How we learn language? Okay, which language do you speak? How did you learn that? Mother tongue at home. Right, but how? We live at home, right? We eat. Somebody cooks that food. It doesn't happen that we just stay at home and eat. How did you learn language, Telugu? Parents taught me. Did they? I repeated whatever they said. During my childhood, sir. Are you sure that they taught you? That is what is happening. Are other people sure that you were taught these languages that you speak? Right, that's a good example. When you go to school, did you all learn English in a school? Yes. Did you learn English at home? Yes. A little bit here and there, but formally you learned English in schools, right?  No. No? But which one do you speak more comfortably? Telugu. So does this make you wonder sometimes? The language that you were not taught formally, you speak better than the language that you were taught formally in school and you paid for that? Think in Telugu. Sure. All that what you are saying is true. I am not debating any one of them. All I am asking you is, does this make you wonder sometimes? That I paid for something to learn that, then why do I not think in English? Or if at all I do, I am not saying that you don't think in Telugu, sorry, don't think in English. If I think in English, why do I still feel more comfortable with Telugu or Tamil or respective languages? You see, you understand this question? And I am not really asking for a serious answer from you. I am only asking you to understand that these are the things we are going to learn. How does it happen that we end up speaking a language, right? And more than that, when we say language, what do we mean by that? These are the fundamental objectives of this. And little bit more into objectives, I am going to go with you when I talk to you about linguistics and language today. Just a generic introduction about the discipline and the object of inquiry. Remember last time we were discussing that in this discipline, we study about language. And when we study about language, that simply means language is the object of inquiry in this discipline, right? I remember many of you are from mechanical engineering. If someone asks you one simple question, what do you study in mechanical engineering? In one sentence, what will you say? Nothing. Come on, don't say that. What do you study in mechanical engineering? Nothing. In one sentence. I know you can speak for an hour, but in one sentence. And if you think hard, the answer is going to be similar. The answer is going to be same from everybody. What do you study about? That is fine, but what is mechanical engineering about? Study of machines, right? Machinery and machines. Whatever you study is finally going to collide with and we can call that study of or about machines. Similarly, whatever we study in this discipline from varieties of perspectives, this is about language. And then there are several interesting questions like couple of them I just asked you, right? And more, some of them we will discuss today when we move one by one. These are the things that we study. More than that, I also went through the topics that we will be covering besides the scheme. As soon as your class representative gets ready with the Google group and you have subscribed to that, I will post the preliminary slides and all these things on that so that you have them accessible for you to take a look at, alright? So I already talked to you about linguistics. We discussed this thing as well last time. So let me say this thing. In this discipline, we study language in a systematic way, right? Like you study about machines in a systematic way and I hope at this stage you understand what we mean by systematic way and that is called systematic way is in an organized way in a scientific way and what we look at within language primarily and what we are going to be looking at primarily in this class are sounds, words and sentences and we will try to understand structure of language at the level of sounds, words and sentences, alright? There are and I am going to talk to you about what we mean by language and how we learn a language. See, when we talk about, let me introduce you to couple of more names that you will hear in this discipline. Some of the things like we study about sounds and that area of a study is called phonetics and phonology, okay? Does it make sense? The word, it comes from the word phone and phone refers to sounds. So when we study about sounds that discipline is called phonetics or phonology. To be more precise, the articulatory system of humans is part of phonetics and when we have final outcome, what we know as sounds, the study of that is called phonology. Do we understand by articulatory system? The vocal apparatus, the way we speak language and I will talk about that as well shortly. We study about words in the discipline called morphology, okay? I am going to come to these things in not too much details but in short very soon. And then when we move to the level of sentences, that particular discipline is called syntax and this course is particularly located in that. So we will be talking about sounds and words a little bit for us to reach the level from where we can discuss sentences, from where we can understand how we come up with sentences and then we will spend little bit time on understanding how sentences work in natural languages, alright? And then language is not just about sounds, words and sentences, it is about meaning, right? What is it? Sometimes we say certain sentences and sometimes we mean in mean with those sentences in a literal way and sometimes sentences have more meaning than their literal total. Do you understand this part? Which is to say a lot of times sentences do not mean only the total of the meaning of words involved in it, right? And all of that and more than that everything related to meaning of a sentence and meaning of what we are saying is studied in this discipline called semantics, okay? And then as you know language is hugely, hugely related to society. It is used in society. We learn language in society. We need language for society. So all kinds of intersections between language and society is studied in this discipline called sociolinguistics, okay? These are some of the core areas of studies in study of language, core aspects of a study in the study of language and these are the names of some of the disciplines in which we study about language, okay? And as you know when we put things under category, when we look at words, sounds, sentences, meaning, social interactions, such categorization itself is called a systematic classification, a systematic way. So when we said in the beginning it is about systematic study. That systematic study does not mean too much, okay? It simply means in a categorized way one by one and in every possible details, okay? Then there comes a part of language study which is also studied in linguistics and I am going to give you these names just so that you are familiar with these things. When we learn about language with those things like sounds, words, sentences, its meanings, how they mean, how words mean something, how sentences mean something, we apply such things to understand certain other things as well, okay? In that case and that type of a study is called applied study, okay? And it happens with a study of language as well. So when we want to study application of language in understanding or designing machines or intelligent or not intelligent machines and interaction of language and computers, such things are studied in computational linguistics, okay? How, what is the relationship between language and human mind? And particularly it is the functioning of mind in a greater details is what people study in this area called neuro linguistics, okay? And likewise interactions between human psychology and language and its relationship of language with psychology is studied in psycholinguistics and very lately not really, it is what I mean is it is not a recent phenomena but it has the attention has gone in that direction lately. Therefore I said lately people have started studying overlap between human genes and language where fundamental question is is language located in human genes because the way we speak only humans speak that way which is to say other species with life do not speak the way we do. Is language something is specific to human genes? And couple of more questions related to this area is what people study in this discipline called biolinguistics, okay? It is not a fashionable term simply. It is a very serious, very some very serious studies are going on in this area. However not much is available to establish the connection between human genes and language, okay? So and these areas are called applied areas of linguistics where we apply what we know what we call theoretical knowledge or fundamental aspects of language study in variety of ways to study different things is what we know as applied linguistics. I have just mentioned four, five names there are more, a lot more for example when we want to establish historical development of language or how over a period of time language evolved. Take an example of English. All of you when you were studying English or you have studied something about English you must have heard names of Shakespeare. I am using this famous name just to make sure that everybody knows. If you read English or Shakespearean writings in English is not how we speak, okay? And for that matter in the same way the way we speak you speak Telugu or Tamil or Hindi is not what the way these languages were 200 years ago or for that matter 50 years ago. So what causes any kind of motivated or unmotivated change in language? Such things are studied in what we know as historical linguistics and then there are overlaps of these things as well. Society, history and something else psychology. So that I don't know what that will be called. So these names can be coined depending upon what people want to study and what they mean by that name. So these names are not that important. What we need to understand that there are two broad aspects of a study of language. In one we study some fundamental basics about language and we learn those aspects in a systematic way. We refer to them as theoretical linguistics or fundamentals of linguistics and then when we apply such knowledge to study more, understand more, we call them applied linguistics. And this is what people do in this area of study which what we call linguistics. At this stage if I tell you or if I ask you, you still have time to answer these questions but if someone asks you what is it that you study in linguistics, I think you will be able to say something about that. All right. Should I take that as yes or no? Yes, all right, very good. Now let's talk a little bit about language which I said is the object of inquiry in this study of this. In the last class I had asked you this question and I think we started talking about this. What is language? And remember I had asked each one of you about your language what you speak. Did I ask this question? So and we came up with the names of many languages. And if I remember correctly everybody mentioned at least 2 to 3 languages. Is that still correct or has there been any change in that? Still correct? What else do you speak other than Telugu? Telugu, Tamil, English, Hindi. See that I think that's going to be true for most of the people. All right. Then we went to the question difference between what we call language and languages. Remember this? Language and languages. It's an important distinction for us to make. A lot of times people use these 2 terms interchangeably. There is absolutely no problem using them interchangeably. As long as we understand what we mean by these 2 terms. And what was the distinction that we established? I think we had talked about that little bit. What was the distinction that we had established? Anybody? Right. Good. Can we describe that in a little bit more obvious terms? We had talked about one example also. Now I remember we talked about an example. What is a car? What is a car? Right? When we say car, right? We don't mean name of a car. What does the term car refer to? When somebody tells you do you have a car or asks you do you have a car? Do they mean do you have a Mercedes? What do they mean? A transport vehicle or it could be more precise. Something that looks like a car, right? But they are not interested in which one, right? That's the distinction between language and languages. And the reason why I am giving you this example or for this distinction, for this point is very specific. The reason is it's easy for us to understand, not just because you are mechanical engineers or electrical engineers or other. It's very normal for anyone to understand that there are lots of similarities in all the cars that we see, right? Even if you don't go into the specifics of them, if you just take a look at them by looks there are similarities, right? All you can put all cars that you know about in one category the moment you find something called let's say bus, right? So what we are talking about is there are lots of superficial similarities and then there are lots of similarities which are deep rooted when we say car. That is similarities among all types of cars, right? And then again there may not be lot of deep rooted differences among all of them, right? But there are going to be lot of not so visible differences among all of them, right? There is no point going into the details of their differences. I am just taking it for taking as an assumption that you understand what I mean by them. Similar things are applicable to the similarities and differences of languages, okay? So I begin with this by saying that now I am using the term languages. The names that you are referring to are instances of language and then the moment we hear more names we call them languages, right? So languages have lot of similarities among one another, okay? At the same time and they may be such similarities may be superficial similarities as well as similarities that are difficult for us to see and likewise they have lot of differences among one another obvious differences and systematic differences among one another. Similarities of all the languages is what we refer to as principles of language and such differences that exist we refer to them as parametric differences, okay? So we can say languages are similar to one another in a systematic way in a principled way. Not that they are different, not in a principled way, they are different in a principled way as well but languages vary from one another around certain parameters, okay? This is what why these two terms here in the title of this course principles and parameters of natural language, okay? I want to give you one quick example of such similarities and differences, okay? Or rather let me ask you, you know more than one language, right? Let's talk about Tamil and English or Telugu and English. If someone asks you, is there any similarity between Tamil and English? What will be the answer? Any similarity between these two languages, yes? And then the next question, the obvious question will be what could be one such example of such similarities, right? How will you answer that question? Pretty simple things, this only requires you to think little, little harder. What would be such similarity between two languages namely English and Tamil which are substantially very different from one another? Can you give me one example of that? That will be similarity between all the languages. All of them have grammar system and we will look at that as well. In other words, we can say no language exists without grammar system. That is by grammar system we simply mean a system, right? It's just a notational thing that the system underlying languages or language is called grammar. System underlying language, the distinction that we have made between language and languages. System underlying language is called grammar or principle. They mean the same thing. We can call it system, we can call it grammar, we can call it principles. They mean the same thing, okay? And therefore there could be no language without a system. There is no language which is unsystematic, alright? So true, both of them have system underlying them. But if we probe little harder and when we are looking for an example, we look for more concrete examples. That's not very difficult. Who speaks Tamil and English both? Anybody? Okay, many people, right? So, very difficult to say that? Both are national languages of what? Sri Lanka, Malaysia. And? Okay, that's fine too. Let me not dismiss that right away. We will talk about those national part as well. But right now I am talking about that system of language, similar sentence structure. And what would that refer to? In English we say my name is Rishabh. In Tamil it is very similar, N pair Rishabh, meaning N refers to Mai, pair is name and Rishabh is Rishabh. So what he is saying is the way we construct a sentence is very similar in two languages, right? So when we have a sentence, in a sentence there are certain elements of language you must have. Otherwise there is no sentence. There is no language. Okay? And then the differences among the two, between the two are pretty obvious, right? Can you give me an example of differences between the two as well? Of course, phonetics, lot of such differences exist. But since you gave an example about sentences for similarities, can you give an example from sentences for the differences as well? Subject, object and verb, the positions, relative positions, like in Japanese and in English they are opposite. Really? Yes. So, understand what he is talking about? He is talking about three particular elements in any language, which is subject, object and verb. Have you heard these terms before? Subject, object and verbs. Again, I promise you we will look at the details of these things later. But all he means is, and if I am right, when I understand him, he means is in every sentence. Okay? For example in Tamil, there is a particular position of verb, right? And in every sentence of English, there is a particular position of verb. That is, in English, verbs are always going to be in the middle of the sentence. That is, more precisely, verbs are never going to be the final element in a language like English. Okay? However, in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi or any other languages that you may know of, verbs are always going to be the final element. That could be one major striking difference between, am I right? Is this what you wanted to say? That is one of the major striking differences between these two languages. So, with the help of these two examples, and I wanted these examples from you, and we can talk about hundreds of such similarities and differences. But we will talk about those things later. So, all I want to show you right now is languages are similar to one another in a principled way. They vary from one another in a parametric way. So, when we say there is an underlying system of language, that in that sense, we are talking about principle. Okay? And when we are saying that English is a verb, a medial language where verbs come in the middle of the sentence, and Tamil is a verb final language where verb is the final element in normal speech, verb is the final element in a sentence. It comes right before the full stop. That is called a parameter. That is, the position of a verb is a parameter to see the differences between languages. Okay? And there aren't, the parameters are also systematic in such a way that there are only going to be three positions. And no further permutation or combinations are allowed. That is, if we are talking about position of a verb in a sentence, a verb can only be either in the beginning of a sentence. It can be either in the middle of a sentence or at the end of the sentence. All the languages of the world will follow one of the three parameters. So, what we mean by a parameter is the position of a verb in a sentence is a parameter. However, these parameters are also systematic in a way that there aren't going to be hundreds of parameters along which languages are going to vary. So, think about any language that you know. They will definitely fall in between these three. Get it? So, this is what is called a parameter. All right. So, now I hope this definition of language makes more sense to you. Does it? It's just written with few words. Everything about it, I have already told you. It's a fascinating human capacity. That is, the language that we are talking about is about human language. That is what we refer to as natural language. Therefore, I have discussed this thing in the last class that there are differences between artificial languages, body language, sign language. But, object of inquiry for us, the language that we are going to be talking about is what is called natural language. That is, the languages that we speak, language that humans speak. Therefore, this definition, is a fascinating human capacity. And at the same time, such a capacity is very powerful and a very complex system. Complex or not, it's a system. It's not a random thing. It's not an arbitrary thing. And therefore, we learn these things also in a systematic way. It's just that we don't know how it happened. And I'll go into the details of that later. And therefore, I have put this thing here for you to be familiar with this right in the beginning, that... Have you heard the name of Plato? Must have heard, right? This was his question, which was not really meant for languages, but this has been used in understanding how we learn language. He had a... You know, philosophers have lots of questions of very different types. So, he had a question, how do we know so much, given so little, right? And then, people studying language, namely linguists, have used this thing, what is known as Plato's problem, in understanding how we learn languages. And then, I'll expand that to you later. And this is also referred to as logical problem of language acquisition. That is, how does it happen that we end up speaking a language? And this is what I was asking you. And I want you to think about that. How did it happen that you started speaking Telugu or Tamil? Or somebody is more comfortable with Telugu or more comfortable with Tamil? Why did it not happen that you were speaking French? And if there are similarities in all the languages, why do we know to speak all the languages? Absolutely true. We speak Telugu because you are surrounded by Telugu-speaking people, right? And if the reverse of that is also equally powerfully true, that if you are not among Telugu speakers, then you will never learn Telugu. That is in the way you speak. And here, when I am saying learning, I am talking about children-acquiring language. We are not talking about second language learning. That is, language learning or teaching in a classroom at a much later stage. We are talking about first language learning. We are talking about children-acquiring language. So, if children learn Telugu, they end up speaking Telugu or Tamil because they are surrounded by Tamil or Telugu speakers. And same thing applies for all the languages, I hope you understand. I do not need to repeat this thing every time. And equally true that if you are not surrounded by Telugu speakers, then you will not speak Telugu, even if you are born from Telugu-speaking parents. So, just the fact that you are born in a Telugu family does not make you speak Telugu. That is also one of the questions for serious examination by biolinguists. But this has been falsified several times that Tamil child or a Telugu child, if raised somewhere else in French society or English society or any other Hindi society, you will be speaking Hindi more comfortably than Telugu or Tamil. How does that happen? What are the factors responsible for that? We will be discussing those things as well. And I am raising these questions for you only to think about it. So, when we are talking about these things, I would definitely want to hear your inputs. And I do not mean to prove you right or wrong. It will be just interesting to see or to discuss and at least for me to see whether you have thought about these things or not. So, we will come to language acquisition in a moment. This is one more thing related to Plato's problem that I wanted to discuss with you. This is what Charles Darwin wrote once. All of us know Charles Darwin. All of us know what he is famous for. And it has huge implication for how we learn language. And this also refers to what is more interesting or which part of language study is more interesting and why the object of inquiry in a scientific research of language is only spoken language. So, read this thing carefully. Man has intrinsic instinctive tendency to speak as we see in the babbles of our children while no child has instinctive tendency to bake, brew or write. You understand this? All the three things that he is referring to bake, brew and write are activities that we do not do instinctively. However, speaking a language is very instinctive and it is very common to find people who do not know how to write or may not know how to write, but they speak language. Therefore, writing, learning to write is never a prerequisite for learning a language. And in a more precise way, learning a language does not even refer to learning to write. Get this thing? However, I am not saying that one should not learn how to write. That is not the point I am trying to make. I am trying to make how learning language is instinctive. If we are talking about and when we say instinctive tendency of children and babbling of children, of course we are talking about normal human child. There may be some children, some babies with some disabilities. We are not talking about that part of disabilities. Normal human children have this instinctive tendency to speak. They start babbling and about babbles I will talk to you more. So, it sounds like just like birds learn to fly or fish learn to swim. We learn to speak. It is just like we grow up. It is so mathematical. And I mean it in a serious sense when I say so mathematical. A 5-year-old child after 5 more years is going to be 10. There is no miracle in that.  Same things apply to nails and it applies to us. We keep growing in our height. Of course it does not happen all the time. It stops after a while. Similarly learning a language stops after a while. It does not happen that you keep learning language the way you acquired Telugu or Tamil. If I start living in Hyderabad or Visakhapatnam from today, will I learn Telugu? Some bit of it definitely. There is no denial of it. But I would not be able to learn the same language the way a smaller child learned by living in Visakhapatnam or Hyderabad or for that matter anywhere else in Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu or wherever. Get this point. This is why I want to stop by few more questions and telling you this thing that you know a lot of times people refer to things like stop doing something. This is not child's play. Language is really a child's play. This is one such cognitive ability where children perform much better than grown up people. Rather grown up people cannot perform that way. They are grown up people and let me use a strong word here. I do not mean in a serious way. They are biologically incapable of learning the way children learn languages. Get this point. Therefore in a serious sense language learning is child's play. How? We will look at that later. So we come to some more questions for you before we meet tomorrow to discuss some of them and some more questions. We have talked about it. How many languages do you speak? Everybody speaks 2 to 3 languages. How many languages do we have in this country? Any idea? How many people do we have in this country? We have over a billion. When we say over a billion that over is substantial over. It is not just 100 here and there. Substantial over. It is not a bad thing. Let us not be worried about that. That is also mathematical. That is also normal. All right. How many languages do we speak? Any idea? 3000?  Do you hear this question? Do you hear this answer carefully? It is an important thing that he is mentioning. The moment you ask this question how many languages do you speak or do we speak as the country or the state it is important to address this question of language and dialect. What is it that we call a language and what is it that we call a dialect? And there is another interesting thing he is referring to. Tribal languages. What do we mean by that? And I am using these terms and I am trying to under these understand these terms only to improve our understanding. What do we mean by tribal languages? Languages spoken by right we usually do not have a script in this spoken language. Do you see this answer? Does this tell you something? What does this answer tell you? There is this particular kind of prerequisite in our understanding that for something to be called a language it must have its own script. However, what we refer to as tribal languages may not have scripts and very quickly we are not winding up these questions. We are just opening them up. These questions do not fall directly within the preview of this course. However, we will definitely address those questions before we move on to something else because these are important questions for us to understand. So, one more thing from you So, what do you think will be the difference between a language and a dialect? What is it that we call a dialect? Minor variation from the major language. Is Telugu a dialect? Is Telugu a dialect? And also I want you to understand are these terms language and dialect are very loaded. Are they are these terms and I have not discussed this thing with you so far, but I must mention it to you. Language is also a very important marker of human identity. We identify ourselves with languages. Sometimes it is stronger marker of identity than religion. Therefore, these terms are so silly loaded and it is important for anyone to understand these terms in proper perspective. So, I do want you to think about this. The differences between the two terms and what do we mean when we say a dialect? I think you have said something important that some variation from main language then what is main language and how do we know which one is main language? Or who speaks main language and who speaks variations? How do we know them? Who know these things? Or how important are these things? Particularly with reference to what we know about language. Get the point and I also want this answer from you tomorrow how many languages do we how many languages does India speak? And let me extend this question further how many languages people speak all over the world? Do you think this is an interesting question of general knowledge? And if at all we know the number how do we verify that? So, let us start with some of these questions tomorrow and trust me I am not just throwing these questions I am putting these questions for tomorrow because I want you to take some time to think about these questions and it is not really very important for me to just tell you these answers and move ahead it is important for you to think and then we will do that alright so let us stop here we will meet tomorrow at our regular time thank you


That was the signing day of the DC. Oh, yeah? Are there some players? Yeah. OK, good. So it strange me that this is signing day. The signing day is in December. Yeah, it's a little different, a little different. But hey, just where are you all at? And in San Francisco, what's the offensive side of the ball? We didn't even run the ball last three games and so forth. I think it's, you talk about the run game, I think it's been productive for us the last couple of weeks and it's something that we've continued to hammer away at all season and chip away at it in practice and certainly done a nice job upfront and in the backfield getting that run game going for us. And certainly, going to be another point of emphasis again this week, we're going against a defense that's strong and physical, good linebackers, good front four and they're aggressive. And so it's going to be a great challenge for us. And what about when you look over there, you see both of them. That's how I've been saying. Fred Warner and a lot of people don't know about him. All they do is get him to play a Monday. They should. And what about Fred and him kind of being the guy that's going to try to be shedding down the run game? He's a very good player. Fred's a really good player, athletic, has really good speed. He's physical. He's instinctive. I think that's one of the things, when you watch him play, he has good instinct both in the run game and the pass game. And then you mentioned both up front, I mean, really good edge setter for them, really good pass rusher. I think he has like 12 sacks or something like that. So he's done a nice job. Six? 14. 14, yeah. Positive thinking on my end. That's lovely. Yeah, two of them, I guess. But yeah, he's a really good player. And he's improved a lot since played against him in the past. And I think he's developed into a really physical player, really good pass rusher, very talented. So again, two guys, we've got to be aware of where they're at. And we certainly have to do a good job making sure we're communicating and getting guys on them. In their secondary, Arvind Thomas had to play last week to have Dante's mom pass away. But when they're at full strength, how does that move look like then? Yeah, it's a group that they've had different guys playing at different times. And so I think they're talented. Across the board, they've got good players there. And they sync up well with what they do in the front end. And I think you see guys who do a great job of recognizing patterns are aggressive in breaking on the ball. They've done a nice job as a team of creating turnovers, both interceptions, and punching the ball out. So I think their secondary is good. What's different from the other?  I think the one thing that, having done it for the last two years, you learn to be flexible. And we have certain setups to handle when this kind of stuff happens. And you have to make the best of it. And I think Art's done a good job of spacing things out, doing some stuff virtual. And I think the guys have done a good job of locking in when you need to lock in. I mean, for some of the guys, for me, it's all been in person. We've got the barn out here, which is nice for us to be able to use as a meeting space where you can space out and social distance or whatever. And I think Art's done a good job with that. But unfortunately, I guess probably not seeing Mike on the other side. Yeah, I'm bummed for him. Obviously, I always pull for him to play well, to be healthy. And I know he was bummed to have the season over with the injury. But he's got a lot of years ahead of him, a lot of good football in front of him. I'm convinced of that. And bummed, he's not able to play. I mean, the injury was kind of a long time ago. So I think with just COVID and everything, I think I don't think it's probably as big as the last time we were out there. But necessarily, it's a massive statistical part of the season. How does that change, maybe, how you look at offense, right? How you look at what you're looking at. You know, I don't think it changes. I think you go into it with the mindset that whatever we have to do, we've got to do to win. And whether that's being thrown at 50 times, running it 50 times, whatever that is, you know, you have to find a way to get it done. But as far as approaching week to week any different, for me it's the same. It's trying to find the right spot to go with the football, with the plays we have called, and with the coverages that they're going with. And so whether it's emphasized in wide receivers, running backs, tight ends, whatever that is, it's always a little bit different every week with what you're trying to attack. But from a mindset standpoint, I try and keep it pretty simple for me. Be out there, make sure I'm getting us in the right place and trying to go with the right spot with the ball.  But protecting the football, you know, pretty well, making a point of emphasis of that.  And it's guys, you know, it's not anything magic. It's guys understanding that those things are important. And the effort that they're giving in there has been really good. I also think, you know, understanding situations. You look at the end of the game, you know, with Kyle, as a rookie player, you know, getting the first down, kind of winding back in, protecting the football, keeping the clock running. End of half, last week, you know, I know some people you could want to be aggressive or whatever, but the way the game was shaking out, you know, with the lead that we have, it's end of half with the football sometimes is okay, you know, and not giving them anything. I think the last couple of weeks, we've done a decent job of that. Last year, you got with two and eight in one score game, and fast one to this year, you got six and two. You know, being that you experienced both, like, what is the kind of feel or vibe you get from just a game plan, play-call, and whatever, versus last year to this year, now that you are successful in those close games? Yeah, I think, you know, for me, it's probably not all that different. I mean, I think that it comes down, I've always said it, you know, the margin for error in this league is razor thin, you know, and so the difference is a handful of plays here. I think across the board, we've done a good job situationally, for the most part, you know, in those, what is it, six and two, in those eight games of, you know, end in halves with the ball, finishing two minute drives at the end of games. We've had a few of those doing a good job in some four minute drives that we've had, you know, not giving the ball back or bleeding time to kick field goals at the end of win, you know, those things matter. And, you know, in this league, where there's such competitive balance, you know, if you can do those little things right, situationally, it leads to those wins. And I think for the most part, in those one-score games, we've done a nice job.   It keeps the defense aligned out of rhythm.   And that makes a big difference. You know, this league is about slowing down those guys on the other side of the ball and finding ways to do that. And running the football has certainly helped with that. It's very significant, you know, for us as a team, they're all gonna be this way, you know, moving forward if we handle our business. And so we understand, you know, the position we're in, but we also know, you know, you can't control the next three games. It's really just about taking care of business this week, extending our opportunity to be relevant. And, you know, I'm excited about that. It's fun to be this time of the year, to be in games that matter and games that have consequences.  Yeah, I think, you know, I think you don't have to do anything crazy. You just have to do what you're being asked to do really well and do it over and over and over and understand that, you know, play one of the game is just as significant as SNAP, you know, 65. They all are important. And, you know, for young players, the more you can develop that mindset every week, the better off we're gonna be. So players, Arthur, and you and Russ and a bunch of guys have talked about sticking with the plan as opposed to trying to fix something or deviating from what you want to do. How much of that is Arthur kind of preaching that to just stay in the course and trust that things are going to get better and not panicking with the example, right? Yeah, I think, you know, he's very good at that, you know, staying in the course and continuing to work the things we started working on when we got together in April, you know, and starting to see, takes time, but starting to see some of those things, you know, improve and get better. And it's a, you know, it's, things don't happen overnight, you know, as much as you would like them to, and I think it takes time to, you know, continue to build and get better. And I give credit to Arthur for kind of, you know, keeping that mindset of growth and improvement and being better this time of the year than we were at the beginning. And I also give credit to the players. It's not always easy when things aren't going well to stay the course, to believe in, you know, in the process that we have.  Has it ever felt like that from your perspective?  Each year is different, you know, each offense I've been a part of is different. You know, you're, a lot of, a lot of how you play is the guys that you have and featuring the players that are in the building.  And so at different times of my career, it's been really heavy run emphasis. I think I've early in my career with Mike Turner. You know, it was very much based on the run. And then there were years kind of in the middle where, you know, where we had Roddy, where we had Julio, where we had Tony Gonzalez, Harry Douglas, and it might have been a little bit more pass-oriented. I think it comes down to the guys that you have and coaches finding the ways to give you the best opportunity to win weekend and week out. You know, but the one thing that has stayed the same my entire time in the league is that the game, you know, is really the wins and losses are dictated up front on both sides of the ball. You know, and that part has been the same since, you know, before I've been around.  The guys up front are so important. So offense, from your perspective, and less of a reaction to what you're seeing from defenses and more about just whoever's in your building? Yeah, I think it's the balance of both, you know, who you're going against. But I think more often than not, you have to play with the guys that you have and you have to, you know, think players and, you know, that kind of stuff over plays sometimes in situations.  And I think every team's different.  And so I think that, for me personally, I think that's more how I view it. How do you manage, but last week you talked about when you got the run again going, it helps a balance of offense and it helps you out. How do you manage having that balance of offense versus if you have to throw it, you know, some other time? Yeah, I think, you know, I think one of the beauties of experience is that kind of going back to Josh's question is that I've kind of, I've done it, you know, I've done it where you've had to throw it 55 times and, you know, at the end of the day, you gotta find a way to win. And so if it's not working and that's the direction we have to go in order to win, I'm comfortable doing that. No question about it. And if it is about running the ball and being physical and making it that kind of game, I'm comfortable in that role too. Nothing really. I mean, he texted me last night, they were watching, he was watching film of our defense and I guess there was a clip of Trevor Lawrence through and I tried to catch one on the sideline and it was coming in a little hotter than I thought. Dropped it. And he was like, that was terrible. That's really the only correspondence I had with him. I texted him back this morning, I was like, you're right, you're right. Really, you know, it's not, at least my relationship with him is not that way. You know, it's, we keep in touch. And, but you know, I think we both know what we have to do this week. And there's, at least on my end, and I know from his end too, I mean, there's a lot of respect that goes both ways. Matt, they've been able to put force on the board past couple of games. How did they, what did they do for you as a leader in the team at Fort Bay? How did they do for you? It's awesome, you know, it's great. When your defense is creating turnover, scoring, I like to have the last couple of weeks.  I think it's a group that's gotten better as the year's gone on too.  And I think you're seeing that come to life with some of the turnovers. They're really doing a good job of staying in scheme and playing well. He's obviously an experienced job and, you know, super old man, coordinated and everything. Like, did you see that coming? Like him coming in, being able to, you know, come in and implementing the new defense and then just kind of gradually progress throughout the year to what they actually put up on the kind of points on board. Yeah, I think, you know, I played against him and so I know how tough they were to go against and just his reputation as a coach of creating really good defensive units and guys that play hard, you know, so I always had a lot of respect from afar, not knowing Dean well, of him as a coach. And I think when you're around him day to day and you see how he works with the guys, interacts with the guys, you know, I'm not surprised. You know, I think he's worked really hard and he's coached these guys really well to get them playing at a high level. Basically, what was your hype video like? Man, it was a different time back then. There weren't hype videos. It was, I think it was in February back, at least when I did it. We were in the gym, in the gym at my high school and so the way we did it was all the kids that were signing letters of intent and kind of signed together at Penn Charter. It was a fun day, but yeah, there were no hats, no, it was just, it was different. It was just a different time. Doesn't matter. No, I was really, I was between Iowa and Boston College and Kirk Farrance was still there. He was kind of a younger coach at the time when they were recruiting me, but he was maybe second or third year there as a coach and I went out and visited it with my dad and loved it, but it fell second to BC so I'm happy with how things worked out. All right, thank you. Thank you.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have an insane Flashback SPC to talk about today. There is a big leak going around right now on Twitter about a Flashback Namar SPC, and this isn't just a leak of like, hey, it's coming soon. This is a leak of, it's coming this weekend. So today or tomorrow, we are expecting this big Flashback Namar SPC, which is a game break in SPC. I wanna talk about how much it might cost, what the card could look like, and how it's gonna affect the market, because that is an SPC that a lot of people will want to get their hands on that card. Because Flashbacks, and especially for a top player like that in this game, that will have a lot of hype around it as the hype is already starting to build and the market's already starting to move because of those leaks. I wanna talk about that in all the content released yesterday with the Future Stars team too. Some really insane boosts on guys like Pedri, Florian Vertz, and you know, even Kei Kurei is the center midfielder from the League One is taking a lot of hype and getting a lot of hype right now, along with the new objective which has a really interesting twist to it between Guri and Chukweze, and also the talent scout SPC, and just everything that happened on the market yesterday. There's a lot of movement, especially with the 85 times tens being opened by so many people. SPC fodder was moving yesterday. So we'll talk about all of that in today's video. If you're excited for a Flashback Neymar, make sure to hit thumbs up on the video and subscribe if you're new. Let's get into it, right? Because this is the SPC that is getting everybody so hyped right now in this game. Flashback Neymar, according to Footshare if our resident leaker on Twitter is coming this weekend. He will be a Flashback from his Santos seasons. So back in time, we're going back to FIFA 12 and FIFA 13 when we talk about a couple things today. But imagine this card coming to FIFA, right? Neymar, of course, is a left wing player and anytime there's a central version of Neymar released on this game, there's a lot of hype for it. These Flashback SPCs are cool. These are some of my favorite ones where they take a player in their current form IRL and they kind of take a snapshot of how that player played or how that player was in the past. Like a flashback in time to where Neymar was when he was younger, right? Kind of the same thing happened last year in FIFA 21 with the Cristiano Ronaldo flashback to Manchester United the first time, right? If you guys remember that card, but there's a couple things that need to be a part of this Flashback Neymar. This right here, this concept that you're seeing is just a prediction, right? If it's a flashback to his Santos days, back in those earlier days of FIFA, right now Neymar is a left wing, right? He's five star, five star. He's got 91 pace, 94 dribble, 83 shooting and 86 passing. If we go back to the Santos days, which I'm flipping, there is a Santos card here. There's a couple of them, right? Before he transferred to Real Madrid, this might be the card that EA would be flashing back to. Now don't worry, I would imagine the card that they're going to flashback to, maybe it's this one. This card should, these, these stats should not be the exact same stats that a Flashback Neymar would have in this game. But I think that EA has to do something very special with this Neymar and they have to give him good stats because if they would give him a card kind of like this or especially back in FIFA 12, Neymar did not have a five star, five star on his card. He was five star, four star. If they don't give him five star, five star, if he's not central, which he was in this version and if he has less than 80 shooting or less than 80 pace, I feel like this Flashback Neymar might be a little bit of a flop, right? I'm just being honest. EA, I think for this Flashback it's got to be a central position. So center forward, center attacking mid, striker, probably a center forward version. It has to be five star skills and five star weak foot. And I think they really can't downgrade the stats that much, right? We saw last year with Christiana Ronaldo's Flashback card from his gold item to the Flashback. They dropped his shooting by 14. They dropped his, or they added two to his pace, dropped three dribbling, dropped five physical and six passing. But also for this Ronaldo last year his gold card was like a million coins and this SBC was 300K. So it was a third of the price and they dropped his weak foot from four star to three star. So of course this SBC last year was kind of crazy. It was like the cheap Ronaldo. Now Ronaldo's gold card this year is this price. It's just crazy how the markets different this year in FIFA 22. But with that being said, with how insane and how insane the power curve is right now in FIFA 22, they have to get this Neymar. They have to give him some pretty good stats. His gold card already, if you compare this card to this one here, I don't expect to see more shooting or more passing or maybe even more physical on a Neymar card now for a flashback card than like over his gold card, right? I think it's gonna have less stats than his gold in some areas but then hopefully the pace and dribbling or maybe up a little bit more that's kind of what we can hope for. So that's kind of what needs to be for this Neymar. Now how much would it cost? This SBC in my opinion with the gold item being 330K on the market, this SBC should be cheaper, right? If the card's not going to be as good I know it might be a central position change which is more usable and maybe EA will make that, you know, price that into the SBC a little bit but I feel like this SBC needs to be 250,000 coins, 300K max and only at that price if they're gonna give him the five star week foot five star skills, they're gonna make him a central card and give him stats very similar to this card here. They need to do that to make this a really high SBC. Now it's already got some hype to it because it's coming out, right? And it's leaked and we're talking about it and a flashback Neymar is just cool, right? That card in this game would be so cool but it also needs to be a good SBC for this to be a hype item to be dropped. So again, 250,000, 300,000 coins what would that look like? How many squads, what kind of fodder would EA require for that? Now right now we have a mid or prime icon upgrade SBC that is like 370K it's 84, 85, 85, 86 rated squads. So I would imagine that if they were gonna do like a 300K Neymar SBC I doubt it would just be like one squad 88 rated, right? They're probably gonna require maybe an 84, 85 and 86 rated squads. That would kind of put you in that 200 high to like just below 300,000 coin range maybe an informed requirement or two something like that would be what I would expect for this Neymar card. Now speaking of the market, right? Would that make SBC fodder go up? I absolutely think that it would. I think people would see a Neymar card like this especially if it is central and it does have the five star, five star people would be very, very hyped for that item. Now obviously people have already started to sell off their gold Neymars. This 91 Neymar has dropped down like 40, 50,000 coins probably gonna continue to drop even more into today on Saturday as people maybe expect this SBC to come out today. It's gonna be either today or tomorrow but some people will expect it today as they continue to sell their Neymars on the market. He's dropped down a lot. You even saw some of the Neymar informs and like this informed Neymar was down. He was 1.4 million coins. He was 1.3 mil flat earlier. He's up like 40K since then but people are selling right because the potential for a Neymar SBC to be out is very, very high. So again, and how could this affect the market in terms of other cards that you would buy to maybe link to Neymar? Now think about a lot of Brazilians in this game. Again, it all depends on the value of the SBC. If Neymar is not very hyped or if people say now the upgrade or the price isn't good enough then you might not see these other Brazilians rise but think about why Neymar may not be as hyped this year in FIFA. He's still a very good card but with the prominence of Vinny Jr. in this game and how insane this card is also being five star, five star skills only a four star weak foot but this card is taking a little bit of Neymar's hype in my opinion. So with Neymar being central you might be able to play these two guys together. Maybe Vinny Jr's cards would see a rise after the Neymar SBC is released maybe some of your other PSG links and of course Brazilian icons you would want to keep an eye on. I believe that people started even going out and buying this Roberto Carlos Prime icon because they were expecting that Neymar to be dropping and people would want to link those two together. So watch out for your Brazil icons other Brazil special cards on this game if Neymar is good value if he is a five star, five star item central and it's just a very hype SBC then I think you will see the Brazilian market really rise kind of like last year with the Ronaldo SBC you saw a lot of the UVA and Serie A links go up because of that. So that's kind of the name on SBC again it really comes down to the price and how good the card looks today or tomorrow is the leaked timeframe for that SBC to be dropping in this game. So that's very, very hype and that's what we're looking forward to today on Saturday. Now what other, we have one other leak to actually talk about here in just a second. This was not even leaked actually that's not even the right way to say it. This was a concept card, two concept cards that were actually added to the game. I searched it up on my own companion app to see if this was legit just a couple hours ago and as you can see EA added two special versions of Tanganga and you can tell here this is a future stars item because it's got that little infinity symbol that the cards in this game like Ferrantora's and Elmas and Tomiasu cards that have a player pick or like Shaloba, right? If there's two different options of a card for a future stars, it's got that little symbol above the rating. So we have a right back and a left back Tanganga with the exact same stats. Now it is supposedly said that based on the right or left-sided version, he has a strong foot that suits like a right footed strong foot on the right side, left foot on the left side. But I don't know when this is going to be coming. Of course, it was just added to concepts and it is added to the game. It's not there anymore. EA took it away, but people noticed that last night I went and searched it and it was there. So that is very interesting. I don't know when that's going to come but maybe it'll be coming soon and that's some of the future stars content that we can see throughout this weekend. Now speaking about the future stars content from yesterday, future stars team number two, it's very similar to team number one in terms of a lot of hype cards at the top tier. EA did give out some really big boosts but also the content in general, the SBC was not that great. The objectives are cool but a lot of the cards that are impacts here too are already so cheap. Like look at how many cards we have that are under 50,000 coins. Nunez, Kabure, Adams, Miranda, Ksalisu, right? There are so many cards that are under even 100,000 coins that are a part of this team. Yes, a lot of them do have really good stats but again, and the hype is for those elite tier cards, Lekwa, Gravenbridge, Vertz, Pedri with a five star skill upgrade. This card right here, it's extinct still on the PlayStation at 2 million coins after his price range was upgraded from 1.5 to 2 mil. But this card looks unbelievable. I mean almost maxed out passing, almost maxed out agility balance, high, high work rates, five star skills they gave him a boost there. He's got lean body type. This card is gonna feel so good in game. And I understand why he's extinct at 2 million coins for his first ever special card. Like this Pedri card is absolutely mental. That's definitely the most hyped card out of this promo. But Vertz got a really good boost. There were so many cards that are a part of this team that got good boost. I even think that Brian Hill, of course, slightly biased as a Spurs fan. I'm wearing the Spurs top even right now. I wish this guy was still at the club, but look at this boost, right?  He went from 73 finishing up to 90, 95 positioning. He's got really high agility balance. He also has the lean body type. I imagine that this card would be unbelievably silky smooth in game. So I kind of want to get my hands on him and try him out. So there's a lot of good looking cards in here. Even DACA, he got the four star, four star upgrade as well. Not a really big upgrade overall from his Winter Wild Card Swaps item. But this one is a lot more usable with that four star weak foot that he did not have before, or excuse me, the four star skills that he did not have before. And of course, this one, not too many people had this version of DACA since it was a Winter Wild Card Swaps reward. And this one's on the market. So it's an interesting card, a very pacy striker. I think Raspidori is a very cheap beast or Serial Striker. Squads and Ibanez looks pretty good for a Brazilian center back. So a lot of decent cards released yesterday, but nothing that insane. I'm also very curious about this Keikurei card. I actually packed him from a player pick and he has a lot of hype. I still feel like this card is overpriced.  But he has 95 short pass, 90 long pass, 94 stamina, 91 interceptions, 97 agility, 94 balance, high, high work rates, lean body type. I did use him for one game. He does feel very silky as a super sub for me when I put him in. But I still think with all the other French midfielders and all the other content that we even still have leaked right now, like another Gen Duzzi or, you know, players like that, the Kamara Future Stars that is potentially leaked as well. I think this card still is going to drop in price even though it's very hyped right now at the moment. It is a cool card, but I think it is a bit overpriced. But that of course is a very hype part of the game at this moment. Now, one of the other most hype parts of the game yesterday was the new objective. And there's an interesting twist to this that I want to talk to you guys about. Chu Kueze for a right mid super sub or maybe even in your La Liga team does look like a very nice card. And then also Guri Striker card. This is a French striker that EA is giving to you for playing 10 games of a friendly. I think this card is really, really good. He has four star skills, four star weak foot. I know it says here in game, I think that he's a three star weak foot or something, but it's actually a visual glitch. He is four star, four star, which is very, very nice. He does have some pretty good in game stats. He's not going to be the most meta card ever, but for a free French striker, this is a pretty solid card. This is one of the better objectives in my opinion that they have released this year for the Link City has as well. And I love this concept. This is the interesting part of the concept here.  So two different friendly game modes that match each other, if that makes sense. If you're playing for Choukwaze, you're going to match somebody playing for Guri. It's very interesting. It's kind of cool. And it's not that much of a grind. Only 10 separate matches that you have to play to score in all 10 win four, assist four goals and score the finesse goal, right? And it's really easy to do Guri as well, scoring outside the box, assist three goals, win four and score in 10. So these are like honestly, for 20 games you're getting two pretty nice super subs and it's a really easy grind. So big fan of that, I thought they were going to be released as Academy players, but evidently they were not. EA released them with this new friendly like cross match mode or whatever you want to call it. So that's kind of cool. I do think that's dope. Now, SBCs from yesterday were not as hyped. We had the talent scout winner that we thought we were going to get with leveling from the Bundesliga. It is a very pacy card, but medium, medium work rates, only a three-star week foot and this coming in at like 160,000 coins just didn't get very many people hyped. The biggest hype yesterday was around the Winter Wild Cards, sorry, not Winter Wild Cards. That was the last time of swaps, but a future star swaps and the 85 times 10 packs they got everybody tons of fodder. Now the market actually acted spot on to what I thought it was going to do with the content yesterday and I'm going to show you how it did that. I want to take a look at the price of the mid or prime icon upgrade. So like we said in yesterday's video, everybody was going to go out, open this pack, open their lighting rounds. Fodder was probably going to get cheap for like that first hour and then go up as everybody had fodder and they went to go and do SBCs that were out. That is perfectly shown here on the mid prime graph. You can see the mid prime was like 400K leading into the day yesterday on Friday. It dropped all the way down to 350 during that first hour of content and then shot right back up to 393, almost 400K. So that's what happened to a lot of your fodder cards. Again, kind of as we expected, you saw a lot of these cards drop in price and then rebound back up a little bit. Let's take a look at Lukaku who's now 28,000 coins. Lukaku was like 29, 30K went all the way down to about 26 and I even, when these cards were very low, I actually went into this page on foot bin and I was seeing 88s at 24K. I was seeing Harry Kane at like 40,000 coins flat. These cards were all low in price because they were getting supplied from lighting rounds but then right away, a couple minutes later, they started to shift back up in price as people went out and they did some of those SBCs with that fodder that they had. So the fodder market still though in general as you look at a few of these prices, I wouldn't say that it's low, but it is lower than where it was. Now of course, with a flashback name are potentially coming out, maybe some more SBCs that we have leaked like the Genduzzi and other stuff like that. I think fodder does have more potential to rise. So, you know, keep an eye on it this weekend and even as we take a look like for the Lukaku last week, he was low on Friday, right? He was 25,000 coins rose up during the week with all the content into the mid-30s.  So if you see these guys low this morning or even today into tomorrow, depending on when name are has dropped, how much the SBC costs and stuff like that, it could be another great time with still a lot of content expected to come over this next week of Future Stars might be a great time to stock up on some of this fodder if you have not done so already. Just kind of a tip right there. I think fodder could keep going up if the content stays good and keeps rolling like we imagine that it should. So that's kind of how everything went on the game yesterday. Now, one thing I want to talk about as well. There's a lot of controversy on Twitter right at the moment because of some issues with the division rivals rewards. Now, this was just tweeted a couple hours ago and we have to talk about this because it's some FIFA news for sure. But EA basically with the division rivals rewards, how they were messed up and they were, you know, on kind of being able to be claimed to repeatable. EA has taken some pretty drastic measures here. We have identified active accounts that consistently exploited the Div Rivals rewards earlier this week and have suspended them from FIFA 22 for seven days. So if you claimed your rewards like multiple times or something like that, you got suspended for seven days from FIFA. Let me know down in the comments if this happened to anybody. Nobody's contacted me yet, but I'm sure it's impacted a few people. And then this is the one that released the Bandhammer. The Bandhammer dropped on this tweet right here. Additionally, we have identified active accounts that severely exploited rivals rewards earlier this week. These accounts have received the aforementioned seven-day suspension and will also no longer be able to access the transfer market in FIFA 22. So, you know, I even saw a couple tweets earlier where some guy was like, yeah, my son opened up his Div Rivals rewards, saw that he could claim it multiple times. He did it a few times and now he can't play FIFA for seven days. But yeah, I mean, this is like, I think this is actually the second time this year where EA have banned people. The first time was when, I forget what it was, it was something to do with like Weekend League rewards or something like, oh yeah, the No Lost Glitching Weekend League. The No Lost Glitching Weekend League when people were exploiting that earlier this year. That was a whole issue. So, this is the second time we've seen this. Usually, like, I was thinking back into my mind about when we had the whole situation with the fire and ice cards. Like, remember when everybody went out and was opening packs because EA took the freeze cards or whatever these are called now versus ice cards out of packs? Like, Gabriel Jesus, we were all trying to pack this card because it was supposed to be in packs, but it actually wasn't. So, we were all kind of exploiting an error but nobody got banned for that. So, this is just, it seems a bit harsh from EA a little bit.  These people broke the rules by claiming their rivals rewards more and more times, but it's crazy to see EA banning some people from the transfer market for the rest of the game because of that. So, I hope that none of you guys were negatively impacted by that decision, but I guess this just goes to show that if something ever like that happens again, just be very careful and tread lightly because you might run into a situation where you could get banned. So, that's just kind of something that I saw today and wanted to shout out there. I know a lot of people are talking about it. Some people are like, yeah, that's good. They got banned. I understand that side of the coin and I also understand where maybe some people didn't understand or just saw it and were like, oh, wait, I can keep claiming these? This is weird. So, they just kept going with it. So, I understand both sides of the argument. Let me know what you think down in the comments below because that was pretty crazy to see all that conversation on Twitter tonight. Now, one last thing. Future Stars team member one, we did make a lot of coins yesterday because we bought some of these cards. When we saw the content was just okay. Bought some Konates at $259. Sold those at $294. Bought some Ateas Cunha at $140. Sold them at $170 and above. Smith Row, I got these at $580. Bought a Ferrant Torres at $13. Sold that at $142. And then, Vlahovic, I got it at $480. So, some really good flips there. Still have a couple flips selling. And I did buy a couple Laquaz tonight. Gonna try to flip those into today on Saturday. But yeah, let me know, man. The name or SBC is, of course, taking everybody right now and just getting everybody alert and very hyped for that. So, I really hope that we see that today on Saturday. But either today or tomorrow is when we do expect to see that. Let me know if you're hyped for that SBC down below in the comments. And what you think about Future Stars team number two. But that has been the video for today, boys. Again, if you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. And of course, subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan with Accounting. I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


maybe someday I could hire a running shoe giveaway manager. That would be amazing. If we keep trending in this direction, it just might happen. That's right, Wednesday, July 17th. Today, if you're watching this on the day, this blog publishes tonight, 7 p.m. mountain time is the next live stream in the studio. And yes, it's gonna be a running shoe giveaway version, okay? We do a lot of lives. So the YouTube channel was unable to live stream for three months. How, where does the, I can't believe it's been three months. That's insane. It's amazing that it's back. And so what I'm gonna do now is get organized. I gotta use, so we have a carport that we've converted into a patio sitting area. We've got a big table. And my task now is to get organized and ready for the giveaway so that it can run smoothly. And I can promise you, I promise, we're gonna do at least, oh my goodness, at least 20 shoes, okay, 20 pairs. Now, sometimes usually we only do like 10 to 12, but we're becoming more efficient in our giveaways and also because of your generosity. So just so you know, these shoes are gently used. Some of them are brand new and they're sent to me to my PO box from viewers out there, literally around the world. I must say, probably the leading country right now absolutely is Australia. Sending me shoes, thank you so much. And everyone who has sent shoes for those who truly, truly need them. So anyway, mark your calendars, it's tonight. And if you could, invite your friends, especially those that need running shoes. And like cross country, and I keep saying this, but cross country practice is probably starting up right about now for high schoolers, not only across the United States, but around the world. And so if you could let them know if they need help getting some new shoes. Now, of course, not everyone can win, but you gotta show up to at least try. You know what I mean? All right, let's get organized. Here we go. Oh man, boxes upon boxes. These arrived from Rhode Island this week. Oh yeah, all right. Going out here. One thing is for certain, I need to go get all the shoes that are in my closet in order to open up space inside the house. And then I'll focus on everything out here in the shooty. All right, come on inside. Brand new, brand new sketchers. Here's my boot. Gosh, more sketches. Packing tape for the shipping, which I'll update you at the live stream, how we're gonna do that. I need a warehouse. I need a warehouse. I'm excited. This is good. We need a warehouse. YouTube family, let's do this. Oh my goodness. This is just beautiful. I don't even know what to say right now. This is just my closet, not the shooty-o. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna pause the organization for the giveaway.  So I'm gonna pause. We'll come back later tonight. We'll lay it all out, get it organized, get a nice thumbnail for the live stream and proceed from there. I'm literally speechless. Jays. All right, Ultra Paradigm 4.5. First impressions, publishing at five. Let's do this. Just because. Can't resist. Can't resist. Gonna open up a box for you here in a minute once we get to the running location. Oh man, I just can't. I can't wait till tomorrow. I guess tonight for you guys. All right, let's roll. Forgot everyone. Oh man, so it's finally hot in Denver. It's 97 today, which I know is not very hot with many low cows around the world, but it's pretty warm for Denver. So this Halo headband, it's a lifesaver. It keeps the sweat out of your eyes and I love it. So you basically just put it on like this and I haven't used it all summer because I was injured and it wasn't very hot, but now it's in July and it's finally hot in Denver. So I do that. And then either the hat backward or forward, depending on how intense the sun is that day. And it just keeps the sweat.  And if you live in a humid climate, it's not very humid in Denver, but if you live in a humid climate, this is the money shot. I can't believe I just remembered now to start using it again during these hot summer months. So there you go, just like that. Boom, bada-bang. So anyway, this, I love it. I just love it. And it's almost my favorite piece of running gear for the summertime because I can't stand when sweat gets in my eyes. All right, let's lace up. Here we go. Ultra paradigm 4.5. A stability shoe, all right? Stability shoe, let's do this. All right, got the box. I did not forget, although it was close. Here we go. Let's see. Shout out to Gabriel in New Hampshire. You rock, Gabriel. Thank you for helping others out by getting a good pair of running shoes on their feet. All right, let's see what it is. Come on here. These will be given away tonight. In fact, I'll just say it now. We'll do these first tonight at 7 p.m. All right, oh boy, I see a blue box. So you know what that means? Brooks in the house, but sometimes it's not Brooks. It's not, sometimes it's not the running shoe that is in the box. All right, let's see what they are. Oh, boom. Uh-oh, let me go grab that. Oh, oh, nice. Brooks, this is a trail shoe. What is this? The pure grit from Brooks? Oh man, that's looking real nice. A trail shoe, I do believe. Okay, I'm not as familiar with this. Let me just make sure here. All right, I'm just gonna say it. Nine and a half, nine and a half men's. UK, eight and a half, Europe 43. Brooks pure grit. That's looking real nice. Looks brand new. I mean, it doesn't even look like it's been worn at all. So good work. Thank you, Gabriel. Shout out to you. This is amazing. All right, we'll grab that piece of paper. Oh, it is. Hey Seth, YouTube fan here. Purchased these pair of running shoes, but they fit a bit small. Hope they end up in the hand of someone who could use them. Gabriel, they will, Gabriel. You're the best. Thank you so much. All right, first pair of shoes, giving away tonight. No sweat in the eyes today. All right, I'm gonna do my hopping, my one-legged hopping up this little hill. And then four strides. I wanna go barefoot soon, but it's not quite time yet. That may be next week. I think next week I'll be ready. So let's get that hoppin' on. And away we go with strides. Oh, the run was fine. The strides were excellent. I just haven't been able to do that type of turnover with my legs since early April, since the injury. So it just feels so good to be able to move again at a faster clip. And that is the baby step before workouts. If I can do strides, probably three different sessions of strides, I will feel confident enough to be able to start mixing in workouts once again. And I did them in the ultra-paradigm 4.5s, a very heavy shoe. And yes, my first impressions will be later today at 5 p.m. But nonetheless, I still was able to do it on that grass there. So that was good. And we're gonna go with give for the keyword because you guys out there. And if I ever, I just wanna make sure I'm clear. The running shoe giveaways, I never wanna say I. It's all about we, because I'm simply a bridge between your generosity and these people that need running shoes, okay? So that's the bridge here. Maybe the, oh no, we'll stick with give. I almost made it an audible to a bridge as the keyword, but we'll stick with give because you all are giving out of your generosity for others. And yes, 7 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, July 17th.  And what else on that? I think that's it. Okay, did I, it's been a long day. It's been a hot day. Sometimes the heat kinda gets to me. Did I ask a question of the day already? I frankly don't even remember. So if I haven't, we're gonna get a little vulnerable here. And I'm just not afraid to share that as a 31, 32 year old, I was struggling to buy running shoes. So this is a pair of shoes, the Hoka Claytons that I bought off of Craigslist for $20. Because the family and I, we were just in a tough spot. And that's what families do, right? We help each other out. And that's what this YouTube family is doing once again through your generosity. So the question of the day, have you been in a tough spot before? Where do you need help buying something but let's hone in on running shoes? Like I know that's some, it can be a small purchase for a lot of people, but for others, it can be a big purchase. And this is just the reality of being a human being. Like there's highs and lows on this earth, okay? So I had a little bit of a low two years ago and I had to buy and now look, now look. Like it's like there's shoes everywhere because a lot of things, you know, hard work, right? And just patience and persistence and believing in the cause at hand. And so I'm just excited anyway. If you feel comfortable answering that question of the day, feel free to chime in down below. I'll just be very transparent with all of you. I've been in tough positions before financially where I could not buy shoes. Okay, I'm hopping out on the patio to wrap up the organizing of the shoes.  All right, seek beauty. Actually, wait, we'll say that. We'll say that. Come out to the shoe deal. Okay, I'm so excited. So the first shoes we're gonna give away are from Gabriel from New Hampshire, the second and third pair. So ladies, I apologize. We don't have as many ladies shoes compared to the men's shoes. But the second and third pairs will be these Brooks. What are these? Oh, I don't even know. But two pairs of Brooks for ladies, they will be for you. So make sure you're there early. And I just thank you for sending ladies shoes because ladies shoes because we just don't quite have as many but we'll continue to build up the stable of running shoes here. So look at all this. It's amazing. All right, that's it for today. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. Take beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow. See you at seven. See you at seven.