WEBVTT - EP 29 - Charlie Pome'e 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.320 It's the flavor podcast network. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.680 Island Roots Auckland Ways. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.719 This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:13.440 to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.000 This is Island Roots, Auckland Ways. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.079 Judy Baby, Hello, everyone, welcome back to another episode of 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:23.600 Island Roots, Orkland Ways. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:24.759 How are you todays? 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:29.440 Very well? We have been very well. I'm actually a 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:30.960 little bit yeah. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:32.839 I am going to call in sick tomorrow and we're 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.760 just having a conversation off the mic. Now. We wanted 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.680 to do this very short into and out, so let 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:39.040 me get to the chase. Use it. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:39.760 Damn sick days. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.960 Use your sick days. If you have a sick day, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.400 just use it. It's all good. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.880 Someone who I feel like doesn't really ever take a 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.760 day off though, as our guest this week, which is 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:48.720 Charlie for me, the. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:54.040 Bro is on twenty four truly bro. Sometimes this guy 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.320 will be sleeping at two eight. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:58.120 Wild crazy to me. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.080 I guess it's different when you're appearing. I don't know, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.160 do you have a different pool of energy to pull from? 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.559 Girl? I don't. I don't want to even I can't 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.119 even comprehend that ship. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.000 But anyway, he's our chat with Charlie. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:17.440 Now, welcome back to Alan routs Auckland Ways, the Legionum 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.480 the man himself. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:20.600 That's Charlie for man. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:24.840 I'm gonna lie guys, I've always wanted to be in 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.600 the show because want to talk about coming. We talk 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.920 about the show all the time every morning, but I'm like, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.440 why do we talk about this but I'm never invited. 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.520 I'm finally here Bright, thank you very much for having me. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:43.160 Listen, Man, why don't you want other boys but me? 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.360 Charlie's thinking, what's the hype about the show? Why are 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:49.320 we talking about this so much? 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.240 You know why? Because that's an award winning show. This 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.200 on period period. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.440 Be specific podcast, what do you know about any who? 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.240 Every episode, Charlie, we start with what we love about Home. Essentially, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:05.880 we're just going to talk about everything that we love 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.160 about home. It could be something small, like a favorite 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.480 meal that you used to have growing up, or it 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.640 could be something from the current place that you live 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.200 in and money do it period. But we'll let meds 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.880 start first so you can get a feel for how 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:18.480 it rolls. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.360 I love when my neighbors are ont home. Speaking of neighbors, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:22.840 we were talking about neighbors. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:23.840 So I've got a. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.400 Sheer driveway, three houses with a third house, so we're 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.600 at the end. And I help my neighbor's car last 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.720 week because it's crazy something. First the first house or 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.119 the driveway, they're all good because. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.160 If you have a garage, you park the cars and. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.519 The garage second house. For some reason, they want to 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.160 show off their cars. So they've got a double garage 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.519 camp for two cars, and they park their two cars 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.360 directly outside of the garage. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.119 Doore, You're right, that's that's showing off. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.000 And because we are a sheer driveway, if they're parking 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.400 like that, we have the narrower space to get in 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:56.119 and out. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.560 And so I help my neighbor's car coming out the 0:02:58.600 --> 0:02:58.960 other day. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:02:59.480 Good job. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.119 And because I'm a nice person, I said, you know what. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.080 I'm going to pay for your trick ass CA. So 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.639 I lift a note and then they confronted me that night, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.080 and I was like, oh, here we go confronted. Yeah, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.800 and they were like knock knock, hello, hello, and me 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.560 and my flapmate were out on the deck. Come out, Oh, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.760 so is this your four wheel drive here? And I'm like, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.440 yes it is. And he's like, oh, did you do this? 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.360 And I was like yes, But as I see it 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.600 in the note, I'm willing to pay for whatever peers 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.360 need to be done being the license pent. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.200 And here's the other thing. Love the neighbors. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.280 I don't know them, but I don't want to see 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.120 your Honda. What's the show off about a Honda bra. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.440 A Honda all this time? Off what you're saying, Like, Bro, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.200 they've got a Ferrari hold a parking Yeah. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.000 That's just what a ranger of MS. I do not 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.880 want to see there. Nobody want to see that spoiler. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.160 That's somebody. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.280 I can't believe you agreed to pay for the damage, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:55.720 because then I feel like they're gonna put out their 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.960 receipt and be like oh yeah and then this yeah. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.000 Yeah, they might start pulling a quick one. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.960 I did take a photo, okay, and you know I 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.480 hit the car because I was on my way to 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:11.000 bf T and so I was, for my first time 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.760 saying bf T have a drink every time every time 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.920 we say bf T. So I'm trying to get to 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.960 my six forty five class. Think the car, car alarm 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.599 goes off, lights are flashing, and I'm like, am I 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:22.839 gonna run away from this. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:23.520 No. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.960 I got out, took a photo and I waited for 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.159 them to come out because the car alum was loudest. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.760 Then come out, and I was like, you know what, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.880 I'm gonna miss my class. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:33.919 You know what, But you're a good citizen. If that 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.479 was me and I had to choose between putting a 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.120 note out on a car or get to my bf 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.240 T class, you know where I'm going. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.839 He's going to give this PX sire, He's going to 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:45.520 get that gold. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.320 Middle already through the roof from the streets. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.720 Anyway. That's what I love about home when my neighbors 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.400 aren't home, I love it for you. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.800 What I love about home this week is actually three 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:01.600 houses down song Charlie song the Dream, which is one 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.080 of my most favorite songs of all time. There's something 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:06.960 I wish I could drive so I could put that 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.120 song on and like be in my car, have like 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.680 a reflective moment about my dreams and my goals and 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.320 life the visions I have. But I love that song, Charlie, 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:16.120 such a good song. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.840 Oh thank you. I'll tell you guys about that song 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.360 later on. But something that I love about home two 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.320 weeks ago and this is my family home we're talking about. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.800 I had the pleasure of going to my parents' house. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.039 It was a Sunday night, and you know, this little 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.880 memory came back that we were all sitting in the lounge, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.160 Me and my siblings and our kids were all just 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.480 playing in the lounge and jumping up and down on 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.839 the on the chairs and things like that. And I 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.040 go to my sister, bro we would have got the 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:52.520 biggest hiding. We were jumping on the on the couches 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.680 and things like that in the lounge. But there was 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.240 no such thing as playing bull rush in the lounge, man, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.400 you know. And then my mom was moving up Sweet 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.320 Rice Okay, so this was our this was our go 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.400 to every Sundays, eight thirty pm. That will be sweet 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.320 Rice come out on a plate and we're watching like 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.360 a show you know what I mean, on TV with 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.960 its sister act or whatever the show was. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.039 Yeah, that was playing Rachel and thing. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.720 You know. So then we'll have our sweet Rice and 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.200 then you'll get one of us that will get up 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.480 and try and act out you know, from the movie 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.279 and things like that. And it brought back those sweet memories, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.320 you know what I mean. While my parents are still alive. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.080 Our children get to come to my parents house and 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.880 they all play and my siblings are all there, So 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.000 that's for me. It is a blessing. And I love 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.840 that about my home that we could always take the 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.279 children there and the kids there when we don't have 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.719 a babysit. You know, I saw this whole carry on 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.159 and the sweet rice just makes it just that so 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.520 much more better. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.560 That's so special life, the circle of life. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.880 Your parents must be so happy when the grandkids are 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.000 all over at the house. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.080 They love it because you know, my parents stay at 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.200 home by themselves, so it's it is pretty quiet at 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.000 their house. So you're getting mom and day calling hey, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.720 bring the kids over and are you sure? It's like, yeah, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.880 bring the magazines. Quiet, Y's just me and your mom. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.360 We go to take the kids over there. Man, I 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.400 swear only about forty five minutes. Hey, we are used 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.400 you to come pick up your kids. Hang on, you've 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:21.960 been calling me? 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:29.200 Then where are you the mina switch up? 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.840 Well, we love that, Charlie. We want to talk about. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.360 Your role on Flavor Breakfast Stacas Zorah and Charlie, you 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.480 are the Charlie and there, how have you been settling 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:40.000 ins al radio. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.080 How have you been finding it? 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.200 You know what as I'm still trying to find my feet. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.200 You know, it's one of those things. I love this 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.320 job because I'm learning something new every day and it's 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.960 you know, sometimes in my previous jobs, I'd wake up 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.080 and I'll be like, bro, what am I doing? You know, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.000 your your drive to work every morning, but you have 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.960 your wives and your pro But here, like I feel 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.960 that this is more of I don't see it as 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.040 a job, you know, it's I have fun here. So 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.040 I say this to my wife. I didn't even know 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.160 what to call this if it's if it's a job, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:15.840 or we're just coming in and just say spin some 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.200 yngs and put some life into people. So like trying 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:23.160 to find my way around here, navigating Yeah, the space. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.560 It's it's quite interesting, and it's challenging for myself because 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.040 you know, we talked about this off air. I can 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.320 sit here and just spin a yarn all day long, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.560 you know, and for hours and hours and hours. But 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:40.040 radio is completely different. It's it's more structured. You know, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.079 I don't know these little nicknames. You know, I'm still. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:43.760 What's a break? 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.520 What's this? What's you know? So it's when I'm looking 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.480 at our our at our breakfast sheet in the morning, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.199 I'm like, bro, well, okay, what's this? 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:52.680 What's this? 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.959 You know, I'm still asking myself these questions. And I've 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.359 been in this role for about like eight months now. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:02.960 That's pretty fascinting, man. Or yeah, six six to eight months, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.760 I think it is. But you know, I've always wanted 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.760 to be in this, in this in this realm where 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.800 you know, in radio. Because on our Instagram, I usually 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.960 had the segment on Fridays, you know how we have 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.360 but like here we have every Fridays we have Friday Fields. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.880 we pack our favorite song. So I had like Friday. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.079 It wasn't called Friday Fields. I've got what it was called. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.120 But you know, I'll go on my Instagram and I'll 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.760 be like, hey, welcome back here, blah blah blah. You 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.000 know what I mean. So this is our song for 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.280 the Friday Man to pick your guys up. So I 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.160 used to have my little segments and people usually get 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.520 if you have a song, man throw it in the dms, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.439 requist it, and it was like that, and they used 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.200 to go off every Fridays. So then I was like Hey, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.840 this could be a thing, and never in a million 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.360 years that I think that will turn into something like 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.280 sitting here at Flavor Radio and being a radio host. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.280 People will know you as the lead singer of Three 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:00.360 Houses Down, which was born twenty years ago two thousand 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:00.800 and four. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:01.800 I was four. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:03.559 I was. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.080 So take us through those beginning days of Three Houses Down. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.559 How did you decide whats your bros? That you wanted 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:12.319 to start this up? 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:12.840 Yeah? 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.680 So how it started? We were always singing in choirs. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.679 My grandfather's a choir master. My dad as a choir master, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.200 and he wanted us to take a different route in 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.160 terms of music. And there was a tellingquist night that 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.560 happened and it was a church one, and my dad 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.079 put our names through and we entered. But we were 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.000 just gonna go do a cappella like Bois and Me star, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.199 you know. And my dad was like, no, that's boring, man. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.520 You guys do that all the time, quartet styles, you know, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.719 with church and fire size and things like that. Why 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.400 don't you got to start a band? We're like, okay, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.319 what imaginary instruments? 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:49.680 You know? 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.960 We had no instruments nothing. I didn't even know how 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:58.480 to play an instrument. And that's why I could like 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.120 relate to that movie because it's it's maybe a tonguein thing. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.480 So then my dad, you know, being my dad, he 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.120 walked three houses up and this house had like all 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:15.160 the instruments. They had drums, keyboard, everything, and they come 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.160 from like a Presbyterian background, so they all know how 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.120 to play instruments and they are gun musos. So my 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.319 dad went over there and he's to the tongue and 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.559 guy and he's like, man, my kids are are looking 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.839 at entering this telling quist night and we're wondering whether 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.120 you know your kids can help them out. And then 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.679 like yeah, yeah, sure, you're beening them up. So we 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.400 went up and we played the songs to these guys. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.400 International played the song this is a song we want 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.320 to learn, can you guys play? It's like, oh yeah, 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.920 started listening. Okay, sweet, this is how like gun of 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.920 musics these guys are. They picked it up within like 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.120 maybe fifteen minutes every night. Yeah exactly. We ran three 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.360 songs with these guys, and I was like, holy heck, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.240 this is it. Yeah, bro, I want to do this, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.719 you know what I mean. So then and then as 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.560 time went on, we into this, telling Chris Night we 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.920 want it, and then the father of the children were like, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.400 you know what, you guys should just start a band. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.160 And I was like, m yes and no, because you know, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.360 I was still playing sports at this time, and in 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.400 my mind I wanted to be an All Black or 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:17.880 played in the Warriors, you know what I mean. So 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.240 music was in the back burners really, and then we're 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.920 doing the music thing on the side and still playing sports. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.400 And then it got to a point where because he's 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.800 a Presbyterian pastor, and he said to us, you know what, guys, 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.280 the music that you guys are playing is it's the 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.560 Devil's music reggae. You know, like, you guys are talking 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.400 about drugs and I'm not really you know, we're talking 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.200 about loving all that. But he's like, look, I have 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.760 a different vision for my children. Maybe you guys need 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.319 to go off and do you guys own things and 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:47.120 a nice way. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:47.480 Okay. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.960 So then we went three houses down back to my parents' 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.160 house and I was like, bro, what are we going 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.400 to do? Like, you know, we're sort of half committed 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.280 to this and I want to go you know, I 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.440 want to take it to a certain place, but you know, 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.760 and my dad felt sorry for us. We couldn't afford 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.080 any instruments or band equipment at this time. A week 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.880 from the time we were dismissed from three houses up, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.320 my dad was then made redundant from his job. So 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.920 he worked there for about thirty plus years. So this 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.000 was back in the super annuation days. And like every 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.600 cent that my dad was paid out from his thirty 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.680 plus years or service, like, rather than putting it into 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.559 a into a mortgage and all the bills and so forth, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.840 he pumped it all into band equipment. Wow. I swear 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.480 like every cent like this almost caused a divorce between 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:44.600 my mom exactly, you know, taking it, you know, take 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.240 it up to to my mom or to his wife 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.880 to discuss as there was just straight night. We're pumping 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.840 this into the kids. So that was an investment into 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.680 into us, you know, and the music. So we're sitting 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.760 we're sitting out in the lounge and we've seen this 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.400 big truck with us into our driveway. We're like, oh, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:03.559 what's what's happening here? 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:03.920 We go out. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.400 I was like, are you guys at the right house? 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.240 And the guy goes, yeah, we're dropping off equipment. Band equipments, like, oh, 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.520 we don't remember getting anything like that, you know. My 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.240 dad not long after pull up, was like, yah, yeah yeah, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:16.760 drop put it all off. He was like what are 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.160 you doing. He's like, you guys are going to start 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.920 a band. I was like, oh, boys, it's on. You 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.120 gotta remember there was no YouTube nothing, so we didn't 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:30.160 know how to set up a PA gear. So this 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:35.040 was freaking and we're like, where are we gonna put 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:36.880 all this equipment. We didn't even have a band house 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.920 or a garage or anything. So my dad goes, don't 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.520 worrying about that. We went to my mom's work. They 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.480 just imported this factory, this big machine my mom was 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.040 making plastic back in the days from Italy, and it 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.760 came in with all this four by two like like 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.920 nice timber everything. So my dad said, every day after school, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.120 what we're going to do is we're going to go 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.200 and strip that timber and we're going to use that 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.360 to build the band room. Oh my god, yeah yeah 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.920 straight up. So my brother was doing construction, like, you know, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.080 showed after school, so he knew he had a fair 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.560 idea on how to build things. So we ended up 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.040 building the band room learned how to set up a PA. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.640 But then it was like it took us two years 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.440 to sort of you know, get our get our a 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.880 enterg learned songs and did a whole lot of work, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.240 broke a whole lot of money in the garage before 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.200 we actually went out. So you know, two thousand and four, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.120 you know, the name three Houses Down was established, and 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.000 our very first gig was in two thousand and four 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:45.600 and Tully it was like we made Hollywood our first 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.200 ever gig. I remember, like as if it was yesterday. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.080 We go to set up and this was in Maut 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.720 Wellington on the corner of Mount Wellington Highway in Panama. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.280 Rodi used to be a pub called the Duke of 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.720 Wellington back in the day before it was all cream 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:02.840 Cafe and all these. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.120 Right there opposite the Windys. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:09.840 That used to be a pub called the Duke of Wellington, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.280 right And that was our very first ever gig in 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.000 two thousand and four. This is when we said to 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.240 each other in the garage, but I think we're ready, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.560 We're ready to do this. We went door knocking around 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.240 all these pubs in South Auckland and nobody gave us 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.680 a shot because one they didn't know who we were. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.800 We're way too young. I was only like fifteen at 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:35.400 the time. Yeah, So then we went to Windy's and 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.800 me and my brother sat there. We had fries between 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:44.760 shared between four people. The struggle was real, man, and 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.400 we looked across the road. We're like, but we haven't 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.000 tried this pub. So then we went over there and 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.840 the funny thing was the guy the duty manager at 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.600 the pub at Duke of Wellington at this time was 0:16:54.640 --> 0:17:00.360 my brother's old rugby league manager. So yeah, we had 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.320 it in and we said to him, look, this is 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.119 what we're doing. We're wanting to get a gig in 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.080 like you know, just even if it's forty five minutes. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.919 We don't want any money, et cetera, et cetera. And 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.280 he goes, you know what, Saturday, you boys, seven o'clock. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.600 I'll give you guys a slot on Saturday. We set up, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.920 had a sound check, went home. Six o'clock. We left 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:24.119 all to go to Jacob Wellington. As we pulled up 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.160 into the driveway, We've seen all these bikes, like motorcycles. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:33.680 We're like, holy heck, this is a motorcycle show. Wow. Oh, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:38.480 brothers just gets better and better it was packed pack. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.680 So we were like high fiving each other in the 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.919 van like yeah we got this, yeh. We hop out 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.840 of the van, were walking. Bro, it was a sea 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:48.760 of black powers. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.720 So it was like because of. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:58.320 So so it was like a like an event they 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.119 had over there and were walking and we're like, oh my. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:03.640 God, oh my. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:09.639 I do not want to die, like that was a 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:10.840 fifteen year old kid. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.040 One off note, it's all done. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:20.040 So then we get on and we're like, hikay, we're 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.159 three houses down and bro, like you know, the crowd 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.639 was just dead and looking at us like, bro, are 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.680 you guys going to play anything? You know, guys, we 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.159 played right four hour and bro, the party was lit, 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.080 I'm telling you guys. So then we get and this 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.000 is me saying like going to like a whole group 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.240 of black palts, Hey, thank you guys. This will be 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.320 our last one for the night. And then you get 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:48.240 one guy from the back. No, this is where I 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.679 and then I looked to the bar. My brother's manager 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.399 at the time was like, you know, giving us a 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.480 signal carry on, carry on, bro, I said to my 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:03.440 brother been. So you know what we did. We ended 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:07.120 up playing songs back to front, and like we ended 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.679 up playing for four hours, man, twelve songs, four hours. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.199