 So we are rolling. All right, fantastic. Welcome back. You're still hanging out with us right here. This is why in the morning, and this is the last segment of the day, and we're just about to get into an interactive, up-close, and personal interview with a very powerful gentleman, or a very powerful guest who is live with us in the studio. But before we get there, let's do each other a favor. You can jump onto that hashtag, or you can plug in on that hashtag, which is hashtag why in the morning on all our socials. And that includes Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at Y2Four channel. Instagram is Y2Four underscore channel. Personally, you can find me at Brian Saka 101. Now back to our guest in the studio. He's a veteran, celebrated, syndicated, radio, and TV presenter. But he'll tell us if he's getting into TV. For that matter, he's work ethic, and some of his achievements are once to envy. What he has money to achieve for himself, as a person who has been in media for this amazing period that he's been till right now, is actually something that you love to learn from and be a part of. But before we get too far, the one and only Mr. Billy Mia, radio personality live with us in studio. Good morning, Billy. Morning to you, Brian. How are you doing? I'm so excited and scared. Why? I'm scared. Do I look scary? No, you don't look scary, but, bro, you know those people you've met, and you're like, Jesus, I'm not going to be scared. Is he the one? Is he the one, you know? I was speaking to a friend, and I'm going to remember Alindo Cortenda, a certain event where they met this celebrity, and they're like, ah, come on, this person is real. I thought they were an angel. So that kind of moment. But so amazing to have in the studio. It's so much, bro. You know, for a lot of people, maybe who don't know you, or maybe they're trying to watch Why in the Morning for the first time, if you were to introduce yourself to them, how would you describe yourself? I'll just say that my name is Billy Mia. Okay. I'm a husband, father, I'm a radio personality, I'm a media owner, I'm a fashion house owner, you know, I'll just say I'm all that plus a packet of chips, you know? I do radio, the drive show. I work at Radio 47. It's a newly launched radio station, and it's the first Swahili audio visual FM station. It's called Radio 47, and the drive show there with my brother Baruch Mollim, yeah, yeah. All right, who's also your former colleague? He's still my colleague. All right, yeah. Amazing. Now, take us through your journey just a little bit. When did you start media? Did you always know that you know you'll end up being on video or doing anything media related? And then, which year was it? And when you were starting, what are some of the things that were happening in your environment that nurtured you to us this kind of profession till right now? When I was young, I used to take my father's cassette, you know, those cassette that used to roll with the pen. Like you want to rewind them, rewind with the pen, you want to forward with the pen. So I used to dub them, a fact metro FM that was KBC. KBCs. Yeah, so I used to dub those cassettes, listen to the music, dub the music, listen to blues. I used to have these books for writing the lyrics of songs, you know? So I used to be beaten so much by my dad for doing that. But I realized it was like prepping me to be a media person. And when I used to listen to the presenters, I would say that, ah, this guy could have said this instead of what you're saying, you know? So it was something in me and I really wanted it, but I didn't know what I want. I was just like, I loved music, I loved listening to radio, I loved listening to people. So when I finished my phone four at our Lady of Mass Ringer in Kojuach, time came for me to go to college. Now, I applied. Mombasa Polytechnic that time. I applied for diploma in mass communication. So the letter came, but it came to KBC here because my dad used to work here by the way. He was an engineer in KBC. So when the calling letter came, apparently someone here hid it. You know? Jesus. So someone hid it and we are there waiting for the letter, because at all the qualifications, I applied, you know? So we just waited. Six months down the line, I decided to go to Mombasa and asked them, what's the issue? I applied. In fact, they called me. Like, why didn't you report? What's the issue? Is it school fees or what? At all them, I'm waiting for the calling letter. They told me, but we sent it. But unfortunately, the chances are over. So if you want, you can apply for a certificate course, then graduate to diploma. So because I'd stayed home for long, you know, like your colleagues have gone ahead of you. So I decided to apply for the certificate course. I went to Poly. I did my certificate course. I finished. Now, after doing my certificate, I applied for attachment at KBC Mombasa 20 FM. I did my attachment there. So it's usually three months. So after doing the three months, they decided to add another three months, you know, because of what I was doing, because I had the passion. And I said, this is the only way I'm going to make it in this industry. So, and I was to tell myself when I get attached, because it was so hard to get attachment or internship. So when I got it, I said, now this is it. I'm not letting go. So I did the first three months. I was just going all my way. I went to the second three months and they added another three months. So I did nine months there. Now, after finishing the nine months, a certain boss came and she told me, Nyaajibili, I want to give you employment because you are so good. We can't let you go. Her name is Aisha Sagaf. I think she works here still. She could be still here. Yeah, Aisha Bintisagaf. So I went for an interview. I passed and I got a show there. I started doing the drive show. And initially, when I was doing attachment, I used to do news. I go out there, source for news, come back, translate, record, and play. So there was an hour during the day between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. that was blank. So I used to do mixes of music. I just mixed music with Cool Edit and let them play. There's this guy called Ben Bayer. May God rest his soul in peace. It all me. Now, why should you mix the music? You can just go to studio and play them live from there. After a week, he told me, now you can just stay the time. Just stay the time. When the song is over, just stay the time and play. So when I did that, now is when I started building myself going on air. Your confidence. Yeah, the confidence also. I started getting my confidence. Then the rest is history. I go to work there. I did the drive show. Now, because... Jealousy. Jealousy. I'm just a reader. Jealousy. He was an old boy there. The person that was doing the drive show had gotten work somewhere else in Nairobi. So this boy told me, Billy, I want you to do this show. So when I started doing this show, he was like, no, this guy is not fit to do this show. You are too young for this. So he was like going to the internet, googling a good presenter, what they're supposed to do and posting it on there, on the notice board there for me to see and for people to see and telling me, Billy, you're not doing the correct thing. That is wrong. What you're doing is wrong. It's not supposed to be like that. And doing all man of things. So it really put me down. It really, really put me down. But I said, that's life. That's how it's supposed to be. And he thought that he was going to put me down. You can hold it right there. We have to fix something just a little bit. But you can continue to interact with us live on our social media. And that includes Facebook, Instagram and on Twitter as well. It's at Y254 underscore channel on Instagram. On Twitter is at Y254 channel. On Facebook is at Y254 channel. But we have also a TikTok. So if you want to see who is the best dancer at Y254 channel, you can find us there. But as we fix that, when you spoke about your work progress from getting your fast, fast radio gig and meeting all these forces that are taking you left, back and forth, it reminded me of also my fast experience in radio. My fast, fast, fast, fast, fast day on radio. It was on a Swahili show. You know, not being the cool kid that I was back then. Like you said, like you said, you have the passion. So you want it so bad that you're ready to die for each and every sport that comes. So met one of the radio producers at our campus. Luckily enough, our campus still has a radio station. And they come by, hey, you want to take our radio? So I was like, yeah. I think this was in 2015, towards 2015, early beginning of 2015, transition from 2014. So I came on a mid-morning, pure Swahili with Mombasa music or let's call it Swahili music. So I'm hosting with a lady who is from Kosto. She knows all the lingual, the jargon in Swahili. And all the songs. And they're like, oh my goodness. How am I going to learn them? But you know, like you mentioned, you live, you learn. You know, there's so many mistakes you make along the way. But like you mentioned, if you have the passion for it, the confidence to do it, you will always learn. So I eventually ended up learning how to do a Swahili show on radio. And then lucky enough again, I got a TV show. Not like a talk show though, but now on a news segment where I was also like now a news reporter, but now for TV, doing a reporting in Swahili. And that just built me. And now when I look at myself from like the first day I began and up to now, I can say I'm really proud of myself. And I can, yeah, I can totally relate to your experience. But then also now when it comes to TV, TV is a little bit.