sell back there, and Mr. Weiss will be sticking around to sign them. So please, join me in welcoming Eben Weiss a.k.a. Bike Snob. Eben Weiss: Hi. Thank you very much for ah, for coming. It's great to be here at at Yahoo...Weiss: Um. Is this Yahoo or is that later? Google, even better. It's great to be here at Google, thank you very much. Um. Google in a lot of ways in many, many ways made what
But you have to use the, like, pronounce-it app. So Eben Freeman was the head bartender there.
He's controlled by a. Master Ebenezer is suffering a poverty of means. And so is his little brother, who's asleep at the top of the boat.
He would play his songs, favorite songs, and then he would sing along. He would play Ebenezer Obey, King Sunny Adé, some Fela, some Dipo Sodipo. So that's where I got the interest.
So just to give like on-paper description of who these women are and were, Alberta King was a religious leader. Her parents were the leaders of Ebenezer Baptist Church. So in history, it's often said that Ebenezer Baptist is Reverend Martin Luther King Sr.'s church, that's actually completely inaccurate.
It was Alberta Williams's family's church. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Baptist. And she believed that faith cannot be faith about social justice, that these things are intertwined.
But you have to use the, like, pronounce-it app. And then my first sort of aha moment was when Eben took me late one night to Milk and Honey in 2003.
Her parents were the leaders of Ebenezer Baptist Church. So in history, it's often said that Ebenezer Baptist is Reverend Martin Luther King Sr.'s church, that's actually completely inaccurate. It was Alberta Williams's family's church.
But you have to use the, like, pronounce-it app. So I was very fortunate when I moved there to be able to have shift drinks with Eben at wd~50.
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That was what we wanted to infuse in all of these moments. For sure. Yeah. Random question-- I'll tell you, some of the fonts were from the Ebenezer Church. Like, some of the fonts were very specific to Black moments in history where, like, nobody knows that.
I listen to songs everywhere. And just like I told you, my dad played King Sunny Adé, Ebenezer Obey every time in the car. So all of this has given my sound a unique and authentic flavor that resonates with my audience.
So it needs an action or a system to make it stop working. This is extremely evident when I visit places like Ghana out on Lake Volta and I meet little boys like this, Ebenezer, who works on a boat every day for 17 hours a day to catch fish.