The Best One Yet - 💪HOTLINE: The Best Comebacks Yet

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

Nick & Jack share the best comebacks yet. In business, from us personally, and from you. Because TBOY hotline is where you’re in the CEO seat, so we’ve got the operator ready, with some fantastic voicemails to share.When Nick got cut from the lacrosse team and when Jack split up with his girlfriend he’d moved in with.When a big media biz backed out of a deal with us on the day we were supposed to sign.Your comebacks: You got fired, you got sick, you got injured, and your comebacks are inspirationalThanks to @liquidiv for sponsoring the show! LiquidIV.com Use code 2026TBOY to get 20% off (first time purchasers only) LiquidIV.com#paidpartnerGrab your Tickets to the IPO Tour: Our In-Person OfferingSan Francisco 9/23: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0064AFB5F688BDBoston 10/14: https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/tboy-the-ipo-tour-in-person-offering-8cdhupSeattle 11/4 (21+): https://www.axs.com/events/1446394/the-best-one-yet-ticketsNEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW:Want more business storytelling from us? Check our weekly deepdive show, The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of the products you're obsessed with. Listen for free to The Best Idea Yet: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/NEW LISTENERSFill out our 2 minute survey: https://qualtricsxm88y5r986q.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dp1FDYiJgt6lHy6GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Linkedin (Nick): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/Linkedin (Jack): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ About Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today’s top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, The Best One Yet is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is Nick. This is Jack. And today's Hotline pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. Yetis, we're on the second week of our summer break, but we pre-prepared this special episode for you. Presented by Liquid Ivy, our go-to upgrade to a glass of ice wine. Honestly, it's delicious zero-sugar and more hydrating than a stock market liquidation.

A literal liquidation. In today's episode, we're going to share with you the best comebacks yet in business from us personally and from you. And because T-Boy Hotline is where you're in the CEO seat, we've got the operator ready with your voice. mails to share. Jack, we, oh wow, the phone ringing off the hook here. Let's hit it. Let's hit it, man. For our first story, the first comeback story is from Nick and me personally. I got cut from a team, and Jack split up and moved out. But we both staged comebacks worthy of 30 for 30 episodes. Second story, what do we got, Jack? It's a comeback from this company, the best one yet.

A big media business backed out of a deal with us the day we were supposed to sign. Ruin my bachelor party, but it put us on the path that led to this show. And our third and final story, we're looking at you. We're pressing play on your voice. to hear your comeback. You got fired, you got sick, you also got injured, and your comebacks are inspirational. But besties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, what a mix of stories. Come back with a better mix, not possible. L.L. Cool J once told us, don't call it a comeback. But sorry, Mr. Cool J. In this episode, we're doing the opposite. It's all we're doing, because we're going to put our personal comeback stories and yours up on a pedestal.

But, Jack, let's kick it off T-boy style with the Business Comeback Hall of Fame. J.K. The media icon got ghosted from being the next CEO of Disney. But instead, Jeff launched DreamWorks, created Shrek to rip on Disney's fairy tale characters, and that was the ultimate revenge. Think about the movie Shrek. It's just one Disney trolling, isn't it? It's just trolling the little elves, Jack. How about Martha Stewart? She was made an example of by the Department of Justice and did time for insider trading.

But then Martha came back to Snoop Dog partnerships and a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover. In her 80s. Abercrombie and Fitch, Victoria's Secret. Both out of date, both had kind of gross CETs. Yeah, but now Bo Stalk's trading at all-time highs because nostalgia never dies. How about the Stanley Tumblr? Yeah. That was left behind in the literal coal mines.

But now it never leaves the girlie's hands. Birkenstock, ugly sandals. Resurrection, though, by the Barbie movie and an IPO. Speaking of feat, there's a whole category of once-forgotten footwear. Uh-huh, you whip out the whiteboard on this? Ugs, New Balance, Crocs. Each nearly died in the mid-2000s. But 20 years later, what was old,

now feels new again. Bookstores? Yeah? Supposed to be killed by e-books and Amazon. Sorry, Jack. Barnes & Noble survived the internet. Now they're adding 60 new stores this year. These are all fantastic comeback stories. And Peloton stock? Peloton stock, Jack. Just kidding, no comeback. Yeah, we're still waiting on that one. Eternally, apparently. Come on, guys. We're like Ryan Gosling in the notebook. We'll always be waiting. Maybe if you unplug the Peloton and plug it back in, that'll help the stock, man. But Nick, who is our first ballot Hall of Famers? The first one ever with 100% of the votes? The first Ballad Hall of Fame comebacker is

the best fact yet. At the end of our show, we'll get to that in a few minutes. But in the meantime, we got three fantastic stories, Jack, let's hit the gym. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm that had an idea that caused a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best

is an norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50% That's a fat tip. Tea Boy City on your at list. If you No, you know, because we're ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show. Start the show.

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For our first story, we wanted to share a couple of our own comeback stories, like when I got cut from the college lacrosse team. And when I ended a relationship and had to move out with the person I'd moved in with. Nick, you go first. All right, I got you, Jack, I got you, ready? I got the email. Do you remember this? We were freshman year roommates and, like, this went down.

I remember, of course, being freshman in your roommates. I don't remember you getting the email, though. Okay, so sophomore year, I opened up my email. I had walked on to the Middlebury lacrosse team the year earlier, which was like a big deal to just walk on to the team. And to be clear, Middlebury is D3, but it had won the national championship a couple times. Yeah, this is a great team.

So to be on that team was an incredible feeling. And then it was not an incredible feeling to get an email saying, unfortunately, we don't have room for you on the team this year. They told you that by email? I got to be email. I like, actually, I remember I actually emailed a few other guys' team. It was like, can I just meet up and talk to you? the captains. I was like, I don't know what's going on, but I've never felt this well. And this

was like my identity, you know, like this is when you're in college, like this is what you associate with yourself. You're defined by what you do in college and like, I was on the lacrosse team. Especially early on in college. That's when I realized if this wasn't going to fit, I should probably try doing something that was even bigger. And this was like, I don't know what I was thinking at the time, but I thought, okay, if I can't make it on this D3 lacrosse team, what if I tried making it on a division one team instead? insane move. Let me ask,

does that happen in lacrosse? It doesn't really happen. In fact, I think I may hold a record here. I'll get to in a bit, but I decided to apply to some schools to transfer. I was fortunate to get accepted to a Division I school to Brown. And I emailed the coach and said, I'm going to come.

And you know what he said to me, Jack? What? We don't have room. There's no space for you on this team. Wow. But I figured I could like figure this out anyway. So I ended up transferring. Of course, Jack and I remained best friends.

We lived together all that summer. We lived together afterwards. But then when I'm at Brown, I show up on campus and I'm like, coach, I'm here. And he's like, we don't have room. So then I showed up at practice. And he said, I don't have room, but you can practice with us. Okay.

I haven't heard these details before. Yeah, I didn't know he gave you a hard note twice. Yeah, you see, he said, and then eventually he's just like, if you want to be a body showing up on practice, he can keep showing up. So I did keep showing up. And for two months, I showed up. And then there was a scrimmage against Colgate. And he said, you know what?

We do need another backup for this. You can come, but you got to wear your old gear. You can't wear brown gear. So I couldn't even wear the brown lacrosse gear, but they brought me to the scrimmage. But then I just showed up again the next day. And I just kind of kept showing up to the point where one week before the season started,

the coach stopped the whole locker room after they'd handed out everyone's jerseys and had a locker set with my jersey on it and told me that could be on the team. On one condition. What? I had to change positions from a short stick to a long stick. Which you accepted without complaint.

Oh, I grabbed that long stick, Jack. Wow. Yeah. So I think I may hold the record for like the only player who won a championship in D3 and won a championship in D1, too. Wait, you guys won a championship that freshman year? Yeah. We ended up winning a championship at Middlebury when I was there freshman year. And then we won an Ivy League championship when I was at Brown that second year.

What number were you at Brown? I was 38. I didn't get to choose my number. At that point, you know, beggars camp, but you're just not going to be on the team at that point. So much of this story is parallel to Rudy. Have you thought about that before? Yeah. I mean, I didn't get carried.

off the field, but I was happy to see a jersey in the locker. I mean, Nick, being a Division I lacrosse alum, like Ivy League school, these are obviously amazing accomplishments. I had no idea. I honestly did not know the amount of, like, uncomfortable situations you had to persevere through, asking you to be on the sidelines, but thinking you be the outcast with a practice pinning on? Those two months were the lowest I felt in college, and that was lower than when I'd been cut, because I just kept showing up and I was like, honestly, this may not even work, and it may not

even have been worth it to come. It was wild. That's an incredible story. Just an accomplishment that I'm proud to be vaguely adjacently close to. But Jack, I'm going to kick it over to you. All right. What do you go out? What do you come back there, man.

So, Nick, you were here for this as well. 2015. We're roommates again in New York City. We were roommates for three years after college. The East Village spot. But we're not roommates anymore. The arena. Because I moved in with my girlfriend at the time of like three years.

And we'll leave her unnamed in this episode. But, you know, it was the wrong person and we broke up. And I felt not only like I'd wasted a whole bunch of time, you know, like developing this relationship, but I also felt embarrassed that I had moved in with somebody who in hindsight was clearly the wrong person. And we missed you, yeah. So it was the summer of 2015. I needed to decompress. I needed just like time to get away from the daily grind.

And I needed to leave the city and take a proper vacation. Something, you know, Nick, you and I were publishing the newsletter every day back then. Totally. So outside of our bank chaps, we're doing a secret. So first of all, thank you for being my co-founder back then when we were side hustlers, because I took that vacation. I went to Yellowstone and Grand Teton with my high school buddies. And obviously my cell phone wasn't working out. And that is exactly what I needed. So first of all, thank you for being a great partner.

And like giving me that time that I needed. I got you back. Just a year later, I meet Alex. and very quickly learn to love her. And Alex is now my wife and the mom of our three kids as well. But dude, for the business meeting Alex was such a tremendous comeback. Because I didn't realize it at the time, but that X did not support what I was doing with market snacks between you and me. Yeah, our sidehouse.

The company before the best one yet. Right. Before we sold to Robin Hood, it was called Market Snacks. Then it was Robin Hood Snacks. Now it's the best one yet. Well, back in the market snacks, Nick. Yeah. Those were the days where, like, our hustle was, it was not clear what the payoff was going to be.

No, we were doing it because we loved doing it. But, like, I felt like I was in the dog house after I did it because, like, you know, she wasn't supporting it. And she's like, why aren't she spending time with me kind of thing? Honestly, I didn't even know that vibe was happening. And then the first week I spent time with Alex, she was so supportive of, like, my time writing that newsletter. And, like, I would be sitting on the balcony writing the newsletter. and she would grab a bottle of wine and, like, pour me a glass and sit next to me and read a book. I can picture you, like, saying,

I'm going to connect this earnings report to a Beyonce song. And she's like, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I would ask her for, like, I could see I was just, like, getting pumped. I'd ask her for help with pop culture references. Yeah. It was awesome. But, like, I learned how important it was.

For any entrepreneur, if you're going to, you know, to be successful as an entrepreneur, you need to be obsessed with the thing you're doing. And you need to be thinking about it all the time. And you need to potentially be working on it all the time. And, like, that's not going to work if the person you're in a relationship with doesn't support. Oh, you got to be on the same page with that. Yeah. And so I think you recognize, Nick, that, like, once Alex was in the picture,

oh, yeah. My commitment was just way less restrained. And I had, you know, fewer hesitations and I was more eager to, you know, work the extra hours, which was necessary for us to get where we got. Jack, as you're describing this, I have a takeaway. I think I could whip up for this. But I know exactly what you're talking about. Because what you're describing was it's like a physical transformation you went through and a psychological one. And you don't realize how all these things are connected to the person you're spending your time with. Yeah. I have a couple takeaways on it.

So Jack, what's the takeaway for you and me making a comeback? Yeah, these quick side note, nothing we publish in the podcast, like our takeaways. They're always touched by both Nick and me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this one's just touched by me. All right. So you go to this guy. the Nick sprinkled dick. But Nick, a co-founder is more important to an entrepreneur than funding. First of all, because you gave me that week that I really needed to decompress. That's lovely. Second of all, encouragement is an accelerator for your business. The encouragement I got from Alex accelerated our business. And it is just night and day. So if you get one of those two things,

you're a co-founder or encouragement from your partner, you can succeed. I was lucky to have both, man. Jack, that is beautiful. And I was going to whip up a takeaway based on mine and yours because they connect on this. Go ahead. Okay, okay, ready? Bet on yourself to bet on another person. Like, I got to bet on myself. I was just like, I'm going all in on this and I'm taking a eugress transferring and trying

to hit this. But at the end of the day, the furthest you can go is when you've got someone with you. And I have you on the business and you have Alex in your life. And that's what you're betting on. Like, at the end of the day, if you don't just bed in yourself, you're betting on the other person. Nick swapped out the short stick, took the big stick without the play. For our second story, T-Boy lost a big newsletter deal, but we bounced back with a way bigger podcast deal. We learned that you never know which yes is the right yes.

Jack, could you take us back 10 years ago in the calendar to February 2016? Yeah, we were gearing up for your epic bachelor party in Park City, Utah. Oh, the snow was good, man. The snow was That was great. Oh, the vibes were really good tip. The vibes were good because we were about to sign a contract. Oh, yeah. The biggest one in our startup's history. Hey, you see, Bessie, spring on some context. At that point, Jack and I were side hustle entrepreneurs running a newsletter business. We wrote a daily newsletter on the side of our jobs and finance. And eventually on the side of our MBA programs. But this was the big deal with a major media company to syndicate our newsletter to their huge international audience. This deal would have boosted revenue, boosted our exposure, and boosted our credibility. Jack, this was our Michael Jordan signing with Nike moment. You know what I mean? We ordered extra booze for the bachelor party to toast a shot and celebrate that way. We actually had flown to visit this company and we'd spoken to them on the phone a dozen times, including their founders and CEO. And we spent precious money that we did not have on a lawyer to help us negotiate the contract. Yeah, because, Jack, we thought we were about to get this huge pay.

Yeah, literally went into credit card debt thinking, it's okay, we'll pay it back with the money we get from this deal. Okay, so signing day comes, and as we are packing for this Utah batch party, we get the phone call. Yep, hang out a sec. I'll patch nick in. Okay, what do we got? Oh, boy. Here's what they said. Guys, let you know that we had a gut check, and we decided this deal is not right for us. Can you believe?

They honestly never even told us why, but they canceled the deal. They're like, you know, maybe we'll touch base in the future when the timing's better. It's like, no. I would say deflating was an understatement here, Jack. For six years, we had this one key product. We'd publish the newsletter every day, and we felt like this was the deal that was going to propel us from side hustlers to a full-time media business. But instead, we end up limping into my bachelor party with these emotional wounds, and we don't even know if we can tell the other guys about it. I know. What do we do? We drank.

Yeah, we poured another round to High West whiskey before we hit the slides. It wasn't as celebrating the wins, though. We told ourselves that this was for the best. It was the wrong deal. We hoped that it was true. We focused on the skiing because Jack and I, as entrepreneurs, have learned you got to refocus on something. It was great skiing. I mean, the snowflakes were like as big as a quarter. We also rented out that ice rink and we did curling, which was hilarious. And wasn't that like right around an Olympics too?

I think I still have a bruise from that. Dave Reed has a bruise from that for sure. Our buddy Timmy definitely does. But a month or two later, a new opportunity came up. We got invited to come audition for a podcast. Launch a podcast? Can you guys transform your daily newsletter into a daily podcast? You see, Eddie, Jack and I had already been doing live TV appearance.

So we weren't just typing on a computer. We were speaking occasionally into microphones. They knew the chemistry was there. So we flew in New York, did the audition, and got an offer to do a 90-episode pilot podcast. That was the season, 90 episodes. And it turns out that was the deal that propelled us from side hustlers to full-time media business. It wasn't the newsletter deal. It was that deal.

And the first episode of that podcast aired May 23rd, 2018 on this feed. And before that 90-episode pilot season even ended, we had an offer. to buy the company. An acquisition offer from Robin Hood, who we sold the company to. And today's episode? What number is it, Jack? What number?

The first was on May 23rd, 2018. All right, what do we have to on that white point? 1,872. We went from a devastating no to a life-changing yes within two months and we're almost at episode 2000. Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies

listening to the T-boy comeback? You never know which yes is the right yes. Now, yet he's looking back eight years later, we're actually grateful that media company pulled out at the very last second. Because that media company wanted us to change our style. In fact, the contract demanded we change our style. Write the newsletter so that Jamie Diamond would want to read it every day. That's what they asked us to do. They wanted us to make Jamie Diamond our muse. Yeah. Now, Jamie Diamond, we love that he hopefully enjoys the show and we'd love to interview him soon. But he's not the target

customer. The CEO of America's largest bank? That's not the voice that we craft the show with. So that newsletter deal would have required we abandon our pop biz style and stodged up to old school finance instead. So like that yes, that would have been the wrong yes. Instead, we got a yes from a podcast company that urged us to be 110% of ourselves. And that's the opposite from the Jamie Diamond advice we got. The podcast company told us to be ourselves. Our podcast deal was the right yes. It was the one we needed and it was the one that pushed us to further success. Sebastian is the next time you get what might feel like a heartbreaking no, just remember this. You never know which yes is the right yes.

Yes. For a third and final story, it's you, the comebackers. There is a takeaway in each of your stories for the Yetis out there. Nick, let's just get right to it and push play. Let's hit the tip. First is Jackie Wong from Daily City. Hey, Nick and Jack. So I want to share this story for people who feel like they're falling behind life,

especially in the early 20s and 30s. And here it goes. Back in 2009, I moved to New York having a dream to become big in public accounting, but by 2012, I know that dream is pretty much far from, far over. It's because I was working at a dead end job as an accountant. And not until 2014, I met my wife, who really have no idea what the career is, but she encouraged me to keep moving forward and to finding something that I liked. So fast forward in 2017, I started discovering necessary,

ERP, and that has kick off my career. And now I work for a fast-paced startup company at ORA to do business system at ALAS. So I just want to let them know that my comeback story is never a perfect plan, but it just happened to be keep on searching. Here we go, Jackie. Yeah, that was inspiring. There's so many people in their mid-20s and 30s who feel like their career is not going anywhere.

It's a mid-20s crisis. Nobody likes it. Yeah. After eight years, Jackie found a phenomenal. nominal career. All right, Jack, let's hit the tapes. We've got number two here. This is Jessica Yost from Alexandria, Virginia. At the ripe old age of 31, I had to have hip reconstruction after a 17-year dance career. It took five years and having to relearn how to walk, but I went on to run my first marathon last year in a year of 20 races, including a 10-mile-and-two-half-marathons and a bunch of

five and 10Ks. What makes it even crazier is I was blindsided by a divorce and one of my precious dogs passed away. So what I learned is a lot about resilience and that if you just keep showing up and putting one foot in front of the other in life and in running, you will eventually cross the finish line. I mean, is there anyone more resilient than a dancer, Jack? A dancer who put one foot in front of the other, 5,280 times times 26.2. Let's go, Jessica. And Jack, let's hit the tape. We got a third one for you, Hatrick.

This is Adriana Alvarez from Sacramento, California. Push and play. Here we go. Hey, Nick, hey, Jack. Okay, you want to hear a great comeback story? In mid-year 2020, I was laid off for my corporate job with the Coca-Cola company. But what I decided to do at that point instead of looking for another job, I decided to invest my severance package into my side hustle that I had started a few years before.

Turns out that investment paid off. My first year of running my business online, I did over $1.2 million in sales, and I now am the proud owner of a multimillion dollar brand called Lovehurstop.com. I could have not asked for a bigger blessing in disguise. So that's my comeback story. What do you think? Ballard. That's the best way to invest. Investing yourself on that.

Taking severance and investing? Dick, I'm looking at the website right now. phenomenal products, but I'm just so impressed you took a risk. It paid off. That's a beautiful thing. Adriana never looked back. Oh, and Jack, for the last one, you want to read this one? It's from Shannon Conahan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Every morning, the first 20 minutes of my run belonged to T-boy. Same routine, same rhythm, feet-finding pavement before my brain fully wakes up. It's the part of the day that's mine. Last March, that routine nearly ended for good. I was on a run like any other when a car hit me. The driver didn't stop. I don't remember much of what came next, just fragments. Sirens, hands, the trauma unit, ceiling. What I do remember is the fear that followed. Not just of cars,

but of my own body. Would it hold me again? Would I run again? The injuries were severe. Recovery was not a straight line. It was setbacks, plateaus, days I questioned whether getting back to normal was even a fair goal to chase. But somewhere in the slow, unglomerous work of healing, something shifted. I stopped trying to get back to who I was before and started building something stronger. Just under a year later, I crossed a marathon finish line. Not because I forgot what happened, because I didn't let it write the ending. That same year, I published Grit Over Quit, not as a victory lap, but has proof that the space between being knocked down and standing back up is where you find out who you really actually are. The car that hit me took a lot from me. It didn't get to take

the finish line. T-boy is still the first 20 minutes of every morning run. Some things you don't let anyone take. Shannon, thank you for letting us read that. Wow. Unreal. Shannon, when we come to Philadelphia, which we will for a live show, we want you up on stage with us. Actually, Jack, how about this? Shannon, we'll go for a run with you. Oh. On the river to the rocky steps. Yep. Just like the movie.

Yeah. And we'll do that together before a Philadelphia live show. Brilliant idea. Let's do it. Shannon, we got your back. Thanks for having ours. And congrats on everything you accomplished. But Jack, as promised, it's time for the best fact yet.

And this is our best comebacker yet. Who we got, man. It's the first bout Hall of Famer with 100% of the votes for best comeback in business history. Best comeback in business history. Jack, take us. back in time. In 1985, nine years after Steve Jobs co-founded Apple, he was fired by Apple. The board ousted him and then installed a Pepsi guy who Steve had recruited in the very first place. Now, during Steve's exile from Apple, he founded Next. Next. A computer company that Apple would

eventually buy for $429 million. And Steve Jobs also bought a graphics division from George Lucas, renamed it to Pixar. He IPOs Pixar. He releases Toy Story, cars, Finding Nemo and more. And then Steve Jobs gets rehired as CEO of Apple, selling Pixar at Disney and launching the iPod and the iPhone. Steve's comeback to Apple allowed for Apple's comeback. Because get this, Apple stock was 10 cents the year he came back, adjusted for stock splits.

Today it's not 10 cents. It's $304. The biggest I comeback in business history. Jack, all right, that's a wrap on today's Hotline episode. So thank you so much to everyone for calling in and for really actually maxing out our voicemail. We actually hit the limit there. You couldn't leave any more. And thank you to Liquid Ivy for powering us through.

I'm finishing my incredibly delicious hydration water right now. And then we're going to the bathroom because Jack's too hydrated right now. So Bessie's, if you have not tried the brand new sugar-free ring pop cherry yet from Liquid Ivy, it is genuinely the most fun hydration that we've ever had on the show. And that's what we like doing. We like doing fun stuff. I drink it with ice water, candy cherry, bright and tart, zero sugar, clinically proven to hydrate faster than water alone and scientifically formulated with electrolytes and eight vitamins and

nutrients to keep you going all day every day. You had ring pops when you were little. Now they came back just like it. It's a true classic re-imagined. Shop online at Liquidiv.com. Use promo code 2026 TBOI for 20% off your first order. Tell them T-Boy sent you and Jack and I will see you as always for the next show. This is Jack. I own stock of Amazon. Nick own stock of Nike. We both own stock of Apple, Peloton, and Robin Hood.