E17 TIMPROVISE | Comedy in NZ, Māori Identity, Positivity, Legacy, Brand, Dreams & Toys
The Melding Muse
[{'start': '0.001', 'end': '1.520', 'text': 'Stop overthinking and just do it.'}, {'start': '1.520', 'end': '2.880', 'text': "That's what I'm saying brother."}, {'start': '2.880', 'end': '5.040', 'text': 'Were you there when I f*cking highfived the blind lady?'}, {'start': '5.040', 'end': '5.540', 'text': 'No.'}, {'start': '5.540', 'end': '8.480', 'text': 'F*ck. If I would have filmed that, that would have gone viral.'}, {'start': '8.480', 'end': '9.200', 'text': '100%.'}, {'start': '9.200', 'end': '12.960', 'text': 'When I do comedy, I need to tell people in the first 15 seconds'}, {'start': '12.960', 'end': '16.160', 'text': "that I am a Maori and I'm fair-skinned and I don't look like you,"}, {'start': '16.160', 'end': '17.120', 'text': 'but I am a Maori.'}, {'start': '17.120', 'end': '19.280', 'text': "That's the whole Rubiks Cube of this whole thing."}, {'start': '19.280', 'end': '20.640', 'text': 'Sometimes I have to roll it back.'}, {'start': '20.640', 'end': '21.920', 'text': "Because it's funny in my head."}, {'start': '21.920', 'end': '23.520', 'text': "Like it's easy for us to sit back and go,"}, {'start': '23.520', 'end': '25.440', 'text': '"You know, there\'s only white audiences in there."'}, {'start': '25.440', 'end': '26.160', 'text': "And it's true."}, {'start': '26.160', 'end': '27.520', 'text': "But there's a reason why."}, {'start': '27.520', 'end': '32.080', 'text': 'Like there was a lot of complaints about Brown comedians not getting enough opportunity.'}, {'start': '32.080', 'end': '33.600', 'text': 'And Heta goes "stuff it!".'}, {'start': '33.600', 'end': '35.840', 'text': "I'm just gonna clean up my garage and we're just gonna do it here."}, {'start': '35.840', 'end': '40.080', 'text': "And to see where it is now, he's one of the hottest bookers in New Zealand."}, {'start': '40.080', 'end': '41.680', 'text': 'That is what comedy is all about.'}, {'start': '41.680', 'end': '44.480', 'text': 'You have an idea, you write it down, you formulate it,'}, {'start': '44.480', 'end': '45.840', 'text': 'and then you go out and give it a go.'}, {'start': '45.840', 'end': '47.360', 'text': "Okay, I'm gonna break some news for you."}, {'start': '47.360', 'end': '49.120', 'text': 'You are not an online celebrity.'}, {'start': '49.120', 'end': '51.440', 'text': 'Engage, follow, and support other creators.'}, {'start': '51.440', 'end': '54.000', 'text': "Chris Brown's not gonna see your fire emojis."}, {'start': '54.000', 'end': '56.800', 'text': 'I feel like the first three or four months of doing something'}, {'start': '56.800', 'end': '57.920', 'text': 'is always the most challenging.'}, {'start': '57.920', 'end': '59.440', 'text': "Because that's when you get the doubt demons."}, {'start': '59.440', 'end': '60.480', 'text': 'We did our first episode,'}, {'start': '60.480', 'end': '62.560', 'text': 'where we woke up in the morning and there was 10,000 views there.'}, {'start': '62.560', 'end': '66.240', 'text': "I wouldn't be anywhere close to this position, I mean, if it wasn't for it, my bro Will."}, {'start': '66.240', 'end': '69.840', 'text': "There's this whole argument online, who's the originator of the pie reviews are?"}, {'start': '69.840', 'end': '71.120', 'text': "I don't really give a f*ck."}, {'start': '71.120', 'end': '74.800', 'text': "So I did a huge piece of shit that had David Seymour's face on it."}, {'start': '74.800', 'end': '76.640', 'text': 'Mistakes have kind of made me who I am.'}, {'start': '76.640', 'end': '80.640', 'text': "I was just so obsessed with trying to win, but I didn't actually learn from the losses."}, {'start': '80.640', 'end': '81.680', 'text': 'You are going to die.'}, {'start': '81.680', 'end': '82.720', 'text': 'Put that in perspective.'}, {'start': '82.720', 'end': '85.920', 'text': 'Just do whatever you can to be the best you can and just push.'}, {'start': '85.920', 'end': '86.960', 'text': 'Man, I cried, man.'}, {'start': '86.960', 'end': '88.880', 'text': 'I was like, damn, I never thought I would be here.'}, {'start': '88.880', 'end': '92.240', 'text': "When I'm interviewing people, I'm like, how the fuck am I shaking hands with Dana White?"}, {'start': '92.240', 'end': '94.320', 'text': 'I kid from a little place called Clendon,'}, {'start': '94.320', 'end': '96.480', 'text': "but I've been able to just stay true to who I am."}, {'start': '96.480', 'end': '99.520', 'text': "And I've been very fortunate, but at the same time, I've been prepared."}, {'start': '99.520', 'end': '101.200', 'text': 'Welcome to The Melding Muse Podcast.'}, {'start': '101.200', 'end': '105.920', 'text': 'Melting art and design, entrepreneurship, music, fashion, film, sports, gaming,'}, {'start': '105.920', 'end': '107.040', 'text': "and whatever's in between."}, {'start': '107.040', 'end': '109.760', 'text': 'We exist to showcase extraordinary people'}, {'start': '109.760', 'end': '112.480', 'text': 'to inspire the next generation of creators and leaders.'}, {'start': '113.600', 'end': '117.600', 'text': 'My guest today is Timprovise, actor, MC, stand-up comedian,'}, {'start': '117.600', 'end': '119.680', 'text': 'toy designer, and content creator.'}, {'start': '119.680', 'end': '123.360', 'text': 'We talked about stand-up comedy, the creative process of his first hour,'}, {'start': '123.360', 'end': '126.320', 'text': 'comedy in New Zealand, being real, giving compliments,'}, {'start': '126.320', 'end': '127.840', 'text': 'chasing dreams, and a lot more.'}, {'start': '127.840', 'end': '132.080', 'text': 'If you love the beautiful art of stand-up comedy, this episode is for you.'}, {'start': '132.080', 'end': '135.760', 'text': 'Timprovise, welcome to The Melding Muse Podcast.'}, {'start': '135.760', 'end': '136.640', 'text': 'How are you doing, my brother?'}, {'start': '136.640', 'end': '137.680', 'text': "I'm good, bro. I'm good."}, {'start': '137.680', 'end': '139.360', 'text': "Man, I'm so stoked to have you here."}, {'start': '139.360', 'end': '140.800', 'text': "Dude, I'm stoked to be here."}, {'start': '140.800', 'end': '141.760', 'text': 'I reached out to you.'}, {'start': '141.760', 'end': '142.640', 'text': 'I was like, damn, bro.'}, {'start': '142.640', 'end': '144.880', 'text': 'Look at this, because I appreciate good work.'}, {'start': '144.880', 'end': '148.880', 'text': "When I see good work, I'm just like, bro, I got to make sure I tell the bro."}, {'start': '148.880', 'end': '149.920', 'text': "I saw what you're doing."}, {'start': '149.920', 'end': '154.960', 'text': 'And I was like, dude, like, just the quality of everything is unseen.'}, {'start': '154.960', 'end': '157.520', 'text': "So I'm very appreciative of the invite, brother."}, {'start': '157.520', 'end': '158.960', 'text': 'Oh, bro. Thank you so much.'}, {'start': '158.960', 'end': '162.640', 'text': "I appreciate that so much because, again, I'm a big fan."}, {'start': '162.640', 'end': '164.240', 'text': 'And just like that moment that you shared last night'}, {'start': '164.240', 'end': '167.280', 'text': 'when somebody you admire tells you that they love you,'}, {'start': '167.280', 'end': '168.240', 'text': 'you shared your life.'}, {'start': '168.240', 'end': '168.480', 'text': 'What?'}, {'start': '168.480', 'end': '171.120', 'text': "So, you know, it's amazing."}, {'start': '171.120', 'end': '174.320', 'text': "And I'm actually very glad that you started with that"}, {'start': '174.320', 'end': '175.840', 'text': 'because I want to start with something.'}, {'start': '175.840', 'end': '176.320', 'text': 'Yeah.'}, {'start': '176.320', 'end': '177.280', 'text': 'I want to start with this.'}, {'start': '177.280', 'end': '179.200', 'text': "Let's quickly play something for everybody."}, {'start': '179.200', 'end': '179.680', 'text': 'Okay.'}, {'start': '179.680', 'end': '181.680', 'text': 'More than a brother.'}, {'start': '181.680', 'end': '185.440', 'text': "Hey, I just want to say, like, I'm all about giving fucking flowers."}, {'start': '185.440', 'end': '186.640', 'text': 'You know what I mean, brother?'}, {'start': '186.640', 'end': '188.720', 'text': 'And I just want to say one thing.'}, {'start': '188.720', 'end': '192.560', 'text': 'Your fucking reels are so good, G.'}, {'start': '192.560', 'end': '195.200', 'text': 'Your fucking reels are amazing.'}, {'start': '195.200', 'end': '197.040', 'text': 'Yeah.'}, {'start': '197.040', 'end': '198.000', 'text': 'Fuck.'}, {'start': '198.000', 'end': '199.920', 'text': 'Every time I look at it, I go,'}, {'start': '199.920', 'end': '201.600', 'text': '"Man, this is engaging.'}, {'start': '201.600', 'end': '203.120', 'text': 'This is eye-catching.'}, {'start': '203.120', 'end': '204.160', 'text': "It's very good."}, {'start': '204.160', 'end': '205.520', 'text': 'What you do is very good, man."'}, {'start': '205.520', 'end': '209.120', 'text': 'Anyway, have a good Friday, my brother.'}, {'start': '209.120', 'end': '212.720', 'text': 'And I hope everything happens for you that you want it to happen.'}, {'start': '212.720', 'end': '213.200', 'text': 'All right?'}, {'start': '213.200', 'end': '213.520', 'text': 'All right.'}, {'start': '213.520', 'end': '214.240', 'text': 'Talk soon, G.'}, {'start': '214.240', 'end': '215.280', 'text': 'G.'}, {'start': '215.280', 'end': '215.760', 'text': 'Okay.'}, {'start': '215.760', 'end': '217.760', 'text': "So, here's what I want to say, bro."}, {'start': '217.760', 'end': '218.640', 'text': "Here's what I want to say."}, {'start': '218.640', 'end': '221.600', 'text': 'For everybody to get the full context of this,'}, {'start': '221.600', 'end': '222.800', 'text': 'we never met in person.'}, {'start': '222.800', 'end': '223.280', 'text': 'No.'}, {'start': '223.280', 'end': '226.000', 'text': 'No one single time you find this thing'}, {'start': '226.000', 'end': '227.680', 'text': 'and you send me this message.'}, {'start': '227.680', 'end': '227.840', 'text': 'Yeah.'}, {'start': '228.480', 'end': '231.920', 'text': 'And dude, talk about lead by example.'}, {'start': '231.920', 'end': '234.560', 'text': 'There is this thing where in New Zealand,'}, {'start': '234.560', 'end': '236.160', 'text': "I've seen this whole thing about"}, {'start': '236.160', 'end': '239.680', 'text': "bringing people down when they're doing something."}, {'start': '239.680', 'end': '242.240', 'text': 'Bringing the whole tall poppy syndrome thing.'}, {'start': '242.240', 'end': '245.760', 'text': 'And you are the perfect example of the opposite of that.'}, {'start': '245.760', 'end': '248.080', 'text': "You are the guy that's out there"}, {'start': '248.080', 'end': '251.760', 'text': 'and is just propping people up, bumping them up,'}, {'start': '251.760', 'end': '253.200', 'text': "and increasing everybody's average."}, {'start': '253.200', 'end': '255.920', 'text': 'Just giving them the strength and that.'}, {'start': '255.920', 'end': '258.160', 'text': 'A message like that, dude, like, "Make my morning."'}, {'start': '258.160', 'end': '260.880', 'text': 'And a message like that could change'}, {'start': '260.880', 'end': '262.720', 'text': 'whether somebody stops doing something'}, {'start': '262.720', 'end': '263.120', 'text': 'Yeah.'}, {'start': '263.120', 'end': '264.400', 'text': 'Because they feel demotivated'}, {'start': '264.400', 'end': '267.280', 'text': 'and suddenly they get that message that pumps them up.'}, {'start': '267.280', 'end': '268.400', 'text': 'So, first I want to say'}, {'start': '268.400', 'end': '271.840', 'text': "that you're literally the change that you want to see in the world."}, {'start': '271.840', 'end': '273.840', 'text': "And you're not just saying it."}, {'start': '273.840', 'end': '274.800', 'text': "You're actually doing it."}, {'start': '274.800', 'end': '275.680', 'text': 'Because people say it,'}, {'start': '275.680', 'end': '278.720', 'text': "but they don't actually go and give that bro a like"}, {'start': '278.720', 'end': '280.240', 'text': 'or give the bro a comment.'}, {'start': '280.240', 'end': '281.520', 'text': 'You are doing this.'}, {'start': '281.520', 'end': '284.480', 'text': "And that's why I wanted to share this DM that you sent me."}, {'start': '284.480', 'end': '287.680', 'text': "Because it couldn't motivate people"}, {'start': '287.680', 'end': '289.520', 'text': 'to start giving people more flowers, man.'}, {'start': '289.520', 'end': '292.560', 'text': 'If you like something, just give the people a thumbs up.'}, {'start': '292.560', 'end': '293.840', 'text': 'Give them a comment.'}, {'start': '293.840', 'end': '296.000', 'text': 'It means the world to a lot of creators out there.'}, {'start': '296.000', 'end': '300.000', 'text': "There's a lot of people that their bros start in a business,"}, {'start': '300.000', 'end': '302.640', 'text': "a t-shirt business or whatever that is that they're doing."}, {'start': '302.640', 'end': '304.720', 'text': "And they don't show them that love,"}, {'start': '304.720', 'end': '308.720', 'text': 'but they go and comment on other big brands posts or whatever.'}, {'start': '308.720', 'end': '314.160', 'text': 'That like or that comment means the world to that person at that moment in time.'}, {'start': '314.160', 'end': '314.640', 'text': 'Yes. 100%.'}, {'start': '314.640', 'end': '317.440', 'text': 'Bro, like, yeah.'}, {'start': '317.440', 'end': '321.600', 'text': "It's really strange to me because I don't know why it's not a thing."}, {'start': '321.600', 'end': '326.080', 'text': 'Like, that was like 50 seconds of my day.'}, {'start': '326.080', 'end': '326.480', 'text': 'Yes.'}, {'start': '326.480', 'end': '332.000', 'text': "I know we're sitting here two weeks after I said that, whatever."}, {'start': '332.000', 'end': '333.520', 'text': "And we're having a conversation about it."}, {'start': '333.520', 'end': '338.080', 'text': 'And I think, man, I think the biggest thing, brother, is that'}, {'start': '338.080', 'end': '343.040', 'text': 'I think to do that without any expectation,'}, {'start': '343.040', 'end': '346.240', 'text': "I didn't, I didn't like, you know, I'm just like, bro, like, I just need to."}, {'start': '346.960', 'end': '349.840', 'text': 'When I see something and I think more people need to be with us when they see'}, {'start': '349.840', 'end': '354.320', 'text': "something that's great or see something that's above average, like just say something."}, {'start': '354.320', 'end': '361.360', 'text': "Like, I've been doing this for like a good seven years of being online and doing my stuff. Right."}, {'start': '361.360', 'end': '366.080', 'text': 'And the amount of people that have done that to me, I could count on my hands.'}, {'start': '366.080', 'end': '367.440', 'text': "Nobody's done that to me."}, {'start': '367.440', 'end': '372.000', 'text': 'But instead of being salty about it, like what you just said, I just wanted to be the change.'}, {'start': '372.000', 'end': '376.000', 'text': "I was like, well, why didn't if I'm not doing it, I shouldn't expect people to do it to me."}, {'start': '376.000', 'end': '380.480', 'text': "And then, you know, like there's a saying that like the vibe brings the tribe."}, {'start': '380.480', 'end': '382.400', 'text': 'Yes. You know, 100 dude.'}, {'start': '382.400', 'end': '386.320', 'text': 'And if my vibe is positive, I want positive people to come back to me.'}, {'start': '386.320', 'end': '388.720', 'text': 'And I see it in my comments quite a lot.'}, {'start': '388.720', 'end': '393.680', 'text': "Is that like, like I don't really get a, I get a couple of hateful ones here and there,"}, {'start': '393.680', 'end': '398.720', 'text': "but most of the time it's positivity because I'm not out here trying to make drama."}, {'start': '398.720', 'end': '401.040', 'text': "I'm not here out here to go. Hey, what about this?"}, {'start': '401.040', 'end': '404.560', 'text': "And I'm just here just to be positive because it's not enough of that shit."}, {'start': '404.560', 'end': '406.880', 'text': "It's not, it's not even close to enough."}, {'start': '406.880', 'end': '410.240', 'text': "And yeah, and it's easy to get on and bag on someone."}, {'start': '410.240', 'end': '413.280', 'text': "Like I could have easily gone on and say, oh, the lighting's off for this and this."}, {'start': '413.280', 'end': '419.760', 'text': "Hey, but no, like it's, it's everything you've done is meticulous and I appreciate that."}, {'start': '419.760', 'end': '421.600', 'text': "And that's why I thought I'd thanks. Thanks for sure."}, {'start': '421.600', 'end': '424.080', 'text': "I didn't know if you wanted to share that or not, but thank you, bro."}, {'start': '424.080', 'end': '427.920', 'text': "No, no, I wanted to share it because I think it's an important message to send bro,"}, {'start': '427.920', 'end': '431.120', 'text': 'because I only been doing this for a, for a year.'}, {'start': '432.000', 'end': '435.760', 'text': "But I know there's people out there that are grinding it for years and years and years and"}, {'start': '435.760', 'end': '440.160', 'text': "a message like that just couldn't encourage them to keep going and don't give up on this because"}, {'start': '440.160', 'end': '443.360', 'text': 'again, like you said, man, you, you are the change that you want to see in the world.'}, {'start': '443.360', 'end': '448.000', 'text': 'And I, like you said, I a hundred percent agree with that. In fact, I think we should,'}, {'start': '448.000', 'end': '451.760', 'text': 'you know, you know, the whole referendum with the flag.'}, {'start': '451.760', 'end': '452.480', 'text': 'Yes.'}, {'start': '452.480', 'end': '456.880', 'text': 'That was the biggest waste of money. Apart from the fact of that bloody key, we flat'}, {'start': '456.880', 'end': '460.240', 'text': "shooting races. That's the best thing that happened out of the whole being"}, {'start': '460.240', 'end': '461.520', 'text': 'fucking hands down. There should be the'}, {'start': '461.520', 'end': '465.360', 'text': "so I want to, I want to encourage everybody into I'm going to design it."}, {'start': '465.360', 'end': '469.840', 'text': "So I'm going to design that flag with your face on it, shooting lasers out of your eyes."}, {'start': '469.840', 'end': '474.080', 'text': "And that's going to be the propping people up. This is going to be the flag that people are"}, {'start': '474.080', 'end': '478.240', 'text': "going to use when it was like, I'm going to, I'm going to give flowers to this person."}, {'start': '478.240', 'end': '480.640', 'text': 'And this is going to be, this is, this is human right.'}, {'start': '480.640', 'end': '483.520', 'text': 'You are the image of positivity in my head.'}, {'start': '483.520', 'end': '488.880', 'text': 'But I mean, when I think about it, right, like you acknowledging that today has made me happy.'}, {'start': '488.880', 'end': '493.440', 'text': "So it's a return like you, I made you happy for that. Like, like, oh, cool, man."}, {'start': '493.440', 'end': '499.280', 'text': 'Fuck a thing. You just did the fucking Ray Mysterio reversal on me and six one nine me'}, {'start': '499.280', 'end': '502.640', 'text': "in the face with that now, because I feel good about it. And then that's it."}, {'start': '502.640', 'end': '506.000', 'text': "Then then we've, we've, we've played tennis with complimenting."}, {'start': '506.000', 'end': '509.520', 'text': "You've given me a comment and it's cool because now I've propped you up."}, {'start': '509.520', 'end': '512.400', 'text': "You've propped me up to keep being a positive person."}, {'start': '512.400', 'end': '512.960', 'text': 'No, a hundred.'}, {'start': '512.960', 'end': '517.360', 'text': "And that's the thing is like, that's another thing too is sometimes I think in New Zealand,"}, {'start': '517.360', 'end': '523.920', 'text': "more than ever, sometimes like people don't, they always think there's an ultimatum."}, {'start': '523.920', 'end': '527.360', 'text': 'They always think like, are that guy want something out of me?'}, {'start': '527.360', 'end': '531.280', 'text': "Dude, I just want to make it make you have a smile in the morning and then I'm good."}, {'start': '531.280', 'end': '535.520', 'text': 'Like, you know, and, and I think a lot of people need, we need to get away from that.'}, {'start': '535.520', 'end': '538.960', 'text': 'We need to get away from, oh, why is this guy being nice to me?'}, {'start': '538.960', 'end': '542.400', 'text': 'Why is he, why is that person being nice to me? What does he want from me?'}, {'start': '542.400', 'end': '545.840', 'text': "But I don't want shit. Like, like to be honest and no disrespect to you,"}, {'start': '545.840', 'end': '549.280', 'text': "like that interaction doesn't, there's no transaction there."}, {'start': '549.280', 'end': '553.520', 'text': 'Yeah. No, I totally got it. He was an out. I got it right away.'}, {'start': '553.520', 'end': '557.840', 'text': "The difference is that I was a big fan. So I was like, bro, you're giving me this compliment."}, {'start': '557.840', 'end': '561.760', 'text': 'Like, do you want to be on the show? Like, you know what I mean? But I know that you'}, {'start': '561.760', 'end': '566.640', 'text': "didn't do it because you wanted something in return. It was a simple pro. I just saw,"}, {'start': '566.640', 'end': '571.360', 'text': 'because he was right after I published a reel or something. And so it felt so genuine. I knew it.'}, {'start': '571.360', 'end': '575.600', 'text': 'I knew, because I know the work that you do. So I knew, I knew the sentiment behind it.'}, {'start': '575.600', 'end': '580.160', 'text': "And that's why the first point I had here is giving flowers. And that's why I wanted to start"}, {'start': '580.160', 'end': '585.680', 'text': "a podcast with because I think it's such an important thing to, to tackle. And I see it"}, {'start': '585.680', 'end': '590.480', 'text': "in New Zealand more than it, because I'm from Colombia. I'm from Latin America. And our culture"}, {'start': '590.480', 'end': '595.680', 'text': "is a little bit different in that regard. But in New Zealand, man, it's like, it's not like the"}, {'start': '595.680', 'end': '599.680', 'text': "whole tall puppy syndrome is quite huge. And I didn't realize it until I started doing these"}, {'start': '599.680', 'end': '604.240', 'text': "things more publicly. It's really interesting hearing that from somebody from out of town,"}, {'start': '604.240', 'end': '607.520', 'text': "like out of the country, because when you're born here, it's just all you know,"}, {'start': '607.520', 'end': '611.440', 'text': "it's all you know. So to get somebody like I've, you know, I've heard a couple of times here and"}, {'start': '611.440', 'end': '615.200', 'text': "there, but to have somebody that's that lives here, that's from another country to go, bro,"}, {'start': '615.200', 'end': '621.360', 'text': "it's pretty bad. It's, it's quite interesting. It's very, very interesting from the outside"}, {'start': '621.360', 'end': '628.480', 'text': 'looking in because doing New Zealand got great music, great athletes, all of the, this kind of'}, {'start': '628.480', 'end': '634.080', 'text': 'stuff. And it just requires you to like if everybody embraced them and put them in the'}, {'start': '634.080', 'end': '637.760', 'text': 'pedestal and just use them as inspiration, as fuel to get there, instead of just, ah,'}, {'start': '637.760', 'end': '642.880', 'text': 'fuck that guy. Fuck that guy. That attitude, I never understood it. And I talked to Cecil'}, {'start': '642.880', 'end': '647.600', 'text': 'Yagrabar in our podcast with music, because with music to me is such a close thing for me.'}, {'start': '647.600', 'end': '652.160', 'text': 'If I see the broad doing a rap thing, I want to support it. I want to elevate him. I want it.'}, {'start': '652.160', 'end': '656.960', 'text': "Because I know how fucking hard that is. Same as if you're a fighter, if you're doing anything"}, {'start': '656.960', 'end': '662.160', 'text': "artistic, you require that feel because it's a hard journey to get there. And if your loved ones"}, {'start': '662.160', 'end': '666.320', 'text': "are not giving you that love, it's just going to be a little bit harder. Now in saying that"}, {'start': '666.320', 'end': '671.200', 'text': "you should not expect it. That's one thing that you should learn as a musician, as an artist,"}, {'start': '671.200', 'end': '675.680', 'text': 'if you part from the fact that you, you, you, you expect that your loved ones are going to love it,'}, {'start': '675.680', 'end': '681.600', 'text': "it's just get rid of that as soon as possible. But from the other side, from the other side,"}, {'start': '681.600', 'end': '686.240', 'text': "you should give the brother the love, you know, how much does it cost to share somebody's"}, {'start': '686.720', 'end': '691.040', 'text': 'how much does it cost to send that? Like, like, it just means the world. It means the world to'}, {'start': '691.040', 'end': '694.960', 'text': "be man. And people don't. And then I'll say that like, I'll get on and I'll say like, Hey man,"}, {'start': '694.960', 'end': '699.920', 'text': "it really means the world. If you, you know, if, if anybody's keen to share it or anything,"}, {'start': '699.920', 'end': '705.280', 'text': "and then you get like the whole, Oh, what a, what a desperate guy, like, what a desperate guy. It's"}, {'start': '705.280', 'end': '709.600', 'text': "like, nah, man, I'm really proud of my work. Like I'm proud of what I've done. I'm proud of the work"}, {'start': '709.600', 'end': '715.760', 'text': "that I put in. I'd be a fucking idiot. If I wasn't eager enough to share it and be really"}, {'start': '715.760', 'end': '720.880', 'text': 'like passionate about bro, like, could you share this? Like, could you help me out? Like, and not'}, {'start': '720.880', 'end': '725.920', 'text': 'like not to it, not on a one to one basis, just in general, like on the stories and being like, Hey'}, {'start': '725.920', 'end': '730.480', 'text': 'man, I work really hard on this. Like if you could share it, I love it. It would mean the world to me'}, {'start': '730.480', 'end': '736.320', 'text': 'like that. The perspective from the outside looking in is all this guys. What, what I feel,'}, {'start': '736.320', 'end': '741.200', 'text': "what I, what a desperate guy, but at the end of the day, man, like, like I, that's how I should be."}, {'start': '741.200', 'end': '747.280', 'text': 'I should be proud of my work. I should be like I put, I put not even hours. I put years of work'}, {'start': '747.280', 'end': '752.320', 'text': "into what I've done. Like I look at the stuff that I do on crag as well. When I was on crowd goes"}, {'start': '752.320', 'end': '757.840', 'text': "wild. And it's like, everyone thought like this guy just came on and he was just a natural bro."}, {'start': '757.840', 'end': '762.960', 'text': "I've been doing this for like years, just not in front of a camera, you know? So yeah, we can get"}, {'start': '762.960', 'end': '768.000', 'text': 'to that later, but yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, 100% dude. So cool, man. I wanted to start with that'}, {'start': '768.000', 'end': '774.800', 'text': 'again. Positive vibes. Now I want to talk to you about the Capo Haka dropout, which is your'}, {'start': '774.800', 'end': '780.880', 'text': 'first full comment. How long is it? Is that a full hour? Yeah. So your first hour stand up,'}, {'start': '780.880', 'end': '788.640', 'text': "which I'm a absolute fanatic of stand up. I love it. I love it. I love it. Love it. Love it. So"}, {'start': '788.640', 'end': '792.880', 'text': "whenever I can get in front of somebody who's working on that craft is amazing because"}, {'start': '792.880', 'end': '798.640', 'text': "I know the creative process behind something like that is just so difficult. It's like,"}, {'start': '798.640', 'end': '803.280', 'text': "it's, it's, it's, it's this grind of going out there and trying jokes and bombing and,"}, {'start': '803.280', 'end': '809.120', 'text': "and reshuffling things and making a cohesive narrative and all of this is such a, it's such"}, {'start': '809.120', 'end': '814.000', 'text': 'a complex art. So I want to talk to you about that because I saw a part of your,'}, {'start': '814.000', 'end': '819.040', 'text': "when you were working out, these are puppies. Yes. I saw that. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah,"}, {'start': '819.040', 'end': '824.320', 'text': "yeah. So, um, let's talk about that. Let's talk about the creative process. How did that start"}, {'start': '824.320', 'end': '829.760', 'text': 'and maybe give us a little bit of context before that. Like how do you decided to get into stand'}, {'start': '829.760', 'end': '835.840', 'text': 'up in the first place and then developing this whole act? Okay. So I have always kind of been,'}, {'start': '835.840', 'end': '842.480', 'text': "what's the word I've always had a goal. Like I've always been like, I make one major, huge,"}, {'start': '842.480', 'end': '848.800', 'text': "brain blowing goal. And I always, I keep that and I'm like, cool, this is my goal. This is what I'm"}, {'start': '848.800', 'end': '854.560', 'text': "doing. And that goal has always been like the North star for me. That's where I'm going towards."}, {'start': '854.560', 'end': '860.560', 'text': "That stuff for me has always been around, um, like doing a late night talk show. Like I've always"}, {'start': '860.560', 'end': '866.320', 'text': "kind of been like, I want to be like the David Letterman type by the side. And yes, it's a huge,"}, {'start': '866.320', 'end': '871.920', 'text': "it's a huge goal. And like, I've been, I've seen this to people and they've gone like that, like,"}, {'start': '871.920', 'end': '877.120', 'text': "and I'm like, nah, in America, not here. I don't want to go to America and do it. And I know it's"}, {'start': '877.120', 'end': '883.760', 'text': "crazy. I know it's crazy, but if it wasn't crazy, it wouldn't push me towards 100 dude. It's fucking"}, {'start': '883.760', 'end': '888.880', 'text': "nuts. Hell, how many times I've said that and I get the eyebrows like, Hey, like what? It's like,"}, {'start': '888.880', 'end': '893.040', 'text': "no, man, I'm going to go to America. I'm going to be David Letterman. Yeah. Or I'm going to be"}, {'start': '893.040', 'end': '899.840', 'text': "Jimmy Kimmel. And yes, it's crazy. But that's the point. That's the fucking point brother. Because"}, {'start': '899.840', 'end': '905.920', 'text': "if it's not crazy, then even if I try and even if I'm getting in my walker and going towards this"}, {'start': '905.920', 'end': '911.120', 'text': "North star, wherever that may be, then I'll push forward. Now, if I think about it and I cut it"}, {'start': '911.120', 'end': '916.160', 'text': "down. And so I got that goal. Here's my, here's my North star. And I want to cut it down. What do I"}, {'start': '916.160', 'end': '921.120', 'text': 'have to be good at? I have to be good at firstly, I have to be good at interviewing somebody. Yeah.'}, {'start': '921.120', 'end': '927.120', 'text': 'Right. So then I did a podcast and it did really well. And I interviewed the huge who of New'}, {'start': '927.120', 'end': '933.120', 'text': 'Zealand and it was, it was great. I was doing all of his zoom during lockdown. I had guests from'}, {'start': '933.760', 'end': '938.960', 'text': "Joseph Parker to John Campbell to you know, Shafu. And I didn't know these people. I just reached"}, {'start': '938.960', 'end': '944.880', 'text': "out and I showed them what I was doing a lot like what you're doing. Yeah. Then that's the one,"}, {'start': '944.880', 'end': '950.960', 'text': "that's one hoi. That's one paddle. Yeah. And then the next pedal was I need to be good at speaking"}, {'start': '950.960', 'end': '955.680', 'text': "in front of the camera. And then that's when the bakery run camera. And that's when I pitched to"}, {'start': '955.680', 'end': '961.520', 'text': "Will who's I will get to you later. But, and he said, let's do it. And then that got me better at"}, {'start': '961.520', 'end': '965.680', 'text': 'talking in front of camera. And one of the other things that they all do is they do monologues and'}, {'start': '965.680', 'end': '969.760', 'text': "they speak and they have to write and they have to do that. And that's the standup side of things."}, {'start': '969.760', 'end': '974.720', 'text': 'Oh, that makes total sense now. So I kind of was like, okay, one, I got all these elements. I just'}, {'start': '974.720', 'end': '979.040', 'text': "have to kind of get better at that. Yeah. Because I don't know if the opportunity is going to come"}, {'start': '979.040', 'end': '985.520', 'text': "ever. I don't know. But if the opportunity somehow arises, at least I'll be ready. You're going to"}, {'start': '985.520', 'end': '990.640', 'text': "be ready. Yeah. And that's the thing, or at least I'm hearing there is this saying that when the,"}, {'start': '990.640', 'end': '996.560', 'text': "when the, when the muse comes, you better catch you working. That's a hundred percent. Yeah. And"}, {'start': '996.560', 'end': '1000.800', 'text': "so that's what I've been doing for the last six, seven years is just building towards this North"}, {'start': '1000.800', 'end': '1006.800', 'text': "star. Whether we're going towards where it is, it's irrelevant, but it's the point that it's the"}, {'start': '1006.800', 'end': '1012.080', 'text': "fact that I'm going towards something towards that. And then all these other little skills that I'm"}, {'start': '1012.080', 'end': '1018.240', 'text': "getting, they're just kind of adding to the toolbox and, you know, I'm getting stronger doing XYZ"}, {'start': '1018.240', 'end': '1024.640', 'text': 'in case that, that opportunity comes. But I, and standup is like the last one that I have to do.'}, {'start': '1024.640', 'end': '1028.800', 'text': 'Yeah. And cause I knew it was the scariest one. Yeah. It is definitely scary, man.'}, {'start': '1028.800', 'end': '1033.440', 'text': "Bro, doing that is just talking in a zoom and talking one-to-one here. It's fine. Like it's"}, {'start': '1033.440', 'end': '1038.960', 'text': "hard. It's and it's a skill with a dance and that's cool. When I, I got that sorted and then,"}, {'start': '1038.960', 'end': '1042.960', 'text': "okay, what's the next one? I keep talking in front of camera. That was hard. But I look at myself and"}, {'start': '1042.960', 'end': '1049.200', 'text': "episode one of the bakery run to the, you know, to our next one that we're doing and I'm 3000%"}, {'start': '1049.200', 'end': '1055.280', 'text': "better. Yeah. So I'm like, okay, let's get, let's get on this standup. But I, I gave it a go and I"}, {'start': '1055.280', 'end': '1063.440', 'text': "thought, I yeah, I'm ready to give it a go. And in 2022, 2022, I gave it a bit of a go and I was like,"}, {'start': '1063.440', 'end': '1068.000', 'text': 'this is, this is not too bad. This is fine. And then, then I just stopped because I was getting'}, {'start': '1068.000', 'end': '1074.560', 'text': "too busy, which is on me. And no, and then poppies came along and yeah, it's just really,"}, {'start': '1074.560', 'end': '1079.280', 'text': "really developed. Yeah. And now it's like, cool. I've got a full hour. Now it's time to really go."}, {'start': '1079.280', 'end': '1084.880', 'text': 'Yeah. Amazing. Wow. That I love the part about the North star because I had that, I had that'}, {'start': '1084.880', 'end': '1090.320', 'text': 'question way down the line here in terms of the end goal, but you have it so clear in your mind'}, {'start': '1090.320', 'end': '1094.560', 'text': "that as first, the first thing I asked you about the beginning is like, he's my North star. This"}, {'start': '1094.560', 'end': '1099.920', 'text': "is how I'm getting there. I love that. I visualize, I know exactly what my desk is going to look like"}, {'start': '1099.920', 'end': '1104.880', 'text': "when, when that happens. I know, I know exactly like who the guest I want to get on, who's going"}, {'start': '1104.880', 'end': '1109.200', 'text': "to be my first guest. I know everything like in my head. I'm like, that's what I'm doing."}, {'start': '1109.200', 'end': '1114.240', 'text': "And like legit man. And I know that you're going to be a father soon. And that's fucking amazing"}, {'start': '1114.240', 'end': '1118.320', 'text': 'brother. And when you have kids, you understand, you probably understand this now, but like,'}, {'start': '1119.600', 'end': '1127.280', 'text': "I want to go if I want to show my kids that I just gave it a go. Yes. That's it. You had a crack at it."}, {'start': '1127.280', 'end': '1131.680', 'text': "I just cracked that. And even though I didn't get there or if I did get there or not, I don't know,"}, {'start': '1131.680', 'end': '1137.440', 'text': "it's early days. But even if I didn't get there, like, at least I gave, at least I gave everything"}, {'start': '1137.440', 'end': '1145.520', 'text': "that I had to improve these, these, these tools in case it happened. Yeah. And that's it. That's it."}, {'start': '1145.520', 'end': '1150.640', 'text': 'That lead by example again. And I said this like seven times in this podcast,'}, {'start': '1150.640', 'end': '1158.080', 'text': 'but the only failure is not to try 100% and also try with everything you have. Yeah.'}, {'start': '1158.080', 'end': '1162.240', 'text': "Like if you're just trying just half half-asset. Yeah. Like I'm looking at this right now and"}, {'start': '1162.240', 'end': '1166.960', 'text': "that's why I think that's why I mentioned, uh, I sent that message to you bro. Cause I saw"}, {'start': '1166.960', 'end': '1172.880', 'text': 'that you are not just giving it a go, putting your iPhone up and talking to you like this is'}, {'start': '1172.880', 'end': '1178.000', 'text': "a full on production, bro. Like, you know, you, you put work into your shit. There's after fix"}, {'start': '1178.000', 'end': '1183.520', 'text': "that goes into that. There's, there's like, I know, I know the steps to get to where you got to."}, {'start': '1183.520', 'end': '1188.320', 'text': "And that's why I was so like, I needed to say that cause I saw it and I was like, damn, right."}, {'start': '1188.320', 'end': '1194.160', 'text': 'This is, this is dope. You know, but, but I, I, I think like, no, no, no, no people do that. But'}, {'start': '1194.160', 'end': '1199.120', 'text': 'yeah, yeah. Yeah. That is the end goal. And I know, man. Yeah. Yeah. I know 100. I had'}, {'start': '1199.120', 'end': '1204.560', 'text': 'entrepreneurs here, musicians, I had a week yesterday here and, and, and the message they'}, {'start': '1204.560', 'end': '1210.400', 'text': 'sent as well for that is like, you gotta go all in because if you have fasted, when you have such an'}, {'start': '1210.400', 'end': '1213.840', 'text': "ambitious goal, you're just not going to get anywhere. And I think that pisses me off more"}, {'start': '1213.840', 'end': '1220.720', 'text': 'is that when people half are stuff there, but they expect the best to happen. Yeah. They expect the'}, {'start': '1220.720', 'end': '1225.360', 'text': "luck to happen. Luck doesn't happen, man. Like luck is just hard work, meaning opportunity."}, {'start': '1225.360', 'end': '1229.760', 'text': "Opportunity. Yeah. So like when the opportunity comes, if you're not ready, then that's on you."}, {'start': '1229.760', 'end': '1234.000', 'text': "That's, that's your fault. That's not my fault. That's not opportunities for if I don't know,"}, {'start': '1234.000', 'end': '1240.160', 'text': "let's say like, if you're a fight, let's say Navajo Sterling, he prepared and then the"}, {'start': '1240.160', 'end': '1245.520', 'text': "opportunity came, he took that opportunity and he fucking smashed it. Like, and it's the same with"}, {'start': '1245.520', 'end': '1251.440', 'text': 'all of the same with Israel. Like Israel was in China fighting four fights a night or something'}, {'start': '1251.440', 'end': '1256.160', 'text': 'like that. Right. Yeah. And then he got an opportunity and he absolutely smashed it.'}, {'start': '1256.160', 'end': '1262.960', 'text': "Yeah. That's one dude that in terms of vision, what an example of just absolute grind and vision"}, {'start': '1262.960', 'end': '1269.200', 'text': "that he has and the drive. Again, one thing as well is that a lot of times people don't go in"}, {'start': '1269.200', 'end': '1274.240', 'text': "because they're not willing to make sacrifices. A hundred. And that's one thing that you just have"}, {'start': '1274.240', 'end': '1280.640', 'text': "to be prepared to do. Yes. You know, especially when you're reaching great heights, like the goal"}, {'start': '1280.640', 'end': '1286.720', 'text': 'that Israel had again, going back to the whole thing, you go on down and tell the regular Kiwi'}, {'start': '1286.720', 'end': '1292.640', 'text': "guy, I'm going to be a UFC hall of famer and one of the greatest middleweights of all time. Yeah."}, {'start': '1292.640', 'end': '1297.920', 'text': "They're going to be like, fuck. I'm doing this. You know what I'm saying? Like, and I, so that's"}, {'start': '1297.920', 'end': '1301.280', 'text': "why you shoot for the stars is why you, you're saying this is what I want to do. And I'm going"}, {'start': '1301.280', 'end': '1306.160', 'text': "to give it a fucking good crack at it. And if you do that, then you'll be happy. And then again,"}, {'start': '1306.160', 'end': '1310.800', 'text': 'you lead by example in terms of your kids and all of that, man. And then my kids will go, man,'}, {'start': '1310.800', 'end': '1316.400', 'text': "at least he gave it a blit. Like, you know, and it's documented. Yes. Like my, my kids grind is"}, {'start': '1316.400', 'end': '1322.080', 'text': 'documented there. Yeah. My, my grand, my great, great grandchildren could possibly see this shit.'}, {'start': '1322.080', 'end': '1325.360', 'text': "You know, that's actually quite cool. Isn't it? Like we don't have it. We don't have that reference."}, {'start': '1325.360', 'end': '1329.120', 'text': 'Yeah. I could say that to my great, great grandparents, you know, but my great, great,'}, {'start': '1329.120', 'end': '1334.000', 'text': 'great grandparent, our grandchild might see this and go, man, that was my, that was my grandfather.'}, {'start': '1334.000', 'end': '1339.520', 'text': "That was my, that was my grandfather's grandfather's good at it. Whatever. And that to me is dope."}, {'start': '1339.520', 'end': '1344.160', 'text': "That is though, because at the end of the day, whenever it's all said and done and, and, and,"}, {'start': '1344.160', 'end': '1350.320', 'text': 'you know, and, and you, you go into the ground and whatever happens, like your legacy is the main'}, {'start': '1350.320', 'end': '1355.760', 'text': "thing. If your legacy, if you leave in a legacy for people to remember you by, then you're good."}, {'start': '1355.760', 'end': '1360.320', 'text': "Like then, then, and you've made people feel a certain way. Yeah. And an impact."}, {'start': '1360.960', 'end': '1366.400', 'text': "That's all it's about is impact, man. 100 bro. I couldn't give a fuck about like, um,"}, {'start': '1366.400', 'end': '1372.080', 'text': "how many views I get or how many followers I have. I couldn't give two shits about that."}, {'start': '1372.080', 'end': '1378.080', 'text': "I mean, it's, it's cool. Don't get me wrong. But like, when I go, I just want, I just want the"}, {'start': '1378.080', 'end': '1382.880', 'text': 'firstly, the dopest mixtape ever, when it comes to like, you know, when you go to a funeral and'}, {'start': '1382.880', 'end': '1387.600', 'text': 'they put the video up, I want that to be the dopest shit ever. Like I want, I want like all'}, {'start': '1387.600', 'end': '1393.520', 'text': 'of these hitters, like me interviewing Israel, me, me, like John Campbell interview, all of these'}, {'start': '1393.520', 'end': '1398.080', 'text': 'things that like the Strickland interview, like bang, bang, bang, bang. And then just like, wow,'}, {'start': '1398.080', 'end': '1403.680', 'text': "this dude really went all out on that shit. And that's it. Like fuck it. Cause yeah,"}, {'start': '1403.680', 'end': '1407.440', 'text': "you can't take your views off you. You can't take all the money with you. That's right."}, {'start': '1407.440', 'end': '1411.840', 'text': 'But the one thing that stays is legacy and memories that you make with people.'}, {'start': '1411.840', 'end': '1416.160', 'text': "Why do people remember you? Why? Yeah. It's not going to be like some unfollows. It's going to be"}, {'start': '1416.160', 'end': '1419.680', 'text': 'this thing that you created that impacted the culture, impacted something.'}, {'start': '1419.680', 'end': '1425.680', 'text': "Let's say like tomorrow, like it might happen. I don't know. You never know. The one thing"}, {'start': '1425.680', 'end': '1431.840', 'text': "you'll remember me by is that into that, that, that 42nd clip and how it made you feel. Yeah."}, {'start': '1431.840', 'end': '1436.160', 'text': "And that's it. That's it. And that's, I would rather leave off that than leave with like,"}, {'start': '1436.160', 'end': '1441.680', 'text': "Oh yeah. Fuckin' Oh yeah. Probably he had probably a million followers. Nobody cares"}, {'start': '1441.680', 'end': '1445.280', 'text': 'about that. Like as long as you can make people feel good and make people feel something.'}, {'start': '1445.840', 'end': '1451.840', 'text': "It's not even good. It's just something like inspiring, inspiring, you know, and all positive"}, {'start': '1451.840', 'end': '1458.000', 'text': "feels. And that's the main thing, bro, because ended a day, bro. Like fuck. We're only here for,"}, {'start': '1458.000', 'end': '1462.560', 'text': "we're not here for an infinite amount of time. 100. It's about legal legacy. Love that bro."}, {'start': '1462.560', 'end': '1470.640', 'text': "Now let's go back to the process behind that. Like tell me a little bit about that. Cause"}, {'start': '1470.640', 'end': '1477.440', 'text': 'wait, basically what I, what I saw at a puppies, um, is a little bit of a catharsis exercise about'}, {'start': '1477.440', 'end': '1481.680', 'text': 'you upbringing, upbringing, all the different experiences that you had, at least the bit that'}, {'start': '1481.680', 'end': '1487.680', 'text': 'I saw was sort of about that different stories that you lived as a, as a light skinned Māori.'}, {'start': '1487.680', 'end': '1494.560', 'text': 'I just say it. Yeah. Um, so walk us through the, what was the sort of, do you, uh, the process'}, {'start': '1494.560', 'end': '1498.320', 'text': "behind, do you, do you think, okay, I'm going to start with these stories and then I'm going to"}, {'start': '1498.320', 'end': '1503.600', 'text': 'pivot to maybe side quests and then bring it all together. How was that whole process together'}, {'start': '1503.600', 'end': '1512.160', 'text': 'into bringing these hours? So like, um, like I had an overarching idea to like give people a bit of'}, {'start': '1512.160', 'end': '1519.920', 'text': "a look into what it's like to identify as Māori and be brought up as you're Māori, but everybody"}, {'start': '1519.920', 'end': '1524.880', 'text': "else sees different, you know, like everybody that doesn't know me sees me a little bit different."}, {'start': '1524.880', 'end': '1531.840', 'text': 'And I wanted to really dive into that in a way that is both funny, but at the same time, you know,'}, {'start': '1531.840', 'end': '1537.120', 'text': "has some, has some substance behind it. Cause it's easy for me to get up and, and, oh, I don't want"}, {'start': '1537.120', 'end': '1542.160', 'text': "to say it's easy, but it is, I could get up and just start talking and being like, here's a joke,"}, {'start': '1542.160', 'end': '1546.640', 'text': "here's a joke, blah, blah, blah. I put all the jokes together and then away I go. But for me,"}, {'start': '1546.640', 'end': '1553.840', 'text': 'like I honed in on like five real key memories that I had growing up, uh, around being, um,'}, {'start': '1554.480', 'end': '1561.920', 'text': 'white, my skin being white, but like my, my, my white or it being, being Māori. And, um, I was like,'}, {'start': '1561.920', 'end': '1567.280', 'text': "okay, these five moments, let's try and make some, what was funny about them first. And I write those"}, {'start': '1567.280', 'end': '1571.680', 'text': 'down and I was like, what, what are the learnings behind it? Um, one of the stories I talk about'}, {'start': '1571.680', 'end': '1577.200', 'text': 'is the time that, um, I got in a little bit of trouble and we were running away from the police'}, {'start': '1577.200', 'end': '1586.080', 'text': 'dogs. Um, and my older, my older cousin, my older cousin was like, cause I was smaller and he, so he'}, {'start': '1586.080', 'end': '1591.680', 'text': "used me to get in and unlock doors. Right? So that's how it started. And then we got in trouble."}, {'start': '1591.680', 'end': '1598.080', 'text': "We ran away, but then the police dog didn't bite me. He only put my, put my cousin, but my cousin's"}, {'start': '1598.080', 'end': '1607.040', 'text': 'brown skin. So that was the first time I realized I have a gift. You know, so, but yeah,'}, {'start': '1607.120', 'end': '1612.560', 'text': "so that was like a story, but it wasn't funny at the time, but now that I think about it,"}, {'start': '1612.560', 'end': '1617.920', 'text': 'and the cool thing about comedy is you can kind of add, you can turn it up to 12. 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Like I'm"}, {'start': '1653.680', 'end': '1659.680', 'text': "more excited than anything at multiple things is can I do it? Cause it's very interesting to be"}, {'start': '1659.680', 'end': '1664.560', 'text': 'able to stand up there for a full hour and check and check and keep people engaged. And the other'}, {'start': '1664.560', 'end': '1670.880', 'text': "one is like, can I pull it all together that it's one coherent thing? And, uh, and then, you know,"}, {'start': '1670.880', 'end': '1676.000', 'text': "obviously, I mean, can you sell the tickets and can you, yeah. Okay. You, or there's other side"}, {'start': '1676.000', 'end': '1681.200', 'text': "things, but now I'm really interested in just building it up so I can like share what it's"}, {'start': '1681.200', 'end': '1685.520', 'text': "like. Like, you know, like that's why it's called the cup, I could drop out because like an"}, {'start': '1685.520', 'end': '1690.480', 'text': 'intermediate, I was all about cup hucker and I loved cup hucker. And that was, that was my way'}, {'start': '1690.480', 'end': '1694.960', 'text': 'of connecting with my final note. And then in high school, I get to high school and I was like, nah,'}, {'start': '1694.960', 'end': '1700.320', 'text': "I'm too cool for this or it was like a nah, like they all make fun of me because I'm the white one,"}, {'start': '1700.320', 'end': '1705.360', 'text': "you know? And, um, and then, yeah, so that's why it was called the cup hucker dropout and a play on"}, {'start': '1705.360', 'end': '1711.200', 'text': "words of the college dropout, which is Kanye West's album. Yeah. I saw that. That's cool. The whole"}, {'start': '1711.200', 'end': '1716.480', 'text': 'cover, the design was pretty dope. Um, bro, for people listening, uh, from Kazakhstan, what does'}, {'start': '1716.480', 'end': '1722.000', 'text': "cup hucker mean? So cup hucker is sorry. Yeah. Good point. So cup hucker, if you don't know is like, uh,"}, {'start': '1722.000', 'end': '1727.760', 'text': 'the Maori equivalent of our song, our wire to our songs, our dances, our hucker. A lot of people'}, {'start': '1727.760', 'end': '1733.840', 'text': 'know a hucker and, uh, yeah, you do it growing up as a, in Kohanga and then you go to primary school,'}, {'start': '1733.840', 'end': '1738.080', 'text': "a school and you, it's kind of like a performance. Yeah. When you come to New Zealand, you'll see it"}, {'start': '1738.080', 'end': '1743.120', 'text': "everywhere that, you know, and, um, yeah, it's very kind of like, it's the way it's what it's another"}, {'start': '1743.120', 'end': '1749.600', 'text': "way. It's probably one of the strongest ways that, um, that Maori kind of keep, keep our culture"}, {'start': '1749.600', 'end': '1756.080', 'text': "alive and keep our, cause there's, there's wire to that go way back and what it talks about. And"}, {'start': '1756.080', 'end': '1761.280', 'text': "yeah, so like it's connecting with that for my final for me. And then, yeah, just to drop out"}, {'start': '1761.280', 'end': '1766.560', 'text': "and just be like, nah, I'm too cool. Oh, nah, those, those guys mock me cause I'm, I'm, I'm a"}, {'start': '1766.560', 'end': '1771.200', 'text': "little bit more whiter than the others. And so that's where it all comes from. Yeah. Oh, I see."}, {'start': '1771.200', 'end': '1777.840', 'text': "I see. That's amazing. Um, bro. So, uh, walk me through, um, the, um, cause one of the interesting"}, {'start': '1777.840', 'end': '1782.320', 'text': 'things about any creative process, it could be a designer toy that you make or whatever is a bit'}, {'start': '1782.320', 'end': '1787.280', 'text': 'of a feedback loop of putting something out there, getting some feedback, remolding, keep going and'}, {'start': '1787.280', 'end': '1794.080', 'text': 'going back and forth. What was that like for this particular hour in terms of do you do a different'}, {'start': '1794.080', 'end': '1799.040', 'text': "spots and then try different bits and then that's how we started molding it or yeah. So I, I live"}, {'start': '1799.040', 'end': '1805.200', 'text': "in Taranaki. So it's, there's no comedy clubs there, which is a gift and a curse because it gives me"}, {'start': '1805.200', 'end': '1810.080', 'text': "time to sit down and write. And I can't go, I'm so excited about this. I'm going to go and test it"}, {'start': '1810.080', 'end': '1815.360', 'text': "out at the, at the comedy club, but it also at the same, the feedback loop you don't get. Yeah. So,"}, {'start': '1815.360', 'end': '1821.680', 'text': 'but in terms of that, using technology and getting on a zooms with people that are comics and doing'}, {'start': '1821.680', 'end': '1826.880', 'text': 'a bit and saying like, Hey, what about this? Um, have, has been really, really beneficial. Like,'}, {'start': '1826.880', 'end': '1833.280', 'text': "I'm talking to like, um, who else are like Keegan Givend who's an amazing comic and here's a Dawson"}, {'start': '1833.280', 'end': '1839.120', 'text': "and, and, uh, being able to get on and, and, and brainstorm style. Okay. So that's how you get the,"}, {'start': '1839.120', 'end': '1843.600', 'text': "the feedback. Yeah. But it's nothing like a real crowd. Like there's nothing like getting in front"}, {'start': '1843.600', 'end': '1847.200', 'text': 'of something and having a real crowd, but the more that you do it, you kind of figure out like,'}, {'start': '1847.200', 'end': '1851.520', 'text': "Oh, that will be, this might pop like that was like, I'm always testing things out. Like I just"}, {'start': '1851.520', 'end': '1856.640', 'text': "tested a bit out on you about like, that was a racist dog. Like I haven't done that on stage yet,"}, {'start': '1856.640', 'end': '1860.720', 'text': "but I got it live from you. So I'm like, forget a lot from the bro. It should be all right. You know,"}, {'start': '1860.720', 'end': '1866.800', 'text': 'it should give me something. And, um, yeah, but that is, that is what comedy is all about.'}, {'start': '1866.800', 'end': '1872.480', 'text': "It's like you, you have an idea, you write it down, you formulate it, you come up with a,"}, {'start': '1872.480', 'end': '1877.040', 'text': "the way, uh, you know, the structure of how it's going to work. And then you go out and give it a"}, {'start': '1877.040', 'end': '1884.080', 'text': "go. My, my bits that I've really put a lot of work into, like we're talking like 40, 30, 40 times"}, {'start': '1884.080', 'end': '1888.880', 'text': "I've done that. Oh, nice. Yeah. So it's like, okay, cool. But, um, with this whole thing, like I,"}, {'start': '1888.880', 'end': '1896.800', 'text': 'I wrote, you know, like 10 different 10, I was, I six or six different 10 minute blocks.'}, {'start': '1896.800', 'end': '1900.880', 'text': "And then I came, I'm just coming up to Auckland and trying those 10 minute blocks out and just"}, {'start': '1900.880', 'end': '1904.720', 'text': "saying, does that work? Oh no. Oh, I've got to fix that one up. And then I'll go back,"}, {'start': '1904.720', 'end': '1909.840', 'text': "listen to the recordings and then make changes. Yeah. Yeah. Get ready, bro. Let's talk about"}, {'start': '1909.840', 'end': '1915.520', 'text': "quickly this because I talked to, um, to, to comics like, um, like it, I'd sat down with that"}, {'start': '1915.520', 'end': '1920.720', 'text': "and we had it, we had a yarn and we talked about something that's quite interesting, um, that I"}, {'start': '1920.720', 'end': '1927.360', 'text': 'sort of never thought about. And, and it was about the fact that as a Brown comedian,'}, {'start': '1928.000', 'end': '1934.800', 'text': 'there are many things that we can talk about that other Brown people sort of feel comfortable'}, {'start': '1934.800', 'end': '1938.480', 'text': "laughing about. Yes. Um, cause he used, he said to me, it's like, you know, the, the,"}, {'start': '1938.480', 'end': '1942.960', 'text': "the comedy in New Zealand is really white. Like you go to these crowds and I've been in, in, in"}, {'start': '1942.960', 'end': '1947.680', 'text': 'events where I just bomb real hard and I get a laugh out of the, the bouncer at the door,'}, {'start': '1947.680', 'end': '1952.640', 'text': "you know, it's like this, uh, it's so it's, and I, and I guess it's because my interpretation is"}, {'start': '1952.640', 'end': '1956.160', 'text': "always like, okay, well, there's, there's many things that you and I can connect with, right?"}, {'start': '1956.160', 'end': '1961.440', 'text': "Ratio profiling, for example, if I'm Colombian, I don't get easy through fucking any airport in"}, {'start': '1961.440', 'end': '1966.400', 'text': 'the world. Right. So I can, I can connect with being with that and it makes it really funny.'}, {'start': '1966.400', 'end': '1972.480', 'text': 'But some people feel really uncomfortable laughing about these issues that we have to deal with. And'}, {'start': '1972.480', 'end': '1977.440', 'text': 'we express them in, in, in art in last, uh, like standup comedy as a way of catharsis,'}, {'start': '1977.440', 'end': '1982.160', 'text': 'as a way of kind of get rid of that, of that stigma in a way. How do you deal with that sort'}, {'start': '1982.160', 'end': '1986.480', 'text': "of thing when you, when you, you know, you go into this, into this hour and you don't know who's"}, {'start': '1986.480', 'end': '1990.320', 'text': "going to be sitting on the audience to, to keep those people engaged. Cause you don't know who's"}, {'start': '1990.320', 'end': '1993.920', 'text': 'going to be there. Such a hard task because you have to connect, like you said, and keep them'}, {'start': '1993.920', 'end': '1998.480', 'text': 'engaged. If hallway, even from your language, the language that you use, the words that you use,'}, {'start': '1998.480', 'end': '2004.960', 'text': 'sometimes if you tap too much into your accent or your, or your, um, specific dialect, if you lose'}, {'start': '2004.960', 'end': '2010.400', 'text': "them, then that's it is gone and you have to sort of keep them there somewhere. What is, how do you"}, {'start': '2010.400', 'end': '2015.680', 'text': 'approach that sort of, um, challenge or do you even see it as a challenge? It is a challenge,'}, {'start': '2015.680', 'end': '2022.640', 'text': "but I mean, like I only speak for myself, like Ed, it's a great comic and he, he has his thing."}, {'start': '2022.640', 'end': '2029.440', 'text': "And he said, so I'm like speaking on my experience is that like, I try to think about it. Like"}, {'start': '2029.440', 'end': '2037.120', 'text': "if I can make this joke universal, then I can sell it anywhere. Yeah, that's right. It's almost like"}, {'start': '2038.240', 'end': '2043.200', 'text': 'getting like coming up with a beverage, right? And making that beverage as best as you can.'}, {'start': '2043.200', 'end': '2046.880', 'text': "As accessible as possible. So everybody can get it. Yeah. That's what I was getting to. Yeah."}, {'start': '2046.880', 'end': '2053.600', 'text': 'Cause like I have jokes that are very, very moly centric. Yeah. Like I have, yeah, I have a very'}, {'start': '2053.600', 'end': '2059.280', 'text': "moly centric kind of like view on the world because that's what I know. Yeah. And I mean,"}, {'start': '2059.280', 'end': '2063.760', 'text': "it was probably the same with Ed that's, you know, his, his being Mexican, being in New Zealand,"}, {'start': '2063.760', 'end': '2070.880', 'text': "that's what he knows. Right. So like if, but if you could, if for me, I am trying like here's me,"}, {'start': '2070.880', 'end': '2077.440', 'text': "I'm the, the, the, the black part of the, um, the Venn diagram and the white part of the Venn diagram"}, {'start': '2077.440', 'end': '2082.160', 'text': "and the people that don't get it. If I can somehow bring it together and make it gray somehow,"}, {'start': '2082.160', 'end': '2087.840', 'text': "if I can figure a word that could possibly get in there, I can, that's the whole Rubik's cube of this"}, {'start': '2087.840', 'end': '2092.880', 'text': 'whole thing. Is that right? You look at it and you go, okay, how can I make this whole side kind of'}, {'start': '2092.880', 'end': '2100.080', 'text': 'gray? And, um, yeah, just using that and trying to identify like what is, what are some keywords or'}, {'start': '2100.080', 'end': '2104.720', 'text': 'what are some key sayings that they, they could get like, for an example, I did a joke around,'}, {'start': '2104.720', 'end': '2110.480', 'text': 'I have a joke around what we call inorganics. See, if I just came out and I said, man, inorganics is'}, {'start': '2110.480', 'end': '2115.360', 'text': "great. You don't know what inorganics is. Then I figured out only people in South Auckland know"}, {'start': '2115.360', 'end': '2122.560', 'text': 'what inorganics is. So, okay. So the joke is like in South Auckland, we get two Christmases.'}, {'start': '2122.560', 'end': '2127.680', 'text': 'We have the December, then we have inorganics. See, if I just left the joke like that, nobody knows,'}, {'start': '2127.680', 'end': '2132.800', 'text': 'but then like when I explained that inorganics was a time in my life where people would just throw'}, {'start': '2132.800', 'end': '2139.280', 'text': 'stuff out on the lawn in front of your house and a truck would come past and pick it up and put it'}, {'start': '2139.280', 'end': '2145.440', 'text': 'in the rubbish. But like the context of it, if I, I have to kind of think like, okay, I have to make'}, {'start': '2145.440', 'end': '2149.920', 'text': "this accessible for everybody. Cause then I found out it's only South Auckland thing. So if I went"}, {'start': '2149.920', 'end': '2153.440', 'text': "to Hamilton, I did it. They wouldn't know what the hell I'm talking about. Or if I went to, you know,"}, {'start': '2153.440', 'end': '2157.520', 'text': "so like, it's all about that. I'm not saying that it doesn't do that. He does that a great job. But"}, {'start': '2157.520', 'end': '2163.120', 'text': "for me, I need to, sometimes I have to roll it back because it's funny in my head. That's right."}, {'start': '2163.120', 'end': '2167.520', 'text': "That's hilarious. But then I'm like, and I can do it at poppies cause it's in South Auckland,"}, {'start': '2167.520', 'end': '2173.040', 'text': "but I can't, I have to fast forward it and really explain it and get it through. I mean, when I'm,"}, {'start': '2173.040', 'end': '2179.840', 'text': "when I do comedy, I need to tell people in the first 15 seconds that I am a Maori and I'm"}, {'start': '2179.920', 'end': '2185.040', 'text': "fair skinned and I don't look like you, but I am a Maori because then later on when I'm saying these"}, {'start': '2185.040', 'end': '2189.280', 'text': 'jokes, it will make sense. I connect the dots. You need to contextualize it first for them.'}, {'start': '2189.280', 'end': '2192.320', 'text': "And you can't sit there and go this, this, this white guy shouldn't be saying this. Yeah,"}, {'start': '2192.320', 'end': '2195.840', 'text': "exactly. Right. That's right. But I need to, I need to give them context. Like, no, this is my"}, {'start': '2195.840', 'end': '2200.880', 'text': 'fucker popper. This is who I fuck a popper to. This is whatever. This is who I am. And, and then'}, {'start': '2200.880', 'end': '2206.160', 'text': "it's a bit different, but that's not all my jokes. You know what I mean? But I need to make sure that"}, {'start': '2206.160', 'end': '2211.360', 'text': "I'm, I'm very, very clear on that. Otherwise, you know, things, but in terms of like comedy being"}, {'start': '2211.360', 'end': '2217.520', 'text': 'really white in New Zealand, I mean, when you look at it, the biggest, the biggest comedy club is the'}, {'start': '2217.520', 'end': '2222.880', 'text': "classic comedy club and that's in central Auckland. You know, there's not a lot of Maori that live in"}, {'start': '2222.880', 'end': '2229.280', 'text': "that vicinity. Right. So, you know, and a lot of people it's hard. It's really hard to park,"}, {'start': '2229.280', 'end': '2233.360', 'text': "you know, oh, you know, you park at the civic that's $12, then you get out and you gotta get"}, {'start': '2233.360', 'end': '2238.480', 'text': "drinks. It's just $15 and then, you know, get a ticket. That's $20. And it's really hard for that."}, {'start': '2238.480', 'end': '2243.200', 'text': "Like we, like it's easy for us to sit back and go, you know, there's only white, white audiences"}, {'start': '2243.200', 'end': '2249.440', 'text': "in there and it's true. What I'd said is true. It is very true. There are, but there's a reason why"}, {'start': '2249.440', 'end': '2254.240', 'text': "it's cause you know, like there's too much friction for other people to kind of, yeah. And that's where"}, {'start': '2254.240', 'end': '2259.120', 'text': 'like poppies was amazing, dude. Tell me what you thought of poppies. Bro, I thought it was amazing.'}, {'start': '2259.120', 'end': '2265.040', 'text': 'Like the, first of all, I knew about it because when Ed came in the podcast, he and I told him,'}, {'start': '2265.040', 'end': '2269.680', 'text': 'I love standup and I was telling him that, you know, everywhere I go, like even when I went to'}, {'start': '2269.680', 'end': '2274.880', 'text': 'the States, I went to the comedy store. I like to go to comedy shows and I like to see the like'}, {'start': '2274.880', 'end': '2280.880', 'text': "comics working at their craft. But I was like, man, the scene here is not like, it's not that much."}, {'start': '2280.880', 'end': '2285.200', 'text': "Right. And you basically later, an example, I've been to the classic many times. And for example,"}, {'start': '2285.200', 'end': '2289.440', 'text': "one thing that for me kind of killed the Bible a little bit, I'm being honest here,"}, {'start': '2289.440', 'end': '2295.680', 'text': 'is I went one day to my wife, whatever, then went back again and then the same comics did the exact'}, {'start': '2295.680', 'end': '2300.960', 'text': 'same jokes. So to me, I was like, okay, fuck. Okay. This is, I want to see something different.'}, {'start': '2300.960', 'end': '2306.640', 'text': 'Right. Anyway. And then Ed was telling me, bro, there is this new comedy club. And as soon as he'}, {'start': '2306.640', 'end': '2311.840', 'text': "said he's in the hood, he's in Río. I've never been to Río in my life. Oh, okay. Welcome."}, {'start': '2313.680', 'end': '2318.560', 'text': "And then he said, and he's in somewhere's garage. I was like, and he's in his, and he told me about"}, {'start': '2318.560', 'end': '2323.520', 'text': 'Joe Damon, a big fan of Joe Damon. I was like, fuck yeah, I want to try it out. So I went that'}, {'start': '2323.520', 'end': '2329.680', 'text': "same weekend. And what I saw was grassroots comedy. Like that's what I felt. I was like, man,"}, {'start': '2329.680', 'end': '2337.840', 'text': "this is so incredible. And I saw us, I saw Joe Damon's work there as well and how, you know,"}, {'start': '2337.840', 'end': '2343.360', 'text': 'he connected with that audience. And, and for me, the first time seeing him live, I was like, wow,'}, {'start': '2343.360', 'end': '2349.760', 'text': "this guy's fucking next level in terms of his writing. But the whole setup is amazing. I loved"}, {'start': '2349.760', 'end': '2354.640', 'text': "it. I don't know how the money side works, but to make it, you know, more profitable for them. I"}, {'start': '2354.640', 'end': '2358.480', 'text': "don't know if they can sell drinks. I don't think they can. No, they can't. But, yeah, so."}, {'start': '2358.480', 'end': '2362.960', 'text': "That's what I mean. Like, how can you, how can we turn this into a full profitable business that"}, {'start': '2362.960', 'end': '2369.040', 'text': "becomes the place where comedians can go and work out? Because that's the thing I saw is that for,"}, {'start': '2369.040', 'end': '2375.280', 'text': 'in order to be great comedy, you need a place for comedians to go and work. Yes. Yeah. And for that'}, {'start': '2375.280', 'end': '2380.880', 'text': 'to happen, you need to have a place where they can go and try these jokes out. And it has to be,'}, {'start': '2380.880', 'end': '2387.600', 'text': "if possible, every weekend and even more, you know, every, I don't know, every three or four days,"}, {'start': '2387.600', 'end': '2391.520', 'text': "like in the States. Yeah. That's what happens over there. Right. On a Wednesday, you're going to"}, {'start': '2391.520', 'end': '2396.480', 'text': 'catch your rug and the comedies to go back in the day and then try something out. And then these'}, {'start': '2396.480', 'end': '2400.080', 'text': "other comic comes and then they just try things out. That's how they build their hour. That's how"}, {'start': '2400.080', 'end': '2406.240', 'text': "you do it. Exactly. But here that sort of doesn't seem to be the case. It's hard. It's hard. I mean,"}, {'start': '2406.240', 'end': '2412.400', 'text': "yeah, it's just hard in general to have a, have a lease on a place and build it into something by"}, {'start': '2412.400', 'end': '2418.640', 'text': 'the time that you build it to something like, I mean, the classic has been up like 20, 25 years.'}, {'start': '2418.640', 'end': '2425.120', 'text': "Like, so I think it might be more, but you know, like, like it's got a, it's got a legacy. It's got"}, {'start': '2425.120', 'end': '2431.200', 'text': 'a lineage where his puppies has been open. I got to give a, so like a little bit of context about'}, {'start': '2431.200', 'end': '2438.000', 'text': "puppies. So I, so Hetta Dawson, who has created poppies, that's his house, you know? And so the"}, {'start': '2438.000', 'end': '2443.040', 'text': "people that don't know, like they're listening. This guy was a comic. He's a comic. He's still"}, {'start': '2443.040', 'end': '2448.800', 'text': "a comic. He's a good comic. And he's just like, there's nowhere, like there was a lot of complaints"}, {'start': '2448.800', 'end': '2454.880', 'text': 'about like Brown comedians not getting enough opportunity and like Brown audience, not getting'}, {'start': '2454.880', 'end': '2461.760', 'text': "able to see what comedy was about. And Hetta just goes stuff it. We're just gonna, I'm just gonna"}, {'start': '2461.760', 'end': '2468.960', 'text': "clean up my garage and we're just gonna do it here. I stay, I lived at, I lived at that house. I lived"}, {'start': '2468.960', 'end': '2475.680', 'text': "at Hetta's house. Hetta has like a, he has a little like a flat next to poppies. And so like when I"}, {'start': '2475.680', 'end': '2480.640', 'text': "was, so yeah, it was a long story. You know, I was like, I need a place to stay because I'm working"}, {'start': '2480.640', 'end': '2485.360', 'text': "up here. And he's like, oh bro, you can just come here and just pay rent here and we're good. So I"}, {'start': '2485.360', 'end': '2490.400', 'text': 'was living there. And while he was building everything and I was just like, this is crazy,'}, {'start': '2490.400', 'end': '2496.640', 'text': "bro. Like this is nuts. And, and to see where it is now, I think he's only been going for like six"}, {'start': '2496.640', 'end': '2504.720', 'text': "months. He's like one of the hottest bookers like in New Zealand. Yeah. You don't, you don't get in."}, {'start': '2504.720', 'end': '2510.240', 'text': "It's not like a, it's not like open mic. You don't just get in there. Like you have to show that"}, {'start': '2510.240', 'end': '2516.480', 'text': "you've done some work and Hetta will see it and go, okay, you can jump on. And it's not a gatekeeping"}, {'start': '2516.480', 'end': '2521.360', 'text': "thing. It's more of a like, I need to protect the, the culture of this place. Cause if he's just"}, {'start': '2521.360', 'end': '2526.320', 'text': "getting anybody on, then it's just going to be like another bar, you know? So, but no, it's been"}, {'start': '2526.320', 'end': '2532.240', 'text': "really good. It's, it's so important. Like it's such an important thing that it is. Yeah. But we"}, {'start': '2532.240', 'end': '2536.400', 'text': "didn't know that we needed, but now I'm like, man, I couldn't do it any other way. Yeah. I know. I"}, {'start': '2536.400', 'end': '2541.200', 'text': 'think it was a necessary thing to, to, to have, when I saw it as, and I also message, uh, puppies'}, {'start': '2541.200', 'end': '2545.200', 'text': "as I may, why are you guys are doing that is incredible. So that's why I try to share those"}, {'start': '2545.200', 'end': '2550.000', 'text': "videos as well to try to get people to know about, about them. Again, it's more accessible,"}, {'start': '2550.000', 'end': '2555.520', 'text': "I think for a lot of audiences. Yeah. And, and there's also diversity. I saw like comedians of"}, {'start': '2555.520', 'end': '2561.600', 'text': "all. Yeah. He's just amazing. He's, he's great like that. He'll, he'll, you know, he gives everybody"}, {'start': '2561.600', 'end': '2566.000', 'text': "an opportunity. It's not just like, oh yeah. Whoever wants to show up or he's desperate for"}, {'start': '2566.000', 'end': '2570.000', 'text': "people. He's not desperate at all. Like he just, he knows, he knows the community. He's like, he's"}, {'start': '2570.000', 'end': '2574.160', 'text': "the MC right with that day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah. He's as amazing. Like, yeah, he was"}, {'start': '2574.160', 'end': '2578.720', 'text': "really funny as well. He does like a door, like he just gets things done and that's what I like"}, {'start': '2578.720', 'end': '2583.040', 'text': "about him the most. Every time I come up to Auckland, like that's where I stay. I stay with him."}, {'start': '2583.040', 'end': '2588.880', 'text': "And, uh, we just run jokes and he he's, he's got like my borderline. He's, he's my mentor almost."}, {'start': '2588.880', 'end': '2594.560', 'text': "And he tells me, Hey man, this joke, just joking that joke, but he's a good dude, man. And he's"}, {'start': '2594.560', 'end': '2598.640', 'text': "just, it comes back to what you said at the start. It's being the change that you want to be,"}, {'start': '2598.640', 'end': '2606.240', 'text': "you want to see like, and you're being the change that you want to see in the world and just"}, {'start': '2606.240', 'end': '2611.520', 'text': "getting out of doing it, man. 100, 100 for people listening out there. If you haven't been to poppies,"}, {'start': '2611.520', 'end': '2615.120', 'text': "give her a crack bro. When I went, he was sold out. So I think that's pretty sold out."}, {'start': '2615.120', 'end': '2620.240', 'text': "Bro, how about this bro? The next one is in a couple of Fridays. I think it's the Friday,"}, {'start': '2620.240', 'end': '2625.280', 'text': "the 28th. I think it is, bro. They sold out and they haven't even, they didn't even put"}, {'start': '2625.280', 'end': '2631.680', 'text': "anything out. Yeah. They don't put a poster out. If I, if I lived like right there, vicinity or"}, {'start': '2631.680', 'end': '2636.640', 'text': "whatever, I'll go every weekend because it's just, well, like, okay, I'm going to break some news for"}, {'start': '2636.640', 'end': '2644.160', 'text': "you. Okay. I don't know if I'll get right. After I think it's June, July, poppies is going to be"}, {'start': '2644.160', 'end': '2651.440', 'text': "doing this thing. Okay. Every Friday night. Okay. It's called Brown Fridays. Oh yeah. And you go there."}, {'start': '2651.440', 'end': '2657.600', 'text': "You don't know who's on the cars. Okay. Nice. You don't have a clue and then you just have to show"}, {'start': '2657.600', 'end': '2663.040', 'text': "up and just trust. Yeah. Yeah. And it's going to be great. That's, that sounds awesome. Yeah. That's"}, {'start': '2663.040', 'end': '2666.320', 'text': "how they do it in the States as well. You just buy the ticket for the show. You don't know who"}, {'start': '2666.320', 'end': '2672.720', 'text': "is going to be on. Yeah. And we're hoping to really kind of pop it off where it's like, you know,"}, {'start': '2672.720', 'end': '2678.400', 'text': 'some real, real good comics and also some like celebrity guests and shit like that. But yeah,'}, {'start': '2678.400', 'end': '2683.120', 'text': "it's going to be, it's going to be huge. Yeah. And yeah, I'm, I'm going to be running a show out of"}, {'start': '2683.120', 'end': '2689.760', 'text': "there probably sometime in July every month. Oh nice. So like it's, it's a bit of a, it's a bit"}, {'start': '2689.760', 'end': '2693.120', 'text': "of a different one, but it's going to be, it's going to be quite cool. It's going to be good,"}, {'start': '2693.120', 'end': '2697.760', 'text': "man. And I'm glad that poppies is doing this because again, like my whole initial point was"}, {'start': '2697.760', 'end': '2703.280', 'text': 'all about, you need a place for people to work out. And I think this is an amazing place. Yeah.'}, {'start': '2703.280', 'end': '2710.640', 'text': "And it's just like, you can, I can work on jokes that the people that will pay for a ticket"}, {'start': '2710.640', 'end': '2716.720', 'text': "for my show would, would appreciate. Like I know that there's, you know, there's some jokes that"}, {'start': '2716.720', 'end': '2721.280', 'text': "I could say at the classic, they'll get a joke. It might get a laugh. My bomb doesn't matter. I"}, {'start': '2721.280', 'end': '2726.240', 'text': "don't know. But like I know for a fact that some of those people that aren't laughing there, they"}, {'start': '2726.240', 'end': '2730.240', 'text': "won't buy a ticket to my hour or they won't come and watch me perform for an hour. Those people"}, {'start': '2730.240', 'end': '2733.920', 'text': 'that come for an hour, the ones that are like invested, like I like this guy, I like this guy.'}, {'start': '2733.920', 'end': '2738.960', 'text': "Right. So, but those people are all in South Auckland for me. They're all in Montero and"}, {'start': '2738.960', 'end': '2744.240', 'text': "they're all in, you know, South Oats and their Otaara and all that place, you know? So I would"}, {'start': '2744.240', 'end': '2749.760', 'text': "rather invest my time in trying out jokes there, right? Where I'll get like legit feedback,"}, {'start': '2749.760', 'end': '2753.840', 'text': "getting here now. They don't like that joke because they don't understand the word"}, {'start': '2753.840', 'end': '2758.480', 'text': "kopapa or they don't understand the word, you know, me saying this, you know, like,"}, {'start': '2758.480', 'end': '2762.880', 'text': "but do you do like, cause I'm thinking based on what you said before about making the jokes"}, {'start': '2762.880', 'end': '2768.480', 'text': 'universal. Do you think about, well, I do have to sort of maybe like, double down a bit,'}, {'start': '2768.480', 'end': '2773.280', 'text': 'like double down a little bit and then go, go here and try it out just maybe once. And then here,'}, {'start': '2773.280', 'end': '2776.400', 'text': 'I tried a little bit more and kind of get that dual feedback as well.'}, {'start': '2776.400', 'end': '2779.760', 'text': "Yeah. So I'll go to the classic and I'll change. Like, like, let's say the word,"}, {'start': '2779.760', 'end': '2784.880', 'text': "there's a word that I use called kori taki, which means useless and moldy. Right. And it's,"}, {'start': '2784.880', 'end': '2790.560', 'text': "or there's another one called paru. Okay. Paru universally, like a lot of people know that what"}, {'start': '2790.560', 'end': '2796.080', 'text': "that means, I mean dirty or filthy. Right. And so like, I'll say that I'll say paru. And if I say"}, {'start': '2796.080', 'end': '2800.640', 'text': 'paru in South Auckland, it gets a laugh straight away. If I say that paru, that paru bitch, like,'}, {'start': '2800.640', 'end': '2805.280', 'text': "something like that, that paru girl, if I say that, it'll get a laugh. If I say that in,"}, {'start': '2805.280', 'end': '2810.000', 'text': 'and the classic, I have to kind of say, well, paru means dirty and paru means this and that.'}, {'start': '2810.000', 'end': '2815.120', 'text': "And so, you know, it takes up your word economy a little bit because you can't be using too much"}, {'start': '2815.120', 'end': '2820.960', 'text': "words. But then at the same time, it's, it's, it's bringing a little bit of information because I"}, {'start': '2820.960', 'end': '2825.040', 'text': 'still want it to be informative. Yeah. I think the important part is that you acknowledge this thing'}, {'start': '2825.040', 'end': '2830.320', 'text': 'and you understand economy of words. You understand that this is a context and then you can, yeah,'}, {'start': '2830.320', 'end': '2834.960', 'text': 'you can sort of manage that and then you can read the audience as well. As soon as you jump in there,'}, {'start': '2834.960', 'end': '2839.440', 'text': "you understand, boom, this is what's happening. And I talked about this, he said, you know,"}, {'start': '2839.440', 'end': '2844.880', 'text': 'he has these Mexican jokes, me about me being Mexican in New Zealand. Okay, here they kind of'}, {'start': '2844.880', 'end': '2851.040', 'text': "get it. He doesn't have any, he tried the same jokes in the States, bombed, because the context"}, {'start': '2851.040', 'end': '2855.040', 'text': "is very different over there that they heard that those jokes many, many times. There's"}, {'start': '2855.040', 'end': '2862.000', 'text': 'thousands of Mexicans over there. Yeah. So over there, bombed. So, okay, well, I have to change'}, {'start': '2862.000', 'end': '2866.640', 'text': "that now I'm going to, he said in the podcast, I'm going to try my fat jokes, try these fat jokes over"}, {'start': '2866.640', 'end': '2872.640', 'text': 'there. Boom. Killed it. Yeah. So I think understanding that context. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.'}, {'start': '2872.640', 'end': '2877.120', 'text': 'What is it? What, what, what makes you guys tick? And the good thing about comedy is you can try,'}, {'start': '2877.120', 'end': '2883.840', 'text': 'you can try multiple angles in a set. Like you have eight to 10 minutes or, or maybe more'}, {'start': '2883.840', 'end': '2886.800', 'text': "where you can go, okay, that didn't work. Whatever this one, whatever this one,"}, {'start': '2886.800', 'end': '2890.640', 'text': "oh, you guys like that one. And then once I don't have a library of things like that,"}, {'start': '2890.640', 'end': '2896.080', 'text': "but I know comics that do soon as they figure out the, what makes you tick, then they'll just,"}, {'start': '2896.080', 'end': '2898.960', 'text': "they've got double down on that. They've just got jokes for that. Like,"}, {'start': '2898.960', 'end': '2904.400', 'text': "they've got like, it's probably got about six or seven fat jokes that he can pull out. Yeah."}, {'start': '2904.400', 'end': '2908.560', 'text': "No, he, he improvises a lot as well. And then there's that too. Yeah. And then there's crowdwork"}, {'start': '2908.560', 'end': '2912.640', 'text': "and then there's other things. So yeah, let's talk about the product, which is the cup of"}, {'start': '2912.640', 'end': '2917.760', 'text': "dropout. Now let's talk about how do you want to package that show in terms of what that product"}, {'start': '2917.760', 'end': '2923.040', 'text': "sort of is. I think I'd still need to, like when I'm looking at it, like I just dropped the news on"}, {'start': '2923.040', 'end': '2928.080', 'text': 'Friday and just watching like, you know, just getting the initial like vibe of how people are'}, {'start': '2928.080', 'end': '2933.600', 'text': "feeling about it and people excited. And you see, you know, that's where you can use your analytics"}, {'start': '2933.600', 'end': '2938.480', 'text': "for your, your socials and seeing, okay, what's popping. Like I put two posts up, I put a post"}, {'start': '2938.480', 'end': '2943.040', 'text': "where I'm sitting and I'm talking to the camera and then I just had the normal poster one. And then"}, {'start': '2943.040', 'end': '2947.280', 'text': 'I had a look at both of them and going, okay, people like me sitting in front of this or they,'}, {'start': '2947.280', 'end': '2951.040', 'text': "you know, like, they like this and then you can kind of go off that. But I mean, I'm still learning."}, {'start': '2951.040', 'end': '2955.120', 'text': "This is my first time and like, I'm really lucky. I had people that I could reach out to like Joe"}, {'start': '2955.120', 'end': '2960.880', 'text': "Damon's being a great person that I reach out to and how do you do this? You know, and other comics,"}, {'start': '2960.880', 'end': '2965.440', 'text': "I'm really lucky. Like I think a lot of comics kind of look at me and they go, man, he's, he's"}, {'start': '2965.440', 'end': '2971.680', 'text': "different. And like, I really would like to see him do well. And so they'll, they'll help, help out."}, {'start': '2971.680', 'end': '2975.440', 'text': "They've been really good like that with me. Nice. Yeah. It's good. It's always good to have,"}, {'start': '2976.080', 'end': '2981.280', 'text': "you know, killer comics like that to give you feedback. And my, from my perspective, I'm not"}, {'start': '2981.280', 'end': '2986.560', 'text': "a comic, but I am a marketing person and a designer, but I can, I've seen in this sort of"}, {'start': '2986.560', 'end': '2993.040', 'text': 'scene is that a lot of the, you know, of course, you know this, but taping the first, especially'}, {'start': '2993.040', 'end': '2999.840', 'text': 'this first show and just publishing very specific bits. And I know like today in, in the comics'}, {'start': '2999.840', 'end': '3006.720', 'text': 'world, in the standup world, the improv with the crowds is getting a lot of, a lot of love. So I'}, {'start': '3006.720', 'end': '3011.360', 'text': "think, for example, this new show that you're doing, by the way, I can't make it unfortunately,"}, {'start': '3011.360', 'end': '3016.880', 'text': "because I'm in Columbia, but I looked at tickets right away. I want to go to your show. So for"}, {'start': '3016.880', 'end': '3021.680', 'text': "everybody listening to this, get your tickets, because it's going to be amazing. I'm sure."}, {'start': '3021.680', 'end': '3026.320', 'text': "Thank you. I tried, but I'm in the whole month of May. I'm in Columbia, but next one, but,"}, {'start': '3026.320', 'end': '3032.480', 'text': 'but what I want to see is, is this what I want to see is like clips of that, that particular hour.'}, {'start': '3032.480', 'end': '3039.360', 'text': "My thing with that, like my, okay. So I, there's a little bit, there's a little bit of imposto"}, {'start': '3039.360', 'end': '3043.760', 'text': "syndrome. I can't lie. There's a lot of bit of like, Oh man, am I good enough? Can I put it out"}, {'start': '3043.760', 'end': '3047.840', 'text': "there? Which I know is shit. Like I know it's bullshit. I shouldn't be thinking that, but the"}, {'start': '3047.840', 'end': '3056.480', 'text': "other thing, the other side of that for me is like, I'm not, I, I need to be prepared like"}, {'start': '3056.480', 'end': '3063.120', 'text': 'crowd work wise. Like I am not where I know that I can be like, I know like when I do crowd goes'}, {'start': '3063.120', 'end': '3068.320', 'text': "wild shit, that's the best crowd work I've ever done in my life. Like I have clips that have gone"}, {'start': '3068.320', 'end': '3073.520', 'text': "bazonkers on. Yeah, bro. Well that's the reason why I'm telling you this, because I know that a"}, {'start': '3073.520', 'end': '3078.560', 'text': 'lot of comics like Matt Rife is an example of it. He, he blew up because of his crowd work.'}, {'start': '3078.560', 'end': '3085.600', 'text': "And you have some fucking amazing crowd work like stuff. So like, I think I'm just fucking lazy to"}, {'start': '3085.600', 'end': '3091.120', 'text': "be honest. Like sometimes I'm like, fuck, or it's the, it's the filming of it. Like I'm like this,"}, {'start': '3091.120', 'end': '3095.440', 'text': "like I, like I see what you do and I'm like, yo, that's a great camera. The lighting's great."}, {'start': '3095.440', 'end': '3099.920', 'text': "And Joe tells me this all the time. He's like, stop overthinking and just do it."}, {'start': '3099.920', 'end': '3104.560', 'text': "Yes. Yeah. That's where it is. But I mean, like, yeah, I'm getting to that point where it's like,"}, {'start': '3104.560', 'end': '3109.600', 'text': "okay, cool. I'm ready now. And then away I go. Cause I think, uh, I think that's the next level."}, {'start': '3109.600', 'end': '3114.240', 'text': "Yes, bro. I think you'll be great at it. And you used, you had a content, uh, piece of, uh,"}, {'start': '3114.240', 'end': '3117.680', 'text': "post that you made on Instagram and I'm going to drop it back to you. You're going to fucking hit"}, {'start': '3117.680', 'end': '3122.880', 'text': "me back. You're going to reverse that. I reverse that. And you're like, the biggest thing is to"}, {'start': '3122.880', 'end': '3126.720', 'text': "actually realize that you're not a dumb fuck. Yeah, I'm not a dumb fuck. And just actually do it."}, {'start': '3126.720', 'end': '3131.680', 'text': 'And I think what Joe told you is exactly right. They show as you, as much as work, as you can see'}, {'start': '3131.680', 'end': '3136.560', 'text': "here and you see it's great production. I had to get over the fact that it's not how I wanted it."}, {'start': '3136.560', 'end': '3142.080', 'text': "I want it to be better, but I'm like, if I keep fucking thinking that I want it to be better,"}, {'start': '3142.080', 'end': '3147.280', 'text': 'I will never stop. So I was like, fuck it. Just put up whatever it is. And I would just continually'}, {'start': '3147.280', 'end': '3151.760', 'text': "improve it. Cause otherwise I'm going to be stuck in not putting anything out."}, {'start': '3151.760', 'end': '3156.160', 'text': "I've put one, I've put one standup video up where it's me on this, on the stage."}, {'start': '3156.720', 'end': '3162.560', 'text': 'And it was my David Seymour joke about him being a part of file, right? And it went, it had like'}, {'start': '3162.560', 'end': '3167.600', 'text': "200,000 views on it. And I'm like, I just kept on doing that. But then I'm like, then there's"}, {'start': '3167.600', 'end': '3175.040', 'text': 'this whole thing of protecting your protecting, protecting the jokes. So when you, you sell it,'}, {'start': '3175.040', 'end': '3180.080', 'text': "when you sell a ticket, then they're like, Oh, I haven't seen this before. But in saying that"}, {'start': '3180.080', 'end': '3184.480', 'text': 'if people support you, that come and watch that same joke. Yeah. They love you.'}, {'start': '3184.480', 'end': '3189.680', 'text': "Yeah. 100. And here's the thing. That's when the crowd work stuff pays off big time,"}, {'start': '3189.680', 'end': '3193.200', 'text': "because when it's crowd work, you're not going to see the same thing."}, {'start': '3193.200', 'end': '3195.760', 'text': "Yes. So that's why I'm there."}, {'start': '3195.760', 'end': '3201.040', 'text': 'That makes it unique, right? You put one or two interactions you had with, in, with, with people,'}, {'start': '3201.040', 'end': '3205.440', 'text': 'that shit goes out and you go, Oh shit, I want to be on that show because of this.'}, {'start': '3205.440', 'end': '3211.440', 'text': "Okay. So like this many times when I do stuff and then I'm like, fuck, I wish it,"}, {'start': '3211.440', 'end': '3215.200', 'text': "I wish I would have filmed that. Like, you know, and that's the thing is cause you know,"}, {'start': '3215.200', 'end': '3220.560', 'text': "like, cause I don't live in, in, cause I live in Taranaki bringing my gear and bringing everything"}, {'start': '3220.560', 'end': '3225.920', 'text': "up. And it's a silly excuse. I could just put my phone up and just go for it. But I'm,"}, {'start': '3225.920', 'end': '3232.000', 'text': "I'm getting there because man, the last fuck, the last like maybe four shows that I've done"}, {'start': '3232.000', 'end': '3235.440', 'text': "by the crowd, I've just been like, this is working on crowd work. And there's some shit that could"}, {'start': '3235.440', 'end': '3240.880', 'text': "have been like, that's what I'm saying. When I fucking high fied the blind lady. No."}, {'start': '3241.840', 'end': '3245.120', 'text': 'Fuck. If I would have filmed that, that would have gone viral a hundred percent.'}, {'start': '3245.120', 'end': '3250.800', 'text': "Oh bro. Okay. So there's a lady sitting in front and she's right in front of me and I didn't,"}, {'start': '3250.800', 'end': '3255.760', 'text': "I didn't know she was blind and I went to, and she started laughing really loud"}, {'start': '3255.760', 'end': '3260.400', 'text': "and I went to go high five her and her friends says she can't, she's blind."}, {'start': '3260.400', 'end': '3264.880', 'text': "And then I was like, shit, I didn't see that coming."}, {'start': '3266.560', 'end': '3272.080', 'text': 'And then I was like, neither, neither does she. And then later on I did a joke and then I was just'}, {'start': '3272.080', 'end': '3276.080', 'text': 'doing my normal joke. Ha ha ha. And then she started laughing really loud and I was like,'}, {'start': '3276.080', 'end': '3279.200', 'text': 'and you know what happened? You know what happened next? And then she said something.'}, {'start': '3279.200', 'end': '3283.760', 'text': 'She kind of heckled me a little bit. Yeah. And I go, man, that lady can see the future,'}, {'start': '3283.760', 'end': '3287.440', 'text': "but she can't even see, she can't even see me right now. This is absolutely amazing."}, {'start': '3287.440', 'end': '3291.920', 'text': "Like if I would have put that on fucking thing, but I didn't have a fucking camera."}, {'start': '3291.920', 'end': '3294.960', 'text': "That's what I'm saying. Sorry, man. I get you, man. Fuck."}, {'start': '3295.520', 'end': '3296.800', 'text': 'Leave me alone, man. Fuck.'}, {'start': '3296.800', 'end': '3299.840', 'text': "I'm sorry. No, bro. But what I'm saying is that,"}, {'start': '3299.840', 'end': '3302.880', 'text': "man, you just have to do it. Cause I bet you that you're going to have"}, {'start': '3302.880', 'end': '3306.480', 'text': "this clips that you're talking about that they show that I went, for example,"}, {'start': '3306.480', 'end': '3311.520', 'text': 'what happened on the show that I went, you, you were talking, I think you were talking about,'}, {'start': '3311.520', 'end': '3315.920', 'text': 'hyping the brother up and then the other guy was sort of saying,'}, {'start': '3315.920', 'end': '3318.240', 'text': "does the South African dude? Yes. That's the one."}, {'start': '3318.240', 'end': '3320.400', 'text': "He does the show. Okay. Tell me, I can't remember."}, {'start': '3320.400', 'end': '3323.920', 'text': 'Yeah, but it was, it was sort of like that. And you had a quick interaction with them.'}, {'start': '3323.920', 'end': '3329.280', 'text': 'And that was funny because first of all, he hits a point like the guy in the crowd'}, {'start': '3329.280', 'end': '3332.480', 'text': 'made a point that you made earlier. And if you were to double down on that,'}, {'start': '3332.480', 'end': '3336.000', 'text': 'if you actually went hard on that, I reckon that would have made amazing clip.'}, {'start': '3336.000', 'end': '3340.800', 'text': 'And again, people get when, when is something happening in the audience is a different.'}, {'start': '3340.800', 'end': '3343.200', 'text': "It's a lot healing. It's a different vibe to it."}, {'start': '3343.200', 'end': '3347.920', 'text': "I know comics, bro. Um, because again, I'm a big standup fan. So I have standup in English"}, {'start': '3347.920', 'end': '3351.920', 'text': "and standup in Spanish. Both worlds are just going there. Like literally there's,"}, {'start': '3351.920', 'end': '3355.360', 'text': "there's the standup comedians. And now, for example, let me give you an example."}, {'start': '3355.360', 'end': '3358.880', 'text': "There's this, um, this lady in Columbia, she's very popular right now."}, {'start': '3358.880', 'end': '3362.240', 'text': 'So what she does is she gets people to text her on Instagram'}, {'start': '3362.240', 'end': '3366.720', 'text': "shed and she would give them advice on that. And it's always like the dirtiest shit."}, {'start': '3366.720', 'end': '3371.440', 'text': "People like people who comment like I'm here in this comedy show with my boyfriend and my lover."}, {'start': '3371.440', 'end': '3375.760', 'text': 'What should I do? I see it like that. Right. And then she just reacts to it, you know,'}, {'start': '3375.760', 'end': '3379.600', 'text': "stuff like that. And then there's other people I might write. He puts a sort of like a question"}, {'start': '3379.600', 'end': '3384.320', 'text': "on just gets people tell him shit or whatever. But there's so many formats on that. And I reckon"}, {'start': '3384.320', 'end': '3389.840', 'text': "you'll be amazing. Okay. I reckon you'll be amazing. Yeah. So just fucking just get over"}, {'start': '3389.840', 'end': '3393.600', 'text': "the fact that you're not a dumb fuck. I'm actually doing, you know, like I put on Instagram, I don't"}, {'start': '3393.600', 'end': '3397.680', 'text': "know if you see, like I put these little notes. I write the notes. I've seen that a lot of people"}, {'start': '3397.680', 'end': '3403.280', 'text': "think it's fucking crazy, bro. I'll write it. They think I'm talking about somebody else. Oh,"}, {'start': '3403.280', 'end': '3408.000', 'text': "no way. Are you talking about that? I was like, bro, I'm telling myself that, like if you look on"}, {'start': '3408.000', 'end': '3412.480', 'text': "my Instagram, you scroll down. There's like, let me, oh man, if you can have a look cause my"}, {'start': '3412.480', 'end': '3418.400', 'text': "phone's in the fucking connect, but like, let me recite one for you. And it's actually me telling"}, {'start': '3418.400', 'end': '3425.680', 'text': "me to do that shit. Like, let me just get it one up. And here's one I put, stop being eat us or"}, {'start': '3425.680', 'end': '3430.640', 'text': 'just do what you said you were going to do last year. Stop being a buildups. Like people are like,'}, {'start': '3430.640', 'end': '3434.720', 'text': "who's that about? I'm like, bro, I'm telling my fucking self that like there's so many,"}, {'start': '3435.360', 'end': '3439.280', 'text': "so many people want fucking drama. Like what's another one that I put out? This is really good"}, {'start': '3439.280', 'end': '3444.640', 'text': "ones that I'm like, Oh, this, this is the one, this is the one that I like. A lot of people thought"}, {'start': '3444.640', 'end': '3451.040', 'text': 'I was aiming at certain people, right? You are not an online celebrity engage, follow and support'}, {'start': '3451.040', 'end': '3456.320', 'text': "other creatives. Chris Brown's not going to see your fire emojis shut the fuck up. Be real."}, {'start': '3456.320', 'end': '3461.440', 'text': "And that's like, I'm telling me that cause I, it wasn't Chris Brown. It was LeBron James."}, {'start': '3462.320', 'end': '3467.520', 'text': "I did like fire emojis on LeBron James's post and I'm like, fuck, what the fuck am I doing?"}, {'start': '3467.520', 'end': '3471.120', 'text': "This he's not going to see this and he's not going to be like, damn, bro, that guy,"}, {'start': '3471.120', 'end': '3477.520', 'text': "Tim that's got 20,000 followers. He fucking gave me three fucking fire posts. There's not going to,"}, {'start': '3477.520', 'end': '3482.320', 'text': "they don't give a shit about that. And that's what buzzed me out the most. Is that like, um,"}, {'start': '3482.320', 'end': '3487.200', 'text': "I do that for me and, but people always are looking for something like they're like,"}, {'start': '3487.200', 'end': '3490.800', 'text': 'Oh bro, was that they thought I was talking about Joe Damon. Like I was like,'}, {'start': '3490.800', 'end': '3494.400', 'text': "why would I fucking, that's my guide. Like I wouldn't, I'm not talking about anybody,"}, {'start': '3494.400', 'end': '3499.840', 'text': 'but myself, right? Yeah. And so anyway, but I love that bro. I love that because they see that'}, {'start': '3499.840', 'end': '3505.040', 'text': 'when you do that, right? Yeah. Then I can call you out on it. Yeah. And then you just fucking did you'}, {'start': '3505.040', 'end': '3511.760', 'text': "can and I did. Yeah. But that's what is so good, man. I love doing that. You know? So when you,"}, {'start': '3511.760', 'end': '3516.960', 'text': "please keep doing that because that's what makes you, you know, accountable, like I'm fucking"}, {'start': '3516.960', 'end': '3521.680', 'text': "saying this, I have to fucking go and do it. And when other people, but it's all for the good."}, {'start': '3521.680', 'end': '3527.440', 'text': "It's all for men. I would love to see you be fucking have your own show in the state. That's"}, {'start': '3527.440', 'end': '3531.760', 'text': "why. And that's why I'm telling you, bro, you're not, you just fucking imposter syndrome. Fucking"}, {'start': '3531.760', 'end': '3536.400', 'text': "do it. So, you know, like we talked about the North star, right? Yeah. So you can, now that we've"}, {'start': '3536.400', 'end': '3542.640', 'text': "had this conversation, you can see now why I left this for last. Cause I'm like, this is the,"}, {'start': '3542.640', 'end': '3547.600', 'text': "all of these things, all of the things before that it's been in front of camera, interviewing people,"}, {'start': '3547.600', 'end': '3553.840', 'text': 'being relatable, being able to connect with people. I worked on for the last five years.'}, {'start': '3553.840', 'end': '3562.160', 'text': 'This is the last key. Like if I can really get this going and stand up as a stand up is legit.'}, {'start': '3562.160', 'end': '3568.240', 'text': "Just a, it's a factory for content. If you're good at it and you're, yeah. And that's the next"}, {'start': '3568.240', 'end': '3573.360', 'text': "phase. Right. So now it's like exactly what you said. I know what you say and I know that that's"}, {'start': '3573.360', 'end': '3580.000', 'text': "coming, but I know it's going to be the thing that could potentially open an opportunity,"}, {'start': '3580.000', 'end': '3585.200', 'text': 'not in the States or anything, but hopefully maybe, but it will open an opportunity that maybe'}, {'start': '3585.200', 'end': '3589.360', 'text': "I could get a look in somewhere with it, where there would be. And hopefully that's getting me"}, {'start': '3589.360', 'end': '3594.000', 'text': "close to the North star. Yes. I think he would. Um, and I've loved to see that man. I want to talk"}, {'start': '3594.000', 'end': '3599.520', 'text': 'to you about brand for a second, because I always, uh, whenever I see a musician,'}, {'start': '3599.520', 'end': '3605.760', 'text': "someone who's very talented like yourself, they have an amazing product. I always think about"}, {'start': '3605.760', 'end': '3610.560', 'text': 'the fact that you could have an amazing product, but if your brand is not there, if your marketing'}, {'start': '3610.560', 'end': '3616.400', 'text': "is not there, it's not going to get you anywhere. You have an amazing brand as far as I am, I am"}, {'start': '3616.400', 'end': '3621.840', 'text': 'consuming it, but I want your thoughts on it. I actually want your thoughts on it. Well,'}, {'start': '3621.840', 'end': '3627.680', 'text': "let me, what do you see? Well, that's the, that's the exercise that I want to run. Okay. Okay."}, {'start': '3627.680', 'end': '3633.280', 'text': "Here's the exercise I want to run with you. Okay. If improvise was a product in the shelf,"}, {'start': '3633.280', 'end': '3639.120', 'text': 'what will be written in the packaging? And I want to hear, I want to hear what you think. Yeah.'}, {'start': '3639.120', 'end': '3643.840', 'text': "And then I will tell you what I think because he's the, he's the core concept of brand."}, {'start': '3643.840', 'end': '3652.560', 'text': 'Brand is not what you think you are. Brand is the gut feelings of people consuming and perceiving.'}, {'start': '3652.560', 'end': '3657.520', 'text': "That's what your brand actually is. People think, Oh, my brand is being creative and having the best"}, {'start': '3657.520', 'end': '3663.120', 'text': "design, the best pop. No, no, no. That's what I think my brand is. But the truth of that brand is"}, {'start': '3663.120', 'end': '3667.920', 'text': 'what all the people that are seeing my stuff, what the association and the feelings they get. Yes.'}, {'start': '3667.920', 'end': '3671.360', 'text': "That's what the brand actually is. Yeah. Okay. If you're a product in the shelf,"}, {'start': '3671.360', 'end': '3675.600', 'text': 'what would be written on the packaging? Why would that be the packaging would be like rough,'}, {'start': '3675.600', 'end': '3684.240', 'text': 'authentic humor, unapologetically South Auckland. Yeah. And that would be the main thing. And the'}, {'start': '3684.240', 'end': '3691.840', 'text': "unapologetically one is the most like important thing there because I'm not, because I'm just me."}, {'start': '3691.840', 'end': '3697.200', 'text': "Like I'm not trying like this. I'm, I teeter the line. I'm very, very close. I, I mean,"}, {'start': '3697.200', 'end': '3702.400', 'text': "we're getting off the packaging here, but I'm the, I teeter the line between the professional and the"}, {'start': '3702.400', 'end': '3707.440', 'text': "hood. Like I'm very, I'm right in the middle, but yeah, I would say unapologetically South Auckland,"}, {'start': '3707.440', 'end': '3714.800', 'text': 'raw, authentic humor. That would be my tagline. Okay. That would be the packaging. Yeah. And on'}, {'start': '3714.800', 'end': '3718.960', 'text': "the packaging would be like, you know, you're going to get laughs and you know, you're, you know,"}, {'start': '3718.960', 'end': '3726.080', 'text': "real raw. I think raw is the name, the real thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not too kind of"}, {'start': '3726.800', 'end': '3730.720', 'text': "not like, you know, writing down stuff. I don't know. What would, what would,"}, {'start': '3730.720', 'end': '3735.840', 'text': 'now I gotta tell you what I, what I would, if I saw a team provides in a, in a shelf,'}, {'start': '3735.840', 'end': '3740.400', 'text': "what are the feelings I will get from, from what I've seen actually a lot closer to what you said,"}, {'start': '3740.400', 'end': '3749.760', 'text': "authenticity, positivity, laughter community. I think that's one big one that you didn't mention,"}, {'start': '3749.760', 'end': '3754.480', 'text': "but I think community is part of your brand. Yeah. What would you say that it's an interesting one?"}, {'start': '3754.480', 'end': '3759.120', 'text': "I haven't thought of that one, but yeah. The reason why I say community is because like you said,"}, {'start': '3759.120', 'end': '3763.760', 'text': 'there is a, because of all these work that you have done and the positive'}, {'start': '3763.760', 'end': '3769.920', 'text': "impact that you've brought with your comedy, not just as a consumable product, but also as a,"}, {'start': '3769.920', 'end': '3773.600', 'text': 'as an identity product, as an avenue for people to connect in with the'}, {'start': '3773.600', 'end': '3779.040', 'text': 'fuck a papa with the, with themselves, with their culture. And that has built community.'}, {'start': '3779.040', 'end': '3783.600', 'text': 'Okay. Okay. Yeah. Thank you, bro. That, that means a lot, man. Like just that word,'}, {'start': '3783.600', 'end': '3787.920', 'text': "just the community thing. Cause I don't know. One thing that I've noticed a lot is that there"}, {'start': '3787.920', 'end': '3792.320', 'text': 'are certain, because of course I put these podcasts out there. Nobody knows what the fuck I am.'}, {'start': '3792.320', 'end': '3797.920', 'text': "And that's, it's not really that I don't want, I don't do this to, to show what I do. I really do"}, {'start': '3797.920', 'end': '3801.440', 'text': "it because I want to showcase amazing people. And that's why I try to put the spotlight on them."}, {'start': '3801.440', 'end': '3808.160', 'text': "Yes. And, but one thing I noticed is that so many of a lot of these creatives that I've worked with"}, {'start': '3808.160', 'end': '3814.160', 'text': 'and I put videos out there, dude, some of them, their community is insane. Like you put a video'}, {'start': '3814.160', 'end': '3820.560', 'text': "out there and it's their amount of love and support they get is crazy. So again, that's what I see from"}, {'start': '3820.560', 'end': '3825.280', 'text': 'your end as well is that you have, you have built a good community of people. You have built a good'}, {'start': '3825.280', 'end': '3830.000', 'text': 'image inside of your community that you get that support. So when I, if I see that in the packaging,'}, {'start': '3830.000', 'end': '3835.360', 'text': 'you know how they say like raw organic, in the food, that this is what I would see. I see community.'}, {'start': '3835.360', 'end': '3841.760', 'text': 'I see authenticity and I see ambition, you know, positivity is, I think one of the key'}, {'start': '3841.760', 'end': '3847.520', 'text': 'components of your brand. And I think you also have that capacity to connect with everybody.'}, {'start': '3847.520', 'end': '3851.600', 'text': "Yes. That thing is so universal. That's the other part I will put in there."}, {'start': '3851.600', 'end': '3856.720', 'text': "Oh, thank you, man. Thank you, bro. Shit. Yeah. Because that's one thing that a lot of comics,"}, {'start': '3856.720', 'end': '3861.680', 'text': 'for example, let me give you an example of a universal comic. Russell Peters is that one guy'}, {'start': '3861.680', 'end': '3867.680', 'text': "that is Indian, right? Indian Canadian, but he brings all the races together. I don't know if"}, {'start': '3867.680', 'end': '3874.560', 'text': "you've ever been to one of his shows, but bro, he shows are Asians, Indians, South Americans,"}, {'start': '3874.560', 'end': '3882.800', 'text': "all the cultures. I think like now that you've brought that up, like I do a lot of jokes around"}, {'start': '3882.800', 'end': '3889.840', 'text': "Maori, but it's not like, and I noticed this too. Like it's not, I'm not putting down anyone. Like"}, {'start': '3889.840', 'end': '3896.160', 'text': "I'm just showcasing a theory that I have. There's a theory that I thought about that this is the"}, {'start': '3896.160', 'end': '3901.600', 'text': "thing. Right. And then that's, that's what your whole joke is. It's here's my theory on this."}, {'start': '3901.600', 'end': '3906.160', 'text': "I'm trying to explain it to you in the best way that I know how and the limited amount of time"}, {'start': '3906.160', 'end': '3912.320', 'text': 'that I have. And to let you know, this is how I think about this. Whereas opposed to, you know,'}, {'start': '3912.320', 'end': '3917.200', 'text': "knock knock joke or some kind of joke that you're like, yeah, get in, get out type buzz. Yeah."}, {'start': '3917.200', 'end': '3922.000', 'text': 'But yeah, yeah, bro. I thank you, man. Really like the Russell Peters thing is a,'}, {'start': '3922.000', 'end': '3926.640', 'text': 'you know, like, yeah, he is very universal. Yeah. And I hope that I can one day get there.'}, {'start': '3926.640', 'end': '3930.000', 'text': 'Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think, I think you can. Cause one of the important things for'}, {'start': '3930.000', 'end': '3934.720', 'text': 'Russell to be able to do the way he does in my view is the fact that he contextualizes his roots'}, {'start': '3934.720', 'end': '3939.440', 'text': "first so that then he can joke about the other things. And in New Zealand, there's such an"}, {'start': '3939.440', 'end': '3945.200', 'text': "opportunity for that because he's a super multicultural country and you being Maori,"}, {'start': '3946.080', 'end': '3950.320', 'text': 'it just opens the door for you to interpret, like you say, interpret the world, how you see it and'}, {'start': '3950.320', 'end': '3955.680', 'text': 'how you, you know, you just met a Colombian now and we might, you know, share some moments in the'}, {'start': '3955.680', 'end': '3959.760', 'text': 'future. And then I, you can learn about my culture and you go fact is Colombian guy, whatever. You'}, {'start': '3959.760', 'end': '3965.040', 'text': 'know what I mean? And you learn from that and what stereotypes you have and you know, you just become'}, {'start': '3965.040', 'end': '3969.200', 'text': 'this sort of universal comedian that I think you have the capability of doing.'}, {'start': '3969.200', 'end': '3974.160', 'text': 'Also think like for me, like I come from a very, I sitting on the fence type us, right?'}, {'start': '3974.160', 'end': '3979.040', 'text': "Cause I have lived both lives. I've lived the, I don't want to say live, but I have,"}, {'start': '3979.040', 'end': '3984.960', 'text': "I have code switched, you know, I have been a, when, when I've got my family's,"}, {'start': '3984.960', 'end': '3989.920', 'text': "my park air family, and then I have my Maori family and I've been able to kind of ghost between"}, {'start': '3989.920', 'end': '3994.400', 'text': "both of them. And this is what like, that's all my hour really is about. It's like, this is what I"}, {'start': '3994.400', 'end': '3998.880', 'text': "saw over here. This is what I saw over here. And then I'm really lucky that I have those,"}, {'start': '3998.880', 'end': '4003.680', 'text': "like a lot of people, like they could say, I'm, I'm Samoan and Tongan, but you, you know, like,"}, {'start': '4003.680', 'end': '4008.320', 'text': "you're like, okay, cool. But with me, you know, by the way that I speak, by the way that I hold"}, {'start': '4008.320', 'end': '4013.600', 'text': "myself, that I'm Maori, but you can see by my skin that I'm park air. And, and like, I've had to kind"}, {'start': '4013.600', 'end': '4020.800', 'text': 'of like, like manage these, these, these, this dichotomy of, of, of feelings, you know, like,'}, {'start': '4020.800', 'end': '4026.480', 'text': "I'm really proud to be Maori and I'm kind of not proud of my park air side, but I'm still parking."}, {'start': '4026.480', 'end': '4031.360', 'text': "I still have park air blood in me, but at the same time, like I've got great family members"}, {'start': '4031.360', 'end': '4037.360', 'text': "that are in my park air family, but at the same time, like I'm a Maori, like, and it's that, that,"}, {'start': '4037.360', 'end': '4044.400', 'text': "that, that toggle war. And that's what's, that's what I think is being a really good tool for me."}, {'start': '4044.400', 'end': '4050.320', 'text': 'Yes, it is. And I could see both ways and yeah. And, and with some, you know, like, and you could'}, {'start': '4050.320', 'end': '4054.400', 'text': "see it with me, like, yeah, but I mean, that's getting a little bit deeper than I could think"}, {'start': '4054.400', 'end': '4058.880', 'text': "about, but yeah, you're right. And with Russell Peters, you know, he's, he's the man when it"}, {'start': '4058.880', 'end': '4064.320', 'text': "comes to that stuff, bro. He's amazing. He's so good. He's so funny. So many comics that, that are"}, {'start': '4064.320', 'end': '4068.720', 'text': "out at the moment. Yeah. It's insane. It's a good, it's a good, definitely an avenue for, for community."}, {'start': '4068.720', 'end': '4073.760', 'text': "I, I consume so much because I consume it in both languages. I'm like, fuck when I go to Columbia,"}, {'start': '4073.760', 'end': '4078.720', 'text': "I already have booked out every weekend. I'm going to hit a comedy club because I see these comics on"}, {'start': '4078.720', 'end': '4083.280', 'text': "YouTube, you know, I can't go and see them live. So when I, when I go to a place, like when I went to"}, {'start': '4083.280', 'end': '4088.560', 'text': 'LA, I was like, fuck yeah. Comedy store book tickets, you know, I am that type of dude. I like to go and,'}, {'start': '4088.560', 'end': '4093.120', 'text': "and if he's a musician, same thing. If I go there, I'm like, fuck, I'm going to say his opportunity"}, {'start': '4093.120', 'end': '4098.400', 'text': "to consume as much art as possible. Yeah. Yeah. That's great, bro. Yeah. If you do a lot of stuff,"}, {'start': '4098.400', 'end': '4104.720', 'text': "the baker run is such a good show as well. Thank you. Are you going to now do it in Japan? We're"}, {'start': '4104.720', 'end': '4109.120', 'text': "going to Japan. Yeah. Fuck you. Have you been to Japan? I have been, I've been, I've been twice,"}, {'start': '4109.120', 'end': '4114.560', 'text': 'but the first time was just to stop over. Okay. And I was like, uh, 12 hours. And then I, I, man,'}, {'start': '4114.560', 'end': '4123.920', 'text': "here's a crazy story. I went 2020. Right. So me, I got, I took my kids and my mom to go. Okay. We"}, {'start': '4123.920', 'end': '4128.720', 'text': 'got on a plane. We went over, we enjoyed it. We, you know, we heard all these things going on in'}, {'start': '4128.720', 'end': '4133.200', 'text': "the world. We're like, Oh, well we're here. We get on the plane. We get off the plane. We're locked"}, {'start': '4133.200', 'end': '4137.920', 'text': "down. Oh shit. And I'm like, what's happened? We don't know what happened. And they're like,"}, {'start': '4137.920', 'end': '4142.720', 'text': "you need to go home. It's like real, real quick. And I was like, wow, what happened? So yeah,"}, {'start': '4142.720', 'end': '4147.920', 'text': "but anyway, but, um, no, yeah, I've been, um, it's exciting, man. It's really exciting. Yeah."}, {'start': '4147.920', 'end': '4153.600', 'text': "A lot of it was a bit of, I don't want to say hate. There was a bit of, um, people just not,"}, {'start': '4153.600', 'end': '4158.560', 'text': "not understanding what we're trying to do with the bakery run and thinking, oh, you should just"}, {'start': '4158.560', 'end': '4164.400', 'text': 'keep it local. Uh, but at the same time, man, like, you know, we need to branch out and we need to'}, {'start': '4164.400', 'end': '4168.720', 'text': "keep going towards the North star. You know what I mean? Yeah. 100. Yeah. So, but no, we, we're"}, {'start': '4168.720', 'end': '4175.840', 'text': "hitting over for nine days, uh, in Japan and we're doing Osaka first for three days. And then the,"}, {'start': '4175.840', 'end': '4180.960', 'text': "the other, uh, six days we're in Tokyo. Nice. Yeah. It's going to be cool. It's going to be amazing."}, {'start': '4180.960', 'end': '4184.480', 'text': "You were pretty traveled guy, man. You've been around. You've been in Japan. Yeah. Fuck yeah."}, {'start': '4184.480', 'end': '4190.000', 'text': "Yeah. I went to Japan for three months. Uh, first time three months. That's a long time. I did. And"}, {'start': '4190.000', 'end': '4194.480', 'text': 'I lived, uh, I lived in a little small community in the, in the, in the South of Japan. That was'}, {'start': '4194.480', 'end': '4199.120', 'text': "amazing. It's my favorite country in the world. I've been, I've been to a lot of places, Europe,"}, {'start': '4199.120', 'end': '4207.120', 'text': "Southeast Asia, um, North America. Um, but Japan is always a, I'm a, I'm a big, as you can see."}, {'start': '4207.120', 'end': '4214.640', 'text': "Yeah, man. You've got the wave. You got the brand is a bunch, everything that I do. There's a lot of"}, {'start': '4214.640', 'end': '4218.400', 'text': "connections with Japanese philosophy. What's his name? Morimoto note. What's his, uh,"}, {'start': '4218.400', 'end': '4223.280', 'text': "Murakami. Yeah. There you go. As I'm with a coming flower there. Yeah. So I've,"}, {'start': '4223.280', 'end': '4227.840', 'text': "I have a profound love from Japan to say the least. Um, so I've been to your apartment and"}, {'start': '4227.840', 'end': '4231.680', 'text': "I think you're going to love it. Food is amazing. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what we really going over"}, {'start': '4231.680', 'end': '4237.840', 'text': 'for. Um, that was Zaka street. When the other Takoyaki is that will make amazing just visual'}, {'start': '4237.840', 'end': '4242.560', 'text': "films. I'm really lucky to have like, uh, we'll who's, um, shout out. We'll buy the,"}, {'start': '4242.560', 'end': '4246.480', 'text': "shout out the bro. I thought about this the other day too. And I haven't actually"}, {'start': '4246.480', 'end': '4253.280', 'text': "said that time that guy has been in my life at like the turning points. It's so many things."}, {'start': '4253.280', 'end': '4259.920', 'text': "Like I've known that guy since he was like, man, at least 15 years I've known him. Wow."}, {'start': '4259.920', 'end': '4264.320', 'text': "And the thing with will is he's always kind of, he's always been a bit of a,"}, {'start': '4264.320', 'end': '4269.680', 'text': "he's been very similar to me. He's always had a goal, what he wanted to do. And, um, and I,"}, {'start': '4269.680', 'end': '4274.320', 'text': "I wouldn't be in this position. Like I wouldn't be anywhere close to this position. I'm in."}, {'start': '4274.320', 'end': '4281.840', 'text': "If it wasn't for my bro, will. So yeah, I actually met well very recently for the first time. Yeah."}, {'start': '4281.840', 'end': '4287.840', 'text': 'One of those people that just like yourself, he started following me on Instagram. He saw my stuff'}, {'start': '4287.840', 'end': '4291.760', 'text': 'and, and, and, and such a nice, nice dude. I met him for the first time. So shut up. Well,'}, {'start': '4291.760', 'end': '4295.840', 'text': "he's doing amazing work as well. Yeah. But no, like legit, like this wouldn't be a thing. Like I"}, {'start': '4295.840', 'end': '4301.600', 'text': "wouldn't be, I mean, if we think about it, when we started the bakery run, I had zero,"}, {'start': '4301.600', 'end': '4305.360', 'text': 'I had zero knowledge of things. He had zero knowledge of, you know,'}, {'start': '4305.360', 'end': '4309.120', 'text': 'cameras and everything, but about producing a show and putting everything together.'}, {'start': '4309.120', 'end': '4313.920', 'text': "And like, and he took a risk on me, man. And he's just like, dude, like, let's just do it. And then"}, {'start': '4313.920', 'end': '4319.200', 'text': "we, I had the idea. I was like, dude, I'm always getting an arguments on Twitter around where the"}, {'start': '4319.200', 'end': '4323.920', 'text': "best pies are. Like, let's just go and just do a review series on the pies. And he's like, okay,"}, {'start': '4323.920', 'end': '4328.560', 'text': "let's do it. COVID happened. We had to wait for that to settle down. We did our first episode."}, {'start': '4328.560', 'end': '4332.640', 'text': 'We put it online. We thought, oh, nothing will come of this. And then yeah, we woke up in the'}, {'start': '4332.640', 'end': '4337.760', 'text': 'morning and there was 10,000 views there. And I was like, wow, this is nuts foot foot foot. Like'}, {'start': '4337.760', 'end': '4343.520', 'text': "me, like we, I had like 300 followers at the time. Like there was nothing. He's that right. I was,"}, {'start': '4343.520', 'end': '4348.800', 'text': "bro. I was, I was on Twitch. I was a Twitch streamer. That's where I started. And I've known"}, {'start': '4348.800', 'end': '4356.560', 'text': 'Will through gaming, going back to Halo days. Like, oh yeah. Halo one. He was, I was, I was'}, {'start': '4356.560', 'end': '4361.520', 'text': 'a street fighter guy, but he was that dude. And we just kind of, we just hung. And then I knew that'}, {'start': '4361.520', 'end': '4366.320', 'text': 'he did video stuff and I used to go to him for like advice on stuff. Yeah. Like I said, man, if'}, {'start': '4366.320', 'end': '4369.840', 'text': "if that dude didn't take a shot on me, none of this would happen. Craig was wild. Wouldn't have"}, {'start': '4369.840', 'end': '4373.760', 'text': "happened. Like nothing would have happened. And I'm always, he always tells me to shut the hell"}, {'start': '4373.760', 'end': '4377.920', 'text': "up when I say this to him, but yeah, I'm very in debt to him. And it's not one of those like,"}, {'start': '4377.920', 'end': '4382.160', 'text': "oh, if you do this, I'll do this kind of buzz. It's just a bro. Like I believe in you and he"}, {'start': '4382.160', 'end': '4388.000', 'text': "believes in me and it's, and this is what it's taken us. Like that's amazing. That's crazy,"}, {'start': '4388.000', 'end': '4391.680', 'text': "bro. The amount of people that like, there's this whole argument online on who the originator of"}, {'start': '4391.680', 'end': '4396.240', 'text': "the pie reviews are. I don't really give a fuck. Like, I don't care. Like they were like, Oh,"}, {'start': '4396.240', 'end': '4401.520', 'text': "Jimmy Jackson did it first on that picking did it. It's cool, man. But like it's nobody owns that"}, {'start': '4401.520', 'end': '4407.040', 'text': 'genre. Like we used to get, when people used to do bakery reviews, they used to like tag us,'}, {'start': '4407.040', 'end': '4411.520', 'text': "like stop copying. And I used to have to go on like correct them. I was like, bro, we don't own"}, {'start': '4411.520', 'end': '4420.800', 'text': "this. We don't own like bakery reviews, like relax. But our point of difference is will like his,"}, {'start': '4420.800', 'end': '4425.040', 'text': "he's the point of difference. Like, I mean, yeah, I'm a funny dude and yeah, I can interview people"}, {'start': '4425.040', 'end': '4432.640', 'text': "and yeah, you know, I know pies, but his production value is second to nothing. If I, if we didn't"}, {'start': '4432.640', 'end': '4437.760', 'text': 'have that, that, that, that would just be a regular shmegle thing. So it really is his baby.'}, {'start': '4437.760', 'end': '4443.440', 'text': "It's a, it's both of our babies, but he is the driving force behind it. I'm the guy that can get"}, {'start': '4443.440', 'end': '4449.360', 'text': 'the guests to be funny on camera and to, to find where the bakeries are and to, and to organize.'}, {'start': '4449.360', 'end': '4454.720', 'text': "I'm pretty good at organizing things. He is just the get up, shoot it. We're going to do this shot,"}, {'start': '4454.720', 'end': '4458.320', 'text': "this shot, that shot. Here's where you're going to go. We need to do this again, blah, blah, blah,"}, {'start': '4458.320', 'end': '4462.640', 'text': "blah, blah. And then he goes and edits it and puts it up. So that's how that partnership works."}, {'start': '4462.640', 'end': '4467.200', 'text': "Amazing. Yeah. I mean, that's a good, it's a good example of surrounding, say with the right people"}, {'start': '4467.200', 'end': '4472.400', 'text': "and find the right. Zero funding. Yeah. Like we don't get funded. Like that's what kind of has"}, {'start': '4472.400', 'end': '4477.040', 'text': 'pissed me off a little bit is that people go, Oh, you should just give us this content for free.'}, {'start': '4477.040', 'end': '4481.840', 'text': "And it's like, damn bro. Like we have been for the last five years. Like, like just help us out a"}, {'start': '4481.840', 'end': '4486.320', 'text': 'little bit. Like just five bucks. Just, you know, and I, and again, it comes down to like what I said'}, {'start': '4486.320', 'end': '4492.160', 'text': "earlier around, you know, like if you're proud of something, you should promote it. Yeah. You should"}, {'start': '4492.160', 'end': '4496.480', 'text': "promote the shit out of it and not feel stink about it. But in New Zealand, I don't know if it's"}, {'start': '4496.480', 'end': '4500.080', 'text': "anywhere else, but in New Zealand, we do have that whole, you think you're better than us."}, {'start': '4500.080', 'end': '4505.600', 'text': "Oh, you're asking us for money. Oh, you guys, you're on TV. No, I'm not like, no, not like,"}, {'start': '4505.600', 'end': '4509.760', 'text': "you know, like, or you should be, you've got a job. Why don't you do it? It's like, no, like,"}, {'start': '4509.760', 'end': '4513.760', 'text': "don't watch our shit. Then like, you know, I'm not saying like, I'm not trying to be high and"}, {'start': '4513.760', 'end': '4518.800', 'text': "mighty about it, but you know, we're asking for, I don't know, five bucks or two bucks or"}, {'start': '4518.800', 'end': '4522.240', 'text': "shout us a pie. Like that's what I've been saying. Like, shout us a pie, man. We've, we've been"}, {'start': '4522.240', 'end': '4528.240', 'text': 'hitting you guys up for ages. Just shout us three, $3.50, $6.20. Like whatever a pie costs,'}, {'start': '4528.240', 'end': '4533.040', 'text': "just hook us up. And yeah, and it's, and there's been people that have been absolutely amazing"}, {'start': '4533.040', 'end': '4537.680', 'text': "and we're so thankful, but then there's been a couple of, there's been quite a lot of like, oh,"}, {'start': '4537.680', 'end': '4541.760', 'text': "why you guys think you're a bit of nah. And it's like, man, like you don't understand how much"}, {'start': '4541.760', 'end': '4548.320', 'text': 'these cameras cost. Like, yeah, the people have no idea how much time, effort it takes to put a video'}, {'start': '4548.320', 'end': '4554.720', 'text': 'out knowledge too. And apart from that, just fucking years, like you said, years on the making,'}, {'start': '4554.720', 'end': '4559.680', 'text': 'just to be able to stand up in front of the camera. And then on top of that, I had production,'}, {'start': '4559.680', 'end': '4566.320', 'text': "all the amount of time it takes. But again, my, my view on that is just fucking doesn't really"}, {'start': '4566.320', 'end': '4569.760', 'text': 'matter. Those are not your audience. The people that truly understand the value,'}, {'start': '4569.760', 'end': '4573.520', 'text': "people are true to understand the value. They're going to support it. They're going to understand"}, {'start': '4573.520', 'end': '4578.960', 'text': 'the work. And those are the people that we service. Those are the people that use exactly.'}, {'start': '4578.960', 'end': '4583.920', 'text': 'Not the ones that pay, but the ones that are positive, that appreciate it and that love it.'}, {'start': '4583.920', 'end': '4590.240', 'text': "And like it and say, man, cool. Can't wait for Japan. Cause I'm not like, you know, are you guys"}, {'start': '4590.240', 'end': '4594.800', 'text': "broke or anything? I'm just like, cool, man. If you can, you can, if you have the means more than"}, {'start': '4594.800', 'end': '4600.480', 'text': 'happy to, you know, if you, if you have the means and you want to help us, bro, it would be so good.'}, {'start': '4600.480', 'end': '4604.480', 'text': "But we're going to do it. So I, I was just like, we're going to do this anyway."}, {'start': '4604.480', 'end': '4608.640', 'text': "Like I'm just going to sell something. I'm just going to sell. So I sold a couple of things. I'm"}, {'start': '4608.640', 'end': '4611.840', 'text': "like, cool. Here's our tickets. We'll get our money. Hopefully we'll get our money back"}, {'start': '4611.840', 'end': '4616.000', 'text': 'with crowdfunding or sponsorship or whatever, but we just need to do it. Like we need to stop'}, {'start': '4616.000', 'end': '4620.720', 'text': "fucking around and saying it. And that's what we did. And then I just said, sweet tickets are done."}, {'start': '4620.720', 'end': '4624.400', 'text': "These are the dates will, and he's like, okay, here. I said, give me a month. I'll give me a week"}, {'start': '4624.400', 'end': '4629.600', 'text': "that you're free this in May or in March. He gave it to me. I was like, cool. Here it is. It's done."}, {'start': '4629.600', 'end': '4633.680', 'text': 'And you know, like I went into debt a bit, but I was like, nah, like I believe in this product'}, {'start': '4633.680', 'end': '4638.560', 'text': 'enough that I know that people will either come and crowdfund us or we can go and get sponsorship.'}, {'start': '4638.560', 'end': '4640.880', 'text': "And we're halfway there. So that's the main thing."}, {'start': '4640.880', 'end': '4645.280', 'text': "Do it. And then again, that's another example of actually going and doing it. See, so you're doing"}, {'start': '4645.280', 'end': '4649.600', 'text': 'it. You got it. You got to do it. You got to do it, man. Yeah, bro.'}, {'start': '4649.600', 'end': '4654.240', 'text': 'Tremendous. Um, so I was, I was saying we got to the bakery run and the reason why we started the'}, {'start': '4654.240', 'end': '4659.840', 'text': 'bakery run is because I wanted to ask you about you doing so many stuff, so much stuff, bro.'}, {'start': '4659.840', 'end': '4664.640', 'text': "And I wanted to ask you about this. What is so far your most challenging project that you've done?"}, {'start': '4664.640', 'end': '4668.720', 'text': "Like you talked about the stand upside and how that's done, but in terms of a project that you say,"}, {'start': '4668.720', 'end': '4675.680', 'text': "fuck, this project was very challenging and here's why. And here's what I've learned from it."}, {'start': '4675.680', 'end': '4681.200', 'text': "I think they're all equally challenging. I feel as if everything's not trying to cop out. I'll give"}, {'start': '4681.200', 'end': '4686.080', 'text': 'you an answer, but I feel like the first like three or four months of doing something is always the'}, {'start': '4686.080', 'end': '4690.480', 'text': "most challenging. Yeah. Like, cause that's when you get the doubt demons. Like, Oh, there you go."}, {'start': '4690.480', 'end': '4695.840', 'text': "That's the one. Should I be doing this? Uh, I think right now the stand up thing, the toys thing has"}, {'start': '4695.840', 'end': '4703.200', 'text': "been quite interesting for me because I've never had a product that I've have to make and sell."}, {'start': '4703.200', 'end': '4707.520', 'text': "Yeah. Like, so for those that don't know, I make this, I've got this thing called T toys"}, {'start': '4707.520', 'end': '4713.520', 'text': 'and I make action figures, custom action figures of New Zealand prominent people. And I try to sell'}, {'start': '4713.520', 'end': '4718.720', 'text': "them. Right. So like, um, I've got a Jake, the must one coming out. I've got a Winston Peters one."}, {'start': '4718.720', 'end': '4724.000', 'text': "I've got like John Campbell sold out. I've got the guy that tried to step out as a sign. That's my"}, {'start': '4724.000', 'end': '4727.840', 'text': "favorite. I'm going to buy that man. She told me I would have bought you. I got one left. I'll keep"}, {'start': '4727.840', 'end': '4732.080', 'text': "it for you. Keep it for me. Yeah. I'll pay you for it. But you know what I mean? Like, um, I have,"}, {'start': '4732.080', 'end': '4737.920', 'text': "like I have all of these like funny little things that I'm doing, but it's reverse engineering"}, {'start': '4737.920', 'end': '4744.480', 'text': "because before most of the time, like let's say the comedy thing, right? Right. I have built up"}, {'start': '4744.480', 'end': '4750.320', 'text': "that I'm a cop that I've do funny things. And now, Hey, look, I'm doing the show. You can come and"}, {'start': '4750.320', 'end': '4755.840', 'text': "watch where's this thing is the flip side. It's Hey, look, I've got a product and then I have to"}, {'start': '4755.840', 'end': '4761.600', 'text': 'make funny things for that product. So it could possibly sell. So yeah. And then on top of that,'}, {'start': '4761.600', 'end': '4766.560', 'text': "it's learning everything like learning how to resin print, learning how to paint and prime and"}, {'start': '4766.560', 'end': '4772.000', 'text': "sand and all this stuff. So that's being pretty difficult, but I'm still, you know, soldiering on"}, {'start': '4772.000', 'end': '4776.800', 'text': "just doing it little bits at a time, because I know that there's potential there for, for some"}, {'start': '4776.800', 'end': '4782.320', 'text': 'great things to happen. But I think that one, but I mean, bakery run was, was so like, there was,'}, {'start': '4782.320', 'end': '4787.760', 'text': 'there was teasing problems with bakery run just around product or just around how it comes out.'}, {'start': '4787.760', 'end': '4793.040', 'text': 'And we learned a lot from the first couple of seasons and do we get guests on, do we do solos?'}, {'start': '4793.040', 'end': '4799.120', 'text': 'Do we, do we go overseas? Like these types of things that we, we were always ironing out. Yeah.'}, {'start': '4799.120', 'end': '4805.040', 'text': "But I do feel as if the toy thing has been quite a learning, it's been an eye opener. Yeah. And you"}, {'start': '4805.040', 'end': '4809.920', 'text': "have to stick to your guns. Yeah. It's been the hardest thing. And I think the toy stuff is also"}, {'start': '4809.920', 'end': '4814.160', 'text': "pretty cool because it's all, it's like a branch out, like a, like a fully branch out stuff. Like"}, {'start': '4814.160', 'end': '4821.200', 'text': "it's still comic related, but it's a different thing. And I think that I always have this belief"}, {'start': '4821.200', 'end': '4829.760', 'text': 'that you have to have the capacity to absorb different worlds to, in order for you to broaden'}, {'start': '4829.760', 'end': '4834.720', 'text': 'new creativity in whatever the craft that you have. So for example, for me, I am a designer.'}, {'start': '4834.720', 'end': '4838.640', 'text': 'I do product design. I design interfaces like this one that you see here. Why am I talking to'}, {'start': '4838.640', 'end': '4844.320', 'text': 'musicians and people in the building industry? And because I learned from each one of those things,'}, {'start': '4844.320', 'end': '4850.000', 'text': 'things that I can apply in even just particular moments of my life about optimizing my body or'}, {'start': '4850.000', 'end': '4854.240', 'text': "whatever the fuck it is. But there's so many things you can gather from that. And I think in this"}, {'start': '4854.240', 'end': '4859.520', 'text': 'side hustle that you do with the T-toys, I think when I saw that as a man, this is a,'}, {'start': '4859.520', 'end': '4865.120', 'text': "it's an avenue for, for different things to come into your brain and bring it into your own comedy."}, {'start': '4865.120', 'end': '4870.160', 'text': "Exactly. Cause it's, I mean, you imagine if I just started, I don't know, selling deodorant,"}, {'start': '4870.160', 'end': '4876.640', 'text': 'like, you know, selling eggs or selling, you know, like Easter, Easter bunnies or something like that.'}, {'start': '4876.640', 'end': '4883.600', 'text': "It wouldn't match, it wouldn't match the brand of what I'm doing. Whereas this is quite similar."}, {'start': '4883.600', 'end': '4888.320', 'text': "And there's a crossover. Like, I mean, here's a perfect example. We could have done pies. We"}, {'start': '4888.320', 'end': '4892.240', 'text': 'actually went out and lost a very good point. We could have done pie. I could have gone,'}, {'start': '4892.240', 'end': '4896.320', 'text': 'you could have gone on a non-pies. I could have gone to a baker and gone, listen,'}, {'start': '4896.320', 'end': '4902.000', 'text': 'I want to open a bakery called the bakery run place. And I need you to help me do that. And'}, {'start': '4902.000', 'end': '4906.080', 'text': "it would have been, I mean, it's a business, but we could have gone that way. But it's a lot of"}, {'start': '4906.080', 'end': '4914.240', 'text': "work. Like I just have an eye, man, there's times I mean, I will be in bed and I'll just think of an"}, {'start': '4914.240', 'end': '4921.040', 'text': "idea for a toy and I'll just get my iPad and just start molding it. And then it's done in like,"}, {'start': '4921.040', 'end': '4925.040', 'text': "I've molded it. I've done the face. I've done everything. Then I put it to the printer. Then"}, {'start': '4925.040', 'end': '4929.360', 'text': "I, you know, it fails three times before you do it. Anyone that's done a resident printing,"}, {'start': '4929.360', 'end': '4934.800', 'text': "you know, you know how fucking difficult it can be. And then you go, cool, I'm going to make 20 of"}, {'start': '4934.800', 'end': '4940.000', 'text': 'these. And you make 20 of them. Then you paint them, you got sand any imperfections of it.'}, {'start': '4940.000', 'end': '4944.800', 'text': "Then you got to end the packaging. Yeah. Because the packaging, that's where I get it is the"}, {'start': '4944.800', 'end': '4949.360', 'text': "packaging. Like if people look at it and they, they go, fuck, that's pretty cool. That packaging is"}, {'start': '4949.360', 'end': '4955.120', 'text': "great. Yeah. And, um, yeah. And then it, it kind of like, there's a whole thing that goes with it,"}, {'start': '4955.120', 'end': '4960.640', 'text': "but it's me like, I don't have to rely on anybody else. Yeah. I just have to get it done. And, uh,"}, {'start': '4960.640', 'end': '4965.520', 'text': "that's amazing, bro. Yeah. Do you have a website for it? Yeah. T toys. Uh, it's all, I just have"}, {'start': '4965.520', 'end': '4972.320', 'text': "them normally at the moment on temporalize.com. But, um, yeah, it's ttoys.co.nz is on the way."}, {'start': '4972.320', 'end': '4978.880', 'text': "I'm a, I'm a subliminal guy, right? Yeah. I always am. I'm looking for subliminal little things."}, {'start': '4978.880', 'end': '4984.960', 'text': "It's tea, Tim, yeah. Tea toys. I'm making toys, blah, blah, blah. What people don't understand"}, {'start': '4984.960', 'end': '4993.200', 'text': 'is the word tea toy in Maori means to wank means to masturbate. Is that right? It is.'}, {'start': '4993.200', 'end': '5000.160', 'text': "Oh, I see. So it's called tea toys. So the Maoris think it's absolutely, so my people think it's"}, {'start': '5000.160', 'end': '5005.840', 'text': 'absolutely fucking hilarious, but I can go on like things. Oh yeah, man. Tea toys coming out.'}, {'start': '5005.840', 'end': '5011.280', 'text': "And then, so yeah, so that's, oh, I see. I do love this though. The packaging of this."}, {'start': '5011.280', 'end': '5017.920', 'text': "Thank you, man. I've got, I've got a really talented friend. His name is, um, his name is"}, {'start': '5017.920', 'end': '5023.680', 'text': 'Thunder Punch and he does all everything I do. He, he does for me. Yeah. Amazing. This, this,'}, {'start': '5023.680', 'end': '5030.800', 'text': 'I really like my only comment on, on, on the, the, the whole thing is that, yeah, I think the logo,'}, {'start': '5030.800', 'end': '5035.280', 'text': 'because again, think about what I think about when I think about these toys is, um, you know,'}, {'start': '5035.280', 'end': '5042.800', 'text': 'the beer garage project. Yes. They did an amazing, the design amazing because they are the only beer'}, {'start': '5042.800', 'end': '5048.720', 'text': "out there, which you have no idea what the fuck it is because it's every kind is different. You"}, {'start': '5048.720', 'end': '5053.200', 'text': 'just recognize it by the little logo. Yeah. Right. Not like the other beers that every day sort of'}, {'start': '5053.200', 'end': '5058.320', 'text': 'trying to keep a pattern. So then they went the other way. Every beer has his own identity.'}, {'start': '5058.320', 'end': '5064.800', 'text': 'Every beer is all about that flavor and expressing that in a piece of art. With this,'}, {'start': '5064.800', 'end': '5068.560', 'text': "it's kind of like that, right? Every toy is different tells a different story. So I think"}, {'start': '5068.560', 'end': '5073.520', 'text': "you just need to find some, something that's a little bit more, uh, that stands out a lot."}, {'start': '5073.520', 'end': '5078.000', 'text': "Gotcha, man. In terms of the logo. Um, cause I have other than that, I think it's like that,"}, {'start': '5078.000', 'end': '5081.120', 'text': "that the actual line, I'm going to buy this one actually. Okay. I'm gonna buy a"}, {'start': '5081.120', 'end': '5086.240', 'text': "Israel, Israel one. I'm back. I'm back up in a couple of weeks, bro. I'll bring it to you."}, {'start': '5086.240', 'end': '5090.240', 'text': "All right. I'll buy it. Don't buy it now, man. I'm buying it now because I want to kill myself"}, {'start': '5090.240', 'end': '5095.600', 'text': "accountable. You're going to hear it's going to be my, it's going to be my, uh, my, uh, I can't do it"}, {'start': '5095.600', 'end': '5101.520', 'text': "in this iPad, but I'll buy it. I get you, bro. I'll buy it. Um, because I do think it's amazing"}, {'start': '5101.520', 'end': '5108.160', 'text': "why you're done with, with this, but yeah, it's my outlet. Like, so I'll have something in my head"}, {'start': '5108.160', 'end': '5112.240', 'text': "and I'm like, you know what? I want to do this. Like I've, I've already, and I'm already like"}, {'start': '5112.240', 'end': '5118.000', 'text': 'five or six toys ahead. Like I already have them ready to go. And all I gotta do is just'}, {'start': '5118.000', 'end': '5123.040', 'text': "print it, print them off and away I go. Didn't you have one that was like, I'm pretty sure I saw it."}, {'start': '5123.040', 'end': '5127.840', 'text': 'I had a John Campbell one. Do you, do you do one? There was like the, the pickle Rick with the'}, {'start': '5127.840', 'end': '5134.880', 'text': "Seymour face on it. Wasn't I was a dick. I know it was a yeah. So I did a huge, um, piece of shit"}, {'start': '5134.880', 'end': '5140.480', 'text': "that had David Seymour's face on it. Oh, cause I don't know where I saw everyone thought it was a"}, {'start': '5140.480', 'end': '5145.360', 'text': "dildo. And then I was like, Oh, but it's like, it was the biggest print that I've ever done."}, {'start': '5145.360', 'end': '5150.160', 'text': 'It was like huge. And cause I thought that was hilarious. Okay. Maybe I should put that up.'}, {'start': '5150.160', 'end': '5154.560', 'text': "I I've actually done a few David Seymour ones cause I modeled a model. I was really proud of"}, {'start': '5154.560', 'end': '5159.360', 'text': 'modeling his face. I was like, damn, this is, this looks like him. It was the first face. I was like,'}, {'start': '5159.360', 'end': '5164.560', 'text': "damn, bro. I think I may have this modeling thing down. Like I think I've got it. And so I, I"}, {'start': '5164.560', 'end': '5169.520', 'text': 'printed it off and I showed people and I put it on a piece of shit. And then, um, yeah, people were'}, {'start': '5169.520', 'end': '5175.520', 'text': "like, Oh damn, but I'm looking. So that's the other thing is the, is the, is the product, um,"}, {'start': '5175.520', 'end': '5179.040', 'text': "how I'm rolling things out. Cause I'm, I'm looking at just auctioning things for now."}, {'start': '5179.040', 'end': '5183.600', 'text': "Cause you get, at least you'll get a buyer, right? If I make 20 of them and I don't,"}, {'start': '5183.600', 'end': '5188.240', 'text': "you know, it's, it's a bit different, but, um, yeah, I'm looking at just going to auction route"}, {'start': '5188.240', 'end': '5192.880', 'text': "for a little while until I build the brand up. And then I'll start doing big runs. I've got a"}, {'start': '5192.880', 'end': '5197.680', 'text': 'big run of Jake, the must coming out, which is nice. Yeah. So, so that would be, um, yeah,'}, {'start': '5197.680', 'end': '5201.200', 'text': "bro. I would love to see that side business as well grow. Uh, yeah. Cause that's the other"}, {'start': '5201.200', 'end': '5206.640', 'text': "thing, right? Is like when you're like, this is what I'm learning too around that is that I need"}, {'start': '5206.640', 'end': '5210.880', 'text': 'to show two things. Like I think these are the most two important things that you have when it'}, {'start': '5210.880', 'end': '5216.320', 'text': "comes to social media. You, if you want to sell something, you need to show that you're a human"}, {'start': '5216.320', 'end': '5221.680', 'text': 'first and foremost. So you need to humanize the process and the product. Like this is me making'}, {'start': '5221.680', 'end': '5226.080', 'text': "this. You can't just be like, I sent this, I can't drop ship. Like when you drop shipping,"}, {'start': '5226.080', 'end': '5229.920', 'text': 'I think people are too smart now. They know, Oh, you just got there from Ali express. You just got'}, {'start': '5229.920', 'end': '5234.240', 'text': "there from wherever, right? You have to show that you're making something and that you're putting"}, {'start': '5234.240', 'end': '5239.040', 'text': "effort into it. That's the first thing you humanize it. And the second part is that you need to show"}, {'start': '5239.040', 'end': '5244.400', 'text': "that you're an expert in your field or you're striving to be an expert, expert in that field."}, {'start': '5244.400', 'end': '5249.680', 'text': "And those two things, if you can marry those two things up, it's, it could potentially, you know,"}, {'start': '5249.680', 'end': '5254.800', 'text': "move on to things. So like with the 3d printing, I want to show people that you're like, this is"}, {'start': '5254.800', 'end': '5260.000', 'text': 'how hard this is. This is how much sanding needs to go in. This is why, you know, painting, this is'}, {'start': '5260.000', 'end': '5263.840', 'text': 'painting with an airbrush and painting with a spray can. These are these things. And then that'}, {'start': '5263.840', 'end': '5269.440', 'text': 'all translates to YouTube more than anything. Yeah. Right. And then you, you kind of foresight'}, {'start': '5269.440', 'end': '5274.880', 'text': 'that and get that going to, you know, other things on, on, on socials. But yeah, if you can show that'}, {'start': '5274.880', 'end': '5278.960', 'text': "you're an expert in your field, then yeah, people, cause you're giving value. Yes. I think another"}, {'start': '5278.960', 'end': '5284.000', 'text': "thing on the toy side, and I've, I've noticed this because again, I also have a, I have an art store,"}, {'start': '5284.000', 'end': '5288.160', 'text': 'which is that those pieces of art that you see actually from the art store that I have.'}, {'start': '5288.160', 'end': '5296.240', 'text': 'And one thing I did notice and also applies to these toys as well is a unique. Yes. The uniqueness'}, {'start': '5296.240', 'end': '5301.040', 'text': "of toys, people that collect toys, oftentimes they love the toys because they're unique because they"}, {'start': '5301.040', 'end': '5307.920', 'text': "know that you have done and painting this thing and it's only like 20 of them in the world. Well,"}, {'start': '5307.920', 'end': '5312.560', 'text': "I think my next thing is to do custom. So like if you, yeah, if you go to me and you're like,"}, {'start': '5312.560', 'end': '5318.720', 'text': "bro, when I get an action figure for my wife, that's her. Yeah. 100, 100. I do that with clothing,"}, {'start': '5318.720', 'end': '5323.600', 'text': 'bro. Like I love these kids that are just doing custom pieces of clothes. Yes. And I just,'}, {'start': '5323.600', 'end': '5328.400', 'text': 'fuck, buy one. I want to buy these things from you just, and it just makes it so much more,'}, {'start': '5328.400', 'end': '5332.400', 'text': "first of all, you're buying from the dude that painted this in this thing himself. Yes. And"}, {'start': '5332.400', 'end': '5337.120', 'text': 'that says you, you, you, you have a direct connection with that person. Like you said,'}, {'start': '5337.120', 'end': '5340.960', 'text': "yeah. And you have that human eyes. Like he's actually put effort into that. I'm,"}, {'start': '5340.960', 'end': '5346.640', 'text': "I'm doing a piece at the moment. I put something out on my Instagram and I said, I want to,"}, {'start': '5346.640', 'end': '5350.960', 'text': "cause I went to, I went to my kids school prize giving, right? Okay. And I don't know if you saw"}, {'start': '5350.960', 'end': '5355.920', 'text': "this piece and you know, like it was always the same kids getting the same awards. It's always"}, {'start': '5355.920', 'end': '5360.400', 'text': "the one kid that's good at sports. He's really smart. He's getting this award. That's the one"}, {'start': '5360.400', 'end': '5364.880', 'text': 'in that award. Then I thought to myself like this, these kids out there that, you know,'}, {'start': '5364.880', 'end': '5369.760', 'text': "I can't give them a wall that school, but I could make a toy of them. And so I put it out and I got"}, {'start': '5370.320', 'end': '5377.840', 'text': 'absolutely amazing father that told me about their daughter. The mom was going through,'}, {'start': '5377.840', 'end': '5384.160', 'text': 'I think it was brain. She had a brain tumor and the daughter who was 18 was, was in university,'}, {'start': '5384.160', 'end': '5388.640', 'text': 'but she had stopped university to be mom and help and help. And I was like, man,'}, {'start': '5388.640', 'end': '5393.840', 'text': "let's do this. Let's get it. So yeah. So I would rather do that, man. Cause you know,"}, {'start': '5393.840', 'end': '5398.960', 'text': 'like to reward people that I just have done so that I want to make them a superhero.'}, {'start': '5398.960', 'end': '5404.080', 'text': 'Yeah. I want to make them iron man, you know, and such a beautiful thing, man. You know,'}, {'start': '5404.080', 'end': '5410.080', 'text': "like it will take me maybe a week to get it done, but for them, they'll have it on their wall."}, {'start': '5410.080', 'end': '5413.120', 'text': "They'll be able to like celebrate your documents in this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah."}, {'start': '5413.120', 'end': '5416.640', 'text': "Fuck yeah. Cause you have to, this is a good piece of content. Yeah. So I'm like, awesome,"}, {'start': '5416.640', 'end': '5422.000', 'text': "bro. Yeah. So that type of thing is, is, and it's not like, it's never just for the content,"}, {'start': '5422.000', 'end': '5426.720', 'text': "but it's just kind of like cool, man. Like I would rather, you know, spend my, um,"}, {'start': '5426.720', 'end': '5431.760', 'text': 'my expertise to help out and, and to show people that this is what we could do. And then hopefully'}, {'start': '5431.760', 'end': '5436.080', 'text': 'later people like, yo, could you do one of my uncle, could you do one of my grandfather that was'}, {'start': '5436.080', 'end': '5441.920', 'text': "in the war and make him a soldier and package it all up? So yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, man."}, {'start': '5441.920', 'end': '5446.560', 'text': "Cause I know you would love one. I broke. Yeah. But you was with some of these shoes and you're,"}, {'start': '5446.560', 'end': '5451.680', 'text': "you know, like, damn, no 100. And those are the types of like, when you, when you, when you're"}, {'start': '5451.680', 'end': '5456.720', 'text': "giving somebody a gift, like that will put a tremendous smiles on somebody's face, right?"}, {'start': '5456.720', 'end': '5461.280', 'text': "Like that's, that would be an amazing present. Like father's day, like, yeah, it's hard to buy"}, {'start': '5461.280', 'end': '5466.160', 'text': 'for fathers. Like, ah, 100. So you can be like, no, man, I got you. I love it. I love this. I love it.'}, {'start': '5466.160', 'end': '5471.440', 'text': "I love it. Brother. Um, we've done that almost two hours. I don't know. Wow. That was two hours."}, {'start': '5471.440', 'end': '5477.040', 'text': "We hit in an hour and 40 minutes. Okay. Sorry, bro. Which is amazing because that's how you know,"}, {'start': '5477.040', 'end': '5481.920', 'text': "you enjoyed this conversation. It's Colorado. I do these things with, um, with my guests,"}, {'start': '5481.920', 'end': '5488.160', 'text': 'which is called the soundboard. So basically what you go right here in front of you is a bunch of'}, {'start': '5488.160', 'end': '5493.680', 'text': 'little buttons. All right. And all you have to do is just really tap on them and then these questions'}, {'start': '5493.680', 'end': '5499.280', 'text': "behind them. All right, man. Let's get it. Okay. This is cool. Okay. Let's do that. Ninja. If you"}, {'start': '5499.280', 'end': '5505.920', 'text': 'could swap lies with any fictional character for a week, who would it be and why? Okay. This is,'}, {'start': '5505.920', 'end': '5512.560', 'text': "this is tough. That's a tough one. I would say fictional characters, uh, just as a child, uh,"}, {'start': '5512.560', 'end': '5520.160', 'text': 'fucking Iron Man, bro. Fuck. For me, the Iron Man character is such an iconic superhero. Yeah. I'}, {'start': '5520.160', 'end': '5524.960', 'text': 'would love to be in a suit and just the suit for a bit. My one would be Michelangelo, Michelangelo,'}, {'start': '5524.960', 'end': '5529.920', 'text': "Michelangelo from the Ninja Turtles. Okay. He's always been my favorite. I think I got, yeah."}, {'start': '5530.800', 'end': '5538.560', 'text': "So you got Raphael man. Yeah. So, um, Michelangelo, I've got two like people that I've kind of been"}, {'start': '5538.560', 'end': '5544.080', 'text': 'like thing. Michelangelo was one of them because he was always like looking for the fun and the'}, {'start': '5544.080', 'end': '5548.480', 'text': 'positivity and everything. Okay. He was always like, he was always like the fun dude. He was'}, {'start': '5548.480', 'end': '5554.960', 'text': "always a fun Ninja turtle. The other one's Deadpool, but now Deadpool is quite like mainstream. I, I"}, {'start': '5554.960', 'end': '5560.240', 'text': "read Deadpool comics. That's what he's so good. I read such a good one. I read Deadpool comics"}, {'start': '5560.240', 'end': '5565.840', 'text': "when I was like, like there's a lot of my comedy that comes from that stuff. Like the third war,"}, {'start': '5565.840', 'end': '5570.240', 'text': 'the four, four breaks, things like that. But I, when I was in, when I was in high school,'}, {'start': '5570.240', 'end': '5575.920', 'text': 'before anybody knew about him, like I was reading Deadpool comics, right? And yeah. And then now'}, {'start': '5575.920', 'end': '5580.640', 'text': "he's on mainstream and stuff, but I love Deadpool. But yeah, I've got to say, yeah, Michelangelo"}, {'start': '5580.640', 'end': '5587.520', 'text': "would be one of them. That's me. Damn. I like this. Yeah. Yeah. Go for it. Yeah. If you could erase"}, {'start': '5587.520', 'end': '5592.400', 'text': 'one decision from your past, would you? And what would it be? You know what bro? And this is going'}, {'start': '5592.400', 'end': '5597.120', 'text': "to come off cheesy. Like there's a lot of things that like, like mistakes have kind of made me who"}, {'start': '5597.120', 'end': '5602.320', 'text': "I am. Like I've made mistakes and it's made me better. So I probably wouldn't. Yeah. No,"}, {'start': '5602.320', 'end': '5607.520', 'text': 'I probably like spending so much money on shoes when I was growing up or not getting on the property'}, {'start': '5607.520', 'end': '5614.480', 'text': 'market. Like early, like I, I took, you know, like I, I made a decision to like really knuckle down'}, {'start': '5614.480', 'end': '5620.400', 'text': "and save so I can get a house. And I wish I would have done that earlier. Yeah. But I didn't, I bought"}, {'start': '5620.400', 'end': '5626.880', 'text': "shoes. I bought a lot of fucking Jordans. Another one. Yeah. Yeah. This is fun, man. What's a piece"}, {'start': '5626.880', 'end': '5633.040', 'text': 'of advice you would give to your younger self that would have saved you years of stress? Man. Ah,'}, {'start': '5633.040', 'end': '5637.360', 'text': 'fuck another great. These are all great questions, brother. Um, what I would do, I would tell my'}, {'start': '5637.360', 'end': '5643.840', 'text': 'younger self, like just get used, get used to criticism and get used to losing, get, get okay'}, {'start': '5643.840', 'end': '5649.120', 'text': "with losing. That would be my thing. Like I was all, I'm still a pretty sore loser, but I was very"}, {'start': '5649.120', 'end': '5655.760', 'text': 'like fixated on doing everything I can to win. But I think like, yeah, getting used to losing,'}, {'start': '5655.760', 'end': '5661.920', 'text': 'like losing is not everybody can win, but, but using it for your own good. Like certainly for'}, {'start': '5661.920', 'end': '5668.000', 'text': "you as an opportunity. Yes. And also like learning from losing. I didn't do that. I got so, when I"}, {'start': '5668.000', 'end': '5673.760', 'text': 'was younger, I got so obsessed with winning, especially basketball wise. And I was just so'}, {'start': '5673.760', 'end': '5678.400', 'text': "obsessed with trying to win and what do I got to do to win? But I didn't actually learn from the"}, {'start': '5678.400', 'end': '5684.000', 'text': "losses. I was just too focused on what did I have to do? And sometimes, Hey, sometimes you don't"}, {'start': '5684.000', 'end': '5688.720', 'text': "go to win. Like it's just how it is, but you just have to get used to it and get back on the horse."}, {'start': '5688.720', 'end': '5693.840', 'text': "And yeah, there you go. One more. Yeah. One more. One more. What's a habit or mindset shift that"}, {'start': '5693.840', 'end': '5700.880', 'text': "completely changed your life? Man, that's a great one. There was this Gary Vee quote that changed,"}, {'start': '5700.880', 'end': '5705.520', 'text': "changed me so much is that you're going to die. Like that's it. Like that's all he said. You are"}, {'start': '5705.520', 'end': '5713.440', 'text': 'going to die. And to, to, to try and put that in perspective, just be, be aware of your own morality'}, {'start': '5713.440', 'end': '5717.920', 'text': "that one day you're going to die. So just do whatever you can to be the best you can and just"}, {'start': '5717.920', 'end': '5722.240', 'text': 'push, like pushing and do what really go towards the North star. That was, that was my main thing.'}, {'start': '5722.240', 'end': '5728.960', 'text': "Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. I love that. Let's do one more. Let's do one more. I love it."}, {'start': '5728.960', 'end': '5732.720', 'text': 'If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where would it be?'}, {'start': '5732.720', 'end': '5738.640', 'text': "Bro, New York, bro, New York city easy. Really? I'm, I'm having been to you, New York, you know,"}, {'start': '5738.640', 'end': '5743.120', 'text': "right? I've been all creatives that you do talk to there. Like New York is this just a,"}, {'start': '5743.120', 'end': '5748.880', 'text': "what is so magical about New York? The Knicks man. I'm a New York Knicks man. I've been not just that,"}, {'start': '5748.880', 'end': '5754.720', 'text': "but like I'm a Knicks fan. I've been a Knicks fan since like 94, 95. Right. And like,"}, {'start': '5754.720', 'end': '5760.320', 'text': "I've never been to a game. I've been to Madison square garden and I, man, I cried, man. I was"}, {'start': '5760.320', 'end': '5766.720', 'text': "like, damn, I never thought I would be here. I was like, and that's so weird. Like I went to a place."}, {'start': '5766.720', 'end': '5772.400', 'text': "It's not weird. I went to the Santiago Bernal last year and I felt the same way. I'm like, man,"}, {'start': '5772.400', 'end': '5777.840', 'text': 'when I was a kid, I used to dream with one day. Well for me, it was like playing in the stadium,'}, {'start': '5777.840', 'end': '5782.400', 'text': "but I couldn't make it. But at the very least being in that stadium meant the world to me."}, {'start': '5782.400', 'end': '5786.320', 'text': "And as I got, when I got, when I went to the garden and like, cause I've been watching the"}, {'start': '5786.320', 'end': '5791.040', 'text': "Knicks since I was a kid and going to the garden and I'm a big wrestling fan too. There's a lot"}, {'start': '5791.040', 'end': '5795.440', 'text': 'of things that are happening at Madison square garden as a wrestler and the wrestling fan. And'}, {'start': '5795.440', 'end': '5801.440', 'text': 'to go there and just be like, damn, this is where it happened. Yeah. My, my, my eyes wound up. And'}, {'start': '5801.440', 'end': '5807.040', 'text': 'from a kid from South Auckland that would never think like I would never actually thought that'}, {'start': '5807.040', 'end': '5812.080', 'text': "I would get here to be like, man. And I do that all the time. Like I'm like, like, oh,"}, {'start': '5812.080', 'end': '5816.160', 'text': "when I'm interviewing people, I'm like, how the fuck am I in front of these people? How the fuck"}, {'start': '5816.160', 'end': '5820.480', 'text': 'am I shaking hands with Dana white? Like, you know, how buzzy is that? Do you shake hands with'}, {'start': '5820.480', 'end': '5825.200', 'text': 'man and white? Yeah, man. Fire out. I had a chat with him. I had a conversation with him. No way.'}, {'start': '5825.200', 'end': '5831.120', 'text': "That's dope. And the security guard were like, man, get away. It was crazy. Because I, I was"}, {'start': '5831.120', 'end': '5835.680', 'text': 'part of the media and I was there and I looked to the side and he was getting in his van and I just'}, {'start': '5835.680', 'end': '5839.520', 'text': 'put everything down. I just ran over to him and I shook his hand. I was like, brother, I just want'}, {'start': '5839.520', 'end': '5842.880', 'text': "to tell you the fucking man, bro. And he's like, thank you, bro. And he goes, where are you from?"}, {'start': '5842.880', 'end': '5846.080', 'text': "And I said, I'm from New Zealand. And he's like, man, I've never been there. I need to go. Where"}, {'start': '5846.080', 'end': '5850.480', 'text': 'do I need to go? And we had this conversation. I see this big ass shadow behind me and I keep'}, {'start': '5850.480', 'end': '5855.520', 'text': "talking to him. I turn around and it's this big ass like a security guard. And then he was like,"}, {'start': '5855.520', 'end': '5858.800', 'text': "no, no, no, he's cool. He's cool. And then we had a little chat, chat. And then I was like,"}, {'start': '5858.800', 'end': '5864.320', 'text': 'fuck, I want to get a photo. Then I realized my phone was getting used for, um, to the ring for'}, {'start': '5864.320', 'end': '5869.920', 'text': "the, for the thing. I was like, ah, you know, I'm gonna fuck it. Like, I've made that photo here"}, {'start': '5869.920', 'end': '5875.920', 'text': "with my mind. We're good. But you know, like that shit, like a kid from Clendon, like a kid from a"}, {'start': '5875.920', 'end': '5881.600', 'text': "little place called Clendon, it's kind of like, yeah, I, I, I stayed true to who I was and I didn't"}, {'start': '5881.600', 'end': '5886.960', 'text': "change. I didn't have to change who I was. I've been this person since I was born and I've been"}, {'start': '5886.960', 'end': '5893.040', 'text': "a funny out of a dude that say some crazy shit sometimes, but I've been able to just stay true"}, {'start': '5893.040', 'end': '5897.680', 'text': "to who I am and, and, and get to these points at this point in my life. And I've been very fortunate,"}, {'start': '5897.680', 'end': '5901.520', 'text': "but at the same time I've been prepared. So that's the way. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You're not lucky. You"}, {'start': '5901.520', 'end': '5906.720', 'text': "just just working your ass off on opportunities. I come and that's how you got it somewhere. Let's"}, {'start': '5906.720', 'end': '5912.160', 'text': "do a last one. I'm gonna say one more girl. Okay. Let's go. Pizza. If you had to choose one food to"}, {'start': '5912.160', 'end': '5916.480', 'text': "eat for the rest of your life, what would it be? Okay, ma'am. Peter, here we go. If you don't say"}, {'start': '5916.480', 'end': '5924.320', 'text': "probably, but I'm not saying pie for that reason. I've had enough. I've eaten enough pies to be like"}, {'start': '5924.320', 'end': '5930.080', 'text': "there's better food out there. Um, you know what, man? I'm going to shout out. There's one food."}, {'start': '5930.080', 'end': '5934.160', 'text': "Okay. And there's people that know me that are going to be like, I bet he's going to fucking say"}, {'start': '5934.160', 'end': '5940.880', 'text': "this. Okay. It's the Tim provides special. Okay. At Sate noodle house and, uh, and Papa quitter."}, {'start': '5940.880', 'end': '5947.120', 'text': "Okay. He doesn't call it the temporal vice special, but I know people go in and say, Hey,"}, {'start': '5947.120', 'end': '5952.480', 'text': "can I get the temporal vice special? Oh, she's out, right. It isn't even that special as wanton"}, {'start': '5952.480', 'end': '5958.960', 'text': "soup. It's wanton noodle soup with extra with a dim sign. And my man, my man, my man,"}, {'start': '5958.960', 'end': '5965.360', 'text': "burn it. Sate noodle house. He always hooks me and I, you know, like, it's just the best I,"}, {'start': '5965.360', 'end': '5971.600', 'text': "you know, like, uh, it's the broth it's the, the, the wantons in it. It's just, brah. I can eat that"}, {'start': '5971.600', 'end': '5976.000', 'text': "over and over again. And I have, every time I come back to Auckland, that's the first spot I go to"}, {'start': '5976.000', 'end': '5982.000', 'text': 'Sate noodle house in Papa. There you go. Shout out the team provides special. Hey man. Um,'}, {'start': '5982.000', 'end': '5986.960', 'text': 'thanks so much for coming through. Um, I just appreciate you being here. I think this,'}, {'start': '5986.960', 'end': '5991.280', 'text': 'this conversation is going to inspire a lot of people to go out there and do great things.'}, {'start': '5991.280', 'end': '5997.200', 'text': 'I think what you said about thinking that a kid from South Auckland by being authentic and by'}, {'start': '5997.200', 'end': '6002.800', 'text': "being true to himself has gotten to the places where you have been. He's just an example of"}, {'start': '6002.800', 'end': '6008.000', 'text': 'courage to be ready when the, when the muse catches you to catch you working, to be prepared'}, {'start': '6008.000', 'end': '6012.400', 'text': 'for that moment, to be ambitious, to not be scared of being ambitious. Like with at the'}, {'start': '6012.400', 'end': '6016.400', 'text': "beginning of the commission, we started with that and you said, I know it's crazy. I know it's"}, {'start': '6016.400', 'end': '6019.840', 'text': "crazy. I want to build this, but I'm like, from in my mind, I'm like, that's not crazy at all."}, {'start': '6019.840', 'end': '6026.080', 'text': "I felt that with you. Yeah. It's not crazy at all. I felt, I felt when I said that I felt"}, {'start': '6026.080', 'end': '6033.520', 'text': 'people go man, shut the hell up and not verbally through the body language I felt, but I felt with'}, {'start': '6033.520', 'end': '6038.160', 'text': "you. You were like, yeah, bro. I get that. I get that. Yeah. I understand what you're doing. Yeah."}, {'start': '6038.160', 'end': '6042.400', 'text': "No 100 and there's people out there that are doing amazing things. You are one of them."}, {'start': '6042.400', 'end': '6046.560', 'text': 'So all I want to say is continue. This is your house. Anytime you want to come back'}, {'start': '6046.560', 'end': '6051.840', 'text': 'for all of you to listen to this conversation. Thank you very much. Get inspired by people.'}, {'start': '6051.840', 'end': '6057.920', 'text': '19 provides. We talked about the shows, um, comedy festival, may, may get my dates up for you.'}, {'start': '6057.920', 'end': '6067.440', 'text': 'Everybody knows. Um, it is may, may the sixth, um, to the, to the 10th, six, six to the 11th in,'}, {'start': '6067.440', 'end': '6073.840', 'text': 'in, uh, in Auckland. Yeah. And then, uh, 13th to the 17th in, uh, in Wellington at bat theater.'}, {'start': '6073.840', 'end': '6078.160', 'text': "So yeah, if you guys Wellington, I'm a little bit like, if there's people that listen to this or"}, {'start': '6078.160', 'end': '6083.200', 'text': "then they're in Wellington, please come through. Cause I know that you follow us. One, I could"}, {'start': '6083.200', 'end': '6087.920', 'text': "laugh. Yes. Auckland we're, we're, we're doing pretty good there. Yeah. We will solve that."}, {'start': '6087.920', 'end': '6094.880', 'text': "I'm a hundred percent sure. I hope so. Yes. Yes. Um, all the, the best for that bro. Um, again,"}, {'start': '6094.880', 'end': '6098.320', 'text': "uh, we'll talk after the podcast. I'll tell you a couple of things, but you have full support"}, {'start': '6098.320', 'end': '6103.200', 'text': "whenever you need, when you come up here, anything that we didn't talk about,"}, {'start': '6103.200', 'end': '6110.840', 'text': "Just get people excited about. I think bakery run coming out. We've got a bit of a secret new show happening."}, {'start': '6110.840', 'end': '6122.660', 'text': "Okay. That I can't really speak too much on. But it will be coming out this year. It's like the bakery room but a little bit different. We're really will be shooting it in Japan."}, {'start': '6122.660', 'end': '6136.760', 'text': "And then yeah man just more more hijinks more multi toys more more fun. Yeah and then yeah just get just more comedy. Yeah just getting I'm planning on like after this."}, {'start': '6136.760', 'end': '6143.440', 'text': "I'm hoping that I'm you know after a couple of dropout is done then we can go and travel around to places like that."}, {'start': '6143.440', 'end': '6152.940', 'text': "You know that would like it like potty doo and flex me and places that don't get comedy but we can hire out a hall and just make people laugh for cheap."}, {'start': '6152.940', 'end': '6158.940', 'text': "For everybody to listen to this. Thank you very much. I'll see you on the next one. Remember to drink water and exercise."}, {'start': '6158.940', 'end': '6176.840', 'text': "And Chao Chao!. Thank you my G. Thank you for watching this episode of the podcast. If you enjoy the show I'll leave you another episode here."}, {'start': '6176.840', 'end': '6181.300', 'text': "And if you like to support us please visit themeldingmuse.co. Thank you very much. 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