Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing 2021 tops tribute baseball six box case break pick your team number four We're all card ship and we're looking for really nice cool autos like this. So here is the List of customers and respective teams from Ryan Redmond the diamond backs down to Eric Seguin and the Nationals last spot mojo Ryan Redmond and the Orioles and Here's our case So there's the customer lists Steve he's the best part of it. That's not cringy at all. He makes me so happy him and his wife. Oh That's some of the fit. That's some of my favorite parts of that show And what's the what's will Ferrell's characters name Ashley Ashley Schaefer Ashley Schaefer BMW? Anybody else want to go to go golfing with Oliver and I at 615 in the morning on Saturday 28 hours from now I'll literally be breaking tomorrow night, and then I'm gonna go straight to golf So you guys have to keep me here until like five in the morning. I think my favorite Stevie part is when He like finally stands up to her He like tries to like tell her what he's gonna do to any McBride's incredible Remember, he's a he's one of the bullies in Donnie Darko. Well for you guys next time all over and I We uh We're starting a Jaspie's golf club We did one last month when I went for first tee we're doing it again Saturday 615 in the morning I offered I invited Nick Nick's like 615 in the like he I said Saturday at 615. He goes AM. I went. Yeah, he goes He literally put laugh out loud. No, I'm good. I was like, come on dude Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies ever Omar That and Why can't I think of it right now? Oh? This is really gonna bother me. It's legitimately like my favorite my favorite movie of all time Brooke Robinson for the Orioles Ryan Redmond Ken Griffey Jr. for the Mariners Eugene Wong Jared Leto Crack at or he's a drug addict and Keston here a three out of 50 for the Brewers Christopher Jensen. Why can't I think of a movie name right now? It's literally like my favorite movie of all time It's got one of the Wayne's brothers in it. It's got shooter MacGavin Requiem for a dream. Thank you Yeah, that's that's my favorite movie all the time Ronald Acuna Jr 60 out of 99 for the Braves Charles Wolfkill Walker Bueller for the Dodgers Nelson Lynn and Miguel Cabrera 5 out of 50 for the Tigers AJ Anderson Favorite movie all time. I Also enjoy fear and loathing in Las Vegas, but requiem for a dream. I can watch that movie All the time that well Donnie Darko's up there, too I also enjoy kids Kids I can't watch as often, but I do like kids a lot the final scene in requiem for dream where like the music matches up with the so like the requiem for dream like Um Musical like interlude that goes on and it matches up with the the camera shaking and like pulsating as the arm This they look at the arm and it's like infected and they cut it off and everything That is one of my favorite scenes of any like I that's one of my favorite things of anything of all time Jose Abreu for the White Sox TJ Leonard Tony Gwyn for the Padres Arthur Hackett and Cody Bellinger Mookie bets nice dual relic two color patches on each one four out of ten Dodgers Nelson Lynn Well, that's that's a classic. I Mean, I love her. That's for sure Yeah Yeah, the grandma makes me sad every time She uh, she won a best supporting actress award for that movie George Brett for the Royals Josh X-Line Ron Mccuny Jr. For the Braves Charles Wolfkill 98 out of 99 Dodgers hitting early Nelson Lynn. It's not Joe. It's such a classic movie Casey Meyers for you. You got it. Um, I have not I'm not Trevor story for the Rockies Brendan Vondem Lou Bob for the White Sox TJ Leonard And Mo Mariano Rivera 13 out of 25 for the Yankees Charles Wolfkill Here's the thing Tom. Is that like a recent like a sequel or is that like an old sequel? Buster Posey for the Giants Ryan Redman Vlad Guerrero for the Blue Jays Steve Wright. Oh From 2019, okay And Andrew Jones 62 out of 199 For the Braves Charles Wolfkill. I just saw a thing today that said And I don't know. I mean, do you guys think Andrew Jones is a Hall of Famer? He's borderline, but like he's not a guaranteed Hall of Famer at all Apparently There's only like, you know how tops does like the dual rookie cards Where like the rookie card has both players on it. There's only one Existing card where both players ended up in the Hall of Fame and If he is if he makes it He would be it'd be him and Vlad Guerrero as the only other one Borderline, that's what I'm saying, but I think he defensively is probably one of the best center fielder's Especially of that time. I think he could still make it But would be very interesting because it would be that dual rookie card of him and Vlad He would be the only the second rookie card that cops has ever made where both of them are both in there Later Jason. So now I'm rooting for him and then I'm gonna go get that rookie card I'm gonna buy it in the PSA 10. Cody Bellinger for the Dodgers Nelson Lynn Ricky Henderson for the A's Steve Wright and This is my third break in a row with a one-soto this one's 11 out of 25 The Nationals again Eric Seguin and it's a very nice one. I think this one's the lowest numbered Ty Cobb for the Tigers AJ Anderson Austin Meadows for the Rays Mark Neubauer and Marcus Strowman 89 out of 99 for the Mets Robert Zwickus. I enjoyed inception but Xander Bogart for the Red Sox Mark Neubauer Randy Johnson for the Diamondbacks Ryan Redmond Casey Meyes 98 out of 99 for the Tigers AJ Anderson was asking for it PC Casey Meyes Nice one there for everybody Such a clean look I Think I found my first series that I absolutely love like big hit series. It was Keanu Reeves the his like His like most recent kind of series that he did Love that series John Wick Joey Gallo for the Rangers Patrick Davis Garrett Cole for the Yankees Charles Wolfkill Bobechette for Steve and Wilson Contreras Dirty pinstripe look how dirty that is Wilson Contreras 37 out of 150 definitely game used Cubs Charles Wolfkill not from any specific game event or season Look how dirty that thing is It's like blood blood Ted Williams to 50 for the Red Sox Mark Neubauer Joey Vado for the Reds Barry Roberts And Dennis Eckersley 7 out of 10 Joe is this is this the friend of Jasper's is a not friend of Jasper's I always forget I know it's it's either him Or Raleigh fingers. I forget which one is your your arch nemesis Hey Steve Wright. Oh, it's Raleigh fingers. Okay, the Jasper's is cool with Dennis Eckersley Is tenant good Joe? I Heard it was like it was just a movie that tried too hard Ted Williams Red Sox Mark Neubauer Reggie Jackson for the Yankees Charles Wolfkill Lordus Gurriel 125 out of 150 triple relic for the Blue Jays and Steve Wright Tenant was crazy like crazy good top. I haven't seen it. So Whoa Steve Joe just tried to make fun of you then Hear that Joe Wade Boggs to 99 for the Rays Mark Neubauer Mm-hmm, fifth element's incredible multi-pass Mariano Rivera for the Yankees Charles Wolfkill and Griffey triple relic 16 out of 50 for the Mariners Eugene Wong the rock is great I think this one's got a redemption in it Definitely redemption Ernie Banks for the Cubs Charles Wolfkill and Glaber Torres for the Yankees Charles Wolfkill Somebody somewhere made an actual opera out of the opera scene from fifth element Somebody legit like made an act like a Broadway opera or like a stage show. I want to see that Autograph purple parallel so that'll be numbered out of 50 Phillies Jason Siebert Very nice solid Rookie auto there Blake's Nell for the Rays Mark Neubauer George Springer for the Astros Donald Dudley Jesus Lizard 53 out of 150 Jesus Lizardo for the A's Steve Wright Shawshanks good I'm not a fan of Raging Bull taxi driver. I like I also don't like Rocky though It's not that I don't like boxing movies. I really don't like Sylvester Stallone I like him a lot Honus Wagner pirates Ben Young Robin you out for the Brewers Christopher Jensen And Dylan Carlson 14 out of 50 for the Cardinals Josh X-Line. He said I really don't like him and Jim Rice 163 out of 199 Red Sox Mark Neubauer Freddie Freeman for the Braves Charles Wolfkill Pete Alonzo for the Mets Robert Zwickus and Story and aerodotto 24 out of 99 for the Rockies Brennan Valdum a random movie that I really liked was oh, yeah, Slumdog Millionaire was great um Movie that I really really liked old school 80s movie Based in Chinatown a lot of it. There's like a kid. Oh my god. Why can't I think of it right now? Every time it comes on I have to watch it Martial arts, I think a little bit too man somebody's gonna say it and I'm gonna be like, yeah, that's it Charlie Blackman for the Rockies Brendan Valdum Shohio Tani for the Angels Corey Parsons super random movie like so good And Jim Rice again this one's 12 out of 25 for the Red Sox Mark Neubauer Did both Jim Rice autos come out of the same box they did Was it trouble? Is it trouble in little China big trouble in little China? Is that the name of the movie? Does anybody remember that movie? Yes, Tom? It was that I don't know why that just popped into my head, but yeah, that's the movie Big trouble little China Such a good movie. I Mean it's kind of terrible, but it's so good as well Yeah, that's exactly it now. I gotta go watch that What a great movie Manny Machado for the Padres Arthur Hackett Wade Boggs for the Rays Mark Neubauer and For the Braves Andrew Jones 47 out of 150 Charles Wolfkill in the Braves Yeah, no, I mean, that's what I mean. It's like it was bad. It's not a good movie But God is it good? I told Joe he needs to watch the What's the one Contagion, yeah, isn't that the Gwyneth Paltrow right Nelson Isn't that that movie? Yeah, that that's that movie. I went back and watched that cuz I was like, oh, yeah Eat your row for the Mariners Eugene Wong Anthony Rendon for the Angels Cory Parson and Yon Mancada pinstripe 103 out of 150 for the White Sox TJ Leonard, I told Joe he needs to go since he liked the gong girl He needs to watch I forget what the name of the movie was but it's it's the it's similar to gong girl Where she like travels to the city on a train. She's an alcoholic and I think it's her ex-husband or somebody That like abuses her Something weird is it like through the window or something like that Jose Altuve for the Astros Donald Dudley Fernando Tatis for the Padres Arthur Hackett Jake Cronin worth for the Padres Arthur Hackett Leo de Tavares rookie Otto 78 out of 199 for the Rangers Patrick Davis Yeah, girl on the train. That's the one That's the movie. I Enjoyed it. I liked it. It's a psychological thriller as well Tony Gwyn 94 out of 99 for the Padres Arthur Hackett Hank Aaron for the Braves Charles Wolfkill and Nolan Ryan dual relic 40 out of 150 for the Astros Donald Dudley Memento, I think I have I would have to remember I'd have to like be reminded of it Zodiac is good. You know what a what movie is actually pretty decent super cheesy parts of it as well Anybody remember butterfly effect with What's the dude from that 70s show Ashton Kutcher I Think I have Joe is that the part where like he tries to put peace everything together We're like he has to peace everything together with like Like doesn't he write on himself With Maryfield for the Royals Josh X line Bryce Harper for the Phillies Jason Sievert and another rookie Otto Leo de Tavares 85 out of 150 second one out of this box already Yeah, that's right. I've seen that It's it's a it's definitely a mind trip, but it's really good There's a lot to follow not one of those movies that you could like be looking at your phone and And state pay like keep like the storyline, you know forward You Dardis for the Cubs Charles Wolfkill Kettle Marta for the Diamondbacks Ryan Redmond just got hurt unfortunately this week. I haven't seen what they what happened But triple relic Ken Griffey junior again 44 out of 99 for the Mariners Eugene Wong Okay strong two boxes to finish it off. You got another redemption Could it be another Alec bomb seems like this case is kind of repeating itself quite a bit one soda for the nationals Eric Sageen and Joey Gallo 27 out of 50 for the Rangers Patrick Davis some Vladdie tribute to tops autograph purple parallel so that'll be numbered out of 50 of Joe Adele angels Cory Parsons very nice. I Wonder what his tribute to tops Parallel oh actually it's on the side We used it as a photo here. That's his tribute to tops the That's what it's gonna look like the purple one. That's super cool I like that a lot. I like that I'm a fan of that Dunkirk was a really good movie Prestige was great Nolan Aronato for the Rockies Brandon Vondem Christian Yellich for the Brewers Christopher Jensen and For the race Austin Meadows another dirty jersey Look at that 44 out of 150. That's just straight filthy right there Rays mark newbauer Clayton Kershaw for the Dodgers Nelson Lindt Willie Stardew for the Pirates Ben Young Max Kepler 126 out of 154 the twins And Ben Skrignoli The machinist is crazy Has anybody seen the cute movie we have a zoo? I like that one. I think that's also Scarlett Johansson, right? Nolan Ryan for the Rangers Patrick Davis Johnny Bench for the Reds Barry Roberts actually now I don't think it is I think it's uh Something else And oh Tori Hunter my favorite 102 out of 150 max Kepler Tori Hunter It's a great movie joe. It's adorable. It's about animals And them saving a zoo from like the incoming Nazis and stuff like that. It's great cute movie Max Kepler for the twins Ben Skrignoli. Oh, no, that's a different movie Francisco Lindor for the twins Ben Skrignoli All right, sorry. That's for the Indians Uh, this is Omar Baltimore Orioles Brooke Robinson six out of 199 Ryan Redmond No, no, no Matt Damon's best movie is rounders You're both wrong Rounders followed by uh goodwill hunting. I actually just watched that movie steve Scotty doesn't know I just watched that movie last week It's so good Albert Pujols Shane Bieber also for the Indians before that Omar And Mike Piazza eight out of 154 the Mets Robert Zwickis I splashed the pot whenever I want. Um Who is it? Uh John Malkovich. So everybody Human centipede. No, it's not Nelson. That can't be your favorite movie of all time. That's such a bad movie Um John Malkovich, you know how like everybody says That uh, what's it called? Like you get like three people you could you could have dinner with Um, like dead or living or dead Throughout all of history. John Malkovich would be one of the people I'd want at my dinner table I'd want to have dinner with him Aaron Nola for the Phillies Jason Siebert Paul Goldschmidt for the Cardinals and Josh X line and Vladdy Vladdy Daddy 11 out of 50 for the Angels dual relic Corey Parsons fight clubs great Oh hundred percent I would if honestly Joe if I ever had the chance of meeting John Malkovich I would fangirl the shit out of him. I would just be like in awe I don't I couldn't I wouldn't be able to speak straight to him or anything like that Huge John Malkovich fan Lou Gehrig for the Yankees Charles Wolfkill Tom Sever for the Mets Robert Zwickis Yeah, John Malkovich and Raleigh Fingers again 93 out of 99 for the A's Steve Wright Mike Trout for the Angels Corey Parsons Justin Verlander for the Astros Donald Dudley And Two out of 50 rookie Otto Andres Jimenez for the Mets Robert Zwickis I tried to get my My girlfriend and her brother he was over I think on Easter day We were trying to find a movie to watch for some reason I was I was trying to convince them to watch What's eating Gilbert Gray? I was like, hey, uh Really good movie. I don't think either one of you's probably ever seen this because they're younger But I was like it's great movie It's got Leonardo DiCaprio Uh, what's his name? Mookie Betch for the Dodgers Nelson Lin Alex Bregman for the Astros Donald Dudley and Kyle Sieger 41 out of 150 For the Mariners Eugene Wong Greek movie the scene where they have to like set the house on fire God Just gets me Bryce Harper 9 out of 10 for the Phillies Jason Sievert Jordan Alvarez for the Astros And Donald Dudley, I think we got one of the retro. It's got a green back on it You do Sandra Bogart 17 out of 99 for the Red Sox mark newbauer. Oh, I saw I mean talking about planet earth and I saw uh jack hannah today. I think He has um I think they just they just diagnosed him with dementia and last pack Good luck I think we're finishing it on a relic Jackie Robinson for the Dodgers Nelson Lin Cal Ripken jr for the Orioles Ryan Redmond Yon Mancada 67 out of 99 for the White Sox and TJ Leonard. There's a lot of duplicates in this case or this this case. Yeah um Same names came up multiple times different colored parallels So wasn't like that in the rest of them, but at least it was some really good names And there you go. That was 2021 tops tribute baseball six box case break pick your team number four from jaspyscasebreaks.com I'm sean jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for hanging out. I'll see you next time


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. This is the first FIFA 21 video that we're gonna have and this starts the new year for us with the new version of FIFA Ultimate Team, going through the trades, going through the market, going through the building of your Ultimate Team from scratch to where we just ended after a team in the season, summer heat and fantastic pre-season promos that gave us a lot of sick cards, a lot of dope SBC content and a lot of awesome stuff inside of FIFA Ultimate Team. We started all again in about three weeks with FIFA 21. And again, what we're covering today is some stuff that EA dropped yesterday on their Twitter. We're gonna be talking about the new FIFA 21 ratings. I haven't been actually putting out FIFA 21 content because a lot of the stuff that we're gonna talk about depends on the cards that they're gonna be putting in the game. So we got some information on those cards today. So I'm here to talk with you about FIFA 21 and what we're gonna be seeing in the next couple of days, what we can learn from these ratings and what that means for us going forward in terms of FIFA 21 preparation, getting our minds right for what kind of trading methods we're gonna be looking at in the next couple of weeks with the web app dropping, with the EA access, how to best use your 10 hours, ones to watch, investments and all that sort of stuff in the next three to four week timeframe. There's a lot of stuff going on. We're gonna cover it all here. So stay tuned for that, of course, in the future. But again, this is what we're talking about today because EA Sports dropped this promo video today. They said Thursday and they actually used the wrong date in their tweet. What's new? Starting off FIFA 21 on a great note and error from EA Sports. But this is the kind of promo video that they dropped today, showing Holland, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Gio Felix as the main three kind of cover stars on FIFA 21. We've been seeing them a lot. But this is the interesting thing, right? They actually showed some ratings in this video that actually were kind of teased, right? I'm gonna try to stop it on the first one here. There was Teo Hernandez, Odegaard, Steven Burgwein, Rodrigo, Phil Foden and Mason Mount, I think were the cards that were actually shown. So part of their ratings were actually leaked in this video. Their overall ratings and some of their individual stats were leaked in this little promo video by EA Sports. And a couple of things I want to talk about from this video, before we get on to the rest of this, they're actually like making a promo and they're actually naming this ratings reveal. Last year they just called it the ratings reveal and that's kind of what it's always been called. But this year it's called the ratings collective and they actually have like a logo, they have like a promo video that they've already tweeted out ahead of the Thursday release and they're just putting a lot of extra effort into the marketing side of things. They've been doing that a lot with FIFA 21 so far, but I find it interesting that we have all of this ratings collective set up for the ratings release. Now that also makes me think, could it be different this year than in the prior years because they're starting this rating reveal pretty early. Usually we don't get the ratings reveal just a couple of weeks before. Then we have a little bit of time to look at the, you know, the databases on Footbin, on Foothead and on FootWiz before we, you know, start to get into the web app and stuff. But we're gonna have plenty and plenty of time to be looking at cards in the database if they release it like normal. So I'm wondering if we might not see the players getting released in batches of 20 like we have seen in the previous years, you know, like 100 to 81, 80 to 61 and then down like that. I think what we might actually see is something a little bit different. So we'll stay tuned, of course, or PMUK on Thursday the 10th, all right? Don't believe this tweet. It is the 10th of September, not the 17th. That is when we're gonna be getting information on FIFA 21 ratings. So stay tuned to that. Of course, I'll be covering here as it does come out on the channel. This is a quick graphic put together of some of the cards that were leaked in, or not leaked, but shown in that promo video today. This is by Simon Design. I'll leave a link to this tweet in the description as well. Great graphic put together by him. One little thing I do wanna note is that Dest is an American, not a Dutch. But again, a Bergwine going to an 83, Rodrigo's 79, Mason Mow is an 80 and Dest is a 77. I believe there were three other cards that were shown in that video as well. That was OdaGuard, OdaGuard, and then we also had Theo Hernandez, and I forget the last one, Phil Foden, again. But those were all the cards that were shown and their ratings were actually shown in that video. So we know what is coming ahead this year. Now speaking of ratings, right? This has got a lot of people thinking about, okay, Bergwine's an 83, Rodrigo's a 79. Is there any website? A lot of people use Sofifa.com to look at ratings and what they think ratings are gonna be for some of those top tier players, Ronaldo, Messi, Lewandowski, kind of like the top three players people are envisioning this year to be the highest rated in FIFA 21. I wanna go to Sofifa.com and show you that we might not actually be able to use this website just yet to confirm FIFA Ultimate Team ratings because, as of course confirmed in the video today, Steven Bergwine is an 83 rated card. According to Sofifa, he's still an 82. Let's check this theory once again with Mason Mount. So of course, in the video that was released today or yesterday, Mason Mount was an 80 rated, he's 79 here. So I find it's kinda interesting that the ratings on Sofifa.com don't exactly match up yet to the ratings that are going to be used in FIFA Ultimate Team according to this video that they put out today. So that is one thing that I kinda find sorta interesting. You can't always rely on the Sofifa website. I'm guessing the Sofifa website becomes a lot more reliable and a lot more usable once we actually get the full database in the game and then maybe be somehow linked together or match up somehow. I'm not entirely sure, but this is a website a lot of people usually go for their ratings and stuff. I just wanna kinda give you a word of caution. Those might not be exactly, they'll be very close, but they might not be exact. Let me check Desk as well. Yeah, he's a 72. Wow, 72 according to Sofifa, but he's actually gonna be a 77 in FIFA. So that's pretty crazy to be honest that we have that big of a difference. But again, with the ratings coming out this week, this is big because this means the start of players being released, we're gonna be knowing statistics and players, what players are gonna be overpowered, what players are gonna be more expensive, transferred cards, what are their ratings gonna be? That's a big point for a lot of people. Of course, Timo Werner going to Chelsea. He's gotten a lot, a lot of special cards. In the past few years, are we going to see Werner's base item be higher than 86 this year?  I would expect to see a nice little 87 or maybe even an 88, Timo Werner. A lot of times when players transfer to the prem, they do get a little bit of a ratings boost, especially if they're a lower tier player, because it kind of, you know, there's actually a little bit of added hype for some of those cards. So, just something to kind of think about as we were looking through the ratings, maybe start to think, hey, what kind of cards could be in that top 50 or top 100 in terms of ratings this year in FIFA Ultimate Team and hopefully we get some more information on that very, very soon. This is the other stuff that I wanna talk about, right? Of course, since FIFA 21 is coming out, I just kind of wanna reiterate what is gonna be going on on this channel here, right? You're watching The Foot Account. You maybe have watched me for a year, two years I started doing this in FIFA 19. Right around this time I started making trading and videos just analyzing FIFA 20 and the game. And that is what I love doing the most is analyzing the game regarding the market movements, what stuff goes up, what makes things go down on the market, why is EA releasing content, what is it gonna do to affect people's clubs, what SBCs are gonna come out, objectives, or what other content is gonna be coming out that will create market movements and also create people or motivate people to do certain things inside of the game. That is what I enjoy doing the most. And again, that's gonna happen this year. You're gonna see me doing that a lot this year. And again, I wanna go over a few things that we're gonna be touching just on a high level today, what we're gonna be touching in the next few weeks. Foot co-op, there's a lot of interesting things that people aren't talking about in terms of co-op, in terms of what that's gonna mean for objectives, in terms of rivals and even squad battles. What is that gonna mean for that kind of stuff? There's some stuff we're gonna talk about with that with foot events. This is gonna be very, very interesting this year. This is gonna affect the market a lot. It's basically another objective tool that is going to cause market movements because I could absolutely see them, team events. There might be some requirements in here where you have to play with a certain squad with certain players in it, and that's of course gonna drive market movements because people have to buy up a card to play with.  You know, you might see some market movements because of things like that related to team events, just something to be aware of. And then of course, this is one little tip that I wanna give you guys right away that not a lot of people are talking about, right? Foot Stadium, which actually isn't talked about in this article right here, but Foot Stadium this year, and especially with all of those stadium items being put into packs, is going to change the market in terms of chemistry styles. And that's something I'm gonna talk intensively about in a future video, is I don't think chemistry style trading could be, now again, this is a could be because we don't know the pack weight, we don't know exactly what is going on with that yet in FIFA 21. But if we head over here quickly to FIFA 20, I just wanna show you that this year was a crazy year for the shadow and for the hunter chemistry styles. At certain points during the year when there were price range updates, these cards were selling for 20 to 25,000 coins a piece on the market. And EA just had the pack weight wrong this year with these chem styles for whatever reason, and they really just milked it by upping the price ranges instead of upping the pack weight. But since there are different items in packs now and in some of the pitch notes that they produced, they said that chemistry styles are going to see an increased drop rate in packs. So since shadow and hunter chemistry style was so great and so well known of a trading method last year, will it still work this year? I think it will, but it might not be as effective. We're gonna talk extensively about that in the next couple of weeks with some of these FIFA 21 videos as well. But again, the big thing that we have to talk about for right now is the ratings and the ratings collective especially and what is going on with this stuff right here. So again, Thursday, 4pm UK time, which is kind of early, two hours before the content drop, the rating collective, we will see some content related to this. And you know what, to be honest with you, I feel like they're kind of gonna milk at a decent amount. And I would not expect to get a ton of information on Thursday, just a little bit, right? That's what EA likes to do. They like to stretch it out, they like to kind of tease you and then finally give you enough information after a certain amount of time and just make it better over time, right? The content is just good here, but then as time goes on, the content gets a little bit greater and they drop more stuff, more information and things like that. So that's kind of all this video is related about today. There's a lot of stuff upcoming, but this really is the start of FIFA 21 for me because once we start to see the players, we can start to put the pieces together. This person is probably gonna be in this price range. This person probably could be rising over the first couple of weeks of FIFA Ultimate Team or this person, depending on pack weight, might actually get a lot of supply early on in the game and might not be that expensive to what we would have thought previously in previous years. So again, welcome to FIFA 21 boys. Welcome to FIFA 21 with a foot account inaugural FIFA 21 video on the channel with rating stuff coming out on Thursday of this week. Hope you guys are in for a fun year. It's gonna be a great one. It's gonna be an incredible one. More and more content than you've ever seen on this channel, all different areas of Twitch, on YouTube, Discord, on Twitter, on Instagram. Get in the links down below in the description to check out all of my socials and all my threads and get involved there. If you did enjoy this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate, the foot accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.


Okay. It's my very great pleasure to introduce to you our next talk. I think industrial security has been a lot of has been in the news a lot in the last year, and I'm very curious what our next speakers are going to have to say about that and especially in the context of railways. So, please welcome Sergei Alex and Gleb with the next talk, The Great Train Cyber Robbery. Hello, Congress. It's a great pleasure to see you again. As usual, the only frontman for SCADA strange graph team who for last five years trying to save humanity from industrial disaster and to keep a purity of essence. So, please keep your big hands for all people who support us. Just not for journalists. This is SCADA strange laugh team talk and mistake by joke all our responsibilities. It's not related to our employers. So, railways. Railways is one of the biggest artificial system built by humanity. It takes a thousand and thousand kilometers all around the globe on different continents and my personal trip railroad trip when I was a student take more than 9,000 of kilometers and six days. Maybe because I was young and have a lot of time, but still even now I prefer to travel by train because on airplanes you see the earth from the skies. When you train, you can observe, connect with people with this land. But in our Hacker vision, most important question is how it's work because it's always interesting to understand how work in this case railways. What are two important words in railway universe is the signals and switches. Signals allow to train operators to train drivers to understand correct speed. Should he speed up or stop or slow down and switches obviously allow to change direction and move train from one track to another. Many years ago switches and signals operated by human manually. So, if you want to move train in different direction, you must change switch by your hands. But about maybe 100 years ago, modern system called interlocking was invented. Interlocking is a system which calculate dependencies between train location, signals and switches position to understand can train go in this direction or is prohibited. So, if it see conflict rotors when routes when train can collide, it's prohibited this situation by at first physical locks, which is interlocking. It looks like steampunk picture, but still physical interlocking works. For instance, in New York City transit, you can find what some of stations still operated by manual interlocking machine. Very important point related to railway is way to understand position of the train. There are a lot of different way to do it now in modern world with always high speed train, where GPS tracking, GLONASS tracking, but track circuits still very widely adopted. What is track circuit? In this idea, we use rails as wires and transfer power into rails. Sometimes it's DC, sometimes it's AC with modulation. By the way, signal relay accept with signal and if it's okay, it's open to clear light to green. If we have a train on the rails when it's kind of a little short circuit, and relays energize it and train switches to stop signal. So, now we're speaking about relays. After physical interlocking, most of railway automation system was built on the relays. On special little relays, which built with a lot of gold, which can operate in wide range of temperatures. And what's most important, vital relays are gravity operated devices. But nobody know what is gravity. That is why I think nobody know how vital relays are working and it's working by magic and that is why we should trust it. By the way, for me, relay room on railway station is a place where students are about to get inspiration for their soundtrack.  Okay, this is old school. But today things changed and we have a lot of automation system, computer-based system on the locomotive, on the way station, on the station, on way side. It's a traction motor control, computer-based interlocking, computerized ticketing system, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Let's discuss in details how it works. I want to give you an example about Eurostar train, which name it one of the most smart train in the world, because it has one, two, three, five, seven automated system on the board for France, for Great Britain, for Belgium, and generic European train control system. But let's stop for a second and check with highlighted reactor protection system on the board of Eurostar train. I hope this is typo, because I'm not ready to speak about nuclear train at the moment. Switch on the mic. Yep. Hello. So the locomotives, they built from several vital systems, like the one that allow them to move, to stop, to say the driver about the situation on the road, and most importantly, the train protection system that can somehow react and prevent several some accidents. All these subsystems are interconnected. So for example, traction system won't mess with braking, or in case of some accidents, the train protection can stop the train. The bummer is you can't find anything to conduct security research on the internet, publicly available. And this is true for all railroad software. But if you try hard enough, so let's speak, for example, about one system that's actually a train protection system called Sebas. The 10 year old version of its Sebas 32 is very, very widespread. And the newer one is Sebas PN is very new and is still a catch. And some of us will catch it more than others. So let's look at how this system was updated. And just by looking at it, we can see a lot of things, like they stopped using some proprietary operating system, and it's a good news because most of the time homegrown operating systems tend to be disastrous. They, in this system, they don't have hardware controllers. They have PC based stimulation called VINAC RTX. They have new modern, well, not new, not modern, but unified transporters like Prefinet. And nowadays they use very widespread CPU architectures like X86 and PowerPC. And it's a way to ease the job done by reverse engineers. So when you read a lot of manuals and documents on the internet, and you know from which subsystems some locomotive components are built, you can actually probably find something on the internet. We are speaking about VINAC RTX PC based controllers. But it's not the time to talk about it. But still we can talk about the internals of the system. And this is actually what tell us a lot of things, not vulnerabilities but weaknesses. Like if you want to control the the controller to stop it, to shut down, to run, or anything else. You don't need authentication and you don't see any kind of industrial protocols. It's just XML over HTTP. And it's easy to repeat and easy to build your own tools to control them. And if you look deeper, all these things are self-written like HTTP server and XML parsers. And I believe you can guess what this means. The next logical step would be to talk about how can we reach those systems in real world. But we don't know and we don't want anybody to know about this. So let's continue our saga and switch to computer based interlocking. The goal of computer based interlocking is to help to manage route through the station. And if we try to analyze it from other computer system we can find the following important part of computer based interlocking is a yard master workstation. It's like a human machine interface in ICS environment. It's just a PC with special software on the top. And the second important part, this is integration gateways which helps to connect sometimes wirelessly to different stations or to centralize the traffic control system. Most important part of computer based interlocking is a central processing unit which process all dependencies like we saw in the previous pictures with walks. Now it's processed by computers. And object controllers like POCs in our SCADA environment which transfer management command directly to wayside devices to switch the switch or to change the light of the light. Requirements for computer based interlocking interlocking is very formal and in different countries you can find these requirements as a state law or as a law of different railways companies. By the way, because it's veto component for safety, for traffic safety, this requirement is fixed and all interlocking system must fit such requirements. So, when we're speaking about security, it's very important to build correct threat model because you know when we discuss computer security people mostly discuss integrity, availability, confidentiality on information but this does not work in industrial world, it does not work for computer based interlocking. From our point of view, there are three levels of threats. First level related to safety or cyber physical threats allows to attacker to create a disaster.  And low level is reliability when you can impact system but with just add additional work for engineers who support this system. Sometimes colleagues asking me what is cyber physical threats? For me, I don't have a clear definition but for me the threats which can be done in cyber world but impact something in real environment like this. Always funny on the pictures in the Twitter but let me explain by example what is conflict routes or what is a less restrictive signal light. This is example of conflict route. Less restrictive signal light but this is Lego toys. Let's check it how it works in real life. It's not such funny. Switching is in correct position and even if driver understand the situation in trying to stop it's impossible because train very heavy. So let's discuss attack vectors gain computer based interlocking to make appropriate model. First level it's attacks gain work station which can be easily accomplished by security physical security bypass or by social engineering because it's not very hard to force somebody to plug USB drive into work station. Second level of attack it's attacks gains integration gateways against wireless and wired network devices which connects computer based interlocking to rest of the world. And other attack vectors also related to communication to communication between yard master work station and CPU communication between CPU and object controllers. And sometimes even related to communication between object controller and way side devices because this situation when object controllers communicate with way side devices or wireless link so if you can intercept it or make amends the middle attack you can control switches by yourself. So I will give you several examples. All examples are from Google. It's not related for any particular assessment we did in the past. First physical security. It's actual pictures I guess and it looks like actual pictures because during our assessment physical security is terrible. In most cases you can say okay guys I need to check your system ABC XYZ pass to the station and get access to work station or a service. Password protection second picture from movie documentary movie about Great Britain railway automation system. The main challenge here to guess work station name which also you're watching you see all way six something but I think net bills responses can help here. All software it's everywhere it's again from Google. It's actual use new equipment and system approval certificate which allows to use system which runs on the windows nt4 service park six and above and this system managed track guards and this is flexible safety processor but about safety most of railway system built with redundancy in mind. It's used several CPUs sometimes three sometimes four sometimes even eight which runs different same but the different programs sometimes built by different team of engineers and some kind of majority system which compare results and trying to understand is where any problem with computation but in practice it's mean if you have a root access to computer basically you're working you need to patch several location and memory not only one. Hello again. So as Sergey said previously in old days we had this steampunk like interlocking but and the most of the complexity of building them was in crafting building and nowadays it's about how to create safe system. So by saying we want to have a safe interlocking with women three things like trains should not collide should not derail or trains should not hit people and they are doing this by use of different formal methods so to mathematically prove that these safety critical systems are really safe. I won't tell you about formal methods this is a topic for a separate talk but in short we are talking about creating a set of specifications with requirements and a model of our process and the point is to prove that our model satisfies these requirements. We have a lot of the world have a lot of different instruments like PMET, FNB, ProverCom and so on and all those systems all of those systems are used by industrial companies to make safety critical systems and we will talk about BMET it that is very widespread not only for you know space rockets airplanes and trains but also for vending machines and traffic lights. There is a development environment called Atelier B that allows us to create those specifications and models and later on to prove that we are safe. This development environment also have translators from the models that you created two different languages like C, C++ and other so you can later integrate them into your solution. We are not trying to say here that the math is wrong with Atelier B or the BMET itself but we are trying to show how human developer can create wrong specifications and this can create different vulnerabilities like memory management and this is a part of slides from one of the developer of Atelier B where they say that they can cope with all of those problems. So we took Atelier B and created a very small project it's called bad index it have an array and one operation that tries to access an item in the array and as you can see there is no boundary checking in the code and all of the green circles to the left they say that all type checking was done correctly that we generated proof obligations we proved everything so kind of we are safe. So if we generate a program in C afterwards we can see a situation where a memory corruption or segmentation fault can occur and again this is not the fault of the math it's a fault that we haven't done the boundary checking and the point we want to prove is that there are still humans the people who write this specification requirements and as with any other program in language they can introduce vulnerabilities actually good news in the world none of the people I heard that generate these things to C code or C++ code they use other which is with its strong type checking checking is a more secure language in comparison to C for example but there are some pitfalls too like typical other implementations have a mechanism called the tramp lines and that means it will execute code on stack which is not very good for C programs and for example if you want to link other code with C libraries one of the security mechanisms won't work so let's get back to the railroad to the interlocking these systems are not actually that easy and most of the times people who create those formal methods they try to mathematically prove that only the logic part is safe like Sergei said we must not allow trains to to collide or something like this all other systems like the operating system where where we will place our code the different communication services the user interaction part the part with with the signaling when we want to know where is the train what is the position of the switch and so on it's almost always written in C and this provides us a lot of capabilities to exploit this and somehow to influence influence this proved for safety logic and to create it to work otherwise so this is a slide where we show what the vulnerabilities for this formal methods and other vulnerabilities of this interlocking systems thank you but if you're trying to discuss those vulnerabilities with railway people with engineers with people who support interlocking system the typical answer okay you can create conflict rules but in the lab because all in real life is air gap it okay let's talk a bit about air gaps fortunately if you if you type railway in shodan you will get very few results and most of those results is felt positive I hope but sometimes you can get something interesting for instance Delhi railway station somewhere in India which accessible via PPTP port but I guess this is not something industrial great it's just internet access for a station what interesting here interesting that this device is located in the company rail rail tail corporation of India so I guess that there are special telecom operators for railways for instance in Germany there is special network operation operator who support Deutsche Bahn network and also they provide SIM cards interesting why railway operator needs SIM cards to allow train drivers to upload high resolution video to youtube or something no for gsmr gsmr is railway version of gsm which use it to connect trains to wayside devices to calculate optimal speed to understand train location to manage all conflict situation and gsmr is good from encryption point of view it was a very good talk from Stefan on 28c3 and you can find a lot of information about gsmr key change encryption where and we decide to don't go this way to don't crack encryption we decide to check our site of gsmr for instance jamming so it's in specification that if digital modem the digital modem on the train should always connect be connected to control center so if the modem connection is lost the train will automatically stop so if you have a good gsm jammer but on different frequencies you can stop a train if you need it or you can go in jail also if you need it there are different other interesting issues for instance in gsmr handset there is one more of there is a very useful feature to manage this handset via sms with password one two three four i'm not sure that there are a lot of engineers who changed this password i guess there are not so many engineers who even know that this handset can be managed via sms to continue sms discussion where a very interesting feature gsmr in gsmr sim card which call it over-the-air management and which absolutely is the same like is in our standard sim cards i know that you know what sim cards can be hacked over the air it was discussed several times by karson know by alexander zaitsev and alexeyo osipov and if developer of sim card template have some issues with programming he can allow you to get encrypted response to brute force signal to decay key and after it receive information about encryption key and sometimes even upload malware on the sim card after karson talk many of big telecom operators decide to review sim cards or filter binary over their sms messages but i'm not sure that something similar going in gsmr world more some gsmr equipment supports over-the-air firmware updates not only sim cards updates which allows you to do firmware updates over the air modern modems for gsmr supports interfaces like usb or pcmi which reminds me our old research which name it bootkit via sms when was demonstrated like a how attacker who can hack the modem over the air for instance with over the firmware update can use it to hack the host which use this modem for network communication and gain control over this host this is old video it's online for a year which demonstrate how hack it modem which connected to uh laptop first starts to work as a modem network devices and it's okay but after a short timeout it starts to operate as a keyboard and obviously keyboard can type so as real hackers our modem start calculator and after we get the specification of input output system to bypass save boot save bios if you have it and reboot the computer during reboot our modem become a CD-ROM drive and install bootkits you can ask me are there any keyboards in railway equipment my answer sometimes they have it sometimes doesn't have but in most cases we have drivers for keyboards drivers for additional system for printers sometimes and if you can become a printer or camera you can exploit vulnerabilities in drivers or direct memory access as was demonstrated by Travis Goodspeed and Sergey Bratus for local vulnerabilities and as was demonstrated by Timur Yunusov and Kirill Nesterov for remote vulnerabilities because nobody cares about buffer overflow in keyboard or mice driver why because it's cannot be exploited remotely but if your remote device can become a mice and exploit this vulnerability you can exploit such vulnerability remotely so let's back to railway system and if somebody can attack the modem the modem can attack automatic train control system and you can control the train everything is interconnected because everything in entertainment well let's take a look from let's take a look on the locomotive railway systems and you can find out a lot of devices a lot of systems from one point of view it's especially for passengers users like information entertainment systems another one it's devices like intercommunication between engineers uh picameras wireless access points gateways and so on but the main idea that all of them operates uh through the one uh communication channel one of them communicates especially for railways another one for some kind of information systems well and it's another one proofs of of it because uh no it's from for example from big vendor moha and it shows their approach how to uh get connected uh different devices and how they connected with locomotive especially for solar power plants and picameras too and uh they tend to fly in the clouds and nowadays modem way they tend to be like an internet of things devices but in this case and especially in context of our topic it's uh realized it's created without a very strong very secure approach well and uh we will show you why it's exist and uh we analyzed uh several uh vendors like bintech dg net module and so on we analyzed uh different devices type of devices which is uh special like uh railway equipment gateways uh modem modems and so on and uh we found out a big private case zoo uh from our previous experience it exists and it exists in different different industries but in this case uh it a little bit shocked us because it's railways i i mean and there are a lot of private case and each vendors tend to be tend to hard code the private case well and uh well it's it was not only for uh SSL certificate private case which correlated with uh certificates but also for remote management administration like like secure shell there was exist from one vendor private case for secure shell okay and uh you can ask us uh and you could write so what the impact of it first of all i can say oh hello captain ebius uh if it's private and it's private became publicly available it's not a private it's easy yes and obvious and uh another one uh that's uh if you create something private especially for private case it's created for private communication for private uh for safe communications but in this case uh i hope you know it's like man in the middle attacks and after it communications between railways uh systems they are not secure also as i said before it's give us give attackers possibility to remote lagging shells and we will show you a little bit later and uh another one uh it's fingerprint devices for example you can extract public case uh from private uh create uh some kind of fingerprint uh using md5 another uh h1 and uh using search genes like shodan or sensors you can find out a lot of devices which is connected to internet and you know private case you know what to do the next and this picture shows you uh original uh traditional way how to hold a beaver and in this case it means how to keep your secrets next one it's uh well well well it's again again a lot of default credentials but in case of railways management systems it's not only for web communications but also for secure shell telnet and uh they try to change to they try to secure communications and change uh telnet port well uh another one example it was uh uh really important notice to dear customers so in this letter you can see that you should use only two possible default credentials for administrator for the administrator password well well it's uh a dear customer who was warned well uh take a look on this piece of code uh how do you think is it secure or is it hello from early 20s well uh it's obviously not secure and it's created nowadays uh at uh 2015 and it gives us possibility to inject system code well next was quite interesting possibility everybody remember about usb out around malvar and so on uh but in case of railway devices special equipment there is exist usb port and uh if you want to easy to uh easy life of system engineers who don't want to go with devices there are a lot of you can put your usb stick and uh device uh outer start outer run uh for example system update software update firmware update or system configuration update uh how it works uh it works very easy and uh again it easy life of system engineers if you don't remember your password you can create password please uh well in this case you can create password hashes and as big as you can and try to brute force and run your uh after update well you can ask how it's uh well railways uh systems looks like isolated from the internal world but uh uh at this picture you can see approach of attacker who can uh interconnect to railway station through the management system and uh once said when you connect to internet internet connects to you and uh from the internal side of railway communication you can see that there is three steps uh when you trace road some host it's inside train next one it's outside uh well it's wayside the next one where which we mentioned before it's telecom well locomotive uh has a lot of equipment and uh some of them works uh for user interface some of them works uh well especially for net module vendor works on through vpn but in this case they uh all of them works through the the same public mobile network well and uh there is a proofs by shodan that net module uh especially uh special devices and uh vpn gateways uh connected to the internet next one is uh net module vulnerability which was fixed and new firmware it was simple uh uh request which changed administrator password just simply agreed with yula rules well kudos goes to our colleague simon roshkov and uh from our experience we should give many thanks to uh search from different countries big thanks post-cryptom last year uh we spoke about uh wind and solar energy and uh we get a lot of feedback uh on our talk uh and decide to launch uh scada sos project which uh focus it on the discovering hunting of open smart grid devices uh on the internet and we get a lot of uh interesting results uh in the different part of the world and we get a lot of feedback from the vendors and search uh by the way this approach this project help it to remove uh more than 60 000 uh internet connected smart grid devices like power plant from the internet and uh several vulnerabilities was reported to vendors to search uh several already fixed and uh i want to thanks uh mr maxime rubf who contribute this project very much thank you max we decided to continue open approaches so we starting uh scada pass uh project and we going right after the talk we're going to release the list of uh default and hardcoded accounts and different uh plc scada hmi to force vendors to don't use hardcoded and default password and where system so kudos to aksan andrieva who help it us to prepare this the list and please contribute uh after our previous talk we uh get the comment about uh european power system uh if somebody can take uh three gigawatts of the net uh for couple of seconds the light will go out uh for quite long time but we know what uh there are uh special devices uh like relay protection build it on the uh digital substation which build to prevent such bad situation and we again decide to research it we uh did uh some kind of research in digital substations protocols and uh in previous conferences we released uh special toolkits uh for digital substation protocols and uh uh this year we created with the help of five grid guides uh challenge called digital substation takeover uh it uh was implemented with siemens uh c-protect c-cam protective relays switches industrial switches and so on and uh bad guys on this uh challenge give us the result as you can see global disaster well uh and in real digital substations we have very good very uh well known protection called uh protection relays to avoid this kind of cable melting but relays also vulnerable uh vulnerable and uh during this challenge guys find out vulnerability on siemens c-protect uh it's uh with specially crafted packets you can create denial of servers of relays and in this case you can cable melt but also during practice uh challenge uh we find out uh some kind of conformation code on siemens c-protect but uh siemens uh uh doesn't publish this uh conformation code on official documentation but also uh siemens says that it's not vulnerability not hard code well with this code we can read system log also we can use this for device memory introspection very interesting next the last question from the previous talk uh was about direct marketing directive uh which force wind and solar plants uh to be connected to central management point not only to read uh uh current status but also to actual shutdown or reduce output because it's uh uh required by electricity market it's now uh works in germany many vendors have special models for direct marketing marketing to in scada to support these features uh but we run out of time and hope to discuss with uh issues next year on our upcoming talk scada with antenna thank you okay perfect um so quick reminder if you really do need to leave please do so as quietly as possible and if you can stick around for the next couple of minutes until we're completely finished if you have questions for the three speakers please go to one of the six microphones in this room so we can all hear you as i hear we also even give out prices for the best questions or additional you know motivation to ask a great question um all right uh are you lining up at mic four no okay all right then we'll start with the question from the internet all right thanks have you studied anything related to the american positive train control system um we don't know yet okay i don't know um do you have another one okay all right then um mic four please you said you looked up uh trains on shodan and incenses what protocols did you find them on and how did the results compare between the two services in general you sometimes you can find generic remote management protocol like http like ssh uh from uh inside network as glab showed profanet is heavily used but also there are a lot of uh proper protocols uh which uh not so 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Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2020 release fried berry It's a shutter original film and it's coming to shutter on Thursday May 7th Now I'm putting this review up ahead of time because I got a screener from shutter for it So there will be no spoilers for this although. I will say this is a film. That's very light on actual story So I'm gonna give you a quick quick synopsis and that is the story basically like that's the whole story so in a way the synopsis like the one or two sentences, I'll say synopsis wise kind of Ruin the story, but the you're not going anywhere. You don't need it I'm just saying you can already tell I'm a little exacerbated with this film I'm not a fan of this film But there are good things about it because I always give the good and the bad in my opinion And the other thing is there are people who are really gonna enjoy this film And I know that for a fact because I know there are people who have seen films like this Who you know, I don't particularly particularly like and they'll be like hey, I had a great time with it So but I'll break it down. It was written and directed by Ryan Krueger Who did a lot a lot a lot of short films including a short film version of fried berry So that's where the idea came from to do a feature length version of fried berry It was a short film now. That's a great way to kind of start things, but I Think he can only write short film scripts most likely I haven't seen the short for fried berry But my guess is that the short film script was probably fine a feature length doesn't work Well, like I said coming May 7th now the synopsis of this basically is a drug addict named Barry is abducted by aliens and Something's done to him. He's put right back where he was on earth and he just kind of Shambles around town Getting into all sorts of random scenes and that's it. That's the film Like I said very very light on story that's one of my biggest problems and that's one of the reasons I don't like the film because I When I sit down to watch a film I want more than just a basic idea of what the film should be and it felt like the whole script was a Basic idea it also felt like they probably just kind of went around and we're like yeah What do we feel like filming now? You know, it seems like a random series of scenes and events that Barry ends up getting himself into I mean, maybe the stuff was planned out But as a viewer it just kind of felt to me like it was kind of whatever they felt like filming that day or whatever You know idea popped into Krueger's head that day was like, yeah, let's do this Let's film this none of the stuff really feels all that connected the only thing that connects it really is Barry Which you can make that work, but I just feel like it doesn't work. So it just ends up being this long kind of slog of Random scenes that make you feel like nothing's ever really going anywhere in the end It really does go somewhere But it's not satisfying in my opinion because like I said, there's really no story to it And there aren't any characters that you even care about. They're all one dimensional They're usually like one aspect that's just overblown to make them ridiculous Which there is something to be said for the fun you can get out of characters that way But when you stock your entire film with those types of characters It's not very fun because you need to have someone that you kind of feel invested in someone that you really want to follow through a story and You just don't care about anyone. I mean, I didn't maybe some people will when they watch it But not me now one of the interesting things about this I've never seen this before but there's like a blurb in the beginning from like a South African Kind of rating system for films that talked about, you know, here's the things that are Coming up in the film that are only for 18 and above. So I was like that's interesting I've never seen anything like this so from a a standpoint of something new for me I kind of enjoyed seeing that because I've never seen it before so I was like, huh Where the film start starts it actually makes you feel like there was a bunch of backstory that you should have gotten that you Don't get and then you never get basically it just kind of like jumps in and it's just like here we go now I feel like that's Kruger's style obviously like he just wants to be like Jump into things get going and then just go go go go because there is kind of a frantic pace to it At least in the beginning it does slow down more towards the end portion of the film Which feels very weird and off for how it starts or at least the first like half or three-quarters are Because it really feels like his style is like that first half or three quarters Or it's like kind of frantic kind of like go go go like high energy high-paced a lot of like kind of like pumping Energy building music and the music is good by the way And I'll kind of shout out who did it in a little bit, but yeah, it's just it just jumps you in You're like where we're what's going on here? Should I know something about these people? I guess not The visuals start coming in which are very impressive. That's one of the great things about this now If you are looking for you don't care about story You're fine for it to just be you know very light on story You want to put a movie on in the background that you don't really need to pay a whole lot of attention to you Can just pop in here and there and be like oh that looks cool. This is kind of that movie like the visuals are Very good visually. It's very impressive. It's very kind of artistic at certain times So much so that when I was watching it I was like you know the pacing of this and how frantic it is and just like the cool visuals Just remind me of music videos and I feel like Kruger would be way better served just doing music videos I then looked up Kruger's history his career and Guess what he got big doing music videos It comes through in the film and I just I'm not saying that I don't think Kruger could do a feature-length film I think he could I think he shouldn't write it. I think what should happen is that Someone else should provide him a very good script with an actual story to it And then be there along with him to kind of work through the actual filming process and let him be the director because he's got a great Visual style and a great eye obviously which you can see here And he also has really good connections to some pretty good music Really awesome music actually that kind of like keeps your energy up and really can match scenes But story-wise, you know, if you're really good at something It doesn't mean you can do everything and I feel like a lot of people end up falling into that Where they're just like well, I'm really awesome at this and people recognize that so I'm just gonna do these other things too he's no Glenn Danzig because Glenn Danzig is a perfect example of someone who is just horrible at all things film Kruger has some things he does really well, so he should just probably stick to directing and he could be really really good at it There are parts that feel like they should be music videos Because of the whole music video thing I was talking about Because they're very heavy on sound and music and they're very frantic and they have that style You'll know what I mean when if when you watch it The character interaction Interactions, I'm sorry the character interactions are all extremely forced very clumsy They very much seem like for no reason the dialogue is terrible people's What people say to each other seem like to come out of nowhere like there's no Flow to any interaction. There's no flow to any conversation There's nothing that makes any sense that people are saying to each other It's just a bunch of random lines just thrown out there and that's how the characters are that's how the scenes are everything's just random It's just like had this idea that's in there had this idea that's in there And then just kind of jumbled together like there's really like I was saying there's really no story to it Yeah The dialogue is I wrote down is the dialogue is vapid garbage. It really is it's there for no reason They might have well honestly it may as may as well have had no dialogue at all in this film They should have just gone for no dialogue. It may have been a little bit better that way There's a gratuitous amount of sexual content Which is fine if it's really pushing the story, but there's really no story So it just seemed like it was in there for no reason I find that really boring to be honest like it's 2021 right now and Pornography is very easily accessible so people like want to see sexual content. They can very easily see sexual content So when you're putting that much in your film, you're not really creating a selling point so much. I Mean if this was the 80s 70s 80s whatever sure I mean that I see how that could be a selling point, but in 2021 Not really it just gets boring it gets redundant it gets gratuitous It is it bores it really bores me like a lot of sex sexual content. It just bores me The film feels like it's just a string of random scenes and no ultimate goal in mind speaking to the story issue Character development development is not a thing you care about no one Reiterating that it has its own mini intermission, which I did like I did like this mini intermission that it has It was funny. It was creative. It was inventive. It was funny. I did like that about it That that brings up the length of the film which is with credits almost an hour and 40 minutes and for a film That doesn't have story to it really That's way too long. I mean this film feels like it should have been a half an hour Like it feels like it should be a short film really I'm sure that the short film was probably a lot better than this in my opinion It just doesn't work as a feature length film There's an attempt to have an engaging ending in the film with an emotional connection So there was an attempt for something but it's it's way too little way too late You haven't been invested in anything You didn't lay any tracks down to get anywhere meaningful or to hook the audience in for a reaction like that You just didn't do the work. It's it's not there So it more than anything it turns into at least for me just a series of rolling your eyes at okay Now we're trying to do something here when for the majority of the film or for all the film pretty much We're trying to do nothing except just show visual stuff. Okay So the music by Hazer hae Zer really good very fun. Like I said very upbeat keeps you energized engaged From a auditory standpoint, so I really did like the music There are some really cool slow motion and sped-up shots that add super cool style to the film Like I was saying Krueger has a wonderful eye Krueger is very good at music videos. Maybe short films Not feature length films yet. Maybe with someone else's script like I was saying Visually and stylistically this actually kind of reminds me of the film bliss that is also on shutter And I think it was also a shutter. I don't remember. It's an exclusive or original But I would say bliss is definitely a lot better of a film It was another film that it wasn't my my thing Because it's just another one of those kind of like drug-addled like go-go-go-go frantic visual Experiences, but I definitely think that's way better pulled off than fried berries for sure So if you want something like this, I would not recommend fried berry I would just say just see just watch bliss instead also if you want to watch something. That's basically just a Music video that looks really cool I would also recommend on shutter blood machines that one is a lot of fun And they kind of know that they don't have much of any story But they go huge on the music huge on the visuals and it does end up working. I really enjoy that one It does also feel like this film rips a bunch from under the skin that a 24 film Which is an outstanding film and I would highly recommend it has is very rich with story And there are some things in there in there that really feel kind of like ripped from under the skin So, yeah Kruger is a real talented director awful writer though in my opinion and I know awful is a harsh word But that's just my opinion like I really hated the scripting in this I really hated the story in this but like I said, you know, that's just my opinion. That's how I feel about it I have no ill will towards Kruger like I said I complimented the guy he great visually looks really cool can be an awesome director I think He just needs the right script. He needs not write his own script and get get our awesome script from someone else That that's just how I feel about it. So if you're just looking for some awesome visuals and just that type of experience go for it Also, I would love to hear people's opinions on this because I'm very open to hearing what other people's perspectives are on this film Go ahead. You can put comments in the or you can put spoilers in the comments Of course, you can put comments in the comments. You can put spoilers in the comments. That is fine So I'm gonna go ahead and say out of five stars with half stars in play I'm not gonna go super harsh part of me wanted to go one and a half stars I'm just gonna go two stars on this because visually it's really good music wise. It's really good There is actually some pretty solid acting in this for what roles are given. So that's good as well So there are good aspects to the film. It just doesn't really work for me So two stars on this one, but anyway, like I said comments Let's talk about it.


The book of Lamentations from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. The Book of Lamentations from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter 1. How hath she sat alone? The city abounding with people. She hath been as a widow, the mighty among nations, princes among provinces. She hath become tributary. She weepeth sore in the night, and her tear is on her cheeks. There is no comforter for her out of all her lovers. All her friends dealt treacherously by her. They have been to her for enemies. Removed hath Judah because of affliction, and because of the abundance of her service. She hath dwelt among nations. She hath not found rest. All her pursuers hath overtaken her between the straits. The ways of Zion are mourning, without any coming at the appointed time. All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she hath bitterness. Her adversaries have become chief. Her enemies have been at ease. For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the abundance of her transgressions. Her infants have gone captive before the adversary. And go out from the daughter of Zion, doth all her honor. Her princes have been as hearts. They have not found pasture. And they go powerless before a pursuer. Remembered hath Jerusalem in the days of her affliction and her mornings. All her desirable things that were from the days of old. In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary. And she hath no helper. Seen her hath adversaries. They have laughed at her cessation. A sin hath Jerusalem sinned. Therefore impure she hath become. All who honored her have esteemed her lightly. For they have seen her nakedness. Yay, she herself hath sighed, and turneth backward. Her uncleanness is in her skirts. She hath not remembered her latter end. And she cometh down wonderfully. There is no comforter for her. See, O Jehovah, mine affliction, for exerted himself hath an enemy. His hand spread out hath an adversary on all her desirable things. For she hath seen. Nations hath entered her sanctuary. Concerning which thou didst command. They do not come into the assembly to thee. All her people are sighing. Seeking bread. They have given their desirable things for food to refresh the body. See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, for I have been lightly esteemed. Is it nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively and see, if there is any pain like my pain, that he is rolling to me whom Jehovah hath afflicted in the day of the fierceness of his anger. From above he hath sent fire into my bone, and it subdueeth it. He hath spread a net from my feet. He hath turned me backward. He hath made me desolate. All the day sick. Bound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by his hand. They are wrapped together. They have gone up on my neck. He hath caused my power to stumble. The Lord hath given me into hands. I am not able to rise. Trotten down, all my mighty ones, hath the Lord in my midst. He proclaimed against me an appointed time to destroy my young men. A wine-press hath the Lord trotten to the virgin daughter of Judah. For these I am weeping. My eye, my eye is running down with waters. For, far from me, hath been a comforter, refreshing my soul. My sons hath been desolate, for mighty hath been an enemy. Spread forth hath Zion her hands. There is no comforter for her. Jehovah hath charged concerning Jacob. His neighbors are his adversaries. Jerusalem hath become impure among them. Righteous is Jehovah. For his mouth I hath provoked. Here I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity. I called for my mothers. They, they hath deceived me. My priests and my elders in the city have expired. When they have sought food for themselves, then they give back their soul. See, O Jehovah, for distress is to me. My bowels have been troubled. Turn hath been my heart in my midst. For I have greatly provoked. From without bereaved hath the sword. In the house it is as death. They have heard that I have sighed. There is no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard of my calamity. They have rejoiced that thou hast done it. Thou hast brought in the day, thou hast called. And they are like to me. Come in, doth all their evil before thee. And what is doing to them as thou hast done to me? For all my transgressions. For many are my size. And my heart is sick. How doth the Lord cloud in his anger the daughter of Zion. He hath cast from heaven to earth the beauty of Israel. And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. Swallowed up hath the Lord, he hath not pitied any of the pleasant places of Jacob. He hath broken down in his wrath the fortresses of the daughter of Judah. He hath caused to come to the earth. He polluted the kingdom and its princes. He hath cut off in the heat of anger every horn of Israel. He hath turned backward his right hand from the face of the enemy. And he burneth against Jacob as a flaming fire. It hath devoured round about. He hath trod in his bow as an enemy. Stood hath his right hand as an adversary. And he slayeth all the desirable ones of the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion. He hath poured out as fire his fury. The Lord hath been as an enemy. He hath swallowed up Israel. He hath swallowed up all her palaces. He hath destroyed his fortresses. And he multiplyeth in the daughter of Judah. Mourning and moaning. And he shakeeth as a garden his tabernacle. He hath destroyed his appointed place. Jehovah hath forgotten in Zion the appointed time and Sabbath. And despiseth in the indignation of his anger, king and priest. The Lord hath cast off his altar. He hath rejected his sanctuary. He hath shut up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. A noise they have made in the house of Jehovah. Like a day of appointment. Devised hath Jehovah to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He hath stretched out a line. He hath not turned his hand from destroying. And he causeth bulwark and wall to mourn. Together they hath been weak. Sunk into the earth hath her gates. He hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations. There is no law. Also her prophets have not found vision from Jehovah. Sit on the earth. Keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion. They have caused dust to go up on their head. They have girded on sackcloth. Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem. Consumed by tears have been my eyes. Troubled have been my bowels. Poured out to the earth have been my liver. For the breach of the daughter of my people. In infant and suckling being feeble. In the broad places of the city. To their mothers they say. Where are corn and wine? In their becoming feeble as a pierced one. In the broad places of the city. In their soul pouring itself out to the bosom of their mothers. What do I testify to thee? What do I liken to the daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee? And I comfort the o' virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea is thy breach. Who doth give healing to thee? Thy prophets have seen for thee a false and insipid thing. And have not revealed concerning thine iniquity. To turn back thy captivity. And they see for thee false burdens. And causes of expulsion. Claped hands at thee have all passing by the way. They have hissed. And they shake the head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which they said? The perfection of beauty? A joy to all the land? Opened against thee their mouth. Have all thine enemies. They have hissed. Yay. They gnashed the teeth. They have said. We have swallowed her up. Surely this is the day that we looked for. We have found. We have seen. Jehovah hath done that which he devised. He hath fulfilled his saying that he commanded from the days of old. He hath broken down and hath not pitied. And causeth an enemy to rejoice over thee. He lifted up the horn of thine adversaries. Cried hath their heart unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion. Caused to go down as a stream. Tears daily and nightly. Give not rest to thyself. Let not the daughter of thine eye stand still. Arise. Cry aloud in the night. At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart. Over against the face of the Lord. Lift up unto him thy hands. For the soul of thine infants. Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all outplaces. See, O Jehovah, and look attentively. To whom thou hast acted thus.  Infants of a handbreath? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord our priest and prophet. Lain on the earth in outplaces. Have young and old. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. Thou hast slain in a day of thine anger. Thou hast slaughtered. Thou hast not pitied. Thou dost call, as at a day of appointment. My fears from round about. And there hath not been in the day of the anger of Jehovah. And escaped and remaining one. They whom I stretched out and nourished. My enemy hath consumed. Chapter 3 I am the man who hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Me he hath led, and causeth to go in darkness and without light. Surely against me he turneth back. He turneth his hand all the day. He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones. He hath built up against me. And seteth round poverty and weariness. In dark places he hath caused me to dwell. As the dead of old he hath hedged me about. And I go not out. He hath made heavy my fetter.  He hath hedged my ways with hewn work. My paths he hath made crooked. A bear lying in wait he is to me. A lion in secret hiding places. My ways he is turning aside. And he pulleth me in pieces. He hath made me a desolation. He hath trodden his bow. And seteth me up as a mark for an arrow. He hath caused to enter into my reigns the sons of his quiver. I have been a derision to all my people. Their song all the day. He hath filled me with bitter things. He hath filled me with wormwood. And he breaketh with gravel my teeth. He hath covered me with ashes. And thou castest off from peace my soul. I have forgotten prosperity. And I say, perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah. Remember my affliction and my mourning, wormwood and gall. Remember well and bow down doth my soul in me. This I turn to my heart. Therefore I hope. The kindnesses of Jehovah. For we have not been consumed. For not ended have his mercies. New every mourning. Abundant is thy faithfulness. My portion is Jehovah hath my soul said. Therefore I hope for him. Good is Jehovah to those waiting for him. To the soul that seeketh him. Good when one doth stay and stand still for the salvation of Jehovah. Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and is silent. For he hath laid it upon him. He puteth in the dust his mouth. If so be there is hope. He giveth to the smitered the cheek.  For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. For though he afflicted. Yet he hath pitied. According to the abundance of his kindness. For he hath not afflicted with his heart. Nor doth he grieve the sons of men. To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth. To turn aside the judgment of a man. Over against the face of the most high. To subvert a man in his cause. The Lord hath not approved. Who is this? He hath said. And it is. And the Lord hath not commanded it. From the mouth of the most high. Go not forth the evils and the good. What? Psy habitually doth a living man. A man for his sin. We search our ways and investigate. And turn back unto Jehovah. We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens. We. We have transgressed and rebelled. Thou. Thou hast not forgiven. Thou hast covered thyself with anger. And doth pursue us. Thou hast slain. Thou hast not pitied. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud. So that prayer doth not pass through. Off scouring and refuse. Thou dost make us in the midst of the peoples. Opened against us their mouth. Have all our enemies. Fear and a snare hath been for us. Desolation and destruction. Revulance of water go down my eye for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Mine eye is poured out. And doth not cease without intermission. Till Jehovah looketh and seeeth from the heavens. My eye effecteth my soul. Because of all the daughters of my city. Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.  And they cast a stone against me. Float have waters over my head. I have said I have been cut off. I call thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit. My voice thou hast heard. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou hast drawn near in the day I call thee. Thou hast said, Fear not. Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul.  Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow. Judge thou my cause. Thou hast seen all their vengeance. All their thoughts of me. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah. All their thoughts against me. The lips of my withstanders. Even their meditation against me all the day. They're sitting down and they're rising up. Behold attentively, I am their song. Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands. Thou giveest to them a covered heart. Thy curse to them. Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them from under the heavens of Jehovah. Chapter 4 How is the gold become dim? Changed the best, the pure gold? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary, at the head of all outplaces. The precious sons of Zion, who are comparable with fine gold. How have they been reckoned, earthen bottles, work of the hands of a potter? Even dragons have drawn out the breast. They have suckled their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in a wilderness. Cleaved half the tongue of a suckling, unto his pallet with thirst. Infants asked bread. A dealer out they have none. Those eating of dainties have been desolate in outplaces. Though supported on scarlet, have embraced dung-hills. And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people than the sin of Sodom that was overturned as in a moment, and no hands were stayed on her. Pure were her Nazarites than snow, whiter than milk, reddier of body than rubies, of sapphire their form. Darker than blackness have been their visage. They have not been known in outplaces. Cleaved half their skin unto their bone. It hath withered. It hath been as wood. Better have been the pierced of a sword than the pierced of famine. For these flow away pierced through without the increase of the field. The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children. They have been for food to them in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Completed hath Jehovah his fury. He hath poured out the fierceness of his anger. And he kindled a fire in Zion, and it devoureth her foundations. Believe not did the kings of earth and any of the inhabitants of the world that come would an adversary and enemy into the gates of Jerusalem. Because of the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests, who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous. They have wandered naked in outplaces. They have been polluted with blood, without any being able to touch their clothing. Turn aside, unclean, they called to them. Turn aside, turn aside, touch not. For they fled, yea, they have wandered. They have set among nations. They do not add to sojourn. The face of Jehovah hath divided them. He doth not add to behold them. The face of priests they have not lifted up. Elders they have not favored. While we exist, consumed are our eyes for our vain help. In our watchtower we have watched for a nation that saveth not. They have hunted our steps from going in our broad places. Near hath been our end. Fulfilled our days. For come hath our end. Swifter hath been our pursuers than the eagles of the heavens. On the mountains they have burned after us. In the wilderness they have laid wait for us. The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, hath been captured in their pits, of whom we said, In his shadow we do live among nations. Joy and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, dwelling in the land of us, even unto thee pass over Doth a cup. Thou art drunk and makest thyself naked. Completed is thy iniquity, daughter of Zion. He doth not add to remove thee. He hath inspected thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He hath removed thee because of thy sins. Chapter 5 Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us. Look attentively and see our reproach. Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers. Our houses to foreigners. Orphans we have been. Without a father. Our mothers are as widows. Our water for money we have drunk. Our wood for a prince doth come. For our neck we have been pursued. We have labored. There hath been no rest for us. To Egypt we have given a hand. To Ashur to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned. They are not. We, their iniquities, have borne. Servants have ruled over us. A deliverer there is none from their hand. With our lives we bring in our bread because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin as an oven hath been burning because of the raging of the famine. Wives in Zion they have humbled. Virgins in cities of Judah. Princes by their hand have been hanged. The faces of elders have not been honored. Young men to grind they have taken. And youths with wood have stumbled. The aged from the gate have ceased. Young men from their song Ceased hath the joy of our heart. Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. Fallen hath the crown from our head. Woe is now to us for we have sinned. For this hath our heart been sick. For these have our eyes been dim. For the Mount of Zion that is desolate. Foxes have gone up on it. Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest. Thy throne to generation and generation. Why forever dost thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days. Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto thee. And we turn back. Renew our days as of old. For hath thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us? Exceedingly? The end of the Book of Lamentations from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold.


And we've got a little bit of a change in our herd this evening. Frankie Wilmer, MSU Professor and University of the State Legislature. It's going to be from the florist's eye by Tony Marshall. And I think that's been challenged recently, hasn't it? In 2005, that's just all right. You know, I teach political science, but a lot of politics is emotional. And one of the things that's very emotional in politics is prejudice. And one of the wonderful things about literature is it helps us bridge that gap, the lack of compassion, between the prejudice person and the person they're prejudiced against. So I've actually used Tony Morrison's florist's eye in class. And that's why I wanted to read from it. Do you ever try a paper one? No. I have one, the paper one. Oh, there it is. Please God, she whispered into the palm of her hand. Please make me disappear. She squeezed her eyes shut. Little parts of her body faded away. Now slowly, now with a rush, her fingers went one by one. And her arms disappeared all the way to the elbow. Her feet now, yes, that was good. The legs all at once. It was hardest above the thighs. She had to be real still in the palm. Her stomach would not go, but finally it too went away. And her chest and her neck. The face was hard too. Almost done. Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left. Try as she might, she could never get her eyes to disappear. So what was the point? They were everything. Everything was there in them. All of those pictures, all of those faces. She had long ago given up the idea of running away to see new pictures and new faces as Sandy had so often done. As long as she looked the way she did, as long as she was ugly, she would have to stay with these people. Somehow she belonged to them. Long hours, she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness. The ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school by teachers and classmates alike. She was the only member of her class who sat alone at a double desk. The first letter of her name forced her to sit in the front of the class. What about Marie Apollinaire? Marie was in front of her, but she shared the desk with Luke Angelino. Her teachers had always treated her this way. They tried never to glance at her and called on her only when everyone was required to respond. She also knew that when one of the girls at school wanted to particularly be insulting to a boy and wanted to get an immediate response from him, she could say, Bobby loves to call it real love. Bobby loves to call it real love and never failed to get peels of laughter from those in your shot and mock and anger from the accused. It had occurred to Apollinaire some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures and knew the sights, if those eyes at hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she would herself be different. Teeth were good, or at least her nose was not so big and flat like some of those who were thought to be cute. If she looked different, beautiful, maybe Collie, that was her father who abused her, would be different. And Mrs. Breedlove, too. Maybe they'd say, well, I look at that pretty eye in the cold, we mustn't do bad things in front of those pretty eyes. Pretty eyes, pretty blue eyes, big blue pretty eyes, run, jib, run, jib, runs, Alice runs, Alice has blue eyes, Jerry has blue eyes, Jerry runs, Alice runs. They run with their blue eyes, four blue eyes, four pretty blue eyes, blue sky eyes, like Mrs. Forrest's blue sky blouse. Morning, morning, blue eyes, Alice and Jerry blue sky blue eyes. Each night without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently for a year, she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. And if something as wonderful as that happened would take a long, long time. Thank you. Thank you.


What we're seeing in this pandemic is how vital migrants are to the functioning of our labor markets and our society as a whole. Migrants are among the doctors, nurses and healthcare workers that are at the forefront of this effort to address and contain the pandemic. But they're also the daily services that we've, over the past few days, maybe don't take for granted so much anymore. It's an Afghan refugee who delivers my mail every day. It's a Greek immigrant who's been here for 15 years who runs the deli across the street. When we face difficult times, we're really being able to see the value in the vital services that migrants bring to our societies.