The DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents John Nesbitt on the Cavalcade of America. You know, 14 years ago this autumn both Cavalcade and the passing parade went on the air for the first time. Tonight we're happy to welcome the passing parade storyteller, John Nesbitt as our guest. And we welcome the story he selected, the true story of Tom, the immortal blacksmith. Now to our storyteller, John Nesbitt. Standing on a patch of green metal which is up on a hillside near Brandon, Vermont. You take the old road to your right off Route 7 from Rutland and you can find the place easily any day.  It has one side chipped away and chiseled into the stone are these words. Thomas Davenport, born July 9, 1812, died July 6, 1851. And under the inscription is one more word which reads, Inventor. And this is where the dust of Tom lies hidden. And not far up the hill, Emily Davenport lies too. With a carpet of lilies of the valley to keep her resting place, trim and respectable, which is just what Emily would have wanted. But now I tell you that we are standing on sacred ground. For this nearly forgotten blacksmith, Tom Davenport is a giant against the American sky. That sound of water is what you would have heard of Tom's blacksmith forge at Brandon, just 117 years ago when a man had to have water power to turn his wheel. And that rumbling noise is Oliver Davenport's old rattle-trap wagon being backed up to the loading platform. You see, Tom's brother Oliver was a tinker, and he was always lending Tom his wagon to haul supplies in from the market at Crown Point. Oliver, I understand, was a slow and a quiet fellow who never liked to get excited. Whoa, whoa, take it easy, Nellie. Come on, come on, Tom, let's get it. If we don't get it, Emily, she'll think a dozen thousand more chores at market. Oh, we can't get Oliver.  Are you set on the cider so she won't see it? And I'll go in and let her ease her heart. Well, I never.  When I stand yourself here in the light, as I can see to get the money sewed up properly into your pocket. Gosh, Emily, take me so long to un-stitch for money out of that pocket to buy, they'll close up the store and go home. Now, the food list is printed out here, sewed in with the money, and the do list and the don't list is in your hat, baby. Oh, give me that hat. Well, there's more to the do and don't list than there's to the market list.  Tom, it don't need to say that, but don't you think so? Don't spend no money on anything but the provision. Don't drink the cider till after the trading stuff. Not mind you that I could ever get brother Oliver to trade that horse, even if it was for the eighth wonder of the world. Wonder of the world. That's just it, Tom. Every time you go to Crown Point with a wagon, you find a wonder of the world or a two-headed car for a pat and nail pulling, and out the window goes our money. But Tom, whatever you do, don't let nothing happen to you. No, don't you fret, honey bee. Now, we'll be back safe tomorrow night.  Then shake him. It's thirty-five miles to Crown Point. Take us all day. Let go your grip of him. Let go. Come in, Oliver. Goodbye, Emily. Goodbye. Oh, Emily, Blime Cooley wants his wheel tomorrow. Tell him I'll finish Wednesday morning. And don't worry, honey bee. And no trades, Emily. No horse trades. Right now, he's a-he's a-plucking them stitches out of his pocket. To prove to Oliver he can look after his own money. Bye, honey bee! Bye, Tom. Bye, honey bee. Inside the cabin by the forge now, and that clock striking is one of Tom's own invention. It plays a tune every hour, and to Emily it's the prettiest chime in North America. But now Emily has no mind for chimes. For she has waited two days for Tom and Oliver to come back. And now it is one minute after midnight, and they have been gone forty-eight hours. And now it is the third day of absence. And Emily did her chores in a daze of fever and dread. And at ten o'clock that third night, Emily knew she was a widow sure.  He traded it off. They give us this old car to get back with.  What you got back there? Oh, the food. Well, we just couldn't quite afford it, Emily. After we traded off all of the supplier parts and pans and made the deal with the Hosses, we just had enough to buy the contraption in here. Emily, she's a wonder of the world. I see. A contraption. Well, just drag that wonder of the world over to the scrap pile where the others is, and come on in for your supper. Come on, Tom. Come on, Oliver. Oh, gosh, Oliver. That woman's mad at me over something.  But we'll just give her a try and a half. Oh, it's two in the morning, Tom. If we don't get the lamps out and get the bed, the neighbors, they'll be marching up the hill to see what we're about. Now, Emily, you're about to see an anvil. A 30-pound anvil, Emily, suspended, betwixt heaven above and earth below. Well, that's what did me in, honeybee, created for her at the Penfield Lion Works. It's a magnet run by electricity. Now, in all them pots and jars, that's acid.  Hops off the end of the wires when you strike them together. Now, Emily, up here, we got the magnet. It's the size of the biggest horseshoe you've ever seen under the sky. Now, the anvil sets under it on the floor. Emily, I touch these wires to the wires wrapped around the big horseshoe and... Hey, Oliver, wake up! Wake up, Oliver. Might as well see what your horse got turned into. Now, Emily, you were about to see an anvil suspended between heaven above and earth below. Watch. Oliver! Oliver, wake up! Emily, it's a doing it. What? By thunker Tom, it is a doing it. Yes. A suspended, a 30-pound anvil in mid-air between heaven above and earth below. And nothing touching that anvil, but the mysterious hand of God. Now, watch. When I pull away the wires, she falls. But Tom, what's it good for? Huh? Well, I come to think of it, honey. I've come to think of it, I'll be hanged if I know. Now, let's see now. This here magnet. It weighs three pounds. That is, anvil weighs 30 pounds. Three-pound magnet can pick up a 30-pound anvil. Oh, Emily, there's strength hidden in it somewhere. Strength like Goliath, like Samson. No, I got to take her apart and figure out how she's made before I can sleep. All right, Tom. I'll get my account book and pen. We should write it all down if you take it apart. No telling what would turn into when you put it together again. Yes, you do the right, Emily. I never had school. Yes, you do the right. Maybe. Maybe someday. Someday, the whole state of Vermont may be cleared in New York, but they'll be reading about it. A new power. Giants working for a man. Giants to make every man strong as a king in his castle. Emily, you will wear silk. You will wear silk, Emily. Work away at that wonderful machine, Tom. It's the great hour of your life. And write it all down, Emily.  And snore on, good brother Oliver, tilted back in the rocker while a miracle takes shape at your feet. But come to think of it, Oliver. Most of us were like you. For who among us ever woke up to see a miracle for what it was when it grew up in our own hometown? Get to sleep, Oliver. Get to rest. Now we return to the story of the immortal blacksmith, as told by John Mesbeth. While most of us, like Oliver, drowsily moved down through the years, there was our own Tom Davenport, the blacksmith, braving the terrible loneliness of a man who dares the future. That's quite clear now, of course, but while Tom was a prophet, he was also a man with a living to make, you know, and Tom began to neglect his work almost as if he had a sickness in his mind. But dang it, Emily, he ain't fixed that crack spindle brace of mine in three solid weeks of waiting. Now I'm going to a blacksmith to stay on the job like he should. True enough, neighbor, but inside the cabin the miracle is growing up under the fingers of Tom the blacksmith, and Emily's scolding tongue is bridled, for as they work together, she sees from a look in her husband's eyes that he has become a dedicated man. Down it, as Tom's contraption, maybe you've got to the point now where it's time to give her a real name. Well, honey, seems you're right. Now let's see. Her name should be, well, call her an, uh, electrol magnetic engine. Elect... How do you spell that? How'd I know? Well, I guess the main thing is to make her do something to earn her board and keep, and not worry what to call her. Oh, she'll earn her keep someday. It's like this, honeybee, when I see the power of this little magnet lift that big anvil, I know the Lord was showing us a way to ease our tired muscles and help our work along. Now, this here wheel of ours is like a water wheel. Only the water is the electricity in the magnet.  Arthur, if he ain't here, then where is he? Once he was a good smith, and now he ain't worth the powder and shot to blow himself to prediction with. What's he think he's doing? Oliver, huh? Oh, he don't say. It's his wife, him, puts the words to it. Uh, I believe you might just say that he's discovered perpetual motion. Prepetual motion? What's that good for? For something to turn out money? He's not got a customer left between here and Crown Point. Yes, but at last the voice of the future is whispering through the pine trees. Clear down in New York and Boston, scientists and professors have begun to hear about your wonderful contraption town. And one by one, they begin to leave their comfortable libraries and they ride north to see what it was that sent these wonder tales whispering down from Brown. Let's see. You may be astounding, Professor. Absolutely wonderful. Well, that's it, Professor. What we call the electromagnetic enjoyment. Yes, I live and breathe. What do you say, Professor? Say? Why, Davenport, you've discovered a totally new use of power. Well, it's... I have a new professor to call this way. Now, Tom, ask him. Oh, well, Emily and me have spent all our time on it. Go on. Do you expect somebody could maybe... maybe advance me a little living money on it? Money? I must confess, Mr. Davenport, I'm a little surprised. Money? Now, my attitude is that all of us, including you, Mr. Davenport, serve science as a labor of love. Isn't that the case, Doctor? Of course not. We all sacrifice. Do we not? Yes, indeed. Yes, but now we shall require a much better model, less patched up, Mr. Davenport, something in which to take pride. Oh, yeah, I guess so, yes. Well, it's only that me and Emily were... Well, thank you, sir. Thanks very much. Indeed. The biggest thing, isn't it, that people all over America now are speaking your name, Tom, with honor, and yet you and Emily must live on salt, rice and bread. We've got to stop, Emily. We can't do it. If this new model is to work by herself without me touching the wires on and off to keep her spinning, then we've got to wrap the bar with silk so the electricity won't jump out. Silk costs money. Oh, I know that. I know that last week when you figured the silk in between the wires would hold that dravid electricity where it belonged. Yes, all of us buried money for us. Aunt Nancy, she's buried money for us. That professor, he lent us money. And here we can't get five yards of silk string. Here. Huh? Hey, what you got? This is made of silk, Tom. Canton silk. What? Well, you got married, didn't you? Yes. My folks were strict. I said the one time it wasn't sin to wear silk was white for your wedding and white for your funeral. Wish I was bigger. It was more to it. You know, Emily, when God made your soul, He made it so big and strong. You didn't have enough material left through your body. Somewhere, even on this Tuesday night in the year 1949, in the archives of historical societies are to be found dozens of scrolls of honor, which the public prepared in tribute to this same Tom Davenport. There are documents, there are patent papers and letters of praise. They're now yellow and powdered with the dust of time, of course. But these scrolls and documents happen to be the only reward that was ever received by the blacksmith of Brandon. We honored him, yes, but we held on to our cash, thinking his invention was merely a wonderful toy. And now we must pay one of our final visits to Tom and Emily and also the good faithful Oliver. He was the one you'll remember who lost that fine young horse to help make Tom great. We will have to imagine the final words of Tom Davenport because all we really know is that just three days before his 49th birthday, his nerves wrecked by the futile attempt to get backing for that invention, Tom came home wearied unto the death. And there in the cabin sits Tom now. He's wrapped in a blanket and is dictating the last of those letters of his to Emily. And Oliver stands by as always, knowing that Tom is living out the last days of his life. Three dollars postage for the letters, Emily. Well, ain't good it. But yes, I'll just take him along next trip anyhow. I'll get somebody to carry him down to Boston and New York. I guess this must be the thousand and first letter I've written for you, Tom. Maybe this will be the lucky one. Maybe it will. No, but now I'm tired. I guess it's not been so tired if I could have maybe even got one look at the promised land. Well, Emily, here goes. All right, Tom. Yes, sir. I am the inventor of what is known as the electromagnetic engine. I greatly thank you for your piece in the paper about the invention. But I'm forced to ask you that if you can find anyone interested in helping me put the engine to work, which is what God intended him. I'd be most grateful. I need just a small amount of capital and would find use for just one hundred... No. I'll make it fifty dollars, Emily, to carry us over to spring. Even if you can do nothing for me, I greatly thank you for your kind words. Respectfully, sir, yours, Thomas Davenport. As the thousand and first letter went unanswered, Tom died. Not disease, mind you, just fatigue. In Vermont, men like to pay their debts and Tom died in the dreadful shadow of bankruptcy. Debt can kill a man. Now then, did we betray him? No. To destroy the inventor of the world's first workable electric motor was time. It took generations of scientists to develop the motor and comprehend its power. It took a regiment of engineers and an army of workers to harness the continent's rivers and waterfalls. And only when the nation had accomplished all of this was Tom's wonderful contraption ready to become the familiar electric motor we know today. And I know that the story of a deathless man is never really a tragic one. If it were, then our faith is a lie. No, long after Tom was buried on the hill, Emily and Oliver would come to tend the grave in spring, and they would talk serenely together with the voices of old friends who have known great hours. You've been the stadium. Yes, Oliver. I do love them, Lily, to the valley. They just volunteer themselves year after year. You know, Oliver, I grieve for him, but I never grieve wild. Tommy knew what he was doing, and he loved his oath, me and that contraption. It was a kind of glory to him. Teach me that towel, Oliver. Here, Emma. I declare the bulbs cloud each other like chicks under a boob in hand.  Well, sure, sir. I was just ashamed to bring it up. Everybody knows that electric engine won't ever come to nothing. I never did just see myself what it was good for when the horses were so cheap. I may never amount to anything, but that isn't so Tom. Well, come on in. You'll catch an aegyo with your knees in that damper. Tom, he was a great blacksmith. No. He was a great man. John Meslin. Next Tuesday evening, one of the country's loveliest young dramatic stars, Dorothy McGuire, will join our cavalcade as the star in one of the most delightful stories of our American heritage, the lady becomes a governor. But now our time is almost up, so this is John Meslin wishing a very good evening to you all. Tonight's cavalcade play, The Immortal Blacksmith, was written and narrated by John Meslin. Our featured players were John Griggs as Tom, Gene Gillespie as Emily, and Parker Fenley as Oliver. The depart cavalcade of America is directed by John Zoller, the music's composed by Arden Cornwell, conducted by Donald Borey. Don't forget next week, Dorothy McGuire, and in the weeks to come, cavalcade will bring you more great stories of America with Cornel Wild, Roslyn Russell, and on October 25th, in his first radio appearance after his return from Europe, Tarone Power. Cavalcade of America came to you this evening from the stage of the Belasco Theater in New York, and is presented by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of better things for better living through chemistry. You're tuned for the stars on NBC.


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K.A. The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Let's be honest, we're nearing the end of Team of the Year, only a few more days with these cards in packs and the content is starting to slow down, but could EA have done more? Are they really just giving up on Team of the Year at this point? I wanna talk about that today because there are some things that we learned about, that we heard about, that we haven't seen yet during Team of the Year, that we thought we were gonna see, and I also wanna talk about market content, everything heading forward from today into Tuesday on FC24. If you're excited for it, drop it thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's content, which we'll start off by talking about the objectives. If you didn't get it done yesterday, make sure you get it done. It's pretty easy to do. The Easter egg nation is Switzerland, and I also misspoke in yesterday's video. This is not able to be obtained yet. The lone KDB, that's not until the February 3rd broadcast for the open finals. Yesterday was the very end of the season of all the group play, and now we go into the tournament. I can't lie, I'm a little bit glad that that's over. The Mondays, man, the Mondays on this game, where it's just been, the FC Pro Live stuff has been going on. It's just been, it's been slow, it's felt. I don't know what that is or why that is, but it just feels like content on Mondays when we have the FC Pro Live stuff going on is very slow. So that's kind of the FC Pro Live wrap up there. There were no new objectives yesterday except for a refresh in the Team of the Year Champs bonus, which kinda sucks because I didn't finish my champs, at least I get an 83 times three out of that one because I'm still finishing champs right now. But speaking of the FC Pro Live cards, we do have a few upgrades coming in. Cavallero and the center back, Isak Hine, are gonna be getting double upgrades. So is Calvin Phillips, but he is not moving on, Tex is not moving on. So the only two live cards still into the last part of the tournament here is gonna be Cavallero and Hine, the center back. But of course, Makenko and Calvin Phillips are both going to get upgrades. So that's kind of the situation with those cards, probably upgraded tomorrow and Wednesday as it has been for the last couple of weeks of FC Pro Live. Now let's go to SBCs, because there's a little bit more action in there. First of all, EA tweeted out yesterday that they brought back the 87 plus hero player pick correctly and it is 87 plus. I haven't actually finished it yet. I still have to do the second squad. But of course, this player pick is back and that also means that the compensation is on the way. I think they tweeted about that as well. Guys, I wouldn't expect to see compensation for this still for a couple of days, but the fact that it's back in the game pretty quick is a nice thing to see and you can do it two more times. So like I did it twice when it was glitched and now I can do it two more times. So that's cool. And at least they brought that back pretty fast. Requirements, of course, are the exact same. Now the two SBCs that we had yesterday, one of which was a little surprise, but it's not this one. Debinia, she was leaked. We figured she was gonna get an SBC soon and it dropped yesterday, five star, five star. She had the Winter Wild Cards just recently a couple of weeks ago, five foot one, very short, but Trivella plus and really good ball control play styles apart from that with technical and quick step. You know, it's an okay card. I just feel like it's a card that not a ton of people are gonna look at and say, oh yeah, gotta get that into my team. And even for the price, like again, team of your players, SBCs, I don't have hope for whenever they're gonna drop Saliba because even this card is 85 and 87 rated squat, which I think leads to the 9% upvote on foot bin being the reason why, the price, right? I mean, we're talking 216,000 points for that card on the market. Would it be that much in my opinion? No, but five foot one with insane dribbling, five star, five star, entry Vella plus, not a terrible card for sure if you wanna go out and get that one done. Now the surprise SBC was UEFA marquee matchups. You're like, Nate, who cares about that? Well, the market does because this is a tradable pack, SBC, three different packs you can get from this and tradable packs during team of the year with all that's in packs, everybody's gonna try and go ahead and do this. It's pretty easy to do, cost 6,000 coins. You get a premium gold players pack and a couple of other packs and it's impacting the market a little bit, a little bit of unexpected supply. That's why I'm saying that it is impacting the market because all of the team of the year honorable mentions even right now, as I take a look at the market, a lot of them have dropped. Some of them are still up but a lot of the lower tier, most packable ones like Musiala is now under 300K. Like some 299 listings I saw were just popping up for him. That's pretty low. You take a look at somebody like Trent. Trent was not going under 110 at all yesterday and now I believe he's like 107 or 105. I guess he's still getting sniped pretty much under 110. There's some 109 sitting but he was definitely 105,000 coins earlier as I saw him flip in. Harry Kane is getting a little bit low again. Guys, it doesn't make me dislike these investments though. It does not make me at all think these cards don't have a chance to rise. I still think that they do. I'm just more so focused on now maybe the more rare ones. Like I bought the Diani last night at 530, 525,000 coins and she is now up to 550 still. She was 580 yesterday, earlier in the day but her price still being 540 to 550 for me is like, okay, that's cool. If you bought a Mohammed Salah or a Fede Valverde yesterday at their low points, Mohammed Salah is going up a lot. Wow, he was 1.1s again yesterday. 1.17 I think I saw and now he's back to 1.25. So a good rise there. I still think these cards have really good potential to rise up in the next two weeks. I have a couple of Kim and Jays. I have the Diani. I have a Musiala. I have one Trent. I would like to pick up one Harry Kane as well. If I can get like 110K, I would love to do that. So I mean, yes, the supply does, I guess worry me a slight bit but these are the team of the year cards that have been so hard to pack. Like I finally packed an honorable mentions card yesterday, guys, I packed Olga twice, right? From doing the League of Premium Packs, finally packed her card but the rest of these I haven't seen at all. So they're like supplied on the market. I don't know who's packing them. There must be so many people that are playing this game right now at the moment that there's just so much, I guess, packs being open that it's somehow supplying these cards. I guess the team of the year hype is still going for a lot of people because these cards did get supplied on the market and they did drop but I think it's really just created another buying opportunity for these and I think you'll see some of them still rise up into the next couple of days. I got really lucky last night just to update you guys on this Allison card. If you saw it on my transfer list yesterday, I got really lucky. I bought this for $515, lazy listed it for $617 and it sold. I was like, wow, somebody paid 100,000 coins over. That is the power of lazy listing though, for sure. And the regular team of the year cards as we check their prices always too. Messi's 9.3, Holland's 8.2. Like, Theo Hernandez is now 4.7 million. De Bruyne went up a lot yesterday. They were talking about him on the live stream. Allison is still low but he gets supplied almost every day too from lightning rounds in the store. Karchawi's above 2 million. Sophia Smith is 2.5. A lot of these cards. Reynard is 2.45. Ona Bhatia is 1.7, it's crazy. Like these cards just keep going up for the most part and nothing's gonna change that right now unless EA changed something themselves. I feel like I say that every day but it's really the truth. Something has to change with the pack weight. Something has to change with the packs in the store for that to change. And that's when we're gonna get into the conversation a little bit today. Like did EA really give up on team of the year a little bit? Because I wanna talk about some of these store packs and stuff that we saw yesterday because yesterday in terms of the store too, the odds didn't change guys. Like they did, it's weird. I tweeted this out yesterday. I don't know if you saw it or not. If you look at the 500,000 coin pack which is the highest percentage chance of packing a team of the year, 6.9%. Odds were updated January 28th at 6 p.m. content time. But the 400K pack, odds were updated on the 29th of January yesterday at 2 p.m. UK time. I was really confused as to why some of these packs update their possibilities and their probabilities at random times. That was something that I noticed but every single day that we go on they keep running the same lightning rounds and it just seems like the content as well is just starting to slow down. And really what gave me that inclination was seeing this yesterday. EA tweeted out, this weekend ultimate team, right? There's three things on here. Honorable mention, SBCs, which we had Dabina yesterday. I don't know where the heck Saliba is. That's the only SBC that might give us one last like W player during team of the year. LaLiga EA sports player of the month. Don't know who that is, probably gonna be leaked pretty soon. That SBC I think would be Friday anyway so that's kind of the date for that. And then upgrade SBCs and new evos. For this weekend ultimate team kind of tweet thing, this is really dead, this is not a lot. This is like the beginning of what I thought was like, all right, this is the end of team of the year is really what this is. I know team of the year for some of you guys has already been ending and you're like, Nate, what's the point of crafting the menus? I know the team of your cards are in packs but they're unpackable. Like this to me yesterday was like, all right, it's gonna be a bit of a slower week as we kind of end team of the year. They're not trying to end with a bang. And you can also tell in the store guys, I wanna talk about packs just once more as well. And I wanna show you an example of where I think EA, like either this is by design, which I wanna talk about, but also like they could have done more with some of these store packs even. And especially with the weight on these packs, there's still a pack that is out guys. I tweeted this out yesterday as well. It's been added to the code, which means it is every likelihood of being dropped into this game and it hasn't come out yet. The Epic Team of the Year Honorable Mentions pack, which is the three guaranteed Team of the Year Honorable Mentions player pack with one of those being 89 plus. And then also an 83 times 50 inside of the pack. Like an 83 times 50, along with three honorable mention players. Like this has never been dropped in the game. And at this point, as we're getting into a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the last three days of team of the year, why would it be? This wouldn't be a pack that I think EA would realize would do as good unless it was dropped on a weekend when more of those store packs are being released. So it just seems like this pack might not be released now. I don't know. We talked about it yesterday. I was like, okay, maybe Monday they drop it. They didn't. And even for lightning rounds, every day for lightning rounds, we're getting the same thing. This is a look back to the Friday drop. I went back on the Twitch VOD to look at the Friday drop of Team of the Year Attackers last week, or almost a week and a half ago, like two weeks almost ago. Now, we haven't seen the Times 15 attacker midfielder or defender position-specific lightning round packs, or like we also had, we also had an 85 times seven lightning round. Those haven't been dropped. And those were the lightning rounds that on that Friday of Attackers' Team of the Year supplied the Team of the Year Attackers so much. And that's why the Sophia Smith, the Sam Kerr, and even the men's Team of the Year cards, like Holland, what was he like, six mil? Messi was what, six as well? Mbappe was actually on the market? Like that's when those cards were actually there and they were low and they were supplied. Of course, everybody remembers Sam Kerr being 1.2 mil and Sophia Smith being 1.5. And now they're just up so much. So it's the change in the pack weight making it worse. And also them just not dropping as good of packs. It feels like they've sold themselves short a little bit, right? They could have had maybe even so much more people hyped about the game if they wouldn't have changed the pack weight to be as low as it is. They could have had more FC point sales if they would have kept those big packs and lightning rounds, they would maybe keep people more, is this layout? Oh, I thought we had Rafael Leal there for a second. They could have kept more people that spent FC points interested in the game with those packs that actually supplied the Team of the Year cards last week very well. That's the part where I feel like they maybe, they kind of sold, man. Honestly, yeah, you sold a little bit with this in my opinion. But the other part of the flip side is, the flip side of the coin, whatever you want to say, is that maybe it was intended to be like this. Maybe it was intended to get us to think, oh, hey, you know, Sam Kerter or Sophia Smith, those are kind of affordable cards. Like a Team of the Year card for 1.2 mil with those kind of stats. After using her in draft, like that's worth every bit of 1.2 million coins. That kind of, I think got people excited. Myself included, we're like, yo, this is legit.  The cards seem packable. Look at the supply on the market and then you see the prices being at least believable as well and not super crazy. Of course, the men's cards were still expensive, but all signs were pointing towards great things. And then from there, it just feels like they've sold a little bit. But I think that was on purpose a little bit, guys. They got us hooked. They got us in while those cards were cheap and while it was exciting, they were dropping the big packs in the store and we all had our saved up packs waiting for all the cards to come out to have the best shot at packing every single possible Team of the Year card. They were also releasing crazy SBCs. They had the Sawa, right? The best. We have had the, who else did we get? And we go to the Player SBC tab. We had the Bruno. We have had the, that was the best one, right? Alfonso Davies is up there as well. Conte is not too bad. Alex Morgan's decent too. It's these SBCs that really got people amped because it was like, wow, we're gonna open all these packs and craft these cards, which this is the best part of Team of the Year so far. Hands down. The SBC players, Davies is one of the best, if not the best left back in the game.  Every single one of them, I believe, had Thunderstruck Davies as their left back.  He's gonna be one of the next SBCs that I craft. Bruno had the top in-game stats of the game. I don't know if he has it anymore after the Team of the Year has dropped, but that's a crazy card. Sawa's insane. Yes, we've had some overpriced ones. Luka, Kavica, right, Dabinia. They're overpriced and they're expensive. But the SBCs, even the upgrade packs, like the 87 plus picks, the Hero pick, the icon pack, they've all been reasonably priced. It's been a really, really good time for SBCs in terms of crafting on the menus. It's just the thing that is missing is the Team of the Years are like unobtainable. But I think EA wanted that in a sense for two reasons. And that's what I wanna talk about too. Was it EA's preference for these cards to be packable and then to be low in price and then to eventually fly in price as a lot of people were wanting to go and get them afterwards and open all their packs when the full team was released. It was that their goal. And I think maybe that it was. Now, I'm gonna look at this from a fodder standpoint because if you think about it this way, everybody was gonna open packs, right, always. We always open packs for the full team, saved up packs, all the packs that EA had out, right?  Look at what fodder has done, man. Fodder has absolutely exploded. This is a crazy fodder explosion. You take a look to last weekend or honestly, the beginning of Team of the Year midfielders on like Sunday, Monday, all 90 ratings were 50,000 coins. They rose up to 55K during the week. And then on Friday, as everybody started opening their packs from 53K up to, these were all 65,000 coins at one point, I believe, 64K yesterday, Sunday, all these cards went up to 63,000 coins as well for in-packs 90 rated players. So they turned the weight down on packs and they put out all these crazy SBCs that we have to go spend money on to buy cards to complete because there's high rated cards. And EA has a masterful combination there where they end up selling more packs and they drain more accounts of coins. Think about it. If you're like, I gotta get Sawa done. I gotta get Bruno done.  So but at the same time, if you're not packing these cards or these cards that you wanna pack while you're opening packs, it's just kind of all a part of the master plan. And it's so frustrating, right? It is so frustrating. It's like, this is one of the, if not the marquee promo of the year. Why not let us like fully enjoy it? Why hold back in some areas, you know? So that's where I feel like EA kind of sold to be completely honest. I'm not gonna complain too much about the objectives. The evolutions were okay. Again, the SBCs have been great. It's been the packs that have been the problem with this promo and especially the weight a little bit too. I mean, even honorable mentions are very difficult to pack. The fact that I opened a couple of hundred packs yesterday and packed two Olga's from league specific packs only is so frustrating. It's just really frustrating, man. I'm gonna keep ripping these. I'm gonna keep spending coins and upgrade packs because that's what unlocks me doing the SBCs and there is a great craft right now. Actually, that might be the first time that I've packed a Cunha and maybe they changed the weight. I don't think they did. The weight still seems pretty bad. I'm still gonna craft through packs for the whole entire week because that's part of the chase for team of the years, right? You never know. But I just think that especially for the enjoyment of this game, I think they sold a little bit, man. I really do believe that they sold. So with that being said, that's kind of just one of the conversation point that I wanted to bring up today. I'm still trying to pack messy. I'm still trying to pack every single team of the year card that I can or team of the year icon, but it's just feeling a little bit, what's the word that I'm looking for? It's getting repetitive on the menus and it's just for a lot of people now just become demoralizing and it's been disappointing. So let's talk about Tuesday today. There is an SBC that might actually give us a decent chance of packing a team of the year that's supposed to be coming out today leaked by Foot Police. Now it's yet again another upgrade SBC and it might be one of the more expensive ones we've had yet, but you think about player picks. We've wanted them during team of the year. We had the 80 plus player pick that was repeatable 10 times every other day.  Just let it be unlimited repeatable, right? 86 plus player pick one of three coming soon. I would imagine it would be today. Guys, it's probably gonna be like an 86 rated squad or something crazy. An 86 is like extinct at 12K anyway.   Maybe an informed requirement. I'm not investing in informs for this but informs are so easy to get right now anyway. Why do you even have to buy one? The 83 plus player pick is virtually free if you go do a couple of objective packs or grind through a couple of SBCs with common goals into a premium. It's so easy to get 82s and 83s right now. This is not even worth buying informs in my opinion but this could come today and that might be the best pack yet or pick to give us a chance to pack in a team of the year or an honorable mention. But again, you're gonna see a lot of 86, seven and eight rated goals in that. So I think that might be coming today. Other SBCs coming, the refresh of the 85 times three midfielder and then your other daily refreshing SBCs which would be the 82, 20 and the 80 plus picks that I just mentioned. Those are coming back today too. Those are worth doing for sure. But that's coming back today. But yeah, the 83 midfielder. I know that yesterday a couple people packed team of the years from the 85 three defender that refreshed. I will say guys, in terms of the pack weight I've been seeing a couple more blues on the timeline than I've seen in the previous days but it's just, it's very hard to pack them. And it's getting a little bit repetitive but we still grind on. I'm in this mix right now between it sucks but also it's team of the year and you have to grind for the packs, right? And they're not easy to pack ever but they seem like, yeah, again it was all the beginning of that first week. I feel like I could talk about this forever but other things we could expect today is maybe that one last center mid Evo, right? There was the one Evo that was a 75 rated center mid that we were gonna be able to upgrade for two play style pluses. That could be pretty sick, especially because you know, it's kind of the whole thing right now with evolutions that you can get two play style pluses with the unclaimed Evo glitch and all of that. So yeah, that's like if they drop one of those in evolutions, that would be pretty cool to make your own two play style plus player from an Evo. So that still looks out there. And then of course, Saliba, man. I don't know when Saliba is gonna be dropped now. Saliba was like a perfect Sunday SBC but instead they dropped other players or actually they didn't drop one on Sunday.  And if that SBC is overpriced, I just think that people are gonna really dislike that even though it could have been so great. Now that we've had Kavicha and Modric especially, it's like those are not good. So we will see what Saliba is like.  It was, if you got any of those GGs, they're still gonna go higher today, I think. List them at like 7K, you'll get sales. 84s, again, that's a long-term investment. The other fodder, I just can't really recommend it too much guys, like if there's an 87 requirement today, 87s are gonna go extinct and then 88s could go up. One thing you could look at would be like 86s and 87s with price ranges that go above 18K, maybe some special cards and stuff like that. Those could like randomly spike up 5 to 6,000 coins as people try to just get an 87 rated player. You can look into that a little bit if you wanted to. But honestly, the best place to be right now is in this stuff right here, just the out-of-packs on bids because less people are grinding the market, they're all grinding packs, there's less eyes, and when you see a graph like this, it goes from 206 all the way to 223, and then back to 209, and then what is he right now? Basically 223 again, two or three cards away. This is a card, put it on your radar, flip this card. That's the easiest thing you can do in this game right now. Any budget you can do this on, less than 100K, over a couple million, just do it with multiple cards. Mukiele is at 84,000 coins. That's really low for him, right? What was he yesterday? Yesterday Mukiele was 91, he's been kind of dropping off since. Now he's down to like 84, that's really low. So, you know, fine cards you can flip like that. Winter wild cards are great. The team, the group stage cards, I flipped a Musiala yesterday. Like this is what I did for Musiala. Last night, after I record the YouTube video, I was like, oh shoot, he was right here. I was like, wait, he's sitting on the market at 295, so I looked at his graph and I was like, he goes from 312, spikes to 350, goes to 330 a couple times a day. So I picked one up at 294, because it was literally just sitting there, listed it for 330, boom, easy coins, 15K profit basically right there. GG's, that's what you can do right now on this market. And again, lazy list your stuff, because people wanna try out these team of the years, they forget the prices, they just look for the cheapest one they can see, and you end up getting lazy sales and stuff like this.  I'll lazy list here again for another hour and doing a lot of that. And the last thing to watch out for today is a title update. I don't know what this is gonna fix, it seemed like it was very small in the patch, notes and all that sort of thing, but not a lot expected there for today on this game, but there is at least some sort of update coming pretty soon. That's for PS5 and Xbox Series XS and also PS, or sorry, PC. So all of that's coming today, I'm not expecting it to be a big day, but just a couple things to take note of and yeah guys, you know what we might actually be seeing soon? Future stars, leaks and news, because that's always a promo that EA tried to continue the hype of team of the year and push into. Future stars is always right after and it's probably too early for a loading screen today, but you never know, if the leaks start coming, there's gonna be a lot of talk about future stars. That's always a promo that gets the hype building up. It just feels like right now, the team of the hype is really ending, but we feel like EA could have done more. So let me know what you think down in the comments. Have you agreed with this? Again, maybe your last thoughts on team of the year, this is like kind of a team of your discussion video I feel like it turned into for me, just because we're definitely on the tail end now of this promo and not that I've given up hope, but it's definitely in the grinding part and the content's slowing down, but that doesn't take, kind of a no-brainer, it's easy to see. So that's the video for today guys, if you didn't enjoy, drop a thumbs up on it and of course subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nathan with the Count. See you guys in the stream today where we hopefully can pack a blue and get that number to two. Peace out.