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May 19, 2026

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0:00Yeah, this is for We Them Media. This is for poidh. I just met Mpapi here. Sorry, sir, what’s your name? Mr. Loris. Okay, I just met Mr. Loris here. I’m trying to ask him how life has been through his time, his generation, how it has changed him and how it is now, you know, so sir, what do you have to say about life through your generation and now and how it has changed? How It’s Changed And How It’s Connected And Just Break It Down So Before I Became I Came To This Life I’m Living Now I Passed Too Many Things You Understand Me So I Passed Too Many Ways Like A Stance Of A Lack Of Things Poverty You Know And I Decide To Strip You See Where I Can Get So You See

1:05I entered River Stapakinsang, I’m quite educated, but nowhere to find job. Pakinsang, Pakinsang team, I got to this, this thing that, yes, I can go to a higher house. I was fighting with somebody, because he dismissed me because of him. He found out that a stone had helped me for some long. So, I decided to go to a canteen and drop my load there and sleep in somebody’s canteen and the parking sun till I got my own house and hire in Abu Jair.

1:48So, after that, I decided to say, okay, let me go and seek from the work I learned, printing on the printer.

2:00Going to, walking inside the town, going here and there, no way All is promise, promise, promise all, we don’t have the chance here Even some of them will interview me, they find out that I’m perfect, more than them, they will just say no I’m an operator too, into the printing operator I will print an AD badge, a cutting machine, that’s for cutting paper. Then I also did other work like offset, like this offset machine that print a calendar. I print all of them, then artwork, all this work, I know about it on that printing. But later now I find out that there’s no need of this. The time is getting older, let me, my time is getting older, and now I was clocking that time, 36 years, I said, okay, let me look for a wife.

3:15Thanks, I’ve got my own house. I start struggling, seeking for somebody. And the money, what makes me to look for a wife, I’m a farmer. After farming, I don’t know how to sell it. But yet, somebody who, a woman, a madonna man’s wife, that has to be doing some farm work for me, like a washing of melon and other things, who stock the corn, dry corn, for me, decide to bring somebody for me to marry me, which I rejected. She forced me to marry that woman, and that the woman is not my own type. The woman has now, as of now, I have three children for the woman, and the woman has got me three children.

4:11But the three children, eh, is on their pathway before I got that three children. Now we are no longer, I’m not a, I’m no longer with my wife now, as I see now. But I’m managing. It’s like it was difficult to get a wife at that time Yeah, and nobody, my mother is alive, she’s alive right now I can’t be able to say yes, my mother would tell me the right person But I want to look for it, because you know why it got me hard? I was in deeper life for 30 years We don’t talk to women or gay We don’t, I don’t, like any man friend

4:57You can’t see me where people are playing or drinking. Every time I’m always with the Bible. So all these things make me to be difficult. When I was very young, when I was learning this pretty work, at that time I’m in deeper line. As I learned the work. Okay, so that was a hindrance to come in the kitchen and everything. I lived with people’s lives for 30 years before I said no.

5:38The beautiful girls in the church, I cannot see them again. And I’m not sure. I’m not sure in the church. All of them married outside. Then, who am I to marry? And then we are asked not to go with, say, Kana people, people of the war, say they are worldly people, I should not go with them. Then who am I to marry? So I decided to run away from the church, took it by first, married anyhow. That brought me, God gave me three children, instead of keeping me idle, I could have been empty by now. Now, I keep on striving, struggling. Why not again? Where can I? I don’t see what I will do again. I decided to grant between carrying blocks as a labor, helping people, messing people. Because I think about it, building is the most important thing to have in richness. If you want to be rich, seek for building, seek for land.

6:50So I decided to go into building by helping people to build and to give them, serve them block, mercy people, those mercy that are building and serve them block and also putting eye to see how they are doing this because I know in the future I will do it so that is why I decided to be struggling with them till I came to some certain times and said No, I’m okay. Let me go and buy material. Then I took my, I carried myself and joined one engineer. That time, they are about to start off-state. They have done the DPC, that’s casting of the, starting of the off-state.

7:35So, I say, oh God, please, you help me. Give me this chance and let me be a Maceo here.

7:46Watch me. I’m a very good Maceo man, which I trust myself. He said, are you sure? I said, yes. Can you do it? I said, yes. If you spoil anything, you are material, I will seize those things, you are working material, I will seize them. I said, watch me, I cannot, since I’ve been working with you, have you seen anything mistake? I said, no. The man came back, come down to me, he said, because I’m getting matured old, he will grant me that privilege. Do you think they were more considerate before than now, or do you think they were more considerate now than before, like how that man agreed to give you because of your age limit? Do you think they do that kind of thing right now?

8:37I believe that I will do it because I’ve learned to be a Maceo. That’s another privilege again. And that thing that’s Maceo can make me to build my own house and I’m a good artist.