Good morning everyone. Welcome to our policy forum this morning, which is part of our annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Technology Expo. We are so glad that you are here with us this morning to kick off this wonderful, wonderful annual event. And we hope you will stay around for a lot of the events and speakers during the day because it's a wonderful opportunity to hear what's going on in the clean energy field, to meet lots of terrific people, and to have a chance to look at a lot of exhibits and meet people that you would not otherwise often have the chance to do. My name is Carol Werner. I'm the Executive Director of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. I'm also on the Planning and Steering Committee for the Sustainable Energy Coalition, which has worked with the caucuses to pull together this event this morning. And our first speaker on this panel is a very dear friend and colleague, Scott Sklar, who is also the Chair of our Sustainable Energy Coalition Steering Committee. In addition, he is the President of the Stella Group and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Scott? Oh, you want us at the table? Well, thank you all, and thank you for coming. I always like to do sort of a broad base of why is this stuff important and why are we here. And I want to remind you all that the extraction, conversion, and use of energy is the single largest cause of our trade debt. It is the single largest cause of air and water pollution. It is obviously the single largest contributor to missions on climate. And we have former CIA Director Jim Woolsey walking around the floor today, and he will tell you it's really one of the most strategic issues regarding our national security. So energy is a very important issue. And so I want to sort of bring you up to date of what's happened over a year since our last expo. First of all, global investment in renewables hit $270 billion, which was a 17% increase globally from 2014. Now, when I started in this field and I worked in the Senate up here in the 70s, it wasn't even $200 million. So to see a $240 billion in one lifetime is astounding. Also, what happened is Germany, the fifth largest economy in the world over the past year, got 50% of its electricity from solar and wind. That's almost unbelievable in terms of a major industrialized nation. And in fact, in one day in May, they got over 70% of their entire electricity for the entire country of Germany from solar and wind. So that is astonishing. And in fact, when I lecture at universities around the country with my colleagues, there's been a lot of discussion and paper saying that could never happen. Ha, ha, it happened. There are tasks and challenges to bring that much solar and wind. You need other baseload. And that's why we cover all the renewable energy technologies. I want to remind you that bio power, marine energy, and free flow hydro, geothermal, even combining power, are baseload power sources that are renewable. And then, of course, you have the more variable ones. What also happened in the last year is that U.S. solar jobs surpassed coal jobs in the United States of America. That's historic. There are 173,000 U.S. solar jobs compared to 89,000 coal jobs. I have never thought that possible in my lifetime. So that's the other issue that you ought to be aware of. I also want to say we have a colleague who works with the Stable Energy Coalition, Ken Besong, who tracks U.S. usage of energy. And in May of this year, he has quoted a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report that says for the month of April 100% of all new electricity that came online in the United States. Now, this is new electricity, was 100% renewable. And the year before, it was 84% renewable of new electricity coming online. So there's a real trend in what's happening in our society on bringing on these technologies. And so, and in fact, in April, the new electric capacity, oh, the new electricity, electric capacity in the first third of 2015, okay, so four months, was 84.1% renewable of which 61% was wind, 19% solar, 2.5% geothermal, and 1% hydro. So it's pretty astounding. I also want to talk to you a little bit, not just on solar jobs, but the entire portfolio of jobs. So I already told you we have 173,807 solar jobs in the United States. We have over 50,500 jobs from wind. We have over 200,000 jobs from hydropower. We have 35,000 jobs from geothermal. We have over 152,000 jobs from biomass. That's electricity and heat. And over 292,000 jobs from fuels, biofuels. Energy efficiency in buildings, 450,000 jobs. Appliance, energy efficient equipment, 340,000 jobs. So I want you to remember that this is the driver of the new economy. Coal jobs are going down. And yes, we are creating some oil jobs from fracking and everything else, but in fact, it's not a main engine driver in terms of employment in the United States of America. Globally, of course it is. So we are seeing a sea change in technology. I think I'd like to end by saying that when I worked up here in the 70s, I got very close to Senator John Glenn from Ohio. And you may remember he was our first astronaut. And I'm doing a bill on the floor. And he voted for this solar bill in the 1970s, which remember solar was a glimmer. And I made some snide comment as a young staffer. I had hair, by the way, on my head back then. I couldn't believe a senator from a coal state voted for a solar bill.  He says, do you know why I voted for your solar bill? And I go, no, sir. And he said, when I was an astronaut in space, sitting there in an area the size of a big refrigerator, I was staring out in a lot of blackness. And I sort of realized for the first time in my life that, yeah, there's life on other planets, but they don't look anything like us. And then, of course, you look at earth. And he says, I really internalized that this is our nest. This is it. This was the blue green in space. There was no other blue greens. And that when I came back, my whole world changed in terms of what we need to do. And that's why I voted for your little solar bill. So I'm here to actually remind you of that view that this is our little nest. It's not going to be so great living on Mars on the moon. I'm telling you. So what we do in energy has immense impact. And I teach my classes at GW. We use more water for energy than we do to grow our food. So it has impact on land use, water, economics, national security, basically everything you're interested in. Third highest cost of education is energy. Third highest cost of health care is energy. So thank you for coming. I think what you're going to hear all day for those of you that stay are ranges of specialists from the federal agencies and the private sector and nonprofit groups that have different aspects of this. And they're all pretty important. And it is the web because you need energy for everything we do. Thank you. Thanks, Scott. And that's a wonderful segue to our next presenter who is Ray Brady, who is the manager of the National Renewable Energy Coordination Office for BLM, the Bureau of Land Management at the Department of Interior. So there's a chance to hear how they are helping on renewables. Ray? Well, thank you very much, Carol. And Scott, thank you as well. I want to thank the Sustainable Energy Coalition for hosting again this annual forum on renewable energy at Congressional Forum. This is an important issue. And as Scott has indicated, renewable energy, sustainable energy, green energy for the future is important to our energy economy and the energy future of the United States. The Bureau of Land Management manages some 245 million acres of federal land, most of that land in the western United States. The Department of Interior has clearly indicated that renewable energy development is a priority of the Department of Interior, not only for the onshore federal lands that the Bureau of Land Management manages, but also our offshore wind energy resources that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management administers within the Department of Interior as well. Since 2009, the Bureau of Land Management has approved 56 renewable energy projects on our public lands. That includes 33 solar, new solar energy projects on the public lands, 11 wind energy projects, and 12 geothermal energy projects. These approved projects represent a total of over 14,000 megawatts of new electrical generation capacity. Those projects, once developed, would provide power for some 5 million homes in the United States and support also some 24,000 jobs within the renewable energy sector. I think this is in line with what Scott was talking about, the importance to our economy in our sustainable energy, renewable energy future. These projects also bring substantial capital investment expenditures that are important to the economy of the United States. The projects that have already been built on BLM land from those approved projects represent an estimated $8.6 billion of capital investments that have contributed to our economy. The other projects that are under construction at this point in time represent another $32 billion of capital investments. Taken together, both those projects that have already been constructed and the projects that are pending construction represent a total of $40 billion of potential capital investments. That's significantly important to the economy of the United States and especially our western United States where BLM has a significant presence. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 set a goal for BLM of 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy projects on the BLM lands by the year 2015. BLM was able to successfully meet that goal by the year 2012. So we exceeded that goal three years ahead of schedule and that was due to the priorities that we placed on on siting and permitting and approving renewable energy projects on our public lands. Our next goal or target is 20,000 megawatts by the year 2020. That's a goal or target that this administration has set under the president's vision as part of the climate action plan. BLM is currently on target to meet that goal. We hope to exceed that goal before the year 2020. So with that, Carol, thank you very much. Great. Thank you very much, Ray. Which is very, very exciting to see that kind of movement and how important it is to make sure that there are renewables on our federal lands that are really coming forward now full force. Our final panelist on this session is Jeff Dade, who is the Assistant Director for Energy Research and Analysis with the Union of Concerned Scientists with UCS. Jeff, welcome. Thank you, Carol. And thank you, everybody, for coming to this expo today. It's exciting to be here. You know, Scott, I think, laid out very nicely where we are today in the U.S. power sector. We are in a time of unprecedented change in transition, which is really exciting from folks like my perspective and Scott, I've been working for UCS for 16 years now. We are seeing changes today that, you know, in the past decade. Nothing closer to this has happened. And as a result, we're making energy choices today that are going to be with us for the next 30 to 40 years and are really going to make or break whether or not we can make a dent in solving the climate crisis. And so what I want to talk a little bit about is some of the policy aspects that we're facing today and where we need to go in the next couple of years. So one of the really exciting things that's happening in just a few short weeks is that the EPA will be finalizing the first ever national limits on power plant carbon emissions. It's known as the Clean Power Plan. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. As currently proposed, it would curb total U.S. power sector emissions by 30 percent over 2005 levels by the year 2030. And it's, you know, it's a significant step forward in the fight to slow the most dangerous effects of climate change. And depending on how those states choose to comply with this new standard, the Clean Power Plan has the potential to be, and I'll just restate it, has the potential to be the most significant new driver of renewable energy development in, you know, more than a decade or longer. And just to give you some perspective on that, the U.S. Energy Information Administration just recently, just last month, projected in a new analysis that the Clean Power Plan would nearly double non-hydro renewable energy resources over business as usual levels, so compared with, if we didn't have the Clean Power Plan in place, by 2030 to about 19 percent of our total U.S. power supply. And just last week in a joint statement with Brazil, the White House stated that the Clean Power Plan is an integral component to achieving its new commitment to tripling renewable energy deployment over today's levels to about 20 percent by 2030. So we can see the potential of the Clean Power Plan. However, it's important to contrast that with projections that EPA put out last year when it proposed the rule that found that renewable energy will actually play a much more modest role in the compliance plans under the Clean Power Plan, only getting us marginally higher than business as usual levels by 2030. So ultimately, the success of the Clean Power Plan in terms of driving new investments and renewables will largely depend on the states themselves. Because under the proposed rule, states are responsible for developing their compliance strategies, and they have great flexibility, at least in the current proposed rule, in the technologies and resources that they have available to them to achieve those targets. So for example, states could opt to achieve their emission reductions largely by switching from coal to natural gas. And as we know, there's strong evidence out there that suggests that America's current rush to natural gas can lead to an overreliance that poses very complex and serious risks to consumers, to public health, and to the climate in the long term. So to ensure that doesn't happen, I believe that Congress has an opportunity to play a constructive role in helping states prioritize renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies over natural gas as the foundation for reliable and cost-effective state compliance strategies under the Clean Power Plan. And I just want to highlight very quickly five policies that Congress could take up and adopt today to boost renewables as part of the Clean Power Plan strategies, compliance strategies. First and foremost, Congress could put a national price on carbon. Pricing carbon is probably the most simple and effective market-oriented policy tool recommended by many economists and policymakers across the political spectrum to curb carbon emissions and level the playing field for renewable energy against fossil fuels. Number two, Congress could adopt a national renewable electricity standard like 29 states in the District of Columbia I've already done. So Senators Udall and Markey have joined forces with a few others this year in introducing legislation that would establish a national RES that requires our nation's largest power providers to supply at least 30% of their electricity from renewables by 2030. It's a really strong plan that my organization put out an analysis on just back in May that showed would benefit consumers, it would spur the economy and help accelerate the nation's transition to low carbon economy. In fact, what we found is that consumers' electricity and natural gas bills would be about $25 billion less under a national RES over the time horizon over the 15 years from 2015 to 2030 than if we continued on a business as usual pathway. So there's strong economic benefits to doing that along with the jobs and other investment opportunities associated with such a plan. Third, Congress could reinstate the production tax credit for wind and other renewable energy technologies and extend the investment tax credit for solar. I don't think any federal policy has done more to spur the growth of renewable energy technologies than the PTC and ITC have over the last decade. Unfortunately, the PTC expired at the end of 2014 and has not yet been extended. It must be extended as soon as possible for as long as possible to prevent this boom bus cycle that the wind industry has suffered through over the last 15 years when the policy is routinely allowed to lapse. Similarly, the ITC, which is actually in place through the end of next year, should also be extended. A multi-year PTC and ITC extension would provide the renewable energy industry with the policy certainty needed to continue its record growth and really reap all the associated economic and environmental benefits that we've seen that Scott laid out from the industry in recent years. Fourth, Congress should also pass legislation that levels the playing field by allowing renewable energy technologies to be eligible for what's known as, in political speak, as master limited partnerships or MLPs. These are simply tax advantage corporate structures that have been used by the fossil fuel industry for more than three decades, but by allowing renewable energy projects to use MLPs would actually expand the pool of investors and lower project financing costs by an estimated 40% or more. Expanding MLP eligibility is actually a policy that enjoys strong bipartisan supports in both the House and the Senate, which is unique in these times. So just last month, Senator Coons joined with Senator Jerry Moran from Kansas on the House side represented as Ted Poe and Mike Thompson and a host of co-sponsors introduced the Master Limited Partnership Parity Act. That should receive strong consideration. And then finally, Congress can expand funding through the budgeting process for advanced renewable energy technologies, grid modernization, energy storage, transmission, and smart grid technologies. And what we found at UCS in a recent analysis, we have a booth in the other room there. You can take a look at the natural gas gamble. In this analysis what we found was these kinds of complementary policies that I've just spelled out for you that would support renewable energy when combined with a national carbon policy like the Clean Power Plan actually can deliver faster and more cost effective carbon emission reductions while also reducing our risks of over relying on natural gas in the decades to come. So finalizing the Clean Power Plan is a great start that the EPA is putting us on and the White House is putting us on. But with Congress' support we can really truly accelerate the transition to a clean renewable energy economy. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much, Jeff. Well, and as you can all see, in terms of how all of these areas all complement each other and in terms of looking at the jobs that Scott was talking about, the huge amount of economic investment that is being driven through what's happening on public lands that Ray was talking about. And then in terms of the policy pieces that are so important to that have really moved renewables forward in this country and the potential for what is yet to come if policies are really kept in place and put in place. So we have a couple extra minutes before our next panel if there are any questions. And I also just want to mention you can sit up here behind me on the dais. It's your chance to be the big cheese. So if you want to go ahead and you can sit up here if you're going to be up for the next panel. A question right here, okay? Both release carbon. Why is natural gas given a free ride in that sense? Yeah, that's an excellent question. I wonder that sometimes myself. But from the power, from the smoke stack emissions exclusively looking at that, we know that natural gas emits about half as much as a typical coal plant. So there is some carbon emissions savings to be had from switching from coal to natural gas. When you look at where we need to go in terms of solving the climate crisis, what scientists tell us we need to reduce emissions 80 to 90 percent below 2005 levels by the mid-century. Natural gas is not going to take us there. And that doesn't account for the serious issue of methane leakage in the natural gas industry from production, extraction, and distribution. We know that methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 is, some 34 times more potent in the short term. And depending on how much methane is leaking, anywhere above 3 to 4 percent of total production, and natural gas is on par or worse than coal. So we need to learn more about how much methane is leaking. We need to tighten that up. White House has instructed the EPA to develop a rule to control for methane emissions. I think that's a good start. They could be doing a lot more there too. But yeah, natural gas is not the solution, the long-term solution to a climate-friendly low-carbon future. And in the meantime, we know it needs to be done better. Okay, really quickly. Okay. I'm Mary Booth. I'm the director of the Partnership for Policy Integrity, an organization that primarily works on impacts of biomass energy. And this is a question for Scott or for Jeff. Biomass is also something that emits carbon. In fact, at the stack, emissions of bioenergy plants are more than coal. And as I know you're aware, biomass is treated as if it has zero emissions under the Clean Power Plan, and it has been treated that way in other energy legislation like the Waxman market. And your question? And my question is, do you have any comment on what the impact of not counting these emissions might be on the actual efficacy of these pieces of legislation and renewable energy programs to actually reduce emissions? Okay. Well, first, I do not agree with the data analytically. First of all, the biomass studies that say it's more is using municipal solid waste. And when you take that out, the numbers change altogether. And it doesn't count the growing of biomass, which sequesters carbon. So the issue is biomass, and I do projects with municipal solid waste plants where we're taking the biosolids out and reducing the carbon emissions by 80%. We're using biogas and dairies, which reduce from the manure turning to methane. Again, reduce it by 60%. So I don't believe the data. And I think the data is made done by people who do not understand all the subparts of biomass. It's very suspect. Jeff, did you want to add anything? Well, I think we have to get the science right on biomass. We do know that not all biomass feedstocks are created equal from a carbon standpoint. We do know that whole tree harvesting is not a carbon neutral or carbon friendly technology, but there are other types of biomass feedstocks that can provide carbon emission reductions. And so we need to get the science right first, and then we have to have that inform our policies. As far as the Clean Power Plan, we'll see the EPA is looking into, well, they've received comments on this issue. I expect to see some changes in the final rule compared to the proposed rule. And we know that the EPA is also looking at biomass in a separate ruling, so we'll have to see what they come out on that front. From our analysis, what we've seen is that biomass actually plays a much, much smaller role in the compliance strategies that states will choose when it comes to complying with the Clean Power Plan. Every analysis that I've seen is that wind and solar and energy efficiency from the renewable energy technology side are the ones that are most cost-effective and will be deployed. So not to say that we don't have to figure out the biomass carbon issue. As I said, I think we need to let the science lead on this and then have that inform our policies. Great. Thank you. And with that, I think there's much more in the way of discussion. Happy to talk to you more about that later too. And I want to thank our panelists for getting us really a good start. Thank you all. And of course, everybody has a booth in the expo room, so make sure that you visit everybody and pursue those conversations. Thank you all very, very much for being here and we'll have our next panel come up please.


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Hey John, how are you? Well listen, listen, we're here in, you know, one of the rooms here, kind of here with Abhi Medet, who's going to make a little introduction that we're going to get into the interview. Thanks so much, guys. And I think it's a combination of what I've said with John and Dave, which is this global interest we're seeing in Hadoop. We're working with a company from Holland, the great country of Holland, Zivia, Rob and Friso are friends of the firm, and they're lighting the torch of Hadoop. Especially in banking in Amsterdam. So we've done some pretty interesting work together, because they're the same thing. What are the use cases? We get it, it's powerful. Let's solve some use cases. We've been working with Zivia to do some interesting stuff with Hadoop in banking in Amsterdam. So over to you guys, Rob and Friso. So tell me what is going on with Hadoop in Holland? Is there a pickup board? Is there a larger interest developing? What's going on? Yeah, there's a larger interest developing, but we still see and hear that we're like one or two years behind on the US. So it's really like we're not early adopters in that way, and just looking on. But a lot of companies are now picking it up and try to understand what the power is of Hadoop. And that's also the reason why we're here, just to pick up use cases. And that's why we reached out to Appie, just to understand what we can do for this, for example, the bank that we're working for. So how are you using Hadoop? Well, we're not going to ask this question for you. Yeah, well, I can shed some light on that Hadoop for several. And we had Alex Williams.


You know, movies to learn from, okay? This is Think Tech Hawaii, I'm Jay Fidel. Today we're going to talk about the Laundromat movie. Netflix is a very interesting movie. And George and I have looked at it. We have a lot to say about this movie. After all, the movies we see should be the movies we learn from. I think that's the, you know, the center of the channel for us. And this is definitely a movie with Meryl Streepin, Antonio Banderas and my favorite Gary Ollman and others that tries to tell us what's going on in the money laundering business. It's after a book and there are three elements to it and the three elements are all after the book and thus at least in part they're true. They're romanticized, they're dramatized, but they come off through stories. So George, you know, how did you see this in our quest for movies to learn from? This movie is based on the Panama paper, which is in 2016, it was revealed that these attorneys in Panama, Mossack and Sanseca, they were setting up all these shell corporations, right? And bottom line is this is based on a true story. I mean, the directors and producers have sort of played with the facts a little bit, but the basis of this is true. Mossack, Sanseca, these two lawyers in Panama were setting up where basically he's covering up for money laundering. And that's why this is called the laundromat because it's, that's what it basically is, you know, money laundering. This is an interesting story because it shows how the very wealthy are able to get away from paying taxes by setting up these shell corporations. There were three stories. They're not related except for the fact that they cover situations that are affected by global money laundering, including laundering that was taking place through these guys in Panama. And we have to connect them ourselves. And in some ways, the director makes them funny, but it's not really funny if you think about it. These are situations where people have been profoundly damaged by the whole money laundering process. And when you look at it in the larger sense, all the three stories, what you see is a hole in the boat. You know, how can we have economies all over the world and people working at jobs and, you know, in trying to be efficient in an economy setting when these guys are, you know, pulling it out from the bottom of the boat? That's what's happening. And what we don't realize that movie helps us and the three stories help us is that the amount of money is fantastic. It's fantastic. It's in the billions and collectively in the trillions. And so we have a window on this. Let me add one more thought, George, if you don't mind, in various places around the world, these island communities that had no regulation. And the trick was to say no, you know, this is not really what the internal revenue service was. The trick was to avoid these schemes, but they were out there and they were pretty active back in, you know, in the 80s, maybe later. And they're probably active today. And this is a little window on not only the Panama Papers and Panama, but a number, and I mentioned in the movie, there are these, you know, these islands you never heard of, which all they have is the, you know, a legal framework to establish these empty, you know, terminable trusts. And that's where this money goes from left to right and into the pockets of the scammers. And this movie is all about people scamming. So with that in mind, can you tell us the three plots that are involved? Actually, it's four plots because there's a wraparound plot involving the Ethan Allen. And what's remarkable is that the show just before this today involved Ethan Allen, a descendant of Ethan Allen of the New England fame, a revolutionary hero. And the boat, where this all starts, the movie all starts, the boat that capsizes, it's called the Ethan Allen. How about that for a coincidence? So it is actually four plots. It's the one that wraps around everything and tells you about Meryl Streep's adventures. And there's the three stories of scamming. The main one is Ellen Martin is played by Meryl Streep. And Cammy O'Rowe, her husband, James Cromwell plays that. And they're on a boat on a lake, they're on a vacation. And the boat captain doesn't see something coming and at the last minute sees something coming to hit him. So he makes a quick move and the boat, which is open, it's an open boat. It sort of goes on its side and all these people fall into the water. And I think 16 people died out of the 40 on the boat, including her husband, played by James Cromwell. Then she's sat in by her husband's desk, right? And she goes to her attorney because they're gonna collect from the boat captain negligence, whatever. So then they show the one of the owners of the boat, the two owners in a restaurant, they're sitting and they have a restaurant too. And they realize that this insurance policy is bogus because they had an insurance policy that was sold to another sale corporation. And when you have that, then it's no longer valid. So the insurance is not valid.  For the death of her husband, right? The first plot is about how she goes down there. Do you remember? She travels down there to Panama. She travels to the island and then she sees this guy in the street and she asks him about this guy with a certain name. And it's actually the guy, I think Nemez is a Bahamas, right? And he plays like he doesn't know who he is, right? And he just walks away, but she's looking for him. And she goes to the boat. He lied to her. He lied, he denied it. He was, she thought he was there. He lied to her like he doesn't know who this is, but it's him, right? So then, you know, she wants to find out what's going on and whatever. And little by little, she starts putting pieces together, you know, who and then leads herself to these two attorneys, Mosach, Fonseca, which are real from the Panama Papers, right? And I won't talk about the rest because that's giving away the... Okay, in that first segment, so to speak, she leaves empty-handed and returns to Miami in the airport there. And in the airport, there's the same guy who denied that he was who he thought he was the manager of the company. And the law firm were one of the related companies. And it's really interesting and the FBI is there. So it's Meryl Streep, this guy, this creep. And I think his daughter was there too, right? In the airport meeting him and then it was the FBI.  I was left, maybe you had a different impression. I was left with the notion that Meryl Streep's character actually reported this guy to the FBI and that's why they caught him, but you don't know for sure. Because she had his name and she went to the office so she knew something was both right. I think you got it on the ball that she maybe alerted the FBI. She was smiling, she didn't say anything, she said they're smiling and all that. There's something more here than just a passerby and by the way, that was the FBI. You know, all these years we have loved the FBI and we still love the FBI, by the way. And they came off pretty well in this movie. They came off in this movie looking good, which is good compared to the CIA in the last movie we reviewed where they look at CIA and they look at the FBI and look really good. So yes, I was gonna get an FBI. So she's a pretty smart cookie. There's more to this and I'll get into that. But I'll talk about the second one. The African guy. Oh yeah, I know. He's got this thing right here. Extraordinary mansion, the mansion. Exactly. And he was like out of this world. He had so much money around him, you couldn't believe it. Beautiful mansion. Yeah. And he's got his lovely young daughter. She's very pretty, she's a teenager.  She's gorgeous. She's like a Jackie Kennedy kind of wife, you know? And they've got this estate. It's like something out of Beverly Hills, you know, the hills and the hills. Gorgeous estate. And he's stripping his daughter's college roommate. Come on, you know?  Not to my taste, you know? The daughter goes to the pool in the backyard, the way in the back and sees as her father kissing her room, her college roommate, but she knows something's up. So then he's always upset and he knows that his daughter saw this. So he's begging her not to say anything to the mother to create chaos in their house, right, in their family. It was a trust. He offered her a trust that somehow owned the business and the business was worth 20 million dollars. Supposedly. When she met with the, who was handling the trust, I think it was Mosec Bonseca. The trust was worth nothing.  And then she finds out that there had been previous assignations and he bought off his fancy wife, too, and gave her a similar trust. Also, he said, worth 20 million dollars. And she had zero as well. So he used these scam trusts to pay people off and let them think it was worth 20 plus 20 or 40 million dollars and it wasn't worth anything. And that was the second story, how you can pass this around and fake people out and scam them for huge amounts of money while he himself was a principal in all this scamming and money laundering was living in this fabulous house. Can I go into the Chinese government? Yeah, that's actually the one that people know about. Basically, the Chinese government, the wife of the high official, right? Both she lie. It was a very famous corruption case. She's another knockout about the beautiful Asian woman. I mean, that's an elegant, like the black wife of the other guy, really classy, classy woman, right? But she's really sly, you know? And of course, communist government. So basically, there's this agent that works for them, this English guy, and he goes to the house where the wife and the daughter are there. The wife is uncomfortable that he may reveal something, right?  But she asked him to divorce his wife. And he said, I can't divorce my wife, right? So she decides that he's gotta be eliminated. So her daughter, young daughter, teenage daughter, they give her a drink of water and it's with Sai and I, and they kill him. He just goes and he dies, right? And then eventually the Chinese authorities find out what's going on with this guy. She tells either both she lie or she tells the police. I don't remember that she had to do this to avoid a scandal. And I think it was the police recorded the conversation and turned it over to the government. And then the government took her down.  The government took her down. This is a true story, right? This is what happened to the wife of Boschi Lai who killed somebody and Boschi Lai was also involved in the corruption, maybe covering it up, I don't know. And the two of them went down. Chinese government, right? Yeah. So that was the other, the third. It was all about corruption. And the Chinese government, arguably Xi Jinping was trying to stop all this corruption. And this was one where they had the evidence that the corruption was in fact a murder of a fellow who was gonna turn her in. And that was enough to ruin the family.  So just another example, don't you think of corruption by virtue of these international scam, money laundering, trust, that was the most interesting because you know, we've heard about that one before. And probably the other two are also rooted in truth. If they're not actual documentaries, they're romanticized or dramatic documentaries. But I think they're all real cases. Yeah, this is ubiquitous. It's all around the world. It's getting, they're very rich, protecting their assets and the little guy gets screwed. Like Ellen Martin, the middle street character gets screwed. Yeah. So this is how it progresses. And then there's a surprise ending. Do you want me to discuss the surprise ending? Yeah, sure. Okay. Well, this Wiley Ellen Martin played by Meryl Streep. She decides to disguise herself as a Hispanic receptionist or clerk, right? And she's able to be hired at the firm of Mosec Fonseca, right? Who are these two Panama Pana paper lawyers, right? Because the earlier woman who was doing this, I kinda remembered that she resigned or I forgot exactly from the movie. So there was a vacancy. And she played the role pretty good and she got the job and then she was an insider. She disguised herself with padding and a wig and all kinds of stuff. And then she got all the inside dope, right? She knows what's going on, right? And then she passed this information on to the authorities, right? Well, to the newspaper, wasn't it? That was a reporter. Sharon Stone was the reporter. Yeah, that's right. And now it's public and they dropped it on the FBI again. And before you know it, there's a trial. And these two guys, the two partners, they were convicted, but after three months, they were let go because they, some kind of loophole or whatever, you know? So they got off real easy, right, easy. But at the end, they show Ellen Martin, which is taking off her wig, taking off the padding.  She got even, she got her revenge in the end. So she goes and she plays Martin in terms of putting the, you know, the disguise on and she brings them down. And that's part of the movie.  And it does suggest that the three months sentences those guys got, you know, were really low, considering the amount of money they stole from people. But it also, you know, implies, and by the way, they were not happy, these two guys, they were not happy with this movie. She expresses her view and the fact that they got away with it and the fact that nobody's doing much about it. And it's global, though you don't have a global effort to try to stop them and they're stealing a lot of money. And so who was your favorite actor or actress in the movie, George? Because I have a specific view of this. You know, I really like Meryl Streep. I mean, I've always liked her. She's an unbelievably good actress.  I mean, she played this role through a T. She's always really, she's an actress par excellence, you know, she's no craving beauty, but she knows that she plays these roles wonderfully. So I'll say Meryl Streep, that's a good name at the point. Okay, and Antonio Banderas was the name you were looking for. Oh, yeah, right. He played Gary Oldman's partner. And I thought that he was slightly weak in this movie. Maybe it was supposed to be that way. And he didn't look as robust on the screen as he has in the past, you know, he's been a real leading man in the past. I wouldn't say he looked like a leading man in this one. Gary Oldman was my favorite.  She's had a tremendous career, but so is Gary Oldman. He's English, you know, he's an English actor. He has been in dozens and dozens of films. And he's one of the top box office roles in all of Hollywood. And he's so flexible. I first saw him in a movie called The Professional. And I said, this is a guy. It was about, he played the role of a corrupted cop, but it was so terrific. And this movie was really memorable. I've seen it more than once, which is something for me. And I believe that in this movie, he largely carried the movie. He carried the evilness, you know, of the money laundress. And he made these really rye and cynical statements about how you do this. He was the chief provocateur. He was the guy who set things up. He was the guy who was completely amoral about it. And I like this German accent actually, George. Let's see, wait a minute. Who is this? What actor is doing this? And sure enough, Gary Oldman. And Antonio Gander, a character of Fonseca, he talked about he was originally trying to be pro bono, help the poor, but then he realized that, you know, there's no end to this.  I looked at one review of this movie by a guy online called Burke, I forget his first name. And Burke didn't particularly like the movie. And I want to tell you a little about what he said before I ask you what you thought, how you rated it. And Burke thought that, you know, that the direction, which was by a very famous director. But in this case, the way he handled the transition from reality to drama, even, you know, comedy. There was comedy in this movie. There were very humorous things that happened. I really suggest that he, a lack of focus on his part. And Burke said that he would really have preferred if the movie had been all serious, or more serious than it came out to be. I didn't see that. I think there's always room to make fun. And he also said that the three stories were too much, or actually four stories, and that it would have been a better movie had there been fewer stories. There was more attention to the reality of what happened and the connection. On the other hand, in contradistinction to that, I felt that each of the moves that you had to work, you had to work, George, on finding the common denominator. You had to figure out, you know, what was happening there in the airport. You had, you know, with the money manager, you had to figure out what was going on in that island where she visited. You had to figure out what the connection was with that African guy with the mansion and the daughters and what that all meant and how that connects with the first story. And of course, the Boshi Lai incident, her name was Goo, Mrs. G. U. Goo. That was really interesting, but it was different. And it was hard to find a common denominator among all the three. So all I'm saying is you have to work on this movie. And if you're using this movie as a statement and educational experience for the viewer to learn about how money is laundered, sorry, but it didn't get there. It didn't get there. And so I don't necessarily agree with the way Burke put his critique, but I think it could have been better in terms of showing us exactly how they moved the money around. So what is your rating on this movie, George? Well, I'm gonna give it a nine because I agree with this Burke in some ways. There's a little bit of fishy silliness in this movie. And I think it's a really serious subject. And then they did comedy and that most I can find out that the two attorneys, how they put this sort of silly, they depicted very silly. You look at it with a TV and you'll see that the real guys were much more serious than the real people. You know, these two on the movie, they sort of make them sort of cute, and they give away the personality. That bothers me, because they're really evil.  Yeah, you take a perfectly serious subject. Remember, don't look up. We review, don't look up. That's really deadly serious. And they were trying to put a cheery aspect on a comedic aspect to it. And at the end of the day, you say, hmm, you know, that was really serious. I should be thinking much deeper than the surface of this movie. And if they were trying to do that, I think they were trying to do that in Laundromat, but I don't think they got there. I think you saw the fluff of it, but you didn't see the serious problem that we have globally. So it doesn't, I would give it an 8.7, how about that? An 8.7, that's what I would give it. I'm sorry I can't give it a higher number. I love Meryl Streep and I love Gary Oldman, but I can't go higher than that. And there may be more movies coming out, you know, about the Trump administration, about climate change, about some of these efforts that have succeeded or failed, mostly failed, try to correct the problems of the world, and they're gonna be dealing with the same kind of combination of trying to make it popular, relatable to the viewership, but at the same time, educational, really profoundly educational. So we'll try to cover those, George. Thank you, George. Go see you next time. Keep watching. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is a massive day on EA FC 24 today. Early access has arrived. A lot of us are on the full game for the very first time, especially if you pre-ordered the full game. And of course, we have the first promo of the year today, and that is these Nike cards right here, the Nike Mad Ready promo. EA actually told us a bit more about this promo yesterday. I want to break that down and talk about so much that is going on in this game. We've got marquee matchups that move the market. We have a lot of people opening FIFA point packs, which has made prices go crazy. And I want to talk to you guys about how you can best grind the game right now in terms of gameplay and, of course, with the market in this video today. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and subscribe if you are new. Now, let's start with today. First of all, today is the start of the Nike Mad Ready promo, right? That's the big news. That's the big thing that's going on today. And thank goodness that we don't have to be on the web app anymore because the web app, it was really, it was tiresome, right? It was tough. It was hard to grind. And I'm glad for you guys that it is over. I'm glad that that is over. But if you did not know already, the companion app is updated and available. It is on the phone now. So if you do want to go, it can authenticate because I'm in the game. But if you go to your app store on your phone, you can download the companion app on your phone as well, which is so handy for managing your ultimate team on the go. I use it a ton if you've never used that, but that is there. Let's talk about Mad Ready, right? Because as we're getting on this game today, EA or yesterday kind of told us about this campaign a little bit. Now, we know before from the pitch notes what they said it was going to be, but they gave us a lot of extra detail in here. They also confirmed all the players that are going to be in packs today. It's kind of crazy. First of all, Sam Kerr is going to be one of the Mad Ready cards in packs today. The first step is add Mad Ready players to your squad. Basically, this post from them explains the promo. There's going to be cards in packs, five of them. We will have to get them somehow, whether it's loans, which I think they're going to give us loans and or off of the market. And then we're going to go as it says here, second step, complete Mad Ready objectives. So sounds like gameplay. I don't know if there's anything SBC related, but it really sounds like a gameplay related objective that we're going to have to go complete. Third step is earn rewards to get Mad Ready for the ultimate team season. And that was Chiesa right there in that part of the image. And here we have Enzo Fernandez, two players that were already lead. So we're up to four players now, Sam Kerr, VVD, Enzo Fernandez and Chiesa. They said redeem two players via objectives. Now, this one for me is a little confusing. I don't know if they're saying that there are going to be two of the Mad Ready players themselves in objectives, or if there's going to be two 85 plus players via objectives that we can claim as like one of the Mad Ready rewards. And let's be honest, if I'm playing for an 85 plus pack, and even if it's untradable, that's a pack that I would try to grind for if I could get a Mad Ready card, especially if I could get one as a loan. I mean, I think EA wants this promo to be kind of like something that's a hey, thank you for preordering. We want there to be perks for you for preordering this game. Because right, a lot of people still haven't gotten on the game because it's still early access, technically. So maybe that's what that is. That's to be determined. We're not entirely sure. And then at the very end here, they show Puteas, which this is a stacked promo team, guys. Again, Puteas, Sam Kerr, VVD, Enzo and Chiesa. That's like pretty big name players. And then it says add Mad Ready players to your squad and complete the Mad Ready objectives. This is kind of a summary. But once again, guys, the Mad Ready players, this is the card design and for the cards that are going to be in game. So like for those five players that we just mentioned and for any other ones that may be in objectives or SBCs, it's going to have that exact same stat set up as the gold card. So Puteas is going to have 91 rated with the exact same stats on her Mad Ready card. Same thing with like Enzo and Chiesa. They're going to just have a cool card design with a dynamic image, but it's going to be the exact same stats as the gold card in game, which is going to be really interesting to see how they are priced and how the pack weight is. I hope the pack weight is very high because, again, if you think about it, EA would probably want us to get a hold of these cards to go complete the objectives and make us feel like it was worth it. Another reason that it was worth it to pre-order the Ultimate Edition and get the early access and pay a little bit extra. But the promo concept in itself is not that amazing, right?  That might be really expensive to then go play with them in game and to get objectives like that part of it doesn't sound too bad, but it all depends on how accessible the Nike Med Ready cards are. So that's the promo concept for today. And yeah, there's a lot of unknown still. Are there going to be other SBCs? Are there going to be other objectives? We're going to have to find out today. Now, the real hype is just being able to be on the game, right? Now, we're going to talk about how those cards are going to impact the market here in just a second. But if we're going to talk about the market, guys, we got it back all the way up to yesterday because there is so much that has gone on on this game in the last 24 hours that we have to catch up on, right? The market moved. We had our first SBC of the year with Marquis matchups, which I would highly recommend doing, by the way, because if I actually take a look at the price of the SBC on Footbin, it's only 19K to do Marquis matchups, guys, and you get a premium gold players pack, a small rare gold players pack inside of it, all tradeable. It's actually a really good Marquis matchup set. It's not that difficult to do. Even if you're just starting your ultimate team, like, just put this one on your mind. It's like maybe something you do in a two-day, three-day period from now. Don't have to do it right away if you don't have a lot of fodder, but it's just a place to get tradeable packs, which is especially important at this early stage of the game. Now, even before that happened yesterday, we had the first set of players getting on to the game, the New Zealanders, right, you would say, getting on to the game yesterday, going out, starting to open FIFA points, and it really started a crazy amount of market impact, guys, because it's not like we knew, we knew that evolutions were exciting and a very, very hype new feature of the game, right? Take a look at Darwin Nunez. He went from 12,000 coins. People started getting on the game, opening FIFA points, getting coins, and a lot of these players that people want to evolve in evolutions absolutely exploded. Dan Juma, I think, was like 6,000 or 7,000 coins. What was he, 6K, and he went to all the way to 12,000 coins? Like a crazy rise in that early day, Thursday, because people were getting on the game for the first time and going and buying cards for evolutions and a lot of the rest of the market, like, cards actually dropped. Like, Osemen, I think, was 100K, maybe? There was a couple of cards that went up. The Osemen was like 94,000 coins and a lot of cards just kind of fluctuated and then started to drop, especially as we got later into the day with that marquee matchup supply, guys, you would like, wait, those packs, Nate, like those just five packs, even though they're just decent, they're not amazing, that impacted the market that much. When the market is in this early stages and there's not that many people on, definitely. So prices dropped a lot yesterday, except on players like Darwin, Anzufati, and some of those Evolution players that we just mentioned that a lot of people are doing for the Founder's Evolution, especially Anzufati, because it is known that you can actually boost, if you buy Anzufati, you can start him in the, I think it's the welcome to evolutions that I've already done. You can do him in that one and then I think you can put him in the Relentless Winger. It's one of the two and you can make that Anzufati card look absolutely mental. A lot of people are doing that and a lot of people are also doing evolutions with Darwin Nunez, which is part of why their prices are going up so much. Now, that's kind of what happened earlier on and then of course, as the day went on, we looked at the prices and they dropped. Now, nothing of that nature yesterday with marquee matchups was in comparison to all of the absolute craziness that went down when people started getting on the full version of the game during the late night hours, like midnight UK time. Guys, the market absolutely went to the bin. Like, and Kunku was 80K, he went down to 50,000 coins. I had bought a Bon Mati. I still have this card, by the way. I bought a Bon Mati on stream for 175,000 coins, 170,000 coins yesterday. I bought the card like right here, thinking I could flip it for 220. Never got the flip. This card, she went all the way down to 95K. I was losing 80,000 coins at one point. And now look, all the way back up to where she was at 180K. Prices had a huge drop with the supply, which is why we mentioned it in last night's video. We were talking about a bunch on the stream.  I mean, he was 6K yesterday. Chowmeni is another one that we were looking at. He's 13,000 coins. He was like 8K yesterday. So card prices went down really low with supply and they started going back up. I bought a Griezmann for, what did I buy? For 50,000 coins. I was even a little bit late to the party to get in on the Griezmann card. But I picked one up for 50,000 coins and I sold it for just under 70K. I think he's right around 70K right now still. Yeah, still right around 70K. Guys, this market right now is gonna be a very interesting place today on this game because I know a lot of you guys are logging in and wanting to buy cards for your teams. And I still think there's a great opportunity to do that. I wouldn't tell you that you have to be rushed, okay? That's the main point that I wanna make today. With all this market up and down, if you're getting on the game, opening some FIFA points, playing some games, trying to build up your coins through trading, I would not feel rushed to feel like I need, I have to go out and buy the players from my team pronto or they're gonna just absolutely sky in price and I'm gonna miss out, right? Now, we've got a lot more people still to come on the game. We've got a lot of FIFA points probably that are gonna be opened today on the game as well.  You know, some of these cards like Messi being 200K, that one to me is more close to what I think his final price will be. But like in Kunku is only 90K. Like this card to me is probably gonna settle somewhere around like 100,000 high, like 160, 170, maybe even 200,000 coins. That just feels right for me for a card like that. Christian Ronaldo is still 60K. I think that is too cheap. I don't know, as I look through a lot of the most popular players and I'm circling down the list here, I think a lot of these cards are still in the grand scheme of things for where the market's gonna go in the next week or two, undervalued. But I will say this, remember the Keeper Sale video that we did a couple of days back. Cards like Diabi, or Diabi is pretty meta, but Openda, Javi Simons, Correa, the cards that are like 80 rated and below. Where's Laquan, yeah. You know, this is a great example. Where is our friend Maxence Laquan? He is 3K, that's it. Okay, Van Devin. Where's our friend Van Devin, right? Love him, Spurs player, 18K for a 78 rated. Ship it out soon, man. This is probably near the peak for a card like him, especially with more packs coming today. Renato's 19,000 coins, how much is Nunamenge? I'm just like sorting through some cards in my head, 18K. A 78 rated Mickey Van Devin is the same price as Nunamenge. That should tell you that he is a bit overpriced, and he's not gonna last there at this price for sure. So be careful with those loads of your cards. But as I say some of these other players' names, if you can get 30, 40, 50K, even if you have like 25,000 coins and you're an Arsenal fan, like Odegaard is still 15,000 coins. That is a fantastic card for 15K. Chamani is still 11, 12K. Like there are still a lot of cards out there that have room to grow in price. They have room to run, and they're going to go up in price. That's just, can Pembe still 29,000 coins? Like that is not bad. Like there are still plenty of cards out there guys that you can pick up. Cancelo is still 25,000 coins.  That sounds pretty cheap with a lot of really good Barça links, especially with the women's players being added in. So what I'm trying to say is, there's a lot of options out there, but just make sure you're being careful with the cards that you buy. And also guys, look at Inforums and Heroes. If you have enough coins for those, Inforums and Heroes are absolutely fantastic to be trading with right now. And I think today, with the MadReady players on the market, you know, a lot of people are going to be opening FIFA points all day today, FC points, sorry. And then when the MadReady cards come into packs, I'm sure since it's a promo, I don't know if EA is going to have anything in the store guys. Right now, I have a card on my unassigned, which you know what, I might as well just quick sell it. I packed a duplicate John Stones. If there's an SBC that comes out, I'll try to get involved and put them into it and remember that I have them in my quick sell. Maybe I'll write myself a note. But one of the reasons why the market crashed so crazy earlier yesterday, like six hours ago when the EU and the UK got on the game for the first time is that EA dropped promo packs. These guys, man, dropping premium gold players' packs in the store and pack probabilities 7.5% of a walkout. That seems really high. And I think that's just because there's so many more walkouts in the game this year. Now that I'm thinking about it, 7.5% of a walkout, I'm pretty sure in FIFA 23 for like a 25K pack, it would have been like 3% or 4%, but wow, that's kind of crazy. 7.5%, that's, wow, okay. But that's a lot of the reason why the market crash for that short like hour or two hour time was so bad and so crazy was because there was so much pack supply of people using their pre-order FIFA points on those packs. So I would be careful with the markets on the low tier, but I would be pretty confident on the high tier and higher rated cards because people are just gonna continue upgrading, putting cards in their squad and building onwards and upwards in those areas. So I think there's gonna be great opportunities to buy cards for your team if you have enough coins. Also, if you're looking to purely trade slash invest, all right, speaking of investing, right, we're talking about the gold cards, we have to talk about the team in the weeks. These guys fluctuate like crazy. I bought a Lewandowski three hours ago for like 130,000 coins to inform, and I sold him, I kid you not, 20 minutes later for 177K and now he's back down to 150,000 coins. Debala I've seen fluctuate a lot. Mekaterian, pretty sure Mekaterian was just 30,000 coins, right? Now I'm not gonna buy a Mekaterian right now unless it's a snipe, nah, he's 25K. If I saw 20, I would buy it. But just keeping on these informs guys because apart from a couple of them, I would be careful with Salah. Salah probably ends up being towards like 7,000, 800,000 coins after the market really inflates in value. I think Lewa is a 200K plus card in the next two weeks. Hummels I think will end up being like 30K. Mekaterian seems like a 40, 50, 60K card to me maybe because he looks so good in game. Doku, I'm a little unsure about. He's got a high pack weight, but he could end up being 70, 80K. He just, he's pace and dribble. So as we find out the meta of this game as well and people start to figure out what works the best, that'll probably impact a lot of these prices too. But these cards are really rare. Trade with them, invest in them accordingly if you like and he buys. I'm not a huge fan of Lampdy. I actually packed him yesterday. I haven't used him. I'm not saying that I don't like how good he is in game. I'm just saying for the price that you get, yeah you're getting a nice card that you can play on the right and the left, but two star skill moves, really, really low strength. I'm sure he's nice in game, but I don't know, well I have to see. I just don't like that one as much of an investment even though it is a Premier League. I think his usability is a little bit down compared to some of the other cards in this team of the week. So I like the team of the week cards and I love heroes guys. Man, if you can scrounge up the coins to snag yourself a hero, some of the prices on these cards are crazy. Like if I search at 300K, there are some insane, the new McMahonman hero card, you can get for 155,000 coins. Like Berbatov is how much? 100K, some of these cards are nuts. Risa, I saw under 100K yesterday. Liza Razu, was that Liza Razu right there? How much? For Liza Razu, 200K. All right, that's a good amount of coins. I know a lot of you guys don't have that there, but like even for like Beasley with all the pace that he's got or you know, Peter Crouch I saw, like I remember trading with Peter Crouch last year, he was really cheap, 40K, K-Hill, right? It's a prem striker, people want to use him. So I would say if you have some coins, definitely take a look at that area as well on this market and trading, right?  I have not traded with too many cards over a thousand coins guys. You take a look at my transfer list, what I've been listing up is golds. I've been SBC Solution Trading, this Pedro, so all of these I bought for 550 or 600 coins. Guys, I want to tell you how to find some really good players to trade with if you're on a low budget because these players fluctuate a ton. First of all, you're going to go over to Footbin and you're going to go on the players tab, FC24 players, I clicked on non-rare. You go version, gold, non-rare, especially if you're on a really low budget like less than a thousand coins, that means you can get some of these guys on like 300 bids, so you could buy like two or three maybe. You're going to click here and sort by price. I'm going to refresh the page so it's accurate. And that's going to show you the most expensive non-rare to the cheapest non-rare in that order. You can see Andambole, right? Vicente Guaita, I was trading with him just a little bit ago. Flavia and Tate was a card I was watching and trading with as well. Lung Lay was one, you just saw on my transfer list, Maria, she's 13, 1400 coins. It's just like some of these cards have really, really good fluctuations, guys. Look, you see a graph like this. We're going to do a full video on this here very soon because this takes a little bit to explain. But if you want to get on the market today and get some stuff done, around content drop, when there's packs that are going to be open from the store, there's even a pack code for a Jumbo Ultimate Pack. If EA goes all out and drops a Jumbo Ultimate Pack in the store today, that would be absolutely wild and a super EA thing to do. But look for graphs like this. Click on a few of these cards and it's not like, okay, I have to wait for them to go to minimum price. But whenever you see like, and Dombele here, he's 3000 coins right now, man. Did he hit 3K yesterday a couple of times? He hit 1K once. If you see him go back down to like six or 800 coins, buy some, man, because he is hitting in the solutions, right? These guys are going up in price because of the hybrid leagues, hybrid nations and league and nation hybrid SBCs that a lot of people are doing and I can't lie. I did the SBCs and I got really good pack pulls. That's where I got Lampty from. I got new center backs, Gabriel and stones. Not amazing pulls, but decent pulls and the SBCs that I did yesterday and they give out really good packs. So I've got to do the league and nation hybrid yet but hybrid leagues and nations, if you're getting on the game as well is a really good set of SBCs to craft and grind. Just try to do it in a way that maybe you don't have to spend too many coins because they are untradable packs but a lot of people want to go to those because those are big time packs. You can get good cards for your team and that's why they work with trading so good, like seriously so good. I bought like 30 or 40 of a, what is it, it's a Canadian right back. Alistair Johnson was his name. Honestly, never heard of the guy but it's also SBC solution trading is a great way to learn a lot of names of players and where they play. Men's and women's alike. I bought like 30 Alistair Johnson's for 550 and I sold them all for 3K and look where he is back now. He's back down to 850 coins, right? So at another time he might go from all the way up to 2000 coins again and boom, there's profit. So that's how this works. It seems crazy. We're gonna do a full video on it soon but that method of trading is alive and well for sure. And if you don't wanna do that, grind the game guys. And if you're looking to grind the game this weekend, I think a lot of people are gonna default to rivals which is not bad but I would really, really try to tell you guys to play squad battles. I know it's a bit annoying. Maybe as you're getting on the game for the first time you hop into evolutions, figure out an evolution that you wanna complete, start grinding it but then hop into squad battles guys because a lot of these you can do in squad battles. You can see here Werner is just win two or this isn't Werner but the Werner example is win two and then win four. Yeah, do it in squad battles guys because that is the next set of rewards that you can get and if you kind of work your way up and grind your way into a solid reward setting, maybe you get gold, maybe you get, I don't know maybe you just even silver. You're gonna get some tradeable packs from that. I do believe you can check the rewards if you click on the R1 over to your rank. Let's say you get like gold three which is a pretty common rank. You get a premium gold players pack, jumbo premium gold and a premium gold pack, 5,000 coins and yeah the rewards are here pretty soon on Sunday so definitely, definitely, definitely go into here and I would spend some time playing squad battles and doing that you only have to play 32 matches as it shows right here behind my face cam and I think it said that it's four minute halves. That was one of the big things they changed. I haven't actually timed it. I haven't played any squad battles but they're supposed to be shorter games as well so that is nice. But guys, I'm really interested for this mad ready promo today. I think players, you know, it's gonna be big time players in packs. I'm just curious to see how expensive they are and how good the rewards are. That's a really big piece of the puzzle and to finish off today's video one quite quick little thing we have to show you is EA is already having some issues to compensate. Day two, day three of this game, already having compensation. They removed the foundation's five SBC due to issues identified with the formation. Anyone who submitted items to any of the SBCs will have their items returned first compensation of the year, which is so true and then also I got compensation yesterday from the SBCs that I turned in when I was on the game day one because the advanced SBCs were tradable and EA told us that we were gonna get compensation. So all the cars that I turned into that I got back which helped me do the SBC again. So just crazy that we're starting off already. Compensation 23 has kind of transferred into compensation 24 and the same vibes are still kind of continuing but it's exciting to be on the game, man. So if you're on the game right now, enjoy it, have a good weekend. We're gonna have videos constantly popping out this weekend as well. We'll be streaming again today looking at the new promo cards that they come out, watching the market a lot and I gotta form my team together a little bit as well. And again, we'll be opening packs too. So the 80 times 10s that are in the objectives if you guys are getting on the full version of the game we'll be opening some of those on stream today. I haven't even gotten to mine yet but level five that 80 times 10 pack is kind of nice and it's a little bit of good fodder and now there's gonna be promo cards and packs there that you could potentially pack and that is always fun to have. So dropping the stream today the link's down below in the description but if you enjoyed today's video drop a thumbs up on it, comment down below if you do have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new it's been Nathan with account and see you guys in a stream today. Peace, out.


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