A little froggy out here. Yeah, yeah, a little froggy. Hey, uh... Right now, in real estate fresh, I would be trying to build business, get contact information, build a database. Well, I think we got a good place to start. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I know. So what else? What else do you want to talk to me about? I mean, I'm like, I'm super stoked about it. You guys ready to make more money after this, right? He's going to teach you a lot of stuff this morning. Hi, I'm the YPN co-chair. Bryce Peake is my other co-chair right over there. What YPN is about is we help a lot of the other committees do what they have to do, and we also sponsor the charity event every year. What we do is we pick a local community charity and we sponsor them because a lot of the local charities need extra funding. So we go out there and we have a charity event here and not really a good description. I'm still waking up. I haven't had my coffee this morning, so don't mind me. I was surfing on the web about a year ago, actually. And I started just listening for other people's ideas on real estate and what made them successful in that. And I stumbled across one of his podcasts. So I started following it, implementing a lot of the tools and techniques with sales calls and just what you do with just numbers to get to be successful and to keep that mindset. Every day, Ricky is a single agent with Remax out of Orange Beach, Alabama. His numbers, he just crushed it up there, 39 million on his own last year just in sales. So without further delay, I know a lot of you guys have a lot of stuff going on today, so let's let him get started. Thank you. Good morning, guys. How are we doing? Good morning. Thank you guys so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here. I feel like you guys are going to get a lot out of this. How many, like, is everybody here in real estate? How many, is everybody real estate? How many newer agents? Wow.  I learned really early on that conversation, real conversation, that's the key to all closings. It took me, right, I did close to 40 million dollars last year when I first started in real estate eight months to make my first sale.  You know, it took me eight months to make my first sale, so welcome to the club. And not even looking back, but at the time when this happened, I am literally thinking to myself, this is awesome. Because there were 40 and 50 and even 60 year old guys right next to me that were going through the same stuff as I went through when I'm 25. And I knew that that was a blessing because I was about to learn the greatest lessons of business and life at such an early age where these guys that were right next to me, my partners, are having to learn it at 40, 50 and 60 years old. Nobody cares that you're number one. I get less engagement on social media stuff where I'm saying I'm number one than anything else. For one thing, everybody says I'm number one. So it almost discredits you that you're saying it and if you're really number one you don't have to say it. See guys, when I call and I establish the relationship, I get the email, they felt good and they thought we had a good conversation. Then they start getting this weekly email from me. The email does all the heavy lifting for me. When it comes every single week and make forever, it shows them how consistent I am and professional and hardworking and knowledgeable. It embodies everything that I am. My personality goes through the email because I design it every week. I take an hour to design it every single week. It's not automated. I sit down, I come up with what it's going to say and I physically do it. Not my assistant, me but that is the portal between me and all my clients and it has to be the way I think it needs to be. But it does all the heavy lifting for me. It stays in front of them. It builds their relationships.   When people call me, they've been getting my email for five years. They're not going to call any of my clients. They're only going to deal with me. It creates loyalty as well as builds strong relationships. So I think that that's what you guys should really think about and it doesn't have to be a weekly email but you have to stay in front of people on a consistent basis to stay relative and just make sure you're not trying to pressure anybody to do anything but be there when they get ready. Make sense? Thank you guys. Your background you didn't really share everything but as far as have you ever been like a broker associate but you've not had any agents working with you or for you? I try to do a team one time but they don't have the rest of the story. So you're going to send us an email? So this thing is luck. Luck would be waking up in your bank account and has a billion dollars in it.


The government at all levels have been advised to ensure special allocation for the aged women, widows and the vulnerable in their respective annual budget. The cause made in a do-it-yourself by a philanthropist, David Faleigon, at an event to present cash and material gifts to the vulnerable. Faleigon, who paid the medical bills of some indigenous patients in the State University Teaching Hospital and some other health facilities in the state capital, challenged the government to do more in the direction of poverty alleviation. I'm looking at the state as well. There's no allocation for the aged women, especially if they haven't worked in any corporate organisation before. There's no allocation for them. I noticed that seven, eight years ago and that was why I thought I was going to fill that gap. To me, they're not doing much for the people. Look at the state. When I was at the State of Spiti yesterday, clearing some of Spiti bills and stuff like that, there's so much poverty in the land. The economic value of the state is almost zero. My message to the state government is, I need you guys. It's so imperative. It's high time you guys did more. High time. Because as long as you guys are not living up to expectation and the welfare of the people of the aged women in the state, I'm going to be on your neck and I'm going to continue doing this. To me, I think they should be based on a salary, like wages, like every month, monthly stipend. It doesn't need to be huge. It's just like what we're doing. Let's say everyone here, we're giving like 10,000 error, all right? It's what the state can do. The government of Ikichi state should do better if they are doing anything at all. As far as this programme is concerned, they should do more. They have more resources to do it. It's a matter of organizing it through the works. The kanogram is already there. At the unit level, you can reach out to anybody. From there, you graduate to what level? From one level to local government, local government to senatorial to the state. So there is no way if they organize this type of a programme, it will not reach the grassroots. I share this so much. I'm even using up my name, David Falego. I'm going to contact my children that God should bless them. They should even do more than this. I share this. I thank God for the programme. God make it so come to pass today because I've been hearing this programme for maybe since April this year. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hello, and welcome to theCUBE Conversation. I'm John Furrier. We have a great guest here, John Madison, Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions with Fortinet. Got some exciting news. Welcome to theCUBE Conversation. Thanks for joining me. Master of the Year, John. So we covered your awesome launch at RSA this year, and I thought that was a fantastic event. I thought it was one of the highlights of RSA this year in San Francisco.  PortaOS 5.6, it's exciting. Tell us, what's resonating with you guys right now with your vision? Because it seems to be some nice tailwinds for you guys coming into the marketplace.  Now the journey there means that the infrastructure, the edge of the network is changing quite rapidly. So you've got OT, IoT, and cloud. And so infrastructure is really driving a lot of their business inside cybersecurity. Add to that, obviously the changing threat landscape, advanced threats. Add to that industry regulation and governance. It really means customers have to build out now a risk management, a risk cyber security life cycle. And we're seeing in the industry different life cycles, different parameters, but we're seeing the NIST framework as being one of the most important. In fact, Gartner said by 2020, 50% of US companies will be using the NIST cyber security framework. And the critical infrastructure is at risk too, but when you say, when you kind of describe the landscape, I'm kind of, I'm not saying rolling my eyes, but I kind of almost feel like we got to go faster because it's a moving train security. We're seeing the dynamic environment out there, but when you mentioned governance, the first thing that jumps in my head is slow. How are you guys enabling people to go faster because the speed is really critical because you want to also be compliant as regulations as critical infrastructure, but at the same time, the nimbleness is key. Yeah, and you know, one of the issues, if you look at security over the last 15 years, our customers have bought a lot of point solutions. So every time a problem comes up, spam or URL filtering or advanced threats or botnets, they've gone out and bought a specific point solution. And this really slows them down and moving forward towards this digital framework in that a lot of these solutions and products don't talk to each other. And so what they really need is a framework, a communication between these elements. And that's what our 40OS 5.6 brings to the table. And on the landscape, before we move on to some of the customer challenges, what's the biggest trend now? Is it more entrance coming in, consolidation? It seems to be a security sprawl. Everyone's buying everything that moves in the hope for something. Is there more security options or less? Is there consolidation? What's the landscape look like there? Well, customers want to get to this key strategy of network segmentation end to end. And to do that, they really need to take a hard look at their existing products and then new products which fit together. And to do segmentation, you really need to make sure you can orchestrate all the way from the endpoint, all the way into the data or the applications. So segmentation is a big problem for customers because the operational headache is really hard. And so again, for us, that's one of our main goals long-term, to make security operationally easier for customers when they try and segment the network. Talk about threat evolution. What's happening there with customers? Because they're constantly, again, this is a moving train, there's new things coming out, you're hearing it. A lot of times they don't even know something's going wrong until it pops its head out. But what's the evolution of the threats these days? What does it look like? Well, again, faster and faster. Once you've been breached, there's a report done by the Verizon data breach report that says, once you've been breached, within 60 seconds you'll be compromised. And so you've basically got a minute to detect that threat and prevent it. And that's why you really need to make sure that all your security elements are sharing threat information and more importantly, sharing that threat mitigation information. What are some of the advanced threats that you see out there right now that you guys are jumping all over and solving the problems for? Well, it's interesting in that still probably 50% of advanced threats, the attack vector still email and phishing, another word for it is social engineering, and companies just can't stop it. They just can't, at least four or 5% of people are clicking on those things. And so that's still a common threat vector for a lot of companies. That seems like a numbers game is just kind of thrown out there and just the percentage will click over. Yeah, I want to talk about IoT because one of the things that we hear, we go to a lot of events that we cover and security is always top of the agenda. But the hottest thing besides AI is IoT, which essentially the machine learning has AI implications. Internet of things, industrial Internet of things have opened up the notion of connecting a machine to the internet. So machine has the ability to talk to us now with data. But also a machine is a threat opportunity. So you have machines talking to machines now and this may or may not be human intervention. How do you get your arms around? Customers figure out, you know, the IoT and the machine to machine threat. Yeah, and that's the next wave. We saw a bit of that last year with the Dynatact. Just the sheer scale and speed of machine to machine attacks, even dwarfs and advanced threats. And so what customers are doing right now is looking very carefully getting at their risk management framework. They're looking at how they can identify IoT devices attaching to the network. And then again, they're applying segmentation strategy depending on the trust level as IoT devices. Took about 40 OS 5.6. What's the big new thing there? You guys just released that operating system. What's that fabric? What's the key value proposition? Well, last year, 40 OS 5.4 introduced what we call our security fabric. This is the ability for all our security products and our partners to share threat intelligence and mitigation information peer to peer extremely fast within seconds. And so this year, with our 5.6, we're expanding the fabric to include visibility of access points, switches, reporting. And then we've also added additional partners to it. We're also added a regulatory framework inside there and the ability to run audits. Talk about the fabric collaboration piece because this was fascinating. I thought this is a trend that I'm seeing across the community. There's almost an opt-in social network coming together around security vendors that are recognized that sharing is critical. And this becomes a scale opportunity to get the data you need. How important is the ecosystem of partners in this fabric model? Is it a cog on the wheel? Is it super critical? How do you see the collaboration amongst the partners of importance here? They're very important. There's two vectors I see. One is sharing threat intelligence. And you were there at RSA when we announced the Cyber Threat Alliance sharing threat intelligence in the cloud. And then there's also the ability on-premise, on-customers premises for the products to then talk to each other and share threat intelligence and mitigation information. And that's why along with this announcement of 5.6 we've also announced some new partners to our Fabric Ready program which work through several APIs on our fabric to share that information. So what's unique about the offering? If you had to boil it down to talk about your key differentiator because you are open, you're sharing. So there's an openness there. I love that. I think that's going to be a key scale point in my opinion, having the data. It will be super important. I think that's have that integrity of the kind of alliance that you guys put together is solid. But as a company in the OS you have, what's unique about it? Well, we've been building it since we went, we found it in 2000, quite a while ago. First product in 2002. And we've been building this network operating system organically. You know, a lot of companies acquire a lot of security companies and then try and glue them together through management consoles or different APIs. We've been building this network operating system for a long time organically. We do acquire intellectual property, but it makes this very tight. It's like a mesh network in some ways that's able to work very fast. Talk about the segmentation. You mentioned it earlier. It's got my attention because segmentation is one of those things where can you over segment? Is there too much segmentation? Because that seems like a critical piece there. And how does that help you guys solve the main attack vector? Specifically, you've mentioned email and phishing because that's just, email just never is going to go away. You can still use email all the time. And it's been the key factor there for the security. How does segmentation help that or does it? Well, before that, the fabric is very unique in that it covers the entire attack surface. So you mentioned mail, web, access, endpoint, obviously these days, cloud. Segmentation, a lot of customers have done what I call small segmentation projects. They've done east-west micro-segmentation. They've done wide area intellectual property segmentation. These days, IoT segmentation. Their goal, though, is to have end-to-end segmentation. If I want to add a user or a device to any applications, then I want the whole network to be segmented on the way there. And that's the next goal for customers. To do that, they need to have better operational capabilities, automation of the operations, so that you're not individually configuring everything. Every time you add a phone or you change an application, the goal for security long-term is to make that operation more automated. That's the key long-term strategy of our fabric. So are you saying more segmentation is better than in your mind? It's not so much more segmentation. It's making sure that it's end-to-end and it's making sure it's automated. Because if you have to provision every single element of the network to segment, it's going to be too much. Talk about end-to-end. There's something I hear all the time. This is the Nirvana. Everyone wants an end-to-end look. And it's also consistent with some of the big mega trends that we cover. For instance, you look at what 5G is doing with IoT. You have full data center at the edge. I mean, that is end-to-end. Is that part of the strategy and how do customers feel comfortable end-to-end? Well, the end-to-end also means, and I talked about at the beginning, this digital security, at some point, there's going to be a lot of transactions, activity, and applications which are not even visible by the IT organization. And so to us, as part of this release, for example, we also announced our CASB solution, our cloud access security broker, which gives access and visibility once you're off the network. Could be a mobile phone interacting with a SaaS application. So end-to-end doesn't just mean my device on my network connecting to my data center. In the future, it means any device anywhere in the world connecting to any application, any cloud. I talked a lot of enterprise CXOs and a lot of the COOs tend to pick up a lot of security now because it's operational. The number one thing I hear is, well, besides being super paranoid about security and worrying about the whole risk side of it, is they're looking for blind spots and they're worried about blind spots. What do you see, what do you guys see with the fabric? Because the blind spot is something that the customer's always trying to chase. Where's my blind spot? So the question is, what is the number one blind spot that you see that customers tend to forget about or maybe they don't pay too much attention to? Or blind spots that they should worry about that they may or may not be paying attention to? Yeah, it's definitely that new edge, that expanding edge. And so if you look at the number of devices and so everyone thinks about IoT and they think about cars and all sorts of, well, there's all sorts of printers and Apple TV, all sorts of things implemented within organizations these days. There's the kind of what I call the gray market for all the SaaS applications. We issued a threat report recently which looked at the number of SaaS applications the average enterprise used. It was over 35 SaaS applications. And it was just amazing when you spoke to the system inside the organization, they had no idea. And so the blind spot or in their terms, you know, some deficiency in their coverage of the attack surface could be anywhere these days. Yeah, and there's no perimeter anymore. It's completely dead. Let's get a watch out. So in four to OS 5.6, you mentioned compliance. Automation is key on the auditing side. This is again, part of the thing that could slow things down is the audit requirements and all the paper trail, the digital trail. How are you guys helping on the audit side? And can you just take a minute to talk about the piece of that that's important? Yeah, our long-term vision there is something called intent-based network security. To simplify that, and actually it's a simplification, we speak a business language. So let me connect this phone to this application. We'll translate that into network and ports. And then we translate that in terms of a single provisioning across the entire fabric. That's not quite there yet. That's something to work in towards. Right now what we've implemented are some regulatory templates, which you can apply to the fabric, which then looks at some best practices and some standard governance, such as PCI or the new Data Protection Act in Europe, and then applies that to the entire fabric. It gives you a recommendation, severity. Then it also allows you to actually apply a recommendation automatically and fix that. So our first step towards that intent-based network security. So closing the gaps and coordinating between security devices is something you said earlier as a key part of the US 5.6. And it's competitive advantage from what we can see in the marketplace out there for you guys. So congratulations. What is the bottom line from your standpoint? As you look at the landscape with the 5.6 and what you guys are doing, what is the big message to the CXO? Because you're seeing at the senior level of companies and the IT guys and they're all like, hey, they're running around, the hair's on fire. But the CXO is the CEO, CFO, COO, sometimes the Chief Data Officer, Chief Compliant, whatever, CISO, they're all shifting, but they're all kind of got their eyes on the security angle. What is the message to those guys? As you guys talk to that audience, what's the key message you'd like to share to them? Yeah, so the first one is to make sure that our implementation of the fabric is broad across the entire tax surface. Not only that, but it makes every element inside their security architecture visible. Which means then they've got a really detailed segmentation strategy they can put in place. The second piece is powerful in that you need to make sure that you can scale from embedded solutions. For example, we have next generation firewall security can embed inside access points all the way through core, highly scalable appliances, all the way into the cloud. And then the third one, which I think is the most important one long term, is the automation of the operations. The ability to apply a command, a business language, and then apply that to your network as a single entity, and automate that operation. It's interesting, I was just talking with one of our Wikibon analysts and more and more the COO is taking on the control because it's the operationalizing some of these things, hit a lot of departments. It's not the CIO anymore. Okay, final question for you. What are you excited about right now with Fortinet? You got the OS 5.6 out there. Just share some color into what's going on on the product side. What are you excited about? What's exciting in your world right now? Well, you know, being charged with products, it's pretty interesting and exciting at Fortinet. We have probably the broadest product, security product portfolio in the marketplace. And so, you know, whether I'm dealing with on the email side or the website or network side, endpoint and cloud, access, it's very exciting. We have a product portfolio that's expanding across all those vectors. But most exciting is the ability to see it all come together as part of the fabric so customers can now connect all the security solutions and allow some of our key partners to connect in as well. How has the partnerships with the alliances and the cybersecurity alliance at RSA, you guys, how has that changed your product mix? Has that altered a little bit? Has it changed? Obviously, I can almost imagine being positive at the scale with the data being shared. Is that something that is working for you guys? Share some insight into how the partner equation has changed the product roadmap and your outlook. Yeah, it's very important to us. You know, with a company of our size, in terms of product portfolio, we're always going to have a situation where some of these partners are somewhat competitive. But we shouldn't let that stop us from them being part of the fabric. If a customer has selected a specific partner, now or in the future, we want to make them part of the fabric. And so, for example, SD-WAN, we announced some SD-WAN capability as part of our 5.6. We have some partners who do SD-WAN, but that's okay. You know, we can work together within those customers and make sure that there's a better solution for the customer rather than ignoring those type of partners. John Madison, thanks so much for spending some time with me and it's theCUBE here. I'm John Furrier, you're watching CUBE Conversations with John Madison, Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions with Fortinet. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching.


Hi, welcome to the All Things LGBTQ Interview Show where we interview LGBTQ guests who are making important contributions to our communities. All Things LGBTQ is taped at Orca Media in Montpelier, Vermont, which we recognize as being unceded Indigenous land. Thanks for joining us and enjoy the show. Welcome to All Things LGBTQ.  And so welcome to the show again. And Brenta Churchill is running for District Franklin 6. And can you tell us what area that's in so people will know? Sure. It's the southeast corner of Franklin County. I call it delightfully the BFF, which is Bakersfield, Fairfield, and Fletcher. It's largely rural, a lot of dirt roads, and a great farming community overall.  And now you are the Democratic candidate from that area? I am. I didn't have an opponent in the Democratic primary, so that made it a little easier to not have to spend a huge amount of time worrying about whether I'd get a primary vote. My only opponent is the incumbent representative, and he won last time because he had no opponents at all. We're going to put up a little bit of a fight on this one, and I'm hoping to carry the district in November. And how has your response been in your neighborhood? Do you have a little? Yeah, thanks. That's a great question. I'd have to say that there's been a lot of support in Bakersfield. Even Republicans have told me they're voting for me. My neighbor who's died in the wall, Republican, said, I voted for you in the primary and I'm going to vote for you in the election, and he said, I want you to carry an honest message into Montpelier. So I figured that was a mandate from my neighbor, which made me feel really good. I did do well in the primary, which is not a primary, but kind of like a straw vote. And a lot of Democrats did turn out in Bakersfield, and I got some write-ins from Republicans, which was surprising. So I'm pleased to say that I get to represent the Democratic Party in November. But yeah, it's been good so far. And what about your opponent? Are your values kind of really, you know, what are you bringing to this that he hasn't or thanks to that too? Yeah. Yeah, one of the things that my opponent has done is voted pretty much in lockstep with Governor Scott. So he voted and was with all the vetoes that the governor wrote. The most important one that he voted against was a woman's right to choose what was an amendment number five. But no, it started with 22. He voted against it three times. And then in the last one, he might have realized that he was headed to trouble because he abstained from the vote. And I think that's the same as voting. No, he chose not to vote at all. So I'm glad that he did that because I think it's easy to talk about the issues. Another one is the the bottle bill as a merchant. He voted against it. And with all due respect, I think most people would rather have clean highways and pay a nickel on an initial deposit. I'll build team provisions to to pick up a lot of the containers that are not. No, I do not have deposits on them right now. It raised it to 10 cents to help fund it. And of course, he voted no and it didn't pass. But I feel confident that if we have a have a majority in the House and the Senate, we'll be able to get that passed. So that from an environmental standpoint is very important. If there was a tax credit involved, he voted no for it. Child tax credit. My families brought a lot of people brought their kids out of unfortunate or less funded scenario. And I think the child tax credit was an important bill. Fortunately, it did pass with a majority of the House and the Senate. These are good things that I think I would have supported, but he did not. So basically his voting record may may be what helps me the most. I certainly had I'm sorry. Say again, how are you reaching your neighbors and and letting them know about your platform?  Do you have help? Yeah, that's that's also a good question. One of the things that I think I've been fairly relaxed on is getting out a lot. I've been to public functions. I've been to some ice cream socials and concerts. I did a kickoff at the Fairfield Community Center back in in May and basically been circulating among people and getting out to meetings and talking with people. I haven't been to schools yet. We have a great school district of one school. Bakersfield Elementary is is the school in town and they just started school again. So haven't been doing much with the schools. Fairfield has Fairfield Center School. And I think I'll have strong support with the teachers. I'm very supportive of education. And public education is a cornerstone for our kids and growing up. And it's it's really a anchor in our community. So we've got Fletcher Elementary too. So I've got three three elementary schools that I'll be visiting at some point in time. Hope to have some meetings with farmers in the near future. Well, I'm gonna see if I can get a forum together where myself and the Senate candidates can go and talk to talk to the farmers. I have some friends who worked for the state that are helping out with the farmers crowds. And I've got a couple of good allies, including some endorsements from from people who are farmers. So I'm I'm fortunate to know a lot of people. That's been a good thing for me.  I think we both adopted the let's be nice take the high road thing. He hasn't said anything. I haven't seen anything in the press yet. I have seen some things. No, really, I haven't. I apologize. Haven't seen anything and we're we're going to be positive. I got some pieces going into front porch forum and social media this week. We're going to ramp up my endorsements are are many, including Christine Hallquist and the former principal of Fairfield Center School is a strong advocate for me as well. She's gone on to nursing. She left a high pressure job to go into a very. Yeah, another high pressure job. So she's doing well and thriving, which is nice. I think the school has its own pressures, which has been something that she she endured and did well and and then just decided that she wanted to take off in a different direction. That's OK. We've got a farmer or two that are going to do for me. I've got a Republican that's actually going to endorse me. And I've got some community leaders, including Craig Mitchell, who said he would put out an endorsement for me, which is great. So I'm going to work on those. I'm going to try to get those out this out the door this week. You follow my web page, which is voterenddichurchhold.com. You can see it. You can see them there. We'll also try to make some splashy splashy things on the other media on social media as well. So I've got some great folks that work with me. Any bumper stickers? I have little three by five bumper stickers. I wanted unobtrusive. I wanted things that I could stick on places and they actually stand out. I'll send you a picture if you want to use it to show my campaign sign. My campaign signs, a little artist added some color to it by putting some swoosh on the mountains in orange and yellow and some along the ground. So they got really, really quick and they're very popular. So I hope to have them out. I told people, let's put them out after Labor Day. People are really tired of looking at all the primary signs. Even after the primary, I took them and put up a couple strategic places so where they get a lot of traffic. But we're currently offering signage in my district. If you get a $5 contribution, you'll get a sign. So it's a nice way to do it.  Because I know you were an activist first, I think. And you got into, I believe, politics through activism. And so am I right about that? Was it progressive for you when then you thought, well, I can really do some good here in the legislature? Because I know you were, like I said, you were an activist before getting involved in the political scene. So can you tell us a little bit about that, like how you progress to where you are now? Yeah, the evolution of my political career is pretty interesting. I think that going back over a decade, as I got a little older, I realized that there were some important issues going on for our community. And I began work at the Pride Center, just going to different things and being part of meetings and learning about what the issues were. And then when I went to retire, I was looking, I was actively looking for things to do. And I think you'll remember the meeting that I was at when we formulated the LGBTQI Alliance. And I foolishly raised my hands and said, Keith, I'll help you. It was actually a pinnacle moment in my direction where I was headed. And it wasn't very long after that that I was retired. I started growing up at the State House with Keith. And activism is a blend of politics and being able to be in the right place at the right time, which I seem to have had some good luck with doing, starting first with the bathroom bill and moving towards the third gender on driver's licenses and IDs. And it just kind of snowballed from there. I testified for a lot of bills across a lot of different issues, minimum wage being a strong one, health care being another. We got kind of paused a little bit when I worked with Christine Hawquist to try to make her governor of the state of Vermont. And boy, oh boy, did that give me a crash course in campaigning and politics. And I got to know many, many people, made a huge amount of contacts. That continued after the election was lost. In fact, that next day, I called the governor's office and my contact there said, so can we get back to work now? And it was very, very rewarding that he said, absolutely, let's schedule a meeting. So we got right in to see the governor. And that's, I think, one of the hallmarks of the activism and the work that Keith and I did at the State Houses. We forged alliances with house leaders, with Senate leadership, with executive leadership, with different departments like the Vermont HRC, the Attorney General's office. And all these contacts remain close to me. We've been in tight communication because mostly we have Democrats running for those offices again. And I think that's a wonderful thing. So I've been very pleased to be part of really what's gonna be a wave of Democrats taking over the State House. I certainly hope, and across the country, I hope. I think the abortion ban has really activated a lot of people who may not have been that interested to all of a sudden start getting interesting. At least that's my hope anyway. I agree. I think it's gonna be a good turnout at the polls. Vermonters should know everybody that's here in this, that's in Vermont. You're all getting mailed ballots by the end of September. You have the opportunity to vote in less than four weeks. I think that's a key part of our rights and freedoms is to vote. So regardless of who you vote for, I hope you get out and cast your ballot for your candidate of choice.  Ask friends, ask people who are active about their stances. It would be a good thing to have a record turnout this fall. So Brenda Churchill, we're rooting for you. And if we could vote for you, we would. But, and we're looking forward to going to the celebration party after.  And hopefully we'll be able to have enough money to fund some postcards and get out and do some more contacts. I think I owe you guys t-shirts, isn't that right? Yes, but we can wait. And we'll wear them on the show when we get them. Oh, there you go. Yeah. So Brenda, thank you so much for coming on. I appreciate your activism and your hard work and diligence. And you've been a great friend and person working for all of us for a long time. So thank you. I appreciate that. And thanks to you and Keith and Anne as well. It's been great knowing you and your strong advocates and you keep people informed. I think that's a really important part of our community because people are taking information in so many different ways. But going on and looking at your podcast and your online presence, phenomenal. That's just phenomenal. So thank you for what you guys do as well. Well, thank you. And we will talk to you before then and hopefully you'll get into this area and we can meet up in person. So take care, good luck and be well. Thank you. Looking forward to seeing you. Hi everybody. I'm here with Josie Levitt who is a well-known person around the state. She moved here in 1996. This is her second appearance on the show. When we talked three years ago, I learned that she's originally from New York City, that she got her BA at Columbia College and a degree from Teachers College. Since she's been in Vermont, she's been part owner of the Flying Pig Bookstore and has been a comic and storyteller on the circuit for a while. But now she has a new incarnation that we're here to discuss and celebrate. So welcome Josie. Thank you. It's great to be here again. It's great to have you back. As people who are in the know politically already know, Josie is a candidate for state representative for the Grand Isle West Milton District. This is a new development in your life. But in our conversation before we take time, learned that it's almost an outgrowth of your ongoing political activism. Yes. May I ask you, when you were in New York, did you do anything political? You know what's interesting? Now that I'm working with Act Blue and there's a take action group, I am occasionally channeling my very early activists, self, which was when I was working for Act Up as a volunteer and gay men's health crisis at the height of the age crisis. So periodically I'm like, I need to talk to someone at Act Up and no one gets it. And I'm just like, oh, sorry, wrong people, wrong decade.  You don't know what I'm talking about. So yeah, it goes back a long time. And I didn't run for office in New York or anything, but I was definitely active politically because too many of my friends were dying. You know, and I was right, I graduated from college in 87 and sort of walked into the height of the age crisis and I was at Columbia and, you know, I just friends of mine were just, I mean, just getting so sick and so many friends I knew died.  And just feeling that sort of powerless, I felt like I had to do something. So I started at Gay Mental Health Crisis as a volunteer and then I would do Act Up as well and sort of combine the two because I was doing direct volunteer service with Gay Mental Health Crisis because I was helping guys get hooked up with Social Security Disability Insurance. And I was walking them through the process and then Act Up, we were just making a lot of noise and getting people to notice like, people are dying, something big needs to happen and you all need to actually pay attention.  It's a lot of marginalized people were clearly affected by the HIV and AIDS crisis. And then it took a big long break. You know, I moved to Vermont. Okay, I didn't take, I did take a huge break because my ex-wife and I moved to Charlotte. We opened the Flying Pick bookstore. And then within two years, I was on the Planning Commission. And then in Charlotte, yeah. And I realized that really wasn't for me but it took me four years to realize that because it was a four-year term and I thought, well, I'll stay. And then I joined the Rescue Squad and I was on the Rescue Squad, the Charlotte Volunteer Rescue Squad for six years and the last two I was chief. Oh, yeah. And that pretty much spoiled me for like, just after being chief, I didn't wanna do rescue anymore because it was just too many type A personalities. And I just, I found I didn't like it ultimately because I didn't get a lot of call volume. So, and I felt like I was waiting around for something to happen to my neighbors. And I started to really not enjoy that. And then I started teaching comedy. So I went from the sort of medical love that I have in my life to the creative love. And the minute I stopped doing rescue comedy just flew out of me. So I needed to not have anything else to let my creative life blossom again. And now I'm in Grand Isle. And you've been in Grand Isle five years. Five years. And I started going to development review board meetings over the last summer because the Lake Champlain Transport Transportation Company, the Ferry, they go out of Grand Isle and 25 hours a day to Platsburg, which is fine. But they wanted to build a 30,000 square foot maintenance facility, 275 feet away from where we pull our water. And I got really involved in that. And I saw how few people were involved in local boards. And then I started going to select board meetings and I was not happy with what I was seeing. And I had applied for an open spot on the select board. And I gave a killer interview. I thought I did great. And they picked a guy who had just lost the election for select board. And I thought, now this feels a little bit, now I'm not gonna say rigged, but a woman had stepped down, she had resigned and they replaced a woman spot on the select board with a man who had just lost his fourth election in a row for select board. Which tells me folks maybe didn't want him as a select man. And I thought, well, this is bull. And so I decided I'm gonna run because I was angry, I was pissed. And then I went to every single select board meeting from September until now. And I realized five people are making really big decisions. And who's on your local boards really matters. Can you give me an example of some of the things that the select board decides? Well, one of the things they decided, and this was before me and this is one of the things that made me decide to really run as well is concerned citizens as they say, there were 150 people put in a request for action, which is not the same thing as a petition, but they asked the select board to basically do three years to re-audit the audits for three years. And the select board agreed to it and they spent $60,000 to re-audit the audits. It wasn't a forensic audit. And we just spent $60,000 of taxpayer money to be told the audits are now basically done. Oh, by the way, your auditor didn't do anything wrong. Neither did your town clerk or your treasurer. And I just thought, wow, where's the oversight? Where are clearer heads? Why aren't they prevailing? And this town, I love my town, but in this like all towns, there are factions. There aren't political. They're more sort of old-time, what families lived here of the longest. And, oh, you're new and someone even on front porch form said, at that point, I've only lived here four years and someone put on front porch form, we should mandate that you have to live here at least five years before you can run for office. And that was a direct dig in me.   And I won handily by like a two to one margin. So I feel pretty good about that. And the nice thing is the way the select board meets, we meet on Mondays, which are nights that I'll always be home should I win the state house. So I'm gonna do both at the same time.  And I'm getting asked that a lot when I doorknock and people are very surprised that I'm gonna do both. And I always answer with, I honor my commitments and my commitment is to my town. And now my commitment is to my town and also now to my counting as a state rep. And being on the select board will better inform me as a rep and I'll be able to bring back real concrete examples of issues that we're struggling with that we need Montpelier's help with that maybe we haven't had in the last two years because we haven't had reps who live on the island. And that leads me to my next question. How did you happen to throw your hat in the ring for state rep? Okay, I threw my hat in the ring very late because I didn't want to do it. I didn't think it was appropriate for me to do it partly because I haven't lived here five years. I'm on the select board. And I thought, you know, someone else should do it. I didn't, it felt like hubris if I had done it and I'm not that kind of person. And I didn't think I could. And I kept waiting, you know, the petition period and I was checking almost every day with the town clerk going, has anyone put in a petition? And she said, no, no one. And then the petition period came and went and not one Democrat had their name on the ballot. So it was basically two Republicans and then nothing on the Democratic ballot. And I thought, well, that can't happen because democracy doesn't exist without choices. And I thought, all right, fine. So I started really thinking about it and then I talked to my partner and at first she was sort of like, please don't do this, just don't do this. And then my sister-in-law, Tiffany Bloomley is in the state house. I love her, a former guest on the show. She's great, sorry about the dog. Stop barking, sweetie. And we can't hear her. Okay, good. And I called Tiff, actually I called her later. That's not true. I called Missy Johnson first because she lives in South Arrow, she was speaker and I said, walk me through. I said, what's it like being in the state house? Because honestly, and I'll be perfectly blunt, I was afraid I was gonna be totally bored because I'm like, how much change can I actually affect? And how much of my time am I gonna be spent being frustrated, spending hours and hours a day in meetings? Because I don't particularly enjoy that. And she walked me through the whole legislative calendar and I thought, okay, this sounds good. I can do this. And I said, do I need to be in my pillier? Do I need to stay over three nights a week? She said, no, stay over one night, make it intentional. And then you can drive home and say, okay, that's good because I didn't wanna be away from home that many nights and because I wanna be with my partner. And then I just talked to a couple more people. I talked to Joe Cronowski, the speaker of the house and she was lovely. I talked to Mike McCarthy. Everyone really gave me a lot of time and a lot of information. And then it was what Keisha Rom said when I reached out to her because we're friends and I said, Keisha, what difference does one more Democrat make? And she explained about how many veto override votes we'd missed by one vote. And she also said, one more Democrat is one less Republican taking up space in a committee room and slowing things down and making it harder for us to reach our agenda. And I was like, okay, I'll do it. And then we ran a writing campaign and I had a lot of amazing help from this group we have out here called Take Action. And these folks were stunningly helpful. I don't think we would have been able to do it without them. And my partner's a graphic designer. So she and Tiffany actually designed my lawn sign because after she found out I was gonna run, we had this long talk about it. And the next day she sent me like five, no, like eight different versions of lawn signs that she had designed and they were all great. And then my partner at least just tweaked one and it's wonderful, it's a beautiful thing. And so people have been just really helpful. People are very excited and now we have choices. So Karen and I also, cause Annie had to step out. There was a woman who was also on the writing campaign and she, we both won our nomination obviously. And she, her boss said after she won, you know what, you can't do this. You can't be both. So she had to step off and not accept the nomination. And then Karen Ames got the second nomination through the committee work and our names are on the ballot. And it's actually really cool because it's Karen Ames, Josie Levitt, Michael Morgan, Andy Parity. So we're the top two, which is nice. And then does that matter? God, I hope not, but it might. So, you know, I'm learning a lot and the Democratic Party has been enormously helpful. And there are a lot of people out here who have been, I'm moved almost every day by how generous people are with their time and their talents. What's your platform? What are the key points? Oh, the key points are, I'm totally in support of reproductive liberty. I know, right? Seriously. Affordable housing, we need to see a lot more of that. We need to do something to mitigate climate change because Vermont is actually of all the New England states, the one that's the only one that's failing to meet the standards. I didn't know that. Yes, it's funny. I learned that in my VPurg interview and VPurg just endorsed me as a candidate yesterday, which was as my first, I've never gotten endorsed before and I'm really happy that it's them. And we talked about, the other thing is clean heat standard and how do we help people who can't afford to do the things they need to do to make their home more energy efficient? How do we support that? And I'm also on the board and a volunteer at our local food shelf. And I see so many people who work, who have kids or who are seniors on a fixed income. And also, since March when I started, the number, our volume has doubled, literally doubled because inflation, gas prices, and now we're getting people who are very, they're terrified. And I asked a couple of people last week, I'm like, why do y'all look so spooked? And this woman said, because we now we're thinking about how we're gonna pay to heat our house because everyone knows that the heating oil is very, very expensive right now and it's only gonna get worse. And they're trying to figure out how am I gonna do both? And people last year made choices of heat my home or have dinner. And that should not be, absolutely. And the other thing I really care about is how can we have paid family leave? How can we address the complete lack of childcare, affordable childcare in this state? And the flip side of that is, how can we also pay childcare providers what they deserve? None of these people should be making minimum wage. They're taking care of children. That's the most important thing a person can do in a lot of ways is take care of someone else's child and help educate them. And they're getting $15 an hour. That's crazy. And I'm reminded of my old English teacher in high school said, you can tell what a society cares about by what they pay people. And as a teacher back then, he said, and this is not sliding sanitation workers at all but he said the sanitation worker gets paid three times what he got paid as a teacher. And so people don't value education. And how do we make it affordable for families that came to Vermont during the pandemic? I mean, not all of them are wealthy, but how do we, and also how do we keep people in their houses but just cause eviction now, people are losing their leases left and right for no reason and there's no place for them to go. There is like the rental stock just in Grand Isle County is not existent. As far as I can tell, it's like a house here, maybe a house here. And how do you then address the investors who are buying up homes to turn them into Airbnb's? And we have a lot of those out here because this is a great Airbnb place in the summer.  And I have a dear friend who's a farmer out here. She's an organic farmer. She can't afford to build a house right now. She has some money and it went from being 300,000 to build a house before COVID. Now it's like 650,000 to build a 1500 square foot house. She's like, I can't afford that. Yeah, I know. I can't afford that. So we need to address the inequities and we need to slow down some systems that are going way too fast and we need to remember, especially in Grand Isle County where we don't even have a bus. We have no public transportation out here. We have one bus in Alberg that goes to Alberg just one. If you wanna go on the bus in Grand Isle County it takes two and a half hours to go to Burlington. And it's twice a day you get a shot at it. That's crazy. And that means you have to have a car. Right, and so many of my food shelf clients, and I talk to them a lot and I'm just, it's like, how's it going? And everyone has said I am one car repair away from being homeless. And then they went and closed our courthouse for a long time during the pandemic. And then we had a really fight and that's one thing that the previous select board did very, very well as they fought hard with Doug DeSavito, our state's attorney to keep our court, to get our courthouse back open because we need one here. We shouldn't always be asking people to go to St. Albans or Burlington, especially for domestic violence cases where you need to file a relief from abuse order.  Then it's just gonna trigger more questions and more violence and more abuse. So there are things, how can I say this? Grand El County is a unique county because we are the only county in Vermont that does not, it is the only landmass we're contiguous with is Canada. You, the only way you have to want to come to Grand El County, you don't just happen to drive through it on your way someplace else. It's an intentional thing, but because we don't connect to any other part of Vermont, we're often forgotten because people are like, what's Grand El County? We're not even on the map, drawn the right way. You know, if you look at state maps of Vermont, we should be a little island chain and we're connected and we're not. So anyway, that's one thing.  Let's step back and why'd you move to Grand El County? I'll give you the short version. I moved to Grand El County because in 2018, I got breast cancer and I was in the middle of treatment and on my infusion weeks when I felt really bad and I wasn't, at that time I was working at the Pride Center, I was always off on infusion weeks and I was working from home, but I would spend time on Zillow looking at houses on the water because my partner and I had spent some time at different places on the water. And just like, I really, the water, being on the water relaxes me and it slows my very busy, busy brain down. And then this house popped up on Zillow. And I thought, oh my God, I got to go look at this house. And I had started looking at other houses.  And I was looking at different things and then this house popped up and everything about it, I just loved. And so in the middle of radiation, I bought a house because why not? Why not move in the middle of cancer treatment? Sure, great idea. And so that's how I came here. Well, you put beautiful pictures up on Facebook. You know, I face East and I'm an early riser and one of the things, I did two things with photography. The first was for the first, I guess maybe it was the second year that I lived here. Every morning at 717, I would take a picture from the same spot. So when you could see sort of how the sun tracked and how it was different. And then when COVID started, I took a sunrise picture every day for a year and a half because I just thought people needed it. And all I would say was Monday, Tuesday because people were also like, what day is it? You know, in the beginning of COVID, we're all just saying we're hemmed in. We're all just, you know, we're sort of locked down. And I thought, let's give somebody, let's give people something pretty to look at. And I found it very soothing. And so now if I have a particularly pretty day and I'm up early enough, I will take a picture just because it's beautiful. I know. And it is relaxing even for the viewer. I have a friend who lives in New Orleans I'm up by who does something, you know of Storks and Crocodiles, Egrets and Ducks. That's lovely. I know it's really soothing for the viewer here. I've had people ask me now, like, are you gonna make a card line or a calendar? I don't have time in another world and another iteration of my life, maybe, but I enjoy it. And I know it gives so many people pleasure and people who are, you know, it's not about like, how many likes am I getting? Cause who cares?  I'm like, cool. You know, I have no idea who's looking at them. And I just, I like doing that. And it's if I can spread a little tiny bit of joy in a world that feels completely chaotic and on fire.  I would say. You know, I just, I'm trying to make it better. So that's partly why I'm running for office is to make sure that queer folk don't get, can I swear? Oh, sure.  And there's already enough violence.   So they almost took somebody's house down because they set the flag on fire and they were stealing flags. And I thought, this is really close to home. Yes. And this is heinous and hateful. And there's no reason for this. So if I can be in the state house and work with people like Taylor Small and Tiff Bloomley and really work to protect the LGBTQ plus community in Vermont, sign me up. You know it.  Yes, I am.   I'm like, there are three cars in the driveway. There's a dog barking. So clearly somebody's home. No one has a doorbell. So the material, what I'm trying to say is it's writing itself. My first day door knocking, I got bitten by a dog. I'm like, awesome. This is great. This is fun. But also again, it's like when I went through cancer treatment, going through something that's challenging and I find door knocking very difficult, but knowing I can talk about it later makes it easier. Because if I have a bad exchange with somebody, I can write about it. And then I sort of discharge the bad feeling and try and find the good.  It's the same day. You know, it just depends on how you want to look at it. And the other, the cool thing about door knocking though, is when I actually get to talk to someone who's nice and is kind enough to just want to talk to me, it's almost like I'm doing crowd work at a comedy show because I have to be really quick because sometimes they'll throw me a curve ball of a question and I'll have to think, you have to really think on your feet. You have to be really quick. And also I'm realizing if I can make somebody laugh about something about the political climate or the political scene, they're gonna remember me.  Even if it's just you and I laughing or a whole room, people remember the laughter. And if I can use that to my advantage as a politician, that can only help me. And I have several shows lined up. I'm doing a show right after the election down in Bellas Falls. And then Emerge Vermont has asked me to do something after the election, just to sort of, everybody get in a room and just relax. Like we're not campaigning, the election's over and just let's have some fun. Were you involved with Emerge in this? Yes, well, I kind of, I missed the boat on Emerge training for running for state office because I wasn't planning on it. But I did take, they had a great one-off workshop on how to run for select board. And that was enormously helpful. And Elaine Haney, their director, I pretty much did everything she told me to do. And I ran, it was a good campaign. She was enormously, it was great. She really helped me. And I learned a lot about politics and how you run a campaign, which is a little bit like starting a comedy show in a way, like what are your component pieces? What's your plan? Sort of, what's your set list? And then how are you gonna bounce off of that? And how are you gonna be sort of flexible and spontaneous but also stick to what you know you have to do? And another commonality I was thinking is that you have the, both campaigning and in comedy, you have the opportunity for exchange. Yes, very much so. Because when you were last on the show, you said the difference between comedy and storytelling is that comedy, you have some back and forth with the audience where storytelling is more. Storytelling, you're not supposed to have. And I find that it's easier now for me than it used to be, but I still, I like that exchange. And I think being a comic who really enjoys crowd work has made campaigning easier for me. I mean, one guy, it was like the third door I knocked on and I knock again and it's the screen door I'm knocking on, then the other door is open. And I'm like, well, somebody's home because the front door is open, but you never open a dorm. You just don't do that. And out comes this man who's shirtless wearing kind of shorty shorts. And he's like, can I help you? I'm like, oh my God. And I was like, you are not my people. And I said, yes, my name's Josie Levitt. I'm running for state house. And he's like, I don't like politics. And I said, neither do I. And I immediately got his attention. He's like, what? And I said, nobody likes politics. I said, but here's why I'm running. And that worked.  He's a Republican, like very conservative Republican. And he said that, but he did take my materials and he said, you know what? Thank you for hanging in there with me. I was like, all right. And I said, thank you for letting me talk to you.  And so we had a, we wound up having a really great exchange. And I'll take that for a win. You know it. Yeah. Josie Levitt, this has been delightful. We wish you the best. Yes, and thank you so much. I love talking to you. It's so much fun. I did hope. Yeah, the feeling is mutual. And I hope you win. And thank you. Me too. Me too. Yes, all right. Josie Levitt, vote for her. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. And until next time, remember, resist.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Ultimate Birthday has brought evolutions back to their glory on this game, guys. With another insane Evo dropped yesterday that you have to do, it also gives us the chance to upgrade somebody who hasn't got an Evo all year long. A very meta attacker in that Evo. We're gonna talk about that plus today, Sunday, the content's gonna go crazy again with a Macha Lele Icon SBC, which we know that EA has told us about already, but also an Icon Player Pick SBC has been rumored by leakers to be one that will not include base icons for the first time this year. How is that gonna impact the market that's already struggling? We have a lot to talk about today, guys. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up. Subscribe if you are new. Let's go to the SBCs, because man, there was a ton of SBCs yet again yesterday on this game. I thought we were done with the showdown series. We had two more showdown SBCs dropped yesterday amidst all the ultimate birthday madness. We have Miguel Almaron from Newcastle and Rodrigo Bentancourt from Tottenham Hotspur. Guys, this game is not until April 13th. It is a long time away, and they make you do the SBC in the next six days. I mean, 87 rated is not the best. You do get two playstyle pluses. Almaron's got the five-star skills and the finesse plus playstyle, which is cool. He is also the cheaper of the two SBCs and probably the one that if people are gonna do one, especially after how Spurs played yesterday against Fulham, everybody's gonna be looking at this Almaron. Now, personally, I'm gonna go for Bentancourt with the Tikitaka and the Bruiser five-star week foot as well, but that's just because I am a Spurs fan, 135K for Bentancourt and 35K for Almaron. So yeah, there's that. Here's the problem, though. I wish this was released, or at least I hope there's an EVO at the stage of this game where you'll be able to upgrade the showdowns again because the showdown upgrade EVO expires way before this game will be played. So that was kind of random, honestly. Content yesterday because I wasn't expecting more showdowns after we had a showdown every day for the past week. But we got one anyways. Now, to the ultimate birthday content, we have Yoshida, right? We knew he was coming. It's on the EA list of SBCs to come out throughout this next week. This is a must-do. Like, I mean, there's no contest here, guys. It is an 88-rated card, and the SBC cost 17K, which is literally an 84-rated squad, which is fodder price for 88.  Medium-high, five-star week foot, and all defending play styles except for Jaki. But he has Aerial Plus. This is a really, really nice card. It's got Anticipate, Intercept Plus. Really cool card here. If you have Sawa, you have the links there. If you have any MLS cards, links there. No complaint. That's a must-do just because it is so cheap. Now, the big SBC yesterday was this one, man. And I'm so happy that we finally had an icon player SBC that was not leaked. Roberto Carlos Future Stars. I don't know why it's not showing his dynamic image right now on the card. It looks a little bit weird. But this is the Future Stars version of Roberto Carlos. This guy was 2 million coins just a couple days ago, and now he's 1.4 million on the market because so many people are looking at this SBC as one that they want to grind towards and craft towards. Right now, with all the packs, they even dropped more packs to drew and upgrade packs yesterday in the menus. With all the craftability of the menus right now, this SBC, albeit not a deal, I guess you could say, it is the potential, and it gives you the opportunity and the potential to craft basically a left back that you could use until like June. Come on, guys. Roberto Carlos 92 rated with these sorts of stats. Yeah, he doesn't have five star skills, but he has Dead Ball Plus. He's got Energizer Plus. He's got incredible play styles on the rest of the card. He's got Rapid. He's got Whipped Pass, Long Ball, Power Shot. And of course, he's got 99 Shot Power, Long Shots, Curve, Free Kick Accuracy. If you want a Roberto Carlos, this is regarded as one of the best left backs in the game every single year. Here's a craftable version of him that you can go and do. But it's one that you're going to have to put some grime into. It's 15 squads to get done. And again, is the SBC great value? It's really coming in at the same price that he was on the market before this came out, or maybe 100K less, because it's 1.9 million coins. So it's not a really big deal. It's just the menus are so craftable right now, and this is such a worth it card to be crafting that you could use for a long time that a lot of people are doing it. Look at his card, man, from 2 mil down to 1.4 on the market. It's showing me that a lot of people are wanting to go and do this SBC. Also, take a look at some of these other very meta, especially for the more expensive left backs in the game. Team of the Year, Karchawi going from 2 million coins down to 1.7, under 1.7. That's a crazy drop. That tells me a lot of people are doing this SBC. It's not one that I think I'm going to commit to right away, but it is a very, very good SBC to craft. You guys have been asking for an SBC to craft and chip away at overtime. That's your SBC right there. Now, oh, I forgot my ultimate birthday daily login. Let me do this really fast.  I guess the old ones expired and they refreshed them basically with new versions. So that is nice to have those back in the game. Make this your reminder once again to do your ultimate birthday daily login. This is day four, I believe. Today on Sunday will be day five, which I don't think we get a reward for actually, which is a little interesting. But for the upgrade packs yesterday, we had a crafting upgrade. Guys, we have an 80 plus player pick right now. We have an 80 plus times three and now we have a crafting upgrade, which in my opinion, I'm going to stay away from at least until the player pick goes away because I think the 80 plus times three and the player pick is better than this. It requires one rare and 11 golds. It's the same requirements as the 80 plus times three. You just get extra rewards for doing this SBC over time and the rewards are decent.  Crafting upgrade completionist. You get a couple of special cards throughout doing this and then of course you get your regular fodder packs. There's a dirt kite hero card in here. There's ultimate dynasty slaughterback. There's a Goulair, Art of Goulair from Future Stars and Joe Gomez towards the end. Lampty and Winter Wild Cards David Alaba at the very end. So you get some good packs along the way and an 83 20 for doing it. But I think for right now, until there aren't any better packs to have in the upgrades, like if there's not an 80 plus player pick or an 80 plus times three that is out, I would do those first. But this I'm going to pass on until there's not a better upgrade pack to do is basically what I'm trying to say. So that was our first upgrade pack yesterday. We also had the 82 times 20, but they changed the requirement. Remember this SBC was always kind of frowned upon because it required two squads. Now all it requires is one squad, but an 85 rated squad at that, still a little steep in my opinion. It's still it's 69% out voted people like it because it is an SBC that you can very easily craft with the player picks that like everybody is doing right now or the 80 plus triple upgrade. So it is very craftable, but it's still a little bit more expensive than I would like it to be. It was like an 80 84 and maybe an inform I would be I think like that better than the 85 85 ratings just a little bit harder to get, but it is what it is. I haven't tried any of those to see how good they are. And you can also only do it once a day really. All right, that's a little bit of an L. I would have loved to do that twice a day. Only once a day is a little bit of a bummer. Man, bring back to 83 times 10 for sure. But that was dropped yesterday as well. I think team of the weeks are down a little bit on the market. Quick shout out for team of the weeks. I would sell those because the main reason that those are still propped up in price is obviously because of the encore icon upgrade, which does go away today. So unless this comes back, which I don't think I would expect it to come back with another icon player pick coming. I would probably sell tradable team of the weeks last coughing. Those are like 36 or 37. Okay, they might stay up in value a little bit, but with all of the packs that are in the store, the tradable packs that you can get right now. Anyways, from like the challenge, SBCs, the flash challenge, which is still available, right? I think I would sell those team of the weeks just to be safe. But those are all the SBCs that we had yesterday. Now we got to go to evolutions, guys, because this is the content that really make things go crazy again. Two days in a row with nuts, evolutions. Of course, we had the jack of all trades and we had the weak foot peak.  The skill move upgrade is really, really insane as well. This is definitely an EVO that is best for the attackers and it's free. And we get to do it twice, man. I mean, this is incredible guys. It's a 71% upvoted EVO. I guess maybe the only bad thing about it is they're kind of capping these evos recently as you can see overall max 85. That's like close. If it was max 86 or seven, there'd be a lot of cards available for this and it would be even more scary. But the fact that this is even 85 rated in the boost that you get plus three paced, two shooting, two passing, four dribbling and two physical.  You can create a 93 paced car here with Philippe Anderson. This is a crazy EVO and it gives you another chance to EVO previously upgraded cards. I had not checked in my club yet. No way. I can give Alice Angelini. Wait, he doesn't fit the evolution because he has more than eight play styles. Are you kidding me, bro? Now this card is like 10 play styles, man. Oh, no. I was going to put him into this. Oh, okay. Javi Simons. Oh, that's actually very disappointing. I was so hoping to put Alice Angelini into this. All right. Anyways, I believe there are some very, very popular gold cards that can go into this. However, Richardlison, I'm going to have to, I think it's glitching out of me right now. I couldn't see my cursor. Man, I was so hoping that Alice Angelini would go into that. I literally didn't go into the EVO as I sat down on console just to see who from my club would fit it. Now, why does he show up in the search, man? If he's not even going to fit it, come on, EA. Don't get my hopes up like that. Guys, the biggest card that a lot of people are putting into this EVO is the main man himself, Marcus Rashford. That is why this EVO has got a lot of hype right now as well. You had Veran yesterday in weak foot peak and now you've got this one, birthday magic with Rashford. His card's going extinct. You know what's crazy about this? Before you're like, nah, Rashford's not worth it to put in this. I beg to differ, okay? Rashford's already got the five star skills. So the five star skills doesn't upgrade his card. But the stat upgrade that you get, plus the play style plus of Rapid Plus, the card you're ending up with is a double play style plus, Power Shot Rapid. He's got technical flare, Quick Step. You get the boosted stats. And when you compare this card to his Centurions, which was just 460K or 440K on the market before it tanked yesterday as everybody's doing this EVO and the ones who had this card selling it, it's actually not that far off. Like it's literally a plus three shooting difference, one passing and one physical in the stats that matter from this card. And this card's what? 400K and this one's free. And just some games and champs and squad battles. That's a dub, right? That is a big W in my book for the Rashford. There's plenty of other good cards that fit in this EVO. There's actually a double EVO you can do right now. If you get Gold Renato Sanchez, which you're going to have to pack him because he's extinct as well, you can get Rapid Plus and Jockey Plus, five star, five star Renato Sanchez with pretty good stats. He's also just one of those players that kind of plays above his stat values anyway. And the play styles you get on that again, Rapid and Jockey Plus. I mean, I don't know if that's worth it, but those are two free evolutions. If you want a cracked Renato that you could go and get your Rente, I guess the Javi Simons that was in my club as well is one that's very popular for that EVO there. And of course, this Centurion's Corea again is going crazy for this EVO too. There's plenty of options out here, guys, to put in this evolution. So that's what I love about it is a lot of you guys are going to be able to put in cards like stuff like this that you maybe have not EVO'd yet or you have EVO'd and you haven't been able to upgrade for a while. That's why I checked out the Alice Andrini. Even though it didn't fit, this Retrylison doesn't look good enough of a boost for me. Muqtar, you know, solid, but not amazing. I really needed the Alice Andrini to fit, man. If he would have fit, this EVO would have been crazy for me. But there's plenty of regular cards that fit this too. Oh yeah, even some of the unused cards. What about this Almata? He might be kind of cracked. 89 paced, 88 dribbling with Rapid Plus. Okay, that's okay. Man, I'm so bummed about Alice Andrini. Why does he have to have so many playstyles, bro? Anyways, that is a W EVO. And guys, there's still rumors of that massive EVO to come out today that can make things even crazier. So we're going to talk more about EVOs, but as you look across the market, you can tell that these EVOs are really impacting prices, not only of the prices of the players that you put into it, right? But the prices of the players that people are replacing these players with, right? Like so many people are trying to get a gold Rashford right now through upgrade packs because there's no special version of Rashford in packs. This one was in packs last week, but now it's just his gold card. You're going to have to get him through like an 80 to 20 or an 81 plus player pick to put him into that EVO or pack him somehow, right? So many people are going after these cards in their extinct, but at the same time, so many cards on the market keep dropping and it just does not look like the market's going to stop dropping, especially with how today's content potentially looks. It doesn't look good for other middle to high tier special cards, specifically the middle to high tier because even this messy card who I bought for 750, right? For Weekend League, he's like 710,000 coins. It's just cards like that that continue to drop just a little bit more every single day because the new content that comes out is just absolutely crazy. Now, prices that actually matter are these foot birthday cards and these matter big time, which actually I was just able to pick up a crazy snipe on a Benzema because Footbin has his price updated four hours ago. I think Footbin's having some issues with price updates right now. I'm sure this will get resolved fast because this is very rare. Their price updating system almost is never down and right now on Footbin it is down. So Benzema on the market was still right around like 1.6 million coins just a bit ago. There's a couple undercuts there because he keeps showing as like 1.49. Araujo was up at 1.4 and now he's 1.26. Who's another one? Jota. Yeah, Jota shows us 1 million coins, right? 1.02. But if I go look at Jota right now on the market, I think he's like 1.1 mil or he was like literally five, 10 minutes ago and I looked. Yeah, 1.095.  I don't think that's going to last for long. But speaking of these prices, holy, did they go up yesterday, man? Take a look at this Jota yesterday. He went from 1 million coins right bottom. I sold him too early. My card sold like right here as he was going up. He went all the way to 1.4 mil, kind of came back down to 1.1. But you can see these cards, they have so much demand. Rodrigo. I think Rodrigo went to like 1.7 mil yesterday or something. Both versions. 1.4 all the way to 1.9. Then down to 1.4. What about this version? The five star skills, Rodrigo. How high did he go? Yesterday he went from 1.6. Okay, kind of peaked here at 2 mil. I doubt he really sold there much. But like these cards have so much demand guys. They are moving a ton in price. I think the Benzema, to go back and look at that card again from yesterday, he went from 1.5 lows all the way to 1.8 mil. That's crazy, right? People really, really, really want to play with these cards. They really want to use them. Try them out in game because the stats are crazy. The players again themselves are pretty crazy as well. You just be careful with them because I think today's content could drop them a little bit, but they could be moving very, very strong. I've even spent some more coins in the last couple of hours trying to flip these cards. I have a Benzema right now. And then I picked up a Rodrigo. This is the five star weak fit version. I picked it up for 1.38. And right now he's about 1.4 flat on the market. So I'm hoping that he gets rare again this morning and that he can go up some more. But I'm lazy-listed because if somebody thinks that's the five star skill version, I might end up getting a good sale because that's like just a little bit cheaper than the five star skill move version. So hoping for a little bit of a lazy sale on that. But those cards and of course the icons are moving well on the market. They are down a bit as expected, right? Blanc was 1.9. Now he's 1.3. If that's his actual price again, our footben prices are a little bit off today, but they did very, very well yesterday. But I think as we get the content again, I would be very careful with those cards today on Sunday with what we are supposed to get. So be careful with that. Also, one little tidbit of information, I guess you would say is EA tweeted multiple times yesterday on their direct communication account that the daily objective was not refreshing of some sort of way. They also tweeted that there was a... What was it? We have addressed an issue where unintended player items were coming out of the 87 plus campaign player pick. Impacted players were receiving a new player pick in the coming days. So that's a brand new tweet. Okay, so there's compensation. They tweeted four times yesterday. The campaign player pick, the daily objective, they disabled FC points on the companion app on Android. That was probably fixed very fast. And then they also said we have addressed an issue where the ultimate team champs rewards were not providing a campaign mixed player pack. So there's compensation like in small areas, it's not like happening to a lot of people, I think. But four tweets yesterday is pretty crazy. So if any of that impacted you, I guess there is going to be some compensation that is loading for that. Now, let's talk today. Sunday, big day. We already mentioned it. The icon on core upgrade is going bye-bye, right? What an SPC this was for the low price just to have a chance at crafting a cheap icon pack. Very fun SPC. It's going bye-bye, right? What is returning supposedly is potentially the biggest icon pick of the year. Guys, this is FIFA trading Romania. He said the upcoming casino, aka icon player pick should be an icon pick. And the best thing is that base versions have been removed. We've already seen this player pick, guys. But it's not until level 40 of the current season. And that is his leak right there saying that that's going to come as SPC probably today, right? Sundays are the icon player pick or the hero player pick days. But this is the player pick right here he'd be talking about. Centurions, dynasties, Thunderstruck, Winter Wild Cards, team of the year icon player pick. If that is an SPC today, which I'm not going to take this for 100% validity and say that it's coming today. Again, this guy is almost all the time, right? So it's very possible that it does come today. But we're going to take it with a pinch of salt as always because that would fit the trend of how this content is going with how good the content has been during ultimate birthday so far. But we'll just be a little bit careful in believing it. If that comes today, right? We'll just say if. If that comes today, that is going to be a very hyped icon pick. Imagine no base cards in it. You have a chance to pack the team of the years, the Thunderstruck. Yes, there will be probably some Centurion cards with a very high weight. Maybe some of the ultimate dynasty icons with a very high weight as well. You know, they are going to take over those packs a lot. So you really are going to be looking for the Winter Wild Cards and for the team of the year icons. But just the fact that you have a chance of packing a special version of an icon, no more base icons is pretty dope. And that actually lowers the player pool a lot. I'm sure that almost all of the special icons including like these fodder ones like the barns, the Hiero, the Laudra, he's not that fodder, but Raquelme, they're going to be in the pick as well. I don't know what the rating will be on it, but that's going to be a very hyped player pick guys. Let's talk about how it's going to impact the market. Fodder, fodder, even though they're running the crazy lightning rounds guys, EA dropped like the 86 plus packs, the 85 sevens, I think the 84 10 and the 88 plus, the tradable ones were all dropped again yesterday. But I think people are starting to invest in this stuff, just a little bit. 88s are about 16 and a half K, which is up from their low point of like 15,000 coins. They're not up much because we're still getting that supply in right, but there's a lot of potential demand that is coming with the SBC for that icon pick today. But also I would say the fact that we got that Roberto Carlos SBC yesterday and that we have had, you know, like the Socrates recently and those SBCs even come on that have very high rated squads in them like the 88, the 89 and the 90 rated squads. If we're talking about high rated fodder, which is still probably my favorite place to invest in fodder on this game and it moves has the most likelihood to move. I think the 88s and above, I mean, maybe it is time for a bit of a club stock. When is that demand going to start to outweigh the supply? That's the question, right? How much would an icon player pick that doesn't have bases in it that EA know would be super crazy hype that everybody's going to want to do? How much is that going to cost? Probably a couple hundred K, right? So I have to imagine that at least this is the no risk play or very small risk play. I mean, 85s or 89, sorry, at 26,000 coins, 88s at like under 16 K. If you can get them, I mean, 16 flat here, that's probably you can get some on bid. If EA run those lighting rounds again later today, like 16 K, that's a price that I'm fine with. Just buying one and putting it on my transfer list. Oh, I have a Kimmich in the club. That's good to know. You know, like that sort of thing is what I would be doing right now. If you want to spend some coins on fodder and just be potentially buying a little bit of fodder to lazy list and then try to make some coins on in the next couple of days, maybe this is 12 K. Oh yeah, that was never going to get one there. That's one heck of a snipe, but like 16 K. Yeah, you're not paying the absolute lowest when these were 15,000 coins or maybe some of you got them on cheap, cheap bids, but like I'm fine paying that price to just stock it in the club and wait on it. If you realize and know that it's, it might be an SBC once again that you have to wait a week on for it to upgrade, level up in price, if you will, then I think that's okay. You have to be a little bit patient with it. I don't know, man. I don't know what fodder is going to do in this kind of like latter part of March just because the supply is so crazy right now, but fodder has been so low for so long. Like these 89s have not been above 30 K. I mean, they have been for like two or three days like last week and then they came right back down to 27,000 coins, but like we were used to these cards being 35 to 40 K. Almost all the first half of the year and they are really, really cheap. I just have to think that there's going to be some sort of time a little bit later on that these are going to continue to go up. So in the long term, it's a good club stock. Maybe today, whatever their icon player pick requires the most specifically. If there's an 88 rated squad, I could see 89s moving a bit. If there's an 89 rated squad, then 90s will move for sure. 90s will move for sure if there's an 89 squad. So just to point that out, we'll have to see how much this SBC costs, but all of that to say, it's maybe worth a little bit of a club stock. There's still going to be supply on the market from those lightning round packs, but a little bit of a club stock, I think is a safe way to go about it to get yourself some fodder in the club and then team of the weeks. I don't think it's worth investing in team of leaks right now with the on core icon going away. That's so much demand for team of the weeks. I would just say if you need a team of the week card, just hit an 83 plus team of the week player pick from doing these, your daily gold upgrades and an exchange or two, right? You're going to very easily be able to get this also from doing the 82 times 20. And 82 times 20 is literally going to allow you to do an 83 plus player pick at the very least with all the 82s, 3s, 4s and maybe a couple 85s you get from that, you're going to easily be able to do an 83 team a week at the very least and then put that into an icon SBC. So yeah, I would say don't invest in team of leaks because those are very, very high and I wouldn't say go all in on fodder unless you want to really risk it or if you're okay to hold for a really long time. Now, another icon SBC that could bring a little bit more demand to the fodder market is going to be a Cloud Makalely SBC today. Now, I have to imagine that that is going to be a ultimate birthday version of Makalely. There's no way they're going to put the Centurions version out the cards like 100,000 coins. Makalely has not had a special for a while. Again, the Centurions was its most latest card. And honestly, I don't feel like this is going to be a crazy expensive SBC. I think it might be a little bit cheaper of an icon SBC. Maybe less than a million coins, right? Socrates 1.5, Averto Carlos 1.9. Maybe this is right around a milli or like 1.1, you know? So maybe like 10, 11 squads, 12 squads potentially depending on what ratings they go with. This could be a really good card though. I remember using Makalely moments back in FIFA 21 or 22. And I used that card for ages because he was so good. There's got to be a five-star upgrade to this. I really hope it's five-star weak foot. I mean, hopefully they do medium-high work rates as well. His play style, he has block, press-proven reel and a slide tackle and intercept. And it is a very good defending card. A definite CDM or maybe a little bit of a box-to-box. We'll see what they release that at today, but he will be coming out as an SBC today on Sunday alongside of an icon player pick. So those are the two biggest SBCs to watch out for today. The other thing is we really have to keep an eye out on is that evolution guys. We still have that evolution that is leaked by Foot Police. And yesterday he updated his leak and he said, boom, obviously Rashford's able to be evolved. But the evolution that he leaked yesterday should come tomorrow. He tweeted this yesterday, right? So the EVO he leaked Friday should come today on Saturday. And that EVO once again was the big EVO that we've already mentioned a couple of times that gives you the play style plus technical and five-star skill moves. 91 pace, 89 shooting, that one, right? Now, here's the problem with this, a trend that I'm noticing on all these EVOs. This requirement that he lists here does not say a max overall rating. And in the last two days, all of the EVOs, except for actually all of them, yes, the jack of all trades, max overall 85, the weak foot peak max overall 85 and the birthday magic max overall 85. I have worries that this is also going to have a max overall 85 inside of it. And that would make a lot of these cards that everybody's investing in not evolvable because they're like 87 rated for the Torres or like the Rodrigo, right? This card might not be evolvable today if they put that max 85 requirement in there. I'm not saying that it's going to be there. I'm just saying I'm seeing a trend. It's not in this tweet, but I'd be careful, especially if I was invested in one of those things, just to take the safe route, right? So that's kind of what I'm thinking there. Obviously, you want to sell those EVO requirements into the hype anyway. And that is the EVO that we will be watching for Cristiano Ronaldo today. Last night, he was like 8K when we were looking at his car. I think he's still like 9,000 coins. He doesn't actually wait a second, Ronaldo is 86 rated as well. So he would not fit the EVO. Dang, I really hope that there's not a 85 rated cap on that. So hopefully EA take that off and give us basically the craziest EVO yet. But we'll have to see what happens with that. So currently right now, I'm going to keep watch for the market. The market should be pretty good to trade in these cards because they're very rare and people are wanting to use them. And so watch the market today, the squad that rewards. I don't think we'll mess with things too much. I think it should be a strong morning for some of these birthday cards. But really, it's going to come down to that icon player pick today, the Mocca Lele SBC and maybe any other surprises that EA float our way. Guys, that's the video for today. If you did enjoy it, drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. See you guys in a stream today as well. We're going to open up some of these icon player picks and I got to get to play in some weekend league with some new cards. But I'll see you guys in the stream today. 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