From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, bringing you data-driven insights from theCUBE and ETR. This is Breaking Analysis with Dave Vellante. Well, never really meant to be a consumer tech event. The rapid ascendancy of smartphones sucked much of the air out of Mobile World Congress over the years, now MWC. And while the device manufacturers continue to have a major presence at the show, the majority of intelligent devices, longer life cycles and the disaggregation of the network stack have put enterprise technologies front and center in the telco business. Semiconductor manufacturers, network equipment players, infrastructure companies, cloud vendors, software providers and a spate of startups are eyeing the trillion dollar plus communications industry as one of the next big things to watch this decade. Hello and welcome to this week's Wikibon Cube Insights powered by ETR. In this Breaking Analysis, we bring you part two of our ongoing coverage of MWC 23 with some new data on enterprise players specifically in large telco environments, a brief glimpse at some of the pre-announcement news and corresponding themes ahead of MWC and some of the key announcement areas we'll be watching at the show on theCUBE. Now last week we shared some ETR data that showed how traditional enterprise tech players were performing specifically within the telecoms vertical. Here's a new look at that data from ETR, which isolates the same companies but cuts the data for what ETR calls large telco. The N in this cut is 196 down from 288 last week when we included all company sizes in the data set. Now remember the two dimensions here and the Y axis is net score or spending momentum and on the X axis is pervasiveness in the data set. The table insert in the upper left informs how the dots and companies are plotted and that red dotted line, the horizontal line at 40%, that indicates a highly elevated net score. Now while the data are not dramatically different in terms of relative positioning, there are a couple of changes at the margin. So just going down the list and focusing on net score. Azure is comparable but slightly lower in this sector in the large telco than it was overall. Google Cloud comes in at number two and basically swap places with AWS which drops slightly in the large telco relative to overall telco. Snowflake is also slightly down by one percentage point but maintains its position. Remember Snowflake overall, its net score is much, much higher when measuring across all verticals. Snowflake comes down in telco and relative to overall a little bit down in large telco but it's making some moves to attack this market that we'll talk about in a moment. Next are Red Hat OpenStack and Databricks about the same in large telco as they were in overall telco. Then there's Dell next that has a big presence at MWC and is getting serious about driving 16G adoption and new servers and edge servers and other partnerships. Cisco and Red Hat OpenShift basically swapped spots when moving from all telco to large telco to Cisco drops and Red Hat bumps up a bit. And VMware dropped about four percentage points in large telco. Accenture moved up dramatically, about nine percentage points in big telco, large telco relative to all telco. HPE dropped a couple of percentage points. Oracle stayed about the same and IBM surprisingly dropped by about five points. So look, I understand not a ton of change in terms of spending momentum in the large sector versus telco overall but some deltas. The bottom line for enterprise players is, one, they're just getting started in this new disruption journey that they're on as the stack disaggregates. Two, all these players have experience in delivering horizontal solutions but now working with partners and identifying big problems to be solved. And three, many of these companies are generally not the fastest moving firms relative to smaller disruptive disruptors. Now, cloud has been an exception in fairness but the good news for the legacy infrastructure and IT companies is that the telco transformation and the 5G build out is going to take years. So it's moving at a pace that is very favorable to many of these companies. Okay, so looking at just some of the pre-announcement highlights that have hit the wire this week, I want to give you a glimpse of the diversity of innovation that is occurring in the telecommunications space. You got semiconductor manufacturers, device makers, network equipment players, carriers, cloud vendors, enterprise tech companies, software companies, startups. Now we've included, you'll see in this list we've included OpenRAN, that logo because there's so much buzz around the topic and we're going to come back to that but suffice it to say there's no way we can cover all the announcements from the 2000 plus exhibitors at the show. So we're going to cherry pick here and make a few call-outs. Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an acquisition of an Italian private cellular network company called Athanet, Zias Caravalla, wrote about it on Silicon Angle if you want more details. Now interestingly, HPE has a partnership with Solona which also does private 5G but according to Zias, Solona is more of an out of the box solution whereas Athanet is designed for the core and requires more integration and as you'll see in a moment, there's going to be a lot of talk at the show about private network. There's going to be a lot of news there from other competitors and we're going to be watching that closely and while many are concerned about the P5G, private 5G encroaching on Wi-Fi, Caravalla doesn't see it that way. Rather he feels that these private networks are really designed for more industrial and mission critical environments like factories and warehouses that are run by robots, et cetera. Because these can justify the increased expense of private networks whereas Wi-Fi remains a very low cost and flexible option for whatever offices and homes. Now, over to Dell. Dell announced its intent to go hard after opening up the telco network with the announcement that in the second half of this year it's going to begin shipping its infrastructure blocks for Red Hat. Remember it's like kind of the converged infrastructure for telco with a more open ecosystem and sort of more flexible, you know, more mature engineered system. Dell has also announced a range of PowerEdge servers for a variety of use cases, a big, wide line bringing forth its 16G portfolio and aiming it squarely at the telco space. Dell also announced, here we go, a private wireless offering with AirSpan and Exbedo and a solution with Athanet, the company HPE announced it was purchasing.  We'll see where that relationship goes in the mid to long term. Dell also announced a new lab and certification capabilities, which we said last week was going to be critical for the further adoption of open ecosystem technology. So props to Dell for putting real emphasis and investment in that. AWS also made a number of announcements in this space including private wireless solutions and associated managed services, AWS named Deutsche Telecom, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica and some others as partners. And AWS announced a stepped up partnership specifically with T-Mobile to bring AWS services to T-Mobile's network portfolio. Snowflake, back to Snowflake, announced its Telecom data cloud. Remember we showed the data earlier, Snowflake not as strong in the telco sector, but they're continuing to move toward this go to market alignment within key industries, realigning their go to market by vertical. It also announced that AT&T and a number of other partners are collaborating to break down data silos specifically in telco. Look, essentially this is Snowflake taking its core value prop to the telco vertical and forming key partnerships that resonate in the space. So think simplification, breaking down silos, data sharing, eventually data monetization. Samsung previewed its future capability to allow smartphones to access satellite services, something Apple has previously done. AMD, Intel, Marvell, Qualcomm are all in the act, all the semiconductor players. Qualcomm for example announced along with Telefonica and Ericsson a 5G millimeter network that will be showcased in Spain at the event this coming week using Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset platform based on none other than ARM technology. Of course, ARM we said is going to dominate the edge and it's clearly doing so. It's got the volume advantage over traditional Intel X86 architectures. And it's no surprise that Microsoft is touting its open AI relationship. You're gonna hear a lot of AI talk at this conference as is AI is the now topic. All right, we could go on and on and on. There's just so much going on at Mobile World Congress or MWC that we just wanted to give you a glimpse of some of the highlights that we've been watching which brings us to the key topics and issues that we'll be exploring at MWC next week. We touched on some of this last week. A big topic of conversation will of course be 5G is it ever going to become real? Is it ever going to make money at 5G? There's so much excitement around and anticipation around 5G. It has not lived up to the hype, but that's because the rollout as we've previously reported is going to take years. And part of that rollout is going to rely on the disaggregation of the hard and telco stack as we reported last week in previous breaking analysis episodes. Open RAN is a big component of that evolution. As our RAN intelligent controllers, RIX, which essentially the brain of Open RAN, if you will. Now, as we build out 5G networks at massive scale and accommodate unprecedented volumes of data and apply compute hungry AI to all this data, the issue of energy efficiency is going to be front and center. It has to be. Not only is it a hot political issue, the reality is that improving power efficiency is compulsory or the whole vision of telco's future is going to come crashing down. So chip manufacturers, equipment makers, cloud providers, everybody is going to be doubling down and clicking on this topic. Let's talk about AI. AI, as we said, it is the hot topic right now, but it is happening not only in consumer with things like chat GPT and think about the theme of this breaking analysis in the enterprise. AI in the enterprise cannot be chat GPT. It cannot be error-prone the way chat GPT is. It has to be clean, reliable, governed, accurate. It's got to be ethical. It's got to be trusted. Okay, we're going to have Zia's Caravola in the show next week and definitely want to get his take on private networks and how they're going to impact Wi-Fi. You know, will private networks cannibalize Wi-Fi? If not, why not? We wrote about this again on Silicon Angle if you want more details and we're going to unpack that on theCUBE this week. And finally, as always, we'll be following the data flows to understand where and how telcos, cloud players, startups, software companies, disruptors, legacy companies and customers, how are they going to make money from new data opportunities? Because we often say in theCUBE, don't ever bet against data. All right, that's a wrap for today. Remember, theCUBE is going to be on location at MWC 2023. Next week, we've got a great set. We're in the walkway, in between halls four and five, right in Congress Square stand CS60. Look for us. We've got a full schedule. If you've got a great story or you have news, stop by. We're going to try to get you on the program. I'll be there with Lisa Martin, co-hosting David Nicholson as well and the entire CUBE crew. So don't forget to come by and see us. I want to thank Alex Meyerson, who's on production and manages the podcast and Ken Schiffman as well in our Boston studio. Kristen Martin and Cheryl Knight helped get the word out on social media and in our newsletters and Rob Hoth is our editor-in-chief over at siliconangle.com. He does some great editing. Thank you. All right, remember all these episodes there are available as podcasts wherever you listen. All you got to do is search breaking analysis podcasts. I publish each week on wikibon.com and siliconangle.com. All the video content is available on demand at thecube.net or you can email me directly if you want to get in touch, david.malante at siliconangle.com or DM me at dvalante or comment on our LinkedIn posts and please do check out etr.ai for the best survey data in the enterprise tech business. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE Insights powered by ETR. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next week at Mobile World Congress 23 MWC 23 or next time on Breaking Analysis.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back to FNAF World Edge of Time. Last episode, we did not really know what we have to do but I do know now what to do right now. Soon as complete, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, let's go. Yeah, that was a sentence that I said. We had to go back to the base to get these guys and then we can go and fight the purple guys. All messed up now, are we? Yeah, a good nap definitely helps. I still get some marshmallow in my teeth. Oh, I still got some marshmallow in my teeth. Heck, okay. Well, stop by a water reserve and clean it out. What I'd give to not be in my 70s. What? Anyways, either way, it's time you kids get going. Those clocks aren't going to collect themselves. Very true consequences, very true. By the way, if I sound horrible, it's because I feel horrible. I'm sick.  Now, I don't know if we're going to be ready to fight the purple guys, probably not. But yeah, we are definitely going to give it a try. Ah, so he returns with his friends. Perhaps I should go back to get a degree in motivational speaking and physiological studies. You what? Wait, no, that's off topic. You know why we're here. Yes, of course, the clock. Ah, so this place did have a clock. Maybe we could have actually gone and gotten it after all. In my opinion, I feel the moment of solace you all experienced was beneficial. It means when I tear you to pieces, it'll be a fair fight. Haven't lost to you before. And with these guys by my side, I won't ever lose. Let's test that, shall we, I, the lord of sprites, purple geist, challenge you to fight to the death. I can't scream it. I normally would, but my throat hurts so damn bad. I should not be recording right now. Yet here I am. All right, here we go. Got the bubble breath. All right, how to play is the question. That's not what you want to see. Burn, man, I just feel so dead right now. I'm so sorry guys, but I really should have recorded. If you notice, I did actually miss an upload.  I did actually, yeah, that's not what you want to see. That's not what you want to see either. I did miss an upload. Normally I like to do one every other day, but normally I was supposed to upload one on February the 14th for Valentine's Day. And I was planning on doing that, I swear, but come on, thank you, but I couldn't get around to it because normally, if you guys have been around on the channel long enough, we have a tradition of playing Doki Doki Literature Club every Valentine's Day. We've been doing it since 2017, I think, or 2018. Yeah, no, 2018. And I was gonna play it again for Valentine's Day. But for some reason, I didn't have my save. So what is he doing? Yeah, I didn't have my save so I couldn't. I don't know where my save went. And I did not have time to play through the entire game again to get back to where we were, because I was on a very strict schedule yesterday, or not yesterday, sorry. It'll probably be, yeah, you guys probably won't see this on the 15th. Yeah, I was on a very strict schedule on the 14th, because I was going to the movies to see Sonic the Hedgehog at 6.15. So I really did not have time to get everything done. And so I missed an upload and I'm sorry. And now I'm sick. And yeah, now this is probably going to come out on the 16th. Anyways, that talk got us through the entire fight. Sorry for rambling on, but we're back now. Well, my oh my, truly marvelous here as promised. Heck yes. Now we got two out of five. Let's go. A very good sign of progress. Yes, indeed. Your fighting skills were excellent. I'll let you in on a bit of information here. I do know the location of the third clock, but there's a catch, right? Why bother with such trivial things? I already am well aware of what will happen once all of them are gathered, no point in asking for favors. The next clock, as I've seen, is in the hands of some foul green creature. He looks very familiar too, but I can't put my finger on where I've seen him before. Seek out this beast. The next clock will surely be waiting for you there. Oh, he's still here. Can I? Oh, apologies, but the spikes will still be hostile. Though I'm sure you won't mind. Besides, they regenerate like, what? Alright, I don't know why he's here. So I need to look for some sort of green beast. Can't wait to wander around for 10 minutes and not find anything. I'm just gonna buy gift boxes. That was probably a waste thinking about it now, but whatever. Maybe it'll help. I don't know, fine. Let's go find a green creature. Oh, so the gift boxes heal one person each. That's good. That makes sense. They each have their own gift box. I'm just fighting Death Bonnie just to see how tough he still is, and he's decent. Crap. I'm meant to do mid-beacon. Yeah, I mean, I think we have a chance, but we'll see how it goes. Alright, this gift box is actually pretty helpful. Not gonna lie, because Wendy just went down, but she gets straight up, and I think she has full health as well. Like, that's pretty good. Also, he's nearly dead, so I'll see you guys in maybe like 30 seconds. He's about to go down. He's almost dead. He's so close. Come on, come on, Blower. You can do it. Yes! What do I get? That's actually quite a bit. 15 gems, and I went up two levels. Three? I went up to level 18, and I got 15 gems each. No, that's a spicy baby. Alright, let's go back to Phony, because we should be able to upgrade quite a bit from that fight. Oh, yes. Med pack, bar strain. We could get revives, or we could get another bar strain. I think revives will help out more. Yeah. Yeah, that was good.  We upgraded by so much. That's insane. Alright, the question still stands. Where do we go? And right here, yes, of course. What is this place? It is the place of... Whoa! It's the place of whoa, guys. Um, god, please stop. And Dreadbears here. I just realized that my mic was not in the proper position, so I'm sorry if the audio sounded terrible. What the? It's been far too long. Dreadbear, you are... Not gonna lie, you're looking pretty dope. F-Freadbear? No, Freadbear is no more. I am Dreadbear.  I was reborn, given youth, given power. I've been waiting for this day, Fruity.  You really are worse than I thought. Here we are trying to do the right thing, meanwhile you're sitting on your butt siding with the bad guys. You failed to understand. Understand what? That you've lost your mind? Jeez, I knew you were good for nothing, but to be so bad at being good you decided to become bad as a whole new level I should have expected from you at this point. And you decided to only show up now, when I didn't want to ever see you again? Your whining irritates me. As does the fact any of you assumed good of me. I deceived you all. Though it was bumpy, the road map to true peace and solidarity is one in which mal hair succeeds. This was the plan from the beginning and you all fell for it. Why you? Save your breath. You won't be able to use it much longer. I intend to destroy you, but on my own terms. We will meet again very soon. Your deaths are inevitable. The man thanks Udus, honest. Hey, come back. Darn it, where the heck did he go? They keep disappearing. They're out of nowhere. I have like no emotional connection whatsoever, so I have no clue what is going on. Candy, again, still repping my favorite character right now. That was Fredbear it seems. All of this is a fa-cade? All of this his fault too? Belora, I don't know what that line was. That was certainly interesting. He, he wouldn't. He would. Fredbear always cared about the end goal. Didn't matter how it was done, he'd always find a way to do it. He liked us, like tool. Oh, he used, he didn't like us. He used us, like tools. But he won't get away with it, not this time. Freddy, are you sure you could handle this? No, I feel like we're pretty under level when we're gonna end up fighting him. But anyway, so he seems only connected family you have. He's the only really connected family you have. That won't matter once we get the clocks. Besides, at least if things go wrong, I'll get to see my real parents. What is this story? That's a plot line we don't need to get into. Yes, please do not. Yeah, just deal with the fleet show. Let's go follow him, of course. Again, the story of this game, very intriguing. All right, so what is this place? It looks like Coconut Mall from Mario Kart. Oh yes, of course, the mall that leads into the ocean. I remember that. What is going on here? I don't think Fredbear would have gone this way, but then again, I don't know. Oh, never mind, he did go this way. I found him. God, I found him. So quick to find me. All those chores you did truly were worth the pain of watching you fail so much. Just shut up, man.  We know you have the clock so given, and why should I do that? So you can ruin everything or the hard work I've devoted to the eventual perfect world?  There was no such thing as a perfect world, and there never will be. This isn't right. All of this isn't right. What must be done for the greater good is none of my concern. Besides, if it means I get the chance to tear you apart limb from limb, why do people keep saying stuff like this? Everyone's so mean in this entire universe that I'll happily accept this future so long as it leads to the greatness I have foretold for decades.  You're insane. Only to someone as close-minded as you. Enough games.  Okay, so are we fighting? I'm guessing we're fighting, and I'm guessing you have- All right, come on. Back in- I don't like that. Back into fighting mode. He- Oh! Interesting. I was about to say he doesn't look that bad. Jesus. Okay, um, yeah. I mean his health is nothing, right? Let me move away for a bit. See that? His health is nothing but he hits Horrid, so we're gonna have to get rid of him very quickly. And our wall is gone. Awesome.  There we go. Yeah, he's almost at half health already.  Okay, luckily we managed to beat Death Bonnie and we could get all those upgrades because I don't think we would be winning right now. We would not be doing as well without all those upgrades. And oh my god, some of us are already down to no gift boxes. All right, guys. I really- Oh crap, Fred is about to go down.  Oh, did I get it? I don't think I did. Damn it. Oh, shoot. All right, they have the last two gift boxes. Oh, Freddy, come on, come on, come on. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, thank you, my good friend. All right, can we pull this off? Maybe? Maybe not. Oh, bye, Candy. He was there for two seconds. Oh, Andy's back and now he's gone.  We were so close. Oh no, we were so close. Oh my god. What? Wait, hold the frick up. Had so many gift boxes. Do I not? They're not just like a one-time use. And Capiche? Capiche Italiano? Like, what is going on here? How did he hit me? How did he kill me with one hit? My god, this guy.  So much frickin fun. Oh, hey, nice. Um, that went surprisingly much better than previous, yes, than previous attempts. All right, level 19. We're nearly at the big level 20. Fredbear, what do you have to say of yourself? Please go on another big monologue.  I'm still standing. Oh, what's wrong, Freddy? You look tired. Stop laughing so much. You're not getting this clock as long as I live. This music fits so well with my emotion right now. I went through all that. Just not get the clock.  How did he get away? What is going on? We need to strategize. We did strategize. We defeated him. Every other battle that we've done and we've won. We've got something. Why did we not get something here, guys? All right. I saw that consequences was mentioned, so I guess we're going back here. Back so soon. Yeah, we got a lot more problems in our hands, blah, blah, blah. Fredbear's back, even though he's Dreadbear now. Oh, yes. Yeah, we couldn't get the third clock. Yeah, that. I see you should have seen this. Why should you have seen this coming? We are literally level 19 and we have a lot of upgraded stuff. Why did we not win? The mind of a teller knows no end and yet I was unable to see this outcome. I mean, it was a pretty sudden appearance. Hmm, then perhaps Malhear has been active in the shadows longer than I had originally assumed. Though on the subject, Fredbear isn't the only one who's randomly popped up again. If you're talking about Popeyes or Bubba, we're, well, aware. No, not them. Belor, I think it's time. Time for what? See, when you say that to someone, you say like, I think it's time. And they don't know what you're talking about. That means there hasn't been a lot of cooperation between you two. And I thought Bloren consequences had been working with each other for a long time. For you to face your demons, leave the demons to his demons, let them rest. That's what consequences always says it's him. He was spotted at Vanity Fair, most likely attempting to get into Popeyes's territory. I see. Sorry for my ignorance, but who is he talking about? Probably you know who. Browboy. Yes, Browboy. I may not know who he is, but I don't know why I should care. Why is there so much negativity going on? But hey, maybe he knows something. And besides, we got scores to settle. Hmm, he could potentially know about the other Clark's locations, perhaps when Malhear was currently housing himself too. Usually I'd only do this if I heard that first, but, well, either way, come on gang, let's go show this Browboy guy who's in charge. Yes, Browboy. I don't know why I'm so excited for Browboy. I really don't like the guy, but I'm just so hyped for some odd reason. Oh, oh, that's like Metal Browboy.  Uh-oh, he's playing Special Smash. He's playing Smash with items on right now. All right, Browboy. What is going on? Oh, this isn't Browboy, just Browboy. Well, well, well, look who it is. It's been too long. Why does everyone say that? It won't be much longer. Ha-ha, you're the same as ever. These conversations are the same as ever. All bark and no bite. Maybe you should go back to sleeping and dancing to you far more. Yeah, a lot more know of being alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make you say that fatty. Ha-ha-ha. Yeah, boring me to death. Yeah, this conversation is boring me to death. I literally just want to do the battle. Make sure that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's literally like the same thing every time. All right, let's go. Browboy's Revenge. Oh, I get it. I didn't mean to use twice claw either, but I get it. It's like Chipper's Revenge and Chipper looked like this in regular FNAF board. And now it's Browboy's Revenge. And now he looks like what Chipper looked like in the original FNAF board. And I'm already tired. All right, again, not that bad. His attacks really are not good at all. So this should be a really easy fight. Yeah, I think we just would have been two OP with that third bar strain. So, yeah, because it's been a long time since I fought just regular enemies. He's already at half health. Yeah, half health, Jesus. Yeah, it's been a long time since I fought regular dudes that I think bar strain is pretty worth it. All right, good to it. Yeah, he's getting there. It also helps to know where the attacks are. I don't know why. What is it meant? Boloa's attacks, I don't know. But like Quick Repair, I know where this one is. I know what this one is. I think this one's right here. Just a little bit lower. Yeah, it's good to know where most of the attacks are. There we go. The wall. I always use bone. I don't know why. Yeah, he's dead. Yeah, he's dead. Boom. Browboy, what happened, man? Over 20, come on. I was about to clap and cheer.  Why do you tease me like this?  All things considered, you shouldn't be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how the game goes. God, stop disappearing. What makes you say that?  He was walking to that tent. I bet it leads to somewhere. You could be right. Let's check it out. Ooh, I always knew these tents were going to lead somewhere. Where's it going to go? A new location. Maybe we're going to find, nope, it just goes to here. Okay, what's in here? Is this where Malhair is? Twisted Barney.  Next episode, we're going to fight Twisted Barney, and that should be a lot of fun. We'll probably get demolished a lot, but it's going to be fun in the end. Maybe, anyways, thanks for watching, and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye. I'm still sick, and I probably will be for the next episode, because I'm probably going to record another video right after this. Goodbye.


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I think you'd enjoy working on it. Yes, you always say that, Riley. Every time you get stuck, you tell me it's an unusually interesting case. But this time it is, Nick. Honest it is. All right, give me one reason why it's not just a routine murder case.  But he's stuck completely. He's some queer stuff he never ran into before.  You ought to look into this. An unknown poison, huh? Was it given him externally or internally? Well, we don't know if it was done at all. It's no slouch when it comes to poisons. No, Dr. Buck knows the stuff all right. And he can't figure it out? He's tried every tricky nose, Nick. Nothing seems to work. Look, will you take a run over here and see what you can make of it? Okay, Riley, what's the address? The Hamilton Apartments on Riverside Drive. The apartment G4. I'll be right here waiting for you. We'll be there in 20 minutes, but it better be good. Oh, it is, Nick. You won't be sorry. So long, though.  I don't know whether he's roped me or not, as you so elegantly put it. He's got me interested enough, so I'm going over and have a look at it. Want to come? Do I want to come? You don't think I want to sit around here when there's a murder case to be solved, do you? Of course not. Okay, get your hat and let's be on our way. Who to have at you? Sharon says nice of you to invite us. All right, all right. Let's dispense to the preliminary, Riley. Get down to business right away. Who's dead and where's the body?  Okay. As the corpses, Frederick Shelby, the explorer. Shelby, well, that fellow's got more lives than a cat. Well, he must have used up all none of them, if he's dead now. The body's right in here, Nick. In the library. Look at all the books. Most of them pretty old, too. French, German, Russian. What are these, Nick? That one's Sanskrit, Betsy. Those there are Hindu. Who lives here, Riley? This Shelby's apartment? No, only. He belongs to Professor Alexander Travers. Travers? Oh, yes. He's a specialist on Hindu literature and philosophy. Yeah, that's right. Human, some of his friends were talking about that Hindu stuff when Shelby was killed. Well, here's the body here. Dead long? Not over an hour, the doc says. And that checks with what the others tell us. We're holding them here for now. Look at the expression on his face. You must have died in terrible agony. No doubt of that. And there's no doubt of it being poison, either. Not with that look on his face. Doc Book said the same thing. But not one of his tests showed him that poison was used. He said it could be most anything. Betsy, a shift. I'll let him here. I'll close you well. I want to see something. Sure, Nick. Here. Practically blue white. He looks almost like a Marvel statue. Yeah. All right, Riley. Where's the rest of the party? Say you're holding them here? Yes, they're in the next room. Uh, there's Professor Travers. This is his apartment, like I said. Good look and tame by the name of Mary Devine and Dr. Paul Starr. He's a college teacher. He didn't know what happened when this shall be passed out, so they fought for an ambulance. The intern took one look at him and called us. Anything else before I talk to them? Uh, yeah. They told the doc that none of them had eaten or dug anything before or after they came here. So the doc figured maybe Shelby was poisoned by the cigarette he smoked. So he sent all the butts and ashes down to the lab for analysis. He sent down the pack of cigarettes, too. Only one pack? Yep. They was all smoking out of the same pack. Any report yet? No, no. I told them to call me here as soon as they finished. All right. So look at your witnesses. Okay, Nick. Right in here. Uh, this here is Nick Carter, folks. Nick, this is Mary Devine here. Devine? Over here is Professor Travers. That's Dr. Starr. Glad to know you, Mr. Carter.  I teach Oriental Literature at the university, Mr. Carter, but I don't see what you're up to. You're well. Dr. Starr, what do you do? I'm abroad in this, Mr. Carter. I'm connected with the university, too, indirectly. See? You, Mr. Vine? I'm just a student at the university. What a very fine student, Mr. Carter. Mr. Vine won a fellowship in Oriental Literature. She's done some excellent work. Any of you know any possible motive for Shelby's death? I know. We've been talking about it, and we're as much in the dark as you are. What do you know about Shelby? Not very much. We have only one common interest, the, the daunter. As a matter of fact, we first met him at a meeting of the Vedanta Society. Shelby feeling all right this afternoon? As far as we know, he said nothing about feeling ill. Now, tell me what happened here this afternoon. As soon as you can recall.  That's right. We were discussing the Vedanta. What is this Vedanta, miss? Professor Travers can probably explain that better than I, Patsy. It's a philosophy of life. It was first put forward 1,500 years ago by Hindu scholars. It has to do with controlling the bodily expression so as to heighten the powers of the mind. Why don't you come to a meeting of the daunter society with us some day? That would explain it better than I could, perhaps. Thanks, maybe I will. Now, what happened here? Well, we were all seated around smoking and chatting when suddenly Shelby started to get faint. A few minutes he passed out. That's all. You were all smoking? Yes. Why? I understand you were all smoking the same brand of cigarette. Who's worthy? They were mine, Mr. Carter. Shelby forgot to bring his pipe and Star was out of the private brand he smokes. I had a full pack, so I used mine. Even Star smoked one. He usually wouldn't look at any cigarette that wasn't his own private mixture. Anything else you can think of? No, I think not. That's all I know. Nothing happened. It was really unusual, except that Mr. Shelby died. All right. Give your names and addresses to Senator Riley. And don't leave town until we tell you can. That's all. Good. All right, Mr. Carter. Well, Nick, what do you make of it? I don't know. No apparent motive, no suspects, unknown poison. Of course, it's too early to know definitely. It couldn't be suicide, could it? No, I don't think so, Fancy. I'm pretty sure it's murder. But I'm also sure the murderer covered his tracks very thoroughly. Yes, we're done it. Yes, I got it. Of course, I'll tell him. Well, what did you expect? Oh, you. Good book. I gather that was Riley you were talking to? You gather, right. He said to be sure and tell you that the laboratory reports absolutely nothing wrong with the cigarette or the butt of the ashes. All normal and natural. Too bad. Sort of hoping that... Well, never mind. There's an answer somewhere, but I'll find it yet. He also said to tell you that Mary Divine was coming in to see you very shortly now. Did he say what for? No, just that she was coming. Oh, I'll get it, Nick. That may be Mr. Vine now. Or a bill collector. Oh, come in, Mr. Vine. Good morning, Mr. Vine. Good morning, Mr. Carter. I don't know that what I have to tell you is of any value, but I'll let you decide that. Fair enough. What is it? Do you know what this is? What a beautiful flower. What is it? In India, they call it Duttura. It has other names, too. Duttura? That's poison. Fatty, into my notes on poison. They're right here, Nick. Here you are. Thanks. Taste is pleasant, given in small doses. It intoxicates strongly. Two grams will prove fatal at once. It can be mixed with food or drink and will kill without leaving a trace. Cannot be isolated unless the chemist knows what he's looking for. That's a nasty poison, isn't it? Yes. In India, mothers feed it to unwanted girl babies. Mr. Vine, where did you get this flower? Well, I... I got it special delivery this morning. Dr. Starr got one, and Professor Travis got one, too, the same way. I see.  Same way he murdered Shelby. It looks that way. Why would he want to kill all of them, Nick? Probably because he's afraid that they'll notice something when Shelby was killed yesterday that would give him away if they told anyone about it. But, uh, I don't know anything, Mr. Carter. Neither do the others. Perhaps you do, Mr. Vine. Don't realize it. It often happens. At any rate, the killer is taking no chances. That's a call rally. Have them tell the lab what to look for. Maybe they can find some traces of it that way. What do you think I'd better do, Mr. Carter? Be very careful of what you eat or drink, with whom you associate for a few days. In the meantime, I'll be busy finding out what I can. Do you have any plans for the immediate future? No, not especially. And you're sure nothing happened to Professor Travis' apartment yesterday that would help us? No, Mr. Carter, not a thing. I better see Starr and Travis. Maybe they can tell us something they overlooked before. Oh, Mr. Carter, they'll both be at the Vedanta Society meeting this morning at 11. Swammy Atulanade is speaking, and he's the favorite lecturer. Why don't we go to the meeting, too? You can talk to them there. Excellent idea, Mr. Vine. Raleigh says he'll take care of notifying the lab. Thanks, Pessie. Mr. Vine and I are going to a meeting of the Vedanta Society. You'd better stay here in case Raleigh does learn anything. I'll call you later. You ready, Mr. Vine? Yes. All right, let's go. Really don't know much about them, Mr. Carter. I see, but perhaps you could tell me this. How close to Shelby were Travers and Starr? Well, Paul Starr barely knew him. As a matter of fact, he met Shelby for the first time yesterday. And Professor Travers? Oh, he and Shelby were pretty chummy. They had a common interest in the Vedanta, and they each have a collection of rare Sanskrit manuscripts, which they will to each other when they die. You mean whoever dies first bequeaths his manuscripts to the others? Yes, that did. How valuable are these manuscripts? Oh, they're priceless, I understand. Now, what about you? Why do you fit into this picture? Well, I... I met them because of my interest in oriental languages and literature. I feel that after the war, with the world made so much smaller by the use of airlines all over the globe, I may be glad to know all I can about the Orient. Oh, yes, of course. How much further is this place where the meeting's being held? Oh, just across the next avenue, in that old brownstone house. I'm sure you'll enjoy the meeting with Swami Atulannada being the lecturer. He's wonderful. Perhaps so. I think I'm going to enjoy talking to Starr and Travers even more. And he's wonderful? Yes, just very interesting. Much more intellectual than I expected. Well, Mary, I see you've managed to convert Mr. Carter. That's best work. Well, I wouldn't call it conversion, Dr. Starr. My main reason for coming here was to talk to you and Professor Travers. Yes. You, uh, you want to talk to me, Carter? I do, just for a few minutes. Well, suppose we have lunch first and then talk later. Oh, good idea. Where shall we go? Let's go to the Bombay Curry Shop, the best place of its kind in town. Excellent. I'm Starr. How about you, Mr. Carter? I could certainly eat something. Well, come on then. The Curry Shop it is. Mr. Carter, this is the main dish. It's curried rice and vegetables. And then over there in the center of the restaurant, on that long table there, those are the special seasonings, like hors d'oeuvres. Can I see? You help yourself to those, whatever you want to go with this main dish. That is what. Oh, Bombay duck, dried soulfish, tamarind, and other spicy things. See, Dr. Starr is getting his mouth. Shall we try some? Oh, by our means. Yeah, come on. Some of these things are really delicious. Here, Professor, how about some of this tamarind? Have you learned to like it yet? I ate tamarind before you were born. Give me a good helping of it, will you, Starr? Yeah, you are. What? Certainly, it's delicious.   Certainly looks appetizing. Now, let's try a little of everything. Oh, that certainly was good. I enjoyed that meal. Yeah, I thought you would. Uh, cigarette Carter? No, thanks. I don't smoke. How about you, Starr? Care for one? No, thanks. I prefer my own special mixture. Dr.  Says any other kind makes him sick. Well, gentlemen, now that we've taken care of the inner man, I'd like to ask you a few questions about Shelby. Sure. Sure, ask away. Well, we don't know who you won't tell you. Why, Professor, I believe you're drunk. Drunk? No, sir. I never touch a drop of liquor. It's too intox... Intox... It's not good for you. Well, you are drunk, Professor. Don't try to kid us. I'm not! I know what's eating you. You're jealous. I'm... I'm the better man than you, and I proved it, didn't I? I... I don't know what you're talking about.  You know all right, all right. But she... she will... Professor Travis, why is he dead? Mr. Carter, that's just the way Shelby died. Well, here's another clue for Nick in his effort to find out who killed Shelby and how. Will he be able to track down the murderer before any more killings can take place? We'll see in just a moment. Do you youngsters track in slush? Do those umbrellas drip puddles in the hall? Does the dog leave muddy paw marks on all your shining floors? Never mind. When you keep your floors protected with beautiful Linux clear-glass varnish, you'll find that it keeps both dirt and water right on the surface, where they're easy to clean away. And that same sturdy protective finish gives sparkling beauty as well to linoleum, floors, and woodwork. 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You say, Nick, that this... that tourer, whatever it is, killed him, huh? Well, obviously, Riley. All the symptoms are present. Although I didn't realize it until after it was all over. No, but, Nick, Lieutenant Riley's chemist has analyzed all the food in the restaurant and nothing out of the way was found. You all ate the same food, didn't you? Yes, Betsy, we did. Then how is it that Professor Travers died and none of the rest of you were even sick? I don't know yet. Well, I think you're nuts, Nick. Now, look, you said Travers and Shelby was going to leave each other their collections of manuscripts. Now, didn't you? That's what Mary said. Well, then, Travers invited Shelby to his apartment and killed him so as to get Shelby's collection. Then, when you started questioning him today, he got scared and committed suicide. It's as plain as any... No, no, no, Riley. That's impossible. The man of Travers' type wouldn't kill himself to escape arrest.  It was an egotist that his conversation proved. Egotists consider suicide a sign of weakness. But if it was murdered, how was it done, Nick? Answer me that. I'm not ready to answer that yet. Well, have you got even one little clue that says it's murder? Just one? Yes, Riley, I have. You have? What is it? Why did Dr. Starr smoke one of Professor Travers' cigarettes when they were at Travers' apartment? When Mary tells me he'd rather go without smoking than to smoke anything but his own particular mixture. Ah, but they all smoked the same cigarettes that day. Nick, only Shelby was killed when the Starr came in.  Yes, but facts are facts. You can't get away from that. Starr did something unusual. Probably was done for a reason. The fact that I don't yet understand the reason doesn't make it any less important. Nicola Carter's office. Is Mr. Carter there, please? This is Mary Devine's mother calling. Oh, surely, just a moment.  Oh, thanks. Hello, Mrs. Devine, what can I do for you? Well, I just want you to know that Mary will be a little late in meeting you. Meeting me? Yes, she expected to be there by 8 o'clock, but she'll be delayed 15 or 20 minutes. Just a minute, Mrs. Devine. She expected to be where? What? At Dr. Starr's apartment as you asked her to. What did I ask her to meet me at Dr. Starr's apartment? What? Why, you phoned an hour ago. I did not. Did you? I did not. Well, well, whoever phoned said he was you and said you or he had something important to tell her and asked her to be at Dr. Starr's apartment by 8 o'clock. I'm glad you called, Mrs. Devine. I'll take care of it right away. Oh, what's wrong, Mr. Carter? Mary isn't in any danger, is she? Not yet, but she might have been if you hadn't called. Oh, Mr. Carter, please don't let anything happen to Mary. Now, don't worry, Mrs. Devine. I'll take care of it. And I'll take care of him, too. I know. I thought you thought I was married. Why do you say that? Mary's mother told me. You were the one who phoned her, weren't you? Clever, aren't you? Yes, I phoned her. I had something I wanted to show her. Well, suppose you showed it to me instead. I don't think you'd be interested. So why are you wrong? I wouldn't be interested in anything about you. For example, while you smoked one of Professor Travers' cigarettes yesterday at his apartment, when you'd usually prefer to go without, rather than smoke anything but your own particular mixture. Why, I just... Did I answer my question for you?  I was glad to butt between you. Probably over that woman Travers mentioned in the curry shop this afternoon.  And when you took one of the cigarettes from the pack Travers had, you substituted the one you prepared. You knew Mary was safe? Of course she didn't smoke. But you made a mistake in your calculation somewhere and Shelby got the poison cigarette instead of Travers, isn't that it?  I've changed my mind. I do have something here I want to show you. This. Hmm. My God. Well, that you're going to show Mary when she got here? No, but I can't take any chance on you. No, just here you are. How do you know it was Dart Torah killed Shelby? I recognize the symptoms. As soon as Mary told me what they were. And they were the same symptoms as Travers showed when he died this afternoon. Died from eating tamarind sprinkled with a Torah powder, right? You seem to be always right, Mr. Carter. Yes, I got to the condiment table first, sprinkled the poison on some of the tamarind. Then I made sure Travers got it. Star, why did you hate it so? Because he took my girl away from me. Took her away from me just because he wanted to prove he could do it. He didn't want her. In fact, after he got her, he refused to marry her. He broke her heart. He killed her. He's an evil, statistical beast. And having got rid of Travers, you felt you had to get rid of Mary, too. Because she might unconsciously betray you some way, right? Quite right, my omniscient detective. Now that you've cleared up all the mystery, I'm afraid I shall have to get rid of you, too. Because I can't have you going around... Mary. Come in. No one gets in here until after I've taken care of you. You're wrong, Star. I left the outside latch off when I came in earlier. Latch off? Come on in, Mary. Why, you! Don't take a gun! I don't like having anyone try to finish me off, Star. I prefer to do the finishing off myself. Just a minute. Come on in, Mary. Are you all right, Ned? What happened? Did you get him? What happened, Mr. Carter? Patsy wouldn't tell me. Dr. Star is in no condition to ask you in, so I will. Come on in, all of you. What's the matter with Dr...  Oh, Riley, you know me better than that. No, he's just temporarily out. Oh, well, let me get the cuffs on him before he comes to. Yeah, that'll hold him. So you were right, Nick. It was Dr. Star. Yes, Patsy, it was. I felt pretty sure of it from the first. Because being a botanist and a specialist in oriental plant life, he'd know all about the Datura plant. But I couldn't figure out any motive for him to want to kill Shelby. And that stopped me. Until Travis was killed. Then I realized that maybe Star didn't intend to kill Shelby at all. It turned out to be the case. But, Mr. Carter, how did you know that it was Dr. Star even when Professor Travis was killed? It was Travis himself who gave me the clue I needed. You remember what he said in the curry shop about having proved himself a better man than Star? Yes, but I thought he was just raving. Oh, no, Mary. He was doing that deliberately. The Vedanta philosophy teaches control of the body to sharpen the mind, doesn't it? Yes, it does, but... I feel sure that when Travis knew he was dying, that's just what he did. For an extraordinary effort, he kept his mind clear enough to accuse Star by giving me Star's motive for killing him. But he did it by insinuation. So it's not to warn Star what he was doing. That's sure a new one on me. Using a Hindu philosophy to accuse your murderer. Yes, Riley, it is a new one. Just shows you how you can get something valuable out of anything you study. Every religion, every system of thought, every philosophy has something worthwhile in it. No matter how peculiar it may seem to us at first. In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will give you a preview of next week's exciting case. Thousands upon thousands of American men are fighting overseas, fighting for home as they remember it. One of the most important things we can do is to keep home as they remember it. And the most satisfactory way to care for your home is with those three modern shortcuts to household loveliness. The three great Linux home brightness. 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Well, Nick, what's your story about this next time? Black widows can. What kind of widows are black widows? The spiders can. Poisonous spiders. But they spin very lovely webs that are used by the army and navy for making precision instruments. The web of black widow spiders is unexcelled for making hairs and sighting devices used by armed forces. Who got into trouble with black widows or the armed forces? Neither can.   Well, what do you call this cheerful little tale? Webs of murder. Oh, the mystery of the black widow spider. Complete details next week. So long. So long, everybody. And so long to both of you, Nick and Patsy. We'll be waiting for your story next week as usual. Next week at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter, Master Detective, entitled Webs of Murder. Or Nick Carter. And the mystery of the black widow spiders. Nick Carter, Master Detective, is featured in Street and Smith magazines. 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