Speaker 1: This is the Flavor podcast.
Speaker 2: Network, Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's for the Brown
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters who want to be one with themselves,
Speaker 2: their culture, their identity, their roots. This is Island Roots
Speaker 2: Auckland Ways.
Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to Island Roots Auckland Ways. Hi. Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you doing, Alyssa?
Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you by? Dying?
Speaker 1: Very well because today we have all Betty Vucker and
Speaker 1: this guy is the man. He's gay actually he's also
Speaker 1: AM's gang. He's going to tell you all about his
Speaker 1: Don and Maudy upbringing, as well as how he got
Speaker 1: started in comedy. So this was twenty eighteen he started
Speaker 1: stand up and then the rest is saystue pretty.
Speaker 2: Much pretty much. We won't hold you back any further
Speaker 2: because the chat is just so good here it is now.
Speaker 2: We are so excited today because we have the incredible,
Speaker 2: very very talented Mildy Tongue and comedian or fifty Bucker
Speaker 2: with us today. Hey, we always wish we had cool
Speaker 2: sound effects so we could do something like that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry there was no red cap here, Mirror Fox.
Speaker 2: How are you today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good, I'm good a little bit tired, but
Speaker 3: going pushing.
Speaker 2: Through push nice. We had a big weekend here in Auckland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I ended up at four Shells cover lounge.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I think we need to go out to
Speaker 1: four Shells. Yes, me and I also have.
Speaker 2: Never had to give up from one time in the studio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but down at four sells. Shout out to those
Speaker 1: guys putting it off for our people. Well, every episode
Speaker 1: we share what we love about home, so we ever
Speaker 1: you currently live, where you were born, we were raised,
Speaker 1: where you feel most grounded. What is home to you
Speaker 1: and what do you love about it? We'll start off first,
Speaker 1: and what I love about home this week is this
Speaker 1: food establishment near my house called two seven five Kai. Oh. Yes,
Speaker 1: this place is like soul food to the max. They
Speaker 1: sell this dish and it's panco crumbed chicken with mushroom
Speaker 1: sauce on top and it's like on a bed of fries,
Speaker 1: a nice little slaw on the side. You can order
Speaker 1: like a loaded chocolate milkshake and I just feel like
Speaker 1: that heart ARII clogging kind of food a speaks to
Speaker 1: me and that is one for me this week. There's
Speaker 1: also another place that used to be in Autara, it
Speaker 1: was called JJ's Eatery that's also a really good spot.
Speaker 1: And then there's other places, like we've mentioned it before
Speaker 1: on the podcast, ever Lena's Grown. They hold us down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love food here on IROL, but you really do sucks.
Speaker 1: We never got a food sponsor. No, I'm saying that though.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to shout us, we'll take it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: holl app the social.
Speaker 2: What I love about home this week obviously Money Dealer
Speaker 2: two six Cemen is where I've grown up, where I
Speaker 2: still live. I love hmhmm Fu Kitchen, which is outside
Speaker 2: South Mall. I probably talked about it on the podcast before,
Speaker 2: but I went there recently and I had their twitted
Speaker 2: chicken middle soup and it's just so good. It's like
Speaker 2: soul food. But I feel like a souper is lighter
Speaker 2: than something of mushroom sauce. So I don't feel like
Speaker 2: likest was getting to that. So that's we're all about
Speaker 2: home this week. I love as well, we love I
Speaker 2: think there is one in Autun now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've just opened it up. It's so good Vietnamese food.
Speaker 2: What about you.
Speaker 3: Home at the moment? Is Foxton absolutely school of hard
Speaker 3: knocks and for me, home is where my family is,
Speaker 3: my partner and kids. We could be anywhere, but as
Speaker 3: long as I'm with them, I would feel at home.
Speaker 1: So lovely, beautiful.
Speaker 3: And there's only five fish and chip shops there. The
Speaker 3: food's not that great.
Speaker 2: Was that like the biggest adjustment that you had to
Speaker 2: make when you moved to Foxton? The food options?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the food options there was one of them. I
Speaker 3: need to always complain about it. Every time we didn't
Speaker 3: want to cook dinner. It's like, what are we having
Speaker 3: fish and chips?
Speaker 1: Awesome? Foxton? Where is Foxton for everyone listening who doesn't
Speaker 1: know where.
Speaker 3: It's between living and Palmerston North and the Lower North Island.
Speaker 1: Wow, quite remote any Islanders and Foxton.
Speaker 3: There's only one other someone girl at my kids' school,
Speaker 3: so that's that's how rare rare.
Speaker 1: We are. Nice people though, down in Foxton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice people. I played rugby down there about ten
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay and.
Speaker 3: Pretty It was pretty hard because I was one. I
Speaker 3: was the only Islander on the team. Every time if
Speaker 3: you made a mistake, you'll hear that racist from Ox
Speaker 3: like small town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, has it gone been there? No racist?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 3: I didn't play Rugby anymore.
Speaker 1: Just traumatized you there. Oh man, oh well.
Speaker 2: Okite, you've just popped up on our radar. But you're
Speaker 2: not new to comedy. You've been doing it for a
Speaker 2: few years now. Could you tell us what your journey
Speaker 2: into comedy and like how long you've been doing it
Speaker 2: for because I was scrolling through Instagram and I was
Speaker 2: like here, I was thinking I had discovered someone right
Speaker 2: at the start of his career. But a bit about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I first started comedy. My first time on stage
Speaker 3: was that opened Mic Night in Wellington and at the
Speaker 3: end of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And that's so I've did well there and I think
Speaker 3: my very next gig was a pro gig.
Speaker 2: Oh yoah.
Speaker 3: I just kept I've just been keeping at it, just
Speaker 3: keep trucking along. And there's been an interesting journey. It's
Speaker 3: taking me to some places that I've never thought I
Speaker 3: would go and visit. I've been to Kitty Kitty. There
Speaker 3: was a shock for me, like my first time catching
Speaker 3: up plane because of comedy, a motel, hotel, so like
Speaker 3: that like gives me my little frills at that time,
Speaker 3: absolutely what comedy is like. But yeah, I've been doing
Speaker 3: it since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: When you first started. I guess, like what got you
Speaker 1: into the scene? Were always the performative.
Speaker 3: Type, not yes and no? Like around my family, yeah,
Speaker 3: around other people, not so much. But I just wanted to.
Speaker 3: I was like content with life, like I was just chilling,
Speaker 3: like doing not doing much, not bad, You're just getting by.
Speaker 3: And I wanted to try something new, and I was
Speaker 3: taking off things that what would I be good at?
Speaker 3: What would I be good at? My mum always told
Speaker 3: me your your stand up comedian, So I thought, give
Speaker 3: it a give it a try. I went to watch
Speaker 3: open mic night, and I was watching I was like,
Speaker 3: these guys suck. It gave me the confidence to sign
Speaker 3: up for open mic at the same place. I went
Speaker 3: and did it and went well, and I've just kept
Speaker 3: going from there.
Speaker 2: Before the open mic, did you like rehearse? Did you
Speaker 2: like write down jokes that you wanted to say? Or
Speaker 2: did you just kind of get up there and ref
Speaker 2: I wrote.
Speaker 3: I wrote six minutes when I was practicing hard out
Speaker 3: and I was because I'm even at school school speeches
Speaker 3: and that I never did them, Like I wasn't out
Speaker 3: there enough person to go and do speeches or family
Speaker 3: speeches and stuff like that. So I was never says, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was practicing hard out even YouTube audience. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: practice to like the audience that we wasting.
Speaker 2: That's so smart.
Speaker 1: What was your what did your first shiit cover? Do
Speaker 1: you remb remember what those six minutes entailed?
Speaker 3: My kids? My family? I had some about my dad
Speaker 3: because it was a week after my thirtieth birthday. Okay,
Speaker 3: so I had jokes about the birthday and pretty much
Speaker 3: the same topics, life stories, the same topics that I
Speaker 3: do now. Yes, it was pretty much the same stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so twenty eighteen, now it's twenty twenty four, many
Speaker 1: many years later. And how do you feel when you
Speaker 1: go up onto that stage? Are you used to it now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm more relaxed like when I first started. When
Speaker 3: I watch it now, it's like quite speedy. Like I
Speaker 3: wasn't used to the silence, So when it was quiet,
Speaker 3: even though people were interested, I always took it as
Speaker 3: it's not no one's laughing, hurry up to the next jrig,
Speaker 3: So I try and speed it up to hit that
Speaker 3: next chrick, to get that next laugh. But now I'm
Speaker 3: a bit more experienced and stuff I didn't do that anymore.
Speaker 2: Yo, And sometimes silence can just people like listening or
Speaker 2: captivating with what you're saying, like they're waiting for the jokes,
Speaker 2: and when you're speeding, they're like wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 2: I'm still like three seconds behind.
Speaker 1: Agree. That's why I could never be a comedian. Do
Speaker 1: you reckon you could be a comedian? I reckon you could.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know stand up. I'd have to like
Speaker 2: do what you were doing and like really practiced beforehand though,
Speaker 2: because I don't think I could just get up there
Speaker 2: and just be like, hey guys, oh man, well I
Speaker 2: recently saw you perform at the Comedy Mixtape and immediately
Speaker 2: I was saying time. I was like, this guy is
Speaker 2: the bisch Jacks of anyone tonight.
Speaker 1: This guy. She came to me and she was like, bro,
Speaker 1: I found.
Speaker 2: This guy for the podcast. So yeah, I think because
Speaker 2: I like jokes that are funny, but I'm I can
Speaker 2: be a little bit conservative and so so times when
Speaker 2: like jokes are really dirty, Like love a dirty joke
Speaker 2: every now and then, Yeah, but I love like the
Speaker 2: it's kind of like a wholesome quality to your jokes,
Speaker 2: like it's I can laugh with it because I can relate,
Speaker 2: but it's not like super inappropriate. I don't know, does
Speaker 2: it make sense?
Speaker 1: I know what you mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I heard the Australian comedians are like dirty.
Speaker 3: Oh I've got a mate over in Melbourne and she's
Speaker 3: finding out because they're real dirty. Yeah, but that's like myself.
Speaker 3: For me, like a little bit is okay, but it's
Speaker 3: not that funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not all.
Speaker 3: That's not my kind of joke. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's like the Islanders. 't us who have been
Speaker 2: like taught like that. That's kind of stuff. Just keep
Speaker 2: it at home. I don't know. Yeah, but I guess
Speaker 2: with performing, is there an aspect of it that you love?
Speaker 2: Like do you much refer the performing or do you
Speaker 2: like the riding of the jokes? Like what part of
Speaker 2: the comedy? Yeah, what part of the comedy process do
Speaker 2: you like the most?
Speaker 3: I enjoy both of them. Writing is becoming more and
Speaker 3: more of a challenge these days, just because when I
Speaker 3: first started, it's all new material. Yes, you get it
Speaker 3: all out, you got your whole life, yeah, with your stories,
Speaker 3: and then you've got that out and then it's like
Speaker 3: and now what Yeah? Yeah, But to answer that question.
Speaker 3: I enjoy both aspects of it. The performing I enjoy
Speaker 3: it because you get a bit of a buzz when
Speaker 3: everyone's laughing, so you get a little high. And the
Speaker 3: writing that's good because when you get a new joke,
Speaker 3: you get like a like a little buzz as well,
Speaker 3: oh this is gonna work. And yeah, But if I
Speaker 3: could choose between both of them, I would rather just write.
Speaker 3: I can't do that at the moment. I have to
Speaker 3: the joy.
Speaker 2: Do you ever write something and you're like, this is
Speaker 2: it and then you go for it and you're like,
Speaker 2: that was really good?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I have.
Speaker 3: Actually, that's the funniest thing to me when it doesn't land,
Speaker 3: you know, they have an awkward chuckle to yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I find that hilarious.
Speaker 2: How do you recover in moments like that when it
Speaker 2: doesn't then do you just laugh at yourself?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just move on to the next year, go
Speaker 3: back to our material that you know that's going to
Speaker 3: make them laughing. Just use that.
Speaker 1: Have that type of resilience. I would not like.
Speaker 2: Saying and no one laughed. I think I would just cry.
Speaker 3: You've had some quiet nights I've had early on in
Speaker 3: when I was doing comedy, early on in their career.
Speaker 3: I did a gig. It was a fundraiser for Island
Speaker 3: based soccer club Okay, and a lot of them were
Speaker 3: Greek Christians. Oh and I went there and I didn't
Speaker 3: have much material. I was doing all these Jesus jokes
Speaker 3: and it was just quiet, like no one was laughing.
Speaker 3: That was a hard It was a long eight minutes.
Speaker 2: That's something about like a comedy sit it's actually not
Speaker 2: that long, like at least you have a whole hour.
Speaker 2: It can just be like ten minutes or less.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, most of the lineup shows you're doing eight
Speaker 3: to ten and then headline twenty.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh buzz.
Speaker 3: So fifteen sometimes you get a fifteen slot or twenty
Speaker 3: a year.
Speaker 2: My gosh, what do you prefer longer or shorter?
Speaker 3: Both? I like longer because you get paid more, but
Speaker 3: like short because it's easier.
Speaker 1: Good answer. What have been your some of your career
Speaker 1: highlights stuff for or BT? Are there any gigs that
Speaker 1: come to mind and you're like, man, I ate that up.
Speaker 1: That was one of my faves. Any moments like that.
Speaker 3: My favorite gig that I look back and really I'm
Speaker 3: really happy about is when I performed at the Wellington
Speaker 3: Opera House. Oh, and my father was there. So my
Speaker 3: dad came and watched and that's the only show he's
Speaker 3: ever come and watched, and so he was happier. I know,
Speaker 3: he was proud of me. So that always sticks out
Speaker 3: to me that time. And also the final of the
Speaker 3: Warrington Raw Comedy Quist and my brother came up from
Speaker 3: Christian to watch and he watched this and I won
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 1: That was whoa.
Speaker 3: Oh man?
Speaker 2: So cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What what do your family think about you taking
Speaker 1: up this career path? You said earlier that your mom
Speaker 1: had suggested it, But how about everyone else? How have
Speaker 1: they reacted to you being a comedian.
Speaker 3: They're all good, They're all good with it, like they're
Speaker 3: happy and stuff. But I'm sure they're sick of it now,
Speaker 3: Like every time I'm like, can you drop me off
Speaker 3: to this gig? When I come up talking and they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm not again again. But they always wished me luck,
Speaker 3: like they're like, good luck with your dig tonight, good
Speaker 3: luck with your dig. My partner, she's sick of it,
Speaker 3: sick of hearing my jokes?
Speaker 1: Because are you practicing these?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was just around the house. Can you be quiet?
Speaker 1: I gotta try.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you are a dad and you
Speaker 2: don't include some of the stories of your kids and
Speaker 2: your comedy. Do you ever two such your about them
Speaker 2: on them?
Speaker 3: I get them to time me ladies and gentlemen comestairs,
Speaker 3: they head start and then yeah, they know most of
Speaker 3: my sets, like if I sometimes it's swearing in it,
Speaker 3: and I catch them swearing, like don't swear, like, but
Speaker 3: you swear in your comedy. No, no, no, just still
Speaker 3: different different.
Speaker 2: Are they a tough crowd or are they easy to
Speaker 2: make laugh?
Speaker 3: They're pretty tough. Yeah, they're pretty tough. They didn't really laugh.
Speaker 3: They just sit there and stay waiting for times up.
Speaker 1: They're like the jokes. How many good do you have?
Speaker 3: I've got three. I got a liven year old who's
Speaker 3: born on the same day as me, nine years old,
Speaker 3: and a five year old son. So the two eldest girls,
Speaker 3: and then I got my son.
Speaker 1: At the Yeah, I bet there naturally, uh in itself
Speaker 1: to a lot of material things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, mist of it because I just do talk
Speaker 3: about things I know they yeah, yeah, so obviously I
Speaker 3: know about the kids. I do a lot of kids story,
Speaker 3: kids stories around the kids, and also stories when I
Speaker 3: was a kid.
Speaker 2: You were telling us before of Mike that you actually
Speaker 2: moved to Tongel for a year when you were younger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I when I was thirteen went there.
Speaker 1: Why why were you saying there?
Speaker 3: Now? I just wanted to go there.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, you don't hear about that.
Speaker 3: I got pushed into it.
Speaker 1: So I said, yeah, did you necessarily know what you
Speaker 1: were getting yourself into by taking that lip of faith?
Speaker 3: Not at all? Nothing, nothing but regrets now okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I told me a lot in a good life experience.
Speaker 2: Would you even make your kids do that?
Speaker 3: I would, but I would go and stay within there
Speaker 3: by themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That is very because you hear these stories of
Speaker 1: people being sent off to the islands and they have
Speaker 1: to be schooled and the motherland, and then it just
Speaker 1: really builds character, doesn't it, Because it's very different to
Speaker 1: go to New Zealand. What what age? I was thirteen
Speaker 1: year okay, start of teenager? How was that adjustment?
Speaker 3: I was, Yeah, I got mocked a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah how did you take that? Were you a little
Speaker 1: bit shell shocked by at all?
Speaker 3: Not really? It was okay, but it was a boarding school.
Speaker 3: And then I need to get teased a lot because
Speaker 3: my tongue really was really poor at that time, and
Speaker 3: I need to get teased for being the mo over
Speaker 3: seized kid. And until one night I got into a
Speaker 3: fight with the one of the boys and then after
Speaker 3: that they left me alone.
Speaker 2: We've had quite a few like soundone Maudy on our podcast,
Speaker 2: but not tongue and Maudy was moving, I guess kind
Speaker 2: of connected to moving to tonge. But was there an
Speaker 2: aspect of like either of your ideenities that you were
Speaker 2: closer to growing up and then like, did you become
Speaker 2: closer to your tongue inside by moving to tongue or no?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit Like I always because I'm quite dark,
Speaker 3: I'm not fair skinned like my mother. My mother's the
Speaker 3: Modi Modi irish one. I always related more to my
Speaker 3: tongue inside. But then as I got older, I realized,
Speaker 3: you're just both. Yeah, You're just it's o key to
Speaker 3: be both. Yeah, And so now I'm a lot more
Speaker 3: comfortable with my own skin than I was as a teenager,
Speaker 3: where I felt like I didn't fit in quite with
Speaker 3: this group or quite with that group. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 3: now it is what it is, and I'm happy with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that's a similar journy that we have
Speaker 2: both been on in the past, feeling like not enough
Speaker 2: of either when actually it's like you are enough of
Speaker 2: both in it's all good just to be both, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a beautiful realization. Often, like I feel like
Speaker 1: if you more than one culture, you'll always ask that
Speaker 1: question eight are you closer to the side or that side?
Speaker 1: And you kind of feel like cornered because it's like, oh, am,
Speaker 1: I supposed to feel closer to one side, But it's
Speaker 1: all well and good to be well and well attuned
Speaker 1: to both sides of your car. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And your kids are a fruit salidy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've they've mixed hard up nice.
Speaker 1: They're there, the brown kids along with the same one girl.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I think it was actually telling us the
Speaker 1: story off the mic about a tongue and Language Week.
Speaker 3: My partner came home from dropping my son off from
Speaker 3: the kindy and Oh, they want you to come in
Speaker 3: and do something for a tongn Language Week. I said,
Speaker 3: what do you mean I volunteered?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, and I had no idea. What
Speaker 3: was I going to do. I just went there and
Speaker 3: did that like tongue on alphabet and told some stories
Speaker 3: about tongue and stuff like that. But it was good.
Speaker 3: I was glad I did it. But it's like I
Speaker 3: would never be that person to have to do that anywhere,
Speaker 3: only in Fox and I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1: That those ones got volunte hold.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, maybe you're the representation the
Speaker 2: other tongue and kids need, but the only tong kids
Speaker 2: are your kids, like they're doing a joke.
Speaker 1: Skin.
Speaker 2: Is there anyone in the industry who you feel like
Speaker 2: has really like put you on to help you in
Speaker 2: the comedy process.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you trend your housing. He's done in wanting to
Speaker 3: and he's helped me a lot. He's put me on
Speaker 3: a lot of his gigs and even sometimes when he
Speaker 3: offers me a gig sometimes I say no, but he
Speaker 3: just reassures me, come on, you can do it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and just push me in that way. And also Janay Henry,
Speaker 3: she's good like I can if I have any problems
Speaker 3: about comedy or things like that, I can just shoot
Speaker 3: her a message and she will help me out. And
Speaker 3: Gabby she's good Oran. And there's also a group of
Speaker 3: five of Us, Maori and pacifica comedians period and we've
Speaker 3: called Chocolate Humor show. We've got a show called Chocolate Humor.
Speaker 3: And those are those boys. I can ask anything, ask
Speaker 3: them for help, advice or their thoughts on different bits
Speaker 3: of the comedy. Yeah, that's Richie Favesi, Cajun Brooklyn, Shady
Speaker 3: Tupu and Luke Tawi. Yeah, you know, and we've been
Speaker 3: going good. People have been loving our shows. We even
Speaker 3: took it to a marii the first time performing.
Speaker 1: At a marai okay, And yeah.
Speaker 3: We took it there and they absolutely loved it.
Speaker 1: I think that's a testament to how much we need
Speaker 1: you to take space. Yeah and comedy. Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: space for you guys. Yeah, I love that. Who do
Speaker 1: you look up to on comedy? Who were your kind
Speaker 1: of inspirations influencers when you started back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Dave Chappelle, Oh bless, he's my favorite. I like different
Speaker 3: comedians for different reasons. Like I like Bernie Mack. Yes,
Speaker 3: like some of his jokes, not so much, but his confidence,
Speaker 3: say the way he's so confident in his jokes that
Speaker 3: I really liked that about him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you were starting comedy. Was there anyone that
Speaker 2: you were looking to be, Like, I want to emulate that,
Speaker 2: like the confidence of Bernie Mack and like, I know,
Speaker 2: the cadence of someone else.
Speaker 3: Not really. There was one thing when I first started,
Speaker 3: a comedian came up to me in caves, Bro, you're
Speaker 3: so good because you're just your son, because I didn't
Speaker 3: really start watching stand up until I started doing so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that such a I don't know, not
Speaker 2: trying to ever be like someone else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, just be yourself? Yeah, so important, not
Speaker 1: being a try hard Yeah I guess. Yeah, you've just
Speaker 1: been an authentically yourself. You had these life experiences and
Speaker 1: maybe it is so good that you started not long
Speaker 1: after your thirtieth birthday because you had like thirty years
Speaker 1: worth of material to Oh man, that's so good.
Speaker 2: You also run a screen printing business.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, when did you.
Speaker 2: Get into that? And then like, wh do you look
Speaker 2: for creative your creative inspiration?
Speaker 3: So I got into that. I think it was two
Speaker 3: and sixteen, Yeah, I think. So I wanted to start
Speaker 3: a T shirt brand, like I was thinking if it
Speaker 3: was one thing I could do, like a new idea. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I'll start a T ship brand. I googled
Speaker 3: how to do it, and screen printer kept popping up,
Speaker 3: So I googled all the screen printing shops in my area,
Speaker 3: and I went into the first one and I asked them, Oh,
Speaker 3: can I work for free in the exchange for some
Speaker 3: T shirts and you teach me how to screenprint? He said, oh,
Speaker 3: I got nothing at the moment, but here's my email address.
Speaker 3: Give me an email and I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3: So I didn't even bother going to any other screen
Speaker 3: printing shots after that. I just went home emailed them,
Speaker 3: and I emailed them every week for about three weeks,
Speaker 3: and then he finally said, come come on down.
Speaker 1: It's like okay, fine.
Speaker 3: Ended up working there for three months and then I
Speaker 3: told him I'm going to have to go find the
Speaker 3: job because I need money, and he told me, don't
Speaker 3: worry about it, you can start working here. So I
Speaker 3: worked there for about five years.
Speaker 1: There's the way to go about things.
Speaker 3: I have to try it.
Speaker 2: Are you the only screenprinter?
Speaker 3: And foxed and fox and I think, So, I've just
Speaker 3: got all my equipment in the garage and I've just
Speaker 3: been doing my own T shirts on the side. But
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anybody else doing screen printing. I know
Speaker 3: there's a couple that do heat press.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, but not screen printy. Shall we create some
Speaker 1: T shirts?
Speaker 2: We can do a collection?
Speaker 3: Yea made?
Speaker 1: And moving ahead? What are your goals and aspirations with
Speaker 1: your comedy?
Speaker 3: I just want to get to the point where I
Speaker 3: can live off comedy absolutely. Yeah. So I could quote
Speaker 3: an antifier and just do comedy. That's yeah, that aim
Speaker 3: for me at the moment.
Speaker 1: That's a big goal. And I feel like the progression
Speaker 1: for comedians is that they do something like Celebrity Treasure Island.
Speaker 1: But you're just talking about would you want to go
Speaker 1: on a show like that ct.
Speaker 3: I, of course, yeah, it will be a good experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you do have your charity picked.
Speaker 3: I'll do something for kids without fathers something like that. Yes.
Speaker 3: I feel like my dad was around, but he wasn't
Speaker 3: the best role model for me, and I feel like
Speaker 3: the lack of our relationship really that wasn't easy my
Speaker 3: teens early teens and teens, and I wouldn't want another
Speaker 3: kid to go through this to trying to help them
Speaker 3: at that point of their life. Yeah, do something like that.
Speaker 2: There's so many cool like organizations out there who are
Speaker 2: doing that kind of work. Yeah, so impactful and influential.
Speaker 1: So TV incid if you're listening next season, c T
Speaker 1: I opened the Endless. The biggest fan of literally would be.
Speaker 2: Your charity maybe of course. Yeah, supporting l g B
Speaker 2: t q I plus Pacific communities in Auckland and rural areas.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. There's so many. Yeah, there's so many.
Speaker 2: But that's my infect for now.
Speaker 1: See see I I couldn't do that show.
Speaker 2: I feel like you could. It seems like.
Speaker 1: The challenges and the rice and beans. I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1: I would want to do, like a show like The Block.
Speaker 1: I could see us on the Block. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: a little home reno situation.
Speaker 2: Do you think you and your partner could do the Block?
Speaker 3: She always talks about it. We should, thought we should
Speaker 3: do it, but I didn't think I'm very useless doing
Speaker 3: dry stuff. I started and then about five minutes and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I can't do this. She takes over. She's
Speaker 3: she's quite good at doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like living in lockste living in Foxton. You
Speaker 1: guys would be on like, what's it called country calendar.
Speaker 1: Yeah only tongus. We are going to move on to
Speaker 1: our rapid fire now now o pity. This is a
Speaker 1: game that we've come up with called funny Joker. We
Speaker 1: want you, as a comedian to judge our jokes or
Speaker 1: in fact, how dry our jokes are. So Alice is
Speaker 1: going to say a joke. I'm going to say a joke,
Speaker 1: and you just have to judge which one's being. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: un let's say you go first. I don't even have
Speaker 1: a joke here, so stupid.
Speaker 2: I'm laughing because it's dumb. What did the c say
Speaker 2: to this end? What nothing had just waved? Okay? Quality specifically, Oh.
Speaker 1: I don't have a joke, per se. I have a story. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the story is card I'm a bed driver.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, you're doing like legit?
Speaker 1: Okay, this is this is a set, so everyone for
Speaker 1: coming to my comedy sat Okay, So this is a
Speaker 1: story I like to call I'm a bed driver. So
Speaker 1: I have been saving for more than a year. Actually,
Speaker 1: I've been saving for a car because I crashed my
Speaker 1: last car and it was a beautiful car, Mitsubishi Lancer.
Speaker 1: Got into a car crash like at the airport Auckland Airport,
Speaker 1: which is like the busiest place in the city, and
Speaker 1: I crashed into this rich white guy who was screaming
Speaker 1: at me. And luckily I had insurance, but I had
Speaker 1: what is it? Third party? Is that third party? So
Speaker 1: if you're at fault of the crash, you don't pay
Speaker 1: you don't get paid for, you don't get paid out
Speaker 1: by the insurance company, only the affected person. So that
Speaker 1: car's written off. I'm saving, saving, saving, And then I
Speaker 1: get this new car finally after a year, real happy
Speaker 1: about it, move into a new house, and then I
Speaker 1: crash it almost straight away, I think. And this was
Speaker 1: driving out of the driveway, and then I hit these
Speaker 1: like trees that line the side of my fence. I'm
Speaker 1: just bad at reversing, so that happens. And then I
Speaker 1: hit my neighbor's car, because how did that happen? Because
Speaker 1: shared driveway, shared driveway, and where the house at the
Speaker 1: end and the house in the middle. They parked their
Speaker 1: cars perpendicular to the garage, so there's like not much
Speaker 1: space in between their cars and the fence. This is
Speaker 1: a very long story, trust me, And getting to the bit.
Speaker 1: So I hit that guy's car that's dramatic. And we
Speaker 1: almost crash with a Lissa of the car because we're
Speaker 1: on ways to a wedding. So we're just around the
Speaker 1: corner outside the Flavor Studio pull out, and then like
Speaker 1: we're all having akata, having a fun time, having a laugh,
Speaker 1: and then I turned out, and then and then the
Speaker 1: list of things that we're nearly going to die. Didn't
Speaker 1: worry really going to die?
Speaker 2: Yes, And then you keep going, I didn't see him, I.
Speaker 1: Don't see him. I don't see him, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: that happened. And then I've crashed like three times since then,
Speaker 1: so that's called I'm a There was a long story
Speaker 1: in conclusion, sugar daddies, if you're going to come through,
Speaker 1: I need a chauffeur. Thank you so much. Okay, okay
Speaker 1: for you to judge.
Speaker 2: A long winded story or just a straight to the
Speaker 2: point joke, Mary, very very.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Yes you want to pick a way, I.
Speaker 3: Have to go with street to the point.
Speaker 2: Thank you for I win every game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think yeah, so not talented as a.
Speaker 2: Photographer or comedian, one job.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us and for judging
Speaker 2: us this way. Can now people find you on like
Speaker 2: social media and stuff.
Speaker 3: On Instagram and the score vaka and that's probably just
Speaker 3: the place to find me or foxing or foxing the
Speaker 3: turks factory, working working away from Richard.
Speaker 1: That's the storyline that we're going to be pushing.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for joining us today, my friend.
Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you guys, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And that is the end of Island Roots Auckland Ways
Speaker 1: this week. We'll see you on the socials at Island
Speaker 1: Roots Auckland Way.
Speaker 2: That's right. I'm on the Instagram and TikTok to me
Speaker 2: and message and I might reply our.
Speaker 1: Social media queen trying otherwise.
Speaker 2: We will catch you guys next week, next Thursday.
Speaker 1: Bye bye