Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo what's up. What's up. Happy New Year y'all. Welcome to Aussie my name is Daisy This is the first episode of the year.
Let me tell you guys it is 30 days decrease today Hey, it was 30-7 degrees yesterday like it's so hot. You know when you sweat everything is wet Okay, that was a rhyme. When you start everything is wet your hair like you get into a cool place and all the sweat It does drips that was me that was me today and yesterday to well I've been trying to stay indoors, but you know we gotta work you gotta work so You gotta leave the house. It's so hot.
Sometimes I wish like, I didn't have boobs and I could work shirtless, but you know I'm not trying to get arrested so I gotta wear my clothes. But it is so hot. Anyway, global warming. Australia.
You need to think about global warming. The people in power who are making decisions against, saving their environment. Anyway, on to energy. Stay far away.
Far away. Welcome. Welcome y'all. First listeners, regulars, everyone.
If you said this in the beginning halfway, whatever you said listening to you asked, welcome to Wazi. I just want to say a mad shout out to all of y'all who reached out to me in various ways. Yo, there's people who've been messaging me on SoundCloud. That is determination because you can all the message on SoundCloud on a desktop.
So that's how I know you. You actually do the most. We appreciate it very, very much. Thank you.
And all of you who find ways to get to me. We do have an email address by the way. A lot of you messaged me asking that. It is right in the description and it is wazipodcast at gmail.com.
And some of y'all messaged me on my Instagram or whatever you found me. I am very appreciative of your really good messages. And some of you are just checking up like, hey, what's up? You good?
You good? Okay, okay, okay. When I'm coming back, what's happening? We are back now.
Like, I just really needed a break. I was doing the very, very most last year and it was great when I was doing it by the timeline of it was just very much overlapping. And physically and mentally, I was drained, drained, drained, drained. And I need a break.
If you're not okay mentally, like if you're not healthy and by healthy, I mean everything. Like if you're tired mentally, it affects everything else that you do. So I was like, I did a lot of big projects, well, not a lot, but I did a poetry audiobook featuring my homie Christopher and that's gonna come out soon this year. So have a look.
Have a good and I did Kaya, which was my impressive installation in collaboration with May Sabet as well. All this people have been on this podcast by the way. So that's how you roll with your crowd, with your people's. And I did an EP, I mixed half an EP for my friend, I guess, in En called Heart and Brain.
And you find that on Spotify as well. And then I was working after that. And the job I was doing, I was doing audio for Lifestyles and that involved a lot of setting up all these big concerts that you all been to, Kina Taylor Swift, Pink. And it was fun, it was a great experience, but also it just involved a lot of hours.
And considering I was working intensively on two big projects for six months, that involved me running around. And I was still in uni. It was a lot. And I continued pushing through, pushing through, but by the time we reached November, your girl was like, yeah, maybe we need a break.
So I took the break, I took the break. But I'm back now and it's great. This is gonna be a really easy shot in sweet episode, just a catch up episode. Yeah, and see what's happening afterwards.
So let's get into it. When I saw my break, I got into a couple of new podcasts that my home girl, not to leak, introduced me to. So I must speak about, let's see, just a little love. Yo, yo, yo, yo.
So, lovey a giant and if you want to already other hosts, if one is, you might know her from Interqueal as Molly, she plays Molly. And Lovey is a writer, an author, she's a blogger. She has a really good blog, so that's that out by the way. You know, when you're trying to cast out people, but you can't, you can't be fully intellectual.
So you're like, man, I really want to be, like, I want to say all these intellectual things with respect, but no, I can't think about it. Now Lovey is the opposite. Lovey is a respect and it's a little bit together, but she's still like, you're wrong. She's a little love.
It's like, I feel like I'm their third friend in studio when they do the episodes. It's so relatable, they talk about a lot of things that I understand and I love the fact that they're unapologetically Nigerian. Like, yo, if you're on Nigerian stuff, that's a bug. They even say it.
I'm not saying it in an ignorant way. Like, the first episode, right, is five love languages of Nigerians. And then we tell you, there was a lot, a lot of similarities between these Nigerian five languages and Kenyan love languages. I don't know if it's an African thing, but particularly Kenyan parents, I was just like, my goodness, I see a reflection of you in all these things this human I'm talking about.
The examples are very similar. So, yeah, I have to listen to them and they speak about relationships. Like, they come up, their crews, who's in their crew and how they help each other within their squad, which I thought was pretty dope. Every episode, honestly, I listen to it the first season, I listen to it in two days.
Two days. It was hard to like today and anyone to get out of the house. So I was working from home and I listened to it all through the first day, finished the second day. I just did the first day, I mean the last two episodes and I was done.
But man, I was waiting for second season so bad, we just started now. So go give them a listen and see what's up and if you like it. But I think you'll enjoy it. They're very, they call themselves, hey English, they call themselves foolish goods.
And you'll understand that if you listen to the first episode because they explained it. Anyway, the other podcast I got into was, is, Oprah Supersell Conversations. And the first episode that I listened to was the Pico Iya episode and I'm a fan of Pico Iya and that's what got me into it. Actually, again, that's what we recommended it.
And this worked a lot about spirituality and being content without using some of these words as well. And one thing that I picked up on that episode is Pico said, if you do not have enough kindness, I mean, if you do not have enough time, you do not have enough kindness. And I thought about it and how that applies to my life. And I saw a lot of things, but sometimes we do and we're not conscious of it.
And how we create time and choose not to create time for some things in our lives. So maybe think about that and reflect on it and listen to it and you'll pick up on something different. But with that particular episode, I haven't, I mean, podcast, what I can say, episode, podcast, I haven't listened to, to eat all the episodes like continuously because for no reason to be honest. But I started listening to the people that I knew first or I was interested to know the thoughts on things first.
And then I went to topics and then I started picking with topics. So I've listened to a couple, some of my favorite ones, Parnash's Aye, that was based on spirituality. He's a spiritual teacher and had a great conversation with a friend about it. I don't know if you guys do this to your friends, but I tend to, if you listen to the same podcast or something like episode about, we'll listen to it and then we'll discuss it.
And that just gives me a different perspective to the same things that I've listened to and some things that I pick, I didn't pick up on that the other person did or how we picked up on the same things but thought about it differently. And yeah, it's pretty dope. Maybe you should try it. I don't know.
You can try with this episode. Any others? I don't know. Any other podcast?
No pressure? No pressure. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, that, that platform was pretty good. And of course, Oprah is a great interviewer.
And a lot of things I was said that I could easily find ways to, to pick, to pick, I mean, find things to pick and use for my benefit. And I've been doing that for the last couple of weeks, actually. So, yeah, it's pretty good space. I'm still listening to the read.
I don't think I ever stop listening to the video like, what, just keep hearing, whistle? Yeah, I don't know. And I'm still listening to the brilliant idiots. It's a love, hate, relationship.
At some point, I was just like, I don't know what you're all doing. But these ain't the brilliant idiots I've listened to before. And then maybe they realize that's what's happening. And then they just came back.
So now I'm back. I'm not contract. Every time I tell people about this podcast, I always say, please go back and listen to their old stuff moving back because some things they say will sound crazy. But if you understand the context of it from behind and just understand, sort of like their mindset or see, see how they've grown rather with time.
Because some things they used to say, they've changed their views on it. And I guess that's the beauty of any podcast. Man, if you listen to this podcast from the first episode, even how I introduced people, basically like a monelog. And that's it.
Yeah, but you grow, you grow with time. And that's what you want to see. Well, this is what I want to want to see as a listener. And as a fan of your platform is the growth, like how you presenting your growth, even with whatever you're talking about or your views on things.
I'm also done a bunch of reading, but I won't talk about all the books that I've read. I just mentioned a few. So one of the books that I loved was, why I am no longer talking to why people are bad trays. Hey, my ready-addaloged, she's a journalist from the UK.
Now, I read this book way after it came out. But I read it when I felt like I was, I was done talking to why people are raised. I was like, you know what, let me see what this has to say over here. And a lot of the things she said, I really resonated with.
And some of the things I didn't understand why I was getting frustrated with until I read the book and I was like, damn, that's why, that's why, that's why. This is a great book. And it's not a big book. I'd advise if you can, please read it.
And especially why people too, because you get to understand where we come in from. And sometimes, sometimes people, people really force this conversation without realizing they're forcing it. Or maybe they do, I don't know. But if I don't want to talk about it, I just don't want to talk about it.
I'm also not your resource. You can find free resources from Google. Google itself is a free resource. And sometimes you don't want to do the work.
So you're going to do the shortcut and come to me and ask me questions. And oh, do you find this offensive? Do you think I should do this? Do you think I should do that?
Go research. Go do the work. You don't want to do the work. But then you see, want to say, I'm in for the course that you have no idea about.
And don't say you're in for the course because you know MLK and Malcolm X or you know, two of the quotes, like, that's American history. It does apply. Sure. We're living in a different country, different continent.
And the black atrocities are so different and so many to say. So just putting the effort. And you know what? You can tell when someone's putting in the work.
And once you put in the work, that's why we mean halfway because you've done something after and then I'll supplement it. And even, yeah, just do the work. Just do the work. What I loved about that book, though, was when he gave suggestions.
Some of the things that we speak about, we don't have solutions for, but we put in suggestions that can help us make it better. And that's what she did. So a lot of the things like even in terms of leveling the playground, what can we do to reach a level playing ground? If it means putting X amongst the racial system, putting spaces for black people so we can, because with those spaces, then you create a level playing ground.
And it's not like you're peaking again. I said this for some people. It's not like you're peaking some rhinos off the street like, yo, you want to be a coach, come to the NFL. It's like, nah, someone who's capable of it, but otherwise we didn't get it it because the systemic structures are there to block them from doing a job they deserve, but they cannot get into because they're black.
Another book that I read is Wrestling with the Devil by Gogem Adjung. Now, if you know Gogem, he's a Kenyan author who now lives in America and is an lecturer in University in America. And he was a political prisoner when Kanyata was president, Joe Mokanyata, the first president of Kenya. He was a political prisoner and he was arrested for the stupidest thing.
He put his together, he's coming together, brought them together, and they produced a play or he wrote a play in vernacular, his vernacular language, Kikuyu. And the people, his people in this village are considered as peasants because they didn't have that much money, they didn't have education. But he produced such a great play that people thought the actual peasants were actors who were hired and they lied to the people because the play was so good. They didn't understand how this people with zero education and nothing could do such a great thing for themselves, for their community and for other people in the church with people.
And this was like, okay, it's a hero, yo. Like he was able to, people stopped going to drink because everybody is going to get in a way that people stopped going to the bar before rehearsals and even the bars, some of the bars would close so people would go rehearse. Like instead of drinking, we're gonna go work on this play. What is bad about that?
And he empowered his people. Like you don't have to know the wife man's language so you can unmask this something. You can use what you have, the capacities that you have, the resources that you have to make something good out of you. And before this, they did not have a community center.
So he and some of his friends decided to put this together for his people. But let me tell you, when the oppressors want to put you down, they'll find ways to put you down. They imprisoned him just for making this play. That had nothing negative to say about the government, by the way.
And it was, it was there for until Kenyatta died. And in this reason, he met like people who've been imprisoned for 10 years. Some people who imprisoned by the colonialists, when the colonialists left post-colonial government arrested them. And it's just an insight to the prison life of these people in political prisoners particularly.
And the things they went through just to get by and how it was difficult for them. He wrote a book on toilet paper because he did not have writing material because they couldn't give it to him, pen and paper. Like they did everything they could to remain sane. It was so hard in that environment.
And I think for me, it was more like an eye-opener because I did know he was a political prisoner. We didn't read about this people in history by the way. It's not in the syllabus. I don't know why.
But if he asked me their heroes because they spoke against the government in some form of way. And they did, they had so many opportunities to get out of prison. And all they needed to do is say they committed whatever crimes, false crimes they were accused of. But when they refused that and they remained adamant to their cause, the government was actually selling false stories.
Like they would meet their families in the, they would, they would just like, um, chain them to meet their families and then they take them to an airport. So their family thinks they're being flown in from some country. But they don't know what's up. And they'd lie, they'd lie about everything pretty much.
So yeah, it's a great book. Especially if you can't get into, because it just gives you an introspect into a political system post-colonial and, yeah, post-colonial government. And also how we see that today. Because a lot of the I see in our government till today.
It's in different ways. It's the same, it's the same mentality. And it's because those men, those people in government are the ones who are the people in government now. So nothing's going to change if you're having the same people in power.
And once our president realizes that the president of the U.S. has the power, because we do have the power. And they're afraid of us actualizing our full potential and our full power because we'll kick them out basically. So anyway, have a read.
A lot of people who read the book who are not Kenyan also have had interesting insights on it and perspectives. So you have to be Kenyan to read it. Go get a great writeout. You can start out his other books as well.
The last book I'm going to talk about is Children of Blood and Bone by Reni Skia by Tommy Adiyemi. Sorry. It came out, I think, last year or maybe the year before that. I just know the sequel is coming out this month.
Yes, March 2019. I love that book. It was a fantasy book. I'm not a fantasy girl.
And this was the first fantasy book that I read from beginning to the end. And I was like, wow, wow, I always go to a bookshop. I always go to the cultural studies section. And maybe if I'm recommended something outside that realm, I will go look for it.
But it's such a well written book. A lot of the book is written in first person of the different characters. And so the story always continues from a different character perspective. And I thought that was really smart.
And also it just made me, you feel like it's so part of the story because you feel like the character. So when they're talking about Inan, for example, who's one of the people there, I feel like I am him. I'm running in the, you know, I'm the one running in the forest. And you go to the bar, but it's basically set up in a kingdom where there was magic before.
And the people who had magic would be from that tribe had white hair, white locks, I should say. And then magic was taken away from them because the people misused it. At least they thought they took away magic. They realized magic is back.
One person is asked for the, has the task of being your magic back. And she goes along with other people. I should mention very, very strong female characters without undermining the middle characters as well. It was a good balance.
Anyway, they tried to bring magic back and the book is basically taking you to the journey of them bringing magic back. And it's so intriguing. Like, yo, I didn't put that book down for a long time. And I finished it in December and I've been waiting until March.
So I can get the sequel of the book. I just want to say like, I'm really grateful again for everyone who's been listening to this broadcast and where we've come and recommending people to listen to it and mentioning to whoever you mentioned it to. I have listeners from around the world. Like that's crazy.
I have listeners in even China. Yo, I'm curious how people in China listen to this because I know your web rules are crazy. But I have people listening from all parts of the world that I don't even know people in because you know sometimes when I see the stats, I'm like, maybe it's this friend of mine who lives in Manchester or I don't know, it's probably not even them to be honest. But I'm just really grateful for that.
And thanks for your support all the way. Like we've been doing this podcast with no sponsors. And we've had so many listens. We've been doing this podcast without our social media space.
I'm just relying on like, you love this space and that's how you always come back basically. You can subscribe to the podcast by the way. I just realized that I asked you to. You can subscribe to the podcast on all platforms wherever you're listening to.
Like I said, we live on Spotify now. And yeah, just look up for the things I'm doing this year. This podcast, I should say, and this is what I'm thinking it is, a lot of opportunities that I've gotten as a daisy and outside of my engineering world. And even within that space has come from this platform.
And I never like, I knew this was going to happen. I just didn't realize it was going to happen as quick as it did. So thanks to you all for again, for everything that you're doing. And I just want to say also sometimes when you put your intention and your purpose within something, everyone who's consuming, whatever you put out with intention and purpose is going to be receiving that thing with the same intention and purpose you put in.
What I'm saying is once that is clear for you, when you share with other people, they will see it for what you want it to be. But the interpretation is just going to be different. So they'll interpret your purpose and your intention differently, but they will see it. And that's what I got from Kaya, to be honest.
And that show really changed my life. And that playlist that I've shared with you. Because I had people being very vulnerable with me and sharing their space. I mean, they're part of themselves within those conversations and even within the space that we shared when doing the show.
Like those 40 people who showed up, I was expecting half that number. I got double the number. And I was like, yo, I believe in a lot of responsibility as a creative with whatever you choose to put out and how you put it out and change people. And I take a lot of responsibility with that in regards to what I choose to release.
And so seeing people in that space, like so engrossed in what's happening and you could feel the energy that everyone was on the same space. They're all paying so much attention. And they were just presents. Presents, presents.
How many times you got to show and you're like, you're not even with, you know, the people. And it got really emotional and not in a bad way. Like people were vulnerable. And vulnerability is not easy.
And I did not take that for granted. And afterwards, people stayed back and they shared what home means to them. I had someone who came in who told me she she had never since she fled to this country ever spoken about home. And this was the one space that she felt comfortable doing that.
And I wasn't able to do that just by myself. I did that with collaborating with other people. And the people who came into that space made it comfortable for her to share her story in the way she did. And everyone was there to change someone's life, you know.
And the least I could do is share that and hope that people within that space are doing a sharing whatever they got from there with other people outside of us of other people who were not there that night. And that's why I mean so much to me. And it was also for me to think about what home means to myself. Because I do get homesick a lot.
I'm using iRoby and people in iRoby. And I needed to be here to be able to appreciate my land, my people, my culture, the way I do now. And because I don't think I would be where I'm at honestly if I was still back home. And so it's definitely a privilege that I have.
And I do not really take it for granted what I've learned. And the people have come across being here. So again, do everything with purpose and intention. And let's change this well one person at a time.
Thanks for your time. Look forward to having more conversations with you and also having more people on the show to have other conversations. Oh actually before I leave. Mahashula Ali.
Let's just talk about him for a hot second. Yo, I'm just really proud of him and that Oscar for Green Book. Because Mahashula deserves it. This is his second Oscar.
But yo, he's such a great actor. Like he embodies all his characters. When he's in house of cards, when he's in green book, moonlight, or anything that he's in. Like he just embodies a character.
I love Mahashula so much. And also who said you can't wear a beanie on the red carpet? Did you see like how he started with his suit? And that beanie on his head.
Like that's how you do it. You take the culture that people say is whatever they say it is and just make it cool. And flashy and dope. Because let me tell you, now I must see people on the red carpet wearing beanies.
And that's dope because a lot of y'all just like stealing our culture and stealing aspects of it and then making other aspects of our culture not cool or wrong. But it isn't. It's just, I don't know. It just, it's hate.
It's prejudice. But anyway, back to Mahashula. Black excellence is very happy for him. He deserves that Oscar.
But you're not king. You deserve it. I have not watched the film, but I know she deserves it. I love James Baldwin.
If you've met me, you know, I love James Baldwin. And if you've met me, need to know that. Just know now, I'm not gonna even come for you for not doing that. But I'm going to watch the film tonight.
So I can talk to you about it next week. But I'm so proud of Black excellence at this Black Women winning. Like costume design for Black Panther was a Black woman too. And like, it's about time.
It's about time. And we need to stop hearing the first Black person, meaning these things. Like, it's 2019 and it's still the first Black person doing something. We need, not even doing, winning things for things we've been doing and we're good at, you know.
But anyway, this is about celebrating Black excellence. So the Oscar's is very Black excellence-ish. Yeah, anyway, Mahashula. Yes, yes, yes.
Right, you're making, yes, yes. And I'm just looking forward to a lot of Hello Black projects that are gonna come out this year and supporting that. And I'm also looking forward to working with a lot of Black creators and Black artists. And yes, I'm saying Black, because I'm saying Black because I'm here for Black people.
I'm really grateful everybody Black because we know we deserve it and it's time we take things that we deserve. You know what I mean? Yeah. So again, bless y'all and have an amazing time.
Until next time. Love you.