Man's Last Stand

Sometimes I watch Kiss TV.  For one particular reason, I love TED talk shows. Kiss TV is one of those stations that you will not recommend to anyone. The station is legendary for repeating its programmes over and over and over again. Its spends its fair share of time displaying Nigerian movies and a host of local programmes some even  in local dialect  that are not worth their salt(this excludes news brought by the eloquent John Sibi-Okumu). Sometimes they do not display anything or televise programmes with no sound. And then I stumbled on a programme titled Man’s Last Stand.

Man’s Last Stand is one of those numerous Kenyan programme’s that gives unsolicited relationship advice. The set is done in Galileo lounge where the hosts actually have drinks on the table as the programme goes on. What really caught my eye are the hosts. The programme normally has four hosts for all the episodes I have watched. The two hosts that are always present are Shaffie Weru and Nick Odhiambo. This two are well known radio personalities. The other two are Dj Dre and Solo. Sometimes Roy who is a sports anchor on Kiss 100 radio joins them. The one outstanding character that they all exhibit is the amount of noise they make.

If you thought women can talk then you have not watched this show. These guys don’t even give each other a chance to talk, to answer or to defend their stand. And hell, aren’t they opinionated? They talk about relationships from such a casual standpoint it’s amazing that someone found it fit to give this programme that title. The rough estimate I would give of their age is 35.Roy is married, Shaffies story is so long I would want to yarn it here. For Nick and the other young men I would not derive from their stands their relationship status.

The main’s show host introduces a topic then they delve into it. If you want to hear one load of lies listen to this show. They give the most ridiculous advice I have ever heard on earth. A friend of mine who was going through a rough marital patch once told me that to resolve their issues they had to visit the priest who had presided over their wedding ceremony for counseling. And as they talked the gentleman wondered why somebody who had never lived with a woman would have any clue about relationships between women and men. His knowledge was based on what he had read and heard from such previous engagements .Abit like Maina Kageni advising people on what to do with their marriages. This four gentleman dish out formulas that  are so abstract that you can only imagine about them. I can bet that they don’t do a thing that they say, and neither do they mean it.

The programme intrigues me not because it adds any value in my life but I often wonder how many more people watch it and actually think that those socialites are serious. That theirs is just but another day at work. How many people  really listen to what is told and are able to discern that much of it is chaff.  Our own media normally highlights the life’s of the people who are in media(odd they are advertising themselves) as our role models. They are the majority featured in True love, Drum, Passion, Adam speak (No longer in print) and so on an so forth. Their life’s look fulfilled, successful, glamorous and enjoyable. What we never get to know is the real deal behind all the gloss. A lot of us think that what they say and do is gospel truth..

Well, it isn’t true. A lot of what we hear on this programme and a host of others like it is just entertainment. It raises the ratings of the particular stations and makes them more money. Life is more intricate than that. Very intricate and cannot be solved by four gentlemen in a bar drinking alcohol who are on camera and on somebody's payroll.

My advice, look for proper counsel, leave entertainment at entertainement level.

I hope you are entertained. Drop me a line.

Sojourner.