 You watching the Cowboys tonight? Um, today, actually, I think it's actually yeah, it's actually today. It's at one o'clock today. I might I might I might take a gander. It's the playoffs. So I wouldn't you be taking in a gander? It is it is the playoffs. I've just I've I have focused so much of my attention in the past couple of years on no other sport, but baseball that I mean, I used to be. A die hard San Antonio Spurs fan die hard Dallas Cowboy fan watching him play. And I've just over time with the transitions that happened with the Spurs team and the players that left. And I still I still watch, but I don't have that. I've got to watch any more for anything other than the Dodgers and the Yankees. Sides, the dying sport in America. Hey, we'll go back to our students. I'm Rick. Falls on Instagram to the more cheesy content. Thank you to the sorts and patron for the cops. Good luck. There's also I've seen enough in both the NBA and the NFL that I just get sick and tired of watching stuff change games because the officials in the league want to change it, not letting them just play. Wow, go local, go broke. Am I right, Rick? Anyways, today we got a it's the speech. Read that title right there. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold your horses, hold your cotton pick. And the first man am I reading the right thing? When I say that, yeah. OK, the first man to wear a sanitary napkin where his read his name Arunachalam Muruganatram. This is the man that Padman is based on. Yes, this is this is Padman. And this is not the speech that we saw. It's not the one for the U.N. This is a different U.N. But no, this is not that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is a speech that he, the real man gave about everything. So obviously, if you're watching this, obviously, I'm assuming our Padman reaction has already come out. So that's where we saw it. We love that movie. It was a fantastic movie. Actually, I did a very good job. It would be interesting to see if he tried to emulate him or if he just kind of did his his own thing. Both of them, obviously, each are creative choices that you can take. But and we thought actually did a fantastic job in that movie as well. Yeah, we did. We loved him in that. Loved him in that. But I'm really interested to see the real guy. And me too. So here we go. All right. I'm coming from a BPL family. That means my father is a handloom waiver. My mother is a farm worker. I'm studying up to only 9th standard. Nothing like that. I'm trying to speak my own English. Maybe Bebs and Tess may be missed. I know being educated people, you can alter in a good English. Up to 1998, I was a housebound husband. That's all. My world is my auntie and my mother and my small workshop working as a helper in the workshop. So one day in 1998, I sat at my house after taking lunch and relaxing. I saw my wife carrying something like this to hide me. Then as a housebound husband, I asked her, what is that? She answered me like slapping on my cheek. It's none of your business. Then I ran away being an husband. I saw a very nasty cloth, a rag cloth. Even I don't use that cloth to clean my two-wheeler. Then I understand that she is adopting that anaesthetic method to manage the period days. Then I asked my wife, why there are sanitary napkins you are using that anaesthetic method? She replied immediately. I also know there is sanitary napkin. I'm watching TV. But if myself and other women in our family start using napkin, we have to cut our family milk budget. She replied, I shocked. What is the connection between sanitary napkin and cutting the milk budget? Then I understood it's a cost factor, these, those there. Then the same day I went to your shop, then I tried to buy a sanitary napkin packet. The shop will ask what brand you want. Who knows brand and all. Just I figure out a packet, beautiful packet inside their showcase. I bought the packet, the research started it. Being a workshop helper, whatever I took in my hand, the brain tell the weight of the object. The napkin weight, what I took out of the packet, I think less than 10 grams. So being a Koyam Thurian, there are 500 textile mills are there. Those days the 10 gram cotton price is only 10 paisa. That means 10 cents. The multinational are using only 10 paisa raw material they are selling for four rupees. You just think the profit fold. Then I want to make a low, I am damn sure I can make a low cost napkin. The main thing is I need a women volunteer where I can go. The only available choice, the victim is my wife. Then I bought a sanitary napkin cotton in a reputed mill. I made a sanitary napkin and I give it to my Santhi. I want a feedback immediately. You see. So whatever I make differently, I will tell Santhi close your eyes, I will put her eyes. This time I am doing the same. Santhi is opening eyes, she saw a napkin. She is shocked. Oh you enter in this will know. Yes, I want a feedback. It is not possible to do. You have to wait for some time. Then only understand. Well period means monthly wants. Even so many others they don't know what the problem the ladies are facing. Then I go back my workshop duty. Then after 15 days, I am getting the feedback for my napkin. What napkin you gave it to me. It's very nasty. I will go back to my class using method. Then I need more volunteers. It is not possible to make napkin and waiting for a month to get feedback. It will take two decades to make napkin. Then I need more volunteers than another available victims or my sisters. Even a wife and sister, they are not ready to talk up the subject. Whenever I step into my sister's home, they immediately call my wife, ask her not to come to my home to talk into the subject. Then I got the idea. Why not we contact the medical college girls? But how can a workshop helper can approach a medical college girls? Even a college boy is not able to go near to an art college girls. How can a art college girl be a medical college girls? Somehow I managed to get something. They say my thing, giving the various napkin and wait for four, five days. Then feedback. Then I realized even a future doctor's girls, they are not ready to discuss about the subject with an adult. Then I got an idea. Why not give a feedback sheet? So these are all the terms I'm promising now. At 10 years before, I don't know the feedback sheet and all. I only know cycle sheet. Then I made a small, small question, what I want to ask. Then they have to fill. Those days, 20 girls helping me. I supplied an napkin. I wait for a week. On a particular day, I'm going to collect the feedback sheet. I saw in front of that hostel, only three girls are very urgently filling the feedback sheet for the rest of them. It's a false one. So what can I do? So how can I conduct further more on the false feedback sheet? Then I took it in front of medical college. Then I think fear after it's not good depending on the girls. Why not check myself the napkin? That has happened now. That is still coming. A man wore sand in napkin. Somebody in the English from the writing in the off page. That means I bought, actually I've used short tape underwear. Those days I bought triangles of underwear. I wore a sand in napkin. In the football player, there is an animal blood with mixer and all. There is a tube. While I'm walking and cycling, I'll press one of those little points. They catch a lot of the points. Yeah. But even though I'm not satisfied. So these are all, these steps are happening. The days are going, months are going. Six months, eight months, nine months. So it's almost a year. But my thing is why my napkin is not working with ladies and girls? The company napkins are working, both are cotton. In the meantime, I'm sending the company napkins material to various lab across India. They're also telling, we declare we found inside is a cotton filament and cellulose substance. There are the various name for the cotton. But I'm using cotton, why it's not working? That is my question. So in between what happened now? Those days, people will suspect I've become a psycho. I've become a mad. First, my wife separated from me. She sent a divorce notice to me. Then I got a very peculiar idea. Taking feedback, become a risk one. Then I got a risky idea. Instead of asking feedback, these, the tunnel, why not ask a used napkin from a girl? You take the risks. Even I ask ads from the lady, she will suspect I'm going to do some black magic on him to mesmerize. In India, they won't give even a footprint that soil to take. Then I somehow managed to get a used napkin from the ladies. I spread all this in the backyard of my home, 10-way turn room. I'm researching on that. And those days, my mother is coming back. I never realized, it's Sunday, I think. She thought, because already wife is gone, separated from me because of research. My mother thinks Sunday is cleaning chicken for Sunday. The moment Kamman saw the suction on the table, nothing he did. She cried like anything. Somebody did on my son something. He totally become mad. Magalai is me going to go out my from home. Because in south, they will put cow tongue everywhere in look on corner of the home. They will put agarabadi, sambar, everything, smoke, everything. It's like a Magalai in this place. So in the house, I put this substance. She also separated from me. Then problem for food. I have to cook myself. So anyway, I succeeded. I realized what is that material inside. The cotton is from flower. It is from the bark of the tree, that's all. It's very simple. The cellos derived from the bark of the tree. It is called wood pulp. But even after finding that, you need that big plant cost around 3.5 crore to make a Santay napkin. That's why from the second world war, this field in the hand of multinationals only. Even after seeing the plant, I'm never discouraged. I further research for foreign affairs. I made a small, small mission like this. I made world-class napkin at my home. This is my innovations. Then I send it to IIT for evaluation. Those days, I'm trying to pattern. Because a little bit I'm getting learning, I become skilled. I understood IPR rides. I spend a lot, not only money, family, everything. Then those days, there is a small competition that's going on in IITM, Madras. That is called best innovation for the betterment of society. Without telling me, they involve this innovation in the competition. Around 943 entries, it become first. Suddenly on the limelight. Then everybody writing. We have also helped did this, that works. Then I got a pattern also. This is only unique product around the globe to make sanitary napkin at low cost machine. You think about the hot cake product. Okay? It is flashing. So what you will do if you have such type of product with your hand? I'm asking you any MBA students or business problem persons here. You try to use your IPR rides to maximum accumulation of money. But I never did this. Why? I know, no human being died because of poverty. Everything happens because of ignorance. So ignorance means what do you know? Just chasing this money. Everybody was chasing this money. I've never studied in business school or thing. I just observing people what they're doing. If I ask in the crowd what they're doing in your life, definitely I know only two. You, everybody trying to survive. Wearing coat or doing this business, this business, this, that, apartment, Rolls-Royce, Benz. Finally, you are just surviving in a small way, in a small apartment, an apartment with extra bedroom, a bungalow, that's all. Nothing more than that. Am I right or right? You have to agree, not for them. The problem is, if you want to brush your teeth, you need a nylon handle and nylon brush is sufficient. What happened in the mind once you go further in your life? Now you need a gold plated and diamond rings, this blue brush. Then real ones. So this is stupidness what happened around the globe. Okay. So I never did. So I don't want to do business like this, only profit, profit, profit, seeing books for millions, billions. I am doing as a social cast. I am giving the missions to the rural India. The back view of the plan. These women are now making napkins. So my vision is I'm going to create not less than a million employment for rural women. By the way, I'm going to create India. Only 7% penetration is there. 93% of women are not using napkins. I am going to make that footprint 100%. I'm going to provide 1 million employment creation through this. That is my vision. That's what I'm going to do. That's my goal. Yeah. So it looks like they took actually quite a bit of the little plot points from his actual life and including the competition part, and I don't know if Big B was included in that, but it'd be cool if he was and then came back. Yeah, I would. When was this done? When was the speech given? The video's 11 years ago. So the video was posted May 26th of 2012, but I don't know if that's okay. It looks right though. Yeah. So he would have probably had a good six, seven, maybe even eight years of public speaking and grabbing a higher mastery of the English language than the event we saw portrayed at the UN with Akshay in the film. So I suspect his English was a bit more broken as Akshay portrayed it to be. Oh yeah. And I thought he looks nothing like Akshay, obviously. Looks nothing like him, but that's whatever. But in terms of the voice, I actually thought he did a very good job. Obviously his was a little broken than Akshay's, but I thought the vocal inflections he did in the movie were very, very good. All right, so I'm proud of Akshay because I think it's one of my favorite Akshay performance that we've seen of his hats off to this guy. I think if they were trying to cast somebody who looked like him, I think they probably could have casted Nawaz, KK Menon, or Atul, Colm Clarny as well. I think those would have looked more like him. But I... Yeah, but when you've got a public figure that nobody really has a face to necessarily, they know the name, but they're not really familiar with the face. I don't think it's... Bring in a star, yeah. Yeah, bring in somebody who can incarnate the character of the person in a believable way, which Akshay does. Yeah, I thought he did a very good job. Obviously. Yeah. I think if they were maybe in a different film, that's more like awards style of a film. I think in terms of like, it's gonna be hard hitting as opposed to the commercial way that they were going. I think maybe they would have casted, maybe some of the people that... I wouldn't change a thing. I like it the way it is. Me too. I like it a lot. Yeah. Hats off to Akshay. Hats off, obviously, to the actual guy. Right. Yeah. He's a hero. What a man. And I'm glad a lot of the plot points are true in it, even obviously if some of them are true. What's the word? Stylized. Yeah, stylized to make... For dramatic effect. Yeah. Do we know what happened after his invention in terms of the number of women percentage-wise? The increase of the number of women using sanitary pads and if there's a direct relationship to... I can't imagine it didn't increase. I don't have those numbers, but I'm hoping it's getting much higher than it was. I would hope so, yeah. I'd imagine especially in like bigger cities that it's... Man, that was probably always the case though. Bigger cities are going to be said or obviously... Yeah. It's going to be the more remote regions that are less likely to be... One, yeah. The cost of it alone is probably the biggest hurdle for most of the women. I can almost guarantee you don't want to use that rag. And if you've seen our reaction, you know, some of our responses to things like women using dirty rags and even sticking ashes in their vaginas. I just... Ooh. My word. Yeah, he's done a beautiful thing. Hats off to him. Let us know if there's other videos from him or other people that we should know about down below. Josh!