Speaker 1: It's the Flavor podcast network.
Speaker 2: Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's for the Brown brothers
Speaker 2: and sisters who want to be one with themselves, their culture,
Speaker 2: their identity, their roots.
Speaker 3: This is Island Roots Auckland Ways. What was up? It's
Speaker 3: Mas and Alyssa.
Speaker 1: Hey everyone, welcome on into Thursday Island Roots Auckland Ways Day.
Speaker 3: Yes, I love Thursdays.
Speaker 4: I really look forward to Thursdays.
Speaker 1: It's like how they say the day before a day
Speaker 1: off feels good. It's like the day before Friday feels good.
Speaker 4: I think just because I know that Ira is coming out.
Speaker 3: That's why I.
Speaker 1: Like, that's what drives you for the entire week. What's
Speaker 1: your least favorite day?
Speaker 4: Least favorite day? That is such a good question. Wednesdays,
Speaker 4: I feel like because it's like for me, I work
Speaker 4: Tuesday to Saturday, so Wednesday's like, oh, we're still at
Speaker 4: the start of the week. Oh gee, But Thursday's like
Speaker 4: my hump day. So I think that it's also why
Speaker 4: I like Thursdays. We're almost there a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: That would make sense because yeah, hunt day's a good day.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Hence why Thursday is also like beach day.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, this week, we have our Missus Fullback.
Speaker 1: She was a vibe.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, so much fun.
Speaker 4: I'm so sad that I didn't make it to Layas
Speaker 4: to see her do her set live as you went?
Speaker 3: Was it the best thing ever?
Speaker 1: It truly was. Layers is always like upa oh. I
Speaker 1: saw Fallback before she started her set. Actually she was nervous.
Speaker 1: She had nothing to be worried about, though, And she was.
Speaker 3: Even nervous before she started changing with us.
Speaker 4: And I was like, girl, come on now, look at
Speaker 4: you face, body brain. You'll be fine. I promise you.
Speaker 1: She was fine. Have a listen now, and welcome back
Speaker 1: to Alan roots Auckland Ways. The congress Or Star Editor
Speaker 1: presents a DJ messus four bad. What's that guys?
Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good, Hi guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Context Just before we record, we're talking about raisins yes,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, yeah, I don't really need better,
Speaker 1: like I don't mind, Yeah, I just have it because
Speaker 1: you know that's so funny in it and do you
Speaker 1: eat it wrong? And I could.
Speaker 4: Just start to read episode we share what we Love
Speaker 4: about Home and a segment aptly called what we Love
Speaker 4: about Home? It could be where you currently live, where
Speaker 4: you were born, where you feel grounded, it ever feels
Speaker 4: like home to you. To give you an example, will
Speaker 4: start off and this week what I love about home?
Speaker 4: Obviously grown up in money do we the nightety two
Speaker 4: sixty seven And I love Kitchen, which is this beautiful
Speaker 4: Vietnamese restaurant. The prices are incredible, the food is incredible,
Speaker 4: and it's just so so so so good.
Speaker 3: Money. Oh yeah, it's delicious.
Speaker 1: It's so so so good. Everyone who posts it on
Speaker 1: Instagram like makes it look so nice because it is
Speaker 1: so nice and delicious and cheese.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Yeah.
Speaker 4: We do love cheap, We really do.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should go there one time. We should and
Speaker 1: next time your.
Speaker 3: On a tour of all the best spots. I think
Speaker 3: I went to Monaco Food Junction. Okay, so young, I
Speaker 3: was like one of one from everything year, got.
Speaker 1: Some good tool guides, growls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had some good Indian there. It was.
Speaker 1: We love our food core because they're cheap.
Speaker 4: They're cheap and they're guaranteed to be good, especially if
Speaker 4: it's like a little kid taking your order.
Speaker 3: He's obviously just gonna.
Speaker 1: I love about home. This is a very tongue in thing.
Speaker 1: When I was growing up with my tongue and family,
Speaker 1: there was this brand of T shirt called Look Sharp,
Speaker 1: and like everyone had a look Sharp tongue a T
Speaker 1: shirt okay, And so they had various prints. It was
Speaker 1: giving like printed teas before printed teas were a thing,
Speaker 1: and so like there was a small print on the
Speaker 1: chest and then a massive print on the back. And
Speaker 1: I just have fond memories of every tongue and I
Speaker 1: know jamming Look Sharp t shirts and you would take
Speaker 1: them to tongue and everyone was wearing them like that
Speaker 1: were the cool thing to wear. And also they were cheap.
Speaker 1: People didn't care for like dressing up back in when
Speaker 1: we were kids, I feel like we dressed like kids,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's nowadays they very sophisticated,
Speaker 1: while I'm just in a hoodie if anything, I'm the kids.
Speaker 1: That's what I love about home. How about you feel back?
Speaker 1: What do you love about home?
Speaker 3: Home for me would be Melbourne because I yeah, I
Speaker 3: grew up there. So I've obviously moved away from home now,
Speaker 3: so I miss a lot of my family, so probably
Speaker 3: just my family. It's nice to like, I feel like
Speaker 3: now that I'm away from all of it. I miss
Speaker 3: like the craziness and like the loudness and having like
Speaker 3: twenty people in the house. So yeah, that's probably that's
Speaker 3: what feels like home for me.
Speaker 1: Do you come from a big family? I do. I do.
Speaker 3: Most of my mum's family is in Melbourne, so my
Speaker 3: one family, there's a lot of us. There's a lot
Speaker 3: a lot of us, like grandkids and grandkids and grandkids.
Speaker 1: But yeah, where abouts did you move to from Melbourne?
Speaker 3: Where'd I move to? Yeah, I'm in the Goldie now,
Speaker 3: I'm in Gold Coast now.
Speaker 1: Yes, you see a gold guy.
Speaker 3: Speaking. Yeah, it is. It's very peaceful there, very very.
Speaker 1: I remember when we saw each other in the Gold
Speaker 1: Coast for Promised Land last year because I was staying
Speaker 1: with the mutual friend of ours, Rebecca, so shout out
Speaker 1: to her. And we were staying at this nice house
Speaker 1: on the it's so beautiful. There are many balconies and
Speaker 1: there was lots of alcohol too, and so in the
Speaker 1: midst of in between drink ups, four that came I
Speaker 1: was like, they put up the truck.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We we dropped back at home and and Becca
Speaker 3: was like, I'm staying with Maths. I was like, like
Speaker 3: where it was our first time meeting in person. Oh
Speaker 3: my god, yeah, it was. That was crazy, what a time.
Speaker 1: What's so funny is that four Beck and offering Rebecca
Speaker 1: were saying to me, Oh, you can come back to
Speaker 1: the house, because we're going back to the house. And
Speaker 1: then I saw on four Beck's Instagram story there were.
Speaker 3: Some this house.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I really should have gone.
Speaker 3: Very beautiful people.
Speaker 1: I don't deny this. You surround yourself with beautiful people.
Speaker 3: Guys, those are just the bridge, but they are beautiful.
Speaker 3: I can say that go Hard, Go Hard is turning red.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's like a.
Speaker 1: De nominator around all our episodes, me in our pursuit of.
Speaker 4: Jesus love, do you think it's possible to find love?
Speaker 4: And because we had this thing where like in Aukland,
Speaker 4: the men.
Speaker 1: The mean.
Speaker 3: In the because I haven't been looking, to be honest,
Speaker 3: I love just like walking in so if yeah, I
Speaker 3: can do some research when I get back back to Yeah,
Speaker 3: I haven't been looking at all to be honest.
Speaker 1: To be honest, though, I promised Land.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you do want to come, come for promise
Speaker 3: that everyone from all over comes to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's I mean from everywhere.
Speaker 3: I'm scared.
Speaker 4: Was a bit of a.
Speaker 3: I had no idea what talking about.
Speaker 1: Let's get back on you. Tell us about your upbringing
Speaker 1: in Aldo, New Zealand and because I understand this is
Speaker 1: where you are raised.
Speaker 3: No, not at all. Do you research? I swear this.
Speaker 1: Article that seen you were raised in Lower Heart or
Speaker 1: you spent.
Speaker 3: Someone Yeah, and then I moved to OZ when I
Speaker 3: was six months old. Oh my god, I never lived
Speaker 3: here before since then?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ever reported on you.
Speaker 4: I was thinking, like, she's such a beautiful Australian accent,
Speaker 4: Like how do you acquire that? If you haven't, I've
Speaker 4: heard some strong accents and I love you.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. It's not to love it?
Speaker 1: Can you say?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: And cleo?
Speaker 5: Oh damn?
Speaker 1: So you and your fano moved over to OS when
Speaker 1: you're six months old?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I was a baby baby. So like I'm
Speaker 3: very much as crazy blue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a true blue Aussie ye kangaroo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I still claim New Zealand though, like even like
Speaker 3: I come here, I'm like I'm home, but I've never
Speaker 3: actually lived here longer than like that first period of
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 4: But when you do come back here like that sense
Speaker 4: of home. Yes, everything's still quite familiar.
Speaker 3: Well now it is, like because I've been like intentionally
Speaker 3: coming back like every few months. Yeah, and obviously being
Speaker 3: surrounded by our community, it just feels like home anyway.
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, where are you from? Like here, I'm like
Speaker 3: everyone just like, I'm not from here. I'm just a fraud.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I grew up in Melbourne like my
Speaker 3: whole life.
Speaker 5: True.
Speaker 1: I hope I get this right. You are someone Maudy. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so who's smilety?
Speaker 3: Your dad? Your dad and then my someone family all
Speaker 3: moved over to yeah and my dad, but my Maori
Speaker 3: family still live like all over like christ Church, Wellington, uh,
Speaker 3: the Summon, Perth, but none in Auckland surprisingly yeah, because
Speaker 3: we're all all of us were from Wellington originally.
Speaker 1: We've had a couple of sal Maudi in the studio
Speaker 1: And I guess my question to you is like, did
Speaker 1: you feel close to both sides of your culture growing up?
Speaker 1: How was that relationship being a someone Maudy.
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about my Maori side, to be honest,
Speaker 3: I'm very much someone like raised traditional cultures. I just
Speaker 3: haven't because obviously we moved to OZ and my Muori
Speaker 3: family stayed here. I just didn't get the like honor
Speaker 3: of like growing up with my Maori side and like
Speaker 3: getting to learn the traditions and all of it, which
Speaker 3: I really wish I did. But something of your control, Yeah,
Speaker 3: stay out of my control. But I'm very much someone
Speaker 3: included a.
Speaker 4: Lot of like Maudi that I know that have moved
Speaker 4: or grown up in Australia. That's like a very similar
Speaker 4: she had experience. But then I can also see why
Speaker 4: when you come back to musical and you're like, I'm yes,
Speaker 4: this is your.
Speaker 3: Is one thing.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of cousins who live in Australia,
Speaker 4: all across Australia, and they say that, like there's not
Speaker 4: a lot of culture in Australia in terms of like
Speaker 4: Pacific or like Simon culture.
Speaker 3: Have you had a similar experience or do you feel
Speaker 3: quite like strong? I feel like I feel like if
Speaker 3: you were to compare it, then there's not a lot
Speaker 3: because it's all I really know. I feel like it's strong.
Speaker 3: I feel like the presence is strong because like obviously
Speaker 3: we have a lot of other cultures as well. But
Speaker 3: you know, for me, it's been it's been okay. I
Speaker 3: think it also depends on the area you're in because
Speaker 3: there's like, like for a Melbourne example, there's like South
Speaker 3: and West is where all the islanders are based. So
Speaker 3: if you're in there you will feel it strongly, but
Speaker 3: if you're anywhere else you feel nothing. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been okay for me.
Speaker 4: I think I love that so And it definitely depends
Speaker 4: on your family, but it sounds there's a huge.
Speaker 3: And a lot of us. Yeah, a lot of us.
Speaker 3: I had no lack of. Yeah, someone presence in my life.
Speaker 3: I love, yeah very much in Melbourne, girly whatever spots
Speaker 3: in Melbourne. If we're planning a trip and we want
Speaker 3: to get in touch with some Melbourne culture, where where
Speaker 3: are we to?
Speaker 1: I don't want to see the along I.
Speaker 4: Need to go there.
Speaker 1: And literally.
Speaker 3: We're talking about I want to go South and West?
Speaker 4: Where are we going?
Speaker 3: You're going to? Probably where I grew up was like
Speaker 3: poin Cookbe or like Hoppers crossing wind and Vale. Tanya
Speaker 3: doesn't mean much to you guys when I say it,
Speaker 3: but because I have family. Yeah, Usually when people say,
Speaker 3: like I've got family in Melbourne, I'll just start naming
Speaker 3: like the suburbs and they're like, yep, that's the one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I guess that's how Ozzies must feel when
Speaker 1: we say, yeah.
Speaker 3: Those are all the ones I know, like because I
Speaker 3: usually stay in who oh yeah, but this trip, I've
Speaker 3: been staying in Henderson, and I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 3: any of these suburbs that we're going through, like I
Speaker 3: to like Toto like all that stuff. But I've been
Speaker 3: learning how did I all come about?
Speaker 1: And what were the vibes that you wanted to put
Speaker 1: out into the universe? With Ile?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, with Ile, what was the first question? It
Speaker 3: was it how did I come? How did it come about?
Speaker 3: So I got some funding and I had to like
Speaker 3: put together a concept and stuff to like what I
Speaker 3: would use the funding for, which was I feel like
Speaker 3: it's such a long story, Like I think I could
Speaker 3: go back to like I don't know if you remember
Speaker 3: poly Connection, which was like ages ago. So I started
Speaker 3: as a collective in like twenty nineteen, which we had
Speaker 3: Partia July, Craigie, Susanna who's a DJ now and moj
Speaker 3: who's a Mormon. But yeah, so we started as a
Speaker 3: collective in Melbourne in twenty nineteen, We're doing photo shoots
Speaker 3: and stuff, nothing too deep. And then we went to
Speaker 3: Sydney and I did another photo shoot with like Billy
Speaker 3: Marie killing Me We Love killing Me Gyra. Yeah, like
Speaker 3: some really just like people that I thought were really
Speaker 3: cool and like not getting maybe the flowers that they deserved.
Speaker 3: And then twenty twenty was when I got the grant
Speaker 3: and then we went into COVID. Yeah, so I started
Speaker 3: it online and then and then at the end of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty was when I like go did the print magazine.
Speaker 3: But it came about basically I was just like when
Speaker 3: I was younger, like eighteen nineteen in the industry, I
Speaker 3: just didn't feel like seeing people like us was common
Speaker 3: in the media, and I just kept complaining about it.
Speaker 3: I was like, Eh, you know what, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: start a magazine. What no one else is gonna do,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it. So yeah, that's that's how it
Speaker 3: started to be honest, and like I haven't done it
Speaker 3: in a while, which I think is because I feel
Speaker 3: like the people I would cover now are getting their
Speaker 3: flowers now, so I feel like my job is not
Speaker 3: needed or not needed maybe like it's being candled out,
Speaker 3: like whereas before like people that I really wanted to
Speaker 3: see like covered, Like I feel like our first articles
Speaker 3: we did, like Daily Shaka Hoodsieish is a rapper from
Speaker 3: from Sydney and Goldie. He's a graphic designer that does
Speaker 3: like Luci and HP Boys. But it was just like
Speaker 3: really cool people in our chamber that I just felt
Speaker 3: like weren't like being celebrated. But now I see like
Speaker 3: like Coconut'll cover them and like forsh TV. So I'm like,
Speaker 3: my job's done. I like, I feel like it's good now.
Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, I feel like like I'm almost redundant,
Speaker 3: like you know what I mean. But yeah, that's how
Speaker 3: it came about. I kind of just was just like
Speaker 3: I'm sick of I'm sick of this. I'm sick of
Speaker 3: not being seen by force what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because media representation of Basifica and OS, I don't
Speaker 1: know much about that, but I do know a bit
Speaker 1: about it here in New Zealand, and that's something that
Speaker 1: we're working on. But even when I compare New Zealand
Speaker 1: to Australia, I feel like we're leaps and bounds ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had that same chat with JP, and he
Speaker 4: was saying in America even like they're craving it. They're
Speaker 4: consuming the content that we produce here in New Zealand
Speaker 4: and Australia, even if it's not actually relevant to their
Speaker 4: experience in America, but just because they want to see
Speaker 4: people who look like them. Yeah, exactly, It's wild and
Speaker 4: that was kind of why we started the podcast as.
Speaker 3: Well, even say, your podcast is something that would like
Speaker 3: covers people that I as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and also like wanting to platform more joy and
Speaker 4: like creativity rather than we have a lot of history
Speaker 4: that is very important to tell and like we've had
Speaker 4: collective trauma and everything, but sometimes just platforming the really
Speaker 4: nice things is like such an important representation for our people.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And even because we started the podcast, i'd
Speaker 1: say twenty.
Speaker 4: Twenty one, twenty one, I feel.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one back then, like they weren't that many
Speaker 1: poly podcasts and we were just crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you guys are one of the first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even think the Morning Shift had started.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't realize until we were like reflecting, were
Speaker 4: like and.
Speaker 3: You guys are like charting immediately, Yeah, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 3: people like finally finally and tuning and yeah, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1: And then we kind of went on a little.
Speaker 3: Yeah life, I get you. I did watch the JP
Speaker 3: episode though, how people were like organizing their own screenings. Oh,
Speaker 3: like that's how badly they needed it. I was like, wow,
Speaker 3: that is so cool. Like the States is definitely different. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they have a lot of media, but I don't know
Speaker 3: if they have a lot of media focused on us
Speaker 3: over there. I'm not sure. Actually, how was it?
Speaker 1: And Oz, did you see much of yourself on the
Speaker 1: TV growing up and media?
Speaker 3: Not really? I feel like whatever was popular here just
Speaker 3: like we watched over there, but in terms of like
Speaker 3: mainstream stuff, I don't think so. It wasn't. It was
Speaker 3: more like just us tuning in here and watching everything
Speaker 3: that happens here.
Speaker 4: And the popular public figures would just be like our
Speaker 4: players everyone.
Speaker 3: I was thinking NRL players. And then that was like
Speaker 3: the extent of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I mean I remember watching Preschool is
Speaker 1: a preschool, play school.
Speaker 3: Everyone's So that was literally that's oh my god, that's
Speaker 3: like completely unlocked my childhood memory.
Speaker 4: Know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah Jay from play school won what he's up to?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I hope, Well I think he as well would we
Speaker 3: catch up with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to get.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we will play the speck to him and thank
Speaker 5: you for my childhood because, come to think of it,
Speaker 5: I think you are.
Speaker 3: Back first Australia.
Speaker 1: And he just broke that glassing Australian.
Speaker 3: Wow. I'm mean first I was a guest.
Speaker 4: I mean apart from a clip we played Jordan Ricky.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, do you know Jordan Ricky the.
Speaker 3: Rugby player.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know him personally, but I know who do about.
Speaker 1: He's fine.
Speaker 3: Then I'm te hear interview his mom and she was
Speaker 3: like just so you know, yeah, mom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because our breakfast flavor is friends with Jordan's mom.
Speaker 1: Because Jordan's mom still lives here.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, he's originally from here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, christ got you and they organized for her to
Speaker 1: ring me up on the show because I got.
Speaker 4: A clip of Jordan Ricky saying hi to mess for
Speaker 4: our last episode last.
Speaker 3: Season, when you where did you? Where was here?
Speaker 4: Just just like he took a video okay, like hey mass,
Speaker 4: hey bro, I don't want it on swish.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you get.
Speaker 4: Everyone thinks I like pulled some crazy connects.
Speaker 3: And be like, yes, someone who knows.
Speaker 1: We wish we knew someone we do.
Speaker 4: Know someone who knows someone needn't pull through for us.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yes, we do know someone. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you off the.
Speaker 4: But after the video, his mom saw it, right, yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Then she rang me on my first anniversary here at
Speaker 1: Flavor and she was like, I just want to celebrate
Speaker 1: with you, and yeah, I've seen everything that you've been
Speaker 1: saying about my son and we'd welcome you went to
Speaker 1: the paro and like she was kind of like free,
Speaker 1: like kind hinting to me that he's straight. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I'm just I've seen this Instagram
Speaker 1: following us. It's okay it she actually called for Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Shout out to Janelle, my mum in law.
Speaker 1: Fall back. You are a Converse All Star, yes, and
Speaker 1: you've been able to travel around the world and meet
Speaker 1: some pretty awesome people. How did you become an All Star?
Speaker 1: And off the back of that, what are the highlights
Speaker 1: that you've been able to achieve At.
Speaker 3: The back of it, that's a big question. I became
Speaker 3: an old star, like they dmd me on Instagram, Like
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen, they asked me to come to an event.
Speaker 3: Do you want to come to an event. We're launching
Speaker 3: a shoe and we'd love you there. And at the
Speaker 3: time I wasn't. I wasn't really in the creative industry
Speaker 3: at Also, I kind of felt I was like is
Speaker 3: this real? Like I was like showing my sister. I
Speaker 3: was like, I was like it was like in my
Speaker 3: DM requests and I was like is it? Like can
Speaker 3: like people fake these messages? But I ended up like
Speaker 3: obviously replying and being like, yeah, like where is it.
Speaker 3: I'll come through. And then when I went to the event,
Speaker 3: it was basically an initiative they were starting a community
Speaker 3: in Melbourne and Sydney where they just like gathered creatives
Speaker 3: and just kind of help them like honing in on
Speaker 3: their crafts and stuff. But see, I was confused at
Speaker 3: that time because I had I had no creative like
Speaker 3: pursuit at all at that time, So I don't know
Speaker 3: what they saw on me. But I was just like
Speaker 3: being a gul and wearing like nice outfits at the time,
Speaker 3: taking fit picks and like posting it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like okay, cool. Like they kind of explained
Speaker 3: to us that like, oh, like global opportunities could come
Speaker 3: about like just like wear our shoes when you're out
Speaker 3: like and just like tag us like all this kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. And then yeah, I was doing that. I
Speaker 3: was just like being a taking photos tagging them. And
Speaker 3: then it came that was like the end of twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: and then it came to like May twenty nineteen and
Speaker 3: they asked me to go with them to Malaysia and
Speaker 3: I was like, I was like what for why? So
Speaker 3: we went to Malaysia in May twenty nineteen. We did
Speaker 3: like a bunch of workshops and stuff that had people
Speaker 3: from like all over the world that like from Chile,
Speaker 3: from South Africa, from Vietnam, from Poland, like literally they
Speaker 3: had bought like two people from like every city literally
Speaker 3: just to like collaborate with each other and like meet
Speaker 3: each other and like do a bunch of projects. And
Speaker 3: then that same year we went to la for Camp Flognore,
Speaker 3: which is Tyler the Creators Festival. We did something really
Speaker 3: similar where they brought like again like two people from
Speaker 3: every city. But yeah, like what what was the original question?
Speaker 3: How did it come about? Yeah? Sorry, that's how it
Speaker 3: came about. So I just like started to I just
Speaker 3: continued my journey. But that's amazing, incredible yeah, so like
Speaker 3: I've been, I do like little projects here and there
Speaker 3: with them, Like some highlights would be I interviewed dis Array,
Speaker 3: Do you remember that? Yes, I love her too, so
Speaker 3: of course it was online, but yeah, man, I was shaking.
Speaker 3: I was like shaking that whole that whole time. I
Speaker 3: love so much, Like I feel like the platform she's created,
Speaker 3: like radio, acting, producing, like everything. Yeah, she's just so cool.
Speaker 3: She's so cool. She's like childish Gambino, Like she just
Speaker 3: does everything.
Speaker 1: She does it well.
Speaker 3: Everything is quality, everything is quality, really really well thought out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, to interview her, I was just like, gosh,
Speaker 3: get to pick such an amazing mind. Like, but yeah,
Speaker 3: that's definitely one of the highlights I've had for commerce.
Speaker 3: And the travel has been good. We went to New
Speaker 3: York as well, we came here last year, we came
Speaker 3: here last year, Sydney. But yeah, no, it's honestly been
Speaker 3: like such a fruitful journey for me. I feel like
Speaker 3: without them, I wouldn't be, like I wouldn't believe in
Speaker 3: myself so much. Like they really like backed me.
Speaker 1: Shout outs to Converse, Yeah, if you're a sponsor.
Speaker 3: Like that. Yeah, but like even my magazine, they were
Speaker 3: the one who who gave me the grant like for
Speaker 3: that magazine. So like that's like that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like the people they are for the people, like they
Speaker 3: were really really like they're like not they don't put
Speaker 3: the of course they put the corporation first, but I
Speaker 3: feel like they really do care about like the community
Speaker 3: and like represent and stuff too.
Speaker 1: Corporate social responsibility.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like I really owe it to them to
Speaker 3: that that I've like that I'm here right now on
Speaker 3: your show, Like just like there's a lot of little
Speaker 3: things that I've built up to like like where I
Speaker 3: am now.
Speaker 1: But also I think that you've worked really hard to
Speaker 1: get to where you are and to learn all these
Speaker 1: new skills and to make the most of the opportunities
Speaker 1: that you have been given.
Speaker 4: It's one thing to just like be there along for
Speaker 4: the ride, but then to take the tools or the
Speaker 4: learnings and like apply it to work hard and like
Speaker 4: become the miss you know, Like it's so much more
Speaker 4: than just being a Converse all star.
Speaker 3: It's like soaking up the whole experience and running and
Speaker 3: run here.
Speaker 1: Yes, girl, should you meet Tyler the creator?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 1: I have the photo of my mind right, and he's like, yeah, that.
Speaker 3: Was twenty twenty two and Sydney. We did like a
Speaker 3: like a panel talk where he was interviewed by Lydia
Speaker 3: tu Sermon, which is like a Melbourne she's a Melbourne
Speaker 3: host prisoner. And then after we just like got out
Speaker 3: or got out individual chats with him. He's so cool.
Speaker 3: He's like exactly as you would think, like every person,
Speaker 3: not every the personality that he shows on his like
Speaker 3: interviews and stuff. It's what you get very come through,
Speaker 3: very like honest, like if he doesn't fuck with it,
Speaker 3: he doesn't fuck with it, and he will tell you
Speaker 3: if he likes it, he likes it, he will tell you,
Speaker 3: you know. But yeah, that that that whole that whole
Speaker 3: experience was such a blow. Like if I didn't have
Speaker 3: the photos, I feel like I wouldn't believe that. Like
Speaker 3: so I'm so glad it was like photographed and recorded.
Speaker 3: Other than that, I would just be like I promise
Speaker 3: I met him.
Speaker 1: I met him in Sydney, like you don't know I'm
Speaker 1: a converse, you don't.
Speaker 3: Even know me. But yeah, no, that was yeah, very buzzy,
Speaker 3: that moment so cool.
Speaker 1: O gosh, well for Beck you and a at the
Speaker 1: moment for some DJ and gigs at the time of recording.
Speaker 1: How cool has it been to be back home? And
Speaker 1: how did you start DJ? That's the question, how did
Speaker 1: you start DJ?
Speaker 3: It was so after that Sydney trip where I met Tyler,
Speaker 3: I had watched one of the Converse All Star DJ's
Speaker 3: Munji from Malaysia play and honestly, it was that whole
Speaker 3: hour set that I was like, I want to do this.
Speaker 3: I was like, I want to do this. I want
Speaker 3: to bring this type of energy and like bring the
Speaker 3: crowd like the way she does. So shout out Munji
Speaker 3: because like I honestly, that moment like shifted my whole life.
Speaker 3: So I got back from Sydney and then my best
Speaker 3: friend Blake from back home was also learning how to
Speaker 3: DJ through our other mate Taylan. So I was just
Speaker 3: going to their house like because they lived like five
Speaker 3: minutes for me when I still lived in Melbourne. I
Speaker 3: was just going to their house and they were teaching
Speaker 3: me like the basics of DJing, like one transition, like
Speaker 3: nothing too complex. And our friend Taylor runs events, so
Speaker 3: he was like, oh, you want to just like jump on,
Speaker 3: jump on, And I was like, yo, I was like okay.
Speaker 3: I was like yeah, okay, cool, and then I ended
Speaker 3: up opening that event called Marvin's Room. And then because
Speaker 3: I had like roots in the industry already, people were
Speaker 3: like taking me seriously and they're like offering me gigs
Speaker 3: and I was just like I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 3: Like like people were after as soon as I debuted,
Speaker 3: like I was getting gigs weekly. Wow, and I was
Speaker 3: just like not me in my one transition, just like
Speaker 3: like I was using a lot of my gigs to practice,
Speaker 3: like because I had just like learned for like a month,
Speaker 3: and then I was just like yep, let's run it.
Speaker 3: So cool. So like yeah, like consistently since I started,
Speaker 3: I was like working weekly and then like I feel
Speaker 3: like I fell in love with it through that. Like
Speaker 3: it was at the start, it was just kind of like, uh,
Speaker 3: like I want to do it because I saw a
Speaker 3: Munie do it and like I loved like the energy
Speaker 3: she bought. And then yeah, like I started taking it
Speaker 3: like really seriously like towards this. So that was the
Speaker 3: end of September, so end of twenty twenty two. In September,
Speaker 3: and then at the start of twenty twenty three is
Speaker 3: when I was like, Okay, I'm gonna take this seriously,
Speaker 3: like I actually really love this a lot, a lot,
Speaker 3: a lot. So I went full time in Melbourne and
Speaker 3: was just like trying to do like four or five
Speaker 3: gigs a weekend. But yeah, that's how I fell into it,
Speaker 3: Like it was very random and like I feel like
Speaker 3: I just allowed it to happen. I was just like,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna ride the wave, like see where it
Speaker 3: takes me.
Speaker 4: Well, before we wrap up our chests, we always play
Speaker 4: like a rapid fire Kim a little game to in
Speaker 4: the episode. And today we've decided that Masm, I need
Speaker 4: to plead our case to you. Oh and we're gonna
Speaker 4: be sharing our favorite like dance or like club tracks perfecably,
Speaker 4: like throwback tracks.
Speaker 3: You know those songs of the night.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's like the last song that's playing as you're
Speaker 4: leaving the club, and we need you to decide which
Speaker 4: one is better. Okay, And I'm a little bit scared
Speaker 4: because I'm not knowing for my music taste. I'm not
Speaker 4: one for other stuff, but not my music. So I'm
Speaker 4: really scared right now.
Speaker 5: But as we'll go first, Okay, I hand a song
Speaker 5: in my mind, but I've changed, you changed it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go. Can we talk? Tivin Campbell? It's
Speaker 1: always such a good song.
Speaker 3: Wait am I like? Who's better? Yeah, but you've already won.
Speaker 1: What's your trick?
Speaker 4: No, I don't even want to say one song that's
Speaker 4: always going to get me on the dance as a song,
Speaker 4: you can't even want to say it. Club Can't handle
Speaker 4: Me by flow Rider. It's just like a singer.
Speaker 3: But can we talk?
Speaker 1: Can we talk? The song?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm forfeiting.
Speaker 3: I don't want to please, I want to lose. It's
Speaker 3: the way. Can we talk is a good job. I
Speaker 3: feel like that's the last song. A lot of DJs
Speaker 3: will play just to get people to sing it out
Speaker 3: and then be like, can now go home? No?
Speaker 1: You like for real? The DJs have that look like
Speaker 1: the fun after the finished, like you're.
Speaker 3: Lucky I played this. That's a that's a good one.
Speaker 3: That's also a good song too. They're different vibes, different
Speaker 3: middle of the night. That's like the end of the night.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: When we went out for my graduation and we went
Speaker 1: to what's the other one? Rivalry because we went to
Speaker 1: Rivalry after Rivalry is not like a hip hop and
Speaker 1: R and B club. It's like a white club. I
Speaker 1: haven't even known of it, just like Central.
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't recommend that area, but.
Speaker 1: I will say that night they were playing the white bangers,
Speaker 1: No white banks.
Speaker 3: There are some really good white banks, like.
Speaker 1: Welcome to my House, like everyone was going and then here,
Speaker 1: you know, I know how something about it?
Speaker 3: Even like Paramore, that's a white bangs. Were they popular here?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, untouched right now? So good? There's some good
Speaker 3: bollowing bangs that there. I won't lie. I will lie.
Speaker 1: Natasha beating Field is another one and written and written
Speaker 1: no one.
Speaker 3: Else, no one else was kid.
Speaker 4: What's your favorite white bang do you have?
Speaker 3: I really like Evanescence wake Up? You know, that's like
Speaker 3: my go to if I want to be like really bolowing.
Speaker 3: I really want to start somewhere different. I want to
Speaker 3: impress the bowing. You don't know. What do you know
Speaker 3: about this?
Speaker 4: I went to Paramol when they came to New zeal And.
Speaker 4: It was it was just like strictly brown people. So
Speaker 4: many brown people in a white concert before brown people
Speaker 4: write we have no good music.
Speaker 3: Good music?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was such a good concept.
Speaker 3: How was it. I think I was away when they
Speaker 3: were in Australia.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Hailey Williams is incredible. She still looks
Speaker 4: so amazing good Like, that was such a good concept.
Speaker 4: If they ever go back to Astrolia, you should, I will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh, you.
Speaker 4: Ever come back to you have to come back?
Speaker 1: Yes, I guess that's time to start playing. Can we talk?
Speaker 1: Because to say goodbye to missus forbad.
Speaker 3: Hi guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: That was such a good Yeah, it's so easy.
Speaker 3: I was like so nervous for a reason, truly.
Speaker 1: Not you know how to hold a conversation. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we love to. Yet next time you come to let's.
Speaker 4: Go for a drink and let's go to kitchen and
Speaker 4: not real.
Speaker 1: And that brings us to the end of another episode
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Speaker 3: Down on TikTok please?
Speaker 4: I every time I open up TikTok feels like I'm
Speaker 4: in the tree and just find.
Speaker 1: For my life and said we'll catch you next Thursday.
Speaker 1: On What is the Lista's Favorite day Thursday,