been a long, long day. I got a lot to say. It feels like I'm carrying a two-ton way. I go to see my friend. Hello, I'm Monsignor Patrick Winslow. And I am Father Matthew Cout. And we are speaking from the Rooftop, a podcast brought to you by Tan Books, in which we invite you to join our conversation out here in the open air. Where we look out upon the world around us from the rooftop of the church and share with you what we see. Greetings, Father Winslow. Well, hello.  Well, thank you. I feel adequately welcomed. Good. Now that we have that pleasantry out of the way. I did want to just take one second before we kind of begin a conversation just to thank Tan Books. You know, they have made it so easy for you and I to be able to do this. And we literally have these tiny little devices that we can pop on anywhere we are. Whatever rooftop we happen to be landing on as it were. And then we literally just give them back and they make all that stuff happen. And really, honestly, it sounds like we're in a studio. We're not. We're never in a studio. Oh, no, we're not. We are in a rooftop, practically. We are anywhere we need to be. The third floor of the Passwell Center, looking out over the city of Charlotte at the moment. Hit play, hit record. Yeah. So thanks to them and all their good work in the church and their production. It's fantastic. They make it clear. And all we have to do is just take the time, schedule the time and resume our conversation. I don't think some kudos to us. We just did this not long ago. That's good for us. Pretty good. This is good. Yeah, no, that's bad because that because that's good for us. That's really kind of a bad. But we should do a little more. But anyway, we're working on it. We are attentive to the fact that there are some people out there beside our parents that enjoy listening to us. And besides the kids that are strapped down to a chair, they have to listen to us. That's true. That's true. We are wonderful. If you do this again, you're going to have to listen to from the rooftop of correction for your children. I get it. I get it. So all right. So here's what I was thinking about. Yesterday was the Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch. Yes. And the gospel passage reflected upon how a seed must fall to the die, a fall to the ground and dies so that it may grow and live. And then there was a further reference from our Lord after that little illusion to the seed about those who love their life will lose it.  Right. And it made me start to reflect upon the mystery of the cross. And of course, you know, when we're at Mass, we're focused on the cross of our Lord. The altar is an image of the cross. It's the cross on which our Lord is sacrificed. It's also an image of our Lord himself. And all of these, all of these liturgical elements have illusions, various illusions, but truly the focal point is the sacrifice of Calvary in which our Lord offers himself as the paschal mystery for our salvation and redemption. It's so easy sometimes to gloss over the fact that the cross in its most simplest terms is graphic, hard, painful. When you look at a crucifix, you cannot escape the reality in which man finds himself. Right. And that is confronted with the cross as the means to our happiness. And our Lord says time and time again, did you fact pick up your cross and follow me? The message, the central message of the Christian faith is that there is no salvation apart from the cross. We have a sense that we have to appropriate the cross in our lives. So what then is the cross in our own life? Because I think sometimes we forget the fact that we do have crosses that we have to pick up and follow. And it's easy to just simply say our Lord did it. Like the crosses of an outsource to our Lord, he took care of the bill and I'm good to go. And that's not how this works. I ran over to Golgotha Bank and Mick and said, Exactly. I was like, no, no, no, no. He didn't, you know, yes, he paid the price. However, we have to follow him and we have crosses that we have to bear in life. And I also am aware of the fact that as priests and also any Christian, we try to help people bear the weight of their crosses. We should go on sympathy, especially because we understand the weight of our own crosses. But the one thing we cannot do is to remove them. We can't make crosses disappear. We can't simply say, oh, that's not a cross. Put it down. That's not our prerogative to do. In fact, there is no way to salvation for that person apart from addressing the cross that has been laid upon them or that has come to them. And if we attempt to say, no, that's not a cross, that we are actually impeding salvation for that person. And I remember reading in the Catechism some time ago, and it was a reference to the Antichrist and it was alluding to the fact that the Antichrist and the references in Scripture to Antichrist are not to a single individual historical person, but really to a spirit of the world that says salvation is possible, apart from the cross. And it truly is the spirit of the Antichrist who is going to whisper in the ears of everyone. That's not a cross. That's right. You don't need to lift that. You don't need to approach that. We can relieve you of that burden. And that is a scary thing that happens, I think, all too often in every generation. I think very much in our own. And I get it. There's a temptation of a compassionate person to say, I don't want you to have that cross, but it's not helpful. In fact, it's actually collaborating with an Antichrist spirit to say that you don't need to suffer a cross. And literally it's not compassionate. Yeah. If the word itself means I'm going to suffer with you. Right. It's I don't want you to suffer. So I'll remove that for you.  Right. I'm not going to be good. I'm not going to get under that cross with you. I'm just going to tell you to put it down. It's not a real cross. Yeah. We find this to be the case across the board in those hotbed issues. Yeah. Right. That people have difficulty with the church of teaching on X, Y, or Z. You know, and speak about something very obvious one. But I think everyone is, is can be rightly horrified by is, is the acceptance of abortion. And the mantra, of course, is that I can remove this cross from myself by, by killing innocent child. But the flip side is true, too. If I'm going to have compassion, this is the great work that Mira V is doing. If those of you who don't know, we have a wonderful home here for unwed mothers that we care for them, help them with their college education, etc. to assist them to bring this child to the light. And they're fantastic. The option of adoption is there or to keep the child, etc. But that real compassion is I'm in this with you. Yeah.  And every cross has injustice involved, right? Because, you know, our Lord did not create an unjust world for the rest of us to endure crosses. Rather, we introduced sin, the spirits, the angels. Well, the spirits introduced sin into the equation, into their realm, certainly, then it cascades into our realm. So all of the injustices are cascading out of this gift of freedom from these creatures that God has created. And it creates for these crosses. It creates for crosses that might be biological. If we could have physical ailments, we could be suffering.  Or, for that matter, just the regular ravages of age, which you and I are becoming more and more familiar with. Well, you're more familiar with it than I am. But, you know, all of those things, they can be crosses that are circumstantial, right? That there are consequences of, you know, one, two, or even ten different injustices that seem to fall us. And then, of course, we have those crosses that are emerging out of our own brokenness. They're deeply rooted within us. And they need to be addressed, and perhaps those are the hardest. And I think those in the end are the ones that we want to deny our crosses at all. But the reality is you can't have the cross, which is the means to salvation, apart from having to suffer in some type of injustice, right? Because that's where this friction is coming from. Am I getting something wrong? No, no, no, I think it's great. I was trying to recall the name of the chapel in Orvieto, the famous chapel. It's Signorelli, I think. And if you walk into the beautiful Duomo in Orvieto, Italy, in Umbria, on the right side, maybe it's to Lazio, I don't know what it is, Umbria or Lazio, I can't remember. On the right side is a chapel, the Signorelli Chapel. And there's all kinds of amazing paintings in there. But one of them is of the Antichrist. And you've seen it before, I'm sure. But what's fascinating about the image is that when you see it for the first time, there are these men that are clearly preaching or doing something. And Christ is with them. And Christ has his hand raised. And you think that it's Christ. But then you look closely at it. The hand that's raised on Christ is actually a hand of someone else underneath his fold raising his hand. And you can't see who it is. So it's the person that looks like Christ. As Scripture says, the Antichrist is the one who denies Christ in the flesh. He looks like him, but he's not him. And how do you know? Because he doesn't have any wounds. He doesn't have any wounds. The denial of Christ in the flesh and that flesh having been sacrificed on the cross. Yeah, I was teaching. And that's the same. Although you get it right, but that's the same too, right? So we who must follow him, we have to have wounds ourselves. That's right. In the sense that we surrender and we sacrifice ourselves in an act of surrender in a pattern, in a manner of our Lord. Obviously we do it. Kicking, screaming, crying, denying. True. And all the many things that we do is fallen people. But in the end, there's only one way. Yeah. But you were saying you were exactly like Christ. Well, a number of things. I mean, one is that he doesn't just say to carry, right? But that sort of embrace of it. Whatever the thing is that you have, you pick that thing up. Yeah. You draw that thing to yourself. This was sort of manifested in that movie, The Passion, where Christ sort of lovingly caresses the cross. Yes. Like he wants it. Not because it's an instrument of pain, but because it's a pathway. To means. As he said, for the sake of the joy that laid before him, he endured the cross. And so you're handed this thing, whatever ailments you have, whatever psychological, physical, difficulty, whatever family problem you've got, internal conflicts, struggles with temptation, certain sins, et cetera. The beauty of the church's teaching on sin is that it just says, aha, that's this. That means that's your cross. You know what it is. And you've got to embrace it. Not embracing it, engaging it. Right. But on the contrary to say, I'm going to suffer this. And just like all the statuary that we have in the iconography of the church, the saints are always holding the instruments of their passion. But that became the thing that was almost like a trophy that they're holding up in the dome of the church. Whether it's Lucy with her eyes or the saints with it, Lawrence with his gridiron or whatever else. He suffered something and that became glorified. And it's not just the instruments of martyrdom. It's the thing that's hurting you on the inside. Right.   You see the manifest of justice, but you're seen as love and faith conquering. Love, faith, faith, hope and love conquering in all of it. You know, but we live in a day and age where the spirit of the Antichrist is very loud. Yes. Or the voice of it. Because how often do you hear, oh, the outcome on, get over that. That's not a sin. It's 2020. Right. Get out of here. Exactly. That's a great argument. It's a sin that removed one year changed. That's right. All is different because of one year. So the difficulty is raising children, raising a family, leading a flock, a parish, a diocese, a church. When you have so many voices that take on the voice of the Antichrist telling you day in and day out, give in to your women. These are crosses. Well, you don't need to suffer them. You don't need to suffer them. If you went the way of the world, there would be no cross. That's right. And it gets couched. And you can see how easily as compassion, as you were mentioning earlier, because obviously nobody wants to see another one suffer. I don't want to see Jesus on a cross. Yeah. I don't want to see a saint martyred. That's horrific. And of course we should all recoil at the idea. But the reality is there are injustices that arrive at our doorstep or sometimes deeply embedded within us. And when we can, when they, when we meet them, when we encounter them, it's either we surrender to them in the sense that we don't pick them up as crosses, rather we ourselves are ultimately becoming puppets of them, of whatever these things are in our life. Or we embrace the cross, as you were saying, and the pattern of our Lord even should we fall time and time and time again. But we seek to say, we seek that which our Lord is leading us through. But what we can't do is ignore its reality. Yeah.  Do your own thing. But whatever that thing is, it's always going to be in front of you. Or you say, this is a cross. And I need to embrace it. And the only way I can move forward is to follow the pattern of our Lord and to embrace the cross. Am I making, am I being encoded? It does, yeah. In the words you're using, are interesting, right? I mean, in some sense you can say that some of the vehement and vociferous behavior of everyone who has denied sin and the cross, what are they attempting to do? But to make everyone else embrace their choice. Right. Yeah. They're thrusting that upon us to say, you must embrace and celebrate my choice. Right. And our job, as St. Paul said, I preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. Which sounds like a, sounds like a dour gospel, right? But look at it, maybe another way to frame it would be this. I was asked once, you know, classically, we live in the South and so you have Catholics will wear crucifixes and you have Christians that will wear crosses. And so a Christian asked me, you know, why do you insist on keeping him on that cross? And I didn't even think about it. My simple answer was because that's where I live. Right. That's where I have to live. I'm not in a glorified state. Right. And it got me thinking, there's this wonderful passage where the Sumer Contra Gentiles book four, and he's talking about God becoming man, whether it's fitting to have the incarnation. And he says, just such a beautiful paragraph, you wouldn't think St. Thomas would say this like this, but he says, how do you induce anyone to love you? First of all, man is in need of being induced to love God, the God whom he cannot see. How do you induce anyone to love you? And Thomas has different sort of motives of love. One of them is beauty. It just captures us for a moment. Another one is likeness or similitude. And he says that in order to induce us to love him, God took on human nature. So he looks like us who were made to look like him. That is beautiful. And then he goes further in his commentary on Mark's Gospel, why is it the centurion at the cross the one that says, surely this was the Son of God? Like why when he's suffering the most mutilated, mangled body on the cross, why does that manifest that he's the Son of God? Right. Because no one else can love like that. And so, Thomas doesn't quite say this, but kind of a gloss to say that he who knew no sin became sin. So not only did he take on the likeness of us in terms of human nature, but he took on the likeness of our sin. So like that's what you look like and I'm taking it to myself. That's real compassion. Right.   You're stuck. I'm going to do that. So that every time you and I attempt to identify with Jesus and to embrace that cross, I'm simply saying, I want to participate in this.  That's a real motive of love. So that I can become God. Yeah. Right. So that these wounds can be healed in the way that they're healed in the resurrected form. Yeah. Which is they're transformed. They don't disappear. It's one of the reasons that we typically have crosses that are gold. It's an odd sort of oxymoron, right? You've got the most ugly thing, the crucifixion, and then it's gilded. Right. As if to say, there's hope on the other side of this. Exactly. And you know, and this is the whole, this is at the center of the mission of the life of the church. Yeah. The church authentically cannot do anything else than to acknowledge the cross is the means of salvation, the cross of Christ, but also the crosses that we must pick up and follow after him. We are not in the business of trying to tell people or getting, they're speaking to categories of people and saying, no, these aren't real crosses. And that's not a real cross. You know what? That's not a real cross. You don't have to suffer that. You don't have to suffer this. That's a gift. Yeah. What is a gift? It's like, no, actually, you do. Yeah. And again, they're all different. But we have to be able to speak clearly. Okay. We know the path of righteousness. We can articulate that. You look to the Ten Commandments. You look at, you look to the Gospels and we have our moral content and we say, okay, this is the path. And when we are inclined to do things contrary to that path, we know that somewhere deep, deeply embedded in us is a cross we're going to have to manage. There's no other way. You just, you just don't make, you can't make those things disappear. They have to at least be addressed in such a way. You say, right, Lord, I see, I see the path of righteousness before me. I understand how you come into yourself. I understand that we are all broken. I understand that we don't measure up. I understand that.  And I need a savior. And these are crosses that I'm going to have to deal with. And the way in which I deal with them is to try to carry them with him. Yeah. And he's in there. He says that his, you know, his, his burden, his easy and his burden aside. Yeah. The yoke. Yeah. That double yoke. Because that's just it. And we're only ever really assignment. Right. Whatever we're bearing, whatever we're carrying, he already did that. Yeah. And he's doing that. He's just asking that you participate in that. And in some sense, again, this is going back to something St. Thomas said that I love. It's more in keeping with the dignity of the human creature to make him a partaker in his own salvation. Isn't that true? It is. If you could do something to get yourself out of the mess to undo your own sinfulness and what have you, to be a real participant in that, you would. Like if you could do, have any way, shape, reform to make up for something that you did.  Like if you could take it back, you would. If you could reverse course and just stop it and say, I want to heal that. I want to make that new and Christ as you can. Right. Actually. What I'm talking about is I was this way when I did it. I am this way now where I regret it. Yep. But something happened between points A and B. Yep. It's a transformation, the process of conversion. Yep. And it's only attained by embracing the cross. Embracing the cross.  Right. It's actually changing. It's changing you. It's transforming you. That's it.  The moment that you have not just the regret of I got caught, the regret of the punishment, the regret of whatever, but I regret the actual act and I wish I could undo it. I regret who I was. I regret who I was. And then you can actually begin to spend a life undoing it, not just in terms of that particular act, but changing in you and then helping to change the person that's next to you and say, I have compassion on you. I know what it's like to suffer this. I'm going to get in there with you. And as you said in the video we had, it was a classic Winslow. Oh, no. We were talking about some of the theological laboratory. Uh-huh. We track with them real life problems with real people. And because we can't have a guy that gets up in the priest and says, I can't handle this. I love it when you said that.  Like, yeah, because people's lives are messy. Yeah. That's what a priest does is he says to Jesus Christ, I'm going to make a response. I'm going to make a return for the gifts that you've given me. I'm going to do this with you. I'm going to place my life at the service of helping people carry their crosses. Because the way of the cross is not only the means by which we reach the promise that our Lord has secured for us, but the way the cross changes us. So that we can be... Yeah. It's not like you get through the American Ninja Obstacle Course and you get the prize. Exactly. The course is the thing that alters you. Yeah. That's what I love. You know, I've been reading St. Thomas a lot, reflecting upon him. What I'm really appreciating and loving all the more is that his moral position isn't about just following a law. Right. It really is about becoming. It's becoming good, which is what we want and we crave how you become with the grace of God. Good. And it sounds so strange to hear that because all we ever really think about in the modern age is a moral law by which we must follow and do. It's the obstacle course. Okay, we got to do this. I got to do that. I got to do this. I got to do that. And it's, you know, if I do these things, then I get to the other side. Yeah. Well, no. And you know, there are people who are good at doing all those things. I know. And they're nowhere near the other side because they are that change. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it looks right, but at the same time, it's just not right because you have to change in any event. You know, I have the wonderful sisters that we have, the daughters of the Virgin Mother. Is this one of your final thing before we go? I can do that as a final thing, you know, when we were forming the daughters, these sisters help us at the seminary to help them parishes. They were formed as a response to a request from the then congregation of clergy to have women consecrate their lives to the sanctifying of the priesthood. This was after the scandals of Boston, et cetera. And so this group was formed out of that request. But I remember speaking with Sister Maraphiel trying to form the statutes and things of that nature and hone the charism down to specific statements. And one of the things we spoke about was I said, you know, priests don't need you to take away their crosses, the very thing. The worst thing you can do for a priest is to make his life cross-free. Right. Because then you've kicked him out of where he's supposed to live. And you've taken away his means of salvation. His means of salvation, yeah. I said, so on the contrary, your job is to encourage him to carry it. So don't provide a soft pillow for his head, but rather block the exit if he wants to run. Right. Or like Veronica, bring a cloth. Bring a cloth. You can bring a cloth. Yeah. For him to keep going. That's right. Like the way the crosses a bit like, you know, those races you see people doing, people handing water. Yeah, exactly. That's a better image. It's a better image. But if he wants to turn around and run for the exit. Right. You block the exit. You just say no. Yeah. Father, that's not for you. Well, before we go. Yes. I have embarked on a new endeavor. As you know, I play the violin and play it poorly. But I love it. Which isn't true. I love the violin. And now we have such a musical house. We have a seminarian who was basically a professional clarinet player and floutist. I think it's how you say it. I don't know. We have Father Becker with us now who plays the cello and Sister Agnes is learning the cello and Sister Mariefield plays both the harp and the violin. And so the other day they found a woman to teach us, coach us on how to do quartets. No. And You can do Christmas? Maybe. But the other day I want Christmas and quartet stuff. The other day we did a quartet on a Corelli piece and I couldn't believe it. I've never played with with one person but to play with three others. Oh. And Well, isn't a quartet four? It's four, yeah. So me and three others. Oh, I see. Yeah. So to have to listen to the other persons and coordinate that you hit a sweet spot if you're getting it right where you I almost stopped playing. I did stop playing once because I want to listen to it. Yeah. I couldn't believe what was happening because I'm not that good and they're not that good. Did you have someone with us? We had someone with us who was good. But was it with somebody directing you? No, but you can with a quartet you don't really need to you can sense your Conductors came when when pieces got so complicated with so many different instruments the quartets are enough you can hear each other. Yeah. But it was a wild experience. All right, my request is I want a few pieces. A few pieces of Christmas music. I do. Okay. I really, really do. I think Silent Night Christmas Parts in 2023. Let's do it. I mean I can provide the words in my head. All I need are the strings. The strings. You got it. You come to the party? Absolutely. Yeah. And I will bring my instrument. Oh, the kazoo or? No. Spoons. Spoons. My spoons for the for the bowls of ice cream. The bowls of ice cream. They make a lovely sound. A very encouraging one. Oh, all right. Before we go.  Spend a few days with my parents and some friends. So, I got a little vacation time ahead of me. I'm looking forward to that. And I, I'm just really grateful. I think that we oftentimes don't maybe appreciate our vacations as we should. Yeah. And I think I'm arriving to a stage in life where I really do appreciate them. I mean, I'm not saying people don't enjoy their time off or things like that, but I don't know. I feel like I've done a lot of vacation throughout my years over. 50 years of life. And, uh, you know, sometimes it's a lot of more work than reward. And, you know, sometimes you go in it with high expectations and you don't get the same out of it as you would hope. Yeah. But at this point, I guess what I'm saying is I've learned how to maybe approach a vacation. Okay. Which is where the expectations are low, but they're appropriately aimed. And it's it ties into a prayer life. It ties into a spiritual life. It ties into, you know, all of these things. So you're escaping the regular routine. You're doing something different and interesting to fun. But at the same time, it's not a break from the things that are important. It is a continuous flow with those things that are important. And I think that that's where I think, you know, many times in the past, I've had a lot of mistakes with vacations. It's just, you think of it as sort of an exit. Right. But you deep down you realize, I'm not supposed to be exiting. Sensation of activity and an exit.  You know, these, you know, I'm not supposed to just get my prayers in, right? The minimum or things like that. I'm actually supposed to have these things with me because they make my vacation vacation better, right? And your vocation better as you were. Well, that's true. And your vocation better. You know, like, for example, we've had these experiences that we've traveled. Yeah. And we've spent a fair amount of time focused on time to pray at churches and pray together. We have these crazy things happen. Those are the best vacations. And we say, you know what? God has us on a planet like we surrender. Yeah. And most amazing things happen. We won't get into it now because it's the before we go. But that said, it's like that, you know, there's a way to vacation well. It's not about setting high expectations. It's not about creating the idyllic thing. But there's certain parts of you that need to always be with you even on vacation. Let's put a bookmark there. Yeah. It might be that something I'm talking about. All right, good. We'll come back. Oh, it's a teaser. It's a teaser. Cliffhanger. All right, very good then. God bless you all. Ciao. Thanks for listening to this episode of From the Roof Shop. For updates about new episodes, special guests, and exclusive deals for From the Roof Top listeners, sign up at rooftoppodcast.com. And remember, for more great ways to deepen your faith, check out all the spiritual resources available at 10books.com. And we'll see you again next time From the Roof Top.


Hi everyone, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel, and welcome to another comic book reading, and we're reading a pretty important book. Okay, it's one of the key books from the modern age of comics. It's X-Men number 266 first full appearance of Gambit. Okay, and this comic book, the cover art is done by Andy Kubbert Kubbert. Okay, I'm not sure how you were supposed to pronounce that. And the story script is written by the great great Chris Claremont. The pencils is by Mike Collins, inks by Joe Rubinstein, colors by Brad Vanquetta, letters by Pat Broso and Tom or Zuchowski. Okay, I'm sorry if I'm brutalizing the names. Okay, and this is considered to be the first full appearance of Gambit, and Gambit's first appearance, and it's considered to be a cameo, occurred in Uncanny X-Men annual number 14, which appeared a month, I believe. Okay, before this issue came out. So that issue came out about a month before this one came out, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. So let's take this out of the Mylar bag that it's in, and I put it in Mylar because it is on the more expensive side, and it is a very good copy, or let me use comic book terminology. It should be in near mint condition. The tape really sticks to the Mylar. Let's get rid of the tape here. And this book came out in 1990, and this is Chris Claremont's run on X-Men. It's considered to be one of the greatest runs in comic books, comic book history, really. So let's take a look at the cover of this. See what kind of grade this would be in. This would be definitely in near mint condition. There are no dings. You can check out, run your finger on the cover and see if there's any dings, and there's no dings on the spine here. Now, let me show you very sharp edges. Very nice book. This would be graded as far as right now that we're seeing, based just on the cover, as a 9.4 easy-peasy. And here's the spine. Could possibly get a higher grade at 9.6. Oh, there's a little bit of... See that right there? But you can't feel it. And I picked up this book at cover price, basically. If not two dollars, less than two dollars. What does the cover say? On sale twice a month. They were really pushing X-Men back in the 90s, late 80s, or 80s and 90s. Yeah, but it looks mean. He's been. I like Gambit. Smart guy, smart guy, loner, lone wolf, really. Entered a mutant called Gambit and X-Men annual number 14. For the longest time, you could have got it. Very, very cheap. Right now, X-Men number 14 is selling for a mint price. Very expensive. The back cover, again. No dings that I can feel. This is unread. So we're reading a mint copy, really. Three to four hundred dollars, depending on the grade. That's what Elder God is mentioning on the chat. And it must be done. We must read. Yeah, no, that's nothing. It's just a the line from... Let's see if you can see it. It's just a line from the front cover going in, right? So we're not going to bother flipping through this. We're just going to read this. Okay, gang. Beautiful, beautiful cover. Andy Pencils and Inks by Andy Cupert. Cupert, practice open. We'll try to be careful. I mean, look at this thing. This is... Like, it hasn't been read. We're reading a beautiful unread copy of X-Men 266. Fantastic. We're going to read the fine print on this game. We're going to read the fine print first. Okay, so let's see if we're going to read it. The Uncanny X-Men volume 1 number 266 late August 1990. ISSN number 0-2 or is that a cue? 7-4-5372 published by Marvel Comics. James E. Galton president. Stan Lee publisher. Michael Hudson. Group vice president. Publishing office of the publication. That is 387 Park Avenue South, New York, New York. 10016 second-class posters paid at New York. New York and at additional mailing offices. Published monthly, except bi-monthly, July, August and September. Copyright 1990 by Marvel Entertainment Group Incorporated. All rights reserved. What else does that say? All rights reserved. Price $1 per copy in the U.S. and $1.25 in Canada. Subscription rate for 12 issues. U.S. $12, Canada $17 and foreign $24 U.S. I'm assuming this is all U.S. Printed in the USA. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended. And any such similarity, which may exist is purely coincidental. The pre-autical may not be sold except by authorized dealers and is sold subject to the conditions that something shall not be sold, that it shall not be sold or distributed with any part of the cover or markings removed, nor in a mutilated condition. The uncanny X-Men, including all prominent characters featured in this issue and the distinctive likeness thereof, are trademark of Marvel Entertainment Group Incorporated. Postmaster Send Address Changes to the Uncanny X-Men, CO Marvel Comics, Subscription Department, 387 Park Avenue South, New York, New York, 10016, is that what it was? The postal code? 10016, yeah, it's up top there as well. Cool. Randall, how are you doing? Just late enough to not see the... Oh, Randall, you want to see the cover? Here's the cover. I'm just checking the chat game. This is a beautiful, beautiful comic. This would be minimum 9.4 if you're a hard-ass marker, 9.6 for most people, right? And if you're being generous, maybe you're at a 9.8? Check this out. Awesome. Let's look at who the people are. Chris Claremont, writer. Mike Collins, penciler. Joseph Rubenstein, inker. Broso and Orozowski, letterers. Brad, Venkata, colorist. Bob Harris, editor. Tom DeFalco, editor-in-chief. Tom DeFalco did a fantastic job being editor-in-chief, as far as I know, anyway. Okay. Stan Lee presents... Now, Stan Lee didn't have anything to do with creating Gambit, but Sly and Lee presents Gambit out of the frying pan. Let's read some of this and see what's going on with this issue and the injustice. That's a beautiful cover. Seriously, it's a phenomenal cover. Right? Beautiful. That should be Storm there as well. Starring Storm, leader of the uncanny X-Men, now mysteriously trapped in the body of a child. Oh, you want us... Someone wants to check out this. We should check this out too. What is this one? Fleer football's rookie sensation. Rookie of the Year, 1990. I'm not a sports car collector, so I don't know who these are. This is like... The cover is... Because it's got a thing. Don Malowski, Barry Something, Truman Thomas, Bernie Kosar... I don't know. I know cards are back as being major collectibles too. Football. Barry Sanders, someone's saying. Don Marino, my pleasure, hell's luck. I wanted to see the cards, so check this out. Let's see what this is about. So Gambit, out of the frying pan. Starring Storm, leader of the uncanny X-Men, now now mysteriously trapped in a body of a child. A Mississippi Riverfront mansion on the outskirts of Cairo, Illinois. Wow. Who are these guys? So that's Storm right there trapped in a child's body. And who's that? Is that Gambit? No. Who are these guys? Beautiful artwork. Let's see what the dialogue is. Do you like my pets, Aurora? Or would you prefer to be called Storm? I'm sure who's talking right now. Of Christendom Hounds. It's an amazing... Isn't it amazing how much even the most ordinary and bad battle of people can change? When I summon forth the shadow in their souls, I wonder what form yours will take my young windrider when I do the same to you. By all means, resist. Aurora is a serious fighter. So here's the full page. Beautiful. I enjoy a good show. It will change nothing or seriously resist it. Flesh and spirit now and forever in this world and any other. You belong to me, he says. Is that it? All done so soon? I'm disappointed, child, expected better.  Bring her to me. Let's get this over with once and for all. That person on the ground wasn't Gambit. What else looks like? Now that's more like it. Like the Aurora I remember. Finally using your mutant powers, eh girl? For what it's worth or thinks. This was no more than a flash of light. It will not do these human beasts even a little harm or things. But it will buy me a moment to try to break free of the Shadow King's grip. So this is the Shadow King. Very cool. Shadow King, this guy right there. He's one of the very powerful evil mutants in the X-Men universe. Marvel universe. Aurora goes through the door. A bathroom. Blessed mother. I have seen smaller houses. Where are the windows? She thinks. I have to get out. Who am I fooling as if the evil one will let me? All he has to do is reach out with his thoughts and seize my mind as he did those others. Speaking of whom, here they come, towel in the fountain. Then across the face of the first through the door, whack. They do not think well these hounds. Make them angry. Push and poke and prod them into a frenzy. Just through the towel in the guy's face. That makes them predictable. Better the rage they feel. That ever increasing pace of our battle should make it harder for the evil one to mentally tell what is happening. Problem is, one mistake on my part. Water jet is not very forceful. Can I add a gust of wind to send this hound on its way? Yes. She thinks. Must be careful of their spikes. This hound seems to be a female. Up close, they could do serious injury. She thinks. The one that ran the shower. I thought he was unconscious.  A spike into my palm. Cannot worry about that. Hurts. Later, the shadow king is in the doorway. Oh nice. She threw him right at the shadow king. Perfect. Boom. Tato games. Even my little wind should prove sufficient to billow the drapes and betcloth behind me, entangling any who try to follow. Enough, shadow king says. Isn't fun anymore, kiddo. Games over. You lose. Oh, there's a shadow king's arm. Kick blast. Look at that. Grabs her. Shadow king. So powerful. So powerful. I wanted to take my time with this. I've waited it a human generation for the pleasure, but you're one tough little sweetheart. Better, I think, to err on the side of discretion. You're no match for me, girl. All you're doing is causing yourself needless agony. Give it up, he says. Taking over Aurora's mind. Never, she says. Lightning. Very nice, Aurora. We'll skip the advertisements, gang. Let's stick to the story. Oh, look at this page. Beautiful. Look at the detail here. Busy page. Let's check out what's going on. Backlash. Losing my balance. Derailing my winds. Can't focus. Thoughts. Poosh flies over the railing. The balcony. Where are they? To summon them. Why won't they save me? She's thinking. Looks like there's a pond right below her. Lucky Aurora. Is he dead? Please, oh please. I hit him with all I had. Let it be so, she thinks. Skip fantasy. A dream. Stories are. The Shadow King can never die. Someone coming. Skip scuff. Skip scuff. Is it him? Who's coming? Who's coming? Ben. That's Gambit right there. Possibly. Let's check it out. Rise and shine. Oh, my most dreaded lord and master. There are fit occasions for the exercise of your biting wit. Dr. Shin. This isn't one of them. I am but as you made me, she says. Same as you did these hounds. Save where you pulled the beast from their souls. You trapped the wicked in mind. Can't hurt me any more than that. Besides, tempting fate with you is fun, she says. Teach me. I suppose to follow in barren Frankenstein's footsteps. Storm hit me hard, he says. You need a hospital. She replies hardly. He's fixing himself. Look at that. A shame my mutant powers can't restore my clothes as easily as my flesh. Still, in Millionaire's household, I'm sure I'll find something suitable to replace that. Since the millionaire is now one of your hounds, she says. He's sure not to mind. He's sure not to mind. Leon, this frog or this fog. Storm's doing. I suppose to cover her tracks. Oh, so there's a fog being rolled in by storm. Cool. Interesting. My telepathy seems unable to lock onto her psyche.  One way or another, regardless of what it takes or how long Aurora will be mine, he says. Elsewhere and far too close for comfort, orphan maker, what is the matter with you? Have you gone deaf?  All these arms sounding and you didn't hear a thing. Out of the monitor chair, this instant, I'm sorry, nanny, he says. Be quiet. I haven't time for your sorries right now, you wretched boy. Our scanners detect that storm once more. She must be actively using her elemental abilities. Why didn't you lock in the locator to pinpoint her position? Must I do everything the robot says? Who is this? I thought you were responsible, Peter, that I could trust you with really important tasks. It's her fault, he says. Ever since you found storm, things started going bad. He's on his knees. I say you can. Too late, the pattern is gone. The robot guy says. I guess his name is Mother, or her name is Mother. But that other alongside hers, merciful heavens know. It can't be. A mutant signature I haven't seen for years and prayed never to see again. I thought, hoped, prayed he was dead.  How can the devil incarnate die? Poor, dear, sweet, innocent Aurora. In the clutches of that monster. Peter, have you any notion of what your jealousy, your negligence has done? No, and I don't care neither. I hope it's really awful because it's what she deserves for ruining our lives, he says. I guess orphan maker, right? Let's see what the story is here. Don't say that, even if you mean it. The Shadow King is the most awful and absolute evil. If he gets his hands on storm, or you for that matter, he'll twist her up inside and out, transform her into a reflection of himself, and then turn her loose to do his bidding. Nanny, help, she's attacking me. Just a projection.  She's got claws. Get her me. Otherwise, you may end up running by their side as part of his unholy pact.  I can't have his point. It's only a holographic projection, not even the slightest bit real. It can't do you any harm. But storm can. That's the future, my bold, brave boy. For her and many, many others, back at the mansion, he has not said a word since pulling me from the pool and with him down to this vault. Who is he? Easier by far to tell what he does here. Same as me, I bet, a thief. The owner of this house had those paintings stolen. To add to his private collection, I meant to take them back and return them where they rightfully belong. All along, though, it was a trap set by the Shadow King for me. This other thief is totally absolved in his work. Absorbed in his work. He has forgotten about me, just stealing the paintings. By the time he notices I want to be attenders. Sherry? Sherry? Watch the door. Sherry. That's what he says. Alone. Hound. Ah. Wah. Wap. Knocks the roar over. Gambit Nia. There's one the hounds behind the door. Do us both a favor. Hey, pup pup. Stay away from the girl. Well, other ideas, eh? Going to carry the kid, kiddling back to your boss, claim a pat on lettet and an extra ration of yummies. Figured as much.  There goes Gambit. Can't let you do that. And faster than the eye can follow. Gambit's kinetic energies kick in, right? And throwing spike flips up out of his sleeve into his hand. Same motion carries his arm back, then forward.  Something far more when it strikes the wall with the force of a cannon shell. Boom. Scratch explosion. Aurora falls into his arms. Haven't seen, hasn't been your night, eh, Sherry? Or maybe it is. It has, considering how often I'm here to rescue you. I'm called Storm, Aurora says. Don need you. Do fine enough on my own. Don't need you. Do fine enough on my own, Aurora says. Yeah, right. Tell me another. I'm Gambit, Stormy. And I don't believe in, believe a word. Some great choice you leave me. A fortune in classical art. Painstingly, or you, Gambit says. Painsting, paintings will keep. Us thieves, we have to stick together, Gambit says. So he's scooting out of there. Sides, I'm intrigued. If you're who I think you are, I'd like to find out. Gambit says. Look at this. How you got so good, so young. Appearances are deceiving. In Aurora's case, she is not altogether what she seems. But that, my friend, is none of your fair. All that is about the cough gang. Oh, what is this? Ah, we've read one of these before. Turbo graphics. We'll skip it. Let's continue with the story. Right you are, Sherry. Drops, Aurora. Just the wandering, working stuff is all. Same as any other. Plying my trade. Hustling up the big score. Don't need to be told. Just stepped way out of my league. No problem, no offense. Practical man knows his limitations, Gambit says. Mines' own business realizes when the time comes to cut his losses. Want the girl? Yours. With my compliments. Take the art too, Gambit says. He talks and talks, and they listen almost as though they cannot help themselves. As he binds them with his web of words. Even the hounds are charmed. Wait, one hound below, two more here. Where is the last of the pack? Oh, there's one right there. And their master. Very snappy pattern, my young friend. I dare say, given a decent opportunity, Shadow King's a zap, Gambit's mind. You might seduce even me, Shadow King says. Once you've undergone a proper albeit painful reorientation, that's a talent I can put to some considerable use. Shadow King says. Nailed, Gambit. Gambit's on the ground. Leave him alone. Another lightning bolt? No. Nothing happened.  Always quitting on me when I need it most. Oh, pity for you. Blessing for me, Shadow King says. One I do not intend to let pass by.  Gambit's picking up something from the table, right? Same as he tried with mine. He zaps Aurora. He's in for a rude awakening. There goes Gambit. Look at that. Putting all that energy inside that plate, I think. Let's see, let's see. Her diversion saved me. Look at that. Only fitting, I return the favor. So, the lad's more than just another pretty face. His abilities have an active, aggressive dimension as well. You shouldn't have missed, boy. With me and mine, there's no second shot. The second floor is collapsing. Look at that. Or where we're standing. Poor darling. All this excitement seems to have taken its toll. Gambit's on the ground. Exhausted. Oh, look at that. Too weak to stand. Much less fight.  So many pretty words you spoke, she says. But far worse, the hints dropped. Promises made without words. That wasn't nice. I enjoyed temptation. Now more than ever, I dreamd, but I wouldn't be truffled with. But I won't be truffled with the hearth suit. Billowing into the room. Storms doing. Has to be. Lost her in the shuffle. Where is she gone? Find her fools before. Barely able to breathe, she says. Ah, the soot's coming in from the chimney. Right?  She'll try to get him. Cough. Is that Storm's arm reaching in? To grab Gambit? Fuck's being sold. Take a look. This is getting to be a habit. I've lost track, Sherry. Who rescues who next? Gambit says. Do not make fun. We are far, far from safe or free, she says. My wind powers will not hold that soot cloud for very long. Time enough to reach my car, maybe. Only if it is, it is parked right outside the front door, Aurora says. Off the state. Not a hope then, she says. The grounds are too vast. I have enough. I have an alternative, Aurora says, but we need to reach the roof. The last hound and the evil one himself barred away. Not for long, Gambit says. Brings out one of the spikes. Sayonara suckers. Happy landing. Hopefully in haits. That crumbling. No sign of him. I think we got lucky, Stormy. Do not call me that, please, Aurora says. And do you wish to hang about to make certain? She asks. Better idea. You know, Sherry, you don't talk like any kid I ever heard. I talk, I talk, Aurora says. What are you waiting for? Relax. There's time. Trust me, Gambit says. Are you mad? Same as you, Sherry, or Gambit replies.  What? Hello, police? Remember that big Boston museum heist? I know where you can find the loot, Gambit says. If we can't steal the stuff, the least we can do is make sure the slob who stole them in the first place never gets a chance to enjoy them. So where do you go from here? Gambit asks. Hold on to me for dear life, Aurora says. Good thing you're so young. I might start to get ideas. Oh, Gambit. Parachute, cute. Not likely to be much help down here, Gambit says. Just goes to show you do not know everything. Whoa. Very nice, Stormy. The way you get the wind to do whatever you want. Very nice indeed. How come it doesn't always work, okay?  And let me focus the focus, the concentration I need to prevent that from happening, flying away. A while later, some distance away, saw cop cars coming as we lifted off. Look at that. This is not like a plane graveyard. Saw cops coming as we lifted off. Winds dying. We're floating down just like a chute supposed to. So I figure it's okay to chat, yes? TV trucks too, Sherry. Should be quite a media circus. Shame to miss it, Gambit says. Keep the bad guys, bad bad guys off our trail for the immediate. Nice neighborhood. This where you call home, Stormy? I told you. Name fits, Gambit says. Hands loose, kiddling, I get ya. Grab Storm. I need no help, especially from the likes of you, Aurora says. She grabbed his little spike. Only try to be a gentleman, Gambit says. I could see the strain you were under. Thought I'd give you a gentler landing is all. Say, Sherry, after all we've been through, least I've earned the benefit of the doubts, Gambit says. Why else do you think I took you off that roof? I had plenty of time to leave without you, Aurora says. From here, Gambit, we start fresh. Suits me, he says. Trouble is, I get the feeling it won't be quite so easy to walk away clean from this caper as you make out. No, it will not. The evil one neither forgets nor forgives, she says. Evil one, that sounds a bit ripe. He have a name, Gambit asks. As many as he has faces, most often calling himself the Shadow King. To me though, evil one is what fits him best. He makes slaves of people, enchanting their minds and souls. Dr. Shin is such a one. She was a kind, decent woman before. That's the lady, Dr. Shin. He has a special hatred for me, Aurora says. Now he has a sense of where I am. He will move heaven and earth to track me down. Can he, Gambit asks? The hounds have tasted my blood and the Shadow King my thoughts. I take it, that's a yes, Gambit asks. And if they catch you, what'll they do then? Whatever he pleases, Aurora says. To me, to all who stand by my side. She says, where are we going now? Washington DC, a slightly speedy, a seedy townhouse on some federal land hard by Rock Creek Park. What does that say? Dr. Valens Copia, presidential national security advisor for superhuman affairs. Cool? Irene. It was mystic. Mystique, this is mystique. Very cool, very cool. Enter mystique to be opened, my death, to be opened in the event of my death. That's what the note says. Right on time Val, precisely as expected, gasp. Who's waiting? Who's waiting? I'm sorry mystique, I have to do this. I understand the Shadow King wants me dead. And when he commands, his slaves must obey. How do you know? What did you mean? Shape changer, precisely as expected. One of the curses of being a precog. And make no mistake, Destiny, as Destiny was one of the best. Has to be the awareness of your own mortality, of sensing in all the possibility, possible alternatives, all the moments and manners of your own death. Yet, Destiny did nothing to prevent it. She willingly chose and embraced her fate. I suppose I can do no less. Because that knowledge was no bar to her, while still alive, foreseeing what lay ahead for those she loved.  Blast coming next, next, nanny into the fire. So nanny is the robot that we saw in the other page, the two-pager. Cool, cool, cool. Advance, D&D, nice story. Cool to see early Gambit, right? The first serious full appearance of Gambit. And the character hasn't changed much. It's very much true, the present character of Gambit, very much true to the original character. Arachnophobia, this is a fun movie. Opens July 20th at theaters everywhere. I read these a long time ago. I can't remember what the story goes to. Very much stay true. I'm curious to see what the prices on these things were. Check this out. Oh my god, look at the price tag on here. Look at this. Look at that. Akira, number one to three, first prince, five dollars. Oh wow, if you could only go back and buy those comic books. Great story. Yeah, great story. Avengers, Batman 433, Daredevil, Excalibur number 1, 750. Man, I wish I could go back and buy those Akira's. One to three, first prince. Oh, what? Moon Knights, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, number one, fifth prince, tick, one to three, third prince, X Factor, X-Men, Punisher, X-Men, Robocop, what's up top? Posters, games, t-shirts, lots more Batman's here too. Look at that. Arkham Asylum, trade paperbacks. Very cool, very cool. Awesome. Fun read gang, fun read. And I don't think we did any damage to the book while doing a read. So I would say stays at a 9.4, 9.6. Let's bring back the Mylar. I hope you enjoyed the reading. It was pretty good. And Chris Claremont is always worth reading, always worth reading. And the trick with reading Chris Claremont is you need to read a few issues together, back to back. That way you get a feel for the story and the characters and how the dialogue flows, right? Fantastic read, fantastic read.


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. In today's video, I wanna take a look at this Rule Breakers team number one that you see right here. And I wanna talk about possibly investing in these cards because I think these cards present another opportunity for price rise as we head out of this week as promo cards in this game continue to be great risers out of packs in most cases because so many people are upgrading and using these promo cards because they're bored of using the gold cards, right? The gold cards that are so cheap that everybody can attain because everything is so cheap this year in this game. I wanna talk about, again, that gap and these promo cards fitting into that gap between the casual, just Bruno Fernandez, your good, solid cards, but there's such a big gap between good, solid cards and the elite tier. And these cards, these promo ones just fit right there in that middle. And that's why I think there's so much demand for them, especially this year above other years in this game. So I wanna talk about investing in some of these cards and what to expect today, Wednesday on the game. New team of the week, probably more market drop, right? Wednesdays are always the day when we see the market turn downwards. Right after 6 p.m. U.K. as people get ready for that division rivals rewards timeframe. I wanna talk about that and look at some team of the week predictions for some content for today on Wednesday. So if you're enjoying the videos, make sure to hit a thumbs up and of course, subscribe if you're new. Let's get into it. First thing is first, we do have a little update today. We have a little update in terms of a title update. Another one, right? It seems like we're getting these every single week at this point on this game. We have title update number three. This is probably not gonna be out on the consoles, Xbox or PlayStation until next Tuesday, but I'll leave a link to this down below in the description if you wanna check out the update notes for this. I haven't even read through it yet, but it's down there. Let's talk about this rule breakers team, right? Because these are the cards that are in packs and their prices have dropped, right? Yesterday on Tuesday, we had the UEFA Marquis matchups, which is 100% what we were expecting. We also had the Kevin Prince Boateng SBC. I might say a quick word about that. I think that's a cool card, right? Not a bad SBC card, really good price. I don't mind that content from EA Sports. I nailed that as a GG. I think that's a GG SBC, just not the most popular item to be released. But let's talk about these cards because again, as we talked about, these cards have been very popular throughout this week. Trent Alexander Arnold, 21,000 games, right? A lot of what we do when we look at cards to invest in out of packs is we look at what alternatives there are in the game right now, what these cards link to, what is hyped. Like right now, people are still using Premier League links with the Kante SBC, the Bernardo Silva, right? There's a lot of Premier League links seem to be hyped, Serie A links seem to be pretty hyped. And even some of your La Liga links seem to be pretty hyped at the moment. So I wanna talk through which of these cards I think could rise up and how long of a term will they rise up, will they continue to rise up for like the next three, four weeks? Will it be a short rise just this weekend? And when to buy these cards? Cause it's, I think we're getting close to that buy window. Especially as we look at a guy like Trent Alexander Arnold who on Monday was 217,000 coins with the hero SBC dropped with mostly panic, but a little bit of supply down to 190K and rose back up to almost 220 on both consoles and now he's chilling at 200,000 coins. This is the same exact type of, I guess you could say schedule that we saw with the Road to the Knockouts team number one. Those cards, if you remember like Andrew Robertson who was down at 170K on like Wednesday and Thursday before shooting up into the weekend with those links and with the rarity of his card that he had. I think there's some cards this week that will have some nice rises out of packs. And again, as I see these prices kind of staying a little bit lower than what they were earlier in the week, I think there's potential today on Wednesday and tomorrow on Thursday for some buys on these cards. Now let's talk about which ones would be the potential best ones to invest in. Again, I think you want to go off of rarity, popularity and hype, right? The two cards that I clicked on already, Alexander Arnold and Rudiger, I think are very hyped up cards. Rudiger is just basically the first special Prem Center back that we have. You know, everybody uses a Veran and Van Dyke as a Prem Center back. This guy is kind of next up, right? He's honestly, some people are saying better than Veran in this game. He has glowing reviews. And again, one thing we look out for in terms of hype are the thumbs up on Footbin and the number of games played. 16,000 games played for Rudiger. I think Alexander Arnold and Rudiger, 21,000 for Trent. Maybe along with this on YECA, 17,000. I think those are gonna be some of the highest numbers that you see from this team. I mean, Rip Art might have a lot too, but he's so, wow, only 5,000 games played. Nevermind, that just shows you how much the casual user base kind of values that card. But if you click through a lot of this team, you can see which ones were the most hyped. And it's those Premier League guys, right? It's those Premier League guys that people are just putting into their teams. Trent on YECA, Rudiger. Those guys are the ones that are being used the most. Zakaria with only 3,000 games. Holland probably doesn't have as many. 12,000 though, still pretty good. Usually this game's number is a lot lower for the higher tier cards on this game. Although Usman has got 19,000 to what. That's crazy, right? A lot of games played with him as a very popular card. But I think there's plenty. Those ones that we just looked at, there's plenty of these cards that I think will rise out of packs. Again, I think you're looking for the Thursday marquee matchups timeframe and maybe for your Holland and your Dembele. Those might be buys closer to like, if there's a huge drop on these cards tonight. Again, Holland has been panic sold multiple nights in a row. If you remember Monday, I bought some down here at the late night like 670,000 coins. I ended up selling these cards at like 730K. This guy just moves, right? 685, back up to 730, down to 700, back up to 785 on Monday. Tuesday, Holland didn't move as much. He just kind of slowly dropped and he's in the low 700s. I guess he was 717 and is now kind of risen back up to 750. So not a lot of profit in that fluctuation, but those rare cards like Holland and like Dembele, those are gonna be the cheapest when there's panic selling, right? Because they're not gonna be impacted with supply as much as some of the other items would be. Now, I do think this Dembele card is gonna be one that rises out of packs. He's down literally almost 100,000 coins. He was 930, 930K early Tuesday and with a little bit of supply and also just people selling this card in preparation for rewards and preparation for stuff happening later on this week. I think this guy's card was a little bit overpriced in general. His price has definitely come down a little bit. So I would watch Holland and Dembele specifically tonight with rivals rewards and heading into that, right? We always see on Wednesdays, the market gets sold off. If you always take a look at the market, index 100 on Wednesdays, literally right at 6 p.m., you see a drop just like we saw yesterday because of the supply with you away from marquee matchups, the more index 100 went from 76 points down to 70. I expect almost that same kind of drop maybe not as drastic today on Wednesday, but more of just a straight decline into the evening because of the rivals rewards that are gonna be coming out tomorrow. So that could be a great time to pick up on some of these Rule Breaker cards. Trent Alexander-Arnold, again, Rutiger on YECA. I think these cards are gonna be buys between tonight and between the Friday morning timeframe and I do think these cards rise up. Specifically with this Trent, there's gonna be a lot of hype on this card and a lot of people are gonna be saying you should invest in Trent because one card that we are expecting to come out very soon is a Mohamed Salah player of the month and this would be the ideal card to link, obviously, to a Mohamed Salah player of the month. Now, of course, the voting isn't even out yet for a player of the month primarily, but that should be released pretty soon and once that voting gets released, you're gonna see a lot of people start to look into this Trent card as a potential item to invest in as a link to that Salah card. So one thing I will note as well is that, you know, we've seen a lot of promo cards rise out of packs, road to the knockouts again. The rival card is our number one example of an item who went from $175,000 coins up to $300K where he is now based off of a rarity of these cards. The road to the knockout cards had such a lower percentage pack weight than any other promo card in this game so far. Now, the rule breakers have a decently low pack weight. It's lower than ones to watch but higher than road to the knockouts, but I still think that there are rule breakers in this team. Again, like the ones that we've pointed out, there will be investments and that will rise a little bit out of packs. So if these are cards that you won in your team for this weekend, I think I would honestly be looking to get these guys and watch them rise out of packs.  Those are things that are rumors still to be kind of circling around. I really don't know about that Mbappe flashback. The icon SBC I do think is gonna be coming soon and that will cause a lot of a market crash but until we get to that point, people are gonna try out these new rule breaker cards this weekend. So you have a green light for me if you wanna buy one for your weekend league team or just buy one with the perspective that it could rise this weekend as we get rule breakers team number two for the second half of this promo week. So I'm gonna be keeping an eye on some of these cards as well and if you're somebody who is a little bit more speculative, again, coates and bar Qs and those could be cards, buy one, put it on the transfer list if you want to. They're close to discard but not quite discard. A lot of people are investing in these because they think they're gonna be required for SBCs like they required road to knockouts. Again, not a hundred percent sure on that. Now, let's transition into talking about today, Wednesday FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, what's gonna be going on? First things first, team of the week. Honestly, it's not looking like it's gonna be a crazy end to this week on FIFA. It really is not. We've had a crazy beginning with the hero upgrade pack yesterday on Tuesday was pretty quiet, right? You wait for marquee matchups. We had the Kevin Prince Bulletin SBC and a lot of people are just getting ready for the Vinny Jr. team of the week today. His team of the week card, I've been trading with it recently and has a lot of fluctuations because there's a lot of people that have been panic selling this. Look at this, four million games on a team of the week one card, 240,000 coins after he was 360K. I mean, depending on how much this Vinny Jr. is packed today, it's gonna be very, very interesting. You can see, look at Vinny Jr. down to 232, back up to 250, down to 230 again, back up to 250. This guy keeps fluctuating in price based off of panic selling and based off of people stopping that panic sell and the card just naturally bouncing back up. I think that in 85 Vinicius Jr. today, he is in both of the team of the week predictions. Notice that neither, neither of these team of the week predictions include Cristiano Ronaldo. So if you're somebody that has the Ronaldo, if you've got the Cristiano Ronaldo once to watch card, I would be taking a look at cashing this out. The dude is 3.1 at the moment, especially after his big game yesterday, scoring the 90th plus two equalizer for Man U. I would cash this card out 100% at the moment. I mean, I think this card is getting rare at the moment, 2.7 on Xbox, which is not up. He was 2.9 at one point. It's up a little bit, I guess, but this card just due to rarity is up. If he does get in team of the week today, I mean, this card is probably gonna go up a little bit more, but if you bought this Ronaldo earlier in the week, I mean, yeah, he was 2.5 mil and it's now up to 3.1. I would be looking at taking the cash on this card because he is not in any of the team of the week predictions, but this is a team of the week as you look, Carrasco, Vinicius Jr., Diego Carlos. It looks pretty La Liga heavy but there's a couple of good cards in here. Reese James could have a really nice right back card. That could be the only thing that could impact a Trent Alexander-Arnold investment today would be if Reese James gets a crack looking card in team of the week. DeMaria's in this as well. It's a nice card. The only ones to watch that is in most predictions is Joaquin Correa. As again, you see here in Footman's prediction and Reese James is in Footman's prediction as well. So that's one caveat I guess the Trent card is that you might have a Reese James getting released. But again, if people are investing for links to Salah then James only get a weak link, not a strong link to Salah with the team there, of course, providing the green link. But this Vinicius Jr. card, the 83 rated inform is gonna be a really interesting one to watch today. Now last week with team of the week four, we talked about a lot of team of the week packs that were gonna be opened. Sorry, team of week six, not team week four. We had a lot of team of the week packs that were open to day one, right? Remember, we bought a Tals at like 19,000 coins. He went up to 27,000 coins. Upmakano was, you know, people were investing in him but he was getting supplied so much at the same time that he didn't actually rise. Salah went down to like low, 780 went back up to 900 just off of Rarity. I think there are some saved up team of the week packs today, but not as many as there were for team of the week six. Because some people have been opening their team of the week packs this past weekend to try to get Salah, Upmakano cards like that. They're still decent value. And without a Ronaldo looking like he might be in the team of the week this week, I don't think there's as many people saving. But again, you see a lot of cards in here, Carasco. We have two left wings, left mids from the La Liga. Both providing some, you know, potentially good looking cards. Carasco 86 with 90 pace, Vinny. If they give Vinny Jr. 80 shot. Again, if they give this Vinny Jr. card 80 shot, I think it's very possible that his new inform today could be somewhere around 500,000 coins. People are going to want to go out and try that card out. It's going to be interesting to see where this inform goes to, to see if that new card is so expensive that people will go and buy the first inform because they think the second one's too expensive. And all depends on the supply. That's going to be a call that we make on, in the spur of the moment, if you will. But I'm very curious to see how the team week is expected today. The Correa, this Correa wants to watch. I would sell this guy in the hype 100%. We don't really hold wants to watch cards after they get their upgrade. Also, it'll be very interesting today to see if TikTok Tamori, if TikTok Tamori, who is at 91,000 coins, he hit 100K at his max after they won on the weekend. See if this card gets upgraded today because this is the first item to hit the five wins to watch threshold. Now, EA didn't really tell us when these are going to get upgraded, but if they would end up doing this on Wednesdays with team of the week, that would make sense. So keep an eye on TikTok Tamori as he has been labeled. Now, let's talk a little bit about Road to the Knockout cards, because again, I mentioned this earlier in the week, but I think this is probably for a lot of these cards, as we have seen the first day of games play out. It's probably a time, as these cards are really high up, I would think about getting these cards out of my club, especially if they have another raise or a rise in price, because these guys don't have games again until Black Friday, literally like 20 days from now, is when we'll have games again. Fred, of course, won on an absolute rollercoaster ride yesterday with Manchester United being down two to one. They were down, 1-0, brought it back, went down two to one, looked like they were going to lose. He went down to 330,000 coins, spiked back to 37380, and right now this Fred sits at 360,000 coins. Again, these guys don't play for like 20 more days. Hazer's Nabas and Sevilla are not looking so hot right now in the group, and he went from 120K down to 94, where he is right now. The only interesting part about this Hazer's Nabas is, is that he is still the best right back in La Liga. Like he's one of the only La Liga right back options, especially one with any pace, and he's got some of the best links. And if a Diego Carlos were to get into team of the week today, as Diego Carlos is in both of the foot bin, sorry, he's not in the foot bin prediction, but he's in the foot head prediction. And I've seen Diego Carlos's name thrown about, that will be an interesting car to keep an eye on. It seems like again, if we have a Carrasco, a Vinnie Jr., and a Diego Carlos in the team of the week today, some of your La Liga links could get revived, per se, right? Some of those La Liga links could get revived. But again, if you have these cards, like De Jong went from 750 to like 800, now he's kind of like 785. Again, the upgrade is not locked in for like any of these cards I think, except for Juve and Byron. I believe that Juve and Byron both have got, technically clenched with the points that they have winning all their games so far in the group stage. They've clenched the knockouts. So Sane is gonna get a plus one, now if they win one more game, then he'll get a plus two. But again, like Marquinhos is 957,000 coins. 967 is what this card is.  That is crazy, crazy high in price, especially with Black Friday on the horizon and these cards not getting, they're not gonna even get upgrades until we get to that Black Friday timeframe. I think the safe bet here is to cash out on some of this stuff. And again, I'm gonna save this too. I know I was looking at this right before I went and talked about the Christian and Ronaldo ones to watch, but SBC fodder as well. These have come down a little bit if we take a look at the Index 85. This just shows you with the UEFA Marquis matchups that we saw yesterday, you see the Index 85 going from 127 points, all the way down to 113, 115 where it is right now. Fodder definitely dropped off a little bit yesterday. That's because the supply came in and it's starting to overwhelm the demand that we had from that hero upgrade. If these cards, which a lot of them are, still near their extinct price, and these guys are not extinct anymore, but they were, I would still be looking to take the cash on some of these cards. Like Cruz was, I think, like 25, 26K at his absolute peak. Right now he's still 23. Max price, sorry, he was never 25 or 26. A couple other 88s were 25 or 26K. But of course, with these guys having price ranges and they're right now so close to that peak price, I would still be looking to cash. We got Marquis matchups again, coming tomorrow. Big promo this weekend again, with promo packs and stuff like that. I would expect to see these guys dropping off on the weekends. And if you look at their graphs, that's what they've been doing. These cards get low on the weekend. They spike up when they have SBCs. They come out that demand them. And then again, you see this with Suarez. 13K to 18K, back down to 12. Now he's back up in super high at 24K. So I don't expect to see Suarez maybe back down at like 12K again this weekend. But you might see Suarez back down at like, you know, 16. 15, 16,000 coins might be some a buy point for 88s as you get into the weekend. Just kind of think about that, right? Think about that fodder movement as it is looking like the higher tier fodder, the 85s and up could be actually tradable on a weekly basis if we continue to get good content on this game. So keep an eye out today on a couple of those ones to watch cards and those road to the knockouts as well. It's so fun to live trade with these cards in game. Fred had the biggest fluctuation yesterday. Also a quick side note, Varan wants to watch 550 at the moment. Varan wants to watch is down bad at the moment because he left the game yesterday with an injury. So Varan left the game with an injury. This card is so rare on this market and on this game that is very interesting to kind of not trade with, but a lot of people sold that card off. So of course, we want to make sure that if his injury is more of a long lasting one, that could have long lasting impact on his ones to watch. So I think Ronaldo just got really rare. Yeah, he's 3.1, but still, Ronaldo hyped today if this card, if he does not get in team in the week, probably going to drop off a little bit in price and then you will see that price kind of fluctuate down. At the moment, if you're trading, all I would be doing is fluctuation trading with some of these cards, maybe buying into the hype of some La Liga links today. I think there will be some people, with all the La Liga hype that is in team of the week, they might be shouting out some La Liga buys. But some of these position change, chemistry style cards, I bought a lot of these Casamiros at like 61, 62K, selling them in the high 60s. Gundewan getting in the low 40s, selling in the high 40s or even 50K. We had a couple flips yesterday with this Arnold. I bought one at 20 and I bought one at 27, I think, sold them both at 32 and 33. So there was some good flips to be had there. And of course, we flipped a couple of gold cards and I still have some more to sell that I bought during the supply yesterday as well. So that's the video for today, boys. I want to talk about those rule breakers because I do think that, again, those rule breakers just hold a very interesting spot on the market where a lot of these are just in a spot where people will want to upgrade them and put them in their teams and they're just kind of waiting for the time to buy. So I do think that that time to buy is gonna be this weekend and you are gonna see some of these rule breakers go up in price as people invest in them for their teams. And if you get in before they do, then you will definitely be able to make some profit on these cards as they rise up this weekend. So that's the video for today, boys. If you did enjoy, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace.