1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: All media. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: All right, can't stress this enough. I'm black as hell 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 2: and have been my whole life. And if you've been 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 2: black your whole life, you've been going to church. 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Now. Lucky for me, Praise the Lord God Almighty. 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: I was in a church where the old folks like that, 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 2: we liked hip hop, like that, we was dancing, we 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 2: was in the graffiti. They was like, look, you can 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: as if you could rap every rap song and you 10 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 2: know your Bible. 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: That's great. You got good balance. 12 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 2: Just you know, we don't want you to be swung 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 2: all the way one way, and you know not that 14 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 2: that's the most enlightened position, but it taught me that, 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: like yo, all things in balance, you know what I'm saying. 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 2: That being said, I hope your social media feed is 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 2: in good balance. A balance of witnessing these what can 18 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 2: only be described as Civil War reenactments at MacArthur Park, 19 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 2: which was the dumbest thing I ever seen, which I'll 20 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 2: probably talk about on Monday, balance with fun things like oh, 21 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: I don't know, whatever fandom or stage of life you into, 22 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 2: Like if you're in the unk phase, maybe you've seen 23 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 2: some like home gardening ads like I don't know, birding 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 2: something that balances out the chaos. And maybe what happened 25 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: to you is on your feed somehow. 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: An Indonesian little. 27 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 2: Boy just floating on the top of a boat or 28 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: a farming as the young folks say, just took over 29 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 2: your feed and you like this the smothe shit I 30 00:01:47,920 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: ever seen with you? All Right, First of all, if 31 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 2: you know somebody younger than twenty five, you could ask 32 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: them what the hell are farming is? I'm sure you 33 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 2: could use context clues if you know about the little 34 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: TikTok video I'm talking about, which if you was an adult, 35 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: you saw it on Instagram reels like a grown up 36 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 2: and this little boy at preteen on the front of 37 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 2: this long boat while everybody was rowing, just saucing, just 38 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 2: sauten up on the rhythm of the guys rowing, and 39 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 2: just the sauciest kid just bouncing on beat with the rhythm, 40 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 2: looks over it at the crowd and scopes them like 41 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 2: just the coldest little thing that has taken over the 42 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 2: American social media TikTok spear and just had its little 43 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 2: fifteen minutes of fame. 44 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: Now it hopes to do two times in a row. 45 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 2: Some feel good stories on the tap in it's again 46 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 2: to try to offer some balance. But let's talk about 47 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 2: little homie because he's got a name. The boy's name 48 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 2: is Ryan Akron Dikka age eleven. Now I am clearly 49 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 2: saying his name all wrong because I, in fact am 50 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: not Indonesia. But he also go by a nickname called 51 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: the Reaper. Now let me tell you about what you 52 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 2: was looking at. It's this race, or this event called 53 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: Paku Jalord. It's a longboat race which takes place annually 54 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: in some Mantra, Indonesia. Nigga a festival that goes back 55 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 2: to the sixteen hundreds. They celebrating their ancestors. 56 00:03:59,040 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: Right. 57 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 2: These boat are called jalures, right, and they're crafted from 58 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 2: whole tree trunks and they used to be used to 59 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 2: transport agricultural goods like bananas and sugar cane. And some 60 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 2: of these boats are long enough to carry about sixty people. Now, 61 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 2: this is more like an inner mural. Listen, this is 62 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: the Hoods Park day kickball game like. 63 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: We do all the time in the hood. Right. 64 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 2: It's an inner village competition, right, And it took place 65 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 2: my Nigga in the seventeen hundreds. Okay, And despite a 66 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: slump during the Japanese occupation during World War Two. It's 67 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: continued to grow and now it's used as like an 68 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 2: independent celebration from the Netherlands because white people just can't 69 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 2: get enough of colonizing brown folk. Right now, this little kid, 70 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 2: the Reaper is one of the famous people. 71 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: Now check this out. The position that he has. 72 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: If you notice all these boats had this is called 73 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 2: in a knock culty, right, and their roles is to 74 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 2: entertain also but to energize the team. So it's kind 75 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 2: of like a you know, the caller lift lift, left, right, 76 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 2: left right, so he the conductor. So he's there to 77 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 2: like bring good fortune aka or. 78 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: A farm for everybody out there. 79 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 2: Now, so much so that everybody thought this shit was 80 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 2: so fired that it became some sort of a TikTok 81 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 2: trend to try to dance like the Reaper and set 82 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 2: up your own little things. Now, why would I do 83 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 2: this as a tap in? I do this as a 84 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 2: tap in to remind you all Americans that you not 85 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 2: the only people with saus I need you to go 86 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 2: back to the fact that this is a four hundred 87 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: year tradition. 88 00:05:58,160 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: Okay. 89 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 2: I remember one in a commercial about Tahen saying America's 90 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: new favorite seasoning. I'm like nigga ta heen ta heen yo, 91 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: the new favorite seasoning. I remember an article saying one 92 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 2: time that I remember it was a BuzzFeed article that 93 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 2: a food that could a meat that could feed the 94 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 2: world and stop a lot of climate change we just 95 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: discovered and if the world would switch to this meat, 96 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 2: we would all be Okay, do you know what the 97 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: meat was? 98 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: Nigga goat? You just discovering goat? Goat? Do you the planet? 99 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 2: We all eat that already, Everybody that got melon and 100 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 2: already eat goat? What the fuck is you talking about? 101 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 2: I guess my point in this is that there's flavor 102 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 2: all over the world. The world is so amazing and 103 00:06:55,279 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 2: has been dope the whole time. That little boat float 104 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 2: thing y'all the sixteen hundreds, let me put you on 105 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 2: the Victor Valverde. Okay, while American top forty stations really 106 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 2: only rotate between twenty songs, the rest of the world 107 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 2: been cooking some of the dopest music. 108 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: Now. 109 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 2: I know a lot of y'all don't have to tell 110 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: y'all because y'all into K pop and such like that, 111 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 2: But I gotta be honest with you, k pop just 112 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 2: sound like American pop with Korean words, So you you 113 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 2: still go into another country looking for a burger joint. 114 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 2: I'm saying, get involved in their culture. Let me tell 115 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 2: y'all about my favorite song, El Mayor de los Rhanas. Okay, 116 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 2: I wish I could play the shit in this, but 117 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 2: I can't be cause they'll pull it off immediately. But 118 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 2: the point I'm trying to make is Homie got one 119 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 2: of the sauciest songs out right now, the uniqueness of 120 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 2: his voice. What they're doing, because this is what they doing, 121 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 2: these is young folks. They taking no kore like the 122 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 2: nautical music because it's really just gangster rap. Let me 123 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: be real with you, right, it's nautical music, corridos, This 124 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: kids from Sinaloa. He putting all his own traditional sort 125 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 2: of guitar on it, modernizing it and just putting some 126 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 2: of the dopest music out. You ain't got to know 127 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 2: the words. It's saucy, although I will say the slang 128 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 2: el Mayor delos Ranas is such a dope thing. So 129 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 2: rana is a frog, right, So la major dess is 130 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 2: like I'm the king. I'm the king of the frogs, right, 131 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 2: Why would you call somebody a frog? Well, you remember 132 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 2: what I was talking about, people feeling froggy, right, So 133 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 2: the frogs for the for the, for the, for the, 134 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 2: for the cartellers in them that stay slang for like 135 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 2: the crash out boys, like the boys, it's gonna pull 136 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 2: up and pop out on you pop. The niggas hopping out, 137 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 2: the vans, them the rhanas because they feel froggy, so 138 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 2: they jump and I'm the King of Rhinas Like, what 139 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: a dope flex. But you gotta be a You gotta 140 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: be willing to let yourself understand that it's dope shit 141 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: happening everywhere. So while the destructions of our institutions is happening, 142 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 2: I hope that you continue to expose yourself to things 143 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: across the world that are dope as hell. Indonesian boat 144 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,479 Speaker 2: kid or farming practice in the tradition that has existed 145 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 2: longer than our country has existed. 146 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 1: I appreciate you breaking into our zeigeist now. 147 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 2: I hope this little nigga makes some money and maybe 148 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: Jamie can get a translator and have them on sixteen 149 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: Minutes of Fame. You know what I'm talking about, Little 150 00:09:48,280 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 2: Honey Got sauce yon as i as