The switch effect has done it again. Yes folks, we will be talking about Paper Mario, the origami king today, talking about this MPD sales charts, and we'll probably see an update worldwide here soon when Nintendo does their own little financial update here and I believe 2 or 3 months whenever their next one is due. But before we get into that, we're sure to enter our giveaway for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition. Yes, we are giving away a copy of that for the Switch or PlayStation for your choice. We will pick a winner at the end of the month to enter all you need to do is comment down below, like the video, subscribe to the channel, and hit that bell icon. Alright, beyond that, don't forget, we're on our road to 50,000 subscribers and if we can hit 50k before the month of November of 2020, I will give away a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series X, or a Nintendo Switch that month. Okay, let's get going folks here. We need to talk about this because the MPD released today. I'm sure you guys might have seen it by now, if you haven't. What you need to know is that Paper Mario debuted at number 3. I mean, there's more than that to go over. If you want to know the full top 20 here, I guess I'll go over it. We got Ghost of Shishima at number 1, not a surprise there. We know that's the fastest selling PlayStation 4 game to date, not the best selling but fastest selling. We have Call of Duty Modern Warfare at number 2, Paper Mario at number 3, Last of Us Part 2 at number 4, Animal Crossing New Horizons at number 5, Ring Fit Adventure in at number 6, Mortal Kombat 11 at 7, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 8, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at 9, Sword Art Online at number 10, we got Minecraft PlayStation 4 at number 11, Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild at 12, Rainbow Six Siege at number 13, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe at number 14, MLB The Show at number 15, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order at 16, Need for Speed Heat at 17, Marvel's Spider-Man at 18, Assassin's Creed Odyssey at 19, and then Rounding it out as Call of Duty Black Ops 3 at number 20. So it's important to know obviously that none of the eShop sales are coming into this, so all of the Nintendo games that you see in this list are strictly physical. If you include digital, a lot of the games would be a lot higher. Animal Crossing might be in the top 3 instead of down at number 5. Who knows where Paper Mario would be if it included the digital sales. Now, also for those that are curious, obviously this means we got a sales update for the Nintendo Switch itself, and yeah, no surprise, it was the best selling system for the month of July. It's the best selling system for the entire year in the United States, so yeah, that's all you need to really know there. No different. Nothing exciting or big here, like, oh, best selling month of Nintendo system in forever now? Not really. Tops of sales that did last year, it's topping all systems right now. Switch is just dominating this year. There isn't much to talk about there, but there is a little bit to talk about with Paper Mario, because Paper Mario, the origami king, according to MPD, has set a new launch month sales record for a Paper Mario title. Now, remember, this is physical games only, with physical launch month dollar sales, more than doubling those of Paper Mario the thousand year door. That's right. One of the most beloved games in Nintendo's back catalog. The game everyone points to them wanting Paper Mario to be this way. That was like the best selling Paper Mario game ever, was thousand year door, until the origami king landed and just destroyed those launch sales. So Paper Mario is likely well on its way worldwide, to be honest, to be the best selling Paper Mario game of all time. I don't think this is a surprise, but there is some people excited about it and some people disappointed. And I think it becomes from the two different Paper Mario camps. You have the Paper Mario camp that really wants it to go back to its more RPG-like roots with thousand year door and all that. And then you have those people that really like what Paper Mario is today, where they seem to change the combat system every game. They seem to do different things with every game and it gets away from the RPGs. It feels like there's a little bit less originality with some things, but more originality and other things. It's definitely a very different Paper Mario today versus what I play growing up as a kid. And so I feel like there's a divide, there's a love-hate relationship where there's a huge fan base that loves Paper Mario the way it is now and a huge fan base that really dislikes Paper Mario the way it is. So when you see sales like this, obviously there's going to be some people out there that aren't very happy about these sales. It is important to note though that the switch effect is in place. And to me, the switch effect is basically anything Nintendo releases is boosted in sales on Switch in comparison to any other platform they've ever released in the market. And this is because of a pattern of behavior that has happened with all of their games that have released, whether or not they're the best game in the series or not. Obviously Breath of the Wild has more than doubled the best-selling Zelda game of all time in terms of sales. Super Mario Odyssey is way the hell up there.  I'm like, yeah, it sold almost 10 million. Odyssey is at almost 20, like almost double the sales of Galaxy One. So it's kind of crazy when you think about the switch effect there. Two-Sell Better. Arms, you know, for fighting games of a hard time selling a million copies. Arms had no problem getting over two million. You've seen this with even Mario Tennis Aces being the best-selling Mario Tennis game of all time. You have Super Mario Party. Pretty much the list goes on and on of every game Nintendo releases. I think except for the Yoshi's Crafted World, I think was one of the exceptions that didn't do it. But I think every other IP Nintendo throws out on the platform, including Animal Crossing New Horizons, it becomes the best-selling game in that franchise ever. So there is definitely a switch effect in a place where, for some reason, I'm not sure what it is about the switch, but the consumer base that bought Switch seems to be a little different from Nintendo's traditional consumer base because they are just picking up games every time they come out from Nintendo. Whatever Nintendo throws out there, people pick it up, including Ring Fit Adventure. So whatever Nintendo decides to throw out there just sells at record levels. So I think that plays a role in this, but I also think we have to remember, if you look at the history of Paper Mario sales, it's consistently sold decently well.  The Metroid is considered like a tentpole IP for Nintendo, but it doesn't sell well. Paper Mario is traditionally sold just as well, if not better than Metroid. So that's something to take into consideration when we talk about these sales, that Paper Mario the Origami King, as much as I've heard, I've heard way more complaints about this game on the internet than I've heard praise. Yet, I sit here in August of 2020 and I'm telling you that the consumer base for Paper Mario, the Origami King, and I feel like the consumer base for a lot of video games are not vocal on the internet. And it feels weird because we are in an era where the internet is a bigger deal than maybe it's ever been, especially during this pandemic. People have more free time and are online a lot. But I'm sitting here and I'm like, you know, when I look at all the sales of the games, we think about all the people complaining, the thousands of comments, the hundreds of thousands we read across, whether it's Twitter or Reddit or whatever, but the games are selling in the millions. Do you realize all the conversations combined for say, even Breath of the Wild might not even top how many units of Breath of the Wild is sold. So I feel like we need to put the internet reaction in its proper place. It's important and it matters. But in the end, sales are king and sales determine if Nintendo is doing the right thing with their IPs. Clearly they're doing the right thing with Paper Mario, the Origami King, not just because it has a boost from being on Switch, but because it seems to be well received in general. In fact, I'm going to look it up right now because I actually didn't plan to talk about this during it. I want to go to Metacritic. I know some people are not fans of Metacritic and that's okay. I understand that. But even on Metacritic, you're seeing a score of 79, which I don't think is that bad. I mean, if we just look at the Paper Mario series and the whole time Metacritic, you know, Color Splash was a 76. So it's widely considered better than that. You know, Sticker Star was a 75. It's widely considered better than that. It's better than Paper Jam. So really the only games that it's trailing are what? Paper Mario, the first one, Super Paper Mario on Wii and then Thousand-Year Door. That's it. Those are the only three Paper Mario games that are critically considered better than this one. With the original Paper Mario just being top tier 93 plus must play kind of game. So I think that we need to cut them some slack. Well, obviously, you know, when you look at even just the Metacritic ratings, you're like, oh, they need to go back to that, that more RPG style like they did. In the end, sales are king. And they're selling a shitload of Paper Mario. So I honestly, I know sales shouldn't be like the main determining factor, but that's how the people speak. We speak with our wallets. And Paper Mario, the origami king is clearly by fans of Nintendo or fans of Paper Mario, fans in general, well received. So kudos to Nintendo for that. Good for them. Obviously, if you guys are wondering about anything else on the NPD, because we're focusing on Paper Mario here. Ghost of Shishima is Sucker Punch's fastest selling release ever. And it's the fifth best selling debut for a game in 2020 so far. Also, there's some notes on Last of Us Part Two. Like-to-date dollar sales of Last of Us Part Two are another third highest for a Sony published game just behind Marvel's Spider-Man and then the 2018 God of War. But yeah, hardware spending declined 2% in July compared to last year. But year-to-date spending has increased by 22% to 1.8 billion on Nintendo Switch, which was obviously the best selling hardware platform. And it is the only one to not show decline year every year, which isn't surprising there. Switch is dominating. Switch has benefited from the pandemic. Switch has benefited in general from being a really, really awesome system while we wait for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X to finish their battle and actually release this holiday. Can we get a price, guys? Like, I mean, you have Digital Foundry throwing out there, but I think they're going to be $600 systems. Maybe they will be, but I don't know. We'll see what happens. Anyways, folks, let me know what you think about this all down in the comments below. Do you like Paper Mario the Origami King? Again, I feel like the general internet reaction to Paper Mario has been negative, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's warranted. So let me know what you think down in the comments below. 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Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing jaspys 10 box get buckets basketball mixer random teams We're at the end of the break. We're gonna be randomizing a Russell Westbrook rookie patch auto and a Jason Tatum gold To the customers in the break spot one on the randomizer will end up winning the Russell Westbrook spot two will end up winning The Golden Jason Tatum. Hopefully all of you guys will get something nice in the break itself So let's go ahead and start it off Here is the list of customers Whether you want to spot in this or you bought a spot straight up. Thank you very much Just a white Miller started out the purchasing on this Down to a couple spots one in chronicles 94 Collin Sullivan with last spot mojo there spots one in Chronicles 95 and then up here spots one in chronicles 92 as well So thank you guys all and here's the list of teams from the Washington Wizards back up to the Atlanta Hawks Dice roll new dice roll here to see how many times we're gonna randomize each list and pair them together three and a six nine times so one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time from Joey down to Deborah And obviously we'll do a new dice roll at the end for the randomizer giving away the two cards and nine times again on the teams one two three four five six seven eight and Ninth and final time from the Sacramento Kings down to the New Orleans Pelicans And guys remember there are multiple years in this break So be wary of that when you guys go ahead and to talk about trades But might as well start the trade window now go ahead and read off how everybody has Joseph White Miller with the Kings Ryan Patole ski with the Hawks Joseph White Miller with the Nets Ryan Patole ski with the Knicks Peter Clark with the Warriors Travis Melbert with the Celtics Drew Kerr with the Clippers Nick Galvin with the Nuggets Corey Shalik with the Grizzlies Colin Sullivan with the Miami Heat Christopher Slaughter with the Phoenix Suns Sean Atterbury with the Wizards Andrew Webb with the Pistons Brenton Young with the Hornets Joseph White Miller with the Jazz Matt the Spard with the Thunder Amaris Kunicorn with the Blazers Joseph White Miller with the Bulls Drew Kerr with the Rockets Travis Melbert with the Lakers Colin Sullivan with the Spurs David Ross with the Pacers Colin Sullivan with the Mavericks Adam Levy with the Timberwolves Kyle Koch with the Magic Joseph White Miller with the Bucks Kevin Ribas with the 76ers Jason Frachter with the Cavaliers Derek Valensic with the Raptors and Deborah Close with the Pelicans So let's go ahead and sort this by teams. Like I said trade window is open Joey is asking Travis. What do you want for the Lakers? Nick I'm not saying I'm not sure if you're stating that you have the nuggets or that the nuggets are for trade, but Trade windows open everybody While you guys are talking about trades, I'm gonna go ahead and this is the oldest box in here 12 13 So I'm going to go ahead and start just opening this up Give you guys a little bit of time. Uh, phoenix suns are for trade. Chris is saying So I'm assuming we've got the Lakers kobe pack here too Travis is saying he thinks you might want to hold on to the Lakers So I'm gonna move These are our giveaways guys. You can see the Russell Westbrook RPA auto on the jersey part itself Numbered out of 25 and the Jason Tatum gold. I'm gonna put both of these over here So remember to give them away at the end Uh, Joey's offerings kings for the suns Dallas Mavericks Miami Heat San Antonio Spurs And that is it Joey you have the Utah Jazz Sacramento Kings Milwaukee Bucks And Chicago Bulls and the Brooklyn Nets So Joey, are you saying yes to that trade? Colin, what's that 95670? I don't know what that means. So Colin you're trading out of the Miami Heat Into the Sacramento Kings Oh, there you go Okay, so Joey you're gonna trade out of the Kings and into the heat Confirmed by both of you. Oh, there you go That makes sense then Cool. If that's it then we'll do it. Okay, so We've got the Sacramento Kings the Miami Heat both getting traded real quick Last call on trades guys while I process this and trade window closed Joey Weymiller one last time jazz any takers if not print and rip bites for the jazz. So trade window closed There you go. So here's our first box. This is 1213 contenders and finalist guys Trade mojo to both of you guys for the heat and the kings. Good luck No veteran commons will ship. So like the stadious young Corey Brewer, those will not ship inserts like this Clyde Drexler will ship all inserts all rookies will ship guys Only exceptions to this is LeBron James second year Luca Donchich and Jason Tatum pretty much Sorry, Kobe Bryant and there's our auto And it's Malik Waynes for the Philadelphia 76ers Going to Kevin Rebus and there's LeBron James for the Miami Heat Joseph Weymiller Jared Cunningham auto rookie auto for the Dallas Mavericks Colin Sullivan last spot mojo Kevin Durant Is that rookie remembrance? Yeah, but uh that would go to the Oklahoma City Thunder Matthew Disparg Bernard James for the Dallas Mavericks rookie auto Going to Colin Sullivan. We do have a redemption. I'm assuming it's probably expired at this point, but We'll take a look and see hopefully they can uh go ahead and fill that or give you points in return redemption substantial signatures card 88 a Alex English Should be Denver Nuggets Um, I will double check that though I'll put myself a little reminder, but if it is Denver Nuggets who I pretty sure Alex English best known for playing for or only played for uh, that would go to nick galvin with the spot he won in Chronicles 95 so Denver question mark and I'll double check that Um, obviously based on this what we do is we go off a checklist If there is no checklist guys, then we go off of Their career and team they played for the longest if they are no longer playing obviously Alex English No longer playing by a long shot, so He would be in the second category Yeah, no, I know I I'm sure he played for the Denver the longest, but I just have to check and see if uh, if they have a checklist If they do and for some reason the checklist has him on another team Then we would obviously have to go off of that so It should all be Kobe cards Which obviously would all go to the Los Angeles Lakers And Travis Melbert. Uh, it is card 88 nick and guys, we'll do a auto recap at the end So for anybody watching the video right now. There is a recap Nuggets on the checklist. Okay, cool. Like I said, I'll verify that but I was almost positive It's the nuggets somebody that's when anybody thinks about it's English. I think that's all they think about Uh, 1516 prism blaster here guys 1516 rookies is that the Is jamal marie 1617? We were looking for 1516 or is jamal marie this year Tony parker orange wave Tim duncan orange wave Paul misap green Porzingis isn't this one too. I didn't see any of the big rookies ubre obviously And none of them showed up in that one So now we're going into 1718 optic We've got a blaster. We've got a mega box and we've got a retail box. So I think we all know who we're looking for in this Jason Tatum donovan michael bam out of bio ojie on a newbie dieren fox who else John collins Lonzo ball cow kuzma Overall a really good rookie class obviously So lots of chance on this one So we've got three different products to be able to pull all these rich of these, uh, rookies guys Those mega boxes have been hitting like crazy LeBron james court kings hollow for the cleveland cavaliers jason fracter lori marketing Totally forgot about him chicago bulls joseph wyemiller Not bad when uh, one of the rookies you forget about is uh, lori marketing because it's such a deep class mega box time This has the exclusive red or yellow and red parallel for the rated rookies We've done a couple of five box breaks of these guys They're insane empty Nothing left Nothing up the sleeves I did joey I did Well, you've got you've got the jazz again, and you have the heat this time. So More mitchell more bam out of bio would be good And then after this we've got the retail box too. So Steph curry silver or hollow for the golden state warriors peter clark kuzma For the lakers travis mulberg lori marketing red and yellow chicago bulls joseph wyemiller lebron james court kings for the calves jason fracter markel folds another one I think might have a big year next to your guys with the magic philadelphia 76ers kevin rebus donovan mitchell rated rookie utah jazz joseph wyemiller and markel folds rated rookie hollow philadelphia 76ers kevin rebus Another markel folds rated rookie. That's the base philadelphia 76ers kevin rebus jared allen for the brooklyn nets joseph wyemiller london ball ellie lakers travis mulberg And now 1718 retail optic It's crazy when this first came out markel folds being the number one pick That would have been an awesome mega box You get the red and yellow folds you get the optic hollow folds And get the optic base But he looked good, uh towards the end of the year kind of Obviously he looks like it sounds like he's gotten over the yips Which is good Sometimes maybe you just need to change the scenery column. We still got a full box going for 1718 your kings Deer and fox chances here And then next we have an 1819 box too, so You get the mavericks you still got chances for luka rookies in that too. Yeah, I'm gonna say I wouldn't give up There you go prim. That's true If you wait till the end to see if he's in there One how are you gonna know if he's already in it, you know? Impossible to know So after this we've got 1819 court kings One pack just wants to be mine I call him I know Hey People go on streets every once in a while and get lucky, you know It happens But you you hear their name, but the times when they're in breaks and you don't hear their name You don't really pay attention. You don't see You know, but they're not getting it From somebody who was on the other side as a customer quite a bit It happens both ways More often than not it actually is the other way Honestly Rob, that's that's how it happens more often than not man Carl anthony towns court kings hollow Ike on a bogu rated rookie hollow uh, indianapolis pacers That is david ross court kings blake griffin hollow rookie kings josh jackson hollow That's numbered 45 out of 85 for the phoenix sons Chris lauder jonathan isaac hollow Orlando magic Kyle kotch Last stack. Let's see some of those big rated rookies were looking for og on the newbie Hollow for the toronto raptors derrick valentzik lori markinen again chicago bulls joseph weymiller John collins for the atlanta hawks ryan fatalski yannis for the milwaukee bucks joseph weymiller No other rated rookies in there, man I thought that would have been the choice for us to get more than any of them I guess that those mega boxes actually Hit pretty decently 1819 court kings trey young luka donchich So lana hawks trey young opportunities ryan fatalski uh dallas mavericks luka donchich colin sullivan opportunities there jailen brunson acetate dallas mavericks colin sullivan Jalen brunson the same exact acetate for the dallas mavericks colin sullivan on rookies lani walker for the spurs level two uh colin sullivan charles barkley for the sixers and kevin revas No other rookies in there So neither one of them Well, let's hope all the big rookies come out in this then So we've got chronicles illusions both Blasters and then we've got a hanger of don rus and a hanger of mosaic. So let's go illusions first We'll save chronicles for the last just because we know that that's loaded with the rookies So that's kind of like a layup Let's end on a high note like that, right of course call Nate mcmillan auto trophy collection For the seattle sonics, which goes to the oklahoma city sundar Matthew disbarred You've got a living legends tim duncan acetate for the san antonio spurs And colin sullivan everybody's allowed a couple of those colin's no big deal romeo lankford for the boston celtics and travis melbert Speaking of celtics grant williams looked really good today guys, especially defensively Yanis onto tucumpo milwaukey bucks joseph weymiller jordan pool red to 199 for the golden state warriors and peter clark And jaumarine For the memphis grizzlies and cori sheilock Okay, let's go don rus hanger Then mosaic hanger and then the chronicles blaster And no matter how good or bad this break is gone so far guys just remember we have two giveaways this time not just one card given away two so I can either save your break or It can be the cherry on top nick saying bull bull or porter jr. Or both Nick does have the nuggets and the cavaliers or no It's not cavaliers Nick, I only show you having the denver nuggets. Are you rooting for somebody else to get the kevin porter juniors for the cavaliers luka donchich second year dallas mavericks Collins olivan finally shows up for you One season too late on the boxes tyler harrow green miami heat joseph weymiller cameron johnson phoenix sons chris slaughter seiko denboya Detroit pistons andrew web. I was telling joe earlier. Tell me what you guys think He was saying obviously off season basketball prices something a little drop. They obviously do always do And you know all those kind of unheralded rookies you can kind of pick up and scoop up for cheap I was saying that the minnesota timber wolves And like jerrick colver or jaylin. Noel, especially jaylin. Noel Would be two players that you should scoop up because especially for cheap They have the number one overall pick all eyes are going to be on them next year with whoever they take the number one so Who are you guys trying to pick up in the off season? Or when you're buying the dip mosaic No, not even close to other years colin, but Just like anything out of sight out of mind if once the sport is over basketball will dip it always does The breaks will sit a little bit longer than they normally do because basketball is not in season, you know but No, I think the I think the valley will be a lot higher than it has been in past years yannis milwaukee bucks joseph y miller devin booker green phoenix sons chris slaughter nothing crazy in the orange reactive LeBron james mvps cleveland cavaliers jason fracter It's all waiting for us in chronicles sake it with brandon clark. I think that's a really smart idea carlos because one Brandon clark actually Probably, I mean he wasn't obviously in the finals the finalists for rookie of the year But I think he was probably the first player out Of the voting for brent or for rookie of the year There was a lot of like writers and stuff that actually had Brandon clark in his third over zion just because of obviously the amount of time that zion missed but I mean Brandon clark and jaw together for however however long It's an awesome pairing seiku 19 years old Literally he'll he'll turn 20 barely after next year Brandon clark was teammates with rui hachimura over at kanzaga, too I'm a big fan of matisse thible I like him a lot My biggest one is uh rui hachimura though See column there you go travis Love rj barrett. Love rj barrett. I just want to see something from that team I think they got to make a change Obviously they just gave Steve nash the head coaching job right or did they give that it was at brooklyn Who hired nash tyler harrow miami heat joseph y miller jerry culver timber wolves adam levy tyler harrow again for the heat and joseph y miller he's brooklyn okay tyler harrow again joey luka donchich dallas collin sullivan rj barrett new york nyx ryan fatalski luka donchich dallas collin sullivan cameron johnson phoenix suns chris slaughter coby white chicago bulls joey y miller cameron johnson again phoenix suns chris slaughter Brandon clark like we were just talking about My apologies to eric pascal Everything's okay Tyler harrow phoenix is that red or just The base very nice though Miami heat again joey y miller Terence man not a bad one either carlos John marant playbook memphis grizzlies cori shaleck John marant again cori shaleck memphis grizzlies cameron johnson phoenix suns chris slaughter Colby white chicago bulls joseph y miller yannis anza tucumpo milwaukee bucks joseph y miller lebron james los angeles lakers travis melberg coby white pink With a little messed up corner there straight out of the pack unfortunately chicago bulls joseph y miller rj barrett again new york nyx ryan fatalski zion williamson rookies and stars uh new orleans pelletons debor close debor that same corner that was messed up on that uh on that um Who was it? Colby white is kind of dinged on that one too. Just a heads up There you go I like turns man a lot too Guys, that's the break now. Let's give away these two cards That carlos. I was saying uh, I think karson karson edwards still could be really good there I mean honestly as a point guard. He was incredible at Purdue He's quick. He knows how to run the floor. He knows how to like kind of set everything up I think he could be good for them Obviously so far in the playoffs Especially today grant williams stood out He had played really good defense even though he like couple baskets scored up against him He played them very very hard But yeah, I I agree. I mean for the Celtics There's got to be one of them that takes off whether it's karson edwards traymont waters grant williams romeo langford You name it The good thing for them is they've got enough young people That they can keep it, you know Pay some really big time names and keep the rest of them around it As long as they're performing I think traymont was doing really good in the g league from what I remember Or especially earlier in the season. I think he was kind of the standout for them I think he was getting all the attention But I don't know if it was because he was playing exceptionally or they were he was playing better than they all expected In to be playing because he wasn't as highly regarded as the rest of them I think everybody's excited for football calling Last night's game was even though it wasn't the most exciting. I mean It was football. It's what we all want, right Cool. Let's do the randomizer guys Randomizing remember It's first spot on the list russell westbrook rookie patch auto From 2008 upper deck exquisite auto is graded nine PSA dna certified on the card not graded 18 out of 25 and jason tatum to the 1920 puny prism far out gold bgs nine Numbered 10 out of 10 So good luck to everybody So here's the original list of names from joey down to David Ross and spot that was won in chronicles 95 See last spot mojo there calling dice roll here for the randomizer everybody six and a one seven times one two three four five six and Seventh and final time for some reason it's not giving me the option of covering it up So there's obviously not going to be any slow roll, but After this, thank you to three through 30. I appreciate everything But congratulations to Joseph y miller On the russell westbrook rookie patch auto and nick galvin On the jason tatum far out gold You can see on here seven times joseph nick congratulations guys Here are Your hits joey Going to you man Nick Congratulations, man and guys just a little recap a couple autos from the 2012 13 contenders box malik wanes jared cunningham bernard james and then uh alex english which i'm believe is going to the denver nuggets I will double check that on the site as well but We did have some very nice stuff in here as far as rookies Lots of stuff here guys And even the stuff that's not in this recap inserts rookies all that will ship to you Just like normal only thing that doesn't is going to be the veteran base Nate mcmillan auto We had a bunch of 1718 boxes. Unfortunately, we did not Have the uh Tatums and we hit one Mitchell, but we didn't hit any tatums unfortunately in that There you go guys And guys that was the jaspy's 10 box get buckets basketball mixer From jaspy's case breaks.com. I'm sean jaspy's case breaks.com. We'll see you next time


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Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today We're an episode 53 if there was a 101 death walk through last episode if you haven't checked it out already We finished off dragon spire. We finished basic what we basically we finished off the first arc of The game so technically you could say we're halfway through today. We're starting into a new world Seeing you is outmatched by my dread of the curse upon grizzlehime Your presence humbles me I am only the second greatest hero in grizzlehime when you visit my world Times are grim though.  Well, not really a bit different. We're basically yeah doing things. I am pleased you heard my call As Bjorn iron claws told you the evil ravens of the Coven are trying to bring the everwinter upon grizzlehime Once this dreadful cold comes it will reap our world in ice and the freeze will spread throughout the spiral Though the Coven met their defeat at your hands They crept from their hidey holes and struck again There is much to tell you but still more that I do not know your old friend Raffin lore speaker in Raven's car wishes to speak with you. He knows more about this grim threat Okay, you're certain don't us where we're going yet. Um, basically probably by now you've worked out where we're going But for those of you who haven't we're just gonna wait until we know Until we find out Yeah, technically, it's another world.  I call it more of a extension area to grizzlehime But lots of other people call it another world, so I mean Yeah, it's really up for debate. I would probably you know, I'm probably gonna call it another world To be honest, what did I had better news for you wizard the Coven has returned after the same goal the everwinter You have heard of the Titans of Storm fire and ice. Yes, they were the first beings Before the spiral was made the ice Titan sleeps deep beneath grizzlehime Sent into a centuries-long slumber by Bartleby himself The Coven would rouse the ice Titan from that eternal rest when he rises his fury will be cold and fierce The runes tell me that the Coven is at work in hrundle fjord a port in the part of grizzlehime called Winter tusk you must use your wits your spells and your courage to defeat the Coven once more Only you can do this deed go and speak to valgaard golden blade once more and tell him that Hrundle fjord is where you must go. Yep. So there you go. We're going to winter tusk Great. We place lots of XP very hard. They can crit So yeah, basically we're getting into the part of the game where people can actually crit now Am I worried yeah, because we're only level 47 Will we be fine? Yeah, I am going to be doing a whole bunch of side quests like all of the side quests Sometime very soon Um, maybe not all of them, but a lot of the side quests very soon Yeah, I can see from your grim demeanor that Raffin has told you much So Raffin lore speaker tells you that the Coven is up to their evil in Rondle fjord This angers and frightens me I have not heard from my subjects in Rondle fjord in some time and I worry that they have met with trouble Baldur gold pause is at the dock of north guard He can take you to the part of winter tusk called Rondle fjord Go now and speak to Baldur and go to Rondle fjord with the king's favor at your side like a trusted sword Okay Let us go and speak to bold war where it all started man Baldur who brought us to Griswine for the first time. I remember that the good old days See ya Let's do that Also, we can get the Zeke quest for the Syria, which I believe is yep, but it's open. Let's do that then The troggs So if you are indeed going to Rondle fjord, there's something you can do for old Zeke It's a quiet little place, but it's getting cold too cold for little critters to survive I hear tell of a pack of troggs in Rondle fjord They're wild things that need me to look in on them. Could you check up on them? No need to ride them up. Just see how they're doing Okay 5000 XP for that. That's very good. Hello there young wizard. How can I help you you wish to journey to Rondle fjord? It is a simple task step over to my ship and we will set sail Hello, let's go then just instantly take me. That's cool Here it is Rondle fjord part of winter tusk if you wish to return to north guard or return here from north guard My ship is at your service Okay, um Do we have a no, it's just yeah, but it wanted a part of grizzle home So, yeah, basically there's We're in hundred four Fjord we have australand Nordrallund, sudrallund, Vestrallund, Nastrond. So basically that's Basically means it's an What's the language Swedish? I think but Nord is north and I suppose London's land Eastland Westland Southland and Nastrond. I don't actually know what that means, but yeah, where are we going? We are talking to boulder That is correct. Yes, it is So yeah, this is a cool place kind of a big Long has it been since I visited Rondle fjord, but it is clear that something is terribly wrong There is an unseasonable chill in the air and I have never seen a ship with such ice upon it Stride over to that nearby ship if you will and see what ails it and the crew who's examined the long ship This ice is not natural. It was frozen in place here at the dock Examine the crew. They're all frozen warriors were frozen in their tracks powerful ice magic. Is it work here? Okay, let us talk to bold Oregon There are others who could have done this but higher wager that the coven is behind this dread chill I'll doing at the docks can only be a sign that further mischief is a foot You should go and examine the gates to Rondle fjord and see if they were able to withstand this wretched cold Go and scout only do not open the gates or enter the village just yet there as a captain I cannot abandon my long ship. So I will wait here for your return Okay, we are going to mark Just because we could easily get pulled at any point Because there's a whole bunch of things these are all ranked nine Which are kind of good. So, yeah The gates are closed and appear to be locked like the cold silence radiates from within the village Okay, let's go back. There's people in there. You see The gates are locked a that is a sure sign of trouble in kinder times The village guards would have seen the sails of my ship and open the gate to greet us I suspect that the village of Rondle Fjord is in the icy clutches of evil tours There must be a way through the gates Perhaps a secret signal to alert those inside those frost bones outside the gate may know more about getting inside You should defeat a few frost bones and see how they signal to one another Okay, let's do this. Hopefully this is anyone. So how many trucks do you have one two three four five six? Six trucks, not too many. My mouse is being weird. I don't like it We're going to switch to our actual deck and We're gonna defeat these guys.  We're nearly in 2000s so, yeah This is kind of serious now This is where the game gets serious guys We could die at any point now So, yeah, these guys are gonna tell a show don't they? Probably you're gonna tell a show don't you? Yeah, I told you Okay Well, let's just do this No complaints. Just do this Enchant and Enchant I mean, I don't really want to play the game because I want to get enough pips to cut this one These guys have so much carpet chance as well This is slightly worrying I am kind of underleveled by kind of I mean pretty underleveled Yeah, we're gonna have to fix that soon Just as well. I didn't go straight into Celestia Cause yeah, that would be painful because we're nearly half health already Yep, don't you dare tower shield man You would wouldn't you? Wow Wow, you would tower shield wouldn't you geez man Okay That's slightly unfortunate.  No, we're close Thousand four that would have done one thousand four hundred. That's not even close death Okay, well, um This is gonna take forever. This is gonna take forever Forever forever Absolutely forever forever Oh I mean he's dead either way and it doesn't help if we don't get power pips Stop tower shielding Geez stop please Okay, we're gonna need to get some big guns out here to Just sort this out soon because this is ridiculous We're not getting any perps because we don't get power perps. This is really disappointing This is going to hurt. We could uh-uh-uh That is not good This could badly hurt us Oh 900 that is a lot. We did raperoni Raperoni and pepperoni Yep, we could be dead.  Thank you We did he's going to our show, doesn't he? What a call I wanted at him. Yeah, so good Okay, boop 58 Wow so much damage So much damage.   He's dead yay One down. We got a bit of health, which is good at this point. I'm desperate for health. So We're gonna heal. Oh stop tower shielding cheese.  We got two players, which is good got one perp Which is not good Mainly because I want to hit What else do we have?  Don't you absolutely love it?  Thank goodness. Thank goodness Another tower shield Okay, good. He's like got so many towers shields like whoa what? Just as well We're heading right into a tower show we have a faint so it's not too bad Tower shield is only 50 so it's not too bad Okay, that's a lot. That's good We would have killed if there was no tower shield on them But we still got a lot of health back, which is good 631. That's basically Can save us from another icezilla or whatever he wants to use We're gonna knock off another tower shield Just because we can get a bit of damage on them even if it is only 50.   She's not good Just as well. We didn't have any perps. Ha ha What a winner winner winner winner Do you No, that's gonna do 300 Okay, not as much as I thought don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing Okay Okay, okay another blade and we're gonna need a faint probably and we're probably gonna die soon anyway Oh, I'm worried I'm worried Papa please Papa Papa Papa Papa. Thank you not Okay, Papa Papa Papa Papa Papa. Thank you 300 oh, we don't have any cards left. Oh, oh, we need to restock treasure cards. That's not good Why did I not do that before or I am very bad ad did not fizzle which is good This may not get ill. We will get some health though. This has actually been a very long mob battle. I Have to do some side quests.  Oh, we killed yay. Thank God Yeah, please got it. Please got it You defeat this frost book more of them bang their shields and reply it is a code of some sort Okay, so basically the code is banging shields or something who knows that's cool Well, let us talk to bold wrong They banged their swords upon their shields instead of speaking This is an ancient means of signal warriors of old call it Norse code It is clear that the town has fallen to evil go and use Norse code to signal your way past the gate The thing of Harando Fjord is named varnier storm If he lives he will be in the village's home Seek him out and return to me once you know his fate Okay, so next up we will be hitting next episode next up next episode We will be hitting into the town gate So thank you for watching remember to leave a like and subscribe and if you've never subscribed press the little bell So you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


The war in Ukraine is sending shockwaves through the crypto markets. Since Russia started a military operation against its neighbor last month, Bitcoin briefly dropped and it is now strongly rebounding. On both sides of the conflict, people are increasingly relying on crypto to face the financial turmoil. How is this geopolitical crisis impacting the crypto markets? Is Bitcoin showing the properties of a safe haven asset? We talked about this with Jody Pasquale, CEO at BitBull Capital, in our latest Cointelegraph interview. Following Russia's attack on Ukraine, we saw Bitcoin tanking together with equities. That sparked the usual criticism around the Bitcoin narrative of being a safe haven asset and a store value. Now we are seeing Bitcoin rebounding significantly from these laws. So what do you make of Bitcoin's behavior in this geopolitical crisis? Well, that's been a long lasting criticism of Bitcoin. I hear people say a lot. Well, if it's so volatile, how can it be a store value or a safe haven asset? I think it's important for people to recognize that Bitcoin started just over 10 years ago. It will be interesting to see, especially with the war on Ukraine, whether even Ukrainians use Bitcoin as a safe haven asset. We've seen certainly a drop in the value of currencies in the region. And time will tell. Bitcoin is new, but we do still see it as a hedge against global uncertainty and inflation. This volatility is also still, this low is still higher than its low point during the summer. So yes, it's volatile, but yes, it's also up over the year. So we also need to point out that Bitcoin behaved significantly different from gold in this crisis because while Bitcoin tanked together with equities, we saw gold going up on the other end. So do you think it still makes sense to call Bitcoin a digital version of gold? Yeah, I think we need to see Bitcoin as not maybe digital gold, but as a currency that doesn't follow the whims of a central bank, but rather has a very finite quantity. And so with gold, we did see gold fall last year overall. And even this year, and kind of starting in the end of last year, it started rising. So there was this thesis that Bitcoin is both this interesting mixture of both a risk on asset and some sort of, you know, as you're saying, digital gold or hedge against inflation. But it's a mix of both and that's what's made it over the long term uncorrelated with both gold or equities. But of course, in the near term, in the short term, we have seen a correlation. We've seen this almost everything bubble in the last couple of years and now really a drop in any sort of risk on asset like Bitcoin or equities. So the West has responded to Russia's aggression with unprecedented sanctions. Some of them are now hitting Russia's banking sector and are limiting Russia's banks capabilities to transact in foreign currencies. But also they are hitting the Russian political elite, which is now seeing their asset being frozen in Europe, in the US. And also, yeah, their possibility to interact with the global financial systems are being heavily limited. So a lot of people are saying that now crypto could be used by the Russian political elite to circumvent the sanctions imposed by the West. So do you see this as a possibility and would Bitcoin risk becoming politicized if that happened? Well, we've seen this before in Bitcoin where in its early days, people had fears of Bitcoin as harboring nefarious activity. But since then, Bitcoin, people have recognized that Bitcoin, unlike cash, is completely traceable. Unfortunately, since then it's become mostly apolitical. We've seen El Salvador, places in Africa, the Middle East, et cetera, go into Bitcoin as a way to have a less inflationary currency. But there is a danger of it becoming politicized. My hope, though, is that what we'll really see is a lot of Ukrainians also fleeing into Bitcoin. Since then, Bitcoin has shown for its strengths, which is to help an economy cling to a more stable currency, potentially a more stable currency, or a currency that actually increases in value rather than decreasing in value. So we'll see how it goes. I think if Russia and Russians do flee to Bitcoin, it will just be the millionth proof point that, and I just read an article in The New York Times this morning arguing that we should sanction and even confiscate more foreign Russian assets to put pressure on Putin. But essentially, Russia and Russians have some of the highest ratio of money laundering and hiding money. So if Bitcoin is just the millionth way of people, Russians doing that, then I don't think it should be blamed on Bitcoin. Yeah, let's also not forget to differentiate the Russian political elite from the Russian people. Of course, there are many people in Russia, common people that have been using crypto and will be using crypto, not for nefarious purposes, but for achieving financial freedom and in order to protect their wealth. So switching topic, according to a recent GlassNode report, the Bitcoin market is likely to stay down for a while, mainly due to a relatively high amount of network entities in a negative position. So the report says, the longer the investors are under water on their position and the further they fall into unrealized loss, the more likely those health coins will be spent and sold. So do you agree with this reading? Well, I agree in theory with the analysis, Giovanni, but when I think of network entities, for me, as a hedge fund manager, a crypto hedge fund manager, I think of other crypto hedge funds. And I have to tell you that I'd be remiss not to tell you that for active managers of crypto, as many of us are up this year, my fund was up over 10% in January and at least several percent to date in February. And that's because there's a lot of volatility that we like trading around. So when I think of network entities, I think of some institutional investors, including hedge funds, who like volatility like myself. But it's true that, you know, large entities who might have just done a passive buy and hold strategy will be down, depending on when they purchase. Of course, we saw Bitcoin touch 30K in the summer twice, you know, over a couple of months, and so it is higher than that. But if you bought at the all-time high in November at 68K, then yes, you're down about 50% from there. But if you bought even in the beginning of 2021, you'd be up. So it just depends on when. But in general, the longer that thing stays down, it is bad because, you know, you see the moving averages and you'd be under a whole set of moving averages, depending on how long we stay down for. And then that does, you know, especially for technical traders, create kind of a fear of an ongoing bear market cycle and a need for even stronger news to pull us out of that. I don't think we're there yet, depending on which moving averages you look at and how much fund you agree with. But it is the longer we are down, the worse. Right. And in general, would you agree that right now we are in a bear market? I don't agree with that. And here's why. We are the one impressive thing, one of the impressive things about Bitcoin is that it repeatedly overtakes all-time highs. We saw, you know, in December of 2017, the 20K all-time high, yes, there was a bear market absolutely in 2018, was one of the only two significantly down years for Bitcoin. And then after, you know, 2018, it went up strongly in 2019, 2020, and even up in 2021. So we're not there yet. This is, yes, December was down, January has been down, and February to date. But that does not yet indicate a long-term bear market. Even in 2018, in April of 2018, I remember the market really shot up. So we'll see if there is a bounce, what you would call a bounce from these lows. And again, over the last day, we have seen that bounce. When it hit 34, 35, we saw it go up to 39. And so if there is that support, which is higher than the low it reached over the summer, then we are reaching higher lows and even higher highs, as we saw when it went to 60K last spring summer, then went down to 30, then went up to 60 feet, a new all-time high in November. So we are taking a breath here, but it has bounced in the last day. So co-founder of Huobi, Hu June, said lately that we won't see another crypto bull market until late 2024. So after the next Bitcoin halving. So what do you think about this prediction? No, unfortunately, I think Hu June got it wrong. I would be surprised if we don't over the next by 2024 or 2023, even a year before his prediction of the next bull market hit 100K for Bitcoin. So at that price prediction, 40K is a good deal, as is of course 35K or even 50K. So it strongly disagreed with Hu June. And I think the flows in and out in the last day show again repeated support around the 35K price range. OK, so as far as I understand, you see the next Bitcoin bull run coming earlier than 2024. And so you see Bitcoin reaching 100K before then. Can you be a bit more precise on your on your time frame for Bitcoin achieving 100K? I think 2023 is a safe bet. We might need some time during 2022 to take a breath and to kind of let out some of the steam as we've seen. But because of the repeated support, I believe that it will go up over the next year and especially over the next two years. So certainly by the end of 2023. OK, thanks a lot, Joe, for being on our show. Thank you, Giovanni. Great to talk with you again.


John says, I had a user that was hosting a Teams meeting today, but they did it while they were remote and were logged into their work desktop via TeamViewer. So not to be confused with anything in Teams, but TeamViewer. The meeting worked fine for everyone else, but he could not hear anything and they could not hear him. So that's an issue. So you're reading the transcription, hopefully transcriptions on for that problem. He knows now in the future to log into the web version of Teams and not remote in through TeamViewer. But why did his audio not work? Is this normal for a remote connection? 100 percent. So in any type of scenario through a TeamViewer or a virtual desktop by nature, those are not turned on. Also depends if you're using the free version or the paid version if you can even control those settings, especially with TeamViewer. But definitely a TeamViewer configuration. If they can fix it, not sure it depends if it's the paid or free. Yeah.  They all come with their idiosyncrasies when you're going into it and there's so many potential complications around things like audio and video as well as another. What type of browser are they actually using? Because if you do Teams through that viewer using that browser, that can have complications using a browser too. But there's just so many potential minefields really on that one. You're adding multiple actual application configurations to it. Because you go into the admins and I can figure teams and here's our policies and this is what you can do and you can't do. Then in maybe TeamViewer, you're a lot more lax. You allow more things, but then when you're trying to use TeamViewer to Teams, you're still those things aren't going to work, because you have conflicting configurations. I was just thinking too is that through the work device, but some if it's a shared device, if I've had that scenario or again like the browser, everything seemed to be fine in the settings of the browsers, no, but the machine itself, they're set up, they're meant to be quiet, not have the sound and directly they're not meant to be used in that way. You have to think about those factors. Now, for everything we just said, if he was able to go in and join the last Teams meeting in the exact same scenario and yet it worked there, call us. Well, that's a different issue. So something else might be going on. That may have been the Teams issue, do sure as well considering how Teams tends to want to change on a day-to-day basis. Well, we've talked about this in other recordings too, is that I have the exact same setup. I have the regular meetings, work meetings, the community calls like this. I don't change any settings. So I know when I log into a Teams meeting, if something's not working, it's not me Teams, it's you Teams. It's definitely there's something going on there. This scenario, it's a non-normal, non-standard for the way that John describes it to dial into that. So that could be a number of different things. Then there's going to your mobile, host your meeting from a mobile, host reading, there's so many other options that you could have kicked off as well. A lot of people do that at Automatic. That's a great point, because a lot of people do that Automatic by default now, and I do the same thing as Teams, if you've got a decent phone connection, it's super easy to switch off. And it's an inter-enabled authentication with your organization to do a meeting on Teams, because a lot of organizations will go, no, we can't do BYUD on a phone or anything like that. So there's that, but yeah. It's a great option if you're having problems with the desktop. And there's an upgrade, there's something that's happening. Microsoft is updating something on the back end, and Teams is acting a little loopy. Oftentimes the phone, I'm just saying, in theory. But, and people will jump over to their phones and the mobile version is working fine. So, and the mobile version actually works pretty good. It does, it's a fairly nice client now. I would argue it's more stable than the desktop. Yeah, it is. You've got a good valid point there. Yeah, and the transitioning from one to the other now, for your own one, you need to cut it so much better. So much better. Yeah, I'm regularly doing that, especially if it's the, Microsoft calls two or three in the morning. It's like, I'm gonna transfer over to somewhere where I'm really warm. Now, if we could get that Teams mobile experience on a Windows phone again, that would be dreamy. Oh my. Windows, we're back to that.  Yeah, can I get Teams on my Zoom interface?


We begin by praising Allah We continue to thank Allah and We continue to remind ourselves. We weren't made for this world and We continue to warn ourselves that we are returning to Allah We're not used to sitting in the Sun uncomfortably But are we preparing for a day that could be 50,000 years long in In the Sun We might be uncomfortable for five minutes in the Sun ten minutes in the Sun The Khalif is taking too long. It's 15 minutes. I'm uncomfortable and how about a day where People will be Sweating so much that the sweat comes to their knees or to their waist or to their chin and They're drowning in their own sweat We're not used to waiting if we have to wait in a line For five minutes we get frustrated aggravated How about a day Where the waiting might be not not five minutes not five hours not five weeks not five months not five years 50,000 years an incomprehensible number It said it's like imagine if you want to understand how long Perpetuity with perpetuity is forever. Imagine this whole earth this whole planet was filled with corn and Every year a whole year passes a bird comes and takes one corn and leaves and Then you have to wait for another year until that bird comes to take another corn And then we get the sense of how long forever is But we get hypnotized by this world and we forget to prepare for forever Our prophet humanity's teacher He said how wonderous it's so wonderous for people who believe in a home that lasts forever Yet all they do is strive for a home That lasts so temporary How odd how peculiar how wonderous We're preparing for that home today my brothers and sisters as we come on this Friday To reorient our lives to wake up our hearts To recommit our souls to wake up and remember our purpose of existence Today as we come on this Friday to repurpose ourselves to recalibrate Mike to myself Orienting myself towards a law the divine What are we going to leave with today? What calibration? What adjustment can I make today to go back and be closer to God? What can we find today as we come here to this message and we come here to this parking lot? We're coming to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and What gift can we find what gift can we take?  I'm never satisfied. We're satisfied with my financial state or my career state or my the size of my home But why is it that we're satisfied with our spiritual state? Why is it that we're satisfied with our religious state? But everything else no, I don't have enough. I don't have more because They'll hurt themselves and they'll hurt others Why is it that insha'Allah we don't give an eight-year-old an iPhone or access to the internet or YouTube? Why because they'll hurt themselves and they'll hurt others. They don't know how to manage it They don't know how to use it And now let's ask ourselves What is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not giving me? Because I won't be able to handle it because I won't be able to handle it and perhaps I will hurt myself and I will hurt others Min tamamin ni'mati alaika and you'll take a maya feek when we have now come a week From God's perfection to you is giving you enough To take care But depriving you from more so you don't transgress in other words. It gives you just enough Gives you just is Sometimes we want more we want more but we're like the child to Allah and less than the child and And so maybe maybe I want more but I shouldn't have more and so the idea is that I trust Allah More than I trust myself That's our takeaway point My beloved brothers that we leave today saying to ourselves. I trust Allah more than I trust myself But with how can we achieve that trust? If we want to trust a doctor, we want to see his credentials and his experience We want to see his where he graduated from his experience and how many surgeries he's done We want to trust a lawyer. We want to see how many cases he's handled successfully We want to trust an engineer. What school did you graduate from? How many bridges have you built? We want to trust a mechanic Have you have the shop you have these credentials? How about Allah's resume? Are you impressed with Allah's resume? Am I impressed with Allah's resume? Are we impressed with Allah's resume? Astaghfirullah Al-Azim the question may be bad adab from me But can we quote and quote hire Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? And the best caretaker the best protector. He's our Rob our caretaker Can we quote and quote hire him astaghfirullah for the for the Analogist language that might be bad adab and so can we trust Allah more than we trust ourselves and Understand that maybe I'm not richer and it's good for me Maybe my son got sick and that's good for me and good for him We read on Friday is that story the chapter of surat al-kahaf the cave and we see the three stories of Trusting God more than we trust ourselves where That we're in the first story Khidr radiullah alayhi salam and say the most alayhi salam he he broke he damaged a ship to help the people Damaging the hit the ship was helpful But we didn't understand until later because the damage ship wouldn't be taken and seized Unjustfully by the king So damaging Sometimes he gives you and it's deprivation and sometimes he deprives you and it's actually giving in That case he was deprived the ship was damaged But it was actually giving and in the next story in surat al-kahaf The child died he was killed But that was actually a gift to the parents may Allah be gentle with us We asked Allah to bring us closer to him with gifts and not through tests may Allah be gentle with us We are weak and tarafun hawa and tarafu al-muslada hafeen And in the third story in surat al-kahaf where the Where the treasure was buried for the for the for the young or the young children and then say to Musa alayhi salam erected and fixed the wall and It was because his parents or his ancestors were righteous So the idea is Allah says in the Quran I'll do billah minash shaitan al-rajim asa an takra who shay'an wa huwa khayrun lakum Wa asa an tuhebu shay'an wa huwa khayrun lakum Wallahu ya'lamu wa antum la ta'lamu Allah The people who have to what will entrust in God They 70,000 or so entered jannah without judgment may Allah make us from those who can trust him and rely on him Because even if we don't know the Hikmah behind something the wisdom behind something who do we know the all wise Who do we know al-hakim and that's the takeaway point my brothers and sisters that we Trust Allah. Why am I not richer? Why was my career not better? Why don't I have more money? Why am I not taller? Why are my grades not better? Why am I not handsomer? Why am I not more am I not prettier? Why am I not funnier? Why am I not cooler? Why? Allah is al-hakim and When we look at quote-unquote Allah's resume Subhanahu wa ta'ala in his majestic Subhanahu wa ta'ala great and glorious is he Then we can submit and embrace and accept And be okay with the quote-unquote deprivation We can be okay with the deprivation, but we only see it as a deprivation And we don't see it as a as a gift because of our lack of understanding of al-hakim Is that not true? Is that not right? Like the child that he doesn't understand. Why are you not giving me the knife? The eight-year-old why are you not giving me the iPhone? The 16-year-old the law says I can drive. Why don't you let me drive? Why don't you let me watch this movie? What you don't trust me children say to their parents you don't trust me And for all parents here's your answer. I Trust you, but I don't trust your shaytan. I don't trust your nefs. I don't trust the dunya and I don't trust your hawa. I Trust you, but I don't trust the dunya. I trust you, but I don't trust shaytan who's whispering in you I trust you, but I don't trust the ego. I do what cabena gem bake your greatest enemy is in between your own two sides and so This is our takeaway. This is our calibration today to say Allah didn't give me this knife Allah didn't give me this iPhone. Allah didn't give me this Ability to drive Because I trust him. He is al-hakim and this deprivation is actually a gift This deprivation is actually a gift I'll go to call you hada was tough for a lot of you will come to stuff you know, we'll go for the same Seek forgiveness from Allah for indeed. He forgives all since Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah was salatu wa salam ala Rasulillah How is it to sit in the Sun? Uncomfortable we've only been here 15 minutes and agitated uncomfortable and the weather is nice Are we we're going to a day may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala let us sit in the shade on that shade Let us sit in the shade If we can't bear 15 minutes of Sun all of us me included all of us Are we preparing for that day? Are we preparing for the true retirement? the real retirement Not the 401k that'll take care of us for a few years the real retirement Are we doing enough vikr? Are we doing enough vikr? Are we doing enough to hedge it and prayer at night where Allah asks every night who's calling me? So I may answer him who's asking me so I may give him Who wants who's asking forgiveness so I may forgive him are we praying enough for the ummah? For the refugees that are Muslims and they're begging to get into countries that are governed by even non-Muslims And they're begging are we praying for them our brothers our sisters our children are we praying for them? Are we sending Sadaqa? Are we doing our share for the ummah? Are we doing our share for the ummah? Are we living that for the true life? Are we living for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? This dunya is insatiable.  And I conclude with this hadith and this is a hadith of Sayyidina Abu Huraira radi Allahu Anhu where he says What his best friend asked him to do? Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he says Awsani Khalili My friend my best friend asked me to do three things Awsani Khalili Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with three three days from every month with two days of fasting We're going to do a couple of Nama or couple of Al-Urqidah radi Allahu Anhu he says My Khalil Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked me to do three things and we can remember them as three to one Three to fast three days a month to pray to raka'as doha in the morning and to pray witter Before I go to sleep three to one to fast three days a month to pray to raka'as doha in the morning After sunrise and to do witter before I sleep And so we will we are committed to growing our Islam Growing our religiosity and growing our spirituality until our last breath We're not gonna just stop We're gonna continue growing and we're gonna take this thing and and in conclusion We will trust We will trust Allah Al-Hakeem the all-wides. We will trust Allah Al-Kareem the most generous So if he didn't give me it's for a reason if you don't give your child It's for a reason and Allah has better reasons and we will trust Allah ar-Rahim the merciful And so now we can be more accepting of the divine decree We trust Allah He didn't give me for a reason and I accept it and I embrace it.  I submit to you ya Allah And I accept what you gave me Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Ya Allah, we ask you Ya Allah, as we're sitting in the sun right now to shade us on the day of judgment, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, we ask you to help us taste the sweetness of your proximity, the sweetness of your closeness, and the sweetness of Islam. Ya Allah, we will continue to grow. We will continue to strive and struggle to be close to you. Our goal is to become a Wali, to become a friend of yours, so we can submit our outward and our inward to you.  Ya Allah, as this world, take this world out of our heart, Ya Allah. But take it out gently, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, we submit to you, we surrender to you, and we accept what you've deprived us of, and we accept what you deprived us of, and we see it as a gift because we trust you and Hakim, even if we don't know the wisdom, you are the all wise.   This is why we want to live, Ya Allah. To live selflessly and not selfishly, to live for you, Ya Allah.


In this episode we'll be talking about what it means to look at design from a fundamental perspective, why we need to set bigger goals and can we have ego less design. And here's the guest for this episode. Hi all, my name is Marc Fontijn and welcome to a brand new episode of The Service Design Show. If you want to make more impact as a service designer and change the world for the better, then you've come to the right place. Because on The Service Design Show you get the chance to learn from the success of some of the world's best service designers. We cover topics ranging from design thinking and organizational change to customer experience and creative leadership. If these are the topics you're interested in be sure to know that we bring a fresh new episode every two weeks on Thursday. So if you don't want to miss anything, click that subscribe button. My guest in this episode is someone who recently started an initiative called the Ministry of Design in the Netherlands. He's my dear colleague and co-founder of 31 Folds, Marcell Spears. From our remote 31 Folds recording studio, Marcell will be talking about three topics. What does it mean to look at design from a fundamental perspective? Why do we need to set bigger goals and can we have ego less design? In case you prefer to listen to a podcast version of this episode, head over to servicedesignshow.com slash podcast where you'll find this episode and other previous ones. But don't forget that here on YouTube you'll get content that isn't available as a podcast. That was it for the introduction and now let's jump right into the interview. Welcome to the show, Marcell. Thanks. So like I said in the introduction, you're in the 31 Folds remote recording studio, right? Yes, I am. And where is that exactly? Where's the hidden secret recording studio? Well, as you might have sort of recognized on the posters, it's my kitchen in Bunik. 15 minutes from here, but the Skype connection is pretty good. It is, yes. Marcell, we've been partners for over 10 years and depending on when people are looking at this episode. Almost 11, I guess. Almost 11 and probably even longer than officially. I think I know this answer, but people watching this episode might not. So what is the first time you got in touch with service design? Good question. I'm a product designer by trade and I've done a number of different things over the years and then I decided that I had some plans for some innovative outdoor products. It didn't work out well, but that's okay. And I had a little studio in an incubator and you had one too on the other side of the... We were neighbors. Yeah, we were neighbors. And I guess somebody introduced us to a book by Becket Marker and another one from London, which I didn't find in our library anymore. And I dealt with designing services and what I found really inspiring and interesting is that you can design for people, be valuable and not have the hassle of production technology or having products produced in a nutshell. And this was back in 2006? Yeah, because our first project was in 2006 for the Chamber of Commerce in Utrecht. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was nice. Yeah, that was nice. 12 years ago already. Right, let's move on. You gave me three topics that are on your mind right now and we have like 20, 25 minutes to go over them. I've gave you some question starters and we'll do the co-creation part as we do in each and every episode. And the first topic we're going to start with is this one and it's called Looking at Design. Do you have a question starter that goes along with this one? Which one is it? This is this one or the what if. And my question is what if we would look at design in the most fundamental way. And what I mean by that is there's a lot of, well, for one, service design is a new design discipline, just like web design was in the 90s, UX design at the moment, social design, etc. And the thing is that in my opinion, there's a lot of research being done to all these small disciplines and there's just little view on the actual essence of design, which is named in design thinking, but then it's become a discipline in itself, design thinking, which is kind of weird. So if you look at science, we have fundamental science and that is the understanding of the world around us and preferably learn things that we can translate into solutions. Not necessarily so, but that's what we do. So what would happen if we would look at design in the most fundamental way? We would do a lot of things totally different. Like what are you thinking about? For example, this morning I was thinking of an example and in our work in service design, we, for example, and the colleagues work on projects like can we improve the train experience travelling to Amsterdam with everything on it? In the Netherlands we have bicycles, we have bicycle parking, etc. And design isn't used, for example, in my opinion, on public transport in general. And the thing is that the most important questions are not answered by design, but answered by politics. So that's what I mean. So who would be aware? Who and where should we look at design in the most fundamental way? Because science is embedded in universities, right? Is a university the place for design or is there a different place? And who should, why these people? Good question. I think the political arena would be the best place. Not politics, not political parties, but the political arena. So if we have major challenges in the Netherlands, for example infrastructure or public transport or health, these are mostly answered through politics and design would be a better solution. Yes. I think Stefan Homlit also referred to design as politics and design as a political tool. What would this mean for designers? Do we have to go in politics? Well, in the Netherlands we have a strong perspective on design which is called Dutch design. And then we celebrate the different designers and how well they come up with a solution. But these sort of strategic challenges where design would be valuable, they are not challenged by designers and designers don't, the designs I know in the Netherlands they don't fancy walking around there. They don't fancy dealing with it. Why is that? Because it's not celebrated. The tangible products and outcomes, the results are more celebrated than working on improving healthcare. Yes. To be more specific, it's not the small solutions that make better public transport, but it is the question whether we're doing the right thing as a society. And designers especially at 31 volts at least, we spend a lot of time in understanding what's going on, a lot of time of understanding what the challenges are, and only then come to the solution. What is your biggest question related to looking at design in the fundamental way? What would you like to better understand? Well, I'd like to be better understand. I don't know exactly, but we as, at least in the Netherlands, we have constructed a society and economics and businesses in a way where design is very low on the ladder of influence. It's not that I think I want a rule or the designers should rule or should be more important than other people, but it would be really interesting if they would act on a more strategic level. And your question was what do we need to do? What is your question related to that? Maybe how do we get there? Would that be the question? Well, step number one is that I decided to to found the Ministry of Design. And we are already in organization with 25 people and we'll be having our first Ministry of Design forum on discussing topics like this. What could the Ministry of Design do for design education? Or explaining to fields in the Netherlands where things are happening that design and designers might have a role or play a role. And also for designers have some sort of platform to cling on to maybe or step on the platform, that maybe nice step on the platform and not to show to the world on an individual basis that they're doing great stuff, working on, I don't know, changing education or health or dyslexia or things like that. That is a field. Maybe this topic on the Ministry of Design relates to the second topic you gave me. Let's see. I just have one word and the word is ambition. Which question? Let me see. I have the open answer, the wild card. My question is how big should we think when it comes to service and projects and challenges? I made this specific for service design, which you can do it for design in general. So the question is how big? How big should we think? Well, we have a sort of famous scientist in Nellens, Robert Dijkgraaf. He's now sitting in a chair Einstein set in in Princeton. And he wrote in a column that we should start to look on a farther horizon than we normally do. And then he said that looking 50 years ahead is really, really close by. And that made me think and that made me read again the speech that John F. Kennedy posted in 61. We choose to go to the moon by the end of this decade and do the other things, not because they're easy, but because they are hard. And the thing is that when I talk about this with different designers, then they sometimes say, well, you can't act on that. That was too far away. While John F. Kennedy also said that we're going to find all resources, all talents in order to get there. And then somebody stood up and said, well, I'm going to do the space suit. I mean, there was no space suit, right? There was nothing. I'm going to the helmet. I'm going to see how we can form glass so we can get a space helmet. And the reason why I'm telling this is that often we are working on a space suit or a helmet or a chair and forget where we want to go. And does this have to do with leadership or John F. Kennedy is, of course, an iconic leader? Maybe, but I think primarily, again, what I said before, we're not going to celebrate the bigger picture, we celebrate the space suit. So it's better to do a space suit now than to do a space suit now. And even if it's the wrong space suit or it's not useful at all, then being part of a bigger challenge or a bigger ambition than yourself. So what do you think? Why is that? Why do we, except for celebrating the smaller victories, why aren't more people working on that bigger ambition? Because you're not celebrated. Yeah, is that the key? I think so, yeah. People like to see small tangible things and say, well, that's nice. You did that well. So I'm trying to understand on the bigger scale, how big should the scale be? Is it like on a country level? What is that scale? Because John F. Kennedy, you know, America celebrated that they went to the moon, so the whole 250 million people celebrated. Is that something you need to tap into? Yeah. I think with the John F. Kennedy example, you can like transform any ambition into a serious one. I mean, of course we look at Elon Musk and say he's coming to Mars. That's great. And it is. But why is it the only one? It's just, it's not genius that you say you want to go to the moon. What is the, what are we missing out on when we're not working on such a big ambition? Because we never get there. That's what we're missing out. So are we heading in the right or wrong direction or are we doing baby steps? Baby steps. And that is okay. Baby steps are great as long as you know what you're doing it for. I mean, it might sound a bit hard now, but I'm okay. But doing baby steps and being okay with that without, well, yeah, looking at the bigger picture. I'm doing this and I'm not going to get honored for that, but it's okay. It's on the right direction. And don't get me wrong. There's many, many designers I know that do crazy stuff, important stuff. And then we're not celebrate or then we not express the context for their ideas or their solutions. For example, we have a, we have a standard tests also in the Netherlands at primary schools. And I've had a student and she, she redesigned the standard eye test in something completely new. The effect that that might have on society is really, really important on education and more. But there's no, no moonshot goal for her to hit her puzzle piece into. And, and, and thus if she doesn't have that moonshot goal, nobody's going to see her. Nobody in the Netherlands will see this project ever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I can mention tens of them. No. And what do you think would be needed? What would be the first baby step maybe to helping people to actually think about those bigger ambition, those bigger goals? Well, is it like the ministry of design? Yeah, it is. It is. It's changing the discourse on what design is. Yes. It's just as simple as that. Changing the discourse on what design is. And it will take some time. Yeah. But yeah, it's important. So you have the time for that. Yes. Like the ministry is, is like a moonshot or. I hope so. Yes. I hope so. It's not the moonshot and sure we don't need a documentary on it in 30 years or something. Yeah. But and at least I have 25 other designers that are like, yeah, this is, this is nice. What is the role of design? So and we just, we just skip out on that on so many levels. Well, this already helps me. You know, I didn't have that perspective on the ministry. And when you talk about this on like a decade, decade scale level, then it becomes much easier for people to join in and help to up to get, take the steps toward that goal, right? Yeah. And maybe, maybe to add to, to, to, to, or maybe to reframe something.  So that's also we, that's really strange. Of course, we need to reframe the frame we have on minister. And this will contribute to that. I think so. Yes. All right. Well, talking about ministers, this third topic is probably pretty interesting. This third topic is called ego less designer. Yeah. I was, I don't know. What is your question? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. In preparation of this interview I've, I needed to check what ego actually is. And the way I constructed the question is, how can we park our ego behind the studio and not in front? That is the idea. So who's we, let's start with that. Good one. The design sector, at least in the Netherlands. Let me, let me talk for the Netherlands. Yeah. The design sector. No fancy shoes, no fancy jackets anymore. And isn't that part of the, of the, of the field? Isn't that just who we are? Why, why should we park that? No, it's the, it's the, it's not who we are, but it's the ones we see. So like I said, I have had so many students in the last five years at teaching service design at the Bill and the Coneyer Academy. And they, they work on projects that are really important. I think really relevant to work on and it's not celebrated. And it's not that we need to flip that and celebrate that, but we need to be more specific on celebrating these fun, crazy, photogenic ideas.   Is it the design field or is it the media who's giving attention primarily to the people who are, who want to get the spotlight? Oh, well, where's the solution? That's maybe a better question. No one, no one to blame for. I think it's, it's how we grew design. And I think, particularly in the nineties, where Dutch design, this dream of Dutch design, where you celebrate the designer and his product. The superstars. The superstars, yes. So that's, it's not even, the superstars are not even to blame, but somehow we see media, curators, writers, thought, well, that is interesting. These guys are really, really, really smart, really creative. So it's just, it's okay to look at it like that. But it's also okay to look at it on a different level, on a different way, a different perspective. So the challenge is to go beyond the surface, which you see on the surface. That's the easy part. Yes. That's, that's for sure. Yes. Yes. And why is this topic, why is this topic so important to you? Well, I was at the Dutch design week this weekend. And the cool thing is that one of the things that, that made these superstars is, is often these are designers of furniture. And the Dutch design week is not a furniture design show anymore. So that's a good thing. But still it's the design as it quotes the design of an individual designer with his creative genius that we sell it. Instead of what should we, what should the design, the design we look in in 10 years? I know. What's important about it? Impact. Can we show what it has done for people that that will be. We should celebrate impact instead of the, instead of the art piece. Yeah. Or instead of, I mean, the design is something like, for example, in architecture, the design is the plan for building. Building isn't there. So if it's a library, then we're going to celebrate the architecture. Yes. Or two years after it's delivered and people can talk about what is building or furniture or service means to them. Impact is most important. I think it's also really important that the design industry as a field starts to talk more about impact. Right? What is the impact that we're creating instead of just, right? Yeah, I totally agree. All right. Yeah. No, I can explain. Behind me, I mean, I'm in my kitchen and behind me are two posters of brown and it's not even Diteram's work. But I remember Diteram's in a documentary explaining that his task was not to design pretty stuff. But to be a part of post-World War II Germany in order to make it more optimistic. I don't know if he succeeded. That's beside the point. But I mean, I cannot judge that. But that is a challenge for a designer which I think is more important than the products. And sure, I have the products here and a poster. But please help in this case to talk about this topic. Yeah. But you have to know the story. That's really important. Right? So one final question regarding this topic. And that is where to start again? Where do we start? I would say I don't know. But I started with the Ministry of Design. And we're going to rub against the system. Like all the guests on the show, I'm giving you the opportunity for the people who are listening and watching this episode to ask a question. So is there anything you'd like to know from the audience? I know you didn't prepare this one. That's okay. You know me. I'm okay. Well, the thing is, of course, ego is a topic that I think about a lot. And my question would be, is my Ministry of Design an ego thing? Or is it something you say, well, we could have something like that in Finland, Germany, France. That would be smart. Or maybe a ministry, I mean, this is ministry and is normally, of course, on a country level. But you can also have it for an industry, for example. And the question is, am I the only one?  Or do people recognize the things that I'm contemplating about and think, yeah, that would be an interesting experiment. Leave your thoughts and ideas in the comments, guys. Time flew by. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for being in the remote recording studio. I'll see you back here probably in an hour. So thanks again. And let's wrap up this episode. Thanks so much, Mark. So what do you think? Does your country need a Ministry of Design? Share your thoughts and ideas down below in the comments. And remember, more people like you are watching these episodes and your comment might just be the thing that helps someone to get his next meeting for Breakthrough. If you'd like to learn more, check out some of the past episodes or head over to learn.servicedesignshow.com where you'll find courses by leading service design experts that dig deeper into the topics we talk about on the show. That was it for now. I'll see you in two weeks time with a brand new episode. Thanks for watching and see you then.