675: Warming Up, a New Host & Your Connection Fixed!?

[00:00:01] Hello Foodies and welcome back to FUT IN REVIEW episode 675 and we are just warming up. Talking about warming up, it's also time for the theme of the season warm up. Of course, my name is Jon and I'm joined by a friend of the show, he joined our show last week as well,

[00:00:26] is none other than James Tolendo aka Tolendo77. Hi James, welcome back. Thanks very much, happy to be back again Jon. Last time it was, I've been on the show now for about three times now and then I was just last week now again this week so it's great to see you and it's good to actually be in a podcast with Art, the man that could press like no other in our Pro Clubs team. So yeah, he was always good at winning the ball back.

[00:00:51] So that was good. Yeah, he's also very good at pressing my buttons so let me say hi. Welcome back Artyom, how are you doing my friend? I'm good, good thanks for having me Jon again. James, it's great to have you on the show. I was listening to the last POD from last week. It's just great to have you here mate. Definitely. Today's show we'll talk about the warm up,

[00:01:16] we'll talk about the host announcements, announcements maybe even. We'll stick around and you'll find out. We'll talk about what we're expecting and how do you deal or how do you experience that connection in FC 25. That and more about recycling players. Art, can I give you the floor? Because we start every single week, of course, with the big question, how was your weekend foot? How would you rate it from a rating

[00:01:44] from one to ten? And of course, we haven't heard you for a while. So maybe just a general feeling as well. And of course, our famous topic. This week in Football Ultimate Team. All right, so it was quite slow. Actually, no, hold on. Good to have you back mate, it was quite slow. Last week it was Maldini Cup actually, right? You haven't talked about it on Friday because it came on Sunday. True.

[00:02:12] So I shared my experience with Maldini Cup. I played it on Sunday right away after I came back from my basketball game. I just said to myself that, you know, I will not have much time on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever. And I just want to get rid of, just play those games and be done with it. So I've heard something in a car driving back home from the game that it's going to be a golden goal. But I just like when I turned on the game and started the first game, I kind of forgot about it.

[00:02:41] So after five seconds, I was 0-1 and the game is over. I mean, I use like kickoff glitch, whatever against me. I wasn't concentrated yet. It's all right. So I started the second game. I got this connection. So 0-2. Not the best start, right? But I got actually lost four next games in a row and I was 0-6 to start. So what happened is I'm like, okay, hold on a second. I'm going to check my settings.

[00:03:10] That's definitely, it's impossible. It can't be you. It can't be me. You know what I mean? It's impossible that I can start the car 0-6. So I checked. I like to double check, triple check and everything is fine. I played even Rivals and I won the game in Rivals and I came back. Okay, so we got the like winning streak. I didn't get a Maldini. I ended up with 24 wins.

[00:03:33] And it's not like it was dependent on the last game. I lost the chances like much before that. I lost this 12th game like I had a record, whatever, 2012 for example. So the last four games I just won for the packs for I can pick and whatever. Well, matchmaking was crazy for me. I'm not gonna lie. I played really crazy dudes.

[00:03:56] And I think I'm not gonna like find any explanation for my performance on that night. But I think it's also due to those players who are buying the cup. People just play for them. I really honestly thought that I'm playing only pro players. That doesn't matter. So next day or it was in Tuesday, my youngest son who is eight years old and he

[00:04:23] sometimes struggles to qualify for weekend league. He lose three games in a row. And he's like coming to me that play my two games. I just want to qualify get some packs at least right? So I'm doing the helping him out and he the record his is I think eight wins in the weekend league. And he's coming in and he's telling me hey dad come upstairs. I want to show you Maldini. And I'm like, okay, he's pretty lucky. So I'm like thinking he packed the Maldini, you know what I mean?

[00:04:50] That center back from packs that it was including packs. And my surprise was yeah, actually he ended up with 27 or 28 wins in the cup. So it's it's and I had a mixed feeling like you are dead right? You should be proud, but I'm also fucking pissed. I'm like what the hell, you know what I mean? I'm playing this game. I'm like coaching sometimes and I cannot get him and he did.

[00:05:16] So I had to pretend that I'm happy for him. Yeah, and it was also the game. It was just the thing of course. It was like, you know, but the thing is I know what's coming for me. So next three days, I was just listening that he got a Maldini and I didn't. So they were just everybody was laughing at me at home. So that's how my stuff the whole week was going with the food experience.

[00:05:39] And otherwise it just I think it was not much to do not even like simple evil that you were like trying to finish. I know some people were waiting long time until they drop all the evolutions for immortal thing.

[00:06:02] So so so they were waiting to the last piece of the immortal drop, then they started to do the evolution for immortals. So for that icon part. So I know that some people were busy about that, but I was done with it long time ago. I just didn't want to wait and otherwise just rivals games quite about those games. Nothing like specific for me. And if I have to rate this week

[00:06:30] four or five nothing. It's a 10 because you love your son so much. I mean, it's a 10 for him. It's definitely less than five for me, like 4.9. If we count that my week started on Sunday, then it's definitely less than five after Sunday. I was quite quite quite all right. I can't see your name, but H in chat says I witnessed Arjun posting about it. Tell him it's OK. He's one of the two reasons his son is able to get Maldini.

[00:07:01] No, you know, that's funny, right? I mean, it's just crazy. I mean, I'm proud of him, of course, but it also shows that definitely the matchmaking was a little bit different for him and for me, right? We're going to be like speaking to the DDA and stuff. I know, but it's all right. It's like Chris said that the DDA is so so true in this game.

[00:07:26] You're not coming to Creek this year, right? Maybe you can send your son to maybe do get that trophy this time. Aren't you scared? He beat me. So you think he's not going to beat you? I'm not participating this year. It's all right, mate. Hold on a second. I have a train outside. Listen, your ass get kicked last time. You just had to cheat it. So I got the red card from minutes, whatever, 10, 15. So you could win. I mean, it is true.

[00:07:56] And then what he did is like, hey, let's play Golden Goal. And he did a kickoff glitch. You know what I mean? It's just... To be fair, we played Golden Goal and it actually lasted one and a half matches, I think, before someone scored a goal in that final. But yeah, this year it's going to be a new winner. You're not there and I'm not playing. So, yeah. Why are you not playing? We are running slightly into budget issues. So I got to do the content myself this year. Okay. So, yeah.

[00:08:25] James is coming? James is coming, right? Yes, he's definitely coming and he's also helping producing, but it's a two-man job. And last year we had an extra producer running around. So it's what it is. But no worries. Everyone there can play me on friendlies over drinks. It's your final decision? No, I can still tell you the mind. If you go to patreon.com for us, let's put a review. We might actually get some more budget to get that going. No, thank you all for your support. That's not one of them.

[00:08:52] James, back to you, my friend, because we are eight minutes in and if we don't cut off Arjun, he will talk and I'll show him by himself. How has your week in football? Well, last week I said it was 7.7. I'd agree with that. It was a wee bit stale this year. Not this year, sorry, this week. With the content, I felt what we got tonight, and of course we'll talk about it, but we needed an 83x10 or an 83x14 for the menu content.

[00:09:21] I was quite low in 83x10 and 82x10. And then when we got to the middle of the week, team of the weeks from now, not in packs. So again, that raised the price. If you bought them at 11, 12k last week, then you're ka-ching, you're in the money.

[00:09:34] But I just felt it was a wee bit stale and then everything up. It didn't really motivate me to play a lot. I got my rivals wins, what I do every single week. But other than that, I felt it was lacking a wee bit. I felt it was just a filler towards this Friday.

[00:09:54] Today being the team of the season, best of, and then team of the season and so on and so forth. So it was a wee bit stale for myself. And in the cup, there was no Barcelona or Celtic players. And golden goal, to me, it was just a toss of the coin, 50-50. So I'd just done it until I got Mascherano, and that was me. I'd just get Mascherano. I was happy with that.

[00:10:17] But I'm more than happy proving myself in foot champs and rivals than doing a sweaty cup and friendlies. So that's my thoughts on it. What about yourself, John? I don't care about these cups. Never did, never will. Don't care at all. I don't like golden goal versus arch was like the only time I actually played golden goal in my life. But no, I don't like... I even saw someone like... We got a lot of people sending us messages about tips or...

[00:10:47] I got a message from someone saying, did you know that if you score and you pass while holding a couple of buttons, and I won't name the exact buttons, your opponent isn't able to skip your replay. So he said, I do golden goal, and I do this just to tilt my opponents. I was like, one, match's already over. Why? Right? Why would you keep sitting there for 20 more seconds yourself?

[00:11:16] And what do you think... Why would you send this to me knowing what I think about these cups and these golden goals? And I was actually... And I think the person on the other side is not sweating like, oh, he's going to mention my name. Don't worry. I will not. But I have honestly considered doing it or reporting it because this is... That's how sweaty this cup is. That's how much people care. That's how much people go at it. And so that's definitely not for me. So I played rivals. Actually, quite enjoyed myself.

[00:11:47] I packed, of course, another Zombrota. My Juventus team is getting pretty well along. And I think next week, if we get some team in the season area division, might get a good Juventus slash Feyenoord team going. That looks pretty decent so far. So that's cool. Yeah, played some rivals, got my wins in. Relatively easy. But I was wondering, and maybe Archon can answer this.

[00:12:14] How come in like elite division, nine out of 15 players have about Ronaldo or nine on top? What's with that? You know what? Actually, because I was telling you so many times and everybody who is listening to our podcast that I'm dodging the even Division I. I'm happy with Division 2 rewards and stuff.

[00:12:38] And I just want to be done with those points and get some packs every Thursday just to do some, any other content on menus. So, but John, you're saying Division Elite has Ronaldo. I'm seeing those cards in Division 2. And the teams are like, you know, Gullet, Ronaldo and R9. Like everybody has those cards.

[00:13:02] And I'm like, okay, I know it was pretty easy to whoever was trading this year to get like coins and even buy the Ronaldo, do the evolution for him. But I see so many first owners. And I'm like, I'm going crazy about it. I mean, I'm not saying that my pack like is very bad because I'm not going to complain about it. Right. But, but still it's unusual to see so many that Brazilian striker up top like R9. I haven't seen that in previous years.

[00:13:32] It's not something like, you know, unique anymore. No, that's true. There's something though that I also found this week. Like I would give, I would rate this week like a six out of 10. Right. The other thing I think, when did they start to buff certain goalkeepers? Because my Casilios has been legendary. I've been, I've been talking about Buffon last week that I really want him in my team. Like, and he's probably been coming down.

[00:14:03] So that will end up happening eventually anyways. But that Casilios card suddenly like low driven power shots. It doesn't matter. He just stops it all suddenly. It's like, it's, I don't know what he drank last weekend, but I hope he keeps doing it. What are, do you have any explanation about that? What's happening here? You know what the funny part is when SBC came out and people did SBC, I did it also. Yeah. And the reason I did it, it was, I needed the icon links and Spanish links.

[00:14:32] It was great for me. I mean, I don't rely on goalkeepers as much maybe as somebody else, but. No, but you're really good. You're really good. Let's put it out there. You're so good. You don't usually get a shot on target. Let's not talk about it. I mean, the cop proved it how good I am. But you know what? I got one shot actually on goal. So it's not that bad, right? Golden goal. Listen, but so many people complained about how he performs in game.

[00:15:00] I mean, he was getting so many negative reviews and now it's like he's a god in a goalkeeper position. But the thing is, the reason why he's so good, because people are trying only low drivins right now. You know what? If you go for finesse and do the regular shots, honestly, he's too shit. It's nice to keep the PG rating on the show. Everybody is like in the box.

[00:15:27] They all, all they try to shoot, it's just a low driven shot. Even with the players who doesn't have a play style, they all go for the low driven, right? And he's good at it. And he has a good footwork. He is, I think he has a play style for it. And he's fast. He's fast. He has a good reflexes for it. So his animations are suited for the type of shots. That's why he's crazy. On the other hand, you were speaking about the Buffon last time, last week.

[00:15:56] He's good when it comes to finesse shots, outside box shots, but he's not that good when it comes to low driven shots. No, which I think this is pretty cool, right? He doesn't have perfect animations. But I think this is pretty cool that you can not, I mean, we're in a place where I do think low driven shots are actually a little bit too strong, but all the other shots are viable options.

[00:16:18] We're in a place now where you can look at your opponents, look at what kind of goalkeeper they have in goal and actually base your attack plan based on that. I think that's pretty cool in this game so far. Yeah, it is. It's quite like that. Because it kind of relies on, like, to the real life because, you know, if you're using, you have a zomer in a goalie, hey, let's go for a finesses, right? Like, I'm just like, you know, but if you have a Courtois, I think he's not going to catch those low driven shots. Like, for example.

[00:16:45] No, and with Courtois, apparently you just have to take free kicks as well. I mean, those shots were crazy. Let's be honest. I mean, I think he cannot sleep until now. Just three people were about the right shots. The reason I bring up a card like Casillas, who's been in before, James, is that we actually have a promo that's reusing cards. Team of the Season warm-up. What do you think about this promo?

[00:17:12] Basically, it's a promotion where they do give us some new SPCs and grinding methods, I suppose. But everything else, there's no new cards in these teams. What do you think about already rehashing teams just before Team of the Season starts? What do you reckon? Well, in football teams, it's a tale of two halves. You've got one half that people try throughout the year to get these cards, to pack them. And they've done so many upgrade packs, bought so many store packs, they didn't get them. Now they can get them. Great.

[00:17:42] But then with the power curve, and now we're in April, are they going to get in many teams? Maybe from a trader point of view, maybe some night. And then they'll buy little old links and so on and so forth. So it's a tale of two halves. And maybe in a way that's what EA want, is to just try and appease both sides of the player base. But for me, you know, there's cards that should have been in it that aren't. So that's quite a downer.

[00:18:10] And then having Team of the Week cards is pretty nice because they're not in packs. So I suppose that's good. Instead of going out and buying them. And of course, I know you've got the SBC. But like I touched on earlier, I thought I was struggling to get 83 cards to even do that SBC. All I was getting was exactly all I was getting, like 84 plus. I believe it was 84 times 7. So, yeah, it was a bit of a... It's a hit and a miss, really. It's appeasing.

[00:18:40] It's just, again, I would say just a filler promo for Team of the Season. I'm just looking forward to the rest of the world so that Maeda can finally get a Team of the Season card. And rightfully so. So, yeah, rightfully so. Artyom, do you recognize this as a warm-up for Team of the Season or period to go a little bit down? You know what? That's for me, actually, this promo is to refill all my gold players.

[00:19:06] Like 81 rated and lower because I have none, basically, in my club. We receive so many grindable SBCs that if you just want to spend some time in a menu and just do step-by-step, like drop silver cards together, gold cards, gold cards to get that Team of the Season warm-up, whatever, grind those packs, 77 plus 5.

[00:19:32] There are a lot of packs that they added just for us to keep in the menus, not in the game, actually, not actually to play the game. So if somebody is thinking about the skipping weekend league, for example, this is a good week to do it. No. You're not going to get much from rewards. And if you have something to do, and we have Easter, actually, holidays, if you just want to spend your time with the family, go for it. You will not lose anything, basically.

[00:20:01] Those cards that they release in packs, they are good cards. But mark my words, you're not going to care about them in the next week. No, exactly. And is it also... Only if you are thinking about evolutions in their purpose. If you're thinking about that card 90 rated, 91 rated will get an evolution and you like the card, how it performs for you in-game, then you might have a chance.

[00:20:31] Even you can go ahead and buy it because they drop prices heavily right now. I mean, after even release, they drop it so much. So if you are thinking about getting any of these cards, it's a good time. I mean, I would still wait because we have a first day. Well, on Sunday, Monday, I think that would be the lowest point for them to get and go for it. And regarding team of the weeks that James told, it's good that they added because, you know, they're gone, right?

[00:21:00] But I would be a little bit careful because they added the best of team of the weeks. So I would keep them. Like, you know, if you pack Messi 90 rated, he probably will receive some evolution in the future, right? Like close future. So those are good team of the weeks. You know what I mean? But we still have a SBC for team of the week. So, and they're still like the prices didn't move much, like 14, 15 K, whatever. So this is a week that we can take slow.

[00:21:29] We can recharge our batteries because next six, seven weeks, whatever the team of the season comes, every week we're going to have something to do. So, yeah. 100% agree. Me too. We also got, we did get two new players though from SBCs. James, which one do you want to discuss first? Drogba. Drogba is that target forward. But unfortunately, you know, I'm seeing target forward.

[00:21:56] There's not really a crossing meta or a heading meta really this year. But also what I'm thinking about Drogba is, and I think you touched on it last week, John, you made a good point. Whereas if you just do, if your players get acrobatic and you just do a corner and you hold it. For me, for example, it's R2. I change my buttons, listeners, so it's probably a main field. But whatever buttons you press, it's very easy to get that overhead kick goal. And especially with his strength and his physique and his build,

[00:22:27] I'd probably go to see maybe it's 90% a goal at a corner if you've got Drogba in this meta at the moment with the acrobatic and with, you know, with the corner kick. I don't even know if he, to be honest, if he has got acrobatic. But I do see Ariel that he's got Ariel plus. So that would be even better. So I would imagine Drogba would be a good card. Definitely. For me, I love Drogba in real life. But for me, I've just done that Eusebio. Then I did, what was the other card? The striker.

[00:22:57] I've done Eusebio. No, sorry. I've done Thierry Henry. And then the next week it was Eusebio. And then it's the other week Drogba. And I've got my evil Larson up top with Kenneth O'Gleish and Thierry Henry and Eusebio sub right now. So I'm not really in a need for Drogba in my personal situation. But I think it's a fun card. But Chelsea passed in presence. If people do Ivory Coast teams or do Icon teams, whatever. It's a fun card. I wouldn't say no.

[00:23:26] And it's good that it's got three playstyle pluses as well. And then it's got, you know, plus plus in every role apart from target forward. Even, quite strangely, it's got false nine plus plus, which is interesting for Drogba. With E3 passing. But suppose, you know, someone out there could make that work, John. So, yeah. Shall we say it's a fun card? Marshall?

[00:23:52] Well, if Drogba is still the same Drogba that we had last year, that's going to be a Jamie as hell card. I mean, he has everything for that purpose. He's strong. They gave him, of course. I'm sorry for bad. Well, fucking low driven again. No, it's all right. Just toss the PG rating out of the window, my friend. It's just like, it's a good, it's just going to be such a Jamie card.

[00:24:21] And I think he has a first touch. Yeah, he has a first touch. Press proven. You're just going to, you know, receive the ball. Press L2. Hold the ball. And every, basically, defender is going to jump off from you. I mean, if you're not going to use strong defenders against him, you're done, basically. So, incisive pass. Pass to Drogba. And he's just going to score every situation in a penalty. But in a box. But you know what?

[00:24:48] The only thing that whoever is going to do him, and I think I already noticed that our great person from Creed Mario did it. This is BC. He's passed. But the only thing that I can suggest, in my opinion, don't give him engine. You're not doing this card to get great experience from dribbling starts. If you give him engine, you're losing the length fee.

[00:25:16] And this is his big purpose. I mean, the running control length fee. So, I gave him Hulk, whatever Hunter, whatever you choose to. But just, in my opinion, just don't lose that lengthy running animations. No, I think that's a good tip, actually. I was looking because engine is the most recommended playstyle of a chemistry style, I guess. Yeah, it is. Because, John, look at the stats. I mean, agility and balance are lower than 90. So, you know what I'm saying?

[00:25:45] Yeah, but if you give an Hunter on it, he does get 99 on every single shooting stat. And 99 on speed. I'll give him engine. He's going to be crazy in dribbling. But that's not the purpose of this card. You're not going to, you know, circle with him around in a box. His purpose is just to outbody the defenders and shoot. And in order to do that, or outrun the defenders, right? And don't lose that lengthy. It's a really important part, I think, for this card. This is a physical striker.

[00:26:14] Don't make him agile. And I don't think even engine will improve as much as you, like, think about his dribbling. It's not going to do. It's not going to. It's just not going to happen. You know, the only thing that scares me about this card is the fact that it's one week before team of the season. He's 1 million, so he's not that expensive. Makes me a little bit feels like it's a trap. Do him now.

[00:26:44] And then next week, you get an SPC where you can't really refuse. And you got to buy Paxford. Joe, we have traps already, like, prior to two weeks. I mean, every SPC is a trap right now. I mean, why would you? I mean, if you're doing Drogba, it's because you have specific reason for him. Or you're just bored of not doing any SPCs and you just put your fodder into right now. But you need...

[00:27:13] I mean, so many people do Ronaldo. And in the first two weeks, I was seeing him basically in every team. And I'm not seeing him anymore. Yeah. So... Malikadagra actually has a question sent in about this. And he says, when I remember it correctly, you guys mentioned it on the last episode. For the last three weeks, for at least three weeks, my SPC storage is packed.

[00:27:39] I do almost all of the common upgrade SPCs and always gain. I can't open Pax because of my double ones. I do SPCs like Munan, Marcos Alonso, and even now consider to do Roche and Due. Anyway, just to empty my storage to be able to open Pax, I did not commit to one of the big SPCs who alluded to Sabio, Henry. What's your opinion? And do you experience it the same? Yeah. I think don't do anything and wait until next week because you might just go nuts next week.

[00:28:11] James, you're nodding your head. Great. I would agree with you, John, definitely. Probably the best example of just waiting is that new... Well, not new. Previous to Immortal, Evo. If you've just done it straight away, yeah, you get a good, good card. But then if you just waited, you could have a chain and there's like crazy cards now. You can do it. It looks really good. In my opinion, I probably should have waited for Engos, but I'm still happy with the card. But it's always like you guys are saying, it's always traps, the SPCs.

[00:28:41] And again, what Art was saying, you need to have a specific reason why you're going to do them. Like Chelsea, past and present and so on and so forth. So I would just wait. Again, it's a bit of a bummer. You know, you can't open packs and things like that. I actually really like when they do the upgrades. Last year, I loved the player picks. But now with the squad builder being changed, it's so easy just to stack loads and loads of upgrade packs. So they do the 82 pluses. Then it takes away the commons.

[00:29:10] It's usually really good. And what I do personally, I just get rid of everything on a Thursday. I do my marquee matchups and then I just sell every single trade-off player. And then every comm and I just put into all the upgrades and so on and so forth and just prepare for the weekend. So I just basically gut my club every single Thursday. And then on Monday, I'll keep everything. And then I'll just repeat, repeat and just do it that way. That's some good shout.

[00:29:38] We also had one more SBC, which seems actually not like a trap because he all seems really good. Christian Eriksen, flashback SBC, 92 rated, five star, five star. Even as a non-Manchester United fan, James, someone you're looking forward to trying? Well, I definitely, and especially with the other result last night. That was crazy. I don't know if you've watched it, John or not, but that was a crazy game.

[00:30:07] You're thinking that's it. They're doomed. They need two goals in extra time. It's the second half extra time. And then that's the beauty of football. It just pops up and it's crazy. So they won. They're through to the semifinals, Europa League. So possibly I could try it. Being 5-5, it could be good. Me personally, I would only really do it out of duplicate storage. I think, again, just time to wait now to win a team of seasons.

[00:30:35] In my opinion, and it's quite strange because it's the end of the cycle of the game. I love team of the season. It's my favourite promo of all time. I love it. So I'll just, I'll admire the card from afar. But again, I'll just wait for the content for team of the season. And then the guaranteed SBCs. So yeah, I'll be looking forward to that, to be honest with you. What do you think about the card, Art?

[00:31:02] Well, you know, with the Eriksen card, my issue is that I'm mostly using CDM or cams in formations that... You can play CDM. Hold on a second. That's where I'm going. Because for me, he's attacking CM. He's not a CDM. I don't care that he can play. I mean, he has positions for CDM, but it doesn't mean he can play CDM. Fair enough. You don't have three CDM formations. Like, you know what, where I'm going with this?

[00:31:31] He's not good enough for defending with the two CDM formations. For cam, I don't see his movements and body type or whatever I played with his gold card. He's not a cam for me. I need a more agile player and don't be like, you know, every card is right now around 90 dribblings already. So just like, stay with me. Every card is almost 90. It doesn't mean they move like 90.

[00:32:00] So, he is a great CM for attacking CM. And if you play any formation that requires CM, 5-5, you have basically everything. He has an incisive pass. He can shoot from outside the box if you need him. That's why he's going to be attacking CM. The only thing that I also want to tell you guys, we're coming kind of close to the end of the EAFC 25 already, right? So, incisive pass for me was like... We've got months left, mate.

[00:32:30] Hold on a second. So, incisive pass was like top-notch playstyle for me to have two, three months before. Right now, I'm leaning more towards the pink pass instead of incisive. I'm looking for cards that has goat pink pass instead of incisive, right? So, that's me, right? I'm not saying that you have to follow my advice or whatever. So, but it's still... This card has basically everything that you're required for CM. He has some defending.

[00:33:00] The only thing I'm saying, he has a good stat for defending, but only intercept as a playstyle, right? It's a good playstyle, but he's not going to be aggressive enough, AD aggression. So, he's not going to help you out a lot when you're trying to defend. So, that's why I wouldn't use him as a two CDM formations. Or, I mean, that's the only problem, right? Because I don't use CM formations. And the other thing is, 330, it's a great card.

[00:33:30] Keep in mind, we are six, seven days away. Just like, if you're a Manchester United fan, I'll tell you even more. You have to do it. You have to do this, SBC. If you are doing any past or present Man U teams, you have to do it. I mean, he's kind of icon for Manchester United right now. So, for me, it's a must-do. You know what the funny part is?

[00:33:56] That I know some people did even Immortal with a gold card evolution for Ericsson. And now they're just releasing the SBC. So, they're kind of pissed probably. They're wasting those 500K for it. But, you know, that's life, right? So, I'm always telling you, when you go for evolution, try to come up with a card that's not going to be receiving SBC next week. Don't take popular cards.

[00:34:26] If you do, it's like 99,9% they're going to release some SBC or some promo card for that player. True. But, like I said, don't fear the FOMO. Who cares? If you like a card, do the card. Of course. But I think these are good tips, right? And I'm staying away from both of them because I'm just like, I'll make sure to be ready for next week and a week beyond. And rumor has it that we don't usually talk rumors, but Eredivisie is also in the first week.

[00:34:57] Which, well, I need that bike show card. Whatever happens. And Huntsko again. That's good. So, I'm holding off. I'm just waiting. I'm waiting patiently. The Eredivisie should get a crazy defender, huh? Yeah, Huntsko. It's low probably. I mean, very quick. Well, we'll see how the team of the season goes, right? Yeah, we'll see how many players actually pick this year.

[00:35:26] They may lower the stats so badly because we don't know yet. I know Finals, like Finals won the league and then we had two players from Finals in team of the season. I was like, what? What? And they made up with two SBCs and one extra pick like in three days. I don't think I was the only one like really surprised about that. So, let's wait.

[00:35:50] I think there's plenty to discuss and plenty to, well, go into depth into the team selections next week forward. But talking about team selections, and I didn't even study on this bridge. We did a little, well, not a contest, but we were looking for some fresh blood in the team. We were looking for some new people in the hosting roster.

[00:36:13] And we got, I said last week, I actually had to like postpone this a week because we had so many people send in voice message. And honestly, I can't name everyone on the show because then it would be really boring to listen to. Plus, I think we'll run out of time. But thank you all for listening to the show, for supporting this show, for clicking that play button, for hitting subscribe, whatever. We really, really appreciate it. And thank you so much for sending in all those nice voice messages.

[00:36:43] They were kind. They were friendly. They were heartwarming. It was amazing to listen to. The big announcement is that we have spoken with one person, which we're announcing soon, that will join the full team starting tonight, officially. And I want to name a couple of people that sent in a voice message that was so interesting that I will be sending them an email,

[00:37:11] ask them to come at least on a guest appearance on the coming weeks on this show. To see if there's a fit. How do they like podcasting? Because these voice messages really stand out. And I'm going to start with them first. So these will not be part of the teams, at least straight away. But they will be on the show in the coming weeks. Just if they want, of course. Right? There's that always. And I'll send you an email. And the four people we selected, and I won't name in the last names.

[00:37:41] So, well, it sounds like you're a criminal, but I will shorten your last name because of privacy. But Graeme H, I'll get in touch with you. Nice message. Yusuf A, we will get in touch with you as well. Ben F, all the way, I think, from Scotland as well. And Neil H, who is also from Scotland. Lots of Scots sent in. And we had to go like a little bit, like we can't invite 10 people from Scotland here.

[00:38:10] Because the big news today is that the person that is able and willing to join our team is no longer than you, James. Welcome as an official host in the Food and Review crew. Thank you very much. I'm delighted. Absolutely delighted. It is so good to have you on. We had a chat last week already, of course. Last week, because I said I didn't find it, we already sort of agreed on last week.

[00:38:35] But I didn't find it fair because there were so many people sending in questions or sending in those messages to, well, let those people like hang and dry. Welcome. It's good to have you on the show. You'll be a regular host now. Well, just a couple of days in. So it's really fresh everything. And we'll see if we can do a special show. We'll see how it goes. It's always a weird season to start at least halfway through or like 70% in. But what are your first thoughts?

[00:39:02] And why was you like, this is something I want to do? Because you also sent in a voice message. It's not like we connected. You actually did send in a message just like everyone else did. And why did you already regret it? No, I'm delighted. Absolutely delighted. And yeah, of course, I was professional. You know, I sent in a message as well, first and foremost, like everyone else. I'd done the message. And I was just delighted to hear back from you, John.

[00:39:32] And the reason that I wanted to was I love, you know, foot. I've been on many, many, many, many podcasts. All great podcasts. I haven't got a bad thing to say about any single one. But even, you know, from a few years ago, I was on this one. You know, I stayed in touch with yourself, John. I was in the Pro Clubs team with Art and Chris, for example. I felt like I always got on with everyone, you know. I felt, you know, you's really respected the way how I play, you know, with my feet.

[00:40:01] So I got that support for day one from you. So I was just really looking forward to it. I seen it on Twitter. I thought, right, I'm just going to grab this with not two hands, two feet, if you like, if I can make that joke. And I just went for it. And then because, you know, of my experience with other podcasts and for the listeners that don't already know, my background is in sales and marketing as well.

[00:40:25] So I've always got a passion for, you know, talking, even from the early days of working in, you know, telesales. So it was good. So to combine that passion with football, which I love, and then guys that I actually know and I've talked to before, it just felt right. And I just wanted an opportunity, really. And I was thinking about it. I'm sorry this is a long answer, listeners, to the question. But I was always thinking about it before and just I didn't really know how to get in. I didn't really have the experience.

[00:40:55] So I'm really looking forward just to learn from you guys. And it's very interesting now the perspective has changed from a guest to a host. So I like that. And I'm looking forward to more of that. And then lastly, if I can just touch on, you know, the feedback from your guys in the Discord and what they were saying about me and so on and so forth. It was really nice to read. And I was just overwhelmed by that. So it was great that it was, you know, that decision was welcomed.

[00:41:25] So, yeah, I'm just delighted to be a part of it, John. Delighted to do it. And, yeah, I'm just looking forward to it. That's awesome, mate. Anything for you to add, Arjun? I mean, it's great to have you here, John. James, I mean, I said that, you know, probably you will regret meetings with John on Friday. It's there. I'm very happy that we have such an inspirational player over here. Thank you very much.

[00:41:52] Can't wait to meet you over when we have the next event in Scotland, maybe even. But we have the first, we have the event in Crete, and that's the other announcement. Everything's ready. The bags are almost packed because, well, we do need to record some shows before we actually leave. But from the week of May the 12th until May the 15th, most of the teams, the team are in Scotland, or in Crete, of course. Most of the teams are from Scotland, but they will be going to Crete.

[00:42:20] And we'll be doing a lot, a lot of shows. And actually, friend of the show, Grim, who we just mentioned, is also coming. So he'll be on the live show, actually, already supporting, I already spoke to him before. So it's going to be cool. We'll do lots of content. We'll be upscaling our social media presence in the coming weeks. It might take a couple of days to get everything going, but in the week when we are in Crete, you should be getting so much.

[00:42:50] I think I have a personal camera running behind me to do vlogs every single moment of the day somewhere. So I don't think everyone's enjoying the sun and I'm just sitting in front of a stage light and, well, chatting in front of a camera. But it's something I'm looking forward to. Looking forward to meeting everyone there and, of course, looking forward to push out a lot of content. And, well, that's the only disadvantage. I probably won't be able to play myself in the tournament, Arjun. But I'll bring the trophy to hand proudly to the next trophy holder. So, yeah.

[00:43:20] James, good to have you here, my friend. Looking forward to many, many, many more shows. Because it's also episode 675. And I also don't feel that's something we should underestimate. How much effort we put in the show, but also how much the support and these messages confirm that we get from the community. So I think it's a show definitely built not only for the community, but with the community.

[00:43:47] And I think that's also how we want to get back to the community, getting the people involved now. So, coming back, Graham, we already spoke to you. You serve Ben and Neil. I will be sending out an email to get in touch and at least schedule one show with you guys if you're still up for it. And see where that goes in the coming weeks. Arjun, you're right, my friend. I've heard something which I do want to discuss before we go into our last topic.

[00:44:16] I've heard you're not using an official controller yet. It's a fancy controller, a Darth Vader Pro something controller. But you like to play a little bit with a handicap. And I've heard there's buttons that doesn't work on your controller. And your target is still to get 15-0 now. You see why I regret James? During the week asking questions, whatever, asking for help. That's what he does.

[00:44:44] I mean, then he brings the stuff online and tries to embarrass me. I got a great controller. Everybody who reviews that controller. It does look really awesome. For shooting games, okay? So, I've decided to give it a try for EFC. It works. Just not 100%. I'm not going to recommend the controller. We're not doing that in the show.

[00:45:15] Well, I like it. I honestly do like it. It's just like minor issues. I will find the solution. Then I will share. And I will just be a salesman for that producer from China. In here in Poland. That's so funny, though. I mean, he's having a message. Can you help me? Do you know something about controllers? Yeah, sure. Like, what kind of controller did you have? And we won't mention a brand here because we're not sponsored.

[00:45:42] But we're also, we're not doing any harm to brands when we don't really need to. And he's like, this is the name. I'm like, can you write that down? I've never heard that before. Then I looked up some reviews. People were actually... I haven't heard because this is not like the first controller that they produced. This is the Ford, apparently. Yeah. And all of them are pretty good. I mean, pretty decent, right? When you compare the price to whatever you receive in a product.

[00:46:10] So the only issue is that it comes from there. So, you know, and maybe the software issue, whatever, still is like compatible enough. I mean, I would try to find it because, you know, the software, they can, whatever, release the new software and update, right? So maybe that will happen soon. I'm just going to mention a brand because also a little shout out. FlyDigi, it's called the brand? It's FlyDigi, yeah. It's FlyDigi. FlyDigi will tag you on the show.

[00:46:36] If you guys want to like sponsor the tournament in Creed and give the winner like one of these fancy controllers of yours or want us to actually have a proper look or see if my, if you send the controller to us, one of the other teams or one of the other players can actually use this controller and get it functioning. We'll be gladly to give a shout out for it. So you know where to reach us. It's just info at footcoaching.com or foot and review.com. We'll figure it out. But I find it such a funny story that I actually had to show.

[00:47:05] Like you got 15 and I was like, I need a new controller. So somehow let's get a controller with two buttons that actually don't work properly just to see if we can do 15 now during weekend league and team of the six. It's lovely. I got one question though. And that question is also from Malik the Great, who is also signed up to come up for Creed. He says, the way I see it, we got Poland, Netherlands and Britain represented by the host tonight.

[00:47:31] I really suffer from bad server connections and consistent gameplay often even during a game. The game starts fluent and playable. After a few minutes, the bad connection signs pops up and the delay starts to kick in. Yada, yada, yada. Considering the entire team play in this game, I would rate it like this. 30% playable, 40% borderline, 30% unacceptable slash frustrating. Could all of you share your experiences? By the way, I play FC on PC.

[00:47:57] And because he plays on PC, I want to ask the two hard first because you're playing on PC as well. With a broken controller even. How is it for you? It's so bad. Mate. Okay. So I play on PC. The reason I play on PC, I already mentioned it many times because of the widescreen monitor. That's the only reason. And okay. So I have big problems with the game also with the delay and stuff.

[00:48:26] And it's not smooth and perfect. I mean, I watch so many YouTube, whatever content creators that were recommending some settings and stuff. I changed everything. And it's still now working perfectly. The only thing I did, what I changed, something like that. Yeah. I mean, if anybody can see the monitor, the screen that John pops up in a second ago, it's that kind of widescreen monitor that I'm using. I can see just the whole, the pitch. That's why I'm using the PC.

[00:48:56] So, okay. So the only change that I did in my settings, which may surprise you, I changed online matchmaking to not look for the closest person. So like I've heard somewhere there that the game, it's not looking for the closest player to you, not concentrating on that. It's just looking for a better connection.

[00:49:25] So I may play someone who is like much far away from me, but if he's close to the Netherlands servers, for example, Germany servers, right? We have a decent connection. So, so, so I'm not, that's the only thing that may surprise you because everybody approximate matchmaking the closest opponent, right? There, everybody's choosing that option. So I changed that on PC and I'm not saying it's a life changing, you know, a switch, but

[00:49:55] it just kind of feels a little bit smoother when I play, right? If I notice that something goes wrong with a game and I get heavier and heavier, I'm, for me, to be honest, the only solution is just take a break. Take a break, restart the game, go for a coffee, go for a walk, come back after 15, 20 minutes. You'd be surprised the game may change like 30, 60, 360 degrees. I mean, it's just like totally different game.

[00:50:25] It might be for you also after the break, just take a break. Don't, don't force it. You, you cannot change something then, you know, it just in the game, it's, it's due to the, so many people logging in, like for example, in 7 PM, right? Every day, the servers are like, you know, overcrowded over there. So they're not, they're not capable of taking care of so many people. So, so I would just take a break. There is not much you can do.

[00:50:54] And I don't have a like solution for it. Maybe John, James, do you guys, I know you don't play on PC, but I think the server and heavy gameplay issues are like, doesn't matter which console you use, right? Or which, which if you play on PC, Xbox or PS5, it doesn't matter. I agree. I actually use that setting as well. I've seen it and I can't remember for the life of me where I saw it on Twitter or YouTube,

[00:51:23] but also how it's set to know. So like you say, it's better on connection rather than close proximity. And then also as well, I have cross playoff. But me personally, I try and play champs on a Sunday night at like 11, 12 o'clock UK time just to try and get the best connection. Then I'll do it again on Monday night, really. Also what I do, and it could be a benefit. Yes, I play on PS5, but I would imagine it would be for all consoles, all PCs.

[00:51:52] These days we've got, we've all got Bluetooth controllers. So what I do on the PlayStation, I go into settings and I actually change even, like for example, even if you plug the cable into your Bluetooth controller, it will still play off the Bluetooth connection even though it's wired. So I just simply go into the settings, I change it from Bluetooth input to wired connection because you actually, even though you've plugged it in and you would think it would do it automatically, it actually doesn't.

[00:52:20] So I just change my settings to that. So the input from the controller is on wired connection. So that would be good for input. And then a connection is really just your Donald Duck, really, when it comes to like Saturday nights and Friday nights and then content time. Like I said, that's why I try and do it as late as possible, really, to do my champs to avoid that. And then again, like I'm sure everyone really does, even if you've got a LAN connection,

[00:52:48] you're still having loads and loads of problems. So again, it doesn't matter really what we do to combat it. It's an issue that doesn't really go away at this present moment in time. What would you say, John? I'm so afraid to answer this question. So you know those pop-up signs he's talking about, like the little red sign signal thingies?

[00:53:12] It took me a mistaken connection to actually knew these things were real. Okay. So I'm going to be honest. I never face any like weird connections or difficulties or latency spikes or anything like that. Never, ever. And I know it sounds like an EA shield and I get lots of hates when I say this, but it's just, it helps. Like I am in a separate studio,

[00:53:40] which has a separate fiber cable connection into the studio. And all the devices are like wired with good cables into it. So the console, like the, the, the, the, the max we're using, everything's, everything's wired on here. There is a wireless network you can use for your phones, but everything else all wired. And I don't face any issues. Here's the weird thing. I moved my PlayStation to use my, like my own living room.

[00:54:10] So I took it off out of the office, put it in the living room because I wanted to play some Assassin's Creed like last week or two weeks ago, that game came out. I put it there. There's connections there like as well. I put it in and I was like, ah, I need to redo the wire. You know what? I play on wifi. The game is downloaded. It's offline. I don't really care. Let's keep it on wifi. That's fine. So when I moved the PlayStation, back this week into the studio, put in the cable, I was playing foot and I had a horrific connection.

[00:54:40] Like I saw those things pop up and it was stuttering. It was slow. And the menus were like really laggy. It's like, what's going on? The cable's in it. What's going on? So I went to the PlayStation menu and even though you connected it with the cable, it was still using the wifi. So I had to switch into the settings, use ethernet. And then it's fine. I went back to the game, all fine as well.

[00:55:07] I think this game is super spotty about wifi connections. I think most wifi connections are pretty unstable anyways, like on their own. So I would definitely advise playing wired. And the other thing we've noticed is we've been at like tournaments, we've been in stadiums to play. And we've had these issues where people are saying it's laggy or something, but it's all wired.

[00:55:35] It can very much be your router settings as well. That's causing issues. And we, like in the studio, we have routers. We have a connection cable comes in the house, router goes into the, in the router and the router is all set up to be as open as possible, except for some security things, but it's basically open. There aren't any thing. There are not much the providers actually doing. And it's all fine.

[00:56:04] Like that makes a massive difference. But when I played on wifi this week, it has been truly horrific and I've never experienced the difference, but now it's like, I can't play this. If this would be my way of playing all the time, I would, I can't say we would stop making, making podcasts because I was, I mean, we'll be out of a job, but it would be getting really frustrated to actually do so. Cable back in, use the internet connection, check your LAN setting. I think it goes to LAN one, two or three automatically.

[00:56:33] You need to be on two or that's the open setting or not setting. Sorry. NIT. It's called NIT setting. It has to be on two. Then it's open. If that's on three, then it's very much blocked off. You contact your internet service provider. It's not open. It's like, it's medium. Yeah. One is open to us, but one or two is fine. It's very hard to get. Exactly. Ours is on one, but I mean, we got the connection open. And, but if it's on three,

[00:57:00] just contact your internet service provider to see if there's any setting you can change in their router. To make sure it at least goes to not setting to, to make sure that makes a massive difference when you play like server to server as well. If I can add only to that, because cable for connection with internet, I think it's a must, just not even for a better connection, but for stability of that connection. You know what I mean? For, for stability of smooth gameplay. And the other thing that,

[00:57:30] that what I noticed is you should use your controller also wired to the cable using cable. Now the Bluetooth connection, the delay, when I use a Bluetooth with a controller, I'm not saying it's crazy. It's like, but you, it, you can feel it. Yeah. You can feel it that you press the buttons when it's on a Bluetooth. It's a little bit, uh, slower reaction that you can see after that on a screen.

[00:57:59] Then when you use a cable and don't use five meter cable. Okay. It's not going to help like 1.5, two meter cable for USB, regular one. You don't have to spend much money for it just to use controller. Awesome cable. Yeah. I mean, if you, that short one, that might be too short. I mean, it's okay. That's it. There is like, you know, regarding the EFC, when I started to play,

[00:58:28] I didn't have a good internet. Right. And John, I was actually, John actually was doing, I was coaching him in slow motion. He did. And you remember, John, I was sending you again and you were, you were actually kind of surprised that I'm playing on that connection. And I, I, I, I was doing pretty well. And the problem with internet, I had that time, couple of years ago, it was just like slow internet, but the gameplay was smooth.

[00:58:56] Right now I have a good internet and the gameplay sometimes is laggy for me. And I cannot understand why. And John, I know you said that like you have, a professional studio. That might be a solution for it, you know, but the, where I'm going with this, we shouldn't be, uh, we shouldn't be forced to buy or afford the great studio to play the game. No. And I want to like,

[00:59:25] that's why I said that it's hard for me to sometimes I answer these questions because we've got the infrastructure to get it all perfectly set up. Right. And then next to that, I mean, we have like 2000 gigs up and down easy as well. So it's, it's a direct connection, not even into the house, but direct connection into the studio. So the actual cable comes into my, into the studio, like two meters from where my things are settled. I mean,

[00:59:54] it can't get much easier to set it up than that and much less stable, but I do think there's, it's often awful overlooked how much the internet server provider, the ISP sets up your router. Usually they are very safe with everything and they block off very, they block off very hard ports. When you need a game that uses a lot of information or process a lot of data over the internet, they need more options to go off.

[01:00:22] And I think checking your ISP settings, or at least like your, uh, your router settings, going, looking around to everyone can just access the router, open up some ports. There are even some recommendations on the EA website to check which ports you have to open. That helps. And go to the EA site. There's an, uh, on the EA site, there's an, like a latency checker or something it's called. I don't know the exact way. I'll try to link it in the show description. You can see every single match you've played there. You just log into your EA account.

[01:00:52] You can see every single match you played. You can see your, uh, You can see your stutter, your, your jitter, and you can see your package loss in there. Hold on a second. I didn't know that. I'll send the link. I didn't know that either. Depending on those, you can see every single match. I'm curious to see that. You know, I never heard about it. You see your latency. So how much delay do you have between your input and the output? Anything on the 30, honestly, all fine, right? You don't really see the, feel the difference.

[01:01:22] Then you have the package loss. That's actually data being lost due to connection errors. That's what causes like a freeze or which causes, or suddenly your players are five meters in front of it. If you have package, and that's the signals you get in the game. If you put those on those monitors, you see the little jitter icon. You see the little, uh, package like the squares. Okay. That means it's package loss. And all those signals get just logged on the EA website. You can go to the EA support site. You can check it there, log in on your own account,

[01:01:51] and you can see what happened during your matches. I will definitely do that. And it also shows, oh, you have latency issues or you have jitter issues. Then check out your, your board settings. Try to see if these boards are open and actually helps you pretty much through it as well. I just want to regarding the router thing and setup of router, John, uh, if you don't feel comfortable to do it, just don't mess with it. Uh,

[01:02:19] I lost my internet connection for like two weeks when I started messing with a router and I had to call like four professionals. It was like two, three years ago. I was just doing whatever on, I found on internet, on Google, trying to change the ports, whatever, open the app and stuff. I was doing that myself. I'm, I am not the tech guy, but I saw screwed it up. So I had no, I mean, you buy broken controllers. We're not going to stop with you. Uh, by the way, it is,

[01:02:49] I'm just going to mention everyone. I'm just going to mention a website here as well. I put it in the show description, but it is help.ea.com slash EA dash connection dash quality dash report. And you go there and what? You use your nick or nick or from gameplay or what? Yeah. You log into your EA account. Okay. Which you also use to log into the companion app. You can see your connection score. Uh, you can see your, I think your, like ISP connection score.

[01:03:18] So it shows like my, I will just put it live on screen. Maybe that doesn't show my name. So I'll probably just show it live on screen while we're at it as well. Um, but here's my scores. I've got a total score of 97 from here. Right. Which is like, you see the ping, you see the jitter 0.01. And the packet loss is 0.01% as well. And it says ethernet. It's great. Nothing wrong with that. It says your ISP connections course.

[01:03:46] It's show how good you are compared to everyone around you. How steady everything is. It shows every match history. When did you play? What's your average scores? How much delay did you get? As you can see with my, if you quickly go through it, uh, there's really not something that even sees when you disconnect it or when your opponent quits, et cetera, et cetera, as well. It's courses with a great or a good. I never get anything below good. Uh, and just go there. And if you have like issues, you can also compare your ISP to other internet service providers,

[01:04:17] uh, that are around you and how many players are on that server provider and which scores they get. So even if you want to like switch to another internet service provider, you're thinking about maybe taking the next lap, then you can do that. And there's like, some stops, stops in there, which says, what does it mean? How can we help? If you have these issues, you can just go through them as well. I think it's a very underrated. Um, I think it's a very underrated, uh, system, very underrated website. Um,

[01:04:45] and I don't think you'd definitely need a studio to get good connection from this, but there's plenty everyone can do from their own home connections as well. But I think wifi is usually very unstable with the regular, um, routers. And I've, I've noticed the difference even here at this studio, how big of difference that can. Oh, that helps. Although I'm not, I'm, might've helped EA support you. Which just goes back to one of my famous sayings, John,

[01:05:15] every day's a school day. I didn't have a clue about that. So I'll be checking that. Definitely. But like I said, you know, uh, it's a, maybe a, a change that it can happen to everyone, but me, to be brutally honest, you know, even though I put, I play on a Sunday at night and a Monday night, like I say, I really don't have any crazy situations to be honest with you. And then, like I said, I'm always on LAN, which is Ethernet, my laptops, a cable, uh, the PS5s cable,

[01:05:45] and then everything else is just wifi. But that's, that's interesting. I'll be checking out later tonight. Definitely. Yeah. Chad asked, you can get all the stats of your games, win draws, loss as well. No, it shows if you finish the match or you haven't finished the match. So it's either a complete, if you finish it to be a loss, or a, not finish, an incomplete, if one of the players quit the game or disconnects, it's also goes to incomplete. Um, but I think it's, if you keep disconnecting,

[01:06:15] just filter on your own experiences or incomplete, uh, matches and see what the stats are from there. I think it's very cool. I mean, we do complain at times, but this is actually a really good tool to help you out. And it works for all games. Not even, I don't think it even, it works only for FIFA, but unfortunately I don't play too many EA games. to promise that I actually checked with any other options here. Guys, it is time for the weekend.

[01:06:43] It is time for Eastern as well. Uh, going, egg hunting art. Sorry. Going, egg chasing this weekend or. If I'm going to chase what? I'm sorry, John. Eggs, like eggs, like rabbits with like, no, nevermind. Oh, okay. He doesn't even know what he said. Uh, okay. So. You just wanted to hear me say, egg three times in a row. Eastern is a huge holiday over here. Yes. So,

[01:07:10] so we are not too much of a rabbit people, more of a chicken here. Uh, but you know, we're not going to chase chickens either, but we're going to spend time with the family. So it's, I think it's even bigger for us as a Rome Catholics, uh, Eastern than, than Christmas time, you know? So, so it's a huge holiday here. A couple of days off, uh, I just want day off working day off Monday. So we, we are now working here.

[01:07:40] So about going off, even your connection dropped off there for a second. So while you go and compare your ISP to all other ISPs. It was because it's because of EA. Listen, so I'm going to spend definitely time with the family where, uh, I'm not too happy about it because it's my, uh, wife family. So it's not always good. Yeah. Either. Okay. He's now getting a poor connection. So I'm going to cut Artyom off. Artyom have a great holiday,

[01:08:10] my friend. James, what about you? Likewise, I'm a Catholic as well. So yeah, I'll be going to, uh, the family, for lunch and dinner tomorrow, actually, I'm going. Uh, so that'd be good. Then we'll do something on Sunday. So definitely. And then I'm sure you could, I'm sure maybe some of the listeners are thinking, ah, is it a pun intended? You just gave us an Easter egg about the connectivity. A VA. So some might say that's an Easter egg. Uh, but yeah, I'll be, I'll be doing,

[01:08:40] I'll certainly be eating some chocolate, 110%. Uh, so yeah, I'll certainly do that. The days are gone. No, when I was, uh, you know, a kid and you would get, uh, boiled eggs and you would chop them down. And then you would go for your, um, Easter egg, uh, treasure hunt. Uh, but no, the days are long behind me, but I'll certainly be doing something with the family. No, I'll be eating lots of chocolate and, uh, I'm going to the theater and getting drunk. No, I'm not getting drunk. Okay.

[01:09:09] I'll get drunk. Yeah. Uh, that will be my, since I probably won't remember next week, but I've done this weekend, but I think sometimes you got to do it. And also I'm going on a trip to Crete, of course, with a lot of Scotchman. So I have to make sure I get some alcohol in my system before I go. I won't be able to survive the night with them. You need a proper preparation, right? Exactly. Exactly. How, uh, I wish everyone a very nice holiday, of course. Nice, uh, holiday period. Um, James,

[01:09:39] good to have you in the team, my friend. See you soon. Archul, it's good to have you back on my friend. We'll talk soon. Uh, but there's one thing left for us to do. And that is to drop it. Drop it. Drop it.

[01:10:12] So I never knew about that.