June 25, 2024 • 36 mins
What if one man's journey could change the lives of countless children across Africa? Join us as we uncover the inspiring story of AfriKick, founded by the determined Omar Idrissa. From the early days of carrying just 80 pairs of shoes to now aiming to collect a million by next year, Omar's mission is filled with heartwarming moments and community-driven success. We introduce new segments like "Slap the Topic" and "Two Truths and a Slap," where we confront tough issues like racial slurs and white immunity with honesty and humor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So AfriKick is an organization created from
nothing to something.
It came to America.
So going back home I took like80 pairs of shoes for like my
family.
So you know, in Africa yourneighbor is considered like your
family.
When you give to your brotherand sister then they have
friends.
You got to give to them.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So when I give to some of them, we run out of
shoes.
And after that, coming backagain to LA, I saw so many of my
friends have a lot of shoes.
I said, yeah, give me all theshoes that you don't use.
Then my second trip back, wetook about 300 pairs of shoes.
Wow, you know.
So.
Then it still continuesimproving.
Hey, won't we go slap today, Yo, hey won't we go slap today?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
All right, all right, all right.
Welcome to Slap the Power hey,the show where we bring together
artists who also use theirpowers for progress.
I'm your host, Rick Barrio-Dill.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And I am Maya Sykes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's right On the show.
Today we introduce our seasonthree segment.
Slap the Topic and we kick itoff with white girls still can't
use the N-word mom.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, they cannot.
No, we also have a new segmentwe are calling Two Truths and a
Slap.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
In our interview today, we interview Omar Adresas
from the incredibleorganization AfriKicks.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
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Right, there's something.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Some new Daz stuff.
You know, the new season of Dazis already in production and
I'm really excited because Caseyhas been opening up new topics
and we did a cross-collabepisode that's really really
cool on adultification bias, onBlack women.
So if you haven't seen that, gocheck that out.
(02:54):
But the season is kicking offwith a lot of things that we'll
be dealing with this election.
We'll be dealing with Blackwomen in the workplace, so
there's lots of topics that arereally, really fun black women
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So there's lots of topics thatare really really fun and not
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the mindset of what your classicblack American female is going
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Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, so make sure to check it out.
That's it, that's all.
Anywhere you get your podcastsand, oh my God, maya, did you
see the video of the white girlthat used the N-word, was
unapologetic about it and thengot upset when she got fired
from her job?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The part that makes me hilariously, hilariously
giddy is that she didn't thinkthat would happen to her and
it's that white emboldenedimmunity that she thought that
she had and I just love that shefound out the hard way.
You ain't immune girl.
You ain't immune girl, youain't immune.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So a recent video of mine seems to have upset members
of a certain community golddiggers.
But that's the exception, I'mthe rule.
Everybody I know who's marriedright now.
They're married to broke assand it this, um, all the
backlash just really made me,you know, just really do a deep
(04:08):
dive like, do a soul search, andafter all that I still couldn't
find a care.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
First of all, why do you need to Like?
Is it necessary?
You can live your whole lifeand not need to go there.
I will allow it if you're doingit in a rap song and you're
singing it absentmindedly, buteven then I'm going to look at
you funny.
But what I noticed is I feellike, especially given the
(04:33):
election climate, you're goingto see more videos like Lady
with the American Flag, becausethere's an emboldenedness that
is taken over.
But it also highlights somethingthat I think is really
interesting, and that is thisthere is that dominant belief
that I should be exempt fromeverything, because when she got
fired, the first thing she saidwas guys, just because I said a
word and you got me fired.
That's sick.
(04:53):
And it let me know that whatshe wanted was white immunity,
right, but so she wants a whitecarte blanche to do whatever she
wants, right, but so she wantsa white carte blanche to do
whatever she wants, but thosesame people want to make sure
that everybody who is not whitedoesn't have that same immunity.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So if the situation were reversed, she'd want the
person to be fired because weracially slurred her, but she
wants the ability to be able tosay whatever racial slurs she
wants.
But if you ever reversed it,like if I went to her house and
was like you honky?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, no sure, and your terrible budget.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
American flag shirt Right right, right right.
There would be controversy.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sure sure?
No, I you know, I alsounderstand.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Also, you honky in your very cheap American flag
shirt Get it.
But okay, fine, if you get tosay that you don't care, I'll be
like double down on thatstatement, ma'am.
Yeah, so you put this on TikTokbecause you don't care?
Yes, you do, because you wantedthem algorithms and them likes.
What you thought was thatflippant attitude was going to
(05:59):
get you so seen and so, you know, co-signed on by your other
emboldened whites, and what youdidn't expect was a clap back.
So, yes, you did care.
Yes, you did care, Heffa.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
But they call it, you know, the woke left or whatever
.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And I just think that's insane.
You know when you go poking thebear like that, and I think
that this is something thatliberal whites are just now
getting a taste of that everyother person of color has known
their whole life like we've beengetting called names from the
jump.
Yeah, now that y'all that theliberal whites are being called
names, they're like oh my god,people are calling us stuff.
I'm like welcome to the clubcome on, come through.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This is what we do a cruel place.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
If you're not going with the status quo, you are
going to be called some kind ofname, so you might as well strap
on in.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Blue.
The argument that's going onnow is whether or not she should
be doxxed.
She came back with aresponsibility which was like
this Now that is, it used to bethe equivalent of you know how
the right wing, they just wantedliberal tears and they just
wanted, oh, snowflakes.
And you know all that time.
And then they found out that alot of the left ain't such
snowflakes.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Also, they be killing me with this snowflake thing.
Y'all be the snowflakes.
Let somebody call you one thing, let somebody take away one
ounce of your so-called power.
Them tears be hilarious to me.
I just want to put them in acup and drink them, because I
feel like they would give mepower.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I feel like they would give me pow-wow.
Well, after the break we'regoing to interview.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Omar Idris from AfriKicks.
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(07:49):
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Speaker 3 (08:00):
Joining us in the studio today.
We are so pleased to have himin-house.
He is the CEO and creator ofAfriKicks.
It's an organization to bringthe necessity of shoes to
children and young adults allover Africa.
Please welcome to Slap thePower, omar Idrissa.
Yes, thank you for being on theshow.
Tell us everything aboutAfriKicks.
It's an incredible organization.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Thank you for having me here.
I really appreciate being here.
So my name is Omar Idrissa.
I'm from Niger, founder ofAfriCake.
So AfriCake is an organizationcreated from nothing to
something, because I never evendreamed about having a
non-profit or stuff like that.
(08:39):
I didn't even know whatnon-profit meant.
So, to be honest, so I was.
I came to America to going backhome, I took like 80 pair of
shoes for like my family.
So you know, in Africa yourneighbor is considered like your
family.
When you give to your brotherand sister, then they have
friends.
(08:59):
You got to give to them.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So when I give to some of them, we run out of
shoes and I kind of like, oh,give them like $1 each, $1 each
just to calm the nerves of thekid.
And after that, coming backagain to LA, I saw so many of my
friends have a lot of shoes.
I say, yeah, give me all theshoes that you don't use and I
(09:25):
me all shoes that you don't useand I start collecting.
You know, I have my team anessa, william, yolanda.
They've been with me since dayone, so we just got a collecting
shoes.
We go grab it, go to ross.
Then my second trip back, wetook about 300 pair of shoes.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Wow, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So then you still continue improving yeah then
back, uh, back in 2015, when youget the worst news.
You got that phone call yourdad passed away february 28,
2015.
Then I have to fly home.
So instead of goingempty-handed, we just want to
(09:57):
downtown, get a lot of suitcase,put them with about 600 pair of
shoes.
We went back, we continued togiving to people.
So that was my way of grieving,you know.
Yeah, so it take me out of soAfter that then we come back
again.
You got to continue to do it.
You know driving Uber asking mycustomer, anybody that has a
(10:18):
choose.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
To give it to me.
Then again, that same year, Ihave a horrible phone call.
My mom passed away and I haveto fly back again home.
So you know, just continuedoing it, giving out the shoes.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And using that as therapy.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah using that, you know, because you can go both
ways.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You know, when you lost your parents, it's one of
the hardest things to deal within life.
Either you go south or left.
So that kind of helped me to bestrong.
I have like 25 brothers andsisters so I had to be strong
for them.
Goodness and support them, youknow.
So that's how we started withAfriKick.
Then from there, we'recollecting shoes, we do shoes
drive in LA.
(10:59):
I'm going to thank so manypeople in LA that continue to
support us from just everyday,regular people that have shoes,
just keep continuing supportingthe movement.
And next thing, you know, I wasstanding at a strip club
looking for a client.
Whatever I was looking, youknow.
Then I saw a client inparentheses.
(11:20):
Yes, yeah, I'm looking for it.
Yeah, I saw a client inparentheses.
Yes, I'm looking for her.
Yeah, I saw a young lady.
She's standing by herself.
You know her name.
I approach her, I talk to her.
So she thought I was likehitting on her.
I was like how you doing, youknow?
So I talk to her.
Then she tell me where you from.
I tell her I'm from, you know,niger.
Here's my car.
(11:40):
I collect shoes, if you haveextra shoes.
Then she said, oh, she has54,000 pairs of shoes in her
garage and she used to sendshoes to Africa.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh wow, this is what she does.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Her name is Dionne Farah.
Oh, my goodness.
Then she said if you can findsomeone to pay for the shipping,
come to my house next week.
No, I said I'll come to yourhouse tomorrow.
Will you leave?
She said you sure?
I said yes, I'm sure.
By 8 o'clock I pull up in SanPedro at her house in Long Beach
(12:15):
.
I drove there, opened thegarage thousands and thousands
of sneakers.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I was off the chain.
It was incredible the chain itwas incredible, crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's angelic, that's why you were supposed to
be there, and I see on yourwebsite that you have the goal
to get to a million shoes by theend of this year.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
By the end of next year.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
By the end of next year.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, wow, that's a really, really big goal.
So how can people help you?
So, please, we need yoursupport, your help.
Like, especially the bigcompany Nike, adidas, puma was
going to help with Nipsey, butwhen Nipsey died, we never heard
(12:58):
back from them.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And y'all know y'all got some factory shoes, that's
right.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I heard there's some Yeezys that are on the market.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, we try to reach out Kanye West.
Anyway, you can help, you know,or by doing like, shoes, drive
for us for school, like whichwas, you know, for the Laker
game, clipper game.
Have like all the fun, bringone pair of shoes that we can
raise more shoes and continue todo the movement.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And what kind of shoes are you looking for?
Because I know, I mean, I'mguessing the stripper didn't
give five-inch clear heels inher situation.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
At the beginning I say I don't take a heel and
stuff like that.
But then at one point you knowthere's something for everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah, I mean a sensible church heel.
I'm not mad, I'm not sure, butlike maybe we should leave the
clear shoes and all but usuallywe want tennis shoes, soccer
cleats and shoes to help thesekids play sport.
Okay, you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm saying Because a lot of these kids, especially
young girls, you see, you go toclasses A 59, student 47 come
barefoot in class.
Oh, wow, okay, you know whatI'm saying?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Some villages, well, that's something we could do
here.
We could have a slap shoe drive.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Are you kidding me?
That's great, we can do that.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
So all of our slap folk, get your shoes ready.
We need gently worn athleticshoes in various sizes.
If you got that new-new, be agood person, that's right.
But you know we're not shaminganyone.
But we will leave the detailsof how to get those shoes, uh,
to this wonderful gentleman inour show notes.
(14:34):
So please, if that's somethingthat you're into, you should be
into it because, like, what areyou doing?
You have too many shoes.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know you have too many shoes that's the thing,
that's what was so fascinating.
You also telling me about howyou had gotten a container ship
and and oh, wow and that's notyour, that's not your first, so
we so far.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
We are 13 container.
One is just on the way rightnow.
You left, you know so we innine country, you know not only
in af.
We were in Belize last October.
We talked about 2,000 pairs ofshoes in Belize.
We were in Cuba, our first tripto Cuba.
You know our people in Cuba.
(15:11):
They were so lacking over there.
They need a lot of support.
You don't even know until youwas there to see, you know how
some of the resources they don'thave them.
Yes, you know so.
Anywhere you can help somebody.
And then also our homelesscommunity in Skid Row downtown.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
For anybody that's listening it's afrikicksorg,
it's A-F-R-I-K-I-C-K-Sorg.
What's your favorite thing todo in LA here, in addition to
running Afri, africa X andcollecting?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
shoes.
Yeah, you know, I have mydriving service company, you
know.
So if you need a like SUV,black car, party bus, vip
sprinter, just contact me again.
Omar Limo Service.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Okay, because sometimes, real talk, I need to
go to the airport and I justwant someone to take me to the
airport.
That's right I don't want to goto that little shuttle thing
where they drop me off, becausethat feels like slavery and I
don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, so that's why you call me.
That's right, you call Omar, wecall, we pick you up on the
curbside.
We're not going to make youwait 20 to 30 minutes for driver
to pull up.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
This man is doing the Lord's work.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We pull up right away on time and make sure you get
there safely, wherever you'regoing.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah.
So, what is the next nearestthing that you have going on
here?
Are you working on another gala, or what?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, we are planning to do African gala this year.
We have a venue in Kaima Island.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So we're thinking about doing the gala November
9th, so if anyone want to bepart of it you see, last year
gala was awesome, so this yearwe're thinking about doing a
Cayman Island.
So thank you, Franklin, forgiving us the space and the
venue to you know.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
So we're looking forward to get more sponsors, so
we need some tickets to theCayman Islands.
Okay, got it, it's going to bea three-day nice trip to Cayman
Islands in November.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So most likely November 9th.
That's right, put that in thecheck.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Let me get my.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Cayman.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Islands fit on.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Also me going through those villages.
I visited nine country, 466villages.
But then I see the womanwalking four miles, six miles,
to looking for clean water.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Oh, my goodness, you know what I'm saying, because
water is a part of your.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So when I see that some lady come to me oh, my son,
my son, please, we need a waterwell.
So then I ask how much it costto build that wall.
Normally you see nonprofitcollecting like 50,000 or
100,000 for a well.
No, we did a well for like$8,000, you know, and over
(18:00):
40,000 people benefit from theclean water.
It's still there and we justdid the last one.
Paul Pierce donated $5,000 toAfrica, so we just put some more
money in there to get anotherwall.
We dedicated it to Paul Pierce.
So thank you, paul Pierce, forthat donation.
It really helped.
That village is waiting for youto come there.
So I can't wait to take youover there.
(18:21):
So definitely.
So that's the next projectwe'll be launching.
So far, we are 12 water wellsin two countries, so we want to
continue to do it now.
So you know, the more you giveyou know, the more I think if
everyone would come together.
We do what we can.
That's the only thing we haveleft in this world, man.
Yeah, we do what we can.
That's the only thing we haveleft in this world, man.
(18:43):
Yeah, anything you want to do,you've done it.
Or you know what I'm saying?
The only thing that follows youwhen you die is what you do for
people.
Anything else we do here.
You can have a whole home.
We came from nothing.
You can go back to nothing.
That's right.
So don't be tired on your money.
Give them to people right here.
You see people, your family,whatever you can help help them.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You know that's part, and God will reward you yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Now you were given a very prestigious award by the
King of Nigeria.
Can you tell us about that?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh yes, you know, oh yeah, there's that I was so.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I mean humble brag and name drop yeah exactly I.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I didn't want an award, for sure.
But my sister Tina, we've beentogether, she has to come.
I don't do it for like an award, like I don't like to be that.
That's why, please don't nobodygive me an award, just let me
keep doing it.
I'm doing it not for you, I'mdoing it for God and for
(19:39):
afterlife, not for this worldright here.
So don't give me no award.
I'm okay with what I'm doing,you know.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, so please.
It's funny you say that.
That's exactly.
I feel we talk about this onstage.
That's the offering to God,right?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
As musicians.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That's just the offering to God, and we tried to
create this show where we'rekind of making it an offering to
God as well, in that you know,talking to people like yourself
and lifting up the real thing,which is that is helping people,
and you know, and and showingpeople that it's not hopeless
that help does exist good doesexist and there's a way to put
(20:17):
your resources, your energy,your time, your money behind the
good things.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, Hope did exist, because if I tell you my back
story, you will not believe.
Even myself I will not believe.
I'm here, you know, becausegrowing up with 25 brother and
sister, my dad barely make $50 amonth.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But look, we survive all kind of shit.
I don't even know sometimes howI be able to get here, but it's
God.
You know what I'm saying,because when you were a kid, at
age 11, I was hustling, workingselling water just to get food.
You know what I'm saying.
The lady give me like $10 amonth and two days meal a night.
(21:01):
When I get that, you you know Iwas doing it at 16 I left my
country, go to other country.
Look for, we were supposed togo to libya.
That's the biggest decision Imake in my life.
I still shake when I thoughtabout it.
It's four of us.
We get in the bus going tolibya.
Then I came out.
Something just said't go.
(21:21):
So all the three friends of mydad go, One die One.
We never see him.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
One, he lost his, so that was like the biggest
decision.
I think it's always when Ithink about it.
I get off that bus.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I said I don't want to go to Libya.
Wow, you know what I'm saying?
Because we had to take a bus togo to Agadez.
Agadez, we crossed the desert,that's a long journey.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You know what I'm saying.
It's a long journey.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So, thanks God, it never happened to me.
I was, like you know, thebiggest.
I still think about that everyday.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I know you skated the the medal from the president of
Niger.
You know how was it though,even being around there.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I mean you had to, no , because you know each country
I go I get to meet the firstlady, the president, so I ship
this container.
So the first lady, she say,okay, my son, I need you, I want
to honor you, but you have togive me the container to do what
I want to do it to distribute.
(22:25):
Then I say, auntie, I can't, Itell her I cannot do it.
So because I say I cannot do it, they make tax me $11 million,
which is like $22,000.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Jeez, oh wow.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So I have to call people people, I put whatever,
because I'm like stubborn.
Yeah, yeah, I will show you, Iwill get it done, no matter what
.
I never like wait for somebody,no.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
I don't know nothing about that.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yeah, no, no.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I never wait for someone.
I always find a way to make ithappen, Even right now, this
container.
We spent almost $17,000 to getthat container there.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But we did it.
You distribute how you want itand where the people that need
it, because you don't want toget involved with politics or
give it to me this and give mehonor.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You want to be neutral, yeah give me medal.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
No, I don't need a medal, she's fine.
You see, they're not in power,no more.
So whatever power you have it,go and come.
That's why you can't associateyourself with it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know whatI'm saying.
You go up, you go down.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's a wonderful lesson.
Whatever power it goes and itcomes.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, no matter how powerful you are, just always be
humble, teach people, respectand you know, because God can
take everything in one second.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
In a second, so we have to do what you can.
I want to stay in touch andfigure out how we can, because
we know now if you've stumbledinto a stripper that had you.
How many was it?
50,000 shoes or something likethat?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, she wasn't a stripper, oh sorry, she was at
an establishment.
She was at a strip club andshe's trying to get the venue to
do an event afterwards.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
She was an entrepreneur.
Yeah, no, she's a big, she's awonderful lady Dionne Ferron.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Thank you, Dionne Ferron again.
You know she's been.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
She's a businesswoman , that's right, she's a strong
black woman, Very you knowstrong black woman, so I really
give her my props and the factthat she just had shoes and said
you know, problem solved.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, yeah, thank you , and we want to try and do the
same and we'll keep checking inwith you.
I want to know how thejourney's going.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You had me at curbside pickup.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, I got you curbside pickup, don't worry
about that one.
That one is easy.
So thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And you're giving children shoes.
Look it See, I feel annoyed.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Thank you so much, Omar, for coming in.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It's an absolute pleasure, thank you so much,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Hi, I'm Anjali Bhimani and I'm Julia Bianco and
we are so excited to bebringing you our new creative
baby, the Character Selectpodcast.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
I've wanted to save the world since I was four.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
There has been no character like him up to that
point, and there really hasn'tbeen a character since.
Every episode of CharacterSelect is going to be taking
fantastic video gameperformances and talking about
what makes them tick, what makesthem exciting as players, as
performers, as sound designers,as casting directors.
That was, I feel like I've beenambushed.
I was even in a podcast to talkabout a video game.
(25:31):
So there's a big old love festhere.
That's how we start this andyou're just gonna have to deal
with it.
Recognized by the 2013 editionof the Guinness World Book of
Records, gamers Edition, as themost prolific female video game
voice actor in the world.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
You know it's a special project when you hold on
to the people you created itwith.
Careers are born by being inthe right place at the right
time.
Where you can't control theright time, but you can control
the right place.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Man, that was fun, Omar.
What a beautiful dude, what alovely soul, what a lovely soul.
What a great organization.
We'll have the links to it inour show notes, but before we
get out of here, okay, so thenew segment we have today for
season three two truths and aslap, slap the face.
That's right, all right, so nowthe deal with this is that I'm
going to read something, andMaya is completely unaware of
(26:22):
any of these.
Two of these are truths, andone of them is a slap.
It's not true.
It's either going to besomething where Maya is going to
be really sharp on it, or we'regoing to determine that our
world right now is way, way, wayworse than any kind of fiction
we can come up with.
Okay, maya, it really is,though we can come up with.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Okay, maya, it really is, though.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
So Donald Trump, in the trials that were going on.
There's a headline that saysIvanka utterly abandoned Donald.
There is also a headline thatsays China now has robot dogs
armed with rifles in themilitary.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
And there is a headline thatsays the mayor of Chicago was
(27:00):
covered in cicadas on the way towork.
So of those three, iv.
And there is a headline thatsays the mayor of Chicago was
covered in cicadas on the way towork, okay.
So of those three, ivankaabandoned her father at trial
fully.
China now has robot dogs armedwith rifles in the military.
Or the mayor of Chicago wascovered in cicadas on the way to
work.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I feel like I read the thing about Ivanka.
Okay, right, and somebody sentme a thing.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
She was busy.
She had a nail appointment.
Okay, she's booked and blessed?
I guess Booked and blessed.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Okay, and I'm pretty sure that the Chinese thing
happened because my friend saidand I thought he was playing
with me he sent me this thing.
He was like did you know?
This happened and it was likethis little.
It looked like okay, rememberthose dogs, they were like from
the 90s that you could buy, andit had like little small
commands, that's what the littledog looked like, but then the
(27:48):
thing like shoots.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And I was like that ain't real.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I was like that is not real.
But now that you're telling methat headline, I was like, well,
maybe he wasn't kidding, but Ithink that the cicada thing is
the one that ain't real cicadathing is the one that ain't real
.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You are correct, maya .
Yeah, the actual reality wasthere was going to be a record
influx of cicadas, but becauseof Chicago shout out to Asher,
one of our PAs who's fromChicago because of Chicago, down
all the old trees, they stayedall in the suburbs.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
So the cicadas stayed out in the suburbs.
That's hilarious.
Did you see that cicada skitthat they did on SNL?
It's really hilarious Look itup.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It was really funny.
I'll check that out.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Because they're like.
You know how cicadas stayburied when they come out after
10 years.
Yeah, so these two cicadas comeout and they're talking about
what was popular in 2011.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Have you checked out Ace of Base?
Yeah, they're like.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Gucci, Gucci, Louie, Louie, Fendi, Fendi, Prada.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's hilarious All right and before we get out of
here, we're going to dosomething that we're also
opening up to our listeners.
Let us know Info atslapthepowercom, let us know
what your favorite new thing isand if we dig it, we'll read it
on the next episode or we'llread it on the air.
But favorite new thing, it isPride Month, and I actually love
(28:59):
all of June for a variety ofreasons.
But, maya, what's your favoritenew thing?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Okay, so I have been an Ipsy girl for a long time and
if you don't know what Ipsy is,it is a cosmetic basically
membership club and they sendyou samples of cosmetics every
month.
They curate samples by yourskincare and all that kind of
stuff.
But during the month of Pridethey curate their bag and it has
(29:28):
all Pride-based material.
So everything that is in yourbag is from an LGBTQ provider.
So everything in my bag thismonth had like a Pride theme.
But it wasn't just likesomebody slapped a pride sticker
, because I hate when you go toTarget and you're like pride
pillows, like no, all thesecompanies are actual LGBTQ
(29:51):
companies and they curated allthe brands that they're using
this month.
So if you haven't checked outIpsy, but you've been wanting to
, I want to say it's like $14.95a month.
I don't get paid from them, Ijust like it and I think it's
cool.
And I think it's cool becauseit allows you to try out
full-size samples of stuff, soyou could get a month-long wear
out of these things.
But then what's also great isthey affiliated with BoxyCharm
(30:15):
so you can buy full sizes of theproducts you like at a drastic
discount like almost half off ofthe products you like at a
drastic discount, like almosthalf off.
So it gives you kind of like thebest of both worlds.
So if you're into skincare orcosmetics.
They also have hair care stuff,Like it's not just for if
you're a makeup junkie likemyself.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
They also have really great hair care stuff, but
anyway, you know you haveanother two bags of makeup in
our office.
Yeah, I always do, because I'mher, she's me, I love it, it's
me.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Hey, I am the problem .
I am the problem, it's meAnyway.
But if you were looking for away the reason why I brought
this up is if you were lookingfor a way to try some LGBTQ
products, this would be a greatway to try them out.
For this month you could getthat pride bag and you know,
happy pride y'all.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah, my new favorite thing is that we're back and
we're looking at the rest ofthis year.
There's so many good things wehave on deck, and to be back and
to be able to sort of talkabout the things that we want to
get involved in and we want tobe part of the conversation and
we want to have a broaderconversation with you about a
lot of important stuff that'scoming up.
(31:22):
We have some great news thatwe're dropping actually on
climate some partners that we'reworking with on that.
That's actually some amazingwork that we have coming up.
You know democracy we're goingto have to fight this one all
together and you know humanrights I don't think that on
January 21st, that a federalabortion ban will not be top of
the list if we get this wrong.
(31:43):
It's coming, y'all, yeah.
So I'm really excited to beback and thank you for listening
to our listeners.
Thank you for holding out.
It took us a while to get inthe new studio, but we are super
stoked to be back and we'regoing to have a lot of cool
stuff coming that, I think, ishopefully going to shake things
up.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
And one of the cool things that we have coming up
that we're really excited aboutis we decided to make an Amazon
affiliate link.
So I want to tell you a littlebit of why we decided to do that
.
We noticed that, especiallywhen we talked with Omar, that
you could get certain productson Amazon that were really
really well made.
But if they were really wellmade and fit an algorithm,
(32:24):
amazon would dupe that company'sproduct and then they would
start to bury them along thesearch engine to favor their new
, copied product.
So what we decided to do is wedecided each time we have an
episode, we're gonna add a newthing to our Amazon affiliate
link, and we're only doing smallbusinesses.
We're only doing smallbusinesses.
(32:44):
We're only doing smallbusinesses and we're only doing
small businesses that arededicated to things like our
main evergreen things that wecare about climate, social
justice and political change.
So we're going to specificallyfeature brands that have small
business at their helm.
We're going to hopefullyshowcase those products, but we
(33:04):
will definitely have all of thelinks and we will all be doing
something that helps Amazon knowthat this is not an okay thing
to do.
We can't escape Amazon, andthat's not what I'm advertising,
but what we can do is showcasethe small businesses that rely
on the lifeline of Amazon andmake it a little easier for them
(33:26):
.
So one of the first things thatwe're going to showcase is shoes
in line with Omar, and Omar didsuch a wonderful job of opening
our hearts to an issue I didn'teven know we could help solve.
But we want to look at how wecan buy shoes that we could
gently recycle in six monthstime.
(33:48):
So we'd love to have brandsthat also are into that.
So we're going to feature acouple of brands that
specifically have a recycleprogram going on globally and
are also made responsibly.
So stay tuned for that.
We'll have that link in our shownotes, and I just wanted to say
that one of the reasons why wewanted to do that is we're
(34:09):
community outreach.
That's our entire brand, that'sour entire platform and we get
that from you.
So if there is a link that youwant to see on our Amazon
affiliate link, remember this isyour show, so send us your
ideas.
We can do this together and wewant to showcase that change
happens by just the smallestincrements, and this might seem
like a small thing, but if allof our viewers got on this
(34:33):
bandwagon.
We could change an Amazonalgorithm.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
So let's do it.
Yeah, yeah, that's what's up.
That's why she's got the corneroffice.
It's pro right there.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank youguys for listening.
You know, thanks to Omar, I'lladdress it one more time.
You know, thanks to the goodstate of New York for doing, and
all the people there, you know,jury of your peers man, thanks
to the good state of New Yorkrepresenting, and we're going to
(34:56):
see you next time, thanks.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Slap the Power is written and produced by Rick
Bariodil and Maya Sykes.
Associate producer Brie Corey,audio and visual engineering and
studio facilities provided bySlap Studios LA with
distribution through ourcollective home for social
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If you have any ideas for ashow you want to hear or see, or
(35:21):
if you would like to be a guestartist on our show, please
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Yo hey, won't we go slap?
Speaker 6 (35:32):
today.
Ever wonder what a high-stakesprivate home game looks like
this?
Is it Real poker, real money,money, real people.
It's the boardroom in beverlyhills.
They win, they lose, they evengo broke and they come back.
Join amir and jacob as theywelcome a cast of dignitaries
(35:55):
and degens to the boardroom.
Amir is my best friend.
We battle to the death.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
With all due respect, our game is much different than
your game.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
This ain't a pansy-ass Hollywood home game.
These are the rough and tumblestreets of Beverly Hills.
Can you rank the players here?
I don't think it's a good idea.
They play big, they play hard.
Watch as they make their way tothe World Series of Poker.
Each will try to turn $10K intohalf a million dollars at the
Big O event June 13th.
In to turn 10K into half amillion dollars at the Big O
event June 13th.
(36:24):
In my opinion, some of the guysthat play here they should make
the final table.
For many that 10K might go downthe drain in just one hand.
Follow it all on socials atGambling Mad Show or Gambling
Mad Norman Chad on YouTube.
So AfriKick is an organization created from
nothing to something.
It came to America.
So going back home I took like80 pairs of shoes for like my
family.
So you know, in Africa yourneighbor is considered like your
family.
When you give to your brotherand sister then they have
friends.
You got to give to them.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So when I give to some of them, we run out of
shoes.
And after that, coming backagain to LA, I saw so many of my
friends have a lot of shoes.
I said, yeah, give me all theshoes that you don't use.
Then my second trip back, wetook about 300 pairs of shoes.
Wow, you know.
So.
Then it still continuesimproving.
Hey, won't we go slap today, Yo, hey won't we go slap today?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
All right, all right, all right.
Welcome to Slap the Power hey,the show where we bring together
artists who also use theirpowers for progress.
I'm your host, Rick Barrio-Dill.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And I am Maya Sykes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's right On the show.
Today we introduce our seasonthree segment.
Slap the Topic and we kick itoff with white girls still can't
use the N-word mom.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No, they cannot.
No, we also have a new segmentwe are calling Two Truths and a
Slap.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
In our interview today, we interview Omar Adresas
from the incredibleorganization AfriKicks.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And because of that interview, we are starting a
brand new thing called AmazonAffiliates from Slap the Power.
So stay tuned to hear how youcan get recommendations on our
best links.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes, and it is Pride Month all this beautiful month.
A deep love, that's right.
It is Pride Month all month andwe kick it off with our
favorite new thing segment,where we get up into yours as
well.
And first, slap Studios, losAngeles.
That's right.
We're proud to announce we havemoved to new digs.
Dun-dun-dun-dun,dun-dun-dun-dun.
Check out the new photos andvideos at SlapStudiosLAcom.
(01:58):
But we also have our firstco-production with our new
partners and we're over the moonto announce Gambling Mad with
Norm Chad on our network.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
You know, I don't know if you know Norm, but he's
the reason why no, but I want toknow him because I need him to
teach me pokers.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
That's what's up.
That's what's up.
Yeah, he got me into poker.
He's part of a lost generation.
They don't make him like NormChad anymore, so calling every
World Series of Poker, he's oneof the most famous voices in the
game.
We're very, very proud to havehim.
So make sure to check outGambling Mad with Norm Chad
anywhere.
You get your podcasts and wegot something else going on.
Right, there's something.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Some new Daz stuff.
You know, the new season of Dazis already in production and
I'm really excited because Caseyhas been opening up new topics
and we did a cross-collabepisode that's really really
cool on adultification bias, onBlack women.
So if you haven't seen that, gocheck that out.
(02:54):
But the season is kicking offwith a lot of things that we'll
be dealing with this election.
We'll be dealing with Blackwomen in the workplace, so
there's lots of topics that arereally, really fun black women
in the workplace.
So there's lots of topics thatare really really fun and not
just indigenous to black women,but a great way to get inside
the mindset of what your classicblack American female is going
through today.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, so make sure to check it out.
That's it, that's all.
Anywhere you get your podcastsand, oh my God, maya, did you
see the video of the white girlthat used the N-word, was
unapologetic about it and thengot upset when she got fired
from her job?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The part that makes me hilariously, hilariously
giddy is that she didn't thinkthat would happen to her and
it's that white emboldenedimmunity that she thought that
she had and I just love that shefound out the hard way.
You ain't immune girl.
You ain't immune girl, youain't immune.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
So a recent video of mine seems to have upset members
of a certain community golddiggers.
But that's the exception, I'mthe rule.
Everybody I know who's marriedright now.
They're married to broke assand it this, um, all the
backlash just really made me,you know, just really do a deep
(04:08):
dive like, do a soul search, andafter all that I still couldn't
find a care.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
First of all, why do you need to Like?
Is it necessary?
You can live your whole lifeand not need to go there.
I will allow it if you're doingit in a rap song and you're
singing it absentmindedly, buteven then I'm going to look at
you funny.
But what I noticed is I feellike, especially given the
(04:33):
election climate, you're goingto see more videos like Lady
with the American Flag, becausethere's an emboldenedness that
is taken over.
But it also highlights somethingthat I think is really
interesting, and that is thisthere is that dominant belief
that I should be exempt fromeverything, because when she got
fired, the first thing she saidwas guys, just because I said a
word and you got me fired.
That's sick.
(04:53):
And it let me know that whatshe wanted was white immunity,
right, but so she wants a whitecarte blanche to do whatever she
wants, right, but so she wantsa white carte blanche to do
whatever she wants, but thosesame people want to make sure
that everybody who is not whitedoesn't have that same immunity.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So if the situation were reversed, she'd want the
person to be fired because weracially slurred her, but she
wants the ability to be able tosay whatever racial slurs she
wants.
But if you ever reversed it,like if I went to her house and
was like you honky?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, no sure, and your terrible budget.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
American flag shirt Right right, right right.
There would be controversy.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sure sure?
No, I you know, I alsounderstand.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Also, you honky in your very cheap American flag
shirt Get it.
But okay, fine, if you get tosay that you don't care, I'll be
like double down on thatstatement, ma'am.
Yeah, so you put this on TikTokbecause you don't care?
Yes, you do, because you wantedthem algorithms and them likes.
What you thought was thatflippant attitude was going to
(05:59):
get you so seen and so, you know, co-signed on by your other
emboldened whites, and what youdidn't expect was a clap back.
So, yes, you did care.
Yes, you did care, Heffa.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
But they call it, you know, the woke left or whatever
.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And I just think that's insane.
You know when you go poking thebear like that, and I think
that this is something thatliberal whites are just now
getting a taste of that everyother person of color has known
their whole life like we've beengetting called names from the
jump.
Yeah, now that y'all that theliberal whites are being called
names, they're like oh my god,people are calling us stuff.
I'm like welcome to the clubcome on, come through.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This is what we do a cruel place.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
If you're not going with the status quo, you are
going to be called some kind ofname, so you might as well strap
on in.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Blue.
The argument that's going onnow is whether or not she should
be doxxed.
She came back with aresponsibility which was like
this Now that is, it used to bethe equivalent of you know how
the right wing, they just wantedliberal tears and they just
wanted, oh, snowflakes.
And you know all that time.
And then they found out that alot of the left ain't such
snowflakes.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Also, they be killing me with this snowflake thing.
Y'all be the snowflakes.
Let somebody call you one thing, let somebody take away one
ounce of your so-called power.
Them tears be hilarious to me.
I just want to put them in acup and drink them, because I
feel like they would give mepower.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I feel like they would give me pow-wow.
Well, after the break we'regoing to interview.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Omar Idris from AfriKicks.
Gambling is part of the cultureof America since even before we
were America.
I'm Norman Chad.
I know gambling.
I've played blackjack and poker.
I've bet sports and horse races.
I've even hit the slot machinesat a Pahrump Nevada, 7-eleven.
You say gambling, I saygambling.
Hit the slot machines at aPahrump Nevada, 7-eleven.
You say gambling, I sayGambling Mad.
So join me on Gambling Mad withNorman Chad.
(07:49):
Wherever you find your podcasts, follow us on socials, at
Gambling Mad Show or at GamblingMad Norman Chad at YouTube.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Joining us in the studio today.
We are so pleased to have himin-house.
He is the CEO and creator ofAfriKicks.
It's an organization to bringthe necessity of shoes to
children and young adults allover Africa.
Please welcome to Slap thePower, omar Idrissa.
Yes, thank you for being on theshow.
Tell us everything aboutAfriKicks.
It's an incredible organization.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Thank you for having me here.
I really appreciate being here.
So my name is Omar Idrissa.
I'm from Niger, founder ofAfriCake.
So AfriCake is an organizationcreated from nothing to
something, because I never evendreamed about having a
non-profit or stuff like that.
(08:39):
I didn't even know whatnon-profit meant.
So, to be honest, so I was.
I came to America to going backhome, I took like 80 pair of
shoes for like my family.
So you know, in Africa yourneighbor is considered like your
family.
When you give to your brotherand sister, then they have
friends.
(08:59):
You got to give to them.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So when I give to some of them, we run out of
shoes and I kind of like, oh,give them like $1 each, $1 each
just to calm the nerves of thekid.
And after that, coming backagain to LA, I saw so many of my
friends have a lot of shoes.
I say, yeah, give me all theshoes that you don't use and I
(09:25):
me all shoes that you don't useand I start collecting.
You know, I have my team anessa, william, yolanda.
They've been with me since dayone, so we just got a collecting
shoes.
We go grab it, go to ross.
Then my second trip back, wetook about 300 pair of shoes.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Wow, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
So then you still continue improving yeah then
back, uh, back in 2015, when youget the worst news.
You got that phone call yourdad passed away february 28,
2015.
Then I have to fly home.
So instead of goingempty-handed, we just want to
(09:57):
downtown, get a lot of suitcase,put them with about 600 pair of
shoes.
We went back, we continued togiving to people.
So that was my way of grieving,you know.
Yeah, so it take me out of soAfter that then we come back
again.
You got to continue to do it.
You know driving Uber asking mycustomer, anybody that has a
(10:18):
choose.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
To give it to me.
Then again, that same year, Ihave a horrible phone call.
My mom passed away and I haveto fly back again home.
So you know, just continuedoing it, giving out the shoes.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And using that as therapy.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah using that, you know, because you can go both
ways.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You know, when you lost your parents, it's one of
the hardest things to deal within life.
Either you go south or left.
So that kind of helped me to bestrong.
I have like 25 brothers andsisters so I had to be strong
for them.
Goodness and support them, youknow.
So that's how we started withAfriKick.
Then from there, we'recollecting shoes, we do shoes
drive in LA.
(10:59):
I'm going to thank so manypeople in LA that continue to
support us from just everyday,regular people that have shoes,
just keep continuing supportingthe movement.
And next thing, you know, I wasstanding at a strip club
looking for a client.
Whatever I was looking, youknow.
Then I saw a client inparentheses.
(11:20):
Yes, yeah, I'm looking for it.
Yeah, I saw a client inparentheses.
Yes, I'm looking for her.
Yeah, I saw a young lady.
She's standing by herself.
You know her name.
I approach her, I talk to her.
So she thought I was likehitting on her.
I was like how you doing, youknow?
So I talk to her.
Then she tell me where you from.
I tell her I'm from, you know,niger.
Here's my car.
(11:40):
I collect shoes, if you haveextra shoes.
Then she said, oh, she has54,000 pairs of shoes in her
garage and she used to sendshoes to Africa.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh wow, this is what she does.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Her name is Dionne Farah.
Oh, my goodness.
Then she said if you can findsomeone to pay for the shipping,
come to my house next week.
No, I said I'll come to yourhouse tomorrow.
Will you leave?
She said you sure?
I said yes, I'm sure.
By 8 o'clock I pull up in SanPedro at her house in Long Beach
(12:15):
.
I drove there, opened thegarage thousands and thousands
of sneakers.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I was off the chain.
It was incredible the chain itwas incredible, crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's angelic, that's why you were supposed to
be there, and I see on yourwebsite that you have the goal
to get to a million shoes by theend of this year.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
By the end of next year.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
By the end of next year.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, wow, that's a really, really big goal.
So how can people help you?
So, please, we need yoursupport, your help.
Like, especially the bigcompany Nike, adidas, puma was
going to help with Nipsey, butwhen Nipsey died, we never heard
(12:58):
back from them.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And y'all know y'all got some factory shoes, that's
right.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I heard there's some Yeezys that are on the market.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, we try to reach out Kanye West.
Anyway, you can help, you know,or by doing like, shoes, drive
for us for school, like whichwas, you know, for the Laker
game, clipper game.
Have like all the fun, bringone pair of shoes that we can
raise more shoes and continue todo the movement.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And what kind of shoes are you looking for?
Because I know, I mean, I'mguessing the stripper didn't
give five-inch clear heels inher situation.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
At the beginning I say I don't take a heel and
stuff like that.
But then at one point you knowthere's something for everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah, I mean a sensible church heel.
I'm not mad, I'm not sure, butlike maybe we should leave the
clear shoes and all but usuallywe want tennis shoes, soccer
cleats and shoes to help thesekids play sport.
Okay, you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'm saying Because a lot of these kids, especially
young girls, you see, you go toclasses A 59, student 47 come
barefoot in class.
Oh, wow, okay, you know whatI'm saying?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Some villages, well, that's something we could do
here.
We could have a slap shoe drive.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Are you kidding me?
That's great, we can do that.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
So all of our slap folk, get your shoes ready.
We need gently worn athleticshoes in various sizes.
If you got that new-new, be agood person, that's right.
But you know we're not shaminganyone.
But we will leave the detailsof how to get those shoes, uh,
to this wonderful gentleman inour show notes.
(14:34):
So please, if that's somethingthat you're into, you should be
into it because, like, what areyou doing?
You have too many shoes.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know you have too many shoes that's the thing,
that's what was so fascinating.
You also telling me about howyou had gotten a container ship
and and oh, wow and that's notyour, that's not your first, so
we so far.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
We are 13 container.
One is just on the way rightnow.
You left, you know so we innine country, you know not only
in af.
We were in Belize last October.
We talked about 2,000 pairs ofshoes in Belize.
We were in Cuba, our first tripto Cuba.
You know our people in Cuba.
(15:11):
They were so lacking over there.
They need a lot of support.
You don't even know until youwas there to see, you know how
some of the resources they don'thave them.
Yes, you know so.
Anywhere you can help somebody.
And then also our homelesscommunity in Skid Row downtown.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
For anybody that's listening it's afrikicksorg,
it's A-F-R-I-K-I-C-K-Sorg.
What's your favorite thing todo in LA here, in addition to
running Afri, africa X andcollecting?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
shoes.
Yeah, you know, I have mydriving service company, you
know.
So if you need a like SUV,black car, party bus, vip
sprinter, just contact me again.
Omar Limo Service.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Okay, because sometimes, real talk, I need to
go to the airport and I justwant someone to take me to the
airport.
That's right I don't want to goto that little shuttle thing
where they drop me off, becausethat feels like slavery and I
don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, so that's why you call me.
That's right, you call Omar, wecall, we pick you up on the
curbside.
We're not going to make youwait 20 to 30 minutes for driver
to pull up.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
This man is doing the Lord's work.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We pull up right away on time and make sure you get
there safely, wherever you'regoing.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah.
So, what is the next nearestthing that you have going on
here?
Are you working on another gala, or what?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, we are planning to do African gala this year.
We have a venue in Kaima Island.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So we're thinking about doing the gala November
9th, so if anyone want to bepart of it you see, last year
gala was awesome, so this yearwe're thinking about doing a
Cayman Island.
So thank you, Franklin, forgiving us the space and the
venue to you know.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
So we're looking forward to get more sponsors, so
we need some tickets to theCayman Islands.
Okay, got it, it's going to bea three-day nice trip to Cayman
Islands in November.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So most likely November 9th.
That's right, put that in thecheck.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Let me get my.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Cayman.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Islands fit on.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Also me going through those villages.
I visited nine country, 466villages.
But then I see the womanwalking four miles, six miles,
to looking for clean water.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Oh, my goodness, you know what I'm saying, because
water is a part of your.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So when I see that some lady come to me oh, my son,
my son, please, we need a waterwell.
So then I ask how much it costto build that wall.
Normally you see nonprofitcollecting like 50,000 or
100,000 for a well.
No, we did a well for like$8,000, you know, and over
(18:00):
40,000 people benefit from theclean water.
It's still there and we justdid the last one.
Paul Pierce donated $5,000 toAfrica, so we just put some more
money in there to get anotherwall.
We dedicated it to Paul Pierce.
So thank you, paul Pierce, forthat donation.
It really helped.
That village is waiting for youto come there.
So I can't wait to take youover there.
(18:21):
So definitely.
So that's the next projectwe'll be launching.
So far, we are 12 water wellsin two countries, so we want to
continue to do it now.
So you know, the more you giveyou know, the more I think if
everyone would come together.
We do what we can.
That's the only thing we haveleft in this world, man.
Yeah, we do what we can.
That's the only thing we haveleft in this world, man.
(18:43):
Yeah, anything you want to do,you've done it.
Or you know what I'm saying?
The only thing that follows youwhen you die is what you do for
people.
Anything else we do here.
You can have a whole home.
We came from nothing.
You can go back to nothing.
That's right.
So don't be tired on your money.
Give them to people right here.
You see people, your family,whatever you can help help them.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You know that's part, and God will reward you yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Now you were given a very prestigious award by the
King of Nigeria.
Can you tell us about that?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh yes, you know, oh yeah, there's that I was so.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I mean humble brag and name drop yeah exactly I.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I didn't want an award, for sure.
But my sister Tina, we've beentogether, she has to come.
I don't do it for like an award, like I don't like to be that.
That's why, please don't nobodygive me an award, just let me
keep doing it.
I'm doing it not for you, I'mdoing it for God and for
(19:39):
afterlife, not for this worldright here.
So don't give me no award.
I'm okay with what I'm doing,you know.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, so please.
It's funny you say that.
That's exactly.
I feel we talk about this onstage.
That's the offering to God,right?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
As musicians.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That's just the offering to God, and we tried to
create this show where we'rekind of making it an offering to
God as well, in that you know,talking to people like yourself
and lifting up the real thing,which is that is helping people,
and you know, and and showingpeople that it's not hopeless
that help does exist good doesexist and there's a way to put
(20:17):
your resources, your energy,your time, your money behind the
good things.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, Hope did exist, because if I tell you my back
story, you will not believe.
Even myself I will not believe.
I'm here, you know, becausegrowing up with 25 brother and
sister, my dad barely make $50 amonth.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But look, we survive all kind of shit.
I don't even know sometimes howI be able to get here, but it's
God.
You know what I'm saying,because when you were a kid, at
age 11, I was hustling, workingselling water just to get food.
You know what I'm saying.
The lady give me like $10 amonth and two days meal a night.
(21:01):
When I get that, you you know Iwas doing it at 16 I left my
country, go to other country.
Look for, we were supposed togo to libya.
That's the biggest decision Imake in my life.
I still shake when I thoughtabout it.
It's four of us.
We get in the bus going tolibya.
Then I came out.
Something just said't go.
(21:21):
So all the three friends of mydad go, One die One.
We never see him.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
One, he lost his, so that was like the biggest
decision.
I think it's always when Ithink about it.
I get off that bus.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I said I don't want to go to Libya.
Wow, you know what I'm saying?
Because we had to take a bus togo to Agadez.
Agadez, we crossed the desert,that's a long journey.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You know what I'm saying.
It's a long journey.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So, thanks God, it never happened to me.
I was, like you know, thebiggest.
I still think about that everyday.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I know you skated the the medal from the president of
Niger.
You know how was it though,even being around there.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I mean you had to, no , because you know each country
I go I get to meet the firstlady, the president, so I ship
this container.
So the first lady, she say,okay, my son, I need you, I want
to honor you, but you have togive me the container to do what
I want to do it to distribute.
(22:25):
Then I say, auntie, I can't, Itell her I cannot do it.
So because I say I cannot do it, they make tax me $11 million,
which is like $22,000.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Jeez, oh wow.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So I have to call people people, I put whatever,
because I'm like stubborn.
Yeah, yeah, I will show you, Iwill get it done, no matter what
.
I never like wait for somebody,no.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
I don't know nothing about that.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yeah, no, no.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I never wait for someone.
I always find a way to make ithappen, Even right now, this
container.
We spent almost $17,000 to getthat container there.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But we did it.
You distribute how you want itand where the people that need
it, because you don't want toget involved with politics or
give it to me this and give mehonor.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You want to be neutral, yeah give me medal.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
No, I don't need a medal, she's fine.
You see, they're not in power,no more.
So whatever power you have it,go and come.
That's why you can't associateyourself with it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know whatI'm saying.
You go up, you go down.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's a wonderful lesson.
Whatever power it goes and itcomes.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, no matter how powerful you are, just always be
humble, teach people, respectand you know, because God can
take everything in one second.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
In a second, so we have to do what you can.
I want to stay in touch andfigure out how we can, because
we know now if you've stumbledinto a stripper that had you.
How many was it?
50,000 shoes or something likethat?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, she wasn't a stripper, oh sorry, she was at
an establishment.
She was at a strip club andshe's trying to get the venue to
do an event afterwards.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
She was an entrepreneur.
Yeah, no, she's a big, she's awonderful lady Dionne Ferron.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Thank you, Dionne Ferron again.
You know she's been.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
She's a businesswoman , that's right, she's a strong
black woman, Very you knowstrong black woman, so I really
give her my props and the factthat she just had shoes and said
you know, problem solved.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, yeah, thank you , and we want to try and do the
same and we'll keep checking inwith you.
I want to know how thejourney's going.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You had me at curbside pickup.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, I got you curbside pickup, don't worry
about that one.
That one is easy.
So thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And you're giving children shoes.
Look it See, I feel annoyed.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Thank you so much, Omar, for coming in.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It's an absolute pleasure, thank you so much,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Hi, I'm Anjali Bhimani and I'm Julia Bianco and
we are so excited to bebringing you our new creative
baby, the Character Selectpodcast.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
I've wanted to save the world since I was four.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
There has been no character like him up to that
point, and there really hasn'tbeen a character since.
Every episode of CharacterSelect is going to be taking
fantastic video gameperformances and talking about
what makes them tick, what makesthem exciting as players, as
performers, as sound designers,as casting directors.
That was, I feel like I've beenambushed.
I was even in a podcast to talkabout a video game.
(25:31):
So there's a big old love festhere.
That's how we start this andyou're just gonna have to deal
with it.
Recognized by the 2013 editionof the Guinness World Book of
Records, gamers Edition, as themost prolific female video game
voice actor in the world.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
You know it's a special project when you hold on
to the people you created itwith.
Careers are born by being inthe right place at the right
time.
Where you can't control theright time, but you can control
the right place.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Man, that was fun, Omar.
What a beautiful dude, what alovely soul, what a lovely soul.
What a great organization.
We'll have the links to it inour show notes, but before we
get out of here, okay, so thenew segment we have today for
season three two truths and aslap, slap the face.
That's right, all right, so nowthe deal with this is that I'm
going to read something, andMaya is completely unaware of
(26:22):
any of these.
Two of these are truths, andone of them is a slap.
It's not true.
It's either going to besomething where Maya is going to
be really sharp on it, or we'regoing to determine that our
world right now is way, way, wayworse than any kind of fiction
we can come up with.
Okay, maya, it really is,though we can come up with.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Okay, maya, it really is, though.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
So Donald Trump, in the trials that were going on.
There's a headline that saysIvanka utterly abandoned Donald.
There is also a headline thatsays China now has robot dogs
armed with rifles in themilitary.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
And there is a headline thatsays the mayor of Chicago was
(27:00):
covered in cicadas on the way towork.
So of those three, iv.
And there is a headline thatsays the mayor of Chicago was
covered in cicadas on the way towork, okay.
So of those three, ivankaabandoned her father at trial
fully.
China now has robot dogs armedwith rifles in the military.
Or the mayor of Chicago wascovered in cicadas on the way to
work.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I feel like I read the thing about Ivanka.
Okay, right, and somebody sentme a thing.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
She was busy.
She had a nail appointment.
Okay, she's booked and blessed?
I guess Booked and blessed.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Okay, and I'm pretty sure that the Chinese thing
happened because my friend saidand I thought he was playing
with me he sent me this thing.
He was like did you know?
This happened and it was likethis little.
It looked like okay, rememberthose dogs, they were like from
the 90s that you could buy, andit had like little small
commands, that's what the littledog looked like, but then the
(27:48):
thing like shoots.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And I was like that ain't real.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I was like that is not real.
But now that you're telling methat headline, I was like, well,
maybe he wasn't kidding, but Ithink that the cicada thing is
the one that ain't real cicadathing is the one that ain't real
.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You are correct, maya .
Yeah, the actual reality wasthere was going to be a record
influx of cicadas, but becauseof Chicago shout out to Asher,
one of our PAs who's fromChicago because of Chicago, down
all the old trees, they stayedall in the suburbs.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
So the cicadas stayed out in the suburbs.
That's hilarious.
Did you see that cicada skitthat they did on SNL?
It's really hilarious Look itup.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It was really funny.
I'll check that out.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Because they're like.
You know how cicadas stayburied when they come out after
10 years.
Yeah, so these two cicadas comeout and they're talking about
what was popular in 2011.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Have you checked out Ace of Base?
Yeah, they're like.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Gucci, Gucci, Louie, Louie, Fendi, Fendi, Prada.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's hilarious All right and before we get out of
here, we're going to dosomething that we're also
opening up to our listeners.
Let us know Info atslapthepowercom, let us know
what your favorite new thing isand if we dig it, we'll read it
on the next episode or we'llread it on the air.
But favorite new thing, it isPride Month, and I actually love
(28:59):
all of June for a variety ofreasons.
But, maya, what's your favoritenew thing?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Okay, so I have been an Ipsy girl for a long time and
if you don't know what Ipsy is,it is a cosmetic basically
membership club and they sendyou samples of cosmetics every
month.
They curate samples by yourskincare and all that kind of
stuff.
But during the month of Pridethey curate their bag and it has
(29:28):
all Pride-based material.
So everything that is in yourbag is from an LGBTQ provider.
So everything in my bag thismonth had like a Pride theme.
But it wasn't just likesomebody slapped a pride sticker
, because I hate when you go toTarget and you're like pride
pillows, like no, all thesecompanies are actual LGBTQ
(29:51):
companies and they curated allthe brands that they're using
this month.
So if you haven't checked outIpsy, but you've been wanting to
, I want to say it's like $14.95a month.
I don't get paid from them, Ijust like it and I think it's
cool.
And I think it's cool becauseit allows you to try out
full-size samples of stuff, soyou could get a month-long wear
out of these things.
But then what's also great isthey affiliated with BoxyCharm
(30:15):
so you can buy full sizes of theproducts you like at a drastic
discount like almost half off ofthe products you like at a
drastic discount, like almosthalf off.
So it gives you kind of like thebest of both worlds.
So if you're into skincare orcosmetics.
They also have hair care stuff,Like it's not just for if
you're a makeup junkie likemyself.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
They also have really great hair care stuff, but
anyway, you know you haveanother two bags of makeup in
our office.
Yeah, I always do, because I'mher, she's me, I love it, it's
me.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Hey, I am the problem .
I am the problem, it's meAnyway.
But if you were looking for away the reason why I brought
this up is if you were lookingfor a way to try some LGBTQ
products, this would be a greatway to try them out.
For this month you could getthat pride bag and you know,
happy pride y'all.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah, my new favorite thing is that we're back and
we're looking at the rest ofthis year.
There's so many good things wehave on deck, and to be back and
to be able to sort of talkabout the things that we want to
get involved in and we want tobe part of the conversation and
we want to have a broaderconversation with you about a
lot of important stuff that'scoming up.
(31:22):
We have some great news thatwe're dropping actually on
climate some partners that we'reworking with on that.
That's actually some amazingwork that we have coming up.
You know democracy we're goingto have to fight this one all
together and you know humanrights I don't think that on
January 21st, that a federalabortion ban will not be top of
the list if we get this wrong.
(31:43):
It's coming, y'all, yeah.
So I'm really excited to beback and thank you for listening
to our listeners.
Thank you for holding out.
It took us a while to get inthe new studio, but we are super
stoked to be back and we'regoing to have a lot of cool
stuff coming that, I think, ishopefully going to shake things
up.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
And one of the cool things that we have coming up
that we're really excited aboutis we decided to make an Amazon
affiliate link.
So I want to tell you a littlebit of why we decided to do that
.
We noticed that, especiallywhen we talked with Omar, that
you could get certain productson Amazon that were really
really well made.
But if they were really wellmade and fit an algorithm,
(32:24):
amazon would dupe that company'sproduct and then they would
start to bury them along thesearch engine to favor their new
, copied product.
So what we decided to do is wedecided each time we have an
episode, we're gonna add a newthing to our Amazon affiliate
link, and we're only doing smallbusinesses.
We're only doing smallbusinesses.
(32:44):
We're only doing smallbusinesses and we're only doing
small businesses that arededicated to things like our
main evergreen things that wecare about climate, social
justice and political change.
So we're going to specificallyfeature brands that have small
business at their helm.
We're going to hopefullyshowcase those products, but we
(33:04):
will definitely have all of thelinks and we will all be doing
something that helps Amazon knowthat this is not an okay thing
to do.
We can't escape Amazon, andthat's not what I'm advertising,
but what we can do is showcasethe small businesses that rely
on the lifeline of Amazon andmake it a little easier for them
(33:26):
.
So one of the first things thatwe're going to showcase is shoes
in line with Omar, and Omar didsuch a wonderful job of opening
our hearts to an issue I didn'teven know we could help solve.
But we want to look at how wecan buy shoes that we could
gently recycle in six monthstime.
(33:48):
So we'd love to have brandsthat also are into that.
So we're going to feature acouple of brands that
specifically have a recycleprogram going on globally and
are also made responsibly.
So stay tuned for that.
We'll have that link in our shownotes, and I just wanted to say
that one of the reasons why wewanted to do that is we're
(34:09):
community outreach.
That's our entire brand, that'sour entire platform and we get
that from you.
So if there is a link that youwant to see on our Amazon
affiliate link, remember this isyour show, so send us your
ideas.
We can do this together and wewant to showcase that change
happens by just the smallestincrements, and this might seem
like a small thing, but if allof our viewers got on this
(34:33):
bandwagon.
We could change an Amazonalgorithm.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
So let's do it.
Yeah, yeah, that's what's up.
That's why she's got the corneroffice.
It's pro right there.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank youguys for listening.
You know, thanks to Omar, I'lladdress it one more time.
You know, thanks to the goodstate of New York for doing, and
all the people there, you know,jury of your peers man, thanks
to the good state of New Yorkrepresenting, and we're going to
(34:56):
see you next time, thanks.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
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Bariodil and Maya Sykes.
Associate producer Brie Corey,audio and visual engineering and
studio facilities provided bySlap Studios LA with
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If you have any ideas for ashow you want to hear or see, or
(35:21):
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today.
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