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October 03 Birthdays and Lists
QotW: Lists in Excel?

Other topics:
🎂 Birthdays
🤖 Is Copilot actually good now?
📢 Power BI Announcements
🤯 2 Million Billion Calculations per second
🪃 Aussie Lingo Quiz

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 1 min
September 19 Never Say Never - when does advice become dogma?
Thanks to special guest Oz du Soleil
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozdata/

QotW: My way or the highway: When does advice become dogma and how to find the balance.

Other topics:
🏯Japan
🔍Kaleidoscopes
🏊🏻Mile Swim
🦘Word of the week
🙊Do we need an opinion on everything?

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 2 min
September 05 And Also... Tables plus Wish Lists
QOTW: Why are Tables so important?

Other nonsense:

🎂🍾Birthdays
🗣️🌎Foreign Languages
🐿️ 🐀Unnatural Habitats
🙈🫥Embarrassing events
🧞‍♂️🪔Wish Lists
🗞️⚡Breaking News
🐨🦘Aussie Word of the Week

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 3 min
August 22 Schrödinger's Toilet
QOTW: What Personal Projects have use built with Excel or Power BI

Other nonsense:

🖥️🖥️🖥️ How many MONITORS is too many?
👰🏻‍♀️💍Weddings!
👮🏻🎶 Theme Tune Copyright Violation
🐿️ Is AI diverting us to lower priority activity?
🆑Power BI Bookmark Bliss with Claude Code?
🎼🎸Macro Chords
🐕Pomeranian Technique
🚽Schrodinger's Toilet

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 6 min
August 08 Rob Collie
Special Guest Rob Collie
New Book: Fair Game

🟢 Working on the Excel Team
📖 The Original Power Pivot Book
🚿 Fawcett First
🤖 Customising AI
📖 Rob's new book: FAIR GAME
🧐 Hoity Toity Agentic Agents

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

1 hr 25 min
July 25Where do you start with AI?
QOTW: Where Do You Start with AI?
Special Guest Fay Bordbar
Other nonsense:
🏄🏻‍♂️ Mark's away and we've got Fay
🐟 Start Small and Snowball
🎯 You're Not as Far Behind as You Think
💰 The Hidden Cost of AI ( burnt dinners? )
🧠 Data Literacy Before AI Hype
🤖 Agents, Copilot and Automation
⚠️ The Promise and Risk of Vibe Coding
📊 AI for Finance and Budgeting
🔍 Semantic Models and Business Context
🛠️ VS Code, GitHub Copilot and MCP Servers

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 12 min
July 12 Success and f-ai-lure
QOTW: What does success look like on Excel and Power BI projects?
Other nonsense:
🎉 Hitting 1,000 YouTube subscribers
Mark's break dancing outfit
🍻 Lithuania trip and alcohol consumption facts
🏷️ Excel name tag fail at a spreadsheet event
⚽ World Cup Permissions
🕵️ Fraud and impersonation targeting content creators
📋 Custom skills in Excel Copilot
💸 Microsoft's confusing Copilot credit pricing (CCCUs)
🪓Prompting in Mandarin to save tokens
🤖 AI auditability and safety concerns
🐹 Lemmings nostalgia
❓ Fabric's SharePoint-to-Delta-table feature
🎂 Two years of the podcast
🤫 Mystery guest teased for next episode

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 8 min
June 27 Cowork Credits - AI costs hit home
Special Guest : Deb Ashby TIKTOK

QOTW: What is Cowork and Credits?
Plus, we go off on tangents (as usual)
🎥 Camtasia tips
💡 Solving long-standing problems
🛍️ Ultimate goodie bags
😧 Forgetting you already did it… 10 months ago!
⏰ All managers wait until 5PM
🚐 Excel NOT On The Road
🔥 Burning tokens
😨 Tech company FOMO

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 7 min
June 13 AI Reality and New Project Tips
QOTW: What are the first things you do on a new project?

Plus, the usual banter:

🤖 Copilot, Fable and real-world experience
🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️Dartmoor Run
📺TV Recommendation - Man on Fire TV Series ( Netflix )
📗Book Recommendation https://markjdawson.com/books/john-milton-series/
😴🥱 Value-gate, the pod's worst discussion since Wire-gate ( sorted numbers totalling differently )
🐏Chopped Mutton? https://tableandspoon.com/why-do-people-use-the-phrase-chopped-liver/
🗣️ Welsh / Australian / South African ?
📷Camera Fail

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 7 min
May 30 Global Excel Summit Review
🗣️🔥The Excel v Power BI debate re-ignites!

QOTW: How was the Global Excel Summit?

Plus, the usual banter:

🕺🏻Giles learns some moves
📏How tall was Wyn?
🍫🐧 Tim Tams vs Penguins
🚨Hotel Alarms
🍳Is 3 breakfasts in a day too many?
🎤Mark's Magic Mic trick
🙎🏻‍♀️ Is Julie truly that unruly?
🎵We'll meet again...

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor, Sue Bayes and Giles Male.
1 hr 8 min