Question for our audience is the PCP in crowdfunding jail I'm joined with best guy ever. Hello everyone to discuss Whether or not the PCP is in crowdfunding jail. I I'm very curious as to what our audience is gonna have to say about this, but we're basically gonna be presenting a case Based on an argument you and I were having all morning. Yes, we were yes And I really yeah Honestly what it comes down to is what the people out there think so we could argue all day But this is a much better idea to put it out there and let the people judge So for starters, what is your concern about the idea that we might be in crowdfunding jail? Okay now not to shit on anybody in particular, but so so here's the basic Concern that some of us have here and it's that so since the plebe and the weeb was you know It was a Digi and Jesse project of course obviously from the start But as time went along the rest of us got involved with it to to the degree of we were basically We were part of the Kickstarter, you know They were reward tiers added to to get us flown out and we each you know took the amount of money proportional to what it Costs for us to attend we didn't make any money on top of that and produced content regardless but we were there and We were involved and most of us we're on episodes of the plebe and the weeb and maybe people don't even know that I'm not really sure but we were involved on that front and eventually when the episodes come out the people will see that we were involved and The concern that we have is that so considering the fact that it's no secret that the plebe and the weeb is taken quite a while to be released and It's it's you know, it's been nine months beyond what was anticipated by People yes, like it would it would be fine if it just took a long time to come out If that was what had been established from the beginning of course But the sort of projected schedule was that it would take some six months or so to release the first season Mm-hmm, and it's taken some nine months or so to release one episode. That's right So that's right and from what we hear the next one's around the corner not too far But yeah, you know we're not really sure we're not really sure and so the concern that I and my PCP brothers have is we've been thinking about future possible Kickstarter projects, you know We've got a couple things kicking around red You know we've got we've got a couple of ideas for things we want to do for that and and other stuff and You know we were just mulling around the idea and then we thought like okay What if we made a Kickstarter and then you know it occurred to us that oh, you know now that we think about it the last Sort of PCP related Kickstarter has not really delivered what you know, it's not done it's you know, it hasn't been finished yet and So based on that we were like mmm Is it really do people really want to hear that the PCP boys are doing another?  What do you think? Well? I think the way to explore this is first of all is The believe in the weave Kickstarter a failed Kickstarter. Okay, if so to what extent and How to to what extent is that true for the PCP and how much responsibility does the PCP even have right? so the first thing is that If you look at it from the lens of the PCP's involvement in the plea been the weave I actually think it comes out Like startlingly great Because the plea been the weave was a Kickstarter like the idea of the Kickstarter was 10 episodes season 1 10 episodes season 2 of this show that is me and Jesse do a talk show about anime and and it's a jokey funny thing Jesse edits it and And post it and like the the real humor of it is basically Jesse's editing like right the actual content of the show is It's just like a pretty shitty review of a show Made funny in post editing But we wanted to have a rad con 2 Rad con one was just where all of us flew out to my house and We made a bunch of shit and just so happened that plebe in the weave was one of the things we made because it was an idea We'd had for years With rad con 2 it was sort of funded by the plebe in the weave, but we did not just use it for that We ended up using rad con 2 to produce ass loads of content very true That was completely not even related to the Kickstarter, but made possible by the Kickstarter mm-hmm, so I Think from the perspective of what did PCP fans get out of the plebe in the weave? They got a lot without even anticipating it, you know That's true They got shitload like hours and hours and hours of let's plays a lot of which haven't even come out yet Let several big lecture videos that have been some of the most popular content. We've ever made You know we got you wouldn't if not for the plebe in the weave Kickstarter You don't get the munchie lecture on parkour do 91. You don't get the kingdom hearts lecture You don't get Ben's a side of you lecture, of course That was from the first rad con. Oh was it?  I realize at this point I'm starting to sound like I'm defending the lack of the Kickstarter the actual product. No, it's still a bad thing It's a very bad thing that the product is not out. However I'm thinking of this in terms of what it means for the PCP because the plebe in the lead is a me and Jesse project So are me and Jesse in Kickstarter jail? Definitely, okay. All right. There you have it folks Is Jesse super in Kickstarter jail? Absolutely. Well, I don't throw Jesse under the bus. I well, okay. I know it's it's editing project So I mean I'm it's my fault though the plea everything everything about the plebe in the lead Kickstarter is my fault Because I started it and I managed it true though I would argue that everyone is complicit who who you know shared in its in its warm glow There's look there's a lot of reasons that the show hasn't come out yet Mm-hmm. I would say that the the biggest reason like sort of at the core of it all is that I Don't think Jesse even knew like what I meant Like I said let's kickstart it and he said that sounds like a good idea and then I immediately launched a Kickstarter Right, which he didn't he thought I meant like let's do it eventually some day But I was like I want to get moving on this because we all wanted rad con 2 to happen sooner than rad con 1 Right, so it was basically an excuse to fund rad con 2 as fast as possible Without really considering The amount of work that it was going to be to do the plebe in the weeb season 2 the fact that all of it was gonna end up on him to edit and Then like a bunch of disasters happen in his life immediately afterwards, right? so it was like a really badly timed thing and so it's really my fault for putting it on him in the first place and It also in spite of having been a successful Kickstarter There's not that much money in it like most money went to the production You know like everybody else all the PCP members were just flown out like that's all you guys got out of it That's right, and the rest of the money anything that wasn't used for the project Like I'm still holding on to the money that's supposed to be used to ship all these fucking Blu-rays out That's good other than that all the money was for Jesse for editing So it's I gave it all to him so that he could because he's fucking his life is in Dire Straits and he needs the help, you know, so I was like here have all this money to Help with his move and shit so like you know There's ultimately not much money in it for for anybody else and the way I see it is I produced this project I came in and I hired I essentially hired a director, which is Jesse Director editor and I hired a bunch of actors, which is the rest of the PCP sure and The responsibility of the project being finished is on me for having orchestrated that I'm the one who picked everybody involved I'm the one who set up a situation that was not ideal for getting this finished in a timely fashion Now the cleave-in-the-weeb Kickstarter is not canceled by the way if I'm making it sound that way We're still working on the plebe in the weave Jesse just seems to be working on it at like he He's given up on it coming out in a timely fashion. He's editing it at his pace Yep, which leaves the question of how does this affect the rest of the PCP? Does anybody else not get to do a Kickstarter? Or even as a group like funding a rad con 3 when the Kickstarter for the last one was pretty clearly a rad con 2 Kickstarter does this look does this bode poorly for the rest of the PCP? That's the question I would argue it does I would argue that it does and I think it's because I We have a different idea and so we're just exploring the issue right like it would be in my best interest to deny this and to go Against it, but we're we're explorers of intellectual content. So here we are folks To me it seems like I when I think about myself, okay I would never give money to anyone under any circumstances, but if I was forced to and I was part of a Kickstarter Okay, so so you raised a couple issues there one of the things is that despite the fact that the the Kickstarter, you know the the actual product at the core of it all at the center of the Kickstarter was not delivered There's all this other content that came as a result of it I couldn't agree more and that's all great and wonderful But it is not the thing that was delivered or that the thing that was promised and it harkens me back to my favorite youtuber Anita Sarkeesian and all the all the grief that she got for you know, she's go on you know back from her original Kickstarter or whatever it was she You know developed a presence and made tons of content but a lot of people shout on her because they hate women but also because they They like she was not delivering specifically the product that was promised and she Distinctly got a lot of flak for it You know whether her true fans were the ones doing that or not the the fact remains that that bad press was generated for her Based on based on that that situation and I can't help but feel that it's a it's a similar sort of situation In a case like this and so the the thing that could vindicate us I think the PCP is a group is indeed the fact and what you One of the missions that I feel you are here to do is to separate you and Jesse as the culpable parties responsible for getting it done and the rest of us I mean we have offered many times to help and We it's not that we're not wanted but like that's not what the show is so we can't we cannot help That's the thing that's that's the way the way I see it is that the purpose of the plebe in the weeb is that it's me and Jesse's show It's a show that I organize and that he edits and sort of makes watchable, right? And the the only reason everybody else was involved was because we wanted rad con to we wanted everybody to be there And so the only way that made set like the way I saw it was like all right We're raising all this money for the Kickstarter. We want this Kickstarter to fund everybody to come to one place So the only way to justifiably fly them is to say well, they'll be in an episode So everybody who's there is gonna be in an episode because that justifies flying them down here for this event Whose main purpose is to generate as much content as possible Not just to generate the plebe in the weeb But to create all kinds of shit that we can only do in person because you know It's just it's content that can't exist over the internet without it would not be as good, you know, so The way I see it is like the the core product is the me and Jesse show everyone else is just kind of Incidentally involved as part of something else as part of and I think a lot of the people who backed the Kickstarter Just wanted rad con to I saw that that expressed by a lot of people at the time. I agree I know a lot of people Who are satisfied with the stuff that's come out or just don't care because we all put out tons of shit anyways And it's not like the plebe in the weeb is radically better than all the other stuff Well, yeah, like yeah like the specific product Yes, it is missing and that's a shame, but it's not like we've all gone quiet It's not like Spoonie who of course promised he was gonna make a movie and then has literally done nothing Like I think Spoonie would be in in better condition if he had promised a movie But was still doing his regular content. He'd still have a lot of patrons. I agree You know, we're in a situation where post plebe in the weeb You know recording is all of us entering our most prolific phases ever. You've done me a math of a we Agua I've been the human content machine. The only person who's really slowed down has been Jesse because he's not in a good position To make videos right now, you know, he's just and like to me that's kind of like an act of God Preventing this Kickstarter from being completed. Like I don't think it's just Jesse Like it's it's just the circumstances surrounding him like you can say like on some level sure It's like he could have done more by now But like it's not really just as simple as he hasn't done it It's also like things are you know, things are not in a Okay, well, you know he can do it easily. Let me let me throw this at you So we can I feel like it's appropriate to we can remove Jesse from the situation and we can just look at the fact that you know Nine months one video, you know, and maybe a second one soon Who knows but based on just those facts on the ground alone considering that this is a Kickstarter with you know promised rewards And it's a fairly official thing even though you don't have to do your Kickstarter stuff. You can't just blow it off I think there's no legal repercussions But we're not it's not about legal. It's about goodwill But like considering that you're in that situation it reminds me of basically what happened to Hussie when he was trying to make hive swap and He basically had a situation where not to compare the two but like he had like a scummy developer just basically steal his money and You know run off as I understand it I don't know I don't know the odd gentleman or whatever the names are that well but that's how I understood it to be or in some way the money was lost due to that bullshit and I Absolutely put the put the blame there on Hussie Specifically or if not him whoever was in charge of the project if it wasn't like specifically him But I feel like he's the guy because of his managerial Accountability and it's it's his responsibility to deliver. That's why you shouldn't put this on the PC fee You should put it on me. Right. I'm the manager.  Yeah, no I mean, I'm I'm happy with all the products that came out of it. You know, yeah It was just a really trying time, you know Having ten insane people in my house and I'm trying to organize a show with a guy who doesn't want to be working on the Show at all, you know, that's really the that's the issue right there. Isn't it? Yeah, I'm sorry, Jesse I love you. You're my brother. I don't want to show you at all. I want to help. Let me help Let me help make the show happen. What can I do? Tell me what I could do Okay, I just don't think it I mean we've talked about having you edit a certain episode Yeah, or like even we first recorded it. We just haven't gotten to that episode yet And right that's way down the pipe anyway The thing is that Jesse has extensively planned this like he has a whole narrative for the plebe in the weeb season I think that's why he doesn't want to give it up. It's like yeah He has like a clear vision of what the narrative across it's gonna be and we've even started like we started recording season 3 or Season 2 however you want to look at it. Yeah With the idea that it takes place after that narrative So it kind of has to happen a certain way, you know, which is why we're not just why I haven't just wrestled Like I have all the files if I wanted to just give them to somebody else I could but like I want Jesse's product and so do I so do I I see it as it doesn't Entirely matter how long it takes to come out like it's it's a shame if it takes a really long time, but like It will come out and I'd rather it come out than have to change it just to rush it out the door And I think a lot of the people who would back it would agree Like they backed this because they wanted the show that Jesse edits They don't just want the plebe in the weeb just in name only that that's how we get mighty number nine You know like yeah mighty number nine came out But it looks nothing like the fucking game that was promised and that's why everybody's mad about it Nobody's happy that it's just out, you know So if the plebe in the weeb came out and it's not the show Jesse wanted to make people are gonna be like Well, why the fuck did I back it if you're not gonna give me the show? I okay, okay? But to play devil's advocates, you know Hive swap for example went through multiple changes, you know the whole big fuck up and and the product that's delivered now Is nothing like the original and yet people like hippo are pretty happy with it They seem to like the product though He wasn't a backer or anything and to a certain extent like my opinion Isn't really like the right one to be like voicing on this issue like I'm coming it from a certain angle of like Involvement with the project as opposed to it But I'm trying to like speak for the backers because that's where my concern lies I want to you know My interest is making sure that people feel satisfied with like any obligations that I personally owe them and I want to That's make it on that's the thing but what I want if if if there is to be a Kickstarter or something for Radcon 3 Me and Jesse's names should not be on it and we should not have any managerial duties on it It should be best guy ever's Kickstarter Where he runs the show because I think you you through if even if it's just guilt will get it done Like I have no doubt I will get it done I have no doubt you will get whatever it is done the plebe and the weeb as a specific show is a me and Jesse Show and it it's just a show that like the nature of it has led to this Situation if it was your show it would be done by now because that's the way you work. That's true Oh, I remember when it was a twinkle in y'all's eye. I remember those days so well It was a dream. It was a dream to do plebe in the weave. Yes, and And it just was done at the wrong time. It was just a badly planned in terms of timing And then stomped on by an act of God immediately afterwards where Jesse's house flooded and everything he owned was destroyed You know true like it's literally while we were filming it. So So there's a lot of reasons that it hasn't come out, but that's me and Jesse's project Best guy ever's project. I mean look at all the stuff that came out of Radcon 2 that did come out Everyone else's projects are out hippo made like 30 videos.    There you go. So I'm just saying that the way I see it If we tried to say kickstart the next plebe in the weave or the next Digi and Jesse show then yes It would be a bad idea and everybody would shit on us for it but if we kickstart the best guy ever show by the guy who Knows what he's doing It will be it might be more necessary to do crowdfunding for Radcon 3 because we don't even really have a venue Yeah, that's what comes to mind that There's no there's no place none of us have a big enough house at this point that can host it So like maybe we'll have to rent a space for Radcon 3 I don't know what it'll have to be or we'll have to go somewhere specific So yeah, that's kind of why it's why it's a question like it might have to be crowdfunded if there's a Radcon 3 and but like You know, I'm sure we can come up with a project to tie into it that is not or maybe the project is just Radcon 3 See that's what I was thinking knows can produce content We'll see because all we have to do and makes all we have to do is link them the playlist of Radcon 2 content that I put as the As the card in every single PCP episode that comes out So that people see the real shit that we do for the sake of Future Radcons because I know right it's going to happen and yeah like the I I if I wish that we had like somehow Included a little bit more. It's all it's all about framing and marketing really if I if I just felt personally that like the the content that was Produced from this Kickstarter was a little bit more entwined with just all that shit and it kind of was like I'm reading right here The the the the $5,000 Kickstarter limit where best guy ever in hypocrite are coming to Radcon 2 says if we're gonna make this much money We might as well bring the other guys down too Yeah, this amount will pay for hypocrite and best guy ever to fly down once more and even to guest in at least one episode of the plea When the weeb season one this will also propagate more wacky rad content from everyone involved That should be the main focus with maybe some like some core project that just like we gather around and then makes it other than that that's what I mean the the thing about the plea been the weave is that like the reason I went so hard on like Making it this big Extravagant project as I thought it would be necessary to do that to fund it Like I thought nobody will pay for the plea been the weeb unless it sounds like really huge and crazy and expensive When the reality is we hit the initial goal like immediately you only ask for a 1200 fucking bucks That's like nothing. Yeah, because it wasn't originally gonna have everybody involved It was gonna be just me and Jesse, but we we said well if we add in people to stretch goals Maybe we'll make a lot more and be able to fly everybody down again. It's originally me and Jesse project Nobody else was even involved at the start. That's right. They're all just actors I hired on so the way I see it if we just are funding radcon 3 Maybe people see it differently, but that's why we're doing this on that's why we're airing this out on the channel Because we had this entire discussion this morning at great length in which I concluded I think we could definitely do it. I think that You know as long as everybody understands that it's you know It's not gonna be in my managerial hands or Jesse's editing hands It's gonna be you know It's gonna be projects that everybody wants to do that everybody knows how to do and it's going to be on time You know Because the people running it will make sure that's the case indeed. We will And I think if people understand that they might be reticent to it I don't even think that many people see the plea been the weed Kickstarter as a failure, which again It's not cancelled. It is still in the works But the question is like if we do another one before it's over Does that look bad for the PCP and again? I won't even be involved like if if the PCP if if if a requirement for this Kickstarter is it can't fund Digi's trip. I'll pay for my own trip to Redcon 3 like I'm willing to throw myself completely under the bus for the rest of the PCP to be able to do this because I Really don't think it should be any of your responsibility What happened with or what is happening with the plea been the weave.  Okay.      So Nate trust the tight ship. Yeah, the PCP has been a tight-run ship for ever since you like became ever Since you started taking manager fees.  You want the more lectures?   Isn't that like all out? It's all completed. Yeah, everything's Basically everything from radcon 2 is out except for the plebe in the weeb and a few more blue glows that Jesse still has Actually all the blue glows from radcon might be out as well to me. I think that might be the case Oh, yeah, okay. Well to me.  Maybe you'll get something out of it Maybe you won't you know, but like I think that for the people who backed it most of them probably paid $1530 and they got a lot of shit out of it You know that's for sure they haven't and there's still a promise that they will get what they actually paid for You know like if I came out and said it's canceled and there's none left like this is all we're releasing I could understand being more angry But like this show will come out, you know like one way or another it will come out Okay, last point just on that specific thing again to play devil's advocate there Do you feel it all a sense that like if it takes that long? It's almost like it never came out You know like if it really does take I don't think it takes like four years for every episode to come out Like will people even care, you know, I I don't know if I don't know how many people will care I think there's lots of shows that have done things that way Shows that just take forever to come out, you know, mr. Plinkett still has an audience even though he releases one Plinkett every year, but it's always a big deal Everybody loves out, you know Again, I don't think the plebe and the weave was ever like the highest class of content that we make So I don't know if it'll be missed the way a mr. Plinkett video would be missed, you know But like for me, I think of everything in the long-term anyways Like I have video series that people think I've killed and then I bring it back a year later And everyone's excited that it's back, you know like I think people think of this in a very impatient short-term way But like part of investment is the long long haul like Kickstarter's usually take years to finish like the vast majority of them Take two or three well I think the only problem here is just that you know You did give a time frame and that's that's really the issue at I gave it the thing is I gave a time frame that was Absolutely ridiculous because I was imagining if I was editing it Ah, of course because I work insanely fast if the plebe and the weave had been something I was editing It might have been like a fifth as good, but it would have been out in a month You know like all of it would have been out in a month because that's how I work I do want to give Jesse all the credit in the world for the obvious love and dedication He puts into it which is why when I think about you know the discussion about like me editing one of the episodes Like I don't want to because I know I can't do it as well as Jesse can Jesse just he's got the spark and by Christ. I want it back Jesse make more content Please come back to us. I miss you so much.  That's what I want. I don't want my interpretation of that. Let me fucking bullshit That's exactly why I don't want to take it from him I think I think the project I think the people funding the project will ultimately happier to be happier to get the product Wanted as opposed to getting a product fast, you know, I hope so like if you can't have like it would be nice If you could have both but you can't have both because the way to get the product You want is to milk it out of the most talented man in the world Who needs to be away from the internet for the next however long he wants to be you know like that's the nature of What's going on so like Yeah, but I don't think that should affect the rest of the PCP And I think we should be able to like I think if people I don't think people will have any fear about it getting done If you're the one running it, you know, I agree like like even if they were completely Disappointed in the other Kickstarter you can look at this one and say well Nate's running it So I know we're gonna get the whole thing would start the whole thing would start with a careful analysis of what is actually a Reasonable expectation for what we can actually get done at a ride it would all be framed around that to begin with And that's really that's the most important step when it comes to this shit Yeah, and you know, there's one other point. I did want to make in here and And it's okay.  It seems horrible I mean if it if it was that way, we've all offered to take it off his hands Like everyone's offered that so if he doesn't want to do it he can pass it up But like I think he wants to do it because he has a vision of it and he likes the series He likes the idea, you know, it's just like again.  Mm-hmm, you know, and he disappeared for six months of that year There was a long period with no new Jesse uploads. Then there was a thousand of them You know, I'm not saying that's gonna happen.   I don't want to edit it anymore. I go. All right Hippo Nate, how much do I have to pay per episode? You know because I know if I edit it's gonna be garbage. So I'll have to get creative Yeah, wouldn't I would love a give up edited episode. I know that boy could do some yeah I think Hippo could do it. Well, I think it wouldn't be the same, but he could edit. Yeah, and it would be funny. Yeah, of course Davoo could probably edit one. We got a lot of editors in our midst. We do we do But there's only one who's a who's who's got a specific brand of genius mania, you know Yeah, there's only one Tarzan boy out there. We're just waiting for him to come home jungle nights Yeah, I know right. All right. Well, so down in the comments Let us know everybody way in yeah be our judge and jury Right after you're done with your comment ripping on me for defending my failed Kickstarter Go ahead and leave a comment about whether or not you think the PCP can do a Kickstarter weather Just let us know would you fund rad con 3? with the promise that it's gonna have For sure all the things that rad con 2 had besides the plea in the weave as well as potentially new Projects that we haven't even dreamed up yet. I think it is almost guaranteed the people will want that that is what I think and if we So yeah be firm that way. Yeah, sounds good to me here. There you go folks. Digi has taken full responsibility. All right No blame on this side of the fence everybody. No accountability whatsoever. There you go. There you go So there it is. I'm you know, I think this is good I think people will be happy to hear us talking about it you voicing an opinion on it And just just giving an update giving an update to this whole situation. I think it's good.  Bye everybody. I love you


Aloha and welcome to this special episode of figments on reality. I'm your host Dan leaf and go by fig 33 years in the Air Force a long time in national security matters, and that's why I'm so interested in this topic I hope you are too because today's special episode is part two of a discussion of The failure in Afghanistan the many facets of it and especially the situation during the withdrawal It is as always going to be an non political Discussion because I don't think it helps and I'll try to avoid vitriol blame round, but it crosses party lines And the political capital or one or other side should not be a consideration in this critical time that's so consequential to us that which we should all be concerned and frankly when I Watched news stories about the trivial stuff that gets into the news these days. It just It makes me mad and the public in the government need to put politics aside at this time because it matters greatly for our country and for the world and in the closing. I'll talk about exactly Why that is the many of you know that today there was a deadly attack the Kabul aircraft airport. Near the abbey gate as it's called at last report 12 US Marines and one Navy corpsman were killed in this attack 10s, maybe hundreds of Afghans as well. It seems a video I imagine that many of you have as well. And it's just horrific. I cannot Imagine the final seconds of our 1213 service members. The last 12 or the last seconds of their lives or the coming days, weeks and months for their families and Let's honor them by thinking deeply about this and trying to find ways to do better in the immediate and long term future. Clearly we have lost the initiative in Afghanistan and we must take it back and not we the president, not we the military, not we one party or the other. The big way it's in everybody's interest to go forward and make the best of a very bad situation. We owe that to our country. We also owe it to the many Afghans who supported us in our even loosely aligned with US efforts there because they're deeply at risk today. I exchange changed messages with a an Afghan friends of mine. Good guy. Who is hiding because he supported us efforts there for well over a decade. And he sent me documents that he hoped would facilitate him getting through the gates at the airport and getting out of Afghanistan. And he's not a quitter. He's just at great risk. He said to me when he sent these as pictures via message. He said, if they see these pictures, they being the Taliban. They direct hanging me. In other words, if the Taliban sees that he's even communicating with the US, he believes he'll be dead. And I've heard from other friends similar stories and we have a moral obligation to these people to try to save them. We can't save all of them. But every Afghan who's at risk because of their support of the United States that can get out can be gotten out. We should do that and we should take risk as we did today to do so. Now there's a great risk that there'll be infiltrators, terrorists, bad guys in those who escape. We have to take that risk and counter it appropriately. There is no perfect situation here, but we put them at risk by being in their country and by asking their help, which they gave and we owe them a chance to survive and really to thrive. So as I look at this withdrawal and most of the terms that I would use to describe it are quite impolite, so I'll just say it's a disaster. I have to make assumptions as I look at this and the assumptions are that, first of all, it probably could not have been done worse. I mean, really, if you look at it, I've got a couple pictures here from the early rays of the chaotic withdrawal of the images now. I mean, this is already chaos, especially the picture on the right. And they come from our Department of Defense, but the, I haven't had direct involvement in it, so let me make some assumptions for how this happened. And the first thing I want to address is what the question is and the question is not whether or not we should, whether or not it's a political failure, it's everybody's failure. Everybody's failure, the intelligence community, the elected leaders in charge and the military. It's a total failure of the US National Security Committee. And to try to shift blame is really a terrible thing and we ought not do it. So let's not let's ask what happened here and I think there's a meme going on that going around that I modified and took the politics out of. And it talks about what common sense would have dictated in terms of the withdrawal and what was actually done. And, you know, I've been involved in a couple of conflicts and a lot of planning and operations execution and those items on the left are so obvious to me it's stunning that we didn't at least come close to that. First of all, don't let your enemy and I'll talk more about setting a calendar deadline. Don't let your enemy have ultimate flexibility by going in the best season for them. So winter would have been a fine time to initiate the withdrawal. You've got to maintain support to the, the Afghan forces intelligence and their support so that they have some hope of succeeding in their efforts to maintain viability and of the government to stay in power. And then the one that really startles me is the failure to execute a non combatant evacuation order. Non combat operations plan, and Neo is required, I think in every US embassy certainly any that I've been associated in case things turn bad, you have to be prepared to evacuate non combatants. And as far as I can tell in the planning for this withdrawal. That was never conceded or executed. Next, we, we know, we knew we were leading a lot of valuable and a capable military equipment in the hands of the Afghan National Army. We also knew that that some of that could fall into the hands of the enemy. Why we weren't prepared to disable it and destroy it if necessary. I absolutely don't know. I simply do not know where that failure occurred it's unimaginable to me. It's truly unimaginable. The, the failure to be prepared for worst case is anti the ethical so uncharacteristic of the US military I served in. I just can't explain it. We should have proceeded with our withdrawal in the right order with the military last, because, as we proved by having to get forces back in. Getting military out first is backwards. And then the airfield operations there's much debate now President Biden in his remarks today said the military suggested that the background airfield was not a much utility. Okay, I'm not sure I agree with that assessment but more airfields are better. Airfield operations in any case should have been protected and maintained to the finish, and instead we left precipitously and didn't maintain that that capability and have had to reestablish what operational capability and what security. We could for the airfield in Kabul. You know, you, you see my assessment as excerpt as listed over there, the set withdrawal as executed we told the Taliban what we're going to do. We terminated Bagram, right or wrong, apparently wrong I'd say we terminated our support to the Afghan National Army and they collapsed. We withdrew the US military now with right, we're reacting to every, everything since we had to put forces back in we're trying to search for locate and facilitate the withdrawal of Americans and at risk Afghans. And furthermore, we're going to have to respond to a better equipped Taliban, and the potential for genocide and atrocities on their part, and a resurgence of terrorism. The Biden administration is saying that this attack today in Kabul was done by ISIS K. This is won't be the last we hear that threat, because of the failed withdrawal. Why did this happen. First of all, I think some people with I, in my first episode I spoke about hubris. And it's a word that fits, frankly, I'll let you read that and not talk about it much but I think, because we thought we could, we thought we could get away with it. And clearly, we were wrong. But there must have been bad assumptions. In the national security community be there, be they military or civilian must have given bad advice. And we were in a hurry because we'd imposed calendar constraints on on ourselves, a self inflicted wound calendar constraints. And maybe we just hoped it would go okay. Hope as the military cliche goes is not a plan. We may not have anticipated the precipitous collapse of the Afghan government and the Afghan National Army but we should have in worst case planning and simply based on decades of experience there that's a fragile country that some argue isn't even a country and doesn't have the fabric to be a country. And it's not no disrespect for Afghans. It's just, it's a very difficult environment to govern or to protect. But the fundamental failure in my mind was the calendar based withdrawal on any date and yes, the Trump administration for initiating that idea. The administration for continuing their responsibility the president today talked again about what he inherited. I don't care. He is the president and again this is not a political statement but a calendar based operation is flawed you, you give up all surprise because you tell the enemy and I don't know if the administration views them as is the enemy but they certainly know that the Taliban is not are not friends and so stated today in both his briefing and in the press secretary's briefing. Why would we want to telegraph a date certain for the withdrawal. It's, it does not make military sense. I don't think it makes strategic sense either. The other thing you do, by the way, when you state a date certain is you constrain everything you do and deny yourself the ability to react to changes in the environment or the situation. Your conditions should be what determine when you withdraw the conditions can be going through the steps of that common sense withdrawal that I discussed, making sure that you have a neo plan non combat and evacuation plan in place that you are ready to deal with potential loss of valuable military equipment that you have security and have prepared for that security of airfields and are well prepared and situated for evacuation operations which anybody should have been able to look at and say this will require some significant evacuation, no matter what, because even if the entire country had not fallen to the Taliban. There was going to be some displacement as as the Taliban moved in into the void that required some evacuation. So, this wasn't done. And what do we do now is the next question and that's where I'd like us to focus down on the assessment of blame because that's not very productive. And what do we do with this current situation to make it less bad. The first is, we ought not as I said in part one of this, we ought not seek success in the withdrawal and the evacuation. That situation. The military has done an incredible job with our NATO NATO partners of getting a vast number of us and other people out of Afghanistan. It's a gargantuan effort, very well executed in extraordinarily difficult situations. It's not something to celebrate. We did it because of an initial failure. So, so acknowledge the contribution of the people who've executed the evacuation operations but don't make it the focus of the discussion. Today after the attack there was a lot of discussion by both the President and his press secretary about avenging the attack on on our Marines and the Navy corpsman and the Afghan civilians don't forget. We need to respond. We need to respond as a matter of deterrence not punishment to deter future attacks and impose some cost and to validate the sacrifice of our service members. But we ought not do it for the bitter taste of revenge. And we ought not do it to claim success in something needs to be done, but it's not a not an immediate priority in it ought not be something to say, Hey, look, you know we got them while they got us first, we need to deter future attacks, protect the current operation and finish the job. We're going to have to communicate with the Taliban the President has acknowledged that. And we need to do that because there are reality we can't wish for an alternate reality in Afghanistan where the Taliban aren't in power aren't running what security there is there. And we ought to coordinate with them as only only as necessary and absolutely not negotiate the time for negotiation is done. Now they hold some cards. So when we asked why we're talking to Taliban. Why that was a factor in sticking to the current August 31 deadline. I don't know but I would speculate that Taliban threats to exact a cost on civilians and remaining us personnel. If we extended the deadline might be part of that. Okay, we have to deal with that reality. But not by negotiating. So we can't wish away the Taliban as I said, and we need to acknowledge the reality that they're currently in power and we have some work to do. And let me talk about that work to do and about the next steps that should come. The first and most important thing needs to be to use a skill that seems to be lost in our country, and that's admit mistakes. Okay, this has gone very, very badly. So there were mistakes. We need our leaders, civilian and military to acknowledge them and not try to turn them into successes or to explain them by blaming them on others and I mean both sides of the aisle. Everybody here as a part of everybody in the national security community on any side of the aisle, whether they're in power now or in the past has responsibility so own up to it. There's a very good article by General Ben Hodges, Army General, I didn't know General Hodges but he talked about his role in Afghanistan and and admitted mistakes, it was refreshing. It's very much needed. We, the poll numbers don't matter. It's not an election year. And this matter is far more important than how the poll numbers look so please admit your mistakes. Again, as much as possible we need to re seize the initiative and that coming through Matt comes through mandating not negotiating conditions to the maximum extent possible we can undo some of the mistakes that have been made. And by completing the evacuation, no matter how long it takes and I'm not sure if we're totally stuck with the 31 August deadline but that line notwithstanding, however we do it, notwithstanding, we need to complete the evacuation. The administrative administration is committed to that with regard to us persons who want to leave. We should be broader in our consideration of what completing the evacuation means. We should commit to save all Afghans. All special immigrant visa applicants should be welcomed to the United States, not approved, but applicants. There's an excellent article by Joan Barker in the military times on on the responsibility for both sides regarding special immigrant visa applicants and the blame, frankly. Those are people who applied to come to the United States and due to some restrictions placed upon it by the Trump administration. And in action, perhaps on the Biden administration didn't have their visas granted. If they applied, we should bring them to the United States or a third country and sort it out. We can't wait for them because they won't survive. We need to constrain the Taliban in every way possible. They, as President Biden said today, have interests and we should affect those interests and we have the means to do it. Their interests include staying in power. Okay, we can put their staying in power at risk without launching another war. They include money, the economy that they need to function. And most importantly, there's the US military equipment that they have. And I hope, I don't know, not in government or military service anymore. I hope that there's planning for a massive campaign from the air to destroy the remaining US military equipment, the and the Afghan National Army has ceased to exist. So nothing good is going to come from the ground equipment, the small arms the weapons, or the aircraft that remain there. We have the capability to go in and systematically destroy it. There would be some risk, especially if the Taliban were notified ahead of time that we're going to do that. So, anybody in the National Security Apparatus is listening I hope they quickly put this into a deeply classified planning process. But either as a preemptive effort or in response to Taliban bad behavior, all of that stuff to the maximum degree possible should go away. We can do that. Frankly, I'm not sure why it hasn't started already again perhaps because we were necessarily dependent on Taliban facilitation of the evacuation operations. We have to commit to save all the Afghans who are at risk because of their association with us. Remember what my friend said, if they saw the pictures he sent which were, you know, passport, passport photos, letters of appreciation from the US side for what he had done. He'd be killed. There are tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan at similar risk. We need to find a way to do everything we can and one of the ways to do that is to establish a point of contact in the US government for people like me to reach out and say here's a name for you. Here's somebody who needs to be helped here's somebody hiding in his closet or basement or her closet or basement, and because I've had several people reach out with the same desperation for people they've been associated with. I hope on my next figments the power of imagination to speak to the retired US soldier who's deeply concerned about the Afghans who facilitated not just his mission but his survival on 15 deployments to Afghanistan, not long enough 15 years but 15 trips to Afghanistan. He's heart sick about the fate of these people. It won't take much. Once the US is truly gone. And once this fades for the headlines for an Afghan to be summarily killed murdered torture by the Taliban because they have some connection with the, with the US efforts there. So we should establish a point of contact I should be able to pick up the phone or send an email to Afghan refugees at whatever.gov government effort, and they need to put the manpower person power and resources to making this part of the effort to get it right in the end. So I always close with what would fig do here's what I'd ask you to do is shed your politics they don't matter. This is too important. And there'll be plenty of time for blaming you can blame people at the ballot box. But for the 13 dead today for all of the dead Afghans, those at risk, and for the lives that were lost in preceding 20 years politics don't matter. It's hugely important and it might seem kind of remote Afghanistan's a long way away maybe you didn't know anybody who served. But this is how we recover from the initial failure of the withdrawal is going to have significant influence on the US role in the world. I've been off said here in the Pacific, that while China is the preferred economic partner, often by necessity of many countries, the US is always the preferred security partner. First of all, because we're generally ethical, we're usually competent, and we generally stay committed. Okay, we're failed the last two so far, we have to recover from that failure. We're forced for good when we act as America should. And now it's time apolitically to act as America should and finish this job, as well as we can. So, thank God bless the souls of our servicemen and of the Afghans who are lost today and comfort their families. It's terrible time and may we pull together to get it as right as we can. Thank you for watching this episode of figments on reality. I'll be back Monday with another figments on reality on military accountability that talks to who should be held accountable and how you do that in the US military. And how you do that, how it works and why it needs to be done. I'd like to thank figment fig or sorry, think tech Hawaii for letting me present my views as a citizen journalist and urge you to support this great nonprofit organization that gives many of us voice and things we care about. Thank you for watching this episode of figments on reality.


Hey, my name is Jonathan from AJ and Smart and I want to talk to you about three really big design trends for 2020.  This might give you a bit of a head start, a few things you might want to learn, a few things you maybe have been ignoring because you maybe don't know the industry is going in that direction and a lot of these trends are based on products that we've been working on in 2019. It's not about visual design. It's not about, oh, this color is going to be popular this year. These are three big technologies that are going to completely affect all of the product industry, all of the UX industry, all of the UI industry. If you like this type of video, make sure you hit the like button, make sure you hit subscribe. We have videos constantly coming out and we'd love to hear your comments. I'd love to hear what you think about these three trends. All right, let's dive straight into number one and the first trend in 2020 that you're going to see a lot more of than you expect is VR. It doesn't matter if you don't care about games, the gaming industry often brings new technology to the mainstream market. Now, the VR industry has been super exciting in the last few years, but it's had its ups and downs. It really started up at the Oculus Rift, really being the first excellent VR experience. Then we had the HTC Vive, which was a collaboration between HTC and Valve. Valve, one of the most famous game-making companies in the world. Then we saw Sony come along with their own headset for the PS4. And that was the moment where I was thinking, now maybe, maybe people will start getting excited about VR. Maybe it has a chance to go mainstream. Still didn't happen. Then Facebook bought Oculus. I'm not sure exactly where that happened on the timeline. That was an interesting moment because I thought, okay, so maybe now Facebook is going to start integrating social media into it. Maybe they're going to try to go mainstream. They've been doing some great work with their headsets. We have something like the Oculus Quest. We have something like the Rift S right now. So you have the ability to put on a really high-quality headset without cables, completely wireless. We're really, really getting very far. Finally, really recently in the last few months, Valve released the Valve Index, which is the highest of the highest of the highest end VR experience you can buy. But there's never been a killer app for VR. Now, why is this going to change in 2020? Well, one big thing happened that's likely to have a cascading effect on the entire industry, although you might only start to see the effects in late 2020 when Sony and Microsoft released their new consoles to the market. So what happened? Well, what happened is Valve announced Half-Life Alyx. What is Half-Life Alyx? Well, it's essentially the first-ever attempt at making a triple-A gaming experience for VR. And it's also the first time that people have been genuinely, the mainstream gaming audience, have been genuinely excited about a VR release that could potentially be multi-platform. So in March 2020, it's going to come out on PC. Only people with super-expensive PCs can actually afford to get this, and this is definitely not a mainstream audience. But around November 2020, we're going to see the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft come out. Microsoft has already said they're out of VR, they're staying away from it, they're just going to stay out of it for now. Sony seems to be going all in. Now, if a triple-A title comes out, like Half-Life Alyx, if the reviews are great, if it wins a ton of awards, and then Sony comes along and brings it out on their PS5, and then bundles a VR headset with their PS5, you might start seeing mainstream VR have a much better chance of taking off. What that means for you as a designer is you may end up designing for a lot more VR platforms. You may end up being asked to design interfaces for VR. And where VR is going in terms of mainstream is more likely to be the enterprise environment initially, meaning that you're going to be designing meeting software. Imagine Skype or Zoom, except in VR, to increase the presence. And these are the things that you're likely going to see over the next two years. This is something that is definitely going to affect your career as a designer. It's an interesting thing to know that something as simple as a game coming out in March 2020 might have a cascading effect on the entire VR industry by early 2021 or late 2020. So whereas a lot of people might right now think VR is kind of fading out, it really hasn't gotten its start yet. It really hasn't had a fair start. And Valve, one of the most respected software companies in the world, really going all in and investing in VR could be the starting point. So that's my first prediction for 2020 is that VR might actually get its first chance. My second prediction for 2020 is we're actually going to see a reemergence of AR. Now, there's already a couple of players in the AR environment, some companies call it mixed reality, MR.  Because so they have AR kit and that's a really, really easy way to create AR programs and AR apps. And one of the big things that's going to happen in 2020, and it's already happened, but it's not going to get big till 2020, is Microsoft launched Minecraft Earth. Now, why is that even slightly significant? Well, the answer is Minecraft is one of the biggest, most successful digital products of all time. It's been around for almost a decade and it's just constantly stayed popular. Minecraft is one of these crazy things that just helps build other industries around it. YouTube, if you look at just the amount of channels that are purely dedicated to Minecraft, the amount of revenue and the amount of money that's created by the cottage industries building up around Minecraft is completely shocking. Minecraft Earth is out today. You essentially can consider that a beta version. It's going under the radar. People are not talking about it the whole time. But this time next year, I believe Microsoft knows what they're doing. This time next year, this thing is going to be huge. This thing is going to be a game changer, forgive the pun, for the AR industry. When a company can come along and create something that gathers this much attention and gathers this much users, other companies are going to come along and realize this is an interesting investment. Now, on top of that, Apple are investing extremely heavily in AR. And when Apple invests in something, even if it's slowly, even if it's quietly, you always need to be on the lookout. And what you can see here is a massive leak that just came out of Apple. And we've known they've been working on AR headsets for a long time, but Apple is going all in on AR and not on VR. So they're working on two AR products. One is a headset, headset being more like the HoloLens, something that's a bit chunkier, something that's a bit more powerful. And one is a pair of glasses. The idea here is that they're normal glasses. And I'm sure a lot of you will be thinking about the failed Google Glass. But just because a product failed in the past, doesn't necessarily mean another company can't come along and make it successful. And Apple rarely brings a product to the market without being sure that they can bring this to the mainstream. Think about the Apple Watch. There is really no other smartwatch on the market that's considered cool today. And it's also the biggest smartwatch on the market. Apple does these things slowly, carefully, and almost under the radar. When Apple goes for something, you really have to assume it might become a new industry. And now we're seeing 2022 and 2023 are the two years that Apple wanna release these products in. And when the industry knows that this is coming, then the industry takes it seriously. So what I think in 2020 is that AR is not gonna fade out. It's not gonna become one of these secondary things. It's actually gonna get a lot better with iOS's AR kit. We're gonna see a lot more use cases for it. Now we've already seen companies like IKEA really heavily invest in things like AR. But companies around the world are really going all in on this. The interesting thing about designing for AR and VR is that you often have to even learn how to use things like Unity, how to create 3D objects. I think you're gonna see a lot more job ads for UI and UX designers who specialize in designing objects for AR. And this is something that we're pretty excited about here at AJ and Smart is having to learn new tools to create new things for these new platforms. So my second prediction is that in 2020, we're gonna see a lot more AR and there's gonna be a lot more demand for designers and even 3D modelers to create things for AR products. All right, my final trend prediction for 2020 and this one is especially clear to me because the entire year 2019, we've been working on products with this element in almost every single one of them and it's that AI tools and machine learning are gonna be so good that a lot of these sort of blue sky ideas that designers and product people had over the last few years are now a reality. So my trend prediction is that AI is going to be integrated into almost every product you can imagine in 2020. Let's take a very simple example of how this looks in a standard UI that you see every day. Take a look at Apple photos or Google photos. So any photo app on any of the platforms that you're using, these apps used to be classic dumps of information until a few years ago when machine learning and facial recognition actually started to get good. So object recognition, not just facial recognition, allowed us to search for photos, allowed us to search for dog and you find a picture of a dog and all these things slowly, slowly but surely kind of faded their way into these products until this year when Apple kind of caught up with it and added it all into their photos app and you have now the really nice collections and monthly views and highlighting the best photos and collapsing all the photos that don't really matter in whatever. This is a really, really, really simple but very useful example of how AI and machine learning tools are being used, algorithms are being used to improve user interfaces, to improve the UX of a lot of different products but you're going to see this in 2020 as the standard. It's the standard way to design products in 2020. Almost every product, like I said, almost every product we've worked on in 2019 had an element of machine learning, had an element of artificial intelligence, boosted interface elements which made the user interface easier to use and the UX overall better. So what are the actual applications that you're going to be seeing? Well, personalization is just going to be one of the biggest things. So when a user uses your product, the product learns more about them and then the product becomes more personalized to them and this increases conversions for the clients. This just makes the overall experience much, much better. Two years ago, if you were designing a product and just saying, oh, maybe this is just going to be a curated collection here or maybe we'll put the recent here, whatever. Like you had to almost imagine, oh, okay, so we can't just let the computer figure this out because that's impossible. We have to think of everything. Whereas today, when we're designing a product, we can literally say, okay, well, this box here should display what we think are the best clothing items for this type of person. And once they've used the app for long enough, they don't even have to do an onboarding where they select their styles, which we always had to do. The products can learn very, very quickly what type of person this is based on their behaviors and bundles that up and basically present it back to them. What's the difference to 2018 and 2019? Well, in 2018 and 2019, we had to design these really specific onboarding flows to just get as much information out of people as we could so that we could present them back with information. Think about Apple Music or Spotify two years ago.  And then Spotify came along with Spotify Weekly, Apple came along with the For You tab, Netflix knows what you like. These things are now standard. It's no longer, oh my God, we could add AI or machine learning to this. It's as standard as, well, we need to have a navigation bar on the bottom. So my third prediction for 2020 is that pretty much every product that you're going to work on as a designer unless it's a straight up brochure website, you know, of like a, you know, just like static website, I'm talking more about the product industry, almost everything you're going to work on is going to have aspects of machine learning in it. And so my recommendation for you is to really try to understand what is possible with machine learning, but also even more simple, look out when you're using products on your phone or when you're using products, look out for the things that you haven't yet noticed are actually machine learning, right? Look out for the things that you've just taken for granted, but they're actually complex machine learning algorithms. Even pulling down on the iPhone and just seeing the recent apps used, these are not just simple, oh, that's the last thing you use. They're relatively complex algorithms behind these things to make these devices and to make these products smarter. So when you're designing products in 2020, you now have a massive toolkit. You have access to a world of things that can make the user experience better even without you having to think through every single step. What you don't wanna do though is go to a developer and say, hey, could you add some AI to this? You're gonna sound like one of those designers who heard the word AI and is just saying it. What you do need to do is just try to get up to speed on the types of things that machine learning and artificial intelligence can do for your product. Because there are products out there which seem like they're using machine learning algorithms, but they're all hard-coded, it's just good for you to know this. It's good for you to try to have an understanding of it. Now, I'm not talking about doing some massive machine learning course. I'm talking about going on YouTube and just searching around and just being interested in the topic. And those are my three big trend predictions for 2020. They're not very exciting. They're probably the same trends that I would have said for 2019. Again, they're just predictions. It could be that I'm three years out. It could be that they never happened. But these are the things that we've been working on this year at AJ and SMART that are gonna be releasing over the next few months. So we know for a fact that companies are investing heavily in these topics. VR, AR, Machine Learning AI. They've been talked about for years and years and years, but they're starting to mature in 2020, is what I would say. So thank you so much for watching this video. If you wanna learn more about UI, UX, product design, workshops, all this kind of stuff that we talk about at AJ and SMART, all you gotta do is subscribe to this channel. We've got videos almost every week of the entire year. We've got a massive backlog of videos that you can check out. Do leave a comment if you enjoyed this video. Do let me know what your trends for 2020 are. And one thing I do wanna know is if you already have some interesting resources for learning VR, AR, and maybe catching up on Machine Learning, let me know in the comments because I wanna know it and I wanna share it. Thanks so much for watching. Have a really, really great 2020. Cool, that plant which gets coming out of your head.  Yeah, okay, go. Yeah, let's meet it. Okay, okay. Okay. Let's get excited. Okay. Hey, I'm Jonathan from AJ and SMART. Oh, maybe it doesn't matter that I'm Jonathan. I've got it, I've got it, okay. Hey, I'm Jonathan from AJ and SMART. I run a digital agency. Hey, my name is Jonathan.  I'm looking shiny. No, it could be. Do you feel face? No, it's probably face cream. Yeah, you know what? You actually should. This is not a joke. You should, for also the other people, get a little kit for D, for D-shining people. Oh, a disaster. Yeah, it's actually handy. There's this, or what do you even call that?    But if you put a frog into cold water and slowly boil that water, the frog will just die because they don't notice. This, I know it's horrible. I know it's horrible. But this is what Apple does.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com with another fun one here three box break a fanatics under wrap autograph baseball's random player break number 27 One spot gets you nine players and one person is going to get the any and all multi-signed baseball spot So there's the list right there. Let's gather everybody's names. It's just easier to multiply this by nine here two three four five six seven eight and Nine so each list will on the randomizer will have a hundred and seventy-one items Let's get your names into the first list here and let's get this group Into the second list right over there and let's Roll it and randomize names and player names. We'll put the results here three and a five eight times one two three four five six seven An eighth and final time after eight. We got a couple Jeremies all the way down to Eugene three and a five eight times for the players one two three four five six seven and Eight and final time after eight. We've got Peter Lonzo all the way down to each year Get your thinking caps on ladies and gentlemen. We will do Do a little who am I as well? America's favorite game. All right So like always we're gonna show you just a list as is and then I'll alphabetize by your first name So you can see all your players grouped together look at that Eugene with the any and all multi-signed autograph baseball spot So thanks everybody for getting in There will be a little trade window that trade window also a chance to see your players all grouped together if if need be And there we go. Let's go back to the top It's alphabetized by your first names All right, so Alan.  There's first group Next group And the last little bit right there Haley. They're your players right over there James Jeremy to there And then Josh, there's your group of players over here Steve Locke Steve Locke's last spot mojo players It's a good draw Trevor Has the rest right there There you go gang. We're gonna pause the video when we come back. We'll see if there's any trades Then we'll have the break stick around BRB All right, welcome back everybody. No deals were done. So let's see See how quickly you can guess the first player guess what it's a multi-signed baseball It's two autographs. I Think you should be able to guess both of them So congrats Eugene with the any and all multi-signed baseball spot Everyone knows those two autos, right? Who do we got there? They are Mets That's Pete Alonzo That's David right got the fanatic sticker here the MLB logos ticker there Pete Alonzo and David right for Eugene nice good start Next up. All right. We got a single auto here We have a A right-handed pitcher with a lifetime 130 wins to 71 losses a three two three lifetime ERA. It's pretty good a little over 1900 strikeouts a 1.1 whip Played for three teams my entire career a five-time all-star two-time all MLB first team ALERA leader two-time MLB strikeout leader In a one-time AL wins leader It's pretty good. This guy got me a Hall of Famer. Is this guy on Hall of Fame trajectory? He could he needs to knock out like a Cy Young or two. I think that would definitely That would definitely help Went to college at UCLA and he was drafted first overall by the Pirates Back in 2011 Who am I? It's a pretty good draft class too. Yep. Trev and Steve's got it Garrett Cole Garrett Cole future Hall of Famer. There it is There's all your stickers right there. I Think he's on that trajectory, right? He's 32 already But if he gets to like I don't know what milestones would he have to hit, you know, maybe 3,000 strikeouts maybe 200 plus wins Something like that, but maybe maybe a Cy Young or two could be Could be nice. There's the Garrett Cole card in there, too. That's for Jeremy Port. There you go, Jeremy Alright third one. We got another Another three in the store boys and girls so check it out. All right. We got another Active pitcher another good one, too Who am I a Right-handed pitcher with a win-loss record of 78 and 62 36 ERA and 1380 strikeouts played for one team my entire career a one-time All-Star and Then a one-time appearance on the all MLB second team Has a record of most consecutive strikeouts in a game 10 which ties him with Tom Siever and Corbin Burns From Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I think did he go to LSU? I think he went to LSU Yeah, he went to LSU and then was drafted Seventh overall in the 2014 MLB draft drafted by the Phillies seventh round Not seven round first round by the Phillies seventh overall in the 2014 MLB draft Still with the Phillies Who's an All-Star pitcher for the Phillies? I'm carving out a really Really nice career Chainboss not a Philly Aaron Nola is a Philly. That's right Steve. That is Aaron Nola. That ball goes to Haley Good great penmanship from Aaron Nola. There are the stickers right there There's the card in there There you go here and you gal mojo right there. There you go gang I'm Joe for jasmine's case breaks calm. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us Maybe we'll do another three later tonight jasmine's case breaks calm


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