Welcome to our talk about the Kernel Development Learning Pipeline Program that Joel and I have started at Red Hat, KDLP for short. I'm Julia Denham. My name is Joel Savitz, and today we will give you an introduction to our program. So first, a little agenda. So we'll begin by describing what this is, what KDLP is, why we would want to do such a thing. Then we'll give a brief overview of the program, which includes an introduction to Linux Kernel Development course, some various things related to internships and mentoring, and this new kernel devs program group that's part of some initiatives that we have to get people involved in kernel and grow the kernel groups at Red Hat. Then we'll talk about some of the program growth, some of the exciting things that have been happening, internal and external connections, connection with the Linux Foundation and their mentorship program. Then we'll talk about some of the success stats, a little bit of the numbers, and finally wrap up with some resources so you guys can get involved if you like. So first of all, just to make it abundantly clear, what is KDLP? The main idea is that we are trying to build a comprehensive pipeline for Linux kernel talent. And it's difficult to get people into the kernel, and so we want to build a pipeline. So okay, first a little bit of history, where did this come from? So I went to UMass Lowell, and that about halfway through I did a co-op with Red Hat. Just completely by chance, I ran into this manager who was hiring at an event he wasn't really supposed to be recruiting at, and I ended up in this co-op. And if it weren't for that, I never would have encountered Linux kernel. I never would have known where to look to get started. I wouldn't have even really known about it. So anyways, as sort of a side thing, I became involved in an initiative to improve Fedora usability, stability, and performance on the Raspberry Pi platform. And then along the way, so I kind of focused more on the low level stuff and there are some gaps between what I had learned in the co-op and then what people generally are familiar with from their computer science education. So long story short, we ended up developing this into a bit of a study group to learn about kernel drivers for the Raspberry Pi. And then that was part of a directed study, like credit-bearing directed study type of course, sort of independent project, that eventually became more of a class-like type of thing with a small group. We ended up making some slides through the help of the Red Hat Research Department. Bringing in some interns to help work on the project and further work on the Raspberry Pi stuff. The course became more developed. We got more interns. You know, eventually we pitched the program to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the RELS Shark Tank program. And we got the sponsorship of Mike McGrath, big thanks to him for sending us here. And from there, we continued to develop the program until it became a full-on credit-bearing course, or a regular course, academic course that we created. All the stuff was open source. And we will continue to talk about that later on. But for now, I'll turn it over to Julia to talk a little bit about why we're doing this. So why did we start this program? So we noticed that many Linux kernel engineers are getting close to the retirement age. I started at Red Hat three years ago full-time, and I've already seen a couple retired. We've also noticed that it's really hard to find qualified candidates for kernel engineering. And most colleges nowadays don't even teach C programming, which is hard to do kernel without C programming. And kernel onboarding also takes a lot longer than the average onboarding time. So our solution to this was to create the qualified candidates for kernel engineering. So there are three main pillars to the program, the course, the internship, and then full-time work. So students will learn concepts in the course. They will practice them with weekly assignments that are similar to things that they would be doing full-time at a company. Depending on how the class goes, they could get an internship at Red Hat, interning on kernel. Using all the skills they learned in class, helping with the program, and then depending on how that goes, they could be full-time kernel engineer at Red Hat. And Joel is going to go into the specifics of each of the pillars. Thank you, Julia. So first of all, I'll talk a little bit about the Introduction to Linux Kernel Development course. So the general idea with this is to kind of give a meta-overview of the kernel. Because as you know, it's a gigantic project. There's not a single developer who knows how to rewrite the entire thing. No one is a master of any of the subsystems. So what subsystems do we really focus on? And the answer is pretty much none of them. We go into a couple, but the general idea is to teach people how to teach themselves, right? Teach people how they can get involved in the community, how they can properly interact with the community, while using the community standards, which we know about those, right? And so the prerequisites for this course are just a general background knowledge of C, an advanced knowledge of C mainly, and a basic Linux experience. I mean, generally programming experience as well is extremely helpful. But the overall idea is to get sort of a tour of the different parts of the kernel, some of the different tools that you can use to interact with the kernel, how to do, you know, how to navigate the code, you know, things like CScope, Elixir, some basic tracing, you know, BPF, you know, specifically the BPF trace implementation front-end, and, you know, some basic F-trace concepts. All right, which are things that, you know, once you're pointed to, they're very useful, but you wouldn't even know really where to look unless you spent a lot of time running around in circles or you got lucky enough to find a mentor or just, you know, find yourself somehow at Red Hat in, you know, a particular department. So everything we do is open source, of course, you know, that's open source for open course. And we've developed a credit-bearing undergraduate and graduate university-level course that we teach at University of Massachusetts Lowell in Boston or in the Boston area. And that, you know, that we've been running in its current form for two semesters now. We just finished the last one back in May. And recently, we've been piloting a mentorship program on the Linux Foundation's LFX platform thanks to partnership with Shua Khan, which we'll talk about a little bit later. The main idea and our main philosophy with this course is that we want to teach difficult material from first principles. So then, the idea is, you know, with internships generally, the idea is to bring people in who have some idea, well, to test them out in an environment where, you know, you're not making a huge commitment to them, right?  They're trying something out that they, you know, they may not know whether they like it, right? So you can opportunity to kind of vet them and do a three to six months or, you know, a longer intern, basically interview, right? And see if they are A, qualified to work in this particular area, and B, that they actually like it, that they actually enjoy it, right? That it's something they want to spend their time doing. So with that, what if we thought, what if we went back a step further, right? What if we take, you know, we're working already at the university level, kind of at a semi, you know, training wheels type of internship, and, you know, we're already thinking, like, do they like the kernel? Do they like, you know, are they competent at working on the kernel? Do they, you know, do they enjoy working on it? And from there, we can bring them in and, you know, internships already. I mean, I know a manager who was saying he doesn't even like doing three month internships in the kernel, right? Because by the time they have the absolute basics, it's time for them to go.  I still barely knew what I was doing at the end of it. So, the idea is if we can get people set up with some of the tools, the ecosystem, right? Some of the, you know, the Git email patches. I didn't mention that earlier, but that's a very big important component of our course. Getting extremely familiar with Git and email patches, right? Because if you can do that, you know, that's a big part of the hurdle into getting involved in the community. But if you can do those things, if you have this competency, then when you get to your internship, you can actually hit the ground running and accomplish a lot more in three to six months than you otherwise would, right? And so by the time that we actually recruit them to full-time, ideally, they can hopefully shorten that two-year mentor or two-year onboarding window that Julia mentioned to, you know, a lot shorter and then, you know, saving everyone involved time and money, which is great. So at the same time, we want to support the key initiatives within Red Hat, right? And target people towards areas that, you know, that are growth areas and train new talent, right, while focusing on areas that people otherwise wouldn't really be exposed to. And now I'll hand it over to Julia to talk about some of the initiatives that we're doing within Red Hat to bring people involved and bring new people and interns, you know, together to learn more about the curl. So one aspect of the program is this group called the New Colonel Devs Group. It's a way to kind of connect all the different pillars of the program. It's an internal group at Red Hat where Colonel Engineers of any level can come. So we have a chat, so you can always send messages in chat or on the email list or you can come to our reoccurring monthly meeting and ask questions, give presentations, like if you're new and you want to practice giving a presentation, it's the perfect space to do it. Or if you're nervous about asking a question, you can come and ask in this group. So program growth. Throughout starting this program, we have partnered with different organizations within Red Hat, including Red Hat Academy. They have sponsored us to go to a few conferences. They've helped us out learn how to work with colleges. And we've also met with their curriculum team to potentially get our curriculum up on their platform. But that will take a lot of time. But they were very interested in it, which is awesome. We've also worked with the intern program in Waterford, Ireland. We're with Julia Blay. We ran a workshop, a Colonel Engineering workshop, once every two weeks for, I think, four months for a group in Ireland. It was virtual. And one of the interns in that workshop actually just accepted a full-time offer, which we're super excited about. And we've also been working with a few other intern programs at Red Hat, and we're hoping that we'll partner maybe with Burno or Israel in the future. And then our newest program integration is with the Linux Foundation that Joel will talk about right now. Thank you, Julia. Yes, so to build on that point about the Linux Foundation. So last year at LPC, we were talking to different people about the program. I ended up talking to Greg Goe Hardman, telling him about what we're doing. He was saying, oh, we already have something like that. We have the kernel bug fixing thing. He said, you should talk to Shua Khan. So I was introduced to her, and we started talking about her mentorship platform, kind of comparing some of what we're doing and what she is doing. And we found that by working together and by offering our course on their platform, we can provide some complimentary content and strengthen the value of the service that we're providing while also adding something to the Linux Foundation. So she was very helpful in working with us on this. And so we piloted having a Linux Foundation mentorship group cohort in our course this past semester. And we learned a lot from that, but it was a very good pilot program. And at the same time, we got UMass Lowell students involved with the Linux Foundation's mentorship platform and got them kind of a nice get their names on there for being involved in Linux. It's a nice thing that they can have. They can show hiring managers, put it on their resume. It also actually unlocks some Linux Foundation programs that are only open to graduated mentees. So that's very cool. It also allowed us to have probably the most diverse group of mentees or students, different terms. That we've ever had or that we could have possibly had if we were only working in Boston. We had people from all continents, pretty much not Antarctica, right? But we had people in a few African countries, I think Nigeria and I don't know, there's another one. Some people in Central and Eastern Europe. I think we had three or four in India who were interested, a couple in New York and Texas. There's one guy in Peru, really all over the world, which was very cool. So next I'll talk a little bit about some of the numbers, some of the technicals here, right? So this three actually was two until like a week ago, right? We've had three full-time hires come through the program in various forms and through our efforts we were able to get them interested in kernel, teach them a little bit about kernel, and then place them within various kernel groups, right? So we have some relatively new talent there, which is exciting. There were two people who did co-ops with us that really liked Red Hat, but it was a difficult time for Red Hat hiring and they were both credited to Amazon and Microsoft, because they were good at what they were doing. One of them, and this is an interesting thing about our program, he liked working at Red Hat so much and he liked the environment. He decided the Amazon juice really wasn't worth the squeeze and he wants to come back. He really liked the Red Hat environment and yeah, so he actually left Amazon recently, fun fact. But overall, we've had seven interns and co-ops who have been vetted and trained by our program and then come through and do internships with our group in various forms. Some of them less connected, working with other teams, some of them working a little more closely with us, working on the program. And overall, it's approximately 30 students and mentees completed introduction to Linux kernel development during the past academic year, which we're happy to announce is the most diverse group ever by gender and location. So a little bit of program information. So who runs this? Joel and I, we have Charlie who started out as a student, then he was an intern and now he's full-time and he is our course content lead. And then we have Dennis who has interned with us, we took the class, then he interned for a year. He unfortunately has to go back to college but we're hoping he will come back to Red Hat when he graduates. So one thing is this program is not part of our full-time job. We do a lot of this work on the side. And we work closely with our executive sponsor who we'd like to thank, which is Mike McGrath. And we'd also like to thank Heidi Dempsey who's been helping us out a lot with dealing with the interns. And here are a few resources to leave everyone with. We have a mailing list that we send a quarterly update newsletter to. So if you just want to be informed about the program, that is something that you can join. Low traffic. Or you, if you have a specific question, you can reach out to Joel or I. And then we have a website and that has all the course information and like we said, it's all open source. So if you're just interested in looking through some kernel slides, that is the perfect place to do it. So any questions? We have about shifting things around to make the kernel solution work closer to what people usually see after they let the, you know, after they start working computing today, now they like start to make your first decisions using like GitLab, and then you need them to, or the actual kernel workflow like, ah, not only do you know how kernel works, and you send your first patch through GitLab, try to send a patch through the mailing list and all that mess. And so how many people would react to that? So our philosophy with the Git email patch stuff that we do is that, well, it's very tricky to learn, right? It's very finicky. And so we, the first few assignments are, you know, we provide a couple of chances where the real challenge is just doing the email patches, really. Like you send some email patches, you get it going. And the idea is, you know, it's really, it's a stripped down version of Git where you really understand the fundamentals of like what Git is, right? Because there's a lot of extra abstraction that's added on GitLab, that's added on GitHub. Those are very useful tools, right? But they kind of build on this abstraction that, you know, it was originally created by Linus Torvalds to work with his other project, the Linux kernel, right? And so by making people do it many, many times, they get really good at it and they get a really solid understanding and a firm foundation about what Git itself is that would allow them to go to GitLab and then in their minds have a more clear separation of the abstraction of GitLab and, you know, pull requests. Like what is a pull request? Well, on the mailing list, it's someone sends an email requesting a maintainer to pull from their branch, right? It was a little confusing. I remember when I started out to say like, well, pull requests, like how does that relate? But I think by learning, you know, the original workflow and really hammer it again in so they really have it well trained in their mind. They get a good understanding of Git. They get a solid foundation for working with the kernel and then they're able to better understand the other abstractions and I think work with them even better. Well, we probably could get more sub-maintenors involved. That's an interesting idea. But what we have them do is, you know, how do you, you know, describe how to connect someone with a sub-maintenor on the part of the kernel or do you, you know, describe how to present yourself, how to interact, how to submit your patch, how to have that conversation or how does that part work? Well, we probably could get more sub-maintenors involved. That's an interesting idea. But what we have them do is so they're not, you know, they're submitting email patches against a base repository that's like our assignments repository. There is a point where they do generate patches right now. I mean, we're making some changes, but they generate patches against the kernel and they include that patch as a part of another patch, which is like a little confusing for them. And then they send it to mailing lists where, you know, other students have, as a part of their, you know, their grade, they review each other's patches and they get feedback from each other. It would be interesting to integrate more of the sub-maintenor kind of workflow, but I think that's an interesting point. That's not something that we've integrated yet, but it's a good idea. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, yeah. Repeat it. Repeat the question. Oh, yes, yes. So we partnered with, and you lift the challenge, I think is what it's called, is the question and the answer is it's been shut down. They're not letting other people in. Apparently, it's a bunch of bad scripts that people don't want to maintain anymore. And, I mean, we probably, you know, I'll talk to Greg at some point if I see him, maybe I'll mention it, but I think, I think they, they want to move on from that at this point, unfortunately, because it was sort of, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, so, yeah, the response is, you know, that maybe there's a new model going on. Yeah, I mean, we've discussed this with Shua Khan a little bit and she was saying like she, you know, it's very, they're very protective also about the code, you know, because they use it to, you know, the source is easy to evaluate people. And they really don't want this stuff getting out there.  But, you know, it's interesting. I mean, definitely, it's definitely a interesting model, funny story. Someone actually mentioned they came up to me after I did this talk at Boston, right?  You know, I was like, oh, when was that from? You know, like, what?  Like, I didn't know what was going on with Linux at the time. So it's a bit before my time. But it would be interesting to try and work with Greg if he's interested in that. But, I don't know. From what we heard from Shua, it's no longer operative. But there's no other questions. Thank you for attending our presentation.


The human being, which is identified, the mind identified with the ego, believes it is lacking, that's where the incompleteness comes from. And therefore, that's what the special relationship is about, is to make a trade. It's like trading up an incomplete self for another self-concept or another image that is believed to be better. So that's where the gain seems to come in. In other words, if you're identified as being single and you have in mind this concept that it would be better to be a couple self, rather than a single solitary self, then you see the advantage of the trade up and therefore you will seek to find the couple self. And basically that's what this whole world is, seek and do not find. It doesn't matter how many forms you look in to find a better form or a better concept, the whole thing is set up as like a giant trick, so that you will forever, so to speak, in time terms seek and do not find. And therefore the solution of course is to go within and find the love within yourself, which is only where the completion is. And the sooner you become disillusioned with this trick, then that's when you can find the fulfillment and the satisfaction and the completion. Because it is an attempt to trade a defective or lacking self for a better self. Some of you have seen the movie Jerry Maguire, where Renee Zellweger has the comment, you complete me. You can always tell that when you're watching that movie with metaphysical students, they all go, ugh! And the rest of the audience goes, ugh! You can tell, you can tell, you really want to see who's on this spiritual journey. Oh, it's all based on the perception of the line, you complete me. Because clearly, clearly, clearly the teaching is that you don't need to seek outside yourself for a partner, a friend, a person, a situation or anything that will complete you. You have to find the completion within yourself. What we say within yourself, we're not talking about within the body, we're talking about within the mind, because that's where the completion is. The completion is mind itself. Mind was created whole and complete, and once you get out into the fragmented images, that's where the problems start. So ultimately, what we're talking about is spiritual fulfillment. You know, it must come, you have that mirroring, mirroring, mirroring, and then as long as there seems to be a temptation for a form outcome, then that's where the wholeness is not fully experienced, because wholeness is complete contentment. There is no sense of even bonding with another in that wholeness, and so that's where the final wisp of illusion has to be given up. So he started feeling all this was being reflected back to him that he valued, and he loved being with her. And yet it got to the point where, you know, he said, until another man walked into the room and he would see her kind of turn and reflect, start to reflect what that man wanted. And then he got to the point where he was able to notice he didn't want another man to come into the room because of the competition aspect of there. As if she is one, he is one. Two's company and three's a big crowd, you know, and that was the sense where he was noticing perhaps that he wanted her all to himself. And again, that still has aspects of specialness to it until you come to realize that who I am or the I am presence is all, is all in all, and that there is no other. So it's beautiful. These movies kind of really get to the nuances of really getting more and more to that point of cleansing the mind, purifying the mind, purifying the heart completely of specialness. And that's the whole point of spirituality is to sink deeper and deeper in the mind into a state of wholeness and completion which is in the mind. There's no form to that state of mind. There's no form outcome. You can't get to a point where you go, aha! The perfect mate has arrived or the perfect situation. Whatever, you know, there's a great line in the Course where Jesus says, When you decide upon the form of what you want, you lose the understanding of its purpose. Why is that so? Why isn't there such a thing as a perfect form? Well remember, the purpose that form was made for was it was made in hatred. The world was made as an attack on God, a place where God can enter and mount. The form was made as the distracted device, as the Hall of Mirrors. And the Spirit will use that form that the ego made as part of symbols to lead the mind more and more into a state of first through a disillusionment with the form and then turning the mind inward to go completely inside, completely within to the Kingdom of Heaven because it can only be found within. There is no form that reflects the Kingdom of Heaven. We could say, except the Forgiven World, the Holy Spirit's perception of form. But the Holy Spirit sees the big picture. The Holy Spirit reflects that beautiful light of Heaven onto the whole screen, onto all form. And so the big picture is what we could say fulfillment is in terms of waking up. Not a specific form. The specifics were made to deny the light. And whenever you think you've arrived at a specific where you go, got it. Got it. Finally achieved it. Finally fulfilled it. He says you will notice that you will not be fulfilled. You may have a little glimmer of, finally got the thing that I wanted, but you will soon find there's a disillusionment after that. And then the ego will say, well, keep seeking. You just haven't found it yet. But it's not there. It's not there to be found. So that's why a lot of times, spirituality is talked about in terms of renunciation. Another word for renunciation could be emptying the mind of all false desires, of desires that were made to take the place of God.  Really, it has no value. It cannot be difficult to renounce that which has absolutely no value. It cannot be difficult to renounce that which can only hurt you. And so that's why there's no sacrifice in the journey. But as long as you believe in the ego, the ego will take every step inward that you make into your mind, it will see as a big sacrifice. What are you doing?  You're going to give up that and that and that and that and that and that. The ego made that and that and that and that and that as a way to distract the mind from coming inward and finding that fulfillment within. So it's really quite a beautiful opportunity. Basically, the divine law is as you sow, sow, sow, you reap and giving and receiving are the same and what you give is what you get obviously because giving and receiving are the same. So if you're perceiving a relationship and there seems to be one person of the couple that's a little more into bondage than the other as you're saying. But if you bring it back to mind, you start to realize that whatever is reflecting is coming from mind, it's just being acted out. And so once you start to say, oh there seems to be a bit of a desire for a bonding, then that's part of the purging or the purifying that's going on because the world that's perceived reflects what's in the mind. Prayers are always answered and the prayer of the heart is mixed until it's pure, until it's unified. So that's why it's kind of a mixed picture. At some moments it's like, whoa, spectacular. And there's others and it's like, ooh. It's flushing up that unconscious desire, that unconscious death wish is getting flushed up and acted out sometimes. Maybe we've talked in the past in terms of anger or the expression of anger or something and it's like, ooh, what's this showing me about myself? It's quite intense mirroring. But ultimately you can't help but be grateful for that because in that sense the mirror is helping you with whatever was pushed out of awareness. It's helping you become aware of it. And then the more you become aware of it, the more you have that opportunity to really release it, to really face it and say, no, this is not my desire.  And so in that sense the mirroring is serving that way. You know, you have to feel the gratitude of that. The movie stated that really perfectly as far as the reflection of mind goes. He said, haven't I, I can't remember how he put it, done everything possible to deter you from this continuing to come towards me? He said, yes, but some part of you must desire it, otherwise it wouldn't be happening. That was it. You do see that it's not so much what seems to be in front of you that counts. But it's what purpose am I holding onto in my mind? That's the crucial question because we're teaching what we would learn based on our purpose. So many times people have been put in what seem to be dire situations or difficult situations or challenging and they thrive.


Good morning everyone, let me know if you're here Let me know if you can hear me Okay So who is still in is anyone still in the first? BA put the very very first BA put that I called It's hard to believe Is anyone in the first one you can't see hold on very first One that I called the two fifteen puts is anyone still in that tray Jarek still in it. Okay. Here we go Stop's gonna be two oh six sixty. We're gonna do oh Shoot it's already going Here do it right now do it right now a two oh five or nine just do it and put this top at sixty It broke it's already going. This isn't the perfect entry. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter It doesn't matter. Just do it if you want it. Make sure you have the stop at the right place two of six sixty I got distracted here talking about the options because both of these trades were so big this week. I Knew this was lower Well, we'll have to wait and talk about it when we're done here because I don't want to get distracted again In fact, I'm gonna give this 80. I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it 90 I'm gonna put the stop at two oh six ninety in case this bounces to a six ninety for the BA But again, the conservative thing to do would be to get out of the options on the open just because these are You know through the strikes so much But I I don't want to get distracted her talking about the puts right now We'll talk about them when we're done and out of this But you got two choices here this morning if you're in either one of the two BA puts get out now It's throw up or wait a minute or two and see if this continues breaking down stops 90 This is gonna go. Wow. If you didn't do it. You could do it right in here If you didn't do it, you could do it right in here right in here if you didn't do it You could do it still right now We didn't miss it. We didn't miss it here Chasse will look at later again Amazing how that rolled over We could we could have done that today, you know, let me quick look at it. No, this isn't ready That's not ready. Stay with the BA We'll talk about the option when we're done here.  Don't worry about it then you're up a lot here BA Good old BA is right. This is I mean Again When we're done, we're gonna discuss it because Because we should You did not do this. You can do it right here. It's not too late. It's not too late Here we go BA 204 204 here we go through 205. We got to really get through 205 though And again, we'll talk about the market later We were down more this morning in the market Then we started to lift Here, let's look at it right now actually We we we were down a lot Then we started to lift and again, we're down because they raised rates a half a point overseas so again Drone pal is talking today.  It's good There's a lot of people that are very bullish and are in longs that are very frustrated With that half point rate hike this morning Okay, here we go 204 204 204 in the BA Here we go Dream target today in the BA somebody anybody Jackie Shelley Dream target in BA I'm not saying we're gonna hold it to the dream target. Here we go 204 BA Here we go One more push to 204 200 That's that I think I think I think that's a real number. I don't even think that's a dream number You know what I think the dream number is today and this is crazy and I'm not saying we get to it through 200 198 197 195 something with a 1 9 in front of it. Here we go BA BA You can be out of it right here if you want. I'm trying to hold it. Hold it. Hold it Let's see if we can get it down to 203 50 Wow, this is the gap of the week people Good trade if you want to hold it down again 203 202 201 200 Dream target in this though really in all seriousness if we need the market for this We need the market but BA could pull the market down 198 ish 197 ish. I mean one one nine something would be insane Jared did it. He's out Vincent's out Shelley, what are you doing with this? We did it great job All right, let's talk about the puts. Let's talk about the market. Let's talk about everything right now Um, let me just see did he start talking yet? Is he talking at 10? He's talking at 10 o'clock again today


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I want to talk about the brand new 75 plus player pick upgrade pack repeatable SBC that was released yesterday and how it is actually making prices drop on the FIFA 22 Ultimate Team market because of how hyped and how actually insane this SBC is. It is giving out insane players for a very cheap cost. So I want to talk about the SBC, how it's making the market move and also what to expect today on Tuesday as we head into what could be a massive day of Champions League related content because of the UCL rare and non-rare cards that could be released onto the market today as well as our first installment of the year of UEFA Marquis matchups. So we're going to talk about all of that today on this video. If you're enjoying the videos on the channel, make sure to hit a thumbs up and of course, subscribe if you are new. But let's talk about this SBC. We were expecting upgrade packs yesterday on Monday, right? And they gave us our first ever player pick upgrade pack. Now, if you guys remember, of course, FIFA 21 was the year of the player pick. That is when they rose to start them and rose to popularity and it looks like they're back again this year in FIFA 22. This player pick SBC at face value does not look that good. 75 plus, one of two rare gold players. But I'm telling you, most times you're opening these, you're getting at least a player that is 80, 81, 82, a lot of 83s, a lot of 84s. Build yourself a set of 10. It'll cost you about 20 to 30K and see what you get, right? You get one walkout or you get one road to the knockouts card in form or maybe, again, a higher rated player and you're easily making your money back on the value of the card from this SBC. If you guys did not watch the upload from earlier yesterday, I'll link it right above right here. We packed Ronaldo, not once, but twice for two viewers in the Twitch live stream. That link is down below in the description if you wanna get involved with that, streaming every day on Twitch. But these are actually sneaky good. They're sneaky good if you wanna chance it packing a higher rated player and just trying to fill your club with fodder at the same time if you've got some non-rares and a couple rares, golds in your club available. So the reason that that SBC moved the market is because it is just good. It's just sincerely that good on this game. Now I wanna show you how this moved the market. Take a look at some of these, you know, high mid to low tier. Like the low to mid tier basically of cards yesterday is what was affected the most by this SBC. Take a look at this Bruno Fernandez. He had one of the bigger drops yesterday. He was 89,000 coins pre-content. Now with this SBC being released, I think what you had is you had a lot of people actually selling some cards from their team after seeing how overpowered this player pick pack was. They sold some cards from their team to go fund their player pick addiction on this game to go open up some player picks and that dropped some prices on this game. When I was looking at prices on these gold cards, live on stream, I saw a lot of cards listed up with chemistry styles and a lot of cards that had games played. They weren't first owner fresh items that had come in from supply because there really wasn't any tradable supply yesterday except for preview packs, which supplies the market a little bit. But a 10K drop on this Bruno Fernandez card, there's more going on than just some preview packs from the daily 7.5K that everybody gets to open. So that is what happened yesterday on this game. Possibly you could say part of the market drop was due to people actually packing the card that they had in their club tradable, then going and selling the tradable item or packing it untradable, then selling the tradable item. I think that probably happened in some cases. But I think also what you had is just a lot of people putting some coins into this player pick upgrade SBC, trying to pack some of these road to the knockout players and informs and just high rated golds that it was giving out, right? It was giving out a lot of really good cards. You look across most of the game, I mean Bruno is down, Pogba down, De Bruyne 140K, that is down as well. He was one of those cards that dropped off a decent amount yesterday. Started the day around 150, peaked 152, 153 and it was now down at 140 flat just a bit ago. So that's like a 10 to 12K drop on that De Bruyne card. You see this on a lot of, again, the low to mid tier market, Rashford 82K. That is down. Some of your high tier cards like Mbappe, Conte, those just kind of kept going up. They weren't affected as much. But some of the mid to low tier, you saw people selling some cards to go out and build these player pick packs. Now one thing that these player pick packs are also doing right now is it's supplying a lot of people's clubs with fodder, with fodder. Right now we do have some SBCs that are upcoming potentially with more road to the final cards, road to the knockouts, excuse me, with a week two looking like it's very possible this Friday and maybe some more player the month SBCs like for League One coming out pretty soon as well. I think what you're gonna see is probably like the 82 to 84 range is probably gonna have even a slower rise in price because so many people are gonna have those in their clubs right now. What you're gonna continue to see though is the higher rated cards. 87s, 88s are up in price in terms of SBC fodder because SBCs like Benzema and like Fikir are still pretty high. As you can see this cruise went from 14K on Saturday now up to 20,000 coins as a lot of people are getting these higher rated like an 86 squad right now. People are completing that with throwing in one or two 88s then they're throwing in like a couple 84s and 85s to get that rating up to an 86 because that's the cheapest way to build some of those higher rated SBCs at the moment, right? So you're basically EA is supplying a lot of people's clubs with fodder. They're depleting people's clubs from gold rares and gold non-rares and what are they gonna do today? They're looking to release most likely what I would assume to be the first set of UEFA marquee matchups onto this game. Now if you remember what UEFA marquee matchups is it is basically the regular marquee matchups just themed around the games that are happening on that day. It usually comes out on the Tuesday. It usually comes out on Tuesday and it features a game from the Tuesday Champions League match day and the Wednesday slate of games for that same match day. So what we're expecting today if we look back to last year in FIFA 21 is a UEFA marquee matchups that will look a lot like this, right? You'll see the UEFA marquee matchups it'll have a group reward. Usually they're pretty cheap. You look through a lot of these that were released last year. 18,000 coins, 20K, 12K, 20,000 coins. But one thing that's very interesting today is and this comment right here actually says it perfectly. If you look inside these squads, if you look inside what these squads are gonna require that last year when they dropped UEFA marquee matchups day one, they also dropped the UCL rare and non-rare cards onto the market at the same time. So these cards had zero supply and they already have demand. They were getting supplied and demand at the same time. It was a very interesting mix for people that wanted to do UEFA marquee matchups. They had to go buy these UCL rare and common players to complete these two, these SBCs before they were even really supplied on the market. Now, I honestly think that's probably gonna happen again today if we do get this sort of content. But with this content coming today on Tuesday, what are we gonna see movement-wise on this market? If we're getting these UCL rare cards like we expect today, and we talked about it a little bit yesterday too, for a lot of these cards that had little drop-offs yesterday, right? Like we looked at Dembele, he was down a couple thousand coins. We're looking at like Pogba, and maybe Raheem Stirling would be another example of a card that dropped off just a couple thousand coins yesterday, right? From 40K down to 37, where he kind of is right now. Maybe just a couple thousand coins, a slight drop-off. I honestly think with the UCL cards coming out today, people are scared. People are a little bit scared of these cards, supplying the same players. It's again, you're basically gonna have if they released these cards like we talked about yesterday as the exact same rating as their goal with the exact same stats, you're gonna have two different versions of an 83 Dembele, two different versions of an 88 rated Bruno Fernandez on the market. One gold, one UCL. So it's basically gonna start to become like double supply and a lot of people are worried that that's gonna drop prices of those gold cards on this market. Now I think there is a little bit of worry that is warranted. I think it's, you should be a slight bit worried, but I think if we have drop-offs in price today on Tuesday with these cards coming into packs, I don't think they're gonna be massive drop-offs. Again, Tuesdays are usually days where the market is at its peak. If we take a look at the last couple of weeks and we look at the weekly fluctuation of the market, the market is its lowest on Fridays and it rises through the weekend as people get their week-end league rewards, they upgrade their teams and usually in that Sunday, Monday to Tuesday timeframe we're kind of reaching the peak before people get worried about Wednesday, division rivals rewards, market match-ups coming on Thursdays and the new promo that would come on Friday and they start selling some players off and stuff goes down in price. So we are kind of at that quote-unquote peak point since prices even went down yesterday and with the content that we have coming today, specifically if we do get more supply from your wave of market match-ups and the Champions League cards, I honestly do expect to see another slight drop-off on the market today on some of these cards, but I think it might even happen, like as I'm recording this video, early morning UK time, it's probably gonna happen throughout the day UK. I would expect it to be that there would be a slight drop-off on some of these mid-tier golds as people are getting worried about the supply from these packs and from the Champions League and from your wave of market match-ups, that could be coming today. So keep an eye out for that, but I don't think the price drops are gonna be that big. I really don't. I think they'll be pretty small unless EA does something insane today with the content. If the UCL cards come out today and they have a higher rating, then the gold cards actually do, which again, I really, really, really don't expect, but they did this in FIFA 19. They gave all of these Champions League cards a plus one overall. If they did that today, then I think you would see the gold card market drop-off more because people would go after these Champions League rare cards as they come onto the market. So that'll be something to kind of keep a watch out for. Now a couple other things. As we get into today on Tuesday, we have live cards that actually have games being played today. Now one thing I'm kind of keeping a watch on is, and I'm sure some of you guys are watching this as well, yes, we're gonna have some supply today, but keep an eye on these Champions League road to the knockout items that actually have games being played today on Tuesday, right? Of course, we've got games like Inter and FC Sheriff. We've got, I believe, Inter Milan and Tonali are going to be playing today. There's a nice slate of games, right? Leipzig, PSG, Athletico, Liverpool. By the way, if you have Athletico or Liverpool players that you've invested in for the potential UEFA Marquis matchups, I would 100% sell those in the hype because they are very invested in. A lot of people are thinking the same thing you are, that Liverpool, Athletico is gonna be a game that is featured in that UEFA Marquis matchups, so I would 100% sell in the hype on those. That's just my opinion, 100%. So one thing I'm interested to watch out for today is would somebody like Vidal actually rise up in price if they were able to win? Now, again, their game is happening today after the supposed supply would come out to the market from the UEFA Marquis matchups. So that is a bit intriguing in its own right and it's gonna be something to keep an eye out on today and watch for is if these cards rise up because of a win, which I do think that once you see a goal scored, especially if it's a card like this Vidal or any player that is in the road to the knockouts, that is maybe not favored to go through to the knockout rounds because of where they're sitting right now in their group. So specifically Tonali, Vidal, Mookie L.A. Now of course, Mookie L.A. is in the group of death, right? It's not gonna be easy for them to come back and to get up into a spot where they could get upgrades or this card to get upgraded. But specifically Vidal and Tonali, you might see those rise a little bit this morning. I'm really not looking for that much of a rise on any really part of the market today on Tuesday throughout the day until content. I'm just gonna be maybe looking at some icons, maybe looking at a couple of these cards like Esok last night went from, I think it was like 120. Little bit of weak and the reward supply early Monday morning went to 124, rose to 147. That's a pretty solid rise. He was actually 133 about an hour ago and he's right now up to 140 again. So we might have missed an opportunity to dip in on Esok if he were to rise back up. But I'm gonna keep an eye on some of these cards this morning as we rise into the day and maybe see a little, wow, Goretzka, 124.  He was 140 and he dropped, wow, that's a card that's dropped off big time right there with the hype and the supply and I guess the sell off a little bit from these 75 plus player picks being released. So that's kind of the thing that I would watch out for today. Maybe some of those RTTK cards rise up a little bit today. But I think most of the market with what's expected to be coming content wise is probably gonna continue to just slowly drop off a little bit on this game. Now one thing I do wanna talk about are icons. The index icon is at an all time high. Take a look at the daily graph. It's been slowly going up. As people get more and more coins, you're seeing this market rise and some of these icons are at crazy, crazy expensive prices. And I've actually played into that a little bit with some of my flips recently. I bought this Dell Pure at 1.1 mil yesterday. I bought this Cheeky Marquinhos at 718K, sold at 767, just based off of Rarity. And I've been looking at a lot of icons, man. And it's kind of interesting to trade with these cards on the market because a lot of people have a lot of coins and they're upgrading to these icons which is very interesting to see and it's making some of these cards go crazy, crazy high in price during the day, during the night. Like all hours, these guys are just continually rising and they specifically get rare at night. Like when I'm recording this video, these cards are really rare. This Mid-Deaths IE was 800K yesterday and right now this guy was just 920K. It's kind of coming back down. It's crazy how rare these icons are and how much people are willing to spend on them in this game just because they're so rare and the links they provide and just the iconic icons that they are, right? That's why these cards are just so hyped up at the moment is because they just provide something different. They're always good. They're always here, of course and everybody's trying them out right now and that everybody's using them. So that's why you see these prices, where they're at right now. You might as the icon market dip off a little bit today. I would expect that. Now again, that's kind of how I expect this whole market to be today. I would expect it with the supply from UEFA market matchups to be a little bit of a drop off with that supply, a few things here or there rising on this market. That's kind of what I'm expecting for today on Tuesday in this game. Now let's talk about a couple other things because there is a new card design. A new card design that has been released. It's not shown here in the game yet. Now yesterday we had the FGS swaps. That was a new thing. Literally, this is irrelevant, right? You get these swap tokens from watching the pro events for 60 minutes at a time. You get a swap token and you can turn it in for one of these SBCs under the swaps section in the SBC tab. But it's literally irrelevant because it's gonna take you so long. It's gonna take you weeks to get four swap tokens because there's not very many of those FGS events. They give out these tokens. It's gonna take you a long time to get four tokens to get this 100K pack.  Unless you watch the pro events and you like watching that scene on FIFA or if you just wanna leave the tab open, collect your FGS token whenever those events are live. You can go ahead and do that. But I really think that those are pretty irrelevant. But this card design was released and since it's not actually showing in the game yet, as I just looked on the transfer market, not the store. Can I go back to the transfer market please EA Sports? Can I go back to the transfer market? The menus are hating me right now. Anyways, if I look under quality, this FGS swaps showed up last night when it was kinda tweeted out and known that it was gonna be in the game. We had this card design released tonight on Twitter. Footwatch retweeted this tweet right here. This looks to be the record breaker card design. Now, since it is not added to the game or I can't see it yet, I don't know if it's been added in and then pulled away or not. I'm expecting to see this on Wednesday unless EA Sports has some other plans. But this is the record breaker card design is what it seems and hopefully it looks like they're gonna be adding in some sort of record breaker into team of the week. This week there will be a pretty cool card to see on this game. So that is a very, very, I think that's one of the best card designs of FIFA 22 so far. I'm gonna be completely honest with you. That card looks absolutely sick. So I'm excited to see who gets this record breaker item this week. There's a lot of potentials out there for who it could be. So we'll have to see who does get it. So that was a very interesting thing that happened in the past couple of hours. And then also yesterday, EA with the most random tweet ever, I guess evidently on the, when they first released this Fakir card, they didn't upgrade the dribbling stats at all and what they did was, today they adjusted the Fakir card and they boosted his stats. So when I first read this tweet, I was like, are they about to make Fakir's dribbling lower? It was actually the opposite. They boosted all of Fakir's dribbling stats by two. The face stat didn't change, I don't believe, but all the agility balance and I think the dribbling stat itself got plus two. So that was like really random, I guess nice, but also just really random in the fact that I don't think anybody expected that. I really don't think anybody expected that. So if you have a Fakir, you just got a couple extra dribbling stats. So GGs on that one. So again, expect a record breaker card to probably come out on Wednesday with the team of weeks somehow intertwined and used there. That would be my opinion for those. So again, I just want to also do a little bit of an update on how I've been trading. I know it's tough to trade when the market is high like this. I've been finding cards that are rare, right? Again, the icons that I'm trading with, the cards you saw on my transfer list, like the Marquinhos, like the Del Piero, it's icons and it's just stuff that is rare, right? I flipped the Hyunmin Sun a couple nights ago. That Marquinhos is just a fantastic card to trade. And some of these road to the knockout items are really, really rare. So I've been kind of looking at these cards, just kind of playing on the fluctuations and on the swings as people try these cards out in the game. Like this Dan Juma is one that I'm kind of interested in right now. He's up. This guy was just 63K about an hour ago. It looks like as we're rising into the morning hours, I don't know if this is any investing involved here. If people think that this card's gonna rise up. He was 62K, ooh, 62K. Boom, all right, I'll snag one, there we go. He's already 67. He was 62K earlier this morning. So see this card come back down after he rose last night into the daytime. During a couple hours before content, I think he went from like 59K to 70K. I think this card is at the top of the Footman Popular page. So I'm just keeping an eye on some of this stuff. Ooh, 58. Yeah, I'm not gonna get that. That's a little bit too low. But you see a couple of these pop up. I might see if an Esok or if a Dan Juma, if we have potential, or maybe even a Vidal or a Tonali. Again, with those players that have the actual UCL games today, maybe seeing if any of these cards rise up just based off of hype into the day today on Tuesday. But other than that, I would honestly expect to see some of these gold cards probably tail off in price just a little bit. Because I think people are gonna be worried about what's gonna be happening on this market today with that pack supply from UEFA Marquis matchups and the blue Champions League cards being on this game. So that's kind of what I'm thinking around the market at this point. And I think that's what's gonna happen today on Tuesday, right? We're gonna be covering it all live on Twitch, of course, link down below in the description if you wanna be involved there. But it should be an interesting Tuesday to see where the market does move. Again, I don't think the price drops are gonna be that massive. I think there might be some drops in there. And I see a lot, a higher percentage chance of a drop than a rise on most cards on this game. So if you enjoyed this video, make sure to hit a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Putacown and I'll catch you guys later. Peace, out.