Tom here from Orange Systems and we're going to talk about a PFSense package called ARPWatch. ARPWatch automatically creates a per network database from ARP entries, then alerts on ads or changes to those Mac IP combinations. The ARPWatch tool is especially useful for network administrators to keep an eye and watch ARP activity to detect ARP spoofing or unexpected IP Mac address modifications, such as someone plugging in something you didn't expect. Now you wouldn't want to run this on a guest network because that would be very noisy because it sends you an email alert for each change it finds. But for a network that you have locked down that you don't expect changes, maybe a server or a storage network, it's good to run ARPWatch because it shouldn't make any noise at all. And when it does, that's a cause for concern and a reason to investigate. So really any static network that you want to keep a good eye on is a good place to run this. Now there's a prerequisite and the first thing we're going to be doing is showing you how to set up notifications in PF sense, specifically email notifications. That's the way ARPWatch sends out this data. So this is good to use in your own network, but it can also be very helpful for remotely monitored networks. If you're an IT service provider and would like to know when something's changing on the customer's network that you weren't expecting a change on. So let's jump into how to get that set up and we'll first mention where to get some email if you don't have outbound relay email. Now I don't have any business affiliation outside of using the Duo Circle SMTP relay, but they do give you a thousand free monthly messages. So they're kind of an easy one. If you're in the home lab environment to get set up, but they do require that you have a domain that you can set up secure DKM with relatively easy to do. I did this in about five minutes by buying a cloudflare domain. So if you need somewhere to send outbound relayed email, this is what I'm using and it works rather well. We're doing this demo on PF Sense plus 2301, but this will work just the same in the community edition. The package is available in both. The first step is in making sure under system then advanced, we go to notifications, you have to have SMTP working in PF Sense to get our watch to send you notifications. If you have our watch set up, but this does not work, then they will not work of note when you first load our watch is going to send an email for every Mac IP combo that it finds. So if you have a hundred devices that it finds, it will send a hundred emails. So once you do have SMTP configured, and this is that duo circle outbound dot mail hop.org that I'm using, I have all the settings in here, log in. It does support SMTP over SSL and TLS. I have all the ports set up, then you hit test SMTP, make sure it's working. But before you enable artwatch, once you know emails working, you might want to disable it to avoid those device discoveries flooding your email. Maybe you want them, maybe you don't. But if you disable it, let our watch populate the database, then go back and enable it after the database is populated, it will only notify you on changes. Now let's go over and make sure the package is loaded. So we're going to go to the package manager. And I see our watch loader right here. If it's not loaded, you just go over to the available packages, type in ARP and hit the install, there's no configuration until it's installed, which then it shows up over here, we're going to do services and then artwatch. Now I've chose lab 101, but you can choose each one of the interfaces you wanted to listen on. As I noted in the beginning, don't do this on a guest network unless you want to be flooded with every time someone joins your guest network. I mean, this can be handy. So you're always being told when someone is joining and getting an email or it can end up being email fatigue from getting too many emails. The notifications I have going to labfirewall.launch but the notification recipient does not need to be the same as the default recipient for things inside a PF sense for notifications. You can choose where they want. Maybe you'll set up a separate email artwatch at your domain.com. So you can receive those emails, disable crown emails, leave that checked zero pad at ethernet addresses, leave that checked to check by default, disabled reporting on carp, VRRP external prefixes. That's up to you. I do not want that. So I have the disabled disabled reporting of bogans. Now these don't send alerts. Bogans are if it finds a Mac, but not a matching IP to the subnet, these will go to your syslog. So you may want to pull them out of there. If it's something you're interested in disabled reporting, 000 changes and helpful for busy networks. Yes, if you have a lot of DCP going on, you may get more of these. Once again, these will go to your syslog update vendors. I do recommend this updates the ethernet vendors database download from standards dot OUI dot I triple E dot org. And these are the prefixes because the first couple prefixes of a Mac determines an assigned vendor for name for that. We'll show you how that works. If you want reset the database for collected Mac IP addresses when uninstalling, this is the way to clear our watch. If you uninstall it, it can clear everything out of there. The database it's not checked by default. Suppress Mac address is an option. If you want to suppress a Mac that maybe is too noisy for some reason, there are legit reasons outside the scope of this video where you may have something that does ARP spoofing. And you may want to say ignore when that Mac does any ARP spoofing or any of these other options. And you can say which ones and put that on a suppress list. Now let's show this in action, which is just over here to the database. And we have first the land of 192 168 40 dot one. And there's the MAC address. And this is the MAC address of this system natively. So this is the PF sense system. This right here is the one device we have, we see it was identified as Chelsea communications. Now what we're going to do next is since these are discovered and I have it running and I have SMTP notices to on, I'm going to add some devices and show you what they look like and how the notifications look right. I've added a device to the network. And then it sent me an email pf sense lab dot local domain, our watch notification new station. And that new station is at 192 168 40 dot 158. There's the ethernet address. And based on the first part of the ethernet address, it will figure out the ethernet vendor that is supposedly belongs to which is Lockheed Martin tactical systems. As you can tell, that's easy enough to spoof. Just throw a few different addresses in here and you get some different device names. Now, if you look over here at the database, I actually added two different devices. One says Lawrence electronics, one says Lockheed Martin, and there they are. So determined on these MAC addresses, we have an idea of something of note where it says unknown if the vendor is not known in a database, you'll just get an unknown. For example, this PF sense is running virtualized. That's why it doesn't know the actual vendor of what's plugged in here. If you are using many of the devices that are notified, it is nice to be able to see which vendors are plugged into this network can give you a good idea. As I note, though, they can be fooled or spoofed. So you can actually be misled by what's on there. But generally, you'll find if you're plugging in, for example, ubiquity devices, they all show up as ubiquity devices. Now, it's worth noting these can be sorted by IP address by MAC address by vendor by hostname and timestamp. This makes it really easy and by interfaces an option as well to sort out all the different devices it's discovering. That does include if we added more later, this is why the per interface can be very helpful. So if there's any changes across multiple interfaces, they'll all populate right into this database right here. So we hit save. And that will actually add things to the lab one or two database. So it'll take a second to find them. And with a quick page refresh, we see we've added a couple more. Something I want to note is this right here. So the first device is called LAN, then it calls it opt one. The naming of the interfaces is not consistent with what you have the interfaces name. So this is lab 101 and lab 102. And if we go to the interface assignments, they're called that here, but it will still in the behind the scenes, pull their opt one opt two. So that's one thing you have to keep in mind when you're looking at it, when you set this up on a several different networks that they're going to be named sequentially opt one opt two so on and so forth as they go down. Now besides monitoring server networks, I actually think it's useful for camera networks when you're setting them up. One of the advantages is if any of the cameras get moved or changed, or when you're setting up something remotely and you're waiting for a technician to plug in another camera and set it up, you don't have to wonder or look through the DHCP table to find the IP address of it, you'll get a notice right away with the MAC address that it found it. And then you can go ahead and maybe make a static reservation for it or whatever your procedure is for setting it up. But nonetheless, this is a great tool. Let me know your thoughts and comments down below or head over my forums for more in depth discussion. Thanks.


Pajamas and penguins go polka dancing, using a raft to cross a river that suddenly becomes endless. Through the sky, Lance on top of the world's biggest pancake, a giant, begins, comes out the next day via the poopy. Is the next scene being opened up as a toy in a happy, the child licks it, puts it in mushroom pink. All of a sudden the stampede of pencils started bouncing up and down on the erasers, stampeding pop. So I'd show up the pens, and the pens are jacked up because they're ball points. So much gooey, oozy, black ink. They want to be more popular than the pencils, and so they enter into as sharp as possible. I remember the day that this yellow macaroni walked up like dressed up as a knight in armor with a lance riding a horse, this yellow macaroni. I remember when it approached, it was like, do you know where the cheese is? And I was like, which cheese are you looking for? Because I was protecting. So the macaroni says pepper jack, so there's an immediate reaction, should there be a protection of the pepper jack? Should there be an avoidance giving the macaroni the information it's looking for? Should there be a run around? Should there be? So since the macaroni was obviously only a small size of a fingernail, just picked up the macaroni and the armor ate it, and then took a piece of pepper jack, ate it. Very simple. I'm like macaroni, macaroni, macaroni, and pepper jack, pepper jack cheese. Macaroni, macaroni, and pepper, pepper, pepper jack cheese. Yeah, macaroni, and pepper jack cheese. What a weird combination. Who knows? Who knows? I don't know. Nobody, nobody knows. Macaroni and pepper jack cheese. Macaroni, macaroni, and pepper jack cheese. Yeah, macaroni and pepper jack cheese. Yeah, macaroni and pepper jack cheese, yeah. Macaroni and pepper jack cheese. Hey, not cheddar. No, no, no, no, not Cuda. No, no, no, no, no, no no. Not Swiss, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's just simple. Macaroni and pepper jack cheese. Yeah, macaroni and pepper jack cheese, yeah. Macaroni and pepper jack cheese, yeah. Maca, macaroni and pepper jack cheese. Wee! Macaroni and pepper jack cheese. Ah! Ew!


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That will be just a little bit of the story, but what the big story is, is for 20 years, Derek Jeter handling the white hot spotlight of New York City and playing at a Hall of Fame level. Right, falling one vote short, we're going to give that some attention as we should, but I absolutely agree with you, Bob. While it would have been great and appropriate for Jeter to get 100%, he gets into the Hall of Fame, and that's the big overriding story, and I look back on this as a storybook story. Here's a kid who grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, told everyone he was gonna play for the Yankees. Pinned a Yankee uniform to his bedroom wall, worn NY necklace around his neck, and said that's because I'm gonna go play for the Yankees.  This is never gonna happen. Not only did it happen, Flash, it happened in a way that he has a legendary Yankee career, so much so now, that we're talking about him after 20 error-free seasons on and off the field in New York as a Hall of Famer. Yeah, and it happened because he had an incredible work ethic, an incredible belief in himself that he was going to be the best possible player that he can be, and I think about Derek's career. What he did on the field was everything that you would want a Yankee to be. The way he carried himself off the field, probably even more impressive on how a Yankee should carry himself in the city of New York and not getting into any trouble. But when I think of Derek as a teammate, he was not the most talented guy I have ever played with. He was the most confident player I had ever been around. When he ran out to shortstop to start every game, he believed he was the best player out on the field, and he was going to find a way to beat you, and most times he did. You know, we always talk about those storybook moments, those historic moments that Jeter accomplished, and there are so many, and we'll cover those throughout the course of the show. But, Jack, one more layer to what you talked about. He wanted to be a Yankee, but he could have been drafted by the Astros, by the Reds. There was a good chance that he never would be in pinstripes, and he falls to six. Right, the Astros had the number one pick the season that the Yankees drafted him. They actually had a scout, a former Major League pitcher, Hal Newhouser, who said, pick Jeter. This is the guy you have to pick. When the Astros didn't pick him, he ended up quitting and leaving the organization, and you're right, he fell to the Yankees at the sixth pick, and then we talk about all of the glory. He's in the Hall of Fame now. He also hit about 200 in his first minor league season. He made 56 errors in his first full minor league season. I know from talking to him that there are a lot of phone calls home. There are a lot of tears. He actually called his parents once and said, I gotta come home. I gotta quit. I can't do this. And to play devil's advocate with him, his mother said, okay, you can come home. And then he realized what the ramifications are of that. I think it was good news for Jeter and everyone in Yankee University. He hung around and decided to give this baseball thing a try. Yeah, just think about how far he came and you think about all the championships that he won. You think about him being named the captain in 0-3, and there was no better leader on those teams, those championship teams. You had all the great players and the star players, but your consistent guy day in and day out was Derek Jeter playing shortstop, getting base hit after base hit. And I think most importantly, leading by example, he didn't say a whole lot. He might give you a look that says, okay, it's time to get things going, but a perfect leader, a perfect captain, and now a Hall of Fame career. For years on, yes, we chronicled what Derek Jeter did on the field. Felt like we had a front row seat, but you actually did, not only on the field, in the dugout, but in the clubhouse as well. What was that like? You know, I was lucky enough to compete against him for the five years before I became a Yankee in 0-3. And to be quite honest with you, I did not give him enough credit as an opposing player. When you share a clubhouse with Derek and you watch the way he walks in every day, that level of confidence, how he prepares day in and day out, and then the way he went out on the field every night believing we're winning this game, first of all, and I'm the best player out on the field, second of all, those things rub off on you. It makes you a better player. It raises your game. So not only was he great, he made everybody just a little bit better. And I think it wasn't just the talent, John. The thing that stood out to me about Jeter that I think he had more than any player I've ever covered, maybe I'd put Mariano Rivera right up there, it was the mental toughness. Yes, he was very talented. Look at the number six most hits in Major League history. One of the best short stops of all time. But I really do believe that Jeter was mentally tougher than most players. He believed in himself. He believed he was going to win. And to your point, John, David Cohn, his former teammate also said, Jeter was the best turn-the-page player he ever played with. Lose a game, five-nothing, strike out a few times, make a couple of errors. Jeter would walk out of the clubhouse eating an ice cream cone. He's already worried about the next game. He's not going to worry about that game. That's the key to being a Hall of Fame Major League player because the rest of us, when we go for 1-0 for 2 in a game, we're thinking I'm going to have a bad night here. I'm going to be 0 for 4. Derek Jeter never had that ability. It was pitch-by-pitch and that ultimate confidence that he was going to find a way to get the job done.  But you know, part of getting to the Hall of Fame, Jack, is making the spectacular look simple.   Yeah, there are a lot of things that Jeter did on the field that were just instinctive. And I remember when he was competing, it was the triumvirate of short stops. It was A-Rod, it was Nomar, and it was Jeter. And I had a scout who said to me, listen, I think those guys are probably more talented than Jeter, especially A-Rod. But a scout said to me, Jeter's the better baseball player. So if you watch Jeter every day, he is the guy who's going to do more things to help you win than those other guys will.


What's up players? What's going on Zen dudes and dudettes? So we get a lot of that up. We have been getting a lot of questions lately surrounding well Dan This is my goal. I want some fat loss Maybe I want to be cool, you know look cool and do some awesome tricks I want to be better at jump rope because I have a crossfit competition coming up So there's many different reasons why one would so choose to jump over to the rope So today guys, we're gonna be teaching you how to pick your rope depending on what specific goals you have and then Recommending some different things and specs about jump ropes that you should know before going to make your purchase If you like this video guys Please give it a thumbs up below and also subscribe to the channel if you want to make this whole fitness thing more fun and a Little bit easier by adding in some jump rope body weight exercises so that you can travel around the world and just like live The life you want without having to feel like you always need to be in a gym. That's Zen dude fitness We'd love to have you come back again for the next tutorial workout. We'll see you later Say bye Brandon. Say it to him. Say bye Say it dude Thank you. What is up Zen dude nation? So before you actually can learn how to jump rope you need to know how to pick your rope So first we're gonna talk about rope length here I've talked about it in how to jump rope video But essentially the rope cable should come up to around under your armpit as you can see here Just right up to the nipple area top of the chest area That's excluding the handle so you want your cable that long and another good rule of thumb is Three feet taller than your height so I'm 6 3 therefore I have a cable that's about 9 3 now Take a look at these cables right here The nice thing about the cross ropes is that you can buy different length of rope and you can keep the handles So just buying different cables whereas this one right here with the on it You have an adjustable rope that you can unscrew and change the length of it So look for ropes like that when you're picking a rope look can I adjust it or does it have different cable options with The same handles the next for durability. What are you going to be skipping on?  You want to pick a rope here obviously it's endued fitness We always talk about wanting to be out and traveling in the world So more often than not you're gonna be on you know a surface like this that's cement or pavement So you want a rope that's going to last in that type of environment So as you'll see here in a sec this one that I'm using right here is the cross rope and it has a steel Cable now. There's rubber wrapped or not rubber some sort of like vinyl wrapped around the outside of it But then underneath that is a very strong steel cable that can take a good beating on outdoor pavement without having to worry about it You know breaking same thing with the honor rope here You see you can see here as I go down a little bit further here We go you can see that steel cable in there So this is ideal for skipping outdoors especially if you are traveling now next here's an example of a rope It's not necessarily a bad rope, but it's not the most durable type of rope. You see here the plastic Beads with just you know a simple rope string. That's probably not gonna last you that long on a surface like first of all It's not that great to skip with second of all.  This is popular in a boxing You'll definitely find leather ropes in a boxing gym overall not that great and not the most durable ropes So just look out for that Lastly guys, what is your goal of jumping rope?  Are you trying to do cool tricks? What are you trying to accomplish?  So it's a good beginner rope It's durable and at the same time you can still get a great workout in now If you were someone who does CrossFit or someone who is looking to do mostly really cool tricks really really fast I would recommend a steel cable adjustable rope like the on it one that I've shown like the one that's right here This is an example of a steel cable jump rope So the good part about this is it has nice durable handles But then look at how fast you can get going with this rope and not that long of the time So very ideal for double unders. You'll see this type of rope done or used in a lot of CrossFit games So for tricks, this one is definitely more recommended for just fat loss And maybe some tricks I would recommend the cross rope or one that has that one that's similar that has the weighted handle system And also the weighted rope system


He's going back. He's at the wall. Let's go go Thanks to the idiots. I'm Corbin. That's with me as always is Rick Please follow us on Instagram Twitter Let you know that does actually really help us out It really does and I like the personal connection that we have people that's at a little deeper level We like to respond to messages. Yeah, we do. It's much easier than the hundreds and hundreds of comments Yes, so give us hundreds and hundreds of those We won't sleep we won't eat we'll do reactions someday like this So today we are finally finally finally yes, you go go go Requested in the comments for a long long time took us a while to find one of the name the shop titles Yeah, that I want to make that really clear guys Sometimes we don't get to something because we actually can't find the trailer with English subtitles or the right quality They're like gangs of wasp part part two part two We've come to this a couple of different filming times and tried to find something in couldn't so well done Corbin Yeah, I'm great. Well done. Let's go Yeah, Priyanka, that's very likely. What do you mean by that? Have you guys even once? No, I'm just going to be killed. I'm going to be killed. I'm only surprised and I don't like surprises I need a break, man. We both need a break I'm going to go to the presentation. Where are you going? I'm going to D.C. Yes, I'm going to D.C. Like this year, this is brand new. No, no, this is already Okay, where can we watch it? It came out in what year? 2013. It's been a while. Oh, wow. I'm sure it's on Netflix. Okay. Yeah, let us know Watching that. Yeah, please. Let us know how it is. It looks I love the line First four of us brought us AIDS. Now zombies Globalization. I love it. Oh, and I love it. It looked and felt like a total rom-com And then it just took a massive turn and became a zombie film It was very similar to a Shaun of the Dead, which I know you've never seen any of these films No, Shaun of the Dead or Zombie Land, which you love. Yeah, I love Zombie Land Yeah, I think Zombie Land is so amazing. So it looks very similar in style. It's a zombie movie But it's all comedy and I got to say I'm not a big fan of zombies because I've always felt they're so slow. Just get away from them Yeah, but these this looks pretty awesome. Yeah, this looks very I let me know if it's like a If it's part of me, I prefer the vampire over the zombie Really so many in the comments about a Heath Ledger lookalike what if you're calling that Corbin you're a liar Heath Ledger lookalike you need to know some of those man's Adoration of I do a Heath Ledger, but we were off topic. Yeah It looked really cool. I would totally be a I'd recognize I think the guy's last name was Khan It's not Amir Khan, but last name Khan I recognize him his name So, please let me know what we I've seen him in yeah, because I think he's a big star in India You're probably so and we're getting there We're getting to know them, but it looks awesome. So please let it right let us know how it was You've said in a couple things that We reacted to the other day they were like why are you watching this? Oh, yeah, what was that? I don't remember anyway, but was it you know what who told you to watch this crap Just let you know anything we watch is recommended by a lot of people a lot of people so we don't just go randomly Oh, that looks cool. We wouldn't know what to watch Oh, yeah, so please don't know how this is great. I hope it's good to watch it. Yes, and I guess so Now our show right now the channels go go gone Why are you still here?


So James, thanks for joining us here in the training ground. We're a week or so away from the start of pre-season, if you don't mind asking what you're doing here today. Well, we've come in a bit early, a week early, to do a run round that field over there. There were four times 1,000m runs to test everyone's fitness, see how everyone's getting on.  Obviously we've been at Bradford a few years now, so under the current fitness coach, Nick Chalambi, you'll be used to this bit where you've had to come in a week or two early for these tests. Yeah, of course. The first time it was a bit difficult because I wasn't used to that sort of hard sort of running and fitness levels that Nick requires and wants out of us. But as the years have gone on, it's got better every year and so now this year I think are coming pretty fit. And I think looking and judging back today after the run, all the lads look good, they look all in good form. As we say, pre-season coming back, week or so away, I think it's a week on Monday. In some ways that really signals the start of the new season. You get there, maybe one or two new teammates, get your new training gear on your back as a group on the training pitch. It signals that new season's up and running. Yeah, of course, we've all had our rest after a decent season which I think was good. But unfortunately we didn't make playoffs but hopefully this season. We'll recharge our batteries and we're all ready to go for this season. It should be good.


Hello everybody and welcome to the show. We are going to talk about Destro's iron grenadiers again. I am wearing black I am wearing red. I am wearing gold. I'm ready. I am not gonna wear this I don't even know what this is. It's the only gold fabric we had in the house before we get started an important Announcement based on the date this video will publish. There's only a couple more days to enter Timbers giveaway charity drive It will end on December 5th And I implore you to help if you can. Chances are you are a generous person Chances are you are going to give to charity anyway So why not enter to have a chance to win prizes and to help the GI Joe fan community put its best foot forward Here we stand at the end of 2017. I'm already making preparations for 2018 There are only a couple more reviews left in the year. The final video of the year will be another Q&A like last year Look for an announcement video for that. With the announcements out of the way. Let's play the theme song GI Joe toy review we've talked a lot about iron grenadiers lately We almost could have done an iron grenadiers theme month, which would have been fine with me I love talking about this part of GI Joe this week We are going to look at the demon tank and the driver ferret and for this video I need to thank David Jones who sent me this vehicle and figure in a touching act of generosity I mentioned in an earlier video that I didn't have this vehicle So he sent it to me David you have helped this channel in more ways than one and I really appreciate it Thank you very much, sir. And now HCC 788 presents Destro's iron grenadiers demon tank and the driver ferret This is the 1988 demon tank and the driver ferret They were part of the iron grenadiers faction within the GI Joe toy line. They were first introduced in 1988 They were also sold in 1989 and were discontinued for the year 1990 Demon is an acronym that stands for dual elevating multi ordinance neutralizer Demon is a cool name without making it an acronym. The demon and ferret were part of Destro's iron grenadiers We've talked about them quite a bit lately Destro formerly worked with Cobra and was their main weapons supplier His relationship with Cobra commander was always strained in 1988 Destro reformed his private army into a rival to both Cobra and GI Joe the iron grenadiers This was the only version of the demon and ferret to be released in the vintage line in the first wave of iron grenadier figures in 1988 there was a unifying color scheme black red and gold it wasn't universal though Nullifier the driver of the AGP broke from that theme Unfortunately, I don't have the nullifier to show you but most of the series stuck with the common colors I prefer the uniform colors. It ties the team together iron grenadiers were intended to fight against GI Joe's battle force 2000 early iron grenadiers packaging included the battle force 2000 logo They were never used that way in the cartoon or comic book series, and I'm glad they weren't it wouldn't have been a fair matchup Battle force 2000 was just a squad of vehicle drivers with some experimental vehicles The iron grenadiers was a whole army I'm going to set the ferret action figure aside for now so we can take a closer look at the demon as you can see the Demon follows the black red gold color scheme of the iron grenadiers There are some gray highlights here and there there is quite a lot of color interest on this vehicle But the base color is black This makes the demon ideal for night missions the black on the demon tank harkens back to the his tank from 1983 Cobra's black tank was presumably designed by Destro And I think you can see that design influence in both vehicles Normally when I look at the parts and the features of a vehicle I start at the front and work my way back But that doesn't really work with the demon tank because Well, it's much wider than it is long It makes more sense on this vehicle to start at one side and work toward the other on the starboard side of the vehicle We have a gray tread. This is a fake tread It actually rolls on these wheels underneath these gold wheels Then we have a gold support arm that connects the tread to the main body of the vehicle We have another one underneath now these support arms do extend for the main play feature on the vehicle Which I will demonstrate later here next to the cab We have what the blueprints call an extremely high-intensity xenon spotlight slash solar collector It is a red spotlight with the red translucent plastic Now maybe this is used for targeting the weapons or maybe to blind the enemy It turns a little more than 45 degrees, but it cannot face rearward and it's totally useless on the other side of the vehicle It can't turn that direction at all We have the driver's pod with a black body a red headlights and a red windshield We also have some cutout windows here on the side and in the back for the rear gunners position This band of gray plastic that goes all the way around gives this vehicle a sense of depth and complexity On top of the driver's pod We have what the blueprints call a roof mounted magnetic array triple lens laser It can rotate 360 degrees, but it does not elevate round in the back We have another three barrel gun a smaller one presumably a laser It can pivot and it's operated from inside the cockpit So we'll take a closer look at this when we open up the canopy the cockpit is hinged right under the spotlight So this whole top half opens up to the side to reveal a three-person cockpit This cockpit is very spacious and every square inch of it is hyper detailed very impressive We have this front-facing seat for the driver and let's just go ahead and demonstrate how to put the figure in It's best if he sits straight-legged and you just pop him right in there And there's plenty of head space so you can close the canopy without bumping his head We have this side-facing seat in the center of the cab and this is maybe a fire control station Maybe the missile operator sits here The figure fits in that seat just as well as he does in the driver's seat plenty of room notice There are all kinds of instruments around this seat, but there's no computer screen for this guy to look at But there actually is some instrument panel detail on the inside of the canopy that would face this figure When the canopy is closed finally We have this rear gunner's seat and this gun actually has a control handle here on the side And there's another control handle here on the main body of the vehicle I would not try to force these into the figure's hands They are a little bit thick and you might break the figure's thumbs Now this seat is quite a bit more cramped than the other two If you're gonna put a figure in it's best to bend his knees But even when he's all the way in there his head kind of gets in the way You have the option of leaning his head back and having you know kind of his head sort of obstructed by this window Or you can have him leaning forward a bit in which case his head kind of sticks out the window So I don't know what you would prefer, but that space is a bit cramped On the underside of the driver's pod we have a wicked cool dragon logo And then we have Destro's logo, which is his face and his own name Yeah, Destro may be a little narcissistic Moving down from the driver's pod we have the largest weapon on this vehicle The blueprints call this an Infinity 3 variable energy pivoting triple barrel laser The laser is gold plastic, but it's on this black mount And this mount will pivot 360 degrees and the gun will elevate with a ratchet There is an unadvertised feature on this gun Destro's Dispoiler, the small vehicle that Destro came with, will mount on this gun These two thrusters on the bottom of the Dispoiler perfectly line up with these two posts on the gun So you can have Destro add his own firepower to the demon Under the main gun we have the pop-up missile box that will open up with a ratchet Opens up to roughly 45 degree angle And it opens to reveal six gold missiles These missiles are all the same and they slot in using these fins The top one slide into these slots up here And then the bottom ones have their own set of slots down here The blueprints call these TriCap triple computer assisted anti-aircraft anti-personnel missiles These missiles are pretty large They are gold and they have good details One thing I find very odd is they also have these dumbbell shaped slots And you often find these on GI Joe missiles that peg onto vehicles But there are no such pegs on this vehicle With the missiles removed we can see an impressive amount of detail inside the missile box The port side of this vehicle is pretty plain but it's not totally defenseless This top gun will turn to face the enemy coming from that side But if that gun is taken out The rest of the armaments on this vehicle don't completely turn to face that side This gun up here kind of will But it partially is obstructed by this one So this side is more vulnerable I guess if you're going to make a vehicle that's more vulnerable on one side It makes sense to put the driver on the other side Finally we get to the elevating feature on this vehicle That's the E in the demon acronym To elevate this vehicle we have to swing these treads together Now these support arms underneath are clipped to the body of the vehicle at these points So you have to pull those off Unclip them and then swing these arms up And then they actually clip together here at this point So clip them together there And now you have the demon tank in its elevated position Exactly what good would this feature do The demon is now an easier target than it was before And now it's top heavy I could kind of imagine this feature would be useful When taking cover behind an embankment The demon could rise up to see what's going on And then lower itself down to duck enemy fire But that is a narrow set of circumstances in which this feature would be useful With the tank in the raised position You can see some additional detail under the treads Then to lower the tank you just reverse the process Press the body of the tank down until it clicks into place If you take a step back and look at the demon It looks like a deconstructed tank The elements of a tank are there But it's cut up and mixed around in an odd way It's like a Picasso tank The layout doesn't seem to be optimal for a fighting vehicle The personnel are all on the starboard side of the tank So their view of anything coming from the port side is blocked The main armament is the missiles And they are forward facing and can't pivot It is wide and high up off the ground Even in its lower configuration It seems like it could topple and roll over on a steep embankment There are reasons real tanks are made the way they are They are short and low to the ground To make themselves a smaller target when charging the enemy They don't easily topple over They have a gun that traverses to hit a target from any side The demon seems like a death trap A conventional tank would have the advantage Now let's look at the driver This is a ferret This is also a ferret This is also a ferret And this is also a ferret There is a drinking game in England called ferret legging Which involves putting a ferret in your pants I don't see the appeal in this The ferret came with no accessories So let's go ahead and look at his articulation He had the articulation that was standard for the time Meaning he had a butt jointed head He had a universal joint at the shoulder He had a hinge at the elbow and a swivel at the bicep There was a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside of the figure So he could move at the torso a bit He could move his legs apart about so far He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees And bend at the knee about 90 degrees Taking a look at the sculpt design and color of the ferrets The colors mostly match the black gold red of the iron grenadiers troopers But there's an additional tan color thrown in This is similar to the tan color of the AGP pilot the nullifier So the colors of the ferret are in between the iron grenadier trooper and the nullifier Looking at ferret's head he has a gold helmet With a ridged fin that goes right down the center And this does fit with the aesthetic of the iron grenadiers The iron grenadier trooper also had a fin on his helmet A ferret has a red face mask with a black slit visor This helmet looks like something out of a classic science fiction serial I could easily see this in a Buster Crabb Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers episode On his chest he has a black shirt and he has some red straps Which as they go over his shoulders and down his back they are black He has a large bulky gold electronic piece on his chest Attached to that electronic piece are some gold hoses that go over his shoulders Those hose details continue around to the back But the hose in the back is black This must connect to something inside the tank Maybe some kind of an air system His arms are black and unpainted There is some studded armor detail on his upper arms There are some sculpted bands around his wrists And he has black gloves His waist piece is kind of interesting He has a gold belt that goes all the way around front and back But on the front he has this red padding that does not continue around the back On the back we have his tan trousers On the right side of his waist piece he has this ridged strap That loops over his gold belt And I guess connects to this red pocket on his right leg His legs feature tan trousers He does have that red pouch on his right leg And a sculpted strap around his right thigh His left leg is pretty plain And his tan trousers cover the tops of his red boots Let's take a look at Ferret's file card Most of these file cards were written by Larry Hamma The writer of the comic book series This sounds like one of his He has his faction as the enemy It has a portrait of Ferret here Bit of a difference between the helmet on the figure And the helmet on the file card I like the helmet on the figure better His codename is Ferret And specialty is Iron Grenadier Demon Drivers Drivers plural of course Because this is not an individual character You're meant to build an army of these guys This top paragraph says Ferrets are the backbone of Destro's Armored Assault Squadrons Their battle vehicles called demons Are expected to spearhead long range mechanized attacks To neutralize enemy strong points As well as capture and hold landing zones For airborne insertions Since the design priorities for the demon Key on speed, range, and offensive firepower Much was sacrificed in the area of Crew protection, comfort, and safety The reason I say this sounds like a Larry Hamma file card Is this seems like something he would do He obviously noticed the problems With the design of the demon And he made note of it on the card This bottom paragraph has a quote It says Ferrets are chosen and trained Based on their doggedly positive attitude This is a vital attribute for them When a squadron of demons Attack in formation at full throttle With all weapons systems firing They are virtually unstoppable Break up the formation Slow the pace of the attack Or counter attack from behind And infantrymen with handheld rocket launchers Can turn the demons into burning hulks Their motto should be Don't look back I guess you need a positive attitude When you're driving a poorly designed And easily defeatable tank into battle Looking at how the demon and ferret Were used in G.I. Joe Media The demon was only animated for commercials And I don't think the ferret Was even animated for that They didn't make an appearance in the cartoon series Since they were released in 1988 They came out between the end of the Sunbow series And the beginning of the Deke series Amusingly, in the commercials They did try to pit the Iron Grenadiers Against Battle Force 2000 Good try guys, good try The demon tank made some noteworthy appearances In the G.I. Joe comic book series By Marvel Comics I want to focus on their first appearance It was during the Cobra Civil War story arc Which is still my favorite story from the comic book series In that story, two factions of Cobra One led by Serpentor And the other led by a Crimson Guardsman Posing as Cobra Commander Were warring for control of Cobra Island G.I. Joe entered the fight on the side of Serpentor In exchange for the return of a piece of technology That Cobra had stolen This was different from the typical G.I. Joe story G.I. Joe normally focused on small unit missions In this story, we got large unit troop movements We even got maps of the battlefield We could see the strategic chess match of general warfare At the end of issue number 74 At the very height of battle When G.I. Joe and both Cobra factions Were at their most vulnerable A new player entered the field Destro His Iron Grenadier army took the beach near the airfield At first, they just waited and watched Destro had tea while observing the battle At the right moment, the Iron Grenadiers struck And took the airfield as the other factions retreated The writing in this story felt authentic But it didn't cover up the fantasy elements of G.I. Joe It integrated the science fiction vehicles Into conventional war And it all seemed to fit Even though it really shouldn't fit Taking a look at the demon tank and the ferret overall I had some notes about what I was going to say for this segment But rereading it, I think I got it wrong So I'm just going to toss these aside and talk off the cuff I'm going to put the demon tank in the top tier Even though I really shouldn't There's a lot of weird design elements It totally would not work as a real military vehicle But as I play around with the thing I just can't put it down There's so many things to do with it It's a really fun toy And I think if you make a toy that just wants to be played with I think you've made a good toy If you go into a toy store nowadays And you look at the toys that are played with by actual children You find these Imaginext play sets These are aimed at younger kids But these things are amazing Every part of these play sets has something that moves Some kind of action feature And the demon tank is a lot like that As I was doing this review I was having a lot of fun with the demon tank Just opening things up And moving things around And even the feature where it elevates And the treads go forward It's kind of silly But it's still fun And of course I love the black I love black vehicles I love black figures Demon tank You have earned your spot in the top tier As for the ferret I'm going to call it a middle tier figure The sculpting is fine The colors are fine It doesn't come across as anything But a vehicle driver Which is what it is I like it well enough middle tier That was my review of the demon tank and ferret I hope you enjoyed it Please, please, please help with Timmer's charity drive Chances are you're a generous person anyway Chances are you're going to donate to charity anyway So why not enter to win something for it And help the G.I. 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Hi, this is Dr. Laura Portales and I'm here to talk a little bit about Unit 7 of our course managing people and here we'll be discussing some of the concepts that you learned and get into a little bit more detail about them. So let's get started. We're now on our seventh unit and our seventh unit we're going to talk about how to create a winning organizational culture. As you already know, the learning objectives tie directly to the practice exam as well as the real exam. So let's look at what the objectives are and as you complete this unit, just make sure that you're comfortable and familiar with all the learning objectives and are able to successfully meet them before you start the practice exam. So the first one is relate the dimensions of organizational culture such as employees, values and beliefs, common goals, leadership styles and shared assumptions. Our second one is describe the relationship between the external business environment and the organizational culture. The third is examine the relationship between leadership and development of subordinates to achieve organizational strategy and finally apply leadership practices such as mentoring and talent development to foster career progression of subordinates. Now let's take a look at our list of topics for this unit. The slide here lists the vocabulary that we will be discussing throughout this video and also words that you should know and be comfortable with to get yourself ready for the practice exam. Our topics for unit seven include organizational culture and organizational structure and we'll also talk about how those two intertwine with each other. We'll talk about external environments and also creating a culture of development within an organization. Our first topic is the idea of culture using the competing values framework and it's important to note that this is just a framework. There are many companies that won't fall exactly into one of these quadrants that we're going to discuss but it can serve as a good guide to help you understand what type of culture a company might have based on certain elements. So let's first look at those elements and then we'll dig in and look a little bit at each of the quadrants. So we have on the bottom stability and control this refers to how stable the industry is and how important control is within the organization and the opposite of that is flexibility on the top of the square and then on our left we have an internal focus which means the company focused internally versus an external focus where they may be focused more on markets or the external environment. So if we combine these and look at them let's start with the clan culture. So as you can see this culture has a internal focus and they also have flexibility. So that tends to create a family oriented environment where there's a lot of mentoring a lot of nurturing and participation. Oftentimes we see small startup organizations have this kind of culture because they need to be flexible as they start up and ultimately learn how the business should run. If we look below that as far as hierarchy that has an internal focus however the industry is more stable and therefore more control is needed. So we see a lot of large organizations like Fortune 500s with this type of culture because it requires a lot of structure it requires more control coordination and they want to focus on efficiency. Now next if we turn our attention to the right bottom this is a market culture and it has an external focus and also they have stability and control. So what we see is this type of culture is very results oriented they focus a lot on competition their doers they get the job done and there's a focus on achievement within this culture. Now if we move up we can see that there's an external focus but there's flexibility. So this results in a culture that tends to be more dynamic there's a lot more risk taking there's innovation and it tends to be more entrepreneurial even if it is a large organization. So again as we started off saying there's not necessarily one organization that fits exactly within any of these boxes but it can serve as a really good guide when we're thinking about culture and the different elements that go into creating an organizational culture. Another thing that's really important when we look at organizational culture is cultural dimensions and much research has been done about different cultures and the focus of the culture externally from a world perspective but also from an organizational perspective. So while the theory Hofstede's cultural dimensions was originally developed to look at countries and how countries ultimately deal with certain aspects of day to day life we can also use this model and use it to look at how a culture is focused internally. So let's look at Hofstede's different dimensions and talk about them in turn. A power distance refers to the idea of how comfortable people are with a specific hierarchy or different job titles. So we may see that a culture that is more like a clan culture for example would be focused on not having so much power distance where everybody has a say in making the decisions regardless of their job title. Next uncertainty avoidance is how comfortable the organization is not knowing what the future holds. So when we think of risk and risk taking the organization or a culture that is risk and verse is probably going to be very in uncertainty avoidance and that they want to avoid that risk taking and that uncertainty that they may face within their organization. The next element of culture is individualism versus collectivism. Individualism is how much focus is on the person and the job that an individual person is doing versus what the group is achieving. Our next element is masculinity versus femininity and this refers to what traits ultimately are valued. Is it traditional masculine traits that are valued within the culture or traditional feminine traits valued in the culture? Long-term orientation, some companies look out several years and make plans and decisions based on long-term where some companies are very focused in the short term. So this would be another element of culture that we would want to consider. And finally some organizations are focused more on indulgence, spending the money making decisions maybe a little bit more risk taking versus restraint which is more focused on being a little bit more uncertain and therefore maybe not taking extreme risks with the organization. So when we look at cultural dimensions, again normally we hear of Hofstede's cultural dimensions focused on a country and what they tend to be but we can also look at these and they can be a useful source to understand internal company culture as well. One of the big factors that contributes to organizational culture is the external environment and the external environment refers to anything outside the company. So we may look at elements like sociocultural forces, natural disasters, the government, politics, the economy and economic forces as well as technology and all of these are part of the external environment that can impact the decisions as managers but also it can impact our organizational culture as well. Next we can look at environmental complexity as well as environmental change. So an organization that's very complex refers to the number of elements that are within the environment that could impact the particular company. So we can look at this as being a simple environment or a more complex environment and then environmental change can be described as externally how much does the environment change? Is it stable or unstable? For example if you think of a technology company they probably would be relatively in an unstable external environment just because it's changing so rapidly. So these elements along with the other ones such as sociocultural forces when we combine all of them we can begin to understand how we want our company culture to be and how the culture will be serving of course to the organization and profitable but how it can help create the kind of culture a positive culture that we want within the company. We're now going to shift our attention a little and organizational structures and culture or company culture go hand in hand because a lot of times companies will start out with no real organizational structure but as they grow they will then need to focus a little bit more on formalized structures. So if we take a look at this graphic here you can see that we are leaning more toward organic systems of organizational structure but let's talk about what organic systems and organic structures and mechanistic systems what the difference is between those two. So when we look at an organic system this is where there is less of a hierarchy and ideas tend to flow back and forth regardless of someone's title or position. This type of organizational structure tends to be effective in that there isn't a lot of red tape as we might call it to try to get things done within the organization and a mechanistic I always have a hard time saying that system is more structured it's much more formalized and a lot more rigid so depending on the results that we want within our organization the type of industry we're in and many other factors we may choose one type of structure versus another but next we're going to look at some examples of different types of organizational structures and as as we look at these I'd like you to think about how you've seen this in organizations that you worked for these types of structures and what you think the benefits to each structure are so let's take a look at each of those now our first structure is a functional structure and this is probably one of the more traditional organizational structures where you have headquarters or you have a CEO we're we're dividing out the organization into different functions so there's a production there's marketing there's a counting and so forth so again this structure is probably the most common that we see in organizations the challenge with this type of structure is that it does tend to be a little bit rigid where you end up with silos of marketing and production when really these these parts of the organization should be working closely together in the fast-paced environment that we're in but you'll find that most organizations still have somewhat of a functional structure and the different departments are divided up like this so let's take a look at our next organizational structure this structure is called a divisional organizational structure and as you can see from the figure we divide this structure into the different types of products that we offer so product a product b and then within each of these divisions then we have a functional structure that is divided up into marketing accounting manufacturing so the when you think about this structure a lot of very large companies have this they have many many different product lines and as a result they may have a head of each division that then is in charge of all of these elements this can be a very effective structure the important thing to remember about this type though is that the head of product a division and product b division should constantly be communicating about the sales of product the features their product development new products that they're going to offer and so forth to make sure there's not overlap so let's take a look at our next structure now this structure is focused on geographic region so as you can see we have the ceo and we have a vp of eastern region vp of southern region western region and so forth so one of the things to consider about the structure is for large companies that operate globally it can be really really useful to have this type of structure because then you can put individuals in place that are that are culturally competent in that particular area they speak the language and and so forth so that would be an advantage of this structure but you can also see that in the the bottom figure that we have here president vp of us operations vp of europe european operations that it's it's geographical at first but then we still go down to the functional structure within each geographic location where we're located so again the big advantage to this structure is you then have some more cultural competency as you're trying to organize around the different geographic and so that's all for organizational structures we're going to move on into our last topic but the one final note that i want to talk about as far as organizational structures is that they're really important as part of the creation of organizational culture which we started talking about at the beginning of the video the reason for that is these are ultimately formal networks where you're grouping people together that are going to be working together but can be really really important to think about the best organizational structure to get things done where there's not as much bureaucracy where people can move new ideas forward at a at a fast pace since that's an important part of culture and a dynamic environment so let's take a look at our next slide now our last topic for this unit is on the topic of company culture and employee development so when we talk about transformational leadership this type of leadership tends to be very supportive and visionary so have this this type of leadership we want to get the best from our employees of course so as we look at this we can think about how we can develop and make the environment in which we're leading and managing people we can make that environment conducive to learning and when we make that environment conducive to learning there are a lot of advantages that occur people have their upper level needs they tend to stay with the organization so you see less over you see higher productivity when people are continually growing within your organization so the idea here is to try to develop an environment that's conducive to learning to incentivize learning and also encourage informing so as you can see from the figure here there are several ways that we are able to do that we can do that by for example creating a system for knowledge management and knowledge management would be focused on how do we take what we know and the skills that we have of employees and put that on paper or document that somewhere so other people can learn from it also when we look at developing an environment that's conducive to learning we want to focus on our collective competencies as an organization and the abilities that we have as an organization and continue to work through those to make be more learned and more motivated in order to do the best job possible so that's not enough though we want to make sure that we incentivize people to engage in formal training so we may want to give time off to go to training seminars or even pay for those seminars we want to create communities where people can share ideas and ensure that people are able to develop their future careers the third aspect of this is to encourage info learning so while we just talked about formal learning we want to also encourage info learning so this could of engaging with one another when you're trying to solve a problem or solve an issue and valuing reflective experiences amongst employees and also supporting our employees as they try to grow and learn about things that may be directly related to their jobs or it may be other things outside of their jobs interests and hobbies that can be important to them so the idea here is that we use an entire system within the organization to create this culture of learning and once we do that and we meet each of these elements we tend to have a very strong company culture that is focused in growth and development which of course helps our organization and its productivity and probably profitability as well as we conclude this unit let's take a look at what we talked about and what you learned and we're going to tie those of course to our learning objectives we related the dimensions of organizational culture such as common goals beliefs leadership styles and assumptions we also described the relationship between the external business environment and business culture we talked about the relationship between leadership and development of subordinates to help us achieve our organizational strategy and meet our goals and we also talked about leadership practices such as mentoring and talent development which helps us foster the progression of our subordinates let's take a look now at what's next to prepare you for the practice exam I definitely recommend that you do another review of the material maybe especially some of the material that you had some challenges with once you review that material you should be all set to take the practice exam and I wish you the best of luck on that


All right, here's what I want. Obviously, I love Shahrukh Khan hanging upside down. Yeah. I actually want him in Pothon shirtless hanging upside down. Well, he doesn't have to be, I can hang him upside down myself, but I just, his ripped body, which he's actually ripped for it, whether he took roids for it or not, I mean, it doesn't really matter, you're in a movie. And it was lighting. And then, I mean, there's a little light. No, there's a lot of photos like he's actually ripped. I don't know if it was natural. It doesn't matter. I hope he's not smoking anymore. He probably is. But it's also to get in that kind of shape and still smoke. That's crazy. Gotta be tough if he's still smoking. Hopefully he's not. Obviously, it's very bad for you and everyone else. Yeah, exactly. But anyways, I want like, if somebody has like one of him, like just shirtless, long hair, beard, it's never looked better. Same thing with any of the ladies. No. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our shoot of direction, Boushya, Afrofop, Founster. There was a shaggle hole. Dunluck hole. Uh, uh, uh. It's familiar. Anyways. What are we doing today, Rick? What was that? Just me doing something. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Today we got a Nisirudinsha interview. There he is. This is a interview from 2019. It's title films don't change the way theater does.  Challenge, sorry, challenge you. Oh, as an actor? Yeah, apparently. Read this. A 2019 interview of the Thespians and Real Life couple, Nisirudinsha is the founder of Mumbai's Motley Theater Group in 79. Motley's been a considerable influence on contemporary Indian theater over the years. You have seen Ratnapathak Shah as the mom in the movies Kapoorat's Sons. Yeah, and Jayash by Jordar. Oh, okay, cool. Ratnapathak Shah is the daughter of Dinapathak, whom you've seen playing the role of the pretend mom in the classic comedy movie, Gold Mall, starring Uthbal Dutt and Pelikar. Ratnapathak is Supriya Pathak, who is Shahid Kapoor's stepmom.  Wait, so Nisirudinsha's wife. Sister is Shahid's stepmom? Correct. Yes, Nisirudinsha's wife's sister is Shahid Kapoor's stepmom. If you tell me the name, I will ring a bell. Supriya Pathak. Yes, Supriya Pathak. And that's Shid Kapoor's stepmom, and then Nisirudinsha's wife is Ratnapathak. Yeah, Ratnapathak Shah. That's one heck of an acting family. Yeah, no kidding. You got there, especially by the ladies. Anyway, so this is a little interview of him talking about theater specifically. Awesome. Which I know you hate. Here we go. Sir, ma'am, thank you so much for being in the queen, and thank you for doing this. It's been 40 years since the first production of Motley, and when you look back, how do you look at all the plays? How do you look at all the times? They've been mostly good times as far as theater is concerned because our livelihoods never depended on it. My attachment to theater is my hobby, a hobby which I'm very passionate about. We have a very stimulating journey, very educative and great fun. But since your childhood, I mean, did you watch plays and you were interested in movies and cricket? Movies and plays both, all three I found equally magical. I never got to act in a play till I was 14 years old, and the moment I went on stage, I knew this is where I belong. I never got to watch too much cricket because only chess matches were played then. I don't know if you know about this. They were played in places like Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, and so on where I lived in small towns. So I never saw any cricket, but played a lot of it, and it was bliss. And watching movies, I've been watching movies since I was, I think, three. My dad, who was otherwise quite a puritan, for some reason, allowed us to watch a lot of movies. Yeah, because our world is Hollywood is like a no one guessing, right? Yeah, it was Hollywood. It was mainly Hollywood. Hollywood, more movies or cartoons, and in the movies, Dilip Kumar movies. He was discerning, huh? I grew up in a theater family in Bombay. So mine is the exact opposite experience. I grew up backstage practically, and my parents had no qualms about letting me see very bad theater, but had terrible qualms about me seeing movies. So I ended up seeing all movies. It was my aunt, my mom's younger sister, and her husband. They were the movie buffs, and they were part of the early film club movie. They were in a movement in Mumbai called Sujithra. Film society is used to be a movement. And that was the only way one could access films that were not Hollywood. Or not coming to the theaters. Yeah, so I ended up watching a lot of Russian films, for example. I can't say I was starry-eyed about the whole business, because I always saw the backstage. My mom started acting in movies, so I went with her to shooting. I always saw the non-attractive part of the business, or the non-glamorous part of the business. I sometimes feel sorry that I never felt that magical quality about performance. But I didn't, until I started performing myself. But was it like in those days, it was considered nice to be a part of theater than Hindi cinema, or was it like that? There's always so many people who look down on anything popular. So yeah, sure. When films were popular, then people looked down on films. If theater was more popular, people have looked down on theater also before that. Well, in my family, it was just unthinkable to talk of trying to be an actor. And I never confessed it to anyone, except for my two brothers who encouraged me. And then somehow the news found its way to my father by the time I had finished with my college, and then I could do what I pleased. Post the time you started, what, you joined a little later, right? Just a little later. I was in the NSD in 79. I finished with NSD. It's a good-looking man and a woman right there. Then I joined up. But there was nothing really like joining as such, you know? I mean, it's never been like that. I mean, Nasir and Ben got together and said, let's do a play. So let's take this one, that one, as a cricket. That's how we've always functioned. Good friends who we enjoy spending time with. There's no membership, as Ratna said. That's, uh, waiting for Gada, right?  So we've never had that problem.  And you said that theater had a huge role in actually making you a better actor. So what is it that it does that you think when you then start working in movies helps you? I don't know if the skills required of the actor, the basic skills change very much depending on the medium. It all depends on the material that you are using. But you see, it's also a question of practice, you know, quite simply. For films, even rehearsal is unheard of, you know? Yeah. And even at times, I've met actors, some pretty good ones who are allergic to rehearsal even before the shot. Spontaneity. Spontaneity. Spontaneity. Spontaneity. But doing theater, you cannot just get on to the stage and spark dialogue and you've got to... So it's especially of Riaz. It's Riaz, it's discipline. It's learning to work with others. Skillful actors like, say, you know, a Johnny Lever, for example, who I consider a highly skillful actor in his own field, of course, would be brilliant on the stage if he would submit to the disciplines. And he's great in movies as well. He does the same thing.  What is it all about? The greatest demand it does make is one of patience, which is a tremendous virtue and one should learn it. So that's one... It's mostly waiting on set. Yep. And for your career. And that's why film acting is so tiring because this waiting kills me, you know. Yeah. After days shoot more exhausted than after eight hours. Absolutely. What do you think has been characteristic of a modeling production? Like the plays that you pick, that you feel... Low budgets. We've found that the audiences are largely young. So obviously, the storytelling format is one that seems to attract young people. The stories have a lot of humour. And though they are Urdu and they are set in a particular... They were written at a particular time, they're terribly contemporary stories. Ismath had...  She's fantastic. You know, I have to say so. I saw Aarath Aarath Aarath and Prithvi and it was a packed audience. So I was just wondering that... Of course most people think that, you know people wanna watch movies and that's the obvious choice of editing for most people. So then in that situation, how do you nurture this? I really enjoy this. Just keeping on doing it. So sometimes you get full house. Sometimes we get full, sometimes we have 20 people in the audience. You keep doing it. Or Aarath Aarath Aarath then... Pesa vasul is basically the bottom line, no? Why do they flock to Salman Khan movies without hesitation? Because they know it's Pesa Vasul. I will think twice, you know. Everything being manned. More than that. So that's the cerebral aspect. Oh, the cerebral aspect. And if I get put off, then bothers me. Johnny packs the Shanmukha in the hall by himself for a solo performance. There's 2,000 people. They know it's Pesavo soon. I know that. What's Pesavo soon? No idea. Nonsense, maybe? Maybe, yeah. Performed to an audience of 2,000 people probably wouldn't work. Because the form is alien. That of storytelling. You know, we've done Ismat Aba Ke Na which we are very proud of and we've had people who understood very good Urdu and have lived the kind of lives of those things but they didn't get the play at all because the form is alien. Of just one person sitting there telling us... Why should we? I don't know. Considering that's the first form of entertainment any of us have seen. Mom telling a story. It makes a demand on the audience. They can't just sit back and they have to say okay, what's being said here? This is something. Why is everybody laughing? I'm missing out. So it's a demanding. What's the right kind of theatre audience etiquette? Because I was there, I remember a bunch of people just reacting so loudly to your play and I thought that must be great for the actors because it's not always. So I was just wondering what is the right what is the good theatre etiquette? Keep your mobile phones off. No hard candies and wrappers. And listen, and if you don't like what you're hearing just quietly get up and go away now. We don't mind. We don't force them. They'll be on their phone. There's something we theatre actors have to live with. We cannot complain about this. I grew up watching people walk in and out of Gujarati Natak constantly and join social group kind of show. And if they stop, they'll be like, the whole lot goes off.  It was beautiful. It was beautiful. It was excruciatingly long. You need to know a great deal about it. You can't just sit down and tell the story or say so and so was very good and so and so was not so good. I wish there was... We don't have such a... we are not cultivated. And now I don't think we are going to because we don't like criticism of any kind. We only want acceptance. We just need that much. So this is a very difficult and dangerous state for our society and certainly for our arts. Do you think that some of that might reflect in the work because it may attract a certain audience or younger audience, a certain comment that you would like to make or a social comment because of what you see or are the plays anyways doing it? I think the plays are doing it. I don't feel the need to talk about my political commitment and that I would only do plays which are political. I think there is politics in everything including in relationships. And to me that's far more interesting than the... Than an outgoer. Than the doings of some corrupt man who is in power. No, because I know that every time you have made a comment I don't think you are on social media but Twitter goes crazy. Good. Good. That's nice, isn't it? But it's so silly this entire conversation this entire mess that we are in just now that the less we talk about it and the less importance we give it the better it is. Everyone make up your own minds there. I am used at the trolling that happens to me this is the music and I rarely say I like very much what you say. On what platform do you say that? Facebook? Twitter is quite ridiculous because Twitter is cool. Just a couple of days ago there was a guy who tweeted about how he didn't like a certain delivery man because he was from a certain religion and he had asked you to put it on Twitter. How lovely. I say thank you very much to him. Look at how many people are talking about it. Look at what is being said. The man has shown his place. I like that. There's a lot of filth in all of us. We all have to let it out. Great shirt. There's a lot of filth in all of us. Learn how to think again. This gandagi should not be bottled up. Take it out. Mando also said that. And that's why I think Mando Ismat Hazir here that we are going to be doing and if you haven't come and seen it you must come and see it. It's so relevant in today's time. And he says that. Do you find these times are going to be hard for art? Oh yes. And great for art. Great for art. Maybe not immediately. Maybe ten years down the line. Because this is the first time a generation is actually seeing what it feels like to be misruled. Your generation is the first real generation that is feeling hopeless. Like the people felt just before independence that sense of despair how long will we carry on in this horrible state. I'm afraid it's going to be tough but it may be necessary. And I have a feeling we'll come out better because again there have never been so many educated people in India and so many young educated people in India and hopefully the rest of us will die off quickly. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Okay. I love that old man thing. How do I take the mic off? But also did he say anything about film challenging you the way theater does? A sentence. What was it? Thank you so much. The processes of discipline patience and rehearsal. That you don't have to have those disciplines in film acting. And so they're a couple, right? You can tell. I love her. We've liked her in everything she's been in so far her performances at least but in the beginning of when Harry met Sally and throughout the film they have multiple couples talk about their relationship and their actors kind of what it felt like. Some of them had been together for 40 years or 60 years and have they been together that long? I think they have been. They showed the picture of them when they started the theater company way back in like 1973. The fact that they know each other so well and she seems more like the at least in this subject matter when that was like I want to talk. She's the talkative one and he's totally cool with it. Go ahead honey. Talk away. She's a fashion man. She fires up when she's talking. That's something I... One of my favorite things about them in this and about Naseradin is I've never understood and I talk about this with my buddy Rich all the time who were the same age never understood the checking out on life as you get older and like getting stuck in your ways and retiring and just having calcified in body and calcified in mind versus that where you're still, you're passionate and you're not just passionate about what you're doing you're a realist and she's like 10 years from now I want to know what it's going to be like for us it's not going to be so much and in 25 years we won't be here and totally okay with recognizing that's the role we're playing in our life right now and still being passionate about it. I love them. What she said about the young people is very true though. Yeah, specifically that's all over. It's all over the planet. That's America, that's Iran right now there's so many different countries since we've grown up my generation specifically and younger people that grew up with the internet now and we are more knowledgeable than any other previous generation of terms of like stuff going on and the reality is governments trying to tell you one thing but you see evidence as the contrary and all over the place so we're very in terms of I think we I don't know if that's a specific name we are the knowledge generation of having our fingertips if I really want to know something but also the flip side is there's also tons of misinformation but also I feel like younger generations even though parents my generation's parents were the ones that were like don't believe everything you read on the internet but it's always people of your generation that are like believing something on American Eagle dot gov exactly check your sources like seriously come on use your brain and then people of my generation are like do you know who the who's saying that exactly do you believe everything on the internet right anyways I like what you said there I did too and so I think they'd be I've wanted to talk to Sarah and Shaw forever but I would also love to talk to her and Sarah and Shaw about just he seems like seems like a theater man we knew it the moment we saw him in Deborah and everything we've ever seen and heard both in his performances and in his interviews is he is the he is a thespian he is an actors actor that's why most of our like pancaches of the world noirs always like he's who I want to be yeah exactly he's the style of actor it goes down to the core of their being he said it's a hobby but it's more I would venture to argue it's just a hobby because it doesn't pay him as much as films do right vocationally which is the way for all theater actors no one's doing it for the money nobody Nathan Lane but even he he can make more in film Jackman makes more in movies than he did for music man but he does it I've heard him talk there's a really cool documentary about Broadway and how it from the build up of it all the way through its decline in the 70s and 80s up to it's and Jackman was talking about it and he said specifically he said of all the experiences I've ever had as an actor none has been the most exhilarating and the most fulfilling for me as an actor then Broadway then the response I get from the live audience in the moment and also knowing he said if you think about this at any given moment on Broadway at 8pm eastern the amount of talent on display in that moment in New York City nothing like it anywhere in the world happening at the same time on stage live in New York it's great it's Saturday night great interview love to talk to Nassir and his lovely wife Ratina Ratna let us know what their next film should be down below


I wanted to brag a little bit about the kind of team that we are this morning that we had an experience for eight people, Josh and Scott were scheduled to work it. And last night, Josh contacted me and says, hey, just checking to make sure I am scheduled for setup, right? And I said, yep, you are. And he says, great, I'll be there. He says, I'm gonna get there a little bit earlier. I hurt my wrist today. So I'm gonna give myself a little extra time. And then I discover, oh my gosh, it could be like a serious sprain or break or something. So wow, how impressive is that? That Josh didn't call and say, hey, man, I'm hurting. Will you please, I don't wanna come in tomorrow. No, he had already promised he was gonna come in. So he was gonna come in, even with a possible broken wrist. That's just, that's incredible. That's dedication, that's awesome. That's what we love. So of course I said, well, I'll go set up for you. And so I went and did the heavy lifting and Scott just showed up half an hour early as well. And Josh and Scott did all the rest of the setup and started siding in rifles. And yeah, kind of like when somebody has a sprained ankle or a broken wrist or whatever, we all jump in and do it. But we never make excuses. We always show up when we're scheduled. That just blows me away. How fortunate I am to work with y'all. Thank you for that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Seriously, like it's huge. It's really big. This doesn't happen everywhere.  Thank you.


Multiple organizations are working together to power up the pantry. This is our second power up the pantry event. We had it in 2019 as our first annual during Kentucky Power's 100th anniversary. But then COVID didn't allow it to happen last year, but we are in four locations across eastern Kentucky. And the purpose is to help replenish food banks and food pantries in the area. Kentucky Power has partnered with God's Pantry Food Bank, Anthem Medicaid, and Facing Hunger to collect food, toiletries, and household items to later distribute to pantries throughout communities. And so we are here in Pikeville today. We are in Prestonsburg at Big Sandy Community College and we are in Hazard right outside the ARH Medical Mall and then we are in Ashland and Central Park. Wiseman adds that the pandemic has been tough on everyone to ease some of the burden that has been placed on people. Kentucky Power acted by pausing power disconnects and provided flexible payment arrangements. But a big part of what we do and what we feel is really important is participating in the communities where we live and work. And so, you know, what better way for us to participate to be out here today collecting food and toiletry items to hopefully replenish some of the food pantries in the area before winter hits. Because winter, no matter if nothing is going on in our world like COVID, is still can be a rough time in the mountains where we live. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute, we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting-edge technology providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. The Power Up the Pantry event will run all day until 6 30 p.m. at the locations listed on your screen. Wiseman says apart from non-perishable items, they're also accepting monetary donations which can be dropped off or donated online by visiting godspantryfoodbank.org or facinghunger.org. So we would love to see some traffic come through today. We've had some already and but we're here until 6 30 this evening and you know and at the three other locations and we really appreciate the support of the communities, our customers, and our own employees who have contributed to and donating their time today.