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And she's live with us today from Washington Heights, New York, which is just up the street. And you want to bring her on the screen? Carla, are you there? Yes, I am. Hello. Good morning. Hello. Good morning. Good morning. You can see the big picture. Great. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So what's been going on in your world, Carla? I have been performing lately. Musically, it's been a great year. It's already June. And it is June, right? It's already June. And I've been a performing fool. Just lots of gigs and just having a great time. Terrific. Terrific. That's awesome. We went to see In the Heights last night for the second time. And, oh, I love that show. The second time. Yeah. When did we see it? The first time was like four months ago or something? Yeah. We saw it a while back. And that's so much fun. And we were talking earlier about how you live in Washington Heights. And that's kind of what it's all about and all around. So we got to get you to see that because it's all about the neighborhood. It's really, really a beautiful story. There's so many different stories that are interwoven. And the music is fantastic. El Barrio. Right. It's gorgeous. And all the, you know, all the ethnic groups that are all living together. And it's one tight community. It's very interesting, very interesting. I wonder, is it like that still? We're going to have to go and visit you and see. Or what is it very mixed? I think it's what everyone says. Go ahead. It's a very diverse neighborhood here. Yeah. Very diverse. But still predominantly Spanish or? Yes. Yes. Mostly Dominican. Yeah. I think that's, well, I'm not exactly sure. But one of my friends that came with us yesterday, she said that it was primarily Dominican, the actual show in the Heights. And then now they've made it very international. So they have Puerto Rican, Cuban and Mexican, which they probably did before, but she might have not noticed. So I'm not exactly sure. So they put all the different Latino groups in there. But it was a great show. We enjoyed ourselves. They bring up a lot of issues, a lot of different, you know, that's what I like about it is the humanity and the real life things that situations and dilemmas and things that, there's so many different stories going on at the same time. It's very cool. It's a great, great show. Not to mention the singing and the dancing and the Broadway show. Yeah. But the stories are fantastic. So we were on your website last night and we were downloading some of the samples of your cuts and we love it. And as soon as I heard it, the very first one, I said to him, it reminds me, you remind me of India Ari, right? And then I was reading some of the reviews and other people said the same thing, right? I love that. Yes, yes. Is that where you get some of your inspiration or where do you get your inspiration for your music? Not exactly. I mean, I am definitely inspired by India Ari, but I wouldn't say she's my primary inspiration. Who's your primary inspiration? I have met her, though. Oh, yeah? I'm sorry? Who would you say is your primary inspiration or just directly, divinely inspired, right? Gosh, there's so many. There's so many. Like Shade, I suppose, is the influence. I also like a lot of Gale singers, like Jeff Buckley. A lot of people like Jeff Buckley, too. There's another songwriter by the name of David Ryan Harris that I like a lot. He's not necessarily as well-known, but he's just a great songwriter and I'm very inspired by him. There's so many. I feel like there's so many little inspirations that kind of make up my sound. And even if you can't identify when you hear my music, they're still in there somewhere. Well, how would you describe your music to our guests? Oh, okay. Well, I usually, one description of my music that has sort of stood the test of time is Nora Jones meets Shade for Tee on their way to visit the Beatles. That's great. Yeah, because it's not all like that. You have a variety. Some of it sounds very, almost like country. Country twang. Yes. And some of it sounds like, what would you say? Smooth, jazzy. Smooth, jazzy. Yeah, very interesting variety. I love that whole... I like anything that's like real mellow, but jazzy. I like that your music is very nice. Thank you. Thank you. We were at your website. So it's carlalinhall.com. Let me just spell it. C-A-R-L-A-L-Y-N-N-E. Wait, wait. Oh. I don't use that one as the main site. Oh, what's the main site? What's the main site? Although, you can definitely listen to... There's samples at carlalinhall.com, but I will be changing that site. The site that I really like to use the most is rockstarlifelessons.com. Oh, let me write that. Let me check it out. Rockstar... Rockstarlifelessons.com. Rockstarlifelessons.com. Oh, I spelled it wrong. You have to spell it right. It doesn't work if you don't spell it right. I learned that a long time ago. Okay, rockstarlifelessons. Oh, cool. All right. And what is that about? It's your blog? It's everything. Yes, that's my blog. Look, MP3 videos. Wow, it looks very nice. Cool. Oh, there you are. In video and everything. Nice. Well, I was going to say on the other site, I noticed that you've got an announcement. August 25th, you're going to be at the... Oh, no. That's old. That's why I'm reading something old. Well, I was going to say that's so cool, though, because it was a fundraiser for the organization Songs of Love. Do you still do those? I haven't done them recently, but I do. I've written songs for Songs of Love, and I've also done different fundraiser for them. You want to explain what that is all about? Oh, sure. Songs of Love, they create personalized songs for children and teens with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. Yeah. So we've written first-life songs for a particular child, and it's just really powerful. Yeah, and you know what it is, they're personalized. So you put their name and a few details about them in there, right? And do you get to meet these people or no? No, I haven't. Some people might have, but I haven't been able to, it's just enough, you know, at least to know that I'm writing something that is going to affect a child, and sometimes that's probably even more meaningful than having a song that's as big hit that thousands and millions of people have heard, but you know that you're making a difference just for one child who really appreciates hearing the song about them. Absolutely. Yeah, I love that idea, because especially a little child when they hear a song, they think of the radio or something, when they hear their name in it and maybe they put a little details about them, something personal about them in there, yeah, their dog's name or something. That's really, really special, and it's awesome that you can really affect the joy of a child in that situation with something so relatively simple. It doesn't cost money necessarily to sit there and use your talent for that. I think that's a wonderful thing. Yeah, it's great. That's beautiful. And is there any particular reason why you chose Children or... Well, the organization does this for Children, don't they? It's especially for Children, right? Yeah, I think it's Children and teens for the most part. And it impacts them more, you know, because they're like a mesmerized... I'm not really sure how I actually even hooked up with that organization. They might have come to meet first or something, I'm not sure. And then I did a few songs and then I just really got into it. Oh, I remember now, I remember now. I had said I'd performed the show and David Lee Roth. Do you remember David Lee Roth? Well, he did a performance with a group that I was performing in. And... Oh, and he donated his entire donation, the money that they gave him. He donated it to Songs of Love. And then I wanted to know who the songs are in love. Yes. Yeah. And then after that, I started to get involved with them as well. Nice, nice. Yeah, I love that. I don't remember if I heard about it from that or from Oprah or somewhere, but similarly, I heard about that organization. Yeah, I recently heard about it in the Daily News here, the local broadcast. They were making, you know, talking about different songwriters, writing songs for these special needs children. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Yes. So what about your hair? What about my hair? I love your hair, not to change the subject, but let's talk hair. I love your blog and I just love that. I love the pictures. Who's taking your picture? Your picture on Twitter is the best. Let me see if I can bring it up. Thank you. Who took that? It's the back of my CD. That's what I thought. I was going to say that it looks like a CD cover. If it's not, it should be. How do I bring this up here? I'm going to bring up your Twitter. Sure. Okay. The picture on your blog. Let's see. I have to spell it. The whole thing. Did I do it right? There. No, I didn't. Wait, Karla Lynn Hall. Is that your Twitter? There you are. There you are. I think if I click on the picture. Oh, no. Do you shake your head a lot during your performances? Is that why you're... Yeah, because it's there. I can't help it. It does the same thing. It does the same thing. It's that hair toss when you don't have hair that's a little weird. But... But you've got there. Now, how long is it? It's about... It's about to my ass now. There we go. Beyond. That's what I'm talking about. It looks a little stretched on the widescreen here, but look at that. I love that. And you have the headphones on. It looks like rays of light. You know what it reminds me of? Those Egyptian sun things. Where they have the sun with all the rays coming out of it. You know what I'm talking about. So cool. That's you. That's me. You are a radiating ball of light and sun. Every time we see you, you're always smiling so brightly. Yes. And that... I can see that you were smiling brightly on Twitter last month when you won a Motorola Droid. Tell us how did that happen? How did that happen? I had to buy mine. I was on Twitter and I saw someone retweet something from ModoMobile which is the Motorola Twitter account. And they said something like, if you didn't get to celebrate Mother's Day, celebrate with us and win a free Android. And basically they asked for people to send pictures with themselves and their mothers to tweet to them. And I submitted a picture that I had of me and my mom and it won. That's great. And your mom where did she live? My mom died a few years ago so she lives in my heart. That's even more special. Actually it was. I kind of feel like she helped me win from beyond. Of course she did. My mother and my father both have had their transition. I still actually have if you can believe this, I have audio cassettes of my mother speaking. She was like the technology geek of her day I guess in a way. She was very sophisticated. She would write audio cassettes to write letters. So she would record her voice as a letter and then mail the cassette tapes. And I have some that nobody's ever heard before. And I haven't even heard them yet. I'm going to listen to them. I just didn't want to wait. I thought it will mean more later. But now it's time. I've got to actually get them off those cassettes and put them on MP3s and preserve them forever. That's going to be a project. But it's kind of one that I've partly procrastinated and partly it's just like to bring yourself to do it. It's very emotional to hear. Imagine finding a box full of cassette tapes of your mother talking to you that you've never heard before. Now. She had her transition in 97. That's a long time ago. I knew it would mean more to all of us later. Even the longer we waited so I've kind of waited. I still haven't heard them yet but we still have them here. But we've got to do it before they end up getting lost or damaged. That's going to be a project. So how do you like your Motorola Droid? Let's talk technology. I haven't activated it yet. But I'm very excited. I made a video about it about receiving it because I just received it actually. There it is. There's your video. I'm looking at your blog and I found the video. I saw you holding something up and it's like now I get it. It's the Droid you're holding up. Very cool. I have one. That's what I use. I use the Motorola Droid. You have it so I can get all the tips and tricks from you. Oh, for sure. I talk about it non-stop. You can't shut me up about it. And then Ed just got his. Are you ready for this? The Motorola Droid came out in November. I got it right away because I have to be on the cutting bleeding edge. Bleeding edge, exactly. Totally. My excuse is I say I review technology. I have to have it. I just don't have a choice. I'm out almost. I got the Droid. And then the HTC Incredible just came out last month and it was far better. Twice is good, all that. Then on the 4th of June the HTC Evo came out. Which is twice as good as that. Of course Ed has it. He's got the HTC Evo. It's amazing. We'll show you. Basically it's the same as the Droid. It's just bigger. You've seen them, I'm sure. Anyway, I'll hold it up to the camera. I don't know if you can see that. You've seen what it looks like. But it's so cool. The pictures that it takes are amazing. It's like 8 megapixel camera and it's got HD video camera in it. Actually there's an HDMI cord that you plug in your phone into somebody's HDTV on their wall and watch movies in HD. And it has a camera on the front and the back. So you can have video telephone calls. It's nuts. It's just nuts. Things are changing so fast. I used to give people advice about what smart phone to buy. Phone in general. They shouldn't even call them phones anymore. They're really pocket computers. In reality that's exactly what they are. I used to give them once a year I would change my opinion about which one was the best. It became once every six months and then once every three months. Now it's like my recommendation I say is only good for two months. Every recommendation for a phone has a two month expiration date because this stuff is changing so fast that my prediction I predicted a while ago it's going to be the phone of the month club. Literally you will actually get a new you'll pay a yearly fee and you'll sign up for a almost like an insurance plan that's $9.95 a month or something you'll sign up for a monthly plan $20, $30 a month and what will happen is every month you'll get a new phone and you open it up and you log in and all your information is there but it will be a new hardware because you know what people don't even realize we think it's so amazing we're so consumed by how exciting but you can't even imagine what's coming up in six months. What's coming up in six months for example is this new network before the end of the year two providers in the US MetroPCS believe it or not and Verizon those are the two that are going to have this service called LTE and LTE I was reading it's been tested up to 300 megabits per second so just to give you an idea okay your internet connection at home is probably about one megabit per second if you're paying for the top of the line fastest service you can get usually it's like it's broadband cable modem they call it 20 megabits per second and you're really getting about 15 to 17 well these phones the LTE has been tested up to 300 megabits per second that's incredible like 300 times as fast as your internet at home I can't even say it's mind boggling and then you know how creative humanity is these computer geeks and programmers you know how creative they are what are they going to be able to make your phone do with 300 times the internet speed and the processors just keep doubling and doubling they used to double every few years now they're doubling every few months so there's no end in sight to the awesomeness that's happening it's such an exciting time that's why I love technology I've always loved it absolutely it's great I have a joy question can I use the video with it yeah it's got a video camera in it I don't even think you have to activate it you can probably just turn it on and use the video camera without even having service I think you'll try it that would be great for me I've been using my cell phone here I'm still old fashioned with that because I was waiting for the iPhone to go to Verizon and it just wasn't happening and I just thought I don't want to get another phone until I can get a smart phone because just like you were doing social media vlogging I need a smart phone I do and I was holding out and then when I won the joy I'm like okay great now I can do everything that I need I can go places and I can tweet it and I can take pictures and I can take video and it just really helps me be the social media maven that I am that's right well that's all you have to do I was just showing the camera if you you need to turn down your speakers just a little bit because we're getting feedback again but if you hit camera go into the camera app and then there's a little slider at the bottom that switches it from camera to video camera and that's it and then there's a record button I'll show you when I see you it was really cool yesterday we went to brunch with some friends and I was showing them my new phone and then I told Bruce to look up a certain site which was quick.com and and then he looked it up and he brought it up and it was a live stream of us having brunch because I was filming everyone as we were having brunch and he was sitting next to me and he was watching what I was filming which was right in front of him live on this quick.com phone it's got an I mean the brood has a regular video camera the evo has an HD video camera 720p remember like last year that was like the best TV you could buy the phone has it the phone is 720p it's got HDMI out and it's an HD camera it's got everything it's insane these devices are just amazing and yeah and we're sitting at brunch we're sitting in a restaurant and he's showing me ever since he got this for the last 36 hours his face has been in it he's like mesmerized by the thing and I get to look at it for a minute and then he takes it back because it's android operating system it's the same operating system as the droid but it's just new and improved and better and oh my gosh it's amazing so he's playing with this thing called quick and he's saying look I'm broadcasting this live to the internet and he's telling me look on your droid and see if you can watch it and I'm like I can't watch it no that's not going to be right because it's probably flash that quick is actually made for that so here I touch it I go to the link and there it is on my droid I'm watching the live video of what he's shooting on his camera it's going up to the internet and back down amazing, just amazing and everybody at the table is just going oh my gosh and you know another thing that happened this is just with the technology of the cell phones all of it put together Ustream well you know we broadcast the show live on Ustream right now yep good it's working anybody in the chat room anyway we broadcast the show live every morning Monday through Friday, 10am, New York time blah blah blah we were playing with Ustream because we could leave Ustream on you could leave it on 24 hours a day if you wanted and I did, I set it up and I left it on and then we went to the grocery store so we walked four blocks up to the grocery store we're in the grocery store and I was waiting I was checked out and everything and I was standing there and the security guards starts talking to me and he goes what are you looking at and I said this is my living room I said see this video this is live this is live video of my living room and my apartment at home and you can hear it too, the audio if someone was in the room you'd hear them talking and he's looking at my phone going what you're watching your living room live at home on a phone it's Ustream and I thought there's an idea right there, you know home security system via Ustream you can have Ustream channels in every room of your house and you can watch like a nanny cam yeah totally nanny cam the only problem is everybody in the whole world can watch it too because Ustream is quite public like Facebook but it was the technology and the creative minds of individuals who think of new uses for it that's what happens they'll invent something for one purpose but then some clever little person somewhere in the planet comes up with an idea we should use it for something else let's try using it for something else okay we should take a moment actually at this point and thank our sponsors because we are so very grateful let's bring up their 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so that's why we love them as our sponsor so we're back Carla hello again hey so what else, what else we talked about technology, we talked about what you've been up to where's the next place people can see or find you or see let's see besides your website wait a minute rockstarlifelessons I love that rockstarlifelessons.com right yes yes so you have anything, any gigs coming up that people can I just played in Inwood the other night the other day next gig I'm going to make music New York on June 21st there will be people playing music all over the city I haven't set anything up yet but I might be playing somewhere in Inwood Washington Heights area after that on July 11th I'll be playing at SIPP which is uptown in Harlem the SIPP lounge and I have some other gigs throughout the year they can go to rockstarlifelessons.com and just put in their email address and they'll be on your mailing list your feed right yes as far as your song writing are you writing anything now or are you working on anything like that or with anyone I'm not actively playing on new songs right now although it is something I do I can hear my roommate listening to this in the other room that's funny I can hear him hey Tim, shout out Tim we're going to be seeing you soon so let's see right now I've been focused on my music marketing activities so I feel like I do that in batches and in February I was doing this thing called the February Album Writing Month where there was sort of like a boot camp challenge for all of these different songwriters were writing songs for the month of February so February and March I was much more focused on songwriting now I'm working on some new projects actually I'm working on my own internet TV show and working out how that's going to look like and that's sort of where my mission is today you're working on your own internet TV show well actually we'll have a podcast for now we're here to help you if you have questions about that too because we've been through a lot we've tried to make every mistake we could and every excuse every excuse to put it off that's the biggest thing I think that if you ask what was it we were talking to Mark David Gerstin the other day and he said that they've done these studies that they ask people would you like to write your own book 83% of Americans say yes they want to write their own book but how many of them do how many of them even read a book the same thing with the video podcast or even an audio podcast but especially video podcast video net shows things like that I'll bet anything the numbers are about the same that everybody wants to do it but they don't and I think there's two big hurdles one people are afraid of the camera which you're not obviously you're not afraid of the camera the camera loves you speaking of the camera I think it's getting very bright in your room is there any way to turn the shade or down you're becoming coming through you look like a glowing angel but that's just your real self is coming through glowing aura angel anyway people are afraid of the camera you're not but a lot of people are just really afraid of the criticism emotionally people are very attached to I don't know they get their self esteem from their ego and if even one person said you know someone doesn't look the best or whatever they're really going to be emotionally fragile about it so that's a real fear the number one fear is public speaking hello that's public speaking that's it so in front of the camera it's public speaking on steroids the second big hurdle and then the second big hurdle is the technology now we have all this really affordable technology but putting it together is not as easy as it looks even though your freaking phone has an HD video camera in it and you can you can take HD video on your phone or any flip device and upload it to YouTube and actually that's pretty easy but once you try to do it live you know as soon as you try and add something a component like doing it live and streaming it up to the internet that adds a little bit of complexity and when you try to especially if you try to do multiple cameras and you want the audio to sound really good and not like a you know you don't want it to sound like an amateur YouTube video where you're just you have a camcorder on a tripod because the audio doesn't sound good so you know I mean we're trying to make it you know a little bit higher quality and when you do that it every little thing of higher quality is ten times more wires ten times more equipment you should see we'll have to take a picture of the studio but you should see we've got like eight monitors and four or five cameras and you think why is all that necessary but it really is when you come over you'll see a lot of wiring in this room well part of the reason we're doing all this is to be able to help people to navigate some of the perils of we're going to do tutorials uploading and doing all this kind of work we're going to do tutorials on how to create your own video netcast so that's yeah definitely you bet! yeah so you can rely on us as a resource we'll help you out it's really not hard but you know the ironic thing is that you study and you google and you research and you're going to read a lot of stuff on the internet by professionals like real professionals in television and radio and you know there's a whole genre of audio engineers and radio people professionals real old pros right in radio and in television and then those two actually are separate too because television is very different than radio audio stuff and I mean some people will tell you you have to have a $15,000 tricaster and you have to have a $7,000 camera and all these and then you need special lighting kits that are hundreds and thousands of dollars and the truth is you don't you really don't and it's not their fault it's just that things are changing so fast they're not up to date you can actually do things with amazing new technology off the shelf and we're going to expose that but where you can actually make a really professional looking show for like $200 I mean really really affordable well maybe not that little but they're very little yes we're finding out that if you do it in a studio like this you don't need all that stuff you can just use a computer with one of these new webcams because these are a tenth of the cost and have more higher resolution video than the high-end camcorders so it's different you know it's just interesting it depends on your needs of course but I mean you can get it all done with a very small budget and the other thing is that people you figure out very quickly that audio is everything 90% of the show is audio so the audio has to sound good they go and do their email and do other things and just listen in the background anyway so you have to if the audio is bad people won't listen long they won't even leave it on long and also a lot of the audience will listen to the audio version anyway they're going to listen to it on their iPod, their mp3 player whatever their phone, their device they don't necessarily need to download the whole entire video file they'll just download the audio part and or even if they're at their computer they'll be doing other things and just that's what we do, we do all the time we're constantly listening to something it may or may not be a video it may just be audio only even if it is a video then we'll just play it and then we're doing other things and we're just listening in the background and you're what you're wanting to do is it related to music I'm assuming yes, yes, yes as a music marketing consultant I teach musicians how to market themselves so it'll be primarily podcasts and audio and video of different topics that are important to them oh nice that's a great way to start and to keep your name out there the more your name is out there the higher rankings on google when they do searches for the type of music or the artists etc speaking of that I wanted to announce a few things we're working on multiple different shows let me see here here it is our list of shows you're going to want to stay tuned at breadtv.com and breadmedia.com in general because we're going to be doing a whole bunch of shows about topics like this even though we're here we have our studio set up already so doing additional shows there's very little investment it's just different shows for different types of things so obviously this is our live unedited unscripted raw coffee chit chat show it's kind of very casual off the cuff and it's actually really good practice for us so when we get Julia Roberts to come and sit in this chair we'll hopefully have our act together better so it's good practice to do this every day try it, try broadcasting it live and up on youtube and use dream every single day it's very rare that that happens so very few people do it because it's very involved so anyway we're doing this this is the live thing a couple new shows I want to tell you about another one that's very casual is going to be called OneTweet OneTweet.com and that's very specialized it's just going to be me talking about my twitter and you're on twitter so you can relate okay so I have my, I call it my twitter roddy my peeps you know my twitterverse my twitter, my twitterverse right I have actually you know I just anyway it's just a number but I have over 11,000 followers so it's really cool it's really exciting I love it because I love tweeting and I love whenever I have I call it a profundity whenever I have a thought that I think well to me it's interesting so I tweet it and some people you know one or two people think it's interesting so it's cool so what I'm going to do is going to be an experiment but I'm going to do this show called OneTweet and it's just me talking about my tweets I'm going to be basically audio tweeting audio video tweeting my stream so I'm going to talk about each one of my tweets and what I said and why I said it and what it's about and just a little bit more than 140 characters and I'm also going to be reading their at replies from the you know people who had sent me replies back that they gave me a great question or a tip or a suggestion or more information or asked you know whatever and so that's going to be that just basically my audio video tweet stream the next one is a show called AbsoTechly and this is going to be really cool it's going to be an interview show where it's all technology though but my take on technology is always personal technology made easy so it's going to be where I'm going to be interviewing somebody from a you know technology company or somebody who's very big in technology and I'm going to be asking them you know interviewing them about technology and stuff like that but it's you know no matter how technical they speak I'm going to be translating it for the average everyday person so it's going to be very cutting edge and all about technology and then you know the Bruce Wagner show is going to be the one when we get you know Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and when we get really VIP celebrities and things like that that's going to be the high production one that we do when we get people like that we're going to do a Spanish language show it's going to host he speaks Spanish as his first language so that's going to be fun because there's a huge global audience and market for Spanish language television and I already have lots of followers and I have all everything I need I just need to do it we taped a 15 was it like a 15 or 30 second little announcement that he's going to do this show he's got like a hundred times more followers immediately from that than we do on the show that we actually do so that's going to be a huge worldwide audience especially Mexico and Spain and all of you know Central and South America all the Spanish language, Spanish speaking countries phenomenal demand so that's going to be a production show too where we have you know VIP guests obviously speaking in Spanish then another one called the free culture show which is all about free culture about creative commons license open source software, things like that educating people about that because a lot of people don't know about that but here's the one I'm going to do one called the computer tutor show and it's going to be basically the you won't really see me I think you're going to just see my screen and I'm going to each little there will be tiny little bite episodes and each one is going to be a tutorial about how to do something how to do like common tasks that a surprising number of people do not know how to do so basic tasks and a lot of it will be platform independent in other words browser based that you can do on Ubuntu Linux, Windows or Mac and then the ones that are platform dependent will be based on Ubuntu Linux because you know I'll go into all the details about why I prefer that operating system and then he's going to do one oops called the frugal show because we call him Dr. Frugal he's we've done we've done other audio podcasts on that and there lots of people are interested in that very popular but he's gifted in this he can find a bargain like he put the most frugal people on the planet to shame he's unbelievable bargain shopper so he's going to do sort of like I'm going to do with the computer tutor thing he's going to do the frugal show which is about it's going to be like a screencast I think of how he does his online shopping and how he finds insane bargains I think that's going to be really popular and then a couple more we'll announce later but anyway that's so we're going to be doing all kinds of shows I have a well Tim on the chat he just says hi guys love the show hi Tim he's going to be on later this week we're going to talk how are you so oh and by the way you know because you're right here we can also we'll talk offline but you know you could even do your show here in the studio we're going to talk about that too because we've already got it all set up heck we're on the internet we can say that word but we're going to beep but no we already have the whole thing set up so it might be possible that we could work together like that too but anyway for the rest of the audience of you who are interested in doing this we're going to definitely be talking more about how we set it up we'll probably do a whole series about how to set up how to cast how to set up your own show so hear that beep that means we're out of time wow that was neat well it's been great having you thanks for coming enjoying this Carla and you want to give gratuators self promo for yourself before we get offline sure I would say well keep an eye out for rockstar life lessons tv if you visit my blog rockstarlifelessons.com you will be going ahead you can keep talking oh okay and that's pretty much it great well we're happy to have you your bright shining smile and face early in the morning thank you for joining us thank you guys alright let's all love see you guys in the chat room bye