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that John McArter has joined me in the studio, John, has just stepped down as Lifeboat Operations Manager. This is after 20 years of dedicated service and he's officially retired from his role with Loss Willie RNLA, sort of hung up his pager, but anyhow he's not fully gone as I think he's going to tell us now. John, anyhow, good afternoon, happy new year to you. The same to you John, many of them. Good to see you again, good to talk to you. We've talked down through the years about different fundraising events and so on. You've been involved in the RNLA in more ways than one for 20 years. I thought it was even longer. Well sometimes it is felt like that, but you know what has passed in a flash, John, I'm surprised when I look back on it, just probably how much water has flowed out of the bridge so to speak, but definitely it's just been a fairly long stretch, but a very enjoyable time really.  Well I suppose I came back to live in Bunkrana back about the mid-70s and I very quickly took up sailing there on Loss Willie and enjoyed the water and still do indeed, but as maybe as partly as a result of that I was approached there by the then Operations Manager and one of the crew to would I get involved in early 2002-3 that sort of time and they didn't want me to be, I was sort of past the real seagull in stage even then, so they asked me to become what you call a DLA or a deputy launching authority in the station management which looks after the overall operation. So I worked there in that role and very quickly, I suppose about a year into that I got unveiled into getting involved in fundraising as well and was part of a team that kind of pioneered what was then called clustering of the branches around in the Shown and Letter Kenney and Remelton and all here to work together on some projects and then work separately as well in their own areas. So that sort of pushed me into the fundraising area quite strongly and then a few years later my predecessor Liam McGee retired and I took on the operations as well and I suppose within the R&L I generally those two roles don't fall on to the same person but the way it evolved here is I had both of them and I've really enjoyed the connection that operations and fundraising have with each other and it's been great to be able to kind of develop it along that those lines although generally they're kept somewhat separated. Yeah because operations to me sounds like you know your hands-on making sure that the crew's in place for when they're needed and then you know getting them out whereas fundraising obviously is working away in the background through the year trying to raise money for equipment and training and so on. Yeah and that's very definitely the case and once I had to give the priority generally to operations but then you know since we're a totally voluntary organisation and we only exist at the behest of the generosity of the general public so raising the money is equally important because it is an expensive organisation to run and it never has ceased to amaze me that the absolute generosity and the esteem in which the R and L is held not only here and in a show and in Donegal are all over Ireland all over the British Isles where it exists and this year we're going to be 200 years old and we've always been in that kind of vein where there's no outside support it's all on the basis of what the what the general public feels about it and and donates to it that's not to take away at all from the huge job that the operations team do when they go to the the guys and girls that are involved in seagoing and will go with the at the drop or the drop of a hat around the pager goes not not regardless of whether but they do go out in some very difficult conditions because that's when largely when a lot of people get into bother yes I think it's only when when you do when you when become active on the water yourself and it could be something as simple as just going out in a kayak or it could be you know you do maybe a lot of sailing or you have a bigger boat or whatever it's only when you do that and then you're out maybe you know the weather is not as good as you had hoped for or then start you know things start to go through your head you know what what have I you know what have this cuts out or what have I don't make it in it's only then that it clicks what the vital role that the R and L I do and what you know and what they are the whole year round and and I suppose it's it's important just to remind people that you know okay our waterways mightn't be that busy at the moment but this is this is you know 12 months of the year 52 weeks of the year this is you know they are there when people get into difficulty on the water not just during the busy summer season although that's certainly true John and yes they the summer season spring and summer tend to be busier for us that's when you know a lot of people go on the water and all sorts of craft and they do some of the difficulties they get into are quite simple and you know people run out of fuel you know they get a rope around their prop or they get they get too far out from the edge of the water and can't get back but at least on a phone call we're there or we can be there I mean in Balcana there from from we operate two boats with an inshore I or inshore lifeboat at semi and semi-rigid inflatable that can can get on the water in about seven minutes from we get the call you know that the response time is very very quick or all whether boat usually takes a little bit longer but maybe ten minutes but the people are there the crew is on the way at that stage that's for bigger journeys for bigger journeys generally things that go off shore not always but its capability will we can go say a hundred miles out to sea and if needed most things happen within ten nautical miles of the coast but at least you know between between Port Rush and Arnmore and ourselves we sort of form a necklace around the Northwest here and between and we work in together whatever we have to do we are sort of patch I suppose would cover all of Lux Willy some of the locks either side of it take us out about Tory Island in the West and over towards the mouth of the foil in the East so we've quite a big patch to cover there and with the two boats and the combination we can look after that reasonably well so depending where you are if you get into difficulty and you make that distress call then you know they there's a there's an office or a manager somewhere that decides okay Arnmore's closest so we'll send Arnmore out or ask Arnmore can they go out to that yeah I mean for us that's Mallon Head Rescue Centre Mallon Head Coast Guard the the emergency calls are we would ask everybody to you know never hesitate to make the call if you see something that looks like difficulty call them call 999 and and ask for the Coast Guard and they will then coordinate us as one of the emergency services but helicopters ambulances guard whatever so the beauty is that it's all coordinated through Mallon Head why is it not state funded I mean if you you know if you're into an accident and you call 999 and an ambulance comes out that's state funded you know why would it not be the same on on the water well it's probably a question a way above my pay grade is the same but you know as I mentioned earlier there we're 200 years in operation this year and Sir William Hillary founded the operation in the Isle of Man in 1824 they all they founded it on the goodwill of people and it has remained that way and I suppose one of the things that that does is it gives a great independence of operation to the organization not know they're not high bound by politics or anything else and for fortunately the the general public have always taken the iron alive very close to their heart and and and looked after it and funded it through generosity both during their lives and after their lives are over for a great source of the money we have comes from people who have finished their lives and left us considerable donations in their in their worlds and it's that's a very easy way to contribute it well I mean what in one way in one way it is yeah but not that doesn't take away from the huge effort that the communities and branches around the country here raise fundraising efforts and as they say put the fun into fundraising and run amazing events to look after us but then here we have a lot of people who work you know almost alone in their own community organizations who raise money and want to raise it for us on our behalf which is greatest and that money that money is vital because there's there's no point in sending a boat out to an emergency that breaks down there's no point in sending a crew out with you know shoddy life jackets or equipment no I mean that I mean we're we're we as an institution or as an organization are asking our volunteers of which is the 95% of our people are volunteers and we're asking them to put their lives on the line 52 weeks a year 24 hours a day at the call of the pager they'll go that there's never any question in their head and it's our it's the institutions obligation really and I wish to give them the best training and the best equipment that we can give them so that they go there properly equipped against weather and and water and everything else and our and also very importantly in the modern all-weather lifeboats Shannon class that we have here in in a shown and they're now several of them around the country but we were we were have the we were fortunate enough to have the first of them in Ireland but these boats are very very well built they've they're technologically very very advanced but the comfort in them for the crew is is exceptional the seats are extremely well sprung and so forth so that when a person or when a crew arrives at an incident that they may have been four or five hours at sea getting there they'll arrive fresh and able to work in difficult conditions to bring people safely home so that there's a huge investment goes into making that happen a Shannon class lifeboat today is about nearly just short of three million to put on the water it's a huge amount of money but it's go it goes to preserve the people who travel in it and enable them to get there and get the job they have to do and then it's to keep the lifeboat the lifeboat station is maintained and all the equipment maintained so it's not just about they get the equipment in the first place or about the training so yeah and you know understand where the money goes and people so you know when you talk in millions people wonder where they put in a few bob in a box or they're doing where how does that help but like that a pair of gloves or 12 euro a pair of water rubber boots or 30 odd euro so everything counts you know every penny counts at the end of the day has it has it changed much over the 20 years I suppose it has in some ways it has and other ways it hasn't the ethos and the behind it is still the same and the people that they're they don't join the R&L I without thinking it's a job well worth doing and they they get the people get dedicated and are dedicated to go into sea to save life that's ours our mission is very simple we save lives at sea and everything that we do works towards that but I suppose that again the level of equipment and sophistication we work with is ever changing ever getting more technically competent and better aids with it the I suppose another thing that has grown about you know like the paperwork etc. changes we've we've got to keep very very careful records these days and all of that we do but and overall sense at the the overall job doesn't change all that much it's still going to see people going to see in boats to help others and we use all the modern convenience and convenience to the needs that we can to make that happen so so what about you and the R&L I now I mean is is that you've stepped down and from your role as operations manager but you know are you gone gone or are you still going to be around just for a bit of advice or a guidance or because 20 years is a lot of experience well well yeah and you know it's it's the they well they aren't at the institution says when you reach 70 years of age you should be thinking of standing down that's that's fair enough I have reached that point there last year and I thought that that's fair enough that's that's the time to pass this on but the R&L is as we often research referred to ourselves as a family and it's a family I never really want to leave and I would I felt well I'm quite happy to pass on the somewhat onerous responsibilities I do want to be I'm quite happy to be remain with it and be part of it as long as I can be and they asked me back there to a crew meeting last night to present some certificates that for casualty care and at the same time they they they asked me to become chairman of the the lifeboat management group which is a somewhat onerate position but at least it will keep me in contact it allows me to be available to my successor as and when that that successor comes or or anybody else that's there for for whatever advice and experience I can bring to it and I'm very happy to do that and I mean I do with our own station and every everybody in the institution every success in the future because it is a huge the valuable organization one that I have really enjoyed been part of and it has taken a huge chunk of my life or been part of a huge chunk of my own life and really well worthwhile and rewarding to be there and I've met so many wonderful people both in the organization in our own crew all around the community where we've raised money and made friends all sorts of places and it's it's it's just a wonderful thing to be part of well I don't think you could give up 20 years if you're left to volunteering whatever sort it would be if you didn't like it and you seem to have enjoyed it but also you know I would think that your your contribution has been immense over that 20 years and not just in fundraising but also in operations I wish you the best in retirement you know from from this role and and in your future contributions whatever there will be with they are in a lay and and thanks for coming in for a chat today well John I'm delighted to have been able to do it to be to be here today and I'd also like to thank you and all the folks here in Highland for all the help you've given us and airtime you've given us give made people aware of what we do about our fundraising events and things you've always been hugely supportive of us and I'm really delighted for that and it's as we call ourselves we're one crew but we're all one community up here in Donegal and we love to help each other and that's the way it should be and I hope it goes on that way. John McArthur thank you. Thank you.


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In today's video, we're opening extremely rare Tournament Packs. What's up guys? We're back with another Tournament Pack opening where we have a wide variety all the way back to the original Tournament Pack, up to the most, not the most recent, but one of the most recent OTS packs. Before we actually get into it, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this Lost Art Gemini Elf. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed to our notifications, so let me know down below what's your favorite OTS slash Tournament Packs as Champion Turbo Astral Pack ever made, and what do you want to see pulled today? All right, so here is what we have today.  Tournament Packs are not that easy to get, no matter if they're new, old, whatever it is, they're pretty hard to get. But we go all the way back to the original and we have some Champion Pack. I've got Turbo and I've got, I think, one Astral Pack in there somewhere. Okay, so we have one from every single version of Tournament Pack ever. There's been five different versions. Started with Tournament Pack, Champion, Turbo, Astral, OTS. So let's go with OTS-22 to start. We have the most of the 22 and 21, but we do have some pretty awesome stuff, including Turbo Pack 6, which could pull the Ultimate Rare Dark Arm Dragon, which would be pretty amazing. All right, let's see what we, oh, boils at the very front on 22. So Evo Diversity, you get an automatic Super Rare in those. There's not a lot of cards in these. So as you can see, it's like three cards per pack. That's always been the case since the original Tournament Pack. We'll kind of discuss the differences as we get to those, but we're going to do a little current OTS. I think OTS-23, I don't think we even open. We never got our hands on any of that. They can be a little bit harder. Oh, I spoiled it. Okay, Horde of the Oliphant, the Lord of the Rings action. All right, we've got a Sync Realm and a Morphotronic Remotin, all the way back from Raging Battle in 5Ds. Let's do a little variety with OTS-21. These are very, very similar right here, except this one's a little bit more of a fat pack, no body shaming going on here, but that's basically the same. You know, 21, I don't remember exactly what's in here though. So what we're going to do, doesn't spoil it right off the bat. So we can go like this, flip it around like that. We have a Testudo Arat Newman. This was like a big card from, I think, 5Ds. It's a common in one of the 5D sets that it was like money for a while. Okay, so these are at the back in 21. Very weird. They're only one set apart, but they've changed up where they are. Very interesting. Let's do 22. We're going to mix in some of the older ones as we go as well. I don't know. Was it spoiled right at the front? No, it was okay. If you take that, this time it's not going to mess it up. Yeah, Evo Force, we've already gotten that. We have the Evil Tile Najashu and the Baby Raccoon upon Poco. We're looking for anything that's not guaranteed in these because like in these, you can get ultimate rares and the older ones, you can get ultsies, you can get ulters, you can get supers. They're not guaranteed.  So if we get really anything, we're going to be excited. OTS 21, that's going to make it pretty interesting. Anything we pull would be awesome. OTS 21, do your thing. It's already at the back of contract with Aquamere Contact. I should say Gishki Aquamere and number 92, Mannequin Cat. So all super so far, but don't worry guys. There's a lot of potential left. I think we might delve into one of the older ones in just a second. Let's see, what can we get from OTS 22? Let's get that out of the way like that. Perfect. That's at the back. That ultimate rare, hopefully. We have DeSynchro, Mortronic Remotin again and Clear New World. Another super, not any luck so far. Not any luck, but don't worry guys. We're going to keep trying. Let me know in the comments. Do you like these OTS openings slash tournament pack openings? If I can even get any of them, especially the old stuff, the old stuff is really, really hard to find these days, especially unweight. So I mean, most of the time it's going to be weighed or something, but I will do my best to get some and hopefully maybe we'll get lucky. Look, we did pull a Mech Chaser one time. That was a sealed box. So that was pretty tough to get. We have E. Prilly Happiness. If that ever comes up again, maybe TP2 or something. If we get lucky, maybe we could open some of that up and pull like a like I've never pulled a Morphine Jar, I never pulled a Jinzo Jar. I mean, the chances of pulling a Jinzo Jar has been done on camera. Pretty amazing, but I don't know if I'm ever going to do it. Okay, let's do one more of these and we'll hop into one of the older ones. So OTS 21 came out last year. I think 22 as well. So these are 2023 packs. Nothing too insane. We have Gishiki Aqua Mirror. We have the Galaxy Expedition and the E. Prilly Happiness. Same card. A lot of the times these tend to like pull the same supers. Like if they're close to each other in the box. Let's go with a, that's not that old. Let's do a Champion Pack. How about that? So Champion Pack, game two. This one contains a potential magician of faith in Super Rare. $500 card. Very, very expensive. We have opened a whole box of this on the channel. I think twice actually. I was able to get my hands on two full 100 pack boxes. You can go check that out. Actually, we might have weighed them out. So we only opened the hollow packs. There was usually 10. So about one in 10, you get a foil. I think it's one in 12 for a Super, one in 48 for an Ultra. So that comes out to one in 10. So yeah, that's if they're in a sealed box. These, I got these in a collections. They're probably all weighed. That's the, there's a good chance. There's a good, good chance. But we're going to try it out anyway. You never know. You can actually see the ratios I think on here. Yeah. What, Ultra Rare, one in 48, Super Rare, one in 12. Rare, every, every pack, but one in one basically. And then two in one. So you get two comments and a rare. Really though, they say a rare is in every pack, but it's not though. Cause if you get a foil, it's not in every pack. So interesting. It's not one, really one in one. It's one in every like nine out of 10. Okay. There might, there might be a spoiler on the front. So I saw it's an effect monster, just in the faith, just saying we're going to open it backwards like this. So we don't spoil it. If there's an actual foil on one of these, I will be shocked. I mean, that would be a pretty amazing. I actually don't know that it's at the front, but I'm going to look how shiny these are. These were in the era where it was kind of slimy, you know, we have a ceasefire. So old school, CP02, not TP2 straight lamps. Here we go. Oh, speaking of morphing jar, that's a pretty cool rare actually morphing jar as a rare and champion pack too. That's pretty awesome. I might just sleeve up all these champion pack cards just in one little sleeve. That's pretty awesome. All right. So, you know, we're not really expecting too much, but you know, getting cool cards like that is going to be pretty awesome.  Horn of the olive font. Try a little OTS 21. These do not have a ton of cards. So we don't need to like speed through them or anything. This should already be at the back. We have the photon sanctuary time space trap hole and light of the branded for all you branded fans out there. I'm getting nervous for these other big ones. Uh, I don't really know what to expect, especially the turbo pack six, like those have high potential guys. They have high potential because, you know, dark arm dragon alt is a big one, especially if it gets PSA 10, which I have not done yet. I pulled two out of a full box of turbo pack six, which was very expensive and uh, yeah, they were both nice. So that kind of sucked. Okay. 21 and we're going to go try a tournament pack. I think, uh, 21 should already be at the back. We have this gift. We have just do door on Newman and scare claw cash tier. I forgot about that one. That used to be money for a while, but I don't, it's probably not now because it's been a little bit. Let's try. I think we have two TP six, right? TP six. I am pretty sure that these are going to be weighed because I'm trying to remember from back where and I got them. I've had these for quite a while, but either way, we're going to try them out. TP six, the best card, uh, is the ultra rare DD warrior, I believe there's also the wait. No, that's TP seven. TP six is tuned cannon soldier. Then, uh, let's see what else. I think to table consensus in here as well. Clown zombie. There we go. A clown revived by the powers of darkness. It's deadly dance has sent many monsters to their graves. This thing dances. That was unexpected. I didn't realize that. So bones. What are you doing? Bones. We've got a rice and she that's a nice card and last turn. So yeah, this is TP, the original TP, not even guaranteed rare. So as you can see, we got all comments that clown zombie is pretty classic though. I bet that would be actually a nice card to grade. Let me see if it was gradeable. Got some stuff going down the middle that probably heard it. Yeah, that would probably be tough to get a 10 with that, but otherwise very nice looking card. Okay. TP six and here we can take a little look at the rapper right here, three and one common. So you're supposed to three commons every pack, except for when they get replaced by rare for is the rares are one and every three supers are one and every 18 and ultras are one and every 108. So very tough to get the ultra. That's why like morphing jar, mech chaser, doom cannon soldier in this case, very, very rare. Okay. Let's see if we can get anything in this video. All we need is one poll to be happy really one poll. We're super happy. We have noble night boars. We have herald the abyss. Look at the centering giant forehead right there. Nibble angle, nimble angler. I should say OTS 21 so far. The OTS's have let us down pretty significantly. We have the time safe space trap. Oh, mysterious puppeteer and Tabari the sky ninja. Okay. OTS is I'm asking you to step it up. Okay.  I think because you're a lot newer. So maybe you could like do that real quick. Just get something. We have power tool mecha dragon branded in red and come on baby clear new world again. All right. All right.  We have OTS tournament pack 21. Oh, I know it's already in the back. Isn't it? Let's go. My dragon swamp. These feel like thin. All right. Sprite red. Sprite red. Not a bad guard. Little ex files music there. Double mud dragon in the swamp. Pretty weird. Let's try the OTS 18 real quick. Not that old couple years old at this point. What was an 18? I think 16 was the cyber dragon and the droplet 17 had in perm. What did 18 have? I don't remember. Might not be that great. If I can't remember. Let's see if I can is really spoiler. Okay. No spoiler. I don't know if 18 has anything. So we're going to do that. We have the destiny here celestial. Okay. I'll get the tiny. Okay. So just a super and then the Nordic Senate. This is like the cover card. I wanted the starter decks for the Nordic stuff. So interesting to see that. All right. OTS. Come on, baby. Don't burn us. Give us one good pull. Give us one good pull right here. Come on. One good pull. That's all we're asking for. We have evo force. We have evil tile and baby raccoon punboko. Sure. Sure. Why not OTS 21? I believe in you OTS. It's about like one in 16 or one in 16 to 17 for the ultimate in OTS packs, I believe. So there's bright red. I didn't need to do the Patrick. Yeah. I mean, we should get one at some point. Maybe we have 20 packs. So I guess we're kind of on ratio, but we only have 10 of each. So it's like, maybe, maybe not. We'll get one. I don't remember what is open OTS. So it's at the back. We have a contact this actor. Come on, baby. Scareclaw cash. Zero. We've gotten a couple of those. Okay. Let's try this astral pack. We have an astral pack five. I have no idea what's an astral pack five. I have an astral pack four. I thought about opening it. I was like, no, it's just too rare. Very hard to find. They had Max seen them. So yeah, pretty big astral pack five. I don't remember what's in here. See if they have the ratios on astral pack as well. Wouldn't they stop doing that? Either turbo pack or astral pack is not on here. It looks like so see. Okay. It's at the front. So let's do like this. You're like that. Flip it around. I don't know if that's a foil or not, but if it's any foil, we'll be happy. You have impressive prophecy. We have the Hanawata and we have, okay. Genus lightsworn mender. I can't remember if they're guaranteed supers. I'm pretty sure they are an astral pack either way. Very cool to get something and it's lightsworn. Lightsworn, you know, get a little more popular recently. They had some recent support. So very cool. All right. OTS count on you OTS. You're going to turn this around. You got this. We have, ooh, the Titanic moth. Watch out. Picania moss older brother. You think, and the brand it lost. Sure. Canyon moss older brother. That's very exciting, but unfortunately not an actual pull terms of rarity. We have network trap hole. We have the photon sanctuary and we have black feather counters. Sure. We'll be counting those feathers. We're down to, okay. One of each of these. So let's just, just knock these out and go straight for the old stuff now after this. Let's just go see if we can get an ulti here. We have herald the abyss. We have branded red and pearly happy memories. Okay. All right. Sure. OTS 21. These OTS, they've been done so far already in the back. We go galaxy expedition. We have photon sanctuary.   We've had some great pulls in the past. So go check that. Oh, go check those out. Ultimate rare tier limits rhino heart. Last pack of OTS 21. All right. That is awesome. Centering is not fantastic on this, but I'm happy. That is something. I mean, tier limits not so great anymore. Had a lot of bands and stuff and you know, changes in the meta. So not quite as great as they were, but ultimately rare as an ultimate rare. All right. We got our one pole. That was from a new one. So let's even get a one pole from an old one as well. Then we do really well. OTS 13. This was around like the first time I ever got any OTS packs. This is when I entered in a tournament and then dropped out just to get the one pack for the every pack opening. I don't know where the card would be. So I'm just going to go like that. We have dimensional prison.  So floodgate trap a little dueling special right there. Very cool. And a clear wing or crystal clear crystal wing crystal clear wing. That's the legendary duelist synchro storm. Ghostry. Okay. All the way back to OTS three. This one I have no idea because I was not around when this thing was going on. They don't tell you any ratios on here either. They just tell you like how many cards like three Ultramaners in the set, whatever spoiler. There is a spoiler. Good. We have DD Crow. It's a good card. I mean can't complain not in sorcerer and ally of justice cycle reader. I mean ally of justice. I can't imagine that's great. Okay. We are down to we have tournament packs. Our turbo pack six. We should probably open one now and save one for later. Here we go. Turbo pack. Let's go see what we can get. Ultramaner dark umdrag. Come on baby. There's also Ultras in here. There's only one ulti and it's the dark umdrag. By the way, I didn't check on the back. So tell you anything. Yeah. So there is one ulti one ultra. It's not spoiler. What was that back there? I think that might have been whatever. I don't know if it's guaranteed super or not. We have golem drag my Gemini spark. I don't remember the ultra. Why do I feel like it's still a dark greffer? Which would be weird because they're both from fan of darkness. I don't know. And the electro sovereign of birds. So that is yeah. That's not really going to make your money back on a turbo pack opening, but very cool either way. All right. Let's try a turbo pack five. I think I was one of these in here. Not the craziest one because it's like big shield gardener and stuff like that. You get needleworm super, which is pretty cool. The ultra is luminous soldier. Yeah. So the least exciting of all the ultras, but still a cool card to open it very carefully because these are very old. Try not to spoil the whole thing. I don't even know if it's at the front. It might not be, but just to be safe and flip it around. Okay. Destruction punch could be the next card. Okay. Missile sheet number one. That's a TP one reprint and book of life for those zombie decks and Edison and some go format as well. So very cool. Very cool. Not a foil though. All right. I think I have two TP fours. So it's going to have a roll to create. You could have morphing jar. It's originally in TP two, but the super is in here. The cards in here are often very scuffed and very off centered. So even if we pull something, you know, it'll probably be that, but either way, I don't care. I just wanted to, you know, be a foil. It'd be amazing. You know, one and 18 for a super pretty rare. Let me check. Take a little peek through here. Okay. Reverse open here. Didn't see the car. Just saw that it was the front of a card. All right. Let's see. I don't even know if that's the foil or not, but just to be safe. Last time it was in TP five Hayabusa night. Very cool. Old school.  All right. The classic not even guaranteed rares in those old school. They're pretty rough. Okay. What do we do now? Let's do champion pack turbo pack six is a big one. So we're going to save that was there a spoiler on this one. I don't want you guys to see it right away. It's never as fun. Oh, the Arkansas razor backs rush recklessly. Very nice ceasefire. Come on. Come on. Super rare. Let's go. A bit soldier. Okay. It is guaranteed rares and champion back. So not that crazy a bit soldier. Pretty decent goat format. Not bad. We'll take it. You're down to turn back four six and turbo pack six. Let's do turn about pack six first. We're going to open them backwards. I feel like they all need to be open like that around these cards feel like they're in pretty good condition. We have rice and she clown zombie. Let's give us that that tune. Candid soldier. That'd be pretty amazing sleeping lion. This is a classic card a ferocious animal that sleeps all day. Sometimes it's better to let sleeping lions be. I like that 1700 defense.  I'm trying to sleep right now turbo pack. So so far we've had an ulti. So we at least got something that was out of OTS though. New reset. These these older ones they have not been great. We have not pulled any foils, but that's kind of expected of the number we had was not even like a ratio to pull foil, but they are so hard to get foils that you know we were hoping maybe we get lucky. Okay. I think on this one. I did it wasn't actually at the front. I'm pretty sure it was at the back. Wasn't it? Let's see. Oh, it wasn't the front start us though. That's it. It's pretty good. All right. We'll take a green kappa and the fusion gate, which is also a good comment. So honestly, a pretty good pack, you know, very expensive, but very good pack. All right. Last pack. If you guys enjoy this tournament pack opening, make sure you subscribe for more content and go check out my old tournament pack openings because I've done a lot of them over the years. They're always super fun. They're getting harder and harder to find. So maybe go revisit some of those old ones if you would like and you know, give a check out see what we got in the past. Let's do like this. And we're about to get a royal decree. It's where I'm going to lose it. Okay. Mad sword beast. Never pulled that card. The Arkansas razorbacks and our final card of today's video. We had some big videos recently. Go check them out. We've opened up LOB first ed. We've done we open McDonald's pack to open every legendary collection. I've opened some new Asian English sets. Go check those out. Here we go. Last pack. It was a rare call by the grave. I thought when I saw trap, I got a little excited, but maybe next time.  Fo sho. Puff. It's the new minister. Dan. America. 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This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network Passive sports weekend on tap because we have not just NFL week 13 with a Disgusting number of really fun games But also the round is 16 and the World Cup is coming up We're gonna talk about that with Austin cast of number fire later on getting his read on some of those matches Including the USA versus the Netherlands, but it's also week 13 in the FL Which means we have talked to JJ Zachary soon of late round calm in the late round fantasy football podcast about his favorite player props For this week this is covering the spread right here on the Fandall podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm Join here as mentioned by JJ Zachary's and check him out on Twitter at late round QB JJ happy week 13 to you Are you doing today? I'm a lot better after the final drive for new england last night with remandre stevenson Just getting dump off after dump off, you know, you got to love that if you have them in ppr formats So feeling better after that because up until that point it wasn't looking great for him in fantasy Um, but yeah, yeah, man. Things are good. Like you said great great weekend of sports But also, you know specifically the NFL a lot a lot of great games There certainly are and we talked about those games on the full show yesterday with ryan Williams to get the read on those if you want some thoughts on ways to bet chief spengels stuff like that Check that out on the covering the spread podcast feed or up on the fandall youtube page Are you going to give us any uh world cup insights too? Are you excited to watch uh tomorrow's match in the us nevelins? I'm excited. Uh, I am uh the opposite of a a a soccer guy, uh, if you will sorry A non-american football. Yes, uh guy I'm excited though.  It's just too stressful I will watch it, but I'm gonna be stressed the entire time and I don't like putting myself intentionally in high-stress situations But I guess we'll do it for uh the stars and stripes Let's dig in now though to week number 13 In the NFL and one thing that stood out last week was vibes and like that's a dumb thing to bake to make bets based off of his vibes, but They kind of seem to matter in that jets game. They moved to mike white a quarterback Things went really well for them. Uh, the broad because of that had bad bad vibes the entire year Quillin Sutton, you know, it's been hitting his props pretty regularly. So that's fine, but It seems like I can't quantify this stuff But it does seem like vibes kind of matter Oh, or is it something where you think that markets may overreactive vibes? You could you know potentially Try to buy into situations like that. How do you account for I guess we'll just call it vibes When you're trying to look at player props. Well, let's talk about vibes first Like I think it's real like I don't think it's an unreal thing.  But at the same time I mean you can get that extra boost Uh, just naturally if the environment looks right, you know, if you're in this like, you know There's a difference between a preseason game and a regular season game You know, they're not playing the same way in all of these games And so, um, I think it's only natural for there to yes be some sort of like, you know, vibe Situation if you will, um with that being said, I think it's very easy to then overstate What that really means, you know, we look at what mike white did last week Well, the bears defense is arguably the worst defense in the nfl right now, right? So obviously they're going to perform a little bit better defensively when they're facing the chicago bears Or you look at rustle wilson and yeah, things are bad for rust. He's not playing well The coaching staff is an abomination But we have to also keep in mind that they've had offensive line injuries. They've had Horrible pass catcher injuries. I mean like like rustle wilson over the last couple weeks has been thrown to kendall hinton as his number two wide receiver And yes part of that problem is is team building, of course, you know This is but it but it goes beyond just how these guys are performing goes, you know You can look at match up. You can look at injuries all that kind of stuff too Um, so I think that's important to give that context. So i'm sort of in the middle here You know, like I don't think that uh vibes are nothing I don't think that the way that I mean because because we're measuring humans at the end of the day We're measuring how these guys perform and you know day to day with what you do at work with what you do when you exercise Whatever, you know, there are some days where you're just better than others. Um, and that's fine to admit that It's fine to know that you know, what we're looking at and analyzing isn't capturing all of that But at the end of the day, it's still, you know, production is still being captured in some way We can still analyze that stuff knowing that that's the case But then on top of that don't ignore why things might have gone a certain way Which is the typical things we look at matchups, uh, you know injuries, etc I think the other sense in which vibes matter is they can predict movement because When vibes are good people are more likely to bet that side So I think a good one this week is chargers raiders vibes are good around the raiders They've won consecutive games to know over time. We've seen a lot of movement in their favor I think it's moved too far. Um, you know, I think that there are Ways you can use that to decide when to bet or if you want to bet a certain thing This is more so for like sides and totals versus for player props, but vibes can't help you Try to predict where a market will move or whether it'll move and I think that's another important thing to Consider as well I think that's cute betting player props is that I struggle with personally is You're betting a median versus an average whereas most projections I assume are averages versus medians and there's a very big difference there because the distribution of that Is tough. So when you're looking at Your projections comparing them to the market How what process are you going through to try to account for the fact that one number may be an average versus the actual bets We're making are based on the median I think the one thing to to first keep in mind is that, you know, the numbers aren't going to be dramatically different You know, typically like a median and you know, we all learn that in school median and averages Yes, there can be differences depending on the data set, but it's not typically like dramatically dramatically different So that's the first thing which is nice because then you can, you know, when you're projecting these things and when you're looking at your projections You know the average if you will because it's sort of what you're looking at You're sort of looking at, you know, when we say average with projections. We're really looking at things like Rate stats and such and we're looking at like, you know, things like like target share and such which which you're generally Sort of building off of an average in some way Um, but you know, I do think though that you can still look at the extremes Which is what I typically do with my projections I'm looking and seeing if there's like a glaring glaring difference between what I'm projecting And what the market is generally saying and then I'll attack that first and foremost But from there, uh, I'm looking at volume and I'm just seeing how consistent volume is Because volume is stickier than any sort of rate stat that you're going to look at week over week I mean think about, you know, if you're going to go back to averages like in a given game, uh You can have like christian watson last week for instance against philadelphia where he doesn't do a whole lot until he has that huge touchdown Well, that huge touchdown now makes his yardage total look really really good Even though that was just one reception that really boosted that overall yardage total And so what you can look at though is the fact that christian watson had a 24 target share in that offense last week You know, there's there are things that he can still build off of In order to get to that mark once again And so if you have those kinds of numbers backing you whether it's snap count, you know Volume and target share and such if you have those numbers backing you then you can feel a little bit more confident In that projection. So it's important to give all that context, of course But um, you know, I think at the end of the day, you know, you're usually just looking at the extremes in these situations Other thing that's helpful too is like you can use stuff like a poisson distribution You can go to betscope. They have like a distribution calculator, uh, based on like a projection You can put the projection They tell you what the fair market is for that number So there are tools you can use as well, but it's kind of accounting for what we're actually betting is very helpful there Okay, let's move now into the situations that you're looking to target this week fluid situations that may be in flux We could potentially find some value. You know, those markets aren't up as of yet. Which situations are you seeing as being fruitful for this week? JJ Yeah, you know, I don't know if this first one is necessarily Something that you can attack per se unless you see something In a market. I didn't necessarily see it. But uh, tony pollard this past week ran fewer routes than a zql It which is not normal. I mean the week before that he ran 13 more routes than a zql It, uh, which is pretty significant at the end of the day for a running back I mean that that that kind of gap basically says you're the passcatcher You're not the passcatcher in the offense So i'm at least monitoring this backfield split between these two guys, you know, it was a Thanksgiving game Maybe they just wanted a zql it to be used a little bit more in that environment and said I have no idea But you know, it's at least something that that we need to monitor moving forward because uh, tony ball pollard is Is not only a good passcatcher, but he's been that passcatcher for them throughout the season Another one that i'm monitoring this week is jerek mckinnon's status I think this is sort of flying under the radar a little bit right now, but he hasn't practiced all week And uh, you know, we we're recording this on a friday So we don't know exactly if he's gonna play or not or if he's gonna practice today You know either way he's either gonna be banged up this weekend or he doesn't practice He just doesn't play this weekend and if you look at the the chief's depth chart right now You have isiah pacheco. Obviously, uh, claud edwards a lairs on ir They have ronald jones who can't catch passes out of the backfield He hasn't done that throughout his entire career and then they recently signed Melvin gordon who i think they signed because they needed someone who could sort of do it all and be a good A good piece for them, uh, you know, not necessarily just backing up But just just just being security for an insurance for them, uh, but but melvin gordon signed this week I mean he hasn't been there very long And then if jerek mckinnon doesn't go then all of a sudden isiah pacheco has a chance in a Very high over under game a game that could shoot out Be a chance. He has a chance to be a bell cow in that game against Cincinnati So that's definitely one situation that i'm monitoring right now if you want to be aggressive You could obviously just hit overs with isiah pacheco Because you know the other thing too is from a snap count standpoint if jerek mckinnon is in That limits isiah pacheco's just just usage on the field and being on the field in general So, uh, that's a that's a big one for me this week And then the last one, uh, that i want to get to is is the jets wide receivers A lot of people are looking at production from last week and they're saying oh, elijah moore had his best game of the I mean he had two catches but you know elijah moore had his best game of the year scored a touchdown 64 yards against the bears Here's the problem with that is that elijah moore Still played half the number of snaps as quarry davis at this past week quarry davis still ran Ten more routes and elijah moore. He's still the number two wide receiver on that team quarry davis's so That's definitely one one of the the situations to at least realize and recognize is that Even though production is saying one thing in that one game Elijah moore is not really playing that much more even though we would love him to Yeah, the funny thing was after the game the receivers are changing like Oh, free that man free that man when elijah moore is talking to the media It's like he's still didn't play a lot of snaps. So it's very clear what they're alluding to They're not hiding what they're alluding to it was not about playing time It was about you know quarterback play at that point. They're not making it. They're not hiding it there with pacheco I think it was also interesting last week. They kind of used them in creative ways It was only one play but like they had him lined up out wide Put him in motion He ran a slant caught it and then kind of created it after the catch I thought that was like, you know, you don't want to over Over amplify one play in your mind But okay, it's like they kind of trust him as a past catcher And I think that's at least interesting with mckinnon being banged up and gordon being new to the team Let's shift now to yardage props here for week number 13. Where are you seeing value in there for this week? Yeah, so, you know, I just talked about elijah moore Not being the number two wide receiver for the jets at least from a usage standpoint You know, cori davis doubling him up from a snap standpoint I like cori davis over 35 and a half receiving yards You can get this in a lot of books right now He is the number two wide receiver for the jets minnesota who they're facing this week They rank 28th and success rate allowed through the air And they've been really bad against perimeter wide receivers in particular They're third in the nfl and wide receiver target share going outside the slot So teams are attacking the vikings on the perimeter a lot more than the middle of the field Davis has only played 21 of his snaps from the slot this year. So he is a perimeter guy And in full games played this year, uh, davis has actually hit this this over in five of seven games I think that this number is as low as it is right now Because he only had nine yards last week in a game where the jet's offense was moving the ball So I like cori davis in this spot. I think he's he's a really good vet over 35 and a half receiving yards Yeah, the jets go from playing outdoors in the rain to playing indoors against a team that is very good against the rush With potentially their top running back being banged up in this game That could encourage them to throw more confidence in mike whiteman encouraged them to throw more too So a lot of things do point towards maybe more passing volume this week And that could be good for davis because he is still playing a lot of snaps for them Any other yardage props you like for this week? Yeah, I also like seiquan barkley Under, you know, I had I had barkley over a couple weeks ago against against houston when he had 35 rush attempts But I like him under 71 and a half rushing yards, which you can also get in most books Barkley hasn't gotten there in three or four games The one game where he did get there was that houston game that I was just talking about where he carried the ball 35 times in houston Arguably as the worst rush rush defense in football. It's at least one of the bottom five Now new york gets washington washington has actually been really good against the run They ranked seventh in success rate allowed to running backs this season So, you know, I this game has a low over under too. It could just be sort of like a low scoring kind of ugly game So i'm going under with with seiquan barkley at 71 71 and a half rushing yards This number to me should be closer to like 66 and a half Yeah, they also got gary brightwell involved a bit on thanksgiving Like intentionally so like, you know, we're calling a place for him, which was interesting really tough rush defense I just need the giants to win so i'll ask for that We can get we can a seiquan under with the giants win anyway, but um, hopefully it's the yardage through the air Okay, what touchdown props you see him for this week I only have one for you and i'm not going to get as crazy as I I sometimes do uh with these touchdown props. Uh, so let's just keep it simple I like joe burrow over two and a half passing touchdowns against kansas city Which is actually plus 160 right now over on dk So you're getting some good juice with it Uh, kansas city has a bottom 10 pass defense when looking at success rate allowed burrow Obviously getting jamar chase back this week. Uh, this game has an over under a 52 and a half coordinate of handle sports book You know of all the games on this slate This is obviously the one that that we would probably predict to shoot out the most And burrow has has done this before I mean, it's not like we're we're throwing a dart at a random quarterback to hit three touchdowns He's he's hit this over in four of 11 games this year and now you're getting this plus 160 I mean, it's it's a good number in my opinion. Um, you know, I don't have burrow projected at three touchdowns Sure, but when you're getting it at plus 160, I think that you got to take it Yeah, and I need the over in that game too So I have the jets money line that goes well with the davis yardage prop kind of because you know He's productive, you know, they can get a win there. I've got the I've got the over air for cheese spangles at 51 got that there So I like the cohesion between the bets for this week now. JJ We're going to let you go in your second But our next guest is a guy, you know Very well from all the way back in the original late round, uh, qb days austin cast So let's bring austin on as well and a nice little reunion here to to get the old late round qb gang back together Yeah, we uh, we we austin and I go way way back We we uh, we started doing I think he started writing for late round This is late round qb.com before late round dot com All happened, but but he was one of the first guys who who came and started writing for late round qb back in like 2013 so it's been like a decade of austin in my life Which is is kind of sad at the same time that it's already been 10 years, but I love austin to death. He's a great dude Oh, yeah, we all love austin austin Welcome to the show excited to get to talk some world cup with you. Unfortunately. JJ did not give us any world cup bets So disappointing on that end I'm not surprised How you doing? I'm great, man. I'm great. It's good to see you too Yeah, well, we're gonna talk to austin breakdown the round of 16 Talk about usa versus an evidence and a bit but JJ Check out everyone's work or JJ's work at late round dot com The late round fantasy football podcast and find JJ on twitter at late round qb. JJ have fun this weekend And we'll talk to you once again next week. Thanks. Jim. Appreciate it. See you later austin Alrighty big. Thank you once again to JJ again on twitter at late round qb We'll talk to austin about these world cup games in just one second at first The 2022 nfl regular season has been jam packed with excitement this sunday now It'll be no different thanks to fandal and direct tv's plan to give you more ways to win this nfl season Introducing the direct tv sunday night countdown a daily fantasy football contest on fandal awarding $10,000 in cash prizes based around the most exciting part of the week sunday night football Here's how it works Just build your best five player roster while staying under the salary cap and follow along as the game unfolds using fandal's live scoring feature Earn points for each stat your players accumulate and watch as your lineup climbs the leaderboard The higher at the leaderboard your lineup finishes the larger share of $10,000 to win It is that simple contest is now live So go to fandal.com slash league slash direct tv dash snf and make sure to submit your lineup before sunday night That's fandal.com slash league slash direct tv dash smf So I mentioned austin cast is on the show right now. You can find austin on twitter at austin cast k as a or a us tan kas the spelling on that austin is an editor and a writer for us over at numberfire.com doing a lot of uh football Analysis for us over there austin welcome. How's the world cup been for you so far? Looks like you're on mute actually Sorry, sorry. Yeah, it's been really entertaining and fun. Um Yeah, especially when it gets to these last games of the group stage and there's two games going on at once and Yeah, who advances relies on how the other game pans out it gets really stressful and fun Uh, where were you like emotionally during the germany spain? Drama japan yesterday. Where were you at like from a headspace perspective? Um, I thought it was mostly pretty fun When there was a brief window when it looked like Both spain and germany could go home. Yeah, and I didn't really love that because I Kind of boring. I want to see the better teams advance I want to see big matchups later in the tournament So to have both of them go home would have been pretty rough, but it was really entertaining Yeah, it certainly was like I said, I'm not built for this kind of stress So uh, not fun for me, but I'm glad that it was fun for you Now let's talk about this round of 16. We don't have every game set as of yet But we should know but we know most of the matches right now So we talk about those we do know and in addition to betting the individual matches You can also bet on whether a team will advance the next round now I'm confused about this because I don't know world cup at all. So I need you to explain to me We'll we'll put it into the guys have explained to the people not specifically just to me the dummy here Who doesn't know how this works, but how does advancing work once we're in this round? So they'll play just the usual 90 minutes plus injury time as they have been But at now they need a winner every game. So if They're still tied at the end of that they'll do two 15 minute periods of extra time And then if they're still tied at the end of that they'll do a penalty shootout Okay So who they're gonna find a winner at some point at the end of that and then Uh, yeah, so they'll play the two 15 minute periods of of extra time no matter what even if somebody scores right away They'll still play them. It's just like an overtime in basketball um But then it does kind of change things for betting a little bit because you can bet on the team to advance which means They go through counting the the 15 minute over times There are the extra times and then penalties or you could just bet on the money line Yeah, the money line bets end at the end of the 90 minutes plus the usual injury time They won't include the shootout or the extra time or anything like that Do you want to navigate around a shootout like because I feel like a shootout Probably is not going to be the best indicator of like strength I guess in terms of you know, which is the better team and that could introduce some volatility So would you prefer to stay away from betting the two advanced markets and rather just you know Introduce the tie s or the draw aspect into it and you know bet on those 90 minutes plus stoppage time Yeah, I think for the most part I would because penalty shootouts are super volatile and anything can happen Um, I guess if you really like the goalie from a team and you think Maybe maybe if they're an underdog that has a strong goalie and you think they can keep this thing close And you never know what happens and you like the price You could go with it but for the most part I do stay away from it So let's talk specifically about usa versus netherlands. We talked about this a bit with ed back on wednesday But right now where market stands, uh, the netherlands on the money line is minus 115 ties plus 230 us Down to they're up to plus 350 now. That's been lengthening which is interesting given the way people tend to bet sometimes with their Uh with their heads versus or with their hearts versus their heads So when you look at this match austin, are you seeing any value from a betting perspective? What's the overall read for you on this match? I think it's going to be a match without a lot of clear chances somewhere to the three the us have played so far And in any kind of match like that that that pushes me toward the underdog um Just because if they can find a goal, you know that Then that maybe they can hang on if the other team's struggling to create chances, but A big thing for me is Polistic status if if he can't play I think that's going to be a huge negative for the us because The netherlands are a possession-based team who are probably they're probably going to pin the us back defensively quite a bit So they'll need uh, polisics ability to create and dribble Which will help get the team up the field if polisic can't play A few of the us could get stuck in the defensive half quite a bit and it could just be an onslaught of chances from the netherlands, but The netherlands have been really underwhelming in attack so far. They have just 2.6 expected goals Per fb refs expected goal model and 1.7 of those came against qatar who's one of the worst teams in the tournament Uh in the us outside of the second half against wales has been really good defensively Held england and iran to 1.2 expected goals total so I think it's it could be a 1-0 game um either way, but If if the reports today are trending positively toward polisic and it sounds like he's going to play and he's going to mostly be the same guy I kind of like Throwing a few bucks on the americans moneymine price at 340 or 350 now. Yeah, if it sounds like he's not going to play or Will be compromised at all then I think netherlands. They're they're 110 minus 110 moneymine price is more than fair Yeah And it seems as though he's going to be good to go based on but that's not definitive yet So I think that if it were more definitive, we probably would see the plus 350 be shortening there any other takeaways for you from Your overall vibe that there won't be a lot of chances like are you looking at a total in this game as well? Or is it primarily that Lower scoring can breed more chaos and can allow an underdog to win. Is it more so that versus looking at the total goals markets? Yeah, it's more so the latter and I think yeah We've seen a lot of that this tournament expected goals really hasn't mattered too much and I keep You know over the long term it will matter, but it's not a long-term event. Unfortunately It's just it's similar to the nta tournament where Yeah, a team can get hot and Variants can rule the day and it has so far for the most part Okay, well, that's the usa versus netherlands, but we got I think six other matchups set already for this round to 16 So or five other matchups What other value are you seeing right now at vandal sportsbook for this round? I Really like a futures bet of portugal to reach the semi-finals. It's priced at 155 plus 155 sorry I think portugal are really talented side and a little have been a little bit underrated coming into the tournament And the markets are starting to correct a little bit, but I also really like their path and I say that while acknowledging that Trying to predict future matchups before the whole bracket has been set can be a little pointless And I was feeling that yesterday during the groupie chaos, but Portugal has a great chance to win their group and as we're recording this they're tied 1-1 and that's all they need to Win their group. So it's likely they'll face the group g-runner up which figures to be Serbia or switzerland Neither side would be a pushover by any means, but their opponents portugal should beat Then after that portugal would face either morocco or spain morocco won their group despite and expect a gold differential negative 0.6 So as such spain is a huge minus 460 favorite to advance past morocco But spain to me is a little bit of fools gold I enjoy their style of play a lot, and I love their midfield of booskets, patreon gavi, but For all their possession and the slick passing They struggled to create top-match chances They pummeled costa rica and the opener scoring seven, but after that they mustered just 1.7 expected goals across the final two matches And I like portugal's chances that they meet up with spain in the quarterfinals And a win there would obviously put them into the semi-finals to cash that bet So is it more so for you buying into portugal and what they'd done or is this In your head kind of a fate of spain and trying to buy against them? Both okay both so Coming into this world cup. I was actively looking for chances to put money on portugal and so It's a little bit of that and it's also some of I think Spain came into the tournament as one of the favorites scored seven goals in the first game and I think everybody kind of overreacted a little bit to that and then Kind of struggled in attack despite having a lot of the ball against germany, which germany is one of the best teams even though they got eliminated and then Yeah against japan too didn't really create many clear cut chances. So it's a little bit of both Okay, I like the bled anything else sending out to you for right now. It had entering this round of 16 I'm not really not really. I'm just kind of Like I said waiting to see if the expected goals went out if If some of the chalk pushes through or if this is just going to be a crazy tournament where We get one or two just wacky teams in the final four, which I think can be fun and for some people that's probably really fun But I would rather see some of the big boys slug it out. So yeah, that's just my two cents That's always a risk with like you were talking about the NCAA tournament is like, okay You get some upset but that means you're going to get some bad matchups later on It seems like they're For the most part like the round of 16 teams are decently strong where it's not going to be like a massive concern But it'll be fun And hopefully it is as fun as we've been able to have so far through the open the big group matches We'll see how the round of 16 go is beginning tomorrow Like this austin cas check him out on twitter at austin cas find his Soccer work over at number fire dot com austin enjoy the matches and we'll talk to you Hopefully once again soon here later on the show Alrighty that is austin cas again a big. Thank you to him for joining us for today That's all we got here for covering the spread for today and for this week once again A big thank you to jj. Zacharyse and find him on twitter at late round qb and check out the late round of fantasy football Podcast big. Thank you to austin for talking some soccer We'll have add on again next week to talk more world cup as well Uh to get those shows right as they're posted make sure to subscribe to covering the spread or the fan Duel youtube page to get these as these go up. I am on twitter at jim sonnis Want to thank you all for tuning in and good luck to you whether it be nfl props nfl week 13 college football conference championships or world cup Good luck with those. We'll talk to you once again monday for more nfl This has been covering the spread right here on the fan duel podcast network


Hi, I'm Joshua Barton and May's What's Neat starts right now. The What's Neat show is sponsored by Lombard Hobbies, your value hobby shop for over 40 years of modelers helping modelers. Big inventory, value pricing, fast shipping and great service. This is What's Neat from May 2021. I'm your host Ken Patterson and this month George Bogatuck shares with us how to weight our freight cars and locomotives with low melting point metals. It's kind of interesting to see what he does this month. Also in this video I do layout construction this month and I share with you how I decorated this very flat diorama that I've got with a scene where the track, the Code 55 track is buried in the dirt and we've got a loading facility and I walk you through the process of static grass, ground foam, gravel, how to make roads, railroad crossings, how to paint your track, all the different temps necessary in order to do a simple flat section just like this for video run-bys. And also I'd like to thank Lombard Hobbies in Lombard, Illinois for sponsoring the What's Neat show and helping us promote the best hobby in the world. Thank you so much for supporting them. Check out their website at LombardHobby.com and thank you so much to the folks that watched the What's Neat this week video show podcast on YouTube every single week that we record to keep you updated on what's new in the hobby with a lot of special guests and a lot of very interesting interviews. And so with that, let's continue on with the rest of May 2021 What's Neat. For this segment of What's Neat, we're going to do something just a little bit different. I'm working on this module again after about a year hiatus on it. The last video that we showed on this, I shared with you how I built the whole entire module, how I wrapped it in wood, worked it into place here and it turned out to be a really good module in the fact that I can park in stage three trains on it and I can reach all the way into it because it's not that deep. So now we're finally to the point of starting the scenery. We ended the last video showing how to lay the track, glue it down, super elevate the curves on this section of diorama and then everything was painted to an earth tone color after the foam was carved. So now I'm putting down some roads. This is a video that I made for What's Neat some time back where I showed how to make roads using cement material from DAP. And this material is still available at the Home Depot in smaller containers, but it's the same consistency cement bed of peanut butter, but it's latex. So it doesn't crack even after seven years. You can pull up this road and it'll literally bend like a linoleum. It stays flexible. It doesn't crack, which why it's perfect for what we want for making roads on our layout. At least it works for me. But this part of the video isn't going to be so much about making the roads as it is. I've got a segment here where I want to build an access on this Code 55 rail through here. And I want to be able to make it so that we can park a train, have a loader unload the train, flat car, something like that. A simple offload point where they've got a substantial surface that's more strong than say just gravel. And that would be the cement and we're going to treat it as if it's simple black top. That's the idea for this. So I'm going to share with you that this road here was poured just last night. Austin Allard Mitchell Buffoden helped me and I shared with them how to do this project. They shot some B-roll, which I'm showing right now of us spreading the road between some forms with a putty knife, a four inch putty knife, which lends itself well to this. And also working across the railroad crossings, which were already put into place. I'll tell you how I did that. I took HO scale railroad ties and what I generally do is I'll stagger them, but I'll cut them so that they're two ties on the outside of the rails. And I've got about five ties on the inside of the rails for my width of what I'm doing here. And all I do is I cut them to length. I use a liberal amount of wood glue, which I'm sure I'm going to show you B-roll of this because I did videotape the process, where all of the ties were glued into space into place with a lot of glue. The more glue the better. It doesn't really affect the trains other than you have to clean the glue up out of the flangeways. But you're going to also do that when you work a... I like to use generally a metal cutting saw, a bandsaw blade that it cuts six inches long. And I run it back and forth into the groove, cutting out my flangeway into the wood. Then once the railroad crossing surface is completed and it's solid and it's dry, that's when it's time to go ahead and build your roads. The one thing about the roads it's very important to talk about is I lay the road one segment at a time. So the main road will get laid and then the adjacent road or the adjacent parking lot that will put into the main road can then be poured separate. It does two great things. A, it gives a transition of where the old road starts so it's obvious they weren't all built at the same time. And also when we put India ink on these roads to darken them, sometimes I put a lighter coat on the secondary roads and it makes a really amazing effect. Like I did, I can show you a video clip here of this railroad crossing with a train wreck saloon in it. And if you look, the parking lot is a different shade, much lighter shade of black top than the main road is. And that's the difference between one coat and two coats of India ink applied to the road surface. So what we're going to do is I'm going to pull out these forms, these wooden forms that held in the cement last night. And I'm using a razor blade right now to separate the forms from the cement just to make sure that they come out clean. And then we're going to continue this road all the way down here and create an area here where the cement is going to go right over the top of this Code 55 track. We're going to trowl it all smooth and then we'll cut our flangeways and make sure it's just right to unload say a flat car right there in that location. So let's see what happens next. So now we're ready to spread our cement and put it onto our scene and make this area along the Code 55 track where we want all of this scenery and this black top to look. Now there's a couple of things that I had to do in preparation before we could start this new road. And that is I needed to remove the forms from the existing road that I just poured along here. So what I did was I took a razor blade and I worked carefully cutting the form away from the cement so that it wouldn't pull the cement as the wooden forms came up. I slowly pulled up these pieces of wood on both sides of the road and then I sanded down the roads to try to smooth the areas where there were some high spots and also I wanted to sand along where these railroad crossings are right here. Very important to have a nice smooth transitions so that your vehicles when they drive across it, it's going to be smooth. Now I did use some red sandpaper when I was sanding down this area and I don't suggest you did that, do that, not with this type of red garnet paper because it left a red residue on the road which I had to go back and clean up with water because I didn't want that affecting the color of the scenery at all.  Also on the push pins I cut off the top of the pins. Now in this other area as we work this cement along here I'm not going to use forms on this area other than just on the very edge. So after going through the entire scene and sanding it I vacuumed everything up all nice and clean and then I also cleaned up some of the messy cement that had ended up out here on the track work. It didn't look real good mixed in between the ties so I wasn't happy with that and I wanted to clean that up which is what I did. So now we're to the point where we're actually going to get started on this project and I want you to watch it real time as I work on this and spread this material on our layout. I'm going to put the camera in position here so that you can see exactly what we're doing as we do it to spread this damp concrete and mortar repair material in between the forms creating our road. I've also got a bottle of water handy here just like peanut butter. I'm not worried about the cement that's getting on the outside here I can clean that up and use it. I think that's all I'm going to need for the forms. I'm not getting any cement on the track which in this case is wonderful. I'm going to wet it and start pulling this out smooth cleaning my trial just like that. I'll put the rest of the material here and this is the area where we are going to end up covering up these tracks. With the cement which is going to make a mess but it's going to be a controlled mess. I've got one area over here to fill in which you can go back and do and I'll draw the knife across the whole area one more time. So far that looks absolutely perfect. I'm going to clean up some of my mess here on the edges and put all this material back over here.  That is perfect. Now I'm going to reposition the camera here. As we work into this larger parking lot area I'm going to use a small trawl and start spreading the material and at least getting it into place. I'm not going to put this on very thick. Just about the height of the rail is the thickness that I'm going to do over here. I'm going to let it stop somewhere in this area right here. I'm going to pull it right over the track because that's eventually going to all end up. I'm putting it right on top of the track now. I'm putting down quite a bit of material but we're going to peel off a lot of this material too. I'm going to just make sure it's making good contact with the foam so that the cement sticks good to all the rough foam that it has to adhere to right here. See that? I know it looks like a mess now. It does look like a mess. I could envision using a wider trawl on this area like a nice wide tapers knife. That should be enough material for this whole area. Pretty sure I don't want any more material here. I'm going to go grab a larger tapers knife and use that. I've got a 12-inch and an 8-inch tapers knife and I think I'm going to use the 8-inch drywall tool here for this because it'll pull it all at the same time smooth and this is a clean knife. Let's see what happens as I try to do this. I'm going to wet it with the water and the knife. My small trawl right here under the camera, let me get that. I see something I want to fix right here real quick before I go any further. I'm going to pull it as far this direction as I want to go with it. Wet everything one more time and draw this whole area right on top of the tracks. I'm pulling it very slow. I'm using both hands to weigh things down. I'm riding along the wood I have on the edge here. I'm going to stop it right here just like that. Now I'm going to wet it one more time over the whole area one more time to make sure it's all smooth because this is just perfect so far. This is real time. No editing. This is how you do it. It's very simple and very quick. To clean out the flangeways, I simply run a car with deep flanges. This European Thomas train through the cement and that'll help clear out the flangeways to give me a good start when this sets up. So after the cement dried for 48 hours, now today it's time to color it and put our coloring with India ink onto the roads. Now as soon as this dried, I cut the forms off this area of the layout. On either side of this road, I pulled the wooden pins out and used a razor blade to separate the wood from the cement so it wouldn't tear the cement and then pulled up the forms, the wooden forms that were holding everything into place. I also sanded the road here just to get out any rough spots or any high spots that may have been on it. So as you look over here towards the railroad tracks, I cut a ravine right here so that there would be proper drainage of the water from the loading area and the track edge and the ballast line here so that the water would run away from both spots. And I did that using a curved or a bent rasp which worked out really well and of course I sealed it with latex paint. I also cut the flangeways clean here on the main loading area using a cut old short hexaw blade which is just the right width for flangeways. It helped clean out where the freight car didn't as I ran it through. I then sanded the entire loading area really smooth just again to get rid of any of the high spots that may have been on there with some 100 grit black sandpaper. I then patched the cracks in the road in various areas just to make sure that the expansion and the shrinkage of the first coat would then be followed up with our second coat of cement. And so that brings us to the point now where I'm going to apply the India ink to the diorama and give us the color for our road. And in order to do that if you refer back to the video that I mentioned which was September 2016 what's neat I actually showed you how I mixed this very India ink in this jar and I said that they would last over 10 years and sure enough and all this simply is is alcohol with two eyedroppers of India ink mixed into this great big mason jar. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this simple staining house paint brush which is about an inch and a half and I'm going to dip it in the India ink and start applying one coat to the roads and to the parking lot area right here. No streaks, no worries. And I'm also going to do the road in our whole entire loading zone with the same India ink material. It gives a nice dark almost a black top effect as it soaks into the cement and I will end up putting two coats of this India ink onto our diorama here and letting it soak in and I will let this dry for about 8 hours between coats. Now after I put down two coats of this I'm going to take the railroad ties in this area right here and I'm going to paint them varying shades of white and black just to give a little bit of a weathering effect to this area then I'm going to cover the whole area with ground foam and backyard dirt, maybe build a little shoulder on the road but this track isn't going to be ballasted it's going to be buried in the dirt so that eventually I'll come through with after I spray it with woodland scenic cement to dry to glue everything into place I'm going to follow it up while it's wet with a static grass gun and what it will do is it will give me grass growing right here on the main line area or actually on the siding track where I want the track to literally be buried in the dirt and I just want the grass to simply be coming through and just kind of making the rail sort of disappear and so that will finish off this area so let's do all of those quick steps real quick and let's see how this final thing turns out so after the glue dried overnight I came back the next day and I cleaned the rails of our track that's absolutely in the dirt with a bright boy I used the edge of a bright boy cleaner and cleaned the inside of the rails and the top of the rails and it didn't affect or disturb any of the dirt or the static grass that was standing up I then vacuumed up all the residue and crumbs from the abrasive cleaner and also there was an area on the layout where I actually right here I ballasted the main line I want to show you this and I had gotten some static grass on the main line so I used a toothbrush and drybrushed off the static grass and that worked out really well for removing static grass in an area where I didn't want it but as you can see now the track is literally buried in the dirt you know as you saw in the previous video that I made on this I in fact routed out the track tied depth into the foam and so the road and all of the grass and all of the dirt makes the track simply disappear as a siding that's not used that often here's our area where we've got the surface where I envision some sort of a family business where the family simply unloads loads or loads them and that's what they do it's a really neat little section of the layout quite simple to make the interesting thing is the code 55 track buried in the grass and the dirt the double track main line also got ballasted so it's time to complete this module and work on it some more as time goes by but that was this segment that I wanted to talk about and show you how to build a surface work with various different scenery materials to get an end result that I think is really cool for this module and so with that that's the segment for what's neat Hey guys, George at Soundtracks here and in this installment of what's neat this week we're going to take you through a new way of adding weights to our models that I found now this is a fairly recent discovery and so I wanted to share that with you guys so that you can add weight to your models so let's head upstairs to the workbench and let me show you the cool things I found from Cerro Metals called Cerro Bend and Cerro Low so let's get started okay now here I am at the workbench and we're going to try and add a little bit of weight to these two models first of which we're going to do this one with a method that you've seen in the past we're going to remove the fuel tank and there's a screw that just right there on the bottom this is an athern GP40 take that screw set it aside and then our fuel tank will just pull right off now you'll notice the inside of this is flat but the outside of the fuel tank is rounded and that's because as you can see here there's a lot of excess space inside these sides here that can be filled with weight so what we're going to do is we're going to use our Cerro Bend metal and we're going to melt it and we're going to drop it into this we're going to fill this up and use it as weight so the first thing we want to do is we want to make sure this thing stays upright so we're just going to grab in this case, solve a set we're just going to use a little bit of that I'm going to move this light a little bit so you can see a little bit differently so now you can see that the hollow is right here so what we're going to do is we're just going to simply take our metal and remember it's a low temp this is the 158 and when you're doing this using a soldering iron you're going to melt it and I don't recommend you use the same soldering iron that you're using for your electronics because I'm not sure what's in this metal alloy and we don't want anything that's in here potentially corroding or attacking the electronics so this is going to be really easy this just drops right on you can see it's melting and it just starts dripping into the cavity here the biggest challenge in this is making sure that you don't get your soldering iron against the bottom of the fuel tank because you can potentially melt it if you hit the plastic directly with your soldering iron so you want to make sure that you're very careful not to do that oops just let the metal melt and fill this gap just like this I'm going to stop for the moment and just let you take a peek and see what it looks like clean our soldering tip off you kind of see how that metal is filling inside the area and you can see we got a little bit on the outside here good news is we haven't damaged anything so we can just pop that off and then we can just weather it off as spillage but it takes a few minutes to cool but as you notice it doesn't change or warp anything on the outside here and the biggest challenge is not moving it before it's ready because you can kind of see here this little wave right here was done before it was fully cooled and so I have to go back and heat that up make sure that that's all below the line because you do not want to and just like that just heat it up so you want to make sure that that stays below the edge so that that way this fuel tank will fit perfectly back on the spot so it's still little liquid you can kind of see that we'll let it sit a little bit longer so it's becoming a little bit more solid now so you can see how this doesn't exceed the edge of this so we put our fuel tank back on we'll be able to fit it so there you go give it another second or so to cool and we'll take a look at the that up close you can see that the metal is in there and there you go you can see it's fully formed so now it's cooled and you look at the outside of our fuel tank and it's still perfect so this is a great way to add some extra weight to your HO diesels because once we attach this to the fuel to the fuel tank underneath there it'll give it a little bit extra weight down low so it'll lower the center of gravity and make it a little bit more you know give it a little bit extra power when it's pulling so now we can take this take this up here we'll get our screw again you can tighten it right back you'll never know the difference now I'm going to fill this up and see just how much weight fits in here so you'll be able to see how much you're adding to the fuel tank so I'll do that and I'll be right back okay now you can see that I've got both sides filled and both sides have weight in it so after measuring it I forgot to measure this before I put it on but I measured it before I put in the second half and I've decided that this comes in and adds an extra ounce of weight to our model by filling this section in using this Sarah Bend 158 so that'll add a little bit of extra heft to it and it actually feels pretty heavy considering so then again you know we've got our metal in here now we just simply take that grab our screw and now we've added that extra ounce so now our GP40 measures at 14.6 ounces which should be a decent pole for locomotive of that size so next up let's take this exact rail hopper car now you can see under here there's some spaces where we can add a little bit of weight they're not very big so they're just fairly small openings but this by adding a little bit of weight you'll be able to run these cars as empty because they've also detailed the inside pretty good you don't have to run them as loaded with the loads in it now the other option is you can fill look at all that extra space up inside the co-load there that you can fill with weights but the only downside is that would make the car top heavy a little bit so we're gonna try this out so we're gonna put all this together we're gonna put this car on the scale here and we're gonna measure this at 3 oz 3.1 ounces so we're gonna see how this goes now in this particular case I'm gonna use the serilo which is the melding point of 117 so we're gonna take this and this is just a small chunk that I have that I broke off of the of this here but let's go ahead and just gonna take this and heat it on and we're just gonna drip it into just like that that may be a little much but once this is done you can paint these so that that way it doesn't show it's ever been in the that you can a lot easier to hide so there we go, there's a quick addition of the serilo into the hopper now you can see it's still liquid it's still flowing so we're gonna give it a second or so to cool and you can do this with flat cars you can do this with any of these gondolas like this that have just a little bit open above because most of the time you're looking at the car not from the underside but from the side or downward on it so seeing these little openings throughout the underside of the car becomes a lot a lot less likely and once you touch it up with some paint weather it up you'll never see it and like I said the best opportunity is that it doesn't affect the plastic at all especially this serilo this stuff melts at 117 degrees so it doesn't need a whole lot of heat and so on this particular soldering iron I'm using this on low uh low temperatures let's see it's starting to harden a little bit alright well what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go in and do the rest of these bays and fill them up with the weight and then we'll do a before and after weight comparison just to see it may not be a whole lot but it adds a little bit and any little bit of extra weight helps add an attractive effort onto the car so I'm gonna do that and be right back okay guys after I've added the weight here to the bottom which like I said wasn't gonna add a whole lot but I did also put some weight here a significant amount on the inside of this co-load so now we're gonna put the two together and we're gonna measure it just like we measured originally now we come up to 4.9 ounces so that's a significant increase over what we did before now granted most of this weight was inside the co-load but an empty car now weighs the 3.1 ounces so 3.2 ounces that we measured before we took out the co-load so the good news is is that this is an easy process to add weight to your models and hopefully this will be helpful for you and like I said we can make a significant difference in your models okay just wanted to add a couple of things here really quickly number one once you paint the underside here you can see that the weight virtually disappears especially looking at it from a side view so you do want to make sure to take a few moments paint the weight to make sure it disappears number two and this is a big caution with this sarah low remember it melts at 117 degrees and the biggest challenge here is to make sure that if you're packing your models away in the garage or even carrying them in the back of an open pickup truck or something like that where the sun could come down storing them inside your car while you run in the grocery store just keep in mind that those temperatures can get hot and this metal can melt again remember it's only 117 so in that case the 158 might be a better choice for you since as we've shown it also doesn't affect the plastic you know regardless of how you're putting it on so select your metals as your model sees fit you know I bought this this was a one pound block that was you know from the sarah metals was close to a hundred dollars and then this was a quarter pound stick I found on an ebay seller for about ten dollars so you guys can find the weights obviously if you have open inside of box cars things like that you've got plenty of space to put weights so expensive metals like this aren't necessarily necessary but just something to keep in mind and you know moving forward when you decide to use this in your modeling well guys I hope this has been helpful for you whether you're using sarah bend or sarah low hopefully this has been helpful for you I know I had a apprehension to melting metal and pouring it in my plastic models but after doing it a little bit I found out you know what it's really not that difficult it's not that hard and it really does help help us add weight where we may not have been able to add weight before so guys thanks for that if you have any questions feel free to comment below and we'll hope to see you guys next time thank you