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And as usual, partly because a ham is always a ham, no matter how long they've been out of the business, and partly because it's really easier to go ahead and do it than to spend your whole evening refusing, I was supplying the entertainment.  Suddenly, suddenly, why do you think I married her? Broadway's last was Nicholson's game.  Well, why not, darling? I say, Jean, sing, you'll be so nice to come home to. Were you in that show? What was the name of it? Oh, no, dear, Frank had already snatched me from my career by that time. Excuse me, Jean, darling, you wanted on a phone. Phone? This hour? Who is it? I don't know, dear, it's a man. Probably one of your old admirers. Oh, don't be silly. All my old admirers gave up ages ago. All right, I'll take your word for it, my sweet. But now you'd better go see who it is. All right. Don't anybody go away. I'll be right back. All right, now, I'll buy you a drink. Hello? Hello, Jean. Who's this? Perhaps I should say Mrs. Nicholson. You're not Jean Marley anymore, are you? Who is this? Is this something I can do for you? I'm rather busy right now. That is a phrase you might forget me. I've been away such a long time. This is Charlie. Charlie? Charlie Prescott. Little San Quentin.  Yes, I'm still here. You're surprised? So you're back. I'll see you. Oh, no, Charlie. That's all over. You mean you don't want to see me? Save it, Charlie. I suppose I knew all along this would happen someday. When'll it be? Oh, sooner or better. How about tomorrow? I can't tomorrow. Make it Wednesday in the afternoon. Say three o'clock? Same old place? No, not there. What about the Shangri-La? All right. You be sure and be there, won't you, sweetheart? I'll be there. Three o'clock, then, sweetheart. Three o'clock? Oh, just an old friend. Oh, why didn't you ask him over? Oh, he was just passing through town and wanted to say hello, that's all. Well, maybe some other time. Yes, some other time. Don't let anybody tell you that prison doesn't change people. It does. And Charlie'd had seven years of it. It's not just the prison pallor that you'll always tell you about or extra dividends and gray hair. It's something else, an expression in the eyes. And more than that, something I didn't figure out until quite a while later. I'll say you're looking great, sweetheart. Let's cut out the compliments, Charlie. You don't mean them, and neither do I. Now, wait a minute, sweetheart. Don't get me wrong. You don't think I'm sore about anything? Like, say, because you're married? You don't think that now, do you? Why should you be? You knew I wasn't going to wait around for you. It was never that serious between us. Ah, that's what I'm saying. Why, I'm tickled pink, you married the guy. Particularly since I hear he's really in the dough, huh? But good. The trouble with you blackmailers is... Oh, that's a nasty word, sweetheart. The trouble with you blackmailers is that you think all a woman with a wealthy husband has to do is just run down to the cellar and bring up a basketful any time she wants to. Well, it's not like that. He spends the money. I don't. No joint bank account? Oh, sure. What do you think happens when all of a sudden two or three hundred a month just starts disappearing? I wasn't thinking of hundreds, sweetheart. Oh, of course not.  Don't you see that? Well, he's got a will, hasn't he? I suppose so. Don't stall, sweetheart. You know he has. You know what's in it. It all goes to you, doesn't it? Yes. I guess it does. You know it does. And you want a cut? I want half. Before taxes are deducted or after. Don't get wise. I did a lot of figuring where I was, and I figured you owed me something, sweetheart. I figured you owed me plenty. Well, you're going to have a long time to wait for it, darling. I'd say about thirty years because he's healthy as a horse. Who said anything about waiting? You do have big ideas, don't you? You like it? You don't really think I'm going to become a party to the murder of my own husband, do you? Sweetheart, you mustn't use those words.   Oh, you handle it. I just wait. Is that it? Well, I know it's not as big a part of the job as you handle the last time, but that's a general idea. What do you say? What do you think? Sweetheart, did you ever stop to figure out what they'd give you if they found out? I don't know. I do. The same as they give me. Maybe worse. Listen, Charlie, suppose I told you I love him. You? I wouldn't believe you. I wouldn't believe it if he combined the best features of John D. Rockefeller, Albert Einstein, and Clark Gable. No, I suppose you wouldn't. Well, that's the way it is, Sweetheart. That way or the other. Make up your mind. Well, it would have to be an accident. That's okay. It could be an accident. All right, Charlie. You win. There's only one way that I know of to deal with blackmail. Agree to the terms first and find an out afterwards. And that's how I'd plan to play it. I will confess that the murder of my husband for his estate was a little stiffer price than I'd been prepared for. But by the time I left, I knew how I was going to play that tool. Charlie had never been quite as smart as he thought he was. That's one reason why he went to prison, and I didn't. That evening after dinner, I went in to see my husband in his study. There's something I have to tell you. Well, what is it, darling? I'm pretty serious. Well, all right. What is it? Frank, I'm being blackmailed. What? This is going to hurt you, darling. Afterward, you can do anything you like. But I know that the only sensible thing and the only decent thing is to tell you the whole story. Gene, no matter what it is, no matter what, I love you, darling. That's all that really matters. Do you understand that? Yes, I do, darling. Frank, a number of years ago before I knew you, I had some trouble, bad trouble. I was just a kid, and when I got mixed up with a wrong man, his name was Charles Prescott. I didn't know how wrong he was until someone got killed. Charlie managed to convince the jury, more or less, that it was an accident. His sentence was from 10 to 20 years. He got three years off for good behavior. Frank, he's out of prison now, and he has evidence that I was involved. I was involved much more than ever came out in the trial. Well, that's the story. Well, that's not so bad, darling. What's his price? His price is... Oh, Frank. Oh, there, there, darling. It's all right, it's all right. Now, come on, tell me the whole thing. His price is that he plans to murder you and make me give him half of what I inherit. The man must be crazy. That's just it, he is.  He's planning some sort of an accident. Oh, Frank, I'm frightened. Now, darling, don't you worry a bit. I know just how to handle this. Oh, Frank, not the police. No, darling, no. Not the police. Early the next morning, we were visited by a chunky little man named Sparks from the Continental Detective Agency. I told him the story, or most of it, and all the time I was talking, he kept watching my husband. I got the impression he might be a little difficult to deal with. As it turned out, I wasn't far wrong. It's a good story, Mr. Nicholson. But it's not right. Not right? What do you mean? Well, for instance, why don't you go to the police? I've told you it's a case of blackmail. But it's not just a case of blackmail. Hmm? According to your wife, here's an ex-con with 13 years still hanging over and out on parole, and he's threatening your life.  Look, Mr. Sparks, you, uh, you don't have to know all my family affairs to handle this case to you. No. But it would help. Suffice it to say that, uh, it's a delicate matter. We can't go to the police. Then perhaps you better tell me just what you do want me to handle. I want you to locate him and then follow him day and night.  Eventually, I suppose, he'll try it.  Oh, Frank. Now, Jean Darling, remember, you were going to let me handle this. I know, but... But don't you see, dear, if we actually catch him in the act of attempted murder, then we can send him back to prison and nobody would ever believe anything he said. Hmm, must be a very delicate matter. It, um... it is, Mr. Sparks. Well, you'll hear from me. Mr. Sparks, suppose he should try to contact me? You mean you think he'll try to shake you down beforehand anyway? Just for love? Well, you see, he thinks I've agreed with his plan. The accident. Hmm. The way we're handling it, there's only one thing to do. Play him along. I see. Well, is that all the information you need, Mr. Sparks? If that's all you'll give me, that's all I need. By Friday night, they've located Charlie. By Monday morning, they know more about him than his own mother. Frank took the train for San Francisco that night. He wasn't due back until Wednesday morning. Tuesday afternoon, Charlie called me, as I told him to. Hello, Charlie. Oh, hello, sweetheart. Yes? You get that? What you said you'd get for me? Yes, I got it. I hope you got enough, because, uh, what I mean, well, it's gonna be, uh, what, expenses? Expenses? Yeah, I gotta make contacts. I don't let anybody else in, but I'm gonna need a little outside help on one or two things. Oh, I see. These things take time. Mm-hmm. It may be quite a while. I'm not stalling, you understand, but you can't expect action on a thing like this right away. I think I understand. It, uh, maybe two, three weeks, even more. It's gotta be laid out right, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. Well, uh, where can I pick it up? The stuff you got for me. You can come out here. Out there? Yes, this evening, about 10. There'll be no one here. Listen, I don't think that's so good, Duke. You're not afraid, are you, Charlie? No. No, but... You tried to see the layout of things. It might give you some angles. Well, yeah, but... You remember what we said? How it had to be done? Accident? That's right. Well, you be here at 10, Charlie. I'll have everything ready for you. I knew then what prison had done to Charlie. He'd lost his nerve. Now that he faced it, murder was too much for him. He'd never go through with it. It would all come down to one petty shakedown after another, year after year. It was even more obvious now that I'd have to do what I'd counted on from the beginning. If my husband was to be murdered, he'd have to be murdered by me. For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Susan Hayward in Dame Fortune by Max Wilk and E.R. Merklin. Roma Wines' presentation tonight in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrill's Suspense. Between the acts of suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. Next Thursday, ghosts and goblins will haunt your street. It's Halloween, a good night for grown-ups to remain safely inside entertaining a few trusted friends. 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As I opened the door to him, I noticed another car just putting out its headlights about a quarter of a mile down the hill from our driveway. That would be Mr. Sparks. Charlie had never seen the house before and he was impressed, but a little nervous. I took him into the drawing room. Hey, quite a layout you got here, sweetheart. Frank likes to have the best of everything and he can afford it. Sit down. Well, uh, you know, I can't stay but a minute or two. What's the matter with you, Charlie? You seem jumpy. Oh, me? Why should I be jumpy? I don't know. I'll tell you something, though. I was a client. I have had the funny idea somebody was following me the last couple of days. Who'd want to follow you? That's what I can't figure.  Nobody else would want to tell me. Unless I've been double-crossed by somebody. Like you, sweetheart. But if I double-crossed you, you'd see that I was sent to the penitentiary, wouldn't you, Charlie? I would devote my entire time to it, sweetheart. And that's why I wouldn't double-cross you, isn't it, Charlie? Yeah, I guess you're smart enough to see that, all right. You got the dough? Yes, I've got it. How much? A thousand dollars. Well, uh... Oh, I knew you'll be around shaking me down for more before you get to business. But that will hold you for a while, won't it? Sure, sure. Well, uh, I better be moving. Where's the dough? I don't have it here. You don't have? No, it's in the car. Frank was home for a while and I didn't want to bring it into the house. He's inclined to be a little snoopy sometimes. Well, let's get it. You can get it on the way out. It's in the glove compartment. No, no, wait a minute. I'm not sure I like this. Oh, don't be silly. The car's in the garage and nobody's around. It's chilly and I just don't want to go out. That's all. It's in the Cadillac convertible. Yeah.  Okay. You'll be hearing from me. Yes, Charlie. I'm sure I will. Through the glass panel by the door I watched him head for the garage. Somewhere out there in the darkness, I knew that Mr. Sparks would be watching him, too. Then I buzzed the house phone for Olson, the chauffeur. He lived over the garage. Olson speaking. This is Mrs. Nicholson. I'm sorry to disturb you, Olson, but I haven't a glance out of the window just now and I thought I saw a man prowling around the garage. A man? Yes. I suppose it's silly, but would you mind looking out your window and see if you notice anything? Sure, sure, Mrs. Nicholson. He was running away. You want me to go after him? He was running away. Sure, he's running plenty, but maybe I can catch him. Oh, no, that's all right. If he was running away, I'm sure he won't come back. There's nothing you could take out there anyway. If you want, I'd be glad to. Oh, no. No, that's all right. I'm sorry I bothered you, Olson. Good night. Good night, Mrs. Nicholson. I waited almost two hours until I was sure Olson would be asleep. Then I went out to the garage myself. I'd taken a course in automobile mechanics during the war. I hadn't learned much, but I'd learned enough to know what would make a steering knuckle fall apart after about an hour or two of hard driving. And Frank was driving down to San Diego the next morning as soon as he got back from San Francisco. And Frank was a hard driver. Frank left the next morning on schedule. I won't say it was pleasant waiting. I paced the living room in the hall for almost an hour, but never more than ten steps from the telephone. Hello? This is Charlie. I got to talk to you. I can't talk to you now. Listen, Jean, I got to tell you something. I can talk to you now. I began my pacing again. The phone rang three more times in the next fifteen minutes, but I didn't answer it. Then it stopped. Almost three hours went by. I'd begun to be afraid that one of those other calls had been the one I was expecting. And then it rang again. Hello? I'd like to speak to Mrs. Frank Nicholson, please. This is she. Mrs. Nicholson, this is Dr. Whitty of the La Jolla General Hospital. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, Mrs. Nicholson, but there's been an accident. Your husband. My husband? Oh, is he? Well, it's hard to tell just yet, Mrs. Nicholson, but I think you'd better come down here. I got out of the sedan and started for La Jolla. I was terribly nervous and depressed. I crept along at no more than forty miles an hour, but somehow I got there. They showed me directly to Frank's room. He was all covered with bandages, but he was sitting up in bed. And with him was Mr. Sparks. Hello, Jean. Frank. Are you... Oh, not too bad. Oh, darling. A couple of ribs in an arm. They thought I had a fractured skull for a while, but I guess I have a pretty hard head. Well, what happened? Well, something went wrong with the car, Jean. I was going pretty fast. I'm lucky to be alive, I guess. Charles, Prescott. Frank, I saw a man prowling around the garage last night. Olsen saw him, too. You think Prescott might have camped with the car? Oh, Frank, I told you not to go through with this thing. Well, I don't know. What do you think of that theory, Mr. Sparks? Oh, you remember Mr. Sparks, don't you, Jean? Of course. It couldn't have been Prescott, Mr. Nicholson. He never got into the garage. I was right behind him, and I guess maybe he heard me. Anyway, he beat it. I understand you were in the garage last night, Jean. Isn't that correct, Mr. Sparks? We had another man posted on the grounds. That's what he reports. Of course I was. There was a book in the car that I wanted. There was a thousand dollars in currency in the glove compartment, too. Yes, I know. I didn't have time to tell you this morning, but he wanted money. I talked him out of it. Mr. Sparks knew he was at the house. You told me to see him if... Frank, you don't think that I... I don't want to think so, Jean. Oh, how could you? How could you? Well, it's just that steering knuckles don't usually come loose by themselves. That and all the rest of it. Then it must have been an accident, a real accident. Don't you see that? Oh, Frank, how could you believe that I do a thing like that? I love you. Oh, I know. I've thought and thought and thought everything. Mr. Sparks has told me and I... Oh, I can't believe it, Jean. Mr. Sparks, you don't think I could have done anything like that. You can't. It's just a matter of your beliefs, I guess. Beliefs? What you want to believe, and who you want to believe in. My office will send you a bill, Mr. Nicholson. Good day. Oh, Frank. Frank, darling. Oh, I'm sorry, Jean. I'm horribly sorry, darling. It's just that, well, it looks so bad and... Oh, I wanted so much to hear you say you didn't. Oh, I didn't. I didn't. You know I didn't. Of course I do, of course I do. Look, darling, look, cheer up, cheer up. I've got a plan. A plan? Yes, yes, we need a vacation. I'll be out of here in a week or so, and then we'll go away. We'll just drive around the country, do a little hunting and fishing, whatever we like. You always used to love those trips. Oh, yes, Frank. Let's. Sure. Sure, we'll just go off and take it easy for a while and forget the whole thing. Yes, let's. And forget the whole thing. That's what we did. And I almost did forget the whole thing. It seemed like a nightmare that I dreamed a long, long time ago. I couldn't believe that I'd really done what I'd done. And I knew I'd never do it again. As though by mutual consent, we never spoke another word about it. But I was at peace for the first time since I could remember. And I knew that even Charlie could be dealt with somehow when we got home. We drove all over the state for almost three weeks. And on the way back, we stopped over at Little Lake in the Sierras. One day we rode across it and had a picnic lunch on the other side. Oh, it was beautiful and so peaceful. There wasn't another soul around for miles. Frank still had the cast on his left arm. It made him a little clumsy. Getting back into the boat again, he stumbled over the shotgun, till it up against the seat. I knew he was dead even before I got to him. At police headquarters, they questioned me a little while and then they left me in the room alone. But a few minutes later, the door opened and somebody came in. It was Mr. Sparks. Well, so you finally did it. Oh, no. No. The trouble with you amateurs is you don't know your case histories. That hunting accident gag is too old, Mrs. Jacobson. Much too old. But I didn't. I swear. I swear to you I didn't. Well, you got the money now anyway. At least you can hire yourself a flock of good lawyers. Please. Please don't. I can't bear it. I didn't do what I tell you. You can ask Charlie. Charlie Prescott. Charles Prescott killed himself this morning when the police arrived to question him. Look, Mrs. Jacobson, I'm in this thing up to my neck, unfortunately. I'm going to have to tell what I know. And I know somebody tampered with a steering knuckle on that car and it wasn't Prescott.  It just doesn't add up any other way. All right. Yes, I did. But I didn't do the other. You've got to believe me. I didn't. You didn't shoot him, man. By all that's sacred in the world, I swear I didn't. Hmm. Could be. You do believe me. Say that you believe me. What's the difference? Nobody else will. That's all. Except my execution will be on the 31st. One week from today. Suspense. Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. And now this is Ken Niles, returning for the curtain call with a lovely star of tonight's suspense play, Miss Susan Hayward. Susan, we think you were wonderful. Well, it was a wonderful part, Ken. For your grand performance, Susan, here's a gift basket of Roma Wines with Roma's compliments. Well, thank you very much.  Well, I certainly just name it. I'm simply fascinated by the way your narrator says suspense. Ask him to say it again, huh? Just for me. For you, Susan, he'd probably say it in technicolor. Joe? Suspense! And Susan, you needn't be insuspense about what to serve when friends drop in for the Roma California sherry in your gift basket is the favorite of millions for afternoon or evening entertaining. And Roma sherry is the perfect first call for dinner. Roma sherry. I'll remember, Ken. And when you serve Roma sherry, Susan, your guests will remember its finer taste. For to make Roma sherry better tasting, Roma Vittners select California's choicest grapes. Then, with America's finest wine-making resources, Roma guides this great treasure to tempting taste richness. Later, Roma selects from this world's greatest reserve of fine wines for your pleasure. No wonder more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. That's a real recommendation, Ken. Now tell me who's on suspense next week. Well, next week gets Brian Donlevy in a suspense play about a man upon whom a freak of nature confers a terrifying attribute.  It's impossible for him to hear a falsehood without instantly knowing it and revealing the deception. Terrifying is right. I'll certainly be listening. And that's no lie. Thanks, Susan. And we're looking forward to seeing you in the Walter Wanger production smash-up. Thanks, Ken. Good night, everybody. Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Brian Donlevy, a star of suspense. Produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have with us Professor Sonia Gupta, who is the director at the Center for European and Latin American Studies at Jamia Milla University. Welcome Professor. Professor, talking about Venezuela, the Constituent Assembly election were held on 30 July 2017. What has progressed after that? Yes, I think the July 30th elections to the National Constituent Assembly or the ANC as it is popularly known, I think really a watershed. Because just before that we had seen four months, 120 days of violence with these armed groups called guarimbas, you know, the street violence that Venezuela had witnessed and which was accompanied by a huge propaganda campaign against the Maduro government and against the Bolivarian process itself. The entire violence has just stopped after the National Constituent Assembly. So that goes on to show that the kind of attack that Venezuela is facing is actually a hybrid attack. It is not the, it is a non-conventional war. So you have this entire media, the foreign media was there and you know at appropriate times taking, clicking the pictures of the violence and you know the entire world thinking that Venezuela was on the brink of a crisis, that there was chaos. And it is so interesting to see that just after July 30th, the violence has stopped. So why has that happened? One is the ANC itself was thought of as a democratic exit out of the impasse in which the, you know, there was a kind of a constitutional impasse because there was a National Assembly which had been elected in December 2015 with a majority going to the opposition. But there were some legal issues because of which the Supreme Court of Venezuela had objected to, you know, some of the parliamentarians who had been found to use fraudulent methods and therefore they were debarred from the assembly. The opposition had basically made this an issue that, you know, we are not being allowed to run the National Assembly. But the main aim of the opposition was to ask the ouster of Nicolás Madur and their main aim is to finish away with Chavís more. Now the Constituent Assembly itself, if you see it has been done in accordance with the 1999 constitution which was, you know, kind of done under the visionary leadership of Hugo Chávez just after he took office and it talks about the Constituent Assembly as an integral part of popular power. So the referendums that often held the changes in constitution through Constituent Assemblies as a very much a part of the Bolivarian Constitution. And this particular Constituent Assembly, as you know, has about 540 odd members and it is not the usual election. It is through sectoral representation. So they are from the youth, from women's organizations, from trade unions, from fishermen's organizations and so on so forth. Once this assembly was sworn in and this happened on 1st August, the important thing was that the July 30th election saw a massive turnout of the Venezuelan people. Some 41% of the eligible electorate participated in the election to the Constituent Assembly. Now that really was something which the opposition had never thought would happen, you know, and so we saw a resurgent Chavís more kind of asserting itself and people actually came out to vote. So the Constituent Assembly kind of established in a certain way the legitimacy of Chavís more in the eyes of international observers as well as within the country. So after that, what has happened is that there have been offers of a dialogue with the opposition. So the Constituent Assembly has been given the charge of drafting out a new constitution plus, you know, modifying the education plan and so on so forth and they have been working at the grass root level with people and, you know, talking to the communes and to the communal councils and so on so forth. At the governmental level, there has been an attempt to restart the dialogue. Now the Maduro government has always been keen on holding a dialogue with the opposition and it is the opposition which has been shying away from all dialogue because their entire emphasis has been on the ouster of Maduro and that has been their only demand that Nicolás Maduro has to go. Now Nicolás Maduro has his presidential term up till 2018. There is a presidential election coming up. In fact, there is an entire chronogram of elections in Venezuela now October 15th. We have the regional elections that is election to the governors of the 23 provinces which are scheduled and then of course and again in December and then 2018. After the death of Hugo Chavez and as soon as Nicolás Maduro took over the presidency in April 2014, there has been an increased violence on the streets, you know. So it was, you've seen just after his election about 43 people died and it was much more this time and it was of course localised. For example in the eastern side of Caracas and a few other provinces. The international media of course played it up. It was not only there in the big media but also you know in the social media and Facebook and particularly WhatsApp messages. Suddenly my students were talking about ma'am you are talking about the Bolivarian Revolution and its you know achievements and here we have you are saying it's a democracy and there is so much violence going on and so on so forth. So it was an absolutely state of art technology being used all you know with full support of globalised communications. So when I say that there was a hybrid war against Venezuela and the ANC election has been a kind of a breather because that kind of attempt to discredit the Maduro government and of course this absolute huge propaganda war through transnational media houses and through social media etc. seems to have suddenly stopped. A different narrative has started you know of human rights and so on so forth but the ANC has given a big breather to the Venezuelan government and certainly to the people. With the Hugo Chavez the world had hoped for a government for the people. It has really hoped for a government which is with the people. Do you think Venezuela paves the way for a new model of democracy? That's exactly what it is you know and that is why it is so dangerous that is why the Venezuelan model is a threat because if you look at President Chavez his own emergence as a leader was not just that there was a leader and then he took the masses with him. In fact there Venezuela had a very strong you know currents of various social movements different the 23rd January and in fact this wonderful book by George Chica Alomair where he talks about where the title of the book is We Made Chavez. So so really in Venezuela as well as I think even in Bolivia and Ecuador and many other parts of Latin America including Brazil I think we have to talk about a democracy from below because it was the entire it was through the hemispheric alliances which had been established during the world social forum. Do you know during those 90s starting with the rebellion the Chiapas rebellion in Mexico the entire current of social movements and indigenous assertion that swept across Latin America. Now that was the basis of Latin American integration and the pink tide the so-called pink tide. So it is not so these ushering in all these leaders and particularly of Hugo Chavez in the you know the way he was has to do with the strong social movements in many of these Latin American countries. So why was there a need for new constitutions in many of these countries. Ecuador had a referendum and you know public participation and a new constituent assembly. Bolivia had the similar thing and Venezuela the very first thing that President Chavez did was what I have already referred to the 1999 constitution which why was it needed because here was a new model of democracy being being constructed where the backbone of the Venezuelan democracy is the communes the communal councils. So it's a highly decentralized system where the communal councils have at least were very strong over the last one year one has seen a kind of an erosion of the kind of empowerment one saw through the communal councils but the fact is that Hugo Chavez had this vision to see that a participatory democracy is actually you know going to be possible only if you think of the people's power as supreme. So that went into the constitution that has the constitutional level and at the theoretical level I would like to cite Alvaro Garcia-Lenera the vice president of Bolivia who you know talking about democracy in talking about democracies in revolution you know that Latin American democracies in revolution said that democracy is a site it is the locus of building socialism the more radical your democracy the better you are on the road to building socialism. So this kind of gradualism that is being seen in these new experiments with building socialism which are not through like 1960s the Cuban revolution which was through the you know capture of state power through an armed uprising. Here in whether it is an Ecuador or Bolivia particularly in Venezuela it is through elections and if it is going to be through elections it has a different essence altogether. So democracy is not something to be impatient with you know that soon this transitional phase will be over and we will build socialism I think democracy is being looked at at the very site as the space as the locus of building socialism. You said about people's power as supreme normally when we talk about military and politics in the context of Latin America or many other countries we see military dictatorship but Venezuelan army is a different case there are quite interesting facts so how it is related to people and how the close relation between people and army. Yeah actually this is a singular feature of the Bolivarian revolution what they call the Unión Cívico Militar that is the civil military union partly one has to see that the entire discourse of the Bolivarian process is rooted in you know in Boliva's dream of one of Latin American integration and also his the anti-imperialism you know as much against Spanish imperialism as against the nascent United States imperialism. So the Bolivarian army draws its legacy from the figure of Simone Boliva and from that tradition of that anti-imperialist tradition you'll be surprised that this time when I went to Caracas I participated in with the army the entire army it's known as the Fuerza Nacional Bolivariana so which means Bolivarian national armed forces so they are they talk about and they were they were celebrating the second anti-imperialist forum so it's an army which is very different from the usual conception of the army have particularly when we think of Latin America as you rightly said you think of Latin America and you think of the military and you think of dictatorships but here is an army which traditionally I mean after all Hugo Chavez himself was from the armed forces the Bolivarian armed forces in fact I must correct myself it's not the Bolivarian armed forces because Hugo Chavez insisted that it's the armed force one united armed force and I must also tell you that I was talking about the civil military union somewhere and I said that the Bolivarian armies with the government and the ambassador of Venezuela immediately corrected me and he said no it is not with the government it is with the people and I think this was something which was slightly difficult for me to understand till I went recently to the military university it's a university where the armed forces people study along with the civilian populations like any other university more importantly the the conception of defense of the country that the task of the defense of the country is not just of the army but of the people as such that it's the entire people so there isn't much differentiation in terms of you know the role of the army as protecting the borders etc only the army is integrally linked to the people's processes and takes part in it like any other civilian population would recently the US president Donald Trump he threatened Venezuela with military action these are the times when do you think that a global solidarity is required to stand with Venezuela absolutely Venezuela represents the hope for humanity at the moment I would say because the Venezuelan experiment with building socialism within the democracy is of unique importance to all of us who live in democracies around in the world and who believe in in peace and democracy the military option that President Trump talked about was only recent but they have been at war with Venezuela they have tried diplomatic isolation they have tried through the organization of American states as you know President Hugo Chavez had visualized this attack you know and therefore he had emphasized on Latin American integration the economic sabotage and I have already talked about the media war so unlike the military coups that were attempted earlier what are being attempted now are soft coups and the whole idea is to destabilize the government discredit the government and as in Trump's own words suffocate the Venezuelan economy and make the people so distraught that they would just out of sheer just give up on the Chavez more and you know just want to get out of this situation so this and and all of this coupled with this discourse of humanitarian crisis in Venezuela so in face of all this Venezuela today has been able to not only survive but survive well because of international solidarity and this international solidarity has come apart from people solidarity also for example in the United Nations the recent General Assembly the entire NAMM block 120 member states voted for a resolution against coercive measures they did not name Venezuela but it was very clear that 120 member NAMM had voted against coercive measures and interference in the sovereign countries Cuba in the UN Human Rights Commission moved a resolution on Venezuela human rights and it was supported by 63 countries including India but I think more important than these are is the solidarity of of the people's movements the solidarity of of people who believe that that that there is hope in this new model of democracy which Venezuelan people are trying to build and that they should be given a chance without this kind of a foreign you know intervention and attempts at suffocating the experiment we just participated in the solidarity conference there was an international solidarity summit in Caracas in between September 16th and 19th and there were about 200 participants from more than 60 countries from all the five continents and these were peace activists grassroot trade unionist grassroot leaders and even religious leaders coming from churches because one of the interesting features of the Bolivarian process has been that the hierarchy the church hierarchy has been siding with the opposition but the people are very religious and the entire discourse of Hugo Chavez was about a Christian socialism and so several religious leaders were present in this international summit for solidarity which was called Todos Somos Venezuela which means all of us are Venezuela a dialogue for peace democracy and Bolivarian revolution and Bolivarian democracy all Latin American countries by the way have pronounced themselves against the use of military in Venezuela even the allies of US so I think that is what the international solidarity has been able to achieve and we have to continue with it. Thank you Professor Sonia Gupta for speaking to New Slick.


Sn-s-drunk. Tecmo Super Bowl is one of the most beloved video games ever made. It's remembered fondly to the point that it's even being directly referenced in a major commercial campaign that's being aired constantly during football games this year. So what is it with this game? What makes it so great? Why don't people go gaga for any other NES football games? Why this? Well, there's three major things I can point to. Accessibility, Visibility, and Bo Jackson. First, Tecmo Super Bowl does not overcomplicate things. You don't even really need to know football that well to get into it. Your playbook has 8 plays, they're all laid out right in front of you, so you can see exactly what each play is supposed to do, and you just press a combination of the d-pad plus a or b to select it. On defense, you just select the play you think the offense is going to run. If you guess correctly, you'll bust up the play in the backfield before it even gets started. Defense isn't all or nothing though, you still have a decent shot at stopping a play if you at least pick a pass when the offense does pass, same with a run. On defense, even if a play doesn't go exactly as planned, the controls are still open-ended enough that you can run around and essentially do whatever you want. And that brings me to the next part of why Tecno Super Bowl is so fun, Bo Jackson. Go ahead and look up Bo Jackson Crazy Tecno Super Bowl Run on YouTube. The dude is utterly unstoppable, he's almost twice as fast as everyone else, and he can break just about every tackle. I mean it's fun to be ridiculously overpowered in just about any video game, but within the context of a normal football game, it's pretty damned awesome. It got to the point in many households where the Raiders were just banned from being picked. If you wanted a competitive game, you couldn't pick the Raiders. To this day, Bo is just as famous for how kick-ass he was in Tecno Super Bowl as he was for his actual football playing career. That is the power of Tecno Super Bowl. Another reason this game holds up so well, like I said earlier, is visibility. You can see the entire field right in front of you, locked in a horizontally scrolling viewpoint. There's no issues with depth, no passing windows that pop up, no map overlays, none of that crap.  The only time it isn't is when a receiver goes deep and runs off the screen, but even that's not so bad, because if you know it's somebody good like Jerry Rice or Anthony Carter, you shouldn't be afraid to just chuck it down there, because they still have a fair shot at catching it. All the usual football stuff is here in spades too, like real teams, real players, full seasons, season stats, injuries, plus funny stuff like guys running out of the hospital when they've recovered. That always made me laugh. The only annoying thing is that certain players weren't part of the NFL players marketing agreement, so as a result we had QB Eagles instead of Randall Cunningham, QB Bills instead of Jim Kelly, and so forth. Just one of those dumb things that gets in the way, that's all. So yeah, Tecmo Super Bowl was the first football game to really get everything right. No goofy overhead camera angle like play action football, no painfully slow gameplay like NFL football or 10 yard fight. In fact I don't think it's a coincidence that there aren't that many football games on NES, Tecmo Bowl just nailed it, and then Tecmo Super Bowl just took everything that game did, and made it bigger and better. Not even that many SNES or Genesis games can even compete with that. Even if you're not that into football, Tecmo Super Bowl is still a timeless classic.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Last year in FIFA 23, EA released something during the team of the season that we had been asking for for ages, and this year they're bringing it back. Today we're talking about the changes for Weekend League, squad battles, and division rivals' rewards, bringing back our favorite red picks once again. And of course, there's a lot to talk about with team of the season warm-up series with a crazy unexpected warm-up cup that was finally dropped yesterday, but with requirements and a game mode that I don't think any of us expected. So we're going to talk about that and what to expect on a day with Champions League back in action today on a Tuesday. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and to subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's SBCs first as we usually start off with. Let's go with the icon SBC, which was leaked early, very early yesterday. Before content, there was a leak that a team of the year icon player SBC was going to be coming out, and it was better check. I think this is a really, really good SBC guys. Whenever we get an icon goalkeeper SBC, think back to Schmeichel earlier on in the year. It's always good because it gives you the chance of crafting a very, very good icon player SBC, putting it in your team, and really not having to think about your icon in your team for a long time. I've used the Sshin in my team for ages because the icon and chemistry links are so good. This better check is regarded as one of the best, if not the best goalkeeper in the game. And he's not that expensive to do. Coming in at 450,000 coins to craft, this is an SBC that you could even craft right now if you're grinding some 8310s, some 81 plus player picks, and just the objective packs that you're maybe the ones that you're not saving for a team in the season. This is an SBC you could get done now, or work your way through during the season to get an icon keeper in goal that you can really just put there and not have to worry about, of course, with the great chemistry links. So, great SBC, it's 60% upvoted, and of course, whenever we get goalkeeper SBCs guys, especially when they're of this quality, goalkeepers on the market absolutely get destroyed. This Allison went from almost 800,000 coins yesterday to under 600k. Vandersar is another one that has gotten absolutely destroyed in price. A lot of people are asking me, Nate, are these prices going to bounce back? In the short term, probably not a ton. I could see them, you know, bouncing back up a little bit over the long term, but we're about to be entering into team of the season where we're going to be getting team of the season goalkeepers every single week with boosted stats that are going to be challenging some of these icons for the position in net for a lot of people in their squad. So, I'm not going and investing in goalkeepers. The Allison card was the only one that I kind of was halfway invested in just because team of the years are very rare, and, you know, he's a very rare card, so he could have potential to bounce back. Looks like he actually is now back up over 600,000 coins, but I don't imagine that being profitable, or at least very profitable for right now, just because there's still a lot of goalkeepers to be coming out in this game. So that was the big players we see that we had yesterday. No complaints, honestly, for me. I might end up doing that check to replace my regular yesh in and goal here pretty soon. Now upgrade packs or player picks technically that we had yesterday as well. We had the return of the 81 plus player pick, which is very much appreciated, and the 85 plus player pick, which is actually a little bit of a confusing player pick to be honest. We can do it three times a day. It's the same squad requirements that it was when it was released earlier on in 84 overall squad. The problem is, though, it's tough to save these unless you're saving all of your packs for team of the season, right? I'm not saving all my packs like we talked about in yesterday's video. I'm only saving the 84 plus rated ones, but if you have player picks, you can't open anything because they just sit in your unassigned. So I did one of these yesterday, got an 87 out of it. If you have a bunch of 84s, you could do some of these, but I think I'm maybe only going to end up doing one per day just because I would like to make sure I have tons of 84s and 5s and 83s in my club as we head towards the end of this week and the start of the team of the season for maybe more important SBCs to come. So this one's a little bit iffy for me, but if you want to do it there, it is there and it's only 84 rated squad. And then, of course, our beloved 81 plus player pick has returned, which is fantastic because it keeps the menu grind alive with the daily gold upgrades, get those commons, put them into the 81 plus, you'll get yourself some fodder, which then you can go craft the 83 times 10 each and every day, work towards the 82 times 11 if you want to, or whatever other SBCs you're working on right now. I'm opening these. Again, as we've been saying, I'm not saving 81 plus player picks. I don't think that's a good enough SBC to be saving packs for at this stage because player picks and upgrade packs like this are going to be out during the season anyway, so it doesn't feel worth it to be saving those at the moment when we know they'll be out or some variation of that will be out during the team of the season itself. We also had, of course, the UEFA Marquis matchups lining up the matches to start today for the second leg of Champions League fixtures, which we have upgrades on the line for. We'll talk a little bit more about that towards the end of the video. But let's go to what really made some waves yesterday. The cup. We finally got the cup guys, but it was not what we expected at all. When I saw the objective yesterday, I was like, oh, this looks like just a nice decent friendly cup, right? You win 10 games. You play 10 games. There's a thousand XP and some interesting, not that amazing, but interesting packs as a part of this. You do get those league specific prime players packs, which I don't know. I don't think those packs are that good, but they are worth saving probably for the specific league of team of the season. Or if you want to open this weekend for the live tots when they come out as well, you do get an 84 times 5. The interesting thing about this cup is the actual game mode. If you go into the friendly mode, tots warm up cup. It is, I'll hide my camera here for a second so that you can see. I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen it already, but it is mystery ball rules. Mystery ball guys, which if you have not played mystery ball before, basically what happens is whenever the ball goes out of bounds, it'll come back in with a different boost. It'll be a goal multiplier and a boost, whether it's dribbling passing speed or a shooting boost or an all boost of all those things combined. It's a very arcadey style of the game with basically power ups, if you will, and the power ups that change every time there's a dead ball situation or the ball goes out of bounds. Guys, the gameplay is, it's, wow, like it is completely different because it is a fun arcadey game mode, right?  It almost feels like you're just using your main squad, maybe apart from like one of the top two or three players. I had to take Drogba out of my main squad and I could use basically everybody else and there can be nobody higher than 94 rated with two lone players maximum. So there's a lot of opinions about this because it's unlimited number of games and the rewards aren't that good. There's some positives, there's some negatives. Some people like the mystery ball because it's something different and fun. I think I'm in that department. We've been asking for ways for EA to change up the game, right? To do fun game modes and cups and stuff like that. And that is exactly what they're doing here. They're doing the mystery ball cup, which is completely different than normal, but also the same time that this gameplay mode can be fun. Man, yesterday I was in the thick of it, too. It was infuriating at the same time with those power ups and the fact that the actual wins technically are counting incorrectly. Let's say you score a goal in the game and you have a two times goal multiplier. So your goal count goes from zero to two. For this objective and how it counts, the goals are counting as one, even if it's like counted as double or triple in game as a times two or a times three multiplier. If you've gone and won a game two to one, but you only scored one goal with a 2x multiplier and your opponent scored one with a 1x multiplier, somehow at the end of the game it's reading as 1-1. So still, you kind of have to win on the number of goals you score versus the number of goals they score without the multiplier involved for actually to count for this warm-up cup, which is annoying, but that's just something if you're like, yo, I won that game, but it's not counting, that is probably the answer why. So an interesting cup, it's fun to play. I think I'm going to rate that below. Like I just finished footchamps yesterday, got my 11 wins, got out. It was solid. I think I'm going to prioritize rivals still higher than that because I want the packs from rivals more than I want those packs, but I will still play it because it's fun, it's different, and I do like the variety from EA. So I'll give it a GG and it's unlimited games, which is nice. It's just, man, it can be if you're infuriating for sure playing a game mode like that, but it probably won't take that long because it's unlimited games. You can get it done pretty quick and it is something fun and different. So that one, it is what it is. Definitely unexpected and definitely some fun, of course, with the different power-ups and boosts that are in the game for that mystery ball mode. Now, the biggest news that we're going to be talking about today actually kind of relates to the gameplay once again, guys. Yesterday, we had big news about rewards, which we always look forward to changing during team of the season. They have not been updated yet. If you go in here, it still says the campaign pig. It looks the exact same, but we had news, especially news direct from the source. EA sports themselves put a loading message or a message in the game. It's not really a loading screen, just a message that rewards are refreshing once again for team of the season, guys. And this was something especially that they did last year that we were hoping to see and they're doing it again, guys. The footchamps rewards are going to be released with red picks, red footchamps player picks, and evidently, there's the plus design on these red cards, because Footshare tweeted out yesterday that this is the Tots plus red champs car design. I don't know if that means there's Tots plus in champs rewards and regular Tots cards, and also the fact that there's packs or there's code that there are live cards, live Tots cards that are in a Week in League type of red player shell as well. We're getting red picks. That's basically the bottom line of it. We'll figure out the finite details later on. But red picks are going to be a part of team of the season rewards once again, which is fantastic, and EA also gave us some news about that yesterday with this kind of verbiage and this message dropping in game. Sorry, it's kind of blocked out. It's very zoomed in. But champs rewards will be starting and updated for this Week in League, squad battles for this Week in's rewards, and division rivals for next week with the new season. They also said that during champs during team of the season, champs finals will be starting delayed. So this is the same schedule that we had last year during team of the season in FIFA 23. Foot champions finals will not start until two hours after content on a promo Friday. And to some of you that mean like, whoa, whoa, why is that? The reason that is happening is so that EA can put the live team of the season cards that are in packs into those rewards. And that was always the most fun part about team of the season last year is that whatever TOTS cards just came out into packs, two hours later you're playing foot champs to get red picks for those cards that just came out, right? Think about it. For the first week of team of the season last year, we had community and TOTS air to visit and it was community TOTS cards that we were playing foot champs for on that promo Friday of team of the season in red picks. And people who got their games done right away were packing some of these cards in red picks in the first day or two when these cards had just come out. There's huge motivations to play when that is the case, right? I look back to the rewards from last year just to kind of give you guys an example of what they maybe could look like this year as well. Last year rank four was the rank where you got two player picks of just community TOTS players from the main league. You got two, one of three picks and you got an untratable community TOTS three player pack. Now there is some of that stuff that is in the code once again, like I mentioned, a live TOTS ultimate team champs player has been added to the code right here. This one is a live three player pack. So live TOTS three player pack. That seems like rewards as well. And then there's a max 90 pack. And then there's, you know, other ones in here as well for regular TOTS players and champs. So we're not exactly sure how the rewards are going to look, but it looks like it's going to be very similar to last year. I'm very curious to see what they do with like the three player packs and stuff like that, the 84 plus packs or player picks. I mean, we're a part of rewards last year as well. The one thing I will mention as a part of this is with weekend league starting late, it's also going to be extended by another 24 hours. So they're starting week in league two hours after content on a promo Friday. And instead of it ending early Tuesday morning like today, it's going to end a day later. So it should end early Wednesday morning. So basically TOTS footchamps goes from like Friday until Wednesday. It's so long. It's almost the whole week that you have to play. It's crazy how spaced out it is. You got that extra day in there and Thursdays, sorry, Wednesdays and Thursdays are going to be massive rewards days during team of the season because you'll have your champs rewards and your rivals rewards back to back days if you didn't get them done during the weekend, which not a lot of people do, but that is just kind of worth noting. So it's back to the old TOTS schedule last year where weekend league is going to be, it's going to feel like you're going to be able to play week in league almost all week with that extension. With the late start, I know there's a bit of, you know, some people like waking up on Fridays and getting their footchamps games in right away. I totally understand that. But I think I like this change and I really liked it and a lot of people liked it last year just because you had more time to get those games. And of course you're playing for the TOTS red champs version of these cards, which the red versions look so sick and it kind of just has that level of like red cards this year with the red footchamps versions. You've only gotten those from Evolutions. They don't seem as like when you have a really cool red card this year, I don't know, it just doesn't hit quite the same. You know, you can make any card red that you want to make red, but like when team of the season rolls around and you see red versions of some of the sick team of the season cards that somebody has packed, which I can't even find the card design here unless someone passed it.  So that is one thing to watch out for. That is big news and it's going to bring, like we said in yesterday's video, more demand for gameplay. Get your tactics set up and get ready for the sweat of what team of the season week in league is going to bring. Now really quickly, yesterday of course with the day that it was, I want to talk about market for a second guys because I bought some cards yesterday, not a whole lot. And I made some coins here like on Steiger and Marquinhos, but I just took a tax loss on this of Iran and I'm looking to do maybe some of the same with some of my other buys that I made. I bought an ability for just over one million coins and man the market is really I would say kind of mudded right now guys. It feels very dead. Like not a lot of people are buying cards and like a card like this, I'm just, I'm thinking I'm going to try to get out and take some of my coins on some of these flips that are kind of failed I guess you could say it's no more than a tax loss on any of these and we're still making coins overall for sure. But like it just seems like players are not selling that well and it doesn't seem like there's panic on the market per se. It just feels like there's a lack of demand as we are rolling right up to team of the season at the end of this week and also with the cup being dropped yesterday as well. I imagine there's less people buying cards just because they're using whatever they have on tradeable still for the cup. Look at this for birthday Hyunmin Sun just went on bid for 950 and he's right around a million coins which is down big time for him. Sadio Mana yesterday was like 550K he's now under 500. Yes he's rare. Yes he could bounce back. Park Ji Sung I saw was low yesterday. Just some of the cards that I've been keeping an eye on on my watchlist they're a lot lower. This card last night Ramirez was 1.2 mil. Now he's 1.09. So it just seems like the markets kind of slowly dropping a little bit and there's less demand out there so I'd be very careful if you're still owning cards of tradeable value and as I take a look on foot bin and some other prices here too like Dakaretska at 600K that's very low. That Mana very low. Foot berth the icons team too. Raul is down a lot. Most of these cards that I'm looking at they just seem down and it seems like prices are starting to dip. There were a couple of price range updates yesterday just of note Burbotov is now under 150. Wow Bobby Charlton's done 100K Caffuz done 100K. Yeah there's definitely some price drops guys. There are price drops out there for sure. These cards are still maintaining good prices like Drogba is still doing pretty good. Desai is still up a lot but it just looks like the market is starting to dip and I think that could continue today with everything that is going on. Last thing I want to mention is Fodder right. Fodder we're watching very closely right now and that continues to go up. 85's still over 4,000 coins. 86's and 87's are up a little bit further about the same at 87's. 88's are about 16,000 a piece. 91's are about 35 and 90's are still about 28,000. So Fodder is either staying the same or moving up a little bit. I still have some informs invested on my transfer list. At the moment I'm still just lazy listing these to be completely honest. Not expecting to make a ton of profit right now because there's no new SBC's that require a bunch of informs. Actually I do believe that the Vayner not VaynerSAR but a check that was dropped yesterday. If I double check here I'm pretty sure that he had some inform requirements. He has on the 85, 86 and 87. Wow, he's got a bunch of informs required on his squad there. But it's not making informs really budge on the market. There's still like 22 to 23K. So I have mine just lazy listing there. Not really trying to take the coins. I don't have that much invested in them anyways. So if you have informs I would be lazy listing them right now. But like as you can see the cheapest 89's on the market are literally the informs and it's because those informs are impacts. The Donoruma, the Dabinia and the Bala as such are impacts and getting supplied. So actually I don't know if Dabinia is impacts but she is low at the moment. So that's why you're seeing those prices as low as they are. We'll see if we get anything else that requires informs to make those go up. But they may not move that much through the end of the week at least upwards. We'll see how much further down they could go. But I'm lazy listing for right now because there's still demand. Now let's talk about today on Tuesday because there is a couple of things that I haven't seen yet. I haven't seen it yet. Maybe. That's all we'll say. But you know it's Gameable Tuesday, right? Apart from the warm up series promo the 88 plus mix campaign upgrade goes away today. What's EA going to do? Make it 89 plus this time? Are they going to give us something else today? We're going to have to keep a close eye on this and see what they do. But I would imagine some sort of other upgrade pack is going to refresh today. Maybe we get that e-figs pack. I don't think the Encore, yeah the Encore does not refresh until tomorrow on Wednesday. So that's kind of the SBC section. They've been going with the daily player SBC so there could be something else like a moments card or I don't know if they're going to do a road to the final I think like that. But last call and the Kondoggi wrote to the final if you think that Marseille are going to pull off the comeback.  Barca 3-2, right? But that has nothing to do with this game. This is a one-off game for showdowns. If Barca win this game 1-0 Sergi Roberto gets a plus 2. Mukielle does not get upgraded. If I think it comes down to full time guys. I mean I'd have to brush up on some history of how this has worked before. If full time let's say it ends 1-0 PSG and you know that's technically a win for PSG but it would go to extra time of course because they would be tied on aggregate. I think if it's 1-0 PSG at the final whistle of the 90 minutes I think Mukielle would be due a plus 2. I don't think it has anything to do with the aggregate score guys but man I have to look back and see what happened in previous situations before because it's always a sticky situation like this but this should be just based upon the final score of the game at 90 minutes. Unless there's some tricky business there we will have to see. So that's kind of some last calls to watch out for that today for those showdown SBCs. And then of course we've got the other showdowns that are expiring here soon as well. Sandro's got a day left same thing with Jensen and Haller and then same thing with Trostada and Eric Dyer. Since I did Eric Dyer he's no longer there. We also got the live cards right the road to the finals on the market today. You've got Pedri versus Donoruma for PSG Barcelona and then you've got Sule and Jimenez for Dortmund versus Atletico Madrid as well. So big names in action today. Pedri's up in price selling the hype just to be careful. But this game is big for upgrades because whoever goes to the next round in advances gets that plus one upgrade. So again Pedri's looking in good position for that for the Barça PSG matchup and Atletico Madrid right now leading on aggregate as well. So they're looking good for that one. We'll just have to see what happens. But selling in the hype is always a safe play. So I have to mention that. Now last thing is we have an evolution league that is making some player prices specifically one player price go bananas on the market. And this is an evolution that you maybe want to hear about and learn about because it looks like it could be pretty crazy if this guy Ferland Mendy actually fits the evil. This was a league tweet yesterday guys from Football Police League. He says that fullback evolution is set to come to Ultimate Team soon. What players do you like to upgrade doesn't say anything about the requirements what it's going to require or anything of that matter. But if you take a look at the market these guys have the info. Take a look at Ferland Mendy from 2,000 coins. Bro goes all the way to 8K. Comes back down to five and I think he just went back up to 9,000 coins again. Yeah guys I'm going to say this. Evolution trading in this game it sounds like is getting people banned. Even this Ferland Mendy like it sounds like people yesterday that bought Mendy at 2K and they were listing at like 8,000 coins. I've seen some people tweeting me. I've heard people talking that they were getting market banned and coin wiped for that. I think the safest thing to say now is don't buy like one out of packs inform or one special card stock in your transfer list or in your club and wait for it to skyrocket buying like these cards in the multiples and then selling them just not result in good things with the way the coin ban system is working this year. So that is happening but regardless looks like we're getting a left back evolution. I've got a couple one left back in my club that I'm hoping were to fit this and 92 paces if Ferland Mendy fits this 92 paces and 86 physical that could fit a lot of defensive players at this stage of the game with those different stats. So we'll have to see what the actual requirements on that are if it's paid if it's not paid I don't know but that is an evolution that is leaked to be coming soon some sort of fullback Evo we'll see if we get more news or maybe a further add on to this leak of what the requirements may be like if tail Hernandez fits if there's an overall that's kind of low which is why Ferland Mendy fits but like tail Hernandez doesn't so we got to kind of look out for that but I'd be careful with left backs of any value especially if a previous version of them were able to fit in like I don't know bomb past or if it's a crazy boost and you know maybe her fantasy card could come back down Ferland Mendy special stuff like that we will just have to see so that is the leaks that is the news that is the information as we roll into a Tuesday today on ultimate team good day to get those rivals wins in good day to log on get your daily log on done as always make sure you get that done and get the upgrade pack I'm saving two 83 times 10s every single day and all the high rated upgrade packs that I can save from the season progress it's really nice that we have the season progress ending towards the end right now a lot of people are just hitting level 40 but 85 7s, 84 20s add that to your pack stash that is mint I'm excited to get those unlocked and add those to my pack stash as well as some of the other packs from like Tots opening weekend stuff like that I'm gonna be adding these 83 plus times 5s the warm up and win getting a tally in there then I play those games boom like this will be some nice nice packs to have for team this season which we'll decide whether we want to open up this Friday or whether we want to wait and see wait I'm about to get an 85 times 10 and an 87 4 holy dude this pack save is going to be immense and an 81 times 11 for this as well let's go bro alright yeah the pack save is going really well it's making me more and more excited for team this season man also don't forget your 10 coin pack daily in the store another one of those refreshing today so the rewards look good let's see how they actually get delivered in game Red Tots footchamps pics though we will be there we'll be playing week and week we'll be playing footchamps on a Wednesday or at least a Tuesday these next couple of weeks during team this season so that's the video for today guys if you did enjoy drop a thumbs up on it comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if new I will see you guys in a video tomorrow in a stream today that links down below in the description it's been Nathan


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