Tom little thank you so much for joining us. You're the chair of the Vermont legislative apportionment board Which is a long way of explaining what we're going to talk about today And you sent out an op-ed to explain to people about redistricting in Vermont And I thought maybe we could shed some light on the subject and encourage some public participation in this process By doing this interview so welcome Thank you glad to be with you Lauren Glenn So you have been involved in legislative activities for years and and you are a wise counsel So it makes sense that you would be at the helm of this legislative apportionment board But why don't we start by just explaining what that is and why it's important for Vermonters Well, it's important because When the legislature was originally Created and structured and when the Senate actually got added in because initially there was only a house and not a Senate Early on in the 1820s and 1830s there were attempts Made to reapportion the legislature back then because people felt it wasn't fair and it was not sufficiently based upon population Nothing ever happened. However, until the early 1960s 140 years later when the some court decisions were made that said, yeah That isn't fair. There isn't equal voting access in Vermont because of the one representative per town structure of the house in particular and what you had and maybe the most stark way to illustrate that is that the town of Stratton had 38 people and one member of the Vermont house and Burlington had over 35,000 people and had one member of the house after that litigation the dust cleared in the early to mid 1960s the legislature reapportioned itself and established the apportionment board to Come into being and Start working every ten years About 18 months prior to when the legislature had to do its own final version of a new map So the apportionment board has met About five or six times now every ten years and we are in a sense advisory to the legislature But we take that that role very seriously and we'll be trying to provide the legislature with as much data and research and Redistricting options as we can And this is important because the census the 2020 census numbers are coming in and We know even without those census numbers that Vermont's population has increased which means we have to redraw the lines Is that right? But we have to redraw the lines every ten years almost no matter what happens to the state population because The state's population tends to shift within the state And if you've been following the internal population shift trends Those have been steady for 20 30 40 years Now we have another 10 years worth of that trend and it shows that The population in the southern part of the state and maybe Southwest Central Bennington Wyndham in Rutland counties Is continuing to gradually lose population and the northwest corner Franklin Lemoyle and Chittenden predominantly are gaining population and When you have I mean in an ideal world you would want each house and each Senate district to have the same number of people as each other ones which means The the there's equality of Representation The law has said that the courts have said that that doesn't have to be mathematically exactly equal But it has to be substantially equal and you have to make a sincere Effort to make it as substantially equal as you can At the same time the Vermont law in this area says You should also try to have the legislative districts Follow town boundaries and county boundaries and you should Do your very best not to subdivide towns and put them in different districts Those are end up being competing or colliding mandates and It would be one thing if you said well, we have six hundred and fifty thousand people in the state We have a hundred and fifty house members. We'll just draw use a computer program of sorts to create a hundred and fifty house districts that are almost identical in population And and people have actually we've done that as an exercise But it may it there's no very little resemblance to a state of Vermont map showing the towns And there's a there's a belief in Vermont that Keeping the towns distinct within legislative districts is a good thing because it gives a legislative district some cohesion And the people in that legislative district share things in common Not just who their legislative representatives. They may share a school district. They may share Other relationships commercial relationships and maybe in the old days they all went to the same market But and in many cases there also have been in the same house district for a long time And they're comfortable in a custom to being joined with one or two other towns in that district And they identify that way So those are Lauren Glenn some competing Mandates we have But but the one that that that trumps that comes out on top under the law is the substantial equality of population Because if you in the in the Stratton Burlington case from 1964 In a sense and an important sense the people of Stratton compared to the people of Burlington Stratton folks were way over represented They had one house member for 38 people and in Burlington the residents were grossly underrepresented And that's what we have to keep reminding ourselves we have to we have to avoid something that's stark and It looks like we're up at that the number now is one rep per 4,300 So somewhere between 42 and 4,300 is the ideal sized Single-member house district And we have a significant number of Two-member house district so you would double the size of that for a two-member house district So that's a number really by dividing 150 into the number of people in Vermont. That's not a federal number correct Yeah, it's it's pretty simple the arithmetic and to get the the ideal Single-member Senate district you divide the state's population by 30 And if you had a two-member senate district you would double that and for the senate districts that's Around 20 122,000 people for that ideal single-member senate district Now why did the legislature vote to break up the six-member chitin and county block Of senators and did they do that in any other part of the state? I know that was just for the chitin and senate district, which was the only one in the state that was had six Senators at large There are the Rutland senate district has three at large and the washington A district has three At large as does the Windsor district It's if you look at other states across the country It's very unusual to have Senate districts with even three people serving at large Vermont is the only one that has Currently has a six-member at large district And Something can be said in favor of smaller districts as Promoting better communication Between the elected representative and the people being represented And fundamentally The the the problems that were encountered with a six-member at-large district were Um instead of representing 21 or 22,000 people you were representing 140,000 people um and Uh, it also made camp made campaigning for many people very expensive and very difficult Uh, it gave it gave great Uh weight or power to name recognition Or to incumbents Um for that same reason and, um It it's slowly but surely over the last 10 or 12 years I think even the the incumbent senators in the chitin and senate district Came around to thinking uh, this is really too much and in 2019 the legislature agreed And amended the law to say that you can't have a senate district with more than three members at large so in doing this Redistricting work This time around We are looking at At least reducing that to two three member districts, but we are also looking at other subdivision Options You know all the way from six one-member districts to three twos Or some other combination So it might be that In your discussions you scoop up the One member district in colchester that serves colchester in the islands in the conversation is that you know when you're Are you drawing lots of maps to figure out what to do at this point to address that question also? We're beginning to learn and one of the problems we've encountered is that the us census bureau was under a federal law was supposed to Deliver us and the other states A final census numbers by march 31 This spring we still don't have that and now we've been we've been told august 15th It's going to be when we get the final numbers, but we do have Some reasonable population estimates that are 2019 estimates and we have been using those just to get our feet underneath us and to Look at the districts that are likely to have Need the most attention and Briefly the methodology that the the board uses is to Establish what the ideal sized district is and we'll talk about we can talk about the house Ideal now, which is around 40 200 people We then Look at the actual in this case so far the estimated population and we drop All those numbers together into a map Of the vermont house districts and that tells us for each district A percentage Greater or less than the ideal for the population of that house district And what the law says Is that you should look at the house district with the the highest positive deviation Over their ideal number And compare it to the district with the greatest negative deviation From the ideal And then you look at the spread between those two districts and that's what's called the overall Deviation for the entire map and the the law says that number should be reasonably tight The the the courts have never They the courts have been careful to not micromanage this process because At some fundamental level it has a political tinge to it and the courts rightly try to stay out of political arena, but Something approaching the high teens For an overall deviation for example where you had a house district with a minus eight and a half or nine Deviation meaning that they have eight and a half percent fewer people in that than the ideal And a house district with an eight and a half or nine percent on the high end Creating a deviation of maybe 18 points. That's sort of pushing pushing it It's worth noting that the the map that the legislature approved in 2012 The house overall deviation is 18.9 percent So we have but no one challenged that in court. So it became the law and that's what we have now, but Using the estimated census data, we've identified House and senate districts that look like their percentage deviations Are such That they need are going to need some adjustment So I imagine in particular you want to hear from people In those communities So can you say Name a few of them? In looking at the at the senate The And and and these numbers Are again are estimated, but but they're pretty decent estimates and the The problematic areas House and senate districts are where you would expect to find them generally if you Understand where the population shifts have been So the chitin and senate senate district has a very high positive deviation of over 20 percent now And the senate district at the at the other end of the spectrum is the bennington senate district of Somewhere around a minus Nine something And that overall that overall deviation is not Acceptable under the law. So we know that something's got a gift So that means that there's nine percent less people than needs to be in that district to be representative to be an ideal sized district And in the house districts, you see the same the same trend there are a Um, I don't know eight or 10 house districts in the chitin and franklin area With deviations of Over 10 percent and in one case Where am I now there's a South burlington house district with an estimated positive deviation of about 19 percent And that's a shift that's happened in the past 10 years essentially. Well, if you looked at those districts 10 years ago or 11 years ago before we did the last Remapping you probably would have found those To be have some significant positive or negative deviations, but now It's reached the point where They have to be dealt with then the There are a couple of districts in ruttland town ruttland city for example that have deviations of over 10 percent negative deviations greater than 10 percent So you're interested in hearing from people across the state, but let's say in particular from these regions Regular people. I mean you have map makers. You're doing your own mapping on the apportionment committee to kind of see where you're at But what kind of intelligence could a regular person shed light on these On this issue and what kinds of questions are you asking? We're we're we're suggesting that that Folks can go to the apportion boards a board's website on the secretary of state's Website on the right on the banner across the top of the secretary of state's website. There's an apportionment board Place to click and you can go find minutes of our meetings and a lot of materials about The reapportionment from 10 years ago and some of the the the efforts we're making now, but At a very fundamental level, I think it's the starting place is to figure out what district you're in right now and Uh, that's something that people end up figuring out when they go to the polls because you got to know where to show up to vote but Once we get these these census data We will be posting them and then you would be able to go to our a map on our web page that says Okay, I live in the bennington three house district Or the franklin six house district What does my percentage deviation look like? Maybe more importantly Lauren glenn would be Get familiar with the other Towns in which your district is located And if you you know that Something is likely to have to change about your district because of a high or low population Count The the trickiest question is how do you fix that? Now if if you have a a district With a significant negative population deviation The simplest way to fix that would be if that if the house district right next door has excess population You can say well, we'll we'll move a town around Keeping in mind that we're supposed to really try really hard not to subdivide a town um So you could say well the district next to us has four towns in it We could move one of those towns over into our district and everything will be evened up But if you're in an area of the state And this is true in in the southern part of the state where You have a low You have a significant negative population deviation in your house district and you're surrounded by other house districts with the same problem It's not so simple because Taking people from another another district is going to exacerbate their population deficit And that'll bump the solution to another district beyond them and Conceivably another one further out and so trying to fix a problem with one district is really often and right now in particular parts of the state a regional solution needs to be found we've received some Citizen input already Interestingly One dealing with a in the chitin and senate Where the the towns that are in the Mount Mansfield unified union school district Which are under hill Jericho? Richmond Bolton and Huntington, I believe They're looking at this subdivision of the chitin and senate district and saying we we want Our five towns want to be in the same senate district. We think that makes sense. We'll have More cohesion we'll have we know who our representatives are and they'll they'll be more They'll care more about us because they're not representing 140,000 people Um Those five towns are not large enough to form a single member senate district. So you have to add other towns One of the challenges there in particular is that 10 years ago the town of Huntington Was moved into the Addison senate district Not because there was a groundswell Of a public sentiment in Huntington that that's what they wanted to do but because um, the population in the Addison senate district was on the low side and Because Brandon kind of branded which had been in The Addison senate district for about 20 years, but which is a Rutland county town Had to be moved back into the Rutland senate district So the Rutland senate district could continue to support three senators That left a gap in the Addison senate district The apportionment board's recommendation 10 years ago was And and if you look at the contours of Addison county on one side is lakeshamp plains You can't add any people from lakeshamp plains Um at the south side, it's Rutland Because of the Rutland population problem, we couldn't add them there on the east side. You're up against the green mountains um and some Very small towns and we try not to put Towns on one side of the green mountains and it was senate district on the other side That really only left the the northern part of Addison county and the southern towns in Chittenden county, which are shallot Heinsberg and Huntington The apportionment board's recommendation was charlotte Legislature said no, we're going to put Huntington in So to to to address The residents of the mount mansfield union school district Folks To their concerns You'd have to take Huntington out of the Addison district But probably take either Heinsberg or charlotte and put it in unless You're going to take a much more Bald approach to this and say well, what if Addison isn't a two-member district? What if we divide that into two one-member districts? And maybe we can get more creative that way and we won't run into this problem with Huntington So those are the it sounds like that's the kind of questions that you're interested in feedback From the public about right we we've asked the public Do you have a preference in general over a single-member house district versus a two-member house district? And Do you feel strongly about the importance of following town lines and keeping towns intact Do you prefer single-member senate districts should we go to all single-member senate districts for example? And the the apportionment board did a a version of that 10 years ago Just to see what it would look like and it doesn't look at all like a county map No surprise interestingly in Vermont while we have this statute that Talks about trying to preserve county lines Our county government in Vermont our counties don't have much governance value or meaning in Vermont But nevertheless people identify with the county they're in um and I mean Vermont in the at the county level we have assistant judges Two assistant judges a sheriff Pro bait judges get elected on a county basis in the state's attorneys um, but It's not if you want to go across the lake to new york state. There are county assemblies They have county elected representatives and we don't we don't do that here, but our statute I think which dates back to the 1960s where the old Senate map was a county map And every every county had one senator except the larger counties with pop larger population had additional ones, but that wasn't a portion equally either Uh, and it was very very hard to change When populations shifted This reminds me of Frank bryant's famous maps that he shows professor front bryant at UVM of the various districts of service delivery, whether it's the legislative district the solid waste district the agency of human services district I mean, they're just Nothing coincides in vermont And I wonder if that's because of our exceptionalism or you know the strength of the locality as kind of the prime Self-identification that we have I'm not sure what the reason is but it may have to make it hard. We we have been working with The vermont center for geographic information, which is a not all that well-known piece of state government, but They have been extremely helpful in the mapping area and They can show you maps of almost I mean anything you could imagine and things that you can't imagine, but You're right. There are layers and layers of various governance districts If you look at a map of the utility coverage in vermont, that's a very distinctive looking map Fire districts in some towns Are still active and then you have Act to 50 district districts Planning districts So we've evolved these regional governance districts, maybe because our counties don't mean anything in terms of governance And one of the ways that when we write it right up our final report, this is more more so about the house Redistricting than the senate is that we try Particularly if we're bundling us a group of towns into a house district that have not all been together Before or at least recently in a in a district together. We try to to In a narrative description Give reasons why it makes sense for these towns to be together and what they have in common with each other Which may be geography. It may be a school district It may be some other historic ties I I did this work 10 years ago as well and what I found out in addition to the ties that bind Are the the ties that that divide And There's a there's a kind of a funny story I can tell in that regard but We received a letter at the at the apportionment board from a town For this time being I'm not going to mention these the name of these towns, but that said that we think that the best house district for us would be a two-member district with with our town and then the three towns Uh West of us in one two-member district Uh, and of course in that particular configuration the town that wrote us Because of its population would dominate that house district About a week or so later. We got a letter from The town at the west end of that configuration of towns that said whatever you do Don't put us in a house district with that town and it Which we we chuckled at and it reminded me at the time and and now of of what it was like the first day of Of school in middle school or or junior high school in the cafeteria when Everyone's deciding who they're going to sit with and who they're not going to sit with and there's some of that It goes on in the in the house redistricting where there might be Two towns that to an outsider might look like they have perfect harmony together But there's some reason in one case it was a it was a high school football rivalry That they really didn't want To be together There comes a time and it's kind of come very very soon. Um our deadline For getting our work done Was supposed to be the end of july But since we won't have the us census figures until at least the middle of august The legislature extended our deadlines one of our our public engagement processes is We will be issuing a an initial house map sort of a preliminary house map And sending it out to all the towns Publishing it on our on our website and all of that and a town that Disagrees with how it's been Placed in a district Particularly a town that we propose to subdivide or to put into a two-member district Those towns have the right to hold a public hearing Take testimony And then send us a counter proposal or criticisms of our initial Mapping proposal All those comments will be coming back to us from the The boards of civil authority in each town and the board of civil authority In each town is the select board members and the justices of the fees plus the town clerk And that unit of government is chosen in large part because in towns It's the board of civil authority that has A sort of oversight authority over local elections And they have some local expertise in that regard And when will you file your proposal with the legislature? Well, we were so under our Statute we're supposed to get all of this stuff done by the end of july Um, but the since the us census bureau has failed to send us the data that we need The legislature enacted some Changes that pushed this out into The late summer and into the fall so if I had to make a Estimate of when we would be getting this map out to the towns. I would say Sometime in the middle to the end of september Well, let's be in touch when those maps are Drawn so that we can generate some more interest and in the meantime I really appreciate your time and the work of the apportionment board the legislative apportionment board in Making sure that we get the kind of representation that we deserve in the state of ramon You got it. My pleasure Thank you, tom little. Bye. Bye


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It's okay, now I'm 18 We are seeing you My name is Sevio Mulaku I'm here to impress you and her I also maintain the boy child's moral Give us your social media handle On Facebook Sevio Maestro Mula Twitter Sevio Maestro Mula I'm Maestro everywhere I'm the best everywhere We are sorry Maestro Maestro, what do you think impressing her lady means? Kumungizha box? Impressing her lady Nile na tokenda chinia maji She keeps thinking about you Yes Basically it's where the lady keeps on talking about you The lady keeps thinking about you At the same time the lady is able to talk about you to the friends to the family and to ksakoliaketo So basically that's me thinking of impressing her lady So she's sharing your box Do you have the same definition? What is impressing her lady? Okay, it's absolutely impressing her lady making her think about you killing time Everything values it So it is on purpose that you attempt to confuse us in our lives That is what you are saying I see you How does this work exactly? Do we get impressed easily? Do we pretend to get impressed so that you know what she ke motisha motisha wasi ogope kuhu en dele na sisi ama? It depends Sometimes it actually depends the personal circumstances we are in and how really bad you want it to be in a relationship in the first place Sometimes it's because we just give these people a chance to think that they have impressed us when in real sense you just don't want to hurt their feelings Or sometimes we are way too old and then you feel you are being pushed by society and you are like let me just get this over and done with let me check this guy as he comes My time is over to you anyway Biological clock So it depends what kind of lady you are having It's definitely impressing is not just impressing because sometimes we give you the impression that something is going on when in real sense ladies are the only people who know what is really going on on ground Na kwa ground we do need different Are you agreeing with what she is saying? Not really Why? Inu om Ladies are the only people who know what is going on Piya sisi we know what is going on Thank you What do you think you know? What stress is going to say? It's only 1% of the ladies 99% of the ladies For guys we know dem vene na ingiha box na jevelia ku impress dem And as guys tuta juanga ule dem ma maza kubi ewewe na ewe na fatu kufanya ewe na na juan nisha kwaen mingiha box na juan na kwaen mingiha impress Ladies don't take time for a guy you don't take time to impress a lady You will know that you are not making it It's definitely around Kuna timeline Kuna timeline kwaen na dem ma ma kwaen na dem ma impress Kani mgumu And for a lady nila zema kusumbu ewe the first few times It is normal And if you don't disturb me the few times it's abnormal for me as a guy I feel like ewe na ule ma kwaen So for us also we have conscience We nuna nisumbu ewe Ina tupe the upper hand We keep going for it but also at the same time if I just impress you on the first week I will also be surprised So in the campaign week I had the first first week the second week It's a life which is easy to say that it depends na dem wene We know the ladies really want to impress It's money It's going out It's lunches The way they always say wana kuja kukula tu lanchi etu Ati chakula etu Nde wana kula nga The first few weeks Uta kula nanchi ewe Ume se ma Uma nama na kaza na Mi mati nile ni kula But after a month Mi takua na wuna kula lanchi ewe Na piya piya mi takua na kule yu lanchi ewe Uta kua tu na kula na ina da words Xavier just had to We have the first slide and I'm really really glad he said all those things because that's what we're going to zoom in a little bit So we have the first case scenario She says she can't date a guy who does not have a kama Mi se zi datitalia na gadi You beg, borrow or steal to impress her Baka sangapi bohichad Baka sangapi Is this true? That's a lie No, okay, tell me why you think it's a lie and I'll tell you why it's not Okay, in a relationship in a two-way traffic Mta kemo kukupenda Anukupenda mili huko Okay, kuna go Why are you trying to impress her if you know anukupenda tu iwo? See, aukupenda tu iwo Kumu impress in a kama automatically It's not something that you should go looking for If she's there for you ata kubali even without you trying to impress her I say I'll not date a guy who does not have a kama Okay, let her go and find guys with kaza Haiku pae steam yaku tuftapesu Not really, not really See, I'll go on my pace See, see atia kuja ni Okay, tu nazaku date Then mta kuni strategia life That's not my way Mili me panga iwi Acha ni ishi Acha tuende iwo Amu usikamin Mimi principle zangun tabakinazu Ufikam na principle zako Kutakachini tu eleane Mta kagari e Okay, it will take time Let us do this Let us work Maka yo time ya gari ika But ata kiki kisha iwa Kone me bai wig ndo e She kema jitai na See you bai umbrella Some brillants jipe sanga See you tuba See you bai those Why should she start baiing umbrellas Meanwhile her friends, boyfriends are all picking her up Then she can as well go and date those her friends boyfriends Which is a very good thing to mention because I really think sa zingechu na piyanga boy child pressure Not because we are unhappy ati he is not treating me right Nivi liatu ni mauna mtu mingini aki titi wa nika seman ataka iyo But we should be content, shouldn't we Yeah, we should Someone once said that a man is just a man One thing about him is not a woman and same goes to a woman One thing about her is that she is not a man Don't let anyone define to you what a woman is You find your own way of being a woman and be it in the best way that you can So say velemi tell you this A woman, as long as you are not her type Believe me, you will buy her gifts You will take her to Bahamas You will take her to Hawaii Bring her back Take her to the air, whatever And we will go She will not be impressed As you have said So believe me, it depends with the type by the way As long as you are someone's type Even if you are her type You don't even have to try The chemistry will just be there But when you are not her type That is when you keep trying and keep trying Because you have to find ways to get into her heart This theory of Nakula lunch, lale tomorrow Believe me, you will buy her gifts You will take her to Bahamas You will buy her lunch, lale tomorrow Believe me, I will just come Eat whatever you have to buy for me Because I mean, it's free food Why should I not eat? Let me go eat Kuna memfula ni waschanu anairobi salamone Sasa So ni buy her lunch Ezen salamu za demons anairobi I beg to differ First of all, the word type May know how to camouflage And be that type you want That is very true We know how to make ourselves To be that type you want And also when it comes to impressing It depends with the class We have to agree We are clumped up on a class here So what we are saying is We say A, B, C, D We have a class A Uno na din imbalisana Suwata usta sumbanana Uta tizatu beziako Uta tizatu beziako And then it depends Circumstances Maybe I was just inside my friends car Atul kwa tutuna Peter Then I see this fae lady Mumsalime Then apparently I want to add Nan kamambia getting We just go maybe to town We eat lunch together And then with my friend We cut the sleep to go drop The next time it will be like When I ask you We will be saying Una kuja kuni pika mo That will be an impression Kwa the first time Unam soe sheh It was circumstances I will be mwen Just like to term my laugh By the way But that's why ladies should know Sometimes it's circumstances Maybe the two times we met I had a car But it's not mine So anyway Ushaya ekaile thought But when one of us never Begari siyango Why are you not committed to this? Siywezi jiyango Sasa skia sasa So much to a baby Ivo ala muna kuja complain That's why I'm saying It depends with class If your class Iko paleju Una fawun Uliza kama pick me But kamuna juo Ukutu palechi Niyo gari lupatu By mistake eka kama By way Mistake Uliza kama Jami na Jami neneza kwayo ruch na kuja Namin na kumbia pina jami Kanya raka toka mape That's why I When it comes to impressing Ladies should know There are class Uko api And also Mi as the guy I'm able to come Oflaj to that type You want me to be So you are saying That means to say Me to kyo a we live And she's of a higher class Than me Kuna vinyutam treat Na kuna vinyutani treatment Saitan I guess what he's trying To say is That once you find A lady in a certain Who is in a certain lifestyle You must do everything You can't keep her In that lifestyle I think that is What he's trying to say Like for example I can't be the daughter Of a prominent man And you expect Someone like me To be coming to a bed Sit time Nila lekwa flow Or something like that I think that is What he's trying to say Sevia nomi Naya chapunya maza I'm trying to Listen to this She's lying Continue I think that's happening I think that is What she's trying to say But according to what We are talking about Right now at this moment He says that I don't know For ladies you have to Buy them lunch You have to Have a car You have to take them out Sevia We have people Who first of all Do not work They still live in their Mothers houses And they don't have cars They still use Matatu and if What comes to us They will walk So do you want to tell me Those people are not dating Those people are not having Women who They can be able to Interact with And people who love them These people have them Sevia let me tell you If you had a choice If you had a choice Listen to me You see we have men Everywhere nowadays Everyday we work up We are presented We are presented Even the census We are presented We are presented We are presented We are presented With a million choices You see Uksamo you have men Uksamo you have men I agree with you Uksamo you have men Uksamo you have men Okay fine We are not debating About who is more than who But please Let me tell you this Kamatu si jakupenda Si jakupenda If you say If we had a choice We always have choices By the way ladies Always have choices The fact that we stick With you is because We have seen something Special with you But we also Choices Yes But for you to stick With someone means There is something special You see in them Kamani pesa ladies Ongikuwa nangalia Believe me These poor people We see who would not Have money And where they are With no one To confinding They wouldn't be knowing Even what relationship Do you want to meet There are no Okay Watu puwa ni wanaome pekiake Watu puwa Because believe me As much as we are trying To talk about women Who love money Have you ever seen Some a man Who really loves money In a woman No he has said About class On the way Come Okay Okay Come on rich Okay Come on cool kid Come on Kati Kati Kama mkuti Ono tizana klasi That is how it usually Is most of the time Ya that is how it usually It is easier for a man Who is rich to debt Someone who is Agal who is puwa Than for a girl Who is rich To debt a very poor man Apu Apu I might disagree with you But let's do this Let's go to the next slide Put that energy That I am seeing you Gathering You asked your friends To use his money na you ask your friend to make a good first impression. na kwa ni muna kwa na barabalitatak kushu fa mandates ukemu wa kwa kwa tadinja. Niko naka ukemiya hojbo na kwenjoutsia ni kwa m Magnu na tuniku waka ni naka ukemiya. Bo di, kwa naka naka naka rapu wa kwa mga yana, ni ayakunati kutu mahtani kwa kwa matani. burku kwa naka naka naka kwa matani, naka naka kwa matani, ki kwa, na ni kwa ukemiya na na na naka wei ikuwa ni na toi. Before you call a lady to your house, it is very much better if you find your things outside there. Impressive. So by this time, whether the house is packed with everything or it has nothing, you already made the impressions. So if the house is packed with everything, you already made the impressions. But if the house is packed with everything, you already made the impressions. So after 5 minutes, you already made the impressions. If you came outside, you already made the impressions. And then you come and cool her down, umuangeleshi, this is where I stay, this is how this. But for guys, if we really tuna zoyana sana, if I have a friend, it's a neighbor, it's somewhere near to me. I will always ask for a place. Tama mami yanga, eh, ude manaku zya? Impression in me fanya, wukwa tabu na wukwa out of town. Ya ni umetiza game, kuma? Umetiza game, kuma ni me kwa champions league. So I really have to impress. It works sometimes. And for me I always think for guys, if it's short term, kama tuma maybe, nuna nila jina nila tuma kukula na kukula lanchi. If maybe you just want to take advantage of the girl, or maybe you just want to invest your investment outside there. Wutam de takwa in yumba. Do your thing. Alafu maybe the next time, actually, I can come to your place and be like, I'm busy, I mean evil. Because you just wanted to make the impression and maybe take advantage of her. But if it's long term, I think I try to impress outside the house. Then I can come to your place. Kwa yamba? Umetiza kwa, nuna wene kibero na tuma jina bedroom. Explain to me. Kwa ube jumia kupole pole. One moment slowly miss. So she's about to get it. So she's about to get it. So she's about to get it. So she's about to get it. So she's about to get it. Say the idea of the methodology. Do you agree with the king here? Sindio kabsa. Kwa li? Okay, kama ni long term, mami say kama ni long term. Itabidi wujibu uta cheza. Ujukubali. Kama ni long term wujikubali. Lakin ni kama ni short term. What's that? I do not understand why you would try and make so much investment over something that you know is short term. Why? That's a good point. Why? Okay, because an investment you give and you alternatively know that you'll get back, right? Absolutely. Yeah. So as for you, if it is short term as you put it and as he said just taking advantage of the lady. Oh my God. You need to wash your mouth after saying that. No, let me deal with him first. The part that you say in short term that you have to, you na cheza. Why would you try and invest so much, put so much energy into something that you know would not even last for a week? I will invest there outside. The moment you make a conumbia, then now it will be my time kutulia to enjoy fruits. What are the fruits? What are the fruits? You know the fruits. No, I don't. What are the fruits? Tell us, but I don't know. For what need is it? It is just as equal as maybe me getting out, going somewhere and buying the services that you wish to receive in your house that day after taking me out to lunch. You take me to let's say like Kempiski, take me to where? Clarion, let me eat. Do you know where the Clarion is? Sasaona. Would you, Clarion? You need to learn how to do that. Take me to Clarion, let me have a meal. Take me to Sarah, wife, that is what. Because some ladies you have to take them to spa and all that. Only for you to have, let's say 20 minutes of delight or less than an hour of delight. Mama sasaizu ni gangta poiku na dha. For you that is what it takes. Then I have to. For you that is worth it. Then why don't you just go out and pay someone for that. Ayya, bing bing bing.


Right, so like she said, I'll be discussing the irrigation that we installed on our property. First, I'll give a little bit of history. The farm is owned by my wife and me, Katie Flickinger and Christian Flickinger. The name of the farm is Renegade Acres and we're based out of Howell, Michigan. We've been farming on this piece of land. This will be our fourth year. So we've had three full years of production with the irrigation that I'll be discussing in this presentation. We started as Garden Horde in 2010 and that's actually a seed business that we still run today. So it started out basically as Katie's interest in plants and heirloom vegetables and varieties got bigger and bigger to the point where we needed to kind of get rid of some of the seeds because they were taking up too much space in our house. So we formed basically a seed business. We started selling the seeds to local gardeners, friends, family, and eventually small farmers as well. Like I said, we still run that business. It's actually gotten quite large as a result of the farm. We grow mostly heirloom produce on the farm and then we save seeds from every single thing that we grow, whether it's a flower or a vegetable. We save the seed from it. We store it and then we catalog it, we sell it. So that started in 2010, right after we got married. Then as a result of starting to sell seeds, we needed to grow more seeds. So we began an urban farming enterprise. We had eight urban farms in Wayne County and Oakland County and these are people's backyards. They had some larger backyards and we would till up all the grass or sod cut it and get rid of it and put in tomatoes or peppers or flowers or whatever. That became tedious though, driving to eight different garden plots in two different counties and watering them and dealing with thieves and dealing with the homeowners as well. So we decided to consolidate everything into a small farm. In 2015, after two years of searching and really annoying our realtor, we found a property that met a lot of our needs, not all of them, but you can't really be perfect. It was seven acres total of land. Of that, five was tillable or usable for production and of that, we have three in production right now, three acres in production. So that started in 2015 and still continues to today. So now we consider ourselves small farmers instead of urban farmers. There's a Kroger a half mile from our house so we're not really rural, but we're not in the middle of a city and in the middle of suburbs like we used to be. There's woods surrounding most of our field. So like I mentioned, Garden Horde was the original seed business which we still operate today and then Rent and Get Acres is the farm which we operate today. We sell all the produce at farmer's markets to restaurants, wholesale and to a distributor. And that's what we focus most of our time on spring, summer and fall. This was the first photo of our field when we moved in. This was taken about two days after we got the keys to the property. We tried to do the American Gothic, but that didn't work out. So we just did a funny photo with our large dog and a pitchfork. So I weigh about 100 pounds more in this photo which was about three years ago. The field was all corn and it was corn for about 30 years prior to us moving in. Corn every year. He never rotated his crops. He had special application licenses as very whenever he wanted. And so it was just corn, corn, corn. He came through, I'll show you another photo, but this was our very first plan for the farm. We opened it up in Google Earth.  They're all a quarter of an acre in size. And this was the dream for the farm. The back half was a maybe because it was separated by this middle part of the field. It's a very long farm. It's 1,500 feet deep, 200 feet wide. So it's like a strip farm or a ribbon farm is what they used to call them. So we wanted to make sure all the beds were manageable sizes. Each bed essentially would be a different crop was what we thought. So you'd have like solar canaceous stuff here and then you have like beans here. And then we do a rotation. So we never grow the same crop in each bed year after year. Right now we're on a three year rotation. So this is the first year that we're actually able to put like tomatoes back in this plot because we put them there when we first moved in. This was the idea of where we'd put our first hoop house. As you'll see later, we actually did put a hoop house right there and we put more hoop houses in because we found that they are amazing for production. This is what the field looked like after that corn farmer did his very last harvest. And we told him that we were going to use the land and that we didn't want him using it anymore. He left a lot of residue, a lot of stocks, which took about two years to fully go away in our field. But we made do with them. This is the field after that winter. So this is before we broke ground for the first time. Some of the stocks broke down through the winter under the snow. You can see some string here. We're starting to lay out the beds and kind of get everything done. This is actually a really wide photo. I couldn't put the whole thing in there, but it's a long piece of land. One of the first things that we purchased with a grant from another organization was a small tractor, 24 horsepower tractor. We didn't think we needed anything bigger. We didn't think anything smaller would really do it for us. We knew that we wanted a tractor because the prior seven years we did everything by hand, hand-tilling, hand-weeding, hand everything. And we thought with three acres that was gonna be difficult for me and her alone. So we purchased a small tractor, like I said, with use of a grant, and that thing has literally gotten buried in mud down here and we've had to have it pulled out by the neighbors and all kinds of things. It's a trooper. And we did receive it while it was snowing out, which was interesting. So we went and kind of used it in the snow that first time just to see how it worked. So another one of the first things that we put up was fencing. We had a lot of problems with deers on our urban farming plots and we hate deer and they ruin any farmer's life who grows anything that deer like. So we put up seven foot tall fences with, you can't see it here, because it's just the poles, but it's a very strong plastic like netting that you can't really break through. And over the years, we've seen deer literally bounce off of it. They can jump over it. They can also crawl under it if they decide to go military style and dig. And I've seen deer do that as well, but it probably keeps out 98% of deer pressure that we would have had had we not had the fencing. So the entire production area is surrounded by this fencing. The next thing after the tractor and the fencing is we had to water our crops. So in the past with our urban farms, we would literally use hoses walking up and down the Isleways and watering our plants. A little rudimentary, but it worked. And we always had access to city water or some type of pressured water at those locations. Lawn sprinklers, easy, cheap, effective overhead watering on a budget.  Garden soaker hoses, what we did our last year urban farming kind of got a little smart. We saw somebody using soaker hoses and that was like, we thought that was next level. They're very expensive in quantity and they're not that efficient at releasing water. They kind of just release a lot of water actually. And they don't have, you can't really string them for very long, like 400 feet doesn't really work with a soaker hose. So the idea was on the new farm that we wanted to do drip tape. After doing a lot of research, we decided drip tape would be best for us. We grow a lot of produce that you can't really get the leaves wet. So squashes, tomatoes, things like that, that if you get the leaves wet, you're just introducing disease. You're asking for your plants to essentially die. So we wanted to do drip tape for everything. Even if it's a crop that traditionally is overhead watered, we would just use drip tape. So it's best for water conservation because it releases a very small amount of water and to a very specific spot, right where your plant is growing. You don't water the isleways this way. You don't water outside of your plots. You water just the plants. And it reduces foliar fungal disease, like I said. So if you don't get the leaves wet, you're not spreading as many spores. You're not giving the environment that the spores like to grow on a chance. So the next thing is we wanted to automate this system. So we were used to turning on and off hoses constantly at the urban farms and driving to them literally just, you know, a half hour just to water something and then driving back home. So that was a real big pain for us. We didn't want to have to think about water. We wanted to think about everything else on the farm, selling and producing and, you know, weeding and harvesting and stuff like that. So it wasn't about being lazy. It was about having more time to do bigger things on the farm. And by automated, I mean, not thinking about watering at all. It just happens almost like nature, but it's ours. Open source basically just means that I wanted to use a system that I could change in some way. I have an IT background, so a technical person programming, computers, networks, stuff like that. So I wanted it to be something that I could maybe modify if I wanted to in the future. But I also wanted it to be affordable, even on the verge of free if necessary, and something that was easy to replicate so that somebody with, you know, a thousand square foot garden up to seven acres could use it and replicate it on scale. And then I wanted it zoned for individual crops. So if I'm growing tomatoes and lettuce in two different areas, they need different watering requirements. So I wanted to make sure that it wasn't just all or nothing. Like everything was getting an hour of watering all the time, because I could drown some crops that way and some crops don't like a lot of water. So we looked into a lot of different grants. The SAIR grant was nice because it was about, you know, learning something and teaching other people and educational style grants. So we applied for the SAIR Farmer Rancher Grant. Grants are amazing. We use grants in our farm a lot. We have one to two grants a year for something, whether it's like a local business grant from a local business group. Like the women's small business group gave us the grant for the tractor, whether it's research and education grants like SAIR, government grants like NRCS or FSA, they do what they call them cost shares, but it's the same as a grant. They're great resources. Don't ever feel bad about using a grant. They're wonderful to help a farm learn something new or do something they usually couldn't afford. So like I said, Nor Central SAIR is the specific SAIR that we're in. And then it was the Farmer Rancher Grant Program. They have other programs like the group grant. They have an education grant and a few others. And they're all geared towards different things. We were awarded the grant in 2016 and it was a two-year grant. So 2016, 2017, 2016 May to 2018 May was the grant period. We completed it last year in May and they awarded us $7,442. Very specific number. They based the grant award off of the budget that you submit during the grant process. So it's not just like a blanket flat amount. Grants like the SAIR grant require a lot of writing. There are other grants that don't like an NRCS grant. You just go into the office, tell them you wanna sign up for something. They usually felt the paperwork for you and then they let you know in a couple months. The SAIR grant, you gotta put some effort into it. So you gotta submit a paper just like you would in college or in high school. And it has to have information in it. It has to be accurate. And there's a lot of people reading it and putting some scrutiny on it for good reason. They're giving you money to do something. So they wanna make sure their money's going towards something worthwhile. And then documentation during the process. For SAIR, we had to do two updates and update at the end of each year. It's basically, what did I do? How did I do it? What was the outcome? They wanna know that and you have to submit it or else you don't get the rest of your grant. So it's very important. So for the irrigation grant, we had to choose a water source first and foremost when I was doing the budget. We had two possible locations on our farm. One was at the front of the house. There was a well with a pump for the house. So that was my first thought. Second was the very back of the property we owned half of that creek access. This creek, you can't see it, but over here is a huge lake, pond. I don't know what they wanna call it, but it's a large body of water. We could pump from that as well. And we could follow DEQ regulations and pump just the right amount and not get in trouble. The problem was, this is where we planned and putting our main section of crops, this three acres. This was a section that we had thought about and we do use for low irrigation crops and low deer pressure crops like garlic and things like that. This was a very steep 30 foot incline hill. So it's just useless. And then this was another flat area that we thought would be great for an orchard. If I was pulling water from the back here, the orchard would get a lot of cool water. But all this stuff up here, I'd have to somehow pump water 1,000 feet uphill with a very steep incline to get the water up here. There's no electricity back there. We'd have to figure out some way like a generator or a tractor run pump. And those aren't very automatable because I'd have to be back there pressing buttons and turning things on. So that was actually the original intention of the grant was that was proposed, running electricity back there and doing all that stuff. But it became very clear when we started to do the actual implementation research that running electricity for 1,500 feet to power a high powered pump is very impractical. You lose a lot of power going from here to there very quickly. And like I said, running it with a generator it didn't make sense to the intention of the grant. So the next best thing, we decided to upgrade the well on the house. So it had like a half power or a half horsepower pump. We upgraded it to two horsepower's and we then extended, and I'll show you photos of all this, we extended it right to here essentially to a well head for our use. And that means we only have to push the water a couple hundred feet and it's pretty level. And that was it. We could still do everything in the house. You could take a shower while you're watering the field and you wouldn't even notice. So the day came that I got to use one of the world's largest chainsaws to cut a hole in the earth.  It's just, it's a ditch which here is the well and I don't have photos of it, but right after I did this, a well company came out and dug a big huge hole here and put a guy down there and they did their thing and then they gave me an extension right to here. And then from there it was all me. You can see that the ditch goes right through our driveway. So for about two weeks, we couldn't drive our cars past the moat of despair. We also had to jump over it to get into our house. But sometimes those things happen. So it is going around the house and going back to where I said right at the front of the field, you see the fence there. But we didn't stop there. We took the ditch and put it all the way to the back of the front half of the field because the intention was to install the irrigation and use it throughout the whole field. So we wanted to make sure we had entry points everywhere. We chose one and a half inch main tubing from the pump to go out to the field. The reason we chose that is two inches seemed a little too big. A lot of the attachments and things like that were easier to get at one and a half inch. And we did the calculations and it pumped enough water for our use. So like I mentioned, I wanted this to be easy to replicate. So all the stuff that we bought can be rented at local hardware stores or purchased at local hardware stores or online at irrigation stores. It's all residential sprinkler equipment, stuff that people would water their lawns with. So instead of watering useless grass, we decided to use it to water vegetables. There is a picture of us finally being able to get into our house without crossing the moat. And here is after I ran the line from the pump, this is where it meets our first piece of equipment. There's a couple of valves in the way to shut off and clean out stuff. But this is my first piece of equipment. It's called an RPZ or a reduced pressure zone valve. And we decided to put in this beast because it's a backflow valve that prevents dirty water from getting into your clean water. We put this bigger one in place because if we ever wanted to use fertilizer in the field, organic fertilizer were certified organic. I didn't want that in the drinking water in the house or in my shower or in my clothes. I just didn't want anything to come back into our water source. If you have city water, you're absolutely required to put one of these in for sure because you can't have municipal sources being contaminated with anything. This is the more expensive model of backflow prevention, but it's well worth it because it's guaranteed. It has like three different fail safes. Water cannot backflow into this no matter how hard you try. The smaller ones, they only have one check and they can be thwarted if they get a piece of sand caught in them. I quickly became a pipe fitting expert specifically with PVC. I learned how to glue and do all that cool stuff over and over and over again. Here are the valves that we used. Once again, residential sprinkler valves, very inexpensive. I think these were like $13 or $14 each. They run off of very low voltage so that they can be automated. They have their own anti-siphon valve in them so another layer of protection. Nothing can backflow into these even to get into the system. And here's how we installed them. So I made a custom manifold which just has three pipes coming out of it and then put the valves on it. All this is buried a couple feet in the ground and stuck them up so that I could access them and make sure that they were working. You can also bury these if you want but because these were in the field, I didn't want to have to dig holes every time I wanted to service them or put in service boxes. This is a bypass valve. This allows me to inject fertilizer into the system. And here's our first test. Yeah, that's actually at the back of the field. So that's pretty good pressure and volume at the back of our fields. That's 1,000 feet away from the main well. Here's me running the irrigation wire. A few extra things that we added was a filter. It's well water, it's gonna be dirty. It's gonna have dirt in it. So we put a really 55 micron filter in place. We change that once a year. Here's a furtigator. It allows us to inject liquid fertilizer into the system. I'm running a little short on time so I'm gonna go a little quicker through these but this is the actual open source sprinkler system. So it's a small computer. It's called OpenSprinkler. They have a newer version out. If you go to OpenSprinkler, I think it's .org. Just Google OpenSprinkler. But it's a great system. It's made for lawns. However, there's nothing specific about it that makes it only usable for lawns. A lot of small farmers actually use this to automate now, which is really cool. Because you can rename everything from lawn to, as you'll see in my next slide, to carrots if you want.  Here's what it looks like on my cell phone. So I can open up my cell phone right now and turn on any part of the field or turn it off. But that's manual. You can also do it automatically with schedules and things like that. You'll notice we've got peppers and greens, onions and garlic, tomatoes and potatoes, peas and beans, so it's all of our different fields that we have on the farm. This is us running drip tape the first year for tomatoes, I think. And then I don't know if you can see it, but it is dripping and getting the soil wet. So the data, this is all about data. So how is this helping me? Aside from the soft cost of my time, our time of going out there and opening up valves and closing valves and making sure everything's being watered, which is a huge saver. I don't worry about irrigation anymore at all. Everything is automatic. The first year we did it manually using the system. We would go in and press that button that says water the carrots every single time. We wanted to do that to make sure that we were comfortable with the system, make sure it actually watered because I wanted to make sure that everything was getting watered properly. So this is a log of the temperatures for the year. And then rainfall is the orange graph. So this was 2016. Quite a bit of rain that year actually. And then every yellow dot is when I pressed a button to turn on the irrigation system. So because this was manual, there's a lot of water being used. 64 rain days, which was 42% of our growing season. 51 irrigation events, which was 33% of those days. So that's 33%. So one third of the year I was watering the field this season, I should say. Because our growing season is 153 days. So we use an estimated 101,000 gallons of water. Sounds like a lot. It is, but it's also not. You put a lot of water into a field when you're watering it if you're trying to get inch deep and stuff like that. The next year we turned on the automatic features. We let it look at the weather. We let it calculate when to water. And there was an extreme reduction in the amount of water used. So we only used 42,000 gallons of water and 35 irrigation events. So let's go back 51 to 35. So it only watered 35 of those days. And it watered less. So this is a full water. That's a partial water. And that's like a barely watered. So you'll notice instead of being flat at full, it was calculating based upon previous rain events when it should water next. And this is all built into that system, that open sprinkler system. So we reduced our usage by more than half of the water. I just made this graph last night of last year's watering. And you'll notice it was a dry year. The rain was very weak when it did rain, except for if you go before this graph, we had tons of rain. And at the end of the graph, we had tons of rain, as we all know. But in the middle, it was very dry. But still, reduction of water even on a dry year. So last year we were at 42, 2018. I'm sorry. I forgot to change that graph title. 2018, we were at 37,000. So still reduced our water usage and only irrigated for 24 days, which is really cool. Cause we had larger yield last year, sold more, made more, but watered a lot less. And I didn't think about it. We didn't even, I didn't even know if, I didn't even know if it was irrigating half the time. I just assumed it was cause our plants were growing. That's how like, like hands off and out of my mind this is now. And then the overall trend, this is water volume that we used. This is number of days it rained and this is number of times we watered. So everything has gone down that needs to go down. I hope that next year it's even lower. This is the farm two years ago. We do use plastic culture now on the farm. And that was one hoop house. And then this is the farm last year post season. So after we did our last harvesting, we have three hoop houses now. And it's just a beautiful sunset. You can't see the field.


Hey guys, it's Tate, A.K. The Foot Account. Welcome back to the channel. It's Monday, so that means it is market outlook time on this game. We have a huge week of FIFA ahead of us starting today on Monday with icon swaps. I feel like that's almost being kind of pushed behind the radar almost. That's not what people were thinking about because of the upgrade packs and all the content we had yesterday on Sunday. But I wanna talk through this whole week what could happen today, tomorrow, and into this next week with the Bundesliga team of the season coming on Friday. That is confirmed, of course, because of the weakening rewards kind of giving us a schedule inside of that little section on the game. But right now, it is just past squad battle rewards and prices are low. You guys have been watching this market this whole weekend. A lot of cards have crashed off so much. I mean, we have Premier League Tots cards that's at cheaper prices than what they were in packs like Hyunmin Son team of the season and we've got these loudly get Tots cards continuing to drop as well. Some of the Prem Tots last week from Sunday night into Monday hit very, very low prices and they rebounded from there into the week. But I think this week might be different. We're gonna talk about some of these prices and just what this market is doing right now because all of this content that we have in this game right now, people are going bananas for, yes, the upgrade SBCs and specifically this player pick. Again, whatever it is about, player picks this year in FIFA, they just give out. I opened, how many of these I opened today? I opened maybe like 20 to 25 with these loudly get upgrades today. I packed two team of the seasons. I got Kunde and I got Obloc. So I mean, people I'm seeing packing the Youngs, Messi's, Benzema Suarez, everybody from these player pick packs. Now maybe we'll talk a little bit later this week about how to craft these, but most people are doing the player picks and they're getting more out of it. So it's kind of different last week. They didn't drop the exact same SBCs but a player pick like this that is gaining a lot of traction, gaining a lot of hype is gonna drain a lot of coins off the market, especially since we have all these other player SBCs here that we didn't have last week and in 85 times five, making fodder go up and a lot of people selling cards to go do these SBCs. We even had new icon SBCs. Now, of course, Kentonad, Desai and Raul with fodder going up and these guys having a lot of SBCs inside of them, a lot of people are not happy with the requirements, especially for Kentonad, 13 different SBCs to complete King Eric Kentonad. So a lot of people are not very happy with that because it's actually about the same price as the market value and with fodder probably not getting that much supply this week and only having more demand as people open packs complete these SBCs and do the icon SBCs with whatever else comes out. Fodder is probably just gonna continue to rise and those prices are just gonna continue to get higher. So I wanna talk about that this week as well. But first thing is first today is Monday and that means Icon Swaperonis, Icon Swap number three is releasing, whoa, Elaliga Grand Final, what is this? That's new to me. Anyways, guess that's going on this weekend. I did not know about that but Icon Swaps are coming today in FIFA and what that means is we will have brand new objectives and brand new icon swaps, of course, under this tab right here. Now of course under the Swaps tab with these FGS stuff this is gonna be populated today with Icon Swaps set three. Now as I'm recording this video I do not believe that we have seen like the actual Icon Swaps card added to the code yet and we have no new packs being added to the code as well which is a bit interesting. Now we know that EA does not have to release picks if they're gonna add brand new icon player picks into the code today for Icon Swaps they don't have to add that into the code. I kind of misspoke there. They don't have to add picks to the code only packs and there is a prime icon moments guaranteed pack that's been in the code now for like a month. We haven't seen the SBC. I think that's gonna be part of Icon Swaps today.  Now Icon Swaps doesn't technically affect the market although the icons that get into Swaps of course they're gonna get panic sold a little bit. This happened when Baggio was out last time. Now one thing I will just again preface today's video with when we're talking about Swaps today is Icon Swaps are nine times out of 10 underwhelming for the players that we get, right? The players that we get as a part of Icon Swaps have been underwhelming almost every single time this year and even last year, right? I don't expect that to change today but I do think you will see some prices on icons as they have dropped down a lot in the past couple of days the index icon was at 37 points now we're down at 33 we were in the 32s. I expect some icon prices to probably especially some of the icon moments that are impacts that people are gonna imagine to be in the Icon Swaps today probably some of those prices are gonna drop off today if a card does get into Icon Swaps it's gonna drop down but then it's probably gonna rebound a little bit after that so an initial drop and then potentially a bit of a rebound depending on what card it is so hopefully we get some really good items today but again, a lot of you guys know what we like to see from Icon Swaps and what we kind of all go for and especially with fodder on the rise, SBCs being out, if people are gonna grind Swaps they're gonna be doing the pack so we haven't had any brand new packs added to the code so I'm guessing we're probably gonna see 81 times 25, 82 times 25, 83 times 25 maybe they'll throw in like the 83 times 10 instead of one of the I don't know but hopefully we get all of those back because again, if they do add those packs back in that's definitely gonna be the play with team of the season crafting these Tots cards being in packs those are gonna be the move again unless they drop some crazy insane icons today which I'm not expecting them to do that's kind of how I'm expecting the market to react so icons that get in maybe a bit of a panic sell then a rebound but then also you know maybe a little bit dropping after that you know later on as people are maybe able to claim those icons but one thing I will say about Swaps today is remember the last set of Swaps came out in February and it was out until literally four days ago it's probably gonna be the same way I think this icon swap set three is kinda gonna take us all the way through the end of the game so this is gonna be another two maybe even three months probably two months swap window maybe three though and you know the stuff that is probably like 10 tokens are higher they're only gonna release like maybe nine tokens at a time like they usually do or 11 tokens however many it usually is there's probably gonna be two sets right and this first season ends in how many days this season six ends in 39 days so it might not be 39 days from now until we see the end of the first available swap tokens that you can get so again you kinda have to plan out you're probably not gonna get to that end player if there's a prime icon moments pack available you're not gonna be able to get to that until you know 39 days from now until they release more swap tokens out unless they do what they usually don't and if they put out all the swap tokens at once so that's kinda just the thing to think about today I know a lot of you guys are probably gonna be involved with just the packs and whatever packs that they release and since we haven't had any new packs released into the code I'm really not expecting too much with that today so that's kinda my talk about icon swaps I know a lot of you guys are asking about it if you invested for some of the objectives there's gonna be some coins to be made there I don't really mess around with some of that stuff but if you invested in cards that get objectives today you're probably gonna see those spike right away as people go out and try to complete icon swaps right away and get a head start on those packs because of course if there's an 81 times 25 or any of the times 25 packs available people are gonna get on that right away you mean you've got a lot of league of tats and packs people are gonna try to get those open it up for fodder and to potentially pack tats cards now we're also gonna see a brand new team in the season squad today with the Saudi League going away it's going to be the Turkish Super League not the Super League that we of course are not a fan of but the Turkish Super League it's gonna be getting a tats squad released today probably starting 11 or 15 players like the other two squads have been and we really don't have any information on that so it'll be interesting to see if they drop any cool cards from that squad today but of course that means your Saudi League tats are going out of packs now let's talk about the market because stuff is going bananas now again this is what we saw last Sunday night and as we head into the day today on Monday last Sunday night was a very low time for the tats cards that were in packs some of these guys have been fluctuating around all day Jordi Alba is down a lot right now he's a very rare card has a lot of demand Messi is down Benzema's literally dropped about 50k in the last two hours Suarez is down De Young is 1.7 mil even this Vasquez card there was some panic on Sunday because of all of the player SBCs and the upgrade pack SBCs that were released he was 400k earlier in the day went down to 340 rebounded back to 370 and is now back down in that 340k range on the Vasquez card I think the same thing kind of happened to Benzema too he was down at like 700k flat and then he rebounded back up he was 75770 in the morning went down to 700 rebounded back to 745 so not really a big flip opportunity there but now these cards are really down bad and this is the thing that I understand these cards are very low and some of them could bounce back a little bit but I just want to put you in the mindset of what's going on this week in FIFA I already mentioned it just a slight bit so many people are going to be rinsing and draining their coins in this game on these SBCs right here the LaLiga premium and the LaLiga upgrade the player picks and all of these SBCs that are out draining a lot of coins in this game and they're going to continue to drain coins throughout this entire week take a look at the index 86 this stuff was the high already I mean 86s were like what? 12, 13,000 coins on Friday and now the index 86 has gone from 165 points on Friday to now being 247 points with another massive spike yesterday all fodder is up informs are up just regular gold cards are up 83s aren't up that much but you're higher to your stuff your 88s are almost, you know knocking on the door of 40,000 coins a piece Kulabali was 26, 27k on Friday he's up 10k a card a lot of this stuff is up big time because we actually have legit SBCs EA sports they dropped content and you know what? at this rate, does it seem like it's going to stop? not really I don't know what EA has content planned what they have planned wise later on this week but we have so many player SBCs so far a player SBC every single day we had Marcelo day one Trippier and Coutinho and then we had Rasic I think is how you say his name not even sure we might even get another one today on Monday who knows because EA is just really hammering us with content and it's quality content too it is quality content players that we want to see upgrades that are good and prices that aren't too bad so that just right now EA is putting a huge push on the SBCs and that's going to drain a lot of coins off this market you saw that with the week and they sell off some of cards are just down really, really low now I spent some coins tonight on some cards and I bought some things because some of these out of pack specials just got really, really low this at Domitriori was down at 720,000 coins he was 950K this weekend 950 this Mane was selling at 1.3 mil he is now a million coins and even a little bit under that what I bought tonight was a lot of the out of pack specials wow that was a really good deal right there I bought some out of pack specials that were super this Bergwine man I've bought in three of these tonight at 300K or below and this guy was 450K last weekend 450K coins with the Premtats being out so I think that some of these cards have dropped off so much it's just a little bit too much you know I'm kind of watching some of these icons as well because they're rare I can show you guys what I've bought it's on my transfer list I still have a couple of the stirlings I've traded two Ronaldinos today I bought both of these I bought one at 860K and one at 840K sold them at 930K, 940K so that was a big W and then we've got Dog Gleesh here Benjetter, Bergwine a lot of these out of pack specials that I'm kind of putting coins on my transfer list so that I don't spend too much on upgrade packs so that's definitely a thing but a lot of this stuff is low and I think it could bounce back a little bit with just rarity in general as well because a lot of people are gonna focus on selling their teams, getting coins and when that selling stops some of the stuff could bounce back so if you see low prices today some of it could bounce back a little bit but I think that's the mantra of this week it's just everybody's gonna be spamming the upgrade packs we're gonna head out through the week of course icon swaps today Tuesday we'll have the Super League Guaranteed SBC most likely that has not been added to the code as of yet so we need some things added to the code from EA for this week you're gonna have the Lowly Guitars Guaranteed SBC that's gonna be added to the code and then probably released on Wednesday like we have seen the common trend being during the last two weeks now of Team of the Season so that's what I would expect these Tots cards they either will probably hit some of their lows tonight but then I think if we keep getting really solid content and wow only two cards between two nine and two seven five here for Veran that's kind of crazy I think some of these cards might slide a little bit lower during the week now last week they didn't do that too much this week I think they actually could because just because of the content that we have out in this game right now is a lot and it's draining a lot of coins so you know the Guaranteed SBC for a lot of these Lot of League of Tots cards people are focused on Lot of League after doing the Marcelo and the Coutinho SBCs which a lot of people have done a lot of Lot of League of Links are gonna be interesting now that makes me say one thing a lot of Lot of League out of pack special cards which people have been investing in they really did not drop off in the week and they sell off this Dembele is really not down like Dembele is freeze cards hasn't dropped that much Inaki Williams' birthday really isn't down that much either Hermoso is not down, Furlan Mendy I'd be very very careful if you have Lot of League special cards because a lot of people are buying these out today and they're not letting their prices drop I fear a little bit of overinvestment but we will see that's why I kind of focused on other areas of the market where stuff was just dropping ridiculously low on like even this Antu Fati card right he really hasn't dropped off much this weekend because I think that focus has really shifted toward people seeing how the out of pack specials did last week for the Prem and I think a lot of people are now buying cards from Lot of League to try to replicate that same thing Benzema for 630 I'm gonna pull the trigger because that is stupid cheap for a 97 Benzema is that his rating? I just bought the card and I didn't even look at it but that was really really cheap for me again that guy was literally 780k so 150,000 coins more than I just bought that card so I'm gonna see if I can make myself a profit on Benzema later on today on Monday just because of cards getting really rare tonight I was not expecting that price to pop up but you know what I've learned some things recently is that when you see a low price you just move on it I'm watching this Jordi Alba as well because he is one of the most rarest of the Tots cards that has been released and he fluctuates around he was over 500k today so if I see 400 for that that's gonna be too cheap for me so I'm just being careful with these Lot of League Tots cards we'll talk more specifics later on this week about what's going on with this game and then of course rewards is gonna put more coins on the market this Friday not as many as last Friday but it's of course gonna put more coins in this game and people are gonna be focusing on buying cards for their teams buying links of course to fix up with maybe some of their new red pack picks that they got from weakening rewards and of course that sweat that is ending this weekend so there's a lot going on in this game right now there's a lot of moving pieces in this game a lot of coins are being taken off the market but there's also a lot of fluctuation as well as people are trying on new cards and all that sort of stuff the last thing we have come this week is Bundesliga team of the season and that is gonna be on Friday so we're gonna have a prediction video out pretty soon on Bundesliga Tots and since it's a vote it's kind of different because it's a vote and it's not just decided by EA or whoever decides team of the season so that's gonna be a bit of an interesting one since we technically have a little bit of a say I think that's gonna affect who is in the team so of course there's a lot going on right now I wanna know down below in the comments what you guys are focused on today are you hyped about icon swaps? Are you doing upgrade packs? Just real quickly my kind of grind for the upgrade packs I think the most efficient way to do this is if you're trying to grind other SBCs like I'm trying to craft Coutinho, maybe Trippierre you know this 85 times five and other SBCs that come out this week what I would really recommend is doing the LaLiga Premium Upgrades Rare Golds are like 1.2, 1.3, 1.4K on the market right now on PlayStation so it's about 15K per upgrade pack but when you're doing these LaLiga Premiums you're getting a chance of packing a Tots card you're getting a lot of the non-rares so then what you do is you rinse so that some of the non-rares you pack of course you can only use six non-rares into this player pick then you use some of the rares that you pack from that premium as well but what you're gonna end up is with a lot more non-rares than rares so you just basically go out and buy the extra rares you know you spend the six, seven K to put the five rares in the squad and then you have a player pick right so you maybe do less premiums but you end up rinsing your premiums into the LaLiga Upgrades so we have a chance of packing a blue in that then you rinse into this LaLiga Upgrade which have a really high chance and I think that's the most efficient way to go about it in my opinion if you have coins to spend on the rare players I think that's the best way to go and if you're just trying to pack blues then I would say do this but it's really nice to not have to pay for the non-rares because if you're paying 15 K for this SBC the non-rares part of this SBC would cost you about 7,000 coins so if you're already getting that done you're doing this SBC for a little bit cheaper and you're getting yourself a chance at packing a Tots in this one so that's kind of how I'm viewing it that's my grind this week I'm really not gonna touch the 81 plus doubles unless they somehow seem to be giving out but that's kind of my upgrade pack grind I've packed two already as I mentioned and yeah, I think that it's gonna be a fun week on FIFA I'm really excited to open packs to do SBCs and to watch this game this week because the content is good and that is a huge change from last week it's not just upgrade SBCs we've got swaps, we've got icon SBCs we have player SBCs, objectives still going on so it's a fun week in FIFA man there's a lot to do and there's a lot of hype so let me know what you're doing again down below in the comments let me know what you're hyped to do this week in FIFA if you enjoyed this video, smash a thumbs up on it and subscribe if you are new it's been Nate the Foot Accountant I will catch you guys later, peace, out.