Hey everybody, it's date night. This is my wife Lindsay say hi We have a mixed media girl Acrylic for date night package that we got in August and we're just filming now So we are gonna rock and roll we're gonna have some fun pouring some paint and kind of do this Just as fun and we thought we'd film it for you. You ready ready. All right I'll let you do the honors so Let's cut her open. Let's find out. We have no idea what's in the box. I do have my phone here We are gonna be watching a video on my phone and and trying to follow along With her as she guides us through a paint pour on Date night. There's so much movement in my peripherals. I'm not sure what's happening. Yeah, I'm gonna grab this fancy one right here, too So so we can also Film All right, so we're opening up the box We have bubble wrap bubble wrap It is packaged very nicely looks like there's a whole bunch of stuff in there And There is rose petals. Well, don't lose them. I didn't mean to Oh and this battery died already there's chocolate There's chocolate. There's chocolate Well, we like chocolate Trader Joe's See salt caramel. We love caramel and we love chocolate. So this The second camera might not work because well, I don't um have it Batteries that are charged for it right now. Let's see That one says it's charged. You want me to keep going? Yeah, keep going. Okay So I'm trying to do I'm trying to do two cameras today But we decided to do this at the last minute and I didn't charge these batteries And normally this one's above and it's plugged in so we're gonna see what happens Go ahead. I don't want to read all that. Oh, okay. What do you want me to do? Well, let me look. This is what's in the box. We got rose petals. We had uh, chocolate chocolate Maybe We had rose petals all sorts of fun stuff All the colors Oh, look There we go. Now it's in focus. We got some awesome colors Like I said, we have uh, the chocolates. We got an awesome instruction booklet Rose petals Some some really cool cups Sorry, nice So I'm going to put this down until we start doing our course, but I just wanted to show you what was in the box Here you go. Ta-da It was meant to be honey. Why all these blues. All right She's really excited because recently we just had my bathroom ceiling redone and Fixed and repainted and everything so it's all like bear in there and she really wants to get some art on the walls So, you know, I've only been waiting for four years. There you go. It's really fun. It's like a Oh, yeah, I'm a taliki. These are all mixed media girl pouring paints You can find them on her website. I don't have an affiliate, but that's okay The link will be in the description below So this uh, so right away I see right here looking for something super fun to do on date night Check this special mystery date night kit paint Kit paint. Yeah paint kit that comes with two of everything Uh, so that's what we got all we need. We have all the supplies we need for a class We get a private class right here That she sends to us the canvases paints gloves etc Like I said, I'll link to the class and some special treats in this box. We got Rose petals and chocolate Like we said These are premixed pouring paints, so we don't have to do anything special. That's why I really like using her paint If you haven't seen the hot makes where we had uh, we had mixed media girl on along It's a candle If you haven't seen the hot makes where she joined us on the episode We actually poured live on hot makes and I'll put that So I'll put the link in uh, how about right here and in the description below So you can check out the hot makes. Uh, it was a lot of fun We had We had make anything we had demin from make anything on with us too. It was so good. He actually put paint Uh, I'm sorry. He actually put beer in his paint, which was crazy a few notes about the split cup Bottle bottoms There are 3d printed plastic and intended for acrylic pouring To maintain them wash them immediately after use Or you can paint peel the paint off when you're done, but don't put them in the dishwasher There's uh, specifically not for resin and they're difficult to clean if you use them in resin, so be careful Uh, yeah, so that's a very brief synopsis of the instructions.  It's a flower. It smells like roses kind of yeah Yeah, so we got a rose petals and a rose candle I don't know if it's rose, but it's flowers What we're going to do is we're going to get everything out of the box We're going to get it all ready and we're going to do that in super speed right now Okay, so we have everything out of the box. We have our paints. We got some split cups here These are awesome. They're actually 3d printed She makes them on a print farm. She has which is really cool So we'll put those there. We have a canvas which is this right here And we're going to set that in the middle of our silicone mats So these I found these giant silicone mats On amazon and i'll put a link in the description below. These things are awesome. They're like two by three Right about two by three. I have three of them And I thought there would be a lot of fun to do and if you spill paint on them, which I will I'll actually oh sweet chocolate. I love chocolate. Um, when the paint dries, you can actually peel them right off the silicone, which is pretty cool Let's just make sure it wasn't coconut So we have chocolate We have our candle lit in the background here on sitting on the nice, uh 3d printer So we're about ready to get going. What I'm going to do is turn on the special video on my phone We're going to watch what we're supposed to do and then we're going to do it So you might see these yellow things right here. These are like painters triangles or something like that I think they're called. I'll put a link in the description below Painted painters pyramid. Sorry. It's so you can actually set your your canvas up like this So it's off the table. So the first time I did this on on hot makes I left everything down On this mat actually right here You can see It's got paint all over it on both sides because I flipped it over on one and uh What happened was when the paint dried it actually dried to it. So I I do have some of these 3d printed Um in resin actually and they're they're not cured yet. So we're going to use these today So what we're going to do is pause this real quick. We're going to watch the video Or see what we're supposed to do And then we'll be right back So we just got done watching the instructions from marcie mixed media girl And she actually had two different ways to pour in the video and I think we Both decided we liked the second way better. So I think do you remember what she called that way? Figure eight or something the figure eight. Yeah, we're going to call it the figure eight So it's a figure eight pour We're going to use these split cups. So these are 3d printed they have little mmg on the inside here and there's a split right in the center And I'm going to grab a camera so you can see that a little close up But there's a split right in the center so you can actually fill Uh two sides and lindsey's going to go first So we're hoping we have enough battery in this thing So because this is our first time using these we don't know how much paint exactly it's going to take But we do know we're only supposed to go to about like right there Whoopsies we got these things on there So you can see there's a split there.  I like I definitely like a lot of metallics Okay over here because you're pouring into that. I'm sorry. No, you're fine. I just want to watch it pour Let us know in the comments what you do for date night. So Yeah, yeah, we do this all the time We haven't done a date night. I couldn't even tell you the last I mean, I know what we did the last time We had a date night, but I don't even remember what month that was. Yeah, I don't either we uh We don't have a date night very often because the little man which is awesome For us because we love him, but sometimes we need one. He's just sleeping right now. So that's our This is our date night because he's just sleeping I'm totally not following directions Because they were supposed to be only one how many colors on that side. It doesn't matter. I'm just going to town here your light ones Okay, so I think you're at that point. Yeah, you know there. Okay, perfect So now she she filled this one. She's got multiple colors in there Now on the other side, it's supposed to be the darker colors. Whatever colors you want. Um, Yeah, it can be whatever colors you want as long as there's enough for both of us We hope so so we got a lot of color here. So there should be plenty We yeah, we have more from the last time I did this too. So we can always use some different um We could always use some You know other colors too It's pretty cool. So she's almost to the point where she's going to pour Am I? Yeah, okay So she has um both of the colors filled There you go. You can see both colors now And it's kind of hard to see but they are a little different there So in this particular way of pouring You start and you do like a figure eight on the canvas and so hopefully Nope, let me get on this side. You're right handed. Yeah Nothing's changed All right, let's try it. Yep So here we go, she can do any size figure eight she wants big little you can do a combination And that is half the fun. Ooh, that looks really cool I like that. We can see the paint coming out slowly. Am I going too fast? No You can do whatever you want. You Got a lot of paint there. I used a lot of the dark color So that's coming out a lot Well, there goes that camera again It's starting to fall off the thing. Okay, well, you better get it all right, so now she is Tilting it and the object is to tilt it so it covers Most of the canvas before it starts falling off But it's already falling off. I mean you're pretty much there. So you can see How cool that looks Go to the corners and then let it start tipping off You got it And then you'll have to remember you got to tip it on all the edges too. So So everything's covered. So she's getting down here A little bit over there The corners are hard to get to. It all just falls off It looks really cool though I'll save a close-up for when it's done because I'm excited to see it So now like flood it I'm trying to do whatever you need to and I'm just trying to get the corners still all my corners are empty How do I get it over here? It's all just falling everywhere Do you even have the other camera on? Yeah, we're filming I don't know what I'm doing So, so this is Lindsay's first time doing this, right? This would be my second time because we did it, you know, like I said during hot makes but it is It's the first time it's very it's very crazy On the canvas Go in your home. Don't you know where your home is? Why Get over I'm looking at losing so much paint So we're setting the canvas on those paint pyramids right here And the you can 3d print these if I remember I'll put the link in the description where I found these I believe is fangs um I believe I found them on fangs Which coincidentally is a sponsor of today's video With over five million models fangs is quickly becoming the place to go get your 3d models jump over there The link in the description below will take you to the mini gym, which was designed by wexter himself So go over there grab the mini gym and print it and then go to twitter and post it with the hashtag hot mix There's a mini gym So it's my turn. I'm going to take my cup here. You want to see the cup? I'll put it face this way for now And we are going to start so she did her darks on top Uh on the bottom. I'm sorry. Um, and it's supposed to be half and half. I'm going to do I'm going to try to do a little bit different.  So I'm going to do I'm going to do a little bit backwards we're supposed to do Some darker stuff.  We didn't use the green. Should I use the green? Little dab we're doing it. You're gonna put it yeah everglade everglade green Just just a hair Okay And then we're about three quarters of the way Uh, we'll do a little that was that was the last one do a little more silver that Um, maybe a A dab of white. I don't want it to be too dark on this one More white in there That's just your background. I really I really like this sapphire This sapphire really good. I don't think you can see how metallicy it is, but it's really cool All right, so I think I'm about ready Uh to pour so I'm going to keep mine down On the table while I'm pouring and then I'll put it up on the risers You know to let it dry so I think I'm going to do the figure eight as well because I really like that idea So the other design that she wanted that she told you could do is just pour right in the center And then move it around from there, which I thought was a cool idea too. Maybe I should do that one Do you did that one? Whatever you want. All right, mine doesn't look like a figure eight at all So here we go Uh, I am I'm gonna do I'm actually changing my mind Mid video and I'm gonna do just the straight pour That's what we're gonna do Ready do it. So she showed this this is the first way And she said real slow. Yeah So we're just going real slow or pouring it right into the center Getting all those colors hopefully in there There's the green you see the green Oh, there's that turquoise So this is so cool. It's so much fun You know, I've only done this one other time on that on that other hot make show and Lindsay's not done this yet and It's just such a fun two-person couples date night. Um, I mean it's It you could do this with your kids too if they're old enough to deal with the paint You could do it with anybody really it's just such a fun little project The price was great. And what a fun gift for Christmas for like a couple that you know, that would be cool to give them like a fun little There's that white crafty project to do together. So cool So i'm gonna go a little bit faster because my table is not level and it's coming towards me If I've known anything from watching Evan and Caitlyn is it's to level before we pour And uh, we definitely didn't they forget. Yeah Molder based and leveling they forget all the time. Yeah So I really let it go in the end there And it looks really cool I want to do one of these Kind of give it a little bit of a crazy white All right, I think I'm ready. So I believe we do this right It's like a lightning And now I'm going to start tilting Show me how it's done.  The side closest to you? Is it covered?  So I went really fast. You're just so much lighter than mine And you can't see the green at all or like the no the green disappeared the purple disappeared Um, so at this point what I'm going to do is just double check. I got my corners I did on that one. I did on that one I did on that one And now I'm going to have Lindsey grab the painter's uh Pyramids and we need to put those underneath here. Yeah I set mine up ahead of time and now I have to do it for you too. Yeah My hands look like this. I just got done pouring mine And we'll give you a final review in a minute. We'll give you a final review in a minute We don't want to do it yet We give them a minute to settle because once you set them Especially if the tables aren't level it'll still move Okay We're back All right, we so we both just got done doing our pours and what's the first thing you notice They're very very different And and a lot of that's because they were completely different styles of pour And a lot of that is you know, I dumped mine if you noticed I dumped mine very quickly around the whole canvas um very fast and Lindsay Uh, you know, it was a little slower more methodical and that's actually About how we both are so She especially during art. She's very you know, she's a lot more predicted and and plans out stuff and I don't do art. So I So there's that but uh, you know, these are they're really cool. Sorry about the light above But you can see how cool it looks now those darks really didn't show up too much in mind They're all right here. Yeah, they're they're like they're back over this way. So a lot of that flooded off and I think it's because I put them in first You know, I put a lot of the darker side in first and this was probably the darker side of the pour That kind of reminds me of Maybe a hurricane or something like in the ocean. That's really cool or Yeah, there you go. And then um over here Lindsay's Is completely different very on the dark side of things as far as the colors went today A lot of white in but you don't really see that much white Right. There's a lot of purple There's some really cool flows of white in there and just a really cool I like it a lot. It looks really cool Very good on your edges And you know overall very cool canvas now who knows what these are going to look like when You know when they dry like I said, they're going to move around I believe they can take like up to two days to dry depending on Temperature and humidity and all of that stuff. So what we'll do is we will come back in the morning As Evan and Caitlin would say it's a couple sleeps later And we have the finished final results in our hands. She is holding mine. I am holding hers Uh, I actually snuck some peaks. So I know what they both look like She hasn't seen the final yet on hers. So Surprise All right, let's do it. Well, since since I've known what mine looks like How about you show everybody what mine looks like? All right, ready? Yeah Do it do it Three Nice That's pretty awesome It definitely looks like to me like kind of a tropical storm going on there Um, you got the silvers really came out the metallics came out. What do you think? Yeah looks awesome Very cool. Very cool. All right So I'll do lenses now. You ready ready? one two three Hey There you go. Nice. It's very pretty That's crazy how the non-metallic areas are like super shiny Yeah, like this. Yeah, like all the blacks and purple It's really cool looking and it's such a fun project. Uh, I mean, did you have fun? Yeah, yeah I think uh, I gotta thanks Thank mix media girl for putting together the date night pack. We bought it. We purchased it. Uh, she didn't give it to us So that was it's so cool. Uh, like we said a little bit earlier in the video Um, it is such a fun cool project to do as a fun date night You could do it with your kids if you wanted to do it with your kids Maybe your parents or something too, but it's more fun with a date night because we had our chocolates We had the candle We had the cool pictures here. You hold yours for a minute. I'll hold mine Well, thank you all so so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed our date night something a little bit different on this channel But we had a lot of fun doing it and I'm super glad I got to film with Lindsay Maybe she'll be on a live stream sometime too Hmm I guess that hey everybody keep printing burning making keep making Is there anything else we need to say? I don't know. We're so like how about this and I'm like, I'm not ready That's about right How about this? Oh my gosh, Hanuki I Guess not


Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique hustle, it's your boy, E-C-E-O. And I'm here with the lovely official, Ms. Jamaica. Oh, go on. Hey, what's going on? None, my dad.  You know what I'm saying? We've been doing our thing, man. Boston 101, man. We doing it. You know, we in Dallas, Texas, man.  Check it, man. Hey, cool is in the building. Yo, what's up? What's up? How you doing? I'm good. You like that intro? I do, I love it.  You hit it on your way. You thought I was Steve Harvey, one of the niggas, Rick and Smiley Jr. on this thing? No, you hit it on point. Yeah, it's just good to have your energy in here, man. Thank you so much for coming, man, and sharing our platform. You know what I'm saying? Thank you for having me. Man, so we're going to get into it a little bit, so, you know, cool, how did it, cool. I mean, cool. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. How did, so let's talk about South Dallas, okay? South Dallas, right. Coming up from South, man.  What do you call them now? Female. Okay, cool. I don't want no problem.  So being a female artist from South Dallas, man, how did you, how did you even start to even deal with music? So my start with dealing with music started really as a kid. Okay. I grew up out for UGK, about MJG. Stop the press! What? UGK, she just said it, hey, that's the word. That's the word. Oh, okay. You ain't in the building for a reason. Hey, listen, man, we in Texas, man. Yes. She said, cool was with it. She said, UGK, eight ball. Keep going. Yeah. A pock boned thugs. Like, glad it's nice. Steve Harvey, Stevie Wonder, all of that real good music, that's what I came up off of. Man. So just coming from where I came from, that music was like my escape from, you know, my environment. So was your mom a dad in the music or something? How did you end up getting in the music? My brother, my oldest brother. Your oldest brother. I knew it had to be something. You know what I'm saying? He was the one that I always wanted to mimic and be like, so pock was his person and that became my person. I dove into his music and poetry and it was just a wrap from there. Wow. Two pock. What do you think about that, baby? Two pock. I love me too, pock. I know it, man. What you like to steal down for me? You know what I'm saying? What you like? What you like? I get around. What you like? What's your thing? What's your thing? What's your thing? So. Lord knows. No. I smoke a blunt to take the pain out. And if it wasn't how, I'd probably try to blow my brains out. Thug mansion, for sure. Get away, thug mansion. That was it. Okay, thug mansion. I get it. I tried to give her mine. She didn't take it. Yeah, you try to impose that. Ever since I met this young lady, man, it's been a blast, man. Thank you so much for your energy. No, thank you. I appreciate it, man. I love to smile. I love to have a good time. Thank you. And you've been on point with it ever since I called you. I didn't scare you or nothing. I don't know you could. I don't run folks up. But I just know you were thugging it. We picked the same weather. She found a south. She found out that she used to niggas coming at a hard core. I am the nigga that come hard core. I knew you were going to say that. You know what I'm talking about. So how many brothers did you have? I was raised with three of my brothers. Three brothers. Was you the only girl? I was. Man, thuggy. The baby girl. Oh, them niggas tell them.  I ain't talking to her. I was shouting in the muck because of them. I was. You were happy when they growed and gold. Yeah, but it may sense though. Gold. I'm from Texas niggas. They growed and gold. They went. Okay. So when they left you was there by yourself or did they ever leave? No, they left. They left. But I didn't really like, even when they was gone I was still, they had people watching me. Damn. Yeah, it was like that. It wasn't until I went off to college where I was like able to. Why did you go to college at? I went to Kremlin. But. That party thing was serious down there. I heard a story about Kremlin. Man, keep your story. No. The woman say her daughter say, now mama we doing good down in school. She said in that grandma, she had butt dollar grandma and it was, she heard all type of noise down there. I don't know. I don't know about that. You a good girl down there? No. Find the party scene. That's what grandma heard. Man, when I went out there, that's when I like turned up because I was still sheltered.   Like I didn't just go crazy, crazy, but you know, I was. What was your major? Um, education. Oh, so you want to be a teacher. No, I did. Shout out to all the education. Hey, hi everybody. Story down. My daughter went, I want to be, she said, I want to be a surgical tech. I mean. How about this daughter? Granted, through my music, I am still teaching. Oh, really? Okay. Exactly. Exactly.  The real teacher out there getting to it. The kid, then it's our photographer and videographer is a real teacher. He teaches at the high school. Oh, well great. My best friend is a teacher. Shout out to Jess. Shout out to the one who did it for real instead of pump faking around this thing. No, but you know who got the most influence.  I did, though. Go ahead. I know she was white. So how old were you when you really thought about rapping? So when I entertained the actual thought of taking the series, honestly, when I was like 19, 20. Oh, okay. But it took a while because I was so like, I was the shy, quiet girl coming up. I always wrote poetry and stuff.  It wasn't until I was like, yeah, about 20 years old. Okay. So before that you were actually like rapping to yourself? Yeah. Well, my friends and my peers, I was always freestyling with my peers. Like they will always look for it. Oh, man. Crystal, drop a rap, drop a rap or drop a freestyle. That was always something people look forward to me doing anytime we gather. It don't matter if we were at a restaurant, at a teenage club, skating party. They always want me to freestyle a rap like after the fact. How old were you when you started doing that? I was in eighth grade. So what took you so long to build a courage up? To be honest, because I was so close then, like I just allowed people's expectations of who I was supposed to be like, keep me boxed in. So like since I was the quiet, shy girl, I had the three brothers. Like I had this expectation to like be a certain way. And I actually felt prey to that. But it wasn't until, even though at 20 is when I thought to take it serious, it wasn't until two years ago when I was 28, when I actually stepped out and did it. And that was because of my son. When I had my son, I always, when he got to sleep, even though he wasn't old enough to talk, I always like pray over him and be like, you can do anything you want to do. And one night I was convicted and I was like, I'm not doing what I want to do. I love rapping. This is my it, you know what I mean? And so it was like, I had a pivotal moment when I was putting him to sleep. And I was like, man, forgive what people think. Like I'm going to do this. And that's how it. And it's something that you knew this. And you got convicted. And I've done that too. So I understand, girl, you was trying to pray me in. Yeah.  Exactly. Now let's get you straight. Trying to get that plank. Now let's get you straight as well. You know what I mean? And that's the way, that's the kind of God we serve. That he, you know, it's a double edged sword. Words is something else too, ain't it?  That's it. Rebirth myself in the moment. That's beautiful, man.  Yeah. My first, so my first time being in the studio, I was 14. My cousin took me. Wow, that's hot. That's hot. So you can sing too? What? No. She said what? No. Yeah. We couldn't sing in this thing. She couldn't sing in this thing. No. That was quick. I just wanted to be honest with y'all. But you did go in there to sing? I sang. Yeah, I sang. At 14? Ain't no way, but I read the Franklin. It was 14? That was 14. And how did it come out? Because you said you can't sing. So how did that? That was them. So I'm gonna speech y'all up. So I went to the studio. You sucked at that James studio, didn't you? That's why you didn't do it too. You was just older. You like, damn. You keep on messing with me. I got something for you when we turned the camera down. No, you was in that whole like, damn. I did it because I did the same thing. After that, me and I never go back. I'm like, hell no, I guess I can't do it. No, it really wasn't. I came up in church, so I got that in my vocals. Okay, well, let us hear it then. You know what's first? I can't do it. That's what I thought. Yeah, you got that. Okay. Yeah, don't play with these. Mike, these sure is gonna pick up everything too. I hear it. Be very careful.   And I believe the internet has made it even better for people to be seen, people to be noticed. And I'm gonna tell you something else that's quite interesting. You know, everybody that basically rapping, does music and these does visuals, does photos. The one thing that the social media platforms have done, it exposes you. It tells you who you are.  And some people that's fake, they make fake pages. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. And then they may even get the numbers up. They still fake. You can, you got people like that in this world that are fake. But they was fake before social media. Right.  It's just highlights. Correct, correct. So it just basically amplifies. Right. Okay, this person fake, now they fake online. Right. This person real now. Hey, you see they got real things going on. Right. So, but it also gives you a way to where you can look peeking at everyone's business. And it tells you, hey, cool is this. Right. Is cool on TikTok? We don't know. Is cool on Facebook? She said Facebook. Oh, I won't mess with that. And then, but all I'm saying is people are everywhere. So utilize all these platforms, Twitter as well. I got to ask, why the name cool? Cool. Right. Okay. Cool. Because it just, because every time I say this, feel like something's missing. Right. Like it's cool something or something cool. It's like, it's cool. So, let me see which direction I'm going to take y'all. So my childhood nickname is Kool-Aid. And having a big smile. So some people, like very few people, but some people call me cool or cooly for sure or whatever like that. But my name, before cool, it was Crystal X because my real name is Crystal. And cool to be honest, it's a word that people use in everyday language. However, you male, male, female, it's only four letters versus the seven letters I had, well, the eight letters I had, I think into the future. If it comes to merchandising things, I want to have four letters or cheaper to print or stitch than eight letters. And it's just something that's, in my opinion, like I said, it could easily become a household name because it's a word that people use everyday. So I'm going to be in your, whether you know it or not, like I'm going to be in your vocabulary, like quick and easy. Kool-Aid, you can presuppose. It's just, like you said, you feel like it's something missing, but there's a mistake there. So who is cool? Cool what? Click on it to figure out. You know what I'm saying? So it's like no matter. And then I'm a very layback person. I see. Like I'm very like cool. I see. Even like a Miss Cool or DJ, no, not DJ. Yeah. Like a MC Cool or something. No, no, no. We cool. We cool. We cool. We cool. Like I said, I like it.  If you put it out there and you put the power behind it, you know, the name going to stick, but the art got to be there at a point, you know, the talent got to be there.  And then he translated over and he was a boogie time where he started jamming out with people like G's and different people in the industry. But when he first came in, that started with T-Pain. But then he evolved and then he became, he became this other character for the platforms on internet. I used to get his name wrong for a long time. Because I would call him Plyes. No. Until I saw the name, I was like, oh, it's Plyes. But what I was saying is basically he's, he's evolved with time and he's, he's, he's done things that a lot of artists wasn't able to do. And that's, he found his niche and showing his artistic flow in the platforms of social media the way others have never been able to captivate it. If you have tried and fell off and he did it.  He definitely didn't even know he had that comedic side to him and just like, yes, I know him more from that. Me too. Than, than the music. I know him from the music because I'm older cat. I mean, I know him from the music but I'm saying as far as what will stick with me is what he's imprinted like currently because it's so consistent. I don't know. That shorty period was a bad boy for me. It was.  Yeah, nigga, I'm talking to you. And you was out there.  Yeah, nigga. Yeah, that's me, nigga. Cause I, cause I stand behind it. You know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day he was cold. I've been his, I've been a fan, a supporter of Plyes ever since he came out. Like I love his music. I love his style. I love the way it feels. So it feel like I'm in the projects when I was listening to him back in the day. Comedian with his comedy. And not just comedy, the things that he said that was real. Yeah. He did that every single day. Yeah. All the time.   But when something you see in every single day and you're looking for it, that's why that sticks with a lot more people today than, you know, he's in the conversation. So that's, that means that he, he working. You know what I mean? Shout out to the nigga to be working. He's still in the conversation. I think he probably started doing that just to keep relevant. No, I think he did too. In between, in between. You know, it's a marketing strategy. I mean, that's why we brought it up. It's something you have to do. I feel like a lot more artists need to be tuning into their artistic flow because the social media is free. So if you're not, if you're not getting, I tell people all the time, just like your friend here came and, you know, he's taking some pictures and stuff, content over create. You got to have content built up so that you can use it because people are sitting at home more than anything now. And, and, and, you know, soon as they wake up, they pick up their phone. You know what I mean? They pick up their phone or, or they go and they start scrolling and looking at different things that happened that they didn't make it to the club that night. So they say, let me check and see what happened with Susan M. And they knows it. People knows as hell, just scrolling. You know what I'm saying? But people want to make it feel like they know you without knowing you. Right. They want to know everything. They can tell you, oh, yeah, she always goes over here and she talks to this person and she always does this or they feel like they know you. And that's, that's the main thing. People want to know you as a person and they'll just always you as an artist. Well, I've seen your boy like have paint. I know his birthday will last night.  I believe it came in at 12. You used to, you want to know these niggas birthday came in at 12 for social media and he was just here. So I sent him a picture and all that stuff like that. Like you would never interact with people like that if it wasn't for the social media wave. So with that being said, it's a powerful tool and just how are you dealing with it? I mean monetizing YouTube, all those different things. How are you moving in that realm? So to be honest with you, be honest with me. Don't be honest with 100%. So that's the, that's, that's what I'm moving into. Like I told you before, I am a rookie. Like in the industry. So just what I, how I even got to your page. Um, I saw interaction with, um, I saw the interview with Darrell. So somebody, somebody, Darrell, yeah. So somebody tagged me on his page and I just what I do is when I see the blue checks, I go look in the comments and look for the people with no blue checks for the smaller following. And I just shoot my music in an inbox. Anybody who I see interact. I liked it. And so you just have a better shot at getting your music heard. Like I don't, it's not even so much about the name dropping in like, oh, this person saw it. It's just about it being seen, it being heard. Like I know that I got the talent. I know I got it. So it's just like, it's just, it needs to be heard by the right people. And so what I use for, um, I like that. I use for social media. I just try to go where people already are in the inboxes. I don't care if you got three followers, two followers. Like you need to hear what I got to say. As far as YouTube, I just dropped the video and I didn't put it. Um, like I was telling you earlier, I didn't put it through. I didn't put the video through, um, Facebook or Instagram. I just put it straight on YouTube and I just tell people to go to my link. So all of the views are going straight to YouTube. Eventually I've, um, I became in somebody's recommended, um, views. So like my video popped up in somebody's recommended. I'm, I'm just starting out, you know, I got like almost 900 views in one week versus all my other videos. It took a year to get a thousand views because I was putting it through the platforms first. So I just kind of reverse that formula, just taking people to my channel so I can get that algorithm with YouTube because their audience is broader than Instagram or Facebook. So that's one minor approach that I have to just give people faces. I like it. Because, um, I don't know, like showing up in people's recommended that counts because I've, I've seen, that's, I've gotten on plenty of artists because of the things that pop up. Yeah, the hustle is real. Like for you to even, for you to even discover that it means that you're trying. Yeah. You know what I mean? It means that you're grinding. You're trying to figure it out. That's the whole game. Just don't ever stop trying to figure it out. Oh yeah, I'll take some. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Don't ever stop trying to figure it out. You know what I'm saying? So, um, you, um, how do your mom feel about this music stuff? My mom knew I was going to do something dealing with the stage when I was young. Like I was always, as she said. I've seen that picture when you like a little baby. Yeah. What you thought? That's when you were trying to get that Aretha Franklin again. Well, no, that's when I, I don't remember like that moment, but my mom told me like we were, that was the first time I had her Stevie Wonder. And I had wanted to like mimic him. And, um, that my cousin Leonard, rest in peace. He, um, we were at his brother's studio. Okay. And so that's, I've always dealt with, like even as shy as people think I am, or as quiet as I am, like in person, naturally, when it comes to performance, all that goes out the window. Like I just become a whole different person. No, ain't nothing wrong with that. I mean, that's the whole game. Like, um, leave it all on the stage. You know, to every time, I always tell people when you enter a room, you got to be prepared on how you enter the room and stand on that stage. That's just communicating with people, being able to blend in, being a chameleon in the midst when you need to be being vocal and active and being seen when you need to be, knowing how to articulate and knowing how to move around the different situations that you may encounter. Right. You know what I'm saying? I think that's important. So, um, what, um, what do you think, what's going on with you and cool? Do you think cool is cool? Is her name sound? Uh, we'll find out in a minute, but she seemed very cool so far. She real laid back, laid back, kicking and joining the ride on Boss Talk 101. Yes. So you talked about your son. Do you have other children? No, I just have one child. How old is he? He's five. Man, running the house. Shout out to that little dude to be running the house when cool, come on. My love. He knows all my songs. Oh, yeah? Like he, because he's always in the studio with me at video shoots. That's good. When I'm getting my makeup done, hair done, like he is always with me. That's beautiful. He might want to do that. He might want to, do you think he might want to do the music? He actually, um, he actually tries to freestyle. Oh. Yeah. Shout out to that freestyle and five-year-old. It's so funny, y'all. Cool. Y'all can call yourself cool in the game. You know what I'm talking about? It can go down just like that. Y'all can become something totally different. We got a whole dang, uh, situation going on. Listen, you got it, but... Yes. I love that dynamic. Let's get back to it. What's that? Uh, your daughter, uh... Oh, my son will be here Sunday.  He's 13. My whole family. Yeah, my other son just left. My older son. He's 27. He just left. I told him he was coming. He said, whatever. I gotta go. It ain't a little run-and-have pain, uh, uh, one of them doll here. I got you. I got you. I already know how you coming. I ain't studying you.  I said, oh, it's just cool. Oh, cool. I'm going. I said, oh, no. But I'm gonna tell you something though, the nigga missed out because I'm glad I'm here. You know what I'm saying? And no, he have to work. He work for General Motors. Shout out to Trey, who had a nice day and left me while ago. But it's all good. Man, so, um, get him back to it.  I'm going to get serious about it. All right.  Who would that person be? So I got to pick one person. Yeah. Mmm. My top pick to work with now, currently in this moment will be big crit. That can happen. Big crit just in Mississippi, nigga. Yeah. Yeah. We going to get that boy. Yeah. Why him? Man, he speak to my soul. Like his music. Like I got introduced to him when I was, um, I want to say maybe 2021. And, um, he for, for starters, he's down for the calls. Like he, he, he, he for a lot of people to come on here and talk good about big crit crit is the truth. And then like he, he just has substance. He has music that I personally feel like it's timeless. Like, um, he's had music that has gotten me mentally out of some situations. He just put me in a better space. Like, um, any, I feel like any artist that like you said, people want to get to know you. And I feel like, um, his music is so transparent. You know, people can put on the facade and be who they want to be. But I peep like authenticity. That's something. He's heavily influenced by Pimp C. And who cannot go wrong? Who? Oh yeah. I forgot you. Say it again. Look, shout of dreams. That's my stuff. Say it again. Who is influenced by Pimp C? And why is that important? Man, why isn't it? Why wouldn't it be important? Why wouldn't it be important? Come on. Talk to me. Talk to me. Tell me why. What did you, what did you, why do you think he was influenced by Pimp C? Let's talk about that. Man, first start. So everything about. Pimp C. Like, I'll speak for myself first why I feel like the crew was influenced by Pimp C is because Pimp C represented the underdog. People wasn't trying to take him serious at first. And he proved himself to me. Like, you know, the south, they weren't taking the south serious and he's the one. How many times have you heard this story from your husband? I have grew up here because I know they weren't taking the south serious. And they started talking about Pimp C. Oh, they weren't taking the south serious. And they still don't to this day in some parts, some areas. Keep on talking about it. I'm listening. I mean. Go ahead and go ahead and let it be known. He just, he just, he spoke, he said stuff people were scared to say. And he stood on that. You know what I'm saying? Seriously. Like seriously. And. I don't, I personally feel like it don't get no realer than that. Pimp C was beyond a rapper. He was his artistry and he transcended like so many different. He's hard to explain. I couldn't. Yeah. Like he's Leo was here. Shout out to he's Leo. He just left. Yeah.  But it's OK. We still got, we still got the music. You know what I'm saying? And so we do have something like some of our loved ones pass on and we have nothing left. But he had a come on, man. Go get that. Yeah.  Tell me something good. Yeah. Go get that. You know what I'm saying? He left a legacy behind. Oh yeah. You can you can go get that. Oh man. Him and Master P had some bangles together too. That kick though. I just had KL on here. He, you know, made that be KLC. The one with Beast by the pound. He just was on here. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out KLC, man. It was going to be by the pound documentary coming. It's about it. But yeah. So the thing I could say, man, top three artists all time. The thing I could ask you. Top three artists of all time, dead or alive. Tupac. That's number one. Lauren Hill. Lauren Hill. She went hard. She could sing and rap. You gave me three. That's all you get. Three. The last one. Any genre. Dead or alive. You put me in a tight spot. Give me five. No. We never gave nobody five. It's the top three artists all the time. One of my phone ads. He said Nipsey Hustler. Nipsey Hustler. Man, you know, shout out to Nipsey. I tell this story every time. I met Nipsey at the Palms Hotel. Me and Nipsey were just sitting there chilling and I told him, you're going to have to work hard on my brother.  And he was, he just, he said, are you going to see? Are you? I never forget it. And after that, I took my wife to Slauson a lot of times. He started building the stores up and I love black on businesses. So we always frequent them wherever we're at. If it's in Chicago, if it's in right, they're right. But anyway, even in Jamaica, wherever we had, we just go straight to the little old stores and show support. Yeah. We have a little store. So when I went to Slauson, I was thinking about the stores I had created in the Texas vibe. So I will go by there and shout out to Gary down in Miami. Remember Gary? Shout out to Gary. Yeah. Purple carpet. Shout out. Yeah. Yeah. Certain ones that stick out. In New York, Rhode Island. Shout out to June Bull. What up, baby? So, you know, it's like, it's a family. We're a family. You know what I'm saying? We all respect each other for the grind, man. And try to do that in Atlanta. Huh? We're the original Wall Street. Check it out, man. Boss talk 101. We in the building, baby. The original Wall Street. She said it. I heard it. So just tell us a little bit more about the music.  Tell us a little bit more about the vibe. How do you do you freestyle? Do you freestyle in the end? When you go in? Do you? What do you do? So my process in creating the record, it would be the beats, of course they tell me what to say. They talk to me. And I'll freestyle in a car. And now I record myself freestyling. And I'll just kind of like take from that. Like whatever thought process whatever thought process I have, I'll go from there. Or sometimes I'll be in poetry mode. And I just go straight in writing. And then I'll start writing poetry before I start rapping. So if I hear a beat that just resonates with me, I'll just literally go in and write. And a lot of times my songs take me days. Really? What was the process of what? Table turn? What was the process? Yeah, let's talk about it. Woo. So I wrote that song. I was very upset at a particular circumstance. Okay. And I was like, you know what?  And I put it in a song. Like, the table's going to turn. Like somebody, you know... Yeah, nigga, you did it to me, but it's going to come back at you, nigga. And guess what? My hands going to be clean. It's just going to be. Yeah, you read what you saw, nigga. You know what you're doing? The table's going to turn on you.  Because we know what she talking to. It's somebody. Yeah. You get it like that. Yeah. Somebody got yourself in a little trouble. We don't do voodoo either, nigga. No. We don't do that. And then at the same time, like, I had lost my grandmother in the same breath.  I'm going to put everything I'm feeling into this song. And instead in table's turned, it don't necessarily have to be a negative connotation of like getting somebody back. It's like, you know what? This prison situation has the potential with my perception changing turning around. Like it don't have to be like this. And so that's another side to it. That my... Yeah. I get it. Yeah.  And it's just something else to have to go through what a lot of times we feel we have to go through in the flesh. But our spirit is truly willing. You know what I mean? Yes. We'll be all right. So, Brenda, you see yourself in the next two years. In the next two years, I see myself with a much larger body of work. Boom. For sure. Boom. And just all the names that you named that came through here. Like those will be my peers very soon. Yeah. Why? No doubt. Oh, I mean, I got Not even just the names. You know what I'm saying?  You got to see me. You either ride with me or collide with me. Yeah. Real tall. Yeah. I'll be putting it down. I need to stop. You're the man What a job, man. I just be holding it. I know this is what I do. It's what I do. So, you know, hey, man, we're going to get into it. You know what I'm saying? We're going to flex a little bit. You know what I'm talking about? Listen, man, cool for the bless the mic. You know what I'm saying? And we might have to get it. It may, it may catch on fire. I don't know. We don't know yet. It might. We got a thing. We'll just blow up. You don't know. No, but, but definitely we're going to buy by with you. We definitely want to hear the sound, man. Like I said, I'm doing something for the girls. Freestyle. Just to bless the mic. You know what I'm saying? With some smooth, you know what I'm saying? The listeners, the people can be like, man, you know what I'm saying? I want to rock with her. Man, where her music at? Right. Check it, man. What cool man. You know what I'm saying? That's what it's all about. And I just, what y'all getting right now when the music come on? I might, I don't know. Hey, man, it's what help her, man.  All the time. You know, so we just, you know, we watch what's going on in the big show, man, that we get the people on there. I'm glad we linked up. To be honest with you. Yeah, yeah, you know, we got a lot of work to do. Dallas needed a platform. Hey, we here. Right. You know what I'm saying? Making sure you get hit. The way you supposed to by that camera. Let's go. So check it, man. Whoa, don't run that part. Don't run that part. That's my part. You don't talk about, let me do this. You just chill. Okay. Don't even try. So check it, man. Hey, man, we here with cool, man. It's going down, man. Man, let me check it. Let's see. Let's see. This, this to be, we decide. Hold on. Let me get these. Can you hear? Can you hear? I need to turn that up a little bit. Okay. Let's see what. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Just a minute. Let me bring that back. You know what I'm saying? Cool in the building. Cool is on boss talk 101, y'all. Y'all gonna have to fill us, man. Oh, yeah. Check it, man. Cool is in the building, man. Ain't no sense in y'all.  All right. All right. Make a nigga dip, nigga.  But he know what to do with it.  Cause I got me a new nigga. Check it, man.   I ain't my dog. I ain't my beast.   Turnin' in the sun. That be the play. I ain't put it on my neck now.  But lookin' at my watch ain't got no time to waste. Check it, y'all. Check it, dawg. Wait a minute, dawg. Say, man, she woulda went. She could go all night. That's from the dawg. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, I eat. She ready. I eat. And what I do, I eat. So do you like just, I mean, do you love it? That's what you love. I can't. If I listen, if I couldn't do it, I wouldn't even feel like I'm livin'. To be honest. Like, this is my... You'll die for it. I'll die for my son. You love it, dawg, right? Like, you love it. You love the music. I feel...  I just feel like, it might sound cliche, but I feel free. It's like an escape. Really? Like, I can finally the stuff that I would normally say to somebody or the... Even emotions, facial expressions, like, I've been keeping it so, like... Oh, you 100. I see you. You was in the music. She's in it. It just... Yeah, it's... It's nice. It's real. So do you think that, okay, you know, how are we gonna make this happen? We just gonna work? Yeah, but you know what? My thought process isn't even how it's when. The how is in the midst of encounters encounters like this. Except to God. Yeah, I get it. And so... But you gotta work on it. Just being strategic and standing people face. Like, what I've learned so far is marketing plays more of a role than talent. Like... I agree. Yeah.  Like... I have it. I can tell you, we've had, everywhere I went, all these years, I got visuals. I've always done it. People would look at us and be like, why you got all them cameras around him? I always done it. Right. And it's been... And it's been... It's actually paid off. It's what I do. So... You see what I'm saying? Because I'm so used to it. Other people will be uncomfortable. Right. I won't because I've always... I've been dealing with this for a long time. Right. So I think that's the most important thing and not curing what others are doing. But it... Exactly. Tapping into God and what you need to be doing. I think that's where it's sad. Right. Because lookers, looking niggas. Right. They ain't for to do nothing. What you looking at? They ain't not for to do nothing. Look at niggas just look. You know what I'm saying? So what would you tell a girl that's... I'm going to say about 17 that want to get into the music and she really want it. And she don't... And she don't know how she's going to do it. So what would I tell them? So for starters, it starts... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... So for the internal side, I would tell her is like figure out who you are as a person first.  Figure out who you are, stand on it. I got that from Nip. Like the actual stand on it.  Like you have to make that... You have to make what you have to deliver to people. Like that has to be take presidents over anything that you got going on. So like once you figure out that urgency or find that urgency of what you have to say, you know everybody need to hear what you got to say. Like I look at my artistry as a capsule of medicine and everybody's sick.  Like you got to. Wow. So who do you look at? Because we were talking earlier, I believe I was talking about female artists and I was... The coldest to me and I love Cardi B. I don't play, but the coldest for me is Nicki Minaj the way she flipping around. Oh yeah, you came and not... Like just her lyrical ability. Is there... I mean don't get it wrong. Now you can't forget about MC Light and all those people who paved the way. But the way she has changed the game lyrically for me, I don't think there's nobody out there that does it like she does it. Give me somebody that can really go hard as she do in that booth like that. So are you talking about like... I'm talking about Nicki singing, changing up... Lord Hill. You can't... She didn't... her body of work is just... Listen. Listen. You know she got that. Nicki kissed her feet almost. I seen her. Yeah. I get it and I love Lauren and shout out Lauren here, but... Nicki is undeniable. The body of work. For sure. The way that... I think it's because she got with Gucci and then she went and dealt with Lil Wayne.  Yeah. Not for sure. I mean she... Now Nicki hands down like as far as currently what's out is that... let me flip the pages. Yeah. I don't... Nicki is that... Yeah. I just wanted to speak on the females that rap and the artistic flow of the female artists. I'm not sure. I think Cardi got better though when she got over there with that boy, Taiko. I've seen her... I've seen her early on. I followed her. Oh, okay. But when she linked up with Offset, I could tell her lyrical ability. You... Because you... Association brings about a simulation. Yeah. For sure. If you're around somebody, you really...  Totally agree. Unfortunately. I don't care who it is, if it's a negative thing. That's why I said, you know, one small at one right now will have messed up with the true stuff. So if it's a good apple, all of them remain good. And I think that she got with a good apple when it come down to her, you know, helping her artistic flow. Right. That's just my opinion though. I don't believe me in that. I'm still under a rock though to where that's why I go to... Like before you mentioned, Nikki, I was about to say Eve. Like I'm... That's my dog. I'm back there. But the body of work. Because you can't say... I can't. You can't say Eve. And once you start tackling those, you got to go with a little Kim. Exactly. With the MC Light. Like I said, I look at Light and Roxanne Chante. Yeah. I'm looking at the way this thing launched off. Right. And what's that old girl named Luda playing in the movies? Now the one was... Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah. Oh yeah, for sure. Like these are patriarchs. Yeah. And I always talk about, you can't talk about... And I forgot the brat. You know, I don't know where to categorize that. But the brat, you know, you got a lot of different girls, female artists, women, ladies, that really, I don't want to miss nobody. What's Papu's old lady name? Remi. Remi. Remi did good with Fat Joe. And shout out to y'all over there. We see y'all over there. What was that... Foxy Brown. Some kind of squad, they got over there. Foxy. Foxy Brown did her thing, too. You just think about the different women and now, fast forward to the day and what's going on with the music today. It's a whole different vibe. People like Remi and Mom proud to see them, you know, be able to flip and cruise into these situations because that's a long lasting, that's a grind. You know, who else would you say? I think we got all of them. What's their name? Rhapsody? Well, you can't say some pep in them. I don't know what to call them. You got the girl, you know, when you start looking at Megan and all the new ones, I ain't even talking about them. I got respectful, but they're still, they're doing their thing, man. So, you know, Megan is doing real well. Like heavy. Really? Yeah. She says she's the female Tony Snow around this thing. Okay. She's like that pimpsie too. Shout out to Megan. That did it right there, girl. We better talk about it. Look at you. Pimpsie, I got, I know the code. That is the code. I mean, that is the code that said a lot of people that see, because this text is like you said, you gave it to me the same way I explained it. So, you ain't even talked to me and you said the same exact thing I said about how underrated, you know, the South Wars he get, he brought light to that. Definitely did. So, and you know your music, man. When I looked, I was like, this girl from South Dallas, who got this girl rapping over here? Somebody got this girl rapping. But I'm figuring it out now. You is really out here just rapping on your own. You thought I was on a puppet show? I thought something, I'm like, you need to put a key in her back. She thinks you're a rapper now. I love it, because you know what? I got you. No, but no, you did get me, because it made me understand that you really love the music and that you're not, you're not out here just doing something to be doing it. You're really, really serious about it. And you know, that's what we need. We need people to stand it up in Dallas.  Erica Banks, and you got Cool, I'm waiting God, I don't know how to say this, man. See, you know what? You have taken some time thinking lately, so I'm trying to give you your space.  I don't know Flower child. Yeah, you need to get her on here. I was going, I'm going to shoot her inbox to, now she, she the truth. Okay.  Shout out to EED CEO. Shout out to Cool, Instagram, uh, underscore real cool. All right, that's your handle, right? Yeah. That's your handle. Yeah. And that's on all platforms? That's, uh, on YouTube and Instagram. What about Twitter? What can you find? Twitter. What about TikTok? We working on it. I got you. What about TikTok? It's, What about likey? Facebook. Facebook is a crystal cool Johnson. That's my Facebook. I got a performance tomorrow, by the way, every live. I saw that.  She is performing every live tomorrow. Y'all got to get there. Got to. I got a event June 12th come through. It's like, I'm throwing it. Like you said, you created something you was looking for. And that's what I did. Where? Um, it's going to be in downtown Dallas. I don't have the, um, name of the venue. Can you get it back to me? I definitely can't. I mean, yeah, it's going to be on the screen, right? When we saying this part right now. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it June 12th? Yeah, it's June 12th. What, um, okay. Um, Different artists to be performing. Oh, it's more than just you. Yeah. Basically just getting bodies in the room. It's a rebrand of like me coming out as cool, but I'm going to have other artists. Um, Do you have any names that you can drop to say who's going to be there? Not right now. Okay. That's, that's hot. The fact that you got, you created this on your own. Sure. My, my dude is a boss. Yeah. She don't boss talk for a reason. Nigga with a skirt on. So, um, I say, um, just keep doing what you're doing. We love you here. I appreciate it. Um, anybody, anybody that we come, we get on this platform, we love, we love hard. Right. So if you need something from me, you know I'm here.  You my little sister and your brother's going to have to move over and make room. Yeah. Shout out, shout out to them brothers. They got to make room. Shout out to the brother. Shout out to the manager that lost his job tonight. That's my guy. That's my brother, AJ. I'm doing, shout out AJ. Boy, I see you at the family union. I'm done. No, it's been for soft doubt. Did you ever have any trying times, anything that, that hit you to where it's like, man, you know, I don't know how to make it out of this thing? Definitely. Like where I was raised to the left of us was the, can I say, it was a pimp house. But you know, pimp, what you put his name out. No, I'm just kidding. Hell, no. It was a pimp. It was pimp going on. Like three doors down, it was the crack. I was like, we was in the middle and I shout out to my mama because I didn't know that until I got older. Like. She had to do it, y'all didn't have to deal with it. It was like some arrangement, like don't let my kids see this, whatever like that. Like she would, my mama is a soldier. And like, we went to the wild part. What's your mama name? Christy. Shout out Christy, check it out, man. That's my rose that grew from concrete. Oh, really, man, Christy, check it, man, check it. All right, well, we ain't gonna hold your night up, man. We're about to shut her down. So whenever you need us, we here. You've been on Boss Talk 101 now, man. And that is official. Once you on Boss Talk, you made it. All that other stuff, don't matter. I already know. Say, man, that's been another. What? What did you say? Mama, we made it. Mama, we made it, man. Say, man, check it, man. Boss Talk 101, man. We out.


Hi, good morning. I'm welcome to these products in focus. So the US market struggling to break above 18,112 Just as a commodity market route continues But most other global equity markets are looking relatively stable with eyes still turning to the US dollar and potential rate hikes in September with the latest Fed member coming out saying he reckons about 50% chance of an increase in September and that US dollar Strength increase interest rate discussion point is what is one of the many factors impacting the commodity markets But China and the worry about Chinese slowdown As affecting others commodities, but also some of the APAC regions as well specifically Australia There's a lot of people there are worried about the the impact of lower commodity prices and demand from China impacting that region Especially with so much debt that they have over and ours during the good years They didn't keep so much of that cash back that they that they've made point out most other regions were getting hit hard by the credit crunch in Australia very high because of China in the world too much of that way So it's one thing that some traders looking at a lot of the APAC regions and what's gonna happen if the the Chinese route Starts off again now. It's been stable last couple sessions. So I'd like to see how that goes So anyway having a look at the UK 100 now You can see long-laid tips of these candles are indicative of selling pressure just below that 55 pure SME But we are managing to keep our head above 67 72 It's the level we've been talking about for a number of days and that's actually the potential short-term support Now the MACD is close to cost in the zero line Which would be a buying signal from a technical perspective Whereas the slow stochastic and the RSI are not yet overbought so there's no reversal signals there So in theory if we get ahead above the 55 pure to SME that could open up a pathway towards 6907 Moving on to Japan 2 to 5 Japan underlying market was actually closed yesterday But with dollar yen now hitting well as almost 124 50 124 60 getting close to 125 actually We are we are just close to major Resistance on the dollar yen FS cross and you can see that the Japan to be fine It's just pushing up now and we're at we're near multi-year highs again 20,000 868 We had it towards end of June. We're close there just now We've actually managed to have about nine days continue of skeins Obviously, we still got today to go in Japan. I'm interested to see if you can break on higher on that effect on that on that pair So let's have a look at dollar yen. We mentioned obviously major potential resistance 124 42. We break our our neck up up there and we're looking at 126 and After that be 129.  We broke through it only to sink right back down again Let's see if dolly I can do it, but a lot of things seem to be in play right now for dollar yen U.S. Ray talk Why the Japanese yen is doing the fact that there's still an ace in the hole for Bank of Japan governor Karoda if they need to Devalid the yen further to be more competitive There's a lot of reasons why a lot of people looking at dollar yen Obviously, it's dependent a lot on the fundamentals, but it's an interesting effect to look at So moving on to us Texas crew wrote closed below $50 for the first time in a long time Yes, they haven't done that since since April this year So potential support for 940 If we break down below that then you're probably looking at the tips maybe around about 46 45 90 But we're not there yet But certainly the fundamental factor of West Texas quoted China slowing down Iranian sanctions are being lifted Could be a nuclear Saudi Arabia production levels at the highest they've ever been so there's a lot of reasons to To be wary of of long west Texas crude, but we are quite close to potential support Obviously, it can be quite volatile. So just be careful there. So looking at gold Gold actually had a terrible day as they fall in that many flash crash that we had 900,000 lots sold versus 30,000 lots at daily average in a two-minute period in the Chinese session yesterday morning That caused gold struck 4% down below. I've earned about 10 1072 Now we ended up closing a good bit away from that level and we've managed to push up a little bit higher this morning But to be honest, I think now that we've made this low here from a psychological technical perspective We might get a bit of a bounce there but I think you know the jury's out with gold and being bullish especially with potentially US rates being coming back into focus and Inflation is not very high as ever and people to identify gold as a hedge against inflation and You know people's interest rates interest rates interest rates over in the US So that what happened yesterday wasn't specifically related to interest rates It was a speculative traders pushing the price down But there's no getting away from the fact that US rates are very much the focus Of many traders eyes now now that Greece has kind of gone gone to the background So moving on to your dollar your dollars drifting down lower one spot zero seven eighty six potential support We talked about this a lot. We're back down there again Other technicals indicate that this could still have further room for maneuver with one spot zero five 24 billion X potential support should we get a convincing break and we finish up with GBP USD We've actually broken blow one spot 56 now We're almost getting death cross and moving averages that'd be a negative technical signal the MACD could cross back through the zero line That'd be negative and the other technical indicator is relatively neutral now There isn't a huge amount of economic data. We've got public finances today. Actually tomorrow. You've got the MPC minutes So that that could be interesting usually the statement that comes out there as well from the Bank of England talking about their heavy voted on rates and everything else and then UK rates are Kind of coming in coming in through an element right now as well later on tomorrow We've got existing home sales and the petroleum data Updates and then finishing up on Thursday. You've got retail sales in the UK again Good for cable and then US employment claims finishing up with your own consumer confidence index for CCI And as ever keep you on the char forum make insights part of the leg going forward and join me again tomorrow to find out what happened next


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Welcome to our second monthly news update. For those not familiar with the format, it's going to be super rough, quick and unpolished. But we're trying to find a way to keep you guys updated without losing too much time on shooting video and editing. So if you're looking for a pretty video, skip this one and watch something else. Alright, this month started off doing a lot of experiments and tryouts with plastic as a material. Trying to push the boundaries and see what else is possible using different techniques or more handcraft. Trying to make more valuable stuff with it. Amatijs joined us to do a big research on plastic. Hello Amatijs. Hi. Could you tell us a bit about what you're doing? Yeah, I'm doing research about color blending and also translucency. So for instance I try to make hard lines with two colors. And this one. But it's pretty hard to make a straight, nice line with small flakes. About translucency I made those blocks. Those are made from CD boxes. And it sounds a bit like glass so you can also see through quite nice. Those are made mainly from the DVD or video boxes. Those are bit translucent but less than the CD box. This is made from shampoo bottles and also milk bottles. And this is not translucent at all. And for fun I also mold a lot of toys together.  To the Playmobil guy? Yeah, I think a cheap one. That's about it. Alright, thank you very much. Then we'll see you next time. That's good. So this whole research and everything we learn we share open source online in our forums. And it's being updated regularly so check it out if you're interested. It might be a good inspiration if you work with plastic to see what else is possible with it. Now we also wanted a place where we can store all our best experiments. So the stuff we think of all things we try out is really valuable and worth exploring more. So we made our own precious plastic museum. It's basically just a corner in the workspace painted white with some nice shelf where we can highlight our most important experiments. But it's a good way for us to see value in that and try to focus on the important details. And in order to keep you guys updated digitally we also started the Instagram account called real precious plastic trying to show the beauty of plastic. So meanwhile we're doing a lot of experiments here in the workspace and I went together with Parley to the Maledives to see if we can do something about the plastic problem in the oceans there. And I don't want to talk about it too much because I shot some footage and the Maledives looked pretty good so it's probably better to have a look at that. Lesson one working with plastic always bring a round bottle. Hello. It's insane how much stuff there is around. So we're currently doing a beach cleanup. Here's all the stuff we collected now being sorted out. And it's as always a lot of it. So here's all the stuff we sorted out. A lot of bottles. And we're looking to see if we can implement precious plastic on one of these islands. So that's actually the pilot we're looking into. And the idea is if we can make it work there we can easily scale it to all these other little islands as well. Basically they all have plastic pollution floating in their beaches but they don't really know what to do with it. Besides looking at ways how to recycle plastic from the ocean we also had a lot of brainstorm session and chats and workshops on how to make sure plastic doesn't enter the ocean in the first place because there were many people from around the world sharing their knowledge which means we also had a lot of docs and skypes just to share all the information we have together to come up with a solution. And I really like the skype with this Santa Claus looking guy. He's actually one of the founders of Greenpeace and now running She Shepherd the boat that goes before boats that are illegally fishing on wheels and stuff like that. Super inspiring guy doing a lot of incredible stuff. And right that evening we also saw his documentary How to Change the World. It's basically how Greenpeace got started. It's interesting to see. Which brings me to the next point. I started a topic in our forum sharing all my top documentaries I've watched over the years. I would highly recommend watching them as well and if you have a good tip for me please leave a reply and I'll have a look at it. And back from the maladives I started working on new story hopper videos but these ones are a bit different. They're pretty tough, big and complex addressing more global systematic problems they're pretty difficult to make. The first one is called the dark side of data. Now I never ask you guys to share a story hopper video but once these are ready and out I would really appreciate it and the videos really need to be shared. So stay tuned for that. Now these are all the things we've done this month but also a lot of stuff happened in our online community. So here we have community news. So first off we have these coasters made in Thailand by Bope Shop. Hi everyone, I'm Tui Khachang from Chiang Mai Thailand. This is my studio. He's selling them as a souvenir to tourists but he's been pretty good in mastering the skill of coloring the plastic so he has all this super nice, spacey gradients and blends in here and they feel really sturdy.  It's nice. Thanks for sending us. We got nine iron in the USA who made a hand-powered version of our shredder with a huge hopper. Looks interesting. Olympia and Curacao made a nice video about their whole project trying to create awareness and educate people around them so they can start recycling plastic more on the little island where they are. Have a look at this post in the forums below to understand their project a bit more. And then there's a project called Dirk from Belgium. It's an experimental workshop where they shred old products and turn it into something new on the spot. But they made this nice compact version of our shredder with a bucket underneath that shreds super tiny amounts. But I like the fact that if you shred something even a small amount of flakes is valuable and you can turn it into something new. And they also made a nice video about it which you can watch in the link below. And then we got a message in our online community from Ani0555 a member of the community that was visiting India in super remote areas and then he randomly stumbled upon an injection machine. He just saw it somewhere and he recognized it. So we asked around to build it and it was a few girls from a school there that built the machine.  But they were kind of shy and they weren't sure the machine was good enough. So he did a post in our community on behalf of them. And I think that's still what really amazes me that even though we not always got a picture back it's good to know that even in the most remote areas of the world people start recycling plastic. So don't be shy, just share your pictures. But either way, thank you for sending that post to us, Ani0555. So that's it for this month's updates. Thanks for watching. I hope to see you again next month. And thanks again for everyone that is supporting on Patreon. It really, without you guys, we wouldn't be able to do all of this. So thank you very much and we'll see you next month.


These are my favorite easy plants for a space with low light. Golden Potos. This plant is very pretty and very easy to propagate. In fact, we have many babies around the house. The Silver Potos. A really easy plant and it shines. The Peace Lily. The foliage is just so beautiful and even in low light conditions, it makes flowers. The Zetset plant. I had to include this one because it's the easiest plant I've ever had and it has a new leaf. And the Bird's Nest plant, which is one of my favorites because it looks like it's dancing.