What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards ripping six box MLB mixer 22 tops finest and pristine baseball hobby number two random team style there's a look again at your random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link that's currently in chat it's good luck everybody let's do it all I'm saying Ed is when you pull the Spencer Trollkelson Super Auto I don't think that's gonna be a um uh I think it's gonna be a C anymore so good luck guys let me open that one more time uh we'll do our two boxes pristine first just because they're you know gonna take a year and a half so you need a good Yankee here all right all right Noah or Cameron Cameron slash Noah bye Brad I'm sure we'll be sending each other memes at some point Alan Trammell and Paul DeYoung seal of our everybody thinks LeVar ball is Brad we're never gonna know who LeVar ball was Walker Bueller to 99 that is 20 or to 75 21 out of 75 that's the blue nice color match right there what a twist that would be I know right be a classic Brad move Brad are illegal that's who we think LeVar is still we still think there's a there's a slimmer of hope that LeVar ball is also illegal uh Jared Walsh and Matt Manning refractor rookie from Tigers there you go Ed not a chance that's exactly someone who was LeVar ball would say Wade Boggs for the double raise nice one there do you have proof well we had proof do you want to turn it over do you have proof Carl hmm interesting color me interested color me intrigued uh Marcus Simian refractor and purple Wade Boggs again this time 90 of 99 for the raise and in case kind of long group uh pulse are not numbered for the red socks hmm and you haven't told that you haven't even mentioned it to us what your what this proof is interesting yeah that's true what if Carl is LeVar and he's just uh Ozzie Smith and Salvador Perez no you've never seen the three of them and chat at the same time Carl's the flat thing now now I think it's Carl we'll meet you got a Jack Flaherty auto for the uh Cardinals that is on card there you go uh Rio hey oh but I also haven't seen you LeVar ball and Mark Wahlberg all in the same place at the same time illegal so hmm interesting hmm very interesting on that one got a gold coming up here it's gonna be Alex Kierlov and JD Martinez 11 out of 50 no that's already been established that forest is this phoenix sun's gorilla that's the uh the phoenix sun's so why do the suns have a gorilla for a mask I don't know to be honest but it's pretty funny it should be the uh how do you buy it it should be the sun costume from uh the the basketball move with the whole barrel oh uh with the flint tropics right yeah yeah forget what they should have had they should have had a little bit of a mask I'm pretty funny uh not really Joshua I like I follow it a little bit I'm not the biggest I've never I never really was the biggest fan ever see there you go we've got Paul Goldschmidt popular demand nice pat or Jersey Auto again for the Cardinals there you go Rio hey uh oh picking up two of the autos so far nice goalie hobby bias pure power and pure power auto a dull as Garcia not numbered going out to the Rangers nice one there congrats Texas uh Jared T Jared T with the Rangers see got some more spots coming in here it is now sold out a couple more going in PYTs so we're getting close on uh fully sold out guys your sports book actually paid that out that's good right exactly exactly Joshua Pat Trotto it's going to be a gold slice of a star of Andrew Jones nice one there for the Braves this is who you're talking about earlier this is Andrew Jones okay nice one there Atlanta Michael M that is 47 out of 50 potential future Hall of Famer right there nice Andrew Jones he was a beast dude he's so good it's a good uh good pack right here because we've got a gold pure power pita lanza 50 of 50 nice one for the Mets and a gold Jim tome got gold gold and gold 44 out of 50 for the Phillies semi-pro with the movie what's up semi-pro with the movie oh that's right that's right yep yep yep good call on that one it's starting to be nice we're gonna we're gonna sleep or eat until you figure it out oh i will do that Lorenzo Cain purple Joey Wendell to 99 for the Rays 74 of 99 over shut uh jose can seiko is going to be here on card auto going to the athletics thomas o on the combo spot half of the back brothers uh joe musgrove and purple zander bogerts to 99 for the red sox blue encased one soto 11 out of 75 godo going to the nationals still a national in this obviously good box of esteem so far good two boxes of esteem to be 100 honest with you frank robinson and lars newt bar refractor rookie for the uh cardinals uh golden case franando tatis 49 out of 50 for the padres nice one there slam diego kind of like a secondary color match to some degree with those uh yellowish jerseys rookie refractor hoy park and another tatis set beer yachty there's a ryan mount castle nice one there four out of 50 going to the orioles on the gold grads on that oh second-year mount castle he's actually like yeah he's from around here he went to the same high school as kenzie actually and uh i think i'm in like all all the time not all the time but sometimes that what now we're pulling out oh yeah definitely oh we got a red come on baby big red big red joey gallo red greg deakman three of five going to the cubs nice one there uh bartonell with the cubs there you go buddy nice red rookie you just throw that in the recap and it's pure power akunya and encased shohay otani base for the angels nice one there all right let's do some finest now guys we've got four boxes oh finest it's force made the same mistake last night on that that's pretty funny yeah he's like sure all right let's do some fun it's good luck everybody uh brian buckson refractor nado and soto say siri edwin cabrera there's finest rookies jackson co are black that's the not numbered very or not variation but like refractor uh elliott aramos four of excellence that is seth beer red five of five going to the diamond bags young uti congrats buddy nice seth beer on the color match uh there's a little speck right there let's have donny wipe it off really quick and we can mag it for you man nice one there nice seth beer cornerstone miguel cabrera refractor hunter green yeah true he's a solid rookie though um see how it goes there's a torch rookie it's like we've got a green auto of spencer walk-ins 50 out of 99 going to the orioles baltimore doing fairly well now uh dylan ass with baltimore base and base sky blue mike trout a 300 104 out of 300 nice one there this base stack really quick we're getting a little warpy warped delict warped delict man uh rois lewis refractor rookie for the twins the grom and yachty uh george springer cornerstone stott and thomas steve carleton aura of excellence followed by a purple alex thomas the 250 nice one there for the uh diamond backs not this early we don't have any we don't have any illusions tonight vaughn so you're saved for tonight yeah so we're the tori hunter orange auto for the twins 11 out of 25 nice one there minnesota that's sick uh going to easton k congrats buddy she goes oh thank goodness uh gavin sheets refractor rookie it's gonna be a two-auto pack maybe yeah they got colin welker and valade both have autos in this both have rookie autos uh jeremy panier rookie refractor tray amber g that's going to the yankees on the refractor again the refractor rookie auto nice one there marsh and vedal brujan yeah they've actually got a decently decent checklist decently decently yeah i mean it's not great decently decently yeah uh salvatore pares charlie blackman chuck nasty to 175 for the rockies kenzie gore yeah they actually pulled a uh orange colin welker auto the other day out of a full case of this for carl on youtube and see what they're one of the last teams available on uh yesterday morning actually yesterday morning one of the last teams available for p yt and carl scooped them for 20 bucks and pulled them that orange pretty solid go under franca stan refractor cabrion haze is finest rookies uh hunter green oh nice bobby wed auto out of 19 out of 99 that's nasty thomas so what was that the green green bobby wed nice heck yeah dude joe mower refractor aura of excellence scott blue george springer 300 for the blue jays tatsis and debt mergers nice man congrats on that it's an awesome card eloy amenis cornerstones refractor chuck nasty base and base we have an auto in this one we've got evan castillo going to the padres nice one there congrats padres the grom and the already spent tutorials in super this pack this pack add or purple uh purple rambucunia at a 250 for the braves nice one there stop and thomas refractor raffy devours and the city connect jerseys for the red sox miranda and cabrera uh joey vato on the cornerstones the reds say my love for the triple thread breaks got you got you got you got you got you got you hey mary aura of excellence followed by a refractor tyler o'neill marsh and vedal brujan uh oziel v's refractor the uh braves days and days uh zack short going to the tigers refractor rookie auto there you go ed with the tigers there you go worm j rod rookie it's because you you made your funny joke that oh it's my fourth birthday today ha ha ha ha ha torqueless and rookie madelson cornerstone there's a ronzi contreras rose gold to 75 nice one there for the pirates on the rookie base and base josh low refractor steven quan rookie for the guardians this birthday ever wonder franco finest rookies insert base and base uh for the most part look like each uh each product will have like its own variation or something it's like bowman like bowman and topscrone it's a lot of the same but um they'll have like different parallels sometimes too andrey dawson there's a green lava mark is simian to 99 like there's three greens in this product there's a mini diamond or there's a true green green lava and then there's green mini diamonds the true and the lava are both to 99 and the mini diamonds is to 125 so it's like a little bit different that way but most of the time they're pretty uh they're pretty uh consistent the one of one will be the super fractor it'll be the super fractor the gold discos yeah tim anderson josei gray uh rookie refractor oniel cruz rookie loved to pull like the j-rod super dude he's so sick oh red auto spencer torquelson gal caprera red miggy that's nasty five of five that's three reds in this break dude that's pretty wild actually yeah i mean holy cow congrats ed there you go man that's so sick we'll get that mag for you buddy there we go sweet miggy dude yeah it's a great sig on that cabrera too awesome awesome awesome dude congrats ed so do i still have a c on your teams and there's a blue spencer torquelson it's a 150 there you go that's just gravy now ed there we go buddy he goes i take everything back ice blue torque as well so gross dude like trout refractor you're done pete lanzo i'll bump you to an a plus all right good good good good i respect that i respect that decision show aotani cornerstone you'll accept it until you realize there's a plus plus yeah that's true uh aura of excellence pete lanzo purple bat shatman to 250 for the blue jays kevin smith and elia the peramos bobby witt rookie refractor josei ramirez delitch kershaw let's see what the second auto is going to be in this box a very strong box we got going here for show for show what's going to be a gold uh jeremy peña we've got gold cow roly going to the um mariners 45 out of 50 nice big dumper congrats on that don don l with that nice cow nah that's not it's still a cool card though for sure uh pete lanzo cornerstone and refractor adolis garcia good dumper gold dumper yeah true gold is good yes yes it works both ways or is it worked both ways for sure uh mike trout refractor bobby witt rookie i'm jay melendez there's carly ashramski aura of excellence as well as a cornerstone showhead or an auto and one so there's a card missing in this jeremy peña purple ron lecunia to 250 kevin smith and elia the ramos why why do you think it go missing too what's up so why did go missing which one i think there was a card oh because it was in the last one now yeah josei ramirez refractor there's two two refractors in one pack i can't have i can't have much fun with that so nope nope you can't sorry ooh redemption okay it's been a good four boxes man uh aura of excellence autograph variation of wander franca holy cow going to stephen c congrats buddy nice wander those aura of excellence signatures are sick too man those are really sick congrats on that nice wander first wander i pulled out of this this case is ridiculous this case is cracked dude this case is so cracked i know yeah it's super cracked super cracked get that mag for you there congrats on that against steve steve in well i didn't know this was a case because i don't know what uh no it's just four boxer dude which is kind of wild that's like i always feel like some of the best hits come out of like 10 box Tuesday we have like one one box and it's nuts that seems to be the case pete lanzo refractor there's josei maranda it's a 199 i'll never forget read detmer's william contras there was a 10 box Tuesday once where we had like noir um like one-in-one or noir and like iMac and like one other thing and we pulled a curry auto out of noir we pulled a kate rpa out of one-in-one and then we pulled a luka auto out of like iMac or something and that's 10 box Tuesday it was insane or like a yoke it's there was i think it was like yoke it's laundry tag patch auto game used it too it was like dude like come on what are we doing here refractor josh love strassberg steven kwan hit the kwan hit the kwan hit the kwan uh tolcalson simian face pack there i paper chase then vanish there's walker beuler rose gold jazz chisel in the 75 for the marlins second year chisel you like jazz never watched it was like a famous meme i would have thought you would have known that tim anderson refractor josei gregg all right you you're three oh my god yeah take that got me got him there's jesse winker going to the um reds nice one there congrats reds on the refractor auto sincey josh love your side gregg and shrew blue hosey abray you going to the white socks 150 there you go ed isn't really that's awesome i like that i'm big on that i'm into that ed let's do our uh recap guys we had greg deakman red to five for the cubs jesse winker red zack short tigers uh evan castillo for the padres orange tory hunter 25 twins tray ambergeep the yankees andrew jones braves paul goldschmidt um for the cardinals spencer walkins uh boreals gold cowrally for the mariners hosey konseco uh is adelas garcia rangers jack flaherty cardinals ryan mount castle to 50 gold for the orials we had a red seth beer for the diamond backs on the base rookie five of five we had a wander franco aura of excellence autograph variation for the rays and a nasty five of five red miguel cabrera going to the tigers that will do it for the break guys thanks again for the fill next up we've got uh


This study examines the gendered consequences of participatory interventions specifically in relation to water and sanitation initiatives using a qualitative approach in Mupuapua District, Tanzania. The study finds that participation reinforces gender inequity and reproduces gendered norms due to activity-specific participation, women's passive participation within activities, and limited opportunities for decision-making. However, the study also indicates that participation can provide a platform to increase the status of women, prioritize their needs, and demand a stronger position in decision-making within the household and community. The study recommends that CLTS organizers harness this opportunity to address gender inequalities within the community. This article was authored by Hannah Taff, Alekebi Abdullah, Elizabeth Zemp, and others.


We've covered many strange and unexplained things which can be found within Egypt, home to undoubtedly one of the most perplexing structures on the face of the planet. It is a place which also displays erosion from an as yet untold history, evidence of a far greater antiquity, and obviously its many unexplainable creations. Yet there are still many amazing areas of this once flourishing civilization's home which are yet to be told. One such site which is currently being unraveled is the once lost, submerged city of Heraclean. Also known as Thonus, it was a place long thought to have been mythical, a city of extraordinary wealth mentioned by Herodotus, visited by Helen of Troy and Paris her lover, but according to legend mysteriously buried under the sea. Recent discoveries have in fact confirmed that Heraclean was true, not only that it existed, actually know where it is. Successfully uncovering many of its treasures, archaeologists have been able to produce a picture of what life was like in this city in the era of its existence. Although it was long attested as mythical, upon its amazing discovery, the same academia immediately put forward a dating for its apparent submersion, stating beyond doubt that the city disappeared beneath the Mediterranean waves around 1200 years ago. So far they have discovered the remains of more than 64 ships, lots of gold coins, giant 16 foot statues uncovered and brought to the surface, with hundreds of smaller statues of minor gods being found on the sea floor. Slabs of stone inscribed in ancient Egyptian have also been brought to the surface. Dozens of small limestone sarcophagi were also recently uncovered by divers and are believed to have once contained mummified animals put there to appease the gods. Dr. Damian Robinson, director of the Oxford Center for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford, who is part of the team working on the site, said quote, it is a major city we are excavating. The site has amazing preservation. We are now starting to look at some of the more interesting areas within it to try to understand life there. We are getting a rich picture of things like the trade that was going on there and the nature of the maritime economy in the Egyptian late period. There were things coming in from Greece and the Phoenicians, end quote. Another string to a once amazing civilization's bow, we will keep you posted regarding any perplexing finds. Thanks for watching guys and until next time take care. There are many unexplained ruins which can be found within Egypt. Who built the great pyramids? What was the true identity and purpose for the great sphinx? Countless mysteries still swirl around these enormous structures and no matter how much academic study is pursued within this mystical place, an answer for how and indeed why these monstrous feats were undertaken remains unanswered. The reason for this gap in our understanding we have come to hypothesize is due to a paradigm of understanding, the result of which being that we as a species can only recollect a fraction of our history. A case of global amnesia has beset our kind and unless those with the ability to see through the fog of established and as such heavily researched areas of our history, we may never solve the most important question of all, where do we come from? The reason for our growing staunch belief in a lost history is only further compounded by the subjects we research and indeed the seemingly impossible and as yet unanswered methods that an ancient clearly once highly capable civilization utilized to achieve such remarkable feats of ancient engineering and our next item of choice is of no exception. As mentioned, there exists a heavily researched and indeed unraveled history which can be archaeologically found amongst these truly impressive ruins. However, although we are led to believe that academia has a handle on the ancient lives of those who dwelled within these structures, there are many areas which tell a different story and one must question why. Why is there such gaps of explanation? When we are told that much of what these groups undertook has been researched and understood since the time of Edward Carter, why was the Valley of the Kings lost? Who and indeed how were the ancient pyramids constructed? Many of the things we are now under the presumption have been fully explored are merely rediscoveries completely absent from the ream of writing and hieroglyphics later deciphered in red. The Submerged City of Heraculon, for example. An entire ancient city which not only clearly dates from the time of the pyramids, but was also submerged in an event we are yet to be informed of. The rediscovery of this site in recent times is yet another example that the attitudes of those who are granted access to such sites is misplaced and what we thought we knew about the true creators of said sites is a red herring, a smoke screen, placed down by later surviving and due to these unknown events proven by heavy research far less capable far more primitive a civilization who merely re-inhabited such sites, allowing them to develop to a point where they were not only able to leave their own archeological legacy amongst these ruins, but also to claim such intimidating works as their own. Such a reality, such a claimed illusion, would also have made them a perceived force to be reckoned with, an opportunistic strategy that any critical thinking leader would have leapt at to not only preserve one's power, but to ensure the ongoing existence of their own kind. This posited scenario would also explain why the ancient city of Heraculon, and indeed the Sphinx, the Great Pyramids, the Colossus of Memnod, the unfinished Obelisk and so forth, remained undescribed within what is claimed as the builder's writings, and why such incredible feats were seemingly silently undertaken. Any explanation as to how these sites were built, such as that of Baalbek over a thousand miles away, possessed Aswan granite columns many tons in weight, remains a mystery. For one can claim such works as their own, but an explanation as to how they achieved them would not be something they could provide. Who built the ancient city of Heraculon, indeed the entire plateau of Giza? Why is the city submerged underwater, and what happened to those who constructed such sites? It is a pursuit for answers, which we find highly compelling. Over a hundred years ago, a curious discovery was made in a town now named after this upart, Rockwell within Texas. An ancient wall was unearthed, and although it was clearly of an artificial nature, its possible age predictably made a number of people in the academic world deny its artificial origins in favor of a far less likely scenario involving natural formation. Although magnetic exploration suggested that the Rockwell had been where it lay for over 100,000 years, its origins have been heavily debated ever since its initial discovery. In 1852, farmers in Texas were digging a well when they discovered the wall. Conservative estimates have placed its creation some 100,000 years ago, yet now many believe it to actually be an anti-Diluvian relic left by a now lost civilization some 200 to 400,000 years ago. Dr. John Geisman of the University of Texas, Dallas, tested the rocks as part of a history channel documentary, giving credence to the denial of its artificial origins, suggesting they formed where they were, claiming that they were all magnetized in the same way. This tremendous age has led many to believe in modern paradigm, to deny a man-made origin as this does to cooperate with the Bering Strait theory and currently upheld timelines in regards to evolution. However, there are others in similar fields who have found curious characteristics of the wall, which do indeed suggest artificial origins. Geologist James Shelton, for example, and Harvard's architect John Lindsay, have focused on its unique design features, including architectural elements, archways, lintel portals, and square doorway and window openings, which all suggest not only artificial creation, but functionality for humans, which nature would simply not create. The depth or past height of the wall is also an impressive legacy. The family of T. U. Wade, who moved to the area and initially made the discovery, dug to a depth of 40 feet to try and find the bottom of the wall. This excavation, however, was abandoned without finding the bottom. Years later in 1949, Mr. Sanders of Fort Worth took up the baton and continued excavational exploration of the wall. Using a number of megalithic stones at considerable depth and weighing several tons, after bringing them to the surface, mysterious pictographs were found upon them, further supporting the thesis of artificial origin. In addition, curious metal rings of modern composition were found embedded in rocks, suggesting the presence of lost technology. It would appear that the wall is indeed an antediluvian relic, one possibly submerged and subsequently buried in ancient sediment during the Great Flood. Modern studies have found that the wall is in fact 6 stories tall and 20 miles in length, with a number of individuals now attributing the wall to a lost civilization of giants due to its inexplicable nature. It is good when examples like rock wall appear that test our abilities and cause us to question basic Newtonian mechanistic assumptions that have not been modified for over 150 years. Physics had to abandon this approach at the turn of the century, opting instead for relativity and quantum mechanics in order to further their understanding of matter and the universe, said James Shelton, geologist from New Orleans. It is a relic which we find highly compelling.


Words at war. Middletown, USA, 1985. Listen. It is the sound of marching feet. What does it signify to you, listeners? They're probably soldiers, aren't they? Yeah, what is it? A parade? No, my friends, it is not a parade in the usual sense. These are not soldiers. The rhythmic tread you hear is being made by slaves. Slaves? Did you say slaves? In America? The United States of America? Impossible. Ah, but listeners, this is the year 1985. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on Books and Wartime, presents another Words at War program. Tonight's book, What to Do with Germany, was written by Louis Neiser, American attorney, orator, and writer. Numerous international statesmen have referred to his book as the Bible for Peace. How well this description is merited was revealed today when from Yalta came word of what the big three planned to do with Germany. The seven main points proclaimed by Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin are the identical seven points on which Mr. Neiser has written his book. No program, therefore, could be more timely than the one you are about to hear. Our adaptation is a little imaginative, but as you listen, remember this. It is founded on fact. Yes, listeners? Incredible as it may seem, this is the fact afforded by fancy. This is America, and these are slaves you hear. Worker slaves returning from factory to home, marching in close formation under the hawk's eye, the watchful storm trooper. Say, what's happened? What kind of America is this? Yeah, what's going on? Patience friends, here comes the answer to your questions now. One of the den and clad marches drops from the formation to enter his home. Let's follow him. Dad, are you home? Yes, son, here I am. Oh, I didn't see you sitting there in the dark. Why the blackout? I was just thinking here. It always seems easier in the dark. You can put the light on. There. Gee, you look tired, Dad. What have you been thinking about? What is there to think about? The past, of course. Always the past. Yeah. Well, Sunday again. Here are the food vouchers for the week. And look, Dad, look what I got for my birthday bonus. A voucher for a new pair of shoes. That's nice. And I, I too have a present for my son on his 14th birthday. All week I've been wondering what to give you, and finally I decided it should be the thing I cherish most. Something I've been saving for a long, long time. It's in that little package on the table. Oh, Dad, you didn't have to. Now, open it. Well, thanks, Dad, but I really didn't expect. Why, it's, it's a statue. A little statue. Souvenir of New York. Well, this is swell, Dad, but what is it? Just a cheap little souvenir, son. But I have kept it for many years, and it has been very dear to me. What's that she's holding in her hand? A torch. The torch of liberty. And that, that's the statue of liberty. Of course you don't know what that is because it was destroyed before you were born. Oh, before we were slaves, you mean? Yes. Before Germany ruled the world, it was a symbol of freedom everywhere. You will always keep this little gift of mine, eh? Even if you keep it hidden, keep it especially in your heart. Of course, Dad. Sure I will. The Statue of Liberty. Gosh, I'm always learning something new from you, Dad. The other fellows don't know about any of those things. The things you told me about the Constitution and the way it used to be before the Germans came, and the Presidents and the elections and all that. Remember what you told me about World Wars? I wouldn't even believe me. You know what one of them said? What? If the whole world beat Germany in the first and second World War, how could she get big enough to beat all the other countries in the third one? And what did you tell him? Well, I guess I really didn't know what to say. You didn't tell me about that. How did it happen? I suppose... well, I suppose you might say it happened because the nations of the world had proud hearts and poor memories. It's one of the most tragic stories the world has ever known. Maybe this would be a good time to tell you about it. It's been running through my mind all day. What happened after the First World War? Start there. All right. That ended way back in 1918 with an Allied victory. Germany was crushed completely, hungry, poverty-stricken. But would you believe it?  But how? How could they do it? Why did the Allies let them? Well, that, my son, that's the first chapter of this tragic story. It's a story of pride and deception, of generosity and guile. After the Armistice in 1918, all those who had suffered from Germany's ruthlessness counted her crimes and demanded that she be punished. It was the unanimous report of the Peace Commission that we have found evidences of cruel and barbaric German practices. The murder of wounded soldiers, the massacre of civilians, the poisoning of wells, pillage, torture. These and other violations of international law are among the most striking list of crimes that has ever been drawn up. They are so vouched for that they admit of no doubt. They cry out for justice. Yes, Germany's guilt was well established and the Allies prepared to try the guilty individuals. But the Germans set to work with deceit and lies and threats with great tape and clever intrigue. It was a farce, a comic opera. From a list of 10,000 war criminals, in the end, only four persons were actually convicted. They were tried in a German court and they escaped scot-free. The Peace Treaty also prescribed punishments for the German nation as a whole. The Germans were to pay for the ruin and destruction they had caused. Their army was to be reduced and forbidden to manufacture munitions. For a long time, the world believed that these punishments were actually being carried out. But all the while, this was what was going on inside Germany. Don't worry about it, Herr Kraus. When the dark comes, Germany will be ready. After what the Allies have done to us, they're not allowed to have more than 100,000 soldiers, no munitions, no planes. How? How will Germany be ready? Herr Kraus, you are as blind as a tourist. I ask you, what does your factory make? Lipstick cases, you know that. Exactly. Well, have you no imagination? What is very much like a lipstick container? A cartridge case, yes. And look, what do you do three nights a week and all day Sunday? You mean the glider club meeting? Yes. Do you think we've got so many thousands of glider clubs just for the fun of it? Not here. I've always seen a good point. A little more training and your glider pilot becomes an excellent fighter pilot. Well, there you are. And what about the hiking clubs? The rifle team, the gyms, you see? Everyone is getting ready. Every German is training day by day. Of course.   Just a little excited, like the Allies. So you see, after the First World War, the Germans were not punished and they were not disarmed. And when Datog came again for the German people, they were very well prepared indeed. That was 20 years later, in 1939, World War II. Again, Germany stood against the nations of the world and again she broke every rule of international law. But this time it was even more horrible than the first. As you order, Colonel, the entire population of the village is lined up here. Good. These French docks. They will learn that we mean business. Very well, Lieutenant. Give the order. You will? Fire! American firetrucks, Colonel. 14 of them. We can no longer afford to take prisoners, Lieutenant. Interrogate these Americans. After that, have them all shot! But, Dad, didn't the Allies let them get away with it? Well, they said they wouldn't. The leaders of the United Nations, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin, issued the declaration. The German officers and men and members of the Nazi party who have been responsible for the above atrocities, massacres and executions will be punished according to the laws of the countries in which their aboundable deeds were done. Most assuredly, the Allied powers will pursue them to the ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers. And while their guilt was being proclaimed throughout the world, while defeat grew nearer and nearer, the German government again laid its plan. Commander, the prisoner hunt's guy stays here. All right, send him in. Send him in. Hey, Hitler. Hey, Hitler. Sit down, prisoner, geister. Thank you, Commander. Is the time up? I'm happy to tell you that it is. You have been here six months to the day. Ah, at last. I must congratulate you on the administration of your concentration camp, Commander. It seems more like six years since I was interned. Geister, believe me when I say I realize how courageous you have been. You have done your duty to the Fuhrer as well as any soldier in battle. Thank you, perhaps better. By committing yourself to this concentration camp, you have established yourself as a safe German. Not only on our records, but in the eyes of real anti-Nazis and eventually in the eyes of the United Nations. You and the others like you will be invaluable to the Fatherland when we are defeated. But Germany's destiny will be in your hands. How did it end, Dad? Did the German trick work? Easy, son, easy. First I want to tell you about the hidden money. You see, in World War II, the Germans had stolen billions and billions of dollars from occupied Europe. In the preparation for the defeat, all of this fabulous plunder had to be safeguarded. Ah, good morning, Senor Valentin. Draft or deposit? Good morning, Senor. Another deposit. Here. Two hundred thousand pesos? Oh, excuse me, Senor. Perfectly all right. It is a sizable amount. For God's sake, it certainly is. I think your company is doing very nicely, no? Well, it's no secret, Senor. We are doing very well indeed. Ah, Valentin. Back from the bank already? See, here is the deposit, Mr. Michel. Thank you, Valentin. One hundred forty-five million pesos. That has a very nice sound, eh? If I might make a suggestion, I think the deposits are too big. The clerk in the bank was completely overwhelmed. So... I do not like that. Argentina is overrun with secret agents. The clerk indulges in some harmless conversation and the next thing, he's being pumped by an enemy spy. Exactly. And if our enemies find out how much we are banking here... Please, please, please. Do not even mention it. After all the care we have taken here in Argentina, it would be monstrous if we should fail our leader now. I'll hit him. As Germany's defeat to Nero, she spurred her plans for survival. American intelligence officers discovered secret orders signed by the German general staff. Every German officer has the duty of saving himself. It is absolutely necessary to save the officer's corps for the reconstruction of the fatherland. Twice Germany has been rebuilt for the world's struggle, and each time we have come nearer to success. Officers, prepare yourselves for the third attempt with fresh energy, and then our victory will be assured. You see, son, even with defeat staring them in the face, the Germans planned their third aggression against the world. But wait a minute, Dad. The Allies knew about these plans. How could Germany fool the world again if they knew? When you hear these facts of history, I can see why the democratic nations must seem foolish to you, son. It seems so simple, doesn't it? But do you know even as Germany was beginning to crumble the second time, people were still arguing about what to do with it? After all, you can't hold a German people responsible. They didn't all want Hitler. Well, they voted for him, didn't they? Yeah, but they didn't have any choice. Don't you realize that? Well then, how do you know who can be trusted in Germany? Who would you trust? I'll tell you who, the German educators, professors, teachers. You know, you can always trust them. The German educators? What nonsense. Four-fifths of them have stayed at their jobs under the Nazis and never made the slightest protest against them. I'll tell you who you can really rely on, the German underground. You can't argue that they're not against the Nazis. Say, if that's an idea, sure, the German underground. We certainly ought to be able to trust them. Yes, that would be something. If you could find the German underground in novels and stories, yes, you could find them there. The resistance movements in every other country had found ways to get in touch with the outside world. Only the alleged German underground was silent and invisible, known only as a myth. There was no German underground. These endless discussions. The truth of the matter was simple and terrible, but very few were able to see it. This was the truth. World conquest by rape and murder had been bred in the bone of the German people for too many years. Before Hitler I, there was the Kaiser.  The throats of men and women, children and the aged must be cut. Not a tree nor a house left standing. With such methods of terror, the war will be finished before two months. While if I use humanitarian methods, it may prolong it for years. Before the Kaiser there was Bismarck and Frederick the Great before him, all imbued with Germany's manifest destiny to rule the world, all contributors to the religion of war and mass murder. In the writings of their philosophers, the cult of hate was also revealed. Heinrich von Treister was one of these. His ideas made him a national hero. Germany must make it a duty to employ enemy traitors in the enemy state. Every good German is a potential spy. Treaties? Treaties must be denounced by Germany whenever they become unprofitable to her. International law? International law does not exist. The nations of the world cannot be reformed. They can only be overthrown. The philosophy of war was fed to by the words of Frederick Nietzsche. In 1887 he wrote, When the instincts of a society make it give up war and conquest, it is decadent. It is right for democracy and the rule of shopkeepers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of Germany's greatest men of letters, bowed his head and wrote, I have often felt bitter pang at the thought of the German people, so estimable as individuals, so wretched in the hole. That was the most profound statement of them all. If the world had understood its meaning, I would not be telling you this story now. What Goethe said? Yes, the German people, so estimable as individuals and so wretched in the hole. Pure wisdom.  Could you trust the good Germans? Were there good Germans? How many? What difference did it make? It didn't matter how many good Germans remained, even if they did exist, they were ineffectual. They had never stopped the German nation from pursuing its heritage, world conquest by brutality and insane barbarism. Deutschland, Oberalice, rule the world, rule the world. Good and bad Germans. It was their national theme song and they loved it. Twice then, my son, these singers of hate and destruction exploded and ravaged the world. Twice they were beaten into submission to ethnic nations. And twice, too, the criminals escaped the punishment due them. After all that, the Germans weren't punished? After all, you just told me? Didn't anyone speak out? Only a few, my son.  But no one listened. They were men with the vision of history in their hearts, men who had found the courage to be heard. In the name of the makers of peace. Profit from the difficult lesson we have already learned. Only a hard peace will bring a peaceful world. What do you want to do? Make slaves of the Germans? Is that what you mean? No, what we advise is just and effective punishment. Punishment that will prevent Germany from making war on the world ever again. Punishment that will change the hearts and the minds of the Germans, too. Change their concept of German and empire. And just how do you expect to do that? By making the peace terms realistic and specific. By planning everything carefully. This time we must avoid the mistakes we made in the First World War so that not a single guilty German escapes punishment. In fact, that's the way the armistice should begin, by declaring them guilty. But who? Who are the guilty ones? All those whose crimes are known who are responsible for the atrocities. Everyone who participated in the Nazi barbarism. The Nazi party leaders. Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Goebbels, Streicher and the other mass murderers. They must be killed or imprisoned. Every German officer above the rank of colonel. Every member of the Reichstag killed or imprisoned. The leaders of the Gestapo, the elite guard, present front, killed or imprisoned. What to do with Germany? These experts divide punishments for the German nation, as well as for individuals. This is what the military expert proposes. The backbone of Prussian militarism, the German officer's core must be completely obliterated. Its survival from the First World War made the second possible. And in addition to this, self must be dissolved. There can be no doubt that Germany has forfeited her right to sovereignty. Therefore she must be completely occupied by the forces of the United Nations. That's a great idea. But what about the cost? Who's going to pay for it? You know who.  They'll be paying for it. It's just not practical. On the contrary, this occupation can be carried out by a token force of 300,000 soldiers from the modest air force. All the United Nations will contribute to it. And the cost will leave me, it'll be small indeed compared to the continued peace which will come from it. And what about the Germans meanwhile?  Yes. But first they must learn that others are entitled to at least a freckle. What to do with Germany after World War II? The expert in economic affairs also had some specific proposals. If Germany is to be really disarmed, we must go further than the military. She must be disarmed industrially too. All plants engaged in producing war materials must be demolished. All stockpiles of strategic materials such as metal, oil and rubber must be removed. All industries which made possible the reconstruction of the war machine, metals, chemicals, machine tools, these industries must be completely removed from the German management. Oh come on now. Let's give credit where it's due. One thing you will have to admit is German efficiency. Look at all their scientific discoveries. Yes. The Germans are efficient and scientific. They can fly in the air like birds. They can swim under the sea like fish. But there's one thing they have never learned to do. Walk the earth like men. No. German industry must be controlled. They cannot be trusted. What to do with Germany? A great burden fell on the legal expert. The legal concepts which plague the peacemakers at Versailles can be wiped out with one stroke. The criminal state may no more demand its freedom than the individual criminal. Germany has already been judged guilty by the nations of the world. For these crimes, her statehood has been destroyed. There will be no peace treaty for her to break since treaties can only be made between sovereign states. Germany must be put on probation like any criminal. And only after she earns her statehood should a treaty be made. But won't the Germans resent it? Such harsh treatment I mean. I suppose if a germ, a microbe could speak, he would call Dr. Pasteur the greatest murder The Germans have been the scavengers and the scourge of civilization. Does it matter what they think? What to do with Germany after World War II? For the long pull, the most hopeful contribution to the plan was that of the educator. Now one of the worst of the German crimes has been the mental enslavement of its own youth. Look at these slogans pinned up in Nazi school rooms. The final goal is to be kept in mind in the education of a girl is that she is one day to become the mother of Germans. The ten commandments are the deposit of the lowest human instincts. Well, I'll be. And here is a literal report of a typical history lesson in a Nazi school room. Fritz, why has God given us the fuel? To save us. From what? From the rest of the world. Why must we despise Christ? Because he was weak and gentle. Why else? Because he was a Jew. To wipe out this sacrilege and this pagan idiocy Germany must be mentally disarmed too. Her educational system scrapped and replaced by democratic teachings and liberal culture. Her educational system should be entrusted to an international university. And when the Germans prove themselves fit to live with, then and only then should they be accepted into the family of nations. So you see, my son, this was the plan of the small voices. Logical, fearless, merciful, correct historically and legally. But alas, these voices were never heeded. That's how Germany came to beat the world in World War 3. I can't believe it, Dad. If only the nations of the world could dictate to Germany now. I guess they wouldn't have to stop talking about it, would they? No, son, but that opportunity is long gone and may never return. Buried in the ruins of civilization. Buried with the calendar leaves of 1945 and 1946.  Here, here in our perpetual night, we shall never see again. We look for light, but behold, darkness. For brightness, but we walk in gloom. Yea, as those that have no eyes do we grope. We are in the dark places, like the dead. What? What's that, Dad? That's from the Bible, my son. But of course, you don't know what that is and you will never know.  Come back now, ladies and gentlemen. Come back to 1945. Our glimpse into the future wasn't very comforting, was it? You may even have found it shocking. Well, then remember this. The nightmare we have shown you need never happen. America and the world need never be enslaved if we follow the advice offered in our fantasy. Remember the lesson. Remove the adder's fangs. Tonight on Words at War, we've brought you What to Do with Germany by Louis Neisser, a particularly timely book considering the announcement that came out of Yalta today. The radio dramatization was by Edward Jurist. Julian Noah was heard as the father and Peter Fernandez was his son. The music was arranged and played by William Meadier and the production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. Next week, Words at War will present the radio dramatization of Battle Report by Lieutenant Welburn Kelly. This series of programs is brought to you in cooperation with the Council on Books and Wartime by the National Broadcasting Company and the independent radio stations associated with the NBC network. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


What if I were to tell you that Nintendo is finally after all of these years about to drop a discount line of games? Wait a second. I feel like this feels familiar. I've been rocking Nintendo for over 30 years of my life and I- you know what? I think they call these Nintendo selects. Now look, nothing has been officially announced by Nintendo at this point, but fans have started to notice that a bunch of major Nintendo owned and published games for Nintendo Switch no longer have physical copies available. And we're talking games that even came out last year from Nintendo as it looks like the physical copies are even being delisted at several retailers. What is going on? This is the company that doesn't discount their games just had a holiday season where some of these games were even available. What is happening? Well, let's dive into this post over on Reset Era where we have all of the details necessary. So as you can see here, we've got Nintendo doing this thing. And look, it says Paper Mario the Origami King North America physical release is out of print now. Perhaps Nintendo doesn't want multiple Paper Mario titles. So you can get a copy at eBay, 50 bucks, etc. But yes, this is one of the games that's being delisted. Now delisted doesn't mean it's not available at your local retailers. It just means that there are some online retailers that no longer are carrying copies. And yes, your local retailer once they run out won't be able to get more copies. Strolling down the same thing happened to Pikmin 3 Deluxe. You can see unavailable at Amazon, unavailable at Best Buy, removed from the system entirely at GameStop, and also removed from the system at Target. Yeah, this is very much a delisting of physical copies. Next up, how about Metroid Dread? Removed from the system at Target, removed from the system at GameStop, unavailable at Walmart, unavailable at Amazon. Now it might show available for like local, if like your local warehouse for Amazon or your local Walmart has copies of course. But yes, it appears that the physical copies of Metroid Dread are no longer around. Man, that was a game with a year game not too long ago. But that's not it. Because, well, this is just three of them. A shadow link over on a Discord server for recent era, notice some other things and this is what got posted. So look, we already know about Paper Mario the Origami King, but what about Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is no longer being listed on Amazon or is listed as unavailable? Same thing with Link's Awakening 2019, that remaster. What about Kirby Star Allies, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, and get this one. This just released last year, like a year ago. To date, Fire Emblem Engage, Yoshi's Crafted World, WarioWare, Get It Together, Nintendo Switch Sports, and here's a big one, Super Mario Odyssey. They literally just did digital bundles with this last holiday season and now the physical copies are being delisted and no longer available. Splatoon 2, which makes a lot of sense with Splatoon 3 out to be completely fair. Super Mario Maker 2 and Mario Striker's Battle League. Guys, that is a ton of games being delisted physically. Now, obviously they're all still available right on the Nintendo Switch eShop after MSRP prices unless Nintendo is having to run a sale right now, but what is very clear is one thing. One thing's in common with all of these games. If this is the only reason they ever get delisted, one thing's in common. None of them are selling very well from a physical standpoint today. Nintendo bases delisting games and stop printing copies of games when there's just no demand. If retailers aren't ordering more copies from Nintendo, then Nintendo sees that as why are we going to continue to make copies of this thing that retailers don't want to get? Remember, Nintendo gets their money for the games not when you go to the store and buy it, but when the store purchases the copy to put on their shelves. So if stores aren't putting in purchase orders for copies, there's no reason for Nintendo to keep making them. Now, obviously there are ways Nintendo could combat this. They could do what the rest of the industry does and just lower the prices of the games and then that could create extra demand, then you get extra orders, you make less money per copy, but hey, you go ahead and sell more physical copies, but instead, Nintendo just chooses to delist instead. Now, Nintendo in the past has a history of this discount line of games called Nintendo Selects and it always starts by delisting physical copies of the current ones and bringing them back with a slightly updated box art, the Nintendo Selects logo, and generally selling them for $19.99. Now again, this hasn't been announced and it's possible it could be announced at the next Nintendo Direct, but Nintendo always seemingly, not always, but seemingly does this most of the time right at the end of the generation to try to generate some extra sales for what they'll call the best sellers of the platform, but you'll note some games aren't delisted. Breath of the Wild? Still selling plenty of physical copies to warrant still being out there at full MSRP. What about, I don't know, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe?  Yeah, guess what? Still selling enough physical copies to warrant still being on the shelf at MSRP. So I do want to note that while all these games are delisted, it doesn't mean they're all going to come back in a Nintendo Selects line. Now, if I had to make a guess, what ones are going to make it in? Look, you're going to talk about the biggest of the bigs, right? You might see Pikmin 3 Deluxe come back in some form, maybe even they add in the OnePlus 2 HD and make it a triple pack for $19.99. I can see Nintendo trying to maybe sucker that one in there, but you know your Mario Odyssey, right? That could come back in a Nintendo Select. Your Link's Awakening, your Metroid Dread could come back in a Nintendo Select line. Maybe Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I'm going to maybe on that one, but it is possible. I could see them taking Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Fire Emblem Engage, putting them together in a combo pack for $19.99. Maybe that one even goes $29.99 if they want to say, hey, Engage isn't that old of a game, so we should charge a little bit more premium for that one. I can see that happening in Nintendo Switch Sports is an obvious one I can see coming back at a $19.99 price point. Same with Super Mario Maker 2. Some of these other ones though, like I'm not so sure we're going to see them come back like Kirby Star Allies. Not sure on that one. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. It would be the third time around trying to sell that game. I sort of think they might let that one go. Paper Mario maybe comes back. Not 100% sold on that. So I don't, again, you know, WarioWare get it together. I don't think that one's going to come back in a Nintendo Select. So again, I don't think all of these games being delisted means they're all going to be options for Nintendo Selects because they're only going to want to put the games they think would actually sell some copies at that $20 price point. And again, this assumes that Nintendo does Nintendo Selects and then charges $20 like they've done in the past and we're talking USD. So it is fascinating though, looking at the fact that Nintendo took these down in the first place and sort of did it silently. There was no announcement. This wasn't like the limited release they did for Super Mario 3D All-Stars where they gave us a finite date. Hey, we're no longer making physical copies as of this date. A lot of us think they actually were still making physical copies a little bit past that date. Or because of FOMO, retailers ordered so many of those physical copies that, you know, they just had some for years to sit on shelves. You can't get it anymore. But at least Nintendo technically warned us. They didn't warn us. And that's the one thing is some people saw this news and I saw a little panic going on. People were like, wait a second, wait a second. I bought the digital copy of Metroid Drebber. I was always planning to eventually pick up the physical copy and just keep a sealed copy around. I was always planning to go get another copy of Mario Odyssey. I was always planning to go get another copy of Link's Awakening. And yeah, this is what happens, guys. When people stop buying the physical games, they're going to just stop printing them. So I want to note a few things. One, there's no guarantee we're going to get Nintendo Selects. Let's just be clear about that. This is not an announcement by Nintendo. This is an assumption because this is very similar to what Nintendo did with Wii U, Wii, 3DS, et cetera, where they created that Nintendo Select line on games that basically stop selling, right? They stop selling massive discount rerelease at the $20 price point. So we think Nintendo might attempt a similar strategy here, but we don't know. And even then it's not going to be all of these games. It might only be six of them, right? Just grab a six pack of games. I don't know what Nintendo's going to do. It would be a weird though that, like, think about this for a moment. The best selling 3D Mario game of all time is Super Mario Odyssey. It is still the current generation. We do not technically have the next generation system launched. And we can't buy physical copies anymore unless your local retailer happens to have one. That's crazy to me, right? That's insane to me that that's a thing right now. But another thing is, and this is the other twist on this, is that when Nintendo starts delisting a, I mean, they're doing this all recently. This just happened. This wasn't happening in 2023. You can still get physical copies of all these games in 2023. Why is it happening now in 2024? Well, the other reason obviously that Nintendo does all this stuff towards the end of a generation is they are preparing to launch a next generation system. And when that's happening, they got to start creating more shelf space. There's going to be new games coming in for the new system. They got to make sure there's shelf space at these retailers for those physical copies of the brand new thing. So that's also another reason you'll see oftentimes a lot of delisting like this at the end of a generation. Nintendo's just making sure we have physical shelf space for everything coming on the next generation system. So there is that as well. So I'm just saying, like, it's sort of a double whammy. This is just another sign from Nintendo that the new system is definitely coming this year. And also a possible sign that we might get a limited run Nintendo selects line for cheap. And that would actually might even go over well heading into the next holiday season. The other theory, of course, and people think is some of these best sellers are going to come back and deluxe 4k versions on switch shoe.  Like, this is Nintendo after all.  Anyways, guys, let me know you think about this down in the comments below. Are you disappointed by this? Are you excited at the prospect of potentially getting a Nintendo selects line again? What other games do you think Nintendo might eventually discontinue as the year goes on? Because I think this is just the beginning. I don't think this list of games we have currently is the end. I think by summer, we can see this list maybe even double in size where Nintendo is really delisting and stop making a ton of physical copies for games. I wouldn't be surprised if later this year physical copies of Breath of the Wild are made anymore or physical copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, etc. etc. So I don't think this is the end. I think it's going to continue throughout the year and that's just what happens as you enter a new generation. Thank you guys so much for being here and I will catch you guys in the next video. Oh, by the way, before we get out, we have a podcast tonight. Hope you guys tune in. We have eight guests. Well, technically, there's me. So then there's seven guests, although one's also Eric. So I guess six guests within Andres Restart and Jake are sort of regular. So then four guests, whatever. The point is we have eight people on tonight's podcast. It's our largest cast of characters ever. We're going to have a huge Pokemon topic. We're going to be talking about the future of Pokemon. What's happening this year? What's going to happen in future years? The three different pillars and directions Pokemon's going in. That's going to be a big topic tonight. We're also going to be diving into another thing, Nintendo working with some partner companies, who we want them to work with and what franchises we want to see maybe come back in some way or be handled by these, you know, different companies. So I'm really excited about that. All I'm going to do right now is kind of step away from the mic, let you guys enjoy your day. We'll see you tonight on the Nintendo Prime podcast. Later everyone.


Because if we're being honest, I'd rather my son say, hey dad, I want to be a professional bum and live off the income for the rest of my life. I mean technically, it's the same thing. Unless I get that wrong, but that's besides the point. Discord moderators, let's call them DMs for short. DMs are the types of kids that grow up getting wedges, toilet bucks, stuffed in lockers back in middle school, and how they swore to take their revenge out on everyone and anyone. No joke, I was once IRL friends with a DM when we were walking down the street one day to the store, and I noticed he kept violently stomping every 7 to 10 seconds. And I asked him, why do you walk like that? Why do you stop every few seconds? And he looks me dead in the eyes and says, I'm not just stomping for no reason. I'm crushing every single buggy and insect I can find. I've already warned you, everyone shall no pay. Everyone will pay for what they've done to me. Along with childhood trauma that's translated itself into uncontrollable rage, DMs have three superpowers. Number one is the power to know if an e-girl or booby streamer joins a discord server. It doesn't matter if they're 300 miles away from a nearby computer, streamed it in the Sahara Desert about to pass out from heat exhaustion, something just clicks in the back of their brain.  My e-girl senses are tingling. I'm coming for you, my sweet. Number two, the power to know someone self-promoting in the server. Well, whatever you do, if you got to YouTube channel link to your discord profile and someone in the server tries to get you to start talking about it, just pretend like you didn't even hear what they just said. It's not real.  And lastly, number three, the power to know if anyone says some spooky words. You know what words I'm talking about? The spooky n-word, the spooky f-word.  You'll get canceled. You'll get canceled by the internet canceled.   That's cute. That's real cute. But this is by far a DM's most powerful skill. It allows them to know down to the exact number how many people in the world are saying the n-word at any given second. And it makes up 90% of all the power vested in them. But for them to get this skill, they literally have to have no social life whatsoever. I know it may not seem like it, but you can bet that there's some discord mod online watching the chat, sipping his midnight coffee, waiting to not only ban someone for saying the spooky n-word, but also just ban people saying words that sound like the n-word. Did you just tell the discord audience that you went to visit your grandpa in Nicaragua? Bam! Did you just tell the discord audience about the new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie? Bam! Did you just try to tell the discord audience about the new vocabulary word niggardly that's relating in English class? Yes, my friend. You are banned. Because to them, every word that starts with the letter n is someone trying to make a loophole of the n-word. And it might seem like the victims are the ones on the receiving end of this. But no, discord moderators are tormented souls. This isn't something that they can control. Once a DM has granted this ability, it takes over their mind, soul, and body. And n-word hunting takes priority over everything in their life.  And thanks dad, we love you too. So son, how are you doing at school? Dad? You okay? I think he's choking. Hold on, I'll try the Heimlich. It's not working. I'm not strong enough. Son, maybe you can help. You've always had your dad strength. Okay mom, I'll try to- Son? What are you doing? I said help your dad. Why are you hesitating? Why are you walking back to your room?  Sorry dad, sorry mom. I can't help right now. Someone just said the n-word in the discord server. I gotta go. Hello, hello, this is Necaps. Just here to tell you to click the notification bell. Yes, yes. All right, bye, bye, bye, bye.


Live from New York, it's theCUBE, covering Inforum 2016, brought to you by Inforum. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and George Gilbert. Welcome back to New York City, everybody. This is theCUBE, and we're here live at Javits Center. Jim O'Olerton is here, he's the IT director of the Elzendorf Valley Municipal Water District from California. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. So how do you like New York in July? Love New York. Anytime of the year. Anytime of the year, it's the one city you can come to, and yeah, good, bad, hot, doesn't matter. Hot, cold. It's just good to be here. Yep, it's always good to be here. So, tell us about your role at the Municipal Water District and what you guys do, what your mission is. It's not a profit. Right, yeah, we are a public utility governed by a five member publicly elected board. We provide water and wastewater services to consumers, a population of about 170,000 folks. And how big is the organization? We're 170 employees on average, yeah. So we have a mid-sized organization. Yeah, we're a mid-sized public utility. So what's happening with your run IT? What's happening with your IT? What's it like to paint a picture for us? So we're transitioning to many cloud solutions and the current one is we're migrating our on-premise Infor loss and system to the Infor cloud suite financials and supply management procurement. So we are an early adopter working with the early adopter team at Infor migrating to the new cloud-based products. So, I mean it's kind of a dumb question but I'm going to ask anyway, why? But actually, take us through the business case. Or was there a business case? It had to be, right? Yeah, there was a business case. No profit. We have some internal design changes on our general ledger design and we really couldn't accomplish that with the current solution that we have with the Infor loss and system. Part of the cloud suite financials product is this ability to leverage what they call user defined dimensions in your general ledger code block which is a big deal for us loss and customers. And so we had an organizational goal to redesign our GL which helped, was aligned with our goal of participating in the early adopter program with Infor for their cloud suite financials because we could do what we wanted to do with the new system. And Infor welcomed us as an early adopter because of our organizational goal of just not doing a straight migration of our setup. Instead, we're taking advantage of the great capabilities in the new ERP system. So the big part of the business case was related to that innovation and the value that it drives for the organization. How do you quantify that? Is it cost saved, obviously? It's going to be cost savings, staff, labor, primarily in labor, overtime, frustration, end user frustration, side systems, shadow systems that we'll be able to accomplish all of our reporting needs, all our different reporting requirements, being a public agency out of the box. That's how we envision it. So we've always known that IT is too labor intensive. But labor means jobs. And so when people say, oh, business case involved, IT labor savings, people get scared. Yeah, they do. However, since the mobile, cloud, social revolution, people, I think, are realizing, well, maybe there's other things I could do with that labor. I could shift that value up the stack to use that overused euphemism. Is that what you're doing? Yep, yeah, there's no staff affected by our cloud strategy at the utility. Staff is going to focus on automation and innovation with the tools that we have in our core business and leave the server administration and patching and all that stuff to the cloud ops team within four. So we're really embracing. It makes sense. It really makes sense. What are those higher level tasks and do they require more close collaboration with the business units? Sort of the ultimate end consumers of this? Or is there even a chance to put up solutions for the outside consumer, the sort of citizen consumer? Yeah, I mean, all the systems from InforWeUts are primarily for our staff. So we don't have any public-facing systems that are delivered by Infor, but we will focus staff resources in IT on instead of maintaining the system, but utilizing it and extending it, innovating it and automating additional processes for our organization. Helping simplifying people's jobs, ultimately. Are there, if you're out of the business of sort of making the trains run on time, can you do things? Or is it a priority to now make data from the operational systems more consumable? Yep, yep. Yeah, with the CloudSuite financials, the whole system really has a consumer-type experience that somebody, it would be familiar to somebody who has used a mobile app and they really shrink-wrapped, I still term the BI delivery with their data cubes and their dimensions. So, traditionally, you would have a real hardcore report writer, and we really don't need that functionality anymore because Infor is delivering to the finish line probably 90% of what we're going to need from a reporting standpoint. So you don't have to go through this sort of chasm of the app ends here and some business analysts and data engineers have to go in here to create visualization. Yep, yep, okay. Yeah, so since we're taking advantage of all the new functionality, we're going to have delivered dashboards that our finance and procurement staff can use out of the box instead of spending hundreds of hours designing dashboards, writing reports, and there's a lot of labor involved in those things. So, if I asked you why Infor, obviously you're a loss in customers, how do you why? We've invested quite a bit of money in loss in it. Your processes are sort of tied to that, but what's your commentary on Infor? Certainly two years ago, I don't know if you're at New Orleans, we were there, we heard the story. Interesting that they don't have a conference every year like most, so two years, now you're starting to see all the things they talked about two years ago hit. Of course, a lot of loss in customers at that event, this event. And at the time, the sentiment was, wow, we're kind of moving slowly, we're seeing. So what's the report card on how Infor has done in the last couple years? They've done it, they pulled it off, especially on the Global Ledger and the Procurement Suite. It's really a next generation ERP system for a loss in customer, your loss has been around forever, and they're very loyal, I've seen. But it really is, I mean, it's, what I've said to our end users is that the Cloud Suite financials is new, but familiar to a loss in user. They will see, it's a totally consumer friendly screen, but they will recognize it, because the developers just have kept it in mind this subliminal transition to the new system, so they are familiar with the new stuff. And what makes that quasi seamless? Is it the terminology? Is it just really well thought out? It's well thought out by the Infor folks that are doing the development. They've really captured all the best parts of loss and functionality, and really rolled them all into single screens with multiple tabs, instead of having to jump to 20 different forms in the old mainframe style system. It's really, it really brought it all together. And then leveraging the landmark stack has infinite capabilities for customization for a customer. It's really quite amazing for what we've seen so far. And we have our hands on it, so we're using it. I mean, it's, we have our Cloud instances, and we're using them on a daily basis. And a lot of mobile use cases, or not so much? There will be mobile use cases with BI, for sure. So that's a separate mobile app? Yeah, the Infor BI app, which connects to the Infor BI dashboards. And combined with sort of a responsive view of the world? Yeah, where are we? Where are we with water sales? How's our operating budget? What's our capital projects? Lots of, lots of questions we have that we really have to dig deep in customer reports currently to answer. You know, cause George and I, we're talking with George, we're just talking about how, a lot of times it's a bolt on feel or a toggle.  And, but I really like the new look and feel, but I can't do half the stuff that I want to do. Right, right. Yeah, it really seems like a game changer for us. From what we've seen so far, like I said, we're about three and a half months into the project, but it's very promising. And our end users have really embraced it quite a bit. You said something interesting, which was that, you know, you're not a very large organization, so that most of the built-in processes work pretty well for you. But you also mentioned the landmark development tool, which is, makes it very easy for loss and developers and customer developers to actually customize the system. This is kind of a long question, but, you know, in the keynote, it was pointed out that you don't really customize cloud-based systems, you only configure them. Yeah, you configure them, right. But you said something different. You said we could customize power phrasing to our heart's contempt. Yeah. Can you expand on that? Well, I would say it's really configuring. It's not, it's no coding, it's configuring. It's usually their tool called the configuration console, which they're referring to at the keynote. It's really configuring the system how we want it. But it's very powerful. Give us some examples of that power. Adding a custom field with a drop-down, I mean, real basic things that you can do, that you couldn't do in lossing without a whole lot of coding and stuff. You can just add, you can customize the screens, you can move stuff around, you can rename them, and it's really, really simple. And it doesn't do any overlays, it's the real deal when you make the changes to the screen. You can always roll back to them as well. So, okay, so for instance, if you have a business process and you need to add something, it's easy to add, easy to name, it's something that will resonate. Right. And that's not considered, obviously, a custom modification, it's not a functional mod. Yeah, in the lossing world, that would be a custom modification where it's now a configuration within the landmark system, which is the power of the modern tech stack that they use in the cloud suite financials, which is common on modern tech stack type systems. And again, a lot of, we're all familiar with this from Google or any Salesforce users are going through the lightning process now. It's toggling between old and new. And a lot of times new looks good, doesn't have the functionality, you know, at least it's cut out a lot of the functionality, or sometimes it has some really cool functionality that's foreign to people. It sounds like Infor has done a good job of both giving new functionality and accommodating. Yeah, they've captured a lot of the stuff that people are used to that are familiar with and they've used very similar tech terminology and naming conventions and menu designs. It's modern, but familiar. It's new, but familiar to the team. And they bought this hook and loop, they bought this design firm and think, okay, that's pretty cool and pointed it internally. You're saying as a customer, you're seeing the results of that. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Very intuitive. And you're also, we talked off camera using Mingle as a collaboration. How are you using that? How does it relate to what you're doing with SharePoint? So we're part of our project as the Mingle Enterprise system and we plan on using it for collaboration and news feeds and what people are working on. It's pretty comprehensive. You can follow what anybody's doing and it's very social, basically a social media platform for your internal business folks that work in the system. We're definitely exploring it. So what kind of cool project are you working on? Any cool tech thing you're looking at? We're updating our utility billing system as well and we're deploying smart meters to all of our customers in the next two years. Oh, is that all? Advanced metering, basically hourly radio read, so our customers can't notify the leaks and any issues at their proper date right away. We saw in for IoT at the keynotes this morning. Yeah. I mean, it's in that general umbrella. Yeah. Smart meters. The utility billing, I would assume has to roll out in conjunction with that because you're going to be measuring it far more often. Yep. And utility billing is usually a core core, probably about the most mission-critical app that a utility. How do you see that tying back into the newly flexible, customizable info back end? Yeah, we've already visualized our touch points between our new updated utility billing system and the Cloud Suite system. So basically the two touch points are the general ledger and the accounts payable for customer refunds and we've already got that mapped out in the new system of what we're going to do and it's going to work flawlessly. And I feel pretty confident about that, but yeah, it's going to work great. How do you see that? Wait, wait, wait. You've got to knock wood when you say that. You've got to knock wood. The IoT functionality, what's that going to enable customers to do that they couldn't do before? I mean, beyond just sort of fine grain pricing and how does that flow back? That flows back. That's also a cloud solution that we're using as well, another cloud solution and the customers will be notified of unusual water use over five hours, 24 hours. And usually we'll identify leaks and leaks, especially big leaks, translate to big bills. So our customers definitely want to know when they have something like that because leaks aren't always visible and we had a customer last week that had an $18,000 water bill because they had a leak from a sprinkler that ran for 30 days and he was in the military and it went down a little culverse. You couldn't even see it. So if we had our AMI system in place, he would have got a notification right away saying, hey, you're exceeding your monthly use in a day. So that would really help our customers as well. So we're trying to do other ways to really support our customers with online systems, with advanced metering technologies, online bill pay, paperless bills, as well as all the internal business stuff we do with Infor and our other enterprise systems. Easy place, lots of fun. How about Infor, Jim? I mean, it's a little early in the show, but what do you think so far? Anything you learned or things that you hope to learn? Yeah, I got several things I'm signed up for and I'm doing a presentation about our CloudSuite project tonight and I'm looking forward to that. But yeah, just here to learn, talk and meet with folks and learn about what's going on. There's a lot of, it's a really important time for especially the loss in customers with this transition to the CloudSuite financials is a big deal, so I'm happy to be a part of it and love learning about it. Excellent, well, we're flowing contents like the water flows in Southern California and throughout the world. Jim, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE and sharing your thoughts with us. I enjoyed it. All right, keep right there, everybody. We'll be back to New York City right after this brief report.


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