What it's like teaching English in Karachi, Pakistan. Karachi is a city of opportunities for the citizens of Pakistan and for the people abroad. Professionals from all around the country aspire to make their living in this cosmopolitan city, which has so much to offer for those who are ambitious. Hence teaching being no different. Karachi offers a wide array of opportunities to the aspiring young generation to make their mark in this highly esteemed profession. Here are the top six reasons to teach English in Karachi, Pakistan. Scarcity of quality English language teachers, the first reason I'd like to mention is the high demand for qualified English teachers in the city. Good language teachers are scarce as they also seem to have challenges in their educational experience and the vicious circle keeps on repeating. That's why there is a surge in demand for English teachers and the pay scale is quite good too. Learning for the new generation, change doesn't come from the outside, true change comes from within. Therefore, if we are really looking for a better educational experience and better skilled professionals for Pakistan, we need better qualified teachers. This can only be achieved if the teachers improve their delivery and knowledge through practice, learning, and reading more. That's exactly why I decided to take the 120 hour TEFL course from ITTT, and it was the best decision ever. English is the backbone of all subjects, English is the international language used for spreading new knowledge. All board exams in Pakistan ask for a compulsory English paper, and most subjects of science and art are taught in the English language, hence it is imperative for all teachers to not only strictly speak English, but also to update their language skills to deliver better lessons. Whether your students aim to do business or aspire to write a book, if you fail to communicate effectively, the whole lesson is a lost cause. That's why it is very important as teachers to ensure that all our students are able to communicate confidently and effectively using the English language as most interviews are held in English. You are automatically a better business person if you have sound marketing skills, which includes quality communication and convincing power. To excel in that, one needs a proper grasp over the content of what needs to be said and how. A better English spokesperson will definitely get the lead there. 5. Pakistan needs more writers. Pakistan is a developing nation and this development requires higher literacy rates. To make that possible, we need more narratives of our own. The world loves storytellers and loves listening to them, and it is time that Karachi leads the tradition and brings out more writers. Be it fictional or non-fiction, English is the primary language that has the most readership around the world. It is about time Pakistan generates quality writing and narration. 6. Good English gets you everywhere, be it the USA or the archipelago of Tanzania, you need to know English to survive and to break the global barriers. With fewer barriers internationally, English holds more importance as being used and understood by most people in the world. Hence, it is no different in Pakistan, where a well-spoken English language teacher is cherished and valued. Come and teach English in Pakistan. All in all, Pakistan, and specifically Karachi, attracts a lot of foreigners to make a living here by teaching English.


Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at cold case from Gregory Wilson and Murphy's magic. What is cold case? Basically, it's a deck switching device. You're able to switch one deck for another Completely under the nose of your spectator. It's a brilliant brilliant gimmick. I want to show you what it looks like This is it. Okay. How often does this happen? You're done for the night. You're starting to put everything away Somebody says one more trick. I say, okay, but this time instead of a trick It'll be a miracle Why? That was a deck switch If you missed it, I'll do it again and the beauty is It's all in the natural action of closing the box putting it away and you're done. The question is What could be more natural you see go? It's there. No, no, no, I mean the whole day Look, I'll do it again. Watch here. I just did it. I just wait for both you guys to blink at the same time Look, all right. So that was Gregory Wilson. You might remember we also reviewed bandwidth and we also reviewed revolution Also products from Murphy's magic this trick cold case. No exceptions to that again another great quality Product from Gregory Wilson another great quality product from Murphy's magic. All right So a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box What's in the box? You're getting this beautiful hard-shelled Box that says cold case in the front You do get your gimmick on the inside and I don't have any problems showing it to you because it just looks like a Cardbox and then you're gonna get the download code We're able to go out to the internet and download your video Is it what I thought kind of as a magician and being around these kind of gimmicks You kind of have an opinion about what it could be and it certainly is what it could be But it's a little bit more and I will say this this is a gimmick I have wanted for a really long time. There used to be a gimmick very similar to this not exactly the same little similar It sold a long time ago sold out never got remade. So having this in my hands Awesome. I've been waiting for something like this for a really long time I'm so glad Murphy's and Gregory partnered together to make this. How are the angles? How are the angles on this? There's only one or one and a half angle issues and it can be mostly controlled by you easily So angle issues aren't that bad Not anything that you probably don't already experience as a card worker anyway And so I think the angle issues on this are very minimal. Can it be inspected? No Your way around it would hopefully be to you're using it as a switch and then you're putting the utility away And there are ways around that inspection question and Gregory Wilson will cover all of that for you All right, so what's the overall quality and production value of the video? Excellent. You are getting three hours of content. This video is massive all from one gimmick You're getting so much bang through your buck. It's shot in HD. Well lit. Well miked you have Lots of spectators Murphy's has really pulled out all the stops on this. It's an amazing video. You won't be disappointed. Is it well taught? First of all, it's Gregory Wilson. So of course, it's well taught first hour and 12 minutes of the video It's just him teaching you how to do this trick and how to do the different types of deck switches He gives you a really cool part in there about how to practice the trick He has that done with Chris overly That's a really cool part then what follows is almost two hours of magic tricks with Jason Brunbelow You get two hours of magic teaching and there's one trick on there called leech off leech That to me that one trick to me was worth the price of everything I would have bought leech off leech for $40 and and just received that amount of video instruction and the gimmick And I would have been happy that trick in and of itself is a slayer It's a killer and worth the price of admission right there The last trick on there 10 card poker deal is 30 minutes of teaching alone Gregory finishes off the entire video with the last 15 minutes of him going over Daniel Madison's fracture So you are getting a ton of magic an amazing gimmick Tons of great teaching all for the low low price of 40 bucks. Is it well made this gimmick will last you forever Like I said, this was a version of this was released a while ago It wasn't exactly the same a little bit differently, and I've been waiting for something like it to come back I've always wanted one of these very well made you're gonna be so impressed with this How much practice does it require? It does require muscle memory It will require practice and like I said Gregory Wilson goes over that with Chris overly and like shows you how to practice So yeah, it's gonna be you getting the feel getting the movement down it will take some practice It will take some time how much set up and reset is there? Practically none. This is an instant thing You could I mean part of your practice is doing a dex switch after dex switch after after dex switch It should just be fluid it there should be no Setup or reset at all it should just be a fluid thing positives positives for this. This is very real world possible, this is very many Avenue possible like if you're a street magician if you're a restaurant magician if you walk around or parlor or stage It shouldn't matter. This is so Versatile as a gimmick if you are a card Smith card worker card anything and and cards are your thing I would be shocked if you didn't want a gimmick like this in your repertoire even if you pulled it out only once or twice There's something here for everybody. I think there are just so many positives to cold case negatives What are the negatives for cold case like we say around here? There's negatives for everything These are just the negatives that I saw they don't have to be the negatives that you see I'm I'm a mutant so that means I'm left-handed and the gimmick is made for a right-handed person and I kept waiting for Greg to say something about left-handed people and he never did so On that one aspect, that's just something to think about this is I this is a right-handed gimmick or a person Who is more right-handed, you know with you do your cards and only you would know that There are ways around it, you know, we left-handed people We've learned to live in a right-handed world. And so we know how to do the opposite if we need to That's just my one little tiny thing and throw it away because this is perfect. You have to get this Is it worth your money? It's 40 bucks 40 bucks for an amazing gimmick.  Who would like this? Like I said earlier anybody who does card magic anybody who's serious about card magic anybody who deals with trick decks like many tackle deck or stripper deck or a spengali deck or You know one-way force or anything like that where you want to do a routine Normal cards and switch out for a stacked deck anything like that. This is gonna be the thing that makes that seamless All right, so that is my review for cold case from Gregory Wilson and Murphy's Magic And I want to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this for us so that we could review it for you And if you want to purchase your own and you do you want to find it your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye


Flags on the Red Lake Indian Reservation are flying at half-staff tonight in honor and respect of the recent death of longtime Red Lake Tribal Council member Richard Barrett Sr. Barrett Sr. had served as the Little Rock representative since 2002 when he was elected after the previous representative Lawrence Bedot died. Barrett was 75 years old. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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William Shakespeare King was the chief medical officer for the Union at the first Battle of Bull Run. The regimental surgeons working under him weren't very experienced. Medical schools at this time were not very rigorous. Many states had laws against human dissection, so most surgeons' first experience cutting open a human body would be on their patients. Medical schools required a semester of lectures. The schools that demanded that you take two semesters of lectures didn't change the lectures up between terms. So most doctors at this time really learned their trade through experience in conducting their practice. This might be enough for a doctor to get by in diagnosing and treating standard issues of the 1850s, scarlet fever, clubfoot, things like this, but even the doctors with years of experience under their belts would be unprepared for what they would encounter on the battlefield. The unexperienced doctors could be as young as 21 years old. But Dr. King wasn't very worried about it. Reflecting back on the battle, he said, quote, my impression at the commencement of the battle was that there would be a brief skirmish, and then the rebels would most probably fall back to take up a new position, end quote. He figured he could probably handle the small number of casualties by himself, and he decided he'd keep a list of all the injured soldiers that were brought to him. He stopped taking names after he reached 100. I mentioned previously some early signs of the Union overconfidence about the quick battle, and their medical preparations are a good example of this as well. They left many of their medical supplies behind when the battle started, making the Union actually less prepared to treat their wounded than the Confederates would be, despite the fact that the North actually had better resources of this kind than the South did overall. They did have ambulances, which were wheeled carts to transport the wounded, but the Army saved money by ordering a large number of two-wheeled ambulances rather than the preferable four-wheeled ones. This meant that the unfortunate soldier who was carried on a two-wheeled ambulance would be painfully tossed from side to side by the poorly balanced ambulance, and sometimes he'd be thrown off it altogether. The Army's designated various buildings or tents as hospitals, but as the casualties would mount, they quickly became overcrowded. Standard battlefield medicine was to have an assistant surgeon move through the battlefield, carrying a medical bag, sometimes carried by a steward, that had a few basic items in it for on-the-spot temporary treatment. This typically was something like a couple of tourniquets and splints, needles and ligatures to sew up open wounds, some items to clean wounds, and of course brandy to serve as an anesthetic. The closest medical facilities were the field stations, which were located ideally within a mile of the fighting, and they allowed the soldier to get more serious treatment before being transported to the general hospital. Most likely this was somebody's home, such as that of Wilmer MacLean. If the assistant surgeon felt like a soldier's wound was mortal, they would usually just give him a swig of brandy and move on to somebody else. This wasn't callus, it was just practical. If a wound was serious but treatable, the soldier would be taken to a field station, and this often meant amputation. If you've been listening to this podcast from the very beginning, I talked about drugs in the 19th century and the very first episodes, and I mentioned that opiates were seen as something of a goddessend for Civil War soldiers. Chloroform and morphine were pretty much the only thing a doctor had to serve as an anesthetic before and after an amputation, and you were certainly grateful for it, but at most, it would take the edge off the tremendous agony that amputation brought about. And at the outset of the war, opium was in short supply for both sides. The south would have less access to these items throughout the war in the north, though. When people visited these field stations, they were overwhelmed by the cries of pain and the stench of blood. But probably the most unnerving sight would be the literal piles of arms and legs that would accumulate. This isn't just histrionics. Soldiers' descriptions of the horrible piles of limbs are among the most common things found in written records from soldiers. Amputations became perfunctory. One Union general, Carl Scherz, described his viewing of a filled station after the Battle of Gettysburg. And this is a quote I've read before in the early episodes when talking about morphine, but it's useful when I'm going to read it again, quote. As a wounded man was lifted on the table, often shrieking with pain as the attendants handled him. The surgeon quickly examined a wound and resolved upon cutting off the injured limb. Some ether was administered, and the body put in position in a moment. The surgeon snatched his knife from between his teeth, where it had been while his hands were busy, wiped it rapidly once or twice across his blood-stained apron, and the cutting began. The operation accomplished. The surgeon would look around with a deep sigh and then, next. And so it went on, hour after hour, while the number of expectant patients seemed hardly to diminish, end quote. But amputations were safer than the alternative. Little was known at this time about microorganisms and their role in diseases and infections. Gangrene spread so quickly that one of the country's leading surgeons, Frank Hamilton, who witnessed thousands of cases, wrote a medical treatise and said, quote, no one doubts that hospital gangrene is contagious, end quote. Gangrene is not contagious, but the doctors had no way of knowing how it spread. When a soldier had a gunshot wound, the low-velocity bullets would rip holes in the flesh and then possibly ricochet off a bone or exit through a hole at some odd and unpredictable angle from the entry wound. So doctors weren't always sure if the soldiers still had the bullet lodged inside them. To figure out whether there was a bullet that needed removing, doctors had to probe the wound. And because the bullet didn't always maintain a straight trajectory when passing through the soldier's body, they needed a probe that was flexible. So they used their fingers. AIDS would have to hold the soldier down to keep them from lashing wildly from the pain while the doctor shoved his finger in the wound, twist and bend it around causing excruciating pain for the wounded soldier and unknowingly spreading bacteria from under their fingernails, often leading to gangrene or some other infection. The amputation simply seemed like the lesser evil in many cases. Battlefield medicine would evolve quite a bit throughout the war as people adapted to the unforeseen scale of battlefield casualties. And I'm not going to get into those changes here. I hope to devote an entire episode to battlefield medicine and its changes through the Civil War much later in the series. But I don't know exactly how everything is going to pan out, so we'll see. But for here, I just wanted to give you an idea of what the understaffed, undertrained, under-equipped, and wholly unprepared battlefield surgeons found themselves dealing with as Bull Run escalated into a large-scale battle. These are the elements of this war that are so often left out of lectures on this topic. I'm Chris Calton, and this is the Mises Institute podcast, Historical Controversies. In the previous two episodes, we looked at the first battle of Bull Run up through the afternoon fighting on Henry Hill. We ended the episode right as the battle started to reach its climax after Union General Irvin McDowell ordered an artillery charge against the Union forces organized by Stonewall Jackson only to find themselves devastated. After prematurely celebrating victory around noon, the Union forces found the tide turn against them around 2 PM. And by four o'clock, the battle had made a complete 180. Now, both sides would engage in the deadliest part of the battle, as each tried to take control of the Union artillery between Matthews Hill and Henry Hill. We will pick up where we left off last week. Let me remind everybody once again before we get into the meat of this episode that as we approach the one-year anniversary of Historical Controversies, we are taking questions from listeners that will be answered during our live Q&A at 2 PM Eastern Time on August 6th. If you have a question about any of the topics covered so far on the podcast, such as the war on drugs or the antebellum years or the current topic, or even if you have general history questions or questions about history in the view of Ludwig von Mises, please submit your questions to mesis.org.com. I've already gotten a few good questions, but we still have room for more, so get those questions to me. And if you can't watch live at 2 PM Eastern, the Q&A will also be posted on YouTube, so don't miss out. I ended the last episode with the Confederate charge on the two cannons on the Confederate left under the command of Charles Griffin. To the left of them were the six guns under the command of James Ricketts. And to the left of that were the other three guns in Griffin's battery. The two Griffin guns were the first to be left behind, but the other batteries were facing heavy pressure from the reinforced Confederate line on Henry Hill. After Griffin's cannon ears retreated, the Union Regiment of Infantry support pushed back and drove the Confederates off, reclaiming the guns. They tried to move them off the battlefield, but the horses were dead, so the men had to move the guns not just without the horses, but with the carcasses of the horses still strapped to the guns, only adding to the weight. They couldn't budge them. The reality is that the New York Infantry had done a better job at scattering the Confederate line than they realized because the smoke from the battlefield was so intense that they couldn't see the devastation they had wrought against the Southerners. They therefore did not know that they had an opportunity to push on the Confederate left flank, which was the original plan in moving the guns there, and they failed to seize this opportunity, so they charged the Confederate artillery instead in Stonewall Jackson had been preparing for this since he first set up the line on the Hill.  When the New Yorkers got close enough, both the artillery and the infantry unloaded on them, unleashing a destructive volley of canister shot with its 27 projectiles with a 16 foot spread, and a musket fire. New Yorkers went down, but the regiment reformed and charged again, and then a third time, finally getting within a few yards of Jackson's cannons. But they now had the bodies of their comrades littering the ground around them, and they were within range of Jackson's bayonet charge. After driving back the New York regiment, Jackson ordered a bayonet charge from the troops in front of Ricketts artillery in the center. This was done by the fourth and 27th Virginia. When Ricketts saw the charging Confederates, he was lying on the ground, unable to walk from a wound to his thigh. His artillery horses were dead, and the guns were immobile. When he tried to call for union men to face the charging Southerners, his call went ignored. The artillerists held fast though, loading their cannons with canister now that the enemy was in range, and they tore holes in the Confederate line, but it wasn't enough to stop the charge. Now the canineers fled, and the Confederates claimed Ricketts guns. Now Confederates were swarming onto the battlefield, mostly from the Confederate left flank, which was the most open. As they charged, Francis Bartow, leading the survivors from his seventh Georgia regiment that had fought on Matthews Hill that morning, was shot in the chest. In one famous account, one of the soldiers who helped carry him wrote, with both hands clasped over his breast, he raised his head and with a god-like effort, his eye glittering in its last gleam with a blazing light, he said, with a last heroic flash of his lofty spirit. They have killed me, but boys never give up the field," end quote. When Colonel Charles Fisher led the charge of his sixth North Carolina regiment down the left side of Henry Hill, his men took fire from some unseen scattering of Union soldiers, firing from behind trees. His men broke their line and started to scatter themselves, and Fisher himself took a bullet through the skull, dying on the spot. The scene was chaos, and the men had trouble telling whether the soldiers around them were friends or enemies. This was the most heated part of the entire battle of Bull Run, as the largest number of men faced off in close quarters. One man was hit by the severed arm of one of his nearby comrades who lost it to a cannonball. Another soldier took a bullet to the neck, which exited through his open mouth, and somehow the soldier kept fighting. The close combat led to many stories of this nature. One man was knocked unconscious by the flying gun of the soldier next to him when he was killed. Another was killed by a bullet, and when he fell, his bayonet plunged through the foot of the soldier in front of him. At this point, roughly 3.30 p.m., the Confederates had captured eight cannons, all six of Ricketts' guns, and the two Howitzers that Griffin had moved to the Confederate left. The other three of Griffin's cannons on the opposite side of Henry Hill had retreated. McDowell observed the battlefield, and the idea of defeat must have been sinking in. The scene around Henry Hill was now bedlam as each regiment from either side fought for control over the cannons. Two groups of New Yorkers, the 14th Brooklyn and the Fire's Waves, attempted a charge against the Confederates that one Virginian who faced them called, quote, self-imposed butchery, end quote. The New Yorkers were decimated. One soldier from Massachusetts later described the scene in a letter to his mother, quote, there was men laying dead and wounded, and the artillery men had been killed, and the horses were all dead, piled together by the cannon. The bullets were flying thick. The enemy wasn't more than a stone's throw from us, end quote. The charge from the 5th and 11th Massachusetts was more successful, but not without cost. Dozens of men fell as they charged the Confederates guarding Ricketts' battery, and the line of the 5th Massachusetts broke. The 11th Massachusetts ran in from the Confederate right and drove the Southerners back. Like a pendulum, control of the cannons swung back to the Union. But more fresh Confederates kept arriving. The most recent brigade to arrive from Manassas Junction was the one led by Edmund Kirby Smith, and he was accompanied by the regiments that had been guarding the southeast part of Bull Run, led by Jubal Early and Millage Bonham. Several regiments from the brigade commanded by Philip St. George Koch also poured in. The 5th Virginia regiment charged down toward the Massachusetts troops who'd recently reclaimed Ricketts' battery. The pendulum swung back to the Confederates. At this point, it was an infantry battle, as the artillery guns from the Confederates had to withdraw. With the Union soldiers decimated, scattered, and beaten, McDowell was down to only two battle-ready brigades, totaling about 5,000 men. One of them, led by Colonel Oliver Howard, was ordered to move to Chin Ridge. Historians aren't exactly sure why McDowell did this. He only ordered Howard to support a battery, but historians aren't clear on what was meant by this. The common suggestion is that he was to provide the final charge on Henry Hill, which could be the case, but McDowell's orders give no indication of this, so we are left to speculation. Regardless, Howard's brigade took up on Chin Ridge, about 500 yards to the west of the Henry farm. The other brigade was led by William Sherman. This was the larger of the two brigades, totaling about 3,000 men. This brigade consisted of four regiments, and Sherman lined them up, one behind the other, to charge Henry Hill. This would prove to be a rookie mistake, and Sherman, here, was a rookie in this battle. He'd earned his reputation later in the war. As his fresh troops marched toward the hill, they were discouraged by the sight of the dead and wounded they passed. Sherman sent his 13th New York regiment up the left side of Henry Hill. When they came upon the Henry house, they opened fire, only to hear a cry of, you're firing on friends. A couple of the soldiers in the regiment spotted what they believed to be a US flag. They stopped shooting. An officer they didn't recognize came up to them, and one of the New York regiments' officers asked if the stranger was a Union man. The stranger had thought that the New Yorkers were a regiment of Baltimore secessionists, and realizing his mistake, he calmly handed over his revolver and sword and allowed himself to be taken prisoner. He was from the Hampton Legion, and when the confusion was cleared up, the two regiments exchanged fire. One by one, Sherman ordered his regiments up the hill, allowing the Confederates to take them out as they came, rather than dealing with them as a whole unit. The Union soldiers also came under actual friendly fire as they charged, forcing the soldiers to deal with both their own side and the Confederate volleys. Constantly, as the men fired, they heard cries that they were firing on friends, and in the chaos, they had to determine whether it was true or not. At some point, they started to suspect that such cries were deliberate deceptions. This would be the reason why the now more recognizable Confederate battle flag was designed. The 79th New York was one of Sherman's regiments sent up the hill, and it was led by Colonel James Cameron, the brother of Lincoln's secretary of war. Like the regiments before them, they faced devastating fire from the Southerners. They held as best they could, reorganizing and charging again, only to face more fire. Among their casualties was Cameron, who was mortally wounded. As Sherman sent his last regiment, the 69th New York toward Henry House, he received some backup from Lieutenant J. Albert Monroe, who brought two new cannons to the fight, and Colonel J. Hobart Ward's 38th New York regiment. Together, both regiments charged up the hill, facing a hail storm of bullets, and they fought for maybe 20 minutes before driving the Confederates out of the Henry House. The pendulum swung back to the Union, who once again took control of Rickett's battery. Bull Run was Sherman's first experience in combat, and the day left a strong impression on him. He described the scene, quote, then, for the first time, I saw the carnage of battle, men lying in every conceivable shape and mangled in a horrible way. But this did not make a particle of impression on me. But horses running around riderless with blood streaming from their nostrils, lying on the ground hitched to guns, gnawing their sides in death. I sat on my horse on the ground where Rickett's battery had been shattered to fragments and saw the havoc done. End quote. With the battery back in Union hands, the men tried to drag the guns off the field, no longer facing artillery fire from the Confederate line, and with the Confederate infantry weakened by the battle, they were able to drag the guns about 200 yards. But again, the Confederates had fresh troops on hand, the ones I mentioned earlier, some of whom were just now arriving. The new Confederate troops rushed over the top of Henry Hill and came down upon the New Yorkers trying to remove Rickett's battery. They cut the Union troops to pieces and drove them back. The pendulum swung back to the Confederacy. They would not lose control of the cannons again. The last hope that McDowell had was Howard's brigade still holding out on Chin Ridge. As Howard's brigade held their position on Chin Ridge, they were able to see the swarm of Confederate soldiers moving over the hill and driving off Sherman's troops. As they fled, they passed warning to Howard's men. It was a discouraging sight. The fleeing Union soldiers were being chased by Confederates led by Joseph Kershaw. We shot them down like beasts of prey, one of Kershaw's men later wrote. The Yankees gave one last fierce stand around Rickett's guns, but their situation was hopeless. Following behind Kershaw was Brigadier General Edmund Kirby Smith and his brigade. Smith took a bullet to the neck, not killing him, but ending his role in the battle. And Colonel Arnold Elsie took over his command. Behind Elsie was Jubal Earleys brigade, which included a fresh battery of cannons. They all pushed forward toward Chin Ridge. When the Confederates came upon the line of Union troops, fighting erupted once more. But even as the two sides exchanged fire, Elsie and Earleys moved to the Confederate left to flank the Union soldiers. They fired numerous volleys at the men on the ridge above them as they charged. But the most damage came from the Confederate cannons. The Union soldiers had the high ground on the ridge, but the artillery effectively forced them out of their position. At relatively close range, several Union men went down under cannon fire, but the explosions were enough to make the men scatter even if they weren't hit. The two regiments in the lower line of Howard's brigade moved up the hill to where the rear lines were. After holding the position for a little while, Howard finally called for his men to fall back and reorganize. This looked like a retreat and the Confederates cheered. They charged to pursue the fleeing enemy, but when they came over the ridge, they found the Union men holding a new line. It didn't matter. The Confederates had the advantage and the Union line broke quickly. One Confederate later bragged that they, quote, fled like sheep, end quote. The Union men had had enough, wrote one of the main soldiers, quote, confusion, disorder, seized us at once. It was everyone for himself and having a due regard for individuality, each gave special attention to the momentum of his legs, end quote. Panics spread and Union soldiers started fleeing en masse. A Rhode Island soldier gave his own description, quote, the scene was terrible. Cavalry, infantry, and artillery in one confused mass hurried away as fast as possible, end quote. Included in the rush were injured soldiers being willed away on the ambulance as I mentioned earlier. At one point, a Confederate shell landed right on top of an ambulance in the words of the Union soldiers who witnessed it, quote, blowing at once to Adams, one of our dearest companions, end quote. The officers tried to rally the men and maintain some semblance of order, but it was no good. On the Confederate side, Beauregard rode through his troops, waving his cap and yelling cries of victory. McDowell told his men to fall back to Centroville and regroup. The few men from each army near there had not seen much action. This is where Beauregard had expected the action to take place before Richard Ewell failed to receive orders to initiate the attack. So while everyone else battled, they held their position in front of Israel Richardson and Thomas Davies. Davies had spent the past few hours scouting his position and when he found a path he thought was vulnerable, he started erecting some barricades. A local girl, 17 years old, saw him constructing this barricade and riding her horse, she innocently approached the Union soldiers and asked what they were building. Since she didn't seem to be a threat, the soldiers answered her and she casually rode away. Then she went to Richard Ewell's Confederate camp to relay the information about the fortifications, but Ewell could see Union canineers loading their guns in the distance and as the girl was explaining her story, Ewell became exasperated and interrupted her quote. Look there, look there miss. Don't you see those men with blue clothing on? In the edge of the woods? Look at those men loading those big guns. They're going to fire and fire quick and fire right here. You'll get killed. You'll be a dead damsel in less than a minute. Get away from here. Get away. End quote. But the woman was unconcerned and she finished giving her report. After she finally left, Ewell turned to one of his subordinates and said quote, women, I tell you sir, women would make a grand brigade if it was not for snakes and spiders, end quote. But the girls in tell wouldn't matter. With the Union on the run, Ewell received orders to return to Stonebridge and cut off the retreating Union forces. The Union spectators were about to face a giant surprise as the Union forces were running back across Bull Run and heading their way. But they were too far from the scene of the fighting to see the beginnings of the retreat. One reporter for the New York Herald, having grown restless on the hill, moved towards Stonebridge and asked one of the Union officers still there where McDowell was. The officer responded quote, you won't find him. All his chaos in front, the battle is lost. Our troops are giving way and falling back without orders. Get back to Centerville, end quote. Beauregard wanted to pursue the retreating soldiers and this is where cavalry were most useful. But the Confederates at this point were not much more organized than the Union. Jeb Stuart had split his force earlier to cover both of Jackson's flanks on Henry Hill and they still had not reformed. But the half of his force he had with him started to rush after the Yankees. To Stuart's surprise, a group of the Union soldiers they swarmed down on, turned around and formed a defensive square against the cavalry, another Napoleonic tactic. It was effective and Stuart led his men back and they gave chase more cautiously after this. The Confederates pursued the Union soldiers cross bull run and eventually ran into the civilian spectators. Some Confederate cavalrymen were the first to charge up the hill where they came across Daniel McCook, the spectator whose son Charles McCook was in the battle and had even taken a break to have lunch with him earlier in the day. With his father as a witness, a Confederate horseman came upon Charles and demanded his surrender. Charles refused and the horseman circled around behind him and shot him in the back before riding off, according to Daniel McCook's account. McCook then gathered up his son and put him on a carriage to ride back to Washington DC but Charles would die within a few hours. The Confederate cavalry was terrifying to the Union soldiers. Anytime they saw horsemen, they would cry warnings about the quote unquote black horse cavalry. There was one such cavalry that went by that name but the vast majority of the cavalry, the Union soldiers saw were not it. Nonetheless, the legend of the black horse cavalry became something that Union men would tell horror stories about and every time the cavalrymen was spotted, the soldier was certain that they were part of the dreaded black horse cavalry. The pursuing cavalry in this case were not despite Union fears, the black horse cavalry. They were troopers under the command of RCW Radford but they were scary enough and they claimed dozens of prisoners as well as another Union battery that soldiers had abandoned so that they could escape more quickly. When the eighth South Carolina regiment crossed the Stone Bridge, they spotted a man hiding behind a tree. The Confederates asked to he was Alfred Eli, he answered. They asked what state he was from and the man said New York. Seeing that the man was not a soldier, they asked next, are you connected with the government to which Eli answered that he was a representative in Congress. Hearing this, the men took away Eli's pistol and brought him as a prisoner to their officer, EBC Cash. When Cash learned of the man's identity, he flew into a rage.    Came out here to see the fun, came to see us whipped and killed. God damn him if it was not for such as he, there would be no war. God damn him, I'll show him. Before Cash could execute Eli, Porter Alexander intervened. You must not shoot a prisoner, Porter said. Never shoot an unarmed man. Reluctantly, Cash acquiesced and Eli was taken prisoner and kept for six months before finally being released, leading him to eventually write a book about his experience in the Confederate prison. Another prize taken by the Confederacy was the 30-pound cannon that opened the battle. Peter Haynes was struggling to get his beloved gun off the field, but it was gigantic and even with tent horses, it was almost impossible to get over the Virginia Hills. Haynes described the hill that defeated him, quote, the men lashed to the sweating, panting animals again and again, but the great gun refused to move up the incline, end, quote. He had to abandon it, giving the Confederacy their greatest trophy from the battle. The London Times correspondent wrote about the Union retreat that he witnessed, quote, the scene on the road had now assumed an aspect which is not a parallel in any description I have ever read. Infantry soldiers on mules and draught horses, Negro servants on their masters wagons, ambulance is crowded with unwounded soldiers, wagons swarming with men who threw out the contents in the road to make room, grinding through a shouting, screaming massive men on foot, who were literally yelling with rage, end, quote. As the Union soldiers ran into a traffic jam at Stone Bridge, too many trying to cross it once, they made easy pickings for the Confederates. Even among many Confederates firing on these men seemed unseemly and cruel. One Confederate soldier gave his account, quote, I leaped over the fence when I heard a loud crash and looking back, I beheld the upper half of a soldier's body flying up the hill. He had almost been cut in twains by a solid ball at this almost barbarous cruelty, that is, firing upon an almost unarmed and entirely unopposing force, a cry of mortal terror arose from the flying soldiers, end, quote. The Confederates also captured some of the Union hospitals. When the enemy started to come upon them, surgeons had to make the choice to stay and treat their patients, or to leave the wounded behind that avoid being captured themselves. In most cases, the doctors fled. In at least one case, the doctor abandoning his patient right as he was about to make the first cut of an amputation. You can hardly blame the doctors who ran, but nine doctors deserve particular admiration. In the Sudley Hospital, nine doctors chose to stay and tend to their patients, even as some of their colleagues ran. They allowed themselves to be captured and imprisoned because they refused to abandon the injured soldiers in their care. As the soldiers ran past the spectators, the politicians on the hill were incensed. Eight members of Congress formed a line across the road, yelling at the soldiers that they were not allowed to pass, calling them cowards and yelling profanities at them. According to the account left by Albert Riddle, one of the politicians forming this line, Senator Benjamin Wade even had, quote, his rifle in his hand and said he would shoot the first man who attempted to run any further, end quote. Another senator, Zachariah Chandler, pulled out his revolver and threatened the fleeing soldiers, calling them, quote, fools and cowards. When Henry Wilson, the senator from Massachusetts, learned of the retreat of the volunteers from his state, he reacted similarly, quote, cowards, why don't they turn and beat back the scoundrels, end quote. It's difficult to even imagine a group of politicians waving guns and yelling insults at the young men, some only teenagers, for not wanting to stay and continue fighting after facing 12 hours of seeing their friends get cut to pieces around them. I don't think anything else in this battle quite makes my blood boil as much as this scene of the arrogance of these congressmen. I will end this episode here with the battle decisively won by the Confederacy. Before moving on from Bull Run though, I do want to discuss the aftermath and significance of this battle. And that will be the topic of the next episode. Historical Controversies is a production of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. If you would like to support the show, please subscribe on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher and leave a positive review. You can also support the show financially by donating at Mises.org slash Support HC. 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Aaron, what stood out to you about the way Nestor threw the ball, not only tonight, but the way he's been throwing for a while now?   When you're able to do that, when we got a lead, you know, it makes it tough for an offense to try to fight back and, you know, kind of claw back into the game. You know, that's one thing I've seen from Nestor all year is, you know, he attacks the strike zone. You know, he's got the different angles. He messes with timing. He does a lot of different things to kind of disrupt the team's, you know, flow, I guess. And tonight we saw it again. You know, he just continued to attack the strike zone. We got a lead. And, you know, when you do that, it allows you to pitch deep into the games and get a chance of the win. How difficult would it be as a hitter to face somebody like Nestor that's doing all those different things to keep you off balance and keep your timing off? Yeah, I've faced Nestor a couple of times. You know, I think when he was with the Orioles in spring training, I faced him. And it's not a fun, I bet. You know, you can maybe look up there and, you know, see that's only 90-92, but that fastball plays up. You can throw about five different pitches, three different arm slots, messes with your timing, quick pitch, everything.  So, you know, he works his magic out there on the mound. There's obviously been a lot going on surrounding Luke Void with the addition of Anthony Rizzo. Just what have you thought of the way he has really stepped up offensively since he's come off the IL and found a way to produce? Yeah, that's Louis V. You know, that's what he does. You know, he's been doing this for now for three years.  And I think we're just kind of seeing Luke back at, you know, 100% healthy. You know, he's moving around great. And when he's moving around great, he can do a lot of damage in that box. You know, so I'm excited to see him. You know, he really, you know, he put the team on his back tonight and helped us with that win. And, you know, excited to see what, you know, him and Rizzo both in the lineup can do. We'll take the next question from Mark Feinstein. Aaron, I've seen a lot of guys wearing the Nester shirts and everybody seems to really love them as a teammate. How nice is it to see a guy like that, that everybody's pulling for, go out there and actually back it up on the field and really help solidify a rotation during the time you have all these injuries right now? Yeah, besides, you know, we can talk about what he's doing on the mound, what he's doing, you know, in the games on a consistent basis. You know, it's, you know, against the team in first place or if it's, you know, against the team that, you know, it's not in first place.   I think is why, you know, we got the T-shirts and everyone's really, you know, jumped around him. He's just a guy that, he's a great teammate, you know, great guy, great teammate.  That's why he's got those T-shirts. Thanks, Eric. Randy Miller, you have the next question. Aaron, what was your reaction this week when Luke came out and said, I deserve to play as much as Rizzo? And do you think that maybe somehow that extra motivation and to him, I know he's had great seasons in the past and it was hard this year. I get that, but sometimes things like that can maybe make you focus more somehow. I don't know. Yeah, it's tough to say, you know, Luke's a guy that's always motivated. He's a guy that always is working hard. He shows up early. He's prepared to play every single day, even if he's not in the lineup. You know, I think when we required Rizzo, you know, to be the first baseman, I think Luke, you know, it's tough to say what he thought, but I think he kind of spoke his mind the other day.   And, you know, I know Rizzo is going to play every day as the first baseman, but, you know, getting a chance to mix Luke in there at first and mix him in at DH. You know, when you're able to do that, it makes this lineup so much deeper, so deadly. So, you know, I'm excited to see, you know, the next couple of months, you know, how everything turns out.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries right now trading up, let's see where we are right now. We're up 108 in the Dow, we're up 292 in the Nasdaq composite, we're up 48 in the S&P. Gold, gold contracts up $3.40, trading at $1,807 an ounce. We have silver up $0.11, $22.49 an ounce, light sweet crude up $2.92, $0.35 a barrel notes and bonds. The 10 year down 27 ticks, trading $126.24, the 30 off a full point plus 19 ticks at $153.09 and $king dollar. $king dollar is up $94 ticks, trading $95.471, euros at $114, yen is at $115.25 and the British pound is at $135 to $1 US dollar. We get open, we take a look at the S&P, you know love this folks, this is pretty wild how this whole thing is shaking out, so check this out. So we had out here yesterday, you come down, as we come down on the spy, the bottom line is 118 million shares, well you're going into 152 million, you're going into 186, okay? So check it out. What do we do today? You go lower again. What we did is that we went into the highs of the lows folks, okay? And what you're going to see here, now this is, you're going to get lighter volume. So the real question now is going to be, which is so cool, it's going to be really easy to do, you could have an ABC structure on the way up and if we look at the spy, the ABC structure on the way up right now is laying out at approximately that 480 mark in the highs 479. We look at the NDX100, we take a look at the 3Qs, 3Qs, bottom line have this same setup meaning yesterday you had come down and yesterday we came down at 95 million shares, the highs, it got into the highs of the lows, did the same thing this morning, tested the low of yesterday, we're going to have lighter volume if this is ever an ABC up. Now the difference is, is that the Qs are not going to go to the high. Inside the Qs what we're dealing with is that you're dealing with approximately, yeah, I'll get it as soon as I start the program, but the bottom line, the Qs more than likely is going up somewhere about 390, but you know, as to the amount of times that we tested at these lows, that's saying that it's going to be a bigger bounce. Gold, gold contract out here, rejected lower price once again, you rejected 1792, you're at 1806, gold amounts higher price, stay right there folks, come right back.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Photo Count, and welcome back to the channel. That loading screen and the leaks are going crazy right now in this game because we have a Trophy Titans promo that looks pretty insane, but it's also very intriguing because we've never seen anything like this before. A promo that looks like it's just about brand new versions of icons and heroes. Are there going to be other promo cards released like a normal promo or is this just icons and heroes? We're going to talk about that today and look over all of the leaked icons. There are a lot for this Trophy Titans promo so far. So we're going to look into that and of course why some player prices on the top tier are dropping due to these leaks and why it could continue through the rest of this week heading into the new promo and what else to expect today on a Wednesday in FIFA 23 with new team of the week, new tokens, SBCs with foot birthday still continuing near the end, but still continuing. There's a lot going on in this game at the moment. So if you're excited for the video, if it helps you out today, hit the thumbs up on it and of course subscribe if you are new. Let's do a quick content overview from what happened yesterday on Tuesday. Honestly, yesterday was more of a quiet day. We had the Baku foot birthday player SBC, nothing too much to write home about their decent card, kind of a little bit overpriced, but it is what it is. Not that great of an upgrade. We also had the year in review player pick released again. I think a lot of people are not doing this though this time because they knew last time how mid it was, but at least it's pretty cheap and it is fun to do. I took all of my fodder into the Inkunku, right? I was kind of delaying on crapness because I did the Rabi-O SBC yesterday. So I said, you know what? I'm not going to do the year in review. I'm going to do Inkunku instead. Got two more squads done there and I'm trying to chip away at this card before too long just because I want to get it done. That's what I would recommend to do with your fodder right now. If you're opening Swap's packs, which is another question we have to try to answer, do we open packs like 85 times 10s or 84 times 40s for this promo foot birthday where there are foot birthday icons and promo players in packs and man of the matches? Or do we wait until the weekend for trophy Titans and try to gamble and hit one of those big tops here cards? That's a big kind of question we'll have to think about. I would say sit on that for the rest of this week until we get some more leaks. But yesterday's content with those SBCs was a little bit slow. We did have some objectives that are kind of cool. EA gifted out once again everybody footchamps points. So there are bonus player picks and packs again to supply fodder through this next week through footchamps which is a W and it also helps the market in terms of gameplay demand. So we'll take a look at some prices on the market that could benefit later on in the week because of that. And then yesterday's token was dropped and first owner Fiesta we got that one win token. At least it's easy to do one win home grown 11. You get your token and 83 double and you are done there. We also had some conmeable squad foundations with Rojo Fernandez, De La Cruz. Actually, he looks like a pretty solid card. You can get this whole objective done very, very easily in squad battles, rivals or champs. And then of course we had this Santa Cruz card which kind of looks correct.  Not going to be the most meta card, but if it's something you want to grind, you can get it done 85 days left. So it's out basically for the rest of the year. So that was some new content yesterday from EA Sports in the objectives and the SBCs tab. And really quick, yesterday EA surprised us with some upgrades to the fantasy cards, which I'm guessing they did because there were more league games yesterday, right? Chelsea, Liverpool, some of those other Premier League games that counted for some upgrades. So I think that's why EA upgraded the cards early. So Ubh Makano plus one, Ruben Diaz plus one. A lot of the prices didn't actually go up that much. A lot of them are down. Some of them went down and have rebounded back since. Ruben Diaz was 820K. He's now back to 890K with a plus one overall on his card.  And I would expect the next set of upgrades to still happen next Wednesday. I don't think like Metoma is now due for an upgrade because of course his, I think it was assist yesterday or maybe it was a goal and then they won, right? So he's getting a plus two on his card, but I don't know if that's going to be today since EA upgraded them early. I feel like that might be next week after the kind of like next week of league games is done. That was a quick upgrade because we expected those upgrades today instead of we did not get them. But yesterday, one thing we were looking out for was a loading screen and we got one guys. We got a trophy Titans loading screen, which by the way, I think these car designs look incredible to the designers because the icon design with the orange and of course the hero design with all those colors and the, you know, the designs going on there. I think it looks really good. Some people think it looks really similar to the fire and ice promo cards of last year, especially on the hero design. I do get that looks kind of similar. The only thing I'm not sure about is if this is a trophy Titans promo, where's like the trophy aspect to this? Or maybe the trophy word really doesn't have to do with like the player holding a trophy or whatever. So I don't know. We'll probably learn more about the promo as we go on. But guys, you've seen the leaks. I'm sure we're going to cover them today. These are big time players that are getting into this trophy Titans team. It all started yesterday with a Yaya Ture official car design stats are a prediction. This would be a massive, massively expensive card in this game. Now I want to say this, some of the leaks for the heroes could change, right? If it is about trophies, which we're not sure yet about what the kind of like the description of this promo is, but Yaya Ture did win trophies with Man City. He also won trophies with Barcelona. So just imagine that the new card that comes out for Yaya is a La Liga instead of Prem. That could make his World Cup card go back up in price. But as you'd expect World Cup, Yaya Ture and a lot of these other cards that have had leaks for them are down big time in price, even the cheaper versions like this card was 300 K on the video yesterday. We looked at it, right? Now he's 265, a lot of price drops in the big, expensive areas on this game. We'll talk about that more. Now let's scroll up through some more of the leaks. Patti Vieira getting a card as well. We've got now a World Cup version of Patti Vieira that so many people have and we're going to get this new version as well. Guys, it seems like these might be in packs. I don't think this is an SBC or objective based promo. If they're putting in these big name players for heroes and for icons, it feels like they are going to be in packs. Now Sheriff said that it is only heroes and it is only icons. No normal players added as far as he knows and that it is a two week promo. Trophy Titans will be including a team one and a team two. So if we're about to embark on a two week promo of icons and heroes, that's going to make really interesting movements on the market because these guys are going to be really expensive, right? Philip Long inside Trophy Titans as an icon. You guys know how hard it is to pack special versions of icons, right? Bird Camp is another one that is coming. Hopefully some weak foot, some skill move upgrades, maybe for a couple of these cards. Kind of like they did with the foot birthday icons. I hope they do some skill move and weak foot upgrades there. I know guys like Clivert Veron and Barnes from this foot birthday team two for the icons are a good amount cheaper. But like look at the leaks for these names, guys. Like we're getting some big names. Bird Camp might not be that expensive. Philip Long, you know, maybe a little bit around a million coins, right? But like Zidane, bro. And Vieira and Yaya Tourette really, really top to your cards. Zidane is massive, right? So many people have done his mid icon SPC since that was out earlier in the year. This card, of course, is going to be crazy. I'm sure that these upgrades in these cards, it's going to be a lot of like plus ones, plus twos around the card because I can't imagine EA sports going all out yet, especially if we think we might have team of the season icons, which probably or team of the season heroes, which it seems like EA is trying to throw in the heroes and the icons a lot towards the end of the year now. Two promos in a row with icons and heroes. Kind of interesting. So I wouldn't imagine the biggest upgrades because I'm sure there's still more versions to come later on in the year. Maybe, you know, shapeshifters, footies, all that good stuff towards the end. But Lucio is another hero that's getting a card. Again, talk about the big names. Lucio getting a card. This is going to be absolutely cracked. And as you'd expect, Lucio's card is down in price. He was like 2.4, 2.3 mil. He went all the way down to, I think, about 2 million coins before he rebounded back up. Yeah, 2.07. He was 2.03, and now he's back up a little bit. With these really rare cards, you do see a lot of panic selling, and then you do see a bit of a bounce back. I would be very careful owning any of them still right now at the moment because they are still in panic mode as these leaks are coming out. And as this promo, we're still trying to figure out what in the world this promo looks like. So as a done, Lucio Essien is coming as a trophy Titans card as well. Probably a plus one over his Prime card. That could be a nice icon there for Essien. And we've had some very recent leaks, right? Roberto Carlos getting another card. He had a World Cup card as well. Looks like he's getting another one. And Casillas is getting a World Cup, sorry, not World Cup, a trophy Titans icon as well. And then we have one SBC leak, and we're taking these leaks with an extra pinch of salt. There's some new leaks, like we've been saying, kind of going around the community. This is our only SBC leak at the moment. Roy Keane has been leaked as an SBC by FIFA U team, which is an account that's posted a lot of FIFA stuff. We've looked at their website a lot before. Keep an eye on this Twitter account because we'll see if their leaks that they've been posting are legit, but it is kind of like a credible account in the past in terms of information. Really good website with a lot of data from years past to look back on and promo information, but then also now posting leaks. So kind of interesting there, especially if this is a two week promo. I would imagine there's going to be a lot of icons and a lot of heroes that are going to be featured in this. And that is just what makes this so interesting because for a lot of us and for me, I'm thinking, hey, is this going to be a promo that we're just chasing after heroes and icons? If so, I don't know if I'm going to put that much effort into like saving packs or opening packs, you know, and really trying to grind to get rewards. Yeah, big time cards like those heroes and icons are really fun to try to chase after, but realistically, how often do you pack them? I know that this week it's been easier with foot birthday icons being a bit cheaper. And of course, I would imagine that some of these cards inside of this promo would be a bit cheaper as well, but a lot of icons as you just think about icons, right? They're always hard to pack. They're never easy to pack in FIFA. So I'm genuinely curious to know and to see how this all plays out. I hope we get some more leaks today and hope we get some more information. I would not say 100% right now that this isn't a promo that won't have any other promo cards inside of it. If EA are not going to release brand new like trophy Titans that are going to be, you know, regular like regular promo cards, right? For normal gold, silver, whatever players, maybe they do a best of rerelease. That's why we're so early into the leaks right now at this time that it looks crazy. It's a hero and an icon only promo, but it also seems like, well, what about what about the rest of the game? Because there's a lot of players that could get promo cards inside of this. As well, that could be really cool. But as of right now, we don't know. So wait on the leaks. Watch for the loading screen today, right? EA do a pretty good job of updating the loading screens every single day after they drop the initial one. Hopefully we get some more news on that today just to see if there's going to be more to this promo or if it is just going to be icon and hero based. So if there is nothing else, just to kind of get you guys in the mindset early, I would really believe that the market would probably move pretty positively in the next couple of days because a lot of people may be opening packs for this on the weekend will soon figure out. And if they don't already know, like it's pretty tough to pack icons and heroes. I would imagine that some of the lower to, you know, middle tier market, especially with the footchamps qualifier tokens or the points being given out again so that everybody has the chance to try to qualify for Weekend League. Once again, I would imagine that prices on the meta market that are below 500,000 coins would probably continue to do pretty well. Maybe some of the foot birthdays out of packs like this Emerson from team one, you know, you look at a couple of the cards from maybe team two that could rise out of packs or maybe just old other out of packs promo cards, maybe the current team of the week, stuff like that that has maybe gone down in price a little bit. Maybe there's a potential for some of this kind of like the normal promo cards to rise a bit as this promo is all about the icons and the heroes. So we'll just have to see how interactive it is for everybody on this game, especially since it's a two week promo, right? That's gonna, that's really going to take some time to get it all done. There's not going to be normal promo cards and this could be a really interesting two weeks before we most likely get into team this season. Now, speaking of some more market drops, some guys that aren't even leaked in this promo but are still really top tier meta cards. Look at Mateus birthday icon, 3.1 million coins for this card down like 5,600K from where he was huge drops on a lot of these top tier cards. Team of the years have been panic sold. Heroes, icons everywhere are being panic sold because these are the types of cards that will be affected by these brand new really expensive promo cards for the heroes and icons coming out. So be careful if you own any of this stuff. I do see potential for drops continuing if the leaks continue to look really, really dope and if we learn more about this promo that looks really insane. So just be very, very careful with that. That's kind of the state of the market at the moment. A lot of drops on the top tier and most of the middle to lower tier is maybe down a little bit with this promo leak because still people are selling Mbappe a little bit, right? Mbappe is kind of under 500,000 coins or like right on the edge of 500,000 coins right now and that is down a bit because it still is like, oh my goodness, this is insane for heroes and icons as a promo but also the same time, again, once we get to the weekend I feel like we may have some different views on how this promo is unless something about it is super, super sick. So it seems insane right now. It also seems like crazy. So we'll see, we'll probably get some more information today but speaking of today, Wednesday, yesterday was a slower day for content. What would EA potentially drop today? Well, we do expect to see a potential showdown SBC today since the game is on Sunday. If I remember correctly, I think they dropped the showdown for the other game last week on Wednesday as well and this one, this one is, I'm really looking forward to this and we've talked about it since it's been leaked but Moyniere and Rusillian, this is very needed for Bundesliga links on this game. There's some Bundesliga squads that are being built right now with a couple nice cards in the last couple of promos and via SBC as well with like Nkunku and stuff. Moyniere, always a FIFA card, right? Especially if they were to give him like Senate offensive mid position change, that would be really sick. And then Rusillian, right? France links in the Bundesliga, links to Upamakano, links to Nkunku. This is a nice game to look forward to on the weekend and of course for the upgrades as well. I'm really excited for this. I actually have bought a couple cards. You saw me looking at the Mats Hummels foot birthday. I think Mats Hummels, when I use them, he's a really, really good card for the price in this game and if you're going to use Bundesliga links, I think a lot of people will look to this card. It all comes down to the value of the Moyniere and of the Rusillian. So I picked up a couple of these at like 63,000 coins, 64,000 coins, couple at like 65 with some shadows just to try and maybe gamble a bit on this card today because he was above 70 before yesterday's content. So definitely a bit of a risky play because he impacts, but kind of going for it there. I also picked up some Upamakano's yesterday and you know, he's kind of been all over the place. He was down to almost 400,000 coins flat. I picked up, I picked up some right around here like 417 to 420K just because he got the upgrade but he went down in price and with Rusillian and Moyniere coming that is going to again put some emphasis on the Bundesliga link. So I'm kind of hoping that that showed on SBC is really good value today. We'll just have to see if those cards go up. So just be careful there, kind of invest that you're on risk. But also today, foot birthday player SBC, right? We've got a center mid Fernandez from the league one, I believe it is, and then of course we have Taliso. I'm really hoping it's Taliso today. I would love it if it is. We'll see what kind of card he gets, but this would be another center midfielder, right the France center midfielder we've been looking forward to. So that's kind of there. There is another league for a couple more road to the final cards. Brahim Diaz and Goncalo Guérez have also been leaked and I think those cards could potentially come today or tomorrow as well or maybe sometime during the weekend because we have Champions League I believe next week. And those cards obviously would end up being wrote to the finals releases SBCs because their teams are not represented yet with live cards. So watch out for that. Let's talk about fodder because we haven't talked about fodder yet and what we did expect yesterday out of the high tier fodder did happen. Take a look at your 90s and your 91s. 82,000 coins basically for these cards. They had a really nice spike yesterday right here because like we mentioned yesterday's video that 85 times five that everybody was getting from the daily log and objective it pushed people back out to crafting pushed people back out on the market to get some SBCs done. I have been lazy selling my 91s for around 85 to 86 to 87,000 coins and I've been taking the cash there because I just think that as we head into this weekend I want to be semi liquid at least on the fodder standpoint because I feel like we might be seeing some fodder prices drop down a little bit. I know we don't have SBCs expiring on the top tier and really we don't at all. Even on the low tier end there's still a lot of demand there. 84s finally went up a bit right? 3.8,000 coins for those. 85s went up to like 10, 11K. Now they're kind of back down again. 83s are still dirt cheap. 87s are up, 88s are up a little, 89s are up a little too. So the way that I'm looking at it is I kind of want to just be out of the rest of the fodder that I have. And here on my transfers like a lot of these 91s I'm probably just going to take the coins on these here today or tomorrow. Most likely today. I'll be looking to take the coins on the fodder and then maybe looking to reinvest on the weekend. I did sell my tail Hernandez's for 560K. This Enzo was like a tax loss flip really didn't end up making up making much there. This is a fodder flip as well made like 5K. So I'm just trying to stick to smaller priced smaller budget cards right now because everything else that is expensive is really kind of scared, right? The market's kind of stuck in that part as well because again the panic and just the hype for this big time promo starting this Friday. So also today, where's our token going to be right? We had one yesterday in the first owner fiesta. Are we finally going to get a token back in Silver Stars? I know a lot of our Silver's are down in price because we didn't have a token in Silver Stars last week. And that's that's put some Silver cards down. Let's go look at our Adam Armstrong out here for a second and see where he's at. I'm sure he's like a couple thousand coins. This might be yeah, he's down to like 2K. Wow, this would be a little bit of a risky play but if you wanted to full send it these guys might go up a bit into today if people expect to see a token in Silver Stars today which is very possible. So watch out for that. I actually wouldn't mind that. Go grind with my Lucas Podolsky Silver card but we're getting towards the end. We are at 30 tokens in release right now in total 30 tokens in total and that does include the store packs. So we're cutting it close. We're down to the wire last couple days of tokens before when do these swaps SBCs go away exactly to? Okay, they go away in nine days. So we have a couple extra days to get this stuff done but just kind of be mindful of where the tokens are especially the tokens that are expiring because this grind is coming to an end. Also yesterday if you didn't check it out we posted a video about all the news and the rumors about EAFC 24 with maybe no transfer market or a completely different looking transfer market. Guys, I really don't know. I don't have leaks. I don't have legit information. All I have is the same info you have on Twitter and I feel like it could go either way. I hope that EA don't take the market away because I really enjoy playing this game for the market but I think the way they're going with this game that could be one of their next moves but I feel like maybe it would hurt them still. So we talked about a lot in that video if you want to check that out I'll link it above right here. But today's going to be an interesting Wednesday with that new team of the week as well. Didn't even mention that. Probably not going to be better with Ronaldo and Sinaldo in last weeks but we'll have to see what kind of juice we get today on a Wednesday. Watch out for Twitter for more leaks and for more news about Trophy Titans and we'll come back tomorrow to talk about what we get and what to expect even further on to the rest of this week with what's going on in FIFA 23. So if you're excited for Trophy Titans drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate the Boat Accountant. See you guys on the stream today. Peace.