Go in live my friend. Here we are. I think we're almost live and we are live on the metal voice a returning guest Sean Kelly guitarist author Right author There it is don't call it hair metal. What was the rest of it? Art in the excess of 80s rock. Yeah, that's the new book. Okay, so so let's just say I got I got my Hipporators of my circus magazines. I got my hair metal albums here My hairspray extra extra strong hold Right on that's where we need it anymore But whatever you do don't call it a hair metal You can call it whatever you want as long as you call it rock and roll. That's my whole point Yeah, I got that and you know God bless you for writing this book because there's a channel here in Canada That plays music that they call hair metal and they play Ronnie James the or rainbow in the dark They play Ted Nugent's scream dream They play sabotage which in my day would never been considered hair metal in a million years So it's like it's like all the 80s got lumped under this banner And you take the time to pick this apart. There's like a history lesson almost this book and say hey guys Let's not put this all under one umbrella So thank you for I thought I was crazy, but thank you for teaching I guess the Millennials and maybe other people that think the 80s was nothing but hairspray and bright clothes. So Well, thank you. Yeah, my pleasure. I uh, you know, like that really was the whole point of writing the book right it was it was at this pejorative term has come to kind of represent Uh, a whitewashed version of everything that happened there when really there was incredible artistic diversity and sonic evolution and all sorts of amazing things happened in the 80s And really at the time we just called it rock and roll because it was the next extension of the The rock and roll lineage of the 50s 60s and 70s I think the biggest question here is I was trying to we at me and Alan were talking about this When was the first time the word or the phrase hair metal was used? I'm sure somebody penned it in some magazine somewhere You know, the first time I became aware of it. I believe was on a compilation album I was working on a tower records around 1995 1996 And uh, and I saw you know, one of those compilation CDs like you know hair metal, you know I think so I I think I I had heard the term hair band as well around that time But really, you know, it came after the fact it came with the advent of grunge Uh, and and it came to me.  Sorry Alan poser That came out very quickly. That was probably the end of the 80s because yeah, I know I was using that back at 85 Yeah, and there was there was glam metal. There was pop metal. I'd heard all those things But the actually to actually put the hair before the music the image before the music that came after the fact Yep, and you know the metal community. It's funny. Like you're a little bit younger than Jim and I But you know reading about you being next to the lake That's something I can completely relate to. I remember being next to my country place and next to the lake and hearing rainbow Rodney james deals rainbow in the dark for the first time or the Pyramania album death leopard that played all summer long on the radio And and this is you know part of the metal community, right? It's it's we've all got the life experiences We all shared these experiences back in the 80s and we got friends from Romania who lived the same thing that we lived This is a scatter on you know, so Yeah, it was that music, you know really was and this is where image does come into play and and marketing and magazines and video it really was for those of us had a more bucolic kind of existence, you know On the country or the woods or you know It was it was a gateway into either the sunset strip or in the case of sabotage into the hall of the mountain king You know, I mean like or a deal, you know rainbows in the dark It was a way to journey and you know the one thing I'll say about the image was it helped us kind of dream in Technicolor, you know what I mean like it was it was pointy guitars and and pyrotechnics and Larger than life and the music Suited that you know, it was coming out to me like that that that sound was really about trying to capture the arena rock experience of the 70s How does it feel to be in a big arena when your town doesn't have a big arena?  So all us guys were kind of like, you know teenagers Right, then you had mtv the technology of mtv music videos and then this whole new genre that was emerging And suddenly we're not only using our ears anymore. Now we're using our eyes a gallon was saying so or you were saying And and now this is a huge impact and those bands that we heard from 80 to 90 on mtv or watched it or much music in our case That left such an imprint in for generations, right now, you know, we're that It's technology Yeah, and and and the technology it's you can't overstate how important wasn't the overall sound because what was happening was it was the dawn of digital technology sampling electronic drums Being able to create these larger than life sounds which actually In the book I talked with uh engineer and producer extraordinary mike frazier about this, you know all of a sudden You have to try and figure out how to fit all these guitars and vocals and keyboards around these massive snare drum sounds like All of a sudden the snare drum becomes it's so important because you have, you know This technology where you can sample sounds and make them bigger and more reverberant digital delays and echoes all these things That used to happen in an analog world or now and it happened with digital parameters and uh We're chasing uh, you know new sounds. It was exciting but You know the a lot of the tones that we've come to associate with the best of classic rock We're starting to get obscured right so you can certainly make arguments that have uh, you know preferences to to different types of tones Like, you know, yeah, if you listen to the the sounds on a cinderella record They're a little different than a lead zeppelin or an aerosmith record even if they're coming from the same bass at all blues bass You know, we had tracy guns on it a couple of months ago He used we asked him what's what's hair metal to you? And he said it's really bad clothes hair sticking up all over the place and hot chicks You agree with that Well, you know what? I it's funny. I don't to me. I don't find it bad I just finished rock of ages at the toronto production of rock of ages And I couldn't wait to get into my leather pants and spiky leather jacket My hair is pretty big as it is already but I made it a little bigger and I loved it because to me It was a way, you know, I heard I heard a great great expression. You show people how to listen sometimes, right? So like, you know, yeah, they were preening around like peacocks But I think the music kind of fit that, you know, it was uh, it fell in line with the image. Um Yeah, but it certainly was a fun era. It wasn't We didn't have many bob dillon's coming out in the 80s.  Oh rudia. What boppa luba what bamboo? I mean, that's not exactly, uh Shakespeare either, right, but it gets a point across You know, you know, we're talking about And another factor we'll talk about the business side of things. So you're looking at the 80s You have that we talked about mtv the demographics The business was selling records. This is like the peak of album sales and with album sales You know, if if the deaf leopard comes out, they break it big.  So At that point, I guess saturate it's just like any business model, right? Something successful It gets cloned and it gets saturated You want to talk about that? Absolutely. And you know, I uh, I spoke with my my dear friend the late great john reagan about this and john was coming out of the 60s, right john was A musician in the 60s and the 70s from peter frampton Sneaking still so many great artists And then in the 80s started working with ace fraily as he moved into a more commercial heart rock sound and fraily's comment But he kind of mentioned that he said like in the 60s and 70s The people who ran the companies were music men herb alper Jerry moss The urigan brothers These were people who came at it with a passion for music and turned it into a business What happened was in the 80s you start to see the conglomeration of record companies These these these companies that were music companies now become corporate entities. They are responsible to shareholders They have to deliver a quarterly, you know Returns and in order to do that just like you said you see what's successful And you stick with it. So that meant hey This producer's having a hit Let's get him to produce everything and he's bringing with him a stable of session musicians who will enhance the record And make things come on under budget great We'll use them and by the way that clothing designer That they did a great job on the outfits for this band Let's use them too And you start chasing yourself and you get into this period of refinement by the late 80s early 90s Where it did all start to sound the same all of a sudden Hey, you have bean counters running the the record companies instead of music men. Yeah, people are saying I think we need another w-band winger white lion warren, you know, white There's not enough w's When we're looking through we need a w right there That's it right and and you get this sameness and and it's too bad because for every band that that was kind of a product of that late 80s early 90s era there are still talented people who had dreams and ambitions and and ability They just kind of had to go along with the the machine was moving right and this is what the Method of conveyance for their art was looking like at the time It was more corporate and more refined and ultimately suffered from that sameness More of the same in the bottom fell out. I think Tracy guns asked in what year he thought he thought it got kind of really phased out He said 89. I was surprised it was the latest that But he said that's what it kind of got ridiculous with the you know Like jimmy said the third and fourth tier either stripers or warrants of the world But it's funny for me like I would go a little later because man all of a sudden yet You had some amazing sounding records. The thing is the records actually started to sound really good Using to that firehouse record. It's a it's a wonderful sounding record You had skid row coming out was slave to the grind which was like this really raw aggressive Precursor like what we come to see later was I don't know or come to know later with pantera and bands like that Like it was kind of there was some really and you know guns was still going They were the biggest band in the world at the time. There were still things happening but Yeah, I guess around that time is when you started seeing more and more bands getting signed And with you know, similar marketing treatments will say, yeah You know, I'll also say this and I've always said this That that dynamic between the suits and the band right That sort of clash created probably the greatest music, you know in the 80s Because the songs I wouldn't say all the songs but the majority of the hits that we go and hear of our favorite bands Are usually the ones where they were sort of either a corporate or they were pushed into a corner Hey, we got three minutes left on the album. Let's crank out a song or the company the company wants another hit another video Those are the songs. So that dynamic Is what created, you know, great hooks and memorable, you know music Jimmy, it's really easy to to dish on the gatekeepers or the suits, right? Like it's really easy to make them the bad guys But listen, there would be no or arguably there would be no american pop metal Resurgence in 1983 If it weren't for spencer proffer the producer having a concept of participatory rock and saying I know if I can find a band to sing this old slade song I can take this to the people and he had the idea of doing this blowing up version of that song That comes from the suit, right?  He was a song guy. He heard the song He could see white snake He could see the star quality in david coverdale and realized that what he was doing At the moment with his english band wasn't going to translate into an american FM radio audience But with some tweaks like he fought and had to convince david geppin to go in and buy the rights to like, you know Crying in the rain and and here I go again. Like who would have heard that like a hobo. I was born to walk along They're drifters not hobo. You gotta tweak that. Yeah Like but but those tweaks are pretty fascinating, right? So and they and these were people outside of the musician It's it listen. I'm a musician too when I work with a producer. I might not agree in the moment I I'm creating something. I'm feeling something But you have to trust sometimes these outside people just have an ear. They have a gift And they understand what you're ultimately trying to do to further your ability to make more Right and to fall up to that that's the failure of people say well, where are the hits today? Where are the big songs? it's That was a good segue, wasn't it? He's got the phone The big hits, you know were a result. Well, I saw now lost my train of thought My sister bad my sister had these guys like Kaladner would not release an album until they had the four Four songs, you know that they told erosmith. I need four out of you guys when it came to pump or So I think that's where's your point you were you're going with? No, no my my point was that these big songs today's failure is Is sort of become we become the artists have become so isolated that they're not listening to anyone else They're doing whatever they want therefore that that that what you were describing Sean was that outside ear that third party is not Who used to sort of push them into this more of a larger picture They're not getting that anymore Bands have become so isolated. They're just playing what they want And that doesn't usually translate Into those big hits and those big songs. You guys would do you follow what i'm saying? I'm saying that. Yeah. Yeah, we got it Okay, all right Well, you know, what it just took me 10 minutes to rethink what else I was saying What what did steven tyler say?  That's what i'm trying to say. That's today's failure Is not being able to listen to somebody else help you Make that big hook or that big melody Well, you know, it's funny like I don't know it's either not being able to listen or there's just too many people in a room Like all of a sudden there's 14 people writing a song these days on a pop song. I mean I mean Today, it's so weird the way that information is disseminated and consumed like I mean I I don't even know if that that model could ever work again. You know, I will say this so I I do miss the idea of the focused efforts of a team of people marketing radio promotion And artists all working together, you know, because there were so many talents beyond the talent that was Recording the record making the music that went into bringing these things to market, you know the creativity I was just looking at You know, I played I played with conie hatch. I was watching looking at an article That talked about the artwork of that first conie hatch record. Oh, yeah Let's bring it. It's brilliant. It's brilliant Yeah, out of hand I could have done without but the first one and even friction is is quite good The color scheme on out of hand you give us like a history lesson and again, he's like, hey, it was all rock and roll There's a natural progression of what happened in the 80s Um, but you know when you think of the term hair metal It's for me. It's it's a west coast thing. It's a sunset strip thing started with Probably shouted the devil with molly crew and everybody wanted to get that kind of look with the hair and everything But I mean you you take the time to go and talk about other groups and other parts of the country Including, you know, a few a few bands. What are you? You know, you mentioned kickaxe and helix here in canada So it's I mean it's a well-rounded book and hats off for doing that. Thank you. Thank you very much So I guess we have to say that it's a chronological Build-up, right? It starts in the I guess the what the 60s, I guess Well 60s all the way through to the end of the 80s, correct? Yeah, I kind of do a really You know basic overview of rock and roll and distorted guitars and and kind of really where where the meat of it comes in It's the kind of 78 through to like 91 Where we're that that's where I kind of deep dive and and I do take a look at some of the, you know The new york dolls the aero smiths the you know the kiss kisses, you know all those bands that kind of Inspired the bands of the 80s to to do what they did and I mean as I'm reading the book it's like Oh, you mentioned that one. He mentioned that one. He's got blue murder I could I can't even think of a band that you did not mention throughout the book. Maybe junkyard. Maybe maybe it's in there Maybe I missed it, but maybe Fox so many bands from that. I got Britney Fox in there. I think oh, you do. Okay, you sure But you know who I did you know who I didn't mention Who that I I've been obsessed dirty looks I've been listening to dirty looks and a band that we played with on The monster the rock crews Disney after dark DAD I was like these guys are brilliant I remember seeing the record but for some reason, you know, I had a fixed budget as a kid, right? Like you can't buy everything and and and those bands weren't making on the radio But man brilliant bands like I mean I I'd love to go back if there's a revision, you know Or a second edition. I'd love to go back and add a few more. Okay. Let's go back to the hip raiders Yeah, let's go travel in time a bit September 1983 All right to me. It was deaf leopard versus iron maiden these new wave of British heavy metal titans And that's what the big story was Look at this. You had The blueprint of Bon Jovi, which is Aldo Nova from Montreal, right?   I mean Thoughts on deaf leopard being the catalyst to it all 1985 I think they're a big catalyst But I think you have to I dug a little deeper on that in the book and really because mud's coming out of you know Foreigner right all of a sudden he's working with foreigner on foreigner for and Foreigner talking to Mike Fraser. I found out that Lover boy and foreigner were kind of chasing each other They were chasing each other for the sound and I think that the the lover boys and the foreigners are really the first kind of Radio presence of what would come to be known as commercial ladies hard rock Or hair metal if you want to use that term or arena rock right arena rock and I don't by the way People think I'm mortally offended by the term hair metal. I actually don't care what you call it You got to put the yogurt in the grocery store somewhere.  But anyway, I digress Uh But but yeah, so I think I think it does and then I think what you have is iron maiden Or sorry a deaf leopard taking that british, you know the influences from new wave british heavy metal But more so even from the the thin lizzies and maybe the judas priests a twin guitar attack They're kind of marrying it to this rounded off Nicely compressed radio friendly sound with burgeoning technology and most importantly the ears and and talent of mutt lang as a producer because what mutts genius is as a producer is He hears the song, but he also insists on the talents of the band being focused He knows what the band can do he inserts himself in but he makes the band contribute The band has to do the performances. He's gonna pull it out to you. It takes time But he and he has this boundless enthusiasm to be able to spend nine months But still listen like a 16 year old kid while also being a musical genius. I mean That's a pretty great combination for a producer Yeah, I mean just just is the scography that he's produced.  That was always the competition, right? Even after he passed away, right two years after 1984 So it was always the big thing Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhodes Even when he was alive that that sort of that that big What do you want to call it? What's the right word there? Rivalry was still there. There it is Yeah, it was in this magazine.  You got you got you got Rhodes sort of Burbank I think or and then you got you know, Eddie out of Pasadena and they're both kind of have their eyes on You know the Hollywood prize, right? So they're out there playing both brilliant guitar players You know when you when you're dealing with talent at that level it comes down to preference, right? I mean they both had a classical influence to a degree Randy certainly Showed that more in his composition side his guitar playing side but you know at the end of the day I don't think Eddie was playing any Randy Rhodes licks But Randy was starting to play Eddie Van Halen licks in his solos if you listen to the live solos He was adapting that and and and it's always first to market, right? Eddie was first to market on a grand scale And and and once that happened Randy's teaching guitar kids are coming and saying hey, man I want to learn that I want to learn on fire by Van Halen. It's like, okay And and he sees that happening and Randy even setting guitar interviews like it kills me that I play Eddie licks But I do do it because the kids want to hear it, right? So and I know they I know they were competitive But I'm sure there was a mutual respect there too, you know But both had the hair right both had the hair Well, which would kind of transition to what Alan was saying everybody was lumped at the hair metal Well, you know over time they they were they were good-looking guys coming out of the 70s And remember you had Rodney Bingenheimer's club and in LA which was very influenced by English glam In LA a couple of things were happening bands like Judas Priest and scorpions were starting to make their way into the clubs and And appear in festivals like day in the green and and show up in clubs And you also had the hangover of the bowies the t-rexes and the mat the hoopals You know from the Rodney Bingenheimer scene. So those things are coming together, right? Heavy guitars glam rock and also The american hard rock that was coming underneath with new jint narrow smith You put that together and it kind of makes that 80s pop metal stew Especially when you add in the aor influence of the bands like foreigner lover boy journey 1984 might as well jump There you go. That was that was another big one. That was another big moment where Move over. Well, what was it move over again?  That was huge. That was a big thing Decades ago I went to see the movie greece in the theater with my parents and they're they're watching greece and Hey, we're gonna watch that again. All right. Why are they enjoying this movie so much? Well, that was their their childhood right growing up in the 60s and the late 50s So talk to me about rock of ages from that's our grease as far as I'm concerned that talks about our era And our songs. What do you see from the crowd when you perform that? joy It's just a pure joyful experience and it's fun and it it's it's it's not Obviously, we're like we're not talking Shakespeare here, but really But really like it's a wonderful. It's a wonderful narrative funny Lighthearted, but the production that we had here in Toronto that more entertainment put on It was an arena rock spectacle. Like we had the pyro We had the the lasers. We had the arena rig myself and the other guitar player gino del sole Every night we're like, he's from Sudbury. I'm from North Bay. It's like man We're a couple of kids from Ontario, but we were in Judas Priest tonight, you know We're up on top of the rig, you know doing our moves with our pointy guitars. It was absolutely incredible and And and the quality of the acting and the dancing like I can't say enough I love musical theater my first experience with with d snider and the rock and roll christmas tale Which we did at in the same building, but we did that one in the theater upstairs This one at the winter garden. This was in the elegant but Incredible man, and I couldn't I think your analogy is perfect It it brings us back to that simpler time on the sunset strip the Reagan era, right? Like I mean it was Everything's possible. We're all making tons of dough nothing but a good time, but you know what? Every party ends Yeah, every party ends. That's for heck even you deal was teasing this hair in 1985 It's always a mystery Yeah, no mystery there. He was trying to sell some more records. You know, we're all trying.  It was it was the it was the It happened really the us festival in 83 that day during heavy metal day kind of overtook all the other days That was the start of hard rocks commercial dominance, right? Really if you if you need a moment that that moment to find it Where you have, you know, van halen who who managed to Transfer out of the 70s and and to me they always ran On a parallel path. They were never followers or imitated van halen was just van halen being the conquering Vikings. They always were But but they said hey, it's okay to have keyboards in your music in 1984, right? You could be a hard rock band and you could have keyboards So that's kind of like they started that little trend happening And you start to put in keyboards in their music and our maiden started putting keyboards And radio wanted a little more keyboards It's something a lot more softer to appeal to a larger audience and and the suits were saying we need sales Look, look at the numbers. It's got it going up here. It was undeniable You know, I think you know it's funny because eddie faced a lot of contention there Like it roth and templeman didn't really want him doing too much keyboard stuff They wanted him to be the well, I shouldn't say ted templeman. I think ted was more into it It was David Roth was like yeah, he's like no man.  He went and built his own studio, right? Like no Pretty amazing So let's uh, let's get to the the book. I mean, it's a huge success. I hope wish you all the best with that But let's talk a little bit about kony hatch and this this new album in august 11th. What's going on there? I'm so excited man. Uh, you know, I loved kony hatch.  The record is uh, it's called postcard from germany Uh recorded live at the heat festival in 2018 We and you know what man? We had it was a good night to be hit and record the band was hot The crowd was with us and it's all captured on that record beautifully mixed by vik florensia And the two new songs first single it's about a girl Is is doing real well for us and and you know and the second one happens on the other side Amazing amazing handy current track. You've got that kind of that yin yang, you know The two different spices there that makes the kony hatch vocal thing and uh, yeah, I'm I'm so thrilled to be Part of it and I'm really excited for people to hear it. There's there's two Live tracks that are available now streaming monkey bars and devil's deck live that you can hear on spotify But the rest of the record, I think I think fans are gonna love it. European fans. There's a lot of friction stuff on there and uh Yeah, I'm I'm I'm very pumped about it august 11th on uh explorer one and and cleopatra music We spoke to andy during the pandemic We got to interview you guys when you were preparing for that show in toronto And they mentioned we talked about the album four and they said it was a little bit of a non starter because They released it. They weren't gonna tour behind it The record company didn't know how to promote it because there was not going to be any follow-up to it What's what makes this album different and what why is it coming out now? Well, I mean the four records a fantastic record and it's represented on the live record too I think I I mean by virtue of it being A live record and you know kind of around the 40th anniversary of the band. It's a celebration Of where the band's at now and they know like I'm really honored to be playing the parts of the great steve shell ski the big big influence on me fantastic musician guitar player But yeah, like I mean, I think you know, we just got back from sweden rock where we play at sweden rock festival And you could see there's a lot of love for coney hats there We're heading over to germany to play the indoor summer festival So it's an exciting time where uh, the band started to realize back in the day They didn't realize how popular they were over there And and so, you know, we had a pretty long lineup of fans wanting to get things signed and uh, I think that this record symbolizes the celebration of the past But those two new tracks point to what I think could be a very exciting future, you know, I'm a fan too. So When they call me they want to go in the studio and make a new record. I'll be the first one there. I'll bring the coffee You're jumping from lee arin to coney hatch to lee arin to coney hatch to you know, two other projects that you're working on Yeah, man. So you got more two days with lee arin Yeah, I'm heading out tomorrow morning 4 30 in the morning. My car picks me up Take me to the airport and I'll be in vancouver tomorrow night playing in white rock bc We we just played canada day in ottawa We have a touring behind a new record called elevate that came out that's that's doing doing well for us and uh Yeah, once again same thing. I mean, you know lightning struck twice for me Like I get into play with with with lee arin is you know, I'm coming up on 10 years now working with her and I I don't know if I'm supposed to say but there might be something new in the works for next year Maybe that's you could say no one's listening Who's listening? Let's just say that uh lee arin is uh is a constantly creative, uh, uh human being All right, so what else a great interview as well. We love talking to lee arin. She's just a great interview So yeah, I mean, she's you know highly intelligent personable amazing woman. You know, what can you say? Um, uh, there is something fun that I'm working on actually. I just got the first drum track back now I am actually gonna do a new crash kelly record. You're the first guys. I talked to about it new crash kelly record and it's actually gonna be uh A companion To this and I'm gonna I'm gonna have some fun with some tracks that I write about in the book But I'm gonna do them the crash kelly style. So it's it's it's it's it's a lot of fun and Joyful thing talking with a few labels about that right now but you know At this day and age, I have a studio downstairs I I feel so lucky. I can just go down and create and And have opportunities and and friends in the business who offer to put things out for me and contact like I it's it's a very fortunate time in my life right now where I'm getting to celebrate this music that meant so much to me and uh, yeah, I'm just I'm just People say No, no, it's okay. Uh, you also said you also did the soundtrack to the randy roads documentary, correct? I did I did uh, I scored there was a movie that was supposed to come out and actually did come out in a very limited edition in 2000 and I want to say 2012 called randy roads the quiet riot here's ron sobel Ron sobel and you know ron had a beautiful coffee table book and the dvd and I I did score that entire thing And they used a good portion of that in the new documentary that's come out not all of it I'm not on all of it, but but a good a good portion of it. So I had to renegotiate that and um, Yeah, that You know, I the new the new documentary is great. I really love that first movie. It was it had a wonderful sense of continuity We had we had ron sobel on and we talked about it many times and uh, yeah, I have it somewhere back there and uh, Documentary yeah, yeah, I'm very very proud of it.  I uh I recorded a classical guitar album for opening day universal many years ago And I insisted On of all these famous classical pieces that I get a chance to record d by randy roads and they were like Why are we why are we paying copy or why are we getting publishing on that?  I guess final notes Well, you know what? Yeah, don't call it hair metal art in the excess of 80s rock. It's available everywhere you get books I'm so thrilled to be with ecw press who've done an amazing job getting the book out there It's out people around the world are finding it easily and what more can I ask for a great team? I actually just just Got green lit for a new book with them. Oh another great another one. Yeah, this one's call it hair metal Yeah, I changed my mind call it hair metal forget about it. Call it hair metal. Yeah, I'm dedicating it to michael faul Hey, john great book took me right back to my youth and we have so many similarities I think everybody in the metal community can definitely relate to this book and and the way it's done year by year and Kind of bite-sized snacks instead of a whole mouthful It was just a pleasant read and congratulations again Thank you gentlemen always a pleasure talking with you both All right, man. Have yourself a wonderful day everybody pick up the


Whoo, whoa Wow YouTube team keep it clean What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video We're here to talk about the game that we just finished watching and that boy, um, I Feel I just feel sorry for Raiders and cheese fans because Me being a Ravens fan. I'm not even a fan. I either one of those two teams But that game had me going crazy. So if I was a Raiders or a cheese fan, I would have been passed out by now I would have been passed out long gone long gone. I would have been out of there long gone But um shout out to the Raiders fans man. Shout out to the Raiders. That thing was crazy Shout out to the chiefs too, man. Shout out to the chiefs chiefs.   What's going on me I'm engraving vids. 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Oh, yeah, you tell I yeah, I gotta get a haircut and I gotta do that tomorrow Man, don't worry. I take care of it. But um, man, Joe. What's up, Joe? My god, Joe, man. I ain't seen in a minute. Appreciate you coming through, man But that game was crazy that game was oh y'all make sure y'all click the thumbs up button to there's 27 people in here But only 18 likes y'all make sure y'all take that thumbs up but Raiders fan my boy junior Jimenez I don't know if he's gonna come through and I congratulations Raiders fan man Raiders Raiders fans. Congratulations. Um knock knock Who's there number 89? Who's that? Oh Samari Cooper? He's back Apparently, he's back. He's back and I love how Derek Carr He showed that he trust his guy Amari Cooper He showed that he trust his guy. He trusted him Throughout the game Especially in the clutch He kept going to him and Amari for the most part he delivered. We're really throughout the game. He delivered Yeah, he had over 200 yards. You're right. Chickas over 200 yards. He did his thing Amari Cooper appears to be back. We'll just see if he continues this So man, that thing was nice, man. It was nice and Shout out to to Crabtree, too That dude man that dude is a push-off king. He is a push-off king I remember watching the Raiders and Ravens game a couple weeks ago That dude he got some nice hands But he uses his hands in more ways than one and that dude is a push-off king, man Push-off king.  I'm not hating on him at all. Y'all know he does a lot of push-offs You have to admit that one that dude has been pushing off since this wasn't that human a Super Bowl that went against Jimmy Smith in the in the end zone For the last way of the game to Kevin into cat to Crabtree, right? That was him, right? That dude has been pushing off for years But I still like him. No, he's a nice receiver. He's a nice receiver. So shout out to Michael Crabtree Chiefs, I oh man chiefs chiefs fans have to be Extremely frustrated, especially with the end of that game, especially with the end of that game Boy, oh my goodness They won it then it still continued didn't they want it again and still continue They wanted again still continue kept going over and over again I just felt for him and then it got to the point Where on I think it was the last holding play the last holding play before the Michael Crabtree touchdown Which was a very nice throw very nice catch very nice everything Very nice design play and all that good stuff But it was a it was a plate the plate that led to that play They call defensive holding. Oh, no fire boss. I ain't nothing. I ain't nothing y'all are the best not me There was a the defensive holding that led to that that last play of the game I was thinking oh man these reps they must they just must want to see these raiders come back I was like it ain't no way that the chiefs actually really did a holding play I said it ain't no way. It can't be that it's not possible.  I was dead wrong the chiefs It it was frustrated and like I'm not even a chiefs or raiders fan And it was it was frustrating seeing that it was frustrating I said man, how how many are they watching like Ravens footage or something? I said man, how many times can you have this game done put away? Wrestling wrestling in peace, but only to bring it back again. It just would not end it would not end but and raiders they For every chiefs attack, well, I guess he couldn't call it an attack I wouldn't really call them getting on them penalties at the end in attack but the raiders they countered it and They came out victorious man and Again, you see the title of this video. That's why you take care of your quarterback Now the way you take care of your quarterback is oh there goes my boy, Jr I just mentioned you earlier appreciate you coming through. That's my guy right there man. Shout out to junior man appreciate you man but um See the title of this video. That's why you take care of your quarterback Now when I say take care your quarterback, it means more things than one it means more things than one Take care taking care your quarterback one Offensive line, you know the raiders they pride themselves on that offensive line and it showed especially in that last drive Especially in that last drive. What's up? Terrence Wilson, especially in that last drive because their car was sitting there He was sitting there drop back sitting there looking for looking at his targets looking down the field and throwing down the field He had a he had a good amount of time there and of course It is so special when you when you know when the team doing the defense knows you're going to be Passing the ball, but you still have a lot of time left I mean you still have a lot of time to pass the ball Excuse me, so Derek called sit. He dropped back. He had his time to find his receivers. So one offensive line They took care of him with that to receivers Amari Cooper they found him in a draft Michael Crabtree got him in free agency now when they first got Michael Crabtree and free agency I didn't think he was going to be anything. I thought Michael Crabtree was done. I didn't think I Think he really had anything left. I thought after he left the 49ers. I said, uh, he ain't gonna do nothing in Oakland Oh boy, it has he been proving me wrong for these past couple years Have he been has he been proving me wrong for these past couple years and again like I did say early He is a push-off king, but like I said, he's a nice receiver though. He is a nice receiving and Jared Cook with that catch there was a little push-off on that too There's some push-off on there and they showed the replay he definitely nudged the guy, but hey, it's football man It's a physical game. It's gonna happen. Not everything's gonna be called. That's why we love it But Jared Cook with that play and that one out I was actually surprised because I was surprised that they downed that at the one Because I thought they were just gonna give him a touchdown now them downing it at the one was the right call I'm not saying it was wrong because it was absolutely the right call But I was I just thought they were gonna say okay the ruling on a fan the ruling on a field stands Not the ruling on a field is confirmed because when it stands that means they don't have enough evidence to Actually say it's confirmed or they don't have enough evidence to overturn it to go the other way But when they say the ruling on a field is confirmed That means they watched a replay and the replay led them to believe and show them enough evidence that hey We got this call right and it's confirmed So big shout out to the rest for that one. That was a great call. That was a great call Now chiefs flipping into the other side chiefs They brought it this game. It wasn't a bad. I mean it wasn't a bad game for them It was a bad ending obviously bad ending but not a bad game the chiefs They can put up points man. I Always talk about Alex Smith. I would always talk about him and always say it like man. I And I'm and I and I repeat this over and over whenever we talk about the chiefs Whenever you get an opportunity to talk about the chiefs because I just want everybody to know how I felt about Alex Smith And the fact that he's been proving me wrong and I respect it I Respected what I said about Alex Smith over like the last year and maybe a year before that too I felt like Alex Smith He's not a quarterback that can take you far. He doesn't turn the ball over but he also doesn't score a lot of points But what has he been doing? Oh, man, he's been doing this thing He has been leading that offense and having them score plenty of points 30 points tonight. That's beautiful That's beautiful and trust me. I know I appreciate decent offenses I appreciate good offenses Because I'm a Ravens fan and we don't have that Hey, I appreciate that Taylor. Thank you man But I really appreciate good offenses because I'm a Ravens fan And we don't have that So when we see good offenses when we see these when we see teams utilizing their players to the best of their abilities When we see teams creating mismatches with the players that are on that team versus the defense they're going against when we see that We gotta appreciate Gotta appreciate it Gotta appreciate it Highspot said it doesn't matter who you play winning is how you get to a Super Bowl home field is everything KC is trash Wow, that's that's a powerful comment right there, man That's a powerful comment powerful comment But Hey, this is a powerful game Martian Lynch, he ain't even get to finish with his boys. Hey Zun said, what do you think about the ejection? Mean sometimes these reps they get take stuff a little too personal, but hey, you you can't touch them. They don't want to be touched They don't want to be touched They don't want to be touched So and the NFL make sure that the players don't touch him or else he out of there You are out of there Say Alex Smith is gonna drink bleach tonight stop that Lynch is trash. I wouldn't say he's trash He's definitely not the Lynch of old. He's definitely not the Lynch of old, but what's up Mojo? I wouldn't say he's trash though but Man, oh choke choke Ryan said thank goodness the chiefs one. I mean thank goodness the chiefs lost. He said they're so overrated Choke Ryan nothing They just send them to me Yeah, that ended the game was crazy into the game was crazy And really quick y'all we got 66 people in here, but only 37 lights y'all make sure y'all click that thumbs up button real quick Make sure you click that thumbs up button. What about your offensive coordinator your Ravens? What do you mean? What about we got a Marty more one Hank, but y'all want to talk Ravens too much on here right now This is about this about raiders and chiefs. I don't really want to talk about Ravens that much right now We talk about them in another game in another video. Who do I got in there? See right when I said that somebody actually Alan said who do you got in the Ravens game versus the Vikings? Before I thought when the game was in Baltimore thought it's gonna be Ravens But now that I know it's a Minnesota and they got a bunch of people that's injured I'm gonna go with Vikings even maybe if the Ravens didn't have people that were injured probably still go with Vikings Um Eric said the chiefs are not overrated. They lost two games that they could have won both close games Yeah, they're right there. They were right there. They were right there in both of these games in both games right there Isn't it ain't like they got blown out. They didn't get killed. They didn't get destroyed. They were both one score games What are the the Steelers beat them by what six seven? No, maybe 12. Well, that was a close game I think the Steelers game might have been the two-score game, but it was a close two-score game And in that Antonio Brown catch was just insane by the way Oh, Marshawn Lynch touched the referee and they they say you out of there you out of there my fault I did see you keep asking my fault that I didn't address it sooner. My apologies, man But yeah, Antonio Brown, he put that game away and Antonio Brown is a monster monster Something that I say about Antonio Brown a lot Is that I feel like his numbers are inflated because Ben Roslisberger spams in the ball, but That does not take away from how good of a receiver. He is because he's great. He's great, man Okay, 1913 is to appreciate that Taylor. Thank you Why didn't let you do that? I think he was trying to trying to go save on his boys or something like that, man, but One last thing or the Patriots overrated or they going back to no No, I definitely don't think they overrated right now because the defense has been bad and It just ain't been good and the offense The offense it seems like some people started maybe figure some stuff out man People keep in pace with the Patriots because people didn't keep a pace with the Patriots before because their defense used to be underrated Their defense used to be underrated Well Marcus Peters of Jalen Ramsey, that's a tough one. I'll go. Oh, that's a tough one. I'll go with Jalen Ramsey I'll go with Jalen Ramsey though. I mean you can't go wrong with either one, but I go with Jalen Ramsey I like that. He's a very physical physical physical corner Physical corner and that dude will he'll hit somebody too, man. I like Jalen Ramsey, man. That dude is a beast Um hot spot said Houston versus Oakland in the AFC championship And he said the Patriots are done. He said KC is overrated. He said I don't see nobody But Oakland giving Houston a challenge with Watson getting better each Week, you know, that's the um engraving this looks like 10 pound if you got run over by a truck. Okay, but thank you. Um Watson the shine Watson is scary, man. That's a scary dude, man Scary dude scary dude And we play him in a couple weeks money night football Don't even want to think about it right now. Don't even want to think about it right now Don't even want to think about it right now. And yes chiefs did beat the Texans. They did beat them.  Oh, yeah, I know that's what's saying. It ain't nothing wrong with it It ain't nothing wrong with bernabas burger spamming 10 tonio. Ain't nothing wrong with that at all That's his guy. He knows he can trust him. He knows the guy can make plays. So why not? Oh, yeah, not uh Nothing like that village boys say the game was rigged and he's not watching nfl anymore Don't say that Don't say that. Yeah, the nfl is a business and they be doing some stuff in there that a lot of people don't realize but I understand you're frustrated But you're saying that you're not gonna watch anymore.  That's such a hard question That's such a hard question Based on the offense. No based on the defense. They can based on the special teams. They can But the offense is what's holding them back. So chiefs hit car late. That's why lynch ran on the field and got ejected For lynch Lynch He's showing where he's from man. He's from Oakland He's from Oakland. He don't play man. That's his guy. He ain't he ain't scared to defend this guy So This game almost gave me a oh a sanford and son heart attack.  Is he really? The raiders still have like six away games Call one push off and let the last one go. Yeah, I saw that too that last The last one wasn't it was a slight push off It wasn't as obvious as the one that crabtree did a couple plays before that But it was a slight push off. Like I said, man crabtree Michael crabtree is king push off, man. He is king push off Like I like I was saying ain't no hate. It's the truth though. Raiders fans will tell you too. They know that Trevor, I can't pick anybody in Superbowl. I don't know about this NFL man. I don't know who I don't know who is gonna go But Yeah, man, you don't I just just like chicken just said see I knew the raiders were gonna win upset week all season Yeah, you just don't know it's it's nobody who is saying like, um It's no teams out there right now Or the ego's been looking pretty good, but besides them, it's no teams where it's like, okay They got it going they clicking and they could they could run the table nobody Because things change week to week Things change week to week It's it's so picking the super picking the Superbowl right now You could literally go anybody Some people might have said Broncos before Broncos lost to the Beals though, and they just lost to the Giants Who would have thought they would have lost to the Giants to Broncos? What's up, b-ball? Who would have thought they would have lost to the Giants the Broncos in Denver? No Beckham no Marshall no sterling shepherd. No Dwayne Harris Who would have thought they would have lost to the Giants? out of all teams Without those guys so you just never you don't know That's why I can't pick no Superbowl team man. I can't pick anybody Who do I think is gonna win the Superbowl and afc or nfc team? That's it That's the only thing I can give you because this thing is crazy. It just flips like that and you just you you don't know But is what it is man and gravy doesn't look like the bingos turn the corner as far as offense. They turn something Because that offense been exploding recently. So they turn something But again back to this game shout out to the raiders man Shout out to the raiders. Oh, yeah, that is Superbowl rematch next week. Probably talk about that maybe tomorrow But yeah, this has been Oh, this game was great This game was great It was great Great dare call it looks like he's back now last weekend. Not really but this week. He looks like he's back now officially Like last week was a little warm up, but now he's back um And he got it going. I mean he threw over 50 something passes But you know what if if my quarterback's gonna throw Not saying that he's my quarterback, but just speaking in general If my quarterback is going to be throwing 50 something passes a game and we win I'll take it every time I'll take it every single time every single time But if my quarterback if he throws over 20 or over 25 For my team, unfortunately, that usually means we lose so Sorry But anyway, appreciate y'all man. Thank you. This was a lot of fun. Best part of the game was just the last the last two minutes Because it was insane It was insane That was the best part of the game the last two minutes but Anyway Raiders fans. Congratulations, man Congratulations. Y'all got it man Y'all got it y'all got it Chiefs fans Don't feel bad I mean, this was a tough.  Hey, I appreciate that Koleppy. Thank you Chiefs fan. I mean chiefs or raiders fans are never gonna forget this game um Just because of everything that it everything That was a part of it everything that took place tonight. All right, earthquake. Appreciate you, man We'll appreciate that LeVar. Thank you They're never gonna forget this game because this thing was just it was so much it was so much and For raiders fans is is i'm sure they are so tired right now because speaking for myself when ravens have games like that It whether they win or lose it wears you out Because you get your emotions involved you get your your heart is involved your your heart is pounding and racing Everything is just going crazy. Your mind is going 50 million different ways and you're like, oh my goodness How is this happening and it can drive you insane So to be on the winning side is one thing but then to be on the losing side. It's like oh, man That's tough That's tough that can uh that can mess with you That can mess with you. Appreciate that jacob. Thank you. Oh, I know you had to be shaking, man That that can mess with you That can mess with you so bad, man so bad But that's what I feel for cheese fans tonight, man. I've been there I mean even on sunday, I was there the ravens and bears game I thought the ravens were gonna whoop up on the bears, but no They took it to overtime and that thing was stressful then ravens end up losing I say that that was the first game in a long time when tears came to my eyes for real I'm being straight up That was the first game in a long time that tears actually came to my eyes because that game Just wore me. It was just crazy crazy But the tears came to my eyes because I got so emotionally invested in the game And I just couldn't believe what the ravens were doing and just the way they came back And the fact that they actually had a shot And I was just like wow couldn't believe it Hey, michi Uh, no, man, you might end up being right. Who knows we'll see man. How did the raiders win?  The both of those questions got to be asked if The raiders it was penalties. It was some catches. It was just a lot of everything You're gonna have to watch those highlights, man. You got to You got to anthony.  But anyway, I enjoyed y'all a lot tonight Appreciate y'all man. Thank you for coming through if you're new to the channel I appreciate you being here. Make sure you leave a like on the video subscribe to the youtube channel If you haven't already and turn your notifications on because we go live every single day Every single day So make sure you join part of team keep it clean. Why my team is the ravens. What's up, thomas? But I'm about to go ahead and get on up out of here now. Appreciate your Eric. Thank you. All right. Check us think thank you um So y'all appreciate that appreciate y'all man Appreciate y'all man. Thank you um If you want you can follow me on twitter instagram and snapchat All three is engraving vids just like this youtube channel engraving vids If you want to still talk football on there more than welcome More than welcome to always down for that. So thank you all y'all have a real good night, man Raiders y'all did it. You kind of got me tired from watching that game, too But I appreciate y'all man. Thank you. We out


So if everyone's all right with that, I'm going to do the talk in English, yeah, okay. So basically, like I said before, I didn't plan to do this. So I thought maybe we can just do some sort of a Q&A or something. So if anyone has questions, just start and I know myself, I'll just continue talking probably. Anyone has a question or yeah, so okay, I didn't think about that because I actually wrote down a few things very randomly on my computer, but maybe I'll stop this for a second and put up my very messy notes because I think that will probably be more helpful for all of you. Well, I guess you can read it. Can I sit down for talking or okay. So for promoting meetups, I think social media is such a complex thing that I still consider myself as a newbie although I have been working for quite some time with it. I think the first thing you always have to ask yourself is what do you want to do and why do you want to do it? So I guess for a meetup that would be to raise awareness for people to come or in the long run for people to come back, for people to constantly see your brand to see your event that even in the beginning if they don't come, they will show up eventually because you're doing such a great job at social media and everyone wants to go to your event. So kind of try to come up with a strategy I would say. So yeah, I mean it's a non-profit meetup I guess, so you can't really invest money, right? So yeah, what I did in the beginning I used to work at a startup and they didn't have much money to invest either. So what I did is just use Google Calendar and use their, what's it called? Just their map to lay out, okay, on January 1st I'm going to post a picture of, well it was a fitness company so I'm going to post a picture of this new product that we have that I took a month ago and yeah, I just planned like that. So January 1st is going to be this post on Instagram for example and then the next day I have this post plan for Facebook and just do it like that and then just use the alarm on your phone or on your computer and give yourself a little reminder that that's what you already have planned to post. So I know a lot of big companies plan like a month ahead in what they're going to post. Of course that's not actually possible for everyone but kind of come up with a plan when you're going to post it and what you're going to post and why is that relevant for someone. Or at least for me that's something I always see people doing wrong. Where are you giving value to someone? Why should someone consume what you're putting out there? So of course your event is going to be amazing but so are a lot of events. So I think it's really important to yeah, just come up with some reason why you're better than others and why someone needs to follow you. And I think especially with social media you have to constantly remind them again why they are doing it. You don't just want to tell how amazing you are but you want to show them that they need to follow you pretty much. Yeah, does that already kind of answer the question? Anyone else? Just specific or less specific question? Are you having something in your company or yeah, anyone need input with anything? Otherwise I'll just kind of continue talking about these randoms. Yeah, so if you have money you can do paid advertisement and on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, whatever but it's well at least from my experience you have to make sure that it's worth it I think or from my experience if you invest just a tiny little bit of money it doesn't do much for you. So I feel like you have to talk about bigger numbers in order to actually reach a lot of people. I just tried it like with my own Instagram account a few times and I invested not so much money because it was my private account and my private money. And of course I don't use like crazy techniques just for my personal Instagram account but of course I try to follow some rules and it didn't bring me much not even many clicks on my profile so not many people actually interacted with that what I posted so I feel like and that's a big part I made a very small graphic in the amount of time that I had. So I think it's very important to use call to actions also so I guess we have created awesome content but just like basic marketing if you have the most amazing product and no one is going to see it no one is going to buy it. So it's the same with social media I'd say and call to actions always work always yeah I see this on YouTube videos on Instagram all the time but someone asks the question like oh how do you do this or just any question that's kind of connected to the post you've made people are going to interact way more than they would if you didn't do that so I'd say use a lot of them but of course make them connected with the post so don't just ask which oh what's your favorite color come to my event that does make a lot of sense so yeah they do work they do work all the time I'd say yeah that if what you're posting is good then it works because a lot of people you use social media and I guess a lot of my friends even do and we're like the the age range that uses a lot of Instagram and stuff and they don't really actually use Instagram they just post like oh had a great night with my friends or something like that but yeah I like actually use it and post something that's relevant and then if the question is relevant or if you're just telling them to do anything really that's related to what you're doing or even share my post if you like it chances are they will and if you don't they won't that's pretty much that because people don't know that they don't know the algorithm of Instagram they don't know why it's important to comment on things if you don't care so sometimes I tell my friends please comment my Instagram picture because this is my job and I want companies to see that I kind of have a reach on social media so yeah I tell my friends to comment because it helps me but a lot of people don't know that it actually helps because Instagram ranks post they have a lot of interaction better and then it will show up to more people if it has a lot of interaction in it so it isn't really well of course you don't want a stupid comment and actually you have to at least have four words so in this Instagram sees it as like a good comment if you have like oh cool that's it's not good for the Instagram algorithm because they will think it's spam so but but tell people it always works tell people write a comment and even if it's your friends in the beginning if it's anyone basically tell them to write good comments in my opinion or from my experience some like upcoming influencers which is a whole other thing they use connection groups on telegram on WhatsApp whatever where they just are all in this together and just comment on each other's posts because that will help their Instagrams grow if their content is good yeah yeah I have many thoughts on that well first of all we talked about this before when we came well when we came up with the content to do this feature actually so you didn't miss it like that but we talked about that from from my experience it's better to just take a few accounts and then actually like do this planning and plan ahead if you can and most times you can plan ahead when you're going to post what and if you have that it's easier to keep up with all the content but also if you have like eight different places where you have to update it it gets hard if you're just one person or even if you're more people than that so maybe try to look where the people are and you said like oh someone doesn't have Facebook and then they want something else but I think most likely if you have like three or four different networks someone is gonna be on one of them and like four is a lot I'd say so and there's different age groups for Facebook and Instagram and stuff where people are at so maybe even at your meetup asks them where do you get your information and then they always say they're coming from very different places but but do you update like so you said it's hard to update all of them frequently right and it's not working well maybe that's also a problem of being like confident to ask in public I don't know I see that a lot that people don't want to be public about what they're saying which for me is not understandable but yeah I mean maybe maybe talk about that as well and I feel like sometimes if you say to people please just ask them and then you can explain again to them that you know we're trying to make this more popular we're trying to make this more well known and provide the best support for you that we can and actually how it's going to happen is you asking this publicly and maybe it helps someone else and I feel like if you it's a lot of work in the beginning it always is but I feel like if you've reached that point and more people understand I feel like you always have to kind of coach your community to be what you need them to be but it works but it's a lot of work it always is so is that question answered or do you want more information on that okay anyone else yeah but honestly I can answer it because I have personally never used hoodsuit in like a company's circumstance I've just people just told me that they use it sometimes and I've had the demo to look you know what it can do and stuff but honestly I think I can't answer that question because I don't have experience in that I don't want to say something wrong it depends I'd say if you have a lot of things to post I'd say yes but in generally we're coming to the point of connecting you always want to be online when you post something I always try whenever I post something for whoever I try to be online for like at least half an hour after that of course that's more necessarily when you have actually a community that is going to interact with your content but always take the time like I wrote down and be there for the people and it doesn't matter if it's one or two people my Instagram I call my personal Instagram is not that big but I do have a big community of people that I don't know and I think it's because I always took the time to interact with them and to you know give them answers through the questions they ask and all of that and I try to do that quickly also because of the algorithm but I do have to say the algorithm is more interesting when you actually are trying to be big in the Instagram or Facebook game or something which I guess from the start is hard to reach not not impossible but hard to reach with a local event but yeah I'd say automation can be helpful and maybe for the beginning if that's gonna going to make you post do it because if you're going to miss it you're not going to post so I'd say if otherwise you're not going to do it do it but also make sure that you're like on top of your game with answering and interacting with the people and I think that's just something I always tell that to people in what is it called when I go some place to hire me or for them to hire me I always say that I grew up with this so for me and I've always been like an internet kid so I always tell the people that you know just be natural but for some people it's not natural to comment on a stranger's Instagram posts and stuff for me it is but for a lot of people it's not but sorry what was the question now I'm out oh yeah yeah okay well I kind of went from there to there because it's connected but yeah I mean it's always it's super connected so it's always if you do one thing like posting regularly that's just the beginning and yeah like I said I'd say to sum up your question use automation if that's going to make you post and then if you have a lot of things to post I'd use it to but otherwise I think it's fine to just start or it's it's better to just start because you can spend hours and hours to research the best program to just post for you and stuff and in that hour you could have or in those hours you could have already planned a month of social media action yeah so well I don't know of any free tools honestly so it's like Hootsuit and others where you have to pay for the service because it is complex so of course they want to take your money for that what I did in the beginning for the startup I just tried to take a lot of like physical notes to where I have to be with my brain and then for example for emails I used help desk no wait what I don't remember Zendesk right and well that was like that was helping me to stay on track with all the emails but we paid for it but otherwise I'd say don't make it complicated in the beginning when I imagine like a meetup or something don't make it complicated don't spend hours and researching the best tools that Audi or someone is going to use eventually that's not what you need that's money you probably can't spend anyway and just just do it like Nike already said but I think it's easier to just try to like get an overview and however you as a person work I'd say like I'm a physical person I'd like rather write something down or like create a wall in my room or something in my office to you know this is all the things I need to take care of maybe you're a different maybe you're a more digital in that case and you just want to have it online or somewhere just create something that works for you and don't make it too complicated yeah yeah that would be my question as well do you want to know where you're mentioned or do you want to just be able to post from one place for example well for my spins it's always you have to always pay for those because it that's complex that's yeah I had to write a few apps for example just to make it easier on my phone but none of them were something I'd recommend yeah or something like that yeah and I think in the beginning it's of course yeah if you get one tweet back it's a lot of work to just always look oh did someone tweet something at me but I think there we go back to just create good stuff and be present and of course I'd say in the beginning it doesn't really matter if you answer within an hour half an hour or something but answer definitely answer and don't be like oh now three days have passed maybe he don't or he don't even doesn't even need my answer anymore that doesn't matter just answer anyway and maybe ask if you can help him another way or something I feel like on social media I always say that be if you're a really nice person be ten times this nice on social media because they don't feel you through you know what you're doing I'd say yeah yeah that's that yeah I think it depends for example I just currently quit my job at a news agency a huge one in Europe and they their Facebook is their biggest channel by far that's where they get by far the most interaction so that kind of maybe brings me to maybe your people are not on Facebook and maybe try to use something else or maybe I don't know what you're posting on Facebook maybe try to use more call to actions maybe try posting different things and that's also a big thing like I don't know what what are you using it for yeah but it like reaching it with what do you want to promote a product do you just want to represent your company or of course yeah yeah yeah but I think that it's always a difficult part because I think that's the thing where it's hard to actually give like I said it's I think it's so important to give value to someone that's following you and when you have a new product of course you think it's and it probably is adding value to that person or that person's life pretty much but I think maybe it's also because it is so hard to actually present something that's not physically there where maybe you have to come up with a more creative strategy to make it more touchable or to to give them more of a reason to do something with it and I think especially with cases like that why should someone comment or like or something they are like oh thanks for the info probably and then of course but you want more interaction of course so maybe use more more call to actions or well you probably am answering all the questions and stuff on it but I think call for actions always work we're at that TV broadcasting company I used to work at we could always see instantly when we didn't ask a question or we did ask a question and it seems so stupid and simple but it always works and yeah I think maybe just before because I feel like a lot of companies that I see they even when they're super big they just post and they're posting their interest then again to the TV company they there are reporters so they post what they think is like a really brilliant piece that they sent on TV or something with it and it's not necessarily what the public is interested to see so of course you have your product you're going to present this product but maybe you can come up with a strategy you know what's in it for the people and then again I'm always very positive for tell them what you want them to do and most likely they will so I guess that that's a big part where you can actually grow the interaction for for your company but also try to use other channels maybe but it's a it's a lot of work to just create a new one and feed that to make it better than the one you've already built but anything is possible right yeah if you have any more questions we okay but it was was it a blog post or something or what was the content of it well of course maybe that's always the chance some people just randomly scroll through Instagram and Facebook nowadays so they see something it happens to myself all the time I like an Instagram post or a Facebook post I'm like wait what and I just go back and sometimes even you know redo the like because I don't actually like it at all you know but I feel like that happens and also maybe what you did we know that the advertisement looked good but it was not appealing enough for people to actually click on it and do more with it it's a lot of times it's just very small things that can make it or break it because well of course you probably you know clicked all the things who you just want to reach what I they're doing in their life so hopefully you've went into the right point to to get the people that's the first thing and then of course it's always you know the question of is that relevant to the person that it you know showed up to and maybe sometimes it's just you know there's people of course you all know them that just talk about SEO all the time maybe the title was not appealing enough maybe the graphic was not appealing enough or maybe you know that person wasn't actually that interested in the content anyway but it's it's hard to tell from a distance for sure so you thought there was like automatic liked like you know bots or something or maybe you were just surprised because so many actually well but yeah it's weird that they didn't click on it that I mean it's always more people liking it than actually using it but but it's hard to tell from a distance why exactly that didn't happen but yeah can't answer that yeah and it's a lot I think especially when you're not actually there you invested money but I think when you're not looking to invest a lot of money just trial and error it's a lot of trial and error and it doesn't take long for you to see certain stigmas and stuff you know to see all people are doing this when I do this and people are not doing this when I don't do this or you know all these ways yeah when I started I studied something with media and when I started doing that a lot of my or when I actually got that first internship at the startup I managed to gain them 15,000 followers and I hadn't done any work related stuff with Instagram but I just use it and I tried things and just I knew what worked and what didn't and that was already that that was just me using my free time to try things and see what happens pretty much yeah but of course not everyone is a student and has time for that it depends it all depends on what you're doing so some people say post just frequently whatever that means some people say post like one or two three times a day but it you know it it all comes back to do you actually have something to say in that moment if you just spamming people with your content and no one really cares about it because it's not actually relevant why would you post it and I think it's also it all comes back to if you already have a large following I'd say it's more important or it way more important to constantly post because you're in the algorithm game but if you're not anyway I just say post when you can but you know hope because also the algorithm is it's a lot of it's a lot of things constantly updating and stuff and a lot of people are really annoyed by it because you're doing something and it works and then the next day they change the algorithm and you're just not visible anymore but actually what I recently tried is not everyone is going to do that but if you're new on Instagram and the the people coming to you are new you're you're visible to them so my friend recently unfollowed me to see if she refollowed me she would see my posts again and she did so the people that follow you you knew they are going to see your posts but if they have been following you for three years and they never used your stuff they are not going to see that anyway because Instagram things he doesn't actually or the person doesn't actually like it so and that goes back to have people do what you want them to do because in the end they're not maybe they care and that goes back to your question as well maybe they they care to see your content but if they never interact with it they might not see it anymore although it's their platform you know so it really depends I'd say better post something that's of value as often as you can then being like okay but I have to post like once a day in order to stay relevant because I feel like especially with words worked camps and meet-ups it's not actually manageable to post that often yeah but also I don't know if you know g'dankentanken g'dankentanken that's a company that exactly and I see their event constantly on Facebook and it's just a one-time event you know I don't know exactly what they're doing of course I don't work there but that's an example of an event that just happens once it's actually this November and I think like even last November I've already seen their appetizer like 10 times so I think if it's a big event like word can be Europe or something it's not it's not completely out of line to actually you know have like a huge reach but I also feel like as someone being completely new to the WordPress community and the whole WordPress thing actually you know it's for me it's all about the community always and that's why I'm here but I feel like sometimes the way it's something is seen inside like from all the people already using it already being in there is a different way than you get new people to come in and it doesn't mean you have to show a different outside to what is inside but I think sometimes it's just basic marketing in the end because like how I got here of course it was my brother but also it was like oh this sounds kind of like something I would like but I think if the if the marketing if the matched message would be a different one I would have come a year ago and I think especially because nowadays so many people are working in the internet on the internet you know there's a huge amount of people that could be or is probably interested in this kind of community but the question is are you actually speaking to them and then we go again to who are you trying to talk to and how do you need to talk to them and where can you talk to them and all those sorts of questions and I feel like it's a especially with those types of events it's always kind of a mixture on how much to plan in advance and ask yourself a lot of questions some of those that I wrote down or we just talked about and then just do it because in the end if you're there you're there and if you're not there you're not there so if you didn't post anything or if you never post anything nothing happened so it doesn't matter how good your post is going to be that you're going to post in half a year if no one you know and for six months no one saw anything of you so I think it's a mixture of you know planning and actually making a strategy and then just doing it but I think you know it all comes down to content and giving value to someone and then then you have to see or look like where can I reach those people maybe it's good to invest in some Facebook ads maybe not maybe tried and maybe it doesn't work maybe it does because it's different for all the companies like she just said maybe a Facebook page of someone works really really well still and then other people are just completely losing their people on Facebook or even the company that I used to work at they stopped their Facebook at one point because their Instagram was blowing up and they were like well we look really good on Instagram why don't we show everyone that cares our Instagram instead of people seeing us like this still small company that we are not anymore on Facebook so it's a constant reviewing of things and then you know asking yourself pretty selflessly what you think people are going to want to see yeah that was my very broad answer to that yeah I definitely can I don't have it yet because I always want to do that and it's so much work that I never started and we just talked about that is not very efficient but I can definitely do that I'd say I don't really know one page exactly to take your information because I personally listen to all sorts of podcasts from very different people from very different niches and then I take everything they say and put it and try and again ask myself can I use this for this or maybe for this and stuff like that so I'd say I'll make a thing and I'll tweet it out and if you care to download it then you can download it might take a little time but you know I'm here so yeah do this yeah yeah okay yeah okay yeah that makes a lot of sense I guess that's because that's a niche as well that makes it easier but of course I have never really I'd rather talk about the things I've already done because then I know what works what works not I have not grown a social media for a meet-up so if anyone needs help with that maybe I can even help you and we can test if it actually works but otherwise of course I'll prepare something and then you can check it off hopefully pressures on mine oh yeah come on please use this so yeah I'll I'll definitely let everyone know when it's finished and then is a Google dog better because I like to do stuff like that is that to complicate it will all right okay okay yeah yeah okay to get the questions and stuff yeah yeah I can do that yeah yeah thank you yeah you did a great job doing this thank you and if anyone happens to have questions we can still talk always well my favorite podcast is the millionaire and yoga pants it's it's well it's a blonde American woman that looks very I'd say standard but she talks about like very interesting topics regarding social media growth she is she is she's one of those people that definitely just works with a niche but you can use it heard just and she always invites people that are very interesting I think so she gives a lot of great input on social media growth and yeah that's my favorite and Bucci radio is great that's from Amanda Bucci she's a fitness youtuber and Instagram and yeah she started an Instagram course actually recently and so she definitely has great knowledge she has I don't know like 600,000 subscribers on Instagram for all followers and Instagram so she's great I listen to a lot of female podcasts so I don't know if that really can properly answer your question they're great thank you


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It works, and we still have some, please, not forgetting to call the trigger, oh now we go, we have to start. Hi everybody, the next talk is given by Wunder Bauman, it's an introduction to PPCI, please give him a warm welcome. Alright, thanks everyone, so my fans are coming in, where are they, Hope and Alex? So I want to give an introduction to the PPCI project, it's a project I started a long time ago. So what it is, it's about the implementation of a compiler in the Python language. And as of now it contains several, I would say, architecture features for about nine different targets, and the only requirement to run this compiler system is Python, so that has some advantages. And it was also heavily in progress. So how did I start with this? At some point I wanted to write my own operating system, because all of the other operating systems were just not nice, so I wanted to start my own, and then I searched for tooling, and that also turned out to be not as nice. So then I started my own, and that's where I'm stuck now, or busy with now. So maybe a little bit about how does a compiler work, more or less, is high overview. So a compiler basically takes a source code and translates it into machine code, or some other code. So first you have, say, some checking of the source code itself, it's called lexical parsing and then checking some code. Then from there it is ER code is generated, which means intermediate code. And this intermediate code can be optimized with all kinds of clever tricks. And then in the end the code is generated for a specific processor, so then it again becomes, is translated again. So there, of course, exists a lot of compiler projects already. So you have all the phases of compilation, and here are some project listed. It is, of course, not complete, but it gives you some overview. At the lower part you see the more conventional compilers, they're all written in C, C++. There are some compilers written in Rust, and at the top I put some projects which are implemented in Python. And you see that the PPCI project goes all the way, so from frontend to the linking as well. So in that sense it's quite unique. And also I was wondering why are compilers implemented in C, C++, because it is such a difficult language to program in, you make so many errors, and it really sees a system language. So why do we do that? I don't know, I think, for example, Rust or maybe, I don't know, Go is a better language to write a compiler in, since it's really an application. It's not an operating system. But I think it is historical. OK, so writing a compiler in Python, why would you do this? I mean, obviously there are lots of better working choices in C, C++, but still there are some benefits of having a compiler written in Python, and that is it's easy to install and arguably it's better to, easier to understand as well, since that was one of the ideas behind the Python language that it is easily to read, whereas C++ or many other languages are pretty hard to understand. And it is also pretty portable because when the Python interpreter is ported to another platform, you can as well run this. And of course it's fun, so, yeah. So the demo I want to show you today is I got two contributions from Almar and Michael, and it's about one contribution is support for WebAssembly, and the other one is the support for RISC-V. So what is WebAssembly? In a nutshell it is a portable format for the Web. So the idea is that you can create a WebAssembly module and run it in a Web site. And it works in most browsers actually, so that is pretty nice. And if some people still remember the 90s where we had this Java applet, I think it is more or less comparable to that except you don't need the plug-in. But the code you have in WebAssembly is still portable, so that is very good. Then RISC-V, what is that? If you don't know that, it's an open source instruction set, right? And it is like the ARM processor, but then without the license fee, that is very nice and it is also open source. I think also there is another death room here about RISC-V. So this is the flow I want to, or the demo I want to show to you, and why WebAssembly is maybe also beneficial not only to the Web, but also for embedded systems as well. So the flow that we have here is we have a piece of code and we have transformed it into WebAssembly. Now it can run in browsers, of course, and that is the top flow you see here. You take some WebAssembly, then you still need some HTML files in JavaScript, and then you can run this file in Firefox, and you see the output of your WebAssembly code. But now, what is also possible, you can take this WebAssembly code and compile it, we'll do it in this case of course with PPCI project, and compile it to the RISC-V machine code and run it on actual hardware. And the fun thing about this is that the WebAssembly code is the same. So we have the same code actually running in the browser as on the hardware itself. For this hardware setup, which was mainly done by Michael, is that the Pico RISC-V core is used, and then with a virilator you can create a simulator. I didn't know that yet, but that works pretty nice. All right, now let's first start this. I will first show the source code of this. What is the function I'm going to use as a demo case? It's a very simple function. It's the faculty function. So five exclamation marks means five times four times three times two times one, and it is 120 or a hex, it's 78. You can create this WebAssembly module with the Wasm Fiddle tool. It's an online tool which you can fiddle with WebAssembly basically, and it works pretty nice. So I will now show this faculty function as it looks like in WebAssembly. So this is the WebAssembly, so it's a sort of an assembly language as it will look like. This is a text form. You also have the binary form. I will show that as well. So that is this file. Okay, that doesn't work. So this is the binary file, and as you can see, the binary file is also pretty more compact than the text version, and that is, of course, for the Web. That's very important because we have low times and we want to reduce all the loading time. But next to this Wasm file, there's also a demo page, and this demo page will load the WebAssembly module, as you can see here. Yeah, it is mainly, you have to write some HTML and JavaScript to actually load this WebAssembly file into memory. So now what will happen if I open this HTML document with Firefox? Right, five minutes left. I have to hurry. You can see here I printed the WebAssembly format on the left and on the right you can see the output when this WebAssembly is run. So now the WebAssembly module is run in the browser and we see that five faculty, we still remember it is 120. So what we actually do from JavaScript, we invoke this function and print the result back. So now I want to do the same with on the RISC-5 processor. So for this I made a script, and here you can see how you basically can use the PPCI project to load WebAssembly and also generate code using this. So first some utilities are imported and then we have object one, which is of course some glue assembly logic. This is then RISC-5 assembly of course, not WebAssembly, so it's a detail. Then here the WebAssembly module is also taken to an object and then we have three objects, the startup, the glue logic and the compiled WebAssembly. And then it's all put together and put in a hex file at the end. So we'll now try to run this and hopefully it will work. What could possibly go wrong? Now it created a file. As you see here on the bottom a firmware hex file is generated and if everything is well it should be possible to run this with the Pico RISC-5 simulator. Yes, and as you can see at the bottom it outputs again on the terminal the same code as we had before in the browser, but now running on a target. And yeah, some backup slides. That was it, so thanks a lot. If you have questions I will be here. Okay, thank you very much. If anybody has questions you can also ask them. Now you can raise your hand and I'll come by with Mike. Well, thank you very much Wendel.


Once there was an episode of South Park made during the third season that Comedy Central never aired, appearing to be the series finale. It was going to kill off the entire series, but it actually never did. So one day, I was at a bizarre Chinese department store. While there, I saw a bootleg South Park VHS. The cover art has the four main characters with Chinese text on top of it. The text said, Nan Fangangiu in 2009's Indian. In English, it says, South Park 2000 new year. I said to myself wow. Why that much? Oh well, I never watched this episode anyway so I bought for free and went home. I opened up the VHS tape, the print date of this tape was February 12, 2000 which is the day when the creator of the Peanuts franchise, Charles M. Schultz died. I put the tape inside the VCR. The tape began with the disclaimer, followed by the intro. As the tape is in good condition, it was perfectly normal. The episode began with Jimbo and Ned in their Humvee. They arrived at Kenny's house. Kenny was outside bored. Jimbo, hey Kenny, what are you doing? Kenny didn't answer. Ned, well you look like you answer to no one. Kenny laughed so hard, he ran inside his house laughing. As he ran in his bedroom laughing, his laughing was distorted which made it more disturbing. It cut to his mother. She was cooking pasta. Then she was finished so he yelled Kenny. Lunch is ready. Kenny didn't come, so he yelled again. Kenny your lunch is ready. In a distorted voice. Then she went to his bedroom to see what was going on. He saw Kenny laying on the floor if he was actually dead. Kenny's mother becomes depressed. Scuzzlebutt came to the kitchen and ate Kenny's meal.  Why would this happen to him? She then opened the pills and put all of them in her mouth. Then she dropped to the floor and passed out. Officer Barbrady then came home at 9.00 p.m. at night and saw Kenny's mother dead. He buried her at a cemetery. Then it cuts to Cartman, Stan, Kyle Jimbo, Ned, Barbrady, Kenny's father and Kenny's brother gathered around having a funeral. Then Stan said hey, I wonder what happened to Kenny. Cartman, Stan and Kyle went to Kenny's bedroom. When they got here, they were all shocked. It showed a hyper-realistic image of Kenny's dead body. His eyes were gouged out, his stomach was crudely cut open and his throat was slit. It looked like if he was mauled by a bear and lion, like what happened to Chef in the Return of Chef. Stan, oh my god. Somebody killed Kenny. Kyle, well, I don't know who's the bastard. Kenny was a murdered. It's unknown who did this. It cut to the South Park Elementary. At the class, Damon Thorn said Heil Hitler and the White Power. Mr. Garrison replied angrily. Okay, what the frick was that? Damien got furious and shouted, I'm gonna slit your throat. Damon then got out of his desk, put out a gun and shot Mr. Garrison. He then slit his throat and shot Stan in the face. His classes shocked over this scene. Wendy screamed why? And started crying. It was actual crying, not acting. Stand up, said Damon in a gruff voice.  He shouted. He started to kill Wendy while crying furiously. Cartman ran off scared. The other students didn't leave. Then it showed Damien with flames in his pupils. Demonic music was playing and Damon shouted, Heil Hitler and the White Power.  Cartman then said in a crying voice. If you want me to leave, well I will leave. Goodbye. As he ran into his home, it cut to a time card saying, one day later, it cut to Cartman in his bedroom. Cartman then said in a sad voice, what if nobody likes me anymore? Sniff, I'm nobody to anybody. Sniff, I had enough. He then hung himself, resulting his suicide. It then cuts to South Park getting hit by a nuclear bomb falling from the sky. As this happened, the devil appeared on the scene with black eyes and red pupils with tears of blood. Suicide is our only release from this hell we call Earth. The episode finally ended with credits. It was silent and in white Chinese text. I ejected the tape and broke it in pieces. Because of that, I am unable to see South Park the same way again.


We're having a long trip. We're having a hard time. We're going to have a time change. We're going to tour the F-35 first. They've got a hard stop to fly. They're going to tow once we're all here. So these guys are going to be up past the flight. It's 9 o'clock this morning. We're going to fly to Sierra. Good night. The air place is one of our mission sites. We're going to have to see what they have. We're going to see what they have. We're going to fill in the flight. We're going to have some IBDs. Very common in Iraq and Afghanistan. Roadside boxes like that. We're going to have to see what they have.


Well, we're still about 11 months out from Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis, but some of the activities have already begun for the Minnesota Super Bowl host committee, as it continues to award legacy fund grants to organizations across Minnesota. The committee began its 52 weeks of giving the week following this past Super Bowl by awarding its first grant. The Lakeland area saw its first grant awarded today to the Malax Band of Ojibwe. The grant will go towards the equipment and support for the tribe's sustainable community gardens. We're pretty excited about getting this grant from the legacy fund. The grant's given us an opportunity to grow our community garden project, the Mino-Mijian project. So we're going to try to expand with the funding we got. We're going to be able to expand to all the communities in Malax. The 52 weeks of giving's purpose is to raise awareness and find solutions towards creating a healthier generation of children in Minnesota. Super Bowl 52 takes place on Sunday, February 4th, 2018 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.