Since 1995, when Russia and Iran signed this contract for the completion of the Boucher reactor. Of course, Iran continued its efforts to develop indigenously by itself, nuclear technology, by means of these scientists who were in Iran already and also who raise themselves in Russian institutions. Of course, Iran now has become a very capable country with respect to nuclear science and technology. Of course, it is not only the Russian Federation which helped raising a significant number of Iranian scientists and scholars or technicians. In the 60s and 70s, France and Germany also opened their institutions to Iranian scholars. Well, that was another Iran, the Shah, the Iran of the Shah, an ally of the West or at least a country which had no significant problems with the West. So not only, of course, France and Germany but also other countries like Canada and some Nordic countries in Sweden and Belgium and Italy and other countries in Europe and North America, United States as well as Canada. So they all have opened their institutions to Iranian students for earning their degrees and master's degrees and PhD degrees and also work in these companies in these countries. So Iran today is a country which is capable of developing almost a complete nuclear fuel cycle. What do we mean by a nuclear fuel cycle? Actually it is a cycle which starts with the extraction of uranium, the natural uranium which is under the beneath of the surface and under the ground and it has to be extracted then of course clean up, purified and it has to be converted into uranium exafluoride, it's a gas which is used for enrichment and then of course you make fuel then you use in the nuclear reactor score then the waste incorporates a certain amount of plutonium and then if you are capable of extracting that plutonium then by way of reprocessing then you can use either in the plutonium fuel reactors or for other purposes such as weapons development. At this point for making things a little bit more clear I have to explain certain things with numbers and figures in its simplest form possible. So it may not be very very sort of easy to understand for some of you but it's just even simpler than simplest chemistry that you may have learned at your high schools. Well uranium in nature is found basically in two isotopes and so the percentages that exist in nature are as such 0.07% and uranium 235 which is a very in an unstable condition and with the heat of a neutron uranium 235 splits and generates electricity energy. So let's try to understand what it means a neutron if sent to a 235 it splits so and then this significant amount of energy is released and then this hits another 235 another so there is this chain reaction which actually is needed for a new two weapons to detonate to be detonated. What is important therefore is to have this 235 isotope 238 cannot be directly used in weapons it can be used for other purposes such as clouding of armory I mean you may have heard the plated uranium used for in some weapon systems which according to some reports were used during the war in the Balkans there were some accusations I'm not going to that detail but what is significant is this but since this percentage exists in nature it cannot be used for weapons purposes for a nuclear weapon you need at least I mean if this is the amount that you need to produce a weapon the percentage of 235 must be U35 must be 90 plus percent it is found only this much in nature so there is actually only one way to increase this which is known as enrichment enrichment is something that is carried out in specific facilities enrichment facilities of course by way of centrifuges there are also some other technologies but the technology that Iran is known to have today is uranium centrifuges for enrichment and in this facility that will be talking about a little bit later that was hidden for so many years from 1984 to 2002 for about 18 years beyond the reach or beyond the control of the international atomic energy agency Iran established a large enrichment facility so what is important to know here this 235 isotope if enriched up to 3.5 or within the range of 3.5 to 8 percent it can be used in nuclear reactors in the nuclear reactor core if you use a fuel uranium fuel incorporating only to 3.5 to 8 percent and the average is 4 4.5 5 percent depending on the sort of type of fuel technology used in the reactor so this percentage is needed for civilian uses for electricity generation but for weapons purposes as I said 90 percent is needed therefore the natural percentage must be increased for civilian uses up to 3.5 percent or up to 90 percent or plus or above for weapons purposes and you can achieve this through certain technologies one of which is centrifuge technology which is widely used in many countries for fuel fabrication most enrichment facilities in the world actually there are some 12 or 13 countries which have this capability today and most of the production is for fuel production in the nuclear reactors core you have 3.5 percent enriched uranium which is said to be low enriched uranium and in the core you sort of irradiate this fuel by a neutron then you start a certain process and of course for this and this process generates heat here in the core of the reactor which or by means of which this heat you boil the water and the water produces vapor vapor is forced into the turbines which once they turn they they generate electricity I mean had this been coal or gas or oil motoring whatever you could still boil the water and so you need something to boil the water for vapor generation which in turn to turn the turbines and to generate electricity so if you use nuclear fuel then you have nuclear reactor you use nuclear fuel then you have nuclear energy so therefore this is in that sense is important something maybe I should try to show a little bit more explicitly about how this works again in its simplest possible form again assume this is the fuel in the core of course it's not the shape is different than that there are different shapes uh roads or plates or discs whatever and assume these are of course 235 well of course they are not static they are forward all times right and then you send a neutron and if a neutron hits here at 235 splits as I said generates heat and then releases another neutron which in turn heats another 235 then the process is you know continuing as such but some of the neutrons which the rest white is 238 and these are 235 right well this is the simplest form that I can sort of show you so the ones that do not hit anything go astray or at some point these white 235s that you can see here if we had another color maybe anyway some of them turn into 239 with the capture of a neutron so this 239 actually is what we call plutonium which during this nuclear reactors core operation these 235s are consumed by the heat of a neutron by releasing energy and releasing another neutron which hits another 235 releases another you know amount of energy etc but and these are consumed this amounting to up to 3.5 percent or 5 percent whatever or maybe 8 percent some reactors now work with 8 percent low energy volume and once these are consumed this fuel is of no more any use so you you have to treat as a waste so the waste treatment in nuclear technology is one of the most problematic issues there are basically of course toxicity and radiation radioactivity of the waste which is of great concern to countries for the environment and also the amount of plutonium that is there for for a certain period so since this core the fuel which is consumed for about six months a year depending on the length of the operation of the nuclear reactor then you take this fuel and you immerse in deep water this fuel is you may have seen on TV channels when some Iranian sort of a politicians looking into something like a pool which actually is where the fuel rods are immersed for cooling so it has to stay there for about a year or so a year and a half depends that it has to cool down to tolerable levels or workable levels and after which these this waste fuel can be subject to I mean you either just store there somewhere I mean which has to have no contact with water or the environment it has to be kept very safe and secure or should not reach pass into the hands of some other people some unauthorized people but also you have to take the necessary environmental sort of precautions but I mean either you can treat as a waste and take this fuel spend fuel and sort of a bury somewhere safe how safe this is also debated or if you have any military purposes you may take this fuel the waste fuel and the 238 plus a neutral which is plutonium then by using some chemical repossessing methods then you can extract that plutonium I don't know if you have seen it yesterday or the day before there was a big demonstration in Germany which they try to blockade a train coming from France which was carrying the repossess waste fuel which was used by German nuclear reactors sent to France for repossessing or for some purposes and probably plutonium might have been extracted and the the repossess fuel was being sent back to Germany and there was big clashes between the security forces and the demonstrators and the the environmentalist or the green piece or other people so therefore this issue has always been a problematic issue but what is important to bear in mind is that enrichment is such a technology that you need for fuel production for nuclear reactors if you reach up to 3.5 or 4 percent 5 percent or 8 percent above 8 percent it would be risky so typical civilian nuclear reactors do not use fuel uh with percentages higher than 8 percent normally it's 3.5 for 4.5 percent so you need enrichment for this purpose if you don't have a kandu type reactor uh canadian deterring rannium reactor which uses natural rannium which does not need uh represent enrichment only the kandu or canadian reactors do not use enriched rannium they use natural rannium of course after some purification they have to made into fuel pellets and then use in the reactor core and of course for this neutron to hit very low concentration of 235 you need some moderators such as heavy water which is a thick liquid which slows down the neutron and increases the likelihood for neutron to hit at 235 which is much less in concentration so in 235 percent low in rannium in most typical uh uh civilian nuclear reactors you need 3.5 and uh percent and therefore you can generate electricity for an extended period so the fuel as i said once used it has to be treated as a waste and buried somewhere or kept in very safe storage places or it can be processed to get the plutonium which is there for for a certain period which is not there for all the time so therefore this is uh this is something that uh is something that uh is significant what we have to understand from here is that the processing for instance today japan has uh as far as i know 53 or 54 nuclear reactors and if i'm not mistaken all of these nuclear reactors use uh plutonium as fuel so plutonium can also be used as a fuel and again these figures vary it is not always possible to have the exact number but japan is said to have several thousand tons of plutonium stocks that can be more than sufficient for more than maybe 100 or even more so years for 50 plus nuclear reactors that they have so plutonium can be used also for civilian nuclear reactors as a fuel but of course there is always a danger because plutonium if not used in the nuclear reactor as a fuel which requires a special they are called fast breeder reactors which also produce more plutonium than they consume well that's a different dimension of the problem but this plutonium if not used for civilian purposes can be readily used in weapons so even though most japanese colleagues of mine and japanese politicians would not like to admit it but in the west there is always this question maybe not as significant as other questions with respect to other countries but what would japan do with these large stocks of plutonium which japan claims to be accumulating for further and civilian uses in the coming years but of course the large amount of plutonium stocks has always been a source of worry in some circles in the west which i also myself witnessed during some of the discussions between japanese and american especially authorities anyway so what we have to bear in mind is that this especially enrichment technology as well as put uh processing technology are two significant technologies that can that are necessary to some extent for civilian purposes but also can be used for meter purposes especially if enrichment levels are increased from the civilian uses level which is normally 3.5 in some research reactors such as the one in cheque meje here in in stumble and also in tahran 20 percent enrichment might be necessary there are also some other civilian uses for instance uh nuclear submarines of course most nuclear submarines are nuclear weapons carriers but not all of them are nuclear weapon carriers because nuclear nuclear submarines are such submarines which operate with a nuclear reactor because thanks to the nuclear reactor uh nuclear submarines can of course do not need large stocks of like gasoline whatever to to be carried all the way for long distances and and and with the small reactor in the submarine uh nuclear fuel can generate large amount of energy for extended periods electricity and and and to turn the propellers and so therefore to operate the submarine but also to clean the air and also to to desalinate the water so thanks to this uh nuclear technology in the nuclear submarines uh nuclear submarines can stay uh under the water without coming to surface for very long periods and as i said not all of them are meter submarines i mean or nuclear weapons carriers so therefore uh nuclear submarines use 60 percent enriched or even 80 percent enriched uranium so therefore there can be some non-metry applications of enrichment starting from 3.5 for civilian nuclear reactors or 20 percent for research reactors or 60 or 80 percent or even higher percentages for submarine uses so enrichment is a very very significant technology and and depending depending on your end use or depending on your ultimate purpose enrichment technology may pose a threat or may have meter significance or may not pose any threat depending on uh the intentions and uh the desires of the country so therefore at the core of all this debate i mean the starting point of our discussion here was uh today's iran uh iran's problematic sort of situation with respect to its relations uh with the western countries especially united states so there is this puzzle on the one hand there is an iran which has launched a nuclear program as early as the u.s president suggested to the world that nuclear technology is good and everyone should benefit from it provided that of course they don't exploit the situation for major purposes and then united states uh gave encouragement to a number of countries including turkey and iran for installing small research reactors than large power reactors and then also educated these people or people from these countries including iran and in the 70s especially after iran acquired large amounts of money from oil exports when raised the bar and increased its ambitions to develop 20 000 megawatt electric install nuclear capability within the following 20 years then united states or american uh german french firms rushed into iran to sell their technologies and including enrichment and reprocessing which are now problems have become problematic so iran says look i am a state party to the npt and the the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and i sort of do my homework i comply with the treaty obligations and therefore i have the right to benefit from my my rights such as develop nuclear peaceful technology so let's have a look at the situation before going on any further with respect to the npt i don't think we have discussed this issue here and without discussing the npt and some of its major provisions it is not possible to understand fully what exactly is the situation with respect to iran's uh a nuclear program well what does being a state party to the npt mean npt as i said the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons which was signed in 1980 1968 and entering the force in 1970 and since then in i mentioned this a little bit in five year uh intervals there is this review conferences and in 1995 the npt was extended indefinitely and unconditionally well i said this at the outset because npt is here to say to stay with us for as long as we can think of of course provided all the countries you know go ahead with the regime or comply with the provisions of the regime or unless something extraordinary happens and which leads to the collapse of the regime so npt the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is at the core of all this debate today and we have to properly understand what it means as i said in 45 united states in 49 the soviet union in 1952 the united kingdom in 1960 france and in 1964 china people's republic of china have detonated their nuclear devices well especially after uh french detonation when you know some concerns started to be raised as to how many countries would acquire nuclear weapons technology in how long into the future there is this information about the canada administration uh which i mean canady himself is known for having asked from his uh the fan secretary of magna mara to conduct a study and to have an assessment as to how far this could go i mean i mean what would be the scope of this development in nuclear technology and in 1962 63 the magna mara study suggests that within the next 20 years i mean by the early 1980s if everything goes the way they sort of uh go at the moment um there will be approximately 35 to 40 states which would acquire nuclear weapons so if nothing is done to stop the spread of nuclear technology magna mara uh believes of course based on his uh uh team's research on the subject that there are at least some 30 35 other states which are scientifically technologically capable and also politically willing to develop nuclear technology and if nothing is done to prevent this from happening within the next 20 years in in the early 1980s it is possible to see some 35 to 40 states with nuclear weapons which of course was not the desirable situation so especially after the cuban missile crisis in 1962 which brought the two superpowers uh to the brink of nuclear exchange i mean in nuclear warfare and the world was saved from a nuclear uh warfare nuclear catastrophe and it is so believed that the two leaders as well as two countries i mean the united states and the soviet union have learned dear lessons from this uh showdown the brinkmanship in the during the cuban missile crisis and they intensified and also accelerated their efforts to take such measures that would prevent further proliferation further spread of nuclear technology into the hands of many states and also to prevent other states from developing this technology because i mean at that time in the 1960s many european countries sweden belgium germany others were capable maybe if not at that time but would were capable of developing such weapons sooner than later and and and so maybe by the early 1970s if there would be no such an agreement no treaty uh such as the amputee other european states western european countries of course provided that there was this political will to do so they could have very well developed nuclear weapons so in order to prevent this the soviet union and the uh united states as i said accelerated their efforts and also intensified their efforts they try to resolve some of their differences because one was a leader of the western bloc and the other was the leader of the eastern bloc so they had a lot of influence on other countries and at times when they were disagreeing on other political issues of course their decisions would be very political rather than maybe rational but especially after having seen china detonating its first nuclear device then the ussr and the united states have combined their efforts and paid away to the conclusion of diplomatic efforts which aim at developing or drafting an international treaty so in 1968 the amputee was open to signature after so many of course deliberations not an easy issue and in my doctoral dissertation i had studied this process for those interested i can send a copy of my dissertation which i haven't read since i finished it because you read so many times and then you're fed up and you do not want to see it again anyway so in 1968 the treaty was signed open to signature and by the year 1970 after the 40th ratification which was necessary for the entry into force the treaty entered into force well this treaty is significant in the sense that it distinguishes or discriminates the term here might be a little bit tricky between two groups of states anybody who knows the meaning of this nws and nws well my former students would remember of course from other courses well there is two basically two groups of states nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states what does this mean according to the amputee because it was signed in 1968 and entered into force 1970 by the time united states ussr the soviet union united kingdom france and china have all developed and tested their first nuclear devices since it is not possible to give up that technology for good i mean once and for all for political reasons technological reasons economic reasons et cetera et cetera i mean three reasons of course they said look not that we have this technology doesn't mean that we will we want to keep it forever and we will do our best to start negotiations at the earliest time possible for fully disarming ourselves but in the meantime we don't want any new nuclear power or nuclear weapons capable state so if you sign the amputee and agree to be a non-nuclear weapon state that is commit yourself and promise that you will never ever even intend to develop nuclear weapons in the future we will give you all the assistance that might be necessary for you to develop peaceful nuclear technology for peaceful exploitation like energy generation applications in agriculture and health sector so many states at the time like 60 70 80 of them at the beginning they said well if we sign up with the amputee i mean if you become a state party to the amputee it's a non-nuclear weapon state and if you forgo the option i mean if we just quit or give up the option of weapons application we will get nuclear technology and we will get nuclear science assistance in this field and well we will bear off by signing this and become a member of the amputee and therefore we go ahead and sign because some state decided that they would never have any major ambitions anyway so why the bother to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and by giving up this meter option they would get assistance that they could possibly not get not be able to get otherwise so by by agreeing to be a non-nuclear weapon state and by by agreeing to give up the meter option once and for all they believe they could get ample assistance from the west or from the developed countries in terms of nuclear technology usage exploitation in their country so the five states which had detonated a nuclear device or nuclear weapon prior to 1st of January 1967 were counted as nuclear weapon state and they were allowed to keep their nuclear weapons of course with the condition of starting at an early date negotiations for complete disarmament which since then under the cold war conditions was not possible to achieve such a such a result anyway but on the other hand all of the states were invited to join the amputee as a non-nuclear weapon state by giving up the option of becoming or exploding nuclear energy for meter purposes but instead get this technology for peaceful applications so therefore in a sense the bargain was simple you give up the meter option you get technology for peaceful applications so this issue is important I mean this is also known as the bargain between nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapon states it's known as bargain so of course it is not possible to count on states declarations only when a state promises to do something how can you make sure that that state do really complies with what it you know it is obliged to do and lives up to it to the commitments so the international atomic energy agency which was established already in 1957 with a view to you know moderating or regulating the nuclear exchanges between has and have nots I mean states that have nuclear technology and that do not have nuclear technology and the IAEA was given the task of conducting inspections in the countries on and the non-nuclear weapon states in order to see if these states which may have acquired nuclear technology by way of transfer or by way of developing themselves and to see if they were there was any diversion from peaceful uses to major uses so because non-nuclear weapon states promise that they will never ever develop nuclear weapons and this is a commitment which was made once and for all by signing and ratifying the MPT ratification is something that ties the hand of next generations so long as treaties enforce even if regime changes in a country all nested country withdraws from the treaty the treaty binds the hands of the next administration or next regime so just as the case in Iran today the Shah regime which signed and ratified the MPT and this situation also ties the hand of the islamic republic of Iran so therefore the many countries by signing the MPT and ratifying it also accepted the inspections of the IAEA in these countries and to prove to the world that they are not doing anything wrong other than that they were allowed to do which was the only and only peaceful applications and that there was no diversion from peaceful to military purposes but of course there has there was a difficulty since the 1970s when the treaty entered into force and the IAEA inspections were attempted to be carried out in the non-nuclear weapon states because the protocol or the procedures that govern the inspections had some loopholes and shortcomings in the 1970s what was known as the model protocol it incorporated a number of loopholes which some countries benefited such as Iraq remember here we mentioned the IAEA conducting inspections with a view to destroying removing and rendering harmlessly nuclear infrastructure of Iraq according to the UN resolution 687 so Iraq as a state party to the MPT a country which had signed and ratified the MPT and which was supposed to not to develop nuclear weapons was under the sort of a peaceful operations of some of the facilities but there were some also attempts as well in diverting some of the technology and material from peaceful to military purposes and the IAEA although it was conducting inspections from time to time before the 1991 war could not find anything or could not prove anything even though there was there was some intelligence reported Iraq was doing something illegal under the MPT but because the IAEA's mandate was limited according to the model protocol which had some loopholes the model protocol prevented the international atomic energy agency inspectors to visit every facility that they deemed would be important and also every place in the facility so there were some difficulties in that and therefore the inspection procedures was were not so convincing this situation was open to exploitation was open to manipulation as well as some countries uses for other purposes so this is therefore something at the crux of the matter but in short what we have to remember from the MPT I mean there are many things that you have to know about it but with respect to the specific purpose of Iran's question is that Iran is a country which has signed and ratified the the treaty and assumed the obligation to benefit from nuclear technology that it may have transferred from other countries such as Russia or it may have developed indigenously in its own with its own capabilities but use them and only for peaceful purposes and that Iran could not sort of for any reason have any meter ambitions of course this is the the right side of the situation the obligations as I said is to not to do anything wrong that may have meter applications but the the the line between this sort of peaceful and meter applications is so thin because with exactly the same or similar nuclear infrastructure and scientific accumulation a country may or may not use for both purposes or deviate from peaceful to military within not in so you know a long time period and if at all possible under some covered projects may sort of adopt some or may develop some metri capabilities so Iran is a country which is subject to IAE inspections and entertains its rights its rights from the MPT I mean by way of technology transfers and developing by itself indigenously and opens its facilities to inspections but according to the older protocol the 1971 IAA model protocol which as I said has some loopholes and shortcomings and under this protocol it is not possible for the IAA to provide assurances to the world that there is nothing wrong that Iran is doing of course even today just on on TV news I saw that the IAA made a statement Amano the the current director general of the IAA stated that he is not in a position to provide assurances that Iran is not doing anything wrong just like the situation with Anmovic remember Anmovic was not able to find anything because there was not in anything to find maybe or things that they were supposed to find were either taken away or hidden somewhere so therefore the task of the inspection agency here the IAA is to provide assurances that it has carried out all the necessary inspections and it has told went to everywhere it has gone to everywhere it has talked to everybody and then according to this inspections was fully convinced that there is nothing wrong and the IAA says I'm not in a position to to say anything like that at the moment so but this this puzzle still continues and will also continue this well on Friday we have this midterm exam which will start at nine sharp don't be late take all the necessary measures precautions to be here because the exam will start at nine and late comers may not be admitted well maybe five minutes ten minutes would be okay but if you come later you may not be admitted so consider the traffic if you come from the city or I don't know try not to be ill stay healthy this is well for everyone for all times and we'll start at nine and here in this room so we'll see after we'll continue the subject after the byram because there are too many other things to be discussed here okay thank you for coming and see you on Friday


What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today I'm gonna be sharing with you some hockey collectibles that I recently received and I wanted to share them with you guys cause it's really cool stuff and I'm really excited to share this. So I'm gonna start off with the Funko Pops. Up first, Corey Crawford. Now you guys might have seen this in hockey card videos as my background because I'm not sure when I'm gonna be uploading this and I had to wait for a couple other things to arrive. But yeah, I collect hockey Funko Pops. I absolutely love them. I think they look amazing. And this one here I found it in Dollarama for $4. So I thought for $4, that's extremely cheap. Let's get one. So that's really cool and I wanted to collect a few more Funko Pops for hockey not only to have in my background but just my personal collection and you guys know I absolutely collecting goalie items. So that is our first item here. I'll push it all the way back. Next is a Funko Pop for somebody that I collect. That is Patrick Waugh. I got this from a hockey card shop out of the box in Ottawa and I paid $15 for it which is what to expect to get for our Funko Pops. Now this is a Canadian exclusive and it's really, really cool. And I see people are selling these and reselling these for $20 to $25. So to get one in a hockey card shop for $15 is an honest, honest hockey card shop. I absolutely love them. That's really cool. I collect Patrick Waugh and this is a Funko Pop I did not have and I wanted to get. Right now I want to look out for Wayne Gretzky. I found one for $15 the other day. It was in LA Kings, Jersey but I don't know if I want LA Kings or which one I want. I was looking at a four pack with all four of Wayne Gretzky's in each of his jerseys but that one there runs for a little bit of money. Next is an Ottawa Senators pin sets. Now I was actually given this as a gift from my girlfriend's grandfather who is a collector and this is something that I'm gonna be keeping forever in my collection. I absolutely love the Ottawa Senators. You guys know this. I think this is really cool. This was from the Ottawa Citizen, so a newspaper and they did these pins. So I'm gonna open this up here for you guys. So you guys can see the pins. To me they look amazing. You have Chara, Alfredson, whole bunch. Everybody from the team that year. This is 0506. So the complete team including Sparty Cat in the bottom right corner. This is really, really cool. I collect in PC, anything Ottawa Senators and this is something that I didn't even know existed at the time when he showed me it and then as he was showing me other stuff before we left his room where he has all his collectibles, he said that he's given me this. So I thought that was really cool and it's definitely something that I'm gonna be keeping in my collection. Something really, really cool. I absolutely love it. That is really cool and it's something that I didn't even know existed. Now he still has his The Legends or NHL Hall of Famers one. I can't remember which one it is but that was really cool and really nice for him to do that. And the last thing I just received in the mail today in this big box but it's not that big in my opinion. I'm gonna open it up here and show you what it is. This is what I was waiting for. So if you guys seen these in hockey card videos recently in the backgrounds, that's because I received these first and started putting them in the background of my hockey card videos and I've been waiting for this for a little while and I'm glad it came in. And that is, I'm actually gonna take it out of the bag first. I didn't even take it out of the bag yet whenever I've seen it. That is a Jean-Gabriel Pajot signed Ottawa Senators Hockey Puck. That is amazing and not only that, it also has a Beckett's Certificates of Authenticity which is really cool with its own serial numbers. So that is really cool. I got this on an auction. I want it, I paid a little bit more than I should have and I didn't know all the fees that this auction place had which is pristine auctions. I actually won this for $23. That was the winning bid for me and I didn't realize that you have to pay them 17%. It is US currency and I live in Kansas. So there's the exchange rates plus shipping and everything that was in US prices had to be converted to Canadian currency. So in total, this cost me $50. That is crazy. Now it looks small because my hands but that's an actual size of a Hockey Puck. So that's really cool. I really, really love the signed Hockey Puck. I think that I might have paid a little bit more than what it might be worth but Pajot is a player that I wish the Ottawa Senators would have gave him the deal and signed him for a five year deal, just what he wanted. As soon as he went to the Islanders, they signed him to that deal right away. It's something that Ottawa could have afforded and they just didn't, they decided not to which that to me is embarrassing for the team. So it comes with certificates of authenticity from Beckett. So I know this is actually his signature and he has a pretty distinctive signature. So it looks amazing. Now I do have two other signed Pucks that are already in my collection, Chris Phillips which he signed in person, but it's with a black Sharpie. So you can't really see it. I wish I had a silver Sharpie mark that day or a gold one would have been nice. And I also have a Clark MacArthur signed Puck with a letter of authenticity as well. That one I might be selling the Clark MacArthur one. So these are the recent additions to my hockey collection. Absolutely love getting Funkle Pops. I keep looking for them and trying to see them when they're cheap, trying to purchase them. I absolutely love the pin set, the gift that I was received from my girlfriend's grandfather. I think that was amazing. He didn't have to do that. That was really nice of him. And this Puck, again, I'm not sure what autograph Pucks are worth, especially for Pajot, but he's a player I collect. He's a player I love. I love him in the Islanders. He did great in the playoffs. And I think that Ottawa should have kept him. So I wanted to get this Puck here. Now I also bid on three Anthony DeClaire autograph Pucks, but I lost that bid because it went way too high. And it included the first three teams that Anthony DeClaire was on. So it didn't have his Ottawa Senators won, but it had every other team. It had Columbus Rangers and Coyotes. So I would have got three Pucks for that. But given how much I had to pay for this one and once I found out the fees, I decided to let that go and everything else that I was bidding on, just let them all go because too much for the fees. I wish I knew about the fees before bidding on this item, but it is still really cool. So I'm going to be displaying this one in my shelf and the Funko Pops and the pins, they're going to be displayed as well.  Autograph Pucks are always nice to get. I love getting anything unique. So the pins are definitely unique because I didn't know about them in the Funko Pops. I'm definitely on the lookout for more. Like I said, Wayne Gretzky, I'm hoping to get at least one Wayne Gretzky Funko Pop very soon. So I'm going to leave this video here. Hope you guys enjoyed. Please take care. Peace.


Character and culture are closely linked inside organizations. We don't always think about the connection in meaningful ways. Sometimes we think of character as being fuzzy. Yet in Sieno's 11th January charge of command, he calls on leaders to relentlessly build a culture of the highest character. He gives us specific attributes to achieve this outcome. Humility, selflessness, and transparency are three building blocks to start the journey. Integrity is also crucial in reinforcing a culture of the highest character. Doing the right thing because it's the right thing is integrity. How do we hold ourselves accountable to this standard? One way is to reflect each day on the decisions we've made. Have we held difficult conversations or have we avoided them? Integrity and accountability are two ways to relentlessly build a culture of the highest character. Lead well this week.


Morning everyone. Another day is here. Another week is here. It's time to get out on the road. Gotta go grab a step deck for our yard. Head on down to the Vita Manitoba area.  We won't quite know until we get there, so Let's get old blue warmed up. Let's get hooked on to the trailer. Let's get to work.  I picked the best one I could find. I needed a step deck. So, plam! Slimy two step deck. 114D. I again moved my fifth wheel back so it's centered between my axles. I had it further forward to move more weight onto my steers with that heavy load of lumber that I had. But I moved it back now just to give myself a little more space on the catwalk there to work. Got my tarps. We've checked this whole trailer over. It's ready to go. It's empty. That's the only problem. So let's fix that. Let's go put some freight on it, and I think that freight's taken us to Minnesota. Or maybe we're taking it. Or is it taking me? I've never thought of it that way before. I think I'm taking it to Minnesota. It's not taking me, but I'm only going to Minnesota because it needs to go to Minnesota. So technically it's taking me to Minnesota, right? How about we're just going to Minnesota together? Me and my freight. We're just two buddies going down the road. I'll carry them. But only as far as I need to, and then I need to get off my back. Always forget, I don't need to slam the doors hard when the windows are open. When the windows are closed, it's like it's compressing the air, right? So I'm gonna slam it harder for it to close on the air. You get it. You get it, and you don't care. Very nice. I had a Timmy's this morning, and I feel great. That's a pretty good sleep last night before I head out on the road. Brett is always nice enough to make sure I get a good night's sleep so she wakes up with Theo throughout the night. I heard them get up two or three times last night to feed, and they were awake when I woke up at about 5 a.m. today. My little guy's hungry. He's a little milk monster, and I grow big and strong. Hopefully not too big. Hopefully more strong than big, or maybe both together. Strong and big. He'll be a good kid. He'll be good. I can tell already. He's gonna be a good kid. He doesn't have an option. He's gonna be a good kid. He's doing great though. He's healthy. We can't ask for can't ask for anything else, right? I picked up my load. It's like a 31-foot steel fence panel that you'd see in like, like gates. They'd see on like a cattle ranch or something. Hard to explain. I got a whole pile of them strapped down, belly-wrapped. Sitting on my trailer. I'll show you in just a little bit here. We're just at the border right now. We're getting close to it anyways. I'm not in the line. I'm not actually at the border yet, but I'm in the lineup for the border. There's a lot of trucks going south today. See how long this takes. It looks like it's moving pretty good. I think they got two or three windows open down there by the looks of it. I'm not close enough to really tell, but busy day. I just talked to the customer down in Minnesota. They're expecting me for three hours. And then I don't know. I might just come home empty. I might go down to Minneapolis. We shall wait for the load gobs to see what they have to say. That's not my headache. Maybe with two hours of driving to my destination. There's a short one today. We found ourselves at the truck stop in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. It's like railing for fencing, right? That's what that's what it looks like to me. So I've got them belly wrapped front and back on the bottom holding the the bases together here. Then I've got straps over this bottom piece and five more over the top piece up there yet. Plus at the front here, we've got chains crisscross just holding the tops in together so that they don't wobble. That was at the request of the shipper there as well. He wanted to want to know if I could do that. And I said, yeah, sure, why not? I'm not sure if I need them, but it doesn't hurt having them on there though, right? That's just to keep these guys on the bottom level here together. I just thought they're not like wobbling ever so slightly, right? But now it is tight, pinned in. It ain't going nowhere, right? So as I walk around on both sides and just check each strap, make sure they're still tight. If they're loose, I give them a little tightening. This is what we call a portable because there's no ratchet under the trailer. So use a portable. Yeah, it hasn't, it hasn't even wiggled once, hasn't even vibrated. It's strapped down so tight. The shipper was telling me there is no concern over tightening it as tight as I possibly can with the full force of my body weight, which as you know is a little bit more than it should be. That's my load. You know what's strange? I'm behind the scenes info for you. These glasses that are prescription shades, right? They block out strange, strange things like there's a screen right beside the lens right here where you are. There's a screen that I flip around and I can see myself what you're seeing, right? I can make sure I'm centered and in focus and looking good. But I put my shades on and that screen goes black. I can't see anything on that screen right now. I can see you obviously. But it looks like the screen got turned off. Now it's on. Now it's off. Now it's on. It's weird, right? I keep thinking that my camera is off.  Strange, right? Actually, I wanted to quickly grab a drink, drink of water back here. So like I said, I'm in Thief River Falls, just on my way down to Gully, Minnesota. Once I'm empty in Gully, they're expecting me there. It's about a 45-minute drive from here. They're, once I'm empty, I head over to Wapden, North Dakota. There's going to be a load they're waiting for me to pick up tomorrow morning. It's taking me back to Manitoba. I think I have to deliver it into Carmen, Manitoba. So that's a nice little rounder, right? Happy with that. It's very slow right now. I was talking to a few other drivers too and it's a slow season right now. What's going on? The weather's warming up. So you would think that people start building stuff, right? And they start, you know, getting excited, buying stuff, building stuff. It's just a little lull right now, I guess. It's going to pick up real soon. School's going to be out soon. And once all the kids are out of school, maybe that's when all the projects will start, you know, and people start buying stuff, spending money. I know me. I like spending money more when it warms up. I think that's typical of a lot of people.  Buying or selling cars, I think, is exactly the same. I bought this truck at this time last year. I've had old blue for a year now. I bought this truck last year when it started to warm up. Speaking of, I think I told you already, old blue is going in, getting polished in a few days. I'm looking forward to that. I'm going to shine her all up and we'll give her the bullsnot treatment. Keep her nice and shiny. Up until next year, it's spring time. So it's time to, you know, do some spring cleaning. We also got a whole bunch of other things going on this next week. This next week is going to be pretty busy, but I want to start like, like I've promised, I want to continue this daily video release now that, you know, we sort of found our groove with Theo. Things are rolling along. I think it's time now to get back to my daily releases. I've been watching and reading your comments saying, oh, you missed the daily videos. Yeah, my life is busier now. It's no excuse really.  I appreciate all your patience with me. I know some of you watch my videos every single day and when I don't release one, maybe you're wondering where I'm at. At least that's what the comments and messages and emails that I've been getting have been saying. Maybe most of you probably didn't even notice. That's okay. Yeah, we want to make videos every, every single day again. So we'll see whether I'm at home or I'm on the road, whether I can put together a full length, a 20, 25 minute log, or if it's just a five, 10 minute, just an update vlog, something, I want something posted every day. I don't have a set time. I used to always release at 4am central time. It hasn't been working as well now as it did before. I like releasing around supper time here in North America, but around like five or six o'clock central time. Everybody's getting home from work for the most part. The majority of my audience like 75% of my audience is from North America. 50% is from the US alone. 25% is from Canada. And the other 25% is mostly split between the other English speaking countries, the UK, obviously Australia, New Zealand, and then there's a whole bunch of you from other countries around the world as well. But the bulk of my subscribers are here in North America. So trying to find a good time to release them, but just turn on notifications on my channel and then you'll get notified. Maybe your phone will give you a little ding. If it works, hopefully it does work. Don't forget to make sure you're subscribed as well. Then you don't miss it when I do post one. You can follow along. Not quite a bit of videos on the internet already. They just finished unloading. Not sure what I'm picking up there. I've never actually been in Wopton. They're a nice truck stop. They must have just built it because it's not even on Google Earth yet. It's a Senex. Lots of parking. It is a gravel lot back here, but it's a nice gravel lot. Nice and smooth, unlike the ones we got out in the prairies, right? For some reason, I said on the Canadian prairies, just can't get it right. You can't get it, but there are better truck stops coming. It's just some of the ones we do have have black holes dotted throughout the parking lot.  You can call them pot holes if you want, but they're more than that. They're next level. They're black holes.  You'll never get out. You'll never be seen again. No one will know what happened to you. And demons live down there. The gravel lots they got here down in Minnesota, man. They have to one up us on everything, eh? Gotta do everything just a little bit better. And the only thing we can come at them with is like, hey, health care. They come back at us with, huh, taxes. We're like, yeah, too saying. You got the best hockey players in the world. That's for sure. Got the best hockey teams in the world. That's for sure. And I might argue we got the best people in the world, though, you know, it depends where you're from. You're going to argue with me about that, that, that you have the best people in the world. There's a lot of good people. I've never traveled outside of Canada in the U.S., though, so I don't know much about the world outside. What I call North America, to me, North America is Canada and the United States. I know there's more to North America, officially. But in my unofficial mind, that is North America. And I've never been outside it. Never been to Mexico. Never been to South America. Never been to Europe. I'd love to go visit Europe. I'd love to go visit Ireland and Scotland and the whole UK. I'd love to go visit Germany. I'd love to visit Eastern Europe, too, like Poland. Just to see what it's like, you know. I want to go into the UK and I want to rent a car. And I just want to drive around on the wrong side of the road. I want to do the same thing in Australia. I do want to visit Australia one day. That is on one of my goals. It's a very far away journey. It costs a lot of money to go visit there. But they're so similar to us. They're our sister nation. They're the same thing as Canada, but just upside down and backwards. They're just on the other side of the world. But we have the same king. You know what's interesting about our king? King Charles III. We don't share... Well, we share a king with the UK, but it's not the UK's king that is our king. We brought the Constitution home in the last century and King Charles is actually king of Canada, which is a separate kingdom altogether than the United Kingdom and the Australian Kingdom. Complete separate kingdoms, but we all share a king. He doesn't do much. He looks very fancy in his coronation crown and this was called a scepter. There's a little ball that he was carrying around. It's very official, very official. I like our system that we have. We have a constitutional monarchy in Canada. In the US here, they have a constitutional republic with democratic institutions. In Canada, we have a constitutional monarchy with democratic institutions. We vote in our leaders and they serve under the king with the king's authority. But the king doesn't really do much. He doesn't... He comes and visits us now and then. It's nice, but... Oh well, story for a different time, different time. So we made it to Wapton here. We had a pretty good day. I got loaded in the morning, unloaded in the afternoon, got to my reload point in the evening. Tomorrow morning, we'll get loaded here in Wapton. We'll head back to Canada and I'll get unloaded in the afternoon from there. We'll see what happens. We'll see what the trucking industry has for me. Like I was telling you earlier, it's a little bit slow lately, which isn't... I thought January was more the slowest season, but January was busy. I don't know. I don't know. They're getting me stuff to do. They're taking care of me. It happens. It's not completely abnormal or unusual. It happens. Sometimes you go through a slow period and then all of a sudden you get all of this business and you can't keep up with it and you're running and running and running and running and running and then all... Slow again. Been doing this for, well, doing this for 12 years, almost. In October it'll be 12 years. Been driving trucks since 2006, so I've learned to just take it as it comes. I just... I love my job and I think I'm very lucky to have a job that I love doing. I hope you have a job that you love doing.  Though it is pretty fun. So I'm gonna admit it's pretty fun, but it's stressful. It's a lot of work and it's risky. You can either make a lot of money or you could lose a lot of money. It's half up to you and half up to luck. But whatever you do, whatever you decide to do when you're done high school, maybe take some time to think about it.  First of all, take a look at the degree you want to get and ask yourself, is this going to make me money? And if the answer is no, it's a waste of time. You all know the university courses I'm talking about, waste of time. You can learn a trade or you know, you can go to university, become a doctor, become a lawyer, whatever you want to do. But the main thing is, or will you be happy? It's important that you make money because you need money to survive. You need to support your future family. You need to eat. You need to have a house. You're gonna need to have a vehicle. So you need a job that's gonna bring you money. But you also need a job that's gonna make you happy. Get some thought into it. I didn't know what I wanted to do right out of high school. Not exactly. That's not totally true. I knew I wanted to be a truck driver. This was my main goal. I knew that I wanted to do this. But I also, I had two other career choices that I wanted to do. I wanted to be a pilot. And I also wanted to be a police officer. I wanted to be the guy that you called for help. You know, when something bad is going on, I wanted to be the guy that showed up and fixed it and helped you and saved the day. I thought that would be really cool. I also wanted to be a pilot because I think flying is amazing. Like as if we can fly in the sky. Tens of thousands of feet in the air. It's just amazing what we've been able to accomplish as a human, as well, let's be honest, the West, what we've been able to bring to the world. And in a large part of the United States, what they've been able to bring to the world. And I'm so thankful for all the technologies we have. Combustion engines, the internet, air conditioning, flight. You know, so many more things, telephones, cell phones. It's amazing. I've been bibl babbling for long enough, though. It's time for me to put these videos together and maybe try to get a good sleep yet. I keep fooling myself. The sun is still up, but it's actually pretty late. It's after eight o'clock already. The sun will be up for another hour or two yet. So I want to get all my work done and don't get too distracted because I know as soon as I lay down, I'm going to want to surf through the internet and Facebook for a little while again. I need to make sure I allot myself time to do that, otherwise I'm up way too late. So thanks for watching today. Don't forget to hit the like button, subscribe button, the bell button, all the buttons. Leave me a comment down below, and I'll see you right here tomorrow. Thanks for watching. Bye.


Good morning, folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 11 a.m. Update and Curly Evolved U.S. Indices that we track trading to the downside. So two for each of the sectors within side the S&P 500. That was trained down about 6 tenths of a cent. That's nearly 200 points. Nine tenths for the S&P are 35 points. Seven tenths for the NDX 184 points. Nearly 2 percent running. One in eight tenths percent for the Russell. That's off 33 points. Gold is off $19.50. She's trained out at 1776. Silver's down 63 pennies. Light's recruiters up 13 cents. Natural gas back 52 pennies. It's an 8 percent move to the downside. The 30 year treasury printing out at 129.05. That's off 20 ticks. Let's go take a look at that nine panel. Market update chart. We begin with the E.S. mini never left hand side. We can see the pullback so far this morning doing nothing more than testing the top of its daily profile. Price closed above it for the last three trading sessions. Assuming that it stays above that level. That level is 4035. Let's call it 4036. That would suggest that the E.S. mini will complete. It's one to one A to B equal CD to the upside 4130 surprise projection. And that's especially true with that spot ball to the trading below its 50 day exponents moving average. Yes, it is higher than Friday's close. It's still below that 50 day. It hasn't taken out either the highs or lows of Friday out there. So we too much into that spot. Volatility next Russell are the end queue is actually attempting to form a new daily profile. So the read and it's a bearish in structure. So it says now we will not have confirmation till the tomorrow morning or really this evening. But the top of that profile you do know where the sellers are hanging out there between 11 941 and 12 077 if price does close below 11 941 not 11 940 but somewhere below that area that would suggest to run to the 11 6 69 level now this new profile that is attempting to form is above the prior profile. It's time to spot a bullish trend. And in fact if the end queue can close above 12 1875 then we'd be looking at an A to B equal CD to the upside with 12 947 being the price target. The U.S. dollar index is attempting to form a by the D point pattern. Well if it does that that will least take price up to the 105 51 level and should that occur that should put pressure on metals that should pressure on the equity market. So I want to keep an eye on that U.S. dollar index. Goldy locks out here if it can remain above 18 06 it is not above that right now but remain above 18 06 would then signal an A to B equal CD to the upside right now prices back inside its daily profile that resistance level being 18 06 folks stay tuned for the Trader's Ed show if you would but if you're off to start your Monday please have a magical one. Thanks for joining us and I'll look forward to seeing you soon. Take care.


With the release of Sword and Shield on the 15th of November, I've jumped onto my sketchpad, put together three new designs for you to represent your Team Starter, Team Skull Bunny, Groovy Gang or Team Sobble. Hop over to the Teespring Store now, you can grab a 10% discount with the Discount Code Starter. Hi friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 Battle Series. My name is Leigh Olsenonos Osiris and we're going to be finishing up with this raid on Team that we started off with at the beginning of the week. As always, the team is down in the description below. There is a raw paste and a poker paste. And if you'd like to try it out, if you do try it out, let me know in the description, let me know what your thoughts are on this call. It's a call that I have a lot of time for and I've had a lot of fun playing it this week and hopefully we can give it a good send-off today. So without further ado, let's jump into onto the ladder and see if we can find our first opponent of the episode. I had two incredible games yesterday. If you missed them, do go back. I'll link a card up here for you. You can check those out and as always, if you do enjoy this sort of content, please, shamelessly, remember to drop a like on the video. It does really help the channel out. Do subscribe as well because we have a bought ton of Pokemon content coming up with Sword and Shield and competitive stuff and do, as always, leave your comments. We've got our first opponent, so let's get into team preview. Okay, so first up on today, running a team of Drifblim, Tapilele, Groudon, Curem, White, Clefairy and Silavalli. So you've got to love these sort of teams, don't you? Definitely Gravity. Gravity bound. I'm going to say probably Skaft, Tapilele with the Gravity Hypnosis on that dang Drifblim and then you've got the Groudon and the Curem with their spread attacks. You've got support with the Clefairy as well, with the follow me redirection support and God knows what the Silavalli is doing. I have no idea. Can be any type and I'd imagine it will be a random type, but it might be normal type as well. If we can get a trick room up early on, that would be pretty huge for us, wouldn't it? Because I think my opponent's going to rely on trick room. The other thing is I think what we want to try and do is utilise our Capicoco terrain because if we can do that, then we're not prone to getting put to sleep, which would be bad. We'll go Suicune, we'll go... Do we go Incineroa? Is Incineroa going to be good? Incineroa is decent. I think we've got Capicoco and we'll leave the realm and go Groudon. Okay, so this is a funsy one for us to kick off with today. I never like playing these gravity... You know I don't like playing these gravity teams. They're always a pain to deal with, but I mean at least we've got tools to kind of get around them. It would be nice to have wide guard. I think that would be the one thing that would dare we make the whole match up a lot better, especially with how reliant these kind of teams are on spread damage. Just being able to shut them down with wide guard makes it a lot easier. Okay, so we're going to see Savalli and Taprolilir. Okay, I've got a horrible feeling that we're going to see the Taprolilir switch to dribble him, and then the Savalli go boom, a big kaboom. But who knows? Well, I tell you what we will do, we'll match tailwinds for sure. So we'll go for a tailwind with Suicune and we'll go for you turn into the Lele. Then let's see what my opponent does. Niche's madness! Okay, that's going to take us down to 50% health. What's the Savalli going to do? It's going to go for a tailwind as well. That's fine, that's fine, that's fine. You know that Lele is locked into Niche's madness now, or likely is if it's scarf, which it probably is. I imagine it is. A bit of speed, Savalli. Savalli's fast, man. Let's get rid of this psychic terrain as well, and let's bring Coco onto the field. Okay, I think we just pivot out with Coco, to be honest. We'll probably take, well, we'll be able to tell if this Lele's scarfed or not. It's tricky, though, because we go for a scald. We could really get punished if the Groudon comes in. That's the only problem. Whereas if we go from Suicune into Incinerole, and then we pivot out with Coco into Lele. Let's go for that. No, it's going to be Groudon coming in. It's always Groudon. Can't sign it. Okay, well, this is Savalli going to protect. Maybe not. But we'll get a double Intimidate onto it, regardless, and we'll get an Intimidate onto the Groudon, which is useful. We've got to watch out the next turn, of course, for the Lele coming back in, and preventing our fake out. Yeah, blocked, and the Savalli goes for a snarl. That's not the worst thing in the world at all, honestly. Right, we'll fake out Groudon. How do we fake out Groudon? We just U-turn it. Does the Savalli got protect? That's the thing. Like, if it's got protect, we're screwed, because we're going to go for the double pivot there. I would imagine Lele coming in. Okay, Groudon going to actually switch out, which is fine. Because now we can get our Groudon onto the field, and we can get Coco back onto the field to overwrite the terrain once again. So, there we go, into the Savalli, and after the snarl, we're not going to be doing very much. Let's get Suicune out now, because I'd prefer to get Groudon in, not damaged, and then we can switch Suicune out to Coco the next turn if we want to. Parting shot. Huh, Suicune, okay. Right, right, right. Groudon coming back in to the field. At least my opponent's speed controls are not there. I think the thing that we've got to worry about this next turn is potentially the gravity from the Lele. It might come down to speed tie between both Groudons. Can you imagine in this sort of team you run Max speed Groudon? But it's probably Jolly with, like, Presbyter's Blades rather than the Special Lightway running. Tailwinds are going to pitter out now. We've got the opportunity to potentially go... No, we haven't. We've got one turn to tailwind left each. Okay, let's go for an earth part into the opposing Groudon, and let's go for a snarl. Although, if we do that, we're in a lot of trouble because the thing is, if we don't take the opposing Groudon down, let's protect Groudon. Let's protect that Groudon and go for an ice beam into the opposing Groudon. Because if we lose our Groudon, we lose this match, because we've got nowhere to deal with Groudon other than our Groudon, which is never a great idea. Nature's Madness into Groudon. We're going to see probably Presbyter's Blades, yep. But this ice beam definitely will put their Groudon in range from an earth part. Oh, man, that is not great. It's not ideal. Right, well, let's get Coco in, because we can pivot out onto the Lele, and then go for an earth part into the Groudon. And we've got to hope that we win a speed tie, because I think that's what it's going to come down to now. But the Lele's likely to switch out. Okay, so we've got earth part into the Groudon, we'll go Volt Switch into the Lele. We'll be able to get at least an Intimidate onto the opposing Groudon. That's the big thing for us here, I think, being able to take Presbyter's Blades. But that Groudon makes things a lot easier. And maybe if we win a speed tie as well, then we can just take it down. It might be a slow Groudon, who knows. But we do get the Volt Switch. It's not scarf Lele, which is super interesting. Which we kind of thought it was, but it's not. Okay, you're getting Cineroyne. Hopefully, an earth part will be enough to get the Groudon. That's what we want. Getting rid of this Groudon, I like, becomes a lot easier. Lele goes gravity. There we go. The Grave's coming out. It doesn't make any difference if we get this earth power off first, which we do. Does it kill? Come on.  Groudon! You're the better Groudon. We had no worries. We always knew. We always knew. We always knew. So that is ideal for us. We're going to get this. Okay, now the gravity is set up, which makes things a little bit more difficult for us, for sure. But we can go for a protect here with our Groudon, and I think we'll just U-turn. Or could we knock off into the Lele? I think we'll knock off into the Lele. I'm just going to literally shut my door because people have come back into the house, and it's getting pretty loud. Hey, I'm sorry about the disruption. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm back. Okay, explosion. Wow. What's going on? What did I miss? I can't believe this. Okay. Groudon protected, Lele's gone, and Incinero gone. Okay, so we've got a two versus one situation coming up. It's just fine. I don't mind this. So, Vale pulling out the big explosion. So, it did have it. We will write to, I think it did have it, but what's the last Pokemon? If it's this Curam, then we're pretty happy now, hopefully. Gravity is up. It could be Skaft, though, you know. It could be Skaft. We've got the Z move. Is it Skaft, Curam? Because the Lele wasn't Skaft. Let's just click eruption, and let's click the variant, and hopefully we can do it. We can do it. We can do it. Come on. Come on. We can do this. Lizard, it is Skaft. Okay, well, it's fine. Coco should take this. It takes us down to 11 health. Curam's ridiculously broken. Thank goodness we do survive, and we are going to be able to get this big fat, juicy twinkle tackle off, which I'm hoping is enough. I'm going to hope. Curam's a bit of a monster. Look at it. It's got tubes coming out of his back. It's something from the Matrix, but we take it down. Anyway, good game to my opponent, and a great win for us to kick off with today against a team that I always feel like it's a little bit of a boggy team for me, honestly. But we do manage to overcome it, which is ideal, so that's great news for us. So one game down, one game to go, my friends, so all to play for. And I really want to give this team a good send off. We've got to bring the Ray in the next game. We've got to bring the Ray, because we haven't featured it in the last two games. So we've got to bring the Ray and the Groudon and make use of the combination. So we'll click in. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent. We've been pretty lucky today, I think, with getting our opponents up. So that's been a positive thing. Let's go for a trainer version to the music, which probably no one picks, because it's probably really trash, but I don't know. The original music, it's sometimes nice coming back to a little bit of nostalgia, you know, when we're saying goodbye to Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon very soon. And also for you guys that are in the UK at the minute, the game, the store, which sells games, is doing the promotional event now for Shiny Suggler and Shiny Lunar Pop into your store. I think it's run until the 15th of November, so go grab your cards so you can get those. Hopefully I'll get mine this weekend. So next week, maybe we can play a team outside of what we were planning on playing with those Shiny Pokemon. It'd be very cool. We've got our next opponent, so let's hop straight into team preview. Okay, so our next opponent is running a team of Zekrom. We've got all the good stuff today. We've got Zekrom, Manderbuzz, Mercuro, Gengar, Groudon, and Tapu Fini. So tailwind, we've definitely got an abundance. We've got no trick room though, so maybe that's an option. We could go down. The Mega Gengar is going to be a bit awkward for us to deal with because it can trap and do all sorts of shenanigans. Maybe trick room is not the best idea for us to go down because I don't know if we'll be able to get a trick room off against both a Mercuro and a Manderbuzz that normally will carry taunt. Okay, so Incineroar going to be extremely good here. It does really nice things against the Gengar. The Intimidate is so useful against the Zekrom, and the Groudon, the fake out support as well, is very useful. We'll go with Suikun. I did say we'd bring the Raid, and I did say we'd bring Groudon, so I think that is going to be our core. Leaving Tapu Koko at home, which I don't really like because Tapu Koko here would be amazing, but not bringing the Electric Terrain is pretty useful as well because we don't want to be boosting that Zekrom up any further than what it already is. Zekrom is like a crazy powerful Pokemon and giving it any advantage. Do not want to do that. Do not want to do that. Okay, so we are challenged by Monsieur Pokémon Trina, and they're throwing out a Mercuro and a Tapu Fini for us. It's like Koko Bait, isn't it? It's all the Koko Bait, but we are going to match them with the Suikun and our Incineroar. Okay, what are we going to see the Mercuro go for? I mean, we can fake it out this turn and guarantee a Tailwind up, which might not be a bad thing for us to be honest. They're going to get a Tailwind as well, so we're going to be mindful, I think, of that and fake it out. And we'll go for a Tailwind. And imagine they'll match Tailwinds the next turn, but it does give us the opportunity to potentially go for an Ice Beam and just get rid of the Mercuro. Ooh, gravity. Setting up this Groudon to come in. Okay. But it's all right, really. If Groudon comes in, we do have the switch to Ray that we can go for. Right, let's go for a U-turn into the Mercuro and, like I said, let's go for an Ice Beam as well into that slot. Mercuro Tailwinding, okay. And now what we want to try and do is get rid of this Mercuro, so Groudon does come in onto the field. I don't think we're going to be able to get rid of it with these attacks, unfortunately. What's the thing you're going to go for here? I mean, we can go for... Do we bring in Ray just yet? I don't want to take an Ice Wind. That's the only thing. Let's bring in Groudon because we've got Groudon, we can eruption potentially do some life damages next turn to both targets. Let's see where the spinny is going. Spinny, finny, finny. What are you going to do? Okay, Ice Wind, yeah. So it's a better idea not to bring in the Ray there, to be honest. Okay, that's fine. We've got, like, 100% accurate, like, Pressless Blades though now, which is quite a nice thing to have access to, honestly, because the Mercuro is grounded. Okay, we'll go for Pressless Blades and we're probably better off switching in. No, we'll keep... We'll go for a Snarl. We'll go for a Snarl. Might take Quash here. Okay, Mercuro going to protect. It's strange though that my opponent's, like, setting up this bold position, whether or not letting the Mercuro go down to get their Groudon in with the Tailwind up. Like, I don't mind them not switching. They're not really causing us too many issues here. We're going to get a free Pressless Blades off and a Snarl as well. Oh, that's why. Oh no. Oh no. I'm going to see Groudon hit the field. That's a nice tech. That is a really nice tech, you know? That's smart. I like that. Right, well, Groudon. I still think though we've got Ray to come in and we can scald the opposing Groudon to get rid of it and it will pick up probably quite a cheeky little knock knockout here. They're going to be mindful, I think, that the Rayquaza could come onto the field for sure, but I'm more inclined to bring Ray back onto the field now that the Finney's not around to throw out some super effective ice type attacks, but we'll go for this. I guess the double up would be the only problem, but I think my opponent probably, I don't know what they're going to do with the Mercuro. Foul play and the Precipice wouldn't be great for Rayquaza, honestly. Hold that. I think Suikun will take a plus two. I don't know about Rayquaza, though. Ray is gone and we can't scald. What is happening? Swagger Mercuro. Oh, man. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it, Janet. Oh, we're knackered now. We are well and truly knackered. We're bringing Incineroar. We can get another tailwind up. This is brutal. I think what we'll do, rather than get a tailwind up now, I think we will go for an ice beam into the Mercuro, because if we can stop my opponent from tailwinding, that helps us out a lot, especially if the crowd on something max speed on my opponent's end of the field. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. I don't know what to say about that. I'm pretty much in awe. I'm like, this is a really cool team. Did not expect the... Okay, well, my opponent's making all the right plays, to be honest, like protecting that Mercuro to get their tailwind up the next turn, which is probably what we would have been better doing, because now the gravity turns to normal. Okay, so Precipice Blades can miss, so we've got that in our favour. I guess that's all we've got. I'm going to U-turn out onto the Mercuro. I'm going to tailwind as well. I just didn't see the swagger coming. Didn't see the swagger. We've got to hope that we can get our tailwind up though. Suicune's like minus two speed as well, so we'll take a Precipice. Look, we need a Precipice Blades to miss. That's kind of what we need to happen, which it doesn't do, and plus one is going to take down everything. Yeah, we've been bopped, royally bopped, and I ground on to come back in, but Precipice Blades could miss. I'm not going to say anything right now. It's not over till it's over, but Precipice Blades could miss, and an Earth Power from ourselves could take down this ground on. So we'll go for it, and if we get it, we've still got like three Pokemon to deal with. It's not going to be easy, but if one of them's Zekrom, then we might be able to do this. You never know. Let's see what's my point going to do. They're going to click the Precipice Blades button, right? You've just got to click it if that's your only means to, and the gravity's not up. It's a little bit risky, but let's see. I wonder if it's crossing their mind now. They're like, should we Precipice, or should we protect and get Phinean so we can gravity Precipice the next turn? Maybe that would be better. Yeah, okay. Groudon going to switch out. They're going to save it for later on. Okay, Zekrom going to hit the field. I wonder if we're going to see a foul play from the Mercro. Okay, Mercro going to protect. Okay, they're not wanting to risk the low accuracy. Okay, we'll get rid of this Zekrom. Okay, and imagine we'll see Phinean come back onto the field now. We know it's not going to bury. So if it goes for a gravity, then we can stall out the tailwind turn. So we might be able to do this. Maybe. Okay, well, we'll see. We'll see. Oh, that's going to be close. If we see it go gravity, and then our Precipice Blades will pick up the knockout onto the Mercro finally, and then we've just got to stall out the tailwind, which would be one more turn after this, and then we can earth power the Groudon and hope that we are faster than it out of tailwind and that we can pick up a knockout with earth power, which we may be able to do. Who knows? Let's see. I think though, if I'm my opponent, I would have just risked going for the Precipice Blades there. I wouldn't have really cared about missing. We're going to see a quash come out. That's fine. As long as we see gravity, that's what we need. There we go. Right. Well, this is all right. So this still could go in our favor, especially if we get a high damage roll onto the Finney and pick up the knockout there. Oh, it's so close. It's so close. I can't believe we're still in this game. Like how? How are we in this game still? If we win, this would be a great way for us to send off this team. Okay. So Groudon going to come back in. The gravity is up. So we need to stall out this last turn of tailwind and we need to hope that we are faster than the Groudon. I think the next turn though is going to be a tricky one because I think you protect now and I would be okay. Swagger, swagger, swagger. Okay. The tap with Finney surviving makes things a bit awkward for us. All right. Now I'm my opponent. I think honestly that you protect your Groudon and you got icy wind here and I'm going to Precipice Blades and hope that we see that Groudon protect. Yes. Come on. Come on. Yeah. They're trying. They're trying it. They're pushing their luck. Okay. Well, gravity's up. So we definitely hit this Finney. Groudon is just net. Groudon's on the cusp of 4 on warning, my opponent. Okay. So it comes down to this. Can our Earth Power pick up the knockout? Can our Groudon outspeed and isn't going to be enough? Let's click this Earth Power button, my friends. Come on, Groudon. We're faster. Come on. Pick up the knockout. Yes. Come on. Groudon, you beaut crit as well. Yes. Oh, man. That is just insane. That is insane. I can't believe that match. I literally can't believe it. Anyone that doesn't watch this match is missing out. I don't know. I don't know. Even the care of the crit was made a difference. All I care about is Groudon came onto the field and it was like, bro, what is going on in this match? There's four Pokemon and there's me. I'm going to have three buddies to help me get through this match. Don't worry. I'll deal with it. And he stepped in, stepped up and did it all. I still think, I don't know why my opponent switched out. Risking that precipice blades on that turn would have been way better than the way that they kind of backtracked and got themselves into that hole. But anyway, my friends, thank you so much for tuning in. We're going to end up with a perfect end to the episode today with this team. It's been great playing the raid on team. I hope you've enjoyed it. Let me know your comments in the section below to let me know what your thoughts are on today's episode has been crazy. I think the last two episodes have been great with this team. So I hope you have enjoyed them. We'll be back next week on Monday with a brand new team. So I will see you all then. Have a great weekend, whatever you're up to. And until then, my friends, take care and bye-bye.


So, this shotgun, it seems, is seriously bugged. The result means this amazing shotgun could be even better. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and today I bring you another Borderlands 3 video. If you do enjoy it leaving a thumbs up, it really helps me out and if you want to see more, be sure to subscribe. I'm Screwing out to see my weekly giveaway along with last week's winner. To be in with a chance of winning this yourself, follow the instructions on Screwing out and good luck to you. So today we check out the Tiggs Boom Shotgun. This new to the takedown at the Malawan Black Sight event is an exclusive drop from Walton within the Malawan raid and you can do this on any mayhem mode also. So this talk, Shotgun, it comes with many variants and with all elements. I currently have 5 of these things and all are great in their own sense. My faith from the bunch is this 9x variant which offers radiation. I do also have 5x and 6x variants too. So this variant offers a 262x9 for its damage, an accuracy of 59%, handling of 57%, a 3 second reload time and a 2.94 fire rate, a mag size of 5 with a plus 60% splash damage radius with a 2x zoom. A gaping hole in the sky is its red text and this is for a reason and it's this which I believe is glitched. Now what this weapon actually does, well supposed to do along with its shots is spawn in meteors, but depending on the map you are playing on these meteors are actually nowhere to be seen as they can spawn under the map which is just utterly bizarre. If we go to Floodmore Basin on the Eden 6, go to the lowest level of this map we can see what these things are like in action and well when they work they're absolutely great. Although they don't seek and they do spawn in randomly, if they do hit that target then they can do serious damage. Now these meteors as you can see slightly up from level 0 within Floodmore, the meteors spawn underneath the map. When we jump down we can see this better in action and the fact that these meteors even when you fire up they spawn beneath the map. These only seem to work correctly on level 0 here within my testing. This will be fixed though no doubt, but when I have no idea. It seems they are kind of locked at elevational position upon spawning in via further testing on my behalf, so if you are higher than their locked position they spawn way underneath the map, if you are below it they spawn way above. Craziness. Now to calculate the extra damage these meteors do and the effect they will have in most scenarios across the board when they fix this bug, luckily on Floodmore there is the Indole Tyrant, so I could test this a little easier and actually get proper numbers. Now ignore that lack of damage here people, modifiers couldn't have been worse. So my 9 times variant, when all shots hit the target they were doing 3,263. This by the way is a non crit hit. A crit hit seemingly does around 120% more. Now the 3,263 damage was also accompanied by up to 25 stacks of additional damage or 25 ticks of additional damage. Each tick it seems it does roughly 5% of that initial shot, so theoretically you achieve up to 125% damage via these ticks. And upon further testing the meteors do roughly the same damage as the initial hit, sometimes give or take 10%. Again as well the meteors also apply those 20 to 25 extra damage and you can also seemingly spawn up to 3 meteors per shot which is the max I've seen at once. So people in my opinion, when they do fix this shotgun it will be one of the best in the game. Another thing this thing does is it shuts penetrating enemies. It does seem though these meteors do spawn upon the target hit and penetrate it. The meteors do though seemingly miss the targets around 50% at a time also. They just spawn in under the skull in random direction, sometimes they seem to spawn inside the enemy and do no damage and just fly outwards. Something else I have noticed about this weapon is the fact many variants suggest this weapon has this extra benefit of. Stuck gyro jets increase damage by 2% each. These gyro jets in my testing are nowhere to be seen. The fact these shots also penetrate targets too means it would be really hard to catch these in action if they're even there. Shooting them at the floor they instantly explode, no extra explosions at all and comparing them to other weapons which offer this basically projectiles that stick and cause extra damage we see here within these other weapons are 100% apparent but not under tigs boom. There also isn't any alternate mould. So with this bogged and glitch tigs boom missing many elements which could make it better even soul people under my testing this thing's DPS is still on another level. Testing against some serious shotgun contenders is up there with them DPS was. The one pump chump does 17k through a crit spot of the handsome jack test dummy. I worked out the vast death grip upon shots all hitting that crit spot could deal upwards of 30k every 4 seconds per single charge shot. This tigs boom, the 9 times variant we can see has a crit shot of 14k which you can fire quite quick. This isn't including also the 20 to 25 tigs of extra damage. This doesn't include the meteors and the extra damage these do and it doesn't include any damage a gyro jet seeming should do either. So the shotgun is super super powerful as it is right now and it's one in my opinion to watch out for within gearboxes patch notes because when this thing is fixed I think it's going to be a great go to weapon for many vault hunter builds out there. So yes people this is my review of the tigs boom shotgun. A shotgun exclusive to war turn within the maloan raid. Obtainable via any mayhem mode but obviously mayhem 4 increased loot drops that's probably your best bet. But all in all it's a shotgun I really enjoy using. There's some serious damage and the fact it comes in every element too with great great variants makes it to be in my opinion one of the best shotguns in the game or definitely when it is fixed. By that note we have come to the end of the video people if you did enjoy it leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more borderland videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video or upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.