Bidwell McCormick takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood. Many times I have wondered, and no doubt you have also, just why some actors and actresses get ahead faster in pictures than others do. Why it is that if perhaps two persons who show great promise, one rises to the height while another falls to comparative obscurity. What do you think about this, Nathan? Well, many things enter into the making of a successful career in motion pictures. Sometimes it's an intangible something in his or her personality that makes a star click. More often it's sheer ability, hard work and a willingness to learn and to keep on learning, and of course appearance plays no small part in making a star material. Yes, I was particularly impressed with the combination of these things not long ago when I was on the set of Archeo's forthcoming production, The Spanish Main. That's being filmed entirely in Technicolor, isn't it? And she'd make a grand vehicle for lovely Maureen O'Hara. I agree with you there, Nathan, for I had an opportunity to study this young lady's beauty and charms never before as I was standing on the high platform directly back of the huge Technicolor camera as they were shooting a close-up of her in The Spanish Main. She stood there at the rail of the great sailing vessel, patiently rehearsing and re-enacting a scene. Her beauty silhouetted against the cloudless sky of studio painted blue that would defy detection from nature's own. Her hair gently tossed in the breeze and her large vivid blue eyes sparkling with a rare charm the Technicolor camera will record in all its natural beauty. Well, there was one answer. Rare combination of charm and beauty coupled with a willingness to accept hard work under the intense heat of the studio lights, the countless rehearsals and necessary retakes. I mentioned a moment ago that a gentle breeze tossed her hair. It is interesting to note how this breeze in just the right degree of pressure is brought on to the great sound stage, at just the right angle to toss a lock of hair in just the right direction, at just the right instant to give just the right effect. I understand that the old use of great bladed fans is taboo on the sound stages except for hurricanes and the like because they make too much noise and would interfere with the sound recording and that an ingenious method of bringing wind onto the stage has been devised. That's right. The air is brought onto the set under control pressure in huge canvas pipes from great fan houses outside the building and directed, not unlike fire hose, to buy crews especially assigned to the task and trained in their use to fill the sails of a great ship or to gently toss a curl. Yes, Bidwell, and your mention of fire hose brings to mind how scenes from a motion picture are being used as a fire warden in some 3,000 British factories to impress the workers with the perils of careless cigarette smoking. The British Ministry of Supply arranged through David Griffith, International Picture Representative in London, for a special trailer of Gary Cooper pointing out the danger of careless cigarette handling. They used actual scenes tied in from Casanova Brown in which he co-stars with Theresa Wright. A script was cabled to New York's International Office which transmitted its contents by wire to the Hollywood studio. Sequences were shot under personal direction of William Getz, President of International Pictures, and air expressed back to New York for a transshipment by way of special train to London. The British Ministry of Information will supply the special Gary Cooper trailer on Casanova Brown to some 3,000 factories throughout the United Kingdom. And notwithstanding the fact that Britain's already fire conscious from actual experience, it will be exhibited as an object lesson on fire hazards. And now a word from your local announcer. And here now are a few production briefs from behind the scenes in Hollywood, presented by Nathan Hale and Manna Ray Ewell. Dr. Paul Papineau, psychologist and director of the American Institute of Family Relations, has been retained by producer Samuel Goldwyn to give aptitude tests to beauties applying to become Goldwyn girls. Now the purpose of the test is to distinguish between genuine career girls, potential stars worthy of a Hollywood build-up, and those who may possibly be insincere. Dr. Papineau has devised a written and oral test of 150 questions. Their purpose is to expose a girl's mind in about the same proportions as a musical comedy costume does her figure. Successful candidates will go into the wonder man, as Goldwyn girls, out of whose ranks in past years, emerged Paulette Goddard, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Bruce, Jinx Falconberg, Betty Grable and others. Picking cinematic long shots who unerringly romped to stardom is no trick for director George Sidney. He knows they are literally best by test. In his half dozen years as a film director, Mr. Sidney has supervised more than a thousand screen tests. Those little publicized showcases which can win or lose a movie contract. By piloting able newcomers through the reefs of these tests, he has launched numberless Hollywood careers, of which Esther Williams is a recent example. Although she is yet to be seen on the screen, Audrey Young of the Broadway musical comedy stage has been borrowed by RKO from Paramount for one of the leading roles in George White's scandals of 1945. Miss Young recently completed her first screen role in Paramounts out of this world with Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake and Diana Lin. Her singing and dancing talents will get full scope in scandals, which co-stars Joan Davis and Jack Haley. According to Dr. Jeffrey Grace, medical advisor to the Master Hair Dressers Association of Southern California, a head of perfect hair occurs only about once in three million humans. And screen star Virginia Mayo is the possessor of this unusual distinction. Drew Pearson, syndicate writer and radio commentator, will make his film debut in the picture Betrayal from the East. He appears in the prologue and does the narration. Lee Tracy and Nancy Kelly are co-starred in the picture, which is based on Alan Hine's novel. Thirty recordings of Latin American folk songs will be used as background music for The Magnificent Tramp, the working title for the Hollywood film to star Mexico's idol, Canteen Glass. It was brought back to the film capital by Constantine Bakalainikov, head of the studio's music department, who spent a month of research for this picture in Mexico City. William Powell, the only actor who has portrayed the late great Florence Ziegfeld on the screen, will again be seen in the role of the mighty showmen. This time, in Metra Golden Mayors star-studded technical or musical review, Ziegfeld follows. Powell played Ziegfeld in the Academy Award winner, The Great Ziegfeld, also made by MGM a few years back. In addition to Powell, the pictures lineup now includes Fred Astaire, Edward Arnold, Lucille Ball, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and many others, including the glorified Ziegfeld girls. Metra Golden Mayor announced recently that Anne Southern, following her role in The Harvey Girls, will be back in her favorite characterization of the hard-boiled Brooklyn blonde in a new Maisie picture, Up Goes Maisie, to be produced by George Haight. Folks, would you like to have a postcard picture of a movie star's home? Well, just drop a card asking for it to Bidwell McCormick in care of this station, and now a word from your local announcer. We have a couple of personality close-ups of famous stars for today's broadcast of behind-the-scenes in Hollywood. If one had to describe Dick Powell in a single word, I think the best word to use would be friendly. He's genuinely friendly, not ostentatiously democratic. He never backslaps or deliberately courts the humbler members of a movie troupe, but he does show a definite interest in him, their work, and their problems.  He dreamed of getting good dramatic tough roles, something he could get his teeth into, and for which he's physically well equipped, having a fiercely sprouting beard which he has to shave twice a day, a nose which has been broken, and cheekbones thickened from much boxing and football. His part in RKO Radio's Murder, My Sweet, in which he's co-starred with Claire Trevour and Anne Shirley, is just what he's been looking for. He plays a very tough, though human private detective, and for the first time in his career, he wears no makeup. He has a good earthy sense of humor, but hates puns. He has a fund of good stories and is an accomplished raconteur, but he backs away from off-color stuff. He sings snatches of songs as he goes about his daily chores, but won't do any real singing unless it's demanded of him. He and John Charles Thomas are good friends and have jam sessions in which he teaches Thomas to swing it, and Thomas tries to initiate Dick into the mysteries of grand opera. The servant shortage hasn't dismayed him as much as some people. He's really a very versatile fellow, this Dick Powell. He can do anything there is to be done about the house. He's an expert furniture repair and polisher, and both he can make anything from a boat to a pair of shoes, including skinning the critter and tanning the leather. He repairs his own automobiles and won't let anyone else do any house repairs. Any friends who drop in during the weekend are put to work doing something useful, and a certain big executive could have been seen recently digging holes for rose bushes. He's religious in an unobtrusive sort of way, and credits his whole career to his start as a singer in Little Rock, Arkansas, church choirs. He's a big booster for his home state and also for California, and he has some praise left over for Louisville, Kentucky, where he started his professional singing career, and Pittsburgh, where fame is a radio singer and master of ceremonies caught up with him.  And now, Manaree, you tell us about Claire Trevor. Well, Hollywood people, including some famous directors, have called Claire Trevor one of the truly great actresses on the screen today, and are given to wonder why she hasn't attained even greater fame.  However, her friends know better. When she's working at her job, she gives all she has, but it is true that she hasn't that fierce concentration on her career that marks some stars. Whenever her career is likely to interfere with her married life, with Lieutenant Silas Williams Dunmore, it's her career that has to take a back seat. She turned down one of her most important roles to go honeymooning.  Claire is a stickler for facts, so at the risk of being thought trite, she admits that she's a good housekeeper, lives in a cottage, and enjoys looking after her home. Most of the bad girls she plays have hearts of gold, but in RKO Radio's Murder My Sweet, in which she is co-starred with Dick Powell and Dan Shirley, it's doubtful if she has any heart at all, and she hasn't any redeeming feature, but it's a colorful role, and there's never a dull moment in any of her scenes. Claire is fond of tennis, golf, and swimming. She reads everything from classical novels to paperback mysteries. She collects perfumes and dressed in china, and has a strong partiality for lobster nuburg and hot order. She will have nothing to do with spinach, puddings, or squash. She would like to be a good cook and tries hard, but she just hasn't got the knack for it. One of the joys of her life is a black cocker named Little Joel. Seeing her own pictures, even the best of them, depresses her. She sees so many spots where she thinks she could have done better. However, she's an avid moviegoer and closely studies the work of other stars. She's easy to get along with, and on first meeting, she manages to get a warmth and do a greeting, which convinces the recipient that she is genuinely delighted to meet him. Claire Trevor lives in Beverly Hills, where much of her time has taken up in bringing up six months old Charles Dunsmore. Listen in again next week when Bidwell McCormick takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood.


Hello everyone, welcome to this Cube showcase, accelerating business transformation with VMware Cloud on AWS. It's a solution innovation conversation with two great guests, Fred Ward and VP of Commercial Services at AWS and Narayan Bardawaj, who's the VP and General Manager of Cloud Solutions at VMware. Gentlemen, thanks for joining me on this showcase. Great to be here. Hey, thanks for having us on. It's a great topic. You know, we've been covering this VMware cloud on AWS since the launch going back and it's been amazing to watch the evolution from people saying, oh, it's the worst thing I've ever seen. It's what's this mean? And depressed word, we're kind of not really on board with kind of the vision, but as it played out, as you guys had announced together, it did work out great for VMware. It did work out great for AWS and it continues to years later. And I want to just get an update from you guys on where you guys see this has been going. I've seen multiple years. Where is the evolution of the solution as we are right now coming off VMware Explorer just recently and going into re-invent, which is only a couple of weeks away. Feels like tomorrow, but as we prepare a lot going on, where are we with the evolution of the solution? I mean, first thing I want to say is, in October, 2016 was a seminal moment in the history of IT, right? When Pat Gelsinger and Andy Jassy came together to announce this. And I think, John, you were there at the time I was there. It was a great, great moment. We launched the solution in 2017, a year after that at VMworld, back when we called it VMworld. I think we've gone from strength to strength. One of the things that has really mattered to us is we've learned from AWS also in the process is this notion of working backwards. So really, really focused on customer feedback as we build the service offering now five years old. Pretty remarkable journey. I know in the first years, we tried to get across all the regions. That was a big focus because there was so much demand for it. In the second year, we started going really on enterprise-grade features. We invented this pretty awesome feature called Stretch Clusters, where you could stretch a vSphere cluster using vSAN NSX across two AZs in the same region. Pretty phenomenal four nines of availability that applications started to get with that particular feature. And we kept moving forward, all kinds of integration with AWS React Connect, transit gateways, with our own advanced networking capabilities, and along the way, disaster recovery, we punched out two new services, just focused on that. And then more recently, we launched our Outposts partnership. We were up on stage at re-invent, again, with Pat and Andy announcing AWS Outposts, and the VMware flavor of that, VMware Cloud and AWS Outposts. I think it's been significant growth in our federal sector as well with our FedRAM high certification more recently. So all in all, we are super excited, we're five years old, the customer momentum is really, really strong, and we are scaling the service massively across all CEOs and industries. That's great, great update. And I think one of the things that you mentioned was how the advantages you guys got from that relationship. And this has kind of been the theme for AWS, since I can remember from day one, Fred, you guys do the heavy lifting, as I always say for the customers here, VMware comes on board, takes advantage of the AWS and kind of just doesn't miss a beat, continues to move their workloads that everyone's using in vSphere. And these are big workloads on AWS. What's the AWS perspective on this? How do you see it? Yeah, it's pretty fascinating to watch how fast customers can actually transform and move. When you take the skill set that they're familiar with and the advanced capabilities that they've been using on-prem, and then overlay it on top of AWS infrastructure that's evolving quickly and building out new hardware and new instances we'll talk about. But that combined experience between both of us on a jointly engineered solution to bring the best security and the best features that really matter for those workloads drive a lot of efficiency and speed for the customer. So it's been well received and the partnership is stronger than ever from an engineering standpoint, from a business standpoint. And obviously it's been very interesting to look at just how we stay day one in terms of looking at new features and work and responding to what customers want. So pretty excited about just seeing the transformation and the speed that which customers can move to VMC. That's a great value proposition. We've been talking about that in context too. Anyone building on top of the cloud, they can have their own super cloud as we call it. If you take advantage of all the capex and investment Amazon's made and AWS has made and continues to make and performance IaaS and pass all great stuff. I have to ask you guys both as you guys see this going to the next level what are some of the differentiations you see around the service compared to other options on the market? What makes it different? What's the combination you mentioned jointly engineered? What are some of the key differentiates of the service compared to others? Yeah, I think one of the key things Fred talked about is this jointly engineered notion right from day one. We were the early adopters of AWS Nitro platform, right the reinvention of EC2 back five years ago. And so we've been having a very, very strong engineering partnership at that level. I think from a VMware customer standpoint you get the full software-defined data center compute storage networking on EC2 bare metal across all regions. You can scale that elastically up and down. It's pretty phenomenal just having that consistency globally, right on AWS EC2 global regions. Now, the other thing that's a real differentiator for us customers tell us about is this whole notion of a managed service, right? And this was somewhat new to VMware. We took away the pain of this undifferentiated heavy lifting where customers had to provision rack stack hardware, configure the software on top and then upgrade the software and the security patches on top. So we took away all of that pain as customers transition to VMware Cloud and AWS. In fact, my favorite story from last year when we were all going through the lock for J debacle industry was just going through that, right? Favorite proof point from customers was before they could even raise this issue to us we sent them a notification saying we already patched all of your systems no action from you. And the customers were super thrilled.  No, that's a great point.  And as you grow your solutions, there's more bits. You know, Fred, we were commenting that before we came on campus more bits than ever before and at the physics layer too as well as the software. So you never know when there's going to be a zero day vulnerability out there. Just it happens. We saw one with Fortinet this week this came out of the woodwork but moving fast on those patches is huge. This brings up the whole support angle. I wanted to ask you about how you guys are doing that as well because to me, we see the value when we talk to customers on theCUBE about this. You know, it was a real easy understanding of what the cloud means to them with VMware now with AWS. But the question that comes up that we want to get more clarity on is how do you guys handle support together? Well, what's interesting about this is that it's done mutually. We have dedicated support teams on both sides that work together pretty seamlessly to make sure that whether there's an issue at any layer including all the way up into the app layer as you think about some of the other workloads like SAP, we'll go end to end and make sure that we support the customer regardless of where the particular issue might be for them. And on top of that, we look at where we're improving reliability as a first order of principle between both companies. So from an availability and reliability standpoint it's top of mind and no matter where the particular item might land, we're going to go help the customers all that. Works really well. On the VMware side, what's been the feedback there? What's the, what's some of the updates? Yeah, I think, look, I mean, VMware owns and operates the service for your phenomenal back in relationship with AWS. Customers call VMware for the service for any issues. And then we have a awesome relationship with AWS in the backend for support issues or any hardware issues, the Vasky management that we jointly do, right? All of the hard problems that customers don't have to worry about. I think on the front end, we also have a really good group of solution architects across the companies that help to really explain the solution, do complex things like cloud migration which is much, much easier with VMware Cloud and AWS. Presenting that easy bottom to the public cloud in many ways. And so we have a whole technical audience across the two companies that are working with customers every single day. You know, you had mentioned, I got a list here, some of the innovations.  You guys are checking the boxes every year. You got a good, good accomplishments list there on the VMware AWS side here in this relationship. The question that I'm interested in is, what's next? What recent innovations are you doing? Are you making investments in? What's on the list this year? What items will be next year? How do you see the new things, the list of the customers? People want to know what's next. They don't want to see stagnant growth here. They want to see more action, you know, as cloud kind of continues to scale and modern applications cloud native, you're seeing more and more containers, more and more, you know, more CICD pipelining with, with modern apps, putting more pressure on the system. What's new? What's the new innovations? Absolutely. And I think as a five year old service offering, innovation is top of mind for us every single day. So just to call out a few recent innovations that we announced in San Francisco at VMware Explore. First of all, our new platform I4I.Metal, it's isolate based, it's pretty awesome. It's the latest and greatest, all the speeds and speeds that you would expect from VMware and AWS at this point in our relationship. We announced two different storage options. This notion of working from customer feedback and allowing customers even more price reductions, really take off that storage and park it externally, right? And, you know, separate that from compute. So two different storage offerings there. One is with AWS FSX with NetApp ONTAP, which brings in our NetApp partnership as well into the equation and really get that NetApp based really excited about this offering as well. And the second storage offering for VMware Cloud Flex Storage, VMware's own managed storage offering. Beyond that, we've done a lot of other innovations as well. I really wanted to talk about VMware Cloud Flex Compute, where previously customers could only scale by hosts. And a host is 36 to 48 cores, give or take. But with VMware Cloud Flex Compute, we are now allowing this notion of a resource-defined compute model where customers can just get exactly the vCPU memory and storage that maps to the applications, however small they might be. So this notion of granularity is really a big innovation that we are launching in the market this year. And then last but not least, talk about ransomware. Of course, it's a hot topic in the industry. We are seeing many, many customers ask for this. We are happy to announce a new ransomware recovery with our VMware Cloud DR solution. A lot of innovation there and the way we are able to do machine learning and make sure the workloads that are covered from snapshots and backups are actually safe to use. So there's a lot of differentiation on that front as well. A lot of networking innovations with Project Northstar for ability to have layer four through layer seven, new SaaS services in that area as well. Keep in mind that the service already supports managed Kubernetes for containers. It's built in to the same clusters that have virtual machines. And so this notion of a single service with a great TCO for VMs and containers is sort of at the heart of our all. The networking side certainly is a hot area to keep innovating on every year. It's the same conversation. Get better, faster, networking, more options there. The Flex Compute is interesting. If you don't mind me getting a quick clarification, could you explain the jurisdiction resource defined versus hardware defined? Because this is kind of what we had saw at Explore coming out that notion of resource defined versus hardware defined. What does that mean? Yeah, I mean, I think we've been super successful in this hardware defined notion. We were scaling by the hardware unit that we present as software defined data centers, right? So that's been super successful. But we, you know, customers wanted more, especially customers in different parts of the world wanted to start even smaller and grow even more incrementally, right? Lower the cost, even more. And so this is the part where resource defined starts to be very, very interesting as a way to think about, you know, here's my bag of resources exactly based on what the customers requested for five virtual machines, five containers, its size exactly for that. And then as utilization grows, we elastically behind the scenes we're able to grow it through policies. So that's a whole different dimension. It's a whole different service offering that adds value. When customers are comfortable, they can go from one to the other. They can go back to that post-based model if they so choose to. And there's a jump off point across these two different economic models. It's kind of cloud of flexibility right there. I like the name. Fred, let's get into some of the examples of customers. If you don't mind, let's get into some of the, we have some time. I want to unpack a little bit of what's going on with the customer deployments. One of the things we've heard, again on theCUBE is from customers is they like the clarity of the relationship. They love the cloud positioning of it. And then what happens is they lift and shift the workloads and it's like feels great. It's just like we're running VMware on AWS. And then they start consuming higher level services, kind of that adoption next level happens. And because it's in the cloud. So can you guys take us through some recent examples of customer wins or deployments where they're using VMware cloud on AWS on getting started and then how do they progress once they're there? How does it evolve? Can you just walk us through a couple of use cases? Sure. There's a, well, there's a couple. One, it's pretty interesting that, you know, like you said, as there's more and more bits, you need better and better hardware and networking. And we're super excited about the I4 and the capabilities there in terms of doubling and or tripling what we're doing around a lower variability and latency and just improving all the speeds. But what customers are doing with it, like the college in New Jersey, they're accelerating their deployment on onboarding over like 7,400 students over a six to eight month period. And they've really realized a ton of savings. But what's interesting is where and how they can actually grow onto additional native services too. So connectivity to any other services is available as they start to move and migrate into this. The options there obviously are tied to all the innovation that we have across any services, whether it's containerized and with what they're doing with Tanzu or with any other container and or services within AWS. So there's some pretty interesting scenarios where that data and or the processing, which is moved quickly with full compliance, whether it's in like healthcare or regulatory business is allowed to then consume and use things, for example, with text extract or any other really cool service that has monthly and quarterly innovation. So there's things that you just could not do before that are coming out and saving customers money and building innovative applications on top of their current app base in a rapid fashion. So pretty excited about it. There's a lot of examples. I think I probably don't have time to go into too many here, but that's actually the best part is listening to customers and seeing how many net new services and new applications are they actually building on top of this platform? Narayan, what's your perspective from the VMware side? Because you guys have now a lot of headroom to offer customers with Amazon's higher level services and or whatever is homegrown, what is being rolled out because you now have a lot of hybrid too. So what's your take on what's happening and with customers? I mean, it's been phenomenal that the customer adoption of this and banks and many other highly sensitive verticals are running production grade applications, tier one applications on the service over the last five years. And so I have a couple of really good examples. S&P Global is one of my favorite examples, large bank, they merged with IHS market, big sort of conglomeration now. Both customers were using VMware Cloud and AWS in different ways. And with the use case, one of their use cases was, how do I just respond to these global opportunities without having to invest in physical data centers? And then how do I migrate and consolidate all my data centers across the globe, of which there were many. And so one specific example for this company was how they migrated 1000 workloads to VMware Cloud and AWS in just six weeks. It's really phenomenal if you think about everything that goes into a cloud migration process, people process technology and the beauty of the technology going from VMware point A to VMware point B, the lowest cost, lowest risk approach to adopting VMware Cloud and AWS. So that's one of my favorite examples. There are many other examples across other verticals that we continue to see. The good thing is we're seeing rapid expansion across the globe. They're constantly entering new markets with a limited number of regions and progressing our roadmap there. It's great to see the data center migrations go from months, many, many months to weeks. It's interesting to see some of those success stories. So congratulations. One of the other interesting and fascinating benefits is the sustainability improvement in terms of being green. So the efficiency gains that we have both in current generation and new generation processors and everything that we're doing to make sure that when a customer can be elastic, they're also saving power, which is really critical in a lot of regions worldwide at this point in time. They're seeing those benefits. If you're running really inefficiently in your own data center, that is just not a great use of power. So the actual calculators and the benefits to these workloads are pretty phenomenal just in being more green, which we just all need to do our part there and this is a big part of it here. It's a huge point about the sustainability for everyone. Glad you called that out. The other one I would say is supply chain issues. Another one, you see that constraints, I can't buy hardware. And the third one is really obvious, but no one really talks about it. It's security, right? I mean, I remember interviewing Steven Schmidt with that AWS many years ago. This is like 2013. And at that time, people were saying, the cloud's not secure. And he's like, listen, it's more secure in the cloud than premise. And if you look at the security breaches, it's all about the on-premise data center vulnerabilities, not so much hardware. So there's a lot, you got to stay current on the isolation there is hard. So I think the security and supply chain, Fred, is another one. Do you agree? I absolutely agree. It's hard to manage supply chain nowadays. We put a lot of effort into that. And I think we have a great ability to forecast and make sure that we can lean in and have the resources that are available and run them more efficiently. And then like you said on the security point, security is job one. It is the only P one. And if you think of how we build our infrastructure from nitro all the way up and how we respond and work with our partners and our customers, there's nothing more important. And Narayan, your point earlier about the managed service patching and being on top of things is really going to get better. All right, final question. I really want to thank you for your time on this showcase. It's really been a great conversation. Fred, you had made a comment earlier. I want to kind of end with a kind of a curve ball and put you guys on the spot. We're talking about a modern, a new modern shift. It's another, we're seeing another inflection point. We've been documenting it. It's almost like cloud hitting another inflection point with application and open source growth significantly at the app layer, continue to put a lot of pressure and innovation in the infrastructure side. So the question is for you guys, what each to answer is, what's the same and what's different in today's market? So it's kind of like we want more of the same here, but also things have changed radically and better here. What's changed for better and what's still the same kind of thing hanging around that people have focused on? Can you share your perspective? I'll tackle it. Businesses are complex and they're often unique. That's the same. What's changed is how fast you can innovate. The ability to combine managed services and new innovative services and build new applications is so much faster today, leveraging world-class hardware that you don't have to worry about, that's elastic. You could not do that even five, 10 years ago to the degree you can today, especially with innovation. So innovation is accelerating at a rate that most people can't even comprehend and understand the set of services that are available to them. It's really fascinating to see what a one pizza team of engineers can actually develop in a week. It is phenomenal. So super excited about this space and it's only going to continue to accelerate. That's my take. Narayan. You got a lot of platform to compete on with Amazon. You got a lot to build on. Narayan, your side, what's your answer to that question? I think we are seeing a lot of innovation with new applications that customers are constantly doing. I think what we see is this whole notion of how do you go from desktop production to the secure supply chain and how can we truly build on the agility that developers desire and build all the security and the pipelines to energize that motor production quickly and efficiently. I think we are seeing at the very start of that sort of journey. Of course, we've invested in Kubernetes, means to an end, but there's so much more beyond that's happening in the industry. And I think we're at the very, very beginning of this transformation, enterprise transformation that many of our customers are going through and we're inherently part of it. Yeah. Well, gentlemen, I really appreciate that. We're seeing the same thing. It's more of the same here on, you know, solving these complexities with distractions, whether it's, you know, higher level services with large scale infrastructure, at your fingertips, infrastructure as code, infrastructure to be provisioned, serverless, all the good stuff happening in Fred with AWS on your side. And we're seeing customers resonate with this idea of being an operator again, being a cloud operator and developers. So the developer ops is kind of, DevOps is kind of changing too. So all for the better. Thank you for spending the time and we're seeing again that traction with the VMware customer base and AWS getting along great together. So thanks for sharing your perspectives. They appreciate it. Thank you so much. Okay, John. Okay, this is the cube and AWS VMware showcase accelerating business transformation, VMware cloud on AWS jointly engineered solution, bringing innovation to the VMware customer base, going to the cloud and beyond. I'm John Furrier, your host. 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Hello boys and girls welcome to part 3 of the EJ25 build What are we doing today? We're doing we're doing we're gonna seal up the block Remember where the where all the pins went in through the pistons We got a seal up all those holes Around the block from there. You're gonna see me struggle to put on the oil the rear the main oil seal then engine goes on the engine stand then then oil pump and Whatever else I can fit into this video to make it last for about 20 25 minutes Maybe water pump. Maybe something else. We'll see. Let's get to work Now it's time to plug these holes up one of them, which is this one, which is cylinder number one gets a Washer even though this one gets a washer. I am gonna use our TV on this one as well Just a tiny bit And the threads underneath the washer, you know, I gotta say I should have bought this Years ago. This is a 14 Just finger tight for now See what I'm doing. I just used that washer and whatever I've used so far Gas kit wise or O-ring wise whatever The old ones I all like I mentioned before I kept and I'm putting them away The gasket said that I bought a lot extra came in the package. So do this So you don't miss anything. This side is slightly different. Well besides the plug. I'm gonna reuse These two from the oh six STI even though the black is an oh eight WRX. This one is just more Thicker, let me show you the WRX one. So as you can see This is WRX. This is STI. Hopefully this will fit now. I just got it cleaned this up So I cleaned up these bolts some of them had a little bit of RTV and Them just doing this with a wire brush now I'm gonna apply oil and this O-ring. I Don't know what the torque specifications are and these Phillips screws. I'm just gonna make it tight Not too tight Can't be you know more than 10 or so Foot pounds of torque Okay, that should be good. All right cleaned up the cover Before I put it on I'm gonna torque these plugs down To people say 25 31 33 some manuals. I mean I'm gonna try 33. I'm gonna go up to 51 Okay Now our TV needs to go all around this cover, okay But what I've noticed Some of these go through like this one Doesn't but these go through This one doesn't this one doesn't I can see the inside actually goes through and through the outside here so this one goes through the outside and This one does as well. So what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna put RTV around And the inside and on the outside of where the screws go again, just finger tight for now wait till the RTV dries up. You can see it squeezed out a bit It's gonna wait an hour for this and that should be it for the block the seal is up next RTV should be dry by now. It's been an hour All right, this is the old seal It's been sitting outside Out on top of the bench. That's why it's so dirty, but I want to point something out Hopefully you'll be able to see it is that this oil seal is directional Okay, just double check All right, this is gonna go in the box So Maybe you can see it. Maybe not. There are lines and gold lines all around on The inside of the seal they go this way all around The crank the back of the crank Spins this way. Okay, so what this means that this is a directional oil seal Now if these lines these grooves kind of would be the other way around meaning This way, you know this way Then this seal would leak but since the crank spins this way, you know We're looking at the back of the engine so this is the back of the crank since it spins this way the oil kind of spins with it and it hits these lines and These these grooves and as the oil hits it the oil goes back inside If the lines would be this way Then it would leak out But since they are this way, you know, there are different types of seals there They can be two directional one directional left or right whatever So make sure double check whenever you do any kind of oil seal double check Look at these lines So you don't have you don't end up Installed the wrong seal and you don't end up with an oil leak. I don't have the special tool To install this oil seal. So I'm gonna oil this up on the inside and the outside. I did wipe this mallet From dirt Okay, and I'm gonna tap this in Okay, sorry I didn't show this but I had someone in here. I wasn't gonna was doing the work while Someone was talking to me. Anyways, you saw I had a hard time Doing this with just a mallet. It kept popping out. So I used fortunately enough. I have this oil filter Suck it. Okay, I have a whole set of these things and this is the perfect size for that. So Yeah, I Used that pretty much and I kind of I wiped off most of the oil. I Guess I had too much oil and that's why maybe that's one of the reasons why it kept popping off on the other side So, yeah, so that's this is what I used So you don't want to go any deeper than the edge of the block It needs to be flush with the edge just so the inside seal sits just I Don't know maybe two millimeters and the on the inside away from the edge of the Crank so now that we have everything done on this Back of the engine It's time to put put it on a stand. I'm going to bring it to the edge of the workbench All right, I'm gonna reinstall these studs These don't have to be super tight These are 14 mil. These are the exhaust nuts or turbo whatever all those. So that's what I'm using to Hold up the block while it's on the stand Okay These are obviously The transmission mounting points. All right now that the engine found its way onto the stand decided to do The oil pump first got to remove the crank bolt Yes, I did. I got me a 12 millimeter pump. I believe they come from 2000 some I don't know something 3.6 or 3 even 3.0 legacy GT 12 made in Japan 12 if you ever buy these make sure it says 12 Several times on the pump Especially on the inside here. Okay, so the pump came with its own oil seal and new bolts See the it all came from dealer Good stuff. Yeah, we're gonna be using silicone or RTD on this So we're just gonna wipe it off with brake cleaner and wipe the pump as well Turn the pump and check for fitment Okay, I'm gonna install the seal onto the pump before I put the pump back on a little bit of oil on the inside and outside Remember I was talking about these lines on the on that big seal for the the rear main seal These lines are the opposite way because the cranking in front of the engine spins This way the opposite of what it spins in the back now. I'm gonna apply some RTD On the pump It's just easier Then doing it on the block but your choice so the rubber seals go here Okay, basically going on the inside of the bolt holes Okay, and around this area here plenty of room for the seal The seal I'm gonna install on to the block right now Little bit of oil on the seal the oil really also Makes a better seal but also keeps it keeps the seal in place Makes it stick and I just did put an extra bead Over here remember to check Make sure these are on the pump as well finger tight For now, we're gonna wait for that RTD to dry up a bit So very lightly these I'm gonna torque down to five foot-pounds of torque Now it's time for the water pump. I'm gonna reuse my old one. It only has 37,000 miles on it It's just dirty and then clean all this up clean up the bolts and reuse those And I did torque down the oil pump and the pattern would be Just starting in the middle and then work your way out So let's say number one two three four five six Seven okay now it's time for the water pump. See this hole here This hole goes through behind the seal inside If the water pump ever developed develops a leak it will leak through this hole first all right brand new gasket nine foot-pounds of torque for the water pump starting from This boat so this one here and then go on counterclockwise I'm not gonna torque it to nine It's gonna kind of snug them in all around first I'm gonna do a two-step Water pump done Before I do anything else. I thought I'd take care of the bottom here Put the oil pan back on just to cover up this hole. So I don't got to worry about the dust Getting in here and before I bolt this down. I want to test fit the oil pickup tube This is the stock one. I Heard read about and heard stories that these actually crack Right about here. I See no visible cracks on mine, but I'm gonna replace it anyways And what I got is this the moroso pickup tube That's for later It's fit all right the torque specifications for the bottle right here or seven point two I'm just gonna go eight. So the pickup tube was eight the baffle plate It's going to be five double-check test fit the oil pan wonder how high is the Pickup to how close the pickup tube is to the bottom of the pen. I would say about half an inch Should be okay. So right now the oil pickup tube is six and one eighth and the Red six about six and a half Six and three eight six and a half. It's a little bit less than half an inch So about this much I'd say it's perfect time for our TV Before our TV, there is a little all ring It is actually different and The way it goes is this flat part of it. It's gonna go down onto the oil pan We're gonna do a little bit of oil as usual So remember the ribbed part of it up away from the oil pan the flat Towards the oil pan All right, I know putting silicone on the outside of the bolt holes. It's probably unnecessary. I did it anyways It won't hurt I am reusing the old bolt by the way Some of them are rusty little bit Surface rust some of them are not but that's okay with me Tiny amount of RTV coming out. That's probably the perfect amount Looking good so far. So I'm gonna give this a rest for one hour and come back to it and torque it down Okay, it's been an hour the torque specifications for the oil pan bolts is 3.6 but my torque wrench does not go anything lower but five So I'm just gonna do five so what I can do instead of going all the way to five. I can look at the numbers Just go 4.6 Just being careful. I'm actually just gonna go around


Hello and welcome to this special program for NewsClick and The Wire. I am Paranjoy Gohatakurtha and with me here I have Justice N. Santosh Hegde. He is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and he is a former Lokayukta or the people's ombudsman of Karnataka. Thank you so much Justice Hegde for giving us your time. When you submitted your final report on the iron ore mining scandal in Bellari on the 26th of July 2011, a few days before you retired. After that the then Chief Minister B.S. Yadu Rappa he had to resign his position soon thereafter on the 31st of July and in October that year he became perhaps the first serving Chief Minister of India who was behind bars. He was behind bars for 23 days. Now the same Mr. Yadu Rappa is the Chief Ministerial Candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Assembly elections which are going to take place in May. How do you react to this fact? I feel very sad because of the fact I thought there was a foolproof case against him and I didn't expect what happened in the trial court in the first instance. I'm not very sure whether they filed an appeal against that order or not. We had enough proof that he had received nearly 20 crore rupees from a company called South West Mining Company which had absolutely no capital. It received one day 20 crore rupees starting from the account of General Steel Thornagal Bellari which moved into three or four accounts in Benami Names and it came and landed in the account of South West Mining Company. Out of that 20 crores, 10 crore rupees by check was donated, perpetually donated to an education trust in a neighbouring district called Shimoga district which was wholly owned by Mr. Yadu Rappa and his family. For a public servant to receive such a huge gift according to me is contrary to law, the disciplinary rules as well as the fact that the file was then pending with Mr. Yadu Rappa as a Chief Minister. He was having the mining portfolio with him and he received 10 crore rupees donation which according to me per se shows that money was paid not as a donation but for considerations for showing favours in the mining application. Of course, a mining application was not granted thereafter because the matter was being investigated by me. Now you had, when you were the Lokayukta, you had pointed out of how Mr. Yadu Rappa's two sons, Raghavendra and Vijendra, they had received a huge amount of money and in the region of about 10 crore rupees which was donated to this educational trust run by his family, it was also found out that the same company, JSW, which is headed by Mr. Sajjan Jindal, spent 20 crore to purchase the land about which you talked about. Oh no, land I am yet to talk about. This is a different transaction altogether. There is a place called Raxinahalli near Bangalore, Whitefield where seven acres of land was acquired by the Government of Karnataka some years earlier and compensation was paid, the position was taken, the revenue records showed that the land belonged to the government but it was not utilised. Mr. Yadu Rappa as a Chief Minister denotified that seven acres of land which according to me is contrary to the judgement of the Supreme Court as also the law and out of that seven acres was purchased by a minister in his cabinet called Mr. Krishna Shetty. Krishna Shetty perpetually sold one acre of land by a registered sale deed for a concentration of nearly 40 lakhs or so to Yadu Rappa's son-in-law and two sons. That very land which they purchased for maybe about 40 lakhs of rupees immediately thereafter was purchased by Southwest Mining Company for a concentration of another 10 crores of rupees. I mean value cannot just go up like that. Obviously this is a transaction in my opinion which of course is not accepted by the Court is a consideration for something else other than the real market value but it was a consideration for Mr. Yadu Rappa to pass a favourable order in the mining application that is pending before him. Just a second, you know what were the circumstances under which the former Chief Minister Mr. Yadu Rappa was acquitted in October 2016. The CBI, the Central Bureau of Investigation took its own time appealing. It took eight months. Finally, you know what we found is that the judge who had acquitted him even the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Karnataka government even recommended that an investigation be launched against him way back in September 2017 but you see how was what you describe as a foolproof case of corruption against Mr. Yadu Rappa and his sons. How did the entire matter play out in different courts of law and he was given virtually a clean shit? Well, it's rather difficult to comment on the judgment of a court by making an acquisition of corruption or something but I can only say that I cannot accept this judgment because the money is received by Mr. Yadu Rappa way by way of a check so there is no dispute that he received that money. There is also no dispute that there was an application pending for grant of mining license before the Chief Minister was also the Minister for Mining which in my opinion by itself proves that the money is not gone as a consideration for the purchase of a one acre of land or for donation to his family education trust. Obviously, it is clear to my mind at least that this was a legal gratification given by the South West Mining Company to get a mining license. I look at it from that point of view. I have not read the judgment of the trial court but I just can't reconcile myself to the fact that these two transactions have been had the acceptance of judicial acceptance. You know, just to say, how do I go back to the same question I asked you earlier. Today, the Bharati Janta Party under Mr. Narendra Modi is in power in Delhi and the BJP, I mean, look, you, we all know you were the son of Justice K.S. Hegde. He is a former Supreme Court judge like you. He had been superseded in 1993 by, sorry, I beg your pardon, 73 by Justice A. N. Ray in after the Keshavananda Bharati case, the very well-known case about how much the constitution, how much parliament, the parliament couldn't change the basic structure of the constitution. Your father was a speaker of the Lok Sabha. He was one of the founding members of the BJP. And I'll recall another incident to you. On the 23rd of June 2010, you were so unhappy when the Karnataka government transferred an officer of the forest department, or rather didn't transfer, suspended him. He was deputy conservator of forest, Mr. Gokul, R. Gokul, that you resigned. And finally, it had the top leadership of the BJP, including Mr. L. K. Adwani. He persuaded you to take back your resignation. So how do you see that the same party just has completely forgotten all the evidence that you put out in these voluminous reports and you are carrying them with your ideas? I can show this here, where you said you have enough evidence to show and you have just outlined in graphic detail how this person received illegal gratifications. Well, I can't repeat that sentence again because of the fact that the matter is subjudice, but I would like to tell you one thing and all. Yes, one of my officers who was working with me in the Lokaikta on deputation called Mr. Gokul was suspended because he didn't obey the instructions of a minister to come and see him at a place which was owned or possessed by a person against whom the Karnataka Lokaikta had filed a charge sheet against that company. So he said, I'm not coming to that building, call me anywhere else, you know. But the minister didn't like it, so consequently he was suspended. So when I asked the chief secretary how can you keep him under suspension when he is working under me without consulting me, he said the audits have been passed, I can't do anything about that. So I thought if I can't protect an officer who was working under my instructions being suspended, it's not worthwhile staying in the office and I resigned. Well, many people came and asked me to take back my resignation, but I didn't agree to that and all. Then one day Mr. L.K. Adwani whom I consider as equivalent to my father with whom I had spent a lot of time when he was in jail, I was appearing for the detainees at that point of time during the emergency. I was a lawyer for Mr. Vajpayee, then Mr. Adwani and Esen Mishra and Madhu Dandavati. And I was also a lawyer for Mr. Ramakrishna Higde who was in jail, Mr. Devigawda and everything. I got an opportunity to fight their case. In that background, I had come to know Mr. Adwani pretty well. And Adwani was one person who was closely connected to my family. When my father died, he came to a village to participate in the grief in which we were at that point of time. So I have a very high regard for Mr. L.K. Adwani. So Mr. Adwani went a telephone to me and said, Sandosh, you're doing a good job, don't resign. I said, sir, how can I continue to be in office when I can't protect my own officers? I'm not there only to make this thing for myself. He said, what is it that you want? I said, I want the suspension to be revoked and I will take back my resignation. And that was done. Mr. Gadkari was the President of All India BJP at that point of time. He and Mr. Edutapa came to my residence and gave me the letter of withdrawal of resignation. And I am rather the suspension and I withdrew my resignation for that purpose. I couldn't have continued if that nurse's suspension order was not revoked. You know, I want you to again take you back to what happened after that. The Anti-Corruption Bureau in the Karnataka government, they launched an investigation against the CBI judge, R.B. Dharmagaudar, in September 2017. He is the same person who had acquitted Mr. Edutapa. Now, what you found is that something very, very unusual has been happening. The advocate, Mr. H.M. Siddharth, who had represented Mr. Edutapa and his family members and his sons, he was actually caught by the staff of the Vidhansaba, Vidhansodam, with 2 crore rupees in cash in October 2016. And then earlier, we also found that, you know, there have been a number of attempts made to bribe judges. And in fact, after Gali Janadhan Reddy was jailed and he was in Chanchalgoda jail in Hyderabad in July 2012, the law court judge, Mr. T. Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, he was arrested and he was jailed because, and in his confessional statement, he said that a relative and associates of Gali Janadhan Reddy had offered him 100 crore rupees to secure bail. Now, what does this tell us about the way our criminal justice system works? It's very unfortunate that the confidence that people repose in the judiciary right now, I think it's really, really a sad state of affairs that we do hear about corruption in judiciary, which is an admitted fact nobody can deny that and all. These instances which you mentioned have appeared in the newspaper. I have read them also, which gives room to think that the judgments delivered in those circumstances may not be correct judgment. You know, we've seen that after your report came out, there were three former chief ministers whose record you were very, very critical of. And it's not just Mr. Yadurappa, you were critical of the late Mr. Dharam Singh, the former chief minister, Mr. H.D. Kumaraswamy, all of them you found were in some way or the other involved in these illegal activities in this illegal manner in which I know it was mining. So in that sense, your report was not partisan. You were, in a sense, indicting the entire political class. I wouldn't say that I was indicting the political class, but I had an opportunity of inquiring into the actions of these three chief ministers and I've given voluminous evidence to show why I have implicated them in this matter. Well, the acquittal of Mr. Yadurappa gives me a lot bit of sadness and I don't even know whether the state government of Karnataka has filed a preferred appeal or not in the matter or maybe there's investigating agencies have filed a not-in-all. But one thing is certain that today money plays a very big role in all the actions and inactions in the part of the government, I think. I want to draw your attention to the report that you presented where you talked about the illegal export of iron ore from Bellica report by Adani Enterprises and you said that there were incriminating documents which suggest that they had made illegal payments to the director of the port, to customs officials, to police personnel, but eventually it didn't stand up in a court of law. The Supreme Court, the special investigative team of the Karnataka Lokayukta said no case had been made out and the CBI and the Lokayukta eventually filed closure reports against Adani Enterprises. Why do I bring out this case? Because the head of the Adani group, Mr. Gautam Adani, is perceived to be very close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Well, let me give you the background of these cases. I have not studied the B report filed in the case of Adani, but I have studied the case pertaining to one Dodanavar, another company which is similar to what has been alleged against Adani's. On February 19th and 20th of 2010, Lokayukta officers raided a company called Dodanavar and they seized certain documents from the computer and hard copies also were there and from which it was found that they have exported huge quantities of iron ore without permission of excavation, storage, transportation and export. Without any one of these documents, they had exported huge quantity of iron ore. Then when we investigated, we gave a copy of the investigation to the director of mines saying that, look, this is what has happened in the case and all. Please look into it and all. Then from records, now I find out the director of mines at that point of time issues them a notice saying that you have exported so much iron ore without paying the royalty, therefore they are caused loss to the state. This was sometime in the month of March 2010. In the month of June 2010, the Dodanavaran company goes and pays all the monies perpetually due as a royalty to the government of Karnataka. Now royalty is only 27 rupees for metric ton. Whereas at the point of time they were exporting this iron ore one metric ton for 6500 to 7000 rupees. Now it was easy for them to pay 27 rupees and be done with it. But our charges were not that they cheated the government of the money after our charges were of stolen property. They have purchased or excavated illegally mined iron ore. They have stored it which is controlled by the Mining Act and Rules. They have transported it contrary to the Mining Act and Rules and have exported it also. They have all separate offenses. But the investigating agency goes and we filed the charge sheet of FIR. Investigating agency goes and gives a B report saying that now that they have paid the money to the government. What is a B report? B report is no case made out. I see. Then you think the Adani Enterprises case is somewhat similar? Yes that was I was told and I have not read it but I was told it is a similar thing and they paid the royalty that is due to the government and the B report is filed and the court accepted the B report. That is the illegal action of extraction, storage, transportation and exploitation. Now suppose hypothetically there is a BJP government that comes to power in Karnataka and we will know on the 15th of May. Suppose hypothetically Mr. Yadu Rappa becomes the next Chief Minister of Karnataka. What would this mean for the investigations, the judicial processes that would follow? I don't know since they have filed a B report it is for the investigating agencies to investigate, investigating agency itself has filed a B report so they can't challenge it now and all. Now it is left to others who have some public interest involved in it and all to challenge that order by saying you know this is incorrect because mere compensating the royalty part of it doesn't exculpate them from the other charges of illegal mining. All these are very serious charges under the Minds and Minds Development Act you know. And therefore they ought to have been considered the different action under the different provisions of law. But merely saying you have been compensated it's like a thief when caught says I will pay for the value of the stolen goods. Can you get out of the theft charge? Okay, tell me do you believe the CBI is under tremendous political pressure? I wouldn't want to say that because it has been named as when Congress was in power it was called the Congress Investigating Bureau and all. I suppose it keeps you. It was also described by a judge of the Supreme Court as a caged parent. Yeah, caged parent. And we have two former directors of the CBI being investigated by the very same agency they headed. Yes, I mean this is not only CBI it is there in every. Okay, now you've talked about the nexus between the mining lobby, business persons and politicians. But this has also been facilitated by corrupt bureaucrats. Now in your report you had recommended action against over 787 officers of the Karnataka government. And recently, relatively recently on the 17th of May 2017 serving officer of the Indian administrative service. I should name him Mr. Gangaram Baderia. He was arrested. I mean was this a rather rare or rather egregious example of a corrupt bureaucrat because he was also the accusations against him are also pertaining to this iron ore. Yeah, he was the secretary of mining. Yes, I agree with you. Nothing has been done based on my report. I can tell you the present political party which is in power in Karnataka they walked all the way from Balarri to Bangalore as a protest for not implementing my report. Now they have been in charge for four years. What have they done? It only shows that when it comes to brass tracks all political parties are the same. How do you react to the social activist Ravi Krishna Reddy in March 2017? He wrote to the top five judges of the Supreme Court of India alleging that the then chief justice of Karnataka Justice Subro Kamal Mukherjee had favored Gali Janathan Reddy. Would you like to say anything about his allegation? Well, there were many allegations against that person. This is one of them only. And I think he's been given a membership of some tribunal now which I read in the papers and all but there were serious allegations against that particular judge who was there. And Ravi Krishna Reddy I think did the right thing to bring it to the notice of the superior court. Probably otherwise he might have gone to the Supreme Court or something. When he didn't go to the Supreme Court ultimately. In today's paper I read he's been given a membership of some tribunal. Tell me, after spending about three years behind bars, the person who's often considered to be the kingpin, the lynchpin of the Skandal Gali Janathan Reddy, former minister and Mr. Yadu Rapa's government, when his daughter Bramani gets married in Bangalore, the amount of money that is spent is unprecedented. I mean all kinds of reports we hear. I mean the brigade ground in Karnataka was converted into some sort of all the monuments of Karnataka were rebuilt over there. And mind you, this was just around the time demonetization had happened in November of 2016. Now five days later the income tax department rates him. In between what happens? One driver called KC Ramesh, he is supposed to be working for a government officer of the Karnataka government. He commits suicide and in a suicide note he writes that he was being forced to convert 100 crores of black money into white. I mean what do you say about the sheer conspicuous manner in which this person, after spending three years in jail, he splurges on his daughter's wedding. Even the invitation card that he sent reportedly cost a huge amount of money. And what happens subsequently? Well that itself indicates the fact that nothing has been done pursuant to my mining report. If they were to be raided properly and the properties were to be seized and the accounts were to be seized too, such amount of money would not have been available to them. That also indicates the failure of demonetization because a person can come from jail. Within a few days if you could get nearly 150 crores of rupees in present day currency to spend on the daughter's wedding, itself is a fact that certain class of people in this country can get overlaw very easily. My last question, no not my last question, I have one other question, an ultimate question. How important are institutions and how important are the individuals who head these institutions? Under you, the people's ombudsman, the institution of the Lokayukta in Karnataka was very very active, I should say aggressively active in taking unearthing this, I don't know, mining scandal. You were succeeded by a former Chief Justice of Karnataka, Justice Bhaskar Rao. Now he was a person whose son was accused of blackmail and extortion. And in a sense the whole institution of the Lokayukta got degraded before the eyes of the people. What do you have to say about the institution and the people who head these institutions? Karnataka Lokayukta institution was one of the first ombudsman institution created anywhere in India, maybe next only to Madhya Pradesh and all. It was expected to be a very strong ombudsman's body. So two parts were given to the institution. One is the grievance redressal that is giving relief to people who suffer because of administration or maladministration or no administration. The other one is to fight corruption through the Lokayukta police, the big unit of police with the Lokayukta. These are the only two of the past Lokayukta had. For very many reasons, though institutions came to existence in 1986 till about 2001, nobody did anything in that institution. They just came as retired judges, enjoyed the place and went away. It is just as N. Venkatachala who came in 2001 who really created ripple in the society by reading very many people with the thing and showed that what Lokayukta was. I succeeded him in 2006 and I also found the institution had a very strong past. It could soar motto that is by itself without any complaint start investigation even against the chief minister and other higher authorities. It did not take anybody's permission on that and all. Such was the institution which was liked by very many people in Karnataka. We did a lot of work by catching the wrong corrupt people or even granting relief to people who could not find relief from the government to the thing and all. Unfortunately, it became very unpopular with the people in Pa. So the first thing that happened was soon after I retired two other people came but then left in between and then came Mr. Bhaskar Rao. Bhaskar Rao was suspected to be a corrupt judge because when his name appeared in the newspaper, the barolization of Karnataka passed a resolution saying that his corrupt don't bring him but still they brought them in. And what did he do?  And yeah, I'm told he used to call the people over the phone and say, if you don't give me so much money, I'll see that the loka ekta raided them. And many of them supposed to have paid which is the interim report that police officer said. Yeah, it's extortion. It is not a simple case of receiving bribe or something. It's simple. They caught you according to me if I can go that extent or not. So this is how the people in Paa were trying to destroy the institution of loka ekta. Then in 2016 or 2014, they tried to take away one of the Paa's grievance, which fortunately came to the public domain and people started protesting against it so they dropped that idea. Then came 2016 without discussion, either in the assembly or within the political system, they created an ACB and transferred the power of loka ekta fighting corruption powers to ACB. Anti-corruption. Anti-corruption powers. Yeah. What does it indicate? It definitely indicates the people who are in Paa, whether it's A party or B party, they do not want loka ekta because loka ekta is an institution which fights against them and they miss deeds. So every effort was made to denude the powers of the loka ekta and also I think in a way by bringing Bhaskar Rao, they wanted to make it, you know, people would not be able to repose confidence in that institution. This was an effort by people in Paa. And today, you all would have said that the loka ekta was attacked by a person, was a complainant in the case, and he was stabbed very many times. And we also find that the loka ekta institution had sent seven letters in three years saying that the security in the loka ekta office is very, very missing. Then metal detector is not working, such like complainant. But the government didn't even bother to look into that. But a reply also. And at 1.30, stabbing incident takes place. You know, at 4 o'clock, they bring a new metal detector and put it there. So in other words, you're saying that the Karnataka government has systematically, what should I say, weakened this institution? Not only the present political party in Paa, but the previous BJP party also did the same thing by appointing this person. Bhaskar Rao is a loka ekta. My last question to you. You have participated in the movement against corruption, which was led by Anna Hazare in the India Against Corruption. You still have our own good terms with him. Do you believe civil society, ordinary citizens, and people like you and people like Anna Hazare still can do something to even make a dent, even a small dent, against this kind of widespread corruption in public life in India? I was confident when Anna's movement was here to speak. I have travelled all over India. I've seen the response of the people, how much respect they had to Anna Hazare. And they used to listen to the speeches of Anna Hazare and others who were there, which gave us a lot bit of hope that maybe the society will change. It was mostly the middle-class people who used to participate in these proceedings. But I think we did make a small mistake. Not a small mistake, it became a big mistake in the end. We started speaking about it only in the cities, metropolitan cities, and it didn't go to the district level or taluk level. The rural areas. And this type of participation has a fatigue factor. Middle-class people can't come every time, and there is a protest in the thing, so they have their own personal difficulties, they have their work and everything. So in that process, I think we lost some of the supporters in the thing. The biggest damage was the creation of a political party, which I think... I'm very unhappy with that. I'm very unhappy with the fact, because I think many things Anna Hazare expected to happen didn't happen, and this is one thing I don't think he ever expected that to happen. Well, thank you so much Justice Santoshak Dey for coming here and giving us your time and expressing yourself so candidly and so quickly. Thank you once again. You've just heard and watched Justice N. Santoshak Dey, former Lokayukta of Karnataka, former judge of the Supreme Court, expressing his sadness, his anguish at the fact that the Bharati Janta Party has nominated Mr. B.S. Yadu Rappa as its chief ministerial candidate, a person against whom and his family members, just to say that he was responsible for publishing a voluminous report inditing him or seeking to indict him for corrupt practices. Thank you for being with us.


All right, I waited till past the last minute to do this. It's Halloween afternoon now I'll be posting this in the evening and you'll be watching it on your cell phone on the toilet in the morning Okay, here we go. This is my list of the top five inappropriate sexy Halloween costumes now I've limited myself to store-bought manufactured costumes not custom cosplay and only things that I've seen by chance over the years I didn't go looking for stuff the starting point as you can imagine is the inappropriate sexy children's character There's the typical things like these that are often just a dress with a logo or a face painted on them But there are also Legit costumes like these. I have no problem with Daphne and Velma here. They're actually really nice But then we have number five Yeah, I mean making the dog sexy Scooby-Doo isn't even an anthropomorphic animal like Mickey Mouse or Yogi Bear. He's just a dog All three of these by the way $90 each on Amazon 90 Speaking of animals all these years I've been looking for a sexy grumpy cat costume, and I haven't seen one not one not even a cosplay And I've been looking Okay, this next one isn't so much offensive as it is just mystifying. I Mean, I don't get it This is a corporate mascot from like 1912 And now speaking of corporate mascots number four No, no This one really rubs me the wrong way for some reason. I mean she's a sexy girl They all are but no And while we're still talking about children's mascots. Here's number three Ah This reaches the absolute bottom. I don't even get how this was made. I Mean those masks Those are legit Bert and Ernie. The only thing I can think is that The masks were licensed and then the company Made the rest themselves. I don't know it's All right moving on number two Yes, this is sexy Hulk Hogan Just know, okay, this is a real person and it's not even a sexy real person and Not a girl person But I found another one just this week that has an even higher ick factor. I Mean it's Donald Trump for fuck's sake But this one doesn't make my official list and you know why? Because it's not immediately obvious who it is when I first saw it. I thought it was Hannah Hart. I Did so it's a horrible horrible Misuse of sexy costumers, but it doesn't make my list because it's a fail Now before I go on to number one you may have noticed that most of the costumes I've been showing you have been coming from yandy.com They are not sponsoring this video and I am not promoting them They just seem to have a bit of a corner on the offensive costume market online. I Mean, this is the front page of their website right now. The sexy Native American dress is Very frowned upon right now, but there it is Okay, now for number one We're going completely off the rails. I started this list with a sexy girl dressing as a dog But now Number one This is a real thing. I didn't make this up The sexy schoolgirl dress by itself is problematic for a number of reasons, but but You put this on your dog on your little dog Happy Halloween


Hello! How are you? Before the video starts tonight, I am going to be on a Midsommar campaign on HyperRPG. It's gonna be a ton of fun, so please go there. It's gonna be at 6 p.m. Pacific time here on Wednesday. Uh, and then the following Tuesday, uh, I'll be doing it again. I think still at 6 p.m. But go tonight, 6 p.m. Pacific time, twitch.tv slash HyperRPG. The link is right here and in the top box in the description. The top box, top line. Anyway, see you there. It's gonna be a fun time. Anyway, enjoy the video! Prequel memes! I've been on a big ol' Star Wars kick recently, and I just watched all of the prequels again for the first time in a very long time. Back of the clones. Oh, it's a movie! It sounds like, hey, I haven't looked at prequel memes in a really long time, so I thought that I would look at some prequel memes. As I always do, I'm just gonna do top all time, because, uh, those are, uh, more or less the best ones, so let's go! I've seen this before.  Prepare to get blasted in the face with some cold hard upvotes. Create quali- Oh, that's an ad! This post somehow gets 1,300- 131,072 upvotes. I'll post again with two th- Wait. What? Is that... Ewan McGregor? 131,072 times? I can't see anything. I think that's what that is, though. I've made a huge mistake. Mom loves her Jesus Christmas present, and I'm not sure how to get this thing- how to get out of this thing alive when she figures it out. That's so good. I've seen this one before. You know, praise Ewan. Praise Obi-Wan. I want a framed- Like, this is a fancy-ass frame, too. I want a fancy-framed Obi-Wan Kenobi, uh, thing. I've been thinking about doing a PO Box video. Just one. Just opening up a PO Box for, like, a week or a month or something. So, if that happens, send me framed Ewan McGregor photos, please. Thank you. After playing 3,700 hours at Battlefront 2, I unlocked them all. Every single one of them. And I feel not just a sense of pride and accomplishment, but accomplished woman and accomplished children, too. I wanna play- I was gonna play more Battlefront 2, because apparently the new update- it's pretty sweet. Uh, but I haven't played Battlefront 2 in a while. Thank God for Hayden Christensen. It actually wasn't George's idea to have Anakin kill the younglings. I just showed up on set one day and started to whack those little fuckers. Turns out George was filming the whole time.  I wouldn't put it past him.  I just noticed that this is Palpatine. That's so good. When you're the main character of an open-world video game. Uh, it's true. It's true. Just running everywhere, huh? George is planning this all along. Just realized Darth Vader says Obi-Wan has taught you well after looking up and seeing Luke. That Luke has the high ground? Hell yeah! I don't think that that was planned at all, but we can pretend, we can believe. That is an awesome fight scene between Obi-Wan and Anakin and, uh... Revenge of the Sith? Yeah, revenge of the Sith. My favorite part is when they're battling and then they just swing. They don't hit each other at all, but they're doing the same swinging motion. Yeah, this. Right here. Why? They just swing and do nothing. Will Star Wars fans who got made fun of for liking the movies growing up believe people for liking the new Star Wars? You've become the very thing you swore to destroy. Happy New Year. I waited a whole year to do this. Hold on, wait. What did you do? What did you do? Is it when he says, uh... This is where the fun begins or whatever? Yup. Yup, yup, yup. The exact moment Samuel L. Jackson asked George Lucas for purple lightsabers on camera? Is it? I'm trying to figure out who we had to talk to about your light color. It's your lightsaber color. Oh, well... Good guys are green and blue. Bad guys are red. That's just the way it works. There's no purple left? You might get purple. I love the just-crap zoom on his face.  Thank you. If we underpaid these modern mumble rappers and overpaid teachers there would be less smarter people in the future and less shitty music. Maybe if you granted Anakin the rank of Jedi Master he wouldn't have got all states and wrecked the whole universe with Emperor Palpatine. God damn. What we want series is a go. You and McGregor is returning? Okay, but apparently there's not only a delay on it but they're shortening it too because it was originally, I think it was originally eight and they shortened it to six and now it's four episodes. I don't know what's happening. All those also are things that I heard through the grapevine. I don't know if any of them are true, but I'm excited for that show. Also, I bought this and I'm excited for our best $350 I've ever made. It's life-size. So cute.  It's Apple right next to him. Oh my God, I'm so excited to get that. This little hair. His little hair. Oh, and he's holding it. He's holding the thing from the ship. This is going to be the greatest thing ever. I wonder what it's going to feel like. I wonder what it's made out of. I don't even know where I'm going to put him, but I bought it and I'm so excited. It's little hands. Oh God, I can't wait. It's going to be great. I have to wait until August or October though. Man, that's going to be wonderful. I want to get more stuff from this website. They have some sweet figurines, some sweet, sweet figurines.  The Kylo Ren one is dope.  Played four roles in one movie. Played 200,000 roles in one movie with a million more well on the way. It's true. Did that do to all the voices for Clone Wars too? Not, I mean, not attacking the Clone Wars, but like the Clone Wars TV show. Class Clone's in school. This is where the fun begins. Class Clone's at home. That's pretty good. That's pretty true. Hayden Christensen tells Kelly Marie Tran to ignore the Star Wars haters. You're strong and wise, Anakin, and I am very proud of you. It's true. Oh, what did he do? Oh, it's General Kenobi, yeah. General Kenobi! I'm saying you need to calm down, lacking in empathy. Saying you need to calm down, lacking in empathy.  Saying, good, good, let the hate flow through you. Affirmative of their feelings. Confirms it's normal to be upset. Embrace the unlimited potential of the dark side. This is what we need to promote in 2020, guys.  Sometimes you just gotta, but you know, don't let it cloud your judgment. 2004 CGI versus 2019. Yeah. Oh, too. We need to go up, not down. I mean, they're both... Garfield. Up, up, up. You need permission to perform this action. Oh. Access denied! God damn! I've had this key for six years. I should have known this would have happened eventually. Oh, no.   I just keep happening. How many more can we add to the staircase? God damn! When the Burger King employee yells order 66 and you see a three-year-old holding a toy lightsaber. Good soldiers follow orders.  Anakin. The Jedi. Anakin. The Jedi. Anakin. The Jedi. The Sith. Yeah. Well, maybe if you let him achieve the rank of master, he wouldn't have gone to the Sith. It is all. It is all Mace Windu's fault, isn't it? Pretty much all Windu's fault, actually.  Because if you just granted him the rank of master, he probably would have been fine, you know? When you find out Anakin is holding an eye. When you remember that age is based on a planet's position with respect to the sun. When you realize that that's a statue, he has two sons. Anakin is technically- It is real weird this whole thing.  I mean, they're thirsty for each other, but in the second one it's just like, My, you've grown. It's kind of gross.  I want this so bad. That has made it to the front page in two words. Can we make it there in less? Yep, I hope that got front page. That's great. It is Count Dooku's lightsaber. Presses the print button twice. The printer. Two thousand units. Two hundred thousand units already with a million more well on the way. Very true.  I hate that they're in a meme format. It makes me so angry.  My thoughts dwell on your mother.  I can get them. Leaks Kenobi movie intro. This doesn't make any sense. Another happy landing. Uh, Obi-Wan does have the best quotes.  I want an entire unit that's just Obi-Wan Kenobi.   Hello there. Nothing better. Ain't nothing better than that. This is Liam. He is the best friend ever. He spent two hundred dollars to take me out to eat. Love him like a brother. Did you ever hear the tragedy of Liam? That's so good. Would you realize that senators and anagram for treason? Make a co-op level. They should make a co-op game where you and your buddy go through many levels leveling up beating bosses, but the final bosses each other. There you go. Like a Star Wars fan. Like a Star Wars is so good. I should play it. I should play it on the channel. These aren't the droids you're looking for.  Cody?   That's so good. Aw, this is me. General Kenobi. This makes me happy. So Hayden and I were practicing the big moose to far fight. And we started improvising moves. There it is, yes. And it looked really good. And then I went to Georgia and was like, did you get that? No. Do you know how much it would cost to record everything? That's true. So much. Guys, nothing is filled until I say action. You wouldn't have been pretty heartbroken after that. Well, obviously. But also, it would cost so much money to just record everything. Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse almost included a scene where Tom Holland, Toby McGuire, Andrew Garfield as cameos, but it was cut to avoid confusing people. We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close. That would have been so good. I feel like that's not true though. I feel like that's not true. But that would have been so good. You've become the very thing you've swore to destroy.  No, a synth.   Quit flirting with him. He's only 10. Padme, he'll grow. It is gross. How am I- I think there's only a five-year difference though. In the Phantom Menace, Anakin is age nine and Padme is 14. Okay, yeah. It's only five years. By the time of their sexual relationship and attack of the clones set 10 years later, he was 19 and she was 24. So the age difference was just five years. Well, the age difference wouldn't change. So, you know, it just is a little creepy when you look at this. They don't look five years apart. Oh man. The entire Star Wars fan base at the moment is very true. I can't wait for the Obi-Wan show though. I hope it's good. I love you and McGregor so much. They're general Kenobi. I hope this is real. I really, really hope this is real. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let it be real. Let it be real. Give me the photo that we're looking for. Yes! It's real! It's real! General Kenobi. There it goes.  I love that that's a thing. Anyway, guys, I'm going to end this video here on prequel memes. Look at Ewan. What a lovely guy. Look at that smile. God, he's great. Do it or miss. You will try backflips. Thank you for watching. Hope you enjoyed looking through some prequel memes with me. I know I enjoyed it. I love Star Wars. I love the prequels. It's a great time when you perfectly capture what an awkward teenage slash young adult boy is like, but critics don't like it because it's awkward. He did do a good job because, you know, he's awkward boy. He's an awkward boy. I got the legacy lightsabers of Luke and Anakin at Galaxy's Edge. So there's that. I don't have anything more to add, but I want a choreographed cool fight scene. Anyway, ending it here. Thank you so much for watching. Love you. May the force be with you, Pham. May the force be with you. Let's make the entire comment section just general Kenobi. Do it. I don't care. Bet you can't.