I'm an everyday woman, woman, woman, in every way, yeah, yeah, I'm living my life, living day by day. Welcome to Every Way Woman. There are some major changes happening in the talk show world. Live from Los Angeles, here's Every Way Woman. Different in a culture that expects you to follow the norm, beyond race. The force of clothing, race, you know. Amber, different. You are different.  And, you know, what was that like for you? First of all, I stand on shoulders of a lot of African American women and men. I think for me and my family, they want to stay in their small city, and I just saw a bigger picture. That's what I meant when I said you're different. You saw the big picture. They know I'm crazy. But I mean, my thing is, I don't want to be different. I mean, I like being different, but I think normal to me is different. So I don't know. I grew up in a military family, so we moved around a lot. And so there wasn't really a norm. There wasn't a norm. Nothing was normal when I was growing up. I found out that it wasn't normal by talking to normal people. That's how I learned.  Sometimes I can blend into... What do you mix with? I'm Korean and Irish. Wow. When I lived in a Latin community, when I first came to LA, and I went to the grocery store and everyone was Spanish, and I was just trying to pick food. I didn't understand what some other things were. They spoke to me in Spanish, and I go, I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish. And this one man got so upset with me and going off in Spanish. And I'm looking at him like, I don't speak Spanish. I'm sorry. Did I say something? And he goes, why are you trying to be somebody or not? Why do you think you're trying to be white? Why are you letting go of your culture? Why are you this and this and this? And I go, he thought I was half Spanish. Wow. And I remember looking at him going, I'm Korean. And I had to speak in Korean. I was like, no, I don't speak Korean. And he's looking at me like, wow. And he kind of walked away. Well, now that you're talking about the Latino community, I think in the Latino community, what's the older generation? It's like, you have to be married. You have to have children. And it's like, I always get that when I go to parties. Hi, mi hija, no estás casada todavía. No tienes hijos. Hi. You know? It already passed, you know? And I'm like, I get offended. I'm like, I don't want to have children. I don't want to get married right now. You know? What do you mean it already passed? That's what they tell you. Well, I worry about that. And I always tell my mom on the stir because I grew up in the Midwest in a very conservative community where most of the people were married by the age of 22, had a baby by 25. And I left four days after college, moved across country. I'm not married. I don't have a child.  And I'm a black sheep.  But you know what though? I've always, you know, even just within my family, I've always been considered the one who, you know what, depending on the mood of how they're addressing me, I'm either the one that marches to the beat of my own drum or, you know, if they're in a less benevolent mood and I'm the crazy one. But I've always been comfortable doing my own thing. But I think African-American culture is different. Oh, absolutely. We don't. We look at life like be happy, go after what it is you need to do, and take care of your business. And so I think sometimes we get the stereotype of saying, you know what, oh, African-Americans don't do this or African-Americans don't do that. And I think that's a myth. Sometimes we do step out the boundaries and we go for it, you know? You know what? You're absolutely right because I can't tell you how many people looked at me with a side-eye question mark when I told them that this past February, I went to Japan to go snowboarding. They're like, wait a minute. You went all the way. Did they look at you like that? Camping, and I can't tell you. Right. I can't tell you how difficult it is to get some African-American friends to go camping with me, you know? But I think our generation now is a little bit different because we have a little more freedom and we see life a little bit different instead of the confined segregation kind of, I have to say that social media in that way I think has been so eye-opening because we get to see how other cultures live. Not just other cultures, but other cultures get to see what we do. No, no, no. They don't really get to see it. They get to see an idealized version of what we present to them. Exactly. Not anymore. Not anymore. But you know what those are? Not with us, baby. I think some of the younger ones are kind of turning into the TMI generation.  I mean, they just, they're everything. I know. There's a lot of things. But there's good things too. Sure. Like us. And like us. But I think it's interesting too because in some ways then instead of people wanting to be different, they're seeing what they want to do and what they want to be like everybody else. I think I want to raise my children with their culture and letting them know who they are, but then also letting them know they're not bound to the structure that society put on them. You can go and you can be whoever you want to be and still be proud African-American and still be who you are. Yeah, that's beautiful. More when we return. After this commercial break, more Every Way Woman. Are you an Every Way Woman? I think Tom is here to talk about a little gynecology 101, which you should and should not expect from your appointment. Dr.  You know that, right? Just going through a gynecologist is always going to be scary.  We try to make it a little less scary. But listen, really, why should women go to a gynecologist? Well, of course when you become sexually active, you want to start seeing a gynecologist. And if you're under 21, your daughter will tell you, Mom, I'm tired of seeing the pediatrician. I'm ready to see a gynecologist. Now, I start out by saying it's scary. What should I expect? Especially on my first visit to a gynecologist, what should I expect? Well, you should expect to have your doctor talk to you about your history, your family history, and all the other things that your primary care doctor, if you aren't seeing them yet, will talk to you about your vaccinations, your health history. Are you exercising? Are you eating well? Do you smoke? They'll talk to you about that. And then they'll ask you if you have any concerns, any reason you specifically came to see them. Have you been recently sexually active? And maybe we're worried you might have a sexually transmitted disease. So I have a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old, and I don't believe they're sexually active. But when should I introduce them to a gynecologist, have them have a pelvic exam, or a pap smear? That's a great question for most parents of children, women that you wonder, when are my little girls going to start being sexually active?  I have. And they all see a pediatrician every year, up until they're about 18. But there's a transition between the pediatrician and a gynecologist, where you can ask your daughters, see, would you be interested in seeing a gynecologist? That means there's more that they want to talk about with a gynecologist. And that's a great start. But you know, Dr. Thomas, there's an illusion that the gynecologist is only for when you're sexually active, but we both know that cervical cancer and other things can come out of a pap smear and out of a pelvic exam, right? So they don't know about that. So how do I talk to them about that? Well, cervical cancer and abnormal pap smears are later in life. Most women aren't going to have a pap smear before 21. Okay. So that you won't need to worry about if a young girl is having gynecologic issues, a gynecological discharge, or something the pediatrician can't help, then they will refer you to a gynecologist. But most girls between the ages of about 16 to 21 become sexually active. And that's when they should think about seeing a gynecologist or if their primary healthcare provider does pediatrics and also sees adult women, that's a great transition they don't even have to make. So when I'm at the gynecologist, is there anything that I shouldn't share with you when I come in to see you, doctor? Is there anything I shouldn't share with you? Oh, you should find a gynecologist you can share everything with. Okay. Because it's so important that you are able to tell that doctor everything. That's how we help you if you are having an extramarital affair. Wow. If you had an unwanted sexual experience. We need to know so that we can help you right away. Now, is there a certain age that I don't have to see you anymore? That I'm done. No more plastic clamps. It's not after that first exam as you would like it to be. So there's a point when if a woman's had a hysterectomy that she doesn't need a pap smear but at 65 if she stops having has had pap smears at all normal she can stop having pap smears. But a pelvic exam is very important. We detect things like rectal cancers and other pelvic masses. So I recommend you have a pelvic exam every couple of years the rest of your life whether you have a pap smear or not. And how do I look for a gynecologist? I'm giving you my heart. How do I look for a gynecologist? That's a great, great question. When you move into an area I'd ask your girlfriends who do you see. Then I'd look online, check the doctor's credentials. There's so many different evaluations of physicians where you can see if people like a particular doctor or not. And it also tells you where we went to school and if we actually practice in that area. For example, as a gynecologist some of us are just general OBG-like animals but say you need an infertility problem it'll give you that doctor's credentials or an oncologist for a cancer or for pelvic surgery and continents or prolapse that's what I do. You can see our credentials, see what we treat and so in essence my gynecology gynecologist is actually my good friend, right? Absolutely. Dr. Thomas, thank you so much for joining us. In order to take care of others you have to take care of yourself. Stay tuned to Everyway Woman. We'll be back with Everyday Fitness. Are you an Everyway Woman? Are you an Everyway Woman? Coming up, Heather is going to be talking to us about body blueprint. I have no idea what that is, do you? Find out right here at Everyway Woman. When you start working with a personal trainer they need to do a whole body assessment. Our fitness expert Heather Bins is here to tell us about her body blueprint that she does with all her clients. What is a body blueprint? Well for me it's the term that I give to the complete fitness assessment that I do with my clientele. So for example, not only does it involve a body fat assessment and a strength assessment which is common for most trainers but in addition I do a cardiovascular assessment a flexibility assessment, a physical and balance assessment and a functional movement screen to really make sure I can make the perfect program for each and every client. So is that like day one? They need to do this with you? Yes, it's the first appointment. So what kinds of things do they need to do for you to assess all these items? First, show up, just dress comfortably. That's the key. It's nothing to be afraid of, it's nothing scary and it requires a lot of work and causes any pain or anything. It's just me putting them through a series of movements so I can see how their body moves, what's happening in each joint area so I can not only get them to their goal whether it may be fat loss or building muscle or training for race, but at the same time helping prevent injury in the future because I'm correcting those dysfunctional movement patterns and the imbalances that we have from everyday life. Absolutely, so I don't need to cram on push-ups if I'm meeting you for the first time. Well not cram on push-ups, but you may do some. So I definitely have knee problems and I'm prone to those back problems. Are those things that you can tell? Yes, exactly. Based on when we do the screening and how your body moves in the certain movements that I have you go through, it's going to tell me what muscles are underactive or overactive and basically what that means is which muscles are firing all the time and other muscles are hardly firing at all so that we can create more of a balance in that muscular system in your body so that we can put you back in one piece so you're moving properly and you're not causing any pain so how much do your shoes matter in your gait and all that? Well in regards to running it's extremely important to have the right running shoes for running because you have to get a gait analysis and that's exactly the word to use I'm surprised not everyone knows that. Well because I have my knee problems so I wonder about that. So when you're doing the assessment do you say you run a certain way you need to get a different shoe before I can even start working with you? Side of doing the body blueprint and everything that's more when I'm having a client come to me for whatever it may be strength training sometimes it is rain training but then I send them to a running specialist that can actually do the gait analysis on them I can see the precursors of it but I actually let someone else do that who specializes in running shoes I don't specialize in running shoes but I get them there So that's not important with strength training to... Well you do want the right shoe but it's not necessarily one to have your whole gait analyzed you just want a shoe that's stable so for example a lot of times I recommend a cross training shoe so not only is it stable in a forward and backward motion but also side to side and then that's pretty much what you need in the gym And how much do you work with people as far as what they're eating and their nutrition? All the time. Nutrition is a huge part of getting to any goal whatever it may be so I always give nutrition guidance to my clients because that's to be honest a majority of it sometimes Because you know I know a lot of people okay I'm working out so I can eat whatever I want like me and as much chocolate as I want is there truth to that? Yeah that's true there are people that do that and to be honest when someone does start working out yes you can splurge a little bit and that's part of life I mean I'm not telling my clients they can't eat anything that they don't love because then it wouldn't be a realistic Thank you we can work together Perfect but it's about moderation and you can still enjoy those little pleasures in life it's just about definitely using moderation But if you don't have your diet on track can you get the results you want still? You can. I've never heard that. It's just going to take a lot more hard work on the other aspect but nutrition is still a part of it. Okay because that's what I think about I'm like well it's going to be you know like 20 more reps that I'd have to do to work out that little brownie bite I mean is that how it plays out basically? Not necessarily no it's different with every client it depends on what your goal is it's kind of hard to say in the general terms but nutrition is a huge part of it and it's a way with eating some of the good stuff Okay and when you have how long does it take when you do the blueprint to get them on track to like where they can actually do the routine you want them to do? Okay well the blueprint usually takes at least an hour sometimes a little bit more because I'm really going into the history of the client in regards to medical history surgeries physical fitness history because between all of that and the results that I find then I'm also finding out what is their goal because their goal is to get them to where they want to get as quickly as possible but at the same time I kind of help fix and correct at the same time and then we go into a strength program but the assessment itself is about an hour or so Okay so you see you do it in conjunction you like fix them and they don't even know it Sometimes that's the case I like your style So when you're thinking about working with a personal trainer you really want someone who is going to do a full assessment on you so whether they call it a body blueprint or whatever you know full analysis they need to make sure they're customizing their workout plan for you We'll be back with more Every Way Woman There's more to come with Every Way Woman So I'm here with Jacqueline Jacqueline you sent us an email and in that email you said that women over 40 are being ignored by the media Why did you feel you had to send us that email Why did you have to take the time to write it? Well it's true because most fashion ads and media focuses on youth youth youth so we kind of age out of glamour at 35 where if we're being advertised to it's about the appliances and the SUVs and the laundry detergent but a lot of us when we come of age when I say you hit your 30s and your 40s this is when you want to really express yourself and then we're looking for representation and we don't see it as often as I think we would like to But why did you have to send me the email because I know you watched the footage we did telling why we created the show and when I read the email I was like she gets it but why did you take the time to write me the email what were you going through what were you thinking Well I mean I personally freelance as a fashion model and I'm not because I'm 45 I don't get to do fashion pictures unless I do them on my own which I find absurd because I love clothes and I love the artistry of clothes and I love to express myself through clothes and like how come I can't see someone who looks like me in the clothing app. Okay so you wrote the email what were going through your mind because you told me you said I'm fabulous fabulous well we are fabulous look at you look at what you're wearing this is amazing we need representation so for example Dr. Ben Mary from Cambridge University did an entire study on this 2500 American and Canadian women and he showed them fashion ads with different models in the same Diane von Frustenberg rack dress which she's famous for the famous rap dress which I love but the models was the classic 19 year old very thin Caucasian model and then he had an older model he had a plus size model he had an ethnic model and he found that when the women looked at these ads and they're all the same with the beautiful hair and the beautiful makeup the artistry is the same when they look at these ads their desire to buy the garment went up 200 to 300 percent if they saw a model that somehow represented them and he said the fashion industry this is his conclusion the fashion industry has it all wrong says fashion industry thinks we want to be skinnier younger versions of ourselves so how do you feel when you see those ads you know what I rather see another woman that represent my age you tell me you're fabulous but how do you feel how does it make you feel when you see another woman that's 19 years old you know really you're trying to advertise to a 40 year old woman what goes to you the 19 year old is beautiful I can acknowledge her for that when I see them put Nicole Kidman who is much closer to my age in the ad I go oh look that's kind of what I would look like in those clothes it doesn't make you want to go out because you're being represented so you feel like you're not being represented no it's it's getting better but it's not very common at this point right now a celebrity who's older is starting to appear and a supermodel who's older is starting to appear as women what can we do well we can call for it this research study called for it the dove ads there was this massive consumer increase in dove when they showed the every real woman and I think what's happening is the more that women voice and clamor for this the more brands will take notice and go maybe we should include them well you know as women we control the pocket blur we control what comes in and out the house because we do the shopping we do the list and we actually go out and buy it so kind of the the responsibility of shiffing this can fall on the woman she doesn't have to buy these products so as again as a woman in her 40s I don't feel like oh I'm gonna go buy that because I'm 19 year old is wearing it we can't relate to her because that's your daughter's age exactly and so I could and you've been there done that right so it's like I can see basically women especially above 40 they're looking at their granddaughter so you had an opportunity to talk to an advertising agency about I'm over 40 I'm fabulous I want to be representative what would you say to them you know I would say it's real easy to make a young girl look amazing in a photograph in a dress because she has no curves she has no hair she has perfect skin but what about you and I would say you know I feel like I'm beautiful I'm mature and wise and I now want to express myself through garments that I can afford to buy which I could not afford to buy when I was 20 so the designers now I can go buy them but I can't see in the ads or on the runways how would I look in that dress Tom Ford I know who Tom Ford is he did an entire runway show with women and actresses of all ages and he had them sauntering out in the clothes and that's the moment I fell in love with Tom Ford because he was talking to me okay well thank you very much for sharing your experience about being over 40 and fabulous and don't go away we'll be right back with more yeah yeah Every Way Woman gives back to the community go to everywaywoman.com to find out how you can match 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Did you key and a fruit present? This week's Ion MPI is an XP product Lady Aida, what is the new product? Okay from did you key this week?  Yay Is the XP SLN? Visnas IOT I'm saying that currently it's a edge machine learning face recognition hardware that once again a completely on the edge it was on a mic controller it uses the NXP RT 10 6x series, which if you're like hey, that sounds familiar It's because it's also used in the teen C4. It's a very similar chip. It's the same hardware But this one is licensed to use I guess this Machine learning build that does machine learning for face recognition. It does a nice fast job of it. It's very effective and precise and It does not require a full Linux bill It doesn't require the internet and and because it's a microcontroller it can go into deep sleep mode So it's perfect when you want to do face recognition But you don't want to depend on the internet or if you need to be able to go to low power mode because it may Be ones on a battery or maybe it just shouldn't it doesn't it shouldn't have to depend on power so for example if you're doing a door entry system and You know, you don't want people to get locked out because there's no power if the power goes out They should still be able to get in and out This could run on battery backup power something that a Linux Computer would not be able to do nearly as easily. So let's take a look at the dev board so the chip itself is on the back I'll show that in a second, but this is the dev board you get and It's got USB-C. It's got a couple buttons in the center PIR sensor. That's the white thing and then two Cameras on the right and let's look at this in more detail. So There's the front the back and they kind of plug together. So on the left hand side is the microcontroller. So the microcontroller is again that RT 10x series It's got hyper flash memory memory for this chip is stored on flash I don't think it has internal flash memory or if it does it needs more to run this code SD RAMs you have plenty of memory. You're gonna need a lot of memory to do Any kind of visual recognition because you have to get so much visual data and analyze it There's an SWD port. There's mono output the example I don't think uses it But if you want to reprogram the code and add audio output, of course, you get that there's also PDM Microphones so you can also add in some voice recognition if you need a PIR sensor The dev board has four buttons which are used in the example code There's a boot mode. So if you want to reprogram it with the built-in bootloader lithium-ion batteries so you can power it off of battery power and not completely indicated here, but you see those FPC connectors. There is an external TFT display that you can plug in sold separately and there's a USB C connector on the bottom Great. So if you take that USB C and you plug it in This shows up as a comp or and a camera. It was me like it actually shows up as a device Because it's a microcontroller and it can do stuff like that You don't have to deal with like gadget mode with Linux. It just shows up as like literally a camera So you open up your camera software like in this case I'm running like a Microsoft camera or something and it comes up and it has something like this It has the visual output of what it's seeing There's like a sort of a blue square in the center telling you this is what it's looking at for the face recognition area I turn on the debug so that text overlay that tells you like what the output of the various processing stages are On the bottom it tells you what the application is and this is the electronic lock application where you don't recognize as a face It unlocks something There's at the bottom you can barely see it Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. There's also a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip on there That you can use for you know Wi-Fi or wireless connectivity again the default example It doesn't do anything, but you the hardware is there for your use When you press a button it will on the board. It's needed. It's all in one It will register your face So it says okay registering and you have to shift your face around a little bit So it gets all these angles of your face and then it says okay You have been added it knows who you are and then you can save That to memory if you want for long-term use and you can save The number of faces you can save is a couple hundred or to a thousand It depends on how precise you want it to be I think it's probably a memory or storage or just search speed thing It's like the faster you want it to go the less faces it has to be able to look through So if you only have like a you know a hundred faces it has to recognize You can use a slightly stricter model than if you're having to measure a thousand faces Did you have a program that can let you do a thousand? But again, you know, it doesn't it's not as it's strict So you you have to make that decision in the data sheet they talk about these these choices Once it recognizes you later it can you can save it as a name You can say this is the person's name or you just say user number one and then this sort of over thing overlay thing comes up and says welcome home and Makes us you can't see anything else So that's the basic demo. So it works quite well I tested it and like I kind of like, you know, put my hair up and my hair down I tried like wearing a hat. I tried different lighting and did a pretty good job One thing that's interesting is that when you press a button it goes into Infrared mode so it does have two cameras and I from looking at it It you know when one of them has a slightly different lens than the other I believe that one of them is IR and one of them is RGB and so it has Stereoscopic vision, but one of the nice side effects is it's kind of like an anti spoofing technology So one of the problems with these simple non-depth based Camera face detectors is that you can often trick them by taking a photo of a person and holding up that photo And the cameras like ding dong, you know the person. Okay, that's them. I I agree But when you have IR and I think if you have these two cameras that are offset a little bit that probably helps, too When you hold up a picture of a person In color and then in IR It doesn't look right. You know what I mean? Like the the flatness the infrared doesn't come out the way it should on a human face because The background and the image is flat And it's not like depth detection, but like humans radiate a different infrared pattern on their faces than a photo does and so When you open up the serial console, it's cool. It says IR fake face. It says like I detected a face But it did not pass my fake face test So it it will not get tricked by a piece of paper or a TFT with a face on it Which is you know kind of handy.  Here's a picture of Jell-O and it's a hi welcome home Okay, but it doesn't have that problem So here's the algorithm So it can use deep sleep mode, which I thought was really useful one of the Nice things about microcontrollers is and you know Linux is more powerful Of course, there's there's face recognition software and open CV and all that good stuff But like suddenly you're running something that's going to draw about an amp You need You know a lot of complex software to run it to boot it up takes a long time. There's a chance of file system corruption What's nice about these? Stand-alone microcontroller Dev board versions of face recognition is one you don't have to worry about your data going to cloud or some somebody hacking into your firmware just because like there's a you know a backdoor password But it also can use something like the built-in PIR sensor It doesn't start doing the face recognition or recording any video until somebody is in front of it Which is like a kind of obvious thing But because the microcontroller can wake up within like a hundred milliseconds of the PIR sensor to a human It's nearly instantaneous like they don't notice the difference because it happens so fast Whereas if it was a Linux board, it would be like, oh, hey wait I got a boot up. Hold on like f-disk got to check out like all my sound cards, whatever a minute later You're maybe booted so Fast wake up, you know low power usage. That's why you'd want to use this instead of open CV Okay So they've got a nice web page that I checked out. It's got all of the details. It was super quick to get started so the this board itself is the The SLN business IOT is the dev board or an it's ready to go It has everything you need to do like your project or product you can design with it And then of course you can buy the individual chip as well So just watch out like I'm we're talking about the dev board, but they also sell the chip and chip is like $7 It comes with the license and software and everything for this. It's a BGA chip NXP will help you with getting it integrated into your product But I would get the dev kit because well friend of you could probably just use this as is it's a great edge, you know facial detection system and they have The code you just need like a J-Link programmer to program it you program it up with NXP NXP Expresso I think is the name of the ID But it's all open source and available like the source code for the demo so you can hack and mod it And of course like I said, there's a TFT screen as well Okay available on digikey site pick it up the folks who want to know the link you can do digikey.com 4-slash short 4-slash 4 7 5 V 9 4 or you could probably just search for what? Visnas honestly the viz and as nothing else name that and then if you want to check out There's a board a show video. There's a bunch of videos also on the NXP site showing the different things There's also a couple other details. I wanted to mention real fast It also has an emotion engine That you can you that you can turn on that will detect like happiness or surprise your anger I don't know how useful that is unless maybe you wanted to know if someone was angry at your door And he wouldn't let them in I don't know but it does have that capability There's a command line interface that you can go and you can like turn on like debugging an interface Get happy before you come in it's kind of like wiping off your feet now Come in with a smile on your face. All right. Do you want me to show this on the overhead? Yeah, we'll show it on the overhead and then we're gonna play a video for NXP Yeah, should the video and how you get it registered. So this is the dev board So this is the camera interface and you can see there's two white LED so you can turn on the LEDs to illuminate somebody's face And then there's two IR LEDs here and the two cameras and like you can kind of see one has a slightly different filter on the lens I think so one of these is probably the one with the IR cut filter and maybe this one isn't or I don't know And then this is like a like a milled out piece of plastic. This is the PIR sensor USB four buttons This is probably where you would connect the TFT if you want it and maybe some external hardware here This is the dev board module, which I think is just adorable. This is the IMX RT 10 6 f f is probably for face windbun flash or Yeah, ISSI Ram this is the BLE and Wi-Fi Chipset probably SDIO and then it goes to this like antenna, which is on the back here So you can do bluetooth or Wi-Fi control and then this Plugs and I didn't unplug it because I don't want to break it. But yeah, they got all the passes on the back Big power supply inductors, maybe a PMIC and some other just management chips more power supply stuff And then yeah, this is this is the this is the microcontroller board and Wi-Fi So this is like kind of cute nice plugs into the user interface board and then this is the camera board which is really Stuck in there, but it looks like this. So this is what you've got here. I like this dual camera. It's kind of a cool Cool thing. I've never seen before but there you go. So these three pieces and they plug into this milled resin Package, okay, so let's let's watch this video showing the process of registering and identifying names I'm kuber karnahan a solutions integrator here at nxp And today i'm going to be showing you how to get up and running with your sln vision as iot kit When you first receive your kit you'll find three things inside a quick start guide a usbc cable And most importantly your sln vision as iot kit To begin take the included usb a to usb c cable and plug the usb an Into your computer's usb port and the usb c end into the usb c port on your kit The usb port on your kit provides power to the board drag and drop flashing via msd And virtual serial port capabilities with the cable plugged in a green led will light up to indicate the kit is receiving power Once the application is running Your computer will automatically discover the kit is both a calm device And usb webcam and your computer may make a sound indicating it is detected a new usb device Next open the camera app if using windows or cheese If using ubuntu to view the camera output coming from the kit if you have multiple cameras attached to your computer You may have to switch to the sln vision as iot camera to see anything coming from the kit Right off the bat you'll notice the built-in GUI provides some convenient on-screen information Including a bounding box to help users properly align center their faces while registering The on-off status of both the wi-fi and vle capabilities of the kit And the total number of users registered in the kit's local face database Press the switch for push button on the front of the kit to begin registering a new face An on-screen message at the top of the screen will be displayed to indicate that registration is taking place Simply hold your face in front of the camera making sure to center your face within the provided guidelines Upon successful registration a message will be displayed indicating a new user has been added to the kit's local face database And the number of registered users will be increased by one If registration fails simply press the registration button again to retry Once registered your face will prompt a welcome home message whenever your face is recognized Registered faces will continue to be recognized until the kit is powered off or the face is manually removed Although saving faces permanently can be done using the cli or by enabling low power mode Both of these features will be discussed in more depth in later videos This concludes our look at powering on and registering a face with the sln vision as iot kit Check out the next video in our series to learn how to test out the liveness detection and anti spoofing features of the kit Okay, watch all the videos because yeah more videos when we show you the first one this week's ion and pi Check it out on digikey


The Scandal of Women being Injured by Emesh Implants was brought to the attention of the Public Petitions Committee four years ago by petitioners Elaine Holmes and Olive McElroy. Now the committee has published a report criticising the continued use of the procedure in Scotland, despite the announcement of a ban, the independent review into the procedure and the treatment of the women who reported concerns. One of the most important things that came out of this report for me was the extent to which women were not believed when they were highlighting their concerns. The concerns weren't recorded and, therefore, when they looked at whether the procedure was effective or not, it looked as if there wasn't a problem and the scandal was unfolding. The next thing I think that must be a real concern for the Scottish Government is that it could be possible for the Cabinet Secretary to announce a moratorium on the procedure, but that procedure is still to continue. I think the government needs to look at that and be reassured that we are not allowing people to have procedures which they're not fully informed about.


back again the master the master of metal church heard Vanderhoof the blessed reverend yes I love your name you have my favorite rock and roll name even though it's real right right it's totally real yeah absolutely well thank you very much that's my favorite name it's my favorite metal name ever hands down I wish my name was Jim Vanderhoof that's awesome thanks great news metal church will release their 13th studio studio album congregation of annihilation on May 26 on rat pack records great news the the phoenix has risen right the phoenix in a manner of speaking yes yeah yeah we have we decided to we've found a way forward and we're still taking it step by step but yeah so this is the last communication March 2020 I spoke to you and and you're supposed to play the festival in Montreal heavy Montreal somehow the band canceled whatever the reasons where they were and I can't I can't remember what it was you can't remember what it was either yeah but yeah it doesn't matter it doesn't matter and then and then you moved and you're inducted the metal church was inducted the metal hall of fame and then you moved at the same time so when did you start thinking okay I'm gonna write this album oh after I spoke to Mike and we decided to put it was time to put together a new album you know all the COVID BS started lifting you know and all that stuff started it's like okay well let's let's start working and so I wrote a new album and sent it off to Mike and we were going back and forth starting our process and then then it happened yeah so there was a few months there where I kind of figured that it was over you know kind of naturally it was like yeah both original singers gone I am am I getting the message but then after a couple three months realizing I had an album sitting there that if nothing else maybe we could put it out in you know in honor of Mike and so when we found Mark it just kind of it just we again we took the whole thing step by step that's why we didn't want to do a big huge you know international search for a singer and make a big production of it because might not have worked you know then we'd have to explain why it didn't work and it would have been a whole thing so we wanted to do everything really you know uh very under the radar so yeah as things worked out with Mark it started taking on because of the way he sings started taking on a much more aggressive sound much more thrashy much more uh back to our roots kind of thing I guess and so yeah so that was uh that was the catalyst for it so there's half of the songs of the of the new album is stuff I wrote with Mike in mind and then when I started realizing that we started seeing there was a new direction kind of developing then I wrote another batch of songs to fit into you know fit into the more thrashy aggressive aspect of where we're going so let me ask you this and when you collaborated with was it a collaboration with Mike I just want to see how much of Mike is left in those songs um no we never got to that point we were just you know I wrote the music and he was listening to it and we were just kind of going back and forth about what he liked and what he didn't like and just kind of got that's as far as it got sadly okay yeah yeah so you mean and what you're trying to say is you had the song sort of ready yeah to go to the level of where you're going to properly record them with vocals and and so forth yeah okay all right okay we were going to start our creating process you know write a batch and I write the music and then Mike and I collaborate on the vocals and going through all the songs and figuring out which works and which ones do not and you know just that whole process so you know it was a huge shock to the whole metal world when Mike passed away oh I know right it was and you know and if I'm and if you don't want to answer any questions I get it don't worry I mean and you you say what you want to say but I mean you've known him so many years it was this like completely caught off guard like some people see see this right and other people don't right well there was he was going through a period where he was having some trouble there was a divorce and things like that but when we started speaking again he had kind of come out of it and he was feeling good ready to start working on a new record you know I mean he was going through a rough time but there was no pressure because COVID was going on there was really nothing happening you know everything was kind of dead so and I had just moved you know so we were just kind of just starting but he had come out of it we had spoken and we were in contact and again he said yeah let's start getting a new album together I started writing and the whole thing so was I shocked yes mostly by the timing because I thought I thought he had kind of come out of it or so it seemed he was in good spirits he was ready to go to work ready to make music you know and then literally just out of the blue I got the call it's kind of like you know a friend you know like you have known someone so so long you think you would see signs you think you and you don't and I've heard this this story from other people too by the way that's why I'm kind of asking there was no signs nothing it just it happens all of a sudden yeah well I mean like I said there was a sign he was going through a rough time like we all do we all do you know we have bad moments and things like that but as far as I could tell he'd come out of it we were in contact talking about new music bloody blah blah then it was like boom so then in that respect it was like it was a shock at that point you know it's amazing that these like I heard you know either you in an interview or I read it you know he was on antidepressants and it's amazing how antidepressants are supposed to stop this sort of stuff in a sense right but they're the the and if you read the the side effects on these drugs it says thoughts of suicide that's what the side effects say I'm not saying on all of them I'm just saying certainly and I'm not saying for sure yeah I know right well it's kind of like watching television you see commercials for big pharma and they don't even tell you what the drug does yeah yeah you know so there's a I have a big problem with big pharma but that is just my opinion as far as his antidepressant thing that's same here same here same here same here but it's very suspect because like you said you know thoughts of suicide and things like but I thought that's the whole reason you wanted to take this to not have that feeling Kurt I could show you the literature I could show you the literature oh exactly dude could show you exactly like it's right there it's written right on the side of tags it's absolutely you know I mean I do I am well aware that some of these things do help some people absolutely um but I think it's often way too prescribed and some of it is I think some of it is pretty nefarious so it's kind of like those commercials you see you know this will cure your constipation side effects may cause constipation yeah side effects are yes your head's going to fall off yeah yeah yeah we'll go on some positive stuff here okay so so the search for the new singer right okay you're kind of sitting on the fence what should I do baby steps right right the search what what kind of singer did you have in mind didn't have one in mind just whatever kind of came our way again just finding out who we knew without having to run ads or do any of that kind of stuff so there was one other guy that we checked out who was great but then then uh mark was suggested by stett and steve so he was kind of already in our in our scene and uh and so we checked it out and there were two different styles and mark just seemed like a good fit and also then because along with that came a more aggressive sound which kind of appealed to me as far as okay this will be a new chapter this will be a new direction or an old direction new direction however where it just seemed kind of it just made sense it was just like let's come out swinging you know let's not do another we don't want a mic clone we don't want a david wane clone or anything like that let's do something let's start a new so to speak and mark really provided that so and what what kind of set list so mark's in the band i guess he i know mark too he's a great guy he's a great guy a great voice um what what's the set list gonna look like are we the set list is going to be mostly uh the uh first two albums with some mic stuff mic era stuff because we're switching it up because obviously when mic was in the band we were doing a majority of his stuff absolutely yeah yeah yeah yeah so now we're gonna go back and do a lot of the older stuff and we're gonna pull out a couple of you know few deep tracks from that era which are things that haven't been played which will be kind of fun and uh you know a couple of songs off the new album again we love we want to play the new album but we're well aware that most of the fans want to hear the old stuff you know because that's you know that's just the way it goes i go see bands that i've liked for 40 years and hey i love their new album but i want to hear the old stuff you know so it just comes with the territory so we want to do some some different old stuff a lot of the stuff we haven't played for so it's going to be a lot of fun correct did you produce this album or are you just kind of let everybody and did you give free reign to mark to mark wrote all the lyrics okay good yeah i let him go and i said good because it was good it doesn't always have to come out of my head you know yeah i can do it and but i you know that gave it a different sound it was time for something new and mark totally delivered so so give me a sentence for the people who have not heard the album what they're gonna expect it makes a good headline what the sentence is right um so the new metal church album sounds like the old metal church with modern production and heavier yeah yeah the new metal church is heavier and sounds like the old the old metal church but with modern production something like that in terms of in terms of the uh lyrical themes you just were you like talking to uh mark about that you know well i kind of gave him pretty much free reign but one thing that is very important to me is that it's gotta have uh it's gotta gotta have a positive spin on it to a degree you know i am you know because i as a christian i don't want to you know stand around you know i don't want to i don't want anything that i can't stand behind so you know so so he said those are the only guidelines i gave him you know because we won't there's no satanism there's no none of that garbage in our stuff so um so that was the only guidelines i had you know and uh so he worked within that parameter you know and it's very nice when you can do that kind of thing but yet have it sound just as aggressive as anything else you know and trying to keep a positive spin on it because that's one thing that's important to me in any kind of music it's supposed to uplift people it's supposed to make people feel better you know and and it should and so i want to kind of do as much as i can to make that happen so and how far like where is that line if you can like you're a christian right like how far would you go pass out there some christians who go far some christians will just stay it depends on the context you know i won't go past you know there's no there's no satanism there's none of the devil garbage and there's none of that stuff so that's pretty much the line you know and you know any of the and the and the you know just the blatant you know sexuality stuff was which i don't like anyway which i think is kind of tired you know the whole you know that kind of stuff so you know i like to be and i think that also makes the person need to be more creative because some of those things are just easy cop out lyrics you know the sex is a mood baby love rock and roll and ooh hail satan and all that garbage you know that's not creative you know say something you know it doesn't have to be brilliant but you know use some lyrics you know and just having a lot of nerve and saying a lot of you know controversial stuff that's that's not talent that's not creative that's just because you got a lot of nerve big deal you know go out and say stuff and be offensive and stuff i don't find that entertaining at all so you know you know i always loved about your songwriting it's it's it's aggressive but it's subtle at the same time there's well you know musicality is really important no matter what form of music for me you know i mean it can be aggressive and nasty and dissonant and all that stuff but yet it's still somehow got to have some musicality to it the singer has to hit notes you know and mark can do the the screamo stuff but he can also sing and hit notes in there too so that's i mean in order for me to be interested you got to have all those bases covered you know it's got to be musical you got to be able to sing there's got to be a melody there's got to be a hook be it guitar or vocals or preferably both you know and and and don't scream a bunch of darkness stuff at me you know for me you know yeah it's okay yeah it's like that's what makes me because i know i'm speaking to a lot of people in the metal world where it's quite not the same it's not the cool thing to say but i don't care you know i that's not cool to me you know evil is not cool and you know so metal sounds evil but it doesn't have to be evil it can sound that way i think you know if you listen to the old early black Sabbath stuff you know it's all heavy and dark and do me but it's really not you know it's really not lyrically that dark is actually quite warning against it which i think now that's clever you know i like that that's it clever is the word i like that word yeah um all right so then you have like i'm going to tell you i heard the like i heard this album just maybe a few times right because i just got it and wow man it's a kick in the face good yeah cool that's my that's my one liner it's a kick in the face well there you go use that one yeah metal church is a kick in the face yeah that's right another judgment day that kind of starts things off right like in your face and then congregation of annihilation another smack in the face and then children will lie sorry pick a god and pray we've already heard that single got another kick in the face and then children will lie that's when you're saying wait a second that's the old stuff that's kind of like you know we're going back to these guys here right right exactly yeah yeah and and sort of like the little flanger on the guitar the subtle little little strumming there that goes there is that it's kind of like is that what you were looking for it's kind of set some atmosphere yeah absolutely and then the big ending where you know i always love that about black Sabbath speaking of them again where they would have a song and then the middle of the song they'd change to something completely different and never get back to the song again i always love that i thought it was so great so it's a definitely in parts you know kind of more of the progressive rock kind of approach you know and it's like oh i want to do that and i came up with that riff you know for that it's like oh that'd be perfect one of those big slow fade out things you know which are a lot of fun you know trying to be as musical as possible within the framework of metal you know and when i spoke to mark he said that originally you have these bunch of songs and then you kind of wrote with him a new batch of songs that were more in your face yeah but those ones kind of like i guess those are the bonus ones or is that a couple of them are a couple of them are a couple of them are still are in the archives you know and so yeah a couple of the the the other songs are two of the bonus tracks so the album is kind of half and half you know some of them were written that made the album are for the mic from the mic batch and then another batch is from the new mark batch yeah yeah and and let me ask you in terms of what is your favorite song i mean okay everybody's gonna say this one this one this one but i mean if you have to pick one or two let's say i don't know i would have to say children of the lie probably because of those that kind of the proggy bigger you know atmospheric type of stuff you know but i have to say me the nothing i really like too you know you know what i would agree with that too and that's another off the dark maybe album you know and and all that we destroy i think that has like this really big chorus very melodic and right kind of like that too and that's always been metal church like thrash and suddenly you're got a melodic chorus happening more vice versa yeah right yeah yeah don't bore us gets the chorus what in terms of you know i know that you've been sort of singer one two three four i mean did you say to yourself you know what i can't you know things are getting lost here with all the singers and that's why we didn't make a big production of finding a singer yeah we did because it was i was feeling i mean when before mike came back to the band it was like you know i just wasn't at that particular time in those circumstances a fourth singer from metal church did but did not seem like the thing the right thing to do and then fortunately mike came back and that made sense you know that kind of kept the thing going it seemed legitimate it's because i said there isn't a fourth singer to metal church but that was during those circumstances this was a different obviously a different circumstance so again that's why we just wanted to try it and we're still taking baby steps we're going to start playing live uh next month we'll see how it goes yeah i think that's the best approach you just who knows it may work it may be great or it may just be a train wreck i don't know you know it who knows so we don't want to you know come out and start we don't know we're gonna see how it goes we're gonna do what would you do what if what would you do if you said you know what okay i've had enough of metal church what what are you gonna do like what other projects would you like to work oh i have presto ballet my progressive 70s prog rock band and hall of flame my rock and roll band i was in after i left metal church and we went out was easy top and put out a record on that we have a new album coming out too so yeah so that's just meat potatoes rock and roll and then i got my uh prog rock outlet so i like instead of messing with metal church i like doing all kinds of different things and because i love all kinds of music so i like challenging myself to see if i can create all different types of music so but i'm really excited about the hall of flame record that's it came out way better than we had expected it was intentionally going to be just something to document all these songs that we wrote for a second record that never happened and as we did it it was just it just took on a life of its own so we say okay we need to make just something real so we did that's cool that's very cool um so what you know you've been around now for a long time and you've been around forever oh don't don't get me started right yeah that's why you that's why you moved to sunny california right yeah i did get the choice in the arthritis yeah right the music industry today versus the music industry back then well what are the great stuff back then and the bad parts as well as the good parts today and the bad or the cons today you know like yeah love that question the good stuff about back then was you there was a galvanizing kind of sound there was a scene there was things that when we were starting out we felt we were part of a movement which we were yeah that was very inspiring and very you know lots of camaraderie you know pirates going to go attack you know the radio and that kind of thing so that was very fun and we were definitely doing that and once the major labels started picking up on it there was the potential to really blow up and be really big things like that which was great the downside was is the way the business part worked back then you know though the industry then you had to go through the major label filter and you were advanced tons of money for videos album production tour support and things like that but you paid that back out of your percentage so unless you broke big like Metallica you were very likely to not see a dime so that was a big like the word recoupable became very important yes yes let me ask you this just on that topic right there I know I think it was Joey Vera or John Bush I spoke to and they are still trying to pay off maybe they have today they're still trying to pay off their first album was 250,000 right yeah did you pay off did you recoup off the first two I guess yes we have we have recouped that and I mean the process of doing some stuff because there's some archival stuff that I'm working on that I can't talk about too much archival stuff that I think all metal church fans are going to be really excited about coming so that's coming yeah we just did yeah we we just did a few years ago and when you recoup do you own your masters at that point no another problem yeah they own they own your masters in perpetuity unless you negotiated that out of your contract would you never in the universe as well or is it just on you know on earth a universe I think you know if they want to sell and people think I'm joking I'm not joking no that was in a really good movie called bad news you know where like if there's Martians and we want to sell your records to them we have the right to you know that's right they own the masters in perpetuity but they're we're learning there's some loopholes and there's some things that have changed where they're not being as strict about that anymore because things have changed and it's been long enough so in most cases it's in perpetuity but but there's some wonderful archival wonderful fun things coming in them for the metal church catalog that in the next year or next year like this year like like in 2023 or 20 well it'll be I'm working on it now but probably next year okay good something to look forward to yeah let's continue this let's continue this okay bad now now the the the bad stuff about now is there's not much money in the selling of records because nobody sells a lot of physical copies so the whole thing is kind of reversed you put out a record so you can tour yeah so that way you make your money now that's really the down and you know so the physical product now thanks why I'm so happy vinyl is popular again so because that's all I listen to anyway I just enjoy the whole ritual and the sound and the cover and the art and the whole thing I just it sounds better if it's done right so physical product not sold so much people don't you don't sell a lot of records anymore uh streaming they don't really pay for their product that they sell so even though music is out there everywhere and it's consumed bigger than it ever has been the revenue is not the same and I hope you know there's going to be changes in that because the way it's happening is not fair so that's the downside upside is is it's direct artist to fans now there is no major label filter anymore so all this old guys which I like to call veterans all us old guys can still have a legitimate career without having to deal with a label thing oh no they're old what are the kids going to do you know because our fans are older with us too direct artists to fans and the cool thing is is like for rat pack for example the independent label is mirrored by the musician now so we're in control of our career yeah which you can't you can't put a price tag on that I mean because if it wasn't that's the way and if the music business didn't change you know how would old guys like us have a career a legitimate career unless you were Metallica you know or somebody of that caliber that size you know it's I don't know I don't know and it's so I was really scared about the the turn of the you know the the millennium when things when the whole Napster thing started to hit and I'm like oh no it's over you know I thought it was over but but again I the good outweighs the bad for me you know I still get to do it I get to do other projects I get to still go play you know there's not big money but I was never enough for the money anyway yeah what I do generates money one yeah then I want my cut but that's not why I do it you know it's like I do it anyway that's a good way to put it I do it anyway don't tell anybody that yeah I do this if I wasn't paid you know yeah don't let the book tell anybody that yeah but yeah then it'll be like what you don't want to play for free at this festival come on no I don't I said I do it anyway but I didn't mean that I didn't mean you right no but I love music that's what I do that's who I am it's what I do so but if it generates income yeah I want it but I have I you know I it took me a while to get used to the idea as well because it was changing it hadn't figured it's we hadn't figured out the way it was gonna go so the new music business took a while to get get our head around and get a handle on how to how to do this so it's definitely a different different animal but you know now there's no expiration date on us any of us I mean because there's a lot of bands like you know like metal church now that are worth from the same era our peers that are still going and doing great you know I mean anthrax metallica overkill exodus you know so well Slayer's done but you know all there's all the guys that we were kids they're we're all still doing this that's awesome you know even the bands who never even made it big that had names back in the 80s yeah they said like demos they're now touring and you know on festivals yeah gotta love that you know that's because we eliminated the major label filter you know where it was corporate thing now the again the benefits of the corporate thing was you could get real big you know you could be huge and everything like that and those can you sold lots of numbers and things like that but there was a control factor that you had to relinquish in order to do it you know unless you broke really big and then you could take over your you know your career but now I mean I don't know that I change anything the one thing like I mentioned the only thing that I would change in the business because streaming is a wonderful thing for the average consumer the way the technology is but these streaming services have got to pay us because they don't and you know and their argument is well we pay the guy who sort of owns the publishing which is usually like labels pennies on the pennies on the dollar pennies yeah like they're charging ten dollars a month to use as many songs as they want right it's kind of like I give you ten dollars and I could go to record store and listen to anything I want and bring it home and listen to it and then I just give it back at the end of the month yeah and then you're done yeah yeah well that's not right that's not right yeah you know and if there was a way to get a handle on the piracy you know in a way the streaming I find is fine I find a streaming sort of lessened the piracy you know not to say to eliminate it but it did lessen it so that's it certainly did it certainly did but they're not paying for it either so here's these companies that are you know providing a service but they're not praying paying for their product that they sell you know and I have problems with that you know but the reach on streaming you know you could go to Japan you could play you play Asia you play everywhere because they they're listening to yeah it's everywhere again one of the upsides but pay for your product I agree I agree artists always get the shaft the artists always are always that's why when I first realized after doing the dark when I realized how you really make records you know it's like that's where my interest really started to go so that's why I kind of stepped back for a while because I learned the production thing also learning that the band was at the bottom of the pay food chain yeah on the label yeah yeah it was like okay all these people all these people that are around me are making way more money than I am that's right fuck that yeah you know so yes because people don't realize you get production credit you get credit production credit you get royalty credit you get mechanicals you get this and the more you add to the overall production of things the more royalties you get right well yeah well the more percentage and you take away those other people you know you have publicists and producers and engineers and studio costs and all these things that just take then you know thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars you know and that's the one upside about the digital world and with computers now is that digital recording has gotten good it wasn't at first it was really bad for a while but people can make their records at home so you don't so the big studios that were charging you know 60 bucks an hour you know no they don't do that anymore they're done they're gone you know because we you know the dark I don't remember I think we spent like 60 thousand dollars in 1985 on the album you know three months worth of studio time and then the producer fee you know then we had a video and then we had tour support and just like it just yeah I mean it was just the way it was because a studio you know the huge investment to make a you know a competitive record the equipment that you needed was you know was extremely expensive well that is certainly a different game now but the problem with that is is that just because somebody bought us some software and a microphone suddenly they're a record producer so you get you know the business isn't competitive it's just crowded you know and it's like okay so there's but you take the good with the bad and everything you know so you know we make our own records now you know and so that's that's what I like about you you're always positive and you're looking at the bright side of things a lot of guys are saying oh it's over I can't take it anymore I can't stand well then quit go go get a job quit give up yeah just give up and also you forgot to mention you know these record companies they buy you homes and cars and they go look I bought you a car but meanwhile you're paying for it through your royalties and right exactly no you didn't buy it you just loaned me my own money yeah right yeah so yeah I mean but there's goods I mean we had we were very lucky that uh when we when we were at Electro we were working with Michael Alago who's still a great friend to this day but it was just it had nothing to do with him it was just the way the business ran because it was big business I mean big business you know and so now it's big business but in a different way you know it's just a whole new animal and I can't complain about it yeah there's some things I wish were different like the streaming and the piracy but man just the whole being in control of your career and being directly artists to fans now you can't beat it you can't beat it you know what's what's the feedback like so far it's been great I mean it's been it's been better than I had could even even hoped again with fourth singer you know but I think because it is more aggressive and it's much more in your fate much more of a kick in the face that I think the fans really like that you know and yeah so the response is is is great yeah so now we'll see what it's like live yeah I'm I'm I'm curious I'm curious when's the first date uh June 2nd in Chicago at Reggie's oh yes yes then you're going to New York after that then we go to Detroit the next night at Token Lounge and then and then at the end of the month we got a week long run up in the northeast all right so Metal Church the 13th studio album congregation of annihilation a kick in the face a kick in the face coming out May 26 if you have rat pack records is a mouthful rat pack records yeah this is sick any last words I just I mean just the usual but very heartfelt appreciation for the fans staying with us all these years and the fact that I still get to do this in any capacity is truly a blessing and it's not lost on me so hats off to you man you you keep on going and you keep going and you know all the all the hits you get and you know and I mean all the all the the challenges and the obstacles you keep going at it man I just well it gets to play music you know what could what could be wrong with that you know yeah you know I'm not in it to get rich or be cool because I'm neither one of those but I love music you know so you know so I get to play music because I love music all right Kurt thank you very much have yourself a wonderful day hey you too good to see you again take care man goodbye


And as you have just seen, that was a bad, bad rapper all the way from Rungai by the name Young Boss. And he's here, we'll be talking to him, he'll be telling us what he has brought for us today and we get to know him. Okay? Anyway, Young Boss, kai biko nyesho? Shukran shukram maze. How are you? I'm fine. Changam kaki do, gona jatua, ahi popo na kuangam. You're allowed to smile though. Siniwa. Kwa miko nga? Eee, muna kwa nga tu? I know, okay. Kuna times enye una smile. Luko gangsta wiki wakwa streets na wiki wakwa foma wiki. Baba tukiwa around good people, beautiful people. You smile. Thank you. Anyway, that was not me fishing for compliments. Anyway, kindly introduce yourself to our audience. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'll go with the name Young Boss Music. Rongai rongai representing maze and maziniwa Shinsuke Usema. Rongai ni fahabati imbali. The only best thing na kustai rongai wiki kamaivi una mamangi pwale kuwa kenebiliya skuwa rodi. Eee, wuna uchapte wiki kwa barabara? Eee, alafunganya zetu sunalia. I know. Zuitachisha. We know. We know. Okay, okay. So tell us a bit about your music and what you decide on the hip-hop direction. Okay, I am a hip-hop artist. I was in the game in 2015. Freestyle, love battles, cifers, go streets. Then, mi na mika rongai alafu, na mika streets manze. So the best way to express vitu mi wana life, mabuyanguana pitiana, ase kuahudianguana ni through hip-hop. Yes. That's why I chose wana hip-hop. So I do had ko hip-hop. Representing rongai. Yeah. Had ko hip-hop. Had ko hip-hop. What are we saying when we say had ko hip-hop? Raw bars, streets, fresh blood. Yeah. All right. Monoli filmi dia kufanya cifers na kupatispet kwa iso battles. Okay, kwa rapa. Kuku AMC. Kuku AMC, like, cifers na sharpen skills, na piyas na build, really callability. So, okta kaku sharpen skills na kujisha street recognition, like kwa kwa rabastam. Ya. Kama mi ni ko confirmed rongai, most finest. Okay. Ya zimo palti, iyo ni ni wukwena ila street credibility. Na iyo ni wukwem to through cifers na izo freestyle. Ya. Street rapa la zimo kuna iyo credibility na wukwe free wneza, wneza rapa ni, wneza freestyle piya. Sasa, siyuti freestyle eki dogo. Okay. Mufanya sana. Na gopa kulamba ikus, madems kuizi wunichuki atru. Na chorea balance check, nitesesh milkesha stu. They be kidding on the mic, na mister is a class two. Aki anani ni kispechzi na kam tu. Ni yang boss on the mic, wejigasmi na right, leto falana kufainu na daddy. Amdiji hadarani mi na sati. Udni garizm goa mi na medi. Mta na toka wneza kulu. Aka mamboga leto falasu na teko wneza trokuhadi mboto. Okay. Right here. That is hadko. Amdiji otneita hadko. That is hadko. That is hadko. That is hip-hop. That is now the real definition of hip-hop. Na tawami, listen to the buzz wneza skia tini anaseyema. Siyo wizi witu anaseyema skuwa. Siyo wizi witu wini anaseyema. And do you feel on that note, do you feel like Kenya and hip-hop is headed in the right direction? Not wana fanya hip-hop bili na fakufanya? Yeah, like the likes of Nyashinski kihopale na juwa hip-hop ikon the right track. Yeah. Ken gadewa. Na wana wana Nyashinski? I think when it comes to hip-hop there are so many artists when they have to do it that are good. Do you think they are doing hip-hop the right way? Yeah, wana shema the best rapper zoko underground. Siyo leto kupale juwa. Exactly. Actually the best hip-hop artist zoko underground. No wana fanya kazi fiti. Waka dinali poale na cheki. Wana represent poa Nyashinski. All right. So leo umi tretia like another song nituwa. Rongai. Rongai Mindo Star. Okay. Tell us a bit about that. Na jumisha ikwa Rabastam Wendo Star. Rabastam na siya niyami fanya mziki amtani. Siya fanya goma. Goma kusum tangu. Niki chachi siya viyang ganyazetu ninaoma na cheki. Alafuna yuki wakeng na zimu move na siya jyoko area. So Kami Mindo Star wana nisi bongi najiwa. So ni kakuja ni chabiase. Rongai Mindo Star. Kaku na msiya na una any king kwa crown. Kujai ichikue. Tanipata dumtan me kapa le. Kampiti lakini. Ukuna bazako. Memungoja. Mrilone. All right. Okay. Okay. So how is the song doing? Niko aje. What do you want me to see? Aje. I think na fanya poa according to a photo me put in place. It's on the right track. Yeah. Me na believe my time is coming. Thank you. Kila msiw kuna. Ako na msiw live forever. Yeah.  Me na na perform feety as pan now. Temi yung uta calm tunutani una. No. 1 pa le kwa list. Kila listiki calm. Ta koncha kitu yung boss. Yung boss. So he's just say asi yung inetru mo pati a bonus time. Mucha wajibam be. Na angali atutu matika. Wajibam be before to come through. Okay. All right. Yung boss music or platform. Simple. Mr. Kikonfuse mafano angu. Yung boss music or platform. YouTube wapii yung boss music. All right. And you have an album dropping. Ya. Ya. Puna arbama na calm na drop next year. But so far kitu yung tesa streets na next step. Na next step na ito identity crisis. Ina waza feety kwa streets. Ina fanya poa. But sayi na fanya album mita kumifasta album. I think fanya launching the right. More buzz. Ya. Ya more buzz. Yung ko parle. Any person you are working with that we need to know about? Okay. I'm planning to work with Tunji. Sige maldak fanya final tracks. Umesa je fanya album bila Tunji na umetokare. Ya. That's why. How can? Igaran even make sense. Ya. Ina boss. Ya ni broangu me like ali tangulia. So lazima kwa featured kwa album miangu. Ya. Ina unisha piya siya rungat kwa na unity na checki. Tunak knowledge msa edu. So Tunji era kwa parle. Infa piya ni producer. So like dota fanya o track. Okay. Da po laplu kwa studio ke alafu ita kwa. It happened. Ita kwa. Okay. So laplu kwa knowza our fans. What is keeping them from total happiness? So what is keeping you from total happiness? What's keeping me from total happiness? Ya. I think the fact that ni kumzima good health na julia. Ya na kuchima na. Ukiwa na good health. What is if any anything? Ya. Muku happy kwa? Muku happy kwa? Like total happiness. Are you happy? That much? I'm happy. So much level. Be happy. I'm happy mazi. Thank you. Ya I'm happy. Okay. So thank you so much for coming too. It's your time. Shukun. Ya and we hope to see you again. Ya. It's my first time to be here and I also appreciate. Ya you're welcome. Ya. Any shoutouts for you end up? Shoutout to Mabuizongu Wote. Lafukuna fun number one. Me number one fun at Wakibera. Ya. Na ito anganyi nelson juma. Masta. Mami big ups on maze sana. Kajimpina kama. Na juhia tabai alba mata before you talk. Before you talk. Onafanya ga pre-orders mafema. Ya. Okay. So shoutout to master maze. So shoutout to Asanjo Wanjigi and president Urukinyata. Allah. Prezoram shoutout. We have to be a shoutout. So amu. Amalangu. So thank you so much for coming through. Appreciate your time once more. And I just want us to listen to Runga in India Star by Young Boss. Up next.