Violence Against Women Meet Karen, a beautician aged 22. She was gruesomely murdered by her partner Sam. She was beaten beyond recognition. Meet Sue, a 19-year-old first-year student. She was shot dead by her ex-boyfriend, Paul. Sue had been avoiding Paul after breaking up with him two weeks prior. She was shot multiple times in the face. Meet Lindsay, a 31-year-old mother of two. She was killed by her ex-husband Adam. He stabbed her numerous times on their anniversary. Incredulously, Adam has since been released on 280 euros bail. This was in spite of previously being served with restraining orders. Meet Nyma, a 40-year-old mother of three.  She was doused in petrol and satellite by Chris, the father of her children. Six weeks prior to this Chris was charged with rape, but was then also released on bail. These are just some of a vast number of cases of sexual and domestic violence and offenses against women. These ended in the ultimate tragedy. Death. Globally, nearly 30% of women have been subjected to physical and or sexual violence by a partner, non-partner, or both. And, almost 40% of murders of women are committed by their partners. On 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women will launch 16 Days of Activism. This is to raise awareness and prompt drastic action to change these statistics. The goal is a brighter future, free of violence against women and girls.


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Today is a big day in the life of little Alice Harris. She's having her first date and going to her first dance. Her mother has bought her a new dress for the occasion, and as we look in, she's just put it on to show her mother how it looks. Mother, look at me. How do I look in my new party dress? Oh, adorable, honey. You look so grown up, and wait a minute. What have you got on your face? Makeup. I'm wearing lipstick, rouge, mascara, and eye shadow.  A pretty young girl like you doesn't need makeup. Then why do you wear it? You're young and pretty. Well, I wear it to make me look older. You know, otherwise people would go around saying your daddy married a child bride.  He's inside having breakfast, and if he ever finds out... Alice! Alice! What is it, Phil? There's no more cream for my coffee. Oh. Well, open a bottle of milk. Okay. Where's the corkscrew? Mother, did you tell daddy about my going to the dance tonight? No. No, not yet. He still thinks of you as a baby, and he's liable to make a big fuss about you going out on your first date.  Well, you have enough rouge smith all over to... Oh, that certainly was a good breakfast. Hiya, honey. I really enjoy... How do you do, miss? I always like... Alice, who's the short burlesque queen? Don't you recognize me, daddy?  Trying to get me killed or something? I don't know you. Phil, you never saw her before? No, honey. I'll admit I hung around the stage door once or twice, but I was just selling flowers during the summer layoff. This is your daughter, Alice. Alice? You mean little Alice? How'd she get hurt? Where'd she get all that blood on her cheeks? Father, that's not blood. It's rouge. I put it on to make my face rosy.  Don't yell at her. She just thought she'd put some on to wear at the school dance tonight. You see, she's having her first date. Date? With a man? And what a man. He's blond, he's four-foot-six, and he weighs 87 pounds. Oh, no. She's got a date with Mickey Rooney.  You know the Wilkins family? Oh, yeah. Yes, we've met at a few cocktail parties. He's in the clothing business, isn't he? The world's largest manufacturer of best pockets. No, Mr. Wilkins is an attorney, and his son is a very nice boy. I don't care. He's not going out with my daughter.  I'll get that. My little Alice going out with a boy. I can't bear the thought of it. Hi, Curly. Oh, it's you.  Give me your hat. I'm in. The door's shut. I ain't got no hat. What's the matter with you? Oh, Elliot, I'm a miserable man. I know, but I like you anyway. What's wrong? Little Alice is going out on a date tonight with a young man. She's going to a dance tonight with a boy. No kidding. Little Alice is going out on her first date, huh? Oh, gee, Curly, that's cute. What's cute about it? You're not a father. You don't know how I feel. Don't you realize I'm losing my little baby? Seems like yesterday that she used to crawl into the living room, jump up on my lap, put her chubby little paws around my neck, and licked my... No, that was the dog. But I do remember the time that little Alice sat up in bed and said, Daddy, will you get me a bottle of beer? No. No, that was big Alice. No, she don't drink. Bear. Wait a minute. Did you ever sleep with me, Elliot? Yes, Daddy. Look, I can't let her go out, Elliot. She's too young. She's only ten. How old were you when you first went out? Well, that's different. I was eleven. But we lived in the hills of Tennessee, and you've got to start young down there. How old was the girl? She was eight, but she was a widow. Curly, there's nothing wrong with a girl ten years old going to a school dance with a boy. Maybe not, but look, she's so immature, she don't know nothing about life. Well, then have a talk with her. Every father should have a talk with his child. Well, I guess you're right. All right, come on in the other room. I'm going to explain things to my child. Yeah. Now handle it carefully, because you don't... Hello, Elliot. Oh, hello, Alice. And little Alice. Gee, how pretty you look in your new dress. Thanks, Uncle Elliot. I'm going to a dance tonight. Not so fast. Before I give my consent, I want to sit down with you and have a man-to-man talk. Bill, she's a girl. Oh.  I only know that man-to-man routine. Curly, it's the same thing only with reverse English. What did you want to talk to me about, Daddy? Um... About life.   And you'll find out as you grow up, you get taller. Oh, if my father had only told me things like that.  And that's when you stop getting taller and start getting wider. What are you trying to tell me, Daddy? Well, just this.   And no matter whether you're a boy or a girl, man or woman, Republican or Democrat, don't forget to vote on November the 4th and sing, Alice, and get me out.  Not yet Before I give my final consent I'm going over and have a talk with this boy But what for? I want to know his intentions I want to know what he's like What kind of a job he's got Bill, he hasn't got a job He hasn't got a job What are they going to do, live with us? Bill, the boy is eleven years old I don't care I got to know what kind of a character he is What he does with his time Curly's right For all we know, he may be a playboy Sure Or he might be a used scooter salesman Or worse than that, he might be a crooked gambler Who goes around fixing hopscotch games You can stop already This is serious If my daughter's going out with this kid I got to find out about him So come on, you're going with me We're going over to see this Wilkins boy right now This is a nice house this kid lives in At least he's got a little dough Curly, what are you going to talk to this kid about? I'm going to lay the law down to him I'll tell him to bring my daughter home early Treat her like a lady and stuff like that But supposing the kid don't like your attitude And gets tough That's why I brought you along Between the two of us we can handle him Now I'll ring the bell and Before you do How big is he? Four foot six Ring the bell We're going to look this kid over carefully If I don't think he's right for my daughter He's not going to Yes What can I do for you? Are you taking my daughter out tonight? Well, I hadn't planned on it But if I can get away from my wife, I'd like to Wait a minute, who are you?  Money from radio sponsors Why? What did you two fellas want?  That's right, Shorty You ever hear of me on the radio?  I don't know, it just makes me nauseous Nauseous? Sick to a stomach Look, buddy, maybe you don't like my show But I'll bet your wife listens to me Well, I must admit she does She's been listening to you for years How does she like me?   No, I'm not I don't like your attitude You're not going to see my son and either is your daughter I'm not going to let him take her out tonight That suits me fine I wouldn't let my daughter go out with your son Goodbye Goodbye Nasty little man I guess I pulled him off, didn't I? Oh, yeah You loused up your daughter's date very nicely Hey, wait a minute Gee, I never thought of that Now she won't be able to go to dance tonight Oh, Elliot, do you think she'll hate me?  What am I gonna tell little Alice?  Oh, look, mister, I was a... Groke! Yeah, yeah, it's you, Harrison Who's your friend? Oh, you know him, it's your pal, Elliot Lohas Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah I didn't recognize him with his new name Yeah Now, to get back to business, Harris What part of the head do you want to be shot in? Oh, no, look, Groke, I was only kidding I don't really want to be shot A deal is a deal I'll do a nice, clean job And if your friend wants to get it out, I can do it cheaper I'm running a sale today A sale? Yeah, two for the price of one plus one penny It's hard to turn down a bargain like that, girl Oh, well, you cut it out I'm in enough trouble Yeah, what kind of trouble?  Look, if that daughter of yours has her heart set on going out tonight She's going to go But the fella she was going to go out with won't take her And I'll get her another guy There's, uh, light-fingered Louis No, he ain't out yet Groke, and my daughter is just a little girl Ten years old Well, then I'll get her a little boy Where can I find a clean little boy? He's, uh, oh, yeah, yeah I saw one riding a bike around a corner I'll go over and I'll, uh, I'll, uh, talk to him I'll see you later, Harry No, Groke, and come back, please I don't want you to get no girl Well, I don't want Let him go If he can get your daughter a date, it'll solve your problem You ought to be grateful Well, yeah If he gets her a nice date, I will be grateful Sure I might even give him, uh, an autographed copy of my latest record I happen to have one with me Would you care to hear it? Oh, I'd love to, but fortunately, we don't have a record player We don't need one Hmm?  Oh, Grogan, that's wonderful Where is he? Right here in his boy-lap sack He put up a fight, you see, I had to keep him quiet Oh, naturally How do you do, son? How do you feel?  I wonder who that could be Ronald Coleman? No Tallulah?  I was trying to get a date for my daughter The last thing I'd want to see happen to my kid of my kid. If she as much as walked out of the door with you, I'd slash my throat. You talk to me, I thought I'd throw it. That's what made tonight. I'd love to. Wait a minute. You don't mind going out with me, do you, Alice? I did have a date with Johnny, but I'd rather go with you. I think you're the handsomest, weirdest, and most charming boy I've ever seen. Oh, I gotta have her head looked in. Oh, Julius. Oh, we'd better hurry. Goodbye, Daddy. Come back here. So long, Papa.  It's not as easy, Curly. Find a way with her. What? Jill will be back in just a moment. What every home needs is a good powerful radio, and that's where the new RCA Victor Lindsay comes in. The compact Lindsay is one of RCA Victor's finest table radios. It has an extra large, built-in magic loop antenna, and RCA Victor preferred type tubes. It's an extra powerful table radio that brings you first-rate reception and even difficult signal areas. So visit your RCA Victor dealer tomorrow. See the Lindsay. 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Hey Brett Chittum here with Lauren Systems, and this is coffee with Tom and Brett now and we're here to talk about follow-up and I Read a lot in the MSP in the IT community about people sending out quotes talking with customers and getting to a point where Why am I not closing the sale or why aren't they calling me back? And I want to ask you the question. Why aren't you following up and what do you have thoughts on Tom? There is so much for follow-up that is drives me crazy because it's one of those things of either if you don't want to do it Just tell me no, that's fine. That's still a form of follow-up saying no but that dead air really gives you a bad feeling about a company and Not that you want to be the over-pushy salesperson, but you want to be at least Responsive one of my favorite stories is the guy that we use for our signage He used to work at golf courses and I asked him Would you get into the sign business after you manage golf courses? That's kind of a weird career changer. Yeah, just following art. He had the best answer ever He says I figured I could just destroy all the competition in the area by answering the phone because I was working at a golf course and Having to contract sign companies to put signage up the courses He goes I had no consistent company and he goes all of them I had to just round Robin calling them until one of them would Properly do the follow-up and he built well He's got one hell of a sign business all because he says he answers the phone. That's his secret to success My answer in the phone is important and and yeah, but understanding that once you answer that phone What is that process to follow through with right and the follow-up process and what do you do after you close a sale? One of the things that I I tend to to remember in my early years in sales Was that if somebody called your office or called your organization? Company however you want to name that they Called because they were expecting to buy something No matter what they expected you to sell to them. Why didn't you why didn't you follow up? We send quotes out, but then we expect them to call us back I know with our process here. We send a quote out There's a follow-up and then there's another follow-up and another follow-up and when you look at my task board I have quote email quote followed up second follow-up third follow-up fourth follow-up because you need to Continually be in front of that customer to keep top of mind because you may not have been their only phone call They may have called another IT company. They may have called Three more companies to ask the same question But who wins in that scenario is the person who followed up the most follow-up is not about being pushy It's about caring for that client showing them that you truly want their business And you can even do this not just with the sales side of the process But just the follow-up after a ticket's closed or after you have some interaction with a client after a project is completed Waiting a little bit of time and putting it as a process that a note in your calendar So you have a ritual to do this just reach back out to them. Hey, how's that going? How's that thing we installed working everything's still happy? It's just it's so simple and it's amazingly effective at both client retention client close rates if you want to get projects done and The overall feeling you leave people with of like hey, they are tentative. They they didn't just sell me something They weren't annoying me to buy it after they sold it to me They actually followed up and said hey, do you still like the thing you bought from us? Yeah, they continue that conversation because of if if you want to have contracts to hold clients in place Go right ahead by how you truly hold clients in place is having that Relationship and the continued contact after the sale after an interaction with our ticket process We have our tickets that come in, you know how we follow up with those tickets after we've resolved them is important Because it's about the relationship. It's about caring and and it's not about being pushy either I'm not pushy. So sometimes I'm excitable. You've seen that time. You've had to tell me to calm down but not being pushy and and actually Having a conversation. I have always said I'm not a good salesperson I'm a good relationship person and I think that's the that's the key in your business is Building those relationships, but you do that through follow-up. It's very important to follow up on every interaction in some way shape or form Yeah, and I think the flaw a lot of technical people have and I suffer greatly from this is assuming logical behavior of people They asked me for a quote I gave him a quote. I never talked to him again because if they wanted to quote They would just call me back and use it, right? But yeah, as much as they don't want Brett to be right He's right about everything.  That's I know I did and it's because like I said with being more technical myself. This is the pride is I'm always confused Where people seem to want that love of interaction, but I forget. Oh, yeah Other people aren't exactly like me if they were like me. They probably wouldn't be hiring me And and and with when it comes to matters of the heart and matters of money people are not logical, right? They're not they're not thinking in a rational sense They're thinking into the person that's going to have that touchy-feely as much as possible And that's what that follow-up is and and really in this day and age, especially when so many things are commoditized Follow-up and showing that you are that person that is willing to do anything you can to win their business Follow-up says a lot. Absolutely Hopefully this is helpful for you. Hopefully the follow-up leads to a better sale for you and thanks for joining us Have a good one


A new report from public citizen confirms what we already knew was the case that our dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system has exacerbated the bad effects of this deadly, devastating pandemic. And they state that for-profit healthcare actually worsened the pandemic and that hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of infections would likely have been prevented if we had a Medicare for All single-payer healthcare system. Again, not necessarily the most surprising conclusion, but it is nice to actually see an analysis confirm what it was obvious. So they state the U.S. remains the only one of the 25 wealthiest countries to not provide universal healthcare and the healthcare system's focus on profits and not health has cost Americans their lives. Despite having less than 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has had 25% of the world's confirmed cases and 20% of deaths. Public citizens' new report demonstrates how, before the pandemic, approximately 87 million Americans were uninsured or underinsured. About one-third of COVID-19 deaths and 40% of infections were tied to a lack of insurance. About half of Americans received their healthcare through their employer. With more than 22 million Americans losing their job during the pandemic, millions lost their health insurance. Racial health disparities, including access to care, have led to disproportionate deaths in communities of color. We have the highest rate of unmet need of any comparably wealthy countries, with one-third of Americans reporting that they or a family member has avoided going to the doctor when sick or injured in the past year due to cost. Americans are significantly more likely to die of chronic respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes or cancer than people in comparably wealthy countries with universal healthcare systems, and a lack of essential funding led to insufficient hospital capacity. The U.S. had only around half the hospital beds per capita of pure nations and far fewer than countries like Japan or Germany. Thousands of deaths would have been avoided if Medicare for All had been in place prior to the COVID-19 crisis, highlighting the need to enact policy before the next pandemic hits. Under such a system, hospitals, particularly rural hospitals, would receive the funds they need to stay open via yearly budgets instead of relying on admission rates and elective procedures. Providers would better be able to coordinate patient care. No American would have to skip a doctor visit because of cost or lack of insurance, and people of color would no longer face disproportionately high rates of uninsurance, reducing an important contributor to racial disparities and access to healthcare. So I will link you to their full analysis down below, but that was basically the main takeaways from their analysis. It is exactly what we should have expected. I mean, it's not necessarily surprising to suggest that, you know, a healthcare system based entirely on the prioritization of profits over people would yield these results. Not surprising in the slightest whatsoever. And understand that this is the logical result of our for-profit healthcare system. If you don't have insurance or you do have insurance and you can't afford the co-pays they're going to have to pay, what's that going to do in terms of us handling the pandemic? Well, if somebody is experiencing symptoms, they may not go to the doctor. They might not even know that they have COVID and therefore spread COVID-19 to their peers. It is logical to deduce that in any situation, whenever there's a health crisis in America, we are going to be worse off because we don't have a universal healthcare system. It's absolutely ridiculous that in 2021 in the richest country in America, you have Americans regularly dying because they don't have healthcare. I mean, that happens when there isn't a pandemic. But when there is a pandemic, of course, the situation is exponentially worse. And that's exactly what this analysis shows. And I've said this once, I'll say it again, that it was never acceptable for any Democrat, for any politician, let alone Democrats to be against Medicare for all. Because if you're against Medicare for all, then you're admitting that you're okay with thousands of Americans dying every single year because they don't have healthcare. But during a pandemic, to not have a change of heart, to not adjust your position, that just makes you insane. It makes you insane. You are comparable to the looniest people in society.    So it is not acceptable. Any Democrat who is against Medicare for all should not have a career in politics. They should be defeated. Any think tank, any news pundit who is doing propaganda against Medicare for all, they should be discredited and they should be thoroughly defeated. They should be canceled for lack of a better word because to defend the status quo means you are defending deaths.  And that is absolutely morally unacceptable to me. So this just further demonstrates the need for Medicare for all. Will our government officials take any action on this? No, because we live in a late stage capitalist dystopian society where policy outcomes aren't dictated by need or desires of the masses. They're dictated by the interests of business elites and special interests. And that's not me saying that. This is according to a Princeton University study that was published in 2014 by Drs. Gillins and Paige. So I mean, this again, super obvious, not necessarily shocking results. Nonetheless, it does emphasize how necessary Medicare for all would be. That is, if you care about saving lives, which we should care about saving lives.


What's up everyone, it's your girl, Kenzie here from Leighton Sports Cards and I am ripping. We've got 2022 Topschrom Formula One racing hobby, six box break number 22 random teams. Again, here's a look at the random results. You can always find these at leightonsportscards.com under the results tab. The link's also in chat for you. All right, good luck. Very solid first half of the case. The last break, we have four autos out of six boxes. Let's see, four more. That'd be something, eight out of 12 boxes, seven autos. Again, up next, we've got baseball, only two baseball breaks going during the daytime. Mercedes are factors, so definitely grab those up. Those are pick your team, full case breaks of anti-baseball. Another recent release. How come we're going on hot streets? We're gonna have printing plates. Yeah, really? Like we'll go cold, you know what I'm saying? Toast on the purple checkered flag, 145 of 199, off the card. I could go for some toast right now. Yeah, yeah. That's not true. Some butter and jelly. Speed demons, Lando Norris. Oh my God, I thought his name was French Toast. It's Frans. Lando Norris, reflecting. It's borderline French Toast. No, that's gotta be his name, French Toast. If I knew what Frans Toast, I would never recall him anything, but he's quite a Frenchie. Like Frans Plaza. Yeah. I don't get a pink, I haven't seen a pink yet. Giovanni on the refractor, rookie. And we've got pink Fernando Alonzo for Alpine. This one there, that is 71 of 75, kind of matches the pink on his gray suit. Yeah, Alpine, Poy US. Louis Hamilton award winner refractor and Otto Nicholas Latifi for Williams Racing. Nice, an F1 racer there. Got a lot of F2s out of the last one. Williams is Leigh H. Nice one there. See some more gold, Vetti and Stroll. There's a Vetti, right, or something? There's like a, there's something that sounds like that. Vesti, there's a Vesti. Oh yeah. Ferrari refractor and Purple Theo Pochera for ART Grand Prix, 64-399. The F2 racer there. We have Checkered Flag, Kevin Magnuson for Haas, V-Demons, Alexander Albon. Dino Smith versus Brock Purdy. George Russell refractor.  No. Refractor of Marcus Armstrong, Leclerc and Sines. Like everyone is super quiet today. Got Purple and Gold, Sergio Perez for Red Bull. I like the look of that. First time in France. Party too hard last night, you know? Friday, last night. Haas refractor. Good night to go out. Yeah. Got cold, like when I went to leave yesterday. Like I walked out the door and it was windy. I was like, what the heck? Sines refractor. We've got Mini Diamond. Yuki Sonoda, 65-299 for Alphatari. Brock Swamp. Me and my brother got that out of the movie in like 1130. Refractor Sebastian Vettel. Yeah. I think we were supposed to get a cold one. I think it's supposed to be cold all weekend. Thanks. I'm sorry, like Crabs, that's a small gig. I'm only here, is that under five? Oh wait, that's not, what's his name? That's Marshall. Red Bull Refractor, same concept. That's what Sherman, right? Oh, we've got Checker Flag Rippy of Joe Huang. You nice one there, Alfa Romeo. What's up, six? Speed Demon's Lando Norris. Morning, six. Lewis Hamilton Refractor. I'm good. How you doing? How are you doing? Refractor Felipe Drogevich. Making it, I feel it. Alphatari Refractor. Yeah, for sure. Six, you got NFL football on today. What do we do? Alfa Romeo, Rookie Refractor, that's Joe Guan Yu, and Purple of Caleb Williams for Trident. That is 146 of 399. Yeah, I'm sure six isn't too happy. Oh, I just see what he's got, right? Yeah, exactly. Speed Demon's Lance Stroll. Who would they have played this week if they didn't? Who are the bills? Ricardo Refractor, McLaren. Yeah. Okay, still would have been, you know. Fun to watch. Lance Stroll on the Purple of Green, and we've got a Latifi in Alba. Who's playing the bills? Stalkins. Oh yeah, that's right. McLaren, Refractor. We would have definitely given the bills a better one, but I'm running on the Stalkins one. Alpine and Purple checkered flag, Lewis Hamilton, Grand Prix winner round 15. 173 of 199, Mercedes. Yeah, yeah, maybe next year. Alba on Refractor. Hopefully we don't start two and six again. We're stopping him for us. It was like running quarterbacks, just keeping her going more and more recently. Joe Guanyu on the rookie Refractor for Alfa Romeo. And we've got gold checkered flag, Max for stopping for Red Bull. Another gold Red Bull, and not P with Red Bull this go round. That is 11 of 50. Heck yeah, on the first stop in gold weight, ah, gold weight. Gold checkered flag. Had to remind you of what I said. Refractor Lewis Hamilton. Schumacher and Magnuson. Thank you, that trash is a straight pass. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, easy to get to. That's nice. POS Refractor. We've got Sergio Perez Refractor. For those cases, Spectre is part of the baseball game. We've got just the Royals and Nats, two to go. Bobby Wittz. Bobby Quick. There is the link. Do not break the camera. We've got Royals for 250 and Nats for 69. Get those two teams taken. Thanks for subscribing, Fallon. Bobby. Pulled some big wigs. I was sorting yesterday, I was like, man. We didn't, it was Matt. Matt's been on a streak lately.  Two weeks. Carlos Sines Refractor. He rips a lot of baseball product. Oh yeah. I'm not surprised, it's huge, it's Hamilton. And we've got Future Stars of Marino Sato for Virtuosi. This is weird. And it's very ancient. No, it's just the card is white on the side. I'm gonna go ahead and send a box here with Virtuosi, just in case you'd like to get this replaced. Like it's still chrome. It looked like it was just miscut or something, but that's white, like chrome. Weird, I haven't seen that at all. Quality of these cards have been very nice. Norse and Ricardo. Virtuosi? Yes, they've got Alpha Romano Refractor. I'm just gonna put the guy's name. Is that good? No, you have to put what team it is. Several shippers now to ship that box. ART Refractor, and we've got Max Verstappen on the Mini Diamonds 109 out of 299. Red Bull. Speed Demon, Sebastian Vettel. No one's wit-hunting out of NT. We've got Sergio Perez Refractor. Daniel Ricardo Refractor. Orange and Red, Kevin Magnuson for Hoss. Louis Hamilton and George Russell Refractor. Two to go on the NT number 20, McLaren. Then we've got two of those. Those are the only baseball going for the daytime. And then we've got some football. Williams Racing Refractor and Green. Josh Capito for Williams Racing, 48 out of 99 on the green. Spectre Half Case, Pick Your Teams. Mosaic, No Huddle. Those are random teams. And then Three Box, Mosaic, Hobbies. Those are also Pick Your Teams. Speed Demon's Latifi. It's a little variation this morning with Random's and Pick Your Teams. Future Stars of Iwasa. Alfred Doms and Pink. Louis Hamilton, Driver of the Day, Spain. Nice Hamilton, low number there too. 24 of 75. Here you go, Mercedes. Refractor of Alonso and Acon. Both of our numbered cars are... Are those our next gold and black? The other ones are both in pink. Yeah. Aston Martin and Purple of George Russell. Another Mercedes hit here. 218 of 399. Checker Flag, Future Stars of Oli Codwell. Speed Demon's Carlos Sainz. Sneaky Snakesbatch. That'd be cool. Good luck, Ash. Thanks for hopping in. I saw a really nice D-Bax car that I think force pulled. Ren Conan on the Refractor. And we've got Refractor Auto of Amari Cordial for Van Amserport. On the F2, Driver of the Amserport. That is Leigh H. Grats on that one. It was like partial logo patch. I do like that song, I don't remember that. I can't remember who it was. Was it SecBeer or maybe not? That's the thing, like even though, obviously, can be as a license for baseball, they have some of the nastiest patches, you know. I saw a lot of really sick patches. Alpine Refractor. A little sucker for a nasty patch, too. Yeah, Red Bull Racing Refractor. Got Checkered Flag of Capito. Speed Demon's Alonso. Max for Staff and Refractor. Lando Noir's Refractor. I wish that was the Amateur Asian. Yeah, it looks like it could be. Got Latifi and Albon. Rookie Refractor Alpha Romero. That is gonna be a Joe Juanu. I love the shots of the car. Yeah, it's not that nice. Host Refractor. We've got Purple Lance Stroll for Aston Martin. 146 of 399. What's up, White? How's it going, man? Long time no see. Speed Demon's Sergio Perez. Oh, it's Hamilton Refractor. It's cold. Yeah, I was about to say it's cold here, too. He's in West Palm. Got cold really fast. Sebastian Vettel Refractor. He sees pro baseball players all the time down here. Oh, yeah. That's like the hub for pro baseball players. Purple and green Kevin Magnuson for Haas and Gastly and Yuki. It's the best place to be for the off-season if you have a spring training team over there. Because you can throw during the off-season and it's not cold. Yeah, McLaren Refractor. Alright, Christian, how about you? Especially, yeah, there's a lot of Latino guys over there, too. Not too far from Miami. Alfa Romeo Refractor. We've got Purple Checker Flag of Daniel Ricardo for McLaren, 119 of 199. I think he said he ran into Riley Green one time, too. Cool. Got Speed Demon's Ricardo. Big Detroit fan. Oh, we've got Red Checker Flag coming up here. Sonto, we need the Red Checker Flag. Good luck, everyone. Oh, wow. Mercedes. Boom. Ryan, instructor's world champion. Mercedes. That's nasty. That is Bill. Wow. Congrats on that one, Ryan B. With Mercedes. Man, that one right up for you. I like the Red Checker Flag, too. That's sharp. Refractor, Carlos Sainz. That is so cool. It's like their whole entire team picture. And the same in the Botox and Joe. Yeah, the Reds. All right, box five. George Russell, I could not think his name would be the same one. All right, box five. Let me check on this next break. See how we're looking. Still just Royals and Nationals. Just Royals and Nationals. There is the link for you. Yeah, to where? Oh, Oklahoma. I'm assuming that's what that is. No, Oklahoma is a place. Where the heck is that? I'm pretty sure it's in Florida. Is it McLaren? I thought it was being funny trying to say Oklahoma. We have a pink Alexander Albon for Williams Racing. I'm pretty sure I've driven through it before. Driven by it. 41 out of 75. Yeah, it's west of Orlando. It's near like Plant City, I believe. I have no idea. I did a checkered flag of Toronto Wolf. Lance Stroll. I guess I should finish reading the sentence on. Ask me if it's close. Got Lewis Hamilton on the refractor. Nice one there. Grand Prix in Great Britain. I think it's probably about an hour. Maybe a little bit more. Refractor of Theo Pouchere. I think it's over more towards Plant City though. McLaren signs. It's not all the way to Tampa, but like on your way. For sure. Yeah, if it's that close. Red Bull Refractor. Going there for work. ART Grand Prix. We've got the Nodo for Ferrari, 233 of 299 on the mini-dime. Speed Demons of Max Verstappen. It's Capito Refractor, Williams Racing. Super Auto. Let's see what we're staffing for then. Gold and Purple Clemente Novelac for MP Motorsport. Refractor for Stappen in Perez. It's like pulling a crazy auto on Star Wars. It's just so rare. Yeah, Williams Racing Refractor. Prima Racing. Purple Christian Order for Red Bull. 312 out of 399. Speed Demons of Orlando Norths. Gold Checker Flag. Joe Guanyu on the rookie refractor for Alfa Romeo. Gold Checker Flag of Yuki Sonoda. There you go, Alphatari. Wow, what a break. What a break. 7 out of 50. Alphatari.  Yeah, this case has been crazy. Anat P. Very nice, Yuki. We'll mag that one for you. We've got Nick Schumacher Refractor. And auto, a refractor auto of a Yumu Iwasa for Dom's. Iwasa, Iwasa. Iwasa. We all Iwasa. He shee wee. Iwasa. Warmo. Meridian's name. Vettel and Stroll Refractor. He shee me. Stroll no. Wonder. Aston Martin Refractor. Last five, Fox 5. Stroll no. Stroll no. Stroll no. Short shoulder. So where are you again? Christian Horner Refractor. Yeah, we hibernate in this kind of weather. All right, Fox number six. See where we are again. Still Nats and Royals, everyone. Breaks next. We've got to get these two teams taken. There is the link for you. Again, Nationals are 69 bucks and Royals are 249. Esteban O'Conn on the checker flag. Speed Demon, Sebastian Vettel. Carlos Sainz Refractor. Two to go. Again, only two baseball breaks going during the daytime or more tonight with, I believe, Sam. Hauer on the refractor for Prima. Schumacher and Magnuson. Ferrari Refractor. Aston Martin Refractor. And Green, Pierre Gasly for Alphatari. That's 64 of 99. Speed Demon's Refractor, Albonne. Future Stars, Fiddy Pauli. I didn't even know I had a football team. Latifi Refractor for Williams. We've got Green and Purple of Theo Poucher for our ART Grand Prix. Landon Orson, Ricardo Refractor. Mercedes Refractor. Ferrari Refractor, we've got Purple, JQ's for Van Ampsterfort. F2 Racer, 47 of 399. I can check for your ID. There should be some that you can order for personal. This is a group rake. We've got Carlos Sainz Speed Demon's. I'll go for the first one. Awesome, Blake's finished dropping the link. Latifi Refractor. True Gold of Botas for Alfa Romeo, 23 out of 50. I don't think there's anything. There's none in stock. I believe there's. 23 out of 50 for Alfa Romeo. That is Ryan L. There you go, Ryan. Nice one there on the True Gold. We've got Max for Staffin Refractor. There is or there isn't? There's not Chrome, just regular. Oh, okay. We've got Latifi and Albonne off the list. Let's see if it's going to put some more in stock. That is for the flagship, Redsie. We don't have any Chrome in stock on the website right now. Williams Refractor back here. Carlin on the Refractor. All right, go ahead and do a recap here.  Recap to do some numbered. We had the Green Gasly for Alphatari, the Gold Votas for Alfa Romeo, Pink Albonne, Williams, Lewis Hamilton Pink, Mercedes, a lot of pinks. Wow, Fernando Alonso for Alpine. Our Autos, we had Iwasa for Doms, Amari Cordillo, Van Anster Ford, Nicholas Latifi for Williams, then our Max cards. We had the Gold Checkered Flag, Max for Staffin for Red Bull, the Red Five of Five Bookend Award Winners, Mercedes, really nice hit there. And then the Gold Yuki Sonoda Checkered Flag for Alphatari. All right, that'll do for F1. We got baseball coming up once it's filled. Thanks everyone.


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Welcome back to this edition of our show from logo to impact now at a time that we're talking about how e-commerce companies are growing There is an e-commerce company that has made inroads when you talk about tele-shopping and the one that you're talking about is snap Deal they've been in the business of tele-shopping for about 10 or 11 months With us then snap deal TV shop network that they've got going for themselves and when each girl see you of the companies Joining us on the show to tell us more about this So I'm looking at the kind of numbers that you have been able to gain over a very short period of time So one wonders where the real business is is it e-commerce or it's tele-shopping, you know Really complimenting or is it actually competing with what you're doing on the e-commerce space clearly come complementing each other Because we you know we do we address the different segments in the market e-commerce is all about you know The large cities the the connected people TV shopping addresses the needs of people who have resources who are available who are available in Markets where internet has not reached as much or they're not you know comfortable shopping online and that's where they find You know TV as an engaging medium TV, which informs them about a lot of products its utility You know how it's used in the real life, you know, we do a whole bunch of things to explain You know how these products help them in their life and so on and so forth I mean value of television is something that I discuss with advertisers so much on this show itself because the Efficiency of the medium that hasn't vanished despite the growth of digital etc. That hasn't gone away So it's interesting that you're looking at this space so closely and you've tied up with a cable Network to be able to do that while many others have gone the route of existing channels and buying time slots on it You've decided to tie up with a cable network So tell us what the thought process was even when you started all right So, you know others you know do a lot of slot buying so they're not a 24 bar 7 channel We wanted to launch a 24 bar 7 channel and the biggest difficulty any broadcaster would face is to you know get Distribution reach across you know every single home Indian home that you have there Then has about 30 million homes that they reach out to so we get that you know by default But other than that then has strategic relationships with everybody. They understand the market They know where the consumers are they know where the buying power is and therefore our ability to reach out of those homes and You know make the right decisions as to which home to go to what price to pay for you know reaching there You know is far far better than anybody in the competition, right and that makes sense Absolutely, so then once you have established this partnership and now that you tend to 11 months into it in terms of Return on investment so far. How's it looking how the number is really panning out? So, you know when one thinks of e-commerce you you basically imagine burning a lot of cash You know either advertising or discounting or you know creating, you know huge capacities and resources and not being able to You know leverage that well, but our philosophy has been totally different We decided from day one that you know we will go step by step in terms of investing into various resources Various infrastructure only and only when we see returns so be distribution at work Where we started four million homes and now we reach about 50 million homes So we graduate gradually increased our distribution reach as we see, you know sales coming in Similarly on production side the content production We have not yet set up our own studios and we outsource a lot of their work Which actually works out well for us from a cost efficiency standpoint You know snap deal being one of our parent companies We'll leverage a lot of strengths from them and we haven't really built a lot of you know capability in-house To do either sourcing or logistics and things like that So if you look at the whole thing, you know We have been able to use our money our capital very very efficiently and with very small You know amount of money we have built a 400 crore business, you know in about 10 11 months 400 crore rupee business in 10 11 months that doesn't sound too bad So in that sense the size of the market right now What's your assessment of it because through a cable network as large as a as den may be right now It is giving you a limited kind of access to the kind of potential that India as a market has So what are the chances that you're going to expand this and if you are going to expand that are you going to take the cable? Distribution route or are you going to look at again buying into channels? All right So first we are not just available and then we are below available on about 25 different cable operators Which includes fast way city cable INC and L and a whole bunch of others Right. We have recently started, you know growing on the DTH network as well So we are you know reliance. We are on videocon. We are on this So clearly we are not going to restrict our reach. So like I mentioned we have about 50 million homes that we currently reach I think you know we we we plan to get to about 100 million in next three to four months time So in that sense the pace of growth is much faster What are the chances that you are going to be? directing your resources At the point in time that people are looking only at like going the app only route is there going to be more Concentration on television as opposed to the many other routes that you could be taking to expand your business All right. So, you know clearly it is tea commerce. It's tea. It's on TV, right? But we won't you know restrict ourselves to doing only TV. I think technology can help us in a big way QVC in the US does about six billion dollars of business India overall all the players put together does only one billion So in a market, which is very very internet, you know Penetrated heavy everybody has reached yet QVC is able to do six billion dollars of business annually Right. How did how did how they do it is they you know take use of the TV? Strength obviously, but they also, you know leverage their rich content across various medium speed the you know website or the mobile apps or Anything else like that and we plan to you know leverage all of that in our business as well So clearly you will see in times to come, you know we coming up with a website as well as apps Right in terms of categories. What's really working out for you are what selling more and what isn't I think the trends are fairly in line with What e-commerce experiences so you know we have access to data in snapd and Electronics, you know seems to be the biggest category there and so is the case with us Followed by fashion because that's the category which gives us, you know the highest margins And then comes the home category right so then you know in terms of category expansion because there are opportunities out there as well Because you know in recent times. I've even seen yachts being put up online to be sold But so you know coming from the philosophy that up, you know parent company snapd follows They're selling automobile. They're selling real estate. They're selling everything under the Sun Okay, I think we're going to do pretty much the same So we are already doing insurance for about six months. So we sell mediclaim Okay, we have done electric scooters in the past Soon we're going to come up with you know holiday packages and club memberships and things like that So I think innovation is the name the game and there's been the amount of parity in terms of prices Or for the kind of products that you're selling on an e-commerce site Like a snapd if I'm going to come on the desktop and if I'm going to buy it on television You know e-commerce prices vary a lot that is a lot of dynamism Based on you know what others are selling at what you know sellers are going to offer for very limited inventory If they want to discount and so on and so forth So their prices will will be dynamic But our prices are by and large firm We do not have ability to move them a lot and that is very so our business is not a comparison led business That's one second. I think from the point of view of the average selling price internet does A lot of high value sales as well as a lot of low value low ticket size sales as well So, you know, you can buy a pendrive for 200 bucks. We do not sell products in that range Right It just does not work for us So for us the average or the sweet price point would be about 1500 to 2500 right So if that is the case, uh, uh, you know to be able to grow that kind of market What is the strategy that you're employing to engage more viewership? You know, we have not done any active marketing so far Everything that we communicate to our audience is on our own platform What we have seen is if I have a independence day sale coming up or a, you know, Anyverse that we just had, you know from the launch date or at least the pilot date or Diwali or anything We come up with some offer, okay We communicate on the channel and we see huge response now going outside of this You know, we tried doing some things, but in specific markets We did not see impact because we did only for a short period of time like what? So we launched a campaign in Punjab and Karnataka Right Where we went on TV on print.  How has that worked out for you? I have you seen the An upsurge in sales both october and november. So we launched a one month long Diwali sale We offered customers about a crore Worth of prices which were to be one over 30 days and you know, you will have about 20 to 50 guys winning prices That, you know, brought a lot of goodness to us, you know, there is competition You can't take that away and you are a last mover in this kind of space So as far as competition is concerned, how do you think this is actually going to work out for you? Let me answer this differently, okay Pretty much the three large players, Home Shop 18, Shop CJ and Aptol, they've been in the business for five plus years Correct Okay, I don't think barring Aptol to some extent The other two players have seen much growth However, we have been able to gain quite a lot of ground With very basic setup that we have with very basic approach that we have taken in the business So if we start making progress in the kind of product that we bring in and the kind of, you know, brands that we work with In the way we position ourselves and we increase our distribution reach I don't see a reason why we will not overtake, you know, at least two or three players and take the leadership position So that's one Two, um I think the only thing which has worked for, you know, Aptol in this period Is that they have actually worked very hard on, you know, taking their Programming to you at any place that they can find However, in my view That's not a very capital, you know, efficient way of, you know, running business So at some point of time, I think they should feel the heat, you know Other than rather than discounting the products they're spending money on distribution Which which, you know, may not have very very sustainable long-term value Right and since we talked about categories, I also want to ask you in terms of, you know, being able to partner with private labels as well Because the margins over there would be that much higher So is that a good route to take because there are several ways in which you can beat the competition So where is the strategy on that count? Home shopping is all about, you know Quality products yet delivering value private labels play a huge huge role in that Okay, so you're trying to work with a small, uh, you know manufacturer Or an importer who can actually source great quality products at a price which actually makes sense for you as a business And the consumer because, you know, they find value good quality product And they don't have to shell out the money for what they will for established brands So the strategy clearly works now, how do you ensure that, you know, the brand gets established over time? How do you ensure the quality is consistent? How do you ensure? You know, uh, there is no issue in your relationship with the seller and you know, everything works well over time So I think we are working with a couple of guys and we should come out with the cup You know, we should come out with a couple of private labels that we can, you know, establish on our channel So that's an important part of the business that you'd like to grow that in the future without without a doubt, right? Manish, good luck going ahead with The entire network that you've got going for yourself and 10 to 11 months the kind of numbers that we are seeing Seems like there is a lot of promise in it. Thank you indeed for joining us Thank you so much. Thank and with that we'll take a very quick breather here on this edition of the show Lots more coming up on the flip side


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. And welcome to Future Stars. It is here today, one of the most hyped and looked forward to promos every single year as EA gives some wonder kids some really juice of cards and fee for the show off their potential in the future.  We've seen some of the leaks. We'll look through those quickly. But I want to talk about content coming in the game today, and especially in relation to how it's going to impact the market. Because the market is very, very high. Prices are up like crazy almost everywhere on the meta market. Will that be impacted by Future Stars today? That's what I want to take a look at and talk about. And also, we have the return of the Future Stars Academy objectives. We talked about those quickly yesterday. We're going to get another one of those today, I believe, as a part of our content. So a lot of talk about today, especially with the market and with team of the year ending. I finally see the number one down there. We did pack a team of the year yesterday. Finally, it took all week. So many packs, but we finally got it done. So we'll take a look at kind of an end of team of the year. Just a quick talk about that at the end of this video as well. If you're excited for Future Stars today, hit the thumbs up and, of course, subscribe if you're new. Let's quickly roll through the leaks and talk specifically about the content I'm expecting today. Now, as of right now, we have 16 Future Stars players that are leaked, including the ones on the loading screen. And one of those is not included in this leak this year. That is Adhyemi, right? So Gaby, Kalulu, Julian Alvarez, right? These are official stats as well. Gavardiol, Cherqui, Gehi. We've got Elanga, Mudrek, Vettinia, Costa, Shingo, Spence. And then yesterday, Futsheriff added a couple more leaks to our list. Kudus is getting a card inside of Future Stars, as is Garcia, a Spanish left back. And we have Sanchet, I don't know how to say his name exactly, but another Spanish player in the Liga, a striker. So some lower kind of tier cards, kind of some pack filler, if we're being honest, right? At the end there. But the hype today is really for a lot of these guys, Mudrek, Vettinia, Elanga, Cherqui, Five Star, Five Star, Gehi, Alvarez, Kalulu Gavi, and of course, Adhyemi. It's really gonna come down to the skill move and the weak foot boost that EA Sports give these cards, because the stats, they look decent. They don't look absolutely nuts, but they look really good on a lot of the cards that are the most hyped up. We could have maybe seen a little bit more of a stat boost, and maybe EA is gonna end up boosting these stats a bit more today. We'll of course have to find out the final stats that are released in game. Sometimes expected stats when they're leaked can be a little bit wrong and off the mark. So those are the cards we expect today. Now I wanna just say a quick thing. I'm not expecting all 16 cards to be in packs today. I think we're gonna have a mini release of three or four cards that will not be included today that we'll see on either Saturday or Sunday. So if you're somebody who's really looking forward to like Cherqui or Elanga, you know, usually they take one of those like middle to high tier cards and they kind of delay it to the mini release. So just be aware that maybe not all the cards we've seen in these leaks will be dropping today. Probably a couple of them will be in the mini release on the weekend. Now, speaking of content we're gonna see today though, almost every single Future Stars year, they do Future Stars Academy and we have five cards shown here on this like in game little loading screen, I guess you will. One of those is English. One of the pieces of content I expect to see today is the leaked Future Stars Academy player that we have right now and that is Anthony Gordon. And it's kind of interesting because there's gonna be another English left mid that we might see today. We'll talk about that in a second. But Anthony Gordon is leaked as a Future Stars Academy player. Hopefully he gets a really, really nice juice. Of course he just transferred to Newcastle. So this will most likely be a Newcastle card in FIFA which may add a little bit of hype to his card if you think about it. There's a few more Newcastle links like the Pope, the Showdown card, the Bruno Guimarech, I mean Alan St. Maxman as well in the same position as Gordon. But we'll have to see what this looks like but this is always an exciting time to do the objective grind because you start with a load to your card, play some games and you basically upgraded to the best version that everybody will be going after. And in the past couple of years they've done a really, really good job of this last year. We had a Shaloba card that was really hyped up and we've had some really good ones in previous years of FIFA. I think this is gonna be our guide today. In objectives, I don't know if we're gonna get any other objectives besides this today. Usually on a promo for how to start off with an objective player. So this might be our objective today but again, that's a very exciting one. And hopefully EA Sports will maybe give us some more info on what these cards are in here on the loading screen. Kind of reminds me of like the Foot Freeze promo back in the day. Remember they had like daily player species and they would update us kind of with leaks on what those players might be. So maybe they'll update this screen. We have two English flags in there, Denmark, Italy and Portugal. So who knows who's coming as a part of the Stars Academy. But it looks like one of those English flags is Anthony Gordon and I would expect to see that today. Now, one big question mark we have for today is what's gonna be our SBC? Because usually at this point in the week we have a leaked SBC as well. And as of right now, we know nothing about an SBC that would be dropping today. Could they do some sort of flashback or a moments of like a player who had a future Stars back in the day? That's obviously something we would look forward to during this promo. As of right now, we have no leaks. They could just drop a future Stars legit player in SBCs today. Whatever it may look like, I think we will get an SBC today of a player. We just don't exactly know who that's gonna be yet because there are no leaks. Hey, you know what EA? Surprise, this drop is a surprise today. Maybe one of those players that's leaked to be coming in packs will end up being the SBC today. We will have to see. But of course, that content, if we don't know too much about it now, we'll just wait and see how that it's gonna affect the game when it does drop. Now, speed of SBCs though, there is maybe an early surprise in for us today. Just as there was yesterday with the Play of the Month Soar Loth, today could be an early release for a Player of the Month Marcus Rashford. Now we talked about this SBC just a little bit before. Hopefully it's 87 rated.  They have not been giving very nice stats to Player of the Months recently. I mean, the upgrade that we got on the Soar Loth Player of the Month over his inform yesterday was literally just a plus one overall with some plus ones and plus twos. I would hate to see a Rashford today that is 86 rated and overpriced, but Player of the Months this year have really not been that great a value and the boosts besides OtaGuard, the last Premier League Player of the Month, haven't been that great either. So hopefully that changes today and we get a nice Marcus Rashford again. This SBC will probably, if it's dropping today, it could be today or next Friday, but if it is dropping today, it'll probably be dropping hours before content time. It's like middle of the day, UK time is when this SBC has usually dropped. So keep an eye out for that. That might be an early piece of SBC content that we get today. Now I said we're gonna talk a lot about the market today and that's where I want to start the conversation now because as you guys know, this team of the year has been a bit of a different one and we'll talk about that a little bit more at the end, but team of the year prices everywhere are up like crazy and of course with these cards being so expensive and a lot of people just like whatever, I'm gonna open my packs and go buy cards in the market. That's kind of the feeling, right? Because people can almost not afford some of these team of your cards with how expensive they are. They just keep going up. And I mean, to be honest, after packing one yesterday, for good reason because all of these cards that I've used in draft or now that I use in my club are just levels above the entire rest of the game in terms of how they feel in game. So it makes sense why they're expensive. They're also super rare because all of us know how tough these guys were to pack this last week. It was almost impossible to pack these guys. You had to open so many packs or just getting insanely lucky to get one. And I really don't think that any of the future stars today are gonna have a really big impact on these team of the years. I do feel like the team of the year prices are going to stay up around the same. So if you have any of these cards, maybe a drop, just a slight drop, you know, on a two or three million coin card like most of these team of the years are 100 to 200K. That's not that sizable as a drop, especially like a 100K drop on like, you know, Benzamo or Messi, that's not that big of a drop. So I don't expect really big drops on any of these cards today. And for the rest of the market, you know, that's where the question really comes in because future stars last year, and if we even look at this year's market, we're in a market right now where prices are just super duper high across the board. Look at this Benzamo Winter Wildcards. He was 1.1 million coins, even below that before team of the year started. And he's just absolutely skyrocketed in these past, this past like week and a half. The whole market has just done this. It's absolutely flying. But today brings the opportunity for some more really hyped cards that people always wanna try out because they're new and they're different. And I do believe that could impact some players on the game today. For example, let's take the Alan St. Maximum card, right? 570, 580,000 coins, you know, earlier when the team of the year Pan XL, he was like 383, even like 450K last week. And now he is almost 600,000 coins with the Mudrick card that is coming today. One of the most hyped up cards that is gonna be released inside of this promo. You've got other attacking players in this Future Stars team like Elanga. You know, we've got the Cherokee card. We don't know what alternate positions he might have. You've got the Anthony Gordon. You've got the Player of the Month Marcus Rashford. A guy like this, could he drop today? Yeah, because a guy like Mudrick would probably be a substitute, right? That's where I think you'll see the biggest movements on the market today are with the substitute and with the compliment links. And we talked about this a lot, but a substitute link is like a new Premier League left mid like this Mudrick comes into the game that has a lot of hype and really good stats or maybe better stats than Alan St. Maximon. This Alan St. Maximon might drop because of that as people sell this to go try out the new card. Now, do I think Mudrick's gonna be 500K if he has five star skills? No, he's probably gonna be more than that. I think a lot of this Future Stars team is gonna be very similar to last year where you have cards like Mudrick and Cherokee, Alvarez, Gavi, Adiyemi. Last year, the team, there were so many expensive cards, like around 750,000 coins to over 2 million coins. You had a really expensive Jude, Smith Row, Chamani, Vlahovic, and there was one more that was pretty expensive. Like, oh yeah, Ferrant Torres when he was dropped in packs, right? You had those kind of like upper echelon top to your cards. And then the rest of the team, besides Cornate, he was like 300K and in Dicca, who was like 200K, a lot of the team was less than 100,000 coins. A lot of the cards were just kind of like, not that great, didn't have that great of links, or enough hype. I see the same thing with this team. I think Kululu might be like 150K today. He's not that incredible of a card though, right? Gavardiol might be your 304,000 coin center back day one. Probably not even that much, probably gonna be cheaper than that. But, you know, the Mudrick or the Vitinha with the PSG links, right? With the Adiyemi, the Alvarez, these guys are gonna be very, very expensive today. So, the part of the market that I would be halfway worried about would be the guys like Alan St. Maximon, maybe Agabriel Jesus. Cards that are between like 500 to 1.1 mil that are primarily attackers. Maybe Usmantambele could take a hit in price today because some of the strikers that are coming out like Adiyemi. So, those substitute cards could be replaced by new Future Stars. That's where I'm a little bit the most worried about the market today, but I don't even have that really big of worries because I don't feel like today's content, unless something crazy, crazy happens. Like, there's gonna have to be some other sort of catalyst today that would make prices crash a lot. Some sort of, something that causes panic, which I don't even know what that would be, right? Last year actually, it's kind of funny that I mentioned that. Last year on this day, a Future Stars day one, there was a ton of panic selling on the PlayStation market because the servers went down and everybody started panicking and prices like died, like a couple hours before content and then they rebounded back and the market did really well yesterday, or last year, sorry, on the Future Stars team one Friday. Now, afterwards and into Future Stars team two, with all the content that came out and the leaks, stuff started to go downwards then, but for this weekend last year, the market did do very well and I really feel like it could be the same way today. I'm not expecting a pretty, like a really crazy market crash day today by any means. I think the market's gonna be pretty, I mean, not uneventful. Obviously you have new cards coming on the game, but if you have a team with cards, especially if you have any team of the years, I think the team of the honorable mentions are a really interesting look today. I really believe that they are because a lot of these cards are still gonna be pretty rare.  Probably not too many, or how many of you have packed the, you know, Vinicius or the Valverde or the Alfonso Davies or the Cancelo, right? These guys were really tough to pack as well. I feel like they have potential to do well out of packs, at least a few of them do, especially those that link to maybe some incoming future stars. I think these cards are okay. I think the market's really gonna be pretty safe today, just apart from a couple cards that will get impacted because something else is new is coming in the game. Kind of like we talked about with the Allen St. Maxim and with the Mudrick, right? Those are the types of cards I would be a little bit worried about today. So take a look through the league's team. Take a look through cards that are coming out today. And if something in your team kind of lines up with that, then maybe be careful. I think today will be a really, really good day to make coins, though, on the meta market because, again, the market's very healthy at the moment, too.  People aren't losing a ton of coins. As a lot of people have bought cards for their team, way cheaper than the prices that they are now, there are still a lot of coins on this game and on this market where I think you will see prices fluctuate really well today and it'll be a great opportunity to trade, especially with the brand new Future Stars cards, as they are dropped into the game. I think these guys will fluctuate a ton and that's exactly what happened last year. I remember trading with the Chalmeni, with the Jude Bellingham and, you know, those cards are gonna have so much demand because, still, the hype today is gonna be around those brand new Future Stars players. So, I think the market should do pretty well today in the meta aspect of things. And all, for the Future Stars players as well, it all comes down to the pack weight. I don't expect the pack weight to be super duper crazy. I also don't expect a lot of saved up packs today. I know some people have been saving up packs because they felt the team of the year weight was abysmal and I understand that, but I don't think that's enough pack supply saved up today to really impact the market that much. Of course, EA will still run lightning rounds, there will probably be more store packs in the store, which I don't look at here in a second, but I don't think that these Future Stars will start crazy low and then rebound unless some crazy preview pack or something like that would drop, which preview packs we haven't heard about those in forever. So, speaking of packs though, really quick, we have some news to look at here and we actually, these packs that have been added to the code, they tell us a lot of information. First of all, three new store packs, a Future Stars foundations, essentials, and a cornerstone pack, seemingly the same words they use, they just rebrand it for every promo, right? Foundations, essentials, cornerstone's kind of a new one, but notice here, two of these packs contain Future Stars swap tokens. We've already had a pack in the store that has contained a Future Stars swap token, the 80K pack. Looks like we're getting two more. That would be three tokens in total from store packs over the Future Stars swaps campaign. That's a lot of swap tokens in a short time span in store packs. So EA's going for the bag with these and I mean, it kind of makes sense because we like to open those packs to get those swap tokens and you get some decent stuff inside of it. 10 rare golds, 86 plus, 11 rare golds, 85 plus. So all untradable items from these packs. So watch out for that. I would expect to see at least one, if not two of these store packs in the game today, maybe even more throughout this weekend. They also added a Future Stars player pack which contains one Future Stars player and it doesn't signify that it's untradable, but what I feel like this pack code might be referenced to is the swaps pack, the three token Future Stars team one pack. The only thing that pack code doesn't say also is it doesn't say that it's a team one player only. But again, today of course only one team is gonna be out. The second team will be next Friday. So I don't know if we're getting the swaps rewards today in game, obviously we have 10 tokens that have been released so far. So if we were to get the swaps rewards today, everybody could either do the three token team one player pack for Future Stars and if you have all 10 by now, you could technically go and open an 84 times 20 if that's gonna be a reward that is released. Kind of again, a sticky situation with that one. This message in game does not talk about an 84 20 but the picture that EA posted on Twitter and the website do mention it. So not sure what's going on there, but I honestly don't think that the rewards are gonna be available today for this. It could happen, but I just maybe not today, maybe a couple of days later on the weekend, maybe next Monday, who knows. I guess the potential is there but since that pack has been added to the code, all these other packs like an 85 times 10, we've already had that in the game 81 times 11. It's not like they have to add a bunch of new pack code for the swaps program. A lot of the packs we've already seen before in player picks never show up in the code because they just don't. However, that works for EA. So just that's kind of the Future Stars swaps wind up or roundup as of now. Let's talk about fodder for a second as well because you guys know fodder prices have been moving. Yesterday, we saw 86s at like 16K. They went back up to about 20,000 coins after the milestone rewards got paid out. They had a kind of a nice spike here. People got the rewards, probably went out and did some SBCs and now they're back down again in the 16, 17K range and I think they're gonna go a little bit lower today unless we get some sort of crazy SBC which is not super common on a Friday.  You know, 87s, 88s, 89s, the higher tier fodder still could drop for sure, a little bit but I don't know how crazy it's going to drop because you still have all of the big SBCs that require the higher rated squads are still going to be there. Zidane is still there for a couple more days. A lot of your icons are still there. You know, all of your big SBCs that were dropped during Team of the Year, Play of the Month and Bope is still available so your demand's probably gonna drop off a bit because people have been crafting those with the upgrade packs during Team of the Year but these card prices should maintain their elevated prices at least for a little bit longer while there's still demand for those big SBCs but I think this begins, especially late tonight or Friday. I'm talking like late, late night, maybe even early Saturday morning depending on what time zone you're in, late Friday and into Saturday. Between the next two days, today and tomorrow, fodder is going to be a buy again in my opinion because I think Future Stars as it does every year brings a lot of kind of the gamble pack type of fodder, we had that Future Stars, like Reunion Player Pick last year, we had a Future Stars SBC of some sort, like for Future Stars Player Pick or something last year as well, like maybe even a guaranteed Future Stars. There's always good content during Future Stars, Player SBCs and the gamble pack. So for that reason, I really like the 84s to the 86s because when I think of like a gamble type of pack, I think of like 84, 85, 86 rated squads with maybe some specific 84, 85, 86 requirements in there for those SBCs and maybe even some of the informs in that range as well, a lot of the higher tier informs are still up, right? You mean we bought 87 informs at 20K, I'm still holding those, I know they were 30, they're back down to 25, 26, I'm still holding for greener pastures. So I think for this stuff, if you see 84s go to like 3K today or like 85s back at like eight to 9K, that to me is like, all right, we're gonna look at some really good buying opportunities on fodder this weekend for SBCs that will come this week because even though this promo for some of you guys may be like Nate, it's cool, right? Future stars, yeah, yeah, but I'm not opening packs, they're still gonna be lining rounds, they're still gonna be packs that are sold because these are big name players of the stars of tomorrow that are gonna be in packs today. So definitely watch out for the fodder market on this game today. And of course with today happening, it's the end of team of the year.  I know some of you guys have had really good pack look team of the year, wise other of you guys have had terrible pack look. Finally hit a team of the year, it was VVD. And I'm telling you guys, this card is so good. He's unbelievable, two games and also using him in draft. I know that he's just different, right? I also packed Kudo Bali yesterday.  Now that's gotten a huge upgrade. The team looks absolutely phenomenal now and I absolutely love this VVD card, man. So so many packs throughout this past week finally paid off to get us a VVD yesterday. I'm still gonna build a few more packs today and this is a good last minute shout. If you guys want to do this, maybe some premium Premier League or LaLiga upgrades and the 78 plus triples, Gold Commons, I think are like 400 coins now on bid or maybe even 450. It's really cheap to do some upgrade packs for today. If you wanna go ahead and try to see if you can have a chance at packing any of the future stars players, that's absolutely something you can go ahead and do. But just really quick to end team of the year. I mean, team of the year was so weird. It really was like the lowest pack weight in a long time for team of the years. The stats weren't that amazing. I mean, they feel incredible in game like they should but the stat boost, we still didn't have any 99s. We had a lot of like 96s, you know, 95s, 94s. So it was just a weird one, right? We had a lot of SBC content but it wasn't all the most insane. It was a lot of just mediocre priced SBCs and okay boosts, right? With the Ramos, with the Mane, small boosts, medium prices and then of course, the big player that won the Mbappe. That's not even really a team of the year related. And then the upgrade packs were a bit of a bummer as well. Only getting eight cards instead of 12. It was just really weird of a team of the year and I think the pack weight is what really made it disappointing for a lot of people. One bright side for team of the year is that we did have a cup and we had a lot of objectives, especially the draft objectives to get some cool packs and those 85 plus attacker, the midfielder and defender packs did give us a pretty good chance of packing blues but just a really weird team of the year I think it's gonna go down in my books as so. We will have to see if future stars can continue the hype or maybe even build the hype back up. We'll have to see how good the cards are that are dropped today and of course how EA keep us hooked during this promo with SBCs and other sorts of content. So if you're excited for the promo today, once again, drop a thumbs up in the video. Comment down below what you thought about team of the year and your thoughts on what you're looking for today on Future Stars and of course, if you're new around here, hit the subscribe button. I'll see you guys on the screen today. It's been Nate, the foot account and catch you guys later. Peace.