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Sam, what's up? Have you been?
Has your week transpired? Week transpiring?
Oh, man, I mean again, doing the best I can with the
circumstances, but I've been I've been I've been OK.
Right now I'm currently I'm under the weather.
I am under the weather and it's not it's not very, very kind
weather. It is it's a bit cloudy.
I over age caught up to me. I overexerted myself physically.
I was running and and and my body just.
Why are you running? Because I'm paranoid I would get
into the whole thing because it's actually, I feel like, I
feel like, I feel like, what do you call it?
I feel like a Sissy when I say it.
But anyways, I was, I, I live, I live on on, on.
I'm going to give away my location, but I live in an
elevated area. And so I decided that for
whatever reason that I was going to run up the hill and non-stop.
And I haven't done like very, very rigorous exercises in a
long time, apart from like a gym here and there.
So my body was letting me know that we can't go on that way.
We can't continue living. It was, it was two days ago.
It was a mess, bro. That was a mess.
So I woke up today and my body is just, I'm just so I'm
recovering though it's, I guess as you grow older, you can't do
the things that you used to do, like run, like run up hills just
off the whim. And you can't, you have to, you
have to prepare for it. But apart from that, I'm all
right, I mean, we'll get into it, but in terms of just like
what's been going on, it's been again, just continued like just
sadness, so sad that I did that. Maybe this was not exactly the
best thing to do, but I, I, I've, I've taken a break of XI
might get back into it this coming week.
But then since maybe it was the end of last week, I think I just
decided, you know what, I I will be staying off this platform
because there's so much negative information.
Not negative information, there's just so much going on
that's affecting. And I realise I have a very soft
heart. I'm not ashamed to say it.
And I just couldn't stand to see people get shot and killed on
what do you call it on, on my phone like that and just
continue with my day. So yeah, of course that has come
with these drawbacks, but luckily the information is being
passed still. So yeah, I don't know what else
to say. I'm hopeful, though.
I'm hopeful. How are you doing?
How has your week been? How's your health, bro?
This this this week. This week has been, it's been
difficult to even get any work done because like all all my
attention has been on the current protests.
Not gonna lie man, it's just it's hard to do anything.
It's hard to, I know I said I was creative last week, but this
week was just different, man. I was just very in invested and
just mentally, emotionally just drained from this whole
situation, man. Yeah.
So it's just been, it's just been difficult to just even just
do anything, man. Like, yeah, so.
So yeah. My week.
Yeah, it does. It does.
It does take a toll. Yeah.
But yeah, my my week. So I, I mean, I decided to make
a TikTok video just, I'd kind of like just expressing.
This was on Wednesday after after our well after William
Ruto decided to kind of address the country.
Well, he adjusted the he adjust the country twice on Tuesday
evening and on Wednesday. And yeah, I mean, it was kind of
like I was incensed at the because he kind of just made-up
a bunch of stuff, omitted a bunch of a bunch of information.
So I made a TikTok video and I'm glad that I did, although
obviously I've gotten a lot of texts and stuff and concerns
because obviously, you know, like my language was very
abrasive towards him. So a lot of people like, like,
brah, you know, remember the Moi regime, remember, like, you
know, these guys are dangerous people.
ETCTC But yo, listen, at the end of the day, we have to we have
to say something man and for those of us who can't be there
physically man, digital activism is a thing in today's day and
age. And therefore, you know, if if I
can't be on the ground, at least like I can help use my platforms
for for good. So anyway, yeah, I did that
happened Wednesday and yeah, I, I tried so like you, I tried to,
I didn't get off X, but I tried to like just try and do like
normal things. So I, I tried to start a new
series. I was actually in in I was very,
there's this new series on Apple TV, but it's called like dark
matter and I've actually been watching it.
It's it's very interesting. It's like a sci-fi thriller
thing. So I've I've tried to get
invested in that just. To get my head your brain away
occupied from. Yeah, I keep my brain occupied
and away from all the things that are happening.
Yeah. And then I finally, I made one
beat. I made just a singular beat.
Hey, shout out to that one beat for coming out man like.
Oh yeah, yeah. Shout out to it man, that that
one beat was it was very difficult to make.
But what genre was it? Yeah, that's still so I'm, well,
I don't know if I'll say that here, but like it's it's it's
like dancy dance vibes, dance vibes.
So yeah, I also tried listening to a bunch of music just because
I brought the beginning of the week.
I was doing none of that, man. I feel like beginning of the
week was just information information.
It was. It was.
Being on, being on, being on, on X, being in the spaces.
Just like you know, every single there was a.
Lot of info coming in. A lot, a lot of information and
it's yeah. So towards the end of my week,
like Friday, Saturday, I was trying to listen to new music.
I'm trying to watch this new series.
Just trying to like whatever. Also The Bear came out.
So I tried, I watched like 2 episodes from.
Oh yeah. I finished the the the season.
Wait, that's no, that's not true.
I didn't finish it. I slept, I slept throughout the
I think it was the last episode of the the 2nd to the last
episode of the last season, season two of the bear.
So I've not really gotten into that.
I've not been, I've been watching anything.
I've been I've been watching more, more comedy, more comedy
related things just to like lift my spirit because I can't, I
can't. If it's serious, it's going to
I'm going to start thinking and overthinking and then I'm going
to get into a hole. So I've been watching like more
fun, funny, light hearted content.
Shout out to Michael Scott for keeping me keeping my head above
the water. Yeah, Dang, this past week has
been, has been kind of. Crazy, it's been crazy crazy
like on on on on the TikTok. I was saying one person you guys
will know Edwin Y Nina. He's the the famous like TikTok
digital artist. He commented.
He was like turned our producer to a freedom fighter.
Ruto, you will crumble. That was at least that was one
funny thing I saw that it's kind of hilarious.
But anyway, Speaking of rooter will crumble.
This podcast came out on Wednesday.
So obviously we were unable to address what happened happening,
the beginning of the like, you know, the beginning of the week
and everything. So Tuesday, Sam, you know, was
the Occupy Parliament. Tuesday, Tuesday Tuesday 1st
off. Occupy Parliament, Yeah.
I'm just going to like applause, applause.
Everyone who who like came out, like people came out in, in, in
numbers. It was a very, very, very
legendary. Legendary.
I don't know legendary is the right time, but it was a very,
very important day, I think in, in, in the history of, of what's
going on. Yeah.
So Tuesday was Occupy, the Occupy Parliament today.
So there are protests. People came out.
It was, I mean, it was largely peaceful, right?
Largely peaceful, the protest, Like the protest, this was the
2nd. The second major protest.
The first one was the previous week Thursday, right?
No, no, no there. There was a protest on on the
previous week Tuesday as well. Yes, yes, sorry.
Yes. So previous Tuesday, Thursday
and then this was I guess what we'll tell you the third major
one. So yeah, it was, it was good.
It was good. Again, seeing people out there,
this there, there was a concerted effort and goal as to
what what like there was a message that they were trying to
send. So they're in town for the for,
for, for a while. And then of course, it led to
people ended, ended up actually occupying Parliament, which is
really, I'm not going to lie, it was really interesting, But I
was also a little bit, I was a bit worried when that happened,
like when people say no, they've gotten into parliament.
I was like, oh, snap, how how enough did that happen?
But you know, I guess it's a revolution.
So, so guys were they're going to get there anyway.
But yeah, so that was interesting.
I don't know what you if you picked up, Did you pick up
anything? Yeah, I picked up that the
government is willing to kill its own civilians to.
Oh man, just you know. Protect their agendas, man.
If you saw all those bodies that were strewn outside parliament
on the road and everything, I mean, they were using a sniper.
Like, bro, these are things you only see in movies and stuff
like that, man. People's brains were like on the
pavement and everything. It was insane.
Honestly, I've never seen something like that happen in in
in this country. Kenyan history.
Yeah, man, at. Least at least televised.
On TV, televised on Tuesday. Yeah, televised on TV and and on
social media just like in front of us to see like that that was,
I mean, come on, man, for sure. I don't know.
Yeah, so my take away was like, I'm those people who breached
parliament and, you know, at the forefront, like those people are
very, very brave Kenyans and they deserve so many plaudits,
man. Yeah, like I, I wholeheartedly
respect what they what they did. Obviously they did succeed in
breaching Parliament. There was the funny picture of
the one guy who was eating the the all the guys who are eating
the rice. I love food, I love, I love
Kenyans man. Kenyans always find a way to
joke. No Kenyans.
Are hilarious man. Because now you just.
Spice it next time, like. Yeah, but they were like, OK,
let's now compare on Thursday because you know, Thursday at
that time everyone was saying it's Occupy status.
Let's compare what? Like, oh, let's compare the
chefs. Let's let's see which chef is
better, the one for Parliament or for State House.
And then they obviously got in, stole the Mace or took the Mace.
I should say I was. I wasn't very, I wasn't very hip
to that whole Mace thing. I was like, OK, he just, he got
a thing like, why is it so important?
Until I went to look at it and I was like, oh snap, this gets
this gets a bold, this gets a very bold.
And then the other guy who's what did you do?
He went to go where the, the coat of was it the speaker or
something? And he was saying that I'm the
speaker now. It's so funny, man, It's I love,
I love that the fact that people were able to joke through that.
But of course, that was inside the, the, the Parliament.
They, I mean, Nairobi city was a town rather was a mess because
they, the, the governor's office was the governor's office,
psychiatrist's office was on fire.
They, they, I think that some portion of Parliament was also,
well, that was the report that some portion of Parliament was
also burning. They obviously destroyed a lot
of stuff inside Parliament and, and a couple of, and later on,
later on in the day, I think there was some looting that
happened around town and some shops were destroyed, things
stolen from supermarkets and whatnot.
So I guess that aspect of it was not, it's not the best news
because these are businesses that thrive on, on, you know,
exchanging goods for money. But then when goods are just
taken, you know, they, they got a loss.
So that part wasn't well, wasn't wasn't really like good news to
hear. But I do understand that usually
if there's unrest somewhere that's in many revolutions,
that's what that's the kind of thing that happened, that
happened. Sorry so.
Yeah, so the looting and stuff was definitely unfortunate, but
I think what's even more unfortunate, and it's kind of
like being revealed as time goes along, is the whole thing that
happened in Gidurai. Because bro, I was so curious as
to like why they just deployed people to like barrage Gidurai
like in the evening. And people are saying that the
speculation is they were in they were hunting for the mess that
was taken from Parliament. Either way, first of all, I hear
that that Mace is, is is a replica.
It's not the the one that was taken is a replica.
It's not the actual one. Yeah.
And I I just feel like they they had no right to kind of like
find the Mace is gone. But like, they killed so many
people, man. Like I was just.
Seeing it's really worth all those lives.
It wasn't even the real one in the first place.
And I was just seeing so many videos of, of people being
killed. Well, not people being killed,
but like I saw videos of the police like shooting almost
indiscriminately. And then I saw certain videos of
like people being stuffed into like vans and stuff like that.
Like, I, I saw some weird stuff and it's just like, I, I, I
don't know what's happening with this government where they're
just like killing people, man, over a Finance Bill.
So Godurai was very unfortunate. There was so many different
reports coming in the news, like up till now, like nobody knows
for sure how many people died that night.
And that's very dangerous considering the next day our our
own president in quotes comes out to say only six people had
died. And we knew for a fact that
multiple people had died the night before in Gudurai, which
even incensed people more. So rest in peace to the people
who lost their lives on. The Yeah Man and all the.
Mothers are real freedom fighters of the country.
Yeah, the mothers, brothers, fathers who lost family members.
I, I what, what They said the other, I guess from the other
side, they're saying that there was a police officer who was
killed. So like apparently this is.
Really. That's what they're saying.
Yeah, like the the police officer was was attacked by the
people and then that's kind of what triggered the whole
giddurai Giddurai thing. So.
But we don't know. I, I didn't hear that report,
but either we're just, I, I don't know, I don't know, man.
And then bro, Wednesday was an interesting day because
obviously Ruto held the, his second address.
Well, Tuesday night he had his address, which I feel like that
was the real Ruto because, you know, that's where he called the
people protesting criminals. He wasn't smiling.
He kind of even his. Gate.
Oh no. His gate was off.
It was that was war. He was declaring war on us.
He was angry and but Wednesday, Wednesday was more of a curated
response where, you know, he started off by detailing his in
quotes, so-called victories and things that he's done and things
that he was looking to do with the Finance Bill.
Like he was just kind. It felt more like a campaign.
Obviously the address was directed not to ask the Kenyans,
but I guess to the people who he's trying to show that he's,
he's, you know, he's doing the right things as a president
within the international community.
And then one, that one comment he made about there only been 6
deaths in this protest like that incensed a lot of people because
we know it wasn't true even just based off of how many people had
to be identified at the morgues and everything.
Yeah. The thing about Wednesday,
though, that stood out was the social media.
Space. Yeah, because I feel like a lot
of misinformation and propaganda kind of like circulated and then
there was a lot of fear mongering as well.
And yeah, Wednesday just became unfortunately a day where the
momentum for Thursday was lost a little bit.
And and I guess it's just, it's also because there was a lot of
like talk that, yo, if you guys go to State House on Thursday
for the occupied State House, there'll be more deaths and of
course people don't want to die. So as a result, the
communication on Thursday was kind of confused because people
were like, are we still going to State House or are we just going
to into CBD or are we doing this or are we doing that?
And within that lack of like a like.
A. What do you call it?
A central yes, yes, central like.
Deploying of information and I guess that's, that's, that's one
of the things that is, I don't call it a drawback.
I, I don't want to put any negative connotation on it.
But then that's one of the things I guess that's
challenging about how this current demonstrations are being
held because it's been done by the people and we are literally
just going out. And, and, but then there also we
also stand there's, there's a risk of, of groups doing what
feels right within the immediate group you're in rather than
binding together. So I guess that that's that's,
that's one thing that we might need to and I understand why,
because again, people, people have there's there's a thought
of if we have like a specific leader or a bunch of leaders.
Sorry, I'm just, I'm just remembering those, those four
were there four or five who came out and started saying that to
do their forming a party. I talked about last week.
It just came. I don't even know.
Oh the oh, the Gen. Z, the next Gen. alliance.
Oh my God, that's so embarrassing.
Thing that's so embarrassing, but no SO if there's like a
specific leader or leaders like we see how the government is is
is sort of abducting people who they feel are, you know, in
charge of the information. And so there's that fear that,
hey, if we have a central place that the information is coming
off from, we'll just cut it down and cut the movement off.
So I understand both sides in in where we feel like we don't need
to have a specific person or people or party or group or
company or whatever it is leading us.
But also there needs to be a better there needs to there
needs to be a, a way to better chance.
I mean. Well, I I mean I don't know the
information. Kind of the.
I don't know for sure. I think I like that this
movement is leaderless. You know the thing about like.
But you see, either way, the government is going to find ways
to compromise both. But I think it's easier to
compromise us having a leader because then you have somebody
to target. Yeah.
And then you can, you can because it's, it's it'll always
devolve into okay, let's let's talk.
And then the talking will go on for two years and then there
will be a handshake or like whatever, coming to terms, which
doesn't really translate well. Yes.
Headless chicken is is all right if all the chicken are running
in the right direction, that's all.
That's you know. Exactly, which is why they're
also taking liberties to compromise the fact that we're
leaderless. But I think it's better even if
they're compromising it with misinformation and the
abductions, of course, and just making it so that, you know,
there's multiple sources of information and there's no,
because that's what they're trying to do.
Just try to like manipulate the fact that there's no leader.
Like I think it's better than if they were just manipulating like
the the clear leader and whatever.
Because you see, if they abduct that person, there would be a
huge breakdown and loss of confidence behind this protest
and stuff, in my opinion. So like, it is what it is.
Like obviously they they're fighting back, but we are also
fighting, you know what I mean? So Thursday, Thursday ended up
not being like the day that it should have been.
But I'm still very proud of everybody who went out to CBD.
Actually. That's very brave on the back of
us having lost all those lives on the protest and in Gudurai.
But then you see that brings us to wrong guy, man Wrong guy was
another another like very, very unfortunate like time because
the images that came out of what they did, I watched so many tik
toks of people just in their houses hearing non-stop
gunshots, man. And yeah, man, there was
gunshots for days. And then obviously the videos of
the children, man, the the two that stood out for me was the
one kid who was just lying on, on the ground, his leg at a
very, very odd angle with a, with a vacant expression, just
looked like he was gone. And then there was the other one
of the, of the of the two guys on the border border holding the
baby who had been shot. I'm just like, bro, I don't weak
what, what, what is going on here?
Seriously. Like seeing those videos was
super painful, man. Like imagine seeing that.
That's your child. That's, that's your relative.
That's, that's your friend. Bro.
When, when, when, when I was 10 years old, man, my, my, my
biggest worry was homework. It wasn't whether I'm going to,
like, survive. Yeah.
Or if I'm going to be short. This is it's, it's, I don't know
man like that all. All I know is I really do hope
that whoever is responsible for all of that is like really
brought to justice. If it's the police, then that
they're held accountable for it. And I don't, I don't think.
We know who was responsible. Yeah, yeah, because that's super
sad. I mean, I it's really sad.
Like, this is not where we don't live in a war-torn zone, you
know, like this is not, let me not mention the countries, but
then, but we all know them. Countries that have been at war
and you're scared should just come out of your house because
gunshots and gunshots are like a regular sound of the of, of.
Yeah. So it's really unfortunate.
Definitely condolences to everyone who lost people.
I, I, I, I, I like the fact that a lot more Kenyans seem to
identify with, with people like that's one of the beauties of
this movement is it's classless. It doesn't matter where you
where you live. It doesn't matter whatever it
is, like everyone at this point is we have common, a common
desire that's driving us. And so we're all able to see
these things and point them out as wrong rather than being, oh,
it's not my problem because I don't live in that area.
It's not my problem because I don't, you know, which is very
divisive rather than than bringing us together.
So that's one of the beauties of this movement is there's a lot
more togetherness in, in, in how we're doing things.
But yeah, it's very sad what's happening.
Again, hopefully people who are the people who are responsible
are brought to Swift justice. And Speaking of the people who
are responsible, I mean, we've just come.
So we're recording this on Sunday and we've just come from
watching the round table that the president, I said I wouldn't
call him that, that William Bruto had with Linus, Linus
Kaikai and Eric Klatif as well as Joao man.
And yeah, like shout out to them because they actually were
asking the hard questions, man. And and and and showing him
clips of things that he has said and done and asking him, how do
you feel? Man, how do you feel?
What do you think? Let's let's review your game
tape. Let's review your game tape.
How do you feel? About Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's review your game tape.
Ruto said a bunch of nothing. He chose he he he used every
trick in the book man to just like deflect.
Because I I know these guys how they're coached like to answer
questions, especially when they don't want to answer questions
is you always have to take the narrative and whatever you ask,
like somebody could ask, could, could say, like you could ask me
Afam, how was your day? And I'll respond by saying,
well, you know, days are relative and the definition of
me thinking about has changed. Yeah, it has changed.
And we have to address the people and we have to address
the people who are trying to define what a day is, because
the 24 hours that I had are not the same.
I mean, the 24 hours I used to know for what they used to be
and what they used to represent are not the same as what they
are today. And that's why you know what I
mean? So you just end up like
answering your you have to. So that's what the politicians
do. You ask them the question and
they just go off on a tiny. Man, you ask the question.
And then they. Yeah, they create.
They create another question from your question, then they
answer it without really answering what you've asked
them. And then now they look at you
like, like expectantly, like, see, I've answered your
question. No, you haven't.
You've just really answered your own questions.
And that's essentially what he's just done.
Yeah, they definitely they've, they've, they've, they didn't
back down from the really important questions, which which
I really applaud them for, you know, the, the, yeah,
definitely. And, and when he didn't answer,
they pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed.
Of course, if he's not, if he doesn't answer the questions, I
mean, and give like actual answers, they can't sit there
until until 2:00 AM in the morning still trying to get an
answer out of him. So, but I think they did a good
job so far and it'll be interesting to see what people
are saying about that. But yeah.
I mean, bro, Ruto, Ruto has done he's done.
So like bro, he's thrown the police under the bus, then he's
defended what they've done, then he's thrown them under the bus
again. In in the meantime, he's fired
his wife. He's fired like he's he's said,
you know what? OK, cool.
Like he's probably. Going into timeout, the poor
guy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's he's going to sort them out like, and you know how that guy
is going to. Be called for a meeting tomorrow
morning probably, but we don't. Oh yeah, yeah.
Anyway, Chantal. Is a dangerous gaslighter a
manipulator? He's in a position where, and
you know, what he's done now is he's, he's given like the worst
thing you the, the, the worst thing you can do right now is
give promises to people who are right at your door.
They're, they're, they want you to, to make a move and they want
you to make a move now. And he's given promises.
He's given multiple promises about corruption.
He's given multiple promises about, you know, attempting to
reduce the unnecessary spending in the government.
He's given all these promises and he's, he's, he's starting to
throw around timelines and whatnot.
He, the ice that he's on is paper thin at this point, so he
can't, he cannot bear to stand in one position and feel like,
like he he has all the time in the world because that might
break and you'll fall into icy, icy waters.
So yeah, it's up to us to continue to hold him
accountable. So that doesn't.
Stop. And Speaking of Speaking of
continuing to hold him accountable, So the agenda for
next week remains, man, we're still protesting on Tuesday and
Thursday, although I must say there's like two different like
directives going, going about. And, you know, obviously like
we've been talking about like, you know, there's a lot of like
attempts to kind of like have different messaging in this
period, have people a bit confused and stuff like that.
But Tuesday and Thursday still happening.
So, you know, in the early in the week, there was a Seven Days
of Justice poster going around. And then after that, there was a
7 seven days raging on poster going around.
And now the prominent poster going around is the seven days
journey to the new Saba Saba. So yeah, there's different
posters going around and everything.
But me, me personally, all I know is Tuesday and Thursday is
very much on every Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday is
still happening, man. So we're not relenting until our
concerns are are heard. And our primary concern is that
Ruto must go. I do like the Saba Saba poster
because it's, it's kind of equating the circumstances that
led to Saba Saba day in 1990 to what's happening today.
And you know, the common denominator is a leader who is
very much dictatorial. And so according to the Saba
Saba poster, on July 1st, which is Monday, it'll be for the
flag. In honour of those who have lost
their lives fighting for a better Kenya, we share flag
pictures. Tuesday will be iPod Day with
support from the Police Reforms Working Group.
We need to present grievances on police brutality, therefore
issue notice for a peaceful Saba Saba rally on Sunday.
Wednesday will be a day of shame, name and shame
individuals in Zacchao's government who have featured in
all manner of scandals before and after their appointments.
Speaking of which, there's somebody who created a portal
where all you need to do is type in the name of an MP and it'll
pop up with all their corruption.
Have you seen this some? No, no.
Yeah, some, somebody created a portal where if you just type in
the name of the of the MP, it'll bring up all the corruption
cases that they have. And I think you can also try and
recall them as a as a result or something like that.
It's actually very insane. Like, that's interesting, the
capabilities that technology is allowing us.
So yeah, so on on Wednesday, that's all we'll be doing.
We'll be shaming them. 4th of July on Thursday will be a day
of mothers gathering at Jivanji Gardens and elsewhere around the
country in solidarity with our mothers who have lost their
children. On Friday the 5th day of fathers
gathering a dead and Kimathi statue and elsewhere around the
country in solidarity with our fathers who have lost their
children on 6th. On Saturday will be Saba Saba
mega concert at a venue to be confirmed plus a live stream on
YouTube. And on Sunday which will
actually be July 7th Saba Saba day, there'll be vigils.
Nairobi citizens gather at Kimathi statue and March to
Nyayo house and keep a vigil outside the building.
Also have countrywide vigils in the 47 counties.
And at the back of the poster or the second poster just shows the
kind of history that Saba Saba holds for our country.
And I think it's really well put together and it's a very
sensible To Do List for next week.
Yeah, I mean that that seems like the directive especially
for the for the for the the man. The man was the Tuesday and the
Thursdays again, we still go out.
We still go out. We still keep to the goal.
We still attempt to to get ourselves heard.
The president keeps, I mean, Ruto keeps talking about about
conversation and conversation and conversation.
We need to amplify our voices to make sure like the country
belongs. The country is is is the
people's like we are the ones we make up the country.
So we definitely should, should should keep that up.
Yeah, it must go. It's.
Difficult, it's difficult to go out knowing, I know like the
first, the first day, like the charge is great because you know
you're going out for cause and you don't anticipate yourself,
you know, being dying for no reason, right.
So the more you see that, the harder it probably becomes and
the more braver we we need to be about this kind of thing.
So not to be insensitive. I know like losing a life is
definitely a scary thing. Like, it's hard to see a cop
just like raise his gun and fire at you and the of the friends
around you just because you guys are standing up for yourselves.
So I know that's really tough, but I think it's, it's still
important that we we're outside. It's important that we we push
till the end and not let it die out.
Yeah. Indeed.
Yo. So when it comes to music, I
mean, people haven't really been releasing as frequently.
And I completely understand. I know a lot of people have
postponed like events and postponed shows and even
postponed like their releases. I mean, right now isn't really a
time where I think our message needs to be streamlined into
Ruto Must Go. And yeah, so I understand if the
music has slowed down South. Yeah.
I don't know, Sam, what? What do you think we should do
for the end of the podcast this week?
I think I think in, in, in, in in line of what we did last
week. It's yeah, I like, I like it
when when music, I said it last week, like when, when artists
sort of like journal the the the voice of the people and try to
amplify it. So I think we should continue
with that, play another song that that, and we have many, we
have many songs that are that are, you know, I don't say
protest songs, but songs that that are sort of describing
what's going on now, songs that call out the government, songs
that encourage the people to speak out for themselves.
So I think we should do that. I've got one artist who was
really known for for that in his early days is Eric Waina, and he
released a lot of music that that.
You know, where was aimed at holding the people who need to
be held accountable in the government and just rallying up
the people to fight for themselves and their rights at
in the middle of a government that might not necessarily be be
fighting for them. So I think we should do that.
The song I I I really like. It's actually a very good song.
It's very well recorded. If you listen to it like it's
very well recorded. The mixing is great and the song
has a good, very good message. It's a song of his album.
I don't know what year he did it, but it's 2020.
I think that's the name of the album.
And the song is called Deck deck.
It's a very amazing song. So I think that's what we'll
play. This is Deck Deck by Eric Waina.
In a made-up language, in a made-up time.
A made-up people with a made-up pride.
Singing deck, deck, deck. In my fabrication on the
Townsling St. stood an army Jane roll trying to make a speed.
The people would not listen. They weren't listening anymore.
It lost too many children. In a.
Stupid war singing. Dead, dead, dead.
And the tent began to roll, but the people would not fool.
And the Tiggers began to choke, but the people would not fool.
They said come and get me, you blood circles, come and get me.
I'm all for what I'm saying, that I will live much longer
than the skin of living. Plus still independence.
It's still a shade of red, despite best efforts to help us
forget. If you listen carefully to the
blades of red here the missing pages of our story when the
tanks began to roll the the.
The that was Eric Wainaina with deck deck to just charge the
people and, and, you know, keep us in that same mind frame of we
really want to see change in our government, really want to see
Kenya move forward and, and all the things that have been
holding us back. Like it's time to it's time to
see them. Like we're done being quiet
about this kind of stuff. So yeah, man.
Yeah, bro, before we end, I want to give a huge shout out to
Hanifa, Hanifa Safi on Twitter. If you're looking for her man,
you know she has done the most man.
She started An M Changa for all the people who either died or
got injured during these protests.
The initial goal was for 10 million, but as of today it has
I think it's at 28 million raised and I think that's
insane. And she's been almost single
handedly disbursing these amounts to people who have been
sending her messages via her WhatsApp and showing her the
medical records of okay, like, you know, this person has
suffered this and requires this for treatment, E TCTC.
And I think she's doing it like single handedly.
Like, and even if like so many people are on on, you know, she
was, she was one of the voices that was heavily saying, if you
guys go to State House, you know, I can't guarantee you, you
all won't be shot. And a lot of people were like,
oh, you're being, you've been paid, you've been compromised.
And they were like even using it as an opportunity to be
Islamophobic. But bro, you can't even imagine
the amount of pressure she's under and and bro, she she's
doing the most. I think we need to give her like
a lot of grace. She's trying her best and she's
doing some she's doing the Lord's work.
Literally man. So shout out to Hanifa, man.
She is someone you know, to just look up to because it's insane.
She's act actively changing lives by just but you know,
people can't afford all the the high bills and also, you know,
the funeral costs and everything.
And and just doing all all of that and being accountable
because she's even gone out of her way to show spreadsheets of
even how much Mchanga is taking as like transactionary costs,
which by the way, is insane. And we have to have another talk
about Safaricom and what they do there.
But like, shout out to Hanifa. Yeah, shout out to Hanifa again.
Big, big shout out. We'll never forget your name.
Like and the things that you did during these difficult times
with that. Sam.
That was eighty episode 83 of the 30% podcast.
And yeah, man, thank you guys so much for listening.
Yep, Sam, No. We're good.
We're. Out.
OK. All right, we'll see you guys on
episode 84.