Spritz cookies are a classic German butter cookie that is really delicious and today I'm making it gluten-free. These cookies are soft on the inside with a delicate crunch on the outside. Take a bite of these soft buttery cookies and they melt in your mouth with just the right amount of sweetness. These are perfect for the holidays or anytime really. They're very festive and no one will be able to tell that they are gluten-free because they are so delicious. I'm Rockin Robin and I'm going to show you how to make them right after my chef joke. Okay here's our chef joke. What do you call a metric cookie? A graham cracker. To make spritz cookies you will need a cookie press like the one I have right here and you'll need a couple of cookie sheets. It's nice to have two cookie sheets as you will be cooking one at a time. This will give one cookie sheet time to cool off completely as you need to press the cookies onto a cold, ungreased cookie sheet and don't use parchment paper either as the pressed cookies won't stick to it. In a medium bowl we're going to combine our dry ingredients. Now I'm using Trader Joe's Blanched Almond Flour and this is an extra fine ground so that it's nice and light. To that I'm going to add three tablespoons of Bob's Red Mill one-to-one baking flour which is gluten-free. One teaspoon of baking powder and one-quarter teaspoon of salt and give that a good stir and we'll set it aside. I'm going to use my KitchenAid mixer but any hand mixer will work too. All right to that we're going to add seven tablespoons of softened butter and a half a cup which is slightly heaping of sugar and we're going to mix that until it's light and fluffy and scrape down the sides of the bowl to get a good mix. Once this is nice and fluffy we're going to add an egg and some almond extract. Mix this on medium until it's well combined. Now we're ready to add the flour mixture and I'm only going to add a half of it at a time until it's just combined.  Because the dough is quite sticky I'm going to pour it out onto some plastic wrap and then we're going to wrap it up and place it in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes. Go ahead and preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.  I find it easier to wrap the piece back in plastic to roll it out so it's slightly smaller than the cookie press cylinder. Don't forget to place the unused portion back in the refrigerator to keep it chilled. Fill the cookie press with dough and attach your favorite disc to the lid. You're going to crank the handle to push the dough down to the press and once it starts to come out of the end you know you're ready to start pressing cookies. Place the cookie press onto the cookie sheet and crank it one time and then slowly lift off the press. Your dough should stick to the baking sheet in the shape of a cute cookie. You can change discs at any time for different shaped cookies. You can decorate the cookies any way you like for a more festive look also. You can decorate with sprinkles, chocolate chips, whatever you like. I found that if I place sprinkles on top before baking they stick better than trying to place them after the cookies are done and I also press them with my finger into the cookie dough just a little bit to help them stick. Place the cookies into a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven for somewhere between seven and eight minutes depending on your oven. Keep an eye on them so they don't burn. What you're looking for is some golden brown near the bottom of the cookie. Take these out and let them sit for five minutes before removing them from the pan to a cooling rack. Check out how nice and golden brown these are. These are so delicious with their delicate crunch on the outside and they're soft and chewy on the inside. You're going to love the flavors. With that almond extract it's really good. These are best warm right out of the oven but I think they'll last up to about three days. If you're looking for more festive cookies you might want to try my chocolate crinkled cookies. They have a delicious peppermint flavor. Click the link on the screen to see that video. I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did let me know by smashing the like button and leaving me a comment. I love to hear from you. All right we'll see you back here next week for another Rockin' Recipe.


Do you like free plugins? Do you like good free plugins? I've got you covered. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you will. I've got some great free plugin news for you today, including a reverb, a doubler, a gator, a gator. I guess it's a kind of a crocodile and a crusher. We'll be gate crushing. Let's take a look. So just a few short weeks ago, I made a video about free reverb plugins. I'll put a link for that on the top right here. This one was new out at the time, so didn't quite make it in there. So here is today. This is Room 041 from Analog Obsession. Now I've covered their plugins on the channel before. They make great plugins, but this is their first reverb plugin. And I've got to apply to some female vocals. And for regulars on the channel, these will be very familiar female vocals. This is Suzy singing what we do. We're going to have a listen first without the reverb switched on. So we've got a little bit of context. And now with it switched on. So really nice sounding reverb. So what are the features? Starting at the top left hand side, we have this stereo separation control. I think the idea here is to make the sound of the reverb wider. Now you would need to make sure whenever you're applying a stereo effect like this, that the channel itself is a stereo channel. And often we record vocals, of course, in mono. So we need to make sure after we've recorded those vocals that we either send them to a stereo bus or we switch the channel to a stereo channel. I'm going to talk about this control a little bit later at the end. Next we have the pre-delay control. This creates a little bit of space between the end of the dry signal and the beginning of the reverb. This is useful for making sure that your original dry signal stays present. Next we have decay. This is really like a size control, a room size control. So we'll just have a listen to the vocal again. I'll play around with this a little bit. So it's really useful for controlling like, say, the room size. Next you would have seen me play with this a little bit already. We have the mixer control so we can blend our dry and our wet signals. Now what I often suggest to people here is if you are using this, using a plugin like this on the track directly, so as an insert, then definitely make use of these controls and blend the dry and the wet signal. However, if you're using a plugin like this on a bus, then I would suggest turn the dry signal all the way down to the bottom, wet all the way up to the top and then use the fader on the bus to blend in the effect. Okay. Now we're going to move on to this pre-amp section over here. So in that case, I'm just going to turn the wet signal up a lot. I'm going to turn the dry signal down. This pre-amp section adds a little bit of a sort of distorted effect if you like, an overdriven effect, which can be really nice to gritty things up and add a little bit of character. Now if we have it completely turned up wet like this, it's going to be extremely apparent and probably not very pleasing sounding, but let's have a listen anyway. As I say, not great by itself, but when it's blended in with the original signal, it does add a little bit of color and character to the sound. Next we have a high pass filter over here. I'm using that to get rid of any low end muddiness in this pre-amp section. And over on the right hand side, we have an EQ. This is a post EQ. So it's applied to the reverb after the fact rather than can apply to the signal on the way into the reverb, which is a bit of a different thing. There's basically two frequency ranges we're controlling here. On the right hand side, we have a knob where we can select frequencies from 20 up to 2k in terms of hertz. Now the gain control over here can either be used to reduce the particular frequency range we've selected or increase it. So over here, I've selected around about 150 hertz and I've done a reduction there just to get rid of some of that low end. On the other side, we have frequency controls from 200 hertz here all the way up to 2kHz. I'm selecting something around about 10 to 11kHz there and I'm doing a boost. Okay, that's to add a little bit of sparkle to the high end. So that's the overall controls here. Going back to this stereo separation control, I've had a little bit of a play with this and I'm not sure I'm hearing much difference. I'm going to invite you to follow the link in the description, download it yourself and have a listen. Maybe there's something that you'll hear locally that we can't really detect on YouTube. It's certainly not very, very obvious. I have made sure that I've got this on a stereo track and we've got stereo output. I'm going to play it again.  I'm just going to play with this again, see if you can hear much difference. So I need a bit more dry signal there. And again with dry lap full. I'm just not convinced it's even working. It's a new plugin. Maybe there's a bug there. Let me know what you think in the comments down below. GateLab is one of those plugins which is actually really deep once you delve into it. I'm not going to go deep here today, but I'm going to give you an overview to kind of wet your appetite. And it's one of those plugins which is also best listened to so you can hear what it does rather than talk about. So first of all, let's listen to this track that I've got prepared without GateLab switched on. And I want you to pay attention, particularly to the long chords being played by the keys. And GateLab works best on long sounds like that. So let's switch it on and hear what it's doing. So essentially what it is doing is sequencing volume changes. So it's dividing the track up into time. We've got 32 steps in here. And then we've got volumes in steps here for the left and the right channels, which is why we're getting that nice kind of stereo effect where it's bouncing from one side to another. And you may be saying, well, that's not really gating. That's a sort of a volume control. It does have a gate feature. Okay. If we switch from this flow mode that we're on at the moment through to the gated feature, and then we just click this randomize button here, then you'll see in this case, everything is either on or off. Have a listen. But as I say, in the flow mode, which I personally prefer, you can go in and you can make volume changes. I'll just go to the preset down the bottom here and set it back to where we started. So there's quite a lot of options. Obviously, you can change the numbers of steps. There's options to copy things from one track to another. There's options to randomize things in all different kinds of ways, which is really great. But a couple of things I want to point your eye towards are things like this. If we go down to a step here, we click on this button here, we can start to divide that little step up. So you can see now I've divided that into three little parts. Have a listen. Then if you pick that up, I might be able to make it more obvious over here. So such a great fun effect to use. As I say, it has got lots of randomization features, things that you could automate, you could even use it for live performances really, really effectively. This is GateLab. I highly recommend that you download and it's not just for things like electronic music. I think this would be great on long sort of distorted electric guitar chords, things like that. Give it a try.  But if you want to make sure that you hear about them, do make sure you subscribe and ring the bell. That's the only way you can be guaranteed to get notifications about those free plugins. Also, while you're at it, could you go ahead now and hit the like button for me, not just for me, but because it will make sure that YouTube tells other people about this great news about these plugins. It's kind of a community service, if you will, back to the video. So this plugin is not new, but it's new to me. So maybe it is to you too. This is VocalDubbler from Isotope. The great thing about vocal doubling is you can make vocals sound larger than life. Very, very useful for things like choruses and things where you really want them to sound huge. Now, you can double them up in terms of manually re-recording them and then separating them in left and right channels. But that option may not always be available to you. So a plugin like this can come in very, very handy.  I love plugins like that. First of all, on the right hand side at the bottom, we just have this amount control, which is a mix control between the dry and the wet signal. We have two other parameters which we can change, separation and variation. We'll get to what they are in a moment, but we simply change them with this knob in the middle. So as we drag out from the center in any direction, we increase the separation. So that is the delay between the dry signal and the doubled up vocal. So essentially, there's a small amount of delay which is added and then it's spread across the left and right channels. Okay, we'll hear that in a moment. Then we have the variation control. As we move this around like so, you'll see the variation moving. This is pitch variation. Okay. And this can really help to create a wider effect.  It's going to get fairly extreme. Let's have a listen. Let's add that piano in there again. Now, that is sort of a bit too obvious for most cases unless you want to use it as an effect. So naturally, you would bring the mix down a little bit. It's a great thing in terms of automation, you know, to use automation with these types of things so that you can make your vocals sound a little bit more narrow in things like verses and then sort of bring them to life, as I say, in the choruses. A great plugin, definitely worth downloading. Music producers are strange creatures. We spend half of our time trying to make things sound pristine. And the other half of our time just trying to mess them up as much as we can. And My Crush is a case for messing things up. This is a bit crusher, a kind of a resampling type of plugin. And it's there to make things sound nasty. We're going to make things sound nasty now. And the main two controls that you're going to use for that are the resample and reduce controls. So we've got our original track here. Let's mess with resampling. And you can hear those nasty artifacts that, as I say, we're normally trying to avoid, but they can become interesting. I think it gets even more interesting when you use this reduce control here. Have a listen to this. Yeah, things are getting really nice there. We also have some high pass and low pass filters here, both pre and post. Okay, so if you just say, want to knock out the bottom end here, and you can hear it's really aggressive there. There's no slope on that at all. It's just cutting off at a certain point. Or you could just, you know, reduce the top end, as I say, both pre and post. We've got our mix control here. That's fairly obvious. And then we have these sort of EQ curves here. It's on flat at the moment, but we've got a few presets here. I'll go through those. Let's leave it on smile. Who doesn't like a smiley EQ curve? So there's a few other features. This stutter one here, and there's this split feature up here. I'm not absolutely certain what they do. The documentation is a little bit thin. Would be nice to see some documentation for each control. I may have missed it on their website. I don't think it's there. The split control obviously has an effect on the stereo image. We'll have a listen to that now. Switch off again. So I'm obviously using it here on the master bus. You could use it on individual instruments, that kind of thing. Really, really handy if you want to mess things up. So I want to hear from you. Let me know in the comments down below. What's your favorite of these plugins? Which one are you going to download right away? And what are you going to use it for? What plans do you have? I'd love to hear from you guys about that. Also follow the links in the description if you do want to download them. And check out the link for my Patreon page where for as little as $1 per month you can help me help you by making more videos like this. See you in the next one.


In my case, it's the March of the sick, baby Um is is it just just kind of fussy fussy cry Babies are high maintenance they're demanding I wish don't tell me that My my three-year-old has a sore throat a fever. I think she has a flu.   It'll be worth it. That was really funny to Sarah and I who don't have babies Oh When will it be worth it? Somewhere after high school. Oh So, yeah, you only have like 18 years. It's fine. Yeah, it's not a life sentence. It'll go like that. Yeah Thank you. It is a life goal. I've decided to just go ahead and act 50 starting now Okay, is there a reason yeah, that way when I turned 50, it won't be a big deal.  No, he's okay. Okay. Are you alone?  No, I think he's okay He coughs, but he's really good and he falls back to sleep. Okay So now it's just a cough if it turns into a full meltdown I might need to disappear That's totally fine. Yeah, it's it hasn't happened yet. So and it's been a few days and So it should be okay, but Yeah, yeah, not great fun. Well, yeah, it sounds exhausting At the very least have you tried turning them off and turning them on again. Yeah Uh, my understanding is that you can do the second part of that. Oh, that's difficult. Yeah You don't want to be the first if you can't do the second. Yeah, what if you just do, you know, I see people pat babies sometimes Pat the baby Someone says you're welcome Yeah, it'd be like somebody, you know, giving me advice on I don't know Yeah, but they don't know exactly. Yeah, right. Well, you just come back when you have one That being said I really shouldn't complain because he's a trooper. He's oh And also he's impossibly cute, which you know, I think that's for sure. I saw a photo the other day Yeah Science needs to get on how that baby is so cute like that's yeah, how'd you do that? I mean, I think it's it's an evolutionary trait of babies means they get Funny reactions and and care rather than you know being dumped in the trash got you got you Really like what would be the point?  Oh, he started saying A few days ago that made it all worth it. He's walking as well. Oh, should we start the show? Okay? Yes, we should but I want to hear more about my baby if you want but yes after the show Five four three two one Bill and Britt Durand have supported independent tech news directly for almost five years Thanks, the Durans be like the Durans become the DTNs member at patreon.com slash DTNS This is the Daily Tech news for Tuesday December 18th 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline. I'm Sarah Lane and From sniffle city in Finland. I'm Patrick major and I'm the show's producer Roger That's a traditional finished name sniffle city I Baby I do want to add though that before we start the show. We should be like the Durans in so many ways Supporting the show, but like so many other ways as well. Yeah, like being talented and amazing fun and kind Yes, and and and cool to talk to and hang around. Yeah, that's a good point Yeah, it's a very good point. We are going to talk about faking Sponsorships, it's a weird thing that goes with everything I was ever raised to believe later in the show But let's start with a few tech things you should Charter communications agreed to a 174.2 million dollar settlement over a 2017 lawsuit in the state of New York that speeds were up to 80 percent slower than what charter was Advertising to its customers 7,000 active customers will each be refunded between 75 and 150 dollars and then an additional 110 million dollars will go towards free streaming services and premium cable channels distributed to 2.2 million subscribers in New York Google home can now read events from a G suit account Multiple calendars on Google home have been available for more than a year But previously didn't support birthday or holiday calendars or shared calendars created by G suit account or imported calendars and Arm is adding the Cortex a 76 a ECPU with focus on automotive applications to its portfolio arms first to feature the split lock technology that allows to CPU cores to operate in a Configurable lockstep operation mode and lets the units process tasks together achieving a required level of functional safety of the software That is run on the system All right, let's talk a little a bit about the day that has finally come that's so many things of Patrick You have asked you have begged you have pleaded you have dreamed and Trader Twitter Twitter introduced a new toggle feature in its iOS app to switch from the ranked Timeline to a reverse Chronological feed which was the original the company says it understands Twitter users find Real-time tweets important during live events such like such as sports games and the Oscars Twitter says the feature will roll out to other platforms in the coming weeks There's there were some folks who had this as a beta test Now I I've said this a million times on the show before I use Tweetbot, which is a third-party app It's not made by Twitter itself. It is reverse chronological. So that's the only Twitter that I have ever known Yes, if I go to the web version of Twitter, you know, I see all this pinned tweets and ads and mumbo jumbo that that quite honestly, I'm like, ah Get out of here. So that's why I actually like Tweetbot for this reason I suspect that First of all, I suspect a lot of folks are just used to the Twitter that they're used to and will never use this But for those who do use it because it is really good in real-time situations They won't want to switch back because it's the better Twitter. I I Don't hate the non chronological feed it exposes me to things that I'm glad I saw because I don't read Twitter all the time And so when I do pop in and see something here's what you miss stuff is actually kind of love that love that I also Absolutely want the ability to say. Oh, no, I I have checked Twitter recently and now you're just showing me old things Show me what's new. I want to see what's recent Just give me that option and this is that it says look you want to have the the algorithm timeline great You can if you want the chronological great You can you can switch back and forth or not leave it this they should have done this a long time ago But I'm very glad they're doing it now. I Agree, it's definitely something that you should have the option for So that's good, but I also think that you know, there are some people who really don't care There are some people who care very much and there are a lot of people who say they absolutely desperately want it But I think it will make their Twitter experience Apart from you know live events, which is the thing Twitter is talking about when really that's not the whole reason why they're doing it but I think a lot of people think they want it but are gonna have a worse experience because The fact is you add more and more people you follow and if what every one of those people tweets You know a few times a day then you don't catch anything of what's What you would like to see so that that's the never-ending, you know debate about algorithm-based feeds, but I think They're at least some people not everyone but some people think they want it, but really they're gonna be Badly served by this feature, but it's good to be able to switch back in We don't fake our opinions on the show and yet today we have fallen down very nicely on the Chronological forever sometimes chronological sometimes not and you're gonna miss the algorithm Way we spread out today Well, we're also gonna talk about 5g right now AT&T announced it's launching 5g mobile service in About 12 US cities Atlanta, Charlotte, North Carolina, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Florida Louisville, Kentucky, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Raleigh, North Carolina, San Antonio and Waco, Texas This is on Friday AT&T promised to launch 5g service in 2018 So it's gonna make good on that promise Although the service is only available right now via a mobile hotspot until 5g capable phones start becoming available And that's not happening until at least next year the hotspot will cost $499 out of the gate 15 gigs of data per month will cost $70 So yeah, it's there. It's kind of steep AT&T also says it plans to add service in parts of Las Vegas, Los Angeles Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, California by 2020 now the the hotspot costing The amount of a mid-range phone is a little bit insulting But okay, it's it's brand new gear and you know, you're getting early adopters and probably enterprise people more than anything This is the first mobile service Verizon's 5g that it launched in California was a to the home 5g wireless service So this is this is a big deal for AT&T But $70 for 15 gigabytes when one of the big advantages of 5g is being able to download massive amounts of data in a short amount of time I mean, you're gonna blow through that cap really quickly if you're making good use of this connection I don't get that. No, I don't either. I Can imagine as yes, I'm sort of a business customer and I believe that AT&T said that select business and Customers and consumers will get unlimited data on yeah for like 90 days or something like that But you know, I'm not a customer of AT&T's it wouldn't apply to me But yeah, I'm looking at the numbers. I'm like unless you yeah for whatever reason your company bought a bunch of these as a bundle It made sense. It doesn't sound like a good deal I mean if the speeds are amazing and it works for you in a certain capacity great But but yeah, it's it's a that's kind of steep. Just one day one day a month. I need 15 gigabytes of data. So that's fine What would be the cost of 15 gigs on a 4g connection? I mean, they're mostly unlimited now here So I don't know limited. Okay. So I'm guessing this probably has something to do with AT&T not being super confident with The initial roll out of their network. They don't want everyone to be downloading all the things all the time non-stop. I suppose Neuro is an autonomous car startup founded by two google veterans that has started making Fully autonomous grocery deliveries within a few miles of a fries grocery store in scott's dale, arizona No human drivers on board. This is Full autonomous on the road not on a sidewalk not a little robot. These are vehicle street legal vehicles on public roads The neuro r1. However, has no space for people on board Not only does it not have a safety driver. It has no passengers. This cannot even carry people It only carries groceries. So it's a little smaller it tops out at 25 miles per hour and This is from a company that has already been doing Self-driving Priuses With safety drivers on board delivering groceries for fries About a thousand deliveries so far. They're going to keep doing that As well as adding in these fully autonomous r1s But this is one of those things that I think will get swamped because it's not Cool enough to grab the headline of passenger service like Waymo. Although Waymo's passenger service still has safety drivers but it's also a big step up from the on the sidewalk Autonomous deliveries Although it's in a very limited area. It's only going a few miles down the road from this grocery store 25 miles per hour is usually Residential neighborhoods. I mean, that's you know, one one would think they're not going to be putting something that tops out at 25 miles per hour on a road where the speed limit is 40 because everywhere just be very upset So, yeah, just kind of not really knowing this area of Scottsdale. I wonder how much that I don't know just adds to congestion around people's houses and and the grumbling that might happen But then again, most of the deliveries are probably going to people's houses anyway, so You know few of your own cars more of these probably going on side streets To people's houses where they can then, you know, put in a code to unlock it just like the sidewalk robots do And this will help neuro prove their technology such that they can start putting faster vehicles on the streets and potentially Eventually prove their technology is good enough to actually carry passengers I I feel like this is a better way to do it than the way Waymo and others are where they're spending a lot of money To shoot for the top end right away well There are things interesting with amazon as well. I'm going to move on to the other story I could repeat what you guys just said, but uh, let's not mark Robber or robber. I want to say robber because that's funny Yeah, robert So mark robber Caught thieves stealing packages from his doorstep on a security camera But the police said they were unable to investigate the case So the former nasa engineer put four smartphones a circuit board and a pound of glitter in an apple Homepod box the device was built to release the glitter and spray farts smell When the thief opened the box and the smartphones would record the moment and upload it accelerometer checked gps um When there was any motion and activated the phones if it was off the porch It was stolen several times and abandoned after each time a thief opened it police in new jersey are working with amazon to plant Dummy boxes with gps and cameras to catch thieves. They do not include glitter to which I have to say Why not? Is it everything improved with glitter and fart smell right because because yeah, once you're spray I don't know about the fart smell. I don't know where that's coming from. I'd love to know mr.  It's it's it's it's really it really sticks And yet it's something that people generally think of as a festive thing So he's not going to get a bunch of blowback of how dare you use glitter on people It's like no, that's what you use at parties and clubs and stuff. Yeah, are we still in my glitter? It's an ingenious solution as far as the glitter goes because you've tagged that person for sure Uh, I'm surprised. Maybe the police in new jersey might want to take a tip from mark It's I mean old jokes aside and it's difficult to put the jokes aside because glitter Uh, this is super super smart. I would love to see I I read through the article. I didn't uh Check too deeply, but I didn't see the pictures.  Oh, there you go. There you go, right?  He's stepped up to being a better paid position Yeah, this is this is really smart. I wonder if the police then found the the the big glittered thieves Yeah, yeah, I uh, that's a good point as well Not only is that annoying but Then well, then you're gonna have you know people being like no, no, no I was actually at a party Or did you have mark robers uh home pod? Listen, uh Every everyone looks more fabulous with glitter. That is the only reason I have it on my person I I think it's fascinating that a package with four smartphones in it Doesn't get stolen after you get sprayed with farts We don't know which smartphones. Maybe they were the the cheap kind that the thieves don't want Yeah, maybe maybe they're picky thieves had thought about that. You're right Ford has taken noise canceling from its edge suv and used it to build a noise canceling doghouse to shield pets From firework sounds. I'm already worried about this on New Year's Eve The walls are made from noise dampening high density cork Sadly though the doghouse is just a concept from ford's uh interventions project And you can't go out and buy one just yet I this is a way for ford to get some press around its edge suv noise canceling Because it's meant to to cancel the noise of the engine to keep give you a nice quiet ride. That's awesome. Whatever. That's great Uh, I want them to make this an actual real Affordable doghouse. I will buy it. Uh, if it's somewhere below a thousand dollars, you know 999 would start to push it But I I will definitely buy this for my dogs because I have I have all three of my dogs Have had bad reactions to firework, especially on july 4th Ray not as much as the other two, but but well, yeah, no, it's not it's not fun I wonder if there is something pretty good noise canceling too I wonder if there's something dangerous about the dogs being able to go to their doghouses and not hear anything Um, maybe they're not aware something happens or I guess it's very No, that's an interesting thought like do do you want to be able to turn it off sometimes if there's not Noise so that they can actually be aware of what's going on You know, it's I mean, I feel the same way when I wear earplugs at night I would every night because I actually like it, but I'm like Sometimes, you know, you kind of want to hear the world around you a little bit You know, you don't want to be in too much of a cocoon unless your baby is sick Unless you don't want to hear anything you just Always cancel it Yeah, I would I would buy that doghouse. I would buy that doghouse and sleep in it Do they make it human size? Uh, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day, don't forget about our other show daily tech headlines dot com We have a bunch of shows monthly video games briefing with patrick beija daily tech headlines with sarah lane and myself and sometimes rich straffolino Uh, check them all out daily tech headlines is at daily tech headlines dot com All right, let's get to that Atlantic story Atlantic's taylor lorenz Uh, wrote up a story today about people pretending to make sponsored posts on places like instagram and youtube Uh to make themselves look cool This is definitely a big trend among high schoolers The idea seems to be to look like you're the kind of influencer who can promote things For many reasons one would be so that you would actually get paid People would say oh this person gets paid. They have some following I will pay them to promote my product. Uh the fake it to you make it sort of situation It's also about street cred though. Uh getting getting props from your friends saying hey, I saw that brand deal you got that's cool Your big time now Uh, there are no rules about doing this. There are rules about disclosing when you are paid But there are no rules about Disclosing that you're pretending to be paid when you're not this is the part that blows my mind because I don't think anyone thought That the rules all my life have been like People are going to try to promote something and look like they're not getting paid So you believe them because if you know they're getting paid, you won't believe them and the world has turned topsy-dervy here Uh brands are not even fully on board of this. Obviously They'll like the free promotion to an extent But it can be bad if the fake sponsorship messages aren't very good or are off message Because you can't control them It also seems to be driving down the amount of money paid to influencers At least some of the influencers are saying this.   Uh, well, you know my first reaction was what and then I thought well, yeah, of course right because it's like this is the new buying fake followers to make yourself seem more popular so that You seem I don't know somehow better as a social a person on social media You know to your peers, right? A lot of people have done that and continue to And for the most part we've all gotten pretty used to the fact that a lot of followers doesn't really mean anything Because there's so many variables and and oftentimes those numbers are inflated or just outright wrong Uh, so the idea that yeah, I'm with utah. At first I was like But the whole idea is to not promote anything unless you're getting paid because you want to get paid to promote it because That's you know, that's the whole point of shilling like you get money for doing this thing that might make you feel like Well, you know, I'm kind of you know working for the man here but to To promote a brand So that someone says well, wait a second. You must be cool enough for that brand to have come to you Is a whole is is makes perfect sense and I can see why people are doing it especially because You do see a lot of and this is instagram in particular because I don't hang out on youtube as much But you see a lot of folks, you know, who'll be promoting and not to tell me tea But you know something where you see a lot and I'll kind of be like they got a hold of this person I I'm sort of confused as to where this partnership would have come from. I I don't really get it They don't seem to have a big following And so I think I've seen some of this fake stuff actually without realizing what it was and just been like Well, I guess they're cooler than I thought that they were because there is a little something that happens in people's Brands when you see something like this if a brand has come to an influencer to to you know help you just spread the gospel then You know other people think oh that person must be pretty powerful. So I it's it just I wonder how many brands are going to try to go after these folks and get this You know this sort of stuff shut down because for sure. It's not illegal. But yeah, I'm guessing not many But I I'm wondering if after the initial boost in in Rep it isn't going to be doing them a disservice Like oh, you're the kind of person that pretends and the brands maybe won't be willing to be associated with them as much That's actually something that they touch on in the article I I do want to talk about something you both mentioned in passing but The reason I think why this uh concept is so Is affecting us so much is that the as as you said before you didn't want to promote stuff because it was selling out and I think it does say something about where we are now as a I don't want to generalize too much It's not like as a society because this is a specific type of people on a specific type of platform But the fact that we think And that people on those platforms think That this is normal, you know that we're shifting the relationship with advertising that Of course people would do it because uh, they want to seem legit Is it means that there is a context where Being Banner is being legit, you know, it's it's it's it's it gives you street cred right And exactly and I think it's important to note if people don't realize this that The influencer marketing has moved to the smaller influencers You don't have to have a ton of followers to get legitimately approached by a brand anymore In fact, the brands are liking giving smaller amounts of money to smaller influencers Because they can spread it around more and they feel like they're getting a better effect So getting into that game is what people want to do And so that that makes sense to say like oh well if I want to attract some of this money That's now going to more people. Maybe I should look like I already get it and then I'll get it uh And and also Then my friends will think i'm cool because i'm selling out Except yeah, that's the part that that's the part that gets me the most, uh, but I wonder, you know regulations wise Do uh influencers or anyone that gets paid to talk about a product Let's talk about instagram specifically. Do you have to have for example a hashtag ad or hashtag sponsor The fdc rules in the united states say that you have to disclose that it's sponsored right They're fairly flexible about how you can do that But there's some suggest language that they put out there and say as long as it's clear that it's paid Uh, you can do it. There's but there's no rule about saying you're Being you know implying you're being paid and but you're not But that's the thing let's say The common way is to put a hashtag ad or hashtag sponsored if it's not there I mean, let's flip everything on in on its head one more time. Let's say you do this and Put a hashtag ad on your your post Does that make it not comply with Rules because that's perfectly fine But it's still No, but it's still misleading the Audience right not in the same way, but it's misleading if you're saying you're getting paid to talk about this product You're in a way giving yourself a lie I guess I guess but it's still no, but it's not the reason why you need to disclose it is that you can't mislead your audience Right, you can't mislead the audience. The reason you have to disclose it is that you can't be Implying that the message comes from you when it comes from someone else It's not necessarily about misleading the audience So that's why that was my point of you know, how long before companies start going after people where they're like You're not a brand ambassador of ours and we're gonna you know, we're gonna shut this whole thing down I don't know exactly how they do that. I guess they just You know flag the account for now, but yeah, there's got there's got because there's let's say you're a There are all sorts of brands that advertise all sorts of things on the internet Let's say you're a luxury brand and there's a you know There's a certain type of you know lifestyle that you're trying to promote and and and and certain folks And I joked about being you know, the new face of Chanel like Sarah lands the new phase of Chanel before we started the show today It's like, yeah, that's not happening, right? Like that's Natalie Portman's job But well, let's just say I say it, you know, just Chanel then say well No, I mean now you're bringing down like the value what we value our brand to be And you know, how much do you have folks who now work at at brands, you know, kind of whack-a-mole in these fake people who are pretending to uh Have gotten an end with the company and now are Selling their foundation. Yeah, I think it's probably for big brands and and wide reaching people The wide reaching people probably wouldn't do it, but the big brands might smack You know play that whack-a-mole game But the smaller brands I think they're going to enjoy this unless It's something that doesn't align with their message and in that case they might go and ask the people politely to remove that content and My my conclusion about all of this is that uh, I think sarah you you would do a much better job than Natalie Portman I would buy way more Chanel than Well, isn't that nice? Thank you, Patrick. Well put Do you know are you listening? 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I don't know we're live money through friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern 20 130 utc And you can find out more at daily tech news show dot com slash live back tomorrow with scott johnson talk to you then This show is part of the frog pants network get more at frog pants dot com I'm in club. How was you have enjoyed this program? I really do want to do a bunch of fake Sponsored posts now for companies would be good. I've gone out of business When you first I was like pan am still around. Oh, yeah All right See what you did Uh gentleman and lady Uh, I will depart From this year presentation. Oh, it's the last time we get to talk you bad Well, I mean last time this year, right? It's not something's not happening. Oh, right You didn't hire some kind of snow based assassin that is gonna No, is that curse that witch put on me? I can never leave 2018. I just keep this is your last show. All right No, no the first last time this year, so A blissful holiday to your you and yours patrick. Thank you very much and to all of you as well 2018 has been Challenging and rewarding Year but Thanks in no small part to your continued friendship It has also been Wonderful Well, that was very nice. It was very nice. Yeah, it may have felt hard Putting it together, but it came out great Listen, babies do that to you. Don't don't don't get them. Don't do it I'm telling you I'm I might change my tune in a few years, but uh, I'm not sure it will be worth it Although to be fair Cute That's why they're cute so you still love them Uh, thanks every very much and I will talk to you next year then On silent night, what do you think lucy joy to the world park the herald um There's uh for titles. There's i'm selling out like the uh diana rossong I'm selling out and then parentheses. I want the world to go That actually i'm sorry roger was the next Um, I well we only heard i'm selling out I'm selling out in parentheses. It said I want the world to know there's also under the influence question mark Hmm. That's a good one But j jpeg had uh faking it to make the ad or making it to take it Hey, yeah, that's clever too. Yeah And then bow cow uh anything you can sell I can sell better Yeah I can sell anything better than you know you can't because I can Is it can is it can is it can what did that originally? It's full of musicals. I can't remember was it from any any any gets you good Oh, I thought yeah, I think you're right any any gets you got not okay Because I I I know it but I you see it in commercials and that's why I know it because my sister sang it in the junior high production of any get your gun Okay, he was in junior high. Uh, so I'm selling out Yeah, although I think I just want to do I'm selling out for character reasons and I think it still works Um, what does any get your gun about? It's about a lady named hanny who Doesn't have her gun and then she needs it and someone says that she should go get it and she does I don't remember I know it's like frontiers the Right. I figured it was yeah, probably from a certain era. Um, you know It's a sequel to a little orphan any which it grows up and need the gun any oakley was a american sharpshooter Oh, that's right. It's based on a sharpshooter. Annie Oakley. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She used to tour with Buffalo bill Okay, all right. All right. All right Good great One one would think uh any oakley would have been um played in a in a movie More recently than An old-school musical. I don't know if that musical comes around Played any oakley in the Broadway production apparently Oh, I bet there was a movie back in the fifties or sixties. There's a tv show in the fifties, annie There you go. That's back when the heyday of uh, children's westerns Bang bang Annie get your gun So that also not an aerosmith. That's uh Annie's got a gun Yeah, that that very depressing song. Yeah, definitely not as uplifting as the story of annie oakley No Wouldn't make a musical that of probably not The janey music video an aerosmith Music, uh, or not. It was an aerosmith. No It was yeah I would think it like if you did a music the reason why I say this is because my daughter All this daughter is totally latched on to sticks is Mr. Roboto's Okay And I was thinking like what if you just like every other Devo mr. Roboto No, it's six God, I I think we talked about this the other day and I just for some reason in my head I think it's devo. What does sticks have to do with aerosmith and Oh, no, like what does sticks have to do with any different band that you do wanted to do a rock opera When mr. Roboto was a was written as a rock as a concept album rock opera sort of thing Um songs on that album are part of the story. It's like a lot of paradise theater also What's the other one?  Uh, Tommy. Yes, Tommy That's another well known Rock opera. I just know the pinball song That's actually was actually turned into a movie too the tommy right But why are we talking about aerosmith again? Do they have a rock opera? They might have actually that is aerosmith relate Danny. Get your gut. I'm I'm totally No, jenny. You're too good jenny's got a gun that I'm all reminded roger of the song Okay, right. You said that I just space. Yeah. Yeah.  Where is my pomade? No, um, have we talked about, um Our love or or we're lack of for lacroix on the show Oh, I drink about, uh, we talked about sparkly water on it's a thing last friday. Actually, what did you I'm an ice man myself not a fan of lacroix Well, and I actually am partial to spin drift, which is another lacroix type of You know Actual fruit in it, right? Whereas lacroix doesn't I think it does it does, you know trace amounts But like there's like two grams of sugar in in a can But uh, but coconut lacroix very polarizing you either like it or you really don't I really like it, but it's hard to find because the super the supermarkets often carry the You know, there's the stuff that they know it's going to sell better Well, the bonds near me has cases of this Wow, there are cases of it in my refuge right neighborhood. Sure did. Yeah, the coconut lacroix neighborhood That should be listed on the uh, the neighborhood profiles on all those real estate sites. Seriously. Yeah, um 10 out of 10 walk score coconut lacroix nearby Great neighborhood for coconut lacroix drinkers I have uh moved on very easy to order online.  So they stopped care the local cosco stopped caring it um, so I've moved on to the signature select the house brand that bonds for solea oops for solea And uh, I have to say I like it a lot better Then lacroix. Yep huh But do they have coconut flavor? I believe they do but I don't like coconut anything unless it's actual Senator I believe they do uh Senator that's a completely different company makes that phone the best of my knowledge they may Senator I do not work for lacroix. I don't know anything about the coconut I'll have to check with lacroix and get back to you. Uh, I'll send it in my report to the committee I drink it but I'm not friends with it I don't recall making coconut lacroix I No, don't recall that Well, yeah, that was the I don't recall was the big oliver north hearings And it feels like the zuckerberg era is the I'll check with that and get it began and send her an answer along to the committee later And you don't know something. You know what? I'll have to I'll have to look into that and send the answer to the committee later I'm just going to start saying that anytime someone asked me something. I don't want to answer Um, you know what? I'll have to check on that and get the answer to you later Yeah, I'm gonna have to get back to you on that. You know how fast you were driving officer. I'll have to check on that Yeah, let's circle back on this. Yeah, let's defer this I'll have my people look into it. Let's take this offline My speedometer says I was doing five miles an hour No, no, no, no. No, you're missing the point. Roger.  I I really don't know the answer off the top of my head I'll have to look into it and get back to you. Yeah, just file it as paperwork.  Please write up your your script pitches for total deferment and send them to feedback and daily technician Please yes, we will um, reenact them in our ante get your gun um revival uh The review that will be Will uh, we'll be ready in key 2019 $100,000 Patriots are and our new uh, 10 000 patron milestone, uh, is is the uh, all-star musical review No, I'm gonna get your gun. I'm gonna get your gun starting Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja and more I mean, I assume I'm Annie although it could be somebody else. Don't yeah, I mean don't don't assume Uh, you know flip the script. Sure. Yeah, I'd prefer to be Buffalo Bill quite honest. Sure. Yeah, why not? We're not gonna box you in I prefer some buffalo wings That's probably a song We won't box you in See we're so good The roles we were born to play Songs from Annie get your gun. So roger likes buffalo wings. He doesn't like coconut the kroy He's not uh, the the love for animals doesn't move the needle so much. I mean Wow, I think I think I know I think I know just looking at this soundtrack why it hasn't been made into a movie recently Oh, here are a few of the names of the songs. I'm an Indian too.  This is the actual song list the girl that I marry Uh, there's no business like show business came from Annie get garlic Oh, that was it. She was in the movie version. She did the uh, if you look on youtube You could see why i'm indian too is pretty offensive like it's it's a cut from Yeah, I mean I could I could imagine without even researching it at all Um, it was ethyl merman was in Annie get your gun Can't get a man with a gun. Well, that's not true and you can't get a man with a gun You know a little bit more forceful I No business like show business like oh my gosh, I would have thought that was from like Cabaret or you know, I just would not have thought it was in this musical. Yeah, I guess buffalo bill You know the the whole Wild bill. I guess not wild You know the whole entertainment scene With Betty Hutton as annie oakley Uh frank e butler apparently was uh someone that annie oakley had a romance with Who's also featured in the program? And uh Yeah, I don't know any of these people are we're gonna work on uh, we're gonna work on our choreography Yes, uh, so we need to shut the video off but uh audio folks stick around. There's uh sounds of tap dancing to come


Welcome back to the YouTube channel, it's your favourite village boy Mr Ganon Baby and I'm still here in Nairobi, Kenya. I'm super excited because I'm bringing you another innovative and mind-blowing episode. I get super excited when I see Africans doing something to change the narratives of Africa because this is the journey that I am on. You see what I'm holding today? I hardly use these things but since this is made in Kenya, I mean proud Africans. Oh, I put it in my eyes. Cheese. I'm a proud Africans. I only support things that are made in Africa by Africans and you know what? This is made by a young Kenyan. Can you believe it?  Come with me. The way I'm so excited I need to introduce you to this amazing gentleman but hey, do me a favour when I bring episodes like this. All you need to do is to stop whatever you're doing, click on the like button, share the video and if today is your first time seeing this annoying, energetic boy on your screen, my name is Watamaya and subscribe and be part of this awesome family. Come with me, let's go meet this amazing gentleman. You know what I'm super excited like, made in Africa. Oh, it's supposed to be spread on the body, not the hair.  Welcome. Man. How are you? I'm great. I've been waiting for you. Oh really? Yes. I'm so excited to see you today. I'm more excited to meet you. How? Let me tell you, you're the big guy. Oh no, no, no, no. I'm not looking for you. No, you're not looking for me but if you're able to do this, I think you'll be on top of my channel. I'm telling you, on your channel, I feel honored to be interviewed there.  Tony. I'm a small guy there but I'll be bigger after this. Definitely, Tony.  Yes, I want to take you around. You want to take me around? Yes, I have to. I have to so that you can believe it. Where are we now? We are in the Solaria Nairobi factory where everything is done here. Tony, we are in the factory but you own this factory? Yes. You own it? Yes.  You make women hair and I will never bring my girlfriend to you. I'm sorry, I'll never do that. You should. You should.   Do you want to sit somewhere or you want to sit here? Let's start from here before I take you in. Okay, feel free. My name is Tony Airob. I'm an African. I'm a manufacturer in Kenya and I want to supply the entire Africa with our products. Mai is one of my friends. I see him on Facebook and YouTube and this is an opportunity for me to talk about what I do because I've been admiring. I mean, if he's interviewing the presidents, who am I? Tony, welcome. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Come. All right. Okay. Thank you. So, Mai, this is our work area. I have our people working here so that they are the people who are making the warashi big, not me. These are the people who make warashi big. They make everything here. I'm just the brain. But without them, I'm not here. All right. So these are my special people. I mean, this is my family. This is your family? This is my family. Tony, you need to tell me who you are, I mean where you started from. You were born in Narobi? No, no, no. I was not born in Narobi. I wish I was born and raised in Narobi. I think I'll be better. What were you born? No, I was born in Nakuru, a place called Shariako. Then we lived and I was brought up in a place called Shabab as a very humble kid. I was raised by my mother and he has made me what I am today. You were raised by your mother? Yes. And then what brought you to Narobi? I came to Narobi when I was coming to college. That's the first time I landed in Narobi. I used to be told about Narobi. You see, when you are up in Nakuru there, you are told about Narobi. I have an uncle in Narobi. You know, you wish to also have an uncle in Narobi. But we didn't have an uncle in Narobi. But when I came to college, my mom got the college for me. I used to say I want to do hairdressing, but I never knew what to do. How do I apply? When you are in high school, you just say you want to do this. So my mom got the college for me. Actually I was selling second hand clothes before I came in here to college. I came in and I started this. She told me to go to Narobi. I was like, mom, how do I go to Narobi? You will land in Narobi, you will find a place. This is the school, this is the school and you have to come back. So you came to Narobi to learn how to do hair. I came to Narobi for a hair college. That is what brought me here. Narobi, yes. And from hair? So I started hair and the hair name was big. The hair name was big and I said, let me try my products. Can I try? And I started. You are using people's products? I was buying another brand. I was using people's products. And then I realized I can also do my own product because people started believing that if I tell them this product is good, then they can use it and it will work. So I said, let me take the advantage. So everything that you are using to make hair right now is all your own product? They are all our own products. So this is fantastic. Can you tell me some of the products that you make? We have a lot of products, but I will just mention the main product. We have basically everything for hair. We have shampoo, we have conditioner, we have treatment, we have oils. We have shower cups, we have sleeping cups. We have perfumes made in Kenya. We have body splash made in Kenya. We have edge control made in Kenya. Those are some of the things we are doing. You are more like now a cosmetic manufacturer. Exactly. In fact, I think I need to change that name after your interview that I am a cosmetic manufacturer. Just not a manufacturer. Incredible. Thank you. Tony, you have a passion for making hair. But right now you are doing something else, making your own product. I just want to know what is the inspiration behind it? What really motivated you to do something like this? All right. First if I take it a little bit far is when I visited the United States of America the first time as an African you know when you go to the States you want to do something and then come back. Your visa is probably six months and say can I do something and then go back. So I started going to salons in New York and I was looking for work. Of course they will ask you do you have a line sense? You say I just want something to do under the table. And you know you show them pictures of what you have done and you know the newspaper I used to write for the newspaper for a long time and they would ask you do you have your own product. So that one kept inspiring me because every salon I would go they would ask me about do you have your own brand. So I thought wow so whatever I am doing back home I need to be having my own but where do I start? But you see when you start like that is when you come back home and you start doing things you go get if I want something I go for it until I feel like this is not working then I say I tried until the end I just don't dream and then sit and say it will come it never comes to you you have to work hard and do it so I started looking for people who can do manufacturing for me because I don't have a place to manufacture so contract manufacturing it was also very hard so what did I do? I used to buy a brand and put it in a container and decant it and tell people it's my owner and guys would like there people would say wow that is good there people would say I don't like I lost clients in the salon because when I started my own brand people kept saying oh do you still go there I eat a lot it's a mentality but the same brand that I used to use on your hair is the one I'm using now but in a different container so you'd feel like you're eating that mentality that something is not good if it's done home and I kept saying whatever is so difficult in doing this thing that's why I really want to do it because why are people saying it can't and it can't if there is hope you can always do something you have life you have hope so I started doing that and the people who encouraged me the people who kept saying if you're doing hair and you have your own product you must be doing a good job because there is no manufacture in Africa if I can say who is a hairdresser and a manufacturer so you're the first one I'm the first one that means even when I was starting the product I wanted to hide my name because I didn't know the results so I said if it doesn't work people will not know it's me but I met people who told me if you don't trust what you make who's gonna trust it and that's why all those products have my name but Tony this does not have your name this has my kids name if my kids are there isn't it the warashi is those are my girls and that's why I put this name warashi in Swahili a perfume is Marashi Marashi only M now the W goes an M and a lot of people think it was Marashi and then I changed it to warashi but today you know warashi are my kids so you can call me Baba warashi exactly instead of each name can you show us the process yes I can show you the process we have the machine that we use here it's for a starter it's not very big but it's still working and I know Maya if you come here after 6 months probably because of this interview I'll be having the one turn thing so we process it here everything we put it here it cools here we give it 21 days to cure very well the perfume that we make from Africa is made for Africans Africans wants a perfume that lasts not the the 6 hours one hour thing this will last after the process of here we mix everything here under tight wherever there is no moisture to go in very tight stays here for 21 days after this we take it here we put it here because we used to use the manual things like pressing it like tomato sauce there but now we have advanced got as blasters with this machine we put it there and then the guy put it here what this helps is it is faster and there is no spillage in perfume when you spill even 10 grams it's a loss how many litres do you make like we make 300 now we are to 300 litres which we sell probably now we have started selling maybe in 2 months it's done and then we do another one and I'm sure we're gonna get to attain I have a platform where we support made in Africa business so I think this place is too small for you after this video it's by force I'm not gonna say please support Warachi it's by force I'm gonna put your numbers on everything we're gonna do wholesale let me know because I need to get my car you will get your car now from the Warashi we have others the Warashi is more of men and then we have also Warashi kiss this is Warashi kiss this is Warashi gold so these are the two and then we have the ones that we started with we have Warashi spark and we have Warashi attraction spark is more of men attraction is more of women and these are the boxes if you go to our website you'll get them this is Warashi spark and this is Warashi gold these are what started those people who started supporting our perfume started with this one and then after that we had to diversify and cater for everyone because you see this is like ten dollars, twenty five dollars and you have to cater for everyone we came with body splashes for the same sense we have attraction, we have gold these bodies are normally slightly cheaper you want to smell good and you don't want to spend so much yes body splashes don't last long but for Africa this takes like four hours you're good to go for this one it's also very good and you can put it in the bag you can travel with it, you can spray it wherever you want to spray it you have a meeting, you can always spray it so I took care of everyone after doing the Warashi now the perfume we had to take something else the Warashi lotion we did everything here look at the package look at the consistency not only the consistency and the moisture I'm a village boy I didn't really use it this morning I just went from the bathroom in your office I don't even know how to open it I'm really a village boy yes did you get a cocoa from Ghana oh my god I'm telling you please I need ten of this you will have because I think we need to give your facebook your youtubers the most youtubers we will give them yes everybody will give it you need to support Warachi Warachi Gold, Warachi Diamond we will support everything I like the way you have smelled it Tony I want to know do you have any aim or go to expand this whole factory because you know the whole Africa will be coming in here I'm telling you I have a plan and I want to show you I know you're busy but can I take you just only for five minutes or less you will go and see what I'm doing and I want to expand but the next time you're coming I have a pressure of showing you this is what I've done can I take you? of course Maya and this is the new place 20 minutes ago and we are still working on it it used to be a garage as you can see it was a garage and we are trying to clear everything that was here because the owner is supposed to come out and I'm supposed to go in and I like the fact that you have agreed to come to this place that is not finished so this is the new manufacturing this is going to be the new manufacturing Tony Tony Tony I don't understand what's going on you started from being a hairstylist you gave back to that one the factory this is big and this one we are going to take even even higher can I ask you this question is somebody funding you not yet if somebody funds me Maya will be very far that's why I need that funding I'm talking about no funding so far so where did you get the money from? from the factory you see it's the salon the factory and now the factory you started a salon without having the factory so you mean the money from the salon give back to the first factory this is the second factory that I'm working on now Tony I think I believe in you for what you've done I think more people need to support you Tony do you need sponsors or do you need investors I need investors and I need African investors please Africans I've seen what he has done I was in the salon I've been to the first factory and this one is huge please if you really want to invest I'll put his email there contact him directly you're going to talk to him directly and you can invest in his business take me through this one I'm impressed so so far we just brought in very small things here and there this is how the factory is going to be a setup just a little bit of savings and here and there I have a big plan and I'm hoping to get a fund so that I can also go bigger and bigger so I want to take you just slightly you see this is like an office block this is going to be an office block you have to work on it this is where the I believe in myself this is where the lorries will be coming and you know taking the products from here and it's a big place a 40 feet can fit here that place the other place you saw so this is going to be better for me better for the manufacturing better for my workers you know the people I've worked with so I'm hoping that in the next 6 months you're coming back to Kenya if you come back here I promise you I will do something Tony yes do you believe that Africa is the future I believe Africa is is not the future Africa is future now Africa is now not the future is now future is when it is now our fathers used to say the same thing Africa is future Africa is future no Africa is now Tony you started almost everything here and I will say that you're almost there but most of us want to leave the continent and go abroad and do you think we need to leave we don't need to leave and I will not say don't go to other continent go to study you can study there's no problem as you study in China but you're here so it does not mean when you study in China it's a bad thing or study in the states it's a bad thing or the UK it is good even here we have people who are from Ghana who are studying here there are people who are from the states they are studying here so but when they finish whatever they are studying they go back to their country so I tell people it is okay to study but bring the knowledge back to Africa not the future it is now so if you had a chance to change something in Africa what will it be I'll change the mindset of Africans we can do our own here you see I'm even feeling this thing that we are doing the interview in an English we should be doing it in one language in Swahili we are doing it in English there's a time I promised my mom this is funny out of topic I told my mom one day I'll have you in a mother tongue and they'll translate down there and it will come watch me I'll talk in mother tongue and they'll translate in that language your message for young African entrepreneurs I can tell you one thing for fact hard work, dedication focus most of the young people most of the entrepreneurs who wants to be entrepreneurs they want to make it big like this it can never it is sweeter when you start from there and you see your sweats but you want to make today you want to be big today and sometimes I think a lot of people social media will lie to you you will see our local celebrity musicians and they are driving big cars sometimes it's not their cars you just hire for that particular day and when you see you also want to buy the same thing so I think consistency patient and focus is the main thing you say you have to be consistent in what you do and you have to trust and you have to have faith in what you do like when you met me I was smelling how yo I was like what perfume are you wearing exactly if I'm making perfume and I'm wearing other people's perfume then I don't believe in my own exactly yes if you come to my house I'm telling you everything we make we use if it's shower gel we use our own lotion baby care everything I even feel bad I'm using somebody as long because I need to use exactly you see that's why it's very important to be in the salon still because I see where the gaps are people complaining oh this shower gel I just use it for 2 weeks it's done where is it from that country now I made something for us and I saw you making something I saw you making something like a Vaseline yes like it's not even a Vaseline it's called petroleum jelly made in Kenya very good I'm telling you and the prize you know when you get things made in Africa the prizes are not exaggerated the economy we are in right now you want something and can still work on you it's a good quality that is what you need yeah you see come Maya come okay we are still working on this factory these are the cages you know so we are still using it as a store we have in manufacture you can see here we are still working on it the people who are supposed to be here today they are off duty they will come these are cages just to try and make space for it I want to take you upstairs where now I'm doing you see you saw the other place is really small so we are coming here and yes so it's under construction as you can see we will be having our productions here up here the production will be done the raw material will be here production is done here you know we will put the things that are supposed to mix all these things and then there is no more you know pouring with a jug now we have you can come I see we have all these things here that are going to take the products down there so all these are done here and you know with our local technicians so it's going to go down there and then I will take you down there you see where we will be doing the package now production will be up packages will be down there will be storage you know the investors if they come here they will see you know I am using their manual and I promise you if you invest in me you will be happy you invest in him you will definitely be happy happy in this just not happy in this it will come back I promise you so the production from up there it will be coming here there will be a set up down here of tables so people will be packing here then we will be having a lab on the other side and now it will be much better because the other times I normally take my product to other people's lab now I will have my own lab to test my product before they go out to the government lab because I am certified with every product that you have seen there even the perfume they are certified with the government lab I just want to say you are doing an incredible job keep up the good work all Africans will come here to support you no matter which country they are from I just want to say thank you so much for taking me around I appreciate your time and hey if you are watching this video my name is Mr. Gaena Baby don't forget to like the video and share let more people get to know Tony Iroh's story because I feel like this story can inspire many out there thank you so much and can I tell you something before you sign off Maya thank you very much for hosting me I feel very honored to be hosted by you and I am promising you I will not let you down thank you so much


Let's talk about mouth guards. So you might have heard them being referred to as mouth guards or night guards. You would have gone to the dentist or heard from somebody else that yes, you do need one. Now why would we suggest you need a mouth guard? It could be for a couple different things. So a sports guard is something different by the way. So if we tell you you should get a sports guard, that's because you play sports and we need to protect your mouth. But if we say mouth guard, we probably mean either a mouth guard or a night guard. But I guess in some locations, it could be referred to as a sports guard as well. So I would confirm what we want to give it to you for. But a mouth guard otherwise known as a night guard is if you're clenching or grinding your teeth either at night or during the day. Your teeth can wear down quite quickly, believe it or not. It's about 300 pounds of pressure. Imagine that when you're clenching like that 300 pounds of pressure, you can wear down those teeth quickly. The enamel isn't as strong as trying to fight 300 pounds of pressure and wearing the teeth down causes pain, causes cavities even causes sensitivity. Because once the enamel is worn down, you can get cavities. You can be sensitive too because the second layer of your tooth is now exposed. That's that second layer is called the dentin. So what a night guard does is it goes over the teeth either at night or during the day or both, depending on when you're clenching and or grinding and protects the teeth. This happens a lot where a patient will come into the office and say like my mouth hurts every morning, like I'm in so much pain. The first thing we look for is are the teeth worn down?  So I'm just going to share it looks like this. So it's not thick. It's not thin. It's kind of in the middle, but I've also seen some where they look like this, but typically you're going to get one like this. These ones is more considered a preformed mouth guard. You can buy them from a lot of stores. They might be about 50 or $60, but it's a one size fits all. I want to say I don't recommend them for most people. The only time I recommend a preformed night guard is if you don't know if you want a mouth guard, you don't know if it's going to make a difference. You don't even know if you'd be able to wear one. I might suggest this or if somebody just simply can't afford a custom mouth guard. So a custom mouth guard is like this.  You don't have one on the top and bottom. It's typically for the top or for the bottom, depending on what we're making the mouth guard for. As an example, I have a mouth guard because my jaw here, it clicks and pops. So I'm wearing one at night time to just sort of help that so it doesn't get worse. It happened after I got my wisdom teeth taken out. Just something is a little bit out of alignment. So we are trying to correct that. I had my wisdom teeth taken out when I was 15. So I'm now 37. So but it's still clicking and popping. And I know it can get worse. So I have one made for my bottom teeth specifically. But typically if it's for clenching and grinding, you're going to have one made for the top teeth. So it's not that bad. But you guys, you do have to wear it every single night or and every day. Okay. When you don't wear it, then the symptoms return. So if your mouth here is sore because of your clenching and grinding, if you just wear it once a week, it's not going to make a difference. But if you wear it every night or every day, then you will notice over time it's going to make a big difference. I have heard a mouth guard even helps if you get a lot of migraines. It could be because you're clenching without knowing it.  It helps to keep your jaw in a more relaxed position. So it can't clench or grind as well. You might still clench and grind a little bit, but you can't wear the teeth down because the guard is in place. Does that make sense? So it's a very easy appliance. It's not complicated. But if you have one custom made, that's typically about $500 to $600 depending on where you have it made. A preformed one is going to be about $50 to $60. So as you can see, you guys, a big difference. But let me share my screen again. The preformed ones, you guys, I don't typically recommend just because they're not made for your your mouth. So it's not going to fit properly. It's going to be maybe even uncomfortable and uncomfortable who wants to be uncomfortable. So that's why I suggest the custom ones because they're made for your mouth. I don't want to say they're uncomfortable as it is because they're not uncomfortable. But who is used to having to wear something in their mouth? Nobody is. So it does take some getting used to. So I hope that helps you guys. Let me know if there's any questions between mouth guards, night guards, sports guards, there are many different options. And maybe you're thinking you might need one. So how do you go about getting one? You would go to your dental office, let them know, and they would have one made for you. The preformed ones you can pick up at the store. But just again, I prefer the custom ones because they're made for your mouth and you can't cause any additional damage. What if you buy a preformed one that's too big or too small?  So that's why custom is better in this case. So let me know you guys if any questions. Thank you for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.


Namaste. So far in this course we have been building machine learning models with feed forward neural networks. Today we will learn about a new neural network architecture called convolutional neural networks or CNNs. Let us first collab environment for CNNs. CNNs trend faster with GPUs. So we will enable free GPUs in collab like this. We will open edit, go to the notebook settings and in the hardware accelerator we select GPUs and we save the settings. Now the notebook is enabled to run with GPU runtime. Let us install and import all the necessary libraries in the collab runtime. CNNs are used extensively in computer vision. They are also used for modeling temporal data. The key idea in CNNs is to capture local patterns in the data through convolutional operation. The key idea in CNNs is to capture local patterns in the data through convolution operation. It then down samples the resulting output with pooling layer. CNNs employ a series of convolution and pooling layers. Let us understand CNNs with MNIST digit recognition example. In this case, CNNs take an image as an input and predicts the corresponding digit as an output. The image is encoded as a 3D tensor with access corresponding to height, width and depth of an image. In case of MNIST data, we are dealing with grayscale images and hence the depth is 1 for us while height and width are both 28. We will download and pre-process MNIST handwritten digit recognition dataset just as before except for a small change. Here we reshape each image into a 4D tensor. This is done to satisfy the input requirements of the CNNs. So, the reshaping is done with a reshap command that you can see here on your screen. Both train images and test images tensors are reshaped into 4D tensors. Let us run this particular cell and we will examine the shapes of the tensors before and after reshaping. You can observe that the reshaping operation converts the 3D tensors into 4D tensors. The shape of the train and test tensors for each image changes from 28, height of 28 and width of 28 to height and width of 28 each and a depth of 1. Now that we have prepared the data for training, let us build our model. We will first create the convolution base. We use sequential model for creating convolution base. Let us add a convolution layer to the model. Let us understand about convolution operation. The convolution layer is added using layers.con2d command. The convolution operation involves a filter which captures local pattern and applies it on the image. The filter is a 3D tensor of a specific width, height and depth. Each entry in the filter is a real number. The entries in the filter are learnt during CNN transition. The filter slides across width, height and depth stopping at all possible positions to extract a local 3D patch of surrounding feature. Let us understand about convolution operation on handwritten digit. So, this is our handwritten digit encoded in 28 cross 28 image. Since this is a grayscale image, the depth is 1. The convolution operation defines a filter of specific height and width. Let us say our filter is of size 3 cross 3. So, this is a filter and this is the original image. What we do is, we take the filter and we position it at different places in the image. So, this is one possible positioning of a filter which is positioned at the first position. So, we slide the filter. So, if we slide the filter, we get a new position of the filter. So, let us say this is position 1, this is position 2 and we keep doing this across the length and breadth of the image. So, we can keep doing this and this will be the final positioning of the filter. So, here since it was a grayscale image, we had depth of 1. Let us try to understand how the convolution happens with images that are coloured. In case of coloured images, we have 3 channels. For every image, you have 3 channels red, green and blue. So, this is red channel, then there is a green channel, then there is a blue channel. So, let us understand how a filter is defined on an image with multiple channels. So, we will have a filter which also has 3 channels. So, we have let us say 3 cross 3 filter which has got depth of 3. So, this 3 cross 3 filter is represented as a 3D tensor. This is corresponding to height, this one corresponds to width, this one corresponds to channels or depth. In this case, the depth is 3, 1 for red, green and blue and the way positioning happens is as follows. We position this filter at the beginning over here. There will be a corresponding positioning in green and also in blue. So, first position, we slide the filter across width and height of the coloured image until we get to the last portion, until we get to the last patch. What we do is, we transform every such patch with a convolution filter into a number or 1D array. Let us understand what happens when we position the filter at a particular patch of an image. Let us say this is our handwritten digit from MNIST dataset which has got 28 rows and 28 columns which has got height of 28 and width of 28. So, 28 cross 28 grid and we define a filter which is a 3 cross 3 filter. Filter has 9 entries and each entry is a weight, let us say w1, w2, w3, w4, w5, w6, w7, w8 and w9. So, initially what we do is, we take this filter and we position it at this particular patch of the image. Let us say the image has the following inputs. The patch of the image also has 9 positions. So, what we do is, we position this particular filter on top of this image. So, we perform linear combination of the weight in the filter with the feature value in the image patch. So, in this case we have w1 x1 plus w2 x2. So, w2 gets multiplied with x2, w3 gets multiplied with x3, w4 gets multiplied by x4 and so on until x9 gets multiplied by w9. So, when we position this particular filter on this particular image patch, so we multiply w1 by x1, w2 by x2 so on up to so so on up to x9. We multiply x9 with w9. So, writing this particular equation, we can write it as w1 x1 plus w2 x2 plus w3 x3 so on up to w9 x9 and we add a bias term to it. You can see that this particular equation is very very is a similar to equation that we saw in feed forward neural network and we apply a ReLU activation on this linear combination which gives us a variable Z. Z is a scalar for a given positioning of a patch on the image. Let us try to understand how the 3D patch works. Let us say this is the image and we have corresponding filter. Remember, we have the same number of channels in the filter as the input image. Since the input image has 3 channels, we also have 3 channels in the filter. So, let us say this is 3 cross 3 filter with 3 channels. So, when we position this particular filter in the image, let us say this is the first position of the filter. So, this filter is positioned across the channel. So, what we do is we have a red patch which has got inputs x1 to x9. Then we have a green patch which also has let us call these inputs as and we have a blue patch. So, we have a patch which has got 27 inputs 9 for each channel. We also have corresponding filters. There is a filter for blue channel, one for green and one more for the red channel and the corresponding weights are w1, w2, w3, w4. So, we have 27 weights in the filter, 9 corresponding to each of the 3 channels and we have one bias unit for this particular filter. So, we have 3 cross 3 cross 3 weights, we have 3 cross 3 cross 3 parameters and one bias. So, which gives us 28 weights per filter and what we do here is we actually calculate the linear combination of weight and a corresponding value in the image patch and add a bias to it and apply an activation like ReLU to get a scalar number. So, this is how we apply a filter, a 3D filter to a 3D image. This filter generalizes to number of channels more than 3 in exactly the same manner. Only thing that will be different is we will have number of, we will essentially get number of channels which are same as the input. And that will also increase the number of parameters for a filter. Let us take a concrete example of a 3 by 3 filter on a grayscale image. So, let us say this is a patch extracted from a grayscale image which has got values and let us say this is a filter which is also which is a 3 by 3 filter has got 10 parameters, 9 parameters corresponding to the positions and one is a bias term. So, let us say bias is equal to 1. So, the way the linear combination works is as follows. What we will do is we will write the values in the image in blue and each of which is multiplied by the weight of the parameter in the filter. So, we superimpose the filter on the patch and multiply the number in the image patch with the weight of a parameter in the filter. So, you can see that this is equal to, so the linear combination comes to 4 plus we add bias and if you apply a ReLU on it, ReLU of a positive number is the positive number. So, we get 5 as an answer from this particular patch of an image. So, 5 signifies the strength of this local pattern as represented by the filter at this particular image patch. So far in this class we studied about convolution operation. We learn how filters are created and how we evaluate a filter at a position at a particular position in the image. We slide the filter across the image at all possible positions and assess the strength of local pattern represented by the filter at each position. See you in the next session. Thank you.