eat at your heart and soul often. We fight that with allyship. We fight it with people who might have bigger voices than ours at the time and we get those allies. LeBron James speaking again and again and again on behalf of Brittany Greiner means the world. But I think that there were more LeBron James is speaking out when George Floyd was murdered. So getting the same attention focused on women is hard, harder work, but it's not impossible. So to make tomorrow's list of grievances less compelling than the ones you hear today or in 1947 or 1907. It's just you have to keep working at it. And that's hopefully what we do through lessons like this. We inspire people to keep working at it. Great, thanks Claire. You're wrong, sorry. We're gonna circle back to many of the themes that you so wonderfully kind of brought to the fore. But let's bring Iliana in. Iliana, you're the first Mexican-American and the first woman to head the LA Times Sports Section in a city that is 40% Latino. And you are remain as the only Latina sports editor at a major US newspaper. So I went back, I listened to a podcast interview that you did this year and you observed that without representation such as yours in the newsroom, in journalism, vital stories are being missed. And as even as I say this, let's remember that it was just one week ago that the Tampa Bay Rays fielded an all Latino lineup of hitters, a first in Major League Baseball. So in that interview, you also said, for me it's class, race, gender representation across the board. Like we've had gatekeepers against class because access to this has been hard. We've had race issues and we've had gender issues. And you know, as much as we've made strides we have issues in all of these places. So just as I've asked your fellow panel members to help us in setting the foundation for our discussion about women in sports, I'm asking you if you'd give us a sense, again of the major challenges that women still confront in sports media, the place that you show up every day to tell these stories. Along with telling us how the larger presence of women and particularly women of color in print and broadcast sports media today affects the coverage of women athletes. So Ileana, please join us in setting that foundation for us. Thank you so much for having me and for the wonderful question. A colleague of ours, a friend of mine, Sarah Spain really put this eloquently and I continue to refer back to it. The ceiling has never been higher. We've punched through. We've had so many different opportunities. I have the opportunity that I have and we're seeing more and more positions open up. We're seeing more and more open up in terms of the storytelling that's happening across all platforms and in different ways. But the basement's never been lower in some cases because there are so many different challenges that do exist that suggestion that we're done, we're good. Everybody has the things that they need that we don't need to progress or continue the conversation. I think we have to look at how new media have impacted the way that we do our jobs, the impact of social media and the level of great autonomy for women being able to use those platforms to tell their stories. It's been great for female athletes but also the vitriol that was lobbed in different ways in the past is just so much stronger and so much more intense in some cases for some women working in all areas of sport. It's really challenging. So we have this great pride, this great joy that we look at to our veterans who have punched through and helped lead the way open doors for us. And then we have many others who are thriving who are being very successful. We see women representation gaining and we celebrate each of those wins. I think we have to, we have to sort of emphasize that and unite together in that way but there certainly are limitations. And when we do studies, when we do surveys and we've had more and more media companies declined to participate in these studies because they don't help. The numbers are not positive but the demographics has definitely showed that at best we've been stagnant and at worst we continue to decline in representation for women and journalists of color across all journalistic platforms. So why is that? Why are we seeing people plateau? Those are the things that I continue to work on each day and the statistics that you named as the only Latina sports editor in the United States. It's been like that for a while. I previously was a sports editor of the Orlando Sentinel. I took a deputy sports editor job at the Los Angeles Times and there were none. And then I got promoted and there was one again. And I am actively working to change that because we're missing out. Our, the media companies are missing out. It's to their detriment. The audience is finding other ways to engage with voices that better reflect their communities. They're finding other pathways and we're really, really missing out. To the detriment of legacy media not to understand this and to offer equity across the board. Terrific. Your answer is sparking in me. Just wanted to do kind of a quick lightning round perhaps and see if each of us can think of examples to bring forward the story that Iliana is beginning to tell us but focus it perhaps on women and see if you can think of an example that would tell a story of why it's mattered that a woman is the one telling the story about sports because as I found in my day back in the 70s when I had my lawsuit that was actually an equal rights lawsuit it was never, I was never able to tell the story because the men who held the megaphone back then told my story and they wanted to tell a story about leering women and naked men and that was really their only way of telling it. Not one of them showed up at the legal case at the hearing that this whole thing was about. So I often say that I very much lost that case in the court of public opinion and I was very fortunate to win it in a court of law. So what difference has it made that more women are now the storytellers at this time was we'd look at through the lens of sports at some of these broader issues. So let me mix it up a little bit. We started with Carrie last time. So let's start with Claire and we'll kind of go around in a counterclockwise here. Claire, you need to unmute, unmute. My class is so relevant to have to put it on mute. Over the years, the numbers have mounted and that is so gratifying. It used to be that I could count the number of women covering baseball encounters on one hand and have a couple of fingers left over. It's very important when you hit crisis, but it's exhausting if you're doing it in linear fashion and you find yourself in 2022 still being the go-to person because of incidents like yours. No, you can't do this and that and you're living history. So you're always asked to do the oral history or account for being the first or only one as Ileana. It'll be great when that isn't the second phrase in your future obituary was the first da-da-da-da-da because there are 20, 30, 40 others who've come along and made that non-essential in the explanation. They can concentrate on your work, not on the color of your skin. On the other hand, diversity matters. It really does and you get a lot of hints at the way people react to you and the kinds of questions that you put forward. I was told when I started that my worst enemies would be the wives of the men that I covered because we were going to be leering women in the locker rooms with their naked husbands. I found that to be so incredibly untrue that I actually asked the wife of a player that I covered for decades, Gretchen Randolph, wife of Willie Randolph. I was just curious why that never, never occurred that I always had wonderful working relationships with the wives and they were more than helpful, didn't hesitate at all to hand the phone over to their husbands when I called their homes and all. And she said, well, when you call Claire, you ask how I am, you ask how my children are and how their health is. They had some children with some physical ailments.  And she said, and then when the men call, it's Willie there. So maybe having a different kind of lens where we go through that kitchen and we're wishing we had, working women have wives or whatever and we're putting the children to bed and burying them to school and everything no matter our job. Maybe it's a different way of looking at things that the men pick up on too. We're not competing with them. We're not saying in deep down inside, damn, why does he get to make the money if the scout had only been there the day I was throwing then maybe I would have been there or that manager's an idiot, I can manage his team better than him. Things you hear in press boxes all the time. Maybe we just look at it differently and that's an important quality to take into any situation. In these rooms, on the news side, sports side, entertainment side. So that's the way I feel it. I hope I answered your question, Melissa. Yeah, so Ileana pick up, Claire's gotten us through the phone call and the wives and the stuff and giving us a good insiders view on some of the myths that she broke down and realized weren't true to start with. Do you have a sense on this that you wanna take us in maybe a different direction with this question on what differences it make that women are part of this mix in sports media? Sure, I think there's twofold. First, it'll threaten the lives or others. I just wanna say that hasn't gone away. Sadly, we still continue to hear that barb. We still continue to hear that attack of women who are taking up space where they're unexpected by some. So that is just an ongoing challenge. It's sort of the hidden extra work that is part of the privilege of being a woman covering sports today. In terms of what we bring, I think our background and our experiences shape each of us and we ask questions in a different way. We bring different thoughts and indirectly end up searing our coverage and by having diverse voices asking questions, you get a fuller picture of the community.  That's just on a broader day-to-day basis. And as Claire touched on, when there are more significant issues that do pop up, when you have unquestionably sexual violence in sport, unfortunately have become more and more part of the new cycle. It has continued to be an issue. And when you have people who have a background that's slightly different, pause to ask questions, ask and really look at the assumptions that are made from people who come from different backgrounds and can ask questions any meaningful way, then you unlock and get a fuller, more nuanced picture. I also think it's important to recognize the demographics of fans, that there is a perception that's male dominated, but in many cases, as much as half of the NFL's audience is women.  And so if you're trying to reach all these different groups answering these different ways, you need a broad cross-section of people to help come together and help tell that story. Great. Carrie, you wanna pick up? You might have a Candace Parker story to share with us or something else. No, I just, I mean, 100% on what you both have said, I think in the space of filmmaking and telling those stories, you know, there's a lot of work to do. We're fighting the same battle on behind the lens, right? So we have that happening too. I know that the film that I did when I first came on, there was a male director that was going to tell the Title IX story. And it ended up changing. And I directed the film, but I think that's just a good example of, you know, as filmmakers, we're not saying necessarily, we're saying we bring something different.  But as director and storyteller, you're also trying to show that I can do it just as well. We're just trying to get to, hey, I could do it just as well. So there's that. I don't even need to bring in something different. I just wanna be it to be understood that I could do it just as well. And I think that's the base level that we still don't have in my industry and it's getting there. But so, you know, I would say in the Title IX film, I definitely brought that perspective. I'm a Title IX baby. I lived it as an athlete. And, you know, I asked different questions than someone who didn't understand that would have asked. I was able to, you know, dig into the history and unlock, you know, ideas and topics that I just don't know how, you know, someone that hadn't been involved or is so passionate about it would have caught a lot of the detail. And the feeling behind it, the emotion from everyone that we interviewed. Right, right. And Melissa, could I just say one thing to that? It's not just about gender. It's about if you're background, if you're Italian or Hispanic or Irish or black or black African as opposed to black American, black Caribbean, African Caribbean as opposed to African American, you see things that the person next to you who you could call brother or sister just didn't grow up in a culture where it mattered. One example, quickly. Basketball player up in Connecticut, missed a shot, college kid. And the writer's first graph was so-and-so will be lucky if when the team's plane lands in Hartford, there isn't a mob waiting with a rope. The kid was black. I was the only African American in the sports department. And I went, I took the paper to the sports editor and I said, did you see this lead? And he said he had, and I said, do you know what hanging there for lynching means to black people in this country? And he was just dumbfounded. I never thought of that. He said, oh my goodness, oh my goodness. Well, that's what divert, why would he think of that? That's not his culture. That's not his great grandfather running from a mob. So that's what the diversity adds to every aspect of our lives. I'm gonna just add a very quick story, Claire, that you made me just think of. Nothing that has quite the resonance of the one you told, but it may shed some light on this in terms of the kind of stories that we also choose to do. And the ones we see as you pointed out. But when I was a rookie reporter for baseball and I would go up to the field, I had no idea sort of how things work. There were no other women I could go through to ask and the men didn't seem to want to have much to do with me. They didn't kind of want me there and made that pretty evident. So kind of had to feel my way around. So I decided that I would just kind of hang on the periphery of the various different circles of when they'd talk to managers, et cetera, or players and try to learn from listening to them and watching their back and forth to how to kind of do this. And what I came to learn over many, many, many months of doing this and then kind of trying it out on my own is that the question the men were asking just didn't interest me that much. I had different questions that I wanted to ask. And one of the results of that realization that I was seeing some things and interested in things that maybe they weren't as interested in was when I had an exchange with Johnny Bench one time, the All-Star Catcher. And Johnny Bench was just telling me what he, I guess was a funny story at the time about an exchange he'd had with a home plate umpire the night before. And from that, I decided that, well, has anyone ever looked at these exchanges that probably every catcher has with home plate umpires? And it became this very relational story of this game that was played behind the plate that no one has led into in which the catcher's job is to try to make the strike zone work for his picture, et cetera. And so the rest of that whole season, all I did was go and talk to the visiting catchers that were coming into Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium because I was based in New York. And then I would go and talk with the umpire crews. And over that winter, I wrote a story. I went and checked and I'd never seen anyone write anything about this. I didn't want to tell anyone about it because I thought it would be taken away from me by one of the writers. And so I just said, okay, let me see how it goes. And it ended up being the feature story in Sports Illustrated and their Spring Baseball issue. And they hired artists to do the work with it and stuff. And in fact, the story had never been told. And I often think one reason it had never been told is that there hadn't been really women hanging around baseball that had an interest in this kind of relational story of a game within a game. So I bring that up in the context of these stories that we may sort of have rise to the surface. Aside from the more evident ones, Iliana, that you talked about and sort of the unwillingness of us to sit by and not tell the stories of the things that are happening to us, whether it be abuse or harassment. So anyway, anyone else have something to add to that before I move on a little bit, although not too much? Okay, so one of the things that we're seeing today across sports, whether it's on the college level, but I guess more, I would argue probably on the professional level, is the willingness of athletes to take their brands and they do have brands now, they have brands they can even sell, but to take their brand and be willing to spend that brand in fighting for causes they believe in and speaking out on things that they see as societal injustices. I'm wondering if each of you, again, we can go around and maybe you can focus our attention on one particular athlete or instance of this that you've seen that might or might not remind you of what existed in sports in the past that might be featured in this exhibit. I know obviously Claire's affection and following of Jackie Robinson is a story that we remembered in its 75th anniversary this year, but let's go around and see if we can talk about maybe some examples of women in particular, the WNBA comes most to mind of these people who have been willing to stand up and speak out for about societal injustice. So let's start maybe with Carrie this time or Carrie, if you were still thinking. Well, you mean societal injustice, not necessarily within their sport. Oh, no, you can do within their sport too. Sometimes it is obviously within the sport, but other times it can be like the player, I can't remember her last name, but Maya who took a year off from playing in the NBA to go to bat for the man who would become her husband when she freed him from jail.  It's not a constricted question. So yeah, because I mean, the first thing that came to mind for me was the original nine, which Billie Jean King was one of the nine in tennis. And at the time they really realized that there was no real path for professionalism in tennis. And so they organized and made it happen, made a league and started getting paid. Payments were made under the table and it was sort of like shame at your tourism to get paid. So I think that in the world of like taking a stand on something that's something that just comes to my mind as something that's impacted us today. I know it's not a recent example, but I think it still matters today and the equal pay, the agreement that the women's soccer team or women's soccer was able to get recently, I think is related to, you know, 50 years ago. Okay. Iliana, let's go to you next. Yeah, there's just so many different really touch points that have happened. And we look at just from the Los Angeles area and in Southern California, I think, you know, obviously getting back to the Mexico Olympics, that protest and the really extreme backlash that existed and then how the climate has changed. And each time we like to think like, oh, it's so much better now, it's easier. Someone for like, Bron James, Serena Williams, others, you know, the US women's national team that was mentioned, the 99 World Cup winners who decided to come together and help finance the Angel City FC and national women's soccer league team and said, we wanna create the team that we never had. But each time these people speak out either about sport or externally to a person, they say it's still hard. It is still really difficult that there are still criticism, that there's still fear and anxiety over loss of sponsors. There's still great concern and there's still harassment. So taking a stand is becoming more and more normal and more and more celebrated, both internally and externally, but agitation still has consequences and they're not universal across the board, depending on the person's race, gender, ethnicity, class, all of those things come into play in terms of how it lands and how it's received. And athletes know that. And even those who come from the most privileged of backgrounds are still nervous because there's still some uncertainty of how will this land, how will this impact my future wages? What will this do? Will I be able to continue to participate? So before I come to you, Claire, I wanna just echo what you're saying. And that's one reason why I'm perhaps so heartened when I begin to see these protests or these sort of callouts to issues that are looking at social injustice. When I see an entire team doing it together or when I see a league like the WNBA supporting their players from the start in terms of shirts that they are going to be wearing that are going to be about particular issues. Obviously it's gonna help enormously if in doing so, you have the support of your teammates and you have the support ultimately of the league, it's gonna be a less threatening situation, but there are certainly individuals who are still speaking out without any of those you know, kind of guarantees. So I certainly take your point. Claire, great place to pick up with you. Yes, back in the summer of George Floyd, the NBA obviously jumped to and the WNBA jumped to and I covered a sport where I had absolutely zero expectations of baseball following those leagues. The reason being that African American numbers have dwindled to the point where it's almost back to just a couple of years after Jackie Robinson came in and 47 a couple of years ago, there were 11 teams that had one or fewer African Americans. That doesn't mean the league isn't diverse, it's more diverse than it's ever been. It's just that the people of color that you see don't necessarily come from America. So they're not going to readily relate to George Floyd and the African American male African American experience in dealing with police officers or the law or the court system. So Adam Jones, who was on the Orioles was asked, why don't you take a knee? Which is an easy question for the person with the notebook to ask, but Adam was honest. He said, because they can make us disappear. And he said, besides, who am I going to talk to in my clubhouse where I'm the only African American? So George Floyd and some other unfortunate people were shot and or killed that summer and this movement, it awakened in baseball and it started with an outfielder here in Philadelphia, Andrew McCutcheon, who wrote a letter to his young son having the conversation, what do you do when you stop?  And he, someone published the letter and the letter came to the attention of Curtis Granderson and out of that germ of an idea came the Players Alliance and a group of African American players, many from past, some from the present, the past outnumbering the present, but they formed an organization and they said, baseball, you have to do something. And since then, baseball has poured literally hundreds of millions of dollars into its relationship, not only with the Players Alliance, but the union. And they are planting seeds all over the country, whether it be refurbishing fields, putting in educational components in what they call underserved communities, i.e. way out in the sticks or in the very, very parts of the inner cities where scouts stopped going many years ago. And you're seeing these partnerships, the union and management pretty much at each other, but on this they agree. And in total transparency, this Claire Smith Center wouldn't exist if it weren't now for that partnership because there are major funders to get this center up and running. So I do have to say that and Temple's grateful for that, but you see out of one letter can come an amazing impactful moment or moments. And we're lucky to witness that through the decades. Through the decades. Well, I don't think we can leave here without talking about women's soccer, U.S. women's soccer, because I can look at Kerry and I can think about Title IX. And I think arguably Title IX is responsible for the fact that we have had a U.S. women's soccer team that as far back as the 90s literally won the World Championships and has continued to play on a global stage with great results. And aside from that, those women have been relentless. And again, I go back to Kerry's bringing us back to the question of equal pay. Equal pay is something they have just completed. I would say it's probably been a three or four year very, very strong campaign that has taken them into court against the people who are their federation. Against their own leadership, they've taken them to court. And they have used social media and they have spoken out in ways that are blunt and to the point and certainly haven't held back in their criticism of the people who are running their game. And in the end, they have won and they have signed the first contract that gives equal pay to both the men and the women who are playing on an international fields in soccer. This was thought years ago to be an impossible battle for them to fight. So again, we don't have a lot of time but I'd like to go around and see if any of you, each of you may have a thought on sort of call out about what's women's soccer has taught us through Title IX and also through their own incredible efforts to persevere and to win in this case. Kerry, you wanna start with Title IX and- Yeah. I think what they've taught us is to speak up. I think when there's something wrong, we get used to it. We think, oh, I'm lucky to be here, right? But if there's something wrong, you can speak up and Title IX gives you the backup to go and do something about it. And I think that women's soccer is going to change everything but the mom that we interviewed of a softball player in Georgia whose field was unsafe at her school fought to get changes made to the field and for a high school girls softball team that now can play safely without holes with protection against the dugout, things like that, that they just accept it as okay but now the changes are made. I think she said it well. She said, my daughter may not be a professional softball player but she is going to be a professional and she needs to know that it's not okay to accept that. And so I think that for the Title IX example, whatever that wrong is that we're experiencing or we're seeing that we should speak up about it and we do have the ability to, the right and the ability to do so, whatever that is. Great, thanks for getting us going on this. So who wants to go next? Do Vianna, Claire? Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to chime in. I happened to have worked in markets where Alex Morgan was as part of the equal pay fight spelled out, she was in Orlando and I was in Orlando at the time. You know, this was a hard journey for her. It was a hard journey for a lot of the team. It's really calling into question like as you push back on this how is this fundamentally going to impact your wages? The structure that existed in some ways had some advantages for the women that were important. This was really key on their salary structure in between, even though it was not equal, it was substantial and significant important and to kick that hornet's nest and to not know which direction it was gonna go was a really difficult thing and it was a heavy burden to carry while pursuing a World Cup. And this was not something that came very easily and I have seen for Alex in particular watching how she's gained confidence in each step, how the feedback that she's gotten, how the social and political climate in our country has just kind of continued to embolden her, the banding together of players to push back against sexual harassment within their own domestic league, you know, pushing back against those who violated boundaries and were inappropriate and then for Alex that she became a mom, how that changed again and just made her digging even more because she was inspired by her own daughter. So I think that journey is kind of mirrored across the entire team and I think the lesson that I can see from it is like, it's not easy and it's hard, but if you do hard things, there can be tremendous rewards and that is how we move forward. And so those are the lessons that I think are kind of reverberating across all sport for women and equally for the women who are covering them. Like these things are not easy and that's okay, but we have to push through and there are great rewards if we do. Great. Claire, why don't you close us out on this one and then I'm gonna begin to wind us down. So go ahead. Well, when I think about the bravery, this sheer tenacity of the women, I also think of the larger backdrop, they were doing this often speaking, answering back, pushing back against the president of the United States who had probably single-handedly made Colin Kaepernick disappear, as Andrew Jones said.  And I think the country really picked up on that and had their backs, not the way that probably a lot of more conservative types wanted to see it go.   Yeah. Well, evidently everyone opened their eyes wide when we started this, but I made a technical error. So I am going to now call on the tech people to walk us through the slides that I referenced when I was introducing our wonderful panel. And I think now that you know them and you have a feel for them I'm gonna just narrate them very quickly as I turn this over to the actual people who know how to do this as opposed to me. And then we'll come back and have a brief goodbye to all of you, but let's look at those pictures and just walk us through very quickly what we missed earlier. So as soon as they start coming up I'll give you the heads up.


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Why is it so dark in here? I had to put the lights out the blinds stuck I couldn't get it down the heat's off Effie let there be light. Oh Don't look at me like that and stop whispering Oh Sam Did you get me all upset like that just for a joke? It's no joke sweet, huh? And just sick of some of the types I made in this business. Oh Date July 25 1948 to Detective Lieutenant Dundee homicide detail San Francisco police from Samuel Spade license number 1 3 7 5 9 6 Subject the mad scientist caper. I worry so Dear Dundee He looked like a mad scientist and that's exactly what he was His eyes had a wild gleam in them His hair was a wild tangle and he was wearing a wild assortment of clothing that looked as if they'd been slept in and shifts He leaned across the desk at me and said they have stolen my secret formula. They had Gee that's too bad. Oh, you think I'm crazy. I don't know yet. I just met you My name is Raymond Fox. Did that mean anything to you Raymond Fox? Yeah, I think it does, but I don't quite remember what I invented the helioscope helioscope No, that wasn't it. I also synthesized hydroxyl. I'm a photocranotone. That was it. Yes, but Unfortunately, production costs were prohibitive. Uh-huh, but you didn't like that discourage.  That is what they have stolen the secret formula for penitron Now, uh, what exactly is penitron mr. Fox and who are they where penitron is a plastic with a molecular Structure which repels atomic radiation more efficiently than lead yet weighs less than aluminium. Oh that do you realize the significance of this? Well, I imagine imagine a motor no larger than a cigar box with a power potential that even I don't believe But they do who's they Grierson enterprises Now, how do I know this when I applied to the patent office to protect my discovery? I received this letter Yes, come on read it for yourself Commissioner Patton's Washington DC dear mr. Fox your application for patent on formula designated under the trade name penitron is Hereby rejected Both formula and trade name together with the script of material identical to yours have been registered by mr. Albert Grierson Grierson enterprises San Francisco Very truly yours George Sherman acting deputy assistant commissioner. Yeah, you see Yes, you don't need a detective mr. Fox, but you need is a good patent lawyer lawyer I have one a legal ball of fire named Roscoe Manning. You know this scoundrel Yeah, he's got an okay reputation and I am paying for it $3,000 in retainers and now he tells me he can do nothing Insufficient evidence. He says what is this outfit Grierson enterprises? Yeah a snare in the delusion with with rented furniture unscientific ventilation and dirty work at the switchboard How did they get hold of your formula? Well, it must have been while I was ill they came and took it away Audio laboratory what does it matter where I've got to start someplace start with the man I promise you he's a crook if he steals from me he's stolen from others if we can prove that then I have a case Well, I can't promise you anything mr. Fox, but I'll see what I can do Will a hundred dollars be enough for your retainer too much 25 now and the balance if I can do anything for you I I Dotted if I could even earn the 25, but if he wanted to gamble it was okay with me The officers of Grierson enterprises were pretty much as he described them a beautiful front Especially at the switchboard Enterprises good afternoon. No, mr. Grierson's out of town. No, I don't know when he expected. I'll be right with you That's good. No Grierson enterprises No, he is not. No, I do not and he doesn't want to talk to you in any case, mr.  I might as well. Nobody seems to believe me. Anyway, you're not looking for him too I hope oh, please just tell me you're selling magazines or collecting salvage or just anything my card Detective mr. Grierson hasn't done anything has he that's what I want to find out my client says he swiped his secret formula Oh, not that maniac. You don't look the type. You know, he's mad. Don't you maybe yes Maybe no personally. I'm crazy about money mad money pin money or dirty money Your employer didn't happen to leave any line around it No, but he has a charge account at a bar downstairs in the building and it's nearly five o'clock. Could you cross examine me there? I Fanked her as gallantly as I could under the circumstances. She said wait here. I won't be a minute And while she was gone. I made a quick frisk of the office The file cabinet was empty Grierson's desk contained nothing but two unsharpened pencils tobacco crumbs a rubber band some rusty paper clips an old gas bill a glass ampule Broken labeled sodium denadrine for intravenous injection and a business card from one Roscoe Manning attorney-at-law I stuck the card in my pocket went back to the switchboard and the last time and it takes to tell I was Calling her Lois and she was calling me Sam over cocktails for two That's all I know about it. I didn't think anything about he's taking his correspondence out of the files He often took work home with you When was the last time you saw him? Oh, it's been nearly six weeks. You haven't heard from him in all that time He was with mr. Fox just before he left They had a terrible quarrel But then mr. Grayson managed to get him calmed down and they left the office together And that's the last time you saw grace. Yes, and it's all very strange. What did that mean? I tell you that Grayson swiped his invention. Do you believe that I didn't even believe in the invention now I'm beginning to think it was worth stealing. Oh, mr.  Well, I don't know you always had a lot of projects But of course, he never took me into his confidence. Just exactly. What is your job? Oh, it's quite simple really I just tell people he's an end. Yeah, look Sweetheart you really mean to tell me it never occurred to you that there might be something slightly fishy about Grayson enterprises, I know why should it because it's a smell of red herring up there. It's in the air. You mean mr. Grayson the crook Well, what does that make me worry that out on his time drink up? She looked as if she were telling the truth though with women, especially blue-eyed women That doesn't always mean anything if she had anything more to tell she obviously wasn't ready yet to tell it I asked her to come up and listen to my herb Jefferies records She said my apartment needed a woman's touch. I handed her a broom She hit me on the head with it and left and so to bed Up the times and phone my client. He wasn't in Then I phoned a guy I know who sometimes knows about things and asked him what sodium denadrine was. He said it was a sedative and or truth Sure mental type drug. I Wanted what grizzins have been using it for during office hours. I also wanted what else he'd been spending money I phoned another guy who knows about other things and he called me back with the name of grizzins bank Golden Gate Trust An hour later to my surprise. I actually had something to go on Because in the past six weeks checks totaling 50,000 bucks had been deposited the grizzins account all drawn on a citrus exchange bank of San Enselmo and all bearing the signature of one Carl Birdwell MD He wasn't hard to find it was a big place on the outskirts and the sign on the gate said Mary F. Hotchkiss Hospital for the mentally deranged Dr. Birdwell's cottage was one of five without bars on the window. He was spraying his roses No, that's just a deck to me of dr. Cobbler's how are those convulsions coordination alright can't complain got these of your fingers back Good pick up those shares.  Hey, I thought you were the sister deck to me. Good Lord. You're that convolutional melon Koliak You're not allowed out on the grounds God Wait a minute doctor This one acting up take him back. I said for the sister deck to me. This is the wrong man. You're crazy. Come on. Let's go of me I'm not a patient here. I'm a detective. Yeah, and I'm I'm Sherlock Holmes.  I got an office in San Francisco. I can prove it one three seven five nine six Okay, dr. Watson, but come on come on And in more time and it takes to tell due to the guards jiu-jitsu I was disrobed straight jagged it and rolled into a wet sheet Full fledged inmate of the Mary F. Hotchkiss hospital for the mentally deranged Which is exactly where I belong for having taken mr. 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Hotschke's Hospital for the mentally deranged They get the patients up early by 6 30 in the a.m. I have been rolled out of the sheet by quarter of seven I had thought out enough to be taken out of the straight-jacket by an orderly I was glad to be out of it because it was very heavy and that gave me an idea I picked it up and swung it in less time than it takes to tell I was in the orderly's uniform out of the Violent wing and shuffling up the walk through dr. Birdwell's rose garden and through his cottage door Good morning dr. Birdwell good lord who let you in here? What do you want? I was trying to tell you yesterday when I was so rudely interrupted. Hey. Oh, yes, the detective Did you say Grierson sent you I didn't say that I'm afraid you'll have to be absolutely specific or I can't help you All right My client is an inventor who claims that mr. Grierson stole a formula from him got a patent on it and stands to profit Of the tune of about a million bucks the last two items check. I don't know whether Grierson's a crook or not He's into you for fifty thousand bucks.  That's a fair description Fox Raymond Fox. He's a patient escaped from this hospital That man mr. Spade is a homicidal maniac if you jog your memory you may recall the case Sacramento 1935 second wait a minute Chemistry professor lab explosion that's the case two of his colleagues whom he irrationally suspected of stealing the Formula for the explosive he used to blow them up. Are you sure they didn't the man was a judge hopelessly insane? He must be returned to us. He may murder Grierson He may murder you but he will commit a murder if he remains at large perhaps more than one murder He must help us spade like you doctor I can't help unless you're absolutely specific about a couple of things your connection with Grierson for instance I invested in Grierson's firm How did Fox meet Grierson? He was allowed a certain degree of freedom here during his rational periods I guess that he went through my papers or overheard one of my conversations with mr. Grierson Do you know he retained a lawyer? Hmm? Manning smart patent lawyer must think Fox has a case Surely not Grierson thinks so too You've talked to Grierson. No, but I've examined his bank statements the bank allowed that I told him I was Grierson's attorney the point is Grierson is broke Why because he's paid out every penny you gave him to the order of Roscoe Manning attorney at law And you know what I think doctor. Yes, I think Raymond Fox is crazy like a fox I had the same idea about dr. Birdwell, but I didn't say so I didn't feel up to spending another night in a wet sheet I also didn't feel up to the interview that was awaiting me outside the gates a limousine only a little longer than a hearse was standing at the curb Around pink head with a gray humberg on it Bob doubt at me from the driver's seat and said mr. Spade. Yeah Roscoe Manning, how'd you do about 49,975 bucks less than you've done in the caper so far The law is a lucrative profession my boy. Yeah, get in. I'll drive you back to town. No charge Yeah, I'll even give you some free advice sons retainer Well, sir You earn in Lucy champ I've had the devil's own time catching up with you. How did you I won't ask why I am not without resources Now as to our mutual client mr. Fox Obviously, you've learned a good deal about him. Dr. Birdwell says he's cuckoo and it's only a toss-up Which one of us he's gonna blow up first And just about what you'd expect from a medical man if you'd listen to as much conflicting Medical testimony in court as I have you take them all with a grain of salt or should I say soda meant or a sodium denadrine? That's a mysterious remark. I was just trying it on for size. It didn't fit Well, sir, here is my proposition As to Fox's sanity, it's of no importance. He has money and I think he has a case We can always get a doctor to say he's back in his right mind. Where do I fit into your scheme? You just keep looking for Greerson and what's that secretary of his I don't trust her Anything else? Oh, I almost forgot. Here's $500 and here's your ticket to Chicago I don't know why but somehow I got the impression that mr. Manning was trying to get rid of me He should have used that ticket to Chicago himself We stopped at Saucelito for breakfast and the condemned man ate a hearty meal We drove the last mile through the marina district and pulled up in front of his house Well, sir, have a nice trip or take the car mr. Spade. I'll pick it up at the depot. Goodbye. It's been charming He backed across the sidewalk waving and I waved back and he went up three steps put a key in his door and opened it It didn't do much damage to the house But all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Roscoe Manning back together I got out of the car and just made it up the steps when it happened again I hated the look but I did where the limousine has been parked with me and it was a smoking heap of scrap metal I then headed for the nearest phone booth and pausing only to inspect it for mines and booby traps dialed the number of grires and enterprises Lois Sam Spade Sam darling. Thank you for the present. What present? I haven't had it.  All right. I'll open it now throw it out the window No, don't do that pedestrians innocent bystanders. If you got a metal wastebasket there I think so. Yeah, we'll fill it up with water and throw the package into it and ruin my lovely clock It is not a lovely clock. It's a lovely booby track. Oh go on. I'm serious Manning just got one of them and what's left of him is on the way to the morgue Lois Lois Wake up pour some water on yourself. Hello. Hello Let me through here. Come on. Let me through Lois Lois Oh, you're okay. Look at that All right.  She's all right Come on get up. You're not hurt It exploded in the water at least you had sense enough to do what I told you to It looks fine here with this coat around you I don't think that was a very funny joke Neither do I now uh try and forget your clothes for a minute try and answer a few questions for me There isn't much time Sam. What is it? I want you to be very sure of this Lois try and remember accurately How many people has grass and scenes as he opened this office? Not very many. It was already ever in It's strange. No, I think of it. I can only remember two mr. Manning and that mad scientist man, mr. Fox Yeah, did you hear any of the conversation between Gerson and Fox? He just screamed at mr. Gerson about how his invention had been stolen from him That it sounded as if they scuffled and all of a sudden mr. Fox calmed down When they came out his eyes looked funny As if he'd been hypnotized. Yeah, what does Gerson look like? Oh, he must have been quite handsome at one time He's sort of like Gregory Peck with a mustache only fatter and balder and older I wouldn't put it exactly like that, but I can see what you mean, but you've never seen him Don't make book on it, but I think I have I made three phone calls One to a crime reporter I don't like very well giving him a false story on the death of Lois Gerson secretary another to my client the mad scientist alias Raymond Fox and one to dr. Birdwell Then I went to my apartment and waited My client arrived five minutes before the doctor when birdwell came in my client said, aha That's he he stole my secret formula. Oh now Raymond. You're getting confused again. Oh, I'm the doctor. Don't you remember? That's not true. Your name is Gerson. Oh, he's much worse these identifications He must try to remember Raymond. Nobody's going to hurt you But you'll be much sicker if you don't remember But I do remember I remember everything Do you remember setting the bombs at Manning's house and the one you sent to mr. Grierson's office? No, no, no, no, no Grierson isn't dead. You're grierson. No Grierson isn't dead only that poor girl No, no, no, she didn't steal my formula. It was you. Oh, you're trying to mix me up. I'm trying to help you Now roll up your sleeve I'll give you something to quiet your nerves and we'll go back to the hospital What are the way doctor you helping them on up? Huh? Now look here. This man is my patient. He needs medical attention I won't argue with you, but I think he'd better get it from some other doctor Right now he's making more sense than you are. Just keep on the way you're going spade and I'll have you back in that wet sheet I did it once and I can do it again. Sit down You got delusions of grandeur Stop shaking Raymond. I said you're making more sense than he is and I can prove it You think you're very astute, don't you? No, I'm stupid, but I'm lucky I should have tumbled to the whole caper when I found that you'd invested 50 000 smackers in grierson enterprises When I found out that Raymond was an escaped patient, I should have tumbled to what that denadrine vow was doing in grierson's desk I should have known then that you and grierson were one and the same person When I discovered that you'd paid manning all that shakedown money I should have known you were planning to knock him off and everybody else who could identify you But it didn't work out that way I got out of the car before it blew up Dumb luck and you can identify me as grierson I don't have to Surely you're not counting on Raymond's sanity to that extent. He can't even remember that I was his doctor Can you Raymond? You're trying to mix me up. Did you stole my formula? I didn't kill them. Did I mr. Spade lie down on the couch and relax Raymond. Don't worry about a thing Well, doctor what now you relax too Okay, laws come on in. Well Lois why mr. Grierson? Have you been sick?   Come on get back there get back Sorry, sweetheart. I didn't mean to let him get that close to you. What were you trying to do? It was an experiment just to see what would happen It did so that's the way you scientific dictators work For a hard-boiled chap you're the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of Well, uh plans are all right sometimes doctor and sometimes just stirring things up is all right if you Tough enough to survive and keep your eyes open so you'll see what you want when it comes to the top or something Uh spade dandy I'm at home I've uh got two homicidal characters here one sane and one insane Now if you can tell the difference, I'll let you give the story to the papers And that lieutenant day is the crop you uh picked the wrong one figures It's as simple as this Raymond fox was the loony but bird well alias grierson conceived and executed the whole scheme Including the explosions. Don't worry about fox. He's now back at the hospital working in a new secret formula I don't know what it is, but it might be an anti-truth serum serum Because that's how bird well got the penitron formula by using truth serum on the mad scientist to make him talk Anyway, you figured he's crazy like a fox his enemies are all dead around their way And he's as snug as a rug in a bughouse period end of loony tune well of all Well, just well it takes all sorts to make a world I guess well I guess you never spoke a true word evy, but don't forget a stitch in time saves nine Don't feel too bad about it Sam Better late than never you took the words right out of the horse's mouth But it's later than you think angel tight that up angel and while you're at it See if you can think up a way to teach an old dog new tricks Say mister if you haven't tried wild root cream oil here tonic Why not get it tonight or first thing tomorrow? 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I wouldn't worry about him as you pointed out He's safer where he is for all concerns and after all necessity is the mother of invention What's that got to do with anything? Well, he's an inventor, isn't he? Oh that you see all well that ends well Good night, Sam. Good night Polly Anna Polly Anna.  Oh, no, Sam. That shakes me that old You know best all the shore that's going ashore. Good night, sweetheart The adventures of sam spade that shall habits famous private detective are produced and directed by william spear Sam spade is played by Howard duff. 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What's going on, everyone? Sam here with Layton Sports Cards, ripping 22. Panini XR football hobby, 7 box, half case break, number 22. Pick your team style. Going to read off a list of our names and teams. Andrew A. Falcons, Brett M. Ravens, Brian P. Seahawks, Bruce B. Bears, Chris G. Jags, Dalton Z. Jets, David R. Giants, GK with the Vikings, Jonathan P. Raiders, Jonathan Q. Patriots, Jordan B. Texans, Joshua R. with the Buccaneers, Keith B. R. E. with the Packers and Keith B. R. A. with the Saints, Mallory M. Browns, Matthew M. Bills, Matthew V. Lyons, Mo M. Chiefs, Moses L. Chargers, Nolan W. Steelers, Ryan D. Cowboys Titans, Steven W. Rams, Steven H. with the Eagles, Steven R. with the Bengals, Tara A. Broncos, Tim V. Dolphins Cardinals, Victor F. Colts, Will S. Niners football team and Zachary S. Panthers. Good luck here, everybody. Let's get into it. Extra, extra, Chris Olave to 149. Jalen Tolbert to 49. Blue, Atarik Wolin to 199. And Brian Robinson Rookie. Basin base. Kyle Hamilton, 27 out of 75. Four-colored RPA for the Ravens. Nice one there. Kyle Hamilton hits a lot in this product. I like it. I like it. I'm a fan of that. Congrats, Ravens. Here was a Notre Dame standout, right? Yup, the safety. Briefishly athletic safety. Stupidly athletic safety, I should say. Justin Jefferson to 99. Vikings. Kenny Brooks to 249, Eagles. And Rookie of Nicoby Dean for the Eagles. Basin base. Nice one here. Going to the Steelers. Kenny Pickett, 14 out of 99. Congrats, Pittsburgh. Nice one there. I can hang this one. Nice picket, congrats against Steelers. And then we've got Bailey Zappi. 40 out of 49, a four-colored patch. Congrats, Patriots. Jonathan Q, nice one there, JQ. We've got Breeze Hall, rated R on the Super Short Print. Acetate, nice one there for the Jets. These are cool. I like these. These are really nice. Zion McCollum to 199. Donterio Drummond to 249. And Kair Ilum Rookie. Basin base. There's Damian Pierce, Rookie of Jersey Auto to 199 for the Texans. Congrats, Houston. And Colts to 249. Tariq Wollin to 75 for the Seahawks.  He's so good. Tariq Wollin, the corner, Rookie corner on the Seahawks. He's like, if Shalas Gardner wasn't as good, he'd be like, clear favorite here, yeah. And Kyle Hamilton, Rookie. He's so good. Basin base. There's Jalen Tolbert, 19 out of 49 for the Cowboys. Yeah, a couple of Saturday games. Jax Highton's tomorrow night. Trey McBride, triple threats, Rookie Jersey, two out of 75 on the, again, on the triple. Justin Fields to 249. Brandon Cooks to 199. Sauce Gardner, Rookie. Basin base. Devonte Wyatt, gold Rookie Auto, eight of 10 going to the Packers. Nice one there. Set, like kind of an off-color match. That line's green big game is for the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, true. We've got Matt Corral, X-ray, Rookie Jersey card, 42 out of 75 for the Panthers. Extreme rookies, 10 of 49 is Isaiah Spiller. Damian Pierce to 249. George Pickens to 75. Brian Cook. Nice one here, going to the Titans. We've got Malik Willis, 12 out of 49. Congrats, Tennessee. Two hit, pulled big quarterbacks in this, well, Perti's not in this, but pulled to the big Euror quarterbacks. Nice Malik. Redemption in this one. We've got Rated XR, Jalen Hertz. Nice one there for the Eagles, congrats Eagles. Nice Hertz on the acetate. Brandon Ayak to 249. Gold, Dax Hill, two of 10 for the Bengals. And Jalen Tolbert. What's it for Jalen Hertz? It's a second round there. Really? Early second round, I think, or mid-second round. We've got Brian Robinson Jr., Rookie Triple, Swatch, Autographs, Red, going to the Commanders. Congrats, Washington. Nice one there. Will S on that one. Number one Jalen Hertz, got benched for 2-1. Yep. The Oklahoma Finals. Yep. Alec Pierce to 99, then he went transferred to Oklahoma and lit it up the next year. Tyrion Davis price to 199. And still got drafted way behind 2-1. I know, it's unbelievable. Base and base. Now look at him. 53rd overall, yep. Mid-second round, I would say. Jalen Tolbert to 99. 13 of 99 for the Cowboys. Rookie Auto. And Calvin Austin, Triple Threats, 33 out of 75 for the Steelers on the Triple Jersey. Here's Extreme Rookie. Eric Azucana to 99 on the blue. Got Brian Asamo to 199. We got our case hit, Base X of Stephon Diggs. Very nice. Going to the Bills. Congrats, Buffalo. Base X and Jermaine Johnson. Base and base. We've got Skymore, one of one on the Logo Patch. Boom. Going to Moe M with the Chief. Congrats, buddy. Rookie Excellence, one of one. There we go, Moe. Congrats, man. Moe all the way out in Alaska. And we're gonna send an empty box and wrapper, a little bit of classic XR chipping on the bottom. We'll send an empty box and wrapper though with it, Moe, just to be safe. The Blacks always have chipping on it. Jake Ferguson to 249. Daniel Jones to 99. Vilas Jones base. Base and base. Pierce Strong Jr. to 199. Rookie Jersey Auto, going to the Patriots. And Xamir White, X Factor Material. 57 out of 75 for the Raiders. Yes, geez. Rated XR, Mack Jones for the Patriots. Nice one there. Congrats, Pat. Majiah Sanders to 199. Mack Jones to 249. Tyler Algier Rookie. We've got another redemption. This time it is Jameson Williams. Rookie Swatch, Autographs Orange, going to the Lions. There you go, Detroit. I know Zyrex was asking about that. There's a JML for you. Congrats, man. How did JMo and not JWill? JMoSin, I guess, I don't know. But it's not even spelled like that. Chris Godwin to 199. Dax Hill to 249. There's Majiah Sanders, base and base. Got Calvin Austin, Rookie Auto to 199. Or not Zyrex, that was in Zyrex. That was Matthew, who was asking for the Lions. Zyrex out of the Jags. We've got Traylon Burks, triple threats. Rookie Jersey, 31 out of 75 for the Titans. Back of the break. Good luck, everybody. Son Haskins to 99. Jair Alexander to 199. And Pierre Strong, base. Gabe Davis got going to the Bears. Great iron grates, Mike Dicca. Dude, that's so nasty. Congrats on that, Bears. Dude, that's freaking amazing. Those Grinnelli and Grates cards are sick. So cool. That's Bruce B. Congrats, Bruce. Iron Mike, Trayvon Walker, 13 out of 25. Two color, two color, two color for the Jaguars. Duh Bears, Mike Dicca, a printing plate. Who's it going to be? Brian Robinson, Jr., Extreme, Rookie to 149. Desmond Ritter to 249. We've got Romeo Dobbs, one of one printing plate for the Packers. Nice one there. Love on the plates now they have the little one-to-one. So awesome. Congrats there, Pack. Baderian Mathis, base and base. And going to the Saints. Chris O'Lave, 18 out of 49. Again, for the Saints on the two colored RPA. That will do it for the break, guys. Do a quick recap here for you. We've got Trayvon Walker Jags, Traylon Birx for the Titans. Xamir White Raiders, Calvin Austin for the Steelers. Matt Corral for the Panthers. Tray McBride Cardinals, Bailey Zappi at Patriots. Autos, Mike Dicca Bears, Calvin Austin Steelers, Jameson Williams Lyons. Pierre Strong, Jr. at Patriots. Jalen Tolbert Cowboys. Malik Willis for the Titans. We had Chris O'Lave for the Saints. Brian Robinson, Jr. Commanders. Devonte Wyatt, Gold to 10 Packers. Jalen Tolbert Cowboys. Damian Pierce Texans, Kyle Hamilton-Ravins. Some other bigger hits as well. We had our printing plate Romeo Dobbs, one-of-one. Rated XR, Mack Jones. Base X, Devonte Diggs' case hit for the Bills. Rated XR for the Eagles, Jalen Hertz. Rated R, Breece Hall, Rookie for the Jets. We had a Kenny Pickett, Luminous Endorsements, 14 out of 99 for the Steelers. And then a one-of-one rookie excellence, Sky Moore. Going to the Chiefs. That'll do it for the break. Thank you guys again for all the daytime fun we had. We're done for the daytime sleep.


I've never really been interested in money and the mechanics of it, so it took me quite a while to sort of get it, I always thought economics was really complicated and boring. I always cared about nature and environmental issues and I couldn't really understand why we treated the plants and animals and nature this way because it's very obvious that we need the environment and I thought we should really care more about taking care of it and keeping it clean. I understood that we wanted some progress but I couldn't understand why this clash is happening and I saw that there are certain forces sort of working behind the scenes but I couldn't wrap my brain around it. A couple of years ago a friend of mine mentioned positive money to me so then I started watching videos online and sort of slowly connecting the dots. The crucial moment for me was seeing the talk that Michael Robotham gave in Canada to Coma in 1999 and it just everything sort of fell into place. He connected everything I cared about to the way that we create money and it was just so clear and from then on for me it just became the most important thing. I could trace so many different issues that I came in contact with in my everyday life, sort of trace it back to money so then I decided I had to do something about it. So I started this movement in Croatia and it's very very slowly growing. I see this whole situation as if the world was this big Tupperware box and someone sort of placed a stone underneath it on one side and it sort of tipped the balance a little bit and everything that we have sort of trickles down to one side and creates this inequality and we're being very clever about it and creative and we're investing a lot of energy into fixing single issues and fighting for this or that and trying to make things more equal, trying to redistribute. But I feel that there's this one thing that we could do that would very simply put things back. If we could remove that little rock and create a flat surface again then I feel that so many different things would just passively resolve themselves and I think that little stone is the money system today and I think that together we can change it.