Inside Uncle Marv’s NetAlly Go Bag (EP 803)

Hello, friends, Uncle Marv here with another episode of the IT Business Podcast, the show for IT professionals and managed service providers. And I try to do my best to help you run your business better, smarter and faster tonight. If you are watching, this video is the Wednesday live show.

And taking a little bit of break from guests, I'm still releasing episodes from ASCII Orlando. I've also had some episodes where I've done a couple of MSPs, a couple of vendors, had a great interview with Action One. So all of those have been released. 

I have, I don't know, maybe another seven or eight videos still to be released, both from ASCII Edge. I've got more of the NSITSP member profiles that will be coming as well. So we are going to be jam-packed. 

And some of you are thinking, you know, dude, do you have time to work? Yes. Yes, I do. As a matter of fact, I am doing so well in work that I have one task left of that 365 migration that has been going on and on and on. 

So I will have an update on that probably next week. But yes, I am one task away, has nothing to do with the original migration. Basically, a change order add-on. 

So I will be billing extra for that, but everything is great. The client is happy and we should hear how it goes. Tonight's show, again, I have no guest and I have no real sponsor except for my good friends at NetAlly, all of the other sponsors I will mention just because they are so great and they help me with the travel and the gear. 

TruGrid, LionGuard, Bvoip, Rhythms, and Designer Ready. All of those people have helped throughout the show. But tonight is going to be all about NetAlly. 

I will get into that. We're going to get into my go bag. I do have another update. 

Some of you saw my Facebook posts from two weekends ago where I was up in Orlando just after the Ask the Edge event. We were moving a client from one office to another and I had a joyful time with the cable installation, the cubicle installation. I can't say much about the ISP vendor because I had to have a chat with some people about the tech that showed up, so that was fun. 

But they are almost 100% in. They're up and running. They're good to go.

They are running off the broadband connection. We're waiting for the Ethernet cable to be installed to complete their SD-WAN, so hopefully that will be done soon. What happened was is that the people that brought in the fiber did not extend the DMARC like they were supposed to or like they normally do. 

They left it in the first floor electrical room. So when we showed up to do the test, the Windstream Tech, yes, I said their name, did not know where the circuit was. And this is a building where we do not have access to the electrical room because there is no property manager on site. 

There are engineers that come to the building, but they only come on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they're gone by 4 p.m. And by the time we realized that, it was almost 5 p.m., so we couldn't get anything done there. The installation was on a Friday, so obviously no access to the electrical room on that day as well. But we didn't know we had to extend the DMARC, so found that out on just this past Friday and called my trusty cable folks up in Orlando to see if they could go back and extend the DMARC. 

They will be there tomorrow. I don't know if they'll be able to extend it tomorrow because it's not only got to go up a floor, it's got to go around some elevators, some bathrooms, down the hall. It could be fun. 

So hopefully that'll get done and then I will be making another trip to finish adding that Ethernet circuit to the network as well as hoping that the client gets four more cubicles in so we can set up four more workstations and have that office complete. And then we're going to turn around and do this again because they are also moving a Tampa office. So I will be in the Tampa area probably in the next 30 to 60 days doing this whole thing again. 

And that project actually got off to a great start because Windstream again let their right of entry contract expire with that building. So I don't know if many of you know that, but a lot of these office buildings, they actually have agreements with these vendors as to who can come in, who can do the work, and they have this right of entry assignment agreement that they do. And apparently that had expired and the building was not going to let them in, which is frustrating because the client was moving up one floor, same building, literally the same space. 

They're literally moving from one office on the third floor, up a floor to the fourth floor. I would suspect everything should be the same. They are getting a smaller space. 

They're downsizing after the year of our COVID with remote work and all of that stuff. But it's going to be interesting. I think they're going to be able to resolve this by doing a COI and doing a certificate of insurance just for this one visit and get that done. 

So hopefully that will be done soon. The customer does have to do some build out and stuff, but I will be visiting Tampa and enjoying all the glory of checking cables and moving computers and all of that stuff as well. So look forward to that. 

I don't have any travel scheduled until, I believe, June. May or June. Pax8 Beyond, and IT Nation. 

I forget which one is first, but those are the two events that I'm going to next. I will not be making a trip up to Newark as Rhythm's advertised that I will be there, not making that trip. And I don't think I'll be making the trip to Toronto, I believe, is the next one after that. 

So no ASCII EDGE visits in the next couple months. I got to slow down. I got to take it easy. 

I got to work. I set up a client here. I probably did not tell everybody this story, but my oldest client, I've been in business since 1997. 

I acquired this client at the end of 1998. He is a lawyer. He used to have a staff of, I think it was somewhere just under 20 when we first met. 

And he has been basically slowing down. Partners have left. It was he and his brother that ran the firm. 

His brother split a few years ago and actually passed away. He is, let me say this gently. He's being pushed out. 

Dude needs to retire, but he doesn't want to. So we kind of had a discussion about what he should do. He didn't want to do some computer upgrades, blah, blah, blah. 

So the bottom line is we moved their entire network here to our office. So his server, because they still have a legacy server, they have legal software that has to run on a physical server. So their server and workstations are here and they can remote in if they need to using TruGrid. 

Their main secretary is actually maybe two or three miles away from here. So we've got a little desk set up with a KVM switch so that she can come in and sit at the desk and work physically at the station if she wants to. We have a desk phone set up for them. 

Their printer is connected. She actually came in yesterday to print off some stuff real quick. So it's got a nice little setup there. 

So they're paying us for our managed services still to maintain the equipment and they're paying a little bit of rent. So that helps as well. I've got some other stories, but I'm going to save that.

I think I've shared enough personal stuff tonight. That's a lot of stuff for me to share. Tonight, before I forget, I also have pages here to remind me because last week I told a Florida man story and did not put the link in the show notes. 

You guys were quite upset. So I apologize for that. So I am going to make sure that we get the Florida man links in the show notes. 

I'm going to go back and give you a video of a Florida man story. It's actually a Florida woman's story. So that should be fun. 

And I should do a shout out to Michelle Accardi from LionGuard because Michelle sent me a link on the Facebook and thought that she found a story that was so Florida man. And yes, it was a great Florida man story, but I'll explain more about that link a little bit later. What I thought I would do tonight is I've been talking with you guys about doing these NetAlly videos and going through all of the handheld tools that I talk about.

I was supposed to be doing stuff with NetAlly that has not worked its way out because of scheduling. Some of it their fault, some of it my fault, some of it just the way the world turns. So I thought, let me at least start doing some stuff for you. 

And I wanted to start with the go bag because I have commented on the show many times that I go everywhere with my bag of tools. So I want to prove that to you by showing you the actual bag. And this is it. 

This is, yeah, this is a hefty bag, folks. So it is obviously NetAlly branded. That is what goes with me. 

And I have two bags. I have one bag that is kind of like my executive bag. It has my notepad. 

It has any folders for clients. It's got my laptop, my tablet, some other many things. It also has one of the NetAlly tools, which I'm going to go into detail later. 

But a lot of times when I walk into a client's office, I will walk in with my phone, a notepad and tablet, and this. I don't walk in with my notebook. I don't walk in with tools.

I actually for a long time did have a tiny little screwdriver in here so that if I needed to do something with the screwdriver, I had that. But I don't have that here. I did not prep the bag before we started tonight. 

So I at least want to show you that when I tell you that I, you know, take this bag with me, this bag goes with me. I do go through the trouble of taking it out of the car every night because it's probably about the same value as the car. So I'm not going to have it broken into and stolen. 

So it comes in every night. If I'm traveling, it comes into the hotel with me as well. And the wife is sometimes jealous, sometimes just as studious as me and saying, hey, do you have your bag? And I say, yes, I do. 

So let me show you what's in here. So in the front of the bag, well, let me do this. Let me actually go through these tools here. 

So I have the NetAlly AirCheck G3. So this nice little tester, of course, is basically for Wi-Fi testing, troubleshooting. It does do Wi-Fi 6E. 

And this is essentially the tool that if somebody tells me that they have a terrible connection or they have no signal, yes, we can go over with our phone and we can use the apps on the phone to test things. We can grab a And I will go through this device in much more detail later, but this is in the bag. Also in the bag is this bad boy. 

Now, I've talked about this before. We've gone into this in detail a couple of years ago. The last time, I believe, Mike Pennacchi and I were on the show talking about all the things that we can do with that. 

And the EtherScope, in a sense, is the multi-tool of everything. It has both a regular copper tester and a Wi-Fi tester and a fiber tester built in as well. So all three things are here. 

The side port here can be used for cable testing. So I have that. I can also add in some tools here. 

There's a USB port here where you can plug in things. For instance, there's a Spectrum Air Analyzer that can be used with this when you're doing Wi-Fi testing. Very nice tool. 

So this is probably the one that I use the most out of all the tools because it does so many things. And I should probably let you all know that if you've not seen these tools before, specifically the EtherScope that I have here, and then, of course, the next tool up, which is the CyberScope. And I'll tell you more about this in a minute. 

But what the EtherScope does is it will connect to the network and validate. And it'll go out and do a network check. It'll try to get a DHCP IP address, check DNS, check the gateway, check internet connection. 

And it can be set up to actually do tests to websites so that you can prove that traffic is flowing. It will go out and discover anything that is physically connected to the network. And if you have Wi-Fi enabled and you have, for instance, you have a private Wi-Fi that can access the local LAN, it'll scan and show you those devices as well.

So again, I'll go into more detail about this later, but this is probably the nice tool to have. If you need to walk into a network that you've never seen and you want to get as much information as you can, this would be the device. It does so much. 

It gets into discovery inside of switches if they're managed, telling you port assignments, telling you VLANs, telling you packet loss, all of that stuff. So that is great. And then I mentioned the CyberScope. 

Basically, the CyberScope is the next generation of the EtherScope. It does all the same things as the EtherScope, but it adds some netstat capabilities so that you can detect open ports inside of things like servers and switches and use this as a kind of cybersecurity tool. I'll be honest, I've not done a lot of that. 

I did go in; I've played with a lot of the built-in scripts that are already there. You can, of course, add your scripts. I just haven't done that yet, so that will be something that hopefully I'll do more of later. 

So then, of course, you've got the power cable that's got to go with it and multiple patch cables. And I try to get green to match the units there so that if I'm done with an office and I'm cleaning up, I make sure that I grab all my cables and keeping them green should allow me to see them and not mix up any cables that are at the client. And I do color code my cables. 

So, you know, black for phones, blue for network, and then I've got special cables for my servers and switches and stuff. Now, what's also in the front of the bag here, and I'll pull these out, I've got a bag here of cable identifiers. So these little things here are essentially what I can use to do basic cable testing. 

For instance, when I was in Orlando just two weeks ago after the cable folks installed their stuff, they had just a basic little tester from Lowe's. It was a little Klein. And not that there's anything wrong with Klein if you get the right one, but if you're just doing basic cable testing, they weren't certifying or validating them. 

I can go in, I put these, I have six of them that I put into the patch panel, and I just go around to the ports and I check the cables as well. And that will give me, you know, the, you know, the line mapping. It'll tell me if there's any shorts or anything like that during the cable test. 

There is, I don't remember if these came, I don't remember if these came with it or not, or if I got these on my own, but these are basically little connectors so that if you've got a cable that you need to test or check, and obviously this won't connect to here, so you put that in there, you put the cable in there, you put the NetAlly tool on the other side, and you can test that cable. That is if you're not using the side port to test cables, and we'll go into that a little bit later. At this point, I just realized that if you are listening to this by audio, you are not seeing a darn thing. 

So there will be a link in the show notes that if you want to see this, it will have a link to the video and you can see that. I also have some SFP modules in here. As I mentioned, these will test fiber, so I keep the fiber modules with me as well, and I actually have two sets. 

And these are some of the more generic ones. This one is a 10G Tech, and I don't want to open this one, but I think this is... they're not the old Netgears. But sometimes it's weird. 

Some switches have weird little things where they may not work with every SFP module. For instance, I use Ingenious switches a lot, so I actually have Ingenious SFP modules. I don't keep them in the bag because I found these two that not only work with Ingenious, but they work on just about every other switch that I've run across. 

HP, Netgear, D-Link, some of those. So I keep these SFP modules so that that is there. Batteries. 

And the reason I have batteries is because this right here is a test accessory, and it's a little module that basically fits in your pocket. But if you need to do some testing of cable and you want to, I don't know, run across some packets and do some testing there, this will be a reflector and send packets back to the EtherScope. There's also a LinkRunner AT version, which looks like the AirCheck but has the physical cable stuff in here. 

I don't have that with me. It's somewhere here in the office, but I do have one of those as well. But this is what's paired with the test accessory so that you can send testing and actually test the cable back and forth. 

And the reason the batteries are there is because this requires batteries. And then I also have the LinkSprinter, and that's in my primary bag, which I'm not going to show you everything there. But I still have the original LinkSprinter in the orange, the old flute orange that I have. 

And again, this can use batteries, but most of the switches that I deploy are PoE. And this LinkSprinter is powered off of PoE, so I don't keep the batteries in there, at least for most of my clients, because I can plug this in, it turns on and starts to work right as well. And then I've got, of course, little cables. 

But I also have... Now, this is one that I got from Flute, but I just keep a USB stick in here because on these devices, especially the EtherScope, the tests that you run can be saved to an SD card that is in here. I'll pull it out just real quick. And yes, I'm not a YouTuber, so... But there's an SD card, that stuff is saved in here. 

But if you want to take things and manipulate them, do other reports, you can save stuff to a USB thumb drive. So I keep a thumb drive just in case I want to do that sort of stuff. So... That's my gold bag. 

So let me patch stuff up here. Oh, in the back, I've got fiber cables as well, so I can do those testing. And what I don't seem to have... I have another bag, and in there is one of those Wi-Fi flag poles, where if I really need to do some stuff in there with the Wi-Fi, I can do more in there. 

Let me see. There was a couple of things that popped up here. I see Tom. 

That's a nice bag. I'm sure it's good to everybody needs a nXG V-3. There are... in that bag, aren't there? Nope, no nun chucks.

I do pack a lot of stuff in here. Usually, there's more, but I was just in Orlando and had to make room for that. So let me go through the Lynx printer. 

So the reason I set this one separate is that this one goes into the main bag. So if I am in a client, and I think I'm just going to go in there real quick, and I just take my regular bag for a meeting or something, but then somebody says, hey, can you check this for me? The Lynx printer is, again, see that it fits right in my hand. It can fit in my pocket, fit in a bag. 

It goes anywhere. And as I mentioned, I'll show you that for all my clients, I have PoE switches, so I don't have to worry about power. And I will show you that as you plug in to a cable there, it's going to light up and immediately start testing. 

And so the lights that you see there, where it is trying to go out and it'll test PoE, it'll test link speed, duplex, get a DHCP server response, check for gateway connectivity, and internet reachability. With all of these indicators. And you can see I have all greens, which means that not only is this cable good, it was able to get an IP address, go out to the internet, and do a test. 

Now, the good thing that also happens with this, that if you connect this to a Lynx Live account, you can actually set this up to where it will send the results of that test to your email. So I am here waiting for that to come in. And I've got my dome bones telling me that a device has reappeared at MB Systems. 

And I didn't set this up properly. And of course, this is going to look horrible. But there is an email that is showing the test results. 

And it gives me the information. It tells me that the test ran April 9 at 8.32 p.m. It tells me the PoE voltage. I should have prepped for this.

There, you can see at least you can see some green. So but it gives me the PoE voltage. It tells me the link. 

This is a gigabit link advertising at full duplex, and it gets full duplex. It gives me the switch name. So this is an NGenius 5912. 

It gives me the IP address. It tells me that it is on port 3. It tells me that it is VLAN 1. It gives me the IP information, server, subnet, DNS information, gateway. And it did a TCP check out to Google, and gives me the Google IP, and gives me a millisecond's responses, so that you can see that, yes, not only did it test the internet, but it got a good, fast response.

And this is an email that is basically paper proof to the customer that, yes, it tested. It worked. Here's your proof. 

So that is that. So again, what other things can this tool do? Because when people look at this, and they think, well, that's not much. So of course, it gave, as you saw, a quick network connectivity test, basically 10 to 15 seconds. 

It already checked and validated power over Ethernet. It does a switch port identification. As I mentioned, it does cable testing. 

It can also flash a port. So if you are in a switch with spaghetti cables, and you have no idea because the ports at the desk are not labeled properly, and you need to know which port on the switch is there, you can do that as well. And the way that we do that, I'm actually going to, I plugged it back in. 

And the way that you do that is you turn the Lynx printer into a mobile hotspot. So I'm going to do that real quick. And if you can see, well, it stopped. 

There we go. So there is a blue indicator light telling us that it has turned itself into its own Wi-Fi hotspot. So then on my phone, I can go to my Wi-Fi settings. 

And of course, it's going to take a minute here. And I have to wait for the Lynx printer to come up. And I did not time this right. 

I should have left it plugged in and done all that stuff because this is live. But there it is. MB Lynx printer is there in my Wi-Fi connection. 

I know you can't see this but holding it up to the glass anywhere. There it is. So MB Lynx printer. 

So it is now connected. And then I go to an IP address in the browser and go. And the IP address is the same every single time. 

172.16.9.9. Copy, paste. Browser stuff. 6.9.09.9. It's fantastic. 

Trust me, this works. There we go. So on my phone, and again, I apologize for not being a really good YouTuber and showing you. 

But if you can see the greens there, that is the interface that comes up. And with that, again, I can have, it shows me the last test that was run. So it gives me the voltage, gives me the Lynx stuff, and all of that information. 

So I can screenshot this. There is also a place for settings where I can tell the Lynx printers what settings I want in terms of do I want to test it at one gig, auto off, cloud service, blah, blah, blah, all of that. But what I want to show you is where it says test the cable. 

Now, it cannot test the cable connected to a switch. So that is, again, where I should have had this set up, where I pull out my identifiers. And I connect them to that.

Yep. I really should have prepared for this. Apologize for any of you that are sitting here thinking, dude, get your act together. 

Well, I try. So let's go there. It's not even the right battery. 

And the reason I have to do the batteries, folks, is because you can't do a test while it's plugged into a switch. So you have to actually have the connection outside of the switch. And then these connectors I told you about where you got to plug it in and do all this stuff here. 

So here we go. So the Bluetooth is connecting again. Go back. 

Go back. So, yeah, I didn't plan this show out very well. Sorry about that.

Sorry. It defined time. All right. 

That's probably not going to work because I didn't set it up ahead of time. But trust me, it works. Oh, I got to connect the Wi-Fi. 

Because there we go. Connected in that. See? Got to do that. 

Now go to the IP address. And there they are again. So now I'm connected. 

I go to the cable. And as you can see, it's actually looking for the test there. And it's going to run a cable test. 

Yeah, I'm not going to edit this. So those of you watching live or after the fact thinking, dude, why didn't you cut this part out? You know I don't edit. So sorry about that. 

Okay. Reconnecting. Because I let it time out.

Because I was doing other stuff. Sprinter. Connected. 

There. Connecting. Let's go back.

Cable test. Well, it would do that if I had planned properly. It might be the batteries are dead.

So that's why it won't stay up long. But anyway, so those are the things that you can do when you're properly prepared. You can actually do a cable test. 

You can flash the port. And of course, flashing the port we know is something that's quite important. If you're walking into an environment that you don't know that you're taking over and people did not label things properly, being able to find that. 

Yeah. So my batteries are dead. So when I pick this and it's flashing red, that means my batteries are gone. 

So sorry, didn't plan this out properly. The joys. But there we go. 

And then of course, the really big thing is like I mentioned before, if you are connected to link live with your NetAlly tools, all of these results stay in the cloud. So that you can always refer back to them. You can save them, show them to clients, send reports, all of that good stuff. 

And if you're watching, yes, I'm still fiddling around because kind of sucks that I didn't plan this out properly. And it's just gotta work. It may not, but it stinks. 

This kind of stinks. And my studio's a mess. Studio, studio. 

We give it one more try. Just give me one more night. More. 

One more. Come on, baby. Come on. 

It's connected there. Connected there. Oh, is it going to work? No, it died again. 

Oh, well. But you see, it's trying to connect, do the cable test. And also under the tools, you can flash the port and it will show you that it's connected and flashing. 

But all of that is just with your mobile device and the link sprinter. So, well, that was fun. So anyway, we will be going through the rest of these tools at a later date. 

I will get more in depth. I will be much more prepared when I talk about these tools because there is stuff that does need to be set up. Some tests I want to prep and show you. 

With these tools, I will actually be able to set up a remote screen so that I can show you the screen as we're going through the test. You can see what I'm pressing, what the tests are doing, and all of that. The link sprinter, because it's so small and compact, it's really just something in the hand. 

The only time you really get a screen is if you connect to the phone and do that sort of stuff. Obviously, I didn't do that. So that's what happens there.

I'm going to plug this back in. And while I am changing out the screen here, I'm going to move my bag down and wrap up the show here. There's your NetAlly link sprinter and the tools in my go bag. 

So yes, I have just about every one of those. I actually have a second NetAlly go bag because it has a second EtherScope because there are things that you can test between EtherScope that are almost as good as certifying cable. There is what's called a BERT test. 

So if you really need to burn in and test a cable and prove that it will send one gig of traffic over that cable between two EtherScope, that can be done. So we'll get into that when we do those tests. And how to activate the flash port feature in a link sprinter, that didn't work. 

How to perform a cable test, yeah, couldn't do that either, throwing those papers away. That's a shame. Question in the chat, does NetAlly offer discounts? Tom, I left your thing up there for all that long. 

So the short answer is on a regular basis, no. However, there are a lot of times that they will run specials. Most of the specials that they run are trade-in specials. 

So if you have an older tool and you want to trade up, they will give you credit for the first tool and you can purchase the second. They used to do a great special. They used to do a buy one, get one free. 

I have not seen that in a very, very long time. And probably because the tools that they would do it on, like the EtherScope are expensive. So if you're talking about a, you know, let's just say a 10 to $12,000 tool, buy one, get one free is an absolutely great discount for that. 

But you got to buy one to get one. So it's great if you've got, you know, an office full of techs, you know, you've got, you know, a few techs and you guys go out and see clients on a regular basis. You're looking physically at networks. 

Having these tools is great. My clients, because they are law firms and a lot of them have legacy software that still needs server, I still need to maintain a physical network as opposed to sending them to the cloud. Now, some of their stuff is in the cloud. 

They are on 365. They're moving some of their stuff there. But for the most part, a lot of the case management systems, a lot of the integrations with their databases, they're still SQL based. 

They're still network heavy, meaning that a lot of these things, there are some programs that for law offices started to try to run in the cloud and then just realized that the cloud was too slow. If the people did not have gigabit internet, it was horrible. So trying to do a lot of stuff over, you know, a copper connection where the top speed is 100, you know, down and 30 up, it just wasn't working. 

So a lot of those legal products realized they've got to stay terrestrial for a little bit until they can get all the resources in the cloud, make it better for them. So at least for the next few years, as I head into my twilight years, I'll be supporting servers. I just did an overhaul.

It was about a year ago that we replaced a total of five servers. We combined databases. This was a client that was replicating SQL databases across a WAN to two separate offices. 

We moved them to their main office. So they're down to one SQL server. But we updated their domain controller. 

We updated their file server. And then we updated two remote servers because they have about, I think it's 90 people that are working remote at some point in time in any given week. So they've got several remote servers that I maintain. 

So I go and see those physical offices. So that's one reason why I'm big on these NetAlly tools. So Arturo, there are discounts, but they're not as prevalent as they used to be.

Where can you get them? You can get them at Ingram Micro. You can get them at SYNNEX. And of course, there's some specialized like Network Depot or Tech Depot or something like that.

And then of course, Amazon. And I will have an Amazon link in the show notes after we're done with the video and in the podcast show notes so that if you want to use my link to go look for some of these tools, I've got some of them. If you go to the main show link by using my Amazon link at the front of the IT Business Podcast website, that'll take you to Uncle Marv's store. 

And some of the NetAlly tools are there. I've got to update some of those. But I'll have that link in there.

And sometimes they'll do, you know, a 5% or 10% thing there. So that is that. So there's your first look at my GoBag and a half look at the EtherScope and how it works. 

And that'll be that. So tonight, Florida man, actually Florida woman, I am going to start by giving you this video. And I had to log into my Instagram. 

Yes, I have an Instagram to give you this video here. So I'm going to start to share the screen here. You're not going to be able to see it very well because I can't do full screen here. 

But as I bring this up, there is sound with it that you're not going to hear. Why not? Oh, and there's language. I forgot about the language. 

Yeah, she's person folks. So this lady was naked at the Fort Lauderdale airport. That's right, folks here in Fort Lauderdale. 

And it was bizarre. It was last week. She got in an argument literally at the Spirit Airlines gate. 

And of course, many people captured the video. She was only wearing white underwear, black shoes and hoop earrings as she shouted incoherently at someone nearby. A male companion attempted to return her clothes, but she continued her outburst until law enforcement intervened. 

Now her name has not been given out. Even though she was reportedly disoriented, she was taken for medical evaluation rather than being arrested. I did try to find more information on this story, but it does not come out yet. 

So something bad must have been really going on there. And I want to now share one more story here. And I've got to stop sharing this screen and share a new screen. 

And what I'm going to show you here is the story that Michelle Accardi, I told you, sent me a while back earlier this earlier this week. It was either Friday or Monday. And it's very interesting. 

Let me go through and Tom, that is not Tuesday night at your house. There is no big black woman naked around your house. And if there is, I want video of it.

But here is what Michelle Accardi sent me. No recollection of that happening at all. At all. 

This store sells some good liquor. I drank a lot of it that night. The viral video shows Robbie Stratton running through a convenience store with an alligator in his hands. 

He takes the animal in the beer fridge as well. I only remember coming up here. We asked Stratton where the alligator came from. 

No clue. No clue. I literally came to store and he was in the back of the truck. 

They told me what I did was stupid and I'll be facing some charges here soon and probably go to jail. Probably not. We'll see. 

He says he regrets his decision and he's been in contact with the FWC. So that story. Yes, it did happen. 

Yes, it was here in Florida. But that was not a recent story. That actually happened back in 2018.

And his name, of course, yes, Robbie Stratton. And this was him carrying a live alligator in a store in Jacksonville, Florida. The mouth of the alligator was taped. 

But of course, he did it during a beer run, grabbed beer while people laughed in the background. And yeah, he claimed that he was intoxicated and had no memory of the incident. So that did happen.

He did enter a no contest plea and was sentenced. But I didn't get what the sentence was. I don't remember. 

And going back and finding stuff from that far back is interesting. Let me type in real quick. What was Robbie Stratton's punishment? That's probably a good way to ask that question.

Here it is. He was sentenced to two jail, two days in jail with credit for time served, 20 hours of community service and a $100 donation to wildlife conservation. So that is the deal, folks.

So if you're in Jacksonville, Florida, now granted, this is 2018. So two days in jail might with inflation be up to five days in jail now. 20 hours of community service and a $100 fine.

So there you have it. There are your Florida man stories to make up for not having a link in last week. And that is going to do it for our show tonight. 

We will be back with a more structured show next week. Let's just say it that way. I will have a guest in studio.

But in between now and then, you will have some great interviews. I will be finishing up my interviews from ASCII in Orlando. As I said, I think I've got five more of those to release.

I've got two great MSP videos, or not videos, interviews to do. They're both two-part interviews. So basically four episodes of those that I think you're going to find interesting.

And of course, other stuff coming along the way. But we are going to be revving up to, I'm trying to make May an all MSP month. So what I would like from you listeners is, if there is an MSP out there that has not been on the show, that you think should be on the show, or maybe hasn't been on the show for a while, and you think that they should be here to share their stories, their tips, their strategies for growing their business, let me know so I can reach out to them. 

It's early April, so this will give me enough time to reach out, get people scheduled. But I'd like to make May an all MSP month. Because starting after that, it's all going to be IT Nation, vendor profiles, there'll be more ASCII stuff. 

So I want to make sure we get some good MSP interviews in here, some good discussions, feedback. I will also say this, Auvik versus Domotz. That is happening. 

I am going to be doing basically a three-part podcast series, Auvik versus Domotz. And it is going to feature two MSPs, one for the Domotz side, one for the Auvik side. And it's not going to be a battle royale, it's not going to be a bashing of any sorts. 

It is simply going to be two MSPs telling you their responses to why they think it's a good tool, what it's done for their business. And then after that, I will have a response from both sides, either somebody from the C-suite, a president, a senior tech engineer, somebody that will then come on and do a separate response podcast after I do that video. That is going to be a video podcast. 

It won't be during the live show, but it will be a special video presentation, probably midday, noon or one or something like that, that you will be able to watch me interview these two MSPs back to back. It is AVIC versus Domotz. I believe this is the first of its kind, and you should pay attention. 

So I'm giving you notice now, it's going to be in probably two to three weeks. Got a little logistics to work out, but we are going to do that. Be on the lookout for that first of its kind presentation. 

And of course, all the other good stuff. Make sure you go to idbusinesspodcast.com. If you're a podcast listener, make sure you're subscribed to your favorite pod catcher. If you want to catch these videos, sign up to be notified either on YouTube, LinkedIn, or the Facebook. 

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So that's going to do it, folks. Thank you for hanging out. Thank you for putting up with my unpreparedness in my NetAlly go-bag revolution, revelation. 

Whichever one you think, it'll be great. Thank you all for tuning in. Thanks for the comments in the chat and the questions.

That's going to do it, folks. We will see you next time. And until then, holla.