The Madness that is the ‘Tenuous Link’

The Tenuous Link is a feature on Tallia Oyando’s mid morning show on HBR which basically involves me linking two people together but two people who have little or nothing in common. Actually, mostly just nothing in common.

I get a lot of questions about how I get these done and whether I use google or not and so to answer these two questions, I’m going to say, ‘tenuously’ and ‘occasionally’ respectively.

It’s quite the task but a task that got simpler and simpler as time went by (I mean I’ve done about twenty on air already). Tallia will normally pick two names at random then give me a couple of minutes to come up with a way they in which they are tenuously linked.

Here are two that I have done so far

Miley Cyrus and Ngina Kenyatta 

Miley was born in Nashville Tennessee

Nashville Tennessee, which is known for its country music,

Country music which has long since been connected to people of color,

People like Charlie Pride who was one of the first black super stars,

A super star that influenced major singer Roger Whitiker,

Roger Whitiker who sang that song ‘My Land is Kenya’,

And ‘My Land is Kenya’ came out during Jomo Kenyatta’s rule,

And Jomo Kenyatta was Ngina Kenyatta’s husband,

Ngina whose son is Uhuru Kenyatta,

Uhuru who is a dad to a daughter who is in her twenties,

In her twenties just like Miley Cyrus

Lil Wayne and Martha Karua (don’t give me that look. Tallia is the one who comes up with these links)

Dwayne Michael Carter is a rapper born in New Orleans,

New Orleans which is known as the birth place of Jazz,

Jazz which is believed to be a sub genre of rap,

Rap which is said to have started in the Bronx,

The Bronx which is a town within New York City,

New York, home to baseball team ‘The Yankees’,

And the Yankees are said to be in business with another Carter, Jay Z,

Jay Z who has been an open supporter of President Barack Obama,

Obama who is the first African American President of the USA,

A president who traced his roots back to Kenya,

And had she won the elections,

Then Martha Karua would have also been president!

And so now you know. I hear G Money can do these freestyle! Like no research time whatsoever. Will try and get a video of that.

Now since it’s a habit of mine to leave you with a video you should check out and seeing as how ‘Tenuous Links’ are strange, then how about an even stranger song selection by Lonely Island?

Yup! Still can’t figure out how they get such massive stars to be in their videos and songs. Check out this Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar featured one called ‘YOLO’ (You Oughta Look Out).