Speaker 1: The Flavor Podcast Network.
Speaker 2: Island Roots Aucklan Ways.
Speaker 3: This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want
Speaker 3: to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots.
Speaker 3: This is Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 2: You gotta go to Teleflower. Welcome back to another episode
Speaker 2: of Ireland Roots alcome Way Sex.
Speaker 4: We back to Fem's blue carpet. Someone asking us to
Speaker 4: sing our name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thankfully that never made it onto the social media.
Speaker 2: In hindsight, we did social I was watching the other
Speaker 2: people who introduced themselves with their names. Stunning work.
Speaker 1: Actually you would think that they were musicians.
Speaker 2: You're so real for the act, and that's why we
Speaker 2: ate the singers. But also why did we sing Island
Speaker 2: Roots aukand ways like that? When it's comes from a
Speaker 2: David Dall song, there's like an actual rhythms ways, like
Speaker 2: that's how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: You should you should have done that because you are
Speaker 1: the ultimate d Dots.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Dot stay and he was.
Speaker 1: Actually in the studio.
Speaker 4: Got it to have missed him. But there will always
Speaker 4: be another time. Actually, I feel like we are distant
Speaker 4: to sit down with them in an informal seitting.
Speaker 2: Be on right, yeah, yeah, and it will be the
Speaker 2: more special you know, yeah, yes, so much more special.
Speaker 2: But do you know what is also special?
Speaker 1: Who? I said what? But who?
Speaker 2: Stacey Morrison?
Speaker 1: Per I was like, Stacy, what I mean? This?
Speaker 2: What this conversation that were to present you guys.
Speaker 1: Miss Stacy. She's pulled through. Thank you so much to
Speaker 1: the Queen.
Speaker 2: The Queen, no like the actual Queen. There's no one
Speaker 2: like her.
Speaker 4: So before we chatty any further, here is Stacey Morrison
Speaker 4: on Island Roots Aukland Ways and welcome back to Island
Speaker 4: Roots Aakland Ways. Can you please welcome the Queen or Flavor.
Speaker 4: I'm Stacy Marcea no longer actually as of time of recording,
Speaker 4: I am no longer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the host of Flavor Drive.
Speaker 3: So don't get you. I don't know how. I mean.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you, mes because it's about you and
Speaker 3: you've made a powerful choice for you. So I love that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I know it's not easy.
Speaker 2: I think it makes it also easy to swallow because
Speaker 2: you're going back to your communities, coming back to some
Speaker 2: transformative So it's so excited.
Speaker 4: You heartwork actually the planners because I haven't yet left
Speaker 4: as of time of recording. The planners to deactivate my
Speaker 4: social media because I just, you know, feel like I've
Speaker 4: got to do me for a while and I don't
Speaker 4: want any nosey Parkers in my beds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm just going to turn off the socials,
Speaker 1: do my thing.
Speaker 3: Miss the visuals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where's the cock with a big dump?
Speaker 1: And hopefully that me enjoyed that.
Speaker 4: Yes, I talked about her Man's quardal because they did
Speaker 4: a podcast recently, and.
Speaker 3: You know that Aunties shared it because I'm friends with
Speaker 3: Jordan's mom. Yes, and so the Auntie is sharing and
Speaker 3: to them, he's little Jordan. And by the way, she said,
Speaker 3: she's all good with like you having a you know,
Speaker 3: an affinity. Yeah, a different level of interest. And also
Speaker 3: the girls as young as my daughter, but it's more
Speaker 3: the ones who are like my age and older. And
Speaker 3: she's like, could you please step back?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a little bit strange.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but no, he was cute and I seen
Speaker 3: it actually to my son because I thought he's such
Speaker 3: a good, centered person and the Aunties were proud of him,
Speaker 3: and and just as Junior was really interesting, I thought,
Speaker 3: yeah that was you know, you have very pure interest
Speaker 3: in no definitely.
Speaker 1: I'm interested in the journey. I come into this away
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Later on Yes, Well reveal.
Speaker 2: Well, every week Stakes we talk about what we love
Speaker 2: about home. So every episode we share something that we
Speaker 2: love about home. Whatever home is to you, whatever that
Speaker 2: means to you, whether it's where you currently live, where
Speaker 2: you were born, where you fuck Pappa two, where you
Speaker 2: feel grounded, what do you What is home to you?
Speaker 2: And what do you love about it. We'll start us off,
Speaker 2: maz do you want to go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what I love about home this week is the gym. Yeah,
Speaker 4: getting those games, girls, I truly be getting them games.
Speaker 4: And it took a little bit of motivating myself, but
Speaker 4: I started this gym journey I think in June, so
Speaker 4: it was the twelfth of June. It's the seventeenth of September.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm looking good and feeling good. It's not
Speaker 4: about the numbers. It's about how I look at myself
Speaker 4: in the mirror and how I feel looking at myself,
Speaker 4: and yeah, it just feels good.
Speaker 2: You are getting those golds though, I do.
Speaker 4: Be getting the gold medals, so yeah, it's just that
Speaker 4: you need to reach like a p XI.
Speaker 3: What is peaks?
Speaker 2: Is it your peak hat right. No, it's like.
Speaker 4: A mix of heart rate and calories burnt and yeah,
Speaker 4: and it depends on your height and your weight, so
Speaker 4: it's tailored to you. Although it's about regulating your heartbeat.
Speaker 4: So you don't want to overwork yourself, otherwise you won't
Speaker 4: get that gold medal. Don't want to underwork yourself, you
Speaker 4: won't get that gold medal. He kind of needs a
Speaker 4: balance it.
Speaker 3: And he really wants a gold middle too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I haven't even seen freaking around, but I got that
Speaker 2: by the look of.
Speaker 1: What do you love about home this week? Girl?
Speaker 2: I think it's my mom. I talk about my mom
Speaker 2: all the time, but I recently went through a bit
Speaker 2: of a period of heartbreak. When am I not going
Speaker 2: through a heartbreak? Let's be real. But she saw me
Speaker 2: in the sky out at an event. I didn't introduce
Speaker 2: them because I wasn't at that stage yet, and she
Speaker 2: just when he left, she pulled me over and was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you guys don't really match. And it felt like from
Speaker 2: that moment everything kind of just went downhill. My mom
Speaker 2: just knows.
Speaker 1: My mom was No.
Speaker 3: Here is a mom telling you that you can see chemistry.
Speaker 3: You can see and I am always checking myself, going,
Speaker 3: you know, what is the right response? Who do I
Speaker 3: want to be? I mean, this is what I see.
Speaker 3: Do I comment on that or do I not? It's
Speaker 3: so interesting and I can't talk to my mom anymore
Speaker 3: to say, oh, okay, I get it, I get why
Speaker 3: you did that. It was kind of annoying at the time,
Speaker 3: but yeah, yeah, now I feel it. So that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: My mum really knows you.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are so open and we're so close. And
Speaker 2: at the time it did sting. I was like, you
Speaker 2: don't know him like I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you doing well? Not to not to just
Speaker 3: be stubborn.
Speaker 2: I think the time I was like, oh, okay, I'll
Speaker 2: just keep that in my back pocket and we'll just
Speaker 2: see what happens. Knowing in the back of my mind
Speaker 2: my mom is always right so and she has helped
Speaker 2: me heal every single heartbreak ever have you ever had,
Speaker 2: as well as Mas and all my other amazing friends.
Speaker 2: But my mum is just such a safe space.
Speaker 1: The girl's got to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, that's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, In terms of how I was thinking
Speaker 3: about talking to you guys and Island roots, Auckland ways
Speaker 3: and talking about hawaiki, you know, the home for all
Speaker 3: of us, So hawaiki Savai Hawaii. And my husband Scotty
Speaker 3: did a series called Origins, two series of it and
Speaker 3: about finding hawaiki. And I'm always so grateful that he
Speaker 3: thought to name our eldest child hawaiki. And I noticed
Speaker 3: that a lot of people are calling their hawaike these days.
Speaker 3: So hawaiki is also an attitude, and it's a feeling
Speaker 3: of home. And there was always quite a few from
Speaker 3: when we left the first hawaiki. There was always going
Speaker 3: to be more hawaikei to come for all of us.
Speaker 3: So we build our own hawaiki. That was part of
Speaker 3: the kind of series. But like Scotty went all the
Speaker 3: way to Ethiopia to South America, he looked at our
Speaker 3: journe are really intentional journeys. That's what I loved about.
Speaker 3: It was a real reclamation of our ability to voyage,
Speaker 3: our intention to voyage, not that we just, oh, they
Speaker 3: accidentally landed in Hawaii, though we knew these things. So
Speaker 3: I guess that reclamation of the connections between all of
Speaker 3: us as Pacific Islanders, as Polynesians, as all coming from
Speaker 3: a hawaiki. And then how you build a hawaiki so
Speaker 3: you know your mum is you're hawaiki. You know, it's
Speaker 3: so beautiful, you know, like that literally the place that
Speaker 3: sustains you and is your origin. But I was talking
Speaker 3: to as someone brother the other day and he's saying
Speaker 3: he was at two dung awai Wi during the King's
Speaker 3: tonguey and he said, I've just understood more about how
Speaker 3: engaging with tongue at the Fenoa doesn't diminish my tongue
Speaker 3: at the Juana, it actually strengthens it and the bonds
Speaker 3: between us, which I thought was such a cool way
Speaker 3: to look at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are food believable.
Speaker 2: Yes, I wor bilingual hub. So it's very taw Maudi
Speaker 2: centered space. And for me, I always say, like I've
Speaker 2: never felt in other spaces like Tel Pakia spaces. I
Speaker 2: feel like sometimes I have to give up aspects of
Speaker 2: my this, you know, like who I am as someone
Speaker 2: who comes from the sight, very strong someone background. But
Speaker 2: I don't even have to give up but any aspect
Speaker 2: of the idency or who you are. And that's why
Speaker 2: I think relationship between that andone is so important because
Speaker 2: in our world I don't have to give up any
Speaker 2: aspect of our idency or who we are. We can
Speaker 2: show up completely as ourselves and own that space with
Speaker 2: our ancestors standing behind us or with us as well, and.
Speaker 3: Then also layering and then layering who we are. And
Speaker 3: then you know, once you voyage in a part of
Speaker 3: then that's that's your story again. And you know there
Speaker 3: are bits where we're intercend and we can relate to
Speaker 3: each other and but for our stories are different. But
Speaker 3: you know there are times where we get lumped together.
Speaker 3: We don't want to like an house statistic.
Speaker 4: Yes, brown Bill, thank you for sharing what you love
Speaker 4: about home stay. So you do so much, so many
Speaker 4: incredible things. But let's talk about broadcasting. So why was
Speaker 4: it broadcasting for you?
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to. So first of all, I went
Speaker 3: to Japan as a stage student. My last year, year
Speaker 3: thirteen in the olden days was called seventh form, and
Speaker 3: so that's what I did. And then when I came back,
Speaker 3: you know, you have this mind blowing experience. I was
Speaker 3: not ready to focus on university. So I got into
Speaker 3: the UNI of Canterbury B. But I can't do it
Speaker 3: because I've just had my whole mind blowing away. And
Speaker 3: so I went but I better do something. And it
Speaker 3: wasn't that anyone was pushing me or saying you have
Speaker 3: to do that, but that was I guess a drive
Speaker 3: in me. I have to have a job. So I
Speaker 3: got a job and TV and I had to move
Speaker 3: to Dunedin from christ Church and so from there it
Speaker 3: was always like the next thing that would work or
Speaker 3: made sense. And so then it's funny you look at
Speaker 3: someone's career and go, oh, you must have intended to
Speaker 3: do this and that Some people maybe do plan like that,
Speaker 3: but no, I was just going with what was working.
Speaker 3: And so I ended up in television in Auckland and
Speaker 3: then I interviewed Rob Darkdere on my family. They said, oh,
Speaker 3: actually we need a news reader. Do you want to
Speaker 3: come and do this? I was not very good at it,
Speaker 3: and then I learned as I went along, and then
Speaker 3: came across to Flavor in two thousand and four. You know,
Speaker 3: so it is surprising to me too that I'm here.
Speaker 3: But it's always looking at what will work for me,
Speaker 3: what feels like the right thing to do. And I
Speaker 3: still say to my kids, you know, look for the torho,
Speaker 3: look for the signs that you're in the right place.
Speaker 3: And they could be tiny or you could just feel
Speaker 3: it and yeah, go with that. So that's how I
Speaker 3: ended up here for a surprising amount of time.
Speaker 1: What was it like being on what Now back in
Speaker 1: the day?
Speaker 3: It was so first of all, I was at high school, yes,
Speaker 3: while I was doing it, so that was pretty weird,
Speaker 3: Like people had an after school job like McDonald's. We
Speaker 3: go into the station with Carlos because they had seen
Speaker 3: us and they got us to do it. So it's
Speaker 3: a little bit I guess privileged and unusual, but then
Speaker 3: you quickly learn the flip side of that. There's really
Speaker 3: good things. And then when people do know who you are,
Speaker 3: then there's other things you got to think about as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a great job. I was always
Speaker 3: really mindful of, oh, this is an easy way to
Speaker 3: do my job, you know, get money for one thing.
Speaker 3: So that was one of the drivers. And they were
Speaker 3: really kind people and what Now, So that was easy.
Speaker 4: To make ends meet. I want to talk about your
Speaker 4: upbringing in christ Church because I hear a lot of
Speaker 4: things about particularly for brown people. How was that for you?
Speaker 3: Well, I come from down there. I'm laitha who not
Speaker 3: that that was something I really knew. I knew about
Speaker 3: Little River Way to work, you know, not so much
Speaker 3: Nataho for some reason until later in my life. And
Speaker 3: so my dad, he doesn't mind me saying this. He
Speaker 3: used to proudly call himself the white sheep of the family.
Speaker 3: Oh so not the black sheep once he got into
Speaker 3: broadcasting because the way he spoke was trained. And that
Speaker 3: was when I was five years old. And so we
Speaker 3: had to move to Timaru when I was five, and
Speaker 3: then Blenham and then back to christ Church and so
Speaker 3: we lived on the east side of christ Church and
Speaker 3: that is, yeah, that's kind of typical unless we're at Hornby,
Speaker 3: where a Nica Moore grew up. So I mean I
Speaker 3: loved it. I I'm glad I went to the school
Speaker 3: I went to, I don't know how school, which doesn't
Speaker 3: exist anymore. But yeah, as for that sort of casual racism,
Speaker 3: it was, you know, just so expected. And I think
Speaker 3: about some of the people I went to school with
Speaker 3: and of course still friends with them on Facebook, and
Speaker 3: you see that people are finding their own ways of being.
Speaker 3: You either fit in or you don't, or you change
Speaker 3: it later. So I guess for me that was something
Speaker 3: that I realized I wanted to work on more was
Speaker 3: understanding my Maldi self, like not feeling like, okay, I'll
Speaker 3: be the you know, good Mardi who can you know,
Speaker 3: you know, fit in you know that kind of thing
Speaker 3: or be considered you know, palatable successful whatever. Yeah. So
Speaker 3: as a really I mean, I'm glad for having that experience,
Speaker 3: and I go home quite a lot. My dad still
Speaker 3: lives there, you know, and I'm later who hearty, and
Speaker 3: I'm really grateful I could go back home and learn
Speaker 3: my dell so later who really have helped me do that?
Speaker 3: And it's really important that people know that that's what
Speaker 3: Lata Who's been able to do with their resource because
Speaker 3: their post settlement, because they have, you know, with the
Speaker 3: resource that came with the treaty sediment, which was tiny
Speaker 3: compared to what was lost, then they were able to
Speaker 3: build wealth, and part of that wealth, it was only
Speaker 3: meaningful if there was cultural wealth in terms of Tedeo
Speaker 3: and Tikung as well.
Speaker 2: I think people look at you as such a pillar
Speaker 2: within your community state, but knowing that you didn't necessarily
Speaker 2: grow up super strong within your Mardi tongue is actually
Speaker 2: also really inspiring because I know for us as well
Speaker 2: feeling at different points in our life quite disconnected from
Speaker 2: our culture. What has learned reconnecting or rediscovering how Mardi
Speaker 2: meant to you?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess their choice is their lifestyle. Tryis
Speaker 3: that's the things that does this feel like. I guess
Speaker 3: the modia is with your like the good positive energies
Speaker 3: with you. I felt like, I guess if you can
Speaker 3: describe it as ancestral whispers, yeah, that you're that are
Speaker 3: calling you to a place. I think that's why quite
Speaker 3: so much during them one a movie, it's like this
Speaker 3: is an animation when she's on them, like oh, and
Speaker 3: it's answering that and going okay. So I really adored
Speaker 3: my mum and it sounds like I had a similar
Speaker 3: relationship with her that you have. And she was park out,
Speaker 3: but she was really encouraging of us feeling good about
Speaker 3: being Maldi. So that being connected and changing everything that
Speaker 3: I knew and my childhood has been eye opening for me.
Speaker 3: But it just feels healing and so.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, this is something that and I talk about
Speaker 2: a lot. My mum is also pak Ya, so that
Speaker 2: makes a lot of that she doesn't always understand, but
Speaker 2: she knows it's good. For me, So I think that's
Speaker 2: really important.
Speaker 3: Did you have the thing as well? Like people wouldn't
Speaker 3: realize that our mum was our mom. Oh no.
Speaker 2: When I was younger, I was also a lot like
Speaker 2: darker than I am now. So we'd be walking around
Speaker 2: the warehouse. I'm pretty sure people were wondering what she
Speaker 2: was doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because my mum was under seventeen when she had me,
Speaker 3: so they did. They thought she was a nanny. And
Speaker 3: even once she was working as a sales rep, like
Speaker 3: she knew the store detective and he see to who
Speaker 3: goes be careful these couple of marrikets around the corner,
Speaker 3: as if we're going to steal something, She says, yeah, they're.
Speaker 1: My children, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: But also like the super protective as well, Like my
Speaker 3: dad would just be like, you know, like it's just
Speaker 3: brushing off the tenth casual, casually racist thing you'd heard
Speaker 3: that day, and so it's not going into bed or not.
Speaker 3: Like my mom, she's like, it's so angry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're not.
Speaker 3: Talking about my child? Yeah good, Yeah, I reckon, But yeah,
Speaker 3: how it feels is it just feels right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you spoke to that healing, which is something that
Speaker 2: we feel like we've experienced a sense of like healing
Speaker 2: of like in a child, or healing of it just
Speaker 2: like it makes you a fuller, holer person. But also
Speaker 2: it's really exciting to look back also at our elders
Speaker 2: who are still with us and see that they experienced
Speaker 2: that same racism that your parents or your dad would
Speaker 2: have experienced as well. But our reclamation is also healing
Speaker 2: for them because they see that there's been a new
Speaker 2: way that we can be ourselves, our full selves, our
Speaker 2: whole selves in this country.
Speaker 3: And that's when I talk about intergenerational healing. I realize
Speaker 3: that it's not just squeerho it's not just from one
Speaker 3: generation down, it's from one generation up as well. So
Speaker 3: that's the inter part of the intergenerational because yes, our
Speaker 3: comatsuura can feel it because they see the change and
Speaker 3: feel the change. And then I also believe in a
Speaker 3: bigger continuum that our chupuna feel that too. Yeah, Like
Speaker 3: you honor them, yes, and when you speak their names
Speaker 3: and when you know their stories and you keep them
Speaker 3: living in the land and in the one and in
Speaker 3: our places and in our names and in our language.
Speaker 3: So I mean one of the themes this year for
Speaker 3: ma is a forever and I think that's a really
Speaker 3: strong statement, going always have been, always well be akkake,
Speaker 3: And that means if there's you know, a continuous line,
Speaker 3: then that's that's why Scotty says My husband, Scotty says
Speaker 3: onto cannedy after every show he goes tudoa hawaiiki and
Speaker 3: it means may the ancient homeland of Hawaii forever shine
Speaker 3: on in your mind's eye, and hawaiki can shine on
Speaker 3: when we do those things, when we are our best
Speaker 3: vision of ourselves. My other translation, he gives her that's
Speaker 3: a little bit snappier, is may the force be with you?
Speaker 3: Really interesting because you know here people go too low,
Speaker 3: too low and excuse me.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, like I'm making way, like please make way,
Speaker 1: I'm here.
Speaker 2: Way.
Speaker 4: Feeling states that you are a big watcher of movies
Speaker 4: like I saw you, you know.
Speaker 2: Every quote like Jerry Maguire, You even did like a
Speaker 2: voice for it.
Speaker 3: And I was like, girl, wait, is this not normal?
Speaker 3: My sister and I that's what we would doing, like
Speaker 3: put on whole little pantomimes and little shows a lounge
Speaker 3: and then sit down and watch my poor parents in
Speaker 3: a bar. But yeah, and then a Nicka Moore alleges
Speaker 3: that I have a photographic memory, which I was like, no,
Speaker 3: of course I don't, but it's a snapshot memory, like
Speaker 3: I can I remember specifically. If I look at something,
Speaker 3: I remember exactly what it sees, which should have made
Speaker 3: leaning almighty easier, but I don't know that it did
Speaker 3: in some ways but not otherwise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I a couple of weekspect we mean to go
Speaker 4: watch Yes, now that's one of the movies.
Speaker 1: I know lines like movies like that nor but my.
Speaker 3: Dear again, you can't make those movies now. But I
Speaker 3: love eating movie for that. But there's the thing me
Speaker 3: and my sister, that's what we do too, like just
Speaker 3: like random movie cs. I think that's how she sort
Speaker 3: of nabbed her husband as well, because he's like, you
Speaker 3: you know, like all of raw bit it's like, remember
Speaker 3: we didn't have an Internet to watch things over and over.
Speaker 3: But also when they sort of like when you see
Speaker 3: things that you relate to, and in that case it's
Speaker 3: mostly black people, yeah yeah, and you go, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: that's just oh my gosh. And you know when now
Speaker 3: you see content that's more like us and seeing it
Speaker 3: kind of being embraced, Like that's so cool. And I
Speaker 3: love how raw everything apart from iral that everything is
Speaker 3: on social media. It's like make it less flash and
Speaker 3: people will love it more.
Speaker 4: No true videos that we do that are raw and real.
Speaker 4: I eat Alsa talking about her after.
Speaker 3: Have to pay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, are we out of it?
Speaker 2: We're out of it? Yeah, yeah, we're out of it.
Speaker 3: I think that's such a trap, though I didn't know it's.
Speaker 2: Such a trap. It's so bad. It's so bad. It's
Speaker 2: do not get after pay if you.
Speaker 1: Can have it. They do have to pay at the warehouse.
Speaker 2: I think they do after pain everywhere. I've got an
Speaker 2: email the other day. I think they're starting pit a pit.
Speaker 2: Oh isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1: It's crazy?
Speaker 3: But does it make you then anxious to look at
Speaker 3: your emails? Like is that how they get.
Speaker 2: Always anxious to look at my emails? To be honest,
Speaker 2: I'm I would say I'm quite a good budgeter when
Speaker 2: it comes to like having to pay back after so
Speaker 2: I can budget it well enough that like I can
Speaker 2: pay it all.
Speaker 3: Off, but you get the things straight away, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the initial enjoyment is gone.
Speaker 2: By the time you pay it off, correct, Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: that instant gratification. But to be here. I love clothes
Speaker 2: like that is number one personality trait love clothes, So
Speaker 2: I will never get sick of wearing an outfit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then it's like instant gratification delayed mortification.
Speaker 2: Yeah there, like, oh my god, how much did I spend?
Speaker 1: I don't like.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you about something back in the
Speaker 3: day lay by or you know, you couldn't take the.
Speaker 1: Thing that's smart, Yeah, that's smart, that saw.
Speaker 3: This, That's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: My mom used to do that with all my Christmas presents.
Speaker 2: We'd go shopping and then she'd be like, do you
Speaker 2: like this? And then by the time it was Christmas,
Speaker 2: it was all paid off. But I had forgotten.
Speaker 1: Rang up in the hood, came up, came out, literally.
Speaker 2: Had the lay by counter like a whole stop.
Speaker 3: All your privilege we never got, came out, and Christ
Speaker 3: which for so sorry love to christ Hutch. One of
Speaker 3: the other things was that everything always happened in everywhere.
Speaker 3: I hateland. They still call it dockland.
Speaker 2: I have family, a living and crashes. Oh here come
Speaker 2: the Docklanders.
Speaker 3: But like I know, but I was always fascinated you know,
Speaker 3: with like someone people living in that climate. Oh you're hearty.
Speaker 4: Oh no, yeah, real, absolutely, Like I had to wear
Speaker 4: the single today like I'm like, I need to feel
Speaker 4: like on a tropical islands.
Speaker 1: When you were at.
Speaker 4: My time, tell us about that, because we talked earlier
Speaker 4: on about how you know, back in the day, there
Speaker 4: was no TikTok, and so the only way to see
Speaker 4: yourself was in for example, namely black culture, African American culture, music, fashion.
Speaker 4: The list goes on, and my time was a haven
Speaker 4: for our people to go to.
Speaker 1: Tell us about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was ten o'clock on a Saturday morning,
Speaker 3: and I think you could record things, but mostly you
Speaker 3: had to sort of watch it on time. And we
Speaker 3: did have criticism that were too Americanized and with what
Speaker 3: we wore and what we said and how they acted.
Speaker 3: And remember this is like when Biggie died, when Chupac died,
Speaker 3: you know, and I'm working with people like Bees and
Speaker 3: Mike Haddu who really loved hip hop living. So I
Speaker 3: learned a lot ten and Wan and Raply as well,
Speaker 3: you know, just incredible people and musicians key mostly so
Speaker 3: they have that manna in the music world. And then
Speaker 3: I was kind of just the TV person, I guess.
Speaker 3: But it's really interesting to see that that's still meaningful
Speaker 3: to people and that people still remember that, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know something I didn't know. That's what I would
Speaker 3: be to people. How they were like still like from
Speaker 3: my time or from what now? I'm like, I'm still
Speaker 3: like one of my most they see dash, what is happening?
Speaker 3: Do you remember me from that? So it's yeah, it's
Speaker 3: really interesting to know that that was. When you're doing
Speaker 3: something that's going to endure like that, you don't always know.
Speaker 3: And it was sometimes battling. It didn't always feel big,
Speaker 3: but like we'd get actual letters. People would write actual
Speaker 3: letters yeah yeah, and yeah yeah, like a great big
Speaker 3: they have a great big el trapper he nucky and
Speaker 3: fill them up. They were real. None of that was
Speaker 3: a lie because that's what people had to do. And
Speaker 3: I guess when you do that, you have a different
Speaker 3: level of engagement and you remember it and remember writing it.
Speaker 3: Also got the brown envelope ones, Okay that's from Wakidia.
Speaker 3: Yeah some.
Speaker 1: What they're watching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't aware of that. Also, I would like
Speaker 3: to call out everyone who ever said to me, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I used to have a crush on you because I
Speaker 3: have no idea where you were in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3: Nothing was you're old gas because there is no I
Speaker 3: was not overwhelmed with any interest.
Speaker 1: So that means my time's coming.
Speaker 2: Those boys are liking my story, could just send a
Speaker 2: message yeah rather than the like of the story, that
Speaker 2: would be nice.
Speaker 3: Or tell your bro. I will then tell your her girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Who's the girl's friend, because the stupid we're like in
Speaker 3: our thirties and my friend's still like, hey, Mike's sick,
Speaker 3: Scotty and I'm here.
Speaker 4: We go, we go, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: We grow up, but we don't.
Speaker 4: Can I just say you are the most beautiful couple
Speaker 4: you and so beautiful?
Speaker 3: Yeah before as well, like what are you?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 1: Wow, what a packed for you?
Speaker 3: What a good year it was? In the end it
Speaker 3: finished well, yeah, so July was flavor earlier of the year.
Speaker 3: My stomach don't want to talk about that. But see,
Speaker 3: you can have not so great time and it turns up.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the second half the year amazing. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: was thinking about that. So but also like, I don't
Speaker 3: know if you've ever felt like you when you have
Speaker 3: something so overwhelming, and someone so overwhelming coming to your life,
Speaker 3: it's also scary. Yeah, it's like I it's not messed
Speaker 3: this up?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Am I worthy?
Speaker 1: The question is he worthy to have you?
Speaker 3: But yes, but I could be you know, a sassy
Speaker 3: and say yeah this is you know, like this is
Speaker 3: the bare minimum. But I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 3: that's that's actually not who I am. I I'm not
Speaker 3: that person. Even in any relationship, friendship or stuff. I'll
Speaker 3: always be thinking about what, how are you feeling? What
Speaker 3: do you need? What should I anticipate? And I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that's always good because it's a little bit of
Speaker 3: people pleasing, you know.
Speaker 1: It's a balance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know like oldest daughters especially can get that,
Speaker 3: or just the eldest or just the the responsible one.
Speaker 3: You know, you're you're sort of taught to think about
Speaker 3: other people's feelings, accommodate other people's feelings. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: feel very proud that my eldest daughter is not a
Speaker 3: people pleaser. I'm going, wow, this is intriguing. She wow, wow,
Speaker 3: I'm for you.
Speaker 1: Shall we wrap up our episode with our report fire?
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, we are coining the Stacy's faves. So before
Speaker 2: we wrap up, we have some quick fire questions for you.
Speaker 2: We know you've been in the biz for a while,
Speaker 2: so hopefully you've got some good answers for these questions.
Speaker 2: But these are Stacy's faves. Fave person you've ever interviewed.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, Disney's child, I mean like, yeah, oh Margot, Wow,
Speaker 3: let's just Beyonce pre j Z.
Speaker 2: I must say, yeah, that's iconic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know where you can barely look at someone
Speaker 3: like the light is too strong in person. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's about stadium. Yeah, there were lots of us. There's
Speaker 3: not as in the room, you know, but.
Speaker 4: Still I should say that that doesn't happen our way.
Speaker 1: Celebrities have their own platforms that they.
Speaker 2: Did so true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I saw a video photo of this someone
Speaker 3: has I was wearing a Diamonte tie.
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't.
Speaker 1: Even know where that is?
Speaker 2: No, I do, I know exactly what.
Speaker 3: A tie, but like made out of Damonte.
Speaker 2: It's so like early two thousands.
Speaker 3: Look at you're gonna love it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna wear it like the favorite belts had those. Yeah, okay, faith,
Speaker 2: way to decompress after a long.
Speaker 3: Day in the spa, to be honest. Yeah that sounds
Speaker 3: hot water waky girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, faith place you've traveled to?
Speaker 3: Oh, I find favorites hard, but I loved Turkey with
Speaker 3: our kids. Yeah. We were just traveling on the back
Speaker 3: of one and the Tribe and my husband would performed
Speaker 3: with her and so we got to go to Turkey.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is so cool.
Speaker 1: My gosh, is that with the hot ear balloons?
Speaker 3: Yes, we're on a Zura's Instagram.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what a dream favor breakfast radio show.
Speaker 3: I've no, I've loved everyone, you know, I just yeah,
Speaker 3: still here, AMA's Home.
Speaker 2: And your favor hip hop or R and B artists?
Speaker 3: Oh why why guys?
Speaker 1: Do you know about her music?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Is this like what hip hop and R and
Speaker 2: B is like your genre?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. And I love old
Speaker 3: school as well and soul and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: I mean I really do love Alicia Keys with my soul,
Speaker 3: and I believe we will be friends. I mean Beyonce obviously,
Speaker 3: but I try not to be a dick like. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I could manage it, But with Alisha,
Speaker 3: I think I don't know somehow I could.
Speaker 1: Alicia seems personable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like you can sit down and have a
Speaker 4: nice conversation without feeling. I feel like if I were
Speaker 4: I were to meet Beyonce, I'd be like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then I think like she makes me cry
Speaker 3: with some people, especially through lemonade and everything. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: by the way, so Lange though, yeah, I'm that sister
Speaker 3: too with my legs. How do you think you are?
Speaker 3: But an incredible story? Incredible like why is she so generous?
Speaker 3: In how anyway? Alicia Keys and so, I've seen her
Speaker 3: a couple of times, but I remember when she was
Speaker 3: at the what does now the Kanoa Theater and it's
Speaker 3: like her spiritual experience. She's, yeah, that's a dream speaking
Speaker 3: to us. Oh my gosh. Even Kanye when he played
Speaker 3: Saint James, it was better. That was that was good Kanye.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was pregnant my child, Like that's probably why
Speaker 3: she's not a people pleaser.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Stace, thank you so much for coming on to island.
Speaker 4: Routs Auckland Wade.
Speaker 3: I just waited a couple of years for you, guys.
Speaker 1: We were waiting for the bestul hearts.
Speaker 2: Exactly as.
Speaker 3: But I love you guys, I really do, and I'm
Speaker 3: so grateful. I love what you do. I love who
Speaker 3: you are and who you speak to, and I'm so
Speaker 3: grateful we're at this place where you guys get to
Speaker 3: be everything that you are. Okay, you know, I just
Speaker 3: want you to know I look at your success and
Speaker 3: I love it and it's for all of us, and
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. Also, I think you look amazing and
Speaker 3: I'm stepping on that. But also I do I do
Speaker 3: feel a need to say, like you're that feeling of
Speaker 3: having heartbreak and of not yet finding your person. I
Speaker 3: felt really lost in it for a long time. So
Speaker 3: as much as I have been with the most overwhelming
Speaker 3: dream man on my dreams for twenty years, that loneliness
Speaker 3: I remember really strongly and it feels like will anyone
Speaker 3: ever understand my heart? But I have this really strong
Speaker 3: belief that, yes, your people are there and they're not
Speaker 3: far away, but don't be rushing because you all you're
Speaker 3: doing is building more beautiful things for them to enjoy too.
Speaker 2: Shout out, shout out to our queen Stacey Morrison. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for coming through. Thank you for sharing
Speaker 2: your wisdom and your journey and just like your beautifulness
Speaker 2: with us. It's so it's funny because I grew up
Speaker 2: like watching Stacy Morrison. My moum would always be like
Speaker 2: Stacy Daniels or cougirl, and then now I like see
Speaker 2: her all the time, but like her kind of superstounness
Speaker 2: will never wear off for me to She really is
Speaker 2: super sad, and I feel like I either have to
Speaker 2: like shut the fuck up when she not that she
Speaker 2: ever demands that kind of thing, but like just to
Speaker 2: be respectful, I don't want to say anything. Yeah, just
Speaker 2: because I'm gonna say so toy stupid and you're gonna
Speaker 2: be is.
Speaker 1: That I'm gonna look like a clown. So best, I
Speaker 1: just best, I just shut up.
Speaker 4: But that conversation was so good. We love Stacey. You
Speaker 4: can listen to her every weekday. I'm flavored breakfast and
Speaker 4: with that will bid you feel well. Thank you so
Speaker 4: much for listening to Ira