as you can see the scaffold location isn't really ideal for us. Every time we're trying to film something cool, it cocks up on us. So we're going to start stripping this off. Hello. We're here finally. We've been held upon this one a bit because other things have been happening on the job and it's Monday the 5th Feb 8 o'clock. Oh and that's Florida. The other company is doing the loft conversion and they've had the roof we've done at the front so while they've had that done they've had the scaffold up and as you can see the scaffold location isn't really ideal for us. It's supposed to come down Saturday so hopefully it's going to come down today. There's no one here yet. We spoke to the customer. This is our job. We're doing a porch coming out here across and back then first thing is take this wall out get rid of that. Once that's down we can take the floor up take the slab up take down take the whatever's in there whatever's under there won't be much of a slab it's like the rest of the houses on here take it down down take that bullnose out that should be enough then and then hopefully the scaffold will be gone we can get the brickwork round up to DPC then that'll give us to do the slab tomorrow that's the plan so we're relying on other people to do their bit and if they don't we've snookered. We've been waiting a while to do this one so hopefully it will crack on. So demolition day today and hopefully a bit of block work at least the block work on the inside but we'll see all our materials at the end of the driver and then so that's it. We're going to get the our Milwaukee breaker out and we're going to crack on so enjoy the show. Sorry I forgot it's another return job like I say our regulars will remember this one a little tiny extension a little job it's like a little utility room yeah nice little job that difficult to build because no door in it and we also did a steel inside the kitchen so it's our third job here always nice when you get us back to do work for people I've got a couple of bricks to patch up so yeah Carlton heathers the Carlton copy of the London heathers again massively better brick and we're using the same for the porch so yeah it's going to start knocking things down. It's a rough idea of how it's going and obviously customers says possibly cutting back up to here I think there's mentioned this but all that bit going to just so they've got maximum space because obviously they didn't have a lot of room to begin with here but it's it put up the the rendering to put up a bit of a fight but we're getting there. Can't take that out. No. We're opening that up. This has got to be this different to the house. Yeah. Can't just take that out. That's a little nose in. Yeah. There you go. Obviously we're being careful to make sure we don't fill up the skip because the work conversion people are still doing it. Well it's a nice solid wall at least. Yeah. He's doing his job. What was it? No. So we're on it because obviously we want the work to be done properly for the homeowner but if you're demolishing that work it's very helpful if it's been done poorly because you can take it out easier. Brick loads are never satisfied. We've got a bit stuck. Right. Break time over and I think did you mention that before break? I think you did. We briefly mentioned it. Yeah. But now we have a solid plan. Right. Obviously we've got the nib out but the nib is another nib. So obviously that goes back probably about 15 inches. So and this nib is different to the house. So we have two concrete lintels above there and to get rid of this obviously we're going to have to extend the lintels. So the customers just come back like luckily saying you're ringing up. A lot easier to explain in person than over the phone. So I've explained that to change this not to get rid of this we're going to have to change those. Can you just get a tape measure? Yeah. So we did explain he said right well there's no way they want this left in the porch because what's the point of that. So that's going and let me start again. Scaffold not going down today. There's nobody coming to work on the on the loft conversion today. So the scaffold is coming back tomorrow first thing to strip the scaffold. That means we can't build anything today. So that means we can't do the concrete floor tomorrow. So quite happy for us to do this. So change your plan is get rid of all this get the floor out get it ready for the get the height ready for the slab. Then tomorrow we'll come back and get these lintels done. The roof's getting changed so we can strip the roof so we can get above it to get our strong boys and acros in. And we're going to put concrete lintels in. Sorry if you've got a crack above it on the front of the house so that's going to help. So we have a plan and we have an extra day's work which is great. Not great for the customer but it's just one of those things you don't want that leaving in. It's best that we make it safe as well. Good in the long run for the customer. So there's a socket down there. Plugged it down there. Plugged into the utility room and it's an outside socket down there. Right to the bottom. Oh I see it now. They remember that now. So there you go. We have a new plan. So basically today is job and not get this slab out. We're going to use some of the rubble. Leave the full bricks and all the loose stuff we're going to use at the bottom there. And then just the poly is just blind because we've got a ton of sand. That's it. That's all the news. We have plans. Yes we have a plan. It's always nice to have a plan. So we know what we're doing tomorrow. And even if the weather's bad it's more or less something to cover. There's an update. The old chef's up. We've forgotten something. We've forgotten the bits for the big breaker. We don't often get to play the big breaker. So we get quite excited when we do get a chance to use it. And we've forgotten the bits. Even though it's a fake and a phony according to the commenters.  Never used it, don't know anything about it. And then one guy even said we were lying. We brought all our breakers. We brought our old breaker. Just in case we needed it. Because we obviously needed to get the whole slab up in the day. I honestly gave it five minutes and it was awful. The vibration on it is just unbelievable. Because it's just a cheap one. Everyone's got these cheap ones. About 150 quid from tool station. All kinds of places to sell it. And then leave that bit in mate. Yeah leave it in. You can get them anywhere. It's cheap I used to think. They were fantastic. But it's like the Milwaukee one.  The cheap one. It's not as powerful. It's a lot noisier. And there's no vibration tamponing. But I'm going to show you these. Basically it's on a spring. And it's even more. It's even more pronounced on the big breaker. So we love it. We just wish we could use it. It's not practical to nip home and get the bits. Because it's only a thin slab. It's only three inch. So this thing's coping quite well with it. So that's it. We're just going to have to make a big list of things. We need to knock the bits tomorrow. We need quite a few bits tomorrow. We need the saws all for cutting the timber back. We need acros and these strong boys. We can come up with the lentils up on the way home tonight. And I wish I could do that. It's getting me strength up. So we've just got this like it. That was the other thing. You've got ceramic tiles. Onto adhesive. Onto quarry tiles. Onto a screed. Onto a DPM. So tiles. Adhesive. Quarry tiles. Screed. Onto a three inch slab.  And you can see just by looking at its damp. You can smell it. So basically we're stripping everything out. Getting down a bit of our core. Sand blinding. And then the usual malarkey for a slab. Although it's a porch it doesn't come in the building regs. We'll be doing the slab and the brick work. To building regs. Well not the brick works. It's only got a thin cavity. The walls won't be. They'll just be as thin as possible. So make the most room. Make the most room. Obviously if anyone who doesn't know. If you don't have to do all the porch to building regs. If it is under three meter squared. Three point three meter squared. Beyond that then you get building regs. But that's why people go for smaller porters. Because they're not bound by building regs. So we're not breaking any laws. Or prohibition. Yeah we're not breaking any rules. That's how it is. And this one. The actual floor area will be bigger than three meters. But the actual projection from the building won't be. The bit we're extending it from the footprint of the building. So there you go. We just need this bloody scaffold out of the way. Yeah so let's crack on. Not only is there no damp course under here. Looks like wood shavings. Bits of timber. Just. Increase your annual strike with really poor concrete. And then that's what's underneath. And it always smells damp doesn't it. Yeah looks damp. You can see how damp it is too. And there's the original footprint of the building. That's the front of the house. So that's staying in. And we can get our halker over the top of that. Probably take those tiles off the up stand. I've just got these little bits to take out the corner there. And we're done. Tied up as best we can. And we're going to go shopping. Get a few bits we need. I want to do that cup or use of water suppression on that. Yeah it was messy enough wasn't it. Yeah do that tomorrow. Here's a nice little dinky battery for you. Alright thanks. Nice little 5 amp power to finish off hopefully. That's it, that's all got left. I could leave that in till we take that down. But I just thought I'd have it all done. Yeah so that's the underneath of the concrete. I'm tipping over to show how thick it is. That's it. Like 50mm. Looks like concrete with a screen on top of it. Yeah. Well I'm not sure.  That's how thick it is. Looks like I said before. It's not good in general. But it's good for us because we're demolishing it. Yeah. Is it better for us? Yes. But yeah it's going to be so much better this porch. It's going to be brilliant. That's another thing. When people give signal why do you like doing this work? Putting better stuff in. Yeah improving things. We do a lot of that. I love it. Since I was little, the one thing that satisfies me the most is the Lego build. It's when you bond like a layer. It won't break then. I love it. Welcome to the water. As you can see we're two and a half forces below damp now. And there's the original house bricks. From the original foundation. I don't know where the front one is. We've got to build them up. So we're taking all down to that.  The smaller stuff. Give it a good smash with the hammer. Then put a bit of a hard core over the top. A bit of sand and whack it all down. As we can get recycled at MOT so why not recycle it ourselves. It's all good stuff. You can see it's wet. It's not wet. It's damp. It really smells damp. You can see that's dry. You can see the difference. Oh yeah. It's like the other dentist. We've cut all the bad stuff out of the tooth. Now we're going to start building it back up with a nice new filling. We've piled the stuff up behind the skip because the skip belongs to the guys doing the lock inversion. So the customer said stick it there and check if it's okay to use the skip. So that's us done for now anyway. Yeah, that's pretty much it. We can't build anything until the scaffold's gone tomorrow. But we can carry on with this. We're going to strip the tiles off now and take off wherever we can. Never look what we're looking at. We're going to get Acro and Strongboy from this side and the same this side if we can get them in an angle. And then six before concrete lentil going back to there. And it's going to be 2.1 meter lentil but it's only spanning 1.8. So six before concrete lentil should be plenty. It's concrete lentils as is. But as Alex said, we're taking out rubbish and putting better stuff back in. So yeah, when else gets back off the phone we're going to have a tidy up, load the van up and go shopping and then load the van up for tomorrow. We're not expected early dark but we're governed by other people and we're afraid they're not here. So we're catching a bit. Technical issues aside, we've got the marking. Yeah, sure. I'll leave it to us. Every time we're trying to film something cool it cocks up on us. Obviously, I don't know if it's going to make the cut but when we were doing the tarmac for the wall the other day, the other day in our timeline, not you as a viewer timeline. We poured it with petrol.  We've got a little multiverse amount that's going on here talking about all the different videos in one go. Can you reach a bit higher when we please, mate? I'll hold the level. You take the camera as well. Press hard because the lead gone. Up to this point, roof if you can and obviously we're going to have to come in. We've got to take a pocket out of that for the lentil. Yeah, same height. So let's take, go 150 and leave or whatever. Well, we can go up to there we need to because the brickwork would cover it. So there you go. This is coming out. Concrete lentils are going to come up across into this wall and one on the back is going to just sit on the inside skin because obviously it can't go right across. Well, I suppose it could but bridging the cavity then which we don't want. So we're going to start stripping this off. A bit safer for the customer getting out of the house for tonight. And then we're going to strip this and have a look, see what we've got. Get as much off as we can before we need to soar soar. So we just keep plodding along making a bit of progress. So we're going to use that tomorrow. Here we go.  Jesus Christ! Get a spade. It's the size of that. Let's go over and put it in a bed. Yeah. Put them on the dashboard of the van. Boris our mascot. We'll put them on a bit of fishing wire dangling from the roof of the van. You're proud of that contraption there. Yeah.  I could probably get them both from here. You sure? Yeah. But it was just a quick like hour You ready? Can you stop flipping them? That's quite a seat isn't it? That's one of the things about something. So obviously we're going to get some more and make it a bit more safe. There you go. So now it's a tripping trip. Excuse the wind. Feels like it's been windy since October. Here you go. Twenty to two. A long leisurely lunch. So. We're going to pack everything in. I wish you'd just nipped the toilet. Because we're going to head off to get our lintels now from the foods. And then we'll head back home and pack all the other stuff we need for tomorrow. We're going to bring our little scaffold to put in here. A little tower. It should be bedding the trestles. A couple of accros. Four acros, four strong boys. This thing. We need to strip back a bit more roof but in case it rains we've left that in. I'm going to go back to wherever the lintel finishes. As you can see there's not much seating on there. We're coming back. We're taking it out there. So. Another 150 on the front. Which is just behind the brick work. Obviously this is coming out from here. So that'll be tomorrow. Maybe it'll be the day after. I think we're not here Wednesday. We started last year. Just a bit of stone to level out. A couple of little snagging jobs. So I think we're back here tomorrow then Thursday. So tomorrow's going to be all about changing these lintels. That's it for day one. Well, day half. Obviously all this is going to be clear after we can build it up. But nothing we can do yet till this lot's gone. Oh yeah, all the roof's stripped back as well. That little wall plate bolted into the brick work above that's going to hold all. We might even put an extra couple of screws in just to hold the brick work. I think we're coming together nice. Oh yeah, we just need to measure the floor area as well for our insulation. So I'll get a few different measurements anyway. So we might see it burst. We might see it forwards. We might see it tomorrow. We're doing the ultra from home. I forgot to do it at work. So let me get to my black space. Yeah, so whatever job this was, I have no idea. But there it was. Thank you all very much for watching. If you enjoyed, be sure to give us a thumbs up. And if you're new to the channel and you want to see more, hit subscribe and tap on that bell. That way you'll always be notified when we upload. That's a massive help and it's a good support for the channel. Any additional support anyone would want to give, there is the super thanks under the video or there's dad's PayPal in the description. That's not necessary by any means. It's a bonus way of supporting the channel, which is greatly appreciated, but not necessary. So don't be worrying. This has been bricklaying with Stephen Alex from home with our new wear trade boards. Thank you and we will see you in the next one.


Welcome to the Global Symposium for Regulators, GSR23, which is being held in Shamal Shake in Egypt. I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio this morning by engineer Hossam El-Gamal, who is the chair of this year's conference. Mr El-Gamal, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you so much. Pleasure is mine. I really welcome you again to the GSR in Egypt. Well, it's a pleasure to be here. Now, Egypt's involvement with the ITU has been long-standing and influential. Perhaps you could provide us with a few insights on how this partnership originated. Ah, OK. This is, let's say, a long history. Maybe you can go back 5,000 years before, maybe 3,000 PC. And really, my friend, I want you to make some research on one lady called Sishet. Sishet is one of the old pharaons. She was handling the administrative issue for the whole kingdom, for the king. She was in Luxor and she was the first to try to record the data as a data center. So that's why you can see it's a woman and handling the data collection. I think from this point, we start thinking about databases, data centers. Then almost 150 years back, Egypt joined the ITU as a member. We are in the council since 1973, so almost 50 years. Hosting a lot of major events like WRC 19, Fiji 19, GSR 2016, and now we are 2023. So the last thing also, we have something called EGATRIC, which is an academy which got accredited by ITU recently. So I think it's a very long way from the cooperation. Absolutely. And going back to Egypt's hosting ITU events, as you mentioned, GSR 23 this year in Shamar Sheikh. Egypt's, of course, as you mentioned, hosted the GSR 16. It's almost seven years since then, how time flies. How do you see the changes in the landscape in the telecom regulatory framework, particularly in Egypt? Well, first of all, I like number seven. Always number seven has some mystery. So that's why you can see in the opening speech, I focused on seven. You know, during these seven years, it will be a remarkable era in the mind of the humankind. To be honest with you, for these seven years, I will just mention COVID-19. This changed the whole norms. And this norm, it's not only about user, it was about family. Because you can imagine all this family stay at home, but still kids want to play, entertain, educate. Parents still want to work, earn money. So I always believe regulators must have flexibility to absorb the changes, even to predict the changes. So that's why by that time, I believe all regulators start to rethink about the regulations, about how to issue new frameworks to absorb such kind of changes. So that's why all minds start to move to accessibility, adoption, use. And for these people who are connected, they start to think how to make them productive, valuable connectivity. So I think that was the biggest and major change during this time. Let's go back to the regulators. I wanted to ask you, in your opinion, what are the key qualities and characteristics that effective regulators should possess in today's fast pace and complex telecommunications environments? You said they need to be predicting the future pretty much. Exactly. I will tell you something. This time in the GSR23, it was really more practical. Because when you check the guidelines which is issued and adopted by this GSR23, you can see three pillars. One is the adoption, use and accessibility. One is the collaborative regulatory. The last one is the meaningful connectivity, which I call it productivity. So when I see the ITU start to put guidelines like these three pillars, it means really Z-touch the real problems for the regulators all over the world. So I think regulators must have flexibility, adoption and prediction. So this is the main characteristics we must have to focus on. And looking ahead, what is your key message to GSR23 regulators, policy makers and industry stakeholders? Let's adopt the guidelines. And also, let's measure the impact of these guidelines on our communities. And let's report and show the cases in the coming GSR to see how much did we contribute to shorten the digital gap between connected and unconnected communities. And also reflect these guidelines on productivity. Productivity, my friend. This will be always in our minds. Couldn't agree with you more. Engineer Hosame El-Khamal, thank you very much indeed for joining us in the studio this morning. Thank you for hosting so generously this event here in Shamar Sheikh in Egypt. And I'm sure we will get together at some stage in the very near future. Sure. It was our honor and pleasure to welcome you all here. And looking forward to see you again and again. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. And do check out all our other interviews here at GSR23 on our ITU YouTube channel, as well as podcasts on our podcast channels. And for further information, visit www.itu.int. Thank you very much.


Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all man-hutters the detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction Nick Carter master detective tonight's curious adventure Well, mr. Nicholas Carter, are you going to answer your telephone? Are you going to take me out to lunch as you promised? There's no reason why I can't do both fancy Nick Carter speaking Oh That's a matter Riley can't headquarter solve this case without me An order rally What are you talking about the body of a man was washed up on the beach this morning? Only he didn't die from drowning. It was murder. Yes There was no identification on the body none at all except one of your business cards Nick Carter private detective what I hid the card in my pocket as soon as I laid eyes on it But there's a chance one of the reporters thought before I did You've already done it. I'll be there in the double rally. Bye What's up me plenty look Betsy hold on the office until you hear for me. I'll call you within an hour I knew you shouldn't have answered that phone business before pleasure Patsy and right now I've got business at the city more Got him rally and a slab out here. He's on ice in the box at the end of the room there And I'm telling you one thing Nick Carter It's lucky for you that I was here when he was brought in now look rally surely You weren't trying to pull me into this thing just because the fellow was carrying one of my cards Probably hundreds of people I never heard of her carry my name in a vest box If you'd rather be explained into the captain how your card got on the corpse. Oh now take it easy Well, you know what it means for an officer of the larger concealed evidence Nick How do I know one of those reporters your photographers isn't telling the captain right now? Let's worry about one thing at a time He said the body was washed up on the beach on the north shore of Long Island as it was Stuffed in a gunny sack with every bit of identification removed everything was ripped out except a concealed pocket Yes, I know with my card Here we are last box here Take a good look Nick Yeah, did you ever see him before? Oh, yes, that's Stanley Phillips, huh? Dr. Stanley Phillips is a research chemist Sort of an eccentric. Oh Bar me, huh? No, no, that's strange. He's assisted me in a few investigations But for the most part it was pretty much of a hermit didn't like to mix with people Yeah, that don't make sense people who mind their own business don't get and go around getting themselves murdered Where did he live? There's a big house on a Long Island sound, but his laboratory was in his yacht His anchor about half mile or so up in the house if I remember correctly laboratory on a yacht. He was bar me Hey, rally look Here in his neck Well, what did you expect I told you he was tangled your top see short He was dead before he was put into the gunny sack and thrown into the water. I know but that isn't what I mean Here look at the prints in his neck closely. Look him. Yeah. Yeah, well, unless I miss my guess rally He was murdered by a left-handed killer Hey Maybe you've got something there Nick I'll phone the fingerprint expert right now. Let me at the phone first I gotta be on my way, you know now don't be forgetting you can't take long on this Nick The captain will be wanting to question you about your card being found in the body I can't hold off more than a few hours. Give me those few hours rally and I'll wrap the murderer up and wax paper Oh, we got work to do yes, Nick I want you to go through the files and they got all the stuff we have on dr. Stanley Phillips Yeah, that's the one research chemist get all the dope one.  All right. That's all Where you headed for Nick the Phillips estate and Long Island sound meet me there as soon as you get the report on The fingerprints of Stanley Phillips Nick Leni the Henry sister ever married after the parents died they continued to live in the big manor house What did you say the sister's name was Rose Phillips Rose go on you know all about his laboratory being on his yard Mm-hmm. It's supposed to be one of the best private laboratories in the country used to do a lot of research work for big companies That's a laboratory assistant Tom Marx young man And let's see what else and oh his hobby was writing scientific articles They were usually about the effects of an habit forming drugs yet an article in popular research last month entitled morphine exposed So we wrote about habit forming drugs, huh? Hmm You know Patsy this case might turn out to be more than just an ordinary murder I guess nobody's home Nick you're wrong about that Betsy So the curtains of the window move Founding in the door isn't gonna do any good either whoever's in there. Everybody doesn't want colors today However, what are you going to do open the door this little lock picker of mine? There it is All right, come on Patsy.  She's got a gun Nick your rose Phillips. I'd take it miss keep your hands up I'm asking the questions Who are you? I'm Nick Carter and this is yes, and this is my assistant Root Patsy bone Nick Carter the great detective where my brother often speaks of you He thinks you're wonderful Nick. She doesn't know yet miss Phillips. I'm sorry to have to tell you like this But your brother is dead He's yes I'm afraid he was murdered. No, if you'll just put that gun away miss Phillips. We'll talk things over Was a fiendish killing and I'm going to do all I can to bring the criminal to justice. You may be sure of that rose Rose I'm in here Richard. Oh Well, who are these people? I thought Stanley told you never let strangers in the house. It's all right Richard This is Nick Carter the detective and his assistant. Oh Well, that's different. How do you do miss Carter? I'm Richard Cole's I take it you've already heard about dr. Phillips Yes, ghastly isn't it I can hardly believe it the police say it was murder For the life of me, I can't imagine who would want to murder Stanley He was a strange man. Mr. Carter very strange Yet a phobia about not letting anyone in the house when he was away You seem to manage an entrance. All right, mr. Cole's will I mr. Cole's a very old friend of the family and has always had a Key to the house. He's our lord. I can't get over it Nick You don't seem to be surprised that you were shot at back there in the house I'm not passing. That's why I was standing beside that suit of armor that protected me by deflecting the bullets Nick your presence on the Phillips case is most annoying to someone to bear that window was frosted glass Couldn't get a look at the gunman that tiny crack the window was open Well now did you find what I told you to look for in the cottage occupied by Tom Marks the lab assistant Yes, I found a pair of his gloves good had to go through all his desk drawers to find them, too. Let me see them Mm-hmm all seems to be adding up Almost too neatly adds up to a pair of gloves.  There's something about the terms of Phillips will If you live to be 50 his estate was to go to a foundation He died before that rose was to inherit all the estate, but that makes rose. No, no, no, no I don't suspect rose or grief seemed genuine, but there's something else. I learned Tom Marks Phillips lab assistants in love with Rose They've been wanting to get married, but Phillips opposed the marriage now the field is clear Well, who does the money to boot? But that still doesn't make Tom Marks. That's me.  Oh, and that leads us where right out to the laboratory in the yacht I've got to find Tom Marks Really suppose Dr. Phillips had his laboratory way out here in the middle of the sound there's no mystery to that one Patsy told me why once well why so people couldn't bother him I'd have used his technical knowledge a lot more often on cases myself a bit more accessible Well, here we are. This is the Phillips yacht. I'll tie up here Never climbed up a rope ladder before and you're not going up now either not until I look around the boat myself Nick am I helping you on this case or not? You are that I don't want you taking unnecessary chances Nick, please I'm quite a minute better Let's see if we can raise somebody from you Hello up there Hello aboard the Phillips yacht. It's funny Tom Marks is aboard. He's keeping quiet about it I will find out right now You better stay here in the motorboat and let you solve this case alone not a chance. Okay, okay, but stay directly behind me remember Climbing this rope lad is no cinch. I'm glad I'm not a sailor. Can you make it? I'm coming What do you think you'll find Nick Tom Marks? I hope here. Let me give you a hand over the rail Thanks Well There's nobody to lay out the welcome rug and the deck of this floating laboratory. Well, that doesn't mean we're alone fancy Come on. We're going down this companion way. Okay. I'm not mistaken. It leads to Philips laboratory This is the laboratory. All right, Betsy stay behind me. I'm gonna open the door Marks Tom Marks you in there. All right, Betsy. We can go in Tom Marks seems to have vanished But he certainly left a mess behind him. Yes overturned retorts Bunsen burner knocked over Hmm look here on the floor Broken bottle sulfuric acid spilled and eating to the floor Yes, this is where dr. Stanley Phillips met his death. All right, and when the killer came at him He was sitting at this desk writing. Well, how do you figure that and bottle of ink tipped over? Wonder if he has any papers here that'll tell us what we want to know Desk and rifled everything of any value has already been taken still all adds up to Tom Marks, doesn't it? Yep seems to We'll know for sure as soon as rally gets the report from the fingerprint expert Nick Nick come here. Look what I found in the sink. What this piece of paper. Let's see That's in dr. Phillips handwriting somebody tried to burn it out Then they threw it on the drain board of the sink here part of it didn't burn see if I can figure it out Like you to know The man whom I have trusted and worked with these many years is I have discovered The head of a giant dope peddling ring and using my premises to carry on his business. This man is Oh Fatsy Fatsy, where are you? Fatsy You all right Fatsy My head somebody hit me. Stay where you are. I found a switch Yeah, I'll find this which is just a second. Oh The lights won't work.  We're able to get up at sea. Oh sure I'm all right now. Just a big hen's egg on my head. That's all okay. Come on Nick did they take the note? That's what I want to find out. Let's see flash a light down in the sink Yeah, it's gone But wait, what are you going to do clean up the sink a little ashes don't look well scattered around on a white sink carefully now But Yeah, there we are Now we're ready ready for what to search this yacht from stem to stern What in places has been keeping you Nick? I've been cooling my heels on this dock for the past half hour here I hope you'd be here rally. Oh, oh Patsy, you look as if you'd seen a ghost on that yacht. I did somebody took a shot at the dock What that's a good knock down the fray doesn't get a nasty bump in there So who did it Nick whoever it was made a neat getaway That's a nice search the ship afterwards from end to end but didn't find a soul Did you see anybody coming in from the yacht? Now there is always coming off that board since I've been here Thank the only two people who've been near here was two fishermen. Are you sure they were fishermen am I sure and now look Nick Don't be giving me that it was bona fide fisherman. All right They pulled that little robot to shore away down the beach and I saw him bring in there to catch and a nice string of fish It was okay, okay, so they were really well. What about your report? Oh, oh that when Nick was right our fingerprint expert examined the marks on dr. Phillips neck and said he was Undoubted list tangled by a left-handed killer and now all we've got to do is find a left-handed man who had a reason to murder the doctor We found him. What's that? Dr. Phillips laboratory assistant Tom Mark has left-handed See you sure worked fast Nick and it's a good thing to the captain found out about your card being found on the body Hey, what kind of a scoundrel is this Tom Mark's? I don't know haven't seen him yet. Wasn't that his cottage and he wasn't in the lab in the yacht And let's make tax mr. Private detective and such the grounds here. Wait a minute. Wait a minute There's one thing more you want to know huh whoever killed dr. Stanley Phillips is the head of a giant dope ring Phillips was killed because he was about to expose the man Hey, that would be the laboratory assistant. He'd have access to drugs Who in tarnation is that Richard Cole's most friend of the Phillips and also the lawyer Rally yeah, there's an open your pocket careful of it piece of evidence that picked up in the boat. Okay, Nick Mr. Carter, I've been hunting everywhere for you. I'm it's cold. This is lieutenant Riley from headquarters.  I don't worry mr. Coles the law always gets its man What do you want to see me about mr. Cole rose Phillips? She's gone. How do you know come up to the house with me? I'll show you something. It's happened to what I'm sure hurry This is Rose's bedroom lieutenant Somebody was making a fast getaway. All right. Yes. Just look at the room Close true and all over one of her suitcases is gone and this suitcase half packed was left behind She and the laboratory assistant must have been in on this together if she wasn't guilty She wouldn't have run away. Oh, she must have been out of her mind Of course Rose was in love with Tom and Nick. What's the matter Betsy? What are you frowning at? Rose Phillips didn't run away. Well, who went to it didn't run away. What are you saying, Betsy? No girl will run away voluntarily and leave all her makeup behind. Look at that dressing table. Nothing's been touched You're right Betsy say do you suppose? Oh, no, no, what is it mr. Coles? Do you suppose that Tom could have forced her to leave to me to me kidnappers? Well, he won't get away with it I'll call headquarters and have a card and thrown around this entire district We'll catch Tom marks before he gets to the next town. Good idea Riley do that Well, mr. Coles. Yes, mr. Carter. I guess lieutenant Riley has this case all sewed up His men will have Tom marks and Rose Phillips within the hour Well, mr. Carter.  Oh, no, thanks You lieutenant. Why are you sure sure? I don't mind if I do of course Like yeah, thanks. Thanks. Well, goodbye, mr. Coles. Goodbye. Come on Betsy There's a one right over here on the table hurry up. That's it.  I hope not. Oh, well be careful. You don't step up in the water There's a small speed boat in the water When do you think they put it in dry docks or late in the season the pens Betsy look up there mounted in the bow But machine gun. Hmm. This boat was used for business Who'd ever think a quiet little chemist like dr. Phillips kept a mounted machine gun on a speedboat I believe this set up down here was news to dr. Phillips to hold on to my arm. We'll look around Oh, Nick, don't step on the fish string of fish Nick those fishermen Riley's all must have come in here Betsy This catch isn't fresh what those men use this string of dead fish just a fool Riley And those were the men who made trouble for us on the yacht. Yeah, they must have been Plenty of life preserver stacked up in here. Yeah, that's strange Yeah, Betsy take the flashlight and play on this one. Okay What are you doing taking it to pieces? No, just examining it There we have it what a small waterproof pockets been sewn in here Yes, and it extends all the way around inside this life is ever pretty clever Look Betsy and what is it these secret compartments are filled with dope about every one of these life preservers It's filled with drugs. Nobody would ever think of looking in a life preserver for evidence I think dr. Phillips did and that's why he was murdered. Are you okay, Betsy? Yes, but I can't stop crying. Well, that's not surprising somebody threw a tear gas bomb through the window. Oh That's right friends. It was to get who's there Pretty clever of me using the tools of my trade that way. Isn't it mr. Carter? But Tom Marks is always clever, so your Tom Marks, huh?  I'll take care of mr. Carter myself Come on At those iron weights in the bag Pete sure both of them this guy'll never be washed up on a beach like the duck was Good see you tie the bag good and tight. You know, I think he's passed out. He ain't moving none I did a chop on him before we put him in the bag I Listen to that game, would you? Sounds like a hood all over the cold in the head.  Okay That'll do it.   I choked him like a rat. He's still talking All right. All right speak your peace mr. Carter because you don't have much longer. You're not gonna get away with this I doubt it mr. Carter, you're going straight down to Davy Jones luck You'll pay for this I'll have you behind bars within 24 hours. Listen to him What do you fellas think you're gonna do a patsy boy? He's worrying about a dame when he's gonna lose his own neck Come on, let's get rid of him. It's dark enough now You got him all right I came as soon as I got your flashlight signal from the shore Nick You think the criminals are aboard the yacht here now? You'll see in a minute Elaboratory is right down this companion way.  What happened? They tried to pull the same trick on Nick that they pulled on Dr. Phillips Oh, you didn't work because Nick can expand his neck and wrist muscles. Yes I had my hands free before I hit the water There was no trigger all to cut my way out of the sack And then I clunked to the back of their motorboat until it reached the out here I waited for the would-be killers to get aboard untied patsy and here we are you're lucky Nick He's smart. That's all quiet. This is the door Keep your gun ready Good evening, mr. Coles what oh Nick Carter Well, come in mr. Carter. He's two friends of mine and myself were just discussing whether you had found the criminals I think we have mr. Coles good good. It's just one thing more. I need to make sure I have the criminals Riley, yeah, give me that envelope. I asked you to keep for me. Oh sure sure Nick Here you are. Thanks Now I'll just take the piece of burned paper out of this envelope. Well those are the pieces you gathered from the drain board Yes, Betsy They were from the notes Stanley Phillips wrote just before he was murdered Now I'll just use some of these chemicals in the burn paper You see gentlemen even though this piece of paper has been burned It is possible by using the correct chemical solution to bring out the writing that was on the paper before it was burned In this case, I expect the writing will give the name of the man Phillips designated as head of the giant drug ring and His killer ridiculous absolutely ridiculous. Yes, here it comes The chemicals are beginning to act Writing is beginning to show up Good the name is And I got these two such Nick not to much cold so I had a plug in the shoulder cold but I had to put you out of action And Riley, there's your mother so it was cold who did it. You're right Connor. I Killed him and the powers me praise Nick. I thought Tom works was the killer Those had me food to Riley until this afternoon when he came running down from the house And then I noticed his feet were wet as if you've been in waiting And he was one of the men on the yacht one of the fishermen Riley saw right Betsy and another thing The man who strangled me in the boat house claimed to be Tom Marks But Tom Marks is left-handed the man who tried to strangle me used his right hand and you knew Phillips was murdered by a left-handed man That's right. I knew I was after a left-handed murderer All right, you didn't notice that McColl's landed your cigarette for you this afternoon in Rosa's room. He used his left hand By a colleague he did then then he's left-handed too, right when I saw him do that I knew he was a killer, but I had to make him prove it or you did that all right that business about making the right And stand out in a piece of paper after it's burned is a new one to me Nick Can you actually do that? Well, it can be done under ideal conditions But this time I was just putting on an act for mr. Cole's benefit You mean you didn't actually make any writing appear on the burn paper not a word mr. Cole's and I fell for it like a sap What's that? I'm not sure Betsy, but I have a hunch It's locked me. Oh Patsy since when did a locked door ever stop Nick Carter quite right Riley when did it? This is no time for it to start so This one ought to do the trick there. We're on Nick Carter. Oh, thank her bro. This man with you is Tom Marks Miss Phillips.  Carter They tied us up and threw us in here.  Marks and no not quite I got a telephone call last night summoning me into the city to pick up some chemicals Dr Phillips and I needed in an experiment I was slugged as I stepped out of the car and when I came too late this afternoon I was in here and so was Rose that cause was a smart one throwing suspicion on you and then trying to We get rid of you in order to make it look as if you'd run away smart but not smart enough for Nick Well, Riley, you've got your murderer. I have that and Rose you and Tom are safe. Yes, thanks to you and I guess that's that Oh, no Nick.  Well, what's that Betsy that luncheon date you promised me Oh, where are you and I going to have lunch at this hour? Well, yeah, that's easy Betsy And it was swell place in town right across from the board. Come on This was another strange experience of Nick Carter master detective called the drug ring murder or Nick Carter in the mystery of the left-handed killer another of the curious adventures of Nick Carter, which are brought to you regularly at the same time by w o r mutual And now Nick, what can you tell us about next week's story when a young man who was a very Good friend of mine arrived in town to claim his bride He suddenly became aware that she was not the girl to whom he'd become engaged You mean she wasn't his fiancee? That was the question that started off the whole case Yes, indeed because we couldn't be sure whether the girl he loved was really the girl he loved We prevented two murders and saved a gigantic fortune from disappearing But you didn't save me from disappearing Nick. Oh quite true Betsy But after all you weren't going very long before we found you But I'm sure glad you found me when you did or I might not be here now So long folks get the rest of the story next week. Right so long and so long to you Nick and Betsy In the strange adventure you have just heard Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark Patsy by Helen Chote. The story was written for Nick Carter by Barth Connery. Original music was played by Lou White. The entire production was under the direction of Jock McGregor. Next week at the same time listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter entitled The Substitute Problem. This story is a kiperated feature of Street and Smith publications incorporated. The return of Nick Carter is produced in the studios of WOR and is broadcast over most of these stations every Wednesday evening at 8 30 Eastern wartime. This is mutual


Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley with another MVP Buzz Chat. I'm talking today with Belinda. Hello. Hi, Christian. How are you? I'm doing well. So it's always great to get to meet, uh, MVPs outside of my small ecosystem of SharePoint people, teams people.  Okay. I am Belinda Allen. I currently live in Charleston, South Carolina, and I lived in New York City longer than anywhere else in my life. So I like to think of myself as both Southern and Northern or Yankee, as we would call it down here. So that's a little bit about where I am. My husband's definitely Southern. My dad was a Marine, so I think of myself as being just, you know, a citizen of the United States in general. I'm an MVP in the data platform space, particularly Power BI. I've been one for 10 years. That was my goal 10 years. I made it. So I think I would still probably be a little sad if I didn't make 11 now that I hit 10, but it got here faster. What was your original, what was the original MVP data platform or has it evolved? Good catch. Good catch because Power BI has only been around for a little over five years, six years actually. I started out in the dynamic space. I was a Dynamics GP in VP, and so I worked with ERP systems. I did a lot of reporting. I kind of fell into Power BI completely backwards. So when Power BI first came out, you remember it was actually a spot in SharePoint online that utilized some features inside, some power features inside of Excel. And I was like glue on that. I was just on it like nobody's business. So Microsoft actually is the one who kind of redirected me and said, oh, look at the shiny object over here. And I turned and looked and there was Power BI and it was still at that point. And I'm like, yay. And then when they came out with full Power BI, they just completely, they didn't really completely drop me from GP, but they said, here's your focus now BI. And I'm like, yay. And although the GP team at Microsoft still considers me a GP MVP. And so they include me in a lot of topics there, which is helpful because I, you know, it's interesting. Seth Godin, do you know who Seth Godin is? Of course. Okay. So marketing undergrad and a marketing person, I think you have to know who's that marketing major. Yes. Okay. So Seth Godin is he is of my 2000s, like Tom Peters was pre 2000. He is the marketing guru of the 2000s and the current time. So Seth Godin had made a comment. I was watching him present at something I can't remember. And it's actually been since COVID. So, you know, you get the opportunity to attend a lot more virtual conferences that you would have never gone to otherwise. So I was attending one and he said something about you really have to someone was asking him like, well, what can I get into? What can I do? He goes, you have to be remarkably specific. And that stuck to me. So that actually pops up in my to-do list every day to be remarkably specific. And now for those of you in the US, you'll recognize this. I sing it every morning to the jingle of lucky charms, you know, be remarkably specific. And so now you probably will too. But that kind of stuck to me. So I thought, what is my remarkably specific? Because that was kind of how I fell into becoming an MVP in the first place. And so I thought, well, well, duh, it's Power BI for the SMB market, which covers everything from like a complex one user system to just below enterprise. Like that is my niche, ERP or accounting, distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, all of those things with Power BI. That's my remarkably specific. So I tend to focus on the GP space and the business central, the dynamics business central or dynamics nav space. So those are my two main areas. It's funny, I don't know business central to use. I've never had nav on my machine, but I'm very familiar with their data set. So I dig in the data all the time for that. So that is kind of how I ended up where I am now. So I typically only do Power Platform and that mostly Power BI, but I do dabble in Power Apps and Power Automate as well. Also about 12 years ago, I became an MCT of Microsoft certified trainer. I took a hiatus off in the middle, but I'm back at that because I love training. I love learning and I love sharing what I've learned. So that's, that's a little bit about me in a nutshell, who I am and what I do. So. Well, it's interesting that you say to be remarkably specific in the SMB space, where again, if you think of the size of organizations and what they want to do, it's actually a much broader space to, you know, they're less focused because you have to think about and SMB is generally a large enterprise as it, you know, having been an employee in a large, the very large company, 100,000 plus employees, you're able to go be very niche, very specific and go deep into something that's a very small scale. Whereas an SMB, a small mid-sized company, you really have to have expertise in the full range of and be thinking of end to end. What is the solution I need to provide? Right. There are less, that's less specific. Yes. You're exactly right. There are a few SMB, Microsoft partners that focus on a particular niche, but that is not, that's the exception, not the rule. So the rule is you basically, I mean, I did, I don't do a lot of manufacturing. I'll do some manufacturing reports, but I work with partners who tell me, you know, this is the data you need. I'll, you know, I'll data model it and have them verify it, but they're usually giving me guidance when it comes to that. But I, when you're talking about core accounting, the SMB space is pretty core accounting with distribution, you know, some of the business rules may be a little bit different, but it's all pretty much the same on like enterprise where it can get very different, very fast. I remember one time, so my husband and I worked together. Well, we still kind of do, although we take a little bit of different directions. He doesn't work with Microsoft products, but any longer. But when we both worked with ERP systems, he was on a plane one time sitting with a tier one ERP person and they were focused on accounts payable and we, when he got back and he was telling me about it, I mean, we just both laugh because the concept of just doing that one thing is just mind boggling to an SMB partner of ERP systems. So yeah, it is kind of all over the place, but you have to have that like all encompassing knowledge to be able to help them on anything to think about how it's going to reflect another one because their data set is nowhere near as large.  So you have to really be a little more all-encompassing when it comes to that. But there are really more core accounting situations that just go beyond general ledger information.  That does kind of break the rule remarkably specific, but I'm a huge Seth Godin fan. I also love Simon Sinek. He just blows my mind. So he wrote the book, what was it? Not Find the Why. Leaders Eat Last was one of the best ones. It was one of my favorite all-time business books, but Behind the Why. Oh, I can't believe it. I can't remember, but he's awesome. I'll need to go look that one up. Yeah. If you ever get a chance to see him in person, then you speak, you have to. He's absolutely remarkable. Leaders Eat Last is an amazing book, because he starts out telling a story about how the military does. It's like when they're eating chow. That's what they're talking about. When they're eating lunch or at the mess hall, they let all of the lower ranking soldiers in first, and then the brass eats last. And so it's kind of an interesting thought process, but he's pretty cool. I follow him on Facebook, too, because he occasionally will put just like a one word blurb out there. And one of the things that I've always, and I still try to remember to tell people is people buy benefits. They don't buy features. I mean, we've been told that by the Great Plains people, the GP people, the Microsoft people for the 30 something years we've been in business, and that is absolutely true. Nobody buys features. They just buy what's going to make their job easier and what's going to make the company prosper. And so he put something out there very similar to that. And so that's become part, his quote specifically has been, I mean, that was the gist of it has become part of my topic of the year for 2022, which is user adoption and for Power BI. And so that's like that and diversity. Diversity has been my topic, my MVP topic. That's one of the things I've been working on with Microsoft for last year and this year. And it's really more for gender marginalized people, particularly women. And Kristen, you've been to MVP Summit. You know how different the percentages are from into women there?  So and ladies, you should really work on becoming MVP and go to the MVP Summit in person because if you've ever been to a sporting event where the ladies restroom line is like a mile and a half long and the guys just walk in, it is just the opposite at the MVP Summit. So I kind of like laugh and wave it on the way into the ladies room. But that's a sad account there. But yeah, so and people of color and people who are differently abled. And so and anyone who's part of the LGBT community, which I also consider gender marginalized. So these are the focus of people that I work on. But then my topic of passion for this year is user adoption. Well, there's a well, first, I have to say that so since you brought up Seth Godin to so there's three books that I would always recommend whenever I had I managed teams of people over the years. There's three books that I would purchase. In fact, I have multiple copies of all three of them. And I've given them out, I've given them to my children to go and read. But from Seth Godin our purple cow. Yes. And then my my favorite, which is all marketers or liars. I know he altered the title and updated that still. But those two books, which are all about being different, standing out, being remarkable. And then the other one is around being authentic and the authentic voice in the storytelling and they really do go well together. The third, if you've not read it, I just absolutely love it. It's my favorite, which is Marcus Buckingham, which is first break all the rules fantastic, which is all about it's a great leadership book. It's my management style, which is the managed to people strengths, not their weaknesses. And it's kind of against this idea that there's this the concept of the well rounded employee that your employees must be good at everything like no, I want them to be lopsided.  And I want to give them as much as I can of the things that they're most passionate about, and that they do the best at, and then structure a team around everybody being lopsided, but then working together to deliver the whole. And those teams outperform those where everybody is balanced and well rounded. Absolutely. I always have what I have a lot of balloon isms or theory, personal theories. And one of them is that everybody has a pocket of power. Now that also goes with everybody's weird. So, you know, everyone who thinks like, oh, I'm the only one who maybe gets embarrassed to ask a question. I want to ask question because it embarrasses me to ask a question. I'm not like that. But I have family members who are like that. And that's okay. I mean, everybody's got their weirdness. I am definitely a weirdo in a lot of different ways. And then everyone's got their pocket of power, something that they're really good at. And it's usually something they're passionate about too. So I love that. That's really cool. I'm going to I'm going to check that out. It's a great. It's an easy read. It's a good, good book. And then I mean, there's other ones that are fantastic out there. Like I love the goal by Eli Goldrad is a fantastic book and others. But yeah, it's one of mine. If I open up the cabinets behind me, I'm sure you'd have half the books as well behind there. But no, it's a great space. Well, so kind of last question here. So we talked about a little bit like your path. I'm sure you've had the conversation when people say like, what is the right path to become an MVP? Like, what is your guidance? How do you do you mentor people actively? And what can I do give people? I do. First of all, they have to figure out what what they're really excited about. And and well, to begin with, they have to be someone who wants to make the compute community better, because that's really what the program is about. And it's, it's Microsoft doesn't give this out to people who are smart, right? They give it out to people who are passionate about making the community better. And so in a lot of cases, they'll say, well, I don't really know the product well enough. And I'm like, well, then you're the perfect person.  Let them learn it with you. That's perfect. It doesn't that I mean, that's just a perfect way to do it. I say that again and again to people and they don't that doesn't seem to translate. They don't understand like, I need to develop my level of expertise. I'm like, no, that's exactly what you say. There are through the journey. There is someone out there, no matter what level you are, there are people out there who are looking for information who are at your same level, whether it's I know what power BI is, but I don't know anything about it to Oh, I'm a high end developer who's doing, you know, creating custom visuals to embed and you know, whatever, whatever. So yeah, there's all levels. So and then the other thing is you have to find out what your, what, what activity you're comfortable sharing it. So some people blog other people's like answering forum questions. Some people present. Well, back when we first became MVPs, you could write a book and pretty much be assured an MVP status. I don't think that's the case anymore. So you have to figure out where your spaces and where you're sharing, you know, do you make videos? What do you do? Like I am not a forum contributor. I've tried multiple times. It doesn't interest me. I like reading forums when I'm looking at questions, but it's not a Belinda activity. Yeah, you know what? Maybe it's the marketer in us. Maybe we just like to hear our own voice. I don't know, but I prefer my voice does sound great. I think so too. Mate, I like to present. I like doing videos. I do a lot of different activities via YouTube. So those are things that I'm very comfortable with. And I know not everybody's comfortable with that, nor should they have to be. So just find where you're sharing opportunity is. I mean, it could be working with high school students. I mean, there are some programs where you could teach some extra courses to different high schools in the area. That's something very common with Microsoft. One of my passions is training. I am also speaking of the diversity I've got. My goal is to, Microsoft is saying 100, but I'm saying 75. My goal is to get 75 people of diversity certified in Power BI, particularly with a data analyst. And I am, looks like by June 30th and looks like so far I'm, you know, getting, I'm prepping people and training them, you know, and working with them. And so I have a couple of programs that sorry, they're full right now. But I'm doing that. And so what, whatever your passion is, I mean, there are so many ways you could share with the community and help Microsoft help the world is what this, this program is all about touchy-filly. So and that's what we do. So you could see everybody does something amazingly different. Some people write free products, free tools, they share it open source. That's another way.  So whatever it is. So those are the things I say, you got to find, you got to take be willing to take people on your journey from where you are right now. It doesn't matter if you don't know something. If you don't know it, then all the better. And, and don't worry if your topic's different. I certainly have switched. I didn't even take a gap here. I mean, Microsoft switched me for me. I didn't have to do anything. They were like, the Microsoft people said, Oh, I thought, or the Power BI people said, I thought you were already Power BI in VP. And I'm like, no. And they're like, okay, you will be next year. And then that was it. I was switched. And so like, okay, great. That's, that's one great thing. There, there is so much that's going on. You might not really know what you want to focus on, get involved, be involved with your user group and just suddenly something may just, you know, you'll touch a nerve and you like, Hey, that's it. I like, I'm really excited about that. And then just go deep dive into that area. Yeah, you're a perfect example of that because SharePoint and teams. Okay, so my first experience with SharePoint pre SAS version, you know, the old SharePoint server. Of course. Oh, it was torture for me being a GP girl, trying to get that worked out. But I, you know, I did it. It was a struggle. And then when Power BI first came and was part of SharePoint online, I'm like, Oh, I can dig this. I really like SharePoint online. I love SharePoint lists. And so I was really excited about those two things. And but when teams came out, I'm the only one I know who thinks of teams this way. But I think of teams as a easier user interface for organizing your files and SharePoint. And so what it is, that's what it is. Yeah, it's the interface we always wanted for SharePoint. I know. Yeah. So that said, it would be easy if you were like a SharePoint MVP to all of a sudden become a teams MVP just because of that. And so, yeah, so I to me, that's what that's what that's what teams is all about, you know, and if I want to go directly into the files, I just go to one drive. I don't even I only go into SharePoint if I want to create a list. Hmm. Wow. I'm still utilizing SharePoint. I just use the list that, you know, from within teams, but but I do the same thing with it. When I sometimes I want to go in and modify something or change permissions and or look at something more closely. And that's when I'll go into SharePoint. So, you know, growing up within SharePoint, I rarely use SharePoint per se. It's usually via lists through teams. And now I love storing files in SharePoint because of that, because teams makes it the user interface is just simple. It's just simple. And so, yeah, in our company, we use which now it's just my husband and myself because like I said, he's cause I retired and me, I'm, you know, I'm doing just training now and having fun and coaching a little bit of coaching. So, yeah, I mean, it makes it it's a world of difference. I love storing stuff in teams. And then I can I can keep things I share with customers in one drive. All of our documents are in teams and they're organized and they're beautiful based on our teams that we set up in teams. And I love it. I think it's awesome. But we can get into like the things that are still lacking within teams in the SharePoint world. That's a whole nother conversation. But yeah, we're out of time. But you know, but I really appreciate the time to to get to know you and and you have a lot of the same friends and run the similar circles. That's how big the MVP world is that we've never met. Of course, the last, you know, we both became MVPs in 2012. And yet maybe after this is all over, we start getting back together. And we'll see each other at the next MVP summit. Absolutely. Yeah, there's like two or three thousand of us worldwide. That's it. And so it's small and it's large at the same time, because I don't know MVPs in a lot of other spaces. But but we all bleed over into other spaces. So we know people in common. A lot of overlap. That's a lot of for people that want to find out more about you get in touch. What are the best ways to reach you? So Ms. Belinda Allen, Ms. Belinda Allen is my website. It's also my Twitter handle. It's also how you could find me in LinkedIn. So Ms. Ms. Belinda Allen, all one word. Excellent. Well, it's great to connecting with you and we'll talk to you soon. I had a great time. Thanks.


Hey everyone, Nintendo Ruffle Janssen from Nintendo Prime and look, there is a report out today from Nikkei, the reputable Japanese newspaper and website from Japan that attended the meeting at the investors meeting and got to talk directly to Shintaro Furukawa. And their report has a very interesting conclusion coming out from Takahashi Matsuzuki. Now Takahashi Matsuzuki as you know is the person that was responsible for the validity of so many Switch Pro rumors last year. And what's interesting is that he came out here and quoted the article as saying there will be no new Nintendo hardware this fiscal year which ends in March of 2023. Now that's the direct quote. He does go on to note not immediately clear whether that part of the article is from Nikkei's own reporting or what Nintendo president who Nikkei interviewed for the story said. Now this article is behind a paywall in Japan that I have tried and unsuccessfully been able to get behind but either way I would have been reliant on Google Translate. So instead we actually have somebody who regularly covers Nintendo Switch and Nintendo products in Japan, an actual analyst, somebody that we normally get a whole bunch of stuff from the meeting from. As an example, this person literally is an investor that attends Nintendo's investors meetings and David Gibson who responded to this and clarified exactly what Nintendo said. So is it true that hey look all the people hoping for Nintendo Switch hardware, new hardware before the end of the current fiscal year can just give up? Is it true that you know what Nintendo has no plans whatsoever to actually release anything new? And is that really the direction of Nintendo moving forward? That they're just going to ride Switch until they can't ride it anymore? Well let's find out about that after I remind you that hey we do have a giveaway going on. You know what you want details on it we have a pinned comment down in the description and yeah there'll be a code dropping later in the video so pay attention because you get an extra 20 entries and we're doing this every day. So when I'm looking at what David Gibson said and I believe that I've actually interpreted what he said correctly he responded on Twitter directly to Takahashi Matsuzuki's article and he said here are the actual quotes from Nintendo CEO Shintaro Furukawa in the article and it's weird because Takahashi Matsuzuki also you know speaks native Japanese so it's really curious that David Gibson is the one actually providing the quotes. I don't know why Takahashi Matsuzuki was acting like hey we're not really sure if these came from Nintendo. No, no the only quotes in the article from Nintendo CEO are as follows. Normally we would stockpile inventory in the summer to be ready for the end of the year when it is at its peak. This summer we have not been able to produce as much as in previous years so this is referencing obviously where Shintaro Furukawa also said during the meeting that hey we've been having a hard time making enough units we might even use planes and whatever to fly units out during the holiday season but essentially this summer has had lower production than the last two years okay that's that's sort of what he's inferring however does that lower production mean that Nintendo's in trouble does it mean that there's a dooming gloom at Nintendo this doesn't mean oh man we just can't produce enough units so you know what we're done we're not going to be able to to do anything new any new products however here's what he actually said the actual quote from Shintaro Furukawa even if we could produce the volume that we want I'm not optimistic that we will be able to sell it all now their guidance which is their current projections call for 18 million sales in the next nine months what I find interesting here is how those quotes are being interpreted by Nikkei with an opinion that Nintendo will not be releasing new hardware in the next you know fiscal year before before the end of of march or 2023 now look I want to clarify here I don't have a horse in this race okay I don't work for Nintendo I don't work for these analyst companies I don't make any money whether switch bro comes out or not or whether a next generation switch or switch like oh that 5g that I've already debunked look I it doesn't matter to me in the end if these come out or not what matters to me is I get amazing games and I still have amazing games coming forward poke on scott violet we have paid at three we got uh breath of the wild two at some point you know we look with the the amazing games just keep coming and Nintendo has an absolutely stellar lineup both this year and at least to kick off next year breath of the wild two so that's what I care about as a gamer but it also I'm a tech enthusiast I like tech you know Samsung galaxy s-22 ultra like you know that's that's one of the best android if not the best android phones on the market you know julia is rocking an iphone 13 pro max my fiance because hey I love technology we got literally the aca bucka sucka of audio equipment here I believe there are certain reviews that are calling this roadcaster pro to the tesla of audio equipment because it just does everything it's awesome and you know we got these brand new microphones which are equally amazing microphones some of the best microphones in the world for broadcast content so I obviously love technology I'm not adverse to technology but I don't need a switch so whether or not we're getting a new switch doesn't necessarily matter that much to me even if I know I will buy it however we need to make sure we understand the context of this article nick a is interpreting shinter for akawa saying hey we haven't been able to make as many units this summer as in prior summers they're interpreting nintendo's having a problem at manufacturing so of course they're not going to release a new platform in the next you know however many months nintendo was having a problem by the way with manufacturing last year and we weren't supposed to get a new product and we got the switch OLED so it's sort of a opinion of nick a that because shinter for akawa said hey we're not making as many units as prior summers that you know we're obviously having issues but I want to actually focus on the second part of the quote where shinter for akawa actually stated even if they hit the targets that they want to internally he's not really even sure they're going to sell it all think about that for a moment that sounds like a president that is self-admitting switch has peaked we're on the downturn it's actually not that hard to buy one right now you can regularly but you can walk into any store in japan right now and buy a switch you can walk into pretty much any store in the united states right now and buy a switch canada uk australia all of europe like all the major territories it's actually not that hard to get a switch right now i'm not saying that the shelves are fully stocked and stocked to the brim and maybe your local retailers are stocked to the brim but between online shopping and in person shopping it's actually pretty easy to get a switch it's the easiest system to get even easier than an xbox series s so it is extremely easy to get your hands on switch and that tells you nintendo has not only caught up to demand the demand is probably decreased a little bit and even if they were able to produce every unit they want to which nintendo by the way didn't change their forecast which means they still think they're going to produce enough switches to hit 18 million switches in the next nine months right so they still feel like they have enough manufacturing to hit their projections if they were producing to the level that they probably would be comfortable with to have extra product right you want extra product for after this fiscal year he doesn't think it'll sell and he doesn't think it'll sell i think that's i think it's really important i'll make he could be wrong and he could sell but shinter for akawa seems to be seeing the writing on the wall for switch right 25 million you know or was it 28 million in 2020 to 25 million in 2021 to just 20 million projected in total for 2022 fiscal year i think he sees the writing on the wall and i talked about this before that nintendo is being ran by a businessman shinter for akawa is a business man he is not a game developer he is not somebody with you know that's headed up a bunch of studios he literally came from the finance world and when you're from the finance world you have a different analytical brain when looking at data and the data is telling him and i told you guys because it was telling me the same thing months ago that the switch is on decline we are no longer in the middle of the switches lifecycle the switch is on decline and shinter for akawa has referenced multiple times in the last 12 months that he seems to be aware of this this is the first time he's actually directly mentioned i don't think we could sell all the units even if we made them so hey you know what it doesn't matter that we can't make enough switches this summer because we already are making enough we don't need more he knows shinter for akawa knows the switch is on the downturn and even if they made all the units possible they would not be able to necessarily sell them all which means switch has reached a saturation point that doesn't mean it can't sell another 15 to 18 million units next fiscal year that doesn't mean it couldn't sell another 10 to 14 10 to 12 but what it does mean is you're going to see regular declines in sales and what have we noted from shinter akawa for akawa in the past he's talking the past he is a little bit worried about how nintendo is going to transition to the next generation he's talked years ago when he first became president that the number one thing he wants to avoid as president and ceo of nintendo is he doesn't want to see them have the massive success of switch and then fall off a cliff like they did with we and ds he talked about this in at length at multiple investors meetings how he wants to avoid the cliff the cliff is you fall off now look they're not at the cliff point yet because the switch is still on pace to sell 20 million this fiscal year at least according to their projections that pacing is still there but that's still eight million less than they sold two years ago that's still five million less than they sold last year if you're looking at a decline of three to five million in sales per year yes you are on the decline and at some point you need to do something about that decline and if he waits any melts this system to maximize every little dollar and every little sale you can get out of it like nintendo did with we like they did with ds you end up releasing a platform too late to keep momentum you want to release platforms while momentum is there and while shuntura furukawa hasn't directly stated that he needs to release a platform while they still have momentum it makes sense so when i read this headline coming from takahashi machizuki who is really just quoting a quote from the nikkei article that's really just the opinion of nikkei based interpreting what shuntura furukawa said about not being able to make as many switch units as they would like to this summer what i read that as is hey nikkei thinks they're not going to release a new platform before the end of 2023 but shuntura furukawa's own words are sort of speaking against it he's saying hey we've reached saturation we have reached the point of no return with switch if we produce more switches we aren't even sure they'll sell and if that is the case that's when it's time to get new hardware out the door if nothing else what shuntura furukawa said actually leans more credit to drop in a new platform before the end of this fiscal year now look again i told you i know horse in this race this is just what nintendo should do if shuntura furukawa truly feels this way if shuntura furukawa truly feels that if they were actually making the amount of switches they want to right now that they wouldn't be able to sell them all then it's time to get your next platform out the door whether it's a pro whether it's next gen but it's time and i think shuntura furukawa isn't stupid he thinks financially he recognizes we need to stop letting momentum go down because that's what's happening nintendo's momentum is on the decline he needs to get it going back up and you're not going to get it going back up by milking the switch and just really see more and more games i know a lot of you was saying just release more games give us mario galaxy 2 give us mature prime 4 give us breath of the wild 2 that's going to help sure software sales it'll help a little bit but it's not going to fix the declining hardware sales legend's archiest and fixed the declining hardware sales zeno blade is not going to splitunes not going to the holiday periods aren't going to because we've been seeing these declining sales for multiple years despite big games coming on so nintendo i think is actually more likely to release a new platform before the end of this fiscal year based on what shuntura furukawa said here then not and if not by the end of this current fiscal year expect a holiday 2023 launch of something and i'm saying this just because it makes logical sense so it's not a rumor or whatever this is just logic based thinking looking into what shuntura furukawa has said this entire time one he still won't deny if there's new hardware coming this fiscal year asked directly on if there'll be new hardware in the current fiscal year shuntura furukawa said no comment asked about oh what about the semiconductor shortage and and yes we aren't making enough switches this summer however our projections didn't change and you know what i'm not really sure if we made more switches that we would even be able to sell the damn things yeah that sounds like someone admitting it's time for the next big thing not the opposite so i disagree with nikkei's interpretation and apparently so does david gibson and notably to support that because you might go that's just you're just a rambling random youtuber who cares what you have to say well there was a person who responded to david gibson on the quote of even if we can produce the volume we want i'm not optimistic that we were able to sell it all and that their guidance still calls for the 18 million in the next next 10 months um this guy named captain falcon love that username responded to any thoughts on the comment about new hardware doesn't seem to be a quote from furukawa himself so unclear what it means i responded and i was just interpreting what david said and i said seems to be speculation because they don't think they can make enough hardware however he also says that they aren't sure even if they did make enough that it would sell sounds like he just feels like switches on a downturn which means that new hardware actually makes sense and i put a question mark on that and david gibson himself liked my comment which means he agrees with my interpretation of what he said so there you go that is actually the current state of new hardware it's that you know what we don't have any new information but the report out there is incorrect and actually furukawa's saying things that support moving on so take that for what you will uh you guys are gonna obviously have your interesting debates and call me names there's gonna always be people that call me names but you know what for once sure furukawa's talking so we we need to be paying attention and uh depending on what actions he takes in the future we'll let you know in the future when he comments you know like if new hardware comes out you know by the end of the fiscal year end of 2023 then we can already figure out how shinshura furukawa works and what his comments actually mean remember he hasn't launched really much so we have to remember with shinshura furukawa we're in uncharted territory because none of us know exactly how his mind works except that he cares more about finances than he does about core video games he leaves the video game stuff up to video game people he's a businessman and he is going to do what he can to avoid the cliff so we'll see what that actually means because I have no idea anyways I'm Nathanian Rufflejantz from Nintendo Prime I want to thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video


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