Hi guys, what's up? How's it going? It's great to be here. It's good to have you in studio. Finally! I love your energy. You love my energy? I love your energy, it's crazy. I don't know, it's coffee. No, it's just coffee. I had coffee, man. It's crazy, but it's for rocksters. Rocksters are supposed to be like... You know, like most people, they... No, I love it. It's great to be here. I know, it's just hyper. Too much sugar, I think. You know, it's always nice to be with rockers. Yeah, rockers. They are awesome. Rockers are the coolest people to hang around with. If you're feeling low, just call a rockster. Or just hang out with them. And it, um... I don't know, it catches on to everybody. Like, it lights up the room. So viral. Yeah. Alright. Awesome. So guys, if you're just joining us, these are straight-line connections. You know, towards the end of last year, I was asking you, like, why haven't we had them yet? Like, they're so cool, they need to come over. Just chill. Just chill. Just chill. Let's wait for them to release another song. They'll be here. They'll be here. Just chill. So you're finally here. And we're so excited. And I'm sure so many guys at home are excited just as we are. So welcome to Y2F4. This is the premiere. Okay. The debut of you guys being here on Y2F4. It's good to have in the studio. Alright. So we'll just go ahead and start maybe with your names. You tell them the name of the band is Straight Line Connection. But we want to know you individually. Yes. Alright. So yeah, we'll start with him. You introduce yourself and what you do for the band. Sure. Yeah. My name is Gunn. I'm the guitarist. Gunn, like G-U-N. G-U-N and simple. Oh, okay. Cool. I think that's your real name. Straight Line Connection. That's what people need to know. That's what matters. Sorry. Sorry. Me, I'm Ruben. Yeah. I'm the bass player. I always love basses. I told you before. Yeah. No, no, no. Not like that. For some reason. My dad was in charge of buying. Somehow and he was like a bass guitarist. So it's in the family. Yeah. So whenever I see basses, I'm like, hmm. You and my dad should have hang out. You know. Alright. So moving on. Oh yeah. My name's Parham. But from the start, I've been called P-Man. I know. P-Man. It's also like go buy in the band. That's what I'm doing. And I'm the drummer for Straight Line Connection. Drummer. Awesome. Like good to have you guys in the studio. Maybe Bart, we just want to know, maybe give us a little bit of a background about the band. So when was it formed and buy who and how many guys are in the band? Yeah. That's a good question. So it's just three of us for now. Yeah. Awesome.  Oh, this is the other day. That's the other day, man. Yeah.  We were actually very lucky. We played the Michael first of all. Yeah. Yeah. Remember, you catch and raise. This is the first time I was like, I was, you know, almost. Yeah. Almost. And I was like, okay. Well, those guys just play. Yeah. And then you're like, what? What have they been? Yeah. I've never seen these guys. Yeah. Okay. Because Metanoia was the first like... Do you say like Indian band? Really cool. And then you just went like, shh. Never saw. And then I was like, actually I was like, is Metanoia back? No, no. There's a whole different crew. They're called straight. I'm like, hmm. I actually remember playing a bass guitar from one of you guys. It was a straight line. Yeah. Yeah. The brown bass guitar. Yeah. We had a... We've gone through different bassists. Ah, yeah. Become and go. But Ruben's been with us for quite a while now. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool. Nice. All right. Nice. Yeah. Okay. So that is like our two years. One and a half. One and a half years. One and a half years. I'm very afraid. And they're making moves in the industry. I'm actually working on an album. You're working on an album? Yeah. No. I was expecting like, okay. So we're working on an EP that will be... I don't know many names. Some bands, you know, who I'm talking about. Some bands, my good friends. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Yes. Sometimes I've been here for over, I don't know. A long time. But I feel like this is what we need right now. Because we're talking about taking rock to mainstream. To make him rock mainstream. And I feel like we need this kind of energy. Not just do you come with one by one song.  I feel like we need this. Like we actually need this right now. Because he's the activist. He's like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Absolutely. And you know, like one of our missions is to bring, like you said, rock back to mainstream. Yeah. Rockers who are hiding somewhere. Yeah. They don't exist or other bands exist. Right. Some really good bands out there. Yeah. Right. But you can not do that if they don't release more music and videos. We need videos. We need music. So we're excited. You guys will have an album soon. All right. So I feel like that was the question that you could answer to Kim and Lisa, but then now since it's here, that's cool. But maybe you tell us about Australian Connection. What's the origin of the name? Where did it come from? I actually don't know. You know, we went for about a month. Him and I were just sending each other messages of very different names, all sorts of names. We didn't know which one to use. And then after a lot of thinking, we're like, you know what? This one rings a bit. It has a certain ring to it. Yeah. So we stuck with it. We wanted to change it in between, but we thought, you know, let's just stick with it and see how it goes. And it has grown on funds. No. Yeah. They're really cool. They're just like straight, you know, and they have a connection, but they are straight, you know. That's cool. That's amazing though. Just finding people who share the same. Like, you know, sometimes it's hard. Sometimes you compromise. Just being with some people because it's like work. We need to get it done. But finding people who share the same goal as you and everything, I feel like that's magic, right? Yeah. I usually say that's tamu. Yeah. He speaks that kind of so he didn't know. I know. That's tamu. How long have you guys known each other? Just since the band formed actually. Oh, really? Yeah. No way. I know, right? I feel like, oh, so we met in college and then this one, we met like... Actually, one of my cousins is a mutual friend. Oh. I was in a band before called Bass 2-4. Oh, Bass 2-4. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was an interesting band. Yeah. We were mostly doing covers. Yeah. We'd play at open mic nights. Yeah. What I usually like about the band is like, they used to have two bassists. Yeah. Two bassists. Yeah. Two guitarists. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Four total string instruments. Yeah, it was interesting. And then the ladies, yeah. Yeah. But I like, if you're there, I like the split because I think now you're in straight line. There's one who's playing with Wish. Yeah, yeah. She also plays guitar bass. Yeah. Jessica. Jessica, she plays bass. Yeah. That's cool. That's cool. Awesome. I would love that. Can you teach me how to play bass? I want that. Like playing bass. I enjoy it. I check who plays bass. That is so badass. You know. I play bass. For straight line connection. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he teaches. Yeah. Oh, sign me up, please. Yeah. All right. So as much as it's rock music, so what can we say? You guys are called the genre of rock. What kind of rock? Your style, actually. I would say it's, I mean, we're all over, we play rock, but also like hard rock. And we also kind of delve into alt metal as well. Right. So we're kind of all over the place really. Ah, nice. All right. So I'm just told, I'm just told, maybe we remind our finds real quick. The names are Ruben, Piman and... Gun. Gun. Yes. So we have gun. We have gun. We have Ruben and we have Piman. Amazing. So you're telling us about this style of music. So... Yeah, that's it. I mean, like our first release, Fight on Reconcil, is more like hard rock slash alt metal. Our second release, text walking, is I would say hard rock. Yeah. But we also have like slower rock songs that we're going to release on our album. We also like have heavier songs as well that we're going to be releasing as well. We like that. She likes that. Our finds love that. That's great. And speaking of heavy, this one, she's like, okay, sorry. Sorry for calling you out. But there's a t-shirt. It says somewhere you are rocking and it had something about pop. It doesn't dig pop. Okay. I would say... Yeah. Johnny wants his name. Lawrence wants to get on there too. He doesn't feel pop. Yeah. So he doesn't feel pop. So when we talked about heavy, I'm like, well, I'm with you on that one. But we still have pop stars who watch the show. Are you talking the one that's on all over Instagram? Yes. Tell us about that. Tell us about that. I don't want to put you on the spotlight. It's a funny story. I was just in a t-shirt store. Yeah. And I saw that shirt and it was like, love at first sight. I got to get that shirt. Guys, I know the guys are a whole lot confused. They're like, what are you talking about? So if you want to know what I'm talking about, just head over to Instagram at white of a food channel. Just look at the poster we have and on Twitter as well. Look for him. The shirt he's rocking. Just read what is written all over that shirt. That's what you're talking about. No point in telling? Yeah, no point in telling. Actually, no shed, actually. And look at on the Instagram at Straight Line Connection, right? Yeah, you'll find the same tee. Just read what you're talking about. Something about pop. Yeah, that's a hint. That's a hint. All right, so Ruben, what can you say actually inspired you to pick up the guitar? Yes. Yeah. I've been playing since I was like eight. Eight. I know. That's the kind of deep stuff I was talking about. You know, I was like, as long as he's ours too. So I started with acoustic guitar and did a bit of piano. Then afterwards, I decided to play bass. Oh, bass. Yes, yes. Right. So he grew up, he's like, I just broke my voice and I think it would be better if my instrument matches this way. I'm just like, anyway, but it's really dope. So the first song you released, your first single, Fight and Reconcile. I want to know about that. P-Mine, you want to tell us about that? Yeah, sure. Yeah. How did it come about? So basically, he's the mastermind of all the lyrics and everything. Oh, nice. The song basically revolves around this idea that, you know, we're going to always face conflict. Yeah. But at the end, we always come to a resolution. Right. You know, so why fight when you're going to reconcile? Just let things go and move forward with life. Right. There's no reason to fight. So you fight and you reconcile. And you reconcile. It's just an endless loop. So why not avoid the conflict, you know, in the story? All right. So maybe Gunn can tell us more about that since you are the one behind the lyrics. Yeah. What were you going through at that particular moment? You know, to be honest, it just comes to me. I think there's a reservoir of stuff in here.  Not really.  And when I play, when I write music on the guitar or whatever, and then the lyrics just come out. So this song, it has a heavy riff.  And it just came to me fight and reconcile. And then I wrote the whole song around that. And so the song starts off round and round in circles. We go, where's the elusive straight line? Right. So we're always in a, we're almost saying we're always in a circle of fight and reconcile, fight and reconcile, but there's, you know, where's the straight line? Does that happen to you guys? Like, I know some people in the band, the band's, it's like a family.  So does that happen to you guys? Do you have like some disagreements and at the end of the day, you like sort it out? Yeah. Ruben, jealous. We have disagreements, but we don't fight. I think we've turned to a part where it's that serious. Yeah. We can disagree on different things. Right. Yeah. Afterwards, we are brothers.  We try not to escalate anything. Yeah. You know, we talk it out. Cool. But we want you guys to stay together. Like, please, good music is good. We want good music to stay. So please, when you fight, just reconcile. Remember, when you're having the heated argument and you're just arguing, remember your first single.  We don't do that here. We don't work out. We fight and reconcile. Yeah, exactly. You know, just to add to that, I mean, to be honest, I think we get along very well. Yeah. And in fact, that question was interesting and funny because I was trying to think, whenever we ever fought, we've actually never fought. You're like, no, country-late. That's why I gave it to Ruben. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, how was the song received? Because we played it. Actually, we featured you guys on Play to Trash It. Yes. Okay. Yes. The segment you just had. All right. Yeah. We featured you when the song was very fresh, we featured you on that. And you came in second. You didn't get the first place, but yeah, you stayed. We'll take it. You stayed. Yeah, you'll be new. People are always scared of the new guys. They're like, oh, who are they? Let's see how they're going to do. But how's the reception been? How have people taken the song, the fans, the reception on social media, even where you've performed? How was the reception? I think, you know, it's amazing. Yeah. You know, we've been received very well as a band and as a song. And whenever we play the song, song live, we always have that kind of energy coming from the fans. Yeah. Our last show at Cricut Q was like, I just saw like so many people. So many people. And they were moshing. Moshing. Yeah. Yeah. But how does that make you feel? Seeing people jamming and just moshing to your song and you're like, oh, and it's live. Yeah. That's what it's about for me anyway. That when I see the fans giving back to us, that's what it's about. Yeah. And you feel like putting more into it. Yeah. You guys, you know, they give you the energy to keep going. To keep playing.  But you look at them and you're like, no, we can't stop now. Yeah. They never get to that.  It's not happened to me on stage, but I've had like an accident whereby I cut my finger then I have to, I have to not play with these fingers and I can't play with these. Oh. That's awful. Yes. But not on stage. But not on stage. Well, it's going to happen but you have to keep going. No, not that I wish that for them to happen. It happens, it's wrong. It's wrong music. We like that. We like that. And so, what can you say have been your influences in the industry? For me personally, it's been, I'm a big fan of Tool. Oh. A big, big fan of Tool. Rage Against the Machine. Yeah. And then we have Metallica, Megadeth, Lamborghini. Yeah, Metallica obviously. Rage Against the Machine has a Kenyan in it, yeah? Yes, I know Tom Morello. Oh. He's doing it. He's called Kimani also. No way. Yeah. Tom Morello Kimani. I don't know. He's our president's cousin. Seriously. He's one of his favorites, actually. I was reading it and I got a chance to talk to somebody who's worked with him. That is Eric, Eric Wenaina. Yeah. And then I was like, yeah, somebody, they've done a tour with him sometime back in 2004. And it was big for Eric. Oh, yeah.  Yeah. We should try and get him back to you. I'm working on that. Trust me. I'm really working on that. Yeah. He's a really cool guy and he's really supportive. So, po-le-po-le. Yeah. Those are my influences and then I've been a part of my life. Yeah. I mean, for me, I've grown up on classic rock because my dad, I mean, he was, he used to be in a band in his school and college days. So for me, it's been mostly like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, I like Pink Floyd. And we have a fan of the show who's like crazy about it. Yeah. That's a fan. I love Ruben. Yeah. For me, I like it smooth. Yeah. I listen to like Radiohead. Ah. Okay. Kind of something like that. I know, right? Yeah. But let's talk. We want to know about your rehearsals. What are your rehearsals like and how many times a week do you guys get to rehearse? We try and do it once a week. Once a week. The good thing is like, you know, we keep time as much as possible. Yeah. A lot of metal hasn't rolled the show up later. I know. That's true. In fact, one of my friends in rehearsal and he's like, and he also plays the guitar and he's like, dude, you guys are the like first metal band and I know that always keeps time. Yeah. Okay. As a new keep time. But you never talk about that topic because that's cool. That's cool. No one gets a straighter. It's always a straighter one of these things. It's a straight line. You don't get laid. You don't get laid. We have to work it. Yeah. That discipline needs to be there. Yeah. That discipline needs to be there. Yeah. That's a requirement for any band. I hope bands are listening to such stuff. They have to. They have to. You know, as long as you all meet, you can do whatever you want during the practice. As long as you're there, just show up. You know, if you're not feeling that energetic, just show up. Show up. Play what you can. You know, it's helpful. We'll take care of the rest. All right. Oh, this is an easy day. It's a hard day.  First off, I knew that.  I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. So mad. I was so mad. I was so mad. I was mad. We know some enemies, some blues do that. But in his defense, he was not feeling well, so yeah. All right, so I want you guys to tell us what you think you guys are. What's the direction you want your music to take, like how do you want to shape your career in this, since you're just getting started, where do you guys, what direction you guys want to take? You know, I think that's, Yeah, we're all about that. Yes, please. We're going to work on our second one. Hopefully we can release it next year. And then we want to also try and build up the rock scene, like you were saying. I think the whole thing is the people out there who want to listen to rock and metal, they don't know where to go. So we're doing a monthly rock-down show. Yes, I saw that. But it's not going to be just us. I'm one of the organizers, but it's not just going to be us. We want to get everyone a chance. And all the bands that we've spoken to are on board. Oh, awesome. So that's another thing. I think once we grow the rock scene here, I think we have a major opportunity to have Nairobi become a hub. Right, that's true. And I saw that you have a show coming up on the second, and you have a show coming up on the ninth. That's kind of all. We are just playing on the second. Feb 9th? No, that's not us. We're going to be probably playing with Rash in April or May or so. Oh, dope. So tell us about the one that is coming up on the second of February. Tell us about that. It's going to be Mayhem. It's going to be Beastly. Yes, Beastly. I hope the guys at home can actually hear. You actually can see this. If you want to know how to get the tickets, please follow them at Straight Line Connection. They have all their posters and everything you need to know about their performance. Where you can purchase this ticket, where the event is going to be. Just head over there. Straight Line Connection, right? Absolutely. And on Twitter, at Straight Line Corn. Because I remember, before I got that one, it took me a minute to get them on Twitter. So on Twitter, it's not connection. It's actually Straight Line Corn. Make sure you interact with them. They can DM you, right? Absolutely. And the merchandise, we are rocking, the t-shirts, and all about that. Tell the guys, where can they find them? Yeah, I mean, just follow us on Twitter, Straight Line Corn, Instagram and Facebook, Straight Line Connection and just DM us and we'll take it from there. Thousand Boba Shirt. Right. And yes, it's a really good price for now. We just want to promote, you know, really, that's it. And they come in three colors. Black, olive green and red. Yeah, can they get custom made? Like, if I want another color, can I get, can it be custom made? At this point, I don't think so. Oh, okay. At this point, I don't think so, but maybe in the future, we'll look at different colors. Maybe in the future. Oh, cool. But we still like it. This is like green. We have orange. We have black. Yeah. Yeah, I love the colors. No reason to complain. All right, so you guys have our, because my producer is telling me, like, we're almost out of time. So we just need to know about the single, the single you just released. Tell us about that before we take a break because we'll be taking a break soon. Sure, it's called Text Walking. It's again about, like, we write about philosophical stuff a lot. So Fighting Reconcile was one of them. Text Walking is another one. But we also write about personal stuff as well. But so Text Walking is about, you know, how we are just walking through a life, literally and figuratively. Yeah, that makes sense. We also, like, in our minds, there's so much choice around us and all those kind of things. So we don't know which way we're going.  You're glued right on your phone. You don't see what's around you. You know, there's so much more around you. Yeah, you don't get to see. You don't get to experience all that. Because your focus is on one thing. Your focus is on one thing, yeah. Oh, all right. And it's also to prove that we're against Text Walking. Yeah, I don't know. Personally, I don't like it. Put your phone away. Yeah, why? Plug in your earphones. Listen to something. Yeah. Don't be... Look around and smell the roses. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. All the coffee. Yes. All right. So we want to... One thing. What should people expect from you moving forward and then we'll be taking a short break. But before that, what should your fans expect from you and just a quick reminder of your social media handles and then we take that break?  And we're going to be... We're going to keep on... Yes, please. Please stay. We welcome you to stay. We're going to be doing, like, even acoustic sets where we're going to be doing even acoustic sets. We're going to be working very hard this year. Yeah. So, yeah. And again, our Twitter and Facebook is straight-line connection. And then... Sorry, Twitter is straight-line con. Instagram and Facebook are straight-line connections. Straight-line connection. Awesome. That's amazing. We absolutely love that. And we love you guys for coming through in the studio. We did this. Thank you so much for coming. And we want you... Next time you're coming, you have to play for us. Like, bring all the instruments and everything. Yes? Can you please do that for us? Definitely. Can you show up and just hang out with you guys? Yes. Always. Even next week. Do that. Do that. Yeah. You're more than welcome to do that.  We can even host together. You can even detail if you know how to. Cool, right? Yeah. All right. So, thank you so much, guys. And the guys at home, please stay with us. We'll be right back after this short break. We'll stay here. Keep it white if you're for channel. We'll have more for you.


Good morning guys, happy Friday, happy iPhone release day. Sliding's crazy, I'm so excited. I'm vlogging today because I'm getting my new iPhone. First of all though, I wanna show you the Friday fit. It's jeans day, definitely with my jean button down shirt. And yeah, first up, as you guys know, we go to Starbucks, gotta get that coffee. I've been getting my espresso drink, like the three pumps espresso and three pumps vanilla as like a usual kind of with the pumpkin cream cold foam. It's so good. And since I've been getting up at like 430, I need the espresso to like help me out. But today I got to sleep in and we're just gonna get the normal iced coffee. So let's go. Got the coffee, just got the usual drink. I don't know if I told you guys, but I tried the Duncan version instead of like just normal. Which is fine, like I don't really care. And it was actually pretty good, but I think I'm gonna try the sugar-free version next time if I get Duncan. So it'll just be like, you know, regular vanilla, but I'll probably do like an extra pump just because it is sugar-free. I don't know.  I'll try it when I go back, just because. But the coffee wasn't bad, it was very sweet. And I know that this is not part of like the iPhone part, but you can just give it. So, Duncan's is good, but there is a slight, slight taste of foxtail coffee. And it's like the aftertaste. And I think my friend and I were talking and it must be the bean that they use the type of bean because after I have like Starbucks, there's no weird like this aftertaste. Like, I don't know how to describe it, but there's like an aftertaste in a foxtail's coffee that I do not like. I've tried everything that I drink at foxtail. I've tried the espresso, I've tried everything. And there's always this a very distinct like aftertaste and I'm not, it's just not the vibe. I don't think I can go there and have a coffee. And especially because it's like expensive and stuff, I just can't do it. And Duncan's is kind of like that, so I'm thinking maybe it's the flavor of the syrup. So maybe I'll just get the almond milk and try that or the sugar-free vanilla. There is that slight taste. It's not as strong as foxtail, but Duncan's does have this weird aftertaste and I just don't know what it is. Or maybe like literally all coffee tastes like that and it's Starbucks that's different. I've just gotten used to like Starbucks's taste. I do like though how Duncan's coffee is lighter, like it's not as bitter tasting, if that makes sense, I don't know. But I guess I just got used to Starbucks and this aftertaste thing is just driving me crazy. Next up, I know, let's talk about the screen protector dilemma. Okay, so this is so silly when I'd say this, but putting on screen protectors is like such a crucial thing and I get so nervous putting on the screen protector and one of like this close family friend of mine, she's from like Washington state. You guys have better, I did a video. She's one of my Shaman sisters, but I know that it takes like too long to explain what that is. So anyway, I just say we always will mean one of my other Shaman sisters just say like close family friend. This girl is from Washington and she came and she's like into like tech and stuff. So I was like, this is back when the iPhone 5 was like popular. I was like, oh, can you put on the screen protector for me? I'd probably do a really good job. And she did and it was like perfect and there was like no hairs and like no nothing and it was just so amazing. And that was before like the guides were a thing like, you know, the guides to help you put on the screen protectors. Anyway, I digress. So for this iPhone, I ended up getting, sorry, it's like really loud because there's a freaking motorcycle next to me. I ended up just ordering a screen protector on Apple and I'm gonna be honest, like the thing was like 50 bucks and I couldn't believe it. Like I spent that on a screen protector and you only get one. Like it's not like you get at least three so you can mess up two times. And when I say mess up, I'm not necessarily saying that I'm messing up like putting the thing on because I'm doing a pretty good job at that now. Now sometimes you can get like a millimeter off, which still bothers me, but it's fine. The one that I have on my phone now, there's like a slight angle and like it's not on completely straight, but it's fine. Now I'm just showing my like OCD-ness, but it's fine. The thing that I have a problem with is like hairs underneath or dust particles underneath the screen protector. So I always get stressed out that there's gonna be a hair or something and how I really check this, like how I check if there's any like hair or whatever. I just turn my screen on and it like on a white screen and you'll be able to see it. So the worry I face is getting hairs underneath the screen protector and only having one. I did my due diligence and I got a pack of three on Amazon just in case. Oh, everyone's stopping now. Back to what I was saying, I got a pack of three on Amazon for like $6 and that is just in case I mess up on this one like $50 screen protector I bought. That was a long story for just a little thing, main point, but I felt the need to say it in this video because yeah, screen protectors just like stress me out.  I hate that we still have to use screen protectors, but like honestly, you do get like hairline scratches just from like your fingernails and like keys touching it. So it's just, it's good safe measure, you know, to have a freaking screen protector on the phone. And then to finish this little chit chat in the car with you guys, cause I know you all love these parts. This girl at Starbucks, she was like cleaning the outside tables. She was like, I love your outfit. And I was like, oh my God, thanks. It's just so nice. It's like good to start your day and I don't know, just good energy and the coffee was made really well today. I think I just ran over bouncy ball. Someone, a little kid must have thrown it out of their car or something. Okay, so that is going to be it for this random car parts chit chat in the car with me part of the vlog. I don't know if I made any sense, but I'm going to enjoy my coffee and my drive to work with some YouTube videos because that's just what we do or podcast. But since I have some YouTube videos to watch, I normally listen to YouTube videos. That's the one good thing about driving, like a long time. Like you have time to like absorb content and like listen to things. That's like the only good reason, but it's fine. Okay, so I promise you, I promise you that it is later in the day, obviously. But I am on my way to pick up the phone. I'm probably going to eat something first. Just so then when I leave, I can just go home and set up the phone and do the unboxing for you guys. I'm so excited. Yeah, I've been thinking about this phone also too. I was like watching unboxings and there was like a, I don't know, the guy said something about an eSim and I was like, oh my gosh, like does my carrier? Cause I go with like a third party carrier called Cricut and it's like an off brand of like AT&T. It's like a lot cheaper and stuff. So that's why I just get the unlocked phone. So I don't have to, you know, like worry about my phone and everything being too expensive. So I was like, oh my gosh, like this new phone does not have a SIM, like a SIM card reader. Like you don't put a SIM in it. That sounded weird. You don't put a SIM card in this device. So I'm like, what am I gonna do? Like when I pick this thing up, like how do they do it? But I guess there's just like prompts and stuff and now Cricut allows for eSim's. So everything's good. Everything's fine. I was just like really nervous about that. So it is raining outside as I've stated before, but I'm on my way to find my phone. I made it to the mall, got a good, pretty good parking spot, which is good. And yeah, it's about 620. I don't know if I'm just gonna get the phone or eat before. It depends on the line. So we'll see. Okay, so I literally have 10 minutes to eat this because then it's gonna be 625. I can't eat this pretty fast, trust me. And it wouldn't look any different. Look at the line still. Like it's currently almost seven and look how crowded it is waiting in this long line. Okay, so I was at the wrong side. I was over there, but they moved me over here. So it's a lot shorter of a line. So hopefully this process will be a little bit faster. So because we have to wait in this long line, the Apple store gave us water. How funny is that? I've never experienced anything like this.  And I'm like, sure, so, so funny. Okay, this kind gentleman, Eric's helping me. I've got the goods. Okay guys, I'm back and obviously looking a little rough. Lighting's a little weird, but to unbox this for you guys because that's what the video is. So this is the box, obviously. So let's open her on up. So there's these little tabs. I didn't get the iPhone 13 because I get the new phone every two years. My box came, I think it was still the cellophane. It was like clear wrap, but now we have these really cool paper tears. And then here she is. It's so pretty. There's already a little dusty on her, but look at how pretty. So I got the white one because I feel like with any case or whatever, like it'll just match better. Look at that massive camera. Holy cow. That's insane. So I got the white one because I wanted it to match. And honestly, I feel like white's just a lot more timeless. And let me take it out. So taking it out, I hope I don't drop it. Oh my God, that would be horrible. So as you can see, there's no port anywhere that you can put a SIM card. So that's where the eSIM comes into play, which I freaked out about, but that's the side of it. And then, yeah, I'm so sad. I'm gonna have to touch the sides of it for now. The lock button is a little bit lower than the iPhone 12 Pro. So this is the 12 Pro, this is the 14 Pro. And as you can see, like if I put them back to back, they're pretty much the same phone.  I'm going to take off the case. I love this case so much. And case device isn't making the bronze anymore, which I'm really sad about, but it's fine. Let me just take this case off so I can do a little comparison. 12 Pro, 14 Pro, look at the camera. 12 Pro, 14 Pro. Look at the camera is massive. And then putting the phones. Okay, so the thickness, it is a little thicker. It's thicker than a snicker, the new one. So as you guys can kind of see, it's a little bit thicker, not too much. And they're the exact same size. And the reason why I wanted to go with the Pro instead of the Pro Max, it's because like, I like to be able to hold my phone in one hand. And with the Max, I got the XS Max, the XS Max, a while ago, and like when it came out and it was just so hard to hold. Like I couldn't text with one hand. And sometimes I need to do that obviously. So I just go with the smaller phone. The internals are the exact same as the big one. It's just the battery life last a little less, obviously, because of size. That's the reason why I go with the smaller phone because I can't hold the bigger phone. And now I've gotten prints all over it. I'm so sad, but it's fine. What we've all been waiting for. Well, first, I'll just show you guys. The charger, it's the USB-C port. It's the same one that I have with the high speed charger, which I just use valories. We get our classic Apple sticker. I think they changed the paper on this. This is looks like a recyclable thing. You no longer need a SIM card. Activate your eSIM during iPhone setup.  Obviously like the fine print and everything. What we've all been waiting for. The satisfying peel. And sorry if there's background noise. Our air purifiers here, so you might not be able to hear anything, but it's just paper anyway. Look, it's so pretty. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to check out the dynamic island. Anyway, now I'm going to go stress out about a screen protector and I will be back. I'll let you know how it goes. Pray for me. While my iPhone is getting all like set up and stuff, it has to update and then I'm restoring it from my backup from my old phone. Okay, this $50 screen protector was worth it in the end. It's on completely straight everything. I do have a couple hairs, but one is not even like on the screen. It's like on the side and then one is up here, but I think that's just like an air bubble and it will definitely settle down like once the screen protector's on. Okay, so I don't know what's going on with my phone right now, but it's fine. Okay, so I'm going to finish setting this up, but overall the screen protector's really good. I think it's going to work out well in the end. Fingers crossed, I don't know, but it's at least it's on straight and there's no like hairs too much, but we do have a little Lisa Junior, so it's cool. So the screen protector came in this thing and then this thing like stretches open. See the rubber band.  I don't know if, yeah, you can see it.  So anyway, highly recommend this. If I remember, I'll link it down below so you guys can like shop all this stuff, but yeah, just thought I would give you an update on that. Oh wait, before I forget, so this green does not really match the green on the case. It's kind of weird. I just wanted to note that, like it's a little bit darker green like in person. I've got to finish this, but anyway, I think that's gonna be about it for this video. Give this video a thumbs up if you want to see like a what's on my iPhone because I love doing those videos. Don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


So, good morning and welcome to the fifth lecture on the subject of digital signal processing and its applications. We will just spend a minute or two in recalling what we did the last time. We will take a couple of questions and then we will proceed to discuss what we intended to in the lecture today. In the previous lecture, we were looking at the whole idea of discrete systems and before we started talking about the properties of systems, we thought it more appropriate to find out what we wanted out of the systems at least at the first glance, you know in the first step of design. What is it that I would expect from a system if I wanted to be able to succeed in the process of design and in fact, we put down certain requirements. Let us summarize those requirements. So, this is a summary of the previous lecture. The theme was what do we want from a system and the answer was contained or in fact, the answer was completely captured by the following three experiments. We said experiment one. We have a discrete system. We give it a complex exponential or a phasor which we can denote. We will use just for variety of notation. We will use the following notation today. We agreed that we insist that the output should also be a phasor of the same frequency.  In fact, now we will use a shorthand notation. We will say we will perform experiments one and two in which we respectively have a 1 and 2, omega 1 and 2, phi 1 and 2. You see, this is a shorthand notation for capturing two experiments of a very similar nature in one drawing. You must interpret when you read something like this. I have intentionally brought in this notation here because it is useful to use this notation where you have very similar drawings to be repeated or these similar expressions or equations to be repeated. What I have drawn here is two experiments with the same system in one drawing. The way you read it is, read it with the comma denoting respectively. You say experiment one respectively two has a 1 e raise the power j omega 1 t plus phi 1 applied respectively. In the second experiment it would be a 2 e raise the power j omega 2 t plus phi 2. It is the same discrete system in both the experiments and the outputs are respectively b 1 e raise the power j omega 1 t plus psi 1 and b 2 e raise the power j omega 2 t plus psi 2. So, one must read it like that. So, two experiments written down. Then the third experiment or the test experiment which determined whether we wanted, whether we got what we wanted from the system is same discrete system.  Do we all agree with this? This is what we wanted. What are we saying in words or in you know in a verbal description? What are we trying to say here? We are saying that firstly when I have a combination of rotating complex numbers applied to a system, I get a combination of the same rotating complex numbers appropriately changed in amplitude and phase and the change in amplitude and phase is independent of the original amplitude and phase. The change in amplitude and phase is described by the system not by the particular amplitude of phase that you have given it. You see at an even higher level of thinking or at an even more abstract level what are we trying to say? We are saying that we can deal with each rotating complex number rotating with different possibly different angular frequencies in its own right. So, we do not need to you know we do not need to worry about what is happening to the complex number rotating with some other angular velocity when I am dealing with the complex number rotating with a particular angular velocity. I can deal with them in a decoupled way. Now going down even further why did I come first to the question of complex rotating numbers at all because I want to deal with sinusoids and why did I want to deal with sinusoids? Because there is a large class of waveforms which I can think of as a combination of sinusoids and why is it that I am so fond of sinusoids or why is it so fond of thinking of waveforms as a combination of sinusoids because sinusoids are extremely smooth, sinusoids are convenient to deal with and if you can think of waveforms as a combination of sinusoids I can deal with the waveforms more appropriately from what I want to do with them. So, I gave you the example of separating out male and female voice components in an audio piece which can easily be described in terms of its sine wave composition. So, many physical circumstances, many physical descriptions of system require thinking of the underlying waveforms that we are dealing with in terms of the sine waves that comprise them. And therefore, it is convenient if I can build a system design philosophy which rotates around what the system does to sine waves and what I want is further that I should be able to specify in a decoupled way what the system does to each sine wave separately without the other sine waves interfering in the process. So, this is the whole story, this is where we are at the moment. As I said these you see the next thing that we are going to say is often present in text books, but it is often not clear why we look for those properties. The next thing that we are now going to say is if we want to get this from a system to get this, we need linearity and shift invariance. In fact, we need three things we need linearity, we need shift invariance and we need stability. And today our objective is to deal with these properties, what do these properties mean? So, these are the questions that we had posed in the last class and we are now going to answer them, is that right?


Hey everybody, welcome back to a special vlog episode here of Retro Tech I want to catch you guys up to speed on what's going on because I'm actually moving shops So we're gonna get ready to say goodbye to the wonderful garage that I've had here for the last few years on the channel And where all my episodes for the most part have been shot. I'm moving from Tennessee near Nashville up to Harrisonburg, Virginia and I'm actually going to start moving stuff here in the shop things like CRTs and Other equipment and I wanted to just kind of vlog this and show you how this is really going to be a challenge Now I've already sent a load To my house my dad came down here and picked it up, but now it's time for us Meaning me to start packing my own trailer load and pulling my first load up as I go I'll show you what we're working on. I'm also going to take some things that You might see normally in the background You won't see them for maybe a couple weeks as I go and transition from here to the new place So let's just show you around We're gonna start over here with one of the shelves that I've been collecting games on for a while All right This rack is a prime example of why you probably never want to really give up on goodwill No matter how bad you think they are in your area I have one down the street from here and me here in Tennessee and it's just Amazing just look at some of the stuff I've gotten over there in the last year These were from December of 2010 so or 2020. I'm sorry But they're all pretty much five dollars no matter what they get in there's Harvest Moon Animal Crossing Super Smash Bros It's just some incredible finds on stuff that I would never want to pay retail for Sonic's and then Again, it's just stuff. I've collected over the last couple years or Sonic's Mega Man and So don't give up on your Local Goodwill's look at that. That's a Paper Mario and that's in great condition Pokemon Coliseum I'm really going to miss that store because I don't know that I've seen one That's that good or if I'm just a lot lucky or what but I mean here's some more we got Mario Party another smash copy Mario Kart Double Dash Sunshine Tarzan some of them aren't great But I've always been a sucker for just buying whatever they have most of the time I've got lots of things packed up here in the shop Lots of things so we're getting Obviously ready still more boxes to go lots of CRTs to figure out how to ship or not ship but Pack and move Especially the arcade machine still got some projects. We're working on All right, can you believe that I was able to live a 36 inch D series by myself Without destroying my back or anything. So that's pretty lucky. The trailer is really full I don't think I could fit anything else. I've got everything jam-packed in here as many CRTs and as many of my things as I can fit in here Now we're going to send this on to Virginia with my dad So unfortunately, I will not get to show you guys the new shop yet That will be coming in the next vlog video for the move because I've still got half a shop Here even after moving darn near 60 CRTs Thanks again for watching everybody. I'll see you next time with some more retro content


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