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The featured box in this video is the 1984 Generation 1 Mini-Bots. Yes, the original little transformer toys that helped kick off the entire toy line. And what was cool about these guys, they were easy to pick up with your allowance as a kid. They only ranged anywhere from $3 to $5. Very affordable and easy to find. I can always see these guys on the pegs at my local Roses and Kmart back in the day. Now, with these guys being part of the initial wave of the transformer toys, they appeared heavily in the animated series and Marvel comic books where they were portrayed as major characters. Especially figures like Bumblebee and Braun here that actually continued on pretty much all the way through Season 3. So I kind of got inspired to take a look at these guys after reviewing Hubcap yesterday. And I thought this would be a great trip down memory lane. So without further ado, let's take a look at these fantastic transformer figures that kicked off one amazing toy line. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now, we'll start the video off by taking a look at the minibots in their vehicle modes. And from left to right, we have Braun, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Gears, Huffer, and Windcharger.  The vehicle modes were very durable. They had easy transformations. And man, I just had so many adventures with figures just like these. That's why it's so hard to find the original old G1 toys in good shape. Fortunately, a lot of these have been reissued. Now we'll start things off by taking a look at Braun first. Braun here is some kind of off-road vehicle and he looks really good. Lots of molded details on the figures. You can see, mine's a little loose. But you got the molded in windows, the door handle. I love the front with the chrome. G1 was all about the chrome. A little Autobot sticker there on top, spare tire on the roof. Little light details, a roof rack. I love how much detail is in some of these guys. He has nice hard plastic tires that roll really well. Like I said, these guys are just fun to play with. Now transformation to Braun, he is the more complicated of the group. First thing you want to do with him is you're going to bring the legs down. Now they will catch. So you want to make sure you get the legs down. And now you got these little door panels, you're going to pull these out. Make sure the legs are straight across here. So you got some clearance. Now pull these doors out. Mine's going to be a little stubborn. It's been a long time since I've fooled with these figures.  And you'll see this little chrome arm right there on the inside. So bring that arm down while pulling the panel back. So there's one arm there. This one's a little easier. It's looser. Get this all the way out. Pull the chrome arms down and flip that panel back. And there we have Braun in robot mode. And yes, he is a far cry of what he looked like in the cartoon and comic book. I remember as a kid, I was so disappointed when I got these figures and they looked nothing like they did on TV. Of course, back then I didn't know that they were carried over from Japan in the Diaclone line.  Now back to Braun. He's got a very robotic head sculpt right there.  Excuse me.  I mean, he was a very strong Autobot. And this guy, he looks like a Star Wars droid. Stickers on mine still look really, really good. I forget where I got this figure. But I was so happy to finally get one because a lot of the bronze I would find online were always broke. So there is Braun. Next up, also he doesn't have much feet to stand with here. So let's see, give him a stand up, stay. And next we'll pull out Bumblebee. Everybody's familiar with Bumblebee. He is a Volkswagen Beetle kind of done up in that squat penny racer style. He's got rubber tires. Lots of great details as well. You can make out the headlights, the details there on the hood.  He's got a sticker with kind of, it looks like a fan. I always wondered what that was exactly. But yeah, there is Bumblebee transformation for him.  Section out and be very careful because if you pull by the toes, you can actually pop the feet right off. And you're going to swing those feet down. And there you have Bumblebee in robot mode. And take a closer look at him. Yes, another figure that is a far cry from his appearance in the generation one cartoon. But he's still pretty cool. Now as a kid, I did not have the yellow Bumblebee. I had a red version, both him and Cliffjumper switched collars for some reason. I'm sure there's a history to that. I didn't bother to look it up. Now right here, it's funny. I've got fishing line wrapped around his arm. This is way before I knew about floor polish. His arm was really loose. So I took fishing wire and put wrapped around the joint so his arm works. Now articulation. He's a G1. The arms do a complete 360. Toes can go up and down. Head can go up and down. And that's it. So there is Bumblebee. I wanted to show Braun. I forgot to show his articulation. The arms, they can move up and down. There you go. So let's see. Next up is Cliffjumper. Cliffjumper is a very squat looking Porsche. And he's really good. This was always one of my favorites as a kid. But like I said, I had the yellow version. But still, he's a fun figure. One of my favorite ones from the cartoon series. Lots of nice details on him as well. Rubber tires in fairly decent shape and stickers in good shape. Getting him transformed exactly like Bumblebee. Pull the arms out, flip the head up and get those legs out. Once again, you don't want to pull hard on the feet because they're just clipped in right there. They'll pop right off. And since these are such old figures, you do not want to break that clip. So Cliffjumper in robot mode. He is the only one that looks like his animated counterpart. He actually has the G1 face that you see on TV. And I think that's why I always like this guy. He looks so much like he did on the show. Articulation for Cliffjumper, same as Bumblebee. Arms can do a complete 360. Man, that one's tight. Head, up and down. Feet can move in that rub symbol. That one is shot. So there is Cliffjumper. Next up is Gears. Now Gears holds a special place in my heart because Gears was my very first Transformers toy. So I just, I love this figure. I think I got my Gears at a church gift exchange. And of course my very first experience with the Transformers was issue number three of the Marvel Comics series, which featured Gears heavily. So I was tickled with that.  Once again, lots of nice molded details. I love the little vents right there below the windshield. He's got a sunlight roof.  Sunroof, there on top. Chrome there for the grill. Plastic tires that roll really, really good. And that's about it. Gears, here's one of the more easy transformations.  And then pull the sides out for the arms. And there you go. There is Gears. And Gears, once again, doesn't look a thing like his cartoon counterpart. Except for the dome head and the little red sections right there. His head, he looks like a flat out 80s robot. You got the blue visor, silver head, sticker decals, not too bad. He's a good looking figure, fun figure.  Articulation, the arms can do a complete 360. And I guess he has a knee bend due to transformation. So there you go, guys. There is Gears. Next up is Huffer. Huffer is some sort of flat bed cab. Nice details on him as well. Love the chrome grill. Got the black windows, the lights there up top. Thought about logo there. Chrome arms. Now this Huffer here, I actually restored all of his chrome with one of those Molotow chrome pins. So right there, big promotion for them. You got G1s. Those chrome pins are awesome. Huffer here has the hard plastic wheels. He can roll really good. Getting him to transform another simple one. Mine's a little tight though. You just want to pull the legs down. I don't know why that one leg is so tight. But you get the legs down. You don't take the cab here.  And then you're going to pull the arms out. Flip them around. And there you have Huffer in robot mode. And I got this one leg will not come down all the way. So he kind of stands at a lopsided angle. Cannot figure that out. Do not want to force it. So Huffer, once again, doesn't look a thing like his cartoon counterpart. And his arms are so odd. They kind of have this weird T-Rex look to him. But hey, it was the 80s. And back then as a kid, this also was one of my favorite transformer toys. Head sculpt, very different from the cartoon. But I love it. Very robot looking. Silver eyes. The blue head.  But man, he's from 1984. Like I said, I cannot get that leg out. So we'll go ahead and put Huffer there beside gears, kind of leaning to the side. And last but not least, we have wind charger. Wind charger is one of my favorite vehicles. I can't remember exactly what he is, a Corvette or a Trans-Am. Hit me up in the comments. I know you guys will correct me and help me out with my memory. I'm getting old. But he looks so good. I love the looks of wind charger. Of course, he's a sports car. In the 80s, we were all about the sports cars. Black windows. Got the sunroof there. I love the details on the back. Fairly good details here on the front as well. Got the chrome grille. It's just an awesome looking vehicle. And like the others, rolls really, really good. Transformation is a super simple like gears. You're just going to take the back section of the vehicle, flip those around for the legs. And why is this one sticking? I get nervous when I transform G1s. I don't know why that is sticking. Okay, had to talk nicely to it to get it to open up. So flip the legs down, pull the side panels out to form the arms. And there is wind charger, another one that is a far cry from what he looked like in the cartoon series. Now, wind charger here has never been one of my favorite G1 robot modes because he just looks so weird. I'm sure if I can get focused in or not. But never a fan of that face sculpt. I can't tell if he's wearing a hat or if that is his eyes or what. But yeah, there is wind charger, his articulation. The arms can do a complete 360 and that is it. So there you go guys. That is the original 1984 lineup of minibots. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is the 1984 Generation 1 minibots with Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Titan's Return Braun, War for Cybertron Trilogy Netflix Bumblebee, and Kingdom Huffer. The Transformers 1984 Generation 1 minibots will always hold a special place in my heart.  Plus, I had these as a kid and every time I mess with them, I go back to those glorious days of the 80s. Now granted, they don't hold a candle to the new modern figures with all the articulation and fancy transformations. But for me, this is all about nostalgia and we wouldn't have those great Transformer figures we have today if it wasn't for these guys right here. So there you go guys, the 1984 Generation 1 minibots. So, does the 1984 Generation 1 minibots belong in your collection? Absolutely. You cannot be a Transformers collector without having one of these figures.  So, absolutely, you see one of these guys, pick them up.  Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. Also, if you're in any position to help out the channel, I do offer channel memberships here on YouTube and I have to give a huge shout out to my current channel members because it's support like yours that helps keep this channel growing. Once again guys, this is Patreon Prime, signing out. Ha-wah!


And let's just see what that canner would feel like getting that bit out of her mouth. Feels pretty good to me. And as you can see, she's not out of control. She's not pulling on me. But I had my prerequisite set before I got on her. The canner feels really pretty good. Pretty nice. Bouncing along, bring her


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is Friday. And does that mean we have another promo? Yes, it does. We have another promo coming this weekend. And it's kind of an interesting one because we don't have a loading screen at the moment right now. We don't know clearly what it's going to be, except for we know it's going to be Konmibol Liberta Doris Related. We know it's going to be related to that new content that EA is putting out in the game. And we're going to talk about it today because usually on Thursdays we get loading screens, right? We didn't get a loading screen yesterday. Now it's Friday. We don't have anything as of yet. Shapeshifter is ending. We know we're getting Liberta Doris content, but are we getting something else? I want to kind of talk about that as well. What could happen today? This is kind of like a question mark today on what could be coming in FIFA Ultimate Team. We just really don't know that much. One thing we do know is that obviously it is Liberta Doris Related. Of course, we've looked at this website and multiple times in the past week about this content. Of course, it did drop in the game with the, I think it's like career mode content. You can play with like the clubs that are going to be playing in this tournament, Konmibol Liberta Doris and all sorts of stuff in other areas of the game. But the part that is relating to FIFA Ultimate Team, we haven't seen too much of that yet. We have seen the new icon, Rykel May, that has been put into the game. He's got a prime and a moments version, which to be honest with you, both of these cards, they're just okay to be honest with you. The moments card looks all right. Oh, he's got, interesting. He's got the baby and the middle version. I actually haven't even seen those. Obviously they're not in packs, but it's interesting that he has a baby and a middle version. So I guess technically they have those cards made and they're going to be put in the mountain FIFA 21 or maybe he'll be available from like a baby or a mid icon pack if they ever do one of those. That could be interesting. But this card, it does have five star skills. You got the four star weak foot, but the work rates are not ideal at all. And it just honestly looks like a card that you would have fun maybe dribbling around with in the game, but other than that, it does not look super duper insane. Nothing fantastic about this card, being the prime moments version and the prime version even is a little bit worse. This one's had plus five pace over the prime. So that was the content that we got earlier this week related to Comimbo Libertadores. But we're expecting more. And also just released this evening, we had card designs released. And this is where I'm getting some of the ideas for what I think this promo could be like. It's starting to look like it could be similar to the Champions League related content that we have because we have three card designs that were put into the database tonight, courtesy of Foot Watch on Twitter. This is the first one, which looks pretty dope to me. This honestly looks like some sort of special card, either like an SBC card or, you know, we have Champions League cards. Like we have Champions League man of the match. We have Champions League road to the final. I don't know if this is maybe like a road to the final ESC version or just a special version of somebody who's gonna be in Copa Libertadores. We have two other versions as well. And this is what reminds me of Champions League because this to me looks like a non-rare Champions League card. And this one kind of looks like a rare version of a Champions League card. So this is just my guess that I almost feel like this might be the non-rare. This could be the rare. Supposedly today in Foot, we are getting 500 plus new players that are related to the rights from this promotion is what I've been hearing from the South American leagues and stuff that have not been entered into Foot already. I noted if you actually go on the companion app and search through some of these leagues, there's some leagues in here that are like unlabeled you can see on the companion app and the web app, they have some really interesting names and they obviously don't show up on console but I think there are going to be a lot of actual players that are gonna be added to the game today on Friday in Foot related to South American leagues, Brazilian League possibly could be getting some players. So I think that's where the content might come from. Now for those card designs, what kind of cards are gonna be put on these cards that I really don't have any idea boys. I really don't have any idea what they're gonna do with these. Is this gonna be a special team in packs?  I'm really curious to see what they do with this promo today because I just don't know how hyped this promo is. I really just don't know how hyped this promo is and I'm just seeing this right now. These both say commie bowl Liberty Doris on the very top, these two and then this third one here says Sudamerica. So actually these cards might not be rare and non rare versions. These might be totally different with this card right here being for commie bowl Sudamerica, commie bowl Liberty Doris and then another version of commie bowl Liberty Doris as well. So that could be something that's interesting. Commie bowl Ricopa, did one of those say commie bowl Ricopa on it? No, it said commie bowl Liberty Doris. This one said commie bowl Sudamerica. Okay, I don't know. So I'm really interested and really not sure what's gonna be happening with these cards today. We will find out but I feel like there's gonna be more. There's gonna be more today. Could they add more icons? That is a possibility. Some people have mentioned like Cafu and other Brazilian icons could be added to the game today. I feel like that's a possibility as well. As of right now in the game, I mean, if I try to go search Cafu, nothing comes up obviously because he's just not in the game but maybe that's something that they could change today as we load into Friday and the content that we're getting today. So I'm really unsure what it's gonna look like with the commie bowl Liberty Doris stuff. Again, some people originally thought it was gonna look like a totally new promo with like a, you know how we had the World Cup mode and had a separate section for that. I don't think that they're gonna do something like that because again, I'm just really curious to see how deep and how far they go with this content because this content is really specific. The Copa Liberty Doris is really specific to one region of the world but yet FIFA and FIFA Ultimate Team is played by people all around the world, right? You guys that are in the UK, guys that are maybe in Australia, you guys don't really have any ties to the Copa Liberty Doris or even the commie bowl Sudamerica. I keep saying Copa instead of commie bowl but you guys get it. You don't really have ties to those things unless you're from South America and around those competitions. So I'm really interested to see what happens today and that's why I also think that we could see more content today in the form of this foot 19 player days promo because last year they dropped this promo right around this time and basically what it was is like a market crash promo. They did this for the weekend. They dropped into packs, the best of informs. We had engagement rewards, we had coin discount packs, buy one, get one free packs, SBC's login rewards and custom kits. So basically it was like a filler promo. This would be the perfect type of thing that EA could add on to this Copa or commie bowl Liberty Doris stuff today. I think this is like the perfect thing they could just tag along with this promotion and include more of everybody on the game instead of just people that are in South America related to these promos. So that's kind of my feeling and this could have some major, major market impacts today. If you throw old cards back into packs, informs, other, like they had a best of informed players here, it actually doesn't show it on here. I might have to find on the website for you guys to find that squad. Actually, I know where I can find it right here. This is where it is right here. These were the cards that were released last year in the foot player days best of. So we had a man of the match card. We had multiple informs. We had some team of the group stages and one team of the UCL man of the match card is what we had re-released but I think there's a high possibility that something like this happens again. And of course, as I mentioned over here, it was Bogo packs and coin discount packs. So buy one, get one free packs and then a coin discount packs with those packs being half price. So if that happens this weekend, that will be massive for the market because there are tons of people on this game. Maybe they quit the game for a little bit or we haven't had any of these packs yet. We haven't had the two for one or half price packs yet at all in FIFA 20. And this is something that always messes with the market when we get something like this. So last year, what you saw with this was those cards that they put into packs, these cards took a massive, massive hidden price. Some of these cards I think were actually released as in the best of team of the week when they did that back during Black Friday. So I think this cool abali, maybe not. Maybe I'm overthinking this but I feel like some of these guys were in packs then too last year. So these cards get hit with a ton of supply because people that have a couple hundred thousand coins just hop onto FIFA and they see half price packs and buy one, get one free packs in here. And of course it's only with coins, right? The only way you get the buy one, get one free and the half price packs is if you get the packs with coins, right? So it's a huge, huge coin sink because people cannot resist packs especially if they throw some conmeable stuff in packs and then they throw the foot player days cards and they re-release informs and stuff. You would see a massive, massive crash on the market because that's just what people would do with they see stuff going into packs like that happened last year. I'm actually gonna look up some of these cards that we had last year. I'm gonna look at the market movements with you really quick. So let's look at that con te inform. I'll take you guys with me in a second when I can find that card. Let me go over here to foot pin and find this con te card that you guys wanna look at with me. Is it a 90 rated con te? There he is, right here. This is the one. 90 rated and go lo con te which was re-released. It was the beginning of March. So if we go to March, oh my gosh, dude. Look at this drop, bro. Seriously, we're gonna have to zoom in on this really quick. We are gonna have to zoom in on this really quick. Check out this drop right here. So this promotion started on March 1st, right? February 28th, last year. The day before the promo started. This con te card was 805,000 coins. What happens? For three days he goes into packs. This card absolutely dies. By Monday the 4th, he's down almost not quite cut in half but he's down from 800,000 coins to 575,000 coins and this happened with all of them and he kinda just went low for the rest of the year, barely rebounded and then we obviously into team this season and that sort of stuff. So this is kinda like a promo where a lot of cards could come to die in price and you probably saw this happen even with team of the years. What does team of the year do or do during this time? Cause this is a time on the market where tons of people will lose coins. Yeah, look at this. So as price is going down, he takes a sharp drop during this promo from 2.5 mil down to 2.3 so that's 200,000 coins over a weekend and then he continues to drop as we get more promos and then the game kinda dies out, I guess you could say but if they do, these half price packs and the buy one, get one free packs, it's crazy for the market because the amount of people that are just ripping 100K packs and getting two of them for 100,000 coins is nuts because people will seriously go nuts for that. So what are you gonna see if that happens?  You're gonna see icon moments cards that are dropping. You're gonna see one of my favorites, Cliver, right? I love trading with this card. I used him in game as well. He's insane. 1.4 million coins right now. I wouldn't be surprised if in that panic, when you see the buy one, get one free packs, most of that initial panic on those cards that are not in packs, a lot of that panic happens straight away because people see and people interact with those buy one, get one free packs in the first two or three hours. That's when the most people get on and interact with those because if you think about it, if you have 150,000, 200,000 coins, you're kinda done with FIFA for the year and you're just gonna say, eff it.  I'm gonna spend it 200,000 coins, basically rinse my entire club of coins and I'll get 400K packs instead of getting two for 200,000 coins because of the half price packs. Then all of a sudden you're like, all right, whatever. They throw some stuff in packs. This is me kind of quitting FIFA in a sense. You rip it with coins, whatever you get is what you get. Maybe you pack something sick and you're on the game for a little bit while longer but that's the kind of mentality that some people will have this weekend with FIFA Ultimate Team and that's something to be very, very careful with because of what that could do to player prices on the game. That's why you see me really liquid right now because I think there is a possibility. They have to do something. They can't just drop the Comibol Liberatoria's Promo this weekend unless they have something crazy planned for it. I just feel like there's gotta be more so that's why I'm really liquid right now. Thursday Flipping was fantastic for me. These Lewandowskis, I'll talk to you guys through this really quick to end the video. Talk to you the Thursday Flipping stuff as we close out kind of talking market on what we could see happen today. These Lewandowskis were bought at 200,000 coins, all four of them. These DeBalls were bought at 110K or below. I had to sell a few of these cards off before 6PM.  We did not. All of these Hollins were bought. Dude, this card was an incredible Thursday flip for me this week. For no reason last night, this guy was like 200,000 coins. He was 240 earlier in the day so I bought all of these under 205,000 coins. I think it was the like 199 to 205 was my buy price on these. Made massive money on those. That's like 30 to 40. 30,000 coins a card almost after tax on some of those. These Trent Alexander Hollins were break even. These Sanchos I bought at 63. All three of these I bought at 63K. I bought this at 109. I bought all of these at 105 to 106. So I made like five 6K card there. Those Hollins I got out of at break even. These Havertzes I basically made one to two K on. The Scorette scribe made one to two K on. I made 10K on that. And then all these Gabriel Jesus cards I bought for 54 to 55K. So I made a solid five to six K on those. And then just a lot of five to six K flips but the Holland and the Lewandowski were massive for me this week. And you might ask why did I go for mostly Bundesliga stuff? Just based on all the special cards that we have gotten lately from the Bundesliga, I knew there would be a lot of people building squads with Bundesliga links needed. So that's why I bought some of those Stryker cards, the Lewa, the Holland, the couple Gretzgris that I flipped in there as well. Yeah, so that was my Thursday flipping. I'm fully liquid right now except for some 86s and 85s in the club because I have been absolutely smashing it on the transfer profit these past, basically this past month, the past three or four weeks if you look at my transfer profit, of course it reset because we're in a new month. I'm at 4.1 million already and we are five days into the month of March. It's been a crazy last couple of weeks for me with some insane icon snipes and just being able to trade a lot with the icons. I can honestly say this, boys, that about, I have 6.5 billion coins right now and about a month ago I probably only had 2.5. So I thoroughly believe that I have made about four and a half million coins since basically the end of the headliners promo. Or yeah, headliners are future stars. I feel like week one of future stars, I think, basically right before the icon moments came out is when I started trading hard again and then we have just gone really hard with the icon moments which are, again, some insane flips and insane snipes that I've been able to find, but the profit has been crazy. So we are climbing upwards and again, team of the season is my main time, my main big goal that I'm going for here. I definitely want to have 10 million coins liquid before that timeframe. I think it's going to be very possible because of how we've been going and progressing lately and that's still what, like a month or so away. So I'm really confident that we will get to 10 million coins in the near future, which would be awesome because I haven't had double digits this year. Or what is that, seven digits? Is that seven digits? Yeah, no, eight digits. I'm going to hit eight digits on the year in terms of coin total because I did that last year and I want to do it again this year as well. But again, if we see the Foot Player Days promo today, if you see anything related to this today, right? I feel like we're getting something, something else has to be added on to this promo, I think, just because EA knows that this isn't something that's going to impact the entire world, right? The entire world of foot content. This isn't like super duper hype for some of you guys that are in, you know, the UK. So that's why I feel like we're going to get something along the lines of Foot Player Days or maybe even Carnabal, but I feel like it's a little bit too early for Carnabal because of what they, when they ran it last year. So we'll see what happens today. It's a big day on content regardless because the Carnabal Liberatorie stuff is just a lot. If they're really adding 500 players to the game today and more icons, that's a lot of stuff they have to add, but I just feel like there's gotta be, there's gotta be something else to it, right? So yeah, if you guys enjoyed this video and you think there's gonna be some hype content today, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and of course, subscribe to the channel if you're new boys, all right? It's been Nate, the Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


Now, Brian, obviously, you know, one of the big stories that, you know, people want to talk about every single day, we could do four hours of it a day on the show is about Manny Machado. And Hal Steinberger said at the owner's meetings yesterday that he will want you to sit down with Machado and ask him about the comments about hustling. Last time we asked you, he was not a free agent yet because he belonged to the Dodgers. So how, what would be able to come up in that discussion that you would have with Manny that would override what he said before and the way he's acted before? You know, I don't want to put the cart ahead of the horse. Obviously, we're in free agency as well as the trade market, you know, which is the winter program for all clubs. And so, you know, there'll be a lot of due diligence. That's necessary, whether it's a small acquisition or a large acquisition.   And you know, those are the things we have to deal with. If you knew that he was just not going to hustle, that that's the player that he was going to be if he signed with the New York Yankees, would his talent compensate for it? Would you be okay with that? You know, I don't, I don't think it's probably productive for me to telegraph, you know, some of those, you know, by answering questions like that, you know, this specific player or any player that happens to be in the marketplace. You know, I think if we, if we acquire guys, I'll be in a position to be dissected inside and out on, on what the process was and why and how we think they fit and if it's controversial, which we've had some of my past two of acquisition wise that I can speak to those. But by the way, we want to, we want to put together the best team we possibly can. We got a lot of good guys already here in place and we're looking to add some more to the mix. Well, let me rephrase the question. Is hustling important to you? I would say that hustling is, you know, always a prerequisite, a prerequisite. It's not something that, you know, but I think sometimes, you know, I know we dealt with this on Robbie Cano where, or Soriano, when they came out of the box. Those are the two guys I remember because I've been here now for as long as I have. And then I remember that there would be a lot of, you know, noise wrapped around those players because the perception that they weren't, they didn't care because of the perception that it wasn't lack of hustle. And in some cases, some of it was an instinctual reaction to what was a home run. Turned out to be a single because it was a ground, a ball off the wall that Sorano did or turned into, instead of a double, it was a single because it thought it was a homer and it wasn't something he was trying to do. It was just something instinctively reacted to and it would get buried by it. And, you know, we would go through the process of trying to unlock that. But that did not make him a bad person or a bad player. It just made some, that was in some cases part of a DNA. And so you deal with that type of conversation several times, both internally and externally, where you're exposed to it. But, you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not in a position to talk to many Machado, you know, I don't know the person. I've seen the player from afar do a lot of, you know, amazing things. And, you know, he's in a good position as a free agent to capitalize the current career he's had and, you know, whether that takes him to the Bronx or somewhere else remains to be seen.  Obviously, you know, that's not, you know, that's not something I want to participate in, you know, if we obviously play on it and if we secure him when the death settles and be in a better position to address some of those issues, I guess.


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And then a big day for Action Learns Plus, we have the Dow DuPont Merge are getting through. Oh my God, this is so big. Now look, it's not going to be three different companies where you're relaxed, they're going to spin off as they spin off. There's going to be a lot being done. Ed Breen is one of the great value creators. I'm here to spend time studying Breen this weekend. He's a remarkable guy and he's a scrappy guy.  He knows.  Thank you so much for a quiet Friday. Thank you so much. I was going to go to the Hamptons. Screw that. Talk to you later.


Highway 17 at the 91 connector eastbound traffic is backing up almost 80th Street, so quite busy through that region, and over to the Queensborough Bridge in the 91-8. You don't realize what most North American cities are like until you step out of your car. Parking lots. Strip malls. Roads so wide they're impossible to cross. Without a car, you're stranded. Lost in a sea of asphalt. However, there's a city right here in North America that shows us things don't have to be this way. It is Montreal, Canada, and it is a Canadian city with very European roots. It is located in Quebec, Canada, the only French-speaking place in all of North America. Old Montreal has a lot of suburban sprawl and wide roads like the rest of the North American cities. The historic city center has largely remained intact with its cobblestone roads and its very European architecture, giving it some very walkable and human-scaled streets.  Old Montreal is home to some of the most European-feeling streets in all of North America. And here you have the cobblestone and brick paving together with the mid-rise architecture and many storefronts that line these buildings. This street is something straight out of Europe. They just don't build streets like this in North America, especially where the facades of the building and the doors and everything spill right into the street. There's a conversation that happens between the people in the building and the people walking outside. There's very little distance between outdoor space and indoor space. As we walk down this street, we can really feel that we are enclosed by these buildings beside us. We feel like we are outside, but also at the same time inside a room, which is how urban designers define a space like this. And there is a serious lack of outdoor rooms in the North American urban design lexicon. Instead, we have parking lots everywhere.  But as you can see, because there's such a lack of traffic here, it's very easy to accommodate. You can see cars and trucks loading and unloading occasionally on the street, but because there's no parking spaces, not that many people hunt around for parking, giving most of the street width to pedestrians. And it's a very nice avenue to walk down. This is Place Jacques Cartier, and this street is not closed off to cars at all. In fact, it has very aggressive traffic calming measures and paving that merely suggests that cars should not be here. I'll show you all the treatments that makes this pedestrian priority street so great. Let's start with this giant bullard by the intersection. This big bullard forces all the turning cars to be very careful that they don't enroach into the pedestrian space. The sidewalk treatment and the paving bricks continue all the way through the intersection, discouraging turning cars from coming through. There's also no curbs in front of the shopfront, which encourages pedestrians to take the full width of the street. These different pavers provide tactile feedback to drivers driving through. It's noisy and it provides a bit of vibration to make sure people slow down as they're driving. And to make sure you don't pick up too much speed, there's a big sturdy stop sign saying, let's at the bottom of the hill on a concrete block. Traffic calming often fails because we only perform one or two out of the combination of different factors that come into psychologically slowing cars down. This can be done through physical barriers or it can be done through more soft measures such as having a large amount of pedestrians on the street, having a narrow street or having the visual perception that you're moving through buildings really quickly. If you have space between two buildings, you don't have to make into a street. You can turn it into a linear park instead, some benches, some planters, some trees, some lamp poles and you have yourself a very nice public space. This is a decently wide corridor, probably about 12 meters across but because of the planters on either side, it divides us up like a boulevard, a mini boulevard for pedestrians. It looks visually much narrower and provides a much nicer place to sit on the sides. Staying warm during the cold winters is one of the challenges of building a city like Montreal. They've created this very neat indoor space by enclosing off what was formerly an outdoor space. Whether indoors or outdoors, the principles of human-scale design remains the same and this street was just as wide before it was enclosed in a glass roof. This is essentially what we want when we talk about a human-scale street, a street that's not too wide and a street that's very comfortable for a person to walk in. This video is brought to you by the EIT Urban Mobility Academy and if you love learning about Urban Mobility, check out their new courses completely free at urbanmobilitycourses.eu, link in the description below. The Montreal Metro has 68 stations in its system and they are all fully enclosed and underground, making it possible for this whole system to be heated. Another interesting fact is that it's full of rubber-tired trains, much like the Paris system that is modeled after. Even though we're in an underground metro station right now, these lights and the atmosphere created by these walls make it feel like we're outdoors in a plaza or street-like setting. I think it's brilliant. The Montreal Metro is not just a place of movement. In fact, it's so expansive that you can even get a coffee at this coffee shop behind me. Need to transfer to another line? Cross-platform transfers make it very easy, just walk from one train to the other, no stairs involved. In a transit network, at least one transfer is almost inevitable. Making these transfers as easy as possible is key to making the system very accessible and easy to use for the people involved. If you want to learn more, the YouTube channel RM Transit has a great video going into detail about cross-platform transfers. This is one of more than 600 Bixie bike stations dotted around Montreal, containing more than 7,000 bicycles in total. Bixie is a combination of the words bicycle and taxi and as of 2018 it had more than 5 million rides per year. Montreal is a city with many hills and the name is actually Mount Royale, which has a huge mountain in the middle. To address that fact, Bixie has introduced these new e-bikes, which makes it much easier to get up those big hills. Remember the good old days when you didn't need a cell phone to run a bike? Well, even the stand here now tells you to download the app. A traffic com street like this one, which is only 30 kilometers an hour, gives a great opportunity to accommodate cyclists of all ages. It feels safe, you're enclosed and car traffic is very slow. One-way streets like this one invite very fast moving traffic. They're hard to cross for pedestrians and biking down these are not a good experience, plus they're very loud. But that's where the two-way bike lanes come in. A two-way bike lane allows cyclists to go against the flow of traffic to get to their destination. Although these two-way bike lanes provide a lot of protection in the road segment, they do kind of fall apart where the intersections are involved. As a driver you have to look both ways for cyclists coming through the intersection and as a cyclist you have to watch both ways for cars coming through. So both parties get out of stress from trying to navigate this intersection. Around Montreal you'll also see many of the one-way blue bike lanes that are much safer in design and I personally prefer them because it avoids the conflicts that these two-way bike lanes provides. This parklet here is a great example of filtered permeability. It separates the commercial street from more residential zone back there. And by diverting the traffic and only allowing cyclists and pedestrians, you also have an opportunity to create a parklet, which is a great public space that can be recovered from what used to be traffic space. An interrupted facade of mid-rise buildings such as this one behind me is key to Montreal's walkability and a sense of enclosure meant for pedestrians. The YouTube channel Ode the Urbanity made a great video about Montreal's unique mid-rise neighborhoods. Montreal is doing a lot to make its neighborhoods more livable and part of this effort is to pedestrianize quite a few of its streets. Here's a quick and easy way to give half the street back to pedestrians. It involves an arch, a sign, and some quick chain-link fences. In this pedestrian zone you have some nice paintwork being applied to the asphalt here as well as a planter that doubles as a little table where you can put your coffee. This pedestrianized space also opens up room for a street market, which you see behind me. Even though it's really cold outside, there's still people selling fruits and vegetables under a gazebo tent. Montreal is not a utopian city. However, it's living, breathing proof that human-scaled cities in North America can thrive as long as we have the political will to make them in the first place. I hope you enjoyed this tour of Montreal, Canada and now it is time to give the city a human mobility score. For transit, I'm going to give Montreal a 4 out of 5 for its very warm and extensive metro system. Even though it has excellent bus coverage, some frequencies are lacking. Although there is a bright light in the future as this city is going through a big transit expansion in its regional rail network. For cycling, I'm going to give the city a 2 out of 5. Even though it was one of the best cities in North America for cycling like 10 years ago, the other cities in North America has really done a lot to catch up. We are comparing this city with other European cities as well, so it doesn't really stack up that well. The two-way bike lanes on many of the one-way streets here are a great idea, but because the signal timing is a bit lacking and it's not clear who has priority, it sometimes creates some pretty dangerous situations for cyclists. For walking, I'm going to give the city a 5 out of 5. It has some very historic buildings and really beautiful streets and is especially stellar for a city in North America. As I mentioned, the winters are very cold here, but the underground city and the metro network give you a nice place to duck away when you just can't take the cold anymore. For bike share, I'm going to give Montreal a 3 out of 5. Even though the Bixie system has excellent coverage and the docks in the bike share system keep the sidewalks neat and tidy, they are a bit of a hassle to get to if you don't know where your next dock is. The other bike share systems that I've experienced in Europe has a much better app experience. I'm not saying that the Bixie system is bad. I'm just saying that there is a bit of a lack of options in the city, so it would be good to see the city experiment with other bike share or scooter options. And that gives Montreal a human mobility score of 14 out of 20. I hope you enjoyed this city and this tour with me, and I hope to see you in the next city.


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