What is up everybody? How you guys doing? We're back and we're live With the dark crisis first edition 36 pack booster box opening this is gonna be pretty awesome. I'm excited for this Pretty crazy box. So gonna be a lot of fun What's up a cycle force helmet? How you guys doing dragon fire drew ease in the chat with that grande moth Except sir Yoshi and the same cards. How you going man? Yep, I went early just for you normally I just sit here and wait till five But I knew everybody say I was late even though I was right on time. So I went one minute early. Yeah, that was for you guys What's up Gabriel? That's all right, man. You don't have to make it in every single one We've got actually tons of box breaks coming up So keep an eye out for those especially you members you will have discounts and stuff like that.  So there's getting the good ones too. Like we're talking really good stuff Talk about like so much to stout so where do you find these booster boxes? A lot of them are people hitting me up Oh, this one like some like these are like commissioned. So they'll hit me up and say hey I want to do a box break What like what can we work out? So then sometimes we do stuff like that Sometimes they're actually mine that I've had and sometimes, you know stuff like that So it just comes from different people Hints on the box breaks I cannot give you hints. I'm not gonna do it, but I will tell you okay. I'll give you okay I will give you Their og and gx era. That's your that's your stuff. All right Dude do the giveaways go outside the US. Yeah, the giveaways go outside the US This bring memory my first in magic spellcaster structured 2003 nice. Yeah magic Magic ruler, you mean? Good luck on today's poll PC gaming commentary. Thanks for the two man. Appreciate it Our box breaks in order of purchase if I buy am I last but no they're mixed up We mix up everything so it's completely random based on when you buy it and based on what packs you get cuz we mix up the packs to You ready for YCS Minneapolis, I am ready for it I've got everything. I've got my my tickets where I'm staying So I should be guaranteed to go there barring some weird thing with that word not expecting So should be there shut up infinity or glass. I don't know could be could be one of those They're both in GX. So do you do full price on international parts booster price on international parcels? What do you mean? Oh? Like to clear. Yeah, I declare fully when I when I ship international So much work with the NFL season But once I have my power rankings out, I'll finally be able to sit down on 150k special nice You do NFL stuff Or is that like a hobby? I don't know But yeah, yeah, yeah, you got a two-hour video to watch when you get to that Good luck on the polls fan from Croatia. What's up Philip? Also my name. So we have the same name pretty cool Good luck. Do you always love live streams? Yeah, I'm glad we could make it back It's been a little bit since we've done live streams Like I think the last one was Megatons and like we haven't done a box breaking quite a while So I'm glad that we're able to get back rolling I've had a ton going on the every pack opening that was tough Like yeah, I didn't even have to edit it took me forever. I like record and like lookup prices stuff like that And speaking of something I have a big PSA return coming over 200 cards in the next I Would say week probably by the end of the week. We'll have it out I was a 207 cards. I looked up all the prices yesterday. So yeah, it's a good video So make sure to keep an eye out for that one as well Hunter house Thanks for being a member for 14 months. Also. Thanks for the Dr. Peppermint glad you got your ebay stuff figured out the other day That was pretty scary You're almost at 200k and not quite not quite we had a while to go for that one, but maybe we can get there Thanks, riss. Appreciate it rice riss. R. H. Y. S. I don't know how to say that Can't wait to hang to bring something cool to open. Yes, definitely dude. Yeah, we can we can do some vlogging You know opening some stuff or whatever All right Miss cycle you got a interview for social media manager of the cowboys. That sounds fun, man That's the cowboys are good right now. They're three and one What do you think it's worth grading TV one to three commons with the cheap the cheapest stuff? Yeah, like maybe it depends some of it's the TP two stuff's pretty expensive. So you might be able to do it for bulk Reese Reese. Okay, that makes sense. All right, when we get 200 likes, we're gonna start the opening So hit 200 likes guys. Let's see what we got 92 right now easy 381 people right here You consider rude to ask for picks for expensive card on TCG player They can't send pictures so it's kind of weird to do it on TCG like because if you do on the messenger You can't send pictures there, which is kind of annoying. So I don't think it's rude, but it's just awkward for the seller Browns fan. Well, they don't have a quarterback right now. So that they're good other than that. I think You know where you can always he's been quiet. Well, it's NFL season. He's big NFL fan I bet he's just taking a break right now. I'm sure he'll be back I've seen him post some stuff on his Instagram if you want to follow him there. His Instagram is just at Yu-Gi-Mou I think This is definitely a good set There's a lot of cool stuff like the exodian across that we want there is in this one It's judgment of the new bus for the secret rare. There's other cool stuff like skull archfiend of lightning a lot of the other Supers are pretty cool. There's like the Zork. I mean, there's a lot of good stuff in here How about cheese versus bucks game a lot of scoring in that one? Yeah Yeah, a lot of football stuff. Yeah, I've been seeing that.  Hundreds of thousands probably at this point because it's been like five years now. So it's really adding up at this point Play a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh, even though I'm a girl nice cool. That's awesome I don't know about dolphins considering the two-way shoot. Yeah, they he's definitely messed up. That's unfortunate You ready for Pasadena? Yeah, I should be there as well. That's the plan Do you have any clash rebellions boxes you could do a live opening? I don't I don't have any clash rebellions right now Can I change my delivery address to a US address from Germany? If you have a US address, yes, but Lions fan. Yeah, dude, they their defense is awful, but they can score. Yeah DMG goes for I don't have any available right now. Yeah All right, we are 24 likes away. We're gonna get started. I'm gonna get started with the opening I've got 36 packs a day. So a little bit longer on this one 36 is out of the 24 So pretty big box as you can tell it's a little bit thicker a little bit of the thick dark crisis box going on here Can we like this dream eight to go until we get started? Hero packs to open not currently Have fun Carlos. Hopefully it's fun, man Do you sell PSA cards? Yeah, I do. I will have some for sale after my new video comes out. All right 220. We're here It's time guys. Let's go. Let's open this thing up Dark crisis first edition box one more look at it before we you know crack it open in its life as a sealed product It will now become an open product. Let's see. Okay Let's cut into this thing. Hopefully it's legit. I mean that there's always a slight worry about that I really don't have a worry based on who I got it from but You always got to be careful, you know, sometimes you can have I think we've had what like one resealed box ever It was never on a box break though. So yeah, we haven't had that happen yet I should probably knock on wood as I'm saying that because that's a bad idea, but Hopefully it doesn't start here. Let's go dark crisis I have opened one of these 36 pack boxes if you guys remember we pulled the exodia neck cross We pulled the judgment of the new best. It was insanely lucky really really good opening So we're gonna okay. There's just so many packs like look at that. That's half the box. There's so many packs It is time to open up dark crisis Shuffle these up a little bit. All right Do you see our skill drain, but it's unlimited nice nice nice. Oh Oh We have an opened pack here. This one looks like Okay, that's what that's gonna be at the beginning. Let's see Let's see about this if this gets sliced open This is weird. This is like is this like a factory thing. I Don't know we're gonna find out All right, so we have a sliced open pack. This is crazy. Look at this We're not gonna open it up because I mean, you know, you never know it might actually have a foil in it So we don't want to spoil it yet, but check this out This is let's how did how did this happen? Look at this It looks like there's no way this was me I definitely didn't do this with the knife I don't think there's no way I could have cut this open like this. Could I?  It's like hopefully the cards are not like destroyed It's like it's crimped except it's like super crimped or like broke through Look how bad it is. I Like normally when you see crimped packs, it's only like a little bit Yeah, yeah, this is definitely factory hundred percent Okay, so I guess we do this one first, right? So whoever's up first is gonna get this pack. Let's see alright We have the new rucks and special chopping open the box somehow. Alright, so first person is Austin M. Austin M is gonna be opening up this pack By the way, if it does turn out that this box does not have the appropriate ratios and it's all weighted on that stuff Don't you worry they'll get their money back, etc. So just keep that in mind if you're worried about this But this to me seems like a factory thing. So it's already open for us, which is always a little weird Let's just see what if it had like a secret rare in it or? Error pack, I don't know error error pack. It could remember last time when I opened one of these with try horn Try on dragon. It was opened already. It had a try on dragon. Let's see if we can get it Okay, so we have all we have crimped carts Which is actually kind of cool, hopefully it's not the foil though We really don't want to crimp the foil if we can avoid that. So this is the card that kept it from being sealed Look how bad that crimping is that's a common though. So not too big of a deal Jeff been yo caught a stream congrats on continued steps with 150k love the content and would see what you got in store for the future Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate it. By the way, if you guys haven't seen the 150k special It's out two hours and 24 minutes. So go watch it first pack of the opening. It's a crimped back Very crazy Austin M. Let's see what we can get you. You have a crimped cotton. We know that iron black Smith Kotatsu pandemonium watch bear the maju Garzette is the one that's actually pretty sick. I Wonder like it if this adds value or not. I'm not really sure. I don't really keep up with misprints too much But that looks pretty sweet.  That looks pretty sweet. Okay Dark scorpion may the thorn Arsenal Robert, let's see if we can get a foil in the very first one dark scorpion gorge the strong fairy of the spring and The Memphis the infernal general Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this thing. It looks pretty sick actually Look at this guy Memphis the infernal general is kind of sick. Okay, so we're starting it off with the rare, but Probably the most unique card of the opening maju Garzette.  I know it's a little bit. It's definitely not as thick as the cardboard I'm surprised it didn't go through I don't know. That's pretty crazy. That's pretty cool to see though. Maju Garzette crimped. I like it Portuguese metal raiders box nice crimp collectors would take it for some values. Most people it's damaged Yeah, but that's the thing about misprints It's like you only got to find those specific people that really like it for like it to be worth more than like a Regular old car because like who cares if like 90 percent of people think this is damaged if 10 percent of them Think it's worth like three times as much as like that's good, you know That's that's a good thing. So Austin M. You have a crimped maju Garzette, which I think is pretty cool Honestly, like it's a good card. I think to have like an error of Think it's pretty cool. I don't know. We'll see We'll see how it turns out. Let me know if you do try to sell it, you know how that happens or how that works I would always suggest going to the uh, Facebook page like the misprints group They seem to have like a lot of misprint collectors like gathered in one spot They could probably give you a better idea, but that's pretty cool They got really mad at me when I opened that pharaoh's servant pack the red red lego pack. All right Let's see what's up. I was about to just open. I forgot. We got we got a look who's up next. We've got pascal j. He's got two packs One two, will you do the same you reach 200k? No, we won't we won't just keep opening every pack over and over Um two packs, but we might do it again in the future at some point, but it's going to be a couple years at least Pascal j. Let's go. It's also very expensive Let's see what we can do First pack pascal No foil so far. Only one pack has been opened. So naturally only one foil One two three four. Let's pull something epic Wild pond archfiend ojama green token Thanksgiving morale booster Anthony thanks for the 199 Ga ga gi go very nice non spell casting area the ray of hope nin 10 dogs and The guardian trice the guardians are at it again. We have a trice. We have a guardian All right, just a regular rare and that's first pack for pascal, but we still have one more to go Let's go. Thank you sam. I appreciate it late to the party you have missed a crimped card so far, which is pretty cool But so far no foils second pack only our third total pack Have we pulled anything amazing yet? Uh, we pulled a crimped pack that had a crimped common in it But that is the best we've gotten so far A sub-a-thon uh, no, probably not That's more of a twitch thing. Also, you gotta have a pretty big live viewership one two three four Which I guess on youtube. Maybe we could do it. I don't know why I just set those down like that a little spoiler All right, let's go We have a final attack orders guardian elma twin swords of flashing light trice gravity axe grar Ga ga gi go someone is screaming outside. You guys hear that Just just yelling very loud Okay Next up ray of hope We have uh, oh my my phone is dying nin 10 dogs and Archfiend soldier. Wow. Okay. We're over three slow start slow start Archfiend soldier is one of the most iconic for me though I remember it back in the day because I all I used is four star 1900s over and over I was like, these are the best you just summon them. They're awesome Uh, I never don't know. I don't post video. I don't not post videos because of bad pulls. No All right moss or gtfo love the content glad to finally catch a live stream. Thanks, alex. I appreciate the 10 Yes, the moths baby. Let's go All right, I'm just hoping our camera doesn't die. That would be really annoying But you know, it's been known to happen in a video and now and then who's up next bruce b two packs Wait bruce b Did you get four packs? It looks like he did let me double check this though because I really don't want to like, you know They messed the numbers up. I counted up earlier. It looks like we had the right amount of packs, but I want to double check that everybody has the right number. You know what I'm saying All right bruce b There he got two packs And then bruce b got two packs. Okay. So we got two packs twice. Nice. Nice Okay, gotta stop game of thrones to watch. Nice. Nice. I like it. All right four packs for bruce b So he went in hard. Let's see if we can get something good one two three four No, I don't have ideas for 200k because we are like a year away from that. So Yeah, we have not thought about that yet. We just passed 150. So we're sticking with what we're at right now Since we just kind of finished up 150. I haven't really considered what the next thing is First pack. Do you have blacklist or soldier? I'm sure I do somewhere. Yeah Soldiers started at kyba 10 years ago. Ouch The exodia nekros PSA 10 I think is around a thousand one two three four So it's a pretty nice card archvines oath. I deal with dark ruler the vial upon archvines for bruce Oh jama green very nice the frozen soul staunch defender archvines roar and we have thousand needles and we have Death's feral imp. I love how feral imp has a retrain like in dark crisis already It's weird like it has feral imp and then death's feral imp. It's not really a retrain actually It's just like an upgraded version, but they got into that quick. Whoops. I also just uh May have forgotten to put the whole thing in there. So there's the first pack of bruce b He's got three to go though You ready to play or play against mystic mind decks. Uh, no, I I haven't played at all. I'm not ready to play against any decks. So We'll see how it goes. We'll see if I do any prep or not Would you sell a starlight area the water charmer if you had to run right now? It depends on if you need the money or not If you need the money, then sure go for it one two three four If you want to collect it then no that I wouldn't just depends it varies from situation to situation But I know that is an expensive card. So dark crisis check dark crisis dark scorpion check to the yellow. There we go zolga death's rick archvine guardian caest Dark scorpion may the thorn the scorpions are everywhere in the set arsenal robber dark scorpion. There's gorg the strong Okay, fairy of the springs and Ooh inferno queen archvine. We are officially on like what over five slow start What's our worst ever like over 12 or for 11 something like that? We've had some pretty rough starts before but those boxes didn't do crazy. So they kind of made up for it Did I hear about the access code reprint? I saw a meme of it I like the old meme and I was wondering like is that a meme or did it actually get reprinted? Do you use your phone? Yes, I use my phone. Yeah Your phone is your best asset when you start. It's such a good camera. All right. We got one two three four third pack for bruce Let's go Locals journey because I just don't really want to play in locals right now to be honest Like if I ever feel the need to like go play locals, I will record it So you guys will get a video for that. But right now I really don't want to Uh flashing light trice. I've had way too much going on growl altar for tribute iron blacksmith kotatsu battle scarred acrobat monkey Sasuke samurai number two shooting star bow seal and Our first foil a mudora super rare. All right super rare mudora. We will take that almost through the card That would have been bad. All right mudora super very nice First hit of the box. This one feels like it's always in dark crisis boxes. I feel like I always see this card Okay, third pack not bad. Uh, which meta deck are you playing? I don't know yet. I have not decided I really haven't done much at all in terms of prep for minnesota besides like getting the plane tickets and where I'm staying So which I get and and registering. I didn't forget this time. So I guess that's really the most important thing You know and then eventually figuring it out All right I actually caught a live stream what I missed so far. You've missed a super rare. You've missed a crimped common Uh, and hopefully right here a big card. We got an arsenal summer third pack for bruce Why would I almost think his name is brooks for some reason battle footballer? Uh, oh ruckson special don't want to miss precious cards from beyond goblin of greed Shenado's arc Acrobat monkey. Come on. Can we get something else sasuke samurai number two shini star bow seal and we have Wicked breaking flamberg bow. I actually opened some dcr earlier today for a video And now it's like I've seen these cards a lot today I've seen the seal a bunch. So that is four packs for bruce b We've only gotten one foil so far out of five packs. Is it five? I think it is five Huh interesting. Wait, what do I do with the other pack? Okay, no, no, no, I forgot about two of them seven packs. All right. Yeah access code reprints So is it actually like being reprinted? I was actually going to sell my golds the other day So I'm going to get punished for that, but that's okay Other new card types from after gx is complicated as I think they're I'm going to double sleeve this card up Uh, after gx. No, it doesn't really get that crazy If you're talking about synchros and stuff synchros are not that that complicated. I actually think they're pretty fun It's what's against to like uh, pendulums links and stuff like that. It really gets crazy In the crystal beast box Which box is that is that the uh, is that the brothers of legend or is that the uh one like around that? All right, do they get a leak I guess for that? When does that come out? What's your opinion on dragon shifted dragon shield sleeves? They're good sleeves. They're solid All right, let me sleeve these up and then we'll move on bruce b Four packs. We got one foil about on average there. So but nothing too insane.  So we've opened seven. We've got like 29 packs left These 36 pack openings are much longer like there's a lot more packs going on Brothers of legend access code reprints. So it doesn't come out. It's like december or something like that. Okay All right, who's up next? Nima are nima are I think about me nima nima are okay. Let's see if I can get this right They're between xc summons and regular tribute summons a huge difference Yeah, you're gonna have to look up like a simo video on how to summon but you overlay xc's you tribute. Yeah, it's a lot different Okay, let's go first pack What will we pull? one two three four We have guardian chaos for nima checkmate Ruckson special we have the final attack orders guardian elma ruckson special twice in one pack Fairy of the springs dd trainer. Can we get something agito? Am I gonna ruckson special again? Kelback no, I didn't there. I did thought that was the last guard. Okay. It's a ritual Ah, the legendary flame lord always trolling me. I always think it's gonna be something good because it's in the foil slot Just a rare ritual. Okay All right, nima, thank you for being in the break Unfortunately, just a rare on that one. We are really starting off slow on this So we could go crazy at the end here. We still have a lot of packs to go though in these 36 pack boxes There's nine to ten foils usually so a lot of them aren't you know, of course not foils Now we have john oh people are still screaming outside very interesting one pack Here we go Blackwing value ulti on limb hitting $270. I didn't see that but that is hilarious Is that because of the Edison? I guess people buying it out All right One two three four, let's go john oh We have sestis of dawgla Really eternal rest drag down into the grave rata silence k-ist dd trainer. Let's go john Let's get something agito one pack magic kelback Battle scarred and finally Dark scorpion combination where are all the foils we have one so far one single foil not good not good Spending all your Christmas money on this set as a teenager and didn't get anything that is painful man.  I think I think it's probably not what they're saying, but you could be right Who knows? All right, we'll sleeve it up like that All right Continuing on let's pull something good david g two packs. Let's go blackwing sport coming out I had a value. I think I sold it like 70. So I should have kept it two packs david g. Let's go Let's get you something good. Do I want to put this there? Yeah, that's fine. Okay Pull exotic a neck cross. Let's do it One two three four Will it be the neck cross we have precious cards from beyond goblin of greed Archvines of a deal with dark ruler. We can't get the berserk dragon in here We're out of mind's eye blindly loyal goblin mustering of dark scorpions spell reproduction and a Fear from the dark. It's dark. It's fearful and it is not a foil. That is not what we want We are fearing that there are no foils. So where are they? Well, we we have at least one but Hey ruckson need your expertise. I have a kinami giveaway card that I want to grade do I grade it in its pack or do I open it and send it I think usually if it has like a sealed thing you probably do that But I could probably go either way.  It's been rough so far. We have dark scorpion chick the yellow dice reroll zoga deskwork archfiend ghiaki guyer penda dark scorpion mene the thorn arsenal robber dark scorpion gorg the strong and Oh a guardian grahl ultra rare. Yes. I love this card and wow I think we might have pulled a gym Like there's like slight slight stuff going on there, but not much and the centering is pretty good. Oh, no, I jinxed it Look at that guys. Oh, no a little ding at the top It's really not bad, but it was like psa 10 caliber besides that Oh, that's unfortunate. It's still a really cool card. I'm a huge fan of this card It's like not super valuable, but it is a really awesome anime card Oh, I love that episode when he's a you know beating yuki. Whatever his name is rafael Yeah, that's a really cool episode. So or it's like multiple episodes actually but We'll take that the ding is killer that is killer, but still a really really nice card David g almost forgot about your second pack and there it was. We had a grahl Okay, the panda's $10 common. All right, keep that in mind Uh, everybody who pulls one in this opening gaki guy or pandas $10. So that's a nice card Also, we got to look out for skill drains. We got to look out for sukiyomi rares stuff like that. So Very solid stuff going on in this opening. How much is exodian nekros 80? No more than that Well first edition uh near mint maybe 80. I don't know, but uh ps a 10 is a lot more than that If we are able to pull a perfect one Let's go Which would be great. I mean, it's definitely not guaranteed, but it would be great to pull a perfect one I did when I opened mine. I pulled a perfect one. So it's definitely possible Early not perfect, but you know ps a 10 caliber All right Just leave it up. Let's get this Packed up for them. All right. And by the way, if you don't get a foil You will of course get a bonus foil when I ship them out. So keep that in mind if you don't hit anything All right, next up is inga knee. I'm gonna take some water real quick. Take some water drink some water All right Clear the old throat. Let's see we can get to 400 likes. We have 927 people you get 400 likes. I think we can do it Any one pack Oh, let's go one single pack so far two pulls one ultra one super should be like seven to eight more foils Potentially in here. So a lot of juice to be pulled There is the blindly loyal goblin. Let's be careful with these cards one two three four We have the deserook archfiend guardian cast checkmate final attack orders blindly loyal goblin mustering of dark scorpions spell reproduction Ga Ga Geeko and we have Oh, it's sukiyomi the first sukiyomi rare pull of the video Very nice. We will take that. Why didn't this get a foil? Somebody let me know that would have been amazing if it was a foil or a secret or something that'd be really cool Whoo. All right All right, let's uh inga knee congrats on the Nice rare. I mean it wasn't a foil But if you're gonna get a rare that is the second best I would say because then you want skill drain over that probably but Maybe maybe you specifically like sukiyomi sukiyomi more if it was suki, that'd be great Yeah, if you got a message saying that i'm asking for an $80 target gift card, that's a scam. So uh, yeah, keep that in mind Michael s four packs coming up any giveaways that ask for payment or not me so keep that in mind Three packs four packs for Michael s so far Two foils. We got a lot of juice to potentially be pulled. Let's go Can we get a secret rare? Can we get an ultram? All right goat suki you'll love it almost 400 likes let's go First pack for Michael s One two three four. We got the growl so far, which is pretty cool We have an altar for tribute iron blacksmith kotetsu pandemonium watchbear cestus of dagla dark scorpion vanada thorn arsenal robber dark scorpion gourd the strong fairy of the spring And a metalizing parasite lunatite. All right a lunatite not great there, but it's a lunatite. All right I'm gonna get some more water. Oh, I got something in my mouth. Is someone got like a hair in there or something Feels terrible. That's awful. All right second pack. I don't know what that is. All right second pack Michael s I'm turning into a cat or something Let's go I have to remind people of fake giveaways just so I don't get a hundred messages every day It's probably because I actually look at my messages. So then I see like a hundred people telling me that All right, let's go Drag down the grave rata silence chaos. We've got the ruckson special with the arsenal summoner battle footballer shadow knight archfiend kelda pandemonium sakuretsu armor and we have A mirage knight. There we go. This is super rare third foil of the box We will take it mirage knight. Very beautiful. Very awesome. Very very cool card. I like it This also makes the dark flare knight. It's one of the two things. So pretty cool. We will take that Thanks for the nice card too bad. No foil ingan here. How can I send you us address of friend my friend best? How can I send you us address? Oh, you want to send me a us address for the shipping? Uh email or instagram will work. They'll both work. Yeah Yeah, whichever one instagram. We've been messaging instagram so you guys you can send there that would work all right Two packs. Let's go Egyptian collector. Uh, I can't do anything about the customs and stuff It gets stuck there sometimes for international. So we probably just have to be patient. Hopefully it gets through there third pack Michael s. Let's go You see simply his ghost rare stardust bull. Isn't that from like five years ago? You tell him about the shorty post the other day. Yeah, that's like a 2016 video. I think but yeah I watched it back in the back in the day. It was crazy Uh vile upon archfiend Oh drama green. Let's he's done it again, which is insane. Uh token. Thanksgiving morale boost Gaga gigo array of hope non-spellcasting area nintendox and Oh a shinato king of higher plane one of my absolute favorite foils out of this The shinato king of the higher plane That is beautiful Oh my gosh Shinato the king of the higher plane. I love this card. This is one of my absolute favorites Man, is there a slight Something I don't know that actually looks pretty solid. Let's double check it again Oh, yeah, that looks pretty good This card looks pretty solid over a little bit of scuffing in the back, but not much So my glass is now two for three. He is on fire right now.  We got any mods. We're gonna need some because we're having a little bit of a let's do a little uh a little Update to who can chat right now. Let's make it a little subscribers only for a little bit. Yeah, because uh, we got a little craziness going on All right Don't click any links from the best adult dating site. All right four packs to go Here we go That was a great pull. That was awesome. So we now have pulled two ultras, which is very good All right Let's see what we can pull One two three four. Can we get another foil? Can you go three out of four? That would be insane. Ojama trio guardian elma Twin swords of flashing light Grarrel we already pulled him the area the ray of hope nintendo's Gaki guy or panda apparently a $10 card. That's insane and The contact with the abyss A regular rare unfortunately. Okay, but still two out of four that is amazing with an ultra and a super looking good Yeah, I heard about access code from the chat. That's pretty amazing. Yeah It's it's needed to reprint for a while I would say because people don't really like the gold version and that was kind of the version we had Whoo, what a pull from michael s very solid Man, this is a yukiyo channel all right Let's do a little A little top loading for these keep them nice and safe from michael michael congrats on your polls I'm a huge shinato fan very nostalgic for me So I hope that you are as well because you got it very very cool All right, thank you kota. I appreciate it. Thank you very much Thank you guys for being here on the live stream.  I think it is a little bit underrated. There's some really cool cards in here Thanks galzo. I'm glad you enjoyed the podcast. Yeah, that was it was pretty fun podcast Some pretty good questions. He had some really good stuff All right Okay, next up garret s garret s with four packs Two we are officially on to the other side We have pulled what four foils now something like that. We have four more packs There should be at least nine in here. I would say usually unless it's like a weird one Yeah, it's not the best, but it's pretty good. Yeah pretty good Thanks america. I appreciate it, man All right, let's go one two three four. Let's pull something for garret The gravity act to our Ultra for tribute iron black smith go tatsu watch bear nintendogs Contract with exodia exodia show up dark scorpion manae the thorn arsenal robber and Another sukiyomi. All right, we're gonna double down. That's not a battle. We're gonna sukiyomi double down Nice rare very nice galzo been here for a while 19 months. Can you believe that that is insane? 19 months, we're almost in two years a few months away from two years for you. That is crazy. All right Very good pull for garret s. Let's see what we can get Quite a few go format stables. It does indeed. It does a lot of good stuff for go format It's right in that area. This one kind of looks like it maybe got a little messed up from the crimpage as well All right, so one of the worst loss and a duel you've had also congrats 150k I'm hoping for starlight galaxy. Yeah, it's photon dragon. Oh, let's not spoil this 234 I've had some pretty bad losses. You go watch oxen series. You can see them there Thanks for the five and thanks a lot for the congrats on 150 man. That's awesome Contract with dark master. We got vile pond garret so far has a rare sukiyomi ojama green token. Thanksgiving nintendo is literally every pack contract with exodia manae the thorn arsenal robber here we go exodia Oh a dark master zork We will take that dark master zork very nice card That is a very very solid superhero one of it. I would say the top I actually graded one of those in ps8 10. So pretty cool one as well All right Exodia obliterate. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's pull something good Third pack Blue Raven gaming. Thanks a lot your mtg guy. I'm an entertaining channel. I appreciate that so much, man mtg is also a very cool game. I don't know a lot about it either But I do watch some openings of it sometimes token. Thanksgiving. We got the morale boost dark scorpion chick yellow zoga shadow knight archvind keldo sakuretsu armor Rod of the mind's eye and what will we pull we have Oh the first skill drain garret is the rare king He has pulled skill drain and sukiyomi and then he has a zork uh foil So he has pulled all good cards out of his rare slot. That is probably like 15 to 20 dollars for a rare That is pretty insane. Maybe even more I wonder if you graded this if it was worth anything because I know people completing like full sets It's probably a hard one to get like binti. So pretty solid pull fourth pack Have you met cyber? Not I have never met him in person. No fourth pack. Let's go What can we pull? He is now one for three, but with two awesome uh rares on both of those, uh, you know Once he missed we have a mod you guys that formerly crimped in one of the packs watch bear sessas of dawgla Really eternal rest frozen soul staunch defender arch fiend's roar thousand needles And oh a secret rare judgment of anubis Yes, what an amazing four packs two awesome rares and then two awesome foils a secret rare and one of the best super rares That was quite the set of four packs for garret really really nice Secret rare judgment of anubis. That is beautiful Wow, that is an awesome card. Oh my goodness. Let's sleeve these up Whoo, that's pretty awesome, man That is pretty awesome You'll love to see it Very nice two for four assault. So everyone buying four packs today is doing really well. They're doing super well Let's go The judgment of anubis very very good. We're over halfway through this box. We've now pulled I think six foils So we're about on normal pace. I would say pretty good How do you get into the box breaks? If you want to get early access to box breaks and then uh, if you want to have uh discounts and stuff like that Then check out the join button down below become a member All the members have first access. They have discounts of the price of your membership for eight dollars So if you buy two packs you get sixteen dollars off. You basically made your price back twice So your monthly payment, um, and then also you get early access you get emails batches all that stuff So go check that out and then I'll announce it to everyone if it doesn't sell out like this one didn't sell out I think the next few are going to sell out to the members and just based on what they are I think they're going to be Pretty nice. So if you want to keep an eye out for those then uh become a member I'll have specific posts for you guys. Let's get a little water here Okay Oh, I forgot to put his name in there. I don't want to do that. I don't want to get anybody mixed up later Because that can be very unfortunate. All right Bradley w two packs Let's go Here we did. All right. We have a thousand people in here. Let's get five or likes You know half the people in here. I think we can do that. There's 70 y'all that haven't liked it yet Let's go. All right two packs. Let's go Bradley w let's pull something good. Can we get that dark crisis? Uh dark eagles dark crisis Exotic necro and he's calling everything dark crisis. That's what's that. We're opening We're a little rusty in terms of live streams guys August what's up, man? One two three four. Can we pull something good? Really eternal rest Drag down to the grave Rod of silence chaos Arsenal summer Sakuretsu armor another great comment in here Rod of mind's eye Blindly loyal goblin Mustering of dark scorpions and Bradley. What will you pull here? Oh a butterfly dagger elma So a band card We have a band card that was banned because of gear for the iron knight and a loop that would just never end And it was very fun to play against. I'm sure I never did it myself, but it's not pretty bad. Okay Here we go. Bradley w you've gotten a super rare. That is pretty good. What are you gonna do for the second pack? Let's go Do you have a ps8 and pecanium off? I have I have actually shown that in a video one time if you did Go back and watch my swat video with rhyme style from christmas 2021. Go watch that and you'll see it. Okay Next pack for Bradley w zolga desk rick arts fiend guardian caist Checkmate. It's chess. Sakuretsu armor another nice one. Rod of the mind's eye Blindly loyal goblin mustering of dark scorpions and we'll go two for two wicking wicking wicked fray wicked Wicking breaking flamboyant bow. There we go. I cannot get that right. All right, Bradley one for two still pretty solid Very solid. I would say Your free doesn't allow equips exactly. That's exactly why so you equip this So you're free It then is destroyed. I think technically it's sent to the graveyard will equip this monster It can be returned to the owner's hand So infinitely loop it you you equip it it destroys it goes back to your hand equip it destroys it go back to your hand So yeah, that's why it got banned Archfiend or chess themed I didn't even tell you said that I brought up chess just because of that one card and now that you say that desk rook archfiend dish up That was probably pretty obvious, but uh, you know me and uh Me and some of y'all me and brock didn't realize that so uh, yeah, whoops. Okay. All right. We're gonna double sleeve this one Yeah, Garrett solid stuff, man. Really solid stuff. You kind of went off The dark crisis contain rygeki. No, that is the very first set. That's LOB Uh, no no rygeki in here. Okay We are still about a third of the way left something like that all right Leave it up Obliterate let's do it Very solid very solid opening so far We've had actually some great pulls if we could pull the neck cross. It would be awesome But we already got the secret rare. We got a shinato, which I'm a big fan of The guardian garl or whatever. Why is the loot bad? I can't remember exactly but somehow they basically just end the game as soon as it starts It's over I don't really keep up with how the you know the loops work or whatever but back then there was a crazy loop All right, kodi s probably some something to do with playing like magic cards or we're on 10 we got to hurry up All right kodi s one pack We don't want to lose our power in our in our phone here. It's been about 10 last 30 minutes So I think we'll be okay, but let's just keep going Nice to see something amazing kodi s one two three four. Let's see what we can pull you Goblin of greed very nice arch fiends oath vile pawn arch fiend ojama green shooting star bow seal frozen soul staunch defender arch fiends roar and a Infernal queen arch fiend. So I guess is the queen of the chest very nice Um Not a foil on that one, but we have been kind of hot recently So it's about time we kind of come back to earth kodi s thank you for being in it You will get a bonus foil because you didn't get anything in your one pack Very nice. I love dark crisis. I think it's a really cool set. All right Next up tyler a two packs anything nice yet. Yeah pretty been pretty nice so far Two packs for tyler a what will he pull will it be esp Epic I cannot speak today epic will it be awesome? Do a video game where I speak like the paradox brothers I Don't know how that would work. Well, we'll see ojama green. We have token Thanksgiving morale booster dark scorpion chick the yellow arch fiends roar a thousand needles shadow knight arch fiend keldo and A legendary flame lord the rare man is at it again. All right also speaking of a Not really speaking of anything, but we do have some cool I think potential collabs coming up with some people I think you guys will enjoy so keep an eye out for those coming up the next couple months Been working on those a little bit Second pack. Let's go. What will we pull for jaden or not jaden tyler a I just read that out of the chat Final attack orders. His name is now jaden.  That's actually really nice Because I mean you're not guaranteed to get multiple of any rare and we got two sukiyomi's two skill drains It helps that it's a 36 pack box. That's still really solid. We will take that skill drain So he didn't get a foil, but he did get a skill drain, which is nice. Plus you'll get the bonus foil So very nice tyler not too bad. I mean for getting rears you got the skill drain, which is pretty awesome The skill drain we're back with more skill more drain E&M's up next E&M the one who donated the giveaway for the every pack opening has now Gotten packs. Hopefully he'll be blessed with a little good karma here and pull something good for helping out the channel So let's see Maybe he can get the neck ross battle scarred right at the front. That seems like a good sign the battle scarred We've got the guardian elma Twin sorts of flashing light trice the growl ultimate tribute battle scarred shenados arc acrobat monkey Sasuke samurai number two And the metalizing parasite the lunatic very long mouthful of the name But it's not a foil, but it is a long name, which is I guess good. I'm not really that good I don't really know why it would be good, but pretty funny next back What can we get I picked up two zoning neck ross first step for 15 each box at my locals that sounds fake, but Um, are they damaged like what's the deal here? It doesn't sound real, but I believe you I totally believe you All right, let's go next back E&M Battle footballer there we go. I've got the Tennessee Titans the cards from beyond goblin agreed Archvene's oath spell reproduction gaga ego non-spellcasting area ray of hope And the death's feral lamp. All right more rears. That's like three or four rears in a row We're really looking to hit something now E&M your final pack Will it be epic and will it be awesome? It's always epic. It's always awesome, but will it be amazing is the question Actual near near meant so did he did he sell it to you? No, he went he sold it to you at unlimited price then Yeah, because that's what the unlimited price of a exodia neck ross near men is uh Juggins Tilphi 70 I don't know how to say that, but thank you for the discord membership You are now a member of the channel. You have emotes badges and discord access. Keep that in mind Assessive dogla really eternal rest a drag down to the grave right of silence Chaos dark scorpion gorg the strong fairy of the spring dd trainer Agito in the final pack for E&M. Let's get him something good. Come on Dark bishop archfiend. Oh for three for Ian. He deserves better. Come on Ian. We deserve better for you All right, you're definitely gonna get a couple of bonus foils for sure Especially since you helped out with that giveaway in the big opening So thank you again for being in the box break, man much appreciated Let's leave these up all right What do we have left? We're getting down towards the end. We've got a one packer coming up eric b. What will eric b get? I have discord. Yeah, it is for members, uh twitch subscribers and uh Patreon only though right now and you can join it but for like actual chatting It's for those it's like a benefit for those people. All right, eric b. We got token Thanksgiving morale boost Dark scorpion chick the yellow dice reroll thousand needles Shadow knight archfiend we got the incandescent ordeal Sakuretsu armor nice one pack magic here it comes Guardian bow the guardians and the bishops or the uh the archfiends. Okay add it again More commons and a rare Unfortunately, not a flow. So how many flows we got like six Seven do we have six like we we have a lot more. I think at least two maybe three four more Two to four more somewhere in there Who's up next Somebody they got flipped over they are benjamin w a single pack Let's go one pack magic a lot of one pack magic's coming up So we're gonna see if somebody can pull it off because I don't think there's been a one pack magic today one Man, I really can't I cannot say anything Iron black smith go tetsu very nice card pandemonium watch bear sessas of dogla really eternal rest the shooting star bow seal frozen soul staunch defender archfiends roar and Berserk dragon. Okay one pack magic. There it is berserk dragon. I really like this card. It's really really cool Super sick. I mean, and this was a duel links card for a little bit You could actually do some funny stuff with this with that the phoenix of nephis and stuff Pretty cool card, but uh old school super rare berserk dragon really cool artwork as well. Look at it very creepy Very nice. All right, benjamin w congrats on the one pack magic also check out this archfiends roar This thing got waxed. What happened? That is weird the front card often takes the damage or the back card So that is why we put the cards in the middle usually Box break's been pretty good so far. I would say pretty good a lot of really good cards I would say the some of the better cards before Habitually Nostalgia, you are one month away from the grande mall very close very very close sleeve these up one pack magic Archfiend did look it got bit by the bitten by the berserk dragon. I guess Uh, I put this in backwards, but oh well, we'll figure it out We'll figure it out. You know a little bit of a backwards pack action All right, we are down to what how many packs left? Six packs out of 36. We're five six of the way there one sixth left. We have jackson d one pack Let's go we should it looks like somebody might get another one pack magic But there's also somebody with three packs left. So let's see. Hopefully they get something Let's go little win guard arsenal summoner, but just in nostalgic love the 150k special love the The pot the potty with that. So I was like, what does that mean? Yeah, the podcast was strictly sealed to keep it up sir. Thank you very much for the 999 man I appreciate it arsenal summoner battle footballer precious cards and beyond kehlbeck battle scarred akaba monkey sauce case samurai number two and Contract with the abyss. So just a rare there contract with the abyss All right, so no one pack magic and that one for jackson, but thank you for being in it You will get a bonus foil for being in the break. Thank you so much, man All right, we're down to five packs remaining in this opening It has been quite the opening pretty good. I would say next up is mckinley.  You have the potential to pull something epic One two three four. Will it be one pack magic morale boost? Can you boost your morale? Is there any damage on this one? Nope Dark scorpion check the yellow zolga desert archfiend gorg the strong fairy of the spring manay the thorn arsenal robber and The fear from the dark The dark is very feared Mckinley. Oh, if you're from the dark, you will get a bonus foil no foil in there So there should be I think if I'm counting right. I may be off I thought we have seven or eight do we have seven or eight foils right now anybody know in the chat I can't remember exactly so we have seven or eight We still have a few packs four packs left next up is michael p with three packs Let's go three packs of one left for one more person. Let's see what we're gonna get. All right Let's go. Let's do this One two three four, let's pull something amazing for michael p guardian chaos checkmate Rucks and special with the final attack orders outstanding dog marin gorg the strong fairy of the spring agito kehlbeck I didn't know that was the last card. Exodia necros has been pulled again Exodia All in real this box is insane as the secret as well Sinnering is amazing The bat a little bit of a print line there on the back, but overall seems to be really good condition michael p The exodia necros dude Oh my goodness What a pull I was not expecting on that one. I was just kind of going through I got distracted Exodia necros and there it is the the camera didn't cut out as well. That is amazing. Oh my goodness One more quick look at this because our camera is going to die very beautiful. Very awesome. Oh my gosh Two backs to go michael p. Dude huge congrats chinato. We got graro and necros That's awesome. Plus the secret rare plus the supers have been really good as well like oh my goodness This is insane. We got a zork We got ourselves a uh, whatever that other guy's called our berserk dragon battle footballer precious cards from beyond What a pull goblin agreed archvines oath we're out of the mind's eye blinding the little goblin mustering of the dark scorpion spell reproduction and A spell vanishing another foil the foils are everywhere, man Two foils spell vanishing. Okay. All right. I don't know how many that is at this point. I'm kind of off count Third pack for michael p.  This has been a great great opening zolga desert archvine. Wow. What an opening chaos Checkmate. We got a rucksack special again. Rod of the mind's eye Blindly loyal goblin mustering of the dark dark scorpion spell reproduction and different dimension gates So we finally didn't hit something but man michael p Shout out to michael p in the chat guys. What in the world just happened? That is insane That is absolutely insane. We definitely got a top load of this bad boy Keep them nice and safe very very nice top loader Or the exodia neck cross. Okay beautiful Beautiful card. Wow, that is absolutely amazing.  What a pull. Oh my goodness I thought this is like, okay If we get the neck cross is like about as good as it gets billy brock. Thanks for coming a discord member you now have access to disc uh Discord emotes and badges stuff like that If you guys want to get the early access to box breaks, that's the second level by the way Not the first level. I forgot to mention that earlier. Sometimes that can get confusing Whoo. Okay. One more pack guys. It's not over yet. Can we get another foil? I mean, it's possible. Randy C is up for the final pack. This has been an insane opening like absolutely crazy Whoo Awesome opening today. Awesome opening. My goodness. Let's see what we can get Randy C We have one two three four. Let's go Drag down to the grave rata silence. Kast little wind guard arsenal summoner thousand needles shadow knight archfiend keldo sakuretsu armor and The great maju guards that we're ending up with the great maju guards that so this box had two skill drains two sukiyomi's zodiac cross shanado growl secret rare judgment of anubis like what in the world else can you want we had uh Wow, that is insane zork is a super rare like what in the world Whoo nuts nuts nuts nuts nuts the poles are insane Congrats to everyone who was in this. This has been a really good comeback to box breaks We were off for about a month. I would say maybe two months Really really good pulls but uh, there will be more epic ones coming up because we have a lot of really good Boxes to open so this has been a lot of fun. I hope you guys enjoyed it If you did make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this because it's gonna be coming up I had a lot of fun the day opening this box. I hope you did as well if you did I'm happy about it. Let's go. That is the end of this stream. I will see you guys in the next one I'm ending the stream right


Welcome everyone to those of you who are here and those joining online. The majority as usual these days, but particularly thanks to Martin Shannon. Martin is a partner at Heavy Industry and FDI at Grant Ford in Ireland. He's been in that role for I think a month. Before that, over a good number of years, excuse me, I'm slightly out of breath after bounding up the stairs there. He, as you all know, ran what is arguably the most successful government agency that has existed in perhaps in the history of the state, IDA Ireland, over a difficult time and then a possibly easier time with different challenges. So he's going to talk to us today about some of those challenges, some of the opportunities as well for such the sector that is so vital for the economic success and prosperity of the Irish economy. Great. Good afternoon, everyone. Delighted to be back at the IAEA. Thanks to Dan for the invite here today and to address you. As the title suggests, I am going to speak to you about whether FDI is a continuing opportunity or a growing challenge. So spoiler alert at this stage, I'm not going to keep you in suspense. I believe foreign direct investment is a continued opportunity for this country, but we face many challenges in continuing to attract and grow the existing multinational companies that are here. Since Ireland opened up to trade and investment from the 1950s onwards, foreign direct investment has been overwhelmingly positive for this state. It has moved us from a country that was inward looking protectionist and poor to a modern society with a globalized high growth economy. I'm going to remind you of some of the contributions that FDI make to the economy because I think it's really important that everything else that is said is put in that context. There are now close to 1800 multinational companies operating here. Those companies employ directly over 300,000 people and have a significant employment multiplier effect on the economy. So there are lots of indigenous jobs dependent on lots of multinational jobs. Exporting multinationals spend over 30 billion directly in the economy every year, but 19 billion of that is pay and then the rest is materials and services procured from Irish companies. Capital expenditure is a bit more lumpy but it runs to about between 7 and 10 billion per annum over the last number of years. Multinationals are responsible for about 315 billion worth of exports and those companies that we're talking about are responsible for 80% of all corporate tax taken this economy and an estimated 40% of all income tax collected in the economy is from employees of multinational companies. These are extraordinarily strong figures in the context of a small economy like Ireland. Our industrial development model has been to attract inward investment to support Irish companies to export and to help them scale and for the state to invest in innovation research and development. And that industrial model has worked and the FDI part of it in particular has worked. The single biggest threat to that industrial model and the FDI model that we've employed in this country over recent decades in my view is complacency. Ireland has no inherent right to the foreign direct investment that we win on an annual basis. The clue is in the fact that it has to be one. We have to be competitive as a country in order to do that. In my view, too much time is spent handling about whether we are too dependent on FDI or whether corporation tax receipts will continue. Where the balance of focus and discussion should be is on how we ensure that global companies see Ireland as a competitive and compelling location within which to invest. The recipe for winning investment is known. Ireland has excelled in this space. However, I feel that success is now taken for granted. It appears that a future or alternate scenario where we do not have such investment is absent from the general consciousness. For those of us who grew up in the 60s, 70s or 80s, we know what that alternative looks like. And those memories and associated pictures are not pleasant, they're not pretty. And when we take, in my view, job growth for granted, we have lost our way. There is so much to be optimistic about.  Most recently, even in the last year, we have seen, during the pandemic, FDI drove the economy. And in the last year, even during significant reset in particular sectors, FDI has continued to perform with really substantial announcements, even in the first six months of this year from my former colleagues in IDA. And substantial in the sense that substantial capital investment, substantial employment associated with them, and in many cases going into regional locations. It's just about, I suppose, what matters. And in the first instance, the global economy matters. We are one of the most global globalized economies in the world. The challenges I think have been well rehearsed, but just quickly, global political uncertainty, countries and economic or political blocks seeking strategic autonomy. This is an open question as to whether globalization will continue, is stalled, or is indeed in reverse. If there is to be further globalization, what form will it take? Regionalization does seem to be on the rise. Ireland is heavily integrated into global value chains. A deconstruction or redesign of those value chains could present both opportunities and challenges. The prospect that Ireland and others will increasingly have to come down on one side or the other in a polarized world. And we have very significant geopolitical issues obviously on our own doorstep in Eastern Europe with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. High inflation and higher interest rates to combat that inflation will have an overall depressing impact on consumer sentiment and demand and economic growth. And those impacts will vary across the various sectors and we're seeing that already. Just yesterday we've seen the SRI downgrade its forecast for growth in Ireland based on subdued levels of growth in exports from the farm and chemical sector. Having said that, you know, I think that report also points to how strong the underlying growth in the Irish economy is. And we have a situation where we have historic low unemployment as you know, hovering around 3.8%. You know, unimaginable to those of us that were looking at this back post the financial crisis and trying to figure out how growth would come back into this economy. That has been true at the technology sector reset. I say being true it's still ongoing and it is very painful for those who are directly involved in that and those that have lost roles. I think it's important to say that technology sector is diffuse. And, you know, there are many elements within that from semiconductors to software to the platform companies which are probably the ones that have been most impacted in recent times. I think it's important we distinguish between the short term challenges for that sector and the long term challenges for this long term growth prospects for the sector. And I think those long term growth prospects remain strong. There are lower global flows of foreign direct investment. Global flows of foreign direct investment haven't yet returned to pre pandemic levels. So we're not yet back at 2019 levels of foreign direct investment globally. So that means we, Ireland, like others are fishing in a smaller pool and have to, in order even to maintain the amount of investment that we've seen previously, one has to win market share. As identified by the National Competitiveness Council, the cost of doing business here is increasing. There's no I think great surprise there. And some of that is driven by global issues, but some aspects that are also domestic issues and again, disaggregating the two I think is important. You know, the twin challenges of digitalization and climate action present again both opportunities and challenges and I've got to come back to that in a little while. What we do domestically is even more important. And, and we have challenges here too. These challenges can be characterized as carrying capacity issues of the economy, resulting from the failure of infrastructure, keeping pace with the faster and anticipated growth of the Irish economy since the global financial crisis and indeed property bubble in late 2000s. Those issues they include housing, energy, water, and, and general infrastructure need and issues relating to planning and the delivery of infrastructure, both for government infrastructure and for the plant and facilities of multinational companies, and indeed indigenous companies I should say, more than anything else, this runs the risk of curtailing new investment and the expansion plans of multinational companies. I mean to put it simply at the moment, we do not have all of the options that we could be offering to investors and we should be offering to investors available to us because of those infrastructural constraints. We also have increasing issues relating to the supply of talent, although relatively speaking I think Ireland has done well at aligning the output of our education system with the needs of companies and attracting highly skilled talent to Ireland. It is imperative that our third level sector is appropriately funded to deliver the required output at the required level. It is our ability to attract and try to grow in the first instance our own talent to attract talent and retain talent that will dictate our success in the future in both growing Irish businesses and the ability to attract FTI. The cost and availability of housing is a serious deterrent to those that wish to make a home and work in Ireland. And this is and will act as a drag on future investments and the ability of existing investors to grow within Ireland. Much of the political discussion I expect between now and budget 2024 2024 will be on the size of the budget on the balance between tax cuts and additional expenditure and within that who gets what. Unfortunately, there will be much less interest and attention on the measures designed to keep the economy performing at the extraordinarily high levels, it has been performing at. That is where all stakeholders should be focusing their attention. We need to execute on those issues that I've referred to in order to continue to make progress economically and societally because ultimately it is what will dictate how big the pie is to share in the future. FTI has options. If Ireland doesn't deliver companies can go elsewhere. An albeit that FTI has proven extraordinary sticking I think that is important to say, never has the global competition for FTI been so intense. While Ireland continues to outperform relative to our size, other countries are making themselves more attractive within Europe we have seen countries like France, Spain, Portugal move off the FTI rankings. We see the levels of subsidy supports for FTI across the globe increasing and particularly significant supports for large scale investments in manufacturing semiconductors green economy projects. It is a very, very crowded marketplace at this point. We have seen countries that have not demonstrated a sure footed approach to their economy suffer from lower levels of green field investment. And by contrast, Ireland continues to be seen as stable politically and economically and very stable from an enterprise policy perspective and this is a very significant strength and its importance should not be underestimated. There are other big issues that we need to consider. The future of work will be different. I spent last week in San Francisco, a city that has seen its challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. It is struggling to rejuvenate its city center and the increasing number of empty office blocks tells the story of employees who have not yet returned to the office. Perhaps never will. This is in contrast to the objectives of their large employers who once occupied these buildings and who believe that some attendance at the office is required for reasons of productivity or training or developing one's organizational culture and indeed also for the mental health of employees. The experience is different in Ireland with higher levels of office attendance and I think we can see the increasing level of office attendance in Dublin. But some of these issues we will also have to grapple with and there's much thought required I think as to how we design cities and towns for employers and employees in the future. There are always going to be new opportunities in new sectors and sub sectors and with new products and services coming on stream. If the leaders of the technology sector that I met and listened to last week or to be believed we are all going to be supported by our own personal EI in the future which will be emotionally intelligent. I'm very much looking forward to this I have to tell you. While apps like chat GBT have raised the consciousness of what might be possible, all agree I think at this point that we're only scratching the surface of this. The use cases for AI are likely to grow and grow and Ireland has to remain nimble in order to avail of the opportunities that developments like this can deliver. We have done a good job I think and I am somewhat biased here in the past it being very fast followers in areas of technological innovation and we need to continue to do that and of course there will be impacts from these new technologies. There will be new jobs created that we haven't and can't imagine at the moment and there will be displacement of existing jobs and that will need to be managed. We also need to use our voice in Europe to ensure that the new new areas are appropriately regulated in order to protect citizens, while at the same time proportionately regulated to allow for innovation. There is huge potential in areas coming back to the twin transitions in areas like offshore wind. The offshore wind opportunity has the ability to both meet our growing domestic energy demands, help us to meet our sustainability targets, provide new export markets and could drive a whole new wave of industrial development again if captured properly. Again, nimbleness and speed of execution is what will dictate our success or not in areas like this. Hopefully you can tell from the picture that I am painting, I believe there are opportunities and amounts of risks and our success will be dependent on our ability to meet those challenges that I've outlined with haste and execute on the plans that largely are in existence. Ireland has done an amazing job of industrial development over recent decades. The attraction of FDI has obviously been at the centre of that. There's every reason I believe that we can continue to attract significant investment and I remain very optimistic. Thank you very much.


We're still running exactly the original factory engine, which is a 3.8-litre 450-horse motor. We're running the standard transmission with shorter ratios. The single biggest thing we've done to the car is change the suspension. We run X-Tex Suspension, which is one of our sponsors, and that just makes the car dramatically better, because the standard cup car is very stiff. You just wouldn't drive it on these roads easily, and having the car, having some compliance and the suspension, and being able to handle it really makes a huge difference. Gavin, the accent's a bit of a mixture. Now, Hometown and Tamerunui, is that right? Why do you sound like you do? Well, that's true. Tamerunui is my hometown. I was born and raised there, and I lived there until my early 20s when I moved to the States, and I lived in the States for 30-plus years now. I live in Florida. But I still look at New Zealand as home in many ways, and I enjoy coming back, and I love coming back for this event. The roads here are just spectacular, and the conditions are just great.


T F N N headline news update Hi everyone Basel Chapman here. This is the what is it a Monday the 9th of December and my pleasure to be here I'm the host of the Tiger technicians are coming up straight off to this TF and then noon update thousand down 62 at 27,954 the high that was made in the 27th of November 2174 was not taken out with a big gap up move to gap so since the 27 325 low of when of Tuesday Went to 28035 So far it's in a downtrend. It's got it stopped right in the downtrend line. We'll see if this is able to continue What what more good news could we have? Mark's you should like to climb a wall of worry Maybe the worry is out and now we've got to be a little careful a lot of resistance over head The SMP at this point is also down. The SMP is down just two and a half and 31 43 Had a high all-time on 27 30 154 Pulls back very sharply giving gaps down turns an island reversal on the upside Two gaps to the upside goes to 31 50 high on friday Kind of stalling here We keep charting both the down there simply is still good the qqq and we're looking at the qqq Which is the ndx 100 trading vehicle 27th of of december, sorry november 206.05 on the 27th of november you get that high all-time high pxc in the weekly and it's a g probably a g slash c may in the Daily but so far the technicals are very weak. That was just an emotional response on friday But the weekly and monthly are still very good i w m went to a different Had a different connotation to its move for the v shape pattern It went to a nominal new high over the 162.93 high of the 27th It's the only the one that went to a new in this case recovery high of 163 41 about 50 55 cents higher than the previous high but The monthly says 173 39 was high in august so it's got a long way to go but so far it's holding very nicely Gold gold right now is down. No, it's now up point three at 1465. It's making this arch formation I'll talk more about gold and I'll talk more about the dollar when we get back there in a couple of moments for my target technicians hour And I hope to see on the other side of the uh commercials Stay tuned. Otherwise see you tomorrow. Thanks for being here