Speaker 1: Afrodation Affronation. My piano Acroba, Welcome to Land Podcast.
Speaker 2: We're a part of the Black Past.
Speaker 1: Network Affronation edition with your host.
Speaker 2: Amanda and I'm Rumby. Hi guys, Hi, everybody, surprise Saphi.
Speaker 2: Were made it made it and our episode is not
Speaker 2: long distance today.
Speaker 3: I know it down to the people made it out
Speaker 3: of the group chat Yo nmus to group chats Brah,
Speaker 3: not only between Rumby and High between so many as
Speaker 3: the people supporting and to be here today exactly the
Speaker 3: amazing last three days of affro.
Speaker 2: Nation absolutely before important before we actually get into us
Speaker 2: being here. If you didn't know already, little spoiler, we
Speaker 2: have joined the black Cast Network and it's under the
Speaker 2: iHeart Radio family. We're so excited to be working with
Speaker 2: Mondanara and Jinny and team to bring you more podcasting
Speaker 2: business yay. So we absolutely wanted to shout them out
Speaker 2: on this first episode. I guess under that umbrella. And
Speaker 2: what's even more amazing, it's super special because as Amanda
Speaker 2: has already said, we are here in Port to go
Speaker 2: what to go to Moth.
Speaker 1: We've made it.
Speaker 2: We made it out of.
Speaker 4: The group chat all right, So cheers to cheers, cheers.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, do you think we're going to make it?
Speaker 2: Let me ask that question.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I mean how many I'm sure our listeners
Speaker 3: can relate. How many chats do people have about we
Speaker 3: should do this and we should do that and.
Speaker 1: More, especially for Rimbia and I being in different countries,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, is this really going to happen.
Speaker 3: We've been lucky that the last times we've met the
Speaker 3: last few years have been almost family den so it's
Speaker 3: almost like, Okay, I'm coming here for a wedding, I'm
Speaker 3: coming for there's a reason bigger than our friendship. But
Speaker 3: this is purely vines.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so turn up and then you're like, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: we might as well include y'all in it. So y'all
Speaker 2: are lucky. I'm joking now, of course we wanted to. Actually,
Speaker 2: that's a great segue. Why did we feel the need
Speaker 2: to actually sit down for affronation because we could really
Speaker 2: adjus like we're here for the vibes, vibes, vibes, and
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's always like we've always are podcast based
Speaker 3: on our friendship and sharing with people, and I reckon,
Speaker 3: can we just thought, you know why not celebrate us.
Speaker 3: This is a festival for approbats, which is a genre
Speaker 3: that we obviously love, but it's also just taken over
Speaker 3: the world absolutely and being Zimbabwean girls in Portugal, Like
Speaker 3: how unbelievable is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so so grateful.
Speaker 3: So yeah, why not share the journey, the dos and don'ts,
Speaker 3: the tips and drinks, and the journey from when he
Speaker 3: first thought of is still actually being here. Yeah, so yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: we thought we'll share with you guys if you like
Speaker 3: it and glean something for twenty twenty five years, Yeah.
Speaker 2: For sure. I think the pup and not the podcast.
Speaker 2: The festival has been happening for This is the fourth
Speaker 2: year running.
Speaker 1: Nineteen was the first thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then obviously with COVID they couldn't. And in
Speaker 2: terms of me, start from how we organized it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, organized it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean we went good. Too many details
Speaker 2: to bore you, but I think the biggest thing is
Speaker 2: decide where they're going pronto, because they release tickets in
Speaker 2: stages and you can get good tickets at a better
Speaker 2: price if you are more certain of you going earlier
Speaker 2: then later they've already.
Speaker 3: Like put the posts up on the website. Yea between
Speaker 3: twenty five and we're still doing twenty twenty four. So
Speaker 3: obviously it's like a running thing, and I think it's
Speaker 3: one of those things whilst the ball is running, you.
Speaker 2: Might as well because I think we talked.
Speaker 3: About it in a few years or year can pass
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, next year, next year, but you
Speaker 3: just never know how long these things last exactly.
Speaker 1: So why not come and celebrate culture?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so that's the first thing I would say. And
Speaker 2: then once you've done that, book your accommodation, you're part.
Speaker 2: Amul I did a lot of research on the ticket.
Speaker 2: He talk shout out to everybody on TI Getty talk
Speaker 2: will help it grow out. And also a good friend
Speaker 2: of mine, yes me, who had been prior and she
Speaker 2: told us like, you know, I really suggest you stay
Speaker 2: close to the venue. And it came in so clutch.
Speaker 3: So clutch, like there's so many pretty villains. Don't get
Speaker 3: me wrong, BUTU goes in a beautiful country. But you
Speaker 3: just have to realize, Okay, what am I here for
Speaker 3: for these three nights, especially if you obviously want to
Speaker 3: go off and then have another holiday attached by all means,
Speaker 3: but for the three nights of the festival being walking distance.
Speaker 2: Is key game changer because it is a part.
Speaker 3: Of people like, you're like so happy, there's so many
Speaker 3: people around. But then the downside is obviously everything takes longer.
Speaker 3: There's cube so yeah, and then the night when you've done,
Speaker 3: you're dancing and you're like, okay, I need.
Speaker 1: To get home. How do I get there? Quickst is always.
Speaker 2: Nice, absolutely, so we chose to stay at the Jupiter
Speaker 2: Algath Restaurant Jupiter al Gave Hotel, which is walking distance
Speaker 2: and as a man already is alluded to. Literally, you're
Speaker 2: just like, I can just walk home. You don't have
Speaker 2: to wait on cabs. They've blocked off some roads so
Speaker 2: it's hard to like access cab drivers. So that has
Speaker 2: been such a game changer. And also your feet, guys,
Speaker 2: let's let's just talk about how you know what people say,
Speaker 2: don't run on the like people don't run on the
Speaker 2: beach because it's so much work. It is not a lie.
Speaker 2: Even just walking. Imagine dancing and dancing and when you're
Speaker 2: missioning from the entry to this stage, this stage, go
Speaker 2: to the get some drinks there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my card.
Speaker 2: They didn't tell us about that. They did not tell us.
Speaker 3: About the memo but a nice thing about being like
Speaker 3: walking distance is then you know, okay, I can make
Speaker 3: it home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fine, I can just keep going ten more minutes.
Speaker 1: I'll be there, absolutely, and we'll definitely share.
Speaker 2: With the links.
Speaker 3: Yes, places we booked, and you guys can just make
Speaker 3: a choice for yourself for sure.
Speaker 2: Something else that was funny that we realized is actually
Speaker 2: after the festival, they are after parties. But you see
Speaker 2: the way our age.
Speaker 3: Is set up, there is something for everyone, I reckon
Speaker 3: if you really want to just go all out and
Speaker 3: party all the time, and if you just really want
Speaker 3: to enjoy the festival, if you just want to kick
Speaker 3: back and watch the artists, like it's you can make
Speaker 3: it what you wanted to be.
Speaker 2: For sure, for sure. And I don't think age is
Speaker 2: the thing we've seen all ages, all sizes, all races,
Speaker 2: languages like just here having a good time.
Speaker 3: It's a mountain pot for sure. And also reminds you
Speaker 3: how big Africa is. I know, Western media like painters
Speaker 3: is one country, one continent, but it's like there's so
Speaker 3: many different cultures within and you really feel all fifty
Speaker 3: plus yeah, yeah, you're like, oh my gosh, I'm hearing French.
Speaker 1: I'm marrying Portuguese.
Speaker 3: I'm here in English, so it's just nice en obviously
Speaker 3: those tribal languages as well.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: It's been so such a good reminder of you know,
Speaker 1: beauty in all blackness there.
Speaker 2: Last last episode actually for our special Yeah, totally. So
Speaker 2: those are just some of our tips, you know, and
Speaker 2: I think it's just a vibe. Let's get into the vibes.
Speaker 2: Let's get into more details around the festival.
Speaker 1: Who did you come and see go quick?
Speaker 2: To be honest, I came to see Ashake because I
Speaker 2: just love I loved his album and just his blend
Speaker 2: of I'm a piano and he's like this is his
Speaker 2: visual eye, like when he tells a story from his
Speaker 2: album covers to his music videos and just a vice.
Speaker 2: I definitely came to see him. I definitely came to
Speaker 2: see Tyler I See You, which was a whole, but
Speaker 2: there was night one you.
Speaker 3: I think I love everybody, don't get me wrong, and
Speaker 3: I've been a stand for years, but my piano has
Speaker 3: definitely had a yes the.
Speaker 1: Last since COVID, they're all does through.
Speaker 3: So I think for me, Uncle Waffles was like cool
Speaker 3: on that list. Definitely tonight we have major leagues, so
Speaker 3: I also have to just give them a Charlotte even
Speaker 3: though we actually haven't.
Speaker 1: But those are like artists.
Speaker 3: I definitely want to see major league DJs. And Uncle
Speaker 3: was amazing, just.
Speaker 1: A celebration of dance and a lot a lot of
Speaker 1: us do understand.
Speaker 3: The lyrics and here we are see want. I think
Speaker 3: that's a beautiful thing. It just shows how music is so.
Speaker 2: And it transcends everything race, gender or whatever. And that's
Speaker 2: the thing. As much as it is an affromation, you're
Speaker 2: seeing races like white people also are coming to celebrate
Speaker 2: with us. So all I'm saying is, like, you know,
Speaker 2: I like the unity. Maybe the A you can learn
Speaker 2: something you need you need to take it, and maybe
Speaker 2: the A you could take a note from affromation. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying. So, I think we've already touched on what
Speaker 2: brings us to affronation vibes, having good time. And I
Speaker 2: think we had this conversation about if not now, then
Speaker 2: when because from time we've been saying that we wanted
Speaker 2: to do this like go party effort, and we were
Speaker 2: just like it was just a conversation, but like we
Speaker 2: knew that you know, now is a good time to
Speaker 2: do it, and you can always postpone. But I think
Speaker 2: are you happy we made this?
Speaker 1: Definitely?
Speaker 3: And I think for me, like especially in our friendship
Speaker 3: that then become predominantly long distance, you lose the luxury
Speaker 3: of doing first together. So like a three day festival,
Speaker 3: I've never done that, like I've done concerts obviously, we've
Speaker 3: both done concerts, festivals, one day festival, one night, but
Speaker 3: a three back to back to back as it was
Speaker 3: like something I've never done. And then I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, why not do it for the first time
Speaker 3: with Rumby, with a group of other friends, Like it's
Speaker 3: the safest space to like do something out of your
Speaker 3: comfort zone. Yes, together, And obviously everything comes a little
Speaker 3: bit cheaper when in a group as well, So it's.
Speaker 2: Like tick tick tick.
Speaker 3: The only thing that is missing is me just you know,
Speaker 3: coming and making sure it gets bad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so great.
Speaker 2: How do you feel holding up?
Speaker 1: It was just as you can get.
Speaker 3: My voice is going so but necessary.
Speaker 2: Necessary bad, guys. We have a lot of spring chicken dts.
Speaker 3: When to be fair, yesterday which was day two, last night, everyone.
Speaker 2: It was quite mellow. It wasn't so turned okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what surprised you the most.
Speaker 2: I don't have surprise to the right world, just how
Speaker 2: organized it has been, Like it's really I don't think
Speaker 2: we will talk about it well enough, you know, when
Speaker 2: you're doing research, especially for things done for Africans by Africans,
Speaker 2: things like that, we don't really go into the details.
Speaker 2: But it is really organized. Of course, there are things
Speaker 2: that fall said on the way. Yes, but we arrived
Speaker 2: the night before the festival and we went to get
Speaker 2: our bands. So you have to get bands depending on
Speaker 2: which tier you are and what tickets you bought prior
Speaker 2: to entry, and we started to get the night before
Speaker 2: we got there. The stage was set up, it was
Speaker 2: nobody was working long hours trying to finish up. It
Speaker 2: was all done and things were happening on schedule, like
Speaker 2: the Nikki came out late. Let's just be honest, like
Speaker 2: we've done.
Speaker 1: You go down.
Speaker 2: You really try to if you can dance or something,
Speaker 2: and you can tell, yeah, you can tell, you can
Speaker 2: tell he's not really a dancer like Uncle Waffles us trying.
Speaker 2: But everything's really run on time, and the tags work.
Speaker 2: You can load money, you can buy drinks, you cash
Speaker 2: less and it makes it feel but safer. There's no
Speaker 2: bottles allowed. They don't even let you keep the cap
Speaker 2: on your water, just sing no wine bottle whatever.
Speaker 1: Wine bottles are.
Speaker 2: Plastic, plastic, so all that so you don't get hurt
Speaker 2: and harmed. So I'll definitely say it's augmazing. They have
Speaker 2: different like activations, some cool ones like there was the
Speaker 2: Afross bar with pretty little thing as you can see
Speaker 2: on our cups or if you're watching our cups, pretty
Speaker 2: little thing and take and you can keep them, reuse them,
Speaker 2: things like that. So I will say they really were organized.
Speaker 1: That surprised.
Speaker 3: And I think for me how big Differne actually is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like it's path full of people, but like it's big,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: So we're not squashed.
Speaker 3: Was when it comes to the front and see artists,
Speaker 3: but you can pull back and be at the back
Speaker 3: if you're fine with this. So I find like, obviously
Speaker 3: there's always going to be pressure points and when you're
Speaker 3: getting food and stuff like that, but generally the venue
Speaker 3: matches the amount of people.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's not like being squeezed into a little hole
Speaker 1: and you're.
Speaker 3: Like sweet at the space to dance and you know
Speaker 3: the mosh pits.
Speaker 1: I think people are dancing right on the front.
Speaker 3: And the beach just gives it the breeze, the Golden hour.
Speaker 3: It just literally just is like being in Africa, you know,
Speaker 3: like you said, I think Portugal and it's a good's Yeah.
Speaker 1: I felt like, yeah, it surprised me that it.
Speaker 5: Feels like I am on the motherland, especially Okay, so
Speaker 5: I'll say this, but especially being with other people of
Speaker 5: color in the European country.
Speaker 2: What do you like the most about affirmation? Right?
Speaker 3: So, I think for me, it's been the people watching,
Speaker 3: watching that I think, just to see what people like
Speaker 3: to wear, people chose to wear, how people carry themselves.
Speaker 1: And these people are predominantly you know, the same you
Speaker 1: as me.
Speaker 3: So it's like it's inspiring in a way and it
Speaker 3: makes you feel part of And I think when you
Speaker 3: live in a society room and I talk about this
Speaker 3: all the time in aspora, you know, we miss going home.
Speaker 3: We love going home because one of the things is
Speaker 3: you just kind of fit in. You know, you're not
Speaker 3: living there, but there's still you're not, you know, outed
Speaker 3: as much as like you know, when you're a white,
Speaker 3: predominantly white society. Yes, I think I just really loved,
Speaker 3: like being a part of that people watching it comes
Speaker 3: and oh look what she's wearing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at that guy, and like it's just all fun.
Speaker 1: It's just being fun.
Speaker 2: For me that I've liked, like when you were flying
Speaker 2: from Amsterdam to Faara Airport, which is the closest airport
Speaker 2: here by the way, being on a flight where I
Speaker 2: just saw people of color in their mass. This is
Speaker 2: the fresh hair loose, you know, and just the excitement
Speaker 2: you tell everyone was just ready to enjoy and let
Speaker 2: loose and have a good time. But in a good way,
Speaker 2: I must say. So far, it hasn't been in like
Speaker 2: oh yeah it's fake. It's felt safe and it feels
Speaker 2: like people are here for the good vibes and a
Speaker 2: good reason. So that's why I really liked a lot
Speaker 2: of music. Yes, absolutely, And just how you'll be walking
Speaker 2: through the venue and that people are dancing, can start
Speaker 2: dancing with someone else, and just that it's nice as
Speaker 2: we Africans do man, and I've missed that, so I
Speaker 2: really really like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and even the stages they have been quite grand,
Speaker 3: scared created to what you would like. Without seeing any
Speaker 3: videos you probably think I like even the little stages
Speaker 3: you it's massive.
Speaker 2: And they have all the effects fire things going now
Speaker 2: like they didn't. Yeah, they did the things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really did.
Speaker 3: What's been the most expected part of the festival. So thought, okay,
Speaker 3: that's standard cues.
Speaker 2: Cuescusexcuse, and then like noise till the early hours of
Speaker 2: the morning. But I must say, where we're staying it's
Speaker 2: quite sound proof, so if you close your door, you're good.
Speaker 2: You get risk, yeah, you get risks, But like cuesuse, cuse,
Speaker 2: I would say it's chaotic, it's just cues, you know.
Speaker 2: It's not like people don't know where things happen or
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Sometimes like everything, it's not like we don't have enough options.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, especially when it's in between acts because everyone's like,
Speaker 2: well I want to get a drink now.
Speaker 1: But obviously if a thousand people have the same thought,
Speaker 1: we're going.
Speaker 2: To be at the bus exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think the music is what I expected,
Speaker 3: Like in terms of people, have you know, performed as
Speaker 3: you would expect. The only person who like really exceeded
Speaker 3: for me it was obviously please.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to dj anthing to dance
Speaker 1: and also has set.
Speaker 2: Had a contfo. It worked yes through so.
Speaker 3: I feel like it just yeah, she doesn't have to
Speaker 3: do all of that as a DJ, but she really did.
Speaker 2: And she did the splits. When she did the splits,
Speaker 2: and then she went back to the turntable, but she
Speaker 2: was still mixing.
Speaker 1: I was like, girl, she wor.
Speaker 2: She worked for that much. She went of money, she
Speaker 2: worked for it. That's so true. I think we've already
Speaker 2: answered this question to some degree. But why do we
Speaker 2: need a space like affromation? I found like when I
Speaker 2: was telling friends who may not be so well versed
Speaker 2: in afrobeats, I'm a piano and like I guess africanness
Speaker 2: talk them about this festival.
Speaker 6: They're like, oh, that's cool, but it's like, why specifically this,
Speaker 6: Why don't we just go to Coachella together, Lilapalooza, Glastonbury
Speaker 6: or you know, because now African artists are starting to
Speaker 6: play at some of these bigger festivals.
Speaker 2: But why do we need this?
Speaker 3: I think because from start to finish, it is about us,
Speaker 3: if that makes any sense. Yeah, it's like we're not
Speaker 3: sharing the space, we're not apologetic about the space. If
Speaker 3: you come in normtric expecting and just assume the same
Speaker 3: with like a rock festival.
Speaker 1: You're not going to go there and expect people, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it's like it's nice that we still have some
Speaker 3: it's our own in a way, but at the same
Speaker 3: time inviting to others. Yes, So like you're talking about
Speaker 3: Jason Berry and all these I want Affirmation to be
Speaker 3: on those levels where it's like Woodstock, you know, like
Speaker 3: historically you have to go you know, you have to
Speaker 3: write a passage, passage, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean we've done our thirties, yeah, our right claim
Speaker 2: quite lately, but yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Would love to think like in twenty years time people
Speaker 3: are still doing for sure.
Speaker 2: And to add to that, I would say, I think
Speaker 2: we need a space like Affromation because I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people who are here do live in the
Speaker 2: diasporam and you removed from the motherland, and sometimes it
Speaker 2: can be very isolating. And we had conversations with some
Speaker 2: people who are like, you know, you deal with racism
Speaker 2: and like your body and we spoke with Amanda at
Speaker 2: length about you know, our body image and being in
Speaker 2: white spaces where you feel like you're not beautiful enough,
Speaker 2: or you're not thin enough, or toilet enough or whatever
Speaker 2: it is. But yeah, literally, people of any size, any
Speaker 2: shape are waying whatever they want to and they should
Speaker 2: do so and confidently. So so for me, I think
Speaker 2: it's just like, yeah, man, I'm not crazy for wanting
Speaker 2: to feel like I belong just as I am and
Speaker 2: not pandering to these different beauty standards that we can
Speaker 2: never match up to.
Speaker 1: You I put in a box you don't have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you brought up the fashion girl. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you look amazing. Has been doing all the fifth
Speaker 3: really social, being so lovely to see you likewise fashion
Speaker 3: and eCos fashion? What has stood out the most for
Speaker 3: you when it comes to the fashion.
Speaker 2: Yo, as a mama, like a quand like a millennial
Speaker 2: originally like, yeah, it's a naked mess girl.
Speaker 3: If I had this confidence when I was in my
Speaker 3: twenties you, because it's liberating to see.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 3: I know, you're on a beach and people would think, okay,
Speaker 3: let me wear a PEKINI or cover up.
Speaker 1: Yes, but the confidence is amazing.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely like three in our bodies. It's like you
Speaker 2: got you can't tell me nothing, like Honestly, that's definitely
Speaker 2: new stood out and I'm like, yo, I wish I
Speaker 2: had that as you so right, he said, And I
Speaker 2: just think the range that there is range. You can
Speaker 2: wear whatever it is you want to and it's all Gucci,
Speaker 2: but those are like, no, I just can't yet to
Speaker 2: break it down. I'm not gonna kill myself. And they're
Speaker 2: those who going all out with like glitter and whatnot,
Speaker 2: so dope.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the guys also put oh yes, the.
Speaker 3: Cuts, yeah, locks, especially like it's every everyone that's set matching.
Speaker 2: Guys are marrying, guys are wearing matching sets.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: So I feel like it's nice to see everyone has
Speaker 3: looked forward to this and everyone is gleaning something from this.
Speaker 3: You know, we've been preparing for months and months. I
Speaker 3: mean we can speak for us, so I can imagine
Speaker 3: everyone else here. There's not that many last minutes, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of prepped at least a month, so you
Speaker 3: can afford it exactly. So I love that people then
Speaker 3: went through and through into the fashion as well. You know,
Speaker 3: even though I'm a guy, I'm going to wear this.
Speaker 1: I'm going to wear that. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone like culture, music, fashion, food, everything.
Speaker 2: Just for sure. Yeah, I'm going to jump to the
Speaker 2: next question. What makes you feel proud to be here.
Speaker 2: I feel like I got all bit like deep, I
Speaker 2: think that.
Speaker 1: I did it, especially as a month.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean obviously you have to, Like people always
Speaker 3: come up with the excuses when you got kids, and
Speaker 3: it's a.
Speaker 1: Very valid one.
Speaker 3: But it's nice to do things that are just for
Speaker 3: me still that just to spend time with friends, you know,
Speaker 3: friends that are like family. It's still important to me
Speaker 3: to do it. But I still, obviously, like an ideal world,
Speaker 3: this will not be weird for me to do because
Speaker 3: we all know the reality of life, like having a
Speaker 3: partner who's supportive enough to you know, say okay, you
Speaker 3: can go, and you know, I stay with Bob is
Speaker 3: a beautiful thing. And I don't want to take it
Speaker 3: for granted because I know a lot of moms don't.
Speaker 1: Can't.
Speaker 3: First of all, they might even have the partner to
Speaker 3: rely on, but then even if they do, they might
Speaker 3: not have feels like they have the capacity to do.
Speaker 2: So yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So I'm still I'm still pinching myself, not the whole
Speaker 1: trivel like, so yeah.
Speaker 2: And I must commend you with that. And I think
Speaker 2: Amanda as a friend seeing her parents and how she's
Speaker 2: trying to live her life. You're really trying to change
Speaker 2: the narrative about what motherhood looks like, especially for people
Speaker 2: who come from when we come from the African cultures,
Speaker 2: bubble and culture, conservative, patriarchal, all the arcles and everyone exactly,
Speaker 2: and it's very hard to push past that those stereotypes.
Speaker 2: But I will say, I think it's so important because
Speaker 2: we grew up seeing our aunts, our moms are really
Speaker 2: pour everything into everyone else and left stript of nothing.
Speaker 2: And I think it's really important, especially in this day
Speaker 2: and age, to take care of your mental because life
Speaker 2: has just gotten more complex, more difficult, and you have
Speaker 2: to find your joys, your pockets of joys and create
Speaker 2: the life you want. It's so hard, but it's kudos
Speaker 2: to you for still doing it and you know, charting
Speaker 2: the course. You know, for some of us we are learning,
Speaker 2: taking more, you know, So what for yourself? What am
Speaker 2: I proud of? I'm proud that I did it. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I didn't think I was a festival gurnie,
Speaker 2: but I was like why not, Like there's something, okay,
Speaker 2: one thing you learn about me? I will always try
Speaker 2: something like you or not just for me or not.
Speaker 2: I will always try like I lived by that, never
Speaker 2: want to regret like, oh I should have that, I
Speaker 2: will try. So I really appreciate that, and I think
Speaker 2: just like going all up, like whether it's fits, whether
Speaker 2: it's you know, making the most of it, but also
Speaker 2: taking time to chill, knowing myself, my energy levels, my
Speaker 2: age levels and all that. It's like a fine fine balance.
Speaker 2: As you tell my voice is going, I've been blowing
Speaker 2: whistles and all that. It's been a bad it's been
Speaker 2: a bad.
Speaker 3: We can't wait to share all that content with you,
Speaker 3: a stay tuned behind the scenes, also obviously showing you
Speaker 3: actual the actual stage and things as we've seen the
Speaker 3: things we've done dancing, and it's been so much fun.
Speaker 3: I'm so when we're eighty, we're gonna still look like
Speaker 3: you're too when even if we're not an affirmation. So
Speaker 3: I'm so grateful that we do. I mean, of course
Speaker 3: we're sharing this little pocket of joy. We didn't have
Speaker 3: to do this episode. That's not at all, but we
Speaker 3: just thought, you know, such a special time and to
Speaker 3: encourage people to do things not less enough to be
Speaker 3: afflation whatever it is with your friend or your family.
Speaker 1: That you're like you know what that trip book it
Speaker 1: like book it do it? You know, despite life is short.
Speaker 2: And I think we've seen in friendships and you know, family,
Speaker 2: a lot of you know, hurt, loss, all those things
Speaker 2: that constantly remind us that life is short. The stresses
Speaker 2: are many and many more will come. So yeah, if
Speaker 2: you can do something for yourself and you know it's
Speaker 2: something you do, if you plan to save a little
Speaker 2: every month towards this thing, or you know, like work
Speaker 2: to and we did that, you find you you make
Speaker 2: plans with your homies like Okay, I'll do this, I'll
Speaker 2: do that and figure it out, you know, and it's
Speaker 2: a memory that will lost a lifetime definitely. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So what can people expect from me when.
Speaker 2: They come to affirmation, Yeah, you'll expect good vibes.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I think it's just the energy. I don't know how
Speaker 2: us to put it vibe. You have to just come
Speaker 2: and experience it. And just like people like talking in
Speaker 2: lines for the loo, like.
Speaker 3: It sounds supporting having each other's.
Speaker 5: Back, you know.
Speaker 3: And someone lost their phone and literally this guy like
Speaker 3: lifted up in the air with the screen on.
Speaker 1: Your phone, like he could have just pocketed. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: there's just that vibe everyone like we're here for a
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a long time, but and yeah, and obviously
Speaker 2: you still have to be careful. And I would say,
Speaker 2: do you move with with group switching women and girls
Speaker 2: and you've seen that, and I think it's been good
Speaker 2: to see women helping each other out. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: expect good vibes, great music. Just man, you should be proud.
Speaker 2: That's what I'll say. That's what I was done.
Speaker 3: Kudos the promoters or the people, everyone who's a part
Speaker 3: of everything, including people who are attended. It's been such
Speaker 3: a beautiful and memorible different.
Speaker 2: Absolutely yes, and we highly highly recommend. Yeah, definitely definitely
Speaker 2: anything else. Oh there's one more question, the question, Oh
Speaker 2: you're really answered. I'm a piano for Afromation and yeah, the.
Speaker 3: You will see when you come there's the piano stage
Speaker 3: and that takes simpler stage, not as big as this stage,
Speaker 3: but it's just always going, always banging, and there's like
Speaker 3: a like.
Speaker 1: Feel in the chest.
Speaker 2: Ancestors they're like, so, yeah, I have no comment.
Speaker 1: She likes both.
Speaker 2: I do. I really do like those in many ways.
Speaker 2: And you know, Tyler, I see you said for me,
Speaker 2: you know, I was I'm going I think I was
Speaker 2: just missed my eyes the whole time.
Speaker 1: She's like, she do worst the rule.
Speaker 2: But Tyler, I danced and I danced and I blew
Speaker 2: that whistle four days. But yeah, thank you so so
Speaker 2: much for tuning in. We hope you got some insight
Speaker 2: into Affirmation. Shout out to everyone we got to interview
Speaker 2: while we're here in Affirmation. We had some fun and
Speaker 2: everyone was just so willing and welcoming, and yeah, man,
Speaker 2: this is exciting for us by us, just like this podcast,
Speaker 2: just like it's late. We do it for us, by us,
Speaker 2: because if not us the exactly that is the question.
Speaker 2: All Right, thank you so much, have a fantastic day, night, morning, whatever.
Speaker 1: And if they have a booking halfre nation, do it,
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, let them take us before they get out of
Speaker 2: your budget range. That's all I'm saying. All right, take
Speaker 2: care and chat to you soon.
Speaker 1: See you guys.
Speaker 2: Bye,