Hey guys, this is Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have a lot to talk about today. We got to talk about the new filters with the new update in FIFA Ultimate Team, the patch notes, pitch notes, whatever they're called. We have the new vote to talk about between Bernardo Silva, Isco and Anaki Williams. And also, we have to talk about how to grind these upgrade SBCs at the highest efficiency and best time efficiency and coin value. There's a couple of different ways that I'm going to talk through grinding the 85 to 92, which is the one you should be doing. I think gives out better packs. And the one player packs that it gives out for doing the individual squads in here. These are juiced, man. Open a lot of these tonight on the live stream. That link is down below in the description if you want to go with that. I didn't feel like it was necessary to make a whole video on this. I'm just going to talk through it quickly. There are other full videos out there if you do want to check them out. But since there's only three days of that left, I figured I would just keep it short and sweet on that. And then also talk about some Thursday flipping investments already since it is Wednesday. So it's going to be a busy video today, but we're going to try to keep it all concise, clear and short. First thing I want to talk about is the new vote that we had today in FIFA Ultimate Team. That is between Anaki Williams, Isco, Bernardo Silva for a weak foot boost. This SBC is going to come out on Thursday. I feel like it's going to come down between Isco and Bernardo Silva. I voted for Bernardo Silva purely because of his player moments card that came out during the team of the year. I loved that card. If this guy gets a five star weak foot upgrade, I know a lot of people are saying, hey, they're probably only going to go from three to four. I doubt that. I think they might go three to five because they've been going all out with his promo. Why would they not go all out with a weak foot upgrade here on these players? Since the whole point of this vote is weak foot boost nominees. So I really hope that Bernardo Silva gets it, but I feel like it could be close with Isco as well. We just had Dembele. So I don't know if all my Real Madrid guys, another Real Madrid special card is a really crazy thing. It's like Real Madrid summer heat promo is what we're having right now in foot. So that's kind of interesting. But I feel like it's between those two guys just because of popularity and because of who we would want to see in the game. I think a lot of people voted for Silva, but I think it's going to be close. That's going to be an interesting one soon. That actually did in fact touch on the market today. And there were some prices that were affected because of it. Premier League right mids definitely took a hidden price, especially our favorite overpowered card in the game, Gucci headband. This guy went from like he was 790 last night, I think down to like 700k flat today, just kind of dropping off in price all day long. Márez's team of the season card was down a decent amount today. I think he's like 400,000 coins right now. He was over 400k in the morning. I think he dropped like 50 or 60k. He's in the 300s now. Just this is what happened last week when we had the Usman and the St. Maximum vote came out as well. There was just a lot of panic selling once that SBC was released or when the vote was released in anticipation of what was to come with those cards and that SBC possibly coming. So if Bernardo Silva does not come, are you going to see a pop up on these on some of the market? If Isco wins, yes, maybe you see Márez go up a little bit. I wouldn't think that it would be a crazy amount in my opinion, but maybe a slight bit of a rebound. Some of those cards, Salah was down today as well. A lot of just Premier League right mids and possibly right mids from around the rest of FIFA as well. Just we're kind of down today. This one's right here at 800k. It was like 850k just a couple of days ago or yesterday, I think. So we did see some market movements on some of those cards today in FIFA Ultimate Team. And then I also just want to talk about Thursday flipping really fast and also what content could come today. I think last week on Wednesday was when we got the Paulinho SBC, the Silver Stars or whatever they called them, Silver Star. Yes, Summer Heat Silver Star. This SBC has 15 hours remaining. So we might get another one of these today. Don't know exactly who they would do, but we might see another SBC that requires 283 or even 84 rated squads to get a 74 rated silver player, which is very interesting. So we'll see if EA continues this today. And then I think they will re-up the bronze and silver upgrades as well because, oh wow, wait, those are not the right ones. Do these bronze and silver upgrades require 20 days? All right, they're out for 20 days. So we're chilling on those. I don't think anything else is expiring tomorrow, except for the Paulinho SBC. I think that's the only thing that is actually expiring, maybe one of the daily SBCs as well, Summer Heat Voting Day and Foot 11. So I would expect a, I got to do this 86 plus SBC today actually. Wow, that's only half for a day. But I would expect a tradable pack supply SBC as well because SBC fodder right now is through the freaking roof. I don't know if you guys have seen this, but SBC fodder is insanely expensive right now at the moment because right now the upgrade packs, think about it this way, right? The upgrade packs that are out in FIFA Ultimate Team will give you 84 rated cards or higher.  And a lot of the SBCs that keep coming out, Vinicius, Dembele, Ribri, they have some higher rated squads in there, 85, 86, 87, 88 rated squads. So you're seeing a lot of this high rated fodder stay, not lower, but stay at a more subdued price because it's getting that constant supply from people not having to buy it as much because they're grinding the upgrade SBCs. But this low rated fodder, as we get SBCs today, we had like an 81 rated squad, I think, or that 86 plus SBC. A lot of this low rated fodder is going up and up and up in price because people are doing like 85 rated SBCs with their 85 to 92 cards. They're going out and finishing off those squads by buying 82 and 83 rated players. This stuff is skying, skying 81s, even like 80 rated cards, like over 1000 coins. It's going to take a lot of supply on the market somehow to, you know, coelge these prices and a lot of SBCs are going to have to go away, in my opinion, for this to happen. I really wonder with the market looking like this, if EA is going to be more inclined or less inclined to re-release the 85 to 92 SBC for another six days after this. So again, if you're trying to craft that SBC, I'm really not sure how much longer both of these are going to be out. A lot of people have been saying, hey, I want to craft these and stack some of them up for batch three, which is going to be in packs in two weeks or 10 days. I think that's a fantastic idea. I would honestly craft the 84 double, because if you look at some of the team in the season squads, right? Like if we go back over to flipping really fast and look through some of the top squads, like how many cards do we have that are under 92 rated? You have a lot of 94, 95, 93 rated cards, like the usable ones that you would want to pack. I guess you could pack a tall in that SBC from like league one. If we go to Syria, how many 92s do we have in here? We have none in the starting 11. We've got quadrado and then below. So like the 85 to 92, yes, you could save it. But I feel like a lot of those, you probably want to do the 84 double plus that will give you your best chance at packing maybe a high level tots card or just getting a tots card in general, that you might want to use. Now, if you're going purely for fodder, you could keep the 85 to 92 and try a few of those. But as you see, a lot of the team of the seasons that you would try to get from batch three are going to be higher than 92 rated.  I guess a little bit in that sense. But the 84 double plus does not have that cap. So maybe you want to try to stack a few of these up. So let's talk about crafting these, right? I don't really do bronze pack method. I did 50,000 coins.  I sent all those bronzes to my club. I did silver upgrades with like all of those. And now I've gotten a lot of my silvers into these gold upgrades and I'm crafting, right? Is this enjoyable for me? No, not really. This is not how I like to do upgrade packs, especially on a time constraint. That's what I want to talk about today. In kind of going over what's the best way to craft these packs in the days remaining that they're out. It's really just boiling down to a, how many coins you have and B, how much time you have because there's multiple ways to do this at a very coin efficient rate or a semi coin efficient rate if you have less time. So just depends on what, how much time you have. I don't have a ton of time to sit here for hours upon end and just grinding bronze packs into silver and well, bronze packs into bronze upgrades in the silver upgrades. And then into the 85 to 92, I have kind of a hybrid method that I've thought about and gone and gone for it. And it seems to be working, I think pretty well. I'm going to dive into it more later this week, but I want to share that with you guys. So the, the crafting from scratch method, you can sit here, open like 20 to 30 to 40,000 coins with a bronze pack method. And just basically what that is is you're just spamming bronze packs as fast as you can, sending everything to the club and listing up any duplicates that you may get that are players and quick selling the rest. And then you're basically opening that you probably want to do like 4050k worth if you have the funds to do that, because that should that should craft you a decent amount of those 85 to 92 packs.  And what you'll do from there is you'll go to the SBC section, you can sell some of the cards that sell on the market. A lot of bronzes right now are selling for inflated prices. Center backs, right wings, left wings, a lot of these cards are selling because people need them to do the 85 to 92. But the reason why we're doing the bronze pack upgrade is to at least put those in the club. Sorry, not a bronze pack upgrade, bronze pack method. Now you have all these bronze cards in your club. If you want to grind this from bronze upgrade to silver upgrade to the 85 to 92, be my guest, put your bronze cards in here, maybe go sell center backs, right wings, left wings, right mids, left mids. And some of those outside backs as well, you can check through some of those tradable cards. If you want to try to make some money back, what I did was I just was going in here, squad builder, going to bronze, going to rating low to high and squad building and then just doing it this way. This is how I was crafting these packs earlier today. Now it's not very easy for me right now, because I don't have a lot of chemistry, which is an issue once you get down to a pretty bare club. But that's where I'm at. And I was not really regarding anything with tradable value. I was just submitting it all and then bang, there's a bronze upgrade pack that gives me three silver players, which I then can go open that pack, get the silver players out of this pack here. So after you rinse all your bronze is into silvers, you open the pack here. And honestly, I'm skipping all these pack animations. There are some bronze team weak cards, but if you pack one Yippie, just quick sale it and take your 10k honestly. So boom, I send my silvers to the club. Then what I do from there is once you open all of those that you've made, you go back to a squad building challenges, I would favorite these SBCs to make it quicker for you to find and then you go to the silver upgrade, use squad builder, you go to quality, you go to silver, you go, I've been doing untradable and rating low to high, just to maybe save me some money and maybe go try to sell some of these silvers that sell for league SBCs at some point, which I think silvers aren't really high that right high that much right now because a lot of league SBCs are very, very expensive because of all the gold cards that are up in price like non rare golds. So that's basically the long way to craft this SBC because what I did right there was I open bronze packs to the bronze upgrade to the silver upgrade and to the gold, the silver upgrade gets you four rare gold non rare gold players, which you can then submit into the 85 to 92. So that's kind of like the long way to do it and you can sell your bronze cards that you pack tradable during BPM to make some more coins off of that. That's like the most coin efficient way to do it, not the most time efficient way. So that's that one, that's option number one. Option number two is you can go here, do bronze pack methods still stock your club with bronzes spend it doesn't it only takes like 15 20 30 minutes, you can rip like five of these packs per minute. Honestly, like, okay, maybe not five, but you can you can at least wrap like rip three, right? Rip one send it to the club, maybe if to claim some coins, quick sell the rest that probably took me like what 10 seconds right there. 12 seconds, boom, I go open another one, do the same things, you know, spam through the pack. So you can open a decent amount. This is not going to take you that long, but you're filling your club with bronzes, you're filling a couple of bronzes. And then instead of going and then putting those into the bronze upgrade, like we did in the other method, what you're going to do here is you're going to go to the market. And we'll talk about these new filters in a second. But what you're going to do is you're going to go to gold, you're going to go to gold, either pick a nation that is an off nation that would have a lot of non rares or pick an off lead, right? Like let's go, let's go super league, right? Super league rares, how much are these selling for? Super league non rares are like 850 coins right now. Okay, it is nighttime, we're going to get on some bids, right? What I would do is start bidding on all of these cards from the same league and just go and mass bid 600, 700 coins per card on a lot of these and you only need seven, right? You only need seven gold non rares to put into that SBC. So then what you're doing is you're paying what? It's like 600, 700 coins times seven. So what is that? Again, my calculator out for the boys times 600 coins times seven. Let's say it's like 700 coins times seven. That's like 5k, right? So you're paying 5k out of pocket. And then you are putting whatever bronzes that you have in your club into the rest of that squad for the 85 to 92. So I'm going over here. I'm going to one of these squads right here.  Let's do this gold low to high. And then I try to put in some from the same nationality or same league. Like I see some La Liga guys and some Prem guys that I'm putting in right now, because you need chemistry chemistry is big, big, big, big for this. So maybe you put in guys from the same league that you have in your club and then boom. So I've noticed I've got four spots in here that I could put bronzes in. Then I go into bronze on this low to high. Try to find some again, similar nationalities, England is a very, very popular one or a lot of those guys from the lower English leagues get a lot of links. So then boom, I need one more England lad, Alfie Whiteman. What a guy, Tottenham Hotspur legend. Let's go put Alfie Whiteman in there. Boom. Got a lot of goalkeepers. Chemistry is the big issue here.  But this is just for this is just for showing you, right? So basically, once you get the chemistry on something like this, then bang, you're good to go. And that is how you can craft it in the lesser time period, right? Instead of, instead of going basically the difference between between the two methods is you're saving yourself time, you're spending a few more coins. So that's like the rich man version of doing these packs is spending a bit more time to go bid on the players, but you're spending less time than you are making all those packs to open to open the bronze upgrades to then rinse all those into the silver upgrades and then go to the 85 to 92.  That's the method that I'm going to be working on later this week because it is faster. I don't have as much time to do this. So that is faster for me. So those are kind of the two ways that you can do it. And again, if you're somebody who wants to grind it hardcore, you can absolutely make like do these packs for very cheap per pack because you'll make coins back from bronze pack method from the duplicates that you'll get to the center backs left wings, right wings that you can sell and list up on the market. You'll make some you'll make coins this for sure, just from opening the bronze packs from those players. And then you know, you'll be money ahead in that way. But it's again, it just comes down to a lot of things in FIFA whether you value your money, your coins, or your time, whichever one you have more of or less of, you kind of have to do the balance there, figure that out for yourself and go from there. So that's what I want to talk about with the method and grinding that I didn't feel like it deserved its own video, at least for me. Because there's only three days left. And I feel like I can explain it right there in a short amount of time. So I know a lot of you guys wanted that. So there's that. The last thing I want to talk about, I shouldn't say this for the end of the video, but I did this new quality filter. This is this is huge. This is massive. Now, this is something that other EA titles like Madden Madden ultimate team has had this for a long time. And it's, it's awesome to see it finally in FIFA. So what happens is basically you can go over the quality filter now that just made this update go live today on the Xbox on the consoles, PlayStation, it was already on play on PC, but you click X or a and it'll open up all the qualities you can actually search by letter and stuff like that or just go by go by all the interesting thing here and you saw me probably clicking around in the menus have some miss clicks. This is where the miss clicks come in, right? A lot of people think yo, I just can't sort by all bronze, all silver, all gold anymore. That's false. Using the right stick, you can search bronze, silver and gold or special still. But once you click a on that, what we're used to doing when we go in here is we used to click a and then we had to click over left, right to search between our quality, right? Now you don't have to you just use the left, the right stick to go left or right. And then you pick your quality if you want to go the old fashion way, or you press a or X to get inside of here. But seriously, this is a massive massive W. I see a lot of things coming from this right here. I see a lot of opportunity and also a lot of potential for mishap coming with this new addition to the game. This is possibly going to be a place where we might see car designs and types of cards leaked minutes before a promo would come out. Because this is totally something he would do right is where they come in here and they were looking for these car designs like, Oh man, next year, when it's like the first promo of the year, and we're looking for scream cards, right? There's not going to be a lot of cards in here. So if one pops up, it's going to be pretty easy to see. And it's very possible. It's something like that where EA is adding these cards to the database. So they might have to be smarter next year in FIFA 21 and figure out how they're going to actually not do that, I guess. And it's interesting, headliners and headliner street cards have two different items as well. That's pretty interesting. But that's one kind of problem thought that I guess I have with this already and how that could affect FIFA 21. A lot of people ask me, is this going to hurt sniping? No, it's not going to hurt sniping because you can still search by the normal way. And still like if you want to search Mbappe or any any card in this game that you want to go and try to snipe, you can search it the same way and sniping is still going to search the same way. I was honestly a bit curious is the icon and icon moments included in here. As somebody who trades icons a lot, is this going to change icon trading at all the 59th method? Yes, a little bit. The biggest change for all this is there's going to be so many filters that you can create to try to snipe players more specific filters than ever. This just gives a lot of options for sniping that kind of stuff, especially earlier on in the year with like silvers and gold commons is what I'm trying to say. Common golds like at the start of FIFA when non rare right backs are going for this amount, but the rares are going for a certain amount like less or if rares are going for more and commons are going for less like when we're doing upgrades during team of the season, team of the year, it's going to be massive for that time frame and stuff like that. So it's just going to be you're going to be able to find cards a lot easier, a lot quicker. And the number one thing that I feel from this is going to be affected, at least for me, as somebody who lists a lot of cards for lazy buyers, I feel like we're going to have less lazy buyer sales in FIFA 21 because of this filter because now people don't have to go and click special and try to find the card they're trying to find, especially with compare price glitches being fixed and a lot of that stuff being fixed. Now they say okay, and maybe the casuals on FIFA won't figure this out for the next couple of days or for the first few weeks of maybe FIFA 21 when they come back on the game, but they're going to figure it out sooner or later, right? Because instead of pressing A or X to go inside of here, they're going to stumble upon this method of looking at cards differently.  It's harder to search for those special cards. A lot of them look the same. So you can kind of play off that sometimes. And just a lot of people are not going to get confused as much with these new search filters, but this is honestly a dub.  When you go to search your club and you need a team and leak item, you're not going to have to search special and go, you know, filter through all your different pages of special cards that you have. You can just search for gold team in the week, bang, there's your list of players and you do that. So that's really cool. The ease and the accessibility that this is going to bring is fantastic and it's massive. But I do think the biggest thing that I'm curious about is the lazy buyers. And just about like the icon filters, there's going to be a lot of icon filters that get interesting this year. And I'm also curious to see how this is going to affect like auto buyers and auto bidders. Now, I know that's against EA's term of service. I'm not for those. But a lot of people use those. And I'm just sure it's going to be a quick update for a lot of those guys that run auto bots and stuff. If you guys do not know, there's bots and stuff that are on this market that snipe cards, especially earlier on and more during the more hype time to this game. So I'm sure it's a simple programming thing for a lot of those those applications and bots that are definitely not good to use and you will get banned if you use them on this game. So just I'm not saying to use them at all. I'm actually speaking against them. But I just think this if this was something that EA maybe did, you try to deter those, I feel like it's not going to really deter those bots at all. And it might even make sniping some cards like during a promo like team of the season or team of the year when you have when you have cards coming onto the market right away at a very low price range and they're extinct like the first day of promo Friday, you know, like when a team of the season so far, a dormitory or I came out and everybody was sniping this man, sniping, sniping, sniping. He got the price range update, he boomed up, obviously went down from everybody that started listing. But I think those snipes are going to be harder to win with bots and with people that have shortcuts to using the web app, being able to use these filters as well and get to those players really, really fast. Otherwise, and before they were using other methods where sometimes you had to use a filter with like a minimum buy now price with a maximum buy now price to filter out other cards, you're not going to have to do that as much anymore. And I think that's the biggest difference that we'll see with that inside of FIFA Ultimate team regarding the regarding this how you how we search a transfer market and stuff like that. So if you enjoyed this video, smash thumbs up on a comment below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel for new it's been Nate the Foot Accountant catch you guys later. Peace out.


It was during this year that in Central Dublin, it's sometimes called the Battle of Dublin or the Battle of the Four Courts really, when about 200 IRA members were held up in Central Dublin. And this was a battle of IRA members against the IRA members, you know, or former IRA members, perhaps. And once again, Central, the city, the center of Dublin was heavily shelled by, well, by the National Army of Ireland and largely kind of, well, destroyed and lots of buildings damaged and so on. But these members of the IRA, they'd set up an armed occupation in the Four Courts, which is the main judicial building in Ireland. It was kind of the center of the High Courts and all the main crimes were tried there. It was obviously a significant building as part of the British colonial apparatus in Ireland and also the funding of this new state, Irish state. And they took over this. They were saying, you know, to say they were taking a stand for Irish freedom. Like Cal said, much like in April 1916, when members of the Irish Republic and Brotherhood, the Irish volunteers who had become the IRA, took over the general post office in Central Dublin, again, another kind of significant public building. And like in 1916, they were opposed by a much superior military force. And their actions in taking control of the Four Courts was largely met by ambivalence from the local population, really. So they had no fighting chance, to be honest, in launching this occupation. Although, mainly, they were trying to, I think, apply moral pressure to their former comrades. Because unlike 1916, this battle in Central Dublin, the forces that opposed these IRA members, this occupation, was not the British Army or any kind of, you know, outside foreign imperialist army or force. Instead, it was their former comrades in arms and former members of the IRA who were led in this battle. In fact, by, you know, it was certainly the most famous and most popular IRA commander of the day, Michael Collins. Now, Collins, people will probably know from some of the films, perhaps starring Liam Neeson. It was famous for his role in the Civil War, or in the War of Independence, rather, in building up the kind of the IRA's intelligence apparatus and how he set up the Dublin active service unit infiltrated Dublin Castle, which was the kind of headquarters of the British administration, and, you know, plotted assassinations and intimidation of police officers, army officers, this kind of thing. Central, really, to the IRA's campaign in the War of Independence. And this fighting, you know, comrade against comrade, this fratricidal conflict that it only lasted a couple of weeks, really, was the result of a really bitter split in the IRA executive in its leadership, but also in its ranks, and in the wider Republican movement in Ireland as well. And this split was over, essentially, was called the Anglo-Irish Treaty. And this split, as I think I'll kind of mainly talk about in my lead-off, and I guess what was the point to get to this split in the Irish Republican movement, really represented the kind of internal counter-revolution of Irish bourgeois nationalism and the beginning of a counter-revolutionary process in Ireland that would bring Ireland's revolutionary period to an end. This treaty, anyway, this Anglo-Irish Treaty, had brought an end to the three-year, roughly three-year, War of Independence in Ireland that started not long after the East arising in 1916. When, you know, it is said, of course, in this war that the British Empire was, was after hundreds of years, finally brought to its knees by the resistance of the Irish people and by their campaign in support for the IRA and other methods of resistance. And this, you know, this period of the War of Independence from kind of, you know, 1917-18 onwards, really, is not just a period of guerrilla struggles of the IRA's flying columns and so on, the famous parts that you maybe see, again, in the films and kind of passed into Irish legend, really. This period, you know, prior to the Four Courts and prior to the beginning of the Civil War, was also a period of class struggles, of workers' struggles, of the struggles of poor tenant farmers against their landlords. You know, it was a period that saw many, many strikes, occupations, land seizures even, and famous episodes of class struggle and even of workers' power in Ireland, like the famous Limerick Soviet in 1919, when workers took over the city and ran it for a couple of weeks through a general kind of committee. This period, you know, this was the Irish Revolution, I think you could say, in full colour, you know, when it was not just green but red. And this whole revolutionary period, as you would imagine, was extremely stormy and stressful for British imperialism. They really were losing control of the situation. The administration that was largely headquartered in Dublin Castle was practically cut off from large swathes of the country by, well, by the kind of IRA's campaigns and by all kinds of uprisings. Taxes and duties were not paid or collected. People, instead of going to the traditional kind of British-sponsored courts, when they had problems they went instead to the Dall courts, these Republican alternatives that had been set up in order to seek redress or whatever it might be. The police, the Royal Irish Constabulary, the kind of semi-militarized colonial police force, as well as the army itself, were largely restricted and kind of confined to a few areas and had to sort of stay in their barracks because of the fear of the constant ambushes that they faced from the IRA and the raids on rural police stations that meant they had to withdraw to mainly only the big towns and so on. It was pretty clear they were losing control of the situation and Ireland could no longer be held or governed by the sword, as had been done for hundreds of years. And, of course, in this period, everyone would be familiar, I think, with the desperate means to which the British turned to try and subjugate the population, the use of the blackened towns to terrorize the population, famous episodes like the burning of cork, the crook park massacre and so on. But this only made the situation worse, really, for British imperialism. It further alienated the population, the broad masses of the population, but also, even including the middle and upper classes, began to see British rule in Ireland as untenable, as covered in blood from head to foot, as it was. And even the Catholic Church, in this period, changed sides from its historic opposition and kind of hostility to revolutionary Irish republicanism, to instead embracing it as a moral and just cause and condemning the sins of British imperialism, such was the effect of this kind of period of struggle. And I think it could be said, this is a kind of historic point, that perhaps if Britain had really concentrated its full forces on Ireland against the IRA and against the strikes and occupations and so on, then perhaps they could have reconquered, they could have held control, really. But this was out of the question. They didn't have the ability to do this in this period. Colonial rebellions were unfolding, not just in Ireland, but also in Egypt, in India, and in other kind of parts of the British Empire. And these kind of places, in Africa and in Asia, much wealthier conquests for Britain than Ireland was. So they were willing to, so it was much more a focus for the British imperialists of the day. And yeah, they simply couldn't afford to continue to hold Ireland by the sword, as I said. Now despite this, in this period, the IRA struggle, I think, was no doubt a heroic one and a broadly popular one as well, was supported in small towns all over the kind of country, and particularly in the south and the west of Ireland famously as well. And when Britain finally, seemingly, caved to the pressure, offered negotiations to the IRA leadership, there was jubilation. Thousands of people flooded into the ranks of the IRA, people who had maybe been a bit passive before. Then I saw that victory was within grasp, and they wanted to play their part. You can imagine how full of hope people were that they'd finally fought and won freedom from their historic oppressor in a country scarred for centuries by poverty and exploitation and all the kind of miseries of imperialism and of capitalism. You can imagine what freedom would finally mean to these people and what precious thing it would be and the kind of debates that would rage over the question of what it really means for Ireland to be free. Because the treaty that was introduced or offered by Britain in fact didn't mention anywhere this Irish Republic that all the members of the IRA and their supporters thought that they were fighting and struggling for, that they said had been declared already and existed de facto from 1916 and that the Dull courts and the Republican Assembly, the Dull was also elected, an elected government of this republic. Instead of a republic, the treaty instead said that Ireland would be a free state, kind of a novel term. It would remain within the British Empire in which the people's representatives elected in Ireland would have to swear an oath of loyalty to the King of England continually. And this King of course would be represented in Ireland by his, by head of state, an imperial viceroy who would have the final kind of an assay over legislation or whatever else. And the treaty itself would take precedence over any constitution that the Irish government would pass. So it was essentially a treaty of continued colonial subjugation really. And to what I mounted to really a majority of the IRA ranks, many of its veteran members, those who'd fought in the war, this treaty that was offered was just an insult really. Additional onerous conditions that the Irish had to agree to included the maintenance of British Navy ports around Ireland and their garrisons. And as well as all kinds of annuities and reparations that Irish people would have to pay for generations to Britain to supposedly, I don't know, payback England for all the civilising work that it had done in Ireland. And most relevant perhaps to today and to contemporary political crises of the British state, Ireland was partitioned into two states by this treaty as well. In the north and the south, 26 counties of Ireland, they would be a part of this Irish free state in the south. And six would be, you know, given the choice, but it was kind of a done deal for a complete six counties, they would remain a part of the United Kingdom as they do to this day. So I don't know if you can imagine maybe being an IRA veteran and like hearing this proposal. And then maybe imagine that when you hear this, it's not just a draft treaty, it's not a first runover, you know, it's not the maximum that Britain wants to get. Instead, this is what the IRA leadership have actually agreed to, that if they've said that they're going to submit this verification. And more than that, it's not just a treaty, a draft treaty. But the man who signs on the dotted line to agree to this proposal, this draft, was none other than the Michael Collins, you know, one of the most heroic figure, probably the reason many people joined the IRA basically. But I think many must have reacted in the same way that Lenin probably reacted when he heard of the German SPD's betrayal in 1914. He probably thought this is, surely this is British forgery. This can't be true that they've actually said they're going to accept this deal. But many were shocked and I think assumed that it would be rejected out of hand, that Collins had failed and screwed up, maybe he'd been tricked, perhaps. And when the draft treaty gets submitted towards to the dollar and then, you know, it wouldn't be ratified, it would be rejected. And maybe the war would continue or whatever. People weren't quite sure exactly what happened after this. But instead, it narrowly passed in the dollar. It was a very, very tense vote and it tensed a bit. I'm sure lifelong friendships were destroyed in the days of debates. All kinds of abuse was kind of slung around. And I decided to accuse each other of treachery, of endangering the country, of giving up what little freedom they'd already achieved in order to achieve, you know, the perfect freedom and so on. We can imagine what kind of debates people would have had on these kind of sides, the more gradualist approach versus the people who took a more principled approach to independence. Michael Collins, he argued that this point of view, that the treaty would be a stepping stone to a republic. And his famous phrase was, this gives us the freedom to achieve freedom. He firmly believed that the IRA didn't have the ability to struggle any longer. That in fact, he thought that if they continued for six months of war, Britain would increase its number of troops and perhaps crush them. And he also, and others on his side also, we argued that, you know, even by granting negotiation, Britain had already kind of conceded Irish sovereignty. So this was not really a substantial kind of matter. They had already granted a little bit of independence to Ireland by agreeing to negotiate with an Irish republican government. But the anti-treaty faction was led by Eamon de Valera. So he was the official actual president of this provisional republican government. He was a president of Dalaran. He argued that it was, the treaty was an unacceptable infringement on Irish sovereignty, that it was a betrayal of this Irish republic that had been declared in 1916, that all of the IRA's attack campaign had been dedicated towards establishing, in fact, and that the program of the doll itself was essentially being betrayed and scrapped by the acceptance of this treaty. But like I said, the anti-treaty side, they narrowly lost this kind of vote. After losing de Valera, he walked out, he and his supporters walked out, they denounced the vote as illegitimate. They said, you know, this doll cannot vote to dissolve the Irish republic. And in the months, the ensuing months basically, this split deepened and became ever more bitter within the IRA and the broad republican movement. And all of this really culminated in the attack on the four courts and marked the beginning, essentially, of the Irish civil war. Now, the four courts is, I think in most Irish histories, it's a bit kind of glanced over because it was unsuccessful. It was not very popular. But I think it's a very important episode because the attack on the four courts, the whole drama surrounding it, really reveals, you know, the true nature of this this Anglo-Irish treaty, you know, what it really represented for Britain and for Ireland, that it was really just a trap for Irish nationalism. Because the negotiations for this treaty had been opened by the liberal prime minister, David Lloyd George, which many will probably know, you know, Lenin regarded Lloyd George as one of the more far-sighted and intelligent bourgeois statesmen who could, you know, flexibly, I guess, apply the policies of imperialism and update them as needed. From Lloyd George's perspective, Ireland could not be held any longer by a foreign ruling class. And instead, perhaps a semi-independent native ruling class could be used to keep order in Ireland and, you know, keep the profits rolling, keep the money rolling in. Now, Collins, who, my Collins, he led the kind of the dull, the Republican side in these negotiations, he spoke quite openly of how Lloyd George tried to corrupt him when he went to these meetings. He would take them and show them, you know, one of these gigantic maps they used to have in every school of the British Empire, you know, from east to west and said, you know, told them, look, give up this demand for Irish independence and Irish Republic. And look, you could be, you could be a partner in all of this. Ireland, Britain, you know, we go way back.  And this, I think this kind of washed over Collins. He was, he wrote in his diary about how he could see right through it. But this was really not so much directed, I think, at Collins himself, but over his head really. It's an attempt to make an appeal, a class appeal from Lloyd George, to the class sensibilities of the bourgeois nationalists, people more like W.T. Gosgrave, Arthur Griffith, and others who were leaders of the original Republican government. Collins, yeah, he resisted, you know, this illusion. But nonetheless, he agreed to the terms of the treaty. He brought it back and said this was the best that they could really, they could achieve. And of course, after this, this would eventually lead in June 1922, to him in his spiffing new Irish National Army uniform with his, you know, tailored leather gloves and everything like this. Would turn British made guns, guns they've been left behind or gifted by the British Army to the new Irish National Army. Turned these on his former comrades who were holed up in the barricaded in the four courts building. Shelling it, you know, one round of minutes, the same kind of tactics that were used by the British in April 1916. And he did this at the insistence of Lloyd George, and of Winston Churchill as well. He was also a cabinet minister at this time. And in fact, it was Churchill who told Collins directly that either the Irish provisional government, the free state government, they deal with these rebels led by Rory O'Connor, was the kind of leader of the four courts of occupation, that they had to be put down by the Irish government, or else they would consider the treaty violated and the 70 odd thousand troops that could be sent to Britain, they would be sent straight away. And there would be no treaty, there would be no free state and continuation really. Now, Michael Collins, I think he may have resisted Lloyd George's attempts to charm him, but he clearly heeded the threats that were issued by Lloyd George. He was told that a great and terrible war would be unleashed on Ireland if they did not accept the treaty. And then even afterwards, the pressure kept going. He said, like I said, you know, that there would be threats of intervention if they did not crack down on this anti treaty movement, which represented really the majority of the armed ranks of the IRA. Collins himself wanted to conciliate, you know, he tried to, and even those on the anti treaty side, like Liam Lynch, Cathal Brewer, they wanted to conciliate, they didn't want to turn to violence and fight each other. But nonetheless, the ultimatum was issued by Britain and Collins carried through on it. And the background to this, you know, there was increasing kind of pressure, basically, because of things like the assassination in 1922 of Sir Henry Wilson, who was a kind of British general. And there was a lot of kind of confusion over this, because Michael Collins had officially ordered this assassination to take place and had set up the, you know, the mission and everything for it. But that had all been arranged prior to the beginning of the treaty negotiations.  So the assassinated this British general. As well as IRA activity in Northern Ireland, these were things that led Britain to demands that the free state cracked down on the anti treaty movement. Now, this anti treaty movements, you know, what became known as the Irregulars in the Civil War, they had taken the four courts in Dublin, but their main strongholds basically were the former kind of IRA strongholds in the south and west of Ireland from the time of the War of Independence. And they, like I said, they were also still very much active in the north of Ireland, despite the partitioning of the country. And in fact, this partition immediately, as was predicted by James Connolly, and in fact, many other Irish Republicans throughout history, resulted in a wave of sectarian attacks and violence in the north as kind of Protestant and, you know, Unionist groups tried to drive Catholic families out of their homes. There was, as is always the case with these sectarian fights, there's kind of tit for tat violence. But Catholics were primarily the victims, Irish Catholics were primarily the victims of this violence. And in fact, thousands were forced to flee south to leave northern Ireland and resettle elsewhere. And, you know, the northern IRA and nationalists in the north, they certainly felt left behind by all of this, by the, even by the Civil War. Partition was really not a huge concern to many of the nationalists in the south. Even Aiman de Valera was actually willing to accept it and tolerate it as a condition for kind of self-government to Ireland. Yeah, de Valera and Collins were both kind of agreed on this and neither side saw it as a permanent fixture either, unlike the Irish within class today, they probably really couldn't care less about reunifying the country. But in the southwest of Ireland, it was the anti-treaty IRA chief Liam Lynch. He was considering establishing this Munster Republic down there to rebel against the Irish Free State, essentially deprive it the opportunity to consolidate itself. And this republic was just talked about, it would never really come to be established in any way. But it was in August 1922 that the situation really turned and became much more bitter between the two sides. Because it was in August that Michael Collins was assassinated. He was making a tour of many areas around Ireland and against the advice of many of his close advisors, he visited his native Cork county and it was there that he was caught in an ambush and killed, basically. He was the only person killed in this ambush in fact. And it was a shock really to I think all of Ireland, like I said, he was a figure with enormous moral and political authority on both sides. Even those in the anti-treaty side were stunned by this happening. Half a million people turned out to his funeral just to show the levels of popularity. And this assassination after, I guess, a brief period of mourning, really all it resulted in was a massive increase in the repression targeted against the anti-treaty forces. Some say that maybe Collins, he was again trying to conciliate, was holding back the worst elements of the state, perhaps that's true. But after his death anyway, the repression escalated dramatically. Thousands of anti-treaty Republicans were rounded up and interned in camps, often without trial or any kind of a chance of appeal, and often without really much evidence apart from one witness saying, oh yeah, he's an anti-treaty, he's an irregular. Many including the leaders of the Four Courts occupation, they were interned and they were executed by firing squad. A policy of shoot on sight for irregular was introduced. And anyone, a new law was passed that anyone could be arrested and executed for an unauthorized possession of a gun or a firearm. One of the first victims of this law actually was Erskine Childers. He was an English man who had sympathized with the Irish struggle. He had smuggled weapons for the IRA during the War of Independence and he'd even served as a secretary to Michael Collins during negotiations and during his leadership of the active service unit. But nonetheless, Childers, he was arrested and executed for possessing a pistol that Michael Collins had personally gifted to him. And many others of course were died in similar circumstances. And by the end of the next year, by the end of 1923, 12,000 people had been interned in these kind of camps around Ireland. As well as these police states kind of repressions, the National Army of the Free State expanded exponentially. By early 1923, there were in fact more troops as members of the Irish National Army deployed around Ireland than Britain had ever deployed to Ireland to keep control of it. The majority of these were recruited out of elements who had kind of sat by during the War of Independence and done nothing, maybe joined the IRA just at the end. Quite a kind of inert, basically, layers, rather than IRA veterans really. And, you know, they kind of rushed to join, I guess, when it looked like victory was possible. Plus, a dedicated corps of Collins' loyalists, the Dublin Brigade of the IRA, formed the corps of this new army. And it was in fact incredibly powerful in Ireland because of its size and social weight. And this army, of course, was armed to the teeth by British imperialism, you know. You can tell they probably offered them a big discount on weapons. And they were used to encircle, isolate and eventually completely destroy the anti-treaty forces of the IRA. The fighting was incredibly one-sided, you know. The anti-treaty IRA had insufficient weapons or ammunition and insufficient numbers even to fight versus the National Army who had armored cars, machine guns and even limited air support.  It's safe to say that the anti-treaty IRA was completely smashed, basically. As well as this, there were brutal feuds and recriminations all around the country. Families were quite literally divided by this anti-treaty versus anti-treaty thing. And, yeah, social anti-treaty Republicans became socially ostracized, you know. There were even priests who refused to bury irregulars who had been shot, sometimes even just shot, like I said, on site, kind of out of hand. They refused to bury them. And this established really a powerful apparatus of repression as part of the Irish priesthood against Republicans that very much lasts to this day even in Ireland. There are still special courts, special divisions of the police that investigate dissident Republicans, obviously everyone's filming over the sprees now rather than irregular Republicans. And much of it is targeted at families, you know. And in many ways, being a dissident Republican is kind of a family business in Ireland. But people who, you know, maybe their grandfather was like a dissident IRA person or whatever, they still are surveilled or ever by the Irish dip. But before all this fighting, really, it's important to note, I think, that the anti-treaty cause had dealt a very heavy blow in the 1922 dual elections. I won't dwell on this, but the pro-treaty parties, essentially, the pro-treaty side of Sinn Féin, as well as the Irish Labour Party, and most of the other parties, even the ones that were, you know, neutral in the treaty question, de facto, they support the treaty. They easily won well over 50% of the votes in this election just before the fighting really began. Now, you could argue, I think, that the election was maybe not representative. It certainly wasn't like a straight referendum on the treaty as some like to portray it. But it points to one of the anti-treaty forces problems, which was a lack of popular support for their campaign. We can explain this, that many workers and poor farmers in Ireland were really exhausted by war and conflict. We had not just the war of independence breaking out, but the First World War and everything as well. And all the economic disruption and dislocation that caused, people wanted it to end really and they wanted to return to kind of a period of peace. As well as the widespread belief, I think that the anti-treaty view could be included within the structure of the new Irish Free State. There was no need, essentially, people thought, for violence between Irish people, once the British had left, then what need was there to start a civil war and fight and kill each other. But the anti-treaty movement itself was quite divided, worth mentioning. You had militarists like Chief of Staff Liam Lynch, who essentially just wanted to maintain the IRA as a guerrilla force in the kind of rural parts of Ireland to prevent the consolidation of the Irish Free State. You had people like Rory O'Connor that led the Four Quartz Occupation. They wanted instead to try and spark new fighting with the British by launching these kind of occupations and insurrections and things like this. And then you had others like Amon de Valera, who saw a more political path. They believed that the armed struggle was doomed. It was over. They really had no chance. And in fact, de Valera would ultimately mandate the disarming of the anti-treaty IRA in May 1923, which really marked, I guess, the end proper of the Irish Civil War after, like I said, around 10 months. But interestingly as well, for us to learn, there were signs of a left wing developing in the IRA in this period. Liam Mellows, who is kind of commemorated today as an Irish Republican, is a bit more well remembered. He was one of the IRA leaders in the Four Quartz Occupation, for which he would be jailed and executed in November. Now, Mellows was inspired by that famous Irish Marxist, James Connolly. He had an interest in socialism and Bolshevism. And in fact, he thought that the IRA would have to develop itself politically and develop links to the common turn and to the Soviet Union. And he advocated that the anti-treaty movements adopt a socialist program to win popular support against the openly counter-revolutionary Irish free state. And this idea was even passed around in Liam Lynch's kind of Munster Republic. This is his idea. If we're going to establish a kind of breakaway of a breakaway, then we need to have a program to win people over. Now Mellows and James Connolly, they drew very, very similar conclusions about the need for the struggle for Irish national liberation to be led by the working class on a program of establishing a workers republic in Ireland. They came from very different backgrounds, despite drawing these conclusions. Connolly of trade unions and industrial struggle, whereas Mellows, all his life, was an IRA member, an IRA guerrilla. So throughout this, well, I guess, just prior to this kind of period anyway, throughout the revolutionary period, the development of a mass revolutionary republican socialism certainly existed in potential all throughout Ireland. There were many episodes of it kind of cracking through the surface, really. But there was never any kind of political center around which it could really crystallize. It formed or began to form kind of a bit too late. James Connolly was executed too early to play this kind of role. And Mellows drew these conclusions too late and was obviously also executed. Just at the same time as the kind of revolution was really gaining strength in Ireland behind the betrayal of these bourgeois nationals to agree to the treaty. But it did begin to form in some sectors of the anti-treaty movement. And after it would go underground, there would be something of a kind of lineage after that. But really, the left wing never really played like that big of a role. Ultimately, de Valera, he maintained his hegemonic leadership over the republican movement. My de Valera is far from a revolutionary figure. He, in fact, is a pure bourgeois opportunist politician, really, and very, very conservative in all of his views, basically, economically, socially, and so on. His opposition to the treaty was in reality quite skin deep. I mean, some have theorized that it was all to do with just his maybe jealousy of Michael Collins. But I don't think so. I think he had a much kind of bigger ideas in mind. But he advocated essentially after disarming the anti-treaty IRA reformist path to creating a republic. And in fact, even years later, he would become president of the Irish Free State, and he would gradually convert it into an Irish republic just by changing the name, basically. And while president, he would actually even support the continued repression of anti-treaty IRA and anti-treaty republicans. So he betrayed them as well, really. It was a WT Cosgrave, though, one of the, in fact, the most conservative of the Sinn Féin politicians. He would come to lead the new Irish Free State government. And he led it on a programme of absolute reaction. Besides the repression of the anti-treaty IRA, there are also attacks on the working class, cuts to paying conditions, attacks on unionisation. They tried to establish ties, close ties to the capitalist class, the big bourgeois in Ireland, who are obviously very closely connected to Britain, as well as established trade deals and so on, like around the Commonwealth. Essentially, they wanted to get back to business as usual for Irish capitalism. None of that they had planted themselves as the kind of new committee for managing this whole thing. And it was a period of austerity and social instability the early years of the Free State that really crowned the victory of the counter-revolution in Ireland. And it was thoroughly reactionary that for the first couple years of his existence, the Irish Free State really teetered on the edge of a military coup d'etat. Members of the Irish National Army, they were unhappy with how things are going on, and they multiple times kind of threatened to take charge and get rid of all the politicians. But the governing party that Cosgrave led, and many of Collins's former supporters kind of joined, the Cumming Nogale was ultra-nationalistic, very Catholic, conservative, anti-communist, and would eventually in the 1930s boys go on to sympathise with fascism. They would send their members to go and fight for Franco in Spain. And in fact, even during the First World War, some of their members advocated making a deal with Hitler to help him invade a Britain basically. This Cumming Nogale is now the Finnageal, which is one of the largest parties in Ireland. But this kind of revolution came from within Irish republicanism, I think is the important point to stress, from the nationalist bourgeois and petty bourgeois. Rather than, they would rather compromise with British imperialism and form a kind of semi-colonial state as they did, and win sort of concessions for themselves and therefore implement a kind of return to order for the lower classes. All these upheavals had to come to an end. And indeed, many of them, these bourgeois nationals, they had openly opposed many of much of the class struggle. As it happened, it went on during the War of Independence, the mass mobilisations, they offered no support to things like the Limerick Soviet or whatever. And in fact, they wanted it entirely subordinated to the military guerrilla campaign. But this betrayal of the bourgeois nationalists, it aligned completely with the interests of British imperialism at the time to use the nationalists to return order to Ireland and to govern Ireland to protect the essential interests of British capital and of British trade, even if they had to loosen their political control over Ireland as they did. And this same semi-colonial kind of revolutionary state is what exists in Ireland today, across 26 of its counties. It's evolved in form into a republic in Neymunle, of course, but it's still very much dominated by foreign capital, by landlords and by rentiers. It's not the republic that was decreed in 1916 and certainly not the one that many in the area I think fought for and were fighting for. And I think we can see from this whole episode that, from the likes of people like de Valera, Cosgrave and others, that a conservative bourgeois nationalists, even if they act in a revolutionary way, they're still what they are at the end of the day, they're still a conservative bourgeois nationalist. And in fact, many of them even joked about this. It was Cosgrave who said, we are the most conservative people ever to have made a revolution, because they had extremely conservative aims, of course. And this is the lesson I think we have to learn from most of the republican leaders and from the counter-revolution that the civil war, the leaders like de Valera, Griffith, Cosgrave and even Collins, I think, himself. There's still many legends that surround them. There are many on the dissident republican left or right even today who they still hold up Collins, obviously, as a heroic figure. And there are a lot of legends around who he didn't, he did that because he didn't mean to and so on. But I think we have to be honest with you that Collins was just a man and was subject to this to momentum historical pressures. And what ability did he have to resist it? He didn't have a revolutionary program necessarily to stand on. Instead all he had was this kind of practical approach to struggling for Irish freedom. But to summarize or conclude, I guess, I have already one sentence. But as James Connolly wrote really, and I think is the lesson of Ireland's revolution, it's lost revolution perhaps. Not really lost, its revolution is yet to happen and be completed. But the main lesson is that it's only the working class who are the incorruptible inheritors of the struggle for Irish freedom. And we'll continue that today.


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Hey, this is Brett and this 2022 Chevy Silverado 3500 Crew Cab Long Box Dual Rear Wheel High Country is stock number 13861Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck. Headquarters this 2022 Chevy Silverado 3500 has the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine. It is the L5P engine which puts out 445 horsepower and it's paired with the Allison 10-speed heavy-duty automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation possible. Black clear coat is the color and I shoot all my videos in 4K so if you like the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is YouTube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the polished aluminum wheels. These are 17-inch wheels and it has Michelin Energy Saver AS tires. These are LT 235s 80R 17s and they are the original tires. They look like they probably have 95% of the tread left, maybe even a little bit more. The frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. Front fender is absolutely perfect. No dents or dings. You get all the LED headlamps, running lights, and fog lights. We'll turn all of those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are. So stay tuned for that. I'm almost there. Chrome-tipped or chrome-trimmed tow hooks. Front bumper parking sensors. I didn't see any dents. I didn't see any dings. I didn't see any rock chips on that front bumper. You get the kind of bronze-ish gold finish to the grille there. This one does have the true cowl induction hood. I'll show you how that works in just a little bit and the hood itself is in absolutely perfect condition. No dents or dings and you do get the clearance lights up top. The passenger side front fender is in fantastic condition and the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of this 2022 Chevy Silverado 3500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Very nice down that side. The back wheel is in excellent shape. The back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Still has the original wear knobs on there. Once again, the frame and underbody, this is like new underneath here. So very, very clean. I would say it's probably the cleanest GM frame I've seen come in ever. Has all the remaining factory exhausts, so it hasn't been altered and the lower rockers and cab corners are in great shape. Factory chrome step bars, you get the side box steps. I didn't see any dents or dings or rock chips on that dually tub. Coming around the back, you get the rear bumper parking sensors, rear bumper steps, no dents or dings on that bumper. You get the seven pin wiring and then you get the trailer camera hookups and you get the multi flex tailgate. So it goes down two ways. So first way, the tailgate just drops down like that. It is a power drop down tailgate. That tunnel cover kind of gets in the way. But then you also have the step assist, which goes down like so. There is a handle that goes up right there and this poses like that. And then that goes like that. Didn't want to show you inside the bed, of course. You get a very nice spraying bed liner. I'm guessing that's a factory one. Gooseneck and fifth wheel prep package. You get seven pin and four pin wiring back here. And you also have LED bed lights. You also get 120 volt, 400 watt plug-in back here, which is nice as well. And tailgate shuts nice and solidly. It does come with a trucks port soft roll up tonneau cover. I didn't see any rips or tears on there. So that is in really nice shape. I'm going down the driver side just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings or rock chips on here. And for full disclosure, this back wheel is just as nice as the rest. Down the rest of this side, the truck cabin doors all look really good. Does have the telescopic tow mirrors, the blind spot monitoring, LED side lights, directional signals, these power telescope out, they power fold in. You also get the 360 camera. It has the intelligent access where I just have to have the key fob and press the button.  No rips, no tears on those seats. You do get the lumbar. Both of these front seats are heated and cooled. You get factory all-weather formats. Heads up display, auto headlamps, cargo lamps, fog lights, push button, four-wheel drive, power windows, locks, mirrors, memory driver seat, wood grain trim, and the Bose sound. I'll show you how these mirrors fold in. I was like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly, even though this truck is completely under factory warranty. Get the power telescope and mirrors, power telescope out and in, and once again, both sides working nicely. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. Does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Four sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost, and you get storage behind these back seats on each side. You get storage underneath here, and you get, those were, these look like their vent shades that were never installed, and then you get the all-weather format back here. These back seats are heated on the outboard side.  And you get child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic on this truck. This is about as close to getting a brand new truck that you can get on the used end. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. There we go. 1,371 miles on this truck, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You do get the digital speedometer, and you can do a whole bunch of stuff. We're going to start it up in just a second and take a look at that. You get your heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and Information Center controls on the right, cruise controls, adaptive cruise controls, and heated steering wheel controls on the left. There's your shifter for that 10-speed Allison automatic transmission. This one has the Chevy infotainment system. You can see you do have the factory navigation system on there. Sometimes a subscription is required with these new radios. You get AMFM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. And you also have Android Auto Apple CarPlay capabilities and, of course, the navigation system. And you can check out your cameras here. So you can see you get the 360 cam right there.  You can check out your surround back camera down the sides of the truck. Once again, the 360 right there. And then you can check out what's going on in the cargo cam. You can zoom in on the hitch. And then if you have your auxiliary trailer, you can plug in, you can select that as well. So a lot of great things that you can do with this radio and all those cameras.  Down here are your more tactile climate volume and tune controls. You also have a factory exhaust brake, lane departure warning, dual climate controls, parking sensors. You can power drop down that tailgate. You can also hazard lights, stability control. That's for your plug-in that we looked at in the bed of the truck. You can turn that off and on. Factory brake controller, USB-C, USB, and a 12-volt PowerPoint. And you do get a 120-volt, 150-watt plug-in. This one puts all your windows down and then you get your wireless cell phone charge pad right there. Keyless entry with remote start on there and power drop down tailgate. That's in really nice shape. Passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well. This truck's never been smoked in. No rips or tears. You get the high country stitched into the headrest, which is pretty sweet. And the headliner is like new as well. You also get the power sunroof, homelink buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, map lights, on-star and SOS buttons. And you do get the rear-view mirror camera display. It has controls in there. You can brighten it, make it go up and down. So it's actually a video display of what's going on behind you. As soon as I start the truck up, that will be active. And this is a one-owner clean title history out of Connecticut. So let's start it up. Take a look under the hood. Check out all those LED lights and that will be all done. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. There's your heads-up display right there. Just to show you, this is the adaptive cruise control.  And then you have your rear-view mirror camera display. You can turn that off with just that and make it a normal mirror. So all right, let's go take a look at all those LED lights and check out under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. You also get the LED side lights on there, which are super bright. You turn those on with the cargo lamp. And hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. The cab lights are working very nicely, as are the cab lights. And under the hood, we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine, L5P445 horsepower engine-based. Very clean runs, very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And it is 100% ready to go. There's the ignition sticker. So I told you I'd tell you how that hood works. So the air comes in right up there into the inlet, comes down this tube right here into the air box. So that's nice.  And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. I would ship this one anywhere. Site unseen. Whoever is going to get this truck is going to be very, very happy with the quality and condition on it. I didn't see a single scratch on it and it's 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this truck or one of other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, halftones, three-quarter tons, one-tons, you name it. We got it. Go to that website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel. 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to be. The biggest thing was the contradiction in my mind when I look at the data and what these other paid coaches are doing and what's really happening behind the scenes in the industry. Okay. And if you look at everything I just said, it all comes back to one thing. When people ask me why I coach for free, I can sum it all up in just a few words. And it's because I love you. And that's the bottom line. Unconditional. Unconditional. The biggest two questions I get from people are why in the hell do I coach for free? And how do I continue as a single agent to sell 100 properties a year, year over year over year over year over year over year over year over year over year over year over year over year. So with our limited time today, that's what I want to spend time with you on is answering these two questions so that you fully understand my position. And I also want to touch on some big picture vision for you to maybe help you see some bigger picture stuff. The first question, why do I coach for free? People search me on the internet or they see, they search for, they search real estate coaching or they this, they that, they find me and they say, free coaching. Yeah, right. They dive into my content. They search the website. They go deep, deep, deep, deep, deep. They find no where where I'm charging anyone. And after they've went to the very bottom of that barrel, they come to me and say, okay, we get it. You're right. You're free. Cool. Why?  It's not a long story. Why I do this and why I continue to do this. And keep in mind, I started coaching in 2017. I sold 100 properties in 2014, 14, 15, 16, 17. I had sold 100 properties a year for three years in a row before even thought about trying to teach you how to sell something or you had to be a better real estate agent to have the audacity to say, I can teach you something. I had to know that I could do it myself on a consistent basis. I got into real estate in 2002. I've been doing this 20 years. Up to that point, 15 sold 100 properties a year for three years before even thought about writing a book. Nowadays, you've got people not even licensed or in the business for two years sold 19 properties selling courses for $500 and I'm not going to lie. When I started coaching, I was charging. Why? Because I thought that's what you did. I thought that's what coaches did. They charged. So that's what I did. I charged. But it didn't take me very long at all to realize that that was doing you know good and it was doing me know good. And the moment I realized it was when I was looking at the data and I would have 300 agents sign up for a webinar 100 show up and two sign up. And I was like, this is this is wrong. You got 300 agents who want help 100 who really want help and only two are taking advantage of the opportunity to learn more about what you do. I said, how can I create a scenario where all 300 are taking advantage of the opportunity of what I'm sharing and what I'm teaching? I felt like I was losing big time. Okay. And I woke up one day and I realized, wait a minute. It hit me all at once. I'm not coaching. I'm not running my coaching business like I'm coaching my agents to run the real estate business. I'm telling them it's all about people. But it I'm not going to teach you anything about how to deal with people unless you pay me. It was contradicting. And so I said, okay, if I'm going to save the world, if I'm going to reduce the failure rate in the real estate industry one agent at a time, which is the reason why I was put on this planet right below having a wife and a beautiful daughter, then I'm going to have to do this for free. Everything I know with everybody on this planet for free. And that's how I'm going to accomplish the goals that I need to to make a real difference in this world. Let's go. And so that's what I did. So that's the story how it came to be. The biggest thing was the contradiction in my mind. When I look at the data and what these other paid coaches are doing and what's really happening behind the scenes in the industry. Okay. And if you look at everything I just said, it all comes back to one thing. When people ask me why I coach for free. I can sum it all up in just a few words. And it's because I love you. And that's the bottom line. Unconditional. Unconditional. I don't judge you when you don't succeed at the highest levels or you don't get your first sale for two years. I don't judge you. It's an unconditional love and I only wish somebody would have did the same thing for me. But that didn't exist. There were people that helped me out and I appreciate the help. But I'm taking it on a personal mission to do everything that I can do so that I can sleep at night knowing that I did everything I could do to help you reach as high of a level as I can. And the reason why I continue to do it is because of the stories. So I've heard thousands of stories of people who are crushing it since they started doing my coaching program. Free coaching program. They're crushing it thousands. How many people here have their own story of my coaching program helping them crush it in their business? Okay. Anybody here almost quit real estate until they found me? Raise it up real high. Can't see. Blinded. See right there where we're reducing the failure rate right now. Give it up for them. I'll just tell you a point, Blank. Money doesn't move me. And when you start to take money out of the equation, this is a quote right here. Here's one for you. When you take money out of the equation, your business blows up. Write it down. If you take money out of the equation, the moment you take money out of the equation, your business will blow up. The greatest coach in the world in the history of real estate is not going to be the one that made the most money. That's not going to be the determining factor. It's going to be who deeply impacted the most agents to succeed at the highest levels that they could. And that's what I'm here to do.


Live from San Diego, California, it's theCUBE. Covering KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, brought to you by Red Hat, the CloudNative Computing Foundation and its ecosystem partners. Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman, my co-host, John Troyer, and this is theCUBE's fourth year of coverage of KubeCon, CloudNativeCon 2019. We're here in San Diego, and happy to welcome to the program a first-time guest, Amar Abdahallam, who is the head of Cloud Platforms at Fidelity Investments. Of course, Fidelity, we love talking to an end-user, big financial company, your boss was up on the main stage in front of 8,000 people. Just in that room, there's over 12,000 here in person. Fidelity itself, founded in 1946, first computers in 1965. In the last year, you've now got over 500 applications running in the public cloud, and Fidelity also joined the CNCF. So let's start there, Amar, if we would. Just how does Fidelity look at Kubernetes and the CNCF? How does that fit into your company's mission? Absolutely, thank you so much for inviting me here. Innovation in Fidelity is a big part of the process. We're very focused at this time in cloud computing, in machine learning, in AI technology. We had the first financial robo in 2015, I believe. We had the first augmented reality financial advisor who was actually released this year as a prototype. So Bartels at Innovation, we're seeing CNCF and the cloud computing and cloud native is the key for strategy for our innovation. All right, maybe if you could, give us a little bit of the breadth and depth of your team, what they cover, cloud platforms. What does that mean inside of Fidelity? Sure, so Fidelity had over 10,000 of IT, like hundreds and hundreds of DevOps teams, 1,000 of applications, it's globally distributed. It had all kind of workloads that you can imagine, and it's running in very high-regulated environment as well. And that's what we're seeing, that we're always looking for this autonomy between teams and agility and improve time to market and customer experience, and the key for that is cloud native. We're seeing Kubernetes and CNCF and the cloud native technology is like a key player for us when we go like market cloud, hybrid cloud model. Can you talk a little bit about more into that portfolio of technologies? You know, there's a lot of talk about public cloud versus on-prem, and as if one thing is going to, one knife is going to be the only thing you need in your kitchen. Right. So you have a portfolio of platforms, you have a portfolio of destinations and a portfolio of applications. Can you talk a little bit about both what you're using and maybe how you're organized to access and address all those needs? Absolutely. So I think, you know, 2019 I would say it's a year of multi-cloud, hybrid cloud modeling. Right, actually I would say that 2020 is more, going to be more about distributed cloud where you can distribute your workload across multi-cloud providers. We're not there yet. I don't say where anyone is there yet, but at least we should start like somewhere where he has this multi-cloud providing. Distributing the workload itself I mean, it's a journey to move like thousands of applications and thousands of workload and data as well between like on-premises data centers to a public cloud. You will need to move through this journey of hybrid cloud models and be able to move apps like slowly and aggressively to other apps. All right, Amar, I want to dig into what you talked about there, multi-cloud. So, you know, when you talk about multiple clouds, yes, everybody has that. Walk us through a little bit, you know, where you have workloads and how many public cloud you use and like, but I want to set you up with a premise. You know, we've really said, for multi-cloud to really be a reality, the value that you extract should be greater than the sum of its parts. And most of us live through the multi-vendor years, and that wasn't necessarily, you know, happiness and joy when I had to span between those environments. So, you know, how do we make sure that multi-cloud doesn't become the least common denominator or a detriment to what I need to do with my data, my applications, the value that the company has. And that's why we were here. We were here actually in Kubernetes and KubeCon for that reason. That's where we see this abstract layer that guarantee you the portability of moving your application from one cloud provider to another, right? That capability of like, ability to deploy the same workload into multi-cloud. The ability to have the workload itself managed in different, like, characteristics next to like, services that you will find in AWS via Azure, via Google Cloud, via others, right? That's where you need that, you know, flexibility and Kubernetes and cloud native itself. The ability to have the same deployable construct for your application. The ability to have the same ecosystem around that constructor and around that artifact. The ability to move all of that as is from one cloud provider to another cloud provider is big, big key. And that's you can only find with Kubernetes. Are you, can you share like which cloud or cloud you're working on today and what is your roadmap to, you know, do you have a kind of timeline to when that vision becomes reality? I mean, at this moment we're like, we're with a major like cloud provider keys that you guys can name them. All the colors. You're using all of them. All the colors. Okay. And how are you using Kubernetes today? Where are you in that journey? So Kubernetes is mainly, I mean, outside the majority is running, is still running on-premise. We're like very intensively moving to public cloud and the Kubernetes side. At this moment actually we're building an offer inside my team, which is a cloud platform team that offer will guarantee that portability between all the cloud provider. So for the volume team to import our platform, it will be kind of seamless for them. Where is it going to land? Is it going to be landing in AWS or Azure or on-premise? Okay. Joining the CNCF as a member, bring us inside, you know, I understand the journey. Are there any specific goals you have? How do you measure kind of the investment and what you're hoping to both as a company as well as part of the community get out of it? So we have like a big hope right now in open source our project, our little project about multi-clouding. And our focus is mainly about like the higher regulation part, the higher regulated part. We're very focused in compliance and security. And that's where we can, I think we can contribute back to the open source community around that. So, Amar, you talked about, you know, we talked about the platforms here in Kubernetes, but that goes hand in hand with the culture and the upskilling and the organization and the processes. So what intrigued me is you said, well, we put things on Kubernetes on-prem and then, you know, and some things in the cloud, but then we're going to move some of those apps over time, we'll move to other appropriate homes. So that implies that you've changed process and you've changed org maybe to be able to build cloud native apps. And that was actually separate in some cases from being in the public cloud.  Right. And this is a main challenge. The challenge is not in the technology side itself or the tools. I think the majority is there in the ecosystem at this moment. The challenge is mainly like building the sculpture inside teams. So we're building like, you know, many like star points or COEs across all of our business unit and all of our teams. And again, like to build this culture across 10,000 developer plus, that's a measure.  Don't do a COE, but you've had multiple COEs distributed across. So it's like nuclear reaction. Like our COE is the first one that will communicate with few COEs. Each one of them will be with other COEs. And that's how that chain will go and expand like quickly. All right. And this is happening at this moment. So, Amar, I have a few friends that this is the first time that they've come. And they go into the keynote or they look at the schedule and they're a bit overwhelmed. They say, you know, it's not just Kubernetes. There's, you know, dozens and dozens of projects. The ecosystem is sprawling. If you could give us a little walkthrough as to the projects you're using. Any key partners that you're allowed to talk about that are useful in helping you to achieve your mission. So, we're very focused at this moment actually in the Kubernetes project itself. We start exploring some of the open source project and in the CICD part. In addition to that, we'll start using like a few frameworks like Flux. This is one of the frameworks like GitOps in general, around like, you know, building this culture of GitOps deployment and moving toward like more ops of deployment. That's one of the areas that we're very invested in. We're exploring service mesh at this time. And I hope like, you know, we're going to get like there. Maybe next year we can talk about service mesh more. Yeah. Are there, is there something that's holding you back on service mesh? Because there's a few options out there and various maturity levels and, you know, who's driving them. But what will some of your kind of criteria be? I would say it's mainly like, you know, I'm waiting like a little bit more. I feel like 2.14 for me when we had that discussion. If we were sitting here at 2.14, we'd be discussing Mesa's via Corporate's via Swarm, right? So I think we're still at this time at service mesh as well. Okay. Any partners that you can speak to from a technology standpoint that are helping you, that you're allowed to talk about or? Well, I mean, first of all, CNCF. Yeah. I'd agree, I'd agree, I'd appreciate you know the help that's at.  It's really interesting. I'll be interested in catching you after the show and seeing how you thought. I mean, this is, in some ways, it was a science project a few years ago and now is this robust thing. Did you bring, I'm curious, did you bring mostly engineers, mostly managers, a mix of the two? What's the- Mostly engineers. Yeah. Mostly engineers. Hands on, get- As the old hands on. I mean, this is like another change in culture right now where most of our engineers are like the next generation, who's their full stack engineers. We're using very agile process at this moment to move forward. Our road maps internally is being published. It's being used like a voting process to go like with continuous deployment and continuous feature enhancement for the teams. So it's fantastic honestly. Okay, Amar, what things does your team hope to achieve this week? Anything that is on your roadmap or on the public open source roadmap that you're waiting on? We're definitely exploring OPA at this moment. I think that's a big potential serve. So that's one of those areas. I think going through the showroom and try to see what's option we have as well, that's another area where we're going to be very interested in that. OPA, the policy agent, I mean, you talked about compliance before. Yeah. A few years ago, with a folks in the financial industry, you would have some arguments, some discussions, sometimes heated discussions about security in the cloud and et cetera, and a highly regulated industry, yet kind of maybe ironically or somewhat, maybe surprisingly for some, right very advanced in many areas, the whole industry. That's well known if you're in it. Do you still have to have discussions about compliance and security in the cloud? I guess maybe when you talk about data locality and international borders more. And that's what, we already have our own policy management like which is built in, we build it ourselves. And that's where I see the potential, like moving from building it yourself to more of like using an open source project and try to reuse it and contribute back to that open source community, like something like OBA for example. So that's like the next generation where I see it will help us as well. All right. Amar, any advice you'd give to your peers out there if they're new to the community, things you've learned along the journey so far? I would say like start small, don't boil the ocean, start with small COEs, small pilots program, look for success, look for goals. Technology is great, but don't just like move toward technology because just keep moving target towards the end, try to set like business goals for you and business like targets for your projects and that's how you're going to achieve success. Well, Amar, really appreciate you sharing Fidelity's updates. I wish you and your team the best of luck here at the show and beyond and we'll definitely hope to catch up soon. All right, for John Troyer, I'm Stu Miniman. Be sure to check out theCUBE.net for all of the coverage of this as well as all the cloud, cloud native and more shows that we have. Thank you for watching theCUBE.


Welcome back to the channel and in today's video, I'm going to share with you the plan for the upcoming two months or so We're going to be looking at how to make a small website and it's going to be looking something like what I have right here Now we'll be able to do this in WordPress using WooCommerce and doing a few modifications So basically we are going to start this from scratch and make our home website look like this I don't like how this has to scroll all the way down to display this So we shall cut this into short segments so that people don't have to scroll all the way down We'll make it possible so that when you see the pricing of this particular item You can actually click on it and then you can choose the different variations and you can even add on Small things to that particular order and that will allow your order to actually increase in terms of price And then when you order you should be able to see your mini cut right here So it's going to be sort of a one-face where we can see all our items here And then once we are done with the ordering We shall be able to click to proceed to checkout and then someone should be able to go to our WooCommerce page Fill in their details click their order or choose their payment get way and that will be all for this particular video series So I'll be releasing that once every week. It's going to be a little bit intricate So I'm not going to use any page builders or anything like that. I'm going to do this straight out with code So if you are interested in this Look out every week for one of those videos where we shall be building our own WooCommerce theme from scratch Otherwise, if you like the series that's coming up, please give it a thumbs up right on this video Let me know in the comments what you think things you would like to see just share it with your friends Let them know what's going to happen on this channel. Otherwise. Thank you for watching and enjoy your day