now let's do some Q&A. What did you say, Panda? You have to use all your face muscles to say it. I don't know what that is. Olig says crypto is tanking. Really? Hmm. I wonder why that is. And I wonder if that's true. And we take a look at the price action. Tanking is a subjective term. We'll take a look here and see what we're at. I guess in traditional finance this would be pretty awful day. Salon is up. BNB is down. Why is BNB down? How about Avalanche? But look at Avalanche. There's a conference. There's a big thing going on with NVIDIA. And there was two big speakers. One of those was near and the other one was it somebody in the Solana Foundation, I thought. No, no, it was Render, I think it was. And they were going to be speaking today. So I think that would be why Avalanche wasn't one of them. But maybe they're on an AFL. Who knows? And near dropped 12%. Guess whatever they had to say today. Maybe it wasn't as important as people thought it was. No, well, geez, it is bound down today. Except for dog with hats. There you go. Phew, 15% for Jupiter. That's a bummer. What are we going to do? Might be time to buy some dips. That's up to you though. Let's see. Tanking. Hey, one man's tanking is another one's man's pullback. So sure. Renderer. Yeah, that's right. I bought more Bitcoin than dip. Why would I regret it? Just depends. Maxwell Peters. Rob, what's your thoughts on Gala? Probably do great. It's in the Web 3 space. Looks to be pretty well. If you want to know more about Gala games, just, hey, Seuss talks a lot about it on his channel, as a matter of fact, and then also CryptoStash and Johnny from CryptoBancer. Those are the guys to follow. Kagi doesn't talk as much about that anymore. Now he's more into pixels and that type of genre and Ronan chain. That's the big thing. Yeah. Ron says, I don't see anything tanking. Plus 300% in one month is tanking. All depends on what you're looking at. If we go all the way back to the beginning of 2022, everything's up pretty big. So it just depends on your time. Your time frame. Minkus says, there's no tether fud in a while. We're long overdue. I got to tell you, as much as I used to talk about tether and really think that there could be an issue, it's proved me wrong every single time. So Jay Burns says, you touching rendered all. I bought some a while ago and we talked about this before, but I'm not going to buy things seem to be a little overheated right now. Maybe I'll get back into it later. But look, I've got positions over like over 80 altcoins. So I'm good. I think I'm all right. Now I'm just kind of saving up those funds to get into these really new, new, new projects. And if you watch over at Dan Degen, links in the description, you'll see those are the more risky plays. And of course, like I've always said, on Dan Degen, there's really two routes you're going to go. You're either going to lose everything or make a lot. And I would say like, you probably lose everything like 95% of time, then 5% might make some. This is what I tell all my friends that don't get ticked off me when I do lose. So same thing for you. Not a very good sales pitch. I know. Bitcoin dropped a K. Hey, do you have any money in stocks? I do. I do, but I sold a big chunk of my stocks. Gosh, whenever we had the S&P 500 top out, I was like, well, this is the top, so I'm just going to start selling. And I did. And then of course, I think not so long ago, we had Jeff Bezos take some major profits.  So I'm like, did I did okay? Get off the miniature. Wow. Gosh, Rob, did you see the Bank of America thinks the dollar could collapse in the next year or two? I did not see that. I don't. I can't even fathom that they would actually believe that. That makes no sense. But would that be good for Bitcoin? Probably good for Bitcoin, probably bad for America if everything collapses there. It's really great when you're the world reserve of currency. Not so great when you get replaced. Ask England. Josh asks, Rob, do you think crypto is consulting at top coins like the S&P did with the 9.7? Magnificent 7. Could you go no longer than most expect like the S&P? There's always this philosophy, which is you want to get the fastest horse and you want to get the number one. Nobody likes to get to the number two. Look at social media accounts or look at social media networks, right? Everybody was big on Friendster. Remember that? That was going to be the next big thing. Then comes along this little goofy project called Facebook. Got into it. Then all of a sudden blows up, becomes number one thing. Then it starts to acquire things like WhatsApp and Instagram and everything else just acquires, acquires, just gets into this big social media black hole and just absorbs everything. And now, of course, it's, I think I want to say it's over a trillion market cap. So in the space of crypto and digital assets, I don't think that we're consolidating so much into like just a few right now. They've got issues like we all do or like all the different products too. I still think there's a lot of room to run. I think this will be one of the, maybe the last, I don't know, parabolic bull runs because there's so much ambiguity about what's going on behind the scenes and which products are really big. Remember, the big plays that were done in the last cycle happened around the having. And we'll see. That's why I want to get into some new stuff. It's kind of degenerate, I know. Edson says, can you make top 10? Sure, why not? Do you have a position in aerodome? Drone? No, don't. Probably do great though. 180 bucks this cycle. Why not? Good afternoon, scurvy. That's funny.  Old people like me. That's who? Friendster. Old MySpace. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you own V-Chain? It's in some random wallet that I have somewhere. Yes, but it's not like I've been acquiring V-Chain. I've had it since the last cycle. I just never got rid of it. That might have worked out for me. Do you think polygon will do well? Absolutely. I think all L2s will do well. I think they've taken quite a hit, even though the Dancun upgrade was supposed to be the greatest of all things, but I guess that's like a buy the room or sell the news event. What are you going to do? But yeah, I think things will do okay for L2s, but then people will say, no, no, no, they're not going to do well. You've got all these great chains like Sui or Sui, and you've still got Cosmos, which is a L0, and you've also got Solana. Take your pick of a L1. So why would you know those L2s? It's a lot of money flowing around, and a lot of that money is finding its way into the Ethereum and L2 ecosystems, so don't count it out just yet, but who knows if it'll make it. I don't know. Hello, Andre. Thanks for coming in. Avax the 250th cycle? Sure. Why not? Hey, all right. That's good news, Tommy. Tommy got his 100k followers today. That's great. It's about time. He was stuck at like 93, then 97, of course, and 99. So I'll send him a message, little congrats. Who is this? Who is this legend? It's Cardano with Paul. How much longer do you think meme coin season will run for? Paul, I don't know, man. I don't know. The question is how much longer is SNEC going to run for? Or whatever new meme coin is on the Cardano blockchain? I don't know. It seems like it's a funny thing. We did this review, this deep dive, into Minutes Network, which is partnering up with World Mobile Token. They're using their sidechain, IEA, which is a partner chain sidechain of Cardano. And one of the things that I talked about, I go, it's weird because this one actually has real-world utility. If it was a meme coin, it would probably be 10x. So to answer your question, Paul, I have no idea, but it seems like everybody likes to gamble. And I don't get it. Actually, I do get it. I was a total lie. I understand why people like to gamble. I just lived in Las Vegas for two years. Come on. Hello. Yeah. What's your workout routine, Rob?   They're creating. It just gets hard to do everything, especially my back. The challenge says, will everything do well, Rob? Yes. That's my cop-out answer for everybody, because I don't have time to take a look at all the different products out there. But it's true.  Now, will that project from 2017 hit its all-time high? Well, we took a look at that. We took a look at 2017 and the top 10 during December of 2017. And if it actually hits, first of all, if it hits its all-time high in 2021, did you know that only it was 20%, 11 out of 53, were the only ones that actually hit their all-time highs? That's it. So I don't expect those to, everything to do fantastic hits all-time high, but I think it will go up. The question is, which ones are going to go up the most? That's the big thing. I don't know what that is. Ron says it right. Nothing else behaves like Bitcoin. It's true. I just saw a really good post. It took a look at all the Bitcoin layer twos and the ecosystems. There's a lot of things going on in the ecosystem as far as Bitcoin. I think that might be an underutilized narrative moving into the next market or the next blow-off top bull market. We talked about Web3. We've talked about AI. We talked about Deepin. We talked about DEXs. But maybe that Bitcoin ecosystem, I mean, I bought stacks a year ago just because I thought it was a pretty cool idea, layer two solution. It was used in Miami for the Miami coin. It was supposed to use in Denver for the Denver coin. It actually worked. It was great on the ecosystem. I thought it was layer two. It would be good. But now there's products upon products and projects. Maybe that's the next thing. If it is, I will point to this video 30,000 times and try to remove all of my mistakes about everything else. That's how people do it. Jason says, did you hear that 10 million worth of salt was actually burned this morning? No. I did see a post about somebody. It was a joke post. It was just a farce. And someone said they burnt like 1.2 million worth of the liquidity pool. But it was just, I thought it was real first. I'm not a tourist. If you say you're not a tourist, then you're probably not a tourist. Because I say that to the tourists and they're like, I don't know what I'm talking about. I've changed my account a few times. I don't know why that. Dr. Payne says, $8 to $10.25. That's a bold prediction. I think that Cardano will go from $0.03 to $20 by 2025. Pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. SFGest says, why are you still holding ADA? It's old and slow and has low daily active users. Why still hold? Well, I think Charles put it out pretty eloquently. He's like, look, there's a lot of chains out there that go really fast and do great things and whatever else, but they still have their issues. Let's be honest.  I'd like Solana to actually work. Let's be honest. Wasn't it 30 days when Solana just went down? And then wasn't it just before that a couple of months, it went down? I don't remember the actual dates, but it goes down. And people say, well, who cares? Who cares what it does? It means there's an issue. There's a problem.  And it goes through and it's like fractions of a pennies and that's it. And that's all. And then of course you can build it on. I mean, let's be honest, Bitcoin is probably the slowest layer we have, right? But yet, what is it? It's the most trusted. It's the most battle tested. So maybe we start to use Cardano like that and other layer twos. I don't see a problem with that. So to say, why are you still holding it? I still think you can do pretty well. No, it could be wrong. But one of these 80 tokens are going to do well. Damn it. Ah, right. Crypto is truth. I have to agree. I have to agree. Amazing TV says, should I sell something on a 500 or wait to a thousand? You can do what I'm going to do. Actually, you shouldn't do what I'm going to do. But what I would probably do is I've dollar cost average in and probably dollar cost average out. There's a link in the description of when I'm going to sell 80% of all my crypto and these different indicators I'm looking at. So maybe when those indicators hit, instead of selling like 100% and going, okay, I'm out of 500 bucks, and let's say you get a million dollars, right? And you go out. And then what if it goes to 1,000, 1,500 or 2,000 dollars?   And there's no shortage of bags for me, which I will be dumping on all the people that come in. I know people don't like, some people say, Rob, why do you say that you're going to dump on people? Well, it's because I want them to remind themselves when they're sitting there and I think to myself, hmm, should I take some profits? Or should I just hold on to this? Because if it 10x, it can definitely 100x.  Like, hmm, maybe I should take a little like 10% or 20% because this guy said he's going to do it and I'm probably sure he will. And I will. I will dump on you. I'll dump on all of you. So make sure you take profits. That's it. Imagine an asset that goes on 80% and then makes 10x every four years. That would be, well, that's not Bitcoin. I mean, I think we only did like roughly a 3.5x, 3x from 2017 to 2021. So it wasn't even that good. But it did okay. But I mean, if you buy it at the bottom though, you're right. If you were to buy Bitcoin at 3k during COVID, March 15, 2020, somewhere around there, you could have done a 20x. But everybody's scared to do that. Big hours is Rob is selling a politician. You got to do that. You got to do that. You got to just be like, look, because nobody knows. Everybody thinks they know. Nobody knows. Nobody knows what's going to do fantastic. What's going to be great. So don't listen to anybody. If you've done your research and you're like, I really believe in tomato coin or whatever else it is, just write that out. And that's all. Hey, there's the legend, Marky. Marky's a good one. Mike says, if you bought Bitcoin at low on July 16th at 1199, that's true. Very true. What AI and meme coins in the Solana ecosystem have potential? Bonk. I've always thought it would do well. WEN. Render on the Solana blockchain. Soul call. That's a big one. My man over there at, I was talking about that. Easy money. Soul call looks to be the best. One of the good ones. And we'll see. Let's see. And then Pith. Well, Pith is an Oracle. Paul Joseph says Aiden did not get delisted from Coinbase. I'd hope not. They took him so long to get listed for Pete's Sakes. And HN says it well. I have no problem with Soul being a meme only network with no use that breaks down every week if it makes me money. Too late to make any changes now. Congrats to those who wrote it down and back up though. That's true. I think we're at over $200 and I think the low was $9. That's it. Robbity stays so lean. It's very simple. Intermittent fasting. Black coffee in the morning and that's it. I had camera last time I had breakfast. Usually it's a big lunch, smaller dinner and that's it. Some dumpy sideways. I can't wait until it's dumping season. It's coming. And I know people will say, well, don't you feel bad dumping on people? I'm like, no, I do not. I did it. We did all the hard work. We essentially funded all these projects for them to go off in the stratosphere. So we were funding them when the times were tough. Now it's time for other people to pick up that torch. I mean, we have to put the torch down, which would be the bag and they got to pick up the bag. So, yeah. And I'll leave it like this. Reason he stays lean because he doesn't buy food. That's pretty much it actually. All right, everybody. So that's it for today. So look, if you like today's video, give it a thumbs up. Consider subscribing when we talk about his time sensitive. I don't think we have really too many things coming up. We're going to cover some other outside plays because I think we all know the top 20 and stuff like that. We'll still cover Bitcoin, especially with what's going on with the ETF inflows. We'll see about that. But expect some other changes on the channel on the second area, the back half part of the news. But that's it for today. Thanks a lot for stopping by. I appreciate you. And I'll see you on the next one. Have a great day, everybody. Bye.


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 Mr. Mako. What's going on? Not my day, I'll walk on. Man, hey man, listen man, we got a special guest in here today man, I'm gonna be honest with you, when I say special a lot of times, I just be tripping, but today is special, I ain't gonna tell you to me. You know what, it's special to me, it's a whole another level of special. Check it man, we got my boy man, the legendary man running spaces in the building. What's going on my brother? Nothing much man, just taking it easy, taking it day by day. Man, hey man, you know, yeah, I could write a book about what I've been going through, but I ain't gonna say nothing.  Thank you, thank you, I made it, I made it. I know my daughter going on one of those. Oh man, she knows it, hey man, when she came here the other week, man, hey, I fell in love when I follow them all the way to Old Cliff, man, wherever they want me to go, whatever y'all want me to do, we shut down, we jumped in the truck and followed them. Because they wanted that Dallas chicken, so we got to take them over to Rudy's. They got a chicken spot called Rudy's Chicken, man, shout out Rudy's Chicken man. Man, Rudy, I got to come see y'all, and what I'm hearing right now must be some good chicken. Man, that's what everybody's about to say, but I like it. He loves the salt. I like it. It's not real salt. They're not from the country, you know what I'm saying? When you're from the country, you know. Everything's salty. Everything's salt and pepper and lyre seasoning, you know, she's Jamaican, so they like it. Say, man, thank you for coming on the show, man. Yeah, anytime. Man, I sure appreciate it, man. Hey, man, hey, this legendary for me anyway, because I'm a big fan, man, and I've been listening to you for a long time and didn't even realize what's going on. I didn't even realize it. Why you always got to put that out there? Man, it looks bad. I remember driving down the road, listening to that song, we were doing research on Renetta, and that song came up with, because he's a big Pimpsy fan, like huge Pimpsy fans, and that song came on, and he was like, no, let's look up another song of his and see, and we're matching the voices to try to see if it was really you. That's what I thought. He could not believe it. That was what I thought. I'm telling you what I thought. Everybody think it was Ronald Eisley. But now I'm going to tell you something that they don't realize it was a Ronald Eisley song. Really? That's why you got me. Yeah, the world don't know. So the song is called, it's on the Live It Up album, and the song is called, and I've been good to you by Ronald Eisley.  Because music talked to you, so if you just sit down and listen to the track, you can pretty much, you know, know pretty much what to say on the song if you're listening real good. Man, I tell you, when I first heard it, this was in 19, I believe, 95. I'm going to say 95, 94. Whenever it came out, that riding dirt out. 96. 96. I knew it was somewhere.  Don't even think about it. When it first started out, like when it wasn't no, you know, it was just R&B and me. I was good with that too. And when Rap First started, was it Jamaican who started it? No, we don't want to go there. This is the part I don't like right there. You know, this is what I get. They say that a Jamaican started rap. And I researched it in his name. Yeah. I was mad about that man. I could might be wrong. Well, I thought Rap came out. Should we hear again? No, I think Rap started, and this young particular man was real good. He go by the name of Curtis Mayfield. Curtis Mayfield. When he first did, I'm your mama. Yeah, yeah, yeah. DJ Cool Herk. Yeah, he was Jamaican. DJ Cool Herk. But what you just said, come on, tell your story. Because when you Googled it, he said it. Yeah. It's Google it. Google it. Google it. Do you remember what you said about Curtis Mayfield? Mayfield was the one to me. Yeah. I could be wrong, but Mayfield is the one to me that really got people to kind of jump in on Rap because he kind of did singing rap. Okay. You know, actually I did a song over with Mayfield. See that? Yeah. It's like, then that's when I guess the Sugar Hill gang and all these other ones started coming up with, you know, with Rap music and boom, I think it just blow it up.  It was like Carol S. Warren. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was real hip hop. The original. You know, the original stuff out there. So I got to give it to the New York people. They was, they was on it, you know, for his hip hop. Do we want to, you want to go back? I know you always miss a little people. She got to stay and she do. No, because a lot of times I like to go back in someone's history because a lot of times when people get into know each other, know themselves really, they go through the ups and downs. And that can help a lot of our viewers to know that they're going through something that you already went through and how you overcame it. You see what I mean? So tell me about you before the music. Well, I was a church boy. You know, mama kept me in church. So, you know, I sung in the choir or St. Emmanuel. And I just used to walk around the house and sing, you know. And how old were you at that time? Six. Wow. Six and just didn't know I was singing. Just did you get it from your mama? My mama did play in a band. Okay. 4212 Almedo Mitchell's Lounge back in Houston. They did have a band back there. Okay. So I guess that's where I got my singing from playing instruments. My daddy played a beat three Hammond organ. So, you know, it's picked a lot of stuff up from him, like the hats and stuff like that. Because it was all back in the day. That's how they wore it was, you know, dog, car fathers and hats like that. They all dressed up and kept me coaching stuff on. Oh, yeah. That's just. Turn on markers. Man, I just, yeah. Yeah. I just picked it up. And were you raised in the house with your mom and your dad? I was raised in the house with my mom. I was more of a mama boy than I was a dad boy. Okay. So I was raised with my mama. She had four of us. So there's three boys and one girl, my lovely sister by the name of Rachel Spencer, my oldest brother, Richard Spencer, my other brother, Raughton Barrett. He the only one had the last name of my father, but everybody else had Spencer. Oh, okay. Okay. So you fell in the middle of all of those kids. I'm the baby boy. The baby boy. The baby boy. So you just pull up. Whoa. Go on and say it. Whoa. Whoa. You say the spa brand. Yeah. That's why he was a mama boy. She must have played by that boy, not that little one. No. Just like you. Same thing. It's just a different term. Yeah.  I got her. I already know, man. So just when you was coming up, when did you realize like, I'm going to do music professionally? Was that later on? That was later on. That was later on. I used to play a lot of sports. Played a lot of basketball. Basketball. Basketball. And that's how I really got discovered on the basketball court. Really? Were you singing on the basketball court? I was used to singing and shoot the ball in the hoop. No. And I got so good at it, people was like, he can't man, he can't do this. And then there's a guy by the name of L.D. Okay. Really used to always tell me, hey man, when I do my album, you got to be on it. I want you to sing on it. Okay. No problems. First I thought it was, you know. Joking. Joking. But he never was joking. He was serious. So one day we had a big basketball meeting out there.   And it was two big guys got out of it. We still playing basketball. And I'm waiting. I'm started shooting the ball and singing on them. And they were just standing there looking. And then one of the guys say, say, man, you know, these guys are over here. I said, no. So L.D., you know, he had told them where I was and this type of stuff. And say, man, we jammed down records and we need you on a project. We got a project that we're doing on L.D. We just signed him and he wants you on his album.  You know, I didn't take it serious. So he said, well, man, I got $3,000, man. That money make you take it serious? I got $3,000, man. He really wants you on the song.  By then I didn't know nothing about me.  And you said three racks. I said, okay, let's go. See that money. Yeah, that money. So I even got in the limousine and talked to these cats and he said, well, man, we'll take you to your house. You can follow us. I said, okay, cool. I was right around the corner from the park and I followed them off a telephone road and jammed down studio. And they played a song called Let Me Blow. That's the name of the song that I got on the album. The name of the album was Home of the Freak. And that's your first one. And that was my first song. So I did the song and they loved it. It took me probably about five minutes. I'm like, I really don't know what I'm doing because they're in the studio and you got engineers and they just kept saying, putting a thumb up. I said, okay, I guess that's it. So he said, yeah. And how old were you at that time? I was about, probably about 20, 21, 22. So I guess running that area. Okay. And the song blew up. And I'm like, man, you know, so I guess I do sound good. But how did you feel the first time you heard the song on the radio? When I heard the song on the radio, I was amazed about it. I was like, man, is that really me?  So I started sounding professional.  So I got to, you know, I got to check into this. So it blew it up. And then, you know, I had been knowing screw. And he got the song. He said, man, you sound so good on that song. I got a lot of work for you. I said, okay, cool. We was cool. You know, we're both DJs. So you DJed at first? Yeah. That's what I was about to ask. What were you doing at that time, career-wise, before that? I was a DJing at Almeida Skating Ring. Okay. And everybody was calm. The place used to be packed on Sundays. Sundays we probably have about 12, 13-hundred people in that skating. Skating ring was big back then. It was big back then. So everybody listened to Grooze and hip-hop and rap and, you know, screw was doing his thing. He was slowing up music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I said, okay, you know, and I would play the song and they would, they would skate to it. I'm like, okay, I think I'm gonna be some here. So what I used to do, I used to always sing. And I would play songs like Ozzley Brothers, Al Green, Marvin Gaye. And I would be singing with the song, why they skating. Wow. And they wouldn't know. They wouldn't know. Wow. Because I could change my voice like that. They wouldn't know. I would have turned it off one time, just one time and just start singing just to see the response. Well, there was a young lady like yourself. Skating and she stopped. And she kind of got over in a corner and she was just watching me. And she come up there and she said, you really singing this song? I said, yeah. She said, I think you need to sing professionally. But she never knew that I did the song without it. Yeah. And she would skate to it. She never knew it, but she thought it was wrong. That's what I'm telling you, man. So it tricked me. Yeah, it just kept going and going. But one day she told a lot of people in Skating, Ronnie's singing up there, man. That ain't y'all tripping. He's singing up there. And I said, man, next Sunday y'all watch. He going to be singing. And I never knew she had told them that. Told them that. So it's a couple of Rona Oz's songs. Come on. I got the going hard. You know, I'm singing. I think I played smooth sailing by Rona Oz. It did. And man, the song, come on. And it's just going. And so I got into it. And I said, she looked up and she caught me. Nothing but smooth sailing tonight. So I just kept singing it. And the next thing I know, everybody stopped skating. And they're looking at me. And I'm so often to the music, you know, I'm not paying them attention. And then all of a sudden, they just start clapping. Wow. I raised up. I said, oh man, these people. This is crazy. This is crazy. Did you get nervous at that time? That's when I got nervous. This is crazy. And I couldn't get to smile off my face. And they was like, man, you sound so good, man. We thought that was Rona Oz. But I played the instrumental. Yeah. Wow. And then you. But see the only instrumental smooth sailing, they have the background on there. Yes. But they don't have a lead part. So I did the lead part. Rocking. So when the background came in, I knew they wouldn't know it was the Ozley brothers. Yeah. Yeah. So by me not knowing that I sound so identical like him, they was amazed. They was just stopping, just stop skating. So when they started clapping, I'm like, everybody ain't skating no more. They was listening to me. They were listening to you. And I had so many people come to the booth.  You never knew. I never knew of so many people in there that was doing projects and albums. And it was amazing. I'm like, man, this is crazy. Wow. That's crazy. That's crazy. So how long after that did you meet? How did you end up linking with UGK? UGK heard Aldi's album. Okay. And he was going to do some stuff with Scrooge. Okay. PMC. Yeah, PMC was. He was going to do some stuff with Scrooge. So he says, Scrooge, man, who's this guy sound like the Ozley brothers? So Scrooge said, that's my goddad. He said, no, man. He said, yeah. And when you get him, he said, yeah, call me come right over. As a matter of fact, he just left. Wow. He said, man, I got a song. So he played the song, Ain't I Been Good to You by the Ozley brothers. Okay. And I listened to it. I said, yeah, I know that whole song. You know, so he said, oh, man, I got a track that I want you to do. And he had sampled the Live It Up song. I mean, ain't I Been Good to You on the Live It Up album. Okay. And I said, yeah. He said, you think you can do something with that? I said, sure. I said, but don't play it because I don't want to get in trouble with Ronald. I said, we'll come up with the right words. And you know, I can kind of, you know, do it. He said, okay, so it took me about five minutes. And I sung what I thought would go on the track. Yeah. And they loved it. UGK loved it. I said, man, let's record it. Let's go to Skip Holman in the morning and record it. So I said, okay. So when he said Skip Holman, I'm thinking it's just a studio in the house or something like that. When I got out there, it was a million dollar studio. Oh, wow. So now I get nervous. I'm like, whoa, man, what is this? Man, this man had a mixing console probably wall-to-wall and they're probably over 150 tracks on the board. So I'm like, okay, this is the big lead. Wow. This is what they're shooting for. Yeah, man. So now I kind of get a little cocky. And I say, so all right. So I'm singing the song. So everybody's telling me how to do it. And now I realize. Now this is the one. The one. This is one day. Yeah. So I realized that, man, you can't sing. You can't sing. Y'all trying to tell me how to sing. Exactly. So Skip Holman said, I like that. Can everybody get out of the studio, let him do what he do. He said, that's the best thing to do. Let him do him. I like that. So I did the song. And it was like in probably about three or four minutes. I finished the song. That's cool. And they was all gone to lunch. And when they came back. I was sitting outside by the pool. And I hear all this screaming and hollering and jumping, man. And I said, oh, come outside. I said, man, come back up. I said, what's going on? I said, I don't like it. He said, no, it's a hit. We love it. So I'm like, OK, I guess it's going to be official. Well, some kind of way that song got out. OK. You know, because they mounted it right then. Some kind of way that song got out. And me and Pimp ride and we going home. And the song come on the radio. That same day. That same day. That's one thing. I don't know. Renata was saying something like that about which song was it? Barbeday. Barbeday came out like that too. Nobody does that anymore. Not in the same day. How does that, how is that possible? Man, these guys was professional. They knew how to do them play, call a playlist now. And Pimp was just incredible in the studio working with him. So he already pretty much knew what he wanted. Oh, so. And him and Bumby was incredible. That's all I could say about those guys. Special Balmby. He was type of guy. He could write his verse.  And wake up. Pimp said, Bum, go lay your verse. And he go one take and it's done. So he was one of the guys that first seen do that. And I was like, that young man is amazing. That young man got a gift. So I always said Balm was for his time because he was so good with words. And he could write, write stuff and just. Kill it. Man, kill it. You want that one day? You want to hit that one? Please. One day? Y'all, you want to hit it. Alka-Pella? You want to hit it? Alka-Pella. You know I want Alka-Pella. Don't do that. I thought you wanted it with an orchestra. I want to hear your voice. You want to hear my voice? Okay, here it is. I'm going to do it for Bob's Talk 101. There you go. One day you hear. And then you go. Yeah. One day you hear, baby. And then you go. One day you hear, baby. And then you go. You made a tear come to my eye. I don't do that. Why are you being that old cat like I had, boy? I would come down through there, boy, when I had that thing rumbling. You'll understand, man. Say, when I come through there, man, you could tell me nothing, man. And I was going to get in some trouble back then. Oh, man.  So, yeah, I was going to jail or something that day. Your voice is, I'm speechless. But it comes down in Renetta. Her voice was so effortless when she sang. It was just so effortless. And that's the same thing with your voice. You hit those notes and it's like there's no fault in your voice. No, thank you. So I'm like, when did you realize that you passed it down in your gene to her? When she was born. Now, this is the craziest thing. When she was born, I was really waiting to see, because I wanted to be the boy or girl. Yeah. And it really, really true. I wanted a boy. I already know. And I said, I want a boy. I said, I don't want a girl. And when her mother was pregnant, she said, well, we having a girl. I said, I don't want a girl. You can have a boy. And I didn't hold Renetta for like six months. Really? I was really serious. I wanted a dude. I said, I want a boy because I ain't got to worry about nobody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And when she was born, started her hollering when the doctor spanked her. She hit a note. No. Wow. Yeah, she hit a note. Really? Yeah, she hit a note. That scream was so unique. And my ears just rested. I said, my daughter finna sing. I got a singer. So I said, run, run, run. So they looking. So they said, we thought you didn't want a girl. I ain't giving my baby. So she got it. And everybody was looking at me like I was retarded. And nobody heard it, but you. Nobody heard it, but me. Or recognized it really. So one day she started doing all the stuff. So when I sing, sometimes my big box. Yeah. And don't know I'm doing it. Wow. You know what I'm saying? And I'll show y'all that in a minute. Sing and don't know I'll be doing it. And when I heard her, she just come to me and she say, dad, and she did say, I said, what's up? She say, look at this. A, B, C and I passed out. That's what I used to do. When you were younger. When I was younger. And she didn't even know that. That put it on the hotline. And how old was she at that time? She was like about four. Okay. So I'm like, she kind of made a beat while she was singing. I thought I was on one. Wow. So when I recorded one day, note D is the one of the producers say, man, he beatbox when he sing. And when Skip Holman, he say, take all the music out and just play right in his vocals. So when he did, that's what was going on when I was singing one time. Wow. So they clean it out. I said, we got to clean it out later. Because he beatbox. They think it's an instrument. And I said, no, man, he beatbox when he sing. You've been doing it ever since you was little. And I still do it as today and don't know when I'm doing it. You don't realize it. I don't realize it. So what it was, like the snare is probably on the one or the two, you know, the four downbeat. I always was on the one. And it would just come out when I do it. And that's what kept my count on the bars of music. Oh. The measures of the music. Yeah. I got it. And they try for days. I don't do that. I don't know what you're talking about. Because it was just natural. It was a natural gift. So I've been doing it since I've been doing music. How did it sound? Give me a song. It's kind of like, I'm going to sing the part on the new song that me and Ronald Isaac got. Yeah. I suppose I got that already. So the name of this song is, it's an inspiration song.  It's been so long since I did it. You know, I'm going to sing his part. You might can hear it. Oh, excuse me. You might can hear it in my voice. He's going to say, listen up, son.  It was a song by UGK. I think you call it one day. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my life goes on. Cause the day you prayed for is the day we did this song. You got to hold on, be strong, and never give up the fight. You got to stay true to what you do. Everything going to be all right. You got to hold on, be strong, never give up the fight. You got to stay true to what you do. And everything going to be all right. Boy, boy, boy. Man, you, Ronald Island, you sound, I couldn't tell the difference, man. You had to put that song out. We heard about you being romantic with it. We got an archive full of it. You got an archive full of stuff and you won't even give it to her. Yeah, I'm finna give y'all some stuff today. I'm gonna give y'all some stuff today. Because that's inspirational. I love, because hanging on to every word that you were saying, I believe, I'm like, I believe that it's going to be okay. Yeah, it's going to be okay. So, I mean, I love it. And the best part of that song, we did the song. The name of the song is Hold On. We did that song and my mother was living. Wow. So she got a chance to hear it. She got a chance to see some of the video footage of me and Ronald in St. Louis, Missouri at this home, this studio. And to me, I know when I put it out, it's going to be a touching moment when I put that out, because she knew that's who I wanted to meet in my career. And you did. And I thank Derek Dixon, Derek, for putting that together and make that happen with us. The song is done, it's mastered, and I just have my release. Run a studio. How was that experience? That day, when you did that with Ronald, when y'all made this happen?  I had just left the studio. I was at home, and I was chilling, looking at Miller-Fernpile picture, laughing. And I get a phone call and say, hey man, this is Rick. I say, what's going on? Everything all right? He say, yeah, man, Ronald Osley is at the Reno Tower wall. He got a show tonight, and he want to meet you. And I say, oh man, you playing, I hung the phone up. Quick plan, man. I hung the phone up. Sometime them cats play a lot, you know, joke a lot. So he called again and said, hey man, you need to get ready. We need to have you at the Reno. I said, man, what are you talking about?  He agreed to do the song. So I said, okay.  He said, man, you need to hurry up. Because he going to be performing probably around 7 o'clock. And they want to see you before they hit the stage. So I said, oh, okay, man, all right. And the doorbell rang. And when I opened the door, it was a direct. Wow. He outside. He said, man, I'm ready for you to come. So now I know it's serious. So I said, all right. I'll be down stairs in about 5, 10 minutes. So I got cleaned up. And he said, no, you don't need to get cleaned. I don't want you to get clean. I just need you to come on now. We need to go now. You just need your voice.  All right. So I left. So we gone down the stairs. We getting in the car. We go. And sure enough, in the Reno theater tower, he was there. So it was him, Ernie Osley, Angela Wynne Bush, and a couple more people. Then he had his hair dresser there. He walked around in a football. You know, he always fly. Yeah, he fly. That's what I like about me. And he and his little fooboo robe and the hair dresser curling his hair as he walked. And he turned around and said, all I heard you sound like me.  And he said, yeah, that's what's been the talk in the town and the talk in St. Louis, Missouri that you sound like me. And there ain't nobody sound like me in 30 years. So I like, OK. So he said, well, since you sound like me, let me hear you sound. Let me hear you sound. So I guess they thought, I guess they thought I was just going, you know, freeze up. So I said, OK, what you want to hear? You say anything. Then Ernie said, do hello. So I said, hello. How you hit that thing, Bobby? I know that, yeah. So they all standing there. Ernie playing with his guitar, you know, getting in tune. So I'm like, OK. So all of a sudden, I said, here we go. Hello, hello. Hello, hello. Hello, hello, hello, girl. Hello, hello. Hello, hello, hello, hello. So he's like, where's that? Hey, wait a minute. So wait a minute, man, wait a minute. So I said, OK. So he said, well, do smooth sailing. I said, nothing but smooth sailing tonight. Anything that you want from me is my delight tonight. So he said, OK. I said, man, stop. He said, man, stop. He said, I'll tell you what. He said, man, do summer breeze. Summer breeze. And then he, he like, wait a minute. Hold up. So Angela say, is that your son? So Louis Bush. He said, no, wrong. He said, no, he's not my son. So, so Ernest said, man, you've been messing around. It's something that you can't tell him. It's got to be your son because he hit in every note. Right. But you hit, he sounded identical. Man, this man is off the chain.  I say, hmm. So he asked me, he say, is that your dad? I said, no, my dad deceased. He passed. And they all looked at each other. He said, okay, let's do the song. We're going to do the song. What do you want to do the song? And I say, we can do it at your place. Wow. I was ashamed of my studio. I get it. I get it. So I said, I don't want to hear that. I want to go with the big boys. So they all looked at me and said, Ron says, cool, that's cool. And he was so, he was so, man, he was just so pleasant and just, yeah, you can tell he had a good heart. Wow. And he said, I'll tell you what. He said, how many playing tickets you need? So I say, well, no D-Rick and me. He said, cool. He said, I will have y'all round trip playing tickets in about two weeks. We can do it at my studio. And that was the best news I could hear. Wow. So it's like my heart was just floating. My heart was just floating. I said, man, I'll leave this happening. This is when I wished that I had my daughter and my mom with me. Yeah.  So quick. And then I, we waited two weeks next Sunday. We get to go to the airport. We fly to St. Louis, Missouri. And I have it all on film. And it was, it was just nice. Wow.  And one of his mansions was in a quarter sec. And his was the biggest one.  And you got to put the head, every sneaker. Sneak in there. You got to put them shoes in there.  That's right. Put them in that basket, that little brass basket. And when you get in on, in the inside, there's real marble floors. And he got every house shoe for anybody coming there, even the shack came through there. He had a house shoe. He got a house shoe for him. So that's what you, you walked around in the house with. So we in the house and it was so natural for me to sing and hear him sing. And Angela Winbush, I just love her voice to hear her sing. So they taking us around. And so it's natural. Man, Ronald just started singing. And then like the song that we were singing, we just singing and harming it and it fit so perfect. And they was all looking at it and saying, you see this? They act the same. They walk the same thing. So I'm like, man. So I veered off and went around a corner. The house was so big and singing. And Angela Winbush thought it was her husband. And she turned around and looked at him and just grabbed him. She said, oh my God, I'm thinking you're wrong. I said, no, I'm just singing. Y'all sound amazing. He said, man, I can't wait to go to the studio to do it. And she was so strong and unique. She could hear every wrong note from me or Ronald. So the engineers was messing up because we both sounded so delight. And they would erase Ronald's verse, thinking it's mine. And they would erase my verse, thinking it's Ronald. So Angela didn't like that. She says, I got to get this together. We ain't supposed to be here these long. Both of these guys are professional. So I'll tell you what, Mark, my vocals on these tracks, put them in yellow with a piece of tape. Put his in orange. Now you won't get confused. And when we did that, we did the song so fast and quick, it was just, it was unbelievable. OK. But then what, the amazing thing, the reason why I can't wait for it to come out, I can't wait to hear, to see if I can tell the difference in both of y'all's voices. Well, you're going to be able to tell the difference because I had to sing in another octave. Just to get them to even be interesting. Just to get it where as you can tell who's who. Tell the difference.  So that's the sighted part when I get a chance to see people's expressions and how they look, and I'll be like, I don't see if he, and some of them say, oh, that's wrong. No, that's wrong. No, that's wrong.  So I can't wait to do it. And I'm really trying to do the song and put it out before anything happened to me or him. That's it. I think the world, if my vision is, I think we need to be in King Chills, the back of people and sing, and then one up, turn around, and it's not the person that you think, and when I turn around, it's not, you really won't. Wow. That'd be dope. That'd be real cool. And that's what I really want to do and I'm going to talk to Pup and Impile because that's who I'm going to release this next album with. And I'm going to talk to him and see if we can make that happen. My question is if, okay, say you go in the studio and both of you sing, can you tell the difference? Yeah. I can tell the difference. Ron can tell the difference. And he's the first one saying, now I know the difference because Ron is a little more higher than me, believe it or not. Ron can hit some notes. And I can go in there and hit some of his notes, but I can't hit all of his notes. And I know how far I can go and I'm following a legend, so he don't have to. That's right. I'm following him so he can just do his thing. I heard him hit some notes. I mean a high tenor note is just off the chain and I'm like, man, I hit that note. For his age, his voice is phenomenal. It is. It's right to be. Even the new stuff that he's got out right now. At his age, I don't think a single out here can do what he have did in the music industry for singing. And what I love about Ronald Eisley is that he reinvented himself and stayed current. Right, where a lot of artists can't. A lot of the older artists is still doing their... And I give credit to Art Kelly on that because Art Kelly, that was a smart move he did and him and Ronald is a real good partners and friends. It is hard to work with Kelly, which that's the good people. When you start working with people that really know music, you have to really humble yourself to see where they want the song and how they want it to sound because they wrote it. So they kind of pretty much know what it needs to be like. So he said, other than that, Kelly's a good dude and they get a lot of hits together. I can't wait till you get out because I want to do a song with Kelly. You want to do one with him when he get out? Oh yeah, Kelly's all right.  They always going to attack the blacks for some reason. Exactly. Come on, man. You know, just like what they did to Michael Jackson. Same thing. Same thing. But they can't take away his legend from him. They can't take away his talent. Exactly. And I tell people that.  I said, that's just your stupidity. I say, what this man have did in music. And I say, you don't know who Kelly wrote songs with. He wrote songs to Michael Jackson.  That's right. I say, and trust me, that man probably have so much music when he come out and it's going to shock the world. Exactly. And I want to be one of the first ones to really work with him because I really feel that I can do a lot of stuff with that. See, and that's one of the things I had, one of the questions I had is who would you want to work with, but you already answered that. Yeah, I got, it's a lot of them I want to work with. You know, I want to work with a lot of different rappers. I want to work with a lot of different R and B ladies and men. I think men, Charlie Wilson can do something. That's my guy. Yeah, I think we can do something together. I think me and, believe it or not, I'd say me and Lady Gaga. Really? Yeah. I would have never guessed Lady Gaga. Yeah, because my daughter, I'd do a lot of pop stuff for her. So I didn't got into that field, kind of doing a lot of pop stuff with her. Singing is very easy. A lot of people don't know that. They think it's hard, but you just have to take your time and it's a lot of breath takes that you have to take. You got to know how to use your diaphragm or your voice. So when I was in church, those are the, to me, the king singles because they're going to beat your voice up until you get it right. You feel what I'm saying? So it's like pretty much that type of stuff. So you learn how to control your voice.


America's number one adventurer, K-7, from a United States secret agent who operated in 22 countries, on land, on sea, and in the air, brings you another story of today. Here is K-7. Ladies and gentlemen, undoubtedly you have read much about fortified borders during the past year. Pictures of these modern spite fences between nations have appeared in publications. Not only one, but many nations now possess them, or they are building them. Are they new? Many seem to believe they are. Yet they are as old as the Great Wall of China. John Holbrooke will introduce the story of a modern plot involving the mining of such a barrier. Thank you, K-7. Fortified borders have always had one great weakness. They can be mined and blown up. K-7 and his friend Agent Z were in active service when Kimmel Hill was blown up during the World War. That experience led Agent Z to work swiftly when the case now to be dramatized came to his attention. Our story opens as two men study a map. Here's the map of the border. The red line shows where the fortifications will be put in. You are sure this map is accurate? It is an exact copy of the approved plans. The plans will photograph for us in the Department of Military Information. This plan was drawn from the photographs. Yeah, but what is your plan? It is simple, my friend. Work on the border has already been started to the north. Now, look at this spot. Yes. It has been surveyed by military engineers, but work will not begin for at least three months. You see this hill? Yes, of course. It is a vital point. The fortifications are to be heaviest here. The entire hill is to be hollowed out. When the work is completed, that hill will contain the air conditioning equipment and munition sellers, officers' quarters and telephone headquarters. It will be the nerve center. That is very interesting. We are going to mine that hill before actual construction on the border starts. Then we will sell our work. Think what it will mean. When we are finished, a button can be pushed in the city hundreds of miles away, and the nerve center of the border will be blown to bits. Yes. It will be worth at least $5 million to us. Perhaps more. Now, follow me closely. Do you see this farmhouse sketched on the map? Yes, yes. It is deserted and at the foot of the hill. We begin work there. The river is within a few feet of the door. The dirt, which we dig out of our tunnel, can be disposed of in the river. This is a perfect plan, Shostak. This will be George Shostak's masterpiece, Petron. When we are finished, the hill is mined. I will retire. When shall we start? Tomorrow night. The plan was perfect. The border was to be mined before the fortifications were built. However, there was a slip. The traitor, in the office of military information, who had made the photographs of the plans, was found using his camera again. He was secretly seized in question. The information which he gave brought Agent Z into the case. Z and his assistant, Patricia Norwood, began their investigation at once.  Well, I picked it deliberately, Pat. We don't want to be seen. If it storms, so much the better. Let me try and help you with that heavy cage. Oh, it's all right. I can handle it. We're almost at the top of the hill. This is the spot. Are you going to set the sound detector up now? No, not until night. I'll conceal it in these bushes. There, there, that hides it. Now we'll have a look around. It's peaceful enough, Z. I can't believe that within a few short months, this hill will be bristling with guns. Yes, it'll have more than guns, Pat. This hill will be the nerve center of the entire border. Across that river below us lies another country. There'll be fortifications there, too. It's horrible to think of. Yes, and even worse, to think that tonight, there may be men burrowing beneath where we're standing. Burrowing to plant mines that will explode and kill other men whom they've never even seen. But come on, Pat. We've got work to do. You're sure this is the place? There's no doubt about that. The trader who sold the plans to George Shostack broke down completely. He told everything he knew. Our job is to find out first if Shostack has started work. Then we've got to capture him and take the copy of the plans from him. Z, look at the river. It's muddy from the rain this morning. But it's yellow mud. And the soil along the banks is black. Oh, what's that? Pat, you're right. I didn't notice. Black soil, yet the water is yellow. And it doesn't extend above this point. Look at the river. What does it mean? It may mean that you've discovered something, Pat. We've got three hours before night. First, I'm going to have a look around. Then we're going to take samples of that river water and analyze it. A few hours later, Z is in his laboratory. He looks up from a powerful microscope he's using. Pat, you made a vital discovery when you noticed the yellow color of the river. That yellow color was caused by dirt dug from far underground. You're sure? I'm positive. It's the yellow clay. One of the peasants told me they always struck yellow clay when they dug a deep well. Then it means that someone is digging. Unless I'm mistaken, it means that George Shostack is at work. Now we'll get started back to the hill. If our sound detector confirms what this yellow clay seems to prove, there we'll find out within a few hours. Get ready, Pat. We're going back. Under cover of darkness, Pat and Z again made their way to the top of the hill. There, Z set up a sound detector, a delicate instrument that picks up sound that cannot be heard by human ears. Can you see what you're doing, Z? It's so black tonight. That's a perfect night for us, Pat. We can't afford to use a flashlight. It might be seen. I'll have this working in a minute. Will we be able to hear them at work under it? We will if they're down there. This machine is like a delicate pair of ears, Pat. It'll pick up the slightest sound. Oh, something like those machines with huge horns? They use an anti-aircraft work? The ones that pick up the sound of airplanes approaching at night? Yeah, something like them, Pat. There is a small speaker here in this cabinet. The machine is tuned to something like a radio. If there are men digging a tunnel under us, we will hear the sound of their picks and shovels. And I'll see, now almost ready to snap this switch on first. It's working. Now let's see what we can find by tuning. What does that mean? Nothing yet. There's something. Now if I can tune it in. The? The, they're down there. There's no doubt about it, Pat. George Shostack has started his tunnel. Have you epistle with him? Yes. Good. Now I want you to stay here. I'm going down to the river bank and travel along it until I find where that clay of the colors of water is being carried out. But the, it's so black tonight. If anything should happen to you, I wouldn't know where to find you. No, nothing will happen. I want you to stay right here by the sound detector. And if I need you, I'll fire two shots. If you hear shots, come at once. I will. Be careful. Don't you worry about me, Pat. Just stay there unless you hear two shots. Ze reached the bank of the river and made his way slowly downstream in the blackness. His eyes grew used to the night. And to his left, he saw the outlines of the deserted farmhouse. Farmhouse? No lights. Deserted. Just the kind of a place Shostack would pick. It doesn't seem to be anybody around. I think I'll have a look inside. There's a porch. Who's there? Answer me. Answer me or I'll shoot. Stop. Stop. Do you hear me? Stop. What happened? I heard shots. They were mine. I heard something. It was on the porch. I shot twice. Was it a man? I don't know. I called, no one answered. And I shot. Something ran into the bushes. An animal, probably.  You want us to be heard? I would stay with you for a minute. We're just calling you two at the terminal. But I'm sure I heard something. I can't see tonight. Zee? Zee, where are you? There's someone. Listen. Zee? Far again. She's a good girl. She's coming back. Zee? Zee, are you here? Zee, sir! Honey doll, who are you? I was about to ask you that same question myself. What are you doing here? I was looking for someone. Obviously. But for whom? For my brother. He's just a boy. He was out hunting this afternoon. He didn't come home. I heard the shot. You lie, ma'am, sir. It's the truth. I've been looking for him ever since it got dark. I heard the shots and thought he was signaling. Let's take her inside and see what she looks like.  So you know my name, ma'am, sir. Yes, Peyton. I think we have better look at her. She's probably a spy. Open the door. Yes. Wait. There was a signal. Stand still. It cannot be seen. Ma'am, sir, if you attempt to move. We should get away. There will be time for that. Keep the girl between us. If you try to run, ma'am, sir. Shostek, I won't try to run. I have a gun in your bag. If you move or that man Peyton moves, I'll shoot. You should have searched me, Shostek. Oh, my pleasure. It's on us. And you're both covered. This place is surrounded there. You all right, Pat? Yes, V. I'm holding a gun in Shostek's bag. Yeah, wait a minute. I'll handcuff them together. Who are you? It's the police. Your man is partially right, Shostek. I'm Special Agent Z. You're both under arrest. Z. There are others below us working in a tunnel. Shostek mentioned them. Is this place really surrounded? Not yet, but it will be in another 10 minutes. But the signal, the whistle. I blew that, Pat, to make them think there were more of us. When this man Peyton fired at me, I knew you'd hear the shots and come. We arranged two shots as a signal. I got away in telephone for help. I wondered. We'll stay here quietly until that helper arrives. Shostek, perhaps I can amuse you by telling you some stories about your old friend K7. If you know K7 very well, I'll send him a cable tomorrow morning. A cable saying, George Shostek is again in prison. This time, he'll be tried as a spy. George Shostek has been a spy and international crook since the days before the world war. And now I leave you with this thought. Contrast our position in North America with that of the other nations. They erect fortified borders between themselves and their neighbors. Canada and the United States have a border thousands of miles long and there is no fort or fortification. Our countries are friendly neighbors who live in peace with each other as all nations could if they so will. Listen for my next story. This is K7 speaking.


Thanks for checking out this unboxing video. This is the unboxing for February Snaku, yes, I'm sure you knew that from the title, but bears reiterating just for fun Yeah, this is a February Snaku if anyone's been watching this long enough You know that I was doing these unboxings for Snaku at this time last year And I was only doing the tasting size boxes, which are way smaller. It's just like a few items And actually comes from New York versus this one, which is much more items And more of the items and it comes directly from Japan So the one last year in February was themed around Valentine's Day because I guess it is celebrated out there in Japan and one of the things they talk about is the fact that men get Candy and food items from women typically in Japan. So I found that interesting I don't know if that'll be stated in the card on here or not, but another thing is there's a huge Focus on strawberry things, which is really cool because I really dig strawberries. So this could be a really good box but we'll see open it up Here is the artwork and I'll just scroll through the items if you want to pause and read each one There you go. Okay. I'll show you what's in here and then I'll read this real quick Look look at all the goodies. Look at that Looks good All right, so happy Valentine's Day Did you know that during the holiday in Japan women must give chocolates to all the men they admire? There it is. There are two types of chocolates women give to men Geary Choco and Honmae Choco Geary Choco girl mean oh, I'm sorry. Geary means obligation Are chocolates a woman gives to her friends colleagues bosses and close male friends Honmae Choco is given to her boyfriend or husband Japanese women often prepare honmae Choco by them by themselves as many believe store-bought chocolates do not adequately Express their true love. I'm assuming they could buy the Geary Choco No problem Chocolate isn't the only food that's popular in February. It's also strawberry season in Japan So we've included a bunch of strawberry snacks, too. Awesome Totally down. So the first item I'm gonna do This was in I think it was the exact same February box last time but like I said, I was doing the tasting box So I'll do it again since it's been a year, but typically if it was like just a few months ago I wouldn't eat it right now. So this is the Chocolate Arar or Arari From a rice cracker store in Kyoto comes a snack 10 years in the making these chocolate covered mini rice crackers Have even been featured on TV in Japan. They come in two pouches bitter and sweet the bitter pouch includes matcha green tea Dark chocolate and white chocolate covered crackers. The sweet pouch contains strawberry milk chocolate and white chocolate covered crackers Well, let me figure out which one I don't want. So this is the one with the matcha in it I'm not big on matcha. So I'm gonna do the sweet one Which has the strawberry in there plus, you know, it's about the strawberry So here's one.   I like a lot That's why I like senpai. So these little rice crackers, these little senpai covered in chocolate. Pretty awesome So this is a strawberry one, which I assume is actually White chocolate with strawberry added to it. Yeah, I mean it tastes like white chocolate And then the strawberry comes in after But the thing that's really nice Is that the rice cracker in there is giving a little bit of a saltiness a Little bit of like a soy sauce note, which complements the sweet really well I really like sweet and savory together. So it's really nice And then there's just a straight chocolate one in there, which you know, we know what that's going to taste like So really good. I like those got my water over there. Sorry every time I pick up my water and set it down I think it shakes the camera a little bit. So I do apologize for that All right next let's do this one. This is Oh a senpai. Okay, I just kind of randomly picked it a limited series It's heart senpai a limited series rice cracker in the shape of a heart to share with your loved ones Oh Oh, yeah, I should use packaging There you go. I mean, it's looks kind of like generic ish packaging. So we're like anything written on it. So Oh my it is heart senpai As you can see It's not super thick.  It tastes a little bit fishy But the good thing though is The fishiness is up front and it kind of goes away real quick because you get a lot of saltiness to it As you can hear it have a lot of crunch which I enjoy I'm gonna stress that later. I like it. I do Get this fishiness off here. It kind of I don't know reminds me a little bit of like Shrimp crackers. Have you ever had like shrimp?  It's like fishy like shrimp That's decent It's not my favorite, but it's all right Okay, next once again, I'm just randomly grabbing these. What is this one? Okay. I think this is Is this the brownie? Yeah, I think so. So I believe this is a strawberry brownie Yes, chocolate brownie. Yeah Wait a minute chocolate brownie They both say chocolate brownie, but it's supposed to be strawberry brownie I don't know. We'll find out Maybe it says that on there and I just can't read it. There you go Strawberry brownie from fubion Comes a brand new snack a delicious walnut brownie with bits of freeze-dried strawberries Huh? Since these sell out quick we had to work with fubion for over six months to make sure we could get them for you Wow so kind of like I guess you can't say like exclusive, but it makes you feel that way. So Kind of rare. That's cool, man And it just it kind of like shows the work that's being put in here Um by um shigeki at uh snaku Man, this is really It looks really good. It's really soft. I mean it's a brownie. You can see I don't know if you can like I can let me see if I can Because you can kind of see can you see right there like the difference in color? Like you can see where the strawberry portion is See what I mean? It smells like chocolate with a faint fruitiness I don't know if I'd be able to pick out strawberry on the smell It's really soft That's really soft So the chocolate which I appreciate is not crazy sweet. It's very very cakey. It's very moist light Tastes like like chocolate, but it's not like super sugary. You can tell that it's kind of like sugar reduced Although maybe it's not sugar reduced and it's just that the strawberry when it kicks in there is kind of lessening Your perception of the sugar That's really good. I like it. Yeah You can definitely taste the strawberry. The strawberry is not super aggressive though It's kind of just like a light note that comes in at the end of each of each bite. I like it. That's yeah That's a good one. Hmm. Definitely have to cleanse my palate after that chocolate You know All right, this one Actually, I might not do that one because I'm not gonna be sure What it is Okay, so here's one This is the mentai umaibo One of japan's favorite puff corn snacks. This one tastes like spicy cod roe called mentaiko Okay, so this one This one could be rough I hope not, but this one could be rough I'm sorry if you hear my hVAC system in the background Running it should be kind of like low because I've changed the setting when I do these videos Okay, this is very funky looking. It looks like the fattest No, it looks got a hole in the middle It looks like the fattest cheeto I've ever seen. It's like a cheeto cigar Doesn't smell fishy It just smells a little spicy like kind of cayenne pepper and then salty paprika actually There's a lot of paprika flavor in there Yeah It's kind of like I don't know like it's definitely it's like a corn snack. So it definitely tastes like corn It's just like a corn cheeto with a lot of paprika flavor It's not fishy. I don't I don't understand the cod roe And there's like a little bit of like a cayenne pepper flavor after all the paprika But there's a lot of paprika in that to be honest which I don't really like this all that much because I'm not big on paprika If you really like the spice paprika, then that's for you. You would love that If you don't honestly if you don't think about the flavor too much You could kind of view it as like a very tone down version of like a barbecue Because sometimes paprika is used for that Cleanse my mouth on that one. Okay next Do this one. I think this is Strawberry carara, but I'm gonna have to take it out of the package before I know for sure So there's package Sorry if I'm sniffling like The weather's been changing a lot and it just makes me like Makes my science is good nuts So I get a lot of head leakage Yeah, that sounds great, right Okay, yeah, so this is a strawberry carara Oh, man, it's broken a little bit. That's fine All right bound to happen strawberry carara You can see where it broke there, but So it is delicate butter cookie sandwich from a famous shop called fubion. I don't know where the other one was from In Kyushu is southern island in japan The cookies are filled with a luxurious mix of cocoa whipped cream and freeze dried strawberries It smells that sounds really good It smells like So much strawberry It smells buttery Sugary buttery strawberries is what it smells like okay So the freeze dried strawberries add a little bit of a crunch But it's almost a little bit of like a styrofoam type crunch to it. So it's a little weird for me I'm the type of person who doesn't really like Like the marshmallows and lucky charms like that texture when I chew it It's kind of like nails on a chalkboard. This is more toned down than that, but there's a little bit of that there A lot of strawberry in the flavor It tastes good. I mean it's it is very buttery creamy sugary And tons of strawberry tons and tons of strawberry because those freeze dried strawberries in there This is a winner This is a good one and I like it specifically because It's not common. This is not something I'm Well, maybe not something I'll ever have again. So It's cool to have I like that Hmm when this dog is yelling let's save that because I don't know what that is Let me deal with this. What is this? Six pieces of Random thing. Okay. Kanako mochi cake It'll be a first for this. Many Japanese mochi pound cake Covered in a savory yet sweet roasted kanako soy powder a taste of rural japan and every bite interesting So don't really know anything about this so much.  Oh, they're like these little Like super little baby pieces Okay, that's totally manageable. Let me get this out of here without Destroying the whole packaging. Okay. So yeah, so it's like this little pound cake This is a little baby pound cake there you go it's It smells almond Like vegetables and almond kind of mixed That must be that soy Yeah, the soy powder This is weird. I don't know kind of weird Consistency is good It tastes a little prefab, you know, like kind of chemically So i'm not A big fan of that. I see where the soy is coming into play But I don't feel like it really fits so much. There's a little bit of like a molasses flavor to it, too I don't know. It's kind of chemically though I don't really like that Yeah, definitely get the soy more And for me sometimes like Soy starts to taste tad bit corn-like at times and that's kind of doing that I don't like that one I don't think my wife's gonna like it either Unfortunately, okay, let's go to this This is something that we've had before in a box. Uh, we had a different type So I'll do this but I'm excited because I did like it before. This is uh, emo kimpie I like potato sticks basically You might want to see all that Yeah, so emo kimpie, uh, a traditional brown sugar glazed baked sweet potato snack from japan Goes perfect with a nice cup of green tea Of course I don't have any green tea.  You can tell that They smell super fried they're like Really hard Okay, so they're like crunchy, but they're like soggy crunchy You know, I mean like if something's been fried a lot and then it just sits and cools down You know, I mean like it's kind of crunchy, but it's not it's kind of soggy at the same time weird Definitely got a lot of brown sugar Which for people who like sweet potatoes, I think you'd really like this because Brown sugar goes really well with sweet potatoes. I know a lot of people feel that way I think my wife is gonna love these There's a little bit saltiness to it that comes in in the end That kind of increases its flavor for me Something I actually kind of like in there So it's I'm not huge on it just because I don't really like sweet potatoes But if you are into sweet potatoes, I think you really would like this And if I can I'm not into sweet potatoes, and I kind of like it That's pretty good so all right The brown sugar is nice And that saltiness at the end Okay, just have I think three more items left always save the hard candy stuff to the end Okay, this one could be a real mess Let's give this a shot strawberry or um caramel strawberry bomb yeah, um I'm not familiar with that, but There you go So it's like a kind of looks like another like pound cakey type thing Bumkuchen are layered roll cakes, which originated in Germany, but became extremely Extremely popular in Japan after it was introduced to Japan in 1919 During a confectionery trade show. That's interesting. These particular bumkuchen Are seasonal to this time of year and made with local Japanese strawberries from Kyushu Once again the strawberry theme I'm I'm in I'm so down with that And they always have like these packets these like silica packets to keep moisture down and to keep Well to keep it from sweating, but also to keep it moist So as you can see It's just like a I mean it's a ring you can see you can see the layers in there It talks about like many layers. You can see all the layers. I'm sorry. I like overexposed it. You can see the layers Which I think is cool.   It's kind of like a medium density cake So it's like a medium dense Sweet strawberry cake Mmm. That's really good I like it And I think my wife's gonna like it too. Thankfully we have two of them So she can eat the other half of that I didn't quite eat half at the moment. So I'll finish my half off Video And then she can have the other half and then we'll probably just split the other one too So Nice. I like it. Okay. So moving on Then this much mean that these are the tokyo rusk pieces And this kind of sucks because it's only two of them and they look really small. I'm sorry I have the water in for some reason sinuses blame it all on sinuses Okay, so tokyo rusk piece. I really like rusk. I was introduced to it through this box And they've had a few rusks in there. I think this is the third. This will be like the third rusk I've had from them And I like the other two quite a bit So it's kind of sad that like they're really small pieces. There's a strawberry and a chocolate As you can see um I guess I'll just eat this chocolate now because my wife can have No, I'll save the chocolate because that's more of like a generic-ish type thing And I'll try the strawberry for the video because I don't make more sense Hopefully I can now I'm not gonna be able to save half. Sorry Rebecca in advance So it basically just looks like A crouton It's like a pink pinkish brownish crouton That's what it looks like It smells sweet sugary strawberry So it smells like I didn't read what it was I'm gonna do that right now But before I do it is Very kind of like buttery Tastes like you know, it's white chocolate until then it's like dipped in white chocolate with strawberry in there That's got a decent crunch to it So the tokyo rusk piece a bite-sized double baked baguettes soaked in chocolate Or strawberry cream It's super light fluffy and crunchy all at the same time Yeah, I agree with that It's good. It makes me really excited for the chocolate one.  I guess my wife should get the chocolate one Yeah, we'll see about that Maybe maybe Okay, and then the last item Which is So there's always like a hard candy or like soft hard candy thing in there So this time around It's strawberry milk candy. So this is another thing that's been in the in the box before milk candies I think two other times as well just like the rusk and that's when I was first introduced to them And I was like at first I was like that sounds kind of weird But I actually like them they they come off a little caramel like Okay, as you can see there's some strawberry and there's some just straight up milk flavored So it says a colorful combination of strawberry and creamy milk candy from a candy shop in Kyoto Not a whole lot of description to that. That's what it is All right, so I'll do one of the strawberry ones obviously Because that's the theme we're sticking with So it just kind of looks like a hard candy very shiny very pink because of the strawberry smells like sweet strawberry so With the milk candies the the straight up milk ones are very like Creamy and very milky and a little bit caramel-y This one because of the strawberry actually has a slightly tart zing up front from the strawberry flavor Which I enjoy The candy is very hard too Some of these milk candies are sometimes like a little bit soft so you can chew them. They're almost like a taffy Uh, this one is not Yeah, this one's not I just try to apply pressure with my teeth. Hmm. It is good though Okay, I like that. I'm gonna set it aside. So I'm not just you know Sucking on that candy while I'm trying to do a video because it's a little rude Okay, so to recap What did I really like out of this? Uh, the chocolate aurorae those little um, rice crackers covered in chocolate. Those are really nice I like those as a nice snack. There's strawberry currara. Well, these were the chocolate aurorae The strawberry aurora or aurorae Which was like that, you know the the butter cookies These strawberry butter cookies with like the cream Strawberry cream filling those were really nice. That's strawberry brownie these things Uh, yeah, those were really good really really really good. I also like the caramel strawberry bomb That one that one was tasty too um And honestly I think that's that that's it for like my highlights with it I think all the things on the side that are not part of like the real theme but are like extras all of those things Were okay But I wasn't huge on like I could have been much happier if all those things were left out And they would just put more of the main things in But I do really think it's cool that with the strawberry brownie shigeki was actually able to Work with the maker fubion to get them to secure some for these boxes up front because they are so popular I think that's really awesome. So Okay, uh overall a good box not my favorite box. I think the box last month was my favorite box still I think that's what I said last month. People can go back and check me. Anyway, um, I do appreciate Whoever's watching this watching this. Uh, that's awesome. 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The band box is the snaku So I figure it just makes sense to put the videos out there So that people can kind of make up their own mind Do they want to buy it or not without having to commit first? so That said I can do more unboxings in the future But I'm gonna need more subscribers and I'm gonna need that revenue that comes from subscribers eventually But I have a long way to go. So whatever if you're fine with the videos that are just coming out That's okay too. But anyway Like is encouraging. Thank you for that Uh, please with the subscribe and some comments down there if you want to comment on Hey, this looked really good to me or I've had something like whatever was in the box We can talk about that totally cool and other nerdy things doesn't have to be about this video You can just post something on it and we chat about something else Anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal