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This is one I'm Joshua Johnson in Washington hurricane Dorian continues to make slow progress up the southeastern coast but we're only starting to comprehend the storm's destruction in the Bahamas much of Grand Bahama Island is under water the exact death toll is still becoming clear here are some of the voices of those who survived Hurricane Dorian in the Caribbean you hear the Bahamas Minister of Agriculture Michael pin tarde Howard Armstrong of Freeport who was interviewed by C.N.N. And residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands who lost power this weekend. Trying to run. Through. The right. That's. When. The water ready. That's. That's. Where. We are. Where. We were where we were doing all right until the water kept coming up and all the appliances were going around the house like a washing machine that's probably I got hit with something in there and my poor little wife got hyper for me and she was standing on top of the kitchen cabinets until they just centigrade it and then I know I kept where and she just drowned on me. You know. Thanks. Thanks Chris. There is no lack of dramatic stories from the Caribbean after hurricane Dorian and we welcome your stories as well we certainly hope that your loved ones in the Caribbean and up and down the southeastern coast are OK but we'd love to know what you're seeing and what you're dealing with now as the storm continues to make its way north east so comment on our Facebook page tweet us at one A or e-mail one a at AM You dot org Joining us from W L R N Public Radio in Miami is PETER BAILEY The director of the documentary PARADISE discovered the unbreakable virgin Islanders Peter welcome to the program I do and Josh thank you for having me and joining us in studio is McGill Oh Roman the founding director at the Earth from space Institute at the university Space Research Association Miguel welcome thanks Jessica to that Peter you're from the Virgin Islands they were not spared from hurricane Dorian this year or from hurricanes ARMA and Maria from 2017 How did this storm this year compare to Irma and Maria is the same kind of tragedy all over again no I mean this is funny just listening to those own voices is this is bringing back a lot of surreal memories of what we faced in 2017 but Dorian is strange it as a hit since homicide became a hurricane and there was damage because you know we have people from our own memory of who still have tarps you know who still are recovering so it's like it's almost this day it's all over again you're reliving this tragedy is just this is this is hollow so long you know where and you seeing our people in the Bahamas because you know to Caribbean where mosaic we're all tied you know the water divides us was culturally we're all one extended family so when they suffer we suffer and likewise but our we're strong people are very resilient people and their word is stolen Iran a lot and I don't like that word because it means we're going to keep getting whipped. And we're going to take it so I think we really want to move forward to sustainability how do we move beyond having to always be resilient right you know just it's interesting how keywords not like Northwest where during Maria it made a sudden shift headed to sin Thomas of course shifted northwest and Dorian did the same thing at the last moment so when my mom heard the word north the north west it kind of makes or cringe you know and I think the P.T.S.D. That the mental anguish of facing these things you know because the Virgin Islands the U.S. Virgin Islands of the 1st place in modern history to get hit with 2 Category 5 storms in less than 2 weeks back to back normal was on the 6th of September and Maria was on the 19th you know and here we are 2 years later with Dorian who again at the last minute made a bull's eye so it's where an interesting space you know it on Earth a lot of magic I guess because I like to say when you know nation the rest of the world left us in darkness we gave each other light because we were very frustrated of just being ignored you know something we feeling invisible I think that's something the rest of the Caribbean felt so I'm happy to see the Bahamas getting this attention you know because in tragedy you want people you want to connect you know it's like being in a war time zone when you're just in the middle of apocalyptic and seeing those images in the Bahamas it literally just takes me right back to where we were in the U.S. Virgin Islands 2 years ago so it's even sitting out I feel it you know right I feel it I really really feel it really Miguel let me come to you for a minute because your research has to do with helping with disaster preparedness what exactly are you researching and tracking through your work so we're looking at the Air France Space Institute that the entire disaster management cycle so you're looking at big. For the advent during the 1st 36 hours and then looking weeks and months ahead because if there's anything that the 2007 thing hurricane season has taught us with airmen Maria is that disasters just begin after the winds and the storm surge have left there are many distributional impacts that are truly the ones that ultimately affect our communities we talk about now in the 1st few hours of Dorian about the death count but we oftentimes forget to talk about. You know the sick hurricanes make people sick and that it's that morbidity right that led to the highest increase in poverty so we use date that from satellites to help drive the discussion forward so that we don't loose the sight of what's happening to Bahamians in the 36 hour news cycle what is it that you do with satellites what kind of data are we talking about we use the power of night vision technology at night to deliver maps of areas without power for very long periods of time so we use the visible imaging radiometer suite an instrument on board a NASA satellite and this instrument is collecting data every single day and I can get you back to my experience in hurricane madiao when my grandpa others fathers and my blessing but don't get us in by a moan they not have fixed to have access to power and we were able to track the speed at which enough to a city was restored you have a lot of family in Puerto Rico Yeah are you from Puerto Rico Yes I have 21 cousins 4 on 5 goes into grannies how important that he go that's a lot of lights on the satellite potentially a lot of parcels to count but clearly there weren't nearly as many lights as there should have been right and looking not just at the media impact but you know to be able to assess the most basic needs of people for very long periods this time regards us to have to acknowledge the that is not just taking snapshots but to monitor the situation continuously because disasters do not affect everyone the same way so what do you do with these data Miguel Once you have these images of where power is and before power is not what happens then so we focus on data that is useful to many stakeholders so we're constantly talking to people on the ground we work with the utilities because they want to restore the power grid we work with emergency management professionals because they need to coordinate. Life sustaining disaster assistance we work with humanitarian response and recovery efforts were just I was just on the phone call with the Pan American Development Foundation one of our Spartan ers who are now integrating their assessments over the by the Bahamian communities there are 13000 homes that are being threatened that have been decimated by Dorian as you have to be talking to people on the ground you know suck the lights are not a panacea is not the solution to everybody's problems but that we do what we can to make sure that people on the ground have the right tools at the expertise they need to be able to make changes to communities now are these the kinds of data Miguel that the utilities themselves should have I mean you would think that they would know where the lights are on and where the lights are off well currently publicly available utility dad does not meet the needs of all people involved in disasters and if you think about countries that may not even have protocols smart meters you know you are going to consistently lean on global satellite measurements that are taken for long periods of time as a proxy for recovery and so that's what we do with the Earth and Space Institute we work with NASA we work with foundations and anyone who is on the ground to be able to turn those raw pixels into useful data so we're talking about those old fashioned meters of still have that little dial the GO lot you have to go out and physically read it but if you can't get to where the meter is you get no data and we've learnt so much as a result of monitoring recovery using satellites one of the things that we learn in Puerto Rico it's we still don't have a standardized addressing system to look a rural communities so you may have Fema coming it would be checks to hand over to people to get back on their feet but if they can't identify their homes because they only have an H S C boxwood kilometers and hectare matters that's 500 yards away how are you connecting to that stakeholder again like a community mailbox. 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You dot org tweet us at one essay or comment on our Facebook page Peter Mayle does any of this resonate for you and terms of how the U.S. Virgin Islands or other parts of the Caribbean have dealt with some of these storms even basic things like you know having standardized mail systems or being able to get good utility info and I think Josh particularly with the U.S. Version on this. The Jones Act when we needed assistance it goes to Florida and it was a Puerto Rico then it goes to the U.S. Version Alice and quite frankly some of the goods during the hurricane got stuck in Puerto Rico now explain what the Jones Act is Peter it's basically the way U.S. Territories helped and because the dismiss distributed where it basically if there's assistance it goes to Florida then it goes to Puerto Rico and is done is allocated to the US version on this so it's a it's our cake system you know some will say it's it's the last vestiges of being a colony you know let's just call it what it is where U.S. Territories were possessions so I think what the research is just discussed is something we have to we have to look at basically the narrative Josh of where we do these U.S. Territories stand in American political cultural land landscape I think that as a virgin and as a Puerto Rican I mean you think to yourself where do we fit where do we fit out and I think we're doing fitness now yeah you know and I think we need to be nice to be reinvented because if you close your eyes Josh let's just be honest we think about the version I was put in we going to Caribbean you don't see people you see a vacation and I think that's come. I know why we were neglected in a sense because you really don't know who we are right you can't you know our views you know our music you know our food but the people the spirit of who we are quite frankly is what enabled us to survive that's what I enable us to survive because we're still kind of off the grid right you know this a lot of what we're discussing here I can't even fully explain because this is all new we face the tragedy that was on Presidents it and it's people whose spirit just kind of led the way so everything we're discussing is new because we really have to reinvent who we are in these islands within the political landscape to wrestle Voc countrymen and countrywomen do we belong right just let us know well let me go let us know if we belong Well Miguel I think it's even more difficult you know and we've had this conversation on this program as well that you know there were some Americans and political leaders who kind of couldn't put together that Puerto Rico was not another country that it was U.S. Territory said he met with the president of the Virgin Islands right right and I think unless you live in a part of the country like say South Florida where there is a diaspora of people who are shoulder to shoulder who are from the Virgin Islands the Bahamas Jamaica Barbados you know I think of our beautiful from all over the Caribbean diaspora it may not click for you that this is something other than a vacation spot over there right and I think we the way I always communicate the importance of you know why why should someone in the mainland care about Puerto Rico in the Virgin Islands and I think what we always mention as we are inextricably linked as a community you know that Puerto Rico produces more than 80 percent of I.V. Bags for our nation and so I don't you mean this medical bag yes saline back and so on any given point after those 3 months after Maria you know you had counties that were within one school shooting. Way of having a major chore to go by the backs so being able to connect ourselves because we live in oh biloba lies world where our you know our lives are interconnected it's very important in the context of disaster recovery we are hearing from some of you here in the lower 48 states who are recovering from disasters of your own Bridget tweeted We live in Wilmington North Carolina and the town is still recovering from Florence last year many residents just completed home repairs within the past few months it all feels way too soon to experience this all over again I'm Joshua Johnson and you're listening to one and. Miguel talk about the impacts of the risks that people in the Caribbean face that are different from what folks in Florida by face particularly what the data shows you in terms of disaster preparedness and disaster response let's talk about this in simple terms what's the biggest difference between a Caribbean Island and Florida mountains so you going to have linebackers going in and providing preparations to restore the power grid within you know a few a matter of hours. Very difficult situation every show up in the Virgin Islands put her record the Bahamas you need to start looking at those asters from the supply chain management issue integrating socio economic data because otherwise you're just going to start delivering 50000000 bottles of water across the entire landscape and 15000000 of them are just going to seem to be sitting there a year later in spite of the fact that it was a bury basic need for basic services and so being pro active Bakley in this situation and having the data on the ground that really is making a difference that's what we do I do want to know by the way since we mentioned Wilmington North Carolina the current track from the National Hurricane Center puts hurricane Dorian on track to be off the Carolina coast sometime early Friday morning it's moving faster now than it was over the Bahamas when it was creepy one mile per hour it's currently moving north northwest about 8 miles per hour but that's the forecast as we see it Peter I don't want to end our conversation without playing a clip from your documentary Here's a piece from the trailer of paradise discovered the unbreakable virgin Islanders and I began to pray to God and heaven. Doc all this stuff I don't remember saying. I thought oh God you can't let us die like this when I saw St Thomas and St John from an aerial perspective I had to ax my staff and people to give me like 5 minutes to be by myself because I was just so affected by what I saw and the leadership in the community manage their disaster in a way that their citizens and their residents benefited part of the trailer from the documentary PARADISE discovered Peter before I got to let you go I'm every time these storms come around and particularly with climate change people kind of wonder whether there's a point at which rebuilding is no longer viable where people might have to leave their homes behind prominently there are already parts of the world that are too low lying to survive the current effects of climate change what do you see right now knowing the people who live in the U.S. Virgin Islands and knowing what it's facing what do you see right now in terms of the future of the U.S. Virgin Islands with storms like this before we got to you know just as a great question I mean. Yeah you wonder every year there will have to face the specter the reality of I'm going to lose everything every year. The specter of my whole life my reality my community changing the face of it you know people are coming in there buying a property so I have to sit in this seat and speak to you and wonder as a US version on the will we exist in 20 years and do the powers that be in Washington do they care enough to address climate change do they care enough about a tiny Caribbean island that's 8585 percent black when you know the racial dichotomy in this is this nation tends to treat black people like we're invisible and issues like it's invisible because when you look at climate change it's basically coming and it's affecting places people of color 1st so yes you know just a city I'm terrified I don't know if my community is going to exist I look at my history of people's history I know we're a strong people and I know we face this and we overcame and we historical figures right but I don't want to be a memory. And I want to be a memory I want to send the U.S. Virgin Islands to exist beyond now right and quite frankly with the reality of climate change I can't say if i'm sure about that I don't know PETER BAILEY But I hope and I pray I hear that PETER BAILEY The director of the documentary PARADISE discovered the unbreakable virgin Islanders Peter thanks for talking to us thank you and Miguel of the founding director at the Earth from space Institute at the university Space Research Association we go thank you thanks again this segment was produced by Morgan Givens to learn more about our team and for information on how to help those affected by Hurricane Dorian visit the one a dot org. Now let's shift gears and talk about music specifically electronic dance music or E.D.M. According to the Guinness Book of World Records the electronic music D.J. And producer Steve Aoki is the most traveled musician in the world he plays hundreds of sets every year and in between manages an impressive number of other ventures he's an entrepreneur in L.A. You can order a pizza Aoki which features what he calls lit Herb infused he runs a record label to mock he's a philanthropist and he's an author his memoir blue the color of noise is just out several of you told us the impact his work has had on you including this fan who left a note in our inbox this is Hades calling from Grand Rapids Michigan and I just wanted to talk about how much even A.O.P. Song just sold I'm done for me collaboration with Louis Tomlinson has gotten me through tough times and the message is incredible I love both of them and thank you for that thank you for sharing that Heidi and. Here's a piece of the song she mentioned called just a little. Cut cut. Cut. Joining us from N.P.R. West near Los Angeles is Steve Aoki Steve welcome to the program Hey how's it going let's start with this track Steve tell us about just hold on. Just hold on. I think is by far one of the more emotional songs I've ever produced. And working with Louis Tomlinson was such a blessing and and just incredible to work with such an incredible artist like him and you know I just love I mean the song is already a great song and we are in the studio working on it but the way it touched so many people lyrically. It set a new bar for me when it came to you know making music and and that kind of profound effect that it can have outside of just you know being a club Thumper are being something that that rages at a festival or because you know like when I'm in the studio I'm thinking different approaches on how I going to make my music and like who I'm directing it to and in some cases I'm like I want to make sure this thing goes off at my shows. And you know in many cases it's not about the lyrics it's about the musical drops right the parts where everyone's just going wild right so you know with Louie and us in the studio it was not about that it was more about you know that kind of connection that that wonderful families talking about and sort of see more more more of it and. It just it's like it has brightens everything up you know it makes me think totally differently and that's actually why I love doing collaboration's with artists from different worlds because they bring in a new sensibility and a new approach and challenges you to try to you know at the end of day it's all about connection the challenge is to connect with more people and you know all these different ways I do want to talk more about those collaboration's as our conversation continues but let me start with the fact that you've got this new memoir blue the color of noise it's out this week How'd the book come about why tell your story now. You know I've been writing bits and pieces of my stories throughout my life. And I'd have to say that when I came to the idea of actually putting it together into one fanatic memoir. It was it was driven after. In my head after we released I'll Sleep When I'm done with Netflix and then I mean I'm entering Yeah yes exactly so I did documentary enough fiscal sleep when I'm dead and you know I saw the reaction I saw you know how you know what people thought about it and and how it connected with a lot of people and it was the documentary itself is. It's more about a story of my story of like how I came to be my relationship with my father and kind of you know just my rise into you know who I am now. And less about like say the E.D.M. Culture you know. And because it's so personal. And that person that personal vibe has. Connected with different people in different ways that's when I was like well OK now I can put some of these stories together and try to figure out how to tell my piece you know because that opened up a personal side that I no I don't really share with the public so much because I'm doing interviews I'm always like OK this is a new song I'm promoting or this is a new thing I'm doing I never really go back and talk about process and you know you know just like the hardships or whatever it is that like I was able to overcome to get to where I am so that what the book with blue I was able to tell my side of the story and kind of go down a deeper rabbit hole if you will. You know what what I you know my perspective and experience going through my life before we get to your process I want to kind of clarify this genre for some folks who may not be really aware of E.D.M. Or not really know what it is I think it's one of those and I like E.D.M. But I think it's one of those genres it's very easy to kind of you know put in a corner like oh it's not really instrumental it's not really music the way that I think of music is music. Somebody in my family I won't call her out but she refers to this genre as. Like that's her impression of every E.B.M. Song of the whole song just right and you just look like those guys in the Roxbury just nod their heads the fact that what is E.D.M. Really how would you describe the shot. E.D.M. I mean it's electronic music like plain and simple like it is well but so is likely to Super Mario Brothers I mean what OK so this election what it stands for is electronic dance music right so that's. The it's a probably the best personification because it's dance music that's electronic based right the lyrics aren't the primary reason why you listen E.D.M. You listen for the Beat you know. And it's it's like it's got its own world discuss on subculture and I mean I wouldn't call a subculture now because so so large like a larger culture but. It works outside the worlds of the radio of radio of popular music but it's infiltrated in embedded itself with all music. And being a producer in the space where it's all about the beat it's allowed me to really work you know and in any direction you know I'm not I might be pigeonholed as an E.D.M. Producer because that's my world but it's like because it's all about the music itself then I can I can literally go into any lane avenue I want. Allowing that the other people from the different worlds want to work with you know you know with my music will continue in just a moment with Steve Aoki got to tasty topics to get to when we come back one has to do with his father who founded a famous Japanese restaurant chain and the other why does he throw cake in his fans stay close. Just because you're on the road or live outside the J.P. 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Station tomorrow we continue our special series one A across America last week we spent an evening in Minneapolis speaking to a group of Somali Americans about what life in the U.S. Has been like we'll bring you some of their thoughts but we welcome more of them so if you have stories to share about being Somali American Leave us a voicemail 855236181 egg Now if you're not Somali American but you live in a neighborhood with a Somali population how has that been going are you struggling to connect across cultures are things going pretty well tell us your story 855-236-1818 or you can send us an audio file with our app one a Vox Pop We'll share some of your stories tomorrow on one essay. Back now to our conversation with D.J. Steve Aoki glad to get some of your stories about why you love E.D.M. McColl emailed E.D.M. Was a big part of my life 7 years ago the culture and community around it was inviting and exactly what I needed at that moment in my life I still enjoy listening now especially while I'm working the beats keep me focused let's talk a bit about your background Steve particularly your dad Rocky Aoki he was the founder of a well known Japanese restaurant chain and here's a commercial from 1985 featuring him this man is responsible for the most successful restaurant in the. 20 years if you want a great Oriental view. That was rocky Aoki in the 1985 T.V. Ad which chain did your father found. Benihana Benihana What was that like. One of. Them born when you found it yeah growing up under my dad's wing it was a wild ride for sure. You know I live with my mother in California and you poor beach and you know when I would see him he'd kind of swell been like like a superman and then he would just pick me up and then go were you know where it whatever his adventures would go and they were my dad was outside of being a restaurant or he was. A sports enthusiast he was an adrenaline junkie and and he was really a very it was earlier Richard Branson in a way that's the best way for me explain it he just he like to do it all and try it all and he put the pedal to the metal and in anything that he was doing kind of like a Evil Knievel in a way but branding everything back to Benihana So I would just you know I remember my 1st hot air balloon. When when he was you know doing that and then doing the races and and just kind of like frolicking around the country or of the world really with my brothers and sisters and. It was you know I would say just like I said earlier it was a wild wild ride in what ways do you take after him and in what ways do you take after your mother. You know I definitely his drive his indecision his relentless work ethic. You know I didn't know the term back then but definitely the way he marketed. And you know really pushed into that one brand everything he was doing. You know that stay with me. My mom is very grounded very frugal the very just you know very humble life. And she's my heart she is like my soul of who I am and my father is kind of like the the driver that pushes me constantly pushes me to you know you know keep working hard and working smart How much did your father's financial success allow for you to pursue what you do today I think to be easy for someone to just kind of presume all your dad was a successful restaurant tour of course you could afford to go off and be an indie musician Absolutely and the thing about my father he's you know my mother and father both grew up in Japan and and they you know he he has a very much a rags to riches story of coming to Japan as an immigrant young age and you know trying to find his way 1st as ice cream man in Harlem and he did that for some time and he got. Alone Together to open up the 1st restaurant and he is a grounds up kind of guy from the ground you know from you know that story line and you know the one thing that he's shared with me was that same kind of philosophy it's like the best way to put it is if you if you help someone that doesn't know how to get up. And you keep helping them get up they're never going to learn how to get up so I don't think it was a discipline for him to not to financially support his kids growing up but that's just how he was as a person. I don't think he just you know it wasn't in his nature to be like oh you want like Dad can I get this new pair of shoes can I get this car can I get this bike it just never like that wasn't his way of rewarding his kids so financially he wasn't it's strange you know as a kid growing up you see your dad like you know because when he came to America he was very much a he became American he was flamboyant he had he was you know flashy and all this stuff and you're like as a kid you're like oh I guess I'm I going to get something or whatever you think in your head and the car doesn't come and these things don't arrive and you just accept that that's how he is as you know as you grow up as a kid and so you know ever you know not to ask him for money you know not to ask him for those kinds of things and if you do eat he is very straightforward just like it's you got to figure out on your own you've got to you've got to figure out how you're going to get by he got to use your wit your intelligence and and you've got to do what's what's hard and figure that out and. I'm very fortunate in that and I and I definitely going to take that with me you know whenever I have a kid I'm not going to you know give them what they want. When they want it because I think in the end you're setting them up for failure a failure where they think this could be very difficult for them to get up and figure out on their own so that is one of the priceless lessons. By far the most important lessons I've learned from my dad is that when he had the opportunity opportunity to financially support me he did it so you grew up in a Japanese American household you have collaborated with other Asian Asian American musicians over the years including B.T.S. Which is the popular Korean boy band the kind of K. Pop band here is a quick clip of a remakes of B.T.S. a Song might drop. Remakes of my truck by the mega popular K. Pop band B T S C I find K. Pop kind of fascinating on a number of different levels I think it's it's fun it's cool it borrows from a lot of American influences I wonder what it was like for you working with a band in Asia that is so influenced by so many other styles from around the world and has become a worldwide success it's almost like a Mobius strip of you circle influences that you now get to be a part of I look at it like you know it's almost I mean it's so big now but when I found out about K. Pop it's like. When you walk through this. Kind of like this holler and a hologram and you walk through this. This like secret wall and you enter in and all of a sudden you see unicorns and rainbows and and you know things that don't exist in the in your realistic world and they're all everyone's happy and colorful and. Joyous and beautiful and there's a lyric a 1000000 people in their early like so many people in there but the other side of the world they don't know about it and I kind of like that when I felt when I found out about K. Pop because it has this insular world of these devoted fans and because it's you know it's going Korean it it limits you know the engagement of American radio or whatever is popular here that that might they might not have heard about keep up and obviously B.T.S. Broke through that that shield and and I gave a clips of OK this is our world and like the what we're doing and this eclipse is that we will we what we've been doing for years and years and years and years and people like wow it's like brand new but I mean they've been doing it for some time it's almost like E.D.M. In a way and that same is a very similar synergy there is that when you go to the festival and you feel the B. And you get into the rhythm of how it works in that culture you get it and you're like OK I didn't get it before when I heard like my my son or daughter listening to it I just don't get it. And then you or you go into that world with with an open mind and you might feel what I'm feeling right so yeah it's very exciting to be in K. Pop and it's like you know at the end of day as just a human being I'm always looking for that I'm always looking for what's going to bring me into something else that's going to open my eyes inspire me to want to create and at the end of the day as well I'm a creator and I want whenever I feel inspired I want to create and I want to collaborate and I want to work with artists that. Give me that that feeling that that incredible feel. And I'm talking about Christian in Gainesville Florida talked about another cross cultural collaboration you did Christian emailed I saw a video of Steve deejaying in Mexico he incorporated a clip of the sin to fit in and this an almost god like money artist in Mexico to me as a Mexican American that was amazing but Steve would make the effort to cross cultural lines and include me in his music I'm Joshua Johnson and you're listening to one and one of it's a few more questions but 1st of all what's up with to kick man why you why you going to get people how did that start OK So you know 1st of all I mean let me go do you just take anybody or must know the person is it is it a consensual taking absolutely you know my shows. And some shows there's like maybe 50 people holding up signs saying cake me but they're holding it up for the entire show and I don't get to the end because you know you don't eat cake you know besides eating a dessert. Towards the end of my show but I'm surprised I'm These fans Alina for like over an hour but in any case why do i cake all right well let's just talk about you know what my show is all about for me when I think about my show I want to make a unique experience I want to entertain and I want to engage and I want people to leave knowing they saw Steve Aoki show you know I you know and I think as an artist I'm like trying new things new ways to to be memorable and and have fun and in a day I want people have a good time and I'm presenting an experience to each song that I'm playing whether I am either just behind the decks mixing and in doing what I do as a D.J. Or in between the mix and I'm going out and I'm doing some sort of activity or engaging with the fans or I'm going in the mike and sing on a song or. You know throwing a cake in a fan or what not and and one in 2011 you know I'm always you know I'm always thinking still to this down thinking about what I can do that can engage with my fans even more to make it more unique for a Steve Aoki experience and you know we had a song I'll give you the now I'll give you the cake story so on my label endemic we had this artist called auto erotic who put out this song called Turn up the volume and in the music video for the for the song cakes or. There was shock exploding in people's faces in slow motion high def beautifully shot the video went viral for the for this very small group and and it just gave me this idea of like you know what I'm going to play this song and I'm a cake someone while play the song so I went to the bakery before the show and. I had the right turn of the volume and you know put on Iraq from the volume and I put like Denmark on there or something and then I dropped the song and I walked out into the the stage and and I just walked around the front of the stage and when I was just showing the cake and I wasn't sure what was going to happen you know because of the very 1st time and always are people going to grab out and eat it or whatnot and this one guy in the front was a slight pointing at his face and like 6 of his friends were like grabbing him and picking him up and everyone was excited and it felt like like the whole club was watching wanting this to happen so badly and he was screaming for it and so I kicked him right there and that was the start of the cake face and in the moment before you threw the cake you thought what. I thought well I mean it's like this is meant to be like it's fate Oh it's like all the stars have aligned for this one moment and. He's begging for it everyone around him is like like it's his birthday even though it probably wasn't like you know. And the whole crowd was like like you know hands up in the air or just staring at waiting to see this moment and after the cake was always face his friends were eating office Fazer looking him he was extreme in his hands up in the air he like you know turned around to show everyone his cake face and and then and then we filmed it and this is before Instagram because it's 2011 right right put up on You Tube went viral I did again one show next show I brought a cake out did again this one at a time to have than 5 cakes and 10 cakes and all of a sudden 6 months later there was signs Well one of your me cake me cake me cake me cake me and I made a song called cake face and and so I dropped now I have a song specifically for taking my fans that want to be kicked right and and I have . A specific writer a cake writer that it's like you know the strange thing about my cakes there's not that much actual cake and there's a lot of frosting. It's a process that's like the so yeah it's like if you know and it gets everywhere it's mushy It's just like it's a mess it's a mess front row during the caking So I mean you just go into it knowing it's like when you go into that show Nickelodeon I forgot what the show was where you get slimed you can't do that on television. What the slime thing yeah where they drop the slime money from overhead OK well I doubt you know before that that stopped like you know like the kids went up there and they're like I'm going to get slide right I was going to be cool and some people like whoa I do want to get slaughtered like you know well and that's a show it's like part of the show so you know people just know in the front row that like the cakes will be on someone's to write some void that that generally has a sign Steve Aoki electronic music D.J. And producer a new single with the Backstreet Boys called Let It Be Me drops Friday his new memoir is called blue the color of Dylan's Steve thanks for talking to us absolutely TODAY SHOW US produced by Avery climb and to learn more about our team visit the one a dot org slash stack until we meet again I'm Joshua Johnson thank you so much for listening this is one a. I'm going to. Support for N.P.R. Comes from this station and from the estate of Joan B. 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News in Washington I'm Jenny Herbst the eye of Hurricane Dorian is now off the coast of southeastern Georgia the National Hurricane Center says the storm will move up along the coast slowly with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour the storm is expected to bring tropical force winds heavy rains and deadly storm surges up to several feet in many areas in more than 10 inches of rain is forecast over the next day in Wilmington North Carolina as Dorian passes over that region N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady reports local officials issued mandatory evacuations for beach communities and residents have warned to be in a safe place by 8 o'clock tonight at a Wilmington grocery store the big front windows have plywood over them and a steady stream of customers emerge with fill the shopping cards. And eat a bag he says she stocked up on water dog food and snacks mainly non-perishables anything that will not spoil should we lose electricity they expect to absolutely bag he says people here are ready for the storm to come and then leave I think everybody's sick of this hurricane we've had it on the radar for about a week now surveys tired of it Wilmington is used to hurricanes last year it was Florence which brought flooding the cleanup from that continues Jeff Brady N.P.R. News Wilmington North Carolina Dorian 1st slammed the northern Bahamas as a powerful Category 5 storm Coast Guard Vice Admiral Scott bushman who oversees operations in the Atlantic flew over the islands and saw the damage firsthand he tells N.P.R.'s All Things Considered it is extensive I haven't flown a RULE OUT of storms so. If not the most significant damage and destruction probably the most significant damage trucks I've ever seen at least 7 deaths are officially linked to the storm although officials expect that number to rise the woman at the center of a controversial sexual assault case has decided to reveal her identity Chanelle Miller was sexually assaulted by. Stanford University student who was later sentenced to only 6 months in jail N.P.R.'s Lynn Neary has more in 2016 Brock Turner then 20 years old was found guilty on 3 counts of sexual assault against Chanel Miller then known as Emily doe she was unconscious at the time of the attack at the sentencing hearing she read a powerful statement describing the aftermath of the attack and its effect on her life Miller statement went viral Turner could have been sentenced to 14 years in prison but he was only sentenced to 6 months in jail he served 3 of those months there was an outcry against that lenient sentence and in 2018 the presiding judge Aaron Perske was recalled by voters as a result Miller tells her story in a forthcoming memoir called No my name which will be released on September 24th Lynn Neary N.P.R. News Washington Wall Street hired by the closing bell the Dow up nearly one percent the Nasdaq up 1.3 percent the S. P. 500 up one percent This is N.P.R. Schools roads water and maintenance facilities those are some of the 127 military construction projects the Pentagon will cut in order to transfer $3600000000.02 pay for a 175 miles of wall along the US Mexico border about half the cancelled projects are in the U.S. The others are at military installations around the world defense secretary Mark approve the transfer of funds on Tuesday Congress approved $1300000000.00 for Wall construction in this year's budget far less than the 5 point $7000000000.00 The White House wanted but for.