Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the instant match reaction, Brentford won, Everton won, if you'd offered me a point before the game I probably would have took it, but I'm disappointed we never won that game, I must be honest, I am disappointed just because being 1-0 up, I thought we were good in the first half. And to see the Marey Grey miss a 1-on-1 like he did left me really really frustrated. Did we deserve a win? No, they hit the bar in the post and had lots of chances, we did ride our luck so I will say that, not like we massively deserve to win the game, but I am disappointed we didn't win the game because I thought we were handling most of the big men, the big players, I thought we were dealing with a lot of the crosses in the box which is ironic because that's what we've conceded off. I just thought second half we just got deeper and deeper and taking on and on and off and not making subs quick enough of costars with also a really big bad piece of defending from Alex Owoby being on the wrong side of the goal scorer and not being on it, but listen we started, they started the brighter of the teams, they had the shock quite early on. But I thought we got into our shape really well and I thought the Crossfield ball was really working for us, we were really getting opportunities out of it that we weren't making the most of and then obviously we got the opportunity with the goal which Anthony Gordon finished really really well, I thought he actually took a touch too many but he finished it off brilliantly and I thought we were, listen they've had moments, obviously the one they hit the post from earlier on was a good shot but then there was the one, then there was the one where obviously Patterson, I don't know what he was trying to do, Patterson got caught trying to let the ball bounce over his head or something and they've put the ball in and they've hit the post and then the lad should have scored the rebound. We've rode that look massively, don't get me wrong but I still think we should have won the game because it won the look with 20 minutes to go or even with 10 minutes to go. I think you should have the ability to change the game and I think don't think we did that today, going in 1-0 was good but we came out second half and we just dropped deeper and deeper and all I did was get the foot on the ball, get the balls into the box, keep putting the pressure on, hit the bar with one and one couple just going wide and wanting to whoop his arm in the box, you think that's a penalty. But the subs for me, oh no I'm going off, I can understand why he's gone off of course, I can understand why he's gone off, it's fair start in the Premier League, I can understand why he's gone off but him going off was a big moment because he'd been playing well, he put a great ball through to Damari Gray which, listen Damari Gray should be hitting the target, it's as simple as that, you can talk about what defenders have done wrong or what the managers done wrong but in a split second he's got the opportunity to make it 2-0 and kill the game off and he doesn't, for some reason he takes another touch which all our players love doing by the way, all our players love taking an extra touch instead of just shooting first time, he takes a second touch or a touch too many sorry and the defenders got an opportunity to block him and it's so poor, it's so poor, just hit the target, listen if the keeper saves it he saves it but hit the target and he can't even get a shot off and that's a maze appalling, that's a maze absolutely appalling when we talk about our players and we talk about how the level they are, that right there is the level of not being able to get a shot off one on one, not being able to control a ball into the box and get a shot off, so that was a huge moment, that should have put us 2-0 up whether we deserved it or not and we didn't deserve to win today, no one saying we deserve to win, what I'm saying is that 1-0 up with an opportunity like that, listen how many times has that happened to us or how many times you see teams go away and go have they got away with that there have they done that and it's those big moments and it's that moment's cost us there but as I said I think the subs have cost us as well, I think Oana going off and being replaced by Tom Davis we were robbed of some real genuine height as well on the set pieces, I can't sit here and say, I can't sit here and say that I'm fuming a that sub, they know more than I know in terms of how fit he was so I'm not I can't fume at that one but we were just about to bring we were just about to bring on Rondon and I just couldn't understand why it had taken so long, this is a fella who played last week you know for two starts and played an hour last week in the Premier League, why can't he play 20 minutes in an away game and just give us something to aim the ball at because again it all you could see was they would just go higher and higher up the pitch in their centre backs were allowed to come out and the midfielder could get on the ball higher and all our players would just just drop in deeper and deeper and deeper whereas in the first half then we always had a focal point we always had someone to aim at over the top and that just led them on to have more and more of the ball and it's a poor goal listen it is a really really poor goal and Wobby is completely on the wrong side of the lad who scores and doesn't even know he's there it's it is it is and defensively today we were very very shaky and I think this idea of that we're really good defensively is a bit of a myth actually and I think you've seen that today the numbers don't back up that way good defensively and the numbers in the first three in the first three games say that we are one of the worst teams defensively in the Premier League regardless of how many goals we've conceded the stats don't back that up the stats say we're in the bottom two or three for that and I think you've seen that today played out there was a lot of nerves and there was no one sitting in front of them to do the job but as I said that for me I think we should have won the game I think we should have won the game I think we should have we should have had someone on there to brought someone on a little bit earlier to give us a focal point McNeil's certainly not the answer in that in that position and towards the game Damari Gray and Anthony Govan just faded more and more out of the game as they were being asked to do have some defensive shape you need an out ball I've said this I've always said this and I'll always say only the best teams can get away with not having a centre forward but it's very but I'm following looking at the Man City score today and if they didn't have a centre forward they would have got beat today they've brought the centre forward and he's going to bang them at Attrick today to get them over the line that's what a centre forward does and it doesn't matter whether a brilliant centre forward or a terrible centre forward you need to have shape and a discipline and an out ball and that's hopefully what Mopai will bring us while we haven't got Dominic Arvind living and I do wonder whether he'd been whether he had been available to sign today even if he'd come off of that bench for the last 20 minutes what a difference that would have made for us and what a difference that will make going forward for us so that is there but again you know how many points have we dropped now because we didn't get a centre forward in earlier you know it's it's another to me it's another two and I know people will say and I've seen it in the comments there or we could have got beat four one we could have got beaten four one but how many times do you're playing games where you where well you see games where a team gets battered but they get the first goal and then they go and get the second goal and win the game it doesn't matter what could have happened in terms of the opposition we had we had an opportunity we had a tactic and yes we rolled our luck we had a tactic there to to get us something and and that one break away and then not having someone to come on light on the game for me is really really cost us getting getting three points today I'm a hugely needed three points maybe not a desired three points but a hugely needed three points so I am I am disappointed we haven't got we haven't got the three points but Brent Brentford are a good side they are they're strong and the lads who play up front for them and always a handful so yeah as I said I can't say it's what I want what I would say is maybe one positive and maybe we'll look at this later on in the season is that that point today might was probably a game last season we would have lost I'd imagine that's a game we would have lost that either we would have conceded earlier or we wouldn't have scored because obviously we did lose that game last season we've got something out of the game and I think while we're still in this transitional period you've got to take those positives that's a point more than we ate last season against Brentford you know we were beaten twice by Brentford last season so that's a point more than we got last season but this is a big week obviously we've got leads on Tuesday which will be a big game and it'll be you know Mopai I imagine will be available but you can see and they've been beaten today you can see with you can see the difference just having a forward on just having a forward on the pitch and taking the pressure off your back for it's just huge it's just huge again we've played another game today without a centre forward and it's just so important we've brought one in now Dolm is probably two or three weeks away you know Arsenal maybe off the bench or the West Ham game and it's just a big week it's a big week the points this and the points tally is is is is appalling two from 12 is appalling totally appreciate that totally appreciate that and and but I I did see signs today that there is there is a team in there that can compete with obviously not the teams at the top I mean let's put it this way boomer if I've gone and beaten I've got beaten they nine nil you know I've beaten beaten been beaten nine nil by a team that I didn't want to game this season um that's that's a team that'll be relegated you watch that evidence team and I they don't they don't scream at me they're gonna be relegated what they scream at me is that they need players players to come in from outside and players to come back from injury and of course we've got another injury today Mission Hallgate um things and and then obviously things are going to have to be changed aren't the owner I'm not he's not going to be changed but he's going to get more games is he going to get are we going to bring someone in this week like a garner to go in alongside them the points tally is very very poor I appreciate that but this time last year we had you know a billion points tally and look at that ended up I can I can I can understand what Frank Lampard's trying to do whether he does it or not is a completely different thing and I do appreciate that as well but the reason why we've only got two points is quite obvious no striker and that is on the club don't get me wrong that is hugely on the club that's on the club for not bringing a striker on that's on the club for not bringing signing Mopai on Wednesday and making sure that he got through a work payment in time to play today you know all those things are on the football club it's as simple as that you know it is going to take what I would say is this is not the this is not the evident team that Frank Lampard wants so I I do sort of look at it and think well I will judge them when the transfer windows over the problem is is that we've got Leeds Liverpool and Arsenal's our next three games and they are they you know you look at those games and think well after those games we might have another 1.3 if we are hugely lucky and that is massively concerning and I do appreciate that so it's difficult it is difficult but listen it's a point today um this you know we had we had seven seven shots on target which is quite disappointing that we only scored one goal you know seven shots um that's something that needs to be addressed from a point of view if you're shooting seven times in at the target you've got to score more than one goal that has to happen that just has to happen um so yeah as I said I'm disappointed that we never won just from the point of we were in a great position two in the game we were in an absolutely brilliant position two in the game and we haven't and that's disappointing so so there you go right I will leave it there I will be back for my player ratings in a little bit bars will have his videos out as well very very shortly um yeah we're back at it on me Tuesday so it's not it's not not too long to wait for the next game there you go so we'll be back on Monday to do the final word don't forget as well um yeah so make sure you check out all the other videos thanks for watching and we'll see you later


Right, I have to go straight an hour and a half, got the lintel, Alex is just getting the patch undone down there, he's got three bits to do around the back. As I said as well, we've got some red and black dye, so we can try and match this quite darkish red tint to go with the cut that. This is Alex, and that's Steve, the reason I'm introducing us is because we haven't filmed for minimum five weeks, is it? A month ago today we were just on our first day in Florida and we've not filmed since because we came back to a pointing job so I've not filmed that and Alex has been away. Nia comes in two days, so I've got him for two days and then he's off again while Nia comes back here. So the most recent videos that have been out, I was gone. You were gone. And now this video, I'm going to be going again. You're going to be going again. Alex leaves me in the title again. So anyway, backstory is it's currently October the 24th. So obviously it's usually about two months behind but we're trying to get the videos a bit quicker. So what are we doing? A lintel job. Yes, kind of. Sort of. Not your average lintel job. This window here has cracked brick work above it. The usual thing where it goes like that but if you look at the top of the window there's a solid white line like a concrete lintel. So this I'm guessing is one of these boot lintels that I keep hearing about. So meaning that's a solid lintel. So what we're here today to do is take out the loose brick work, opening up, have a look, check everything, new tray in, replace the brick work and as you can see we've got red dye and then also got a bit of patching to do around the house, a couple of blown bricks at the around DPC level and a few on the garage. So we're all set up ready and we've brought one of our new toys with us. This is a Centres by Evolution. You've already seen the saw. Well this is going to be so helpful. People get to tell us to get ourselves a wet dry vac. Well we now have one thanks to Evolution.  You've got the hoover and you've got it blows as well. I wouldn't say that, we've not tried that out. Yeah it might do well. Yeah and it's just to drop it down. That's it, simple as that. So that's going to come in handy and like I say it's wet as well.  Days are numbered. And when we're doing a slab and the bit of green's got all water on it. Your days are numbered. Yeah we can just get rid of it that way. So yeah it's um where there's not too bad at the moment it's not too cold. We're shooting that as well so we can oh yeah and don't forget if you want to go grab yourself any evolution tools head over to the website use the code bricklaying all caps you can get five percent off your orders. So if you want a nice soar or a nice wet dry vac. So you're buying some decent gear you're getting it discounted and you're helping out our channel. Supporting the channel. Nice one. Wins for everybody. Right let's get them set up. All right let's see if I remember what to do. So everything's out to my knowledge we've got the accros, trestles are out, planks are out, mixer, we've got it all. So we're just gonna get this set up a little bit and just ask the customer if he's got any spare bricks so we can get this set out a bit better because as you can see we're quite close to the window and we need room for the accro so we're just trying to get set up back here a little bit and as dad's give you the rundown just get all that out and there he is. So I think though once we get all set up with these trestles I think we're ready to go so happy days. Fets in a bit. Right we're up here now. Get a close look at it. As you can see that's see where it's gone. Let's put the spare level on it shall we. Just let you out of the plum. You know that level's plum now look at that. The thing is if you look at next doors there's doing the same when you've got the full set of soldiers all way across the windows. Back in the old days when these were built everything everything moved it's not like nowadays when we prop it as we build it it went it went so it's going to be hard to blend this back in because the whole wall's wonky so we've just got to take we're going to go back three three soldiers these are all solid here these haven't moved up here we're going to prop here we're going to go back three same here we're going to go back decide where we prop when we get up to here but we're going to go back three here enough room to get our tray passed and put an upstand in it and then yeah it's um it's it's knackered so let's get it opened up and see what's inside it's always um it's always a bit nerve-wracking when you don't know what's gonna what you're going to find because you price the job and then you don't know what's gonna what panto's box are going to be inside so let's get making a mess yes oh yeah before people need to comment this is a Bosch I think they call it Sapersaw and that although it looks a bit knackered it's lost a few teeth is the Bosch carbide masonry blade about 19 quid from tool station we do have a new one but that's it Bosch carbide masonry perfect for what we're doing here which is when you look under the red it's lime water so it'll be it'll be flying through that so let's get cracking we're just stopping for a quick break just a quick one I've moved a bit but the cracking looks worse than it actually is because the pointing just take it out can you see that just get in the light can you see how thin that red is that that I've just kept took out should be at least all red and probably some more you can see there how thin that is it's millimeters thin some choices it's next to nothing so it's horrendous I think that looks like tarted up to sell it when they sold the house it's not been done properly at all you can see how deep that is that's that's one of the deeper bits but it's just falling out horrendous repointing that I'm going to go up with the grinder as probably as high as I can reach probably about six courses and do my best with it you've got to stop somewhere it probably needs a repoint really see crap and they're close I'm going to get me pick see all that's come out most of that sand lime you can see the red that's absolutely ridiculous that then it's it's wafer thin there you go how to repoint the funds of the house badly when you stand back at the distance and look oh nice red repointing there but it's absolutely crap shocking job so we'll get it right we'll get it fixed there we go 19 I think that just banged his thumb you're right and you know what my role is brick cleaning thankfully this mortar it's just it's nice and soft but it's not soft enough that it's too brittle so it's nice and just snaps off nice and easily so that's been my job I think he's not got much left to go so once I've got all them cleaned up we'll get that scaffold tidied up again sweep it all off get them bricks restacked up get our trusty get our trusty rhino build stands up and get brick clean obviously like dad said as well we've got some red and black dye so we can try and match this quite darkish red tint to go with the cut that to go with the wall so yeah that's a little update for now I better get cleaning so see you in a bit we're all out we're all propped took a bit of extra grinding out there the whole thing needs repointing but you can only go as far as you can reach that's that's a whole separate job that now I'm gonna speak to the customer about that but anyway it's another boot lintel it's just a flat piece of concrete which is absolutely crap we're working that's it obviously it's in the cavity I don't know if these jams are supposed to be built up a bit bigger to take it but look can we have that bricks cut back you can see it's dropped plus 10mm no wonder it's all moved this thing's moved now what I'm going to speak to the customer is he's getting a 2700 angle line which will reach us onto the solid brick actually run it onto a bed I might put a piece of damp cloth underneath put a bed across it and actually bed the lintel across with a couple of packers in it just to stop it sagging so it's actually bedded in and then rebuild it the other option is take this thing out but um if we take this out we're going to lose the plaster inside we're going to need a whole other course of bricks bricks are discontinued and it'll look odd with this like a row of different bricks plus you're going to lose the feature of the white block above the doors so I'm going to recommend to put the lintel in it and then just put back as it is new tray and then get it put back let's see where the tray is up here a couple of the soldiers yes um that's where we are now I'm going to go and speak to the customer now and now we'll get back to you if we do if we do go for the lintel which I think they probably will it's going to be a 2700 angle line which will have quite a big upstand on it so we probably won't get the probably won't get the train today but we'll see so yeah I'll catch you in a bit with a news update right after a good course straight an hour and a half we've got the lintel got that from forwards picked up from insulation now we're ready to start putting everything back we're just going to sit the lintel on top of this bed it on top pack it so it's um spreading the weight and then it's basically bridging over this we can leave this in then and then put everything back we're going to nail the cover to trace the block work because the people stand on the lintel's quite high so we're going to nail up there drop it down and yeah that's it Alex is just getting the patching done down there he's got three bits to do around the back and yeah it's going to be awkward because I've got soldiers hate soldiers over lintels but um yeah um yeah the the old thing with the nails in the timber lintel stop the lintel tipping back as well I'm going to insulate behind insulate above so um get this camera set up somewhere and get cracking because it's getting on for two o'clock we're getting there it's about what about half four quarter five oh but it's just been one of them there was a rain bit of rain before well I'll say a bit it was quite a heavy cell that stalled progress and um yeah but there's that and I'll take you around back and I'll show you what I've been up to so that is one brick patched up there and these three here now this was really difficult because the bricks are smaller and everything's all skewer but everything's blown out here so it's a more structurally sound than it was before just going to work with the cars you're giving sometimes but that's the progress update we're getting there at least it's uh hopefully not going to take us too long and then once dad's got that scaffold stripped I can uh get that crap underneath and what else yeah mix it'll be getting cleaned up now too so I can pack that away and start getting some other stuff packed so I'll pass you back to dad this is a quick outro we're not finished yet but we're gonna have to do it soon because it's two minutes to six and I think the sun sets at six so it looks lighter than it is because we've got a I've got a security light but yeah we've just got a bit of tidying up to do and we're away but there you go job done I think we took um I think it's the soldiers in three in various places and went up next to three I think to repoint so as you can see we've got new training and then new vents so that thing that concrete thing I don't I don't know what they think when you built them in but um that slipped forward and obviously the brickwork went with it so we've left that in put ourselves a new angle lining bedded it on top of that packed it so it won't sag so now that angle line's doing all the work and so it's not going to move again now because there's no weight on it because the angle line is taking the weight and we've rebuilt it and repointed it so it's a lot tidier now a lot safer and like I said the um the repointing's been done but it's a bit ropey it could do with being repointed properly really and I think it was done even the bit we've built we'd better redo that so the whole thing's the same color so um I'll put this camera down and I'll uh no I won't put this camera down I'll hand this camera to Alex and I'll carry him tidying up while he does our outro which he hasn't done for a while so I wonder how many takes this is going to take oh look at nice clean winder just a little bit on the corner I'll get the uh there's a couple of nails left in isn't there yeah I was always driving towards work so here we go it's been a while since I've had to hold a GoPro like this so there we have it a very long day but we're there in the end if you enjoyed watching be sure to give it a thumbs up and if you're new to the channel you want to see more videos like this and everything else we do be sure to hit subscribe and something like that so try it 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Our next session is by Georgie George. He's a seasoned business leader with over 20 years of experience in media, broadcasting, sports, brand management, entertainment, digital and live events globally. Currently, he's the founder at Go Nuts, Asia's largest and most influential platform for human connection, communication and commerce uses celebrities to make lives richer. Now I'd like all of you to join me in a welcoming Georgie George and he will be talking on how content is shaping celebrity commerce. The Go Nuts story and in conversation with him is our very own Ruheil Amin, senior editor exchange for media. A very warm welcome to both of you gentlemen. Thank you, Georgie. Thank you so much, Georgie. And welcome, George, to this discussion and thank you for your time. No, my pleasure. I want to start by asking you the journey that you have had over the years and what was the start-up, what was the inspiration behind the start-up if I may ask such a simple question? Yes. So, I was fundamentally in Singapore for a long period of time working with MTV Asia, with Yahoo and then with a brand consultancy called the Global Brand Forum where we used to do country branding. And one of the things that we did was we actually created an event for the government of Singapore called the Global Brand Forum. And in one of those engagements, I had the opportunity of listening to a futurist, a brand futurist called Faith Popcorn. And one of the things she said, and this was almost a decade and a half ago, she said, we will have communities online and these online communities will work or will engage with avatars or behave like avatars of themselves and engage with people who are their avatars. And people will get to touch, people will forget to hug, and there will be places where you will have to pay to get hugs. Now, this seemed like she had lost her head or she was actually talking out of her hat, but look at where we are today. And so that kind of stayed with me. And one of the other two co-founders happened to be at a birthday party of a friend and the whole conversation engaged around what happens if one of the cartoon characters were to pop out and wish that child in a personalized video message or some kind of personal way. And these two ideas collided when we met and that was the birth of gonads. Right, right. You know, there is an overdose of celebrities. If we see, we are seeing them everywhere now, so many platforms, but Temi Gona definitely has curated a different experience. What kind of, how do you use content to your advantage? Amidst this entire cacophony of celebrities and celebrities everywhere. So that's a very good question, Rahel, because at the end of the day, what is our purpose? I think one has to distill this back to when you, that, you know, the era of the, in this era of the experience economy, the differentiation is going to be about content. It is not about how many stars you have or how many people are on your platform. If you cannot navigate the content part of things to be able to connect with your customers. Because the whole idea is our purpose is to bring joy and memories to make people's lives richer. That's from where we started. So if we were to do that, what do we need to do to build a content strategy? And by content, it's not about creating, our idea of creating content is creating powerful videos using our celebrities that would create memories in the minds of the customer and make, you know, truly create an immersive experience for them both offline as well as online. Because that memory at a wedding, at a birthday party with a family just creates a multiplier effect. And that's from where we started off actually focusing on content and not about 300 celebrities, 500 celebrities or whatever number that people throw on many other platforms. Our focus has been, can we sit with the audience and curate that content to create an immersive experience for our customer? Right, right. You have a roster of great singers and other, you know, top actors. Can you tell us what kind of messaging are like dominantly, predominantly in demand in the market and is it just limited to the open centers? Where's the demand coming from for all this content? Actually, Rohil, you know, what's really interesting and I'd like to attack this question a little differently. So what we did was one is about, we understood that content only when you build content and you create a very powerful connection, can you build a community? So these were the three pillars of our strategy, build powerful content, make sure that that content creates a connection and from that connection build the community. So what we did was we fundamentally worked with artists and we kind of understood that people's needs are not limited.  If I can actually be able to touch you through various people who are part of your fandom and we all are fans of somebody, it could be authors, it could be culinary experts, it could be musicians, it could be actors and the idea was what therefore would touch you or touch somebody who wants to make an impact to you or cares enough for you to be able to do that or give you a wow experience with somebody you care for and that's from where this kind of began. So what we have done is ensure that we are multi-genre, multi-lingual, multi-price points and more importantly, available across multi-platforms. So our distribution too is what we have done is for example, we are on creds. For example, we are on, you know, on bulbul.tv, which is a social commerce platform. So all of these things are our strategy to make ourselves available on demand and everywhere the customer is, right? There's also a very sensitive element as far as dealing with celebrities is concerned. For example, a small controversy in the entire system kind of has to be dealt with. As somebody who is closely working with these people, are there concerns? I mean, how do you kind of foresee such or try to avoid such conflicts if ever they arise? So in the last eight to nine months that we've been in existence, we've never had a single controversy at all. So I would really go down to a very basic, should I say core idea, that people inherently are good and people inherently don't wanna manipulate things, especially when they've got a great experience. So it comes back to the experience economy. It comes back to the kind of content that you give them. And more importantly, answering your part of the question. So how do you save yourself from any such kind of an embarrassment? The legality on the site, the terms and conditions of engagement indemnifies both the artist and the platform should any of the videos be misused for any reason. Right, right. Tell me, when we look at globally where we stand as far as celebrity influences are concerned and using them in a very personalized way, how involved is this market in India compared to rest of the world? And where do you see it going?  I think I would answer that question in two ways. One is what is the growth of video commerce in India? And if you see what is the growth of UPI or payments online in India, what is the growth of the online video market in general? And you would see that all these are exponentially growing by over, between 50 and 100% to be honest with you. I mean, when you see that your average Dhobi is transacting on Google Pay, you know that UPI has really dived deeper. I am of the opinion at something like this and especially we have grown on fandom. We are equal people listening to Coldplay as we are listening to Kishore Kumar. We are equally comfortable watching Don Robert De Niro as Shahrukh Khan. And therefore the point is, and today if you look at from a sociological point of view, people have forgotten to communicate. People have forgotten to read. People have forgotten to write. People have forgotten to express, which explains why things like depression is cool. If you know what I mean. The whole idea is we are constantly looking for environment media to communicate. Let's go back, let's flash back to 15 years ago when you walked into a store to buy a card for your mother or your girlfriend. Okay, let's take a girlfriend as a hypothetical example. You went to the card center, you looked at the cards, you went to the section that says love.  We've moved that to a big situation. Right, right, right. There's another concern. What has happened is we talk about, we spoke about one, one is I want to understand from you. We spoke about demographic. And second is the age. Give me a sense of what kind of customers, I mean, what is the age group like? Is it just the college students? What dominates this space in terms of consumer profile? It's a bit, I mean, if I were to kind of mirror this, it would be what were the initial pickup from demographic point of view as far as e-commerce was concerned. It wouldn't be the college. It is more somebody who has a little more dispensable income and would therefore go online because he's heard about this product to test it. He first went down to the low hanging fruit and low value products and slowly went up the Arpo chain. That's how people build Arpo. But what's really important right now is that there is no definition. Is it more female or male? Certainly right now it's male in that sense of the word. I would think that it is anybody from about 25 all the way up to 45 to 50 who are currently purchasing this. It's still a very metro-centric phenomenon, but we are betting on the fact that as this moves into Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, there is going to be an explosion of video commerce and with the explosion of video commerce and broadband and all of the other factors that will help giving this tailwind, we will be able to really make this a successful business. And actually, Mr. Yulia, would you like to say a few words to the rest of Asia? Absolutely, absolutely. Mr. George, tell me, this pandemic has impacted all the sectors, all the businesses.  Was there any impact at all and how did you deal with it? Well, there were two kinds of impact. The first impact was we actually had a term sheet that was signed up before and we went into COVID and that went into cold storage. So that was the first impact. But I would think that we thrived during this COVID for two reasons. One is we really understood the value of resilience. We understood what it is like to make sure that your allocation of funds and money with what you had is effectively put to use and to make sure that you work lean and effectively. And last but not the least, it really made us think hard about developing a product that makes it stand out from anything else in its category, which I think might not have happened if it weren't for the COVID. So we were forced to rethink on a lot of things that we thought were, you know, kind of Bible truths in that sense of the word, but I, you know, going forward, we realized that those content strategies really needed to be revisited for us to be able to create the product that we have today. Right. There's another factor which I want to, I think you would best know this. This is a, when we talk about celebrities, we have always looked at Bollywood and maybe cricket mostly, you know? We have kind of narrowed down to this. Do you think we need to redefine it in some way or is the redefinition already at work and are you pushing the boundaries of the definition of celebrity? That's a very good question, Royal. In fact, we did push the boundary from the time, from its inception, to be honest with you. We were the first to actually have a set of impersonators. If you've gone to our site, you will see that Donald Trump is also there, by the way. And we were the first to bring him in. We were the first to ensure that musicians, we fronted it with musicians and not your typical television stars or Bollywood stars. We were the first to bring in celebrity chefs. We were the first to bring in photographers, you know, and now we're creating a layer of authors. You'd be also very, very pleased to know that we have Milka Singh, the legendary Milka Singh, also coming on board Go Nuts in a couple of days from now, you know, Jeeve Milka Singh, you know, John T. Rhodes. Now these are people, you know, who typically would not have looked at a platform like this, probably a couple of, maybe even a year ago, but the opportunity and seeing the kind of work that we are doing, the kind of what our content is, what our objectives and what our vision is, and also seeing the run rate of, you know, companies at the brand that we are building in, they find themselves saying yes to be, to align their brands with ours. Right, right. So offering these solutions in a very kind of a B2C environment, but do you think brands, like, of course, brands involve a lot of celebrities and they need influencers. Is there a kind of, are you looking at that side as well? Is that already a part of your, you know, strategy going forward? It is already a part of our strategy. And in fact, what is really important is we aim to really disrupt the 32nd commercials that are done by the big agencies and big production houses. We, you know, the COVID has also taught that and that it is, you have to be able to translate your brand attributes when you can't shoot a 32nd commercial in a location and with, you know, over a couple of days and et cetera and people have done that with their phone. We, our aim is to be able to cater to almost 800 over million MSMEs in India that have no access to talent or access to big agencies. And they still need to get their brands out there. We want to be, our success will come from complete hyperlocalization of our product where your Kirana store guy will use our product to be able to send a message out to the entire area around where he is business is to let them know and your celebrity, be it a run, be it broad, be it whoever it is to be able to let people know that they can come to his store and use his services. Now that is going to be the success and the opportunity. We have also done in the COVID, actually in the time that we had supported MSMEs, you know, because it was a time where employees were, you know, really, really feeling low. They were very unsure about their jobs, everything wasn't a bit of a turmoil. We supported a lot of startups by giving away free messages, which free corporate messages of encouragement. And another area that we definitely will be looking to disrupt is the HR area. Because, and what I mean by HR is not just the processes or payrolls or those kinds of things. I'm talking about engagement and communication. HR really communicates when you hire or you hire. But we are looking at newer ways for the CEOs and people within the company to talk to stakeholders and who better than a celebrity from a recall perspective. And these are all new areas that we are working on and have actually started engaging with a lot of clients who are very excited to use our product. Right, right. So when it comes to content marketing, for example, you have kind of got the pulse on it. Are there any best practices in your view for all those people who are watching us and all those young bloggers even? Are there any definitive steps that you take and you kind of have that intent that is watched by audience? Is there a rule book to it in your view? The rule book evolves, but if I were to broadly put it into three different, you know, kind of verticals or three different pillars that personally I follow, it is fundamentally to localize, to Indianize and to humanize. These are the three things that I do to follow a pattern because what are you trying to do? You're trying to bring a smile, a moment of joy, a memory. And we've got numerous case studies. We have Shankar Mahadevan reading out a poem of a poet sitting out of Varanasi who wrote it for COVID Warriors to somebody who sent it to an ailing father, somebody who sends a thank you to a doctor, all, I mean, if you were to look at it, I mean, some are sad, some are happy, but it's all about hope. And the idea is, can we use the people on our platform to create a moment of memory in the lives of their customers? Right. So you used a very right word, humanize. And we're talking about big data, AI, VR, and all of that and robotics. And where, how do you humanize this? That's also a big challenge. I mean, how do you build that tone of, kind of that connect, you know? It's a difficult, is it easy? Just want to understand it from you. It's, so what we do is, you know, I've had the good fortune of working with many of these artists who are on this platform. And, you know, in various capacities, be it from music or television or even when I was with the sports and WWE, et cetera, et cetera. One of the things that we definitely do is co-curate this with them. So it's about having those conversations for them to understand what we are trying to do. If you look at any platform, even globally, you would see that a message is sent almost transactionally and without any humanization or humanization of their content. Both pillars are important. For example, we've just got Shekhar Sumanji on board. Now, Shekhar Suman is somebody who's, I mean, if it's also about making sure there is a cohesiveness between their online persona and their offline persona. If I were to make him say a message to you, Rohail, which we say, hi, Rohail, wish you a very happy birthday, all the very best, you'd look at, you know, you'd go back and say, that's not the Shekhar I resonate with. I wanna be able to laugh with him. And our whole thing is, you have a brand, you are a brand, you have certain attributes of a brand, what the consumer at the end wants to see and what he's buying you for is to relive his memory of you as that brand. And that's what makes him laugh, that's what engages him. So that's basically what I follow as my rulebook and we as a company follow as a rulebook to be able to co-curate the content with them to be able to create memories in the lives of our customers. Right, Mr. Josh, what are the big roadblocks since this is an evolving kind of genre I may use this word, as far as content is concerned, what are the big challenges that you are navigating to make it more popular to grow beyond and what's your vision for go nuts maybe over the next two years? So I'll start with the second part first. Our vision is to become Asia's largest and most influential platform for human connection and communication. So we don't look at ourselves as a shout out platform or a celebrity platform, we look at it as bringing joy in the lives of our customers. That's our purpose and everything is defined from that. Coming to the rule blocks part, yes, there are some people may think that this is such an easy business and I have a fairly good connection in the market. I can bring this star and bring that star and put it together. It's not as simple as a thing because for starters, we, for example, from a content strategy point of view, if I were to look at it as a triangle, there's a lot that goes in terms of consumer insight, there is a lot that goes in terms of understanding what the experience is going to be. And last but not the least is the performance marketing part of things. So if I were to look at it as a triangle, these are the three pillars of the triangle. And the last part is constantly finding out through performance marketing, what is it that drives the communication with the customer? What is he like? What is he not liking? Where is he engaging? How much is he engaging? How much is he sharing or whatever, whatever. So one of the biggest roadblocks is, as I said, the perception that this is a very easy business, therefore the barriers to entry sometimes is fairly limp. People feel like to start this off.  You will see in the next five months, 90% of most of the platforms that are in the market will cease to exist, simply because it is also a demand creation business and not just a supply generation business. So we have to look at it from both sides of, it is just like e-commerce. You can put as many enterprise stores on the platform, but if there is no demand and there is no transaction, you will not be able to do that. That said, I think we are sitting on an asset value of the platform of a couple of billion dollars because of the sheer value of each of these artists. If you look at them from their own business's point of view, tomorrow when the spike is opened out to tier two, tier three and tier four cities, okay? Who have thus far not had access or a trusted source to be able to create interactions or experiences, imagine what this will do for a person sitting in Varanasi, a certain sitting in UP in Harpur and that's the market. Absolutely, I have two more questions. One is that, I just reminds me of my days when I used to be an entertainment reporter and we would talk about celebrity contracts, especially Bollywood being too complex. So when you sign contracts, are they still complex or have they become too easier levels to come down? You know how artists hate complex contracts, right? That said, we must know that the idea of getting into any contract with an artist is for them to be able to understand that there is a commitment between two parties. It's not to make sure that it goes into legality. No one wants a legal situation. And I think it comes from a stems from mutual respect and what we do for them. So to hear also being somebody who's worked closely with artists, respect begets respect and what you do for them and if they see what you do for them is truly enhancing their own brand image and brand value because what we are doing for them and in many cases, that's the reason why we've grown exponentially is because we have actually been able to create a viable and fairly large alternative source of income from their free time. Because this is not something they can do at shoots. They can still perform. They can go their weddings. They can do all of that. All you need to do is put a phone like a selfie, record this message in the way we've decided to create it, send it out and the money hits your account. You know? Absolutely, I need to look at them. Yeah. No, I'm saying if you look at the current state of affairs where the vaccine is around but the pandemic continues and there are no shoots as such, I think this is the platform that you have. And we've proven it. So we've, what's really interesting is that when I went out initially to speak to artists, everyone's a bit skeptical but they wanted to, they know me and they respect the lineage that I have having the good fortune of working with many companies. And it was almost like, okay, Joji, you're right. Chalo, let's see what happens. Today, they say, bro, you really surprised us. We never thought this is the kind of income we'll make from this, you know? And so now people are taking this very seriously and that's the beauty of what the pandemic, so in some ways the pandemic has been also a blessing for us because artists have now begun to look at this, a firm more seriously, and they understand that this is a viable and an incredible source of additional income to their audio portfolios. Right.  What would you like to tell them? Well, the only thing is, let's go nuts.  Please know that the artists that are there actually are waiting for you to be able to deliver that piece of joy to somebody that whom you want to communicate to and create a moment of happiness. And I think just as we saw the advent of the pandemic of e-commerce and how people slowly began to adopt, this is a change of consumer behavior, obviously. But where I am really, really heartened is the fact that we are in a scenario in our country where e-commerce is now, and thanks to the pandemic also is exploding because people have had to use the internet to buy products to be delivered to their homes since they couldn't step out. Why I'm really being very extremely encouraged is because we are now getting into a scenario where broadband has gone deeper. If you see the YouTube report, you see the Hotstar report or even the KPMG ecosystem report, the growth of video commerce in India or the growth of the online video industry from a mere 3 million, sorry, 50 million to about 3 billion by 2023, it just goes to show that we are in the right direction and with a little bit of tailwind, all of these factors and I also believe that in spite of all that has happened with the pandemic, I'm hoping that we as a country will rebound in a way where people will go out, they will spend, they will want to kind of make up for all the lost time of last year and that's will be in that position to make their lives richer. Absolutely, it can't be more true because everybody is going digital and that is the way forward. Thank you so much, Mr. George for joining us for this discussion. Thank you.


Russia is deploying its army to the borders of Europe. NATO's military exercises have angered Moscow. Russia has strengthened its military forces in the north and west of the country to counter what Moscow perceives as a buildup of NATO forces near Russia. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said, in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Finland has joined NATO and Sweden is on the point of doing so. NATO is this week conducting a military exercise called Nordic Response 2024, which it says will involve more than 20,000 soldiers in Norway, Finland and Sweden and will focus on collective defense. Against the background of a buildup of NATO's military potential near the Russian borders, the expansion of the alliance through the accession of Finland and in the future, Sweden, we have taken steps to strengthen the groupings of troops in the northwestern and western strategic directions. Shoigu told top generals, without providing details, we need to be able to fight back and stop anyone who tries to challenge our borders' values and democracy. So said Brigadier Tron Strand of the Royal Norwegian Air Force as a major military exercise involving 20,000 soldiers, 50 naval vessels and more than 100 aircraft from 15 different countries, including the UK, new NATO member Finland and soon to be member Sweden got underway in Scandinavia. Exercises such as Nordic Response 2024 due to run until mid-March are vital in helping to ensure that the sum of NATO's parts proves to be effective when required to operate as a whole. European countries tend to want to each have the full spread of armed forces, which means there is much duplication of capabilities not to mention bureaucracy, which is a problem for the alliance. Russian patrol boat engulfed in flames in Sea of Azov, losses reported. In the waters of the Sea of Azov, there was a fire on one of the Russian boats of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. Losses among the occupants are known, reports the Defence Intelligence, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, on Telegram. According to intelligence, the fire engulfed the engine room of the vessel after which the crew urgently requested an evacuation group. This is evidenced by intercepted conversations among the occupants. The enemy suffered losses totaling five occupants, emphasises the Defence Intelligence. It has added that the causes of the fire and the nature of the enemy's losses are still being clarified. This is not the first fire on a Russian vessel. It was recently reported that the ice breaker Yermak was on fire in the port of St. Petersburg. The Russian Emergency's Ministry released video footage showing firefighters attempting to extinguish the fire at the scene. There was no information about the casualties in the incident. According to information from the Russian agency, the ice breaker where the fire started is moored at the big port of St. Petersburg. The Emergency's Ministry clarified that the vessel is no longer operating and is slated for disposal. The fire started on the first and second decks. There are reportedly no casualties. However, online sources specify that the fire occurred against the backdrop of welding works. According to the video released by the Emergency's Ministry, firefighters have arrived at the scene. They are trying to prevent the spread of fire. Recall that Ukrainian defenders have already destroyed many Russian ships in the Black Sea using attack drones. The latest successful operation was on February the 14th. That time, the large landing ship of the enemy Cesar Kunikov went to the bottom. Biden says Trump bowed down to a Russian dictator, Putin. US President Joe Biden has slammed his predecessor Donald Trump's comments regarding NATO, accusing the Republican front-runner of bowing down to Moscow by saying Washington should refuse to defend its European allies that fail to fulfill their military spending commitments.  It's shameful, it's dangerous, it's un-American. Imagine a former president of the United States saying that the whole world heard it. The worst thing is he means it. The US leader continued, claiming that Trump's remarks meant he had bowed down to a Russian dictator. When America gives its word, it means something. When we make a commitment, we keep it and NATO is a sacred commitment. Biden claimed Donald Trump looks at this as if it's a burden. Biden had already denounced his rival's remarks calling them appalling and dangerous. On Sunday, in that statement, the president claimed his predecessor had effectively said he would abandon NATO allies if Russia attacks and give Russian president Vladimir Putin a green light for more war and violence.


So I have this new thing that's been on my desk for a couple days, and I want to talk about it. This is a Lenovo think pad USB travel keyboard, and obviously I'm not using it as a travel keyboard I'm actually just using it as my main keyboard These things are actually sort of hard to find I look them up on eBay and stuff like that You can get one for 80 bucks or something like that Amazon didn't even have this model the specific model is SK where's it SK 8 8? 4 5 cr now how did I get this thing now firstly you know if you watch this channel?  I do not use a mouse It is so annoying to have to go over when you're getting something done to use a mouse It's so nice. It's like a superpower Having a track point because you don't even you could type and use the mouse at the same time It's crazy. So the keyboard that I've used for you know a year or two maybe Is this thing here? It's the Endura Pro the Unicomp Endura Pro. I very much like this thing It's an old buckling spring keyboard I did a review on it that it has a couple drawbacks It doesn't have a middle mouse button and there are a couple things that you know aren't perfect But I love this thing and I've used it for a long time when I did a video on this a Subscriber emailed me and said hey, I have one of these things. It's on my shelf. It's not doing anything And I can't get it to work with Windows. So could you use it? And I was like sure sure I'll take it absolutely. Thank you. So thank you Richard in the UK for sending this in So I've been playing with this for a couple days and first off, of course It didn't work on Windows. He couldn't get the drivers for it or something like that But you know the night people always say about Linux. Well, Linux sucks because it doesn't have drivers correct Linux does not have drivers because you just plug things in and they work. That's how it works Okay, anything USB is just gonna magically work on it Linux. That's how it's monolithic kernel kids That's you know, that's the benefits of it. So I plug this thing in works very great Couple things about it's build. I'll go ahead and say it feels very sturdy That's hard to communicate just with the picture, but I'll tell you it feels sturdy But it also feels like way lighter than you think it's gonna be okay. This thing's very skinny It is I mean it definitely weighs less than this book. All right. It is not it's not heavy I mean it truly is a travel keyboard. Okay, so let's look at the back of it You'll notice it does have these little stands here So you can you know have it flat if you prefer that you can have the smaller Stands I like the big ones. Okay, I like it I like it at a nice angle when I'm typing. That's what I prefer notice also it has this. This is a very nice thing I feel like this is very nice that they squeeze this in but the ability to take the cord and sort of wrap it up If you really want to travel with it, it works pretty well Just to be able to I hate it when I'm going through a bag and there's just like Cords all over the place. This is just a very nice alternative and I will note that the cord is very long Like I have sat here, you know, put my feet up and stuff like that and I'll work You know not being pretty far from my computer and it's a great thing Not only to be able to use your keyboard far away, but also this little track point. Okay, excuse me corona So notice also this this palm rest is very big. It might be confusing They're actually more modern versions of them. I think if you go looking I think there are like versions This is all gonna be only this model But there are there are other travel keyboards Lenovo travel keyboards that have less of a palm rest I really like the big palm rest because it puts your hands at an angle when you're doing this stuff And I don't know I very prefer it So here note. Look at this keyboard. Okay. Is there something missing? Do you know post it in the comments if you don't see what it is? It's for the algorithm kids No, okay. What's the thing you don't see you don't see windows keys. No windows keys So when I first saw that I was like, oh shoot. That's a big problem. Okay, because I use You know my setup. I have everything configured to some kind of shortcut key Nearly all of them involve holding down windows and pressing one of these buttons Like every single button when you hold down windows is a map to some kind of shortcut on my computer because that's how I roll It's a great. It's a great life to live. All right So I need a windows key Thankfully, I Actually don't need a windows key and that's because of this thing here caps lock. So a while ago Since I'm a Vim user, I switch escape and caps lock because it's nice having escape down here So this usually functions as an escape, but there's also a little Program on Linux that I've used for a long time called xcape and you can tell it. All right Make it so basically what you can tell it to do is if you just press this key It functions as escape, but if you hold it down and press something else, okay So I just held that down and pressed D and that brings up my D menu prompt Okay, I can get rid of that bring it up again. Okay, so I don't need a windows key I can actually just hold down caps lock and do any of the shortcuts that I otherwise do. Okay, you know Get rid of the borders and you know stuff like that. All right Or toggle the borders. So that that's actually not a big problem at all So it's just you know new getting used to this one keyboard. There's another thing I have This is my keyboard mapping file this little script that runs on startup This other thing I have here actually detects to see I'm doing a screencast without screencasting for my screen in this video You'll notice that I actually have this thing detect whether it's this keyboard is attached and Then it runs these two commands. What are these two commands? Well, I realize that although everything works on this there are a couple things There are a couple default settings. I don't like like specifically specifically the middle mouse the middle mouse button works It pastes stuff in or clicks on stuff but really the default functionality on a Thinkpad is you hold it down and you can you can hold it down and then move the track point and that's scrolling Okay, so you can scroll up and down. All right By default that is not how this works. It doesn't do that. So these lines at the end basically say all right So activate that feature. That's all that is. There's probably some way to have it permanent Like set it permanently in your your system configuration, but I didn't bother to look it up either way this way works I'll also say that the the The mouse moves a little bit slow. I feel like it's a little bit So here's me moving around nearly at top speed on this keyboard Whereas here's me moving around on top top speed with my desktop or my laptop keep Mouse or whatever. I think I just said the wrong word. Who cares? So I feel like this mouse is a lot faster than this one So it's a little different, but it's not been a big problem Like I just sort of get over it now the only the only problem real problem I can say with this keyboard and it's not like a deal breaker for me is if I'm using caps lock as super which again is a Pretty rarefied thing to do, but if I have a keyboard shortcut that has both caps lock and shift Sometimes the the third key I press won't go through. It's a key rollover problem. That's a problem You often have on keyboards now. I can just use right shift and and caps lock and it'll work But it's just a couple keys like for example if I hold down You know normally if I hold down shift and caps lock and I press to that moves the window to the second The second workspace, but that actually doesn't go through here So you got to use right shift or something like that, you know Just just little things like that. None of it is a big problem. So I can't really fault it for this I'll also say one key this little key up here this mister key. Here's here's the interesting thing I've I haven't seen this before But let me go over. I have an instance of zev pulled up and this little zev What zev is it monitors key presses and stuff. So if I move let's say I press some keys It's gonna show it's gonna tell you like what keys were pressed and stuff like that Here's the interesting thing all these keys like you press the volume keys on this thing. All right It'll show you it'll generate. Well, whatever is being pressed. Okay, so wait now. It's oh, yeah I gotta move my mouse over so it'll it'll show you whatever is getting pressed. Okay, but if I press this mysterious settings key Nothing actually happens. So this key is actually not I guess this is something where you know Linux doesn't automatically detect this key, which is weird because it detects all these other ones But so I'm not quite sure about that But in general, that's that's pretty much it. I really like this thing I might you know, I don't want to say I'm still gonna be using this but I'm using this more and more I don't know. Maybe I will here's the other thing. Okay, look at this Lenovo Lenovo Lenovo it looks like I'm a fanboy.  Although. I'll also say my screen and those of you who know That was actually a gift from a subscriber as well. So wow, look at that. I'm like, it's just my subscribers use Lenovo So yeah, I really like this thing. I think you should check it out. Obviously, they look pretty rare It seems like 80 bucks seems pretty pricey frankly for Like a teeny tiny keyboard. I think it was you know, this one's closer to 100 I sort of like well, I don't know is it I'm divided. Hey, you you make your call if you want to buy something like this But just know that it's out there if you're looking for some kind of keyboard with that doesn't require a mouse I haven't really taken this around that much Obviously the key the thing on the back makes that easier, but honestly, this might function as a good desktop Equivalent like I I don't know. It's pretty seamless Either way, I want to see I think there was some other joke that I was gonna make I totally forgot about it Dang well anyway, I'm just chilling with my Lenovo stuff. So I'll see you guys next time


In today's video we're opening up a first edition cybernetic revolution hobby box in search for the cyber in dragon ultimate rare What's up guys are back with another epic a gx booster box opening that we did on a youtube live very recently We were searching for that cyber in dragon that we've never pulled will we have the luck today? I will not spoil it, but there was an awesome pull in this will we finally avoid that UFO royal ultimate rare I mean we've pulled it what four times now at this point way too much So hopefully we don't see that in this video Let me know down below what you think about the polls before we do it. We do have a giveaway I'll be giving away this access code talker secret rare. This card was sent to me by Jim H He actually did a trade with me He traded me an ultimate rare black wing dragon unlimited that I need him for my binder and I traded him a couple different cards I won't spoil it if he hasn't gotten him yet, but he sent me this giveaway for you guys So shout out to Jim H in the comments and like the video be subscribed turn on notifications Let me know down below what you think about this CRV booster box Cybernetic revolution first edition here we go with the packs look good Okay, all right looking okay so far. We got to make sure these are nice and clean shuffle these up to make it fair Sometimes people complain about me shuffling. I'm gonna just leave it how it is Like you know that if I leave it how it is they're mapped right a lot of the time they're mapped Especially early GX like that the ulti's are just across from each other So I have to shuffle them to make it random So we have modp so I started doing numbers because we sometimes have people with very similar names this way You can look at your name. You can know exactly. That's you because you have a order number there So modp you got two packs coming up first pack Will it be the cyber in dragon and we've been searching for four as long as I've been opening these packs Which is a few years at this point. I don't even think we've pulled an ultra We've definitely not pulled the ulti though one two three four. Let's see what we can pull send some luck in the chat We have a pat ruin spiritual earth art crew gun a we have prepared strike back with the goblin attack force Dragon's mirror Psycroyd this What does it say the most lovable and friendly of all the viacroids it can arm itself with training wheels Watch out. Those training wheels are dangerous. We have poison that draw frog We have spiritual wind art me abbey Fusion recovery and we have a DDTrap hole started off with a rare. Okay. Alright, just a rare in the first pack But mod does have two packs here. Let's see what we can pull Second pack for mod will mod strike gold here We have battery man. See we will see if there's a foil in here We got the crew a gun a the cybernetic Cybernetic cyclope and she and spy Psycroyd gyroid more roids. We have protective soul alien. We have the death's croaking. It's the frogs. They be croaking and Oh DDM different dimension Master back-to-back rare starting it off slow. I want to remind you guys about the ratios here First of all, you get a bonus foil mod. So thank you for being in it But I want to mind you about the ratios. It's usually four supers two ultimates one ultra or zero ultras That's the variable. It's kind of like secret rears except ultras for some reason in this one It's just weird that sometimes the the ultras are hard to pull But that's what we're looking at six to seven foils similar to an old-school box But a little bit of a different order. Okay, Michael So, but I have his number here. There's two Michael S's so Michael. So here's your order numbers So it's not confusing, you know, it was confusing because of Michael So I think it's Michael as you I think is the other one So I got the order number so that way, you know, this is you five packs This is the most packs that anybody bought so will it pay off and he get an ultimate rare an ultra rare Something like that.  It's always fun to open this it never gets old because there's some crazy good cards in here We can get the super rare cyber dragon the ultra rare cyber in dragon as well Jettroyd batter man see spiritual earth art Kurogane cybernetic cyclopean Do it sue for seeing of these little little guides. I don't know what you would call them death croaking We have a mechanical hound. We have a gyro it and finally we have A miracle fusion. This would be a crazy ulti, but it's only in retail boxes So we will not pull it but still a really awesome looking card next pack summer next cyclopean. We have battery man see Jettroyd spiritual water art aioli protective soul alien Giant kazaki.  It is kazaki's. What is it kazaki structure struck button and that likes mad scientist guys So I guess he made himself into a Mechanical guy the indomitable fighter Lele. We have a tyrant infinity once made a dueling's video about this and and Ultra so we did get an ultra rare in this box and it's a pretty solid one Power bond, but I opened my booster box actually pulled this ultra. So that's pretty cool No cyber and dragon unfortunately on this one, but we could get the ulti, which is the better version anyway Still cool because a lot of times you will not get an ultra in these boxes. So we did get one That's a good good pull from Michael congrats. That's really good. All right What is happening with the sub count right now is YouTube broken by the way? Are you guys watching this? I think YouTube is broken guys. Look at this. It's just going up. What the world? That was so weird rode to 300k right here. All right next up. Let's let's just keep going third pack for Michael Okay, here we go. Let's pull something crazy Kurogane we have battery man see Jettroyd tadpole Psycroyd poison draw frog Spiritual Wind Art Miyabi we have a future recovery. Let's go Michael. Let's pull an ultimate rare cyber and dragon. Here we go For the third time we have pulled cyber dragon ultimate ray This is insane. Look at this card Back to back. We have an ulti and an ultra for Michael. Oh Congrats, dude. By the way, there's two Michaels. So it is this Michael Michael huge Pull what is happening? YouTube is broken cyber dragon ultimate rare Beautiful purple and blue background. Oh my gosh. This is insane. What a pull. Let's do this here We go guys prepare to strike back. I don't even know what he can pull at this point I guess cyber in dragon pull to both the ulti's that'd be insane spiritual fire art. That is a crazy pull We have a dimension wall at this point. You know what? I think he's happy I think he's happy with what he got last pack for Michael. Dude.  Let's go. Here we go. Cyber Archfiend. We have ebon magician paroid spiritual earth art Kurogane soul.  Look at these poles. That is insane, dude I hope you get some PSA 10s on this dude this centering on the cyber dragon is not perfect But it is pretty good. Holy opening. That is crazy You had some serious serious luck Michael Brady F two packs. Let's go two packs for Brady F Can we pull something crazy first-inition cybernetic? Revolution, let's see what we can do. It's been an epic video slash live stream so far She inspired we have the steam gyroid very nice combination of gyro to seem like spiritual water at a holy so it's you They covered his butt up. We have do it too.  Oh, no Why why? No, the most evil card we could ever pull it's UFO right again Why oh my gosh, it's double sleeveless. It's centered a little bit off centered, okay Band the sub who said that somebody said that earlier Whoever was your band your band if it was Jared get him out of here one two three four get him out I don't care if he has the the wrench mod powers next pack for Brady. Okay. We're gonna get triple altis Here we go Jerry beans man. Oh the legend Jerry a bean soldier Believes he's the strongest warrior in the world, but his abilities are still in tested strongest warrior Not strong as man. I almost said strong as man. No, that would not been read ex gamer 29 months 29 months ex gamer. It's been a rough time jarroy. We have desk frog. We have spiritual Windar Miyabi and The skyscraper. Oh my goodness. It's foil central out here skyscraper Super rare. Well, we have a lot of foils so far this box is either gonna be really lame the rest of the way or it's gonna Be insane. I'm hoping insane obviously Nima are from Instagram one pack magic Can we get a third ulti? Ebon magician. We have drill roiden cyber archfiend pat roid Psycroyd indomitable fighter Lele poison draw frog. We have steam roid Oh Super rare cybernetic magician. Okay. How many foils is this now? Have we had seven already? All right So this is gonna be an interesting opening the rest of the way. Maybe we got an error. Hopefully At this point, we don't really know everything's been normal so far We just have pulled a lot of foils in a row crazy amount of foils so far next up. We have Michael s you with three packs is the other Michael. Let's see what we can get. Can we get a third ultimate rare? I think it was cybernetic revolution. I think simply opened a it was on what not? I think I think you had three oldies in a CRV box tadpole So I'm hoping that we can do that again. She inspired we have steam gyroid do it to death's croaking mechanical hound Gyroid Transcended wings. We're starting off with a rare. So we finally hit a rare How many packs in a row with a foil was that like four or something? That was insane two foils left to all left side Okay, all right. We'll see if that's right next pack. This is for Michael s you can we pull something crazy? Jettroyd spiritual water or a away. Oh rocks and special so it's a conscription mechanical hound do it to Giant Kizaki arrival appears we have a System down it's a rare rares are starting to show up now at this point final pack for Michael We have Jerry beans man. His true abilities are untested dragon beer pot of generosity the steam gyroid Giant Kizaki. Okay. Where is he in the background? Where's the Kizaki? I don't see him You mean like up there or something? Oh, he's up there at controlling it. Okay. I see it's a little fighter Lele Tyranto infinity. Can we get a third ultimate rare here? We go? Bubble man bubbly bubbly Tyler D. I actually wrote his full name on here. So I'll put his number there Tyler D. All right three packs We have a conscription So it's you he's flexing. Hey, oh, we got drill ruin spiritual wind army. Abby death frog spiritual fire rod crew and I rival appears and No, a Rottweiler that is a hero card weirdly enough, but it's it's like they're they're pet the Rottweiler All right, cool to laugh for Tyler It's starting to look more and more like this is just a normal box The hopes of an error box are dwindling a little bit still so I used to go one two three four We can hope we just want to throw well technically a third old team. I don't think would be an error That'd be a little variance. We have a yoy so it's you Jerry beans man conscription spiritual fire our current I steamroyd we have our rival appears desk a frog and Another bubble man. Okay, it's bubbly bubbly time. All right bubble time. We have tadpole she and spy Simon and Excalopean spirits are earth art kurogane poison draw frog spiritual wind art Miyabi fusion recovery do it to and miracle Fusion oh, this is not looking good not looking good for that third ulti all it takes is one pack though But not looking good so far Tyler D. We're down to not as many packs We have Corvin L with one pack Corvin one pack magic. Will you be able to pull something out? Come on? We have steam gyroid pot of generosity Jerry beans man dragon's mirror fusion recovery gyroid desk frog spiritual wind art Miyabi and And bubble shuffle the shuffle of the bubbles that would be a lame ulti to get if we dig an ulti of that one Samuel D You got three packs as well. Give us some luck. Here we go break the streak. We are on a bad streak right now Here we go guys tadpole prepare to strike back. We have pat roid cyber archfiend mechanical hound doidzu Giant kizaki being driven by kizaki rival appears and Samuel. Will you pull something? Oh? It's a goblin Ali attack force. Look at that armor shine. That's kind of nice I like that the shine of the armor from goblin elite attack force Samuel D. Congrats on that pull prepare to strike back dragon's mirror tadpole Pot of generosity. We have giant kizaki gyroid mechanical hound we have a desk croaking and we have a Rising energy trap card. All right, not that good even back then it was like a rich F1 pack We're gonna keep this sealed Michael P One pack here you go sleep this up a Yaz J with the last pack right there. There we go. So that way We're pretty sure seven is usually the number sometimes it can go over that but it's very unlikely It was it was a great stream. We had great pulls didn't get the cyber in though. Maybe one day We're gonna get that it's been fun.  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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything one piece and today we have a review of episode 897 save Otama straw hat bounding through the wasteland and after God knows how long in the anime It has finally happened Luffy has officially Reunited with Zorro and I have to say that this episode had me smiling every bit as much as when this happened in the manga There is just something ever so satisfying about seeing this pair together because for me this combination is really where one piece all began Like yes, everything started with Roger and then Luffy and shanks But the true adventure did not kick off until Luffy recruited Zorro and ever since then they have been an incredibly dangerous duo And this episode did a great job of making that clear with the ending I particularly love Miami Tanaka's performance of the line about having to apologize to Kinemon later It had this incredible combination of mischievousness and seriousness wrapped up into a neat little package aimed Directly at the face of Basil Hawkins and just while we're on here I very much enjoyed the new direction the anime appears to be taking in regards to his abilities The aura around his cards gives this character a renewed sense of power and mysteriousness And this effect was not in the manga in there The cards just appear as regular objects as I always have but I do really like it and it's getting me pretty excited to see some Of the other crazy stuff that Hawkins can do performed in this new manner of Stylization this also extends to the new designated way in which the anime depicts observation Haki Which was very present in this episode having been used multiple times by both Luffy and Zorro Although in this case primarily for a comical effect the first incident of which was Luffy taking note of the Nida Kitetsu Which the our crunchyroll subtitles have just decided to call Kitetsu 2 Maybe even Kitetsu the second if that's how you want to read it Which is incredibly boring and quite possibly very inconsistent with their translations of Zoro's very own Sanda Kitetsu Which I don't think is called Kitetsu 3 and yes look I get that Kitetsu 2 is an accurate and straightforward translation But this is where the whole pragmatism thing comes into it because while it may be a technically acceptable translation I don't think it conveys the pragmatic contention behind the naming scheme It should really just be left in its full Japanese form like almost every other weapon in the series However back to a well whatever point I had Luffy using observation Haki to clock the weapon was not in the manga And it was a pretty damn cool addition to the anime because as these events originally occurred Luffy was just given an outfit and then he appeared with the sword and said I am taking this kay Thanks, bye, but instead what we have in the anime is another example of some intriguingly used creative license Not only by having Luffy use observation Haki to acquire the sword But more so with the incredibly unexpected guitar riff that underscored that moment and to be honest I did feel like the riff was a bit out of place But that may be because I am just far too used to the established model of what the one-piece anime has been for as long as I've known It at no other point in the life of this adaptation have directors been given the freedom or perhaps even pursued the freedom to add in these Little bits of flair and I am all for that because as much of this moment may not have worked so well for me There have been others in previous episodes that have caught me off guard in a very good way And that is a nice feeling in and of itself the idea that even though I've read the manga I don't know exactly what's coming or how it will be portrayed It is wonderfully refreshing and contributes a large amount to making watching this one-to-error of one piece an enjoyable experience But of course there was another addition with Zoro using observation Haki and as I'm prone to doing I'm just going to need to point out that everything to do with Zoro prior to Luffy spotting him is filler very well done Filler though, and I love that he essentially used his observation Haki for the purpose of spotting sake It's a joke that works so so well within the world in these characters But not only that but these two filler uses of observation Haki actually do something much more powerful and go on to highlight the similarities Between Luffy and Zoro almost entwining their stories before they actually properly meet up which is fantastic It shows a splendid amount of creative thought put into filler material that actually has something to offer this series It isn't just artificially elongating it but make no mistake this episode covered maybe two-thirds of a chapter and in the past Achieving such a low adaptation rate would have resulted in an absolute disaster of an episode But somehow right at this point in time We appear to be living in a utopia where we can still adapt very little and still have a great time But most importantly it didn't feel like filler even I was shocked when I went back to the chapter and realized just how little Progress we'd actually made which is a huge credit to the new age of the one-piece enemy And while I'm here I'd also just like to give a little PSA a small group of very loud people tend to get slightly upset when I refer to events That were not in the manga as filler and that's kind of understandable because filler has primarily negative connotations attached to it And yes, I could find a wankier term like anime original material But I'm not going to because I do want to truly embrace the idea that filler can be beneficial to this series and furthermore to those People out there who say that the anime is the final form of one piece and that Oda actually adds in this material himself You are wrong. Manga is the definitive story and the anime is an adaptation that is allowed to do its own thing for better or worse So with that out of the way, I will say that one thing I wasn't so keen on was unfortunately the action this week There were some fantastic parts which generally occurred anytime we had a close-up of a sword However, I felt Zoro's movements and slashes weren't anywhere near as fluid and satisfying as they appeared in the episode where he performed that Amazing tatsumaki and that's not to say that what was provided during this episode was bad not at all It was just a noticeable dip in quality and another negative I have actually has nothing to do with the episode whatsoever But everything to do with TV spot for one piece stampede that occurred at the end of the episode for anybody Who hasn't seen it and is not keen on having any potential stampede spoilers thrown their way My advice would be to not watch anything stampede related until you've seen it now for me personally I won't be seeing it for about a month because that's when it premiers in my country But sadly Japan is doing that thing they do and choosing to show the climax of the film in their TV spots to sell more tickets And yes I haven't seen it But I have heard from others who have that some of these TV spots show hugely spoiler-ific stuff and I believe that entirely because that's Exactly what they did with both stronghold and film gold which showed Luffy's final attack and the defeat of the main antagonist in those respective films but episode 897 cannot be blamed for that overall it was great I'm thrilled to be back in one or after a two-week break and I could not be more excited to see some of the Insane stuff that is coming our way pretty damn soon But that pretty much does it for episode 897 if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the Grandline review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible And if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime among a series then please do check out my second Channel new world review for all of your wider needs And if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my discord server where a Wind array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis and finally please do comment with your thoughts on the episode This has been the Grandline review, and I'll see you next time