WEBVTT - EP 41 - Opeti Vaka 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.240 This is the Flavor podcast. 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:06.600 Network, Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's for the Brown 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.560 brothers and sisters who want to be one with themselves, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:14.320 their culture, their identity, their roots. This is Island Roots 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:15.400 Auckland Ways. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.560 What's up everyone, and welcome back to Island Roots Auckland Ways. Hi. Hello, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:24.560 how are you doing, Alyssa? 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:25.960 I'm good? How are you by? Dying? 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.560 Very well because today we have all Betty Vucker and 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:33.640 this guy is the man. He's gay actually he's also 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:35.400 AM's gang. He's going to tell you all about his 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.400 Don and Maudy upbringing, as well as how he got 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.120 started in comedy. So this was twenty eighteen he started 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.320 stand up and then the rest is saystue pretty. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.240 Much pretty much. We won't hold you back any further 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.920 because the chat is just so good here it is now. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.000 We are so excited today because we have the incredible, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.680 very very talented Mildy Tongue and comedian or fifty Bucker 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:03.280 with us today. Hey, we always wish we had cool 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.360 sound effects so we could do something like that. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.640 I'm sorry there was no red cap here, Mirror Fox. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:14.160 How are you today? 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.360 Yeah, I'm good, I'm good a little bit tired, but 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:18.400 going pushing. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.959 Through push nice. We had a big weekend here in Auckland. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.319 Yeah, I ended up at four Shells cover lounge. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:24.600 Nice. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:31.039 Oh man, I think we need to go out to 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.479 four Shells. Yes, me and I also have. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.839 Never had to give up from one time in the studio. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.320 Yeah, but down at four sells. Shout out to those 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.800 guys putting it off for our people. Well, every episode 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.560 we share what we love about home, so we ever 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.440 you currently live, where you were born, we were raised, 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.320 where you feel most grounded. What is home to you 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.640 and what do you love about it? We'll start off first, 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.960 and what I love about home this week is this 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.600 food establishment near my house called two seven five Kai. Oh. Yes, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.200 this place is like soul food to the max. They 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:10.400 sell this dish and it's panco crumbed chicken with mushroom 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.440 sauce on top and it's like on a bed of fries, 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.720 a nice little slaw on the side. You can order 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.120 like a loaded chocolate milkshake and I just feel like 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:25.320 that heart ARII clogging kind of food a speaks to 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:29.639 me and that is one for me this week. There's 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.760 also another place that used to be in Autara, it 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.160 was called JJ's Eatery that's also a really good spot. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.400 And then there's other places, like we've mentioned it before 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.799 on the podcast, ever Lena's Grown. They hold us down. Yeah, 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.360 we love food here on IROL, but you really do sucks. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.920 We never got a food sponsor. No, I'm saying that though. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.679 If you'd like to shout us, we'll take it. Yeah, 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:53.600 holl app the social. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.480 What I love about home this week obviously Money Dealer 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.560 two six Cemen is where I've grown up, where I 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:05.960 still live. I love hmhmm Fu Kitchen, which is outside 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.760 South Mall. I probably talked about it on the podcast before, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.840 but I went there recently and I had their twitted 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.080 chicken middle soup and it's just so good. It's like 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.240 soul food. But I feel like a souper is lighter 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:23.440 than something of mushroom sauce. So I don't feel like 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.560 likest was getting to that. So that's we're all about 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.760 home this week. I love as well, we love I 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.480 think there is one in Autun now. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.800 Yeah, they've just opened it up. It's so good Vietnamese food. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:37.720 What about you. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:46.040 Home at the moment? Is Foxton absolutely school of hard 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.480 knocks and for me, home is where my family is, 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.760 my partner and kids. We could be anywhere, but as 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.000 long as I'm with them, I would feel at home. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.840 So lovely, beautiful. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.520 And there's only five fish and chip shops there. The 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.520 food's not that great. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.080 Was that like the biggest adjustment that you had to 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.240 make when you moved to Foxton? The food options? 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.760 Yeah, the food options there was one of them. I 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.080 need to always complain about it. Every time we didn't 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.159 want to cook dinner. It's like, what are we having 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:18.479 fish and chips? 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:25.880 Awesome? Foxton? Where is Foxton for everyone listening who doesn't 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:26.279 know where. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.080 It's between living and Palmerston North and the Lower North Island. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.159 Wow, quite remote any Islanders and Foxton. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.360 There's only one other someone girl at my kids' school, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.440 so that's that's how rare rare. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:48.599 We are. Nice people though, down in Foxton. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.400 Yeah, nice people. I played rugby down there about ten 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:53.000 years ago. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.080 Oh wow, okay and. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.560 Pretty It was pretty hard because I was one. I 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.120 was the only Islander on the team. Every time if 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.000 you made a mistake, you'll hear that racist from Ox 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:06.200 like small town. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.560 Yeah, has it gone been there? No racist? 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:10.960 Nah? 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.360 I didn't play Rugby anymore. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:20.320 Just traumatized you there. Oh man, oh well. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.479 Okite, you've just popped up on our radar. But you're 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.479 not new to comedy. You've been doing it for a 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.880 few years now. Could you tell us what your journey 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.279 into comedy and like how long you've been doing it 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.960 for because I was scrolling through Instagram and I was 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.560 like here, I was thinking I had discovered someone right 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.400 at the start of his career. But a bit about it. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.080 Yeah, I first started comedy. My first time on stage 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.919 was that opened Mic Night in Wellington and at the 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.640 end of twenty eighteen. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:47.400 Wow. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.920 And that's so I've did well there and I think 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:54.599 my very next gig was a pro gig. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:55.400 Oh yoah. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.240 I just kept I've just been keeping at it, just 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:04.440 keep trucking along. And there's been an interesting journey. It's 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.840 taking me to some places that I've never thought I 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.839 would go and visit. I've been to Kitty Kitty. There 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.200 was a shock for me, like my first time catching 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:17.800 up plane because of comedy, a motel, hotel, so like 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.400 that like gives me my little frills at that time, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.360 absolutely what comedy is like. But yeah, I've been doing 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.200 it since twenty eighteen. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.039 When you first started. I guess, like what got you 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.200 into the scene? Were always the performative. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.960 Type, not yes and no? Like around my family, yeah, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.640 around other people, not so much. But I just wanted to. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:46.240 I was like content with life, like I was just chilling, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.120 like doing not doing much, not bad, You're just getting by. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.400 And I wanted to try something new, and I was 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.480 taking off things that what would I be good at? 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.680 What would I be good at? My mum always told 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.960 me your your stand up comedian, So I thought, give 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.679 it a give it a try. I went to watch 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.880 open mic night, and I was watching I was like, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:15.720 these guys suck. It gave me the confidence to sign 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.840 up for open mic at the same place. I went 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.480 and did it and went well, and I've just kept 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:23.240 going from there. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.160 Before the open mic, did you like rehearse? Did you 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.720 like write down jokes that you wanted to say? Or 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:29.920 did you just kind of get up there and ref 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:31.240 I wrote. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.280 I wrote six minutes when I was practicing hard out 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.920 and I was because I'm even at school school speeches 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.840 and that I never did them, Like I wasn't out 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.680 there enough person to go and do speeches or family 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.360 speeches and stuff like that. So I was never says, yeah, 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.680 I was practicing hard out even YouTube audience. Oh yeah, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.040 practice to like the audience that we wasting. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:56.880 That's so smart. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.720 What was your what did your first shiit cover? Do 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.320 you remb remember what those six minutes entailed? 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.200 My kids? My family? I had some about my dad 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.360 because it was a week after my thirtieth birthday. Okay, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:17.120 so I had jokes about the birthday and pretty much 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.240 the same topics, life stories, the same topics that I 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.760 do now. Yes, it was pretty much the same stuff. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.360 Yeah, so twenty eighteen, now it's twenty twenty four, many 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.640 many years later. And how do you feel when you 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.360 go up onto that stage? Are you used to it now? 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.640 Yeah, I'm more relaxed like when I first started. When 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.360 I watch it now, it's like quite speedy. Like I 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.280 wasn't used to the silence, So when it was quiet, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.320 even though people were interested, I always took it as 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.760 it's not no one's laughing, hurry up to the next jrig, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.920 So I try and speed it up to hit that 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.719 next chrick, to get that next laugh. But now I'm 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.880 a bit more experienced and stuff I didn't do that anymore. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.600 Yo, And sometimes silence can just people like listening or 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.439 captivating with what you're saying, like they're waiting for the jokes, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.280 and when you're speeding, they're like wait, wait, wait, wait, 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:08.880 I'm still like three seconds behind. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.520 Agree. That's why I could never be a comedian. Do 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.040 you reckon you could be a comedian? I reckon you could. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:16.719 I don't know. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.800 Maybe I don't know stand up. I'd have to like 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.959 do what you were doing and like really practiced beforehand though, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.559 because I don't think I could just get up there 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:40.360 and just be like, hey guys, oh man, well I 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.480 recently saw you perform at the Comedy Mixtape and immediately 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.000 I was saying time. I was like, this guy is 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.480 the bisch Jacks of anyone tonight. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.040 This guy. She came to me and she was like, bro, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:50.199 I found. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.280 This guy for the podcast. So yeah, I think because 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.360 I like jokes that are funny, but I'm I can 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.680 be a little bit conservative and so so times when 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.240 like jokes are really dirty, Like love a dirty joke 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.400 every now and then, Yeah, but I love like the 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.920 it's kind of like a wholesome quality to your jokes, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.680 like it's I can laugh with it because I can relate, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.040 but it's not like super inappropriate. I don't know, does 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:16.600 it make sense? 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:17.360 I know what you mean? 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.640 Yeah, Like I heard the Australian comedians are like dirty. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.360 Oh I've got a mate over in Melbourne and she's 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:30.160 finding out because they're real dirty. Yeah, but that's like myself. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.080 For me, like a little bit is okay, but it's 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:33.880 not that funny. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.880 Yeah, yeah, it's not all. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.480 That's not my kind of joke. Yeah. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.080 Maybe it's like the Islanders. 't us who have been 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.800 like taught like that. That's kind of stuff. Just keep 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.120 it at home. I don't know. Yeah, but I guess 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.480 with performing, is there an aspect of it that you love? 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.280 Like do you much refer the performing or do you 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.280 like the riding of the jokes? Like what part of 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.720 the comedy? Yeah, what part of the comedy process do 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:57.440 you like the most? 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.040 I enjoy both of them. Writing is becoming more and 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.840 more of a challenge these days, just because when I 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.840 first started, it's all new material. Yes, you get it 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.760 all out, you got your whole life, yeah, with your stories, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.600 and then you've got that out and then it's like 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.959 and now what Yeah? Yeah, But to answer that question. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.960 I enjoy both aspects of it. The performing I enjoy 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.559 it because you get a bit of a buzz when 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.680 everyone's laughing, so you get a little high. And the 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:32.880 writing that's good because when you get a new joke, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.560 you get like a like a little buzz as well, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.720 oh this is gonna work. And yeah, But if I 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.000 could choose between both of them, I would rather just write. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.120 I can't do that at the moment. I have to 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:46.840 the joy. 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.360 Do you ever write something and you're like, this is 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.760 it and then you go for it and you're like, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:52.920 that was really good? 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:53.960 Yeah? I have. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.560 Actually, that's the funniest thing to me when it doesn't land, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.600 you know, they have an awkward chuckle to yourself. Yeah, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.080 I find that hilarious. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.600 How do you recover in moments like that when it 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.160 doesn't then do you just laugh at yourself? 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.600 Yeah, and just move on to the next year, go 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.719 back to our material that you know that's going to 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.440 make them laughing. Just use that. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.480 Have that type of resilience. I would not like. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.320 Saying and no one laughed. I think I would just cry. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.840 You've had some quiet nights I've had early on in 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.000 when I was doing comedy, early on in their career. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.959 I did a gig. It was a fundraiser for Island 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.840 based soccer club Okay, and a lot of them were 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.880 Greek Christians. Oh and I went there and I didn't 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.120 have much material. I was doing all these Jesus jokes 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.880 and it was just quiet, like no one was laughing. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:51.760 That was a hard It was a long eight minutes. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.920 That's something about like a comedy sit it's actually not 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.559 that long, like at least you have a whole hour. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.680 It can just be like ten minutes or less. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.960 Then yeah, most of the lineup shows you're doing eight 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.080 to ten and then headline twenty. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.800 Wow, oh buzz. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.640 So fifteen sometimes you get a fifteen slot or twenty 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:10.920 a year. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.440 My gosh, what do you prefer longer or shorter? 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.199 Both? I like longer because you get paid more, but 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:17.600 like short because it's easier. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.760 Good answer. What have been your some of your career 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.160 highlights stuff for or BT? Are there any gigs that 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.040 come to mind and you're like, man, I ate that up. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.880 That was one of my faves. Any moments like that. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:38.679 My favorite gig that I look back and really I'm 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.200 really happy about is when I performed at the Wellington 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:45.080 Opera House. Oh, and my father was there. So my 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.240 dad came and watched and that's the only show he's 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.120 ever come and watched, and so he was happier. I know, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.480 he was proud of me. So that always sticks out 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.880 to me that time. And also the final of the 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.520 Warrington Raw Comedy Quist and my brother came up from 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.560 Christian to watch and he watched this and I won 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:04.000 that one. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:05.440 That was whoa. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:07.760 Oh man? 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:08.440 So cool. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.840 Yeah. What what do your family think about you taking 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.200 up this career path? You said earlier that your mom 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.280 had suggested it, But how about everyone else? How have 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.480 they reacted to you being a comedian. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.760 They're all good, They're all good with it, like they're 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.440 happy and stuff. But I'm sure they're sick of it now, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.320 Like every time I'm like, can you drop me off 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.560 to this gig? When I come up talking and they're like, oh, 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.080 I'm not again again. But they always wished me luck, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.320 like they're like, good luck with your dig tonight, good 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.120 luck with your dig. My partner, she's sick of it, 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.480 sick of hearing my jokes? 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:45.560 Because are you practicing these? 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.400 Yeah? I was just around the house. Can you be quiet? 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.440 I gotta try. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.760 I was gonna say, you are a dad and you 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.480 don't include some of the stories of your kids and 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.720 your comedy. Do you ever two such your about them 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:01.200 on them? 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:07.600 I get them to time me ladies and gentlemen comestairs, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.600 they head start and then yeah, they know most of 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.920 my sets, like if I sometimes it's swearing in it, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.640 and I catch them swearing, like don't swear, like, but 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.440 you swear in your comedy. No, no, no, just still 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:25.520 different different. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.560 Are they a tough crowd or are they easy to 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:28.240 make laugh? 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.640 They're pretty tough. Yeah, they're pretty tough. They didn't really laugh. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:37.480 They just sit there and stay waiting for times up. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:45.880 They're like the jokes. How many good do you have? 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.680 I've got three. I got a liven year old who's 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.960 born on the same day as me, nine years old, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.600 and a five year old son. So the two eldest girls, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:56.560 and then I got my son. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.560 At the Yeah, I bet there naturally, uh in itself 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:01.800 to a lot of material things. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.360 Yeah, yes, mist of it because I just do talk 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.040 about things I know they yeah, yeah, so obviously I 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.600 know about the kids. I do a lot of kids story, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.840 kids stories around the kids, and also stories when I 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:14.280 was a kid. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.280 You were telling us before of Mike that you actually 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.240 moved to Tongel for a year when you were younger. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.040 Yeah, when I when I was thirteen went there. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.040 Why why were you saying there? 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:29.720 Now? I just wanted to go there. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.880 Oh jeez, you don't hear about that. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.680 I got pushed into it. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.920 So I said, yeah, did you necessarily know what you 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.880 were getting yourself into by taking that lip of faith? 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:52.120 Not at all? Nothing, nothing but regrets now okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.880 I told me a lot in a good life experience. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.720 Would you even make your kids do that? 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.600 I would, but I would go and stay within there 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.560 by themselves. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:08.960 Yeah. That is very because you hear these stories of 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.439 people being sent off to the islands and they have 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.439 to be schooled and the motherland, and then it just 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.600 really builds character, doesn't it, Because it's very different to 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:24.240 go to New Zealand. What what age? I was thirteen 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.920 year okay, start of teenager? How was that adjustment? 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.280 I was, Yeah, I got mocked a lot. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.080 Yeah how did you take that? Were you a little 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:38.240 bit shell shocked by at all? 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.199 Not really? It was okay, but it was a boarding school. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.679 And then I need to get teased a lot because 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.959 my tongue really was really poor at that time, and 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.360 I need to get teased for being the mo over 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.960 seized kid. And until one night I got into a 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.520 fight with the one of the boys and then after 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:02.520 that they left me alone. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.080 We've had quite a few like soundone Maudy on our podcast, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.440 but not tongue and Maudy was moving, I guess kind 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.119 of connected to moving to tonge. But was there an 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.280 aspect of like either of your ideenities that you were 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.240 closer to growing up and then like, did you become 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.920 closer to your tongue inside by moving to tongue or no? 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.480 Yeah, a little bit Like I always because I'm quite dark, 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.440 I'm not fair skinned like my mother. My mother's the 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:34.919 Modi Modi irish one. I always related more to my 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.200 tongue inside. But then as I got older, I realized, 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.240 you're just both. Yeah, You're just it's o key to 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.000 be both. Yeah, And so now I'm a lot more 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.840 comfortable with my own skin than I was as a teenager, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.640 where I felt like I didn't fit in quite with 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.399 this group or quite with that group. Yeah, yeah, but 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.560 now it is what it is, and I'm happy with that. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.320 Yeah. I think that's a similar journy that we have 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.880 both been on in the past, feeling like not enough 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.560 of either when actually it's like you are enough of 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.159 both in it's all good just to be both, you know. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.919 Yeah, it's a beautiful realization. Often, like I feel like 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.760 if you more than one culture, you'll always ask that 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.280 question eight are you closer to the side or that side? 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.400 And you kind of feel like cornered because it's like, oh, am, 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.679 I supposed to feel closer to one side, But it's 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.920 all well and good to be well and well attuned 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.400 to both sides of your car. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.560 And your kids are a fruit salidy. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.080 Yeah, they've they've mixed hard up nice. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:39.080 They're there, the brown kids along with the same one girl. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.800 That's amazing. I think it was actually telling us the 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.280 story off the mic about a tongue and Language Week. 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.360 My partner came home from dropping my son off from 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.359 the kindy and Oh, they want you to come in 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.560 and do something for a tongn Language Week. I said, 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:58.280 what do you mean I volunteered? 0:19:58.320 --> 0:19:58.639 You? 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.200 I was like, oh, and I had no idea. What 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.359 was I going to do. I just went there and 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.639 did that like tongue on alphabet and told some stories 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:07.760 about tongue and stuff like that. But it was good. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:09.879 I was glad I did it. But it's like I 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:13.680 would never be that person to have to do that anywhere, 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:17.800 only in Fox and I wouldn't be. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:22.560 That those ones got volunte hold. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.399 I was going to say, maybe you're the representation the 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.480 other tongue and kids need, but the only tong kids 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:32.320 are your kids, like they're doing a joke. 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:32.640 Skin. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.359 Is there anyone in the industry who you feel like 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:42.800 has really like put you on to help you in 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:44.480 the comedy process. 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.399 Yeah, you trend your housing. He's done in wanting to 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:49.840 and he's helped me a lot. He's put me on 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.520 a lot of his gigs and even sometimes when he 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.159 offers me a gig sometimes I say no, but he 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.200 just reassures me, come on, you can do it. Yeah, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:03.360