So, we've been talking a lot lately about MSNBC's bias and quite frankly their hatred towards Bernie Sanders and how they're not speaking truth to power and how by and large they are misinforming viewers and they're not allowing people who tune into MSNBC to know about the range of options that they have in 2020. And if you watch MSNBC, I can't imagine that you know much about policies, let alone about everyone who's running. But every once in a while. Bring out a guest who will actually penetrate that bubble and speak truth to power. This time Michael Moore was brought on and he was on a panel with Brian Williams, Claire McCaskill, Joanne Reed and Steve Schmidt and he gave them the reality check that they desperately needed and everything he said was spot on. Take a look. I think that we have to, when you guys were talking about how we have to be more moderate or move to the center, that's how we're going to win next year. See to me, I think moving to the center, I am the center. I am the mainstream now of the Democratic Party. The majority of Americans agree with me and Bernie on all the issues. Whether it's healthcare for all, whether it's climate change, minimum wage, mass incarceration, but down the whole list, the American people have moved left. So the center is now more of these sorts of things. This is what we believe. So when you say that, like for instance with Joe Biden said tonight, 160 million Americans want to keep their private insurance, says who, are you actually talking to people about this? They, yes, they want the assurance that whatever we have with the new Medicare for all is essentially just a transfer from what they have with our good union healthcare. It's going to be that, but it's going to be better for you. You're not going to have co-pays and deductibles. Fine. But the average Democrat and the average American does not like the health insurance company. They hate Aetna and Cygna and United healthcare. These are people that they're fighting with to get them to pay a bill that they won't pay. The healthcare industry has caused more pain and harm and anxiety for the American people than practically any other industry. And we should never side with candidates that are going to say, we're going to, we're going to keep this private profit making thing going. That's not where the American people are at. They are fed up with this. And I'll tell you, I got a earful of it back home in Flint last month when General Motors was on strike. Yup. What did the CEO of GM do on the third day of the strike? She took away their healthcare.  They couldn't believe it. Nobody, I come from a GM family. We, I mean, GM, your healthcare, UAW employee, it's everything. Medical, dental, eye care. You can get a free lawyer if you need one. It's like, it's the best. And on the third day, they saw the thing that they thought they'd have forever could be taken away by the company like that. And that's what people need to know, that we can never allow our health insurance to be in the hands of a private profit making company where they can end you tomorrow. Anybody watching this show right now, your boss could wake up in the morning and go, you know what? Steve, the, it just cost us too much money, you know, here to have this, to have this health insurance for the employees. We got to cut it back. We got to raise the deductible. They can do this just like that. That should be illegal. It's a human right. And we need to be like every other industrialized country that has this. So that was virtually perfect. There's really nothing that I can say to supplement that clip because it was perfect. He said everything that I would have said if I were on that panel. Except he probably said it more eloquently. That was beautiful. I am the center. Americans have moved left. I mean, we shouldn't have to explain that to MSNBC hosts, but here we are. They believe that if you support something like Medicare for all, you are an extremist when in actuality, this is a return to FDR style politics. This is not a new policy. Democrats have had single pair as a goal for decades now. But yet all of a sudden, this is something that's radical. If you support this, you're radical. Actually, no, that's not the case. Democratic party voters support Medicare for all. And before centrist Democrats started attacking it, polls started to show that even a majority, not a plurality, a majority of Republicans backed single pair Medicare for all. So when you say and suggest that, you know, supporting progressive policies like free college and Medicare for all and a Green New Deal are extremist and far left, that's a lie because people who are progressive are the center. Now, it's a little bit misleading because if you ask people more often than not, they will self identify as conservative. But when you go issue by issue, people are by and large more left leaning, more progressive. So political labels themselves are not that useful. You have to go by the policies. And when you look at the policies, when you look at the platforms of 2020 candidates, they're with Bernie Sanders more so than any other candidate, perhaps now on top of that, the point that he made about health insurance was just amazing. He said, Joe Biden said tonight 160 million Americans want to keep their private insurance says, who are you actually talking to people about this? He goes on to say the average American does not like their health care company. They hate that and sigma and united health care. These are the people they're fighting to get them to pay a bill that they won't pay the health care industry caused more pain, harm and anxiety for people than practically any other industry. And we should never side with candidates that say, we're just going to keep the private profit making thing going. That's not where the American people are at. And then he went on to talk about how General Motors used the health care that they provide to employees as leverage while they were striking. I mean, hearing someone say something like this about health insurance companies on mainstream media, it's like seeing a rainbow because it's so rare. But whenever you see it, you can't not stop and look and just appreciate it because it's so beautiful. I mean, everything he says here is 100% correct. People do not like their private insurance companies. And whenever there's this talk of people wanting to keep their private insurance, no, they want to keep their doctors. They want to make sure that if we transition to Medicare for all, they'll have the same level of coverage for most people, their insurance is going to be better under Medicare for all and they're going to be paying less. We're not getting what other countries are getting. And we need to move to where the rest of the world is. And the last thing I want to end on here is a quote from Michael Moore, which is just, it's perfect. It's the perfect quote to end on. We can never allow our health insurance to be in the hands of a private profit-making company where they can end you tomorrow. Anybody watching the show, your boss can wake up in the morning and take away your health insurance on a whim like that. Why are we allowing this system to persist? Why? This is a system that is riddled with instability. There are 500,000 plus medical bill related bankruptcies that take place every single year. Tens of thousands die because they don't have health insurance. Why are we letting corporate media who are using talking points from the industry and politicians who are funded by the industry dupe us into accepting a system that is against our best interests. We shouldn't. So mainstream media isn't going to educate people on this, but every once in a while there will be a guest like Michael Moore who comes on and says exactly what people who tune into MSNBC need to hear and frame it in a way that's so brilliant that I hope that it gets them to think more deeper about these issues that the mainstream media downplays and dismisses and does propaganda, you know, against Medicare for all is something that we need desperately and anyone in the mainstream media, any politician who's arguing against it is literally trying to convince you to be in favor of something in favor of a system that is trying to kill you and bankrupt you. They don't care about you. They care about profits. Medicare for all would shift the goal from increasing profit to delivering health care. That's what we need. That's what would save lives and stop medical bankruptcies once and for all. Kudos to Michael Moore for actually saying this on national television. I wish that more people would say that, but you know, I'm sure that if you did say this regularly, you wouldn't be invited back on. And we'll see if Michael Moore gets invited back on MSNBC surprisingly brings him on fairly frequently. But if he keeps this up, I doubt he's going to get many invites in the future, but we'll see.


Well, Sunday liquor sales will go into effect this weekend on the cusp of the 4th of July, and many Bemidji area store employees tell reporter Mel Meyer that they're hoping the boost in holiday tourism will help kick off the occasion. Noelle's bottle shop started advertising the new hours at the beginning of the week. We have it on our road sign there and then on our door. Right now, their biggest issue is figuring out how much to order. With their regulars, people coming in from the restaurant next door, in a boat launch up the street, they're in uncharted waters. While they're sticking to some usual specials to draw people in, they're hoping that by just being open, they can pick up some new clientele. Those expanded hours are also part of giving better customer service to people. It's the same way that some other stores are operating. Anything else for you? Getting the word out. Just to mention it to people, we get a lot of people asking us. Before they start sweetening the deal, Northern Liquor will have their doors open for the full seven hours. It will be the perfect time to sell to tourists who are accustomed to stores being open on Sunday. There's a lot of out of state people come to the town for the holidays, so it'll be nice to just sell through the weekend. And tourists aren't the only ones who are used to it. I think it's about time because I work in many other states and every other state does it. With so many variables changing, how many customers there will be, we're gonna have just in-store specials just for on that day. The Hive Liquor says the first weekend will be a test to see how many staff they'll need in the future. The more people that show up, the more staff members we're gonna need. But once the summer cools off and the extra customers leave, it'll be time to reassess. The city decided earlier this week to open and says they'll be watching closely before making any further decisions. I don't think one month or even two months is going to set the trend. And I think it has to be looked at on an ongoing annual basis. In Bemidji, I'm Mel Meyer, Lakeland News. Out of 22 stores that Lakeland News contacted within 10 miles of our three largest cities in our viewing area, which are Brainerd, Bemidji and Grand Rapids, only river road lickers in Grand Rapids has decided not to open. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


The role of RSEF in the service stratum and the transport stratum for SCF and TF is realized to certain functional entities that we would be discussing in this module and then we look at an overarching view on the operation of RSEF through these functional elements. So the first one is basically the policy decision functional entity it actually means the policy which is going to be implemented for resource allocation and if a certain flow has to be admitted or not. So since we are now talking about the RSEF which is in the transport stratum so we want to have interaction with the service stratum for SCF so it means that PDFP is going to be the single point of contact with SCF this helps the complexity of the transport stratum to be invisible to the service stratum and vice versa then we have the transport resource control functional entity. Now actually this is what supports the presence of heterogeneous technologies this provides a basic admission control decision to be implemented by the policy enforcement functional entity we are going to have a look at it just now. Now this transport resource control functional entity as the name implies has to control the resources at the transport layer so it is going to work independently of the service it means the service control function is going to talk to the PDFE and this PDFE is now going to talk to the TRCFE. This is exactly what we see here if you look at this diagram you see that we have the service stratum with SCF shown to you here only because that's the point of concern at the moment then we have the RSEF implemented primarily through the policy decision functional entity now this policy decision functional entity has a has a one-on-one mandatory link with SCF and certainly with policy enforcement as well but it also has certain optional connectivity with entities such as mobility management network attachment and the management or for performance management. Now these optional are we are going to have a look at these incidentally this PDFE also has a mandatory interaction or interface with the transport resource control functional entity because it is going to be this TRCFE that is going to provide the policies to be policy decisions which are going to be implemented finally by the TREFE that is the transport resource enforcement functional entity this is the last point where the policy is given to the lower technology to implement in terms of specific bandwidth allocation buffer allocation priority assignment traffic differentiation etc etc so let's start with PDFE now we already know that it has certain optional connections but it has a mandatory connection with the service control function the policy enforcement basically is is essentially a router or a gateway that takes instructions or decisions from the PDFE and enforces so we say that PEFE is actually the point where we are now going to look at the final realization of the resource and admission control since we are talking about providing a certain flow certain behavior for implementing QoS for that flow we are looking at the transition points where traffic enters from one network and goes to the other this can be between different networks at the same level or it can even be between the core and access networks now this traffic resource control functional entity basically is in the transport stratum that instructs the resource enforcement functional entity so resource enforcement actually is where something actually is passed to the technology as I had said before now since this TRCFE is service independent so it is in the middle but since it is talking to the PDFE now it is important to understand that tREFE is going to be technology dependent because we are going to expect multiple tREFEs for different technologies different protocols different vendors different service providers this is exactly what we have just discussed you see here that here this enforcement point tREFE has a mandatory field with the with the with the user equipment so it means that this is the last entity in terms of the NGN architecture that implements RSEF in true form so RSEF basically is going to use all these functional entities to realize QoS enforcement through resource allocation and admitting or not admitting so it involves the certain steps that is discovery and selection so what do we mean by discovery discovery is basically all the functional entities that we have discussed some of them are mandatory some of them are optional so we need to discover them now this discovery is based on certain information which is required either this information can be static for instance pre-assigned IP addresses or domain names or it can be dynamic for instance the current topology which exists for the resource and admission control function to implement and the current level of connectivity of all these entities selection is basically after having discovered these functional entities selection is basically depending upon the QoS requirements coming from the service control function certain entities are binded together or you can say they are they are related to each other now in that particular requirement scenario depending on what the QoS requirements have come from the service control function some of these parameters can be again not limited to the type of service which is expected from the underlying network the technologies and the protocols which are working and the service attributes in terms of QoS parameters and user preferences and the network condition etc


Welcome to the homelab show episode 69. We're going to talk about remote access Me doing Jay. I'm doing great. How are you? Good. Good. Good. We were You know, we started to show just a couple minutes late because we were still going over There's so many good remote access tools out there and some of the choices are confusing So we're gonna hopefully offer a few Solutions out there and talk about some of the security around them We want to make sure people think in our mindfully if they're gonna be using this outside of their homelab But this has been a fun topic there's so many of them and it's maybe even a topic We revisit to dive into any one specific one of these in the future because boy, there's The more I started digging into it, but there's just a lot of different ways to handle this That's why we're hoping to bring it down a little to give you some choices I'll give you some ideas and find some new tools to play with but before we do that You want to think of sponsors show and that is Linode and for some of these apps You will want to host them in the cloud to give you in broker access between different machines And Linode is a great place to host that they've been sponsoring a homelab show since the beginning They've had a great sponsor of the show and they're a great tool for homelabers to use to test out things try their marketplace Get things spun up fast do some project learning on someone else's servers where you may want to publicly expose things But not publicly expose your own servers and of course some of these remote access tools This is going to be pretty relevant because you're going to want to host this somewhere else Especially one of them I'm going to mention to help provide remote support Well having that external is going to be kind of a cool place to have it such as Linode So we have an offer code down in the description below to get you started with Linode We think them for a sponsor show and let's talk about remote access Yep, let's talk about remote access and to your point earlier I mean you weren't kidding when you said that there's a bunch of solutions I just want to give the disclaimer we cannot possibly cover or even You know, you know mention all of them because there's just too many of them So I know we're going to get a flood of comments about what about this? What about that? Trust me. We know we've been looking around and there's no shortage of source um The thing I want to preface all of this with because some of these tools require you to Open some ports if you want to manage things remotely obviously within your homelab No big deal. Just make sure the devices are on network set by which they have rules Or on the same subnet that they can talk to each other But once you start exposing these externally you increase your threat surface A lot of these tools we talked about here may or may not have gone through rigorous security review I remember and there's one of the tools that um, I seen someone mention I forgot the name of it already This is not in my list because the project maintainer Has got a job and they dropped it and because of that there's not been any updates for several years So nobody knows and people sometimes will conflate. Well, no one's pointed out any security flaws in this product for a while That just means Probably no one found one no one's looking or maybe they did find one and no one reported it because There's not a proper package maintainer to let anybody know this happens a lot of different products So just take that uh when you're thinking about any of these products if you're going to deploy these What is your threat risk that comes with it? Should you be writing this all behind a vpn? That's generally my recommendation, especially for homeland people And unless the company has a public facing They tell you we're actively developed and we are actively going through regular security review and testing Really just be cautious before you load some of these your own access tools on there As I said much less of a risk if you have it in your home lab But I just want to get that out of the way so I don't have to mention it with each product Absolutely do your due diligence when it comes to uh vetting these I mean we are Telling you what's out there. We did not do a code audit. Yeah And neither I don't think neither me or jay are qualified to do full application pen testing so I'm good at many things, but that's not one of them. So it's a it is a special skill to be able to do that It's a lot of work It is all right. What's the first protocol we should talk about our first software Well, I think the first thing we should talk about is just some best practice and I hate the word best practice I'm still looking for a An alternative because there's no such thing as the best practice because the best practice means like you're unhackable Which isn't going to happen, but um You know for for example Don't make things publicly available Just because you can and just because it's easy if you have Even if you use one of the things that we're about to mention via vpn or through a vpn tunnel, that's better I know that's another step and some people just love having things remotely available I would love that too if you could actually do that Without it being a potential risk and there's no way to do that without it being a potential risk. So make sure you're paying attention to capabilities for lateral movement if someone was to get into the machine You know make sure that it's only available via vpn or whatever your solution might be remote access It gives you remote access and you really need to you know take advantage of the solutions. I think the best way To handle this is always to have just you know multiple things in front of it and sure that's not Really convenient, but I think it was steve gibson on security now that said convenience is the enemy of security and that's very true It's very true. Yeah, keep that in mind So I think the best analogy here for anybody that's seen the show get smart Which is one of my favorite shows of all time I think it was like the 60s or early 70s awesome show in every episode in the intro Um max well smart is going through door after door after door and there's vaults and then all these secret entries That's exactly the analogy to use when you make something remotely available You have to have some things in front of it to to secure it because you want to make sure you're doing the right thing absolutely, so the two common ports are going to be 22 for ssh and 88 3 3 8 8 9 sorry for rdp. Please correct me in the comments if i'm wrong as I know people will I think about that doesn't I don't know. I don't know about that. Maybe I don't use it enough It's either right and I don't use it enough or it's not right. Yeah, I don't use rdp very often either Commercially I'll get that out of the way that if people are wondering I've been using a tool called connectwise control for my commercial business So that is just to clarify that people as well. Do you use any of these in production tom? No, we use a commercially supported products. It offers us a lot of other convenience All right, moving on to the fun products that you should use Do you have a you have a punch order list or should I just start? I I don't but I mean one thing that I could just throw out there is x to go because That's the first one of my tab that I had really really okay because that one It has some additional features that actually you were the one that Taught me about it actually um, but let's back up a little bit So x to go has been the best for me That I've used personally so far and I'll let you know what I why I say so far later on But x to go has a server component and also a client component So you can remote into whatever servers as long as it's running the x to go server and it's available from the client and if I remember correctly you still have to add a repository for the server component But I think the client is built in it's been a little while because here's my problem I'm always home and especially you know since the pandemic started I kind of You know was stuck in the office and then I got used to it I guess I need to get out of the house more and test these things out because over 10 gig I mean everything's going to work pretty fast over 10 gig here locally But x to go It just works so well. Yes, and then there's that additional option where you can expose an application So you don't have to show an entire desktop You could actually just bring up firefox and it'll look like it's a native app But it's actually running from the x to go server or you could expose the entire desktop and control it And what I was doing before I switched editing Softwares is I would have a server with a bunch of cores That would have sync thing installed on it and it would sync my video files and my cadence live back when I was using it It would sync its project files over there So I've edit the video on my desktop and this is before I had a really good desktop Then I would just um, you know expose cadence live, but it's running on that server And since sync thing has all the files and the project files I just open up the project file hit the render button And it's rendering the video and then since it's again sync thing the final video will sync back to my computer Then I upload it and I did that over x to go by simply exposing cadence live only I didn't care about the whole desktop So it's up to you if you if you want to see the entire desktop and have an application menu Or if you just want the application itself Yes, and I've done a few videos on x to go getting started with it The good news is it's built into most Linux distributions You have to use as far as I know I don't think there's well, maybe someone can hack it together, but for the most part it expects a windows I'm sorry a linux server or you know your linux desktop to be the server That can either a server of the application serve up the desktop So as jay said you can use it actually can find kind of a novel features You can even take a browser and publish that as an application And then on the client side you can use a linux client or you can be your Windows computer so either one of those work from the client side of x to go So the initiating the connection to those other devices you're able to use that Once again, it's a free download and there's no the client side is really simple It's just a little app that runs that you know you point it towards x to go Now one of the things nice is when you're using it linux server and client because it can use It's using ssh as a transport layer So you don't have to worry about any extra layers of encryption or how they implemented the encryption x to go It's transporting everything over ssh So if you have a system that you've already got your ssh keys all configured and set up on X to go the client can go. Oh, okay. I can attach to devices To grab those applications and bring them over or grab the desktop and bring it over and the sound And do that just via ssh key. So it does make it fairly simple So if you've already taken the time to build out your ssh keys added passwords to your ssh keys As we've talked about before you're relying on that level of authentication and then you're there at the desktop I also showed this works reasonably well on a raspberry pi 4. So it's not super intensive I've done an example of doing it with like cali linux So let's say you wanted to have a cali linux system and you're doing some Testing but you want to have it on another network and you want to be able to get to the desktop not just ssh into cali It's nice because you can use all the ui tools that way Where the device is local even on something as simple as a raspberry pi So x to go is definitely for getting linux desktops somewhere else hands down one of the best apps I've seen for doing it. It's easy to use easy to set up Um, there are certain limitations. I think and easy enough to do I comment to this in my videos tutorials. I have an x to go You want to make sure you choose the desktop that works better? for it The desktop. What's the desktop that linux mint uses? Um, well, I was going to say An alternate recommendation. Well, actually the primary desktop is cinnamon, but they also have a mate version Cinnamon and mate both worked the best with it Oh, I didn't know about cinnamon because I thought that cinnamon required graphical capabilities mate Mate works really well. I thought cinnamon worked with it too, but I know mate mate's hands down I thought cinnamon would work with it as well Um, it's been a little bit since I tested it with that pretty much I just go with the mate desktop because I it it transports well That's one of the features you get is you can choose different desktop environments And those desktop environments don't have to be the same as the one like when you're sitting directly at it So your laptop can be using the desktop environment of your choice But then you can also load in a background on different like mate or even, you know xfce The simpler the desktop environment is probably going to be better And the Reason for that is you just have less animations and graphics to bring over so you have a better user experience doing it I'm a little nervous recommending cinnamon, although they could have fixed it But since um, you know, there's a lot of it's not I'm not going to say it's a heavy desktop environment But it does heavily use the video card. Whereas, you know mate can But they literally can detect I mean mate itself is configured to detect if it's running in a remote desktop And it'll be able to change its interface to match that one example of this is let's say You give access to your remote desktop to a family member or a colleague or something I mean, you know, you don't want them to shut it down Um, you know on a desktop you have a shutdown button But it'll literally change the shutdown button to a log out button instead because it knows it's in a remote desktop And I think that's just so clever So that's usually the reason why it's the first I recommend for this particular purpose Yeah, um So next one I want to bring up and now I have not done extensive testing with it But I got him and it's pretty slick and pretty basic to get set up And that's going to be rust desk And rust desk is more I like it now it's become popular enough that if you type in like open source team viewer replacement Which of course that's what their title reads. It says the remote desktop software the open source team viewer alternative Uh works out of the box no configuration required full control of your data. No concerns about security You can use your public relay servers or self hosting in your own cloud So they got a pretty lightweight simple system. Um, I have not gone through to see what level of Uh security vetting audience done as far as like how they do the transport layers But it's pretty slick and if you're just using it even for some basic quick access to things I think it's a kind of a neat option out there um the Rust desk has been around uh for at least a little while and I it seems to have grown really popular very quickly I think it's kind of that ease of use simple deployment A decent documentation and a pretty clean website like all the right all the right factors It wasn't it it wasn't like it takes you 10 hours of poking at it to try to get it set up They even have um docker containers. They have a like a one line installer to get it started. So they get some pretty Easy ways to get going with it. Um, and there's a youtube chaddle called awesome open source As a matter of fact to my knowledge are the only ones who's done they've done two videos on rust desk um, but those tutorials are Longer in in depth of every little detail setting it up in security And how to set up different keys with it because there's a couple ways you there's a couple ways You can implement the way the security works on there But it seems a pretty complete application and it supports both linux and windows Either way for client or server so you can get remote access to windows computers you can get access to linux ones I thought it was a pretty slick looking tool. I was Impressed with it. I watched it. Oh awesome open source video I didn't watch all of it in detail for those of you wondering in case there's some detail I overlooked but uh, definitely we're checking out that video is pretty complete. It seems it's all broken down step by step how to get it running Now I wonder how much of the popularity is due to the fact that it has rust in the name considering how popular that is nowadays Yeah, maybe so Copy into Um, yeah, that one was a pretty neat one right there now One of the other ones is going to be and I believe our friend christian, um I what is his I forgot his youtube channel name is I'll I'll pull it up in a second I'll make sure it's in the link in the show notes But he uses teleport and he uses it commercially for business. So and teleport's one of those pretty neat Options for Not just doing and you heard that ding because I pulled up their website because it's go to teleport dot com Is there new domain? I believe they had a different domain before when uh, I first started looking at them as a product But there's go teleport dot com. Oh go teleport. You're right go teleport dot com. There we go Now don't be scared that it has pricing up there They do offer this as an enterprise option with full sla agreements But this system itself is free and open source. I actually like the fact that when you click on pricing, uh, there's a download now option Self-hosted fully open source github sso integration and community support I mean community support kind of makes sense, you know, what you're gonna put on there Now teleport is a bit more complicated set up, but gives you a lot of flexibility on there um digital life by the way digital life. Yes that that digital life, right? I think this is uh The digital life the digital life. Yes, if you the digital life teleport He's got a couple tutorials on it But one of the cool things about teleport the good and bad it has an agent that bothers me a little bit But if you want that extended functionality that teleport offers, I get How the uh agent really plays into this it's not just for brokering connections for ssh It is also for full audit logging of those connections. It is good for Web applications and having those essentially it's like a reverse proxy So you can set this up to all your different apps and now you have and you can set this up So you can access it remotely when you're not in your home lab, too They've done a good job of making it really easy to go through Set up things like your grafana your dashboards your web logins for many different things Then teleport can go talk to each of those provide essentially a reverse proxy for any of these That reverse proxy then allows you to easily connect and more importantly, especially from the business standpoint and why He mentioned like commercial use of this is it has full audit logging everything that was done This actually has a couple of facts one. It's really good if you're running a business You have full audit logging of people and what they did. What do you think about that jwin? How much how important is logging when you're we're managing other linux technicians? Would you love to know every command they type they got there? I mean logging is like everything. It's absolutely everything In this uh one of the things this will do is have audit trails for all the commands they type Now especially for home lab people like well, I'm the one typing a command. Is that a big deal? Yes, because how many of you actually have a list of all the commands you type to get somewhere being able to Replace some of that I think it's just a really neat feature and it's a good learning feature because when you go through and set something up You can watch yourself in all the iterations and all the things you type down there It also creates a nice central place to have all of your login So if you have a dozen machines that you're managing some in a mixed environment Having that in there and log in and go all right. I logged into this server here at this time I logged into this server this time. Here's the commands I typed That's just kind of a nice feature that they have for all that I think I think teleports are pretty slick system and being fully open source Is awesome and being supported by a business use case means I don't think someone's going to get another job and just drop the project That's I like open source projects that hey, here's all the code by the way We have a sla agreements and full service and support you can get on this side of the house Which is actually really cool. Yeah, I like that model as well It is you know, you could use it or you could you know at your company also use it and get a support agreement So everybody wins. Yeah, everybody wins and it's just kind of a neat tool to be able to have I haven't dug into setting up the reverse proxy But he has a video talking about that so christians video on if you type in likes a teleport and the digital life He's got some he's got two good breakdown videos of it that go in depth on everything on there. So I see a video to check out and uh, he's uh, he's actually a friend of ours. So yeah shout out to him if he's actually listening Yeah, now have you used because I'll bring it up. Have you used Apache guacamole? Um, Jay I have but it's been a very very long time If I remember correctly it presents a remote or actually it presents a desktop in your browser Yeah, and it's so you can get Apache guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway It supports standard protocols like vnc rdp and ssh We call it clientless because no plugins or software required. Uh, thanks to html5 guacamole Is installed on a server you need to access to desktop via web browser. So what it does is it brokers connections It's kind of a go-between. So you're doing it within the browser So now your guacamole instance That you're accessing via your web browser wherever you have this set up You know hosted internally and then on the back end of guacamole You're telling it to connect to all the other devices now. It's kind of slick how that works. I've not actually used it You know the biggest thing with my use case comes down to a lot of times. I just have to teach into things Now i'm looking at honestly even internally for us as we manage more linux servers Um for clients. Well the requests are coming in to do so I might use something like teleport because it's going to give me all the logging and key management and things like that but the You know guacamole seems like a pretty cool system the fact that it supports rdp is uh, pretty slick and Pending on a little bit of the rdp Um, when the latest gnome now comes with rdp built in as well, doesn't it it does and it's right there in settings Which was interesting to me because you know, I wasn't sure why Um, the gnome desktop would have went that direction don't get me wrong I'm not saying they shouldn't support it because I know it's a real thing It's super popular and you know pretty much every company uses it And there's one you know, it's one thing to support it and be able to connect to it and also it kind of makes sense as we were talking earlier because um You know in a mixed environment if you're using a windows computer it is pretty cool It could use rdp to get a gnome desktop But what's interesting is gnome does not work well at all in any way shape or form in a remote desktop It's sluggish and barely even usable in my opinion. I'm just going to be honest So it was really interesting to me that they went that direction Maybe the remote desktop version isn't um as bad as maybe other solutions like like gnome really isn't For that in my opinion, but it is what it is There's just one thing between supporting it or allowing to be connected by it And I would think a open source solution would have been the um or fully open source and that reverse engineer solution Would have been the forefront for them But I found that that to be interesting, but then you know, I also have to um understand that You know businesses are using it. It's super popular. So not supporting it. That wouldn't be a good idea either Yeah, it is kind of neat because then with guacamole with hopefully as it improves It's been a while last time I tested any of the rdp the same thing I my experience with attaching it on linux was not wonderful But nonetheless, I mean as that improves you'd be able to use guacamole as a single point Internally to do it now I've not dug into and if anyone wants to leave a comment um as to why it's called guacamole. So This guacamole is yummy. Why else would it be?  So I don't I don't have a problem with the name I don't forget it. Do you? Yeah, you remember it. Yeah, I remember when you go to a mexican restaurant It's like I need to try out guacamole when I get home Yes, that's how you help judge mexican restaurants. You guys it's the guac and the sauce man Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely that So yeah, patchy guacamole. I I it's supported by the patchy foundation. So we know it's going to be around for a while It seems to be quite well supported Like anything I really don't feel as though you should publicly expose this but hey, it seems to be popular Oh, definitely among the comments on here. Maybe one day I'll give it a try I believe jeff from crafting computing has a video where he talks about using a patchy guacamole as well It might be a good solution too for um internal use when you when you're you know at home and you're not accessing it remotely because One thought that I had is you know often when it comes to homelab the uh spouse factor could be a well a factor, right? So um flex server stops working And you're at work or something. So you can't really fix it I mean, how easy would it be to have somebody who's not technical at all just tell them go to this You know bookmark that I put in your browser and a desktop appears double click on the icon that says restart Collect server or whatever. I'm just making up the scenario And maybe that might be a use case because then it would just be easy for them to get in and Click that icon and restart the media server or whatever you happen to use Because sometimes, you know, unfortunately our homelab stuff. It just stops working Like I just discovered I had a issue with one of my 10 gig cards two days ago And what how long has it been since you switched me to 10 gig like a year and all of a sudden it stops working So sometimes these things happen and maybe it makes sense just to have a desktop in the browser that someone at home can get to to Restart a service if they have to Yep um next one on the list here now this is pretty slick and uh our port dot i o r p or r t dot i o all these Slays that'll be linked in there But that one is pretty slick because it is more than just remote access It is a self Self-hosted open source remote management solution for windows and linux intuitive easy to use management for remote access script execution VPN replacement and much more Now it's really impressive what you can do with this. We got support for ssh remote desktop vnc Sorry, but telnet's in there web-based unit interfaces and You can even do uh tcp-based protocols Like smb network printing and http apis and web servers now to go a step further One of the other things you can do with this once again, you're loading agents to make all this work But the agents will monitor windows and monitor um linux systems. This is really slick because now you can get like a constant heartbeat execute commands Build tunnels between them for connectivity. It's a pretty Neat tool to consolidate all your servers again very Similar to the way teleport handles it into a spot to do it. Um, I think this is really slick because you can also Um execute commands see up time for them. I'll see the monitoring back and forth It reminds me in similar ways to what we refer to in the it msp services space The rmm tool remote management monitoring tool that you commercially this has got a lot of features Now it's not as full features as some of the paid commercial tools But being that it's open source and self-postable if you wanted to manage a lot of different servers on your lab This seems like a nice integration to be able to once again have one spot where you can centrally Log in everything one web interface and both of these in back to teleport and this have strong authentication methods Well, they all have 2fa so even if you're using internally because anytime you create a choke point where you're bringing everything down to One system to access it that choke point is obviously something you should protect Dearly because oh, yeah, it is it is the key to all the kingdoms And I've seen people who will use the argument against these tools when well, you're centralizing all the control to one place Well, you kind of need to do it. So you only have one place to replace versus Decentralized in the control where well, I've all dispersed and it's hard to tell who logged into what when Because i'm pulling logs and consolidating them all together and then trying to figure it out So it's not a bad thing to necessarily put all these in there into one place But it's important that anything that you do that with does have all of these different two factors on there So, uh, this does support though. Um I thought this was all data sorting cryptidisk connect up to 500 devices and unlimited current concession I wasn't sure exactly because I didn't see any, uh commercial option. I don't know if the 500 was a limit or Um, exactly how that worked down there. I thought it was strange I mean, I mean you may have more than 500 things in your home lab on there, but I thought it was strange why they chose Yeah, let me start the marketing. This is up to 500. Well, what happens? What happens if I have 501? Yeah, exactly. Um Now there's just so many solutions out there and I can't believe that I forgot to mention ramina earlier Um, and I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it right. That's just how I've been saying it It's r-e-m-m-i-n-a and it's an app It's not in itself going to allow you to be, you know, your systems to be accessed remotely But what I think it is great about it is that you could put your ssh connections in there your remote desktop connections In one app and then just have, you know, one place to get to all those things And I think it's a really awesome thing to have in general when you're actually, you know Accessing things remotely even if remotely is that, you know, it's in the other room And you don't really want to go across the hall and into another room and, you know, attach a monitor but um, you could actually have all those connections in one and it's available and I don't think there's a single distribution of linux that I haven't seen it for I don't know if it works outside of linux But if you're working with linux on your laptop or desktop, then it's um, you know quick mention Just wanted to mention that it's not going to allow people to access your systems But it allows you to access the things you already have access to Yeah, there's another one someone mentioned in here And I didn't know about it earlier today when I was just doing a couple extra notes Um, where was it early in the beginning of the show someone mentioned it? While you're looking for that, I'll just mention one more. Um I'm actually in the process of evaluating thin link right now thin linc And I don't have like a final opinion yet because uh, basically, you know full disclosure The company reached out to me to sponsor my channel And you know, I get a ton of sponsorship requests. I probably accept maybe like one out of 30 or something um, so I looked at this like I do anything else just assuming it's bs until I um Yeah, actually get proven otherwise and as I'm going through it It's impressing me more and more because at first I'm like, well does it support linux? I get so many sponsorship requests Where the product is not installable on linux and then I'll respond back like you did look at the name of my channel before You sent this over to me, right? Which is always funny to me like it like it's number one requirement If it doesn't work on linux like my audience doesn't want it Right. So anyway, um, so I look at it and then they have it available on platform Okay Like okay. Well, I think that might mean that they get linux and then I keep looking through it and It just really impressed me so far and I was just going You know googling around trying to see what the general consensus was people seem to enjoy it Then I had a chance to test it out while I was on vacation I set up a computer here just to be accessed, you know, basically a crap installation I didn't care about just to test it out. It worked fine. I had no problems at all So the only thing that I would say I didn't that I don't like so far Is that it doesn't support raspberry pi as the device you're connecting to My understanding and I'm still looking into this is that the client can be installed on a raspberry pi But serving a raspberry pi desktop Itself is not supported yet, but I but I then I saw a bug report on their github page for it. So Apparently they're aware of that and the reason why that bit me is because I set up a raspberry pi remote desktop to try this out on and Yeah, it didn't work for that but it did work in all other cases so I just wanted to throw out a mention And I have a little bit more to go and if they pass all of my rigorous testing then there'll be a sponsor But so I guess if you see a sponsorship I think there's like usually like a month delay in my content So if you see like a month and a half from now, then that means that uh got approved. If not, then it didn't so Yep, I'm gonna throw it out there. Now when jay brought up the rem na rem na rem any uh remote desktop. That's for When I'm Yeah, I'm not sure I know how to spell it and I have to go to more conferences to figure out the common Lingle way to say things that's actually true for all the next things links conferences Teach us how to say things because when we just read them online, it's not the same um But it's it supports rdp vnc ssh So which is great, but the other one if you're running windows and This is not any more than just a connection manager So it's not necessarily a remote access tool, but it's a way to manage all your connections in one app And that's m remote ng. So the website is m remote ng.org and it is just basically a multi remote Manager that supports rdp vnc ssh telnet and Our login raw socket connections and power shell remoting. So this is kind of a cool. Yeah Our login and telnet are it's just like the who's who of expired connection types Yeah, that's so hilarious. I mean it's it's good that I guess for the people that are using it But then why are people using it? But you know what? I'm sure they mean well, and that's a lot of different Connective there's a lot of people and if your task is an internal sys admin and you have Been provided a windows desktop by which you are going to be working from that is this the case in some places This is a tool that will help you manage all those other devices So you're loading it on windows to be able to manage everything else So I know you know as much as me and jr Linux on the desktop for many years I know not all of you are there or maybe the work conditions you are subjected to Which I don't know is this cruel and unusual punishment forcing people to use windows at work. I don't know I think it is because here's the analogy. Well, here's the analogy I used right? So Let's just say for example.  They wouldn't tolerate that for a minute So that's why I feel like we shouldn't either because if something requires a particular Operating system then why use it everything else is cross-platform I can get on a rant about that, but I'll probably stop but Unfortunately, if you do have to deal with that I'm sorry if you are forced to use something you'd rather not use but Then again lights at the end of the tunnel because I'm sure that's you know Not going to happen for too much longer the way things are going Yes Um, so that was the other one. It's kind of the counterpart to that someone has said in the comments here And it's not something I validated But if you store keys they're potentially available if you're on a share computer store temporarily in memory So yeah, that's something to consider with any of these on there. So yeah, that's um Saving passwords any of these use at your own risk to make sure that they're vetted well things like that By the last one I have mentioned for here And I knew people would ask about it and I haven't used it, but I've oddly seen People building this in uh and saying they use it commercially which I'm not personally comfortable with But uh, it's mesh central. I it's become popular. It's been around for a little while I believe it was started by some internal it people But nonetheless, it's another remote access tool that gives you nice central management to be able to remote into systems It was built more alike to the tool I mentioned that we use which is the connectorized control slash green connect tool commercial tool It seems to be following along those design patterns, but it is not a commercial product. It is Is it open? It's under a I believe Uh bsd license. It says on here under the downloads so Yeah, interesting it run it's built on top of node j s if i'm not mistaken on there, but uh It looks pretty slick. I know a lot of people speak fondly of it So it you know, it's another one that throw in your tool chest here for remote access though But it's not one I uh particularly Used I've just had I've seen a lot of people it comes up a lot of discussions in the Business world We're like I said a shocking number of people have told me that they're using it commercially and I'm like well cool Um, I don't know well They're using someone's commented here that they're using uh, it's free by intel They're using some of intel's technology But I'm not clear how they wrap the security all around it and clicking around on our site didn't really tell me much in terms of Uh Any security details, but as I said at the beginning that's not something we're here to really vet. That's something kind of Um, you need to really think about before deploying any of these tools Absolutely, you have to you know, we use the technology. We don't develop it So if we developed it, we would know everything about the ins and outs of how every single instruction goes through the cpu But um, yeah, we Yeah, just look at it and make a decision for yourself if it fits your use case one and two Don't deploy it until you know that they're taking security very seriously Yeah, now I will admit one. It's very actively developed in two and a common friend of me and j mess Mesh central does have a crowd sec bouncer integration So if you have it public basing, uh, there is the ability to integrate a crowd sec bouncer for it so Yep, that's uh any of these actually if you're doing public basing things having um crowd sec bouncer on public firewalls is great Uh, I believe we've done an episode Of homelab. We talked about crowd sec individually me and jay have our own videos on this on the crowd sec topic we still Highly support that project really like it. It's uh and where it's going Yeah, I wouldn't doubt just uh recall my get smart analogy because each one of those doors that maxwell smart walks through Um could is basically an equivalent to some kind of protection that you have in front of your um value thing And that's just the way to do it. Yep So I did see that in an announcement list. I'm like anything you can do is you help uh bolster your firewall and you know known bad actors not have them Coming through that's that's a good thing Absolutely. All right, and that's the end of my list for some remote tools. There's uh Like I said, there's obviously a ton more out there. Those are just the ones I've taken the time to look at Some of them are experimented set up a little bit. Obviously actually going to have videos on And you can find some good videos on both our porch awesome open source has a good art port and rust test video Our friend christian with that the digital life has a good video on teleport Actually more than one of them to break down some of the more intricate use cases for it Oh, I you know what honorable mention putty for ssh. I I don't even think we need to mention that one Putty's been around Since the 90s. I believe uh probably the first time I encountered it. So putty's been around forever So we'll throw it out there. It putties more of just a tool to use Um for the connections, but with windows subsystem for linux and you being able to put ssh keys in there That's even with my internal text. I've been pushing them towards that just use ssh load windows subsystem for linux and Uh put it in there. You're just using normal ssh at that time without having to do it I mean, it's not that hard to use Keys and putty, but there's some trickiness to it versus The videos that me and jay have done on ssh key management work pretty much identical when you're doing windows subsystem for linux because it's just linux inside of windows I completely agree. I mean putty has at least existed for my entire career. I know that for sure It's one of the one of if not the first I've ever used But you know my personal opinion I really don't like putty at all and and the reason is because they Decide to have their own system for Managing ssh keys and there's never a reason to do that There's no good reason for that and I was hoping they would give up on that But I think they they're shooting themselves in the foot at the end of the day because you know, like you said we have You know wsl you can get an actual linux shell with actual ssh Not that putty isn't actual ssh because it's using the same protocol But it's they just wrap so many unnecessary things around it now It used to be the case that It was the best solution for windows Oh, yeah, and it has been for so long and I also remember sigwin being used Around the same time to get some uh gnu apps running on your windows desktop But now that we have wsl I feel like if you're a windows user and that's your platform for your computer Then wsl is probably just the way to go Nope, january of 8th of 1999 23 years ago was initial release. I I thought I used it when I I remember using an assistant man job But oddly back then I was using it to telnet into different things for administration Because that's well telnet was really common back in when I started my tech career in 1995. So Oh, yes, that means it's like two or three years older than my career in linux I think because I think it was around 2002 ish where I started Yeah, so it's just it's been around a while. So I think every hopefully everybody knows about it So I think they do and it's um, I feel like it's great that windows has a terminal built in Because every operating system has had that for countless years and windows was the one that didn't I mean, I had a I had power shell command prompt sure But an actual terminal now they have a their windows terminal is just light years ahead of whatever they've had before And you know, even though i'm not a windows person myself. I'll I'll still give them credit where it's due I think they did a good job developing that it's certainly a lot better than a lot of the other solutions But then again I feel like we linux users get the short end of the stick on most things But windows got the short end of the stick for longer when it comes to You know terminal tools because they're pushing power shell Which you know is still a thing don't get me wrong with now that's built into the windows terminal as well So um, you can literally switch your shell right there in the app So yeah, if you are using windows then wsl probably is the best ssh client that you can possibly get Yeah Uh, oh actually someone's going to bring this up because now we're going to be slightly off topic But I think it's worth bringing it up. Um Um Was it called hyper terminal? I Yes hill grave technologies hyper terminal Um, that was one of the original terminal stuff that used back in early days of windows now Fun fact hill grave is still over because I found their website Uh, and they still list the same address. They're over in minn row michigan and oh, yeah, they're actually great bias And they sold they that was one of their what brought them into success was selling hyper terminal to Microsoft and it was I always saw this cool forever ago because I'm like hey, these people are local except what we've lived in a Greater detroit area. So they're all of about half an hour from my house You know now that you mentioned I might have used that actually when I was in college And uh, learning unix for the first time. I'm not sure why that's something about that stands in memory I think that might it was pretty much like if you had a windows computer use hyper terminal That's how you would connect uh frequently it's popular for connecting to bbs This as well because it had the dialer stuff built in Hmm. Yeah, I think I might have used it. I would probably just need to It was the rate of passage in our in our tech history If you if you're in the 90s and you use windows computers, I think it started in windows 3.1 I think we had it first. I know it was in windows 95, but I think it was uh Also there someone can correct me on that one I'm trying to remember when it started this little fuzzy member and all that back. So It really is like I like the only thing that stands to memory for me is I haven't changed a bit because when I was Studying unix for the first time before I even learned linux and then I figured out how to change the terminal colors and customize it I was just showing everybody in the room. Look what I did to my terminal. It's it's green on blue instead of you know Fun times. Yeah, and probably on the same time period. I might have been using hyper terminal I don't yeah those XP actually I wouldn't it be 3.11 because wasn't windows 3.11 the one that added networking to 3.1 Just curious. I think that I don't know. Yeah, the 3.11 was the one that got networking on there I don't know how far in that went like if there's some trace of networking that hyper terminal could connect to Or if you literally had to be 3.11 windows 95 is where it started. So, okay, so it isn't even a factor then Yep. Oh, yeah So someone said 3.1 had it um windows 95 definitely had it. So all right now. We're off topic and we we thought we talked about some old history Links will be in the description for all the different tools we talked about I don't know which ones to rate one for you But hey, you got some more learning to do and we're help happy to help you along on that journey Thanks for joining us and looking forward to next episode. See you later. All right. Thanks


We're talking about the interview. Yeah, you know that film That's in the news and on every single website. It's the Seth Rogen James Franco Sony produced assassinate the current Incumbent Korean political leader Kim Jong-un movie. Well, what's up this movie as you're probably aware unless you live Under a rock the movie is not being distributed. Nobody is willing to put the movie into theaters up Until today today Sony has stated that they have some smaller theaters It could be a hundred or 200 theaters the number is not known But there are a few theaters now that will show the movie on December 25th So if you've been wanting to check this out, this is great news for all of you guys that want to go look at it It might be in a theater near you, but here's the thing There's a good chance it isn't because it's got such a small release So Sony in particular their CEO Michael Linton has stated that they are looking at alternative Distribution attempts they might go to different channels now. They've talked about a few different things They've got their own network called crackle They've got Netflix that might consider it although neither one of those has stepped up but the one that most interests me and might most interest you fellow youtubers is YouTube YouTube is a potential Amazing place for them to release this video Why because the terrorist threats that were linked to the original release in the theaters? Well, guess what they were threats against physical locations in particular cinemas for example And we all know it across America and other countries. There's been some problems in the cinemas now That's one thing, but YouTube isn't a physical location. It is not well They have a location of course, but basically YouTube is distributed Everywhere anywhere that has an interconnection can pretty much get on YouTube This would be an amazing Potential step in my personal opinion and an evolution for YouTube in terms of their distribution YouTube for many many years as it started out in 2004 2005 ish You know it started out as we all know as a place where you can go watch cat videos and watch your neighbor Step on a ray and get hit in the nuts or whatever, which is great. That's what it started out As it was called broadcast yourself, but YouTube has evolved and changed over the years. It's now 2014 and they have the ability to host long videos way past feature length films They've got all of the codex all of the high-def pretty much everything is in place for them to host a Feature film a high production value feature film like the interview so in my personal opinion I'm interested in your opinion. Please let me know if you would watch it on YouTube I'm assuming you would And secondly, does this actually mark a change in YouTube? Is this something that Susan Wojniewski the CEO of YouTube should go? You know what? I believe in freedom of speech I believe that our platform here at YouTube is capable of handling this and I want to jump in the ring and take this on And I'm gonna release it. So what do you think about that? Also if you if YouTube's Experiments with another type of let's say a model where you know they want to do a subscription fee So you can watch the video for 299 or 499 or whatever it is. Is that something you would pay for? Normally with YouTube you don't pay for content somebody uploads something they watch it They appreciate it they you know They might click on an ad or they'll see an ad and somebody makes like a few cents here and there But there's a chance here to go with video-on-demand for high quality Triple-A content and I think YouTube needs to take that step. They need to evolve. Anyways guys, that's my opinion That's the news about this topic. Please in the comments below. Let me know what you think This is your boy Batesy.  Cheers


Hello again, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Yes, We're Here. I'm Jack Curry, and today I'm joined by Raul Abanyez, a man who had more than 2,000 hits, more than 300 home runs in his career. He had one memorable season with the Yankees, including a very memorable game that we'll get to later. And Raul, as I welcome you into the program, the first thing I have to ask you is, how are you and your family doing during these challenging times? We're doing all right, you know, considering the circumstances, trying to stay busy. I mean, I guess the silver lining is, you know, we get to spend a lot of time together and around each other and learning to kind of get re-acclimated, so to speak. That being said, there's a lot of people suffering out in the world, and we're very aware of that.  Raul, when I take a look at your career, and I see this 19-year career, two words that jump out to me are persistent and consistent. You didn't get more than 500 plate appearances until you were 30 with the Kansas City Royals, but then from there, you made sure once you got those apache, you were very productive. How would you describe your own career? I mean, persistent, consistent, thank you very much, because that was the two things that I was really striving for, and I was fortunate to do that. But I think, yeah, the perseverance is the one word that usually comes up in my mind. You know, there was a lot of adversity early on. I was a 36-round pick. Had to work my way up to prospect status and get to the big leagues up and down. And, you know, wind up going to Kansas City five years later and getting non-tendered, or I'm sorry, getting designated for assignment twice in a month and everybody passed. And, you know, fast forward three years later, I think there was, when my free agency year came up, it was, there was like 20-plus teams that had called. And it was just a big shift and something that I'm really, you know, feel thankful and blessed for. But the perseverance is what makes me feel good about it. It makes me proud of the career. I think I have a statistic that'll make you feel good about your career, too. Maybe you know this or you don't. We have a great research team at Yes. Jeff Quagliata sent me this statistic. After your 30th birthday, you had 1,819 hits. That's the 17th most of any player in Major League history after he turned 30. Were you aware of that stat? I was not aware of that stat, but I'd love to have a team like that at home because that made me feel great. But no, I was not aware of that stat and that's a great stat. And I'm, you know, I appreciate you guys bringing that up. You had so many solid years with Kansas City, Seattle. I want to fast forward to 2009 with the Phillies. You get a chance to oppose the Yankees in the World Series. They end up winning that series in six games. What do you remember about going up against the Yankees that year? I remember obviously the Phillies the year before. I came in as a free agent in 2009, Phillies year before, won the World Series. And I remember thinking it's actually gonna happen again. And we went in, I think we won game one and I couldn't help but letting my mind race forward and thinking we're gonna get to be world champions. Obviously that didn't happen. But I remember the excitement. I remember the energy. I remember, you know, Cliff Lee's performances and then of course I remember Andy Pett and CeCe Sabathia they did a great job. Chase Sutley hit, you know, two homers. I think it was on game one. Chase Sutley hit a couple homers off of CeCe and, you know, away we went. And then of course the Yankees bounced back and wound up beating us. But just the excitement, the energy and it was a dream come true to be a part of that at that moment in time. But then we fell short and I remember the pain and the agony of going home and not being able to get past it for several months. It was more painful than leaving. I had been ousted in the post season or been part of teams that have been ousted in the post season after the second series, that was painful. But this was way more difficult, way harder to take. A few years later you end up signing with the Yankees 2012. You're about to turn 40. What was it about New York that was attractive to you at that point? Well, as a kid, I grew up a Yankee fan. I was born in New York. My family lived in the Bronx. We wound up moving back here as a baby. I was like a year old. But just getting the opportunity to wear the pinstripes and, you know, guys that were my heroes growing up, guys like Reggie Jackson and, you know, Goose Gostich and Ron Gidry. I grew up watching those guys play. Dave Winfield. So to get an opportunity to wear the pinstripes was such an extraordinary feeling. And going into campus surreal, you know, Yogi Berra's walking around. May he rest in peace. Whitey 4, you had these great Yankee legends that were walking around. Just have been a part of it was just an incredible feeling. Raul, you know where I'm going next. If I had a conversation with any Yankee fan and I mentioned your name, the first thing that they would bring up, game three, ALDS against the Baltimore Orioles. Ninth inning, Joe Girardi elects to have you pinch it for Alex Rodriguez. Three-time MVP, one of the best players in baseball. What was your mindset down Iran in the ninth inning when Joe Girardi says, grab a bat, it's going to be you against Johnson, not A-Rod. Well, my immediate mindset was, wait, I'm pinching for A-Rod. That was my immediate mindset. I was doing the math and I thought it was for somebody else. But then as I walked towards the plate, I realized what I was thinking about and what I was thinking about wasn't helping my team win. So I faked tied untied my shoe halfway there and retied it to get focused and said, okay, hey, get a good pitch to hit and drive it into the seats. And the real mindset behind that was, I just kept waking up saying, we're not dying today. We're not dying today. That was my mindset. Let's keep going. Let's run this thing. Let's get a World Series championship out of it. Let's get a ring for the people in New York and for this great team. And obviously it didn't happen, but that was the mindset. And was it enough that you just tied the game in the ninth inning? A few innings later against the lefty, Mattis, you end up hitting another home run. So you have the walk-off. You bundled a lot of emotion and a lot of accomplishment into a few innings. How often do you reflect on that moment, that series of moments in that game? You know, so when somebody brings it up, I reflect on it. And what happens is I wind up saying, that actually happened.  But then when you step away from it, you get a chance to reflect back and go, gosh, that actually happened. I got to play there and I got to be a part of these great moments. And so when I reflect back on it, my immediate thought was that actually happened. Then I started going through the emotions of then the process prior to it, then the emotions when you get in the dugout, that feeling where your teammates are hugging you and high-fiving and it was just a huge blessing and I couldn't be more grateful for it. You work for the Los Angeles Dodgers now, special assistant Andrew Friedman, the president of baseball operations for the Dodgers. What's been the biggest adjustment about making that transition from the field to the front office? I think I've been excited. It's been excitement, right? Excited to learn. So I've been fortunate to be around guys like Andrew and Josh Burns and Brandon Gomes and Alex Anthopoulos, Farhan Zaidi. So I've had this great opportunity to be around these really great minds and really special people, great human beings that really care about players. But the learning process has just been such a tremendous gift to be able to see the world from their perspective and then getting an opportunity to have been so kind to let me touch, from the scouting perspective and the player development side and the big league staff getting to be around doc, Dave Robertson and our coaching staff. So I think the variety and being a part of such a collaborative effort has been just not only eye-opening, but really a huge, it's incredibly exciting, but a huge blessing to be a part of something so fantastic. And the way that the Dodger organization runs, you know, the baseball operations side, it's really just great people, great human beings. And you know, every day that you're around them, you wind up getting better and hopefully you're making some sort of impact along the way. Your name has been mentioned many times for potential managerial openings and your line has been when the time is right. I'm not ready right now. When do you think the time could be right for you to throw your hat in the ring and be the guy who's actually there in the dugout, making out the line of card and managing the game? So my constant internal struggle is it's something that you want to do. It's something that you want to be a part of to get the opportunity to be a part of something greater than yourself, not just for your team, not just for the players, not just for the staff, not just for the upfront office, not just for the organization, but for an entire city, making an impact. That's incredibly enticing and the competitive side of me is always leaning in that direction.  I'm a father of five kids. I love being around my kids and being a part of everything that they're doing and their development and all of their games and everything that they do. That part is the tug. That's my tug of war. That's my internal struggle. I don't mean to turn this into a Dr. Phil moment here, but that is my internal struggle is the competitive side of me wants to be a part of something greater than yourself, something in that vein where it's, you know, can this happen? Can you do this?  Then the human side of me and the domestic side of me is like, let's make an impact on your family and move forward, you know, that's really your true legacy. So that's the constant struggle, the constant battle. And one, each side of it makes me better at the other, you know, working for the Dodgers makes me a better dad and, you know, being a better dad makes me a better employee for the Dodgers. So that's my ongoing struggle. That answer is better than any answer that ever appears on the Dr. Phil show. I'm just gonna say that right here right now. Thank you. You mentioned your family, one of your children is RJ and he's been teammates with Dante Girardi, Joe Girardi's son, Summer League Baseball. What a staff, it's you and Joe Girardi as the coach slash manager, but Joe has said previously that he let Raul handle things because he wanted you to be in the pressure spot of being the manager. What was that experience like for you guys? Yeah, well, it's more pressure when you're dealing with kids and parents than it is when you're dealing with major leaguers for sure. But the cool thing, the really cool story is, you know, Joe, when I was playing for the Yankees, Dante and RJ were buddies, not just in the kid's room, but they'd go and do stuff together. They even played one tournament together in New York. And so they had this friendship, this bond, they would, they spent all this time together and Joe would occasionally show up at my house like ring the doorbell and I'd open the door and there's Joe Girardi standing in my door and I'm like, did I get released? And he's like, I'm here to pick up RJ, we're gonna go get some Chipotle and we're gonna go take batting practice on the field. So what a cool experience from just such a great manager. And now you fast forward, we got to do the summer ball together and now played against each other in high school. Calvary Christian actually won the state title, which is where Dante was, RJ was at Westminster. So they actually knocked us out of the postseason three years in a row and they wound up moving forward. And now they're gonna, they're committed to play baseball at FIU together for coach Merville Melendez. So it's really a cool story, but being a part of the way that Joe's mind works and also seeing him relaxed in that manner, I mean, he was relaxed in the dugout, but it was a much more relaxed feeling where he would be like, all right, you do this, what do you think? Should we put this guy here? Should we put this guy there? And he did a really good job of delegating and both of us were like an assistant coach roles, which is great, but when anything hard would come, Joe would be like, yeah, Raul, you go through that one. So the guy with the World Series title as a manager said to you, Raul, you take over. I'm gonna sit back and let you take the pressure spot here. That's right. And what we both did though, cause we both had kids on the team is we both handed the lineup card to coach Barry Hill. We handed the lineup card. We're like, we don't want to touch this lineup card. We got kids, we got parents, you do the lineups. So anyone who's a Joe Girardi or Dante Girardi fan or a Raul Ibanez or an RJ Ibanez fan, watch Florida International Baseball. I know I will be going to their website to check things out once we get back, Raul. And Raul, as we close this out, you have a deserved reputation as a nice guy, in quotes, nice guy. And you're showing that right here and right now. In these times, I think that that's so much more important than anything. It's not hard to be nice. You were actually voted the second nicest guy in baseball in a poll that Sports Illustrated in 2011. I guess Jim Tomei barely nipped you. How did you manage in a very difficult sport in a very difficult world is competitive? People are trying to beat each other out for spots for jobs. How did you manage to succeed yet remain such a nice guy? Well, thank you for that. I think that, you know, I never looked at competing like I was competing with my teammate. I always looked at competing like I was competing against myself. And so I always thought about competing against myself, making myself the best player I can be and the best person I could be. And that included making the person next to me better, even if they played the same position or they were young, up and coming player. Because I knew if I did my job, I would always have a job. So making an impact on the guy next to me was equally important because it made an impact on the team and winning. And fast forward, I think that's really what it's about.  And so it meant something to just say hello, how are you? How's your family doing? Getting to know something about their kids and their lives. It made a huge impact just saying hello and taking three seconds of your day, five seconds of your day to make someone else feel as if they're special, which they are. And everyone is uniquely special in their own way. So I think making an impact, if you have the pedestal, you have the opportunity, you've been given this perceived pedestal by society to make an impact and make a difference. And I think you use your power for good. And a lot of times it's something as simple as, somebody's in need, you do something behind the scenes for them, they don't even have to know you did it.  Nobody knows who did it. And I think that's what we're really called to do in this life is to make an impact, make the world a better place. And I think you're doing that. And so many people like you with the position that you're in are doing that. And now more than ever before, it's a great time. Let's be good to each other, wherever you're from, whoever you are, whatever the color of your skin, whatever your nationality, be good to each other, man. It's not that hard to just be good to each other, to say and think good thoughts and to make the world a better place and try to uplift people around you, whoever they are. Those are wise words. Those are powerful words, Raul. I could not have said it any better. Be nice to people. I think that's the headline of what you just said. And I want to thank you for being nice to us and giving us some of your time today. And I look forward to baseball being back and hopefully seeing you at a ballpark sometime soon. Great to see you, Jack. Thank you likewise. Thank you.