Speaker 1: This is the Flavor Podcast Network.
Speaker 2: Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's for the Brown brothers
Speaker 2: and sisters who want to be one with themselves, their culture,
Speaker 2: their identity, their roots. This is Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go Island Roots Auckland Ways. The Goodbye
Speaker 1: for now episode.
Speaker 2: So we've come seer the road still laing. Okay, we
Speaker 2: would like to be honest with you, guys. We don't
Speaker 2: know how long this goodbye is.
Speaker 1: Four.
Speaker 2: It might be a short while, it might be a
Speaker 2: long while. We might start a new season sometime soon.
Speaker 2: We don't know what that looks like. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: say goodbye, and this is going to be our goodbye episode.
Speaker 1: That is crazy. And we had done a farewell for
Speaker 1: our first season. Yeah, and that was actually like a
Speaker 1: really well performing episode. Yes, actually got pretty good numbers
Speaker 1: for that. So I'm hoping the same for this one
Speaker 1: because this is the goodbye goodbye everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like this is like voice to me
Speaker 2: a the end of the road, like it's giving dot
Speaker 2: dot dot dot dot dot. Not sure if it's to
Speaker 2: be continued. So for this episode, we're just going to
Speaker 2: take a walk down memory lane. I'm just gonna think
Speaker 2: about some of our favorite moments. But of course we
Speaker 2: start every episode come on bosth things first about Home. So,
Speaker 2: my darling, I'm gonna pass it over to you what I.
Speaker 1: Love about Home. I love my little sister for now,
Speaker 1: and I think with the closing of this chap that
Speaker 1: I'm able to spend more time with her because media may,
Speaker 1: if you guys don't know, is actually so consuming, so consuming,
Speaker 1: like it takes you away from the ones you love.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you get so enveloped in the work and
Speaker 1: making sure things go out when they're supposed to and
Speaker 1: just tacking things off your to do list that you
Speaker 1: actually forget about the things that matter. And so I well,
Speaker 1: I am sad about the end of the podcast for now,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that our loved ones will get to
Speaker 1: have more time with us exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we love female and.
Speaker 1: We love you now. She's nine years old. She's that girl.
Speaker 1: Is that girl we are just prepping her to take over.
Speaker 2: No, she is the world with the whole world, not
Speaker 2: the podcast in the world. Actually she's everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I love about Home this week, my
Speaker 1: little sissy. How about you, girl, I've.
Speaker 2: Just been like reflecting on like how amazing this journey
Speaker 2: has been for us, And I feel like what I
Speaker 2: love about Home this week is the community that we've
Speaker 2: been able to create with Iral. It's something that I
Speaker 2: didn't expect, Like I didn't I think you always hear
Speaker 2: things like, oh my gosh, like people get so much
Speaker 2: hate on our online and like you hear all the
Speaker 2: bad things about social media. But social media and this
Speaker 2: podcast has brought us like a beautiful community of friends
Speaker 2: of family of friends who feel like family of just
Speaker 2: meaning some of our greatest heroes and like icons. And
Speaker 2: so for us to be able to connect with you guys,
Speaker 2: to connect with those incredible people, That's that's like the
Speaker 2: thing about IRA that like it just like makes my
Speaker 2: heart sing, like it makes me so happy. So I
Speaker 2: think that's what I love about Home this Week. And
Speaker 2: that's one of the things about the podcast that I'm
Speaker 2: really like nervous about ending, is I fear.
Speaker 1: I just got to turn this TV off behind you, because.
Speaker 2: I fear the loss of this like beautiful community. And
Speaker 2: I hope you guys still stick with us on our
Speaker 2: individual journeys as much as we want to stick with
Speaker 2: you all, because it's been so cool and for a
Speaker 2: lot of you, especially if you've been here since our
Speaker 2: pilot season, you've watched us grow up. So literally we're
Speaker 2: like adults now, and I feel like we were definitely
Speaker 2: teenagers then it was. It wasn't too long ago, but
Speaker 2: it just does. It feels like we've matured and grown
Speaker 2: up a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, Wow, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Then get into it. I want to throw it back
Speaker 1: to the beginning. So this was the pilot season that
Speaker 1: you probably won't ever get the chance to listen to it,
Speaker 1: thank God, thank God. And saying that though the making
Speaker 1: of it like remains as a core memory for me.
Speaker 2: Yes, such a cool memory.
Speaker 1: Starting with that photo shoot with Christian.
Speaker 2: Honestly, what a day, What a day. That was so
Speaker 2: much fun. We'll put some story some pictures of it
Speaker 2: that they're just such iconic film pictures, like so iconic.
Speaker 2: And we went we did it in my driveway, and
Speaker 2: then we went to Nathan Homestead and that was back
Speaker 2: when Hillhouse was still on the side the south side,
Speaker 2: and I remember we were like when we do the
Speaker 2: sacon go to market and then and then by then
Speaker 2: we've been bought by iHeartRadio, so we did in a
Speaker 2: studio girl.
Speaker 1: That was also another moment. We just ran into Justine
Speaker 1: on the set for surprise.
Speaker 2: Just the podcast.
Speaker 1: Was like, are doing so well, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you. I don't know if we can tell you
Speaker 1: that it's wrapping up or and we just want to
Speaker 1: preface this by saying, this was our decision. We didn't
Speaker 1: get xed.
Speaker 2: No, we didn't get x this was our decision. A
Speaker 2: lot of you will know that Marina has left Flavor
Speaker 2: and I am starting my pH d next year, so
Speaker 2: we're we're saying goodbye for now to this project that
Speaker 2: we've been working on together for a really really long time.
Speaker 2: And there's no beef.
Speaker 1: No, there's no beef.
Speaker 2: There's no beefs We're still best friends. This like we
Speaker 2: just we know that people will love to fight a
Speaker 2: color and are probably going to be like they must
Speaker 2: not trust.
Speaker 1: I wish that was the case.
Speaker 2: I wish because I love Yeah, maybe we should just
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: I saw an Aussie podcast said wrapped up and they
Speaker 1: actually they actually not friends anymore. Yeah, they brought that bridge.
Speaker 2: Oh Dom and Ella from and one of them still
Speaker 2: wants to be friends and the other one doesn't.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, y couldn't be further from the case. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited that we get to drink. Not that
Speaker 1: we get to drink, but we get to drink and
Speaker 1: spend time with each other and not talk about work.
Speaker 2: Every conversation is hey, Ma's so I managed to get
Speaker 2: so and so on the podcast, Hey mares, can you
Speaker 2: please see me the photos from the episode? Like, now
Speaker 2: we can have proper conversations that don't revolve around work.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for that, so excited for the Lord
Speaker 1: girl Lord. Going back to our rout the roots of
Speaker 1: the friendship. So, no, we didn't get X and actually
Speaker 1: we were talking about it for a while later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that for a lot of you this
Speaker 2: is probably a surprise, but for us we've been talking
Speaker 2: talking about it for a while. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of things like behind the scenes that we won't go
Speaker 2: into and that we don't want to speak of on
Speaker 2: the podcast. But it just feels like the right time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I part of me is like I'm not ready. I'm
Speaker 2: not ready, but I know Mas is ready, and I
Speaker 2: know that when you let go of something, other opportunities
Speaker 2: come your way. Yeah, So I am optimistic about what
Speaker 2: the future media looks like for me.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that. What does next to you? Because
Speaker 1: if you don't know, I am moving away from the
Speaker 1: media for the next week. Bit. I'm so happy not
Speaker 1: to be living under the spotlight. I think I might
Speaker 1: do like a little cute deactivation of the Instagram.
Speaker 2: You know what, we would support?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Yeah, thank you. I look forward to it.
Speaker 1: But how about you, because you still want to keep
Speaker 1: stay around in the space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I do.
Speaker 1: We're talking about an idea, So we've got some we've
Speaker 1: got some ideas.
Speaker 2: We've got two solid ideas. But I think what I
Speaker 2: love about what I love about what Iral has given
Speaker 2: me is that it's given me a platform to share
Speaker 2: with others. Storytelling has always been my passion. That's why
Speaker 2: I write, why I do research, all of that. It's
Speaker 2: why Mariner and I became friends because we love storytelling.
Speaker 2: But I think any opportunity that I get that I
Speaker 2: can do that is incredible. And IRA has given me
Speaker 2: a platform in which I can do that with the
Speaker 2: people and like give them the vehicle in which they
Speaker 2: can tell their stories. So I don't know what it
Speaker 2: looks like as long as it's storytelling, and I would
Speaker 2: I mean, I love, I genuinely love interviewing. I genuinely
Speaker 2: love talking to people, genuinely love being in this space.
Speaker 2: But we talk about it all the time. I love
Speaker 2: the longer form content compared to like a quick two
Speaker 2: minute break on radio. So I don't know if radio
Speaker 2: will ever be for me, but I love podcasting. So
Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see, we love it, Solinois kidding me, kemm,
Speaker 2: it's la littleches. One of my ideas is because I
Speaker 2: can't drive. If you listen to our episode with Aaron,
Speaker 2: you might have heard of The Western Guide. You might
Speaker 2: have heard. But I want to do a series where
Speaker 2: I get people who can drive to teach me how
Speaker 2: to drive, and we see up like cameras on the
Speaker 2: car and it's like a high streets environment where a
Speaker 2: famous person or like someone that's well no one has
Speaker 2: to teach me how to drive, but then I also
Speaker 2: have to interview them, and it's like it's all one.
Speaker 2: I just feel like it would be really so good.
Speaker 1: No one's steal that idea.
Speaker 2: No one's steal that idea. Please please. I genuinely can't drive.
Speaker 2: Like when I tell you, guys, I can't drive. I
Speaker 2: can't drive.
Speaker 1: I've got to listen to the episode of the Should
Speaker 1: Go because we go into it to it. Yeah. Oh
Speaker 1: that's very exciting. Yeah. Have you felt your confidence grow
Speaker 1: since we started up the podcast here, I would say
Speaker 1: yes and no.
Speaker 2: I feel like my people pleasing tendencies out the window,
Speaker 2: which is great. I can be so much more direct
Speaker 2: in my communication. And also I feel like before I
Speaker 2: don't know about you, but going to an all girls' school,
Speaker 2: i'd kind of had interactions with other genders and be like,
Speaker 2: I'm so awkward, like I don't know how to relate
Speaker 2: to you. And now I feel like I can relate
Speaker 2: to a lot of people. But then, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: I think I'll always feel or like that really uncool
Speaker 2: girl like.
Speaker 1: Girl bye.
Speaker 2: No, I feel like a little bit uncool and like
Speaker 2: a little bit awkward and like a loser.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But I think that's just ingrained in me.
Speaker 1: We need to talk that. Actually, we'll leave it here
Speaker 1: when we go, we'll put it in a box, light up,
Speaker 1: walk away.
Speaker 2: What's been your favorite thing. I think radio and podcasting
Speaker 2: people don't realize how different it is. What's been your
Speaker 2: favorite thing about having a podcast to supplement like the
Speaker 2: Drive Show.
Speaker 1: I think. I think my favorite thing about the podcast
Speaker 1: was that i Rol was so authentically pacific. With the
Speaker 1: radio show, you're pandering to the many different people, people
Speaker 1: of all sorts of backgrounds. But I think that maldi
Speaker 1: pacific focus on the podcast and really sharing those success stories.
Speaker 1: I think we always talk about the fact that Iral
Speaker 1: is different from other things and that we're not trying
Speaker 1: to like be anyone else, like this is us, this
Speaker 1: is this is what we do. We have DMCs, We laugh,
Speaker 1: we cry, Yeah, we're not like so in your face,
Speaker 1: We're just very demure.
Speaker 2: Is going to be so dam what.
Speaker 1: We did, like our relevance. Can we reverse this decision
Speaker 1: by no? Yeah. I love how we were able to
Speaker 1: give space to people who you might not hear of.
Speaker 1: And I think in radio there's a big music focus,
Speaker 1: but being able to delve into stories like that of
Speaker 1: Dorin who as a supple maker and talking to John
Speaker 1: Campbell like one of the nation's most famous journalists. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lisa Barissia Cullen comes to mind. She's a TikTok mom, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think necessarily I'd have the capacity to talk
Speaker 1: to those people on my radio show. Yeah, and or.
Speaker 2: At least hear them out in the way that we
Speaker 2: get to with a long form.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you get to talk about the serious stuff.
Speaker 1: And I love talking about the serious stuff on the radio,
Speaker 1: but there is a kind of a balancing act thing
Speaker 1: to do with radio. But podcasting, it's all there to share,
Speaker 1: and I would like to think that our guests felt
Speaker 1: like this was a safe space to talk about things
Speaker 1: as well. But I think above or I'm glad to
Speaker 1: have done this with you, because I don't think I
Speaker 1: could do a podcast by myself. It's just like and
Speaker 1: in the radio thing, I did that by myself, and
Speaker 1: I felt so lonely. But to be able to share
Speaker 1: the workload and co own this piece of work, it's
Speaker 1: it means a lot to me because I'm doing it
Speaker 1: with someone I love, it's so much easier. We didn't
Speaker 1: have to do no chemistry testing. We just got on
Speaker 1: the mics, we started talking and that was that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been so good and I cannot wait to continue
Speaker 1: our friendship and the privacy of our health.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how when we first started the podcast,
Speaker 2: people recognize me as Maren's friend, and that was nice
Speaker 2: and easy. But then as the podcast has gone on,
Speaker 2: people have started to recognizing me as Alissa Yes, and
Speaker 2: like yes, so wonderful and I love it when people
Speaker 2: come up and talk to me and tell me their
Speaker 2: favorite things to tell me. They also have an after
Speaker 2: pay addiction. It's wonderful, but sometimes can be a bit
Speaker 2: like nerve wrecking. And I'm what I'm excited for with
Speaker 2: the podcast ending. And then even though I hope to
Speaker 2: keep venturing into media.
Speaker 3: Is.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like I don't know how to explain.
Speaker 2: It's like a parasocial relationship of sorts where you guys
Speaker 2: know us, you actually do know us, like this is
Speaker 2: authentically us. That's the but that's also kind of scary
Speaker 2: because the real me is out there and like not
Speaker 2: that any media I would either do is not me.
Speaker 2: But sometimes I do get a little bit worried. And
Speaker 2: I also can recognize when people recognize me. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: if you are the people that recognize us, can you
Speaker 2: please just come and talk to us because.
Speaker 1: We think we're the shirt. It's just a little bit uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: So comfortable, and it's a look when you're and somewhere
Speaker 2: in public and we time with my mom as heavened. Recently,
Speaker 2: my mum was not in a good mood and we
Speaker 2: were kind of arguing.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: Someone recognized we both had to pretend like we were
Speaker 2: super happy. I'm glad, I'll I'll be glad that I
Speaker 2: this mom love each other in this moment, in this moment.
Speaker 2: But what I actually wanted to do is can we
Speaker 2: talk about some of our favorite episodes? Yeah, so keen
Speaker 2: to hear what episodes you love.
Speaker 1: I think my favorite episode would have to be the
Speaker 1: one we did with Serenity.
Speaker 2: Serenity all that episode, that's your favorite one?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I just felt like endless laughter, truly,
Speaker 1: like we just kept on laughing.
Speaker 2: We were just laughing so much.
Speaker 1: Serenity is so funny, and it was nice to hear
Speaker 1: her story. I've been watching her since I was in
Speaker 1: primary school, so since the Facebook page keeping up with
Speaker 1: the Solars, I've been jamming out to Serenity so to
Speaker 1: hear her story and also for her to be frank
Speaker 1: about being a solo mom and breaking the news of
Speaker 1: her pregnancy to her quite religious family. I thought that
Speaker 1: was quite profound, and I know that a lot of
Speaker 1: women mothers had related to that story. That Serenity shared,
Speaker 1: So yeah, perhaps with the sus and we see her.
Speaker 1: She's still she's doing her Transform challenge at the time
Speaker 1: of recording, so we hope that you go well and
Speaker 1: also see us doing the same challenge. So we're both girlies.
Speaker 2: We we love you both close. Second totally our four
Speaker 2: n Yeah, I think that's my number one. When people
Speaker 2: ask where to start on the podcast, I always say
Speaker 2: that one. But I feel like one that holds a
Speaker 2: lot of sentimental value is our one with Alex King
Speaker 2: because that's where she and I started our friendship and
Speaker 2: she's like a big sister to me now, as well
Speaker 2: as Samantha Richards, our episode with Great South Peton We
Speaker 2: Love You with Patsy Oh Botsy, a really good y
Speaker 2: that also saw my lot. That chat was so long, Yeah,
Speaker 2: really sorry, But I think the one that holds like
Speaker 2: the most like is our Dinah Jane one oh yes,
Speaker 2: because that's how we became read Oh.
Speaker 1: To talk with Dinah was such a privilege we had.
Speaker 1: We've been trying for so long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then luckily our friend Mashan, who also came
Speaker 2: on the podcast, gave us the hook up. Shout out
Speaker 2: to you, Mahan.
Speaker 1: The power of community, the power.
Speaker 2: Of community, and also how small the world is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the two degrees with separation.
Speaker 2: Samby shout out to Sam Sue, we will have that
Speaker 2: cover hopefully, but I will.
Speaker 1: Episode I love and.
Speaker 2: Now's episode and also our last episode, Oh no, Stacey
Speaker 2: was so good. Yes, I loved the analogy of making
Speaker 2: you hawaikis. I've just held that with me and I
Speaker 2: share that with so many people, like especially because we
Speaker 2: talk about what we love about home and this idea
Speaker 2: of like having so many different homes, including your anti
Speaker 2: stru and the one that you were created from and
Speaker 2: the people you come from us are stunning. But I
Speaker 2: did love our episode with the Western Guide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our episode Coach was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very I like that.
Speaker 1: Any episode you don't like that? Actually, no, I would say.
Speaker 2: So genuinely, yeah, genuinely genuinely.
Speaker 1: I feel like we were supposed to put out every
Speaker 1: episode for a reason. It got as to where we
Speaker 1: are now, and yeah how about you.
Speaker 2: Okay, DM me for that one. Jokes, jokes, jokes, It's.
Speaker 1: All love, all love.
Speaker 2: Speaking of love and people who love us.
Speaker 1: We have some voice memost here that with some of
Speaker 1: our iraw friends to Sin and So these are people
Speaker 1: who have appeared on the podcast and have been kind
Speaker 1: enough to share so kid roads with us on our
Speaker 1: good bye episode. So first things first.
Speaker 2: No, first things for some of you motherfuckers, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the camera don't promise.
Speaker 1: On their phone.
Speaker 2: Replying saying yeah I got you and you don't got
Speaker 2: me anything but.
Speaker 1: A let's start off with Alfred in Great South.
Speaker 4: Great South.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to give a mess of mehi and
Speaker 4: shout out to you both for the amazing mahi and
Speaker 4: all the amazing work that you've done with the podcast
Speaker 4: and with the platform. Thank you both for creating a
Speaker 4: warm and safe space fus to share stories and shall
Speaker 4: hy reading for you both for what of you both
Speaker 4: do next? All the best and yeah cover next time.
Speaker 1: That's us true we haven't listened to any of them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Marina hasn't.
Speaker 2: Peyton is actually a fan of the podcast. So Peyton
Speaker 2: listens to the podcast as well as his sorry popped
Speaker 2: up ash. So Shoutosh and Peter. There's only there's no
Speaker 2: listeners because those two are dead. They are much loyal
Speaker 2: listeners for real, for real, for real, And Peton mixes
Speaker 2: the best cover you've ever had if you even need cover,
Speaker 2: hit that guy up.
Speaker 1: I love how cover has become a thing of the
Speaker 1: podcast because.
Speaker 2: Cover Peter from.
Speaker 1: No Truly please support. Now we have another voice Medor
Speaker 1: here from Samantha.
Speaker 5: Richard, Marina and Alyssa. I am your best day. I
Speaker 5: actually truly believe that I am I Raul's number one fan.
Speaker 5: I listened to every episode. No podcast has made me
Speaker 5: feel so seen and so connected to a community. I
Speaker 5: feel so privileged that I was lucky enough to come
Speaker 5: on to the show myself as a guest. And I
Speaker 5: just think what you have done here is incredible and
Speaker 5: so important and so special, and I'm so proud of
Speaker 5: the two of you as a teacher. I give this
Speaker 5: entire project five gold stars. Who amazing and I just
Speaker 5: I'm going to miss it, but I'm so proud of
Speaker 5: the two of you, and I'm excited to see what
Speaker 5: is new and coming up next for you. Oh same.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I love Sam. So we had a dinner for Alissa's birthday, yes,
Speaker 1: and that's when we announced to our nearest and dearest
Speaker 1: the news that the podcast would be wrapping up, and
Speaker 1: Sam and I had such a good chat about life.
Speaker 1: Truly older sister er Ga.
Speaker 2: She is such an older sister and she knows everything
Speaker 2: about me. So the first time that Sam and I
Speaker 2: probably met was when she came on the podcast and
Speaker 2: I just clung to her like you just meeat people,
Speaker 2: and immediately you're like, that's my girl. Yea yeah, and
Speaker 2: she knows every intricate detail about me and my love life.
Speaker 2: So shout out to you Smith Richards.
Speaker 1: It's for Sam to know and none of you to
Speaker 1: find it. Our favorite teacher, Yeah, favorite teacher. Okay, we
Speaker 1: have another voice to memo here from Simmy someonce aful night.
Speaker 2: That's what's funny.
Speaker 6: It's long too Island with orkhand ways AKA Awarding Awarding, Frick.
Speaker 2: Award winning podcast. Of course I had to fall about anyways.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna redo that again. But you know what,
Speaker 2: stuff it. It's okay.
Speaker 6: You guys really know that it's might English. I just
Speaker 6: want to say, I'm really got it that you guys
Speaker 6: are ending, but I know this is not the end.
Speaker 2: The way that you guys have.
Speaker 6: Created the foundation for the pacifica Muli community to voice
Speaker 6: these stories, and the way you guys have actively portrayed
Speaker 6: it has been amazing to watch from the outside I've
Speaker 6: been very honored to be a guest as well, and
Speaker 6: I just wanted to say the one thing that was
Speaker 6: sticks in my mind about my episode is when Maz
Speaker 6: caught a core time and then he turned up late.
Speaker 6: But then have your eye for me and my luck
Speaker 6: of filly Twin, that was gray, That was bloody Gracy.
Speaker 6: I know that my lack of folly twin told me
Speaker 6: to keep it to a one minute, but I got,
Speaker 6: I really got.
Speaker 2: So I just want to say.
Speaker 6: Once again, I really freaking love you guys, and I'm
Speaker 6: truly excited to see what the next chapter is going
Speaker 6: to be. I'm not worried or stressed that this is
Speaker 6: going to be the end of this award winning podcast
Speaker 6: because I truly believe that there's something out there for
Speaker 6: you guys, and whatever it is, I am going to
Speaker 6: be on the sidelines cheering for you guys when you
Speaker 6: guys kick up.
Speaker 2: This podcast at the game.
Speaker 6: So love you from your Salmone Brincey's simmy, okay, fat love.
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 1: I forgot that happened. I forgot.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I am so sorry.
Speaker 2: Came in like so fucking and because I don't have
Speaker 2: an excess card, this whole time. I've never had an
Speaker 2: excess card or an email and Billio employee me and
Speaker 2: so we're standing outside like and it's the first time
Speaker 2: that I met and I was like, hey girl, I'm
Speaker 2: so fucking sorry.
Speaker 1: Just the basis of the conversation. I remember it was
Speaker 1: a weekend.
Speaker 2: Day, it was a Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: It was a Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Sammy, we love you. We had seen
Speaker 1: her on the carpet of the PEMA. Yeah carpet, she
Speaker 1: looks stunny, stunning. Yeah, absolutely that girl. I'll catch you
Speaker 1: on the mic. One thing about my cat. She will
Speaker 1: run a MutS. We love you, Sammy. Okay. Right here
Speaker 1: is Mihei Sorenson.
Speaker 5: Kims and Alyssa Mahe here.
Speaker 7: I just want to say a big congratulations for everything
Speaker 7: you've achieved with Island.
Speaker 2: Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 7: You are both so genuine, so passionate, so good at
Speaker 7: cultivating a space for people to share their truth with you,
Speaker 7: and I feel incredibly privileged to have been one of
Speaker 7: those people. Building an impactful podcast full of meaningful conversations
Speaker 7: is no easy feat, but it comes so naturally to
Speaker 7: both of you. Representation matters the platform that you've created
Speaker 7: as a gift. Thank you for sharing it with.
Speaker 1: All of us. I love you both very much.
Speaker 2: Oh, we love you.
Speaker 1: We love you, Mahi and shout out to Mehi because
Speaker 1: the podcast is coming back her work.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I think hopefully it's back by the time releases.
Speaker 1: Hopefully. But she's been chipping away at a new Melbourne life.
Speaker 2: And yeah, she would have done that voiceover from a
Speaker 2: beautiful Melbourne apartment.
Speaker 1: An absolute dream. We should go to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Our crumbs, yeah, and it is crumbs.
Speaker 1: Will make an exclusion happen.
Speaker 2: Okayes will let you know once we're out.
Speaker 1: Can you grant us alone?
Speaker 2: Please give the man.
Speaker 1: I will never forget his episode because she bore this
Speaker 1: power suit. It was purple. She looked like a boss.
Speaker 2: She liked stunning, and she brought us free sweets. Literally,
Speaker 2: she brought us sweets. Did you take them home? Do
Speaker 2: we share them?
Speaker 1: I took Did you have some?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I think he had a run off that day. He
Speaker 1: had something to go off to.
Speaker 2: No, girl, I didn't. I remember that day.
Speaker 1: And you just don't take any.
Speaker 2: I think because I thought I was in a scissor.
Speaker 2: Oh but then I never bought a tickets Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, that's so long ago, so long ago. Jeez, you
Speaker 1: actually forget because we do much. Yeah. We did something
Speaker 1: different this year. We did weekly drops. Yeah, instead of
Speaker 1: doing like a ten episode season. Yeah. You just lose count.
Speaker 2: You lose so much count. Wow.
Speaker 1: One more voice memo here from Alexandra King.
Speaker 5: OHI my darlings, it's alex.
Speaker 3: Hey. I just wanted to reiterate what I see it
Speaker 3: on our episode of the podcast, and that is I
Speaker 3: am so incredibly proud of you both. Not only did
Speaker 3: you give our people a platform where our voices could
Speaker 3: be heard, but you offered us a safe space where
Speaker 3: we could share our experiences and that is a huge rarity.
Speaker 3: So from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: And I know it's a bitter sweet even though the
Speaker 3: podcast is ending, these stories will live on forever and
Speaker 3: I'm all the working dun baby, so I'm so excited
Speaker 3: to see what you both have in store for the future.
Speaker 3: I love you very much and I'll see you at work.
Speaker 2: I love her, Love you, alex Thank you for seeing
Speaker 2: that in man she does. And I love what she
Speaker 2: said about the episodes of Something on Forever because that's
Speaker 2: always been the point of a podcast, Like, that's why
Speaker 2: we picked a podcast over any other platform. Is that
Speaker 2: does exist as a kind of like digital archive. Yes,
Speaker 2: And I hope like my nieces and nephews listen to
Speaker 2: this in like twenty years and like fuck my aunt,
Speaker 2: he was out the gate. I hope that's. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: feel like it was always just a beautiful snapshot in time.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, I think Batar episodes are like musicians,
Speaker 2: and you would hope that in like ten years time,
Speaker 2: we can look back and be like, freak, we interviewed
Speaker 2: them and now they have pms and Grammys and all
Speaker 2: these kinds of awards or like you know, have have
Speaker 2: found success in their passion with everyone, like everyone that's
Speaker 2: come on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I look forward to when we're like an
Speaker 1: OL mid to late thirties, we set up lives for
Speaker 1: ourselves hopefully and we can have like a wine and
Speaker 1: just laugh back to the podcast and how we were
Speaker 1: in our twenty somethings. That's what it was always meant
Speaker 1: to be. It's what it was always meant to be,
Speaker 1: just us trying to find our way in this big,
Speaker 1: crazy world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's been the favorite thing on this journey?
Speaker 4: For you.
Speaker 1: Most favorite thing of the journey, I think community. Creating
Speaker 1: that community a and it's so cool that we are
Speaker 1: now friends with many of our guests. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: podcast was just a catalyst for those friendships and relationships.
Speaker 1: And we're also so grateful for you listening. I will
Speaker 1: still remember I went down to Wellington for my mum's
Speaker 1: graduation and while we were waiting for the procession down
Speaker 1: I think it was Biller Street, We're in front of
Speaker 1: the law school and then these two girls I can
Speaker 1: tell that they're a little bit hesitant to come up
Speaker 1: to me. And then I'm standing there with Feena and
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for my mom, waiting for my mom.
Speaker 1: But in the corner of my I see these girls
Speaker 1: and then finally they come up, and Mia and Sarifa
Speaker 1: and they had come up to us, and the first
Speaker 1: thing they said is that they love you. They come
Speaker 1: up to me, they love you, and so I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: they know how I found And they were telling me
Speaker 1: about their story their second year law students, and they
Speaker 1: went to all girls high schools and they're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out like what unias and what their job prospects
Speaker 1: are and they're growing into beautiful young women. And I
Speaker 1: just think back to when we had to create like
Speaker 1: a little document about the podcast, and we were talking
Speaker 1: to our demo when we were going to release episodes
Speaker 1: before we even press start on the mic, and those
Speaker 1: are the people that we were talking.
Speaker 2: About, literally, young women early twenties UNI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which once upon a time that was us, girl, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh, that was us. Like we make
Speaker 2: this podcast to speak back to the people that we
Speaker 2: were and it makes me like, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: know we're making the right decision, but it is very
Speaker 2: hard to go. I'm just so proud of us and
Speaker 2: the work that we put into this and the people
Speaker 2: that we've been able to reach, and the fact that,
Speaker 2: you know, at the first Radio and Podcast Awards, because
Speaker 2: they used to just be the Radio Awards and now
Speaker 2: that the Radio Podcast Awards. At the first one in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, we were the first people to win
Speaker 2: Best Specific Podcasts and we don't do it for the accolades,
Speaker 2: like we genuinely thought we were going to lose. That's
Speaker 2: why in the video we look so shocked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 2: I was waiting for specific Waves, So I was like shook.
Speaker 2: We still are shook that we've been able to be
Speaker 2: recognized at that level. So, but more importantly, to be
Speaker 2: recognized and to be seen and to represent your community
Speaker 2: and to be acknowledged by your community is next level.
Speaker 1: That's what I took away from that night as well.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't really so much care about the award,
Speaker 1: but I was proud that we were some of the
Speaker 1: brown faces in the room. Yeah, because you look at
Speaker 1: the industry and to be honest, it is quite white. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I'm glad that we rightfully took up.
Speaker 2: Space space Yeah, yeah, yep, one hundred And I.
Speaker 1: Look forward to more people creating podcasts and beautiful things
Speaker 1: so they can when eccolades for themselves as well.
Speaker 2: Exactly. That's the other thing about us, like exiting the
Speaker 2: space for ours that it allows for more of us
Speaker 2: to come through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, come to the table, bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And also like we're not gatekeepers. If you need help,
Speaker 2: if you have an idea, come with a solid idea,
Speaker 2: don't like, don't waste our time. But if you ever
Speaker 2: saw an idea and would like help in making it happen,
Speaker 2: we have experience in both worlds the doing it in
Speaker 2: your bedroom and doing it in a real life studio.
Speaker 2: So me suggests we've got your back.
Speaker 1: I look forward to many more plasific run podcast. Please
Speaker 1: we need it, Yeah we do.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Diversity is the is the spice of life.
Speaker 2: We need it.
Speaker 1: And there's so much to talk about, honestly.
Speaker 2: So much to talk about it.
Speaker 1: So girl, whatever you're interested in and if you are
Speaker 1: sitting on an idea, I want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: talk to us.
Speaker 2: Can I just say? I remember in our first ever
Speaker 2: like content meeting, we had said, oh yeah, we when
Speaker 2: we'd sold it I Hat Radio, we were like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: so what we want to talk about is like Ma's
Speaker 2: starting at Flavor in our first episode, and then we're
Speaker 2: also going to elistraate out. We're bound.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: Slowly, the content took a different direction, and we were
Speaker 2: blessed to have Joe Damon as our episode. Can you
Speaker 2: even mention, bro, I was fucking talking about you on
Speaker 2: the radio and me and my little outdoors like some
Speaker 2: panting direction because.
Speaker 1: Dear Lord shadows a joke, by the way.
Speaker 2: I remember the day that episode dropped, and I remember
Speaker 2: we had got an eighty eight downloads and thinking freak
Speaker 2: with cracked it. I need number one, like my number
Speaker 2: one on the top two hundred one of my charts, right,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 1: And also things have changed so much on the podcast
Speaker 1: game because when you first did the Beatroom podcast, we
Speaker 1: were chats.
Speaker 2: Were hy pretty much so high.
Speaker 1: But that's because they were less podcasts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also less podcasts in.
Speaker 1: Between then, and are starting the podcast with iHeart Radio. Damn,
Speaker 1: the market became crowded.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, it's funny. Is like irow is so different
Speaker 2: to any other podcasts at least run by Pacific people.
Speaker 2: As soon as we'll get compared to the other Pacific
Speaker 2: run podcasts. And we would like that to stop happening
Speaker 2: now that our podcast is done. I think it's really
Speaker 2: important we think about just because it's run by a
Speaker 2: brown person doesn't mean that the content is the same.
Speaker 2: Exactly we do is very different, different to the stuff that.
Speaker 1: Others do. Others do, Like if you look at Bilongi
Speaker 1: run podcasts, there's so many genres, so many hosts, so many.
Speaker 2: White women making business podcasts. None of them are getting
Speaker 2: compared to you.
Speaker 1: Let's stop doing that. We can all be doing our
Speaker 1: own things exactly diverse spice, the spice of life. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess we should.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't we We didn't prefer rapid fire.
Speaker 1: No, I think them will be drinks celebrating the goodbye
Speaker 1: for now.
Speaker 2: Not drinks. I don't drink anymore. Yeah, guys, don't drink anymore.
Speaker 1: Boom, it's just cover. That's how we do it.
Speaker 2: Who knows by the time this episode comes out, I
Speaker 2: might be backing my gut.
Speaker 1: She may be just on that reasling. But okay, speaking
Speaker 1: of updates Instagram socials, can we follow.
Speaker 2: You Alissa v P.
Speaker 1: A L L y is a v P, Yes, ma'am,
Speaker 1: And I'll be around. You don't need to follow me, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Maybe i'll Postmas sometimes. And my TikTok is at the prettiest,
Speaker 2: funniest girl.
Speaker 1: Oh it's sister. You are pretty and funny and the prettiest.
Speaker 2: Please follow me because I'm trying to be an influencer.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, let's help a girl out. So
Speaker 1: that's a listener. I'll be around and yeah.
Speaker 2: I love you guys, frek.
Speaker 1: What a journey. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I used to think it was so creditinal people
Speaker 2: be like, I love our listeners. But genuinely, I think
Speaker 2: because we have such a close connection when so many
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: My one. I'm pretty sure the only reason we would
Speaker 1: come back is if David Dallas head freedomself will come
Speaker 1: back for one.
Speaker 2: Episode, one episode if you want it, if you have
Speaker 2: a new album, a new song, if you just want
Speaker 2: to come on and talk about how you created the
Speaker 2: song follow which is where we got our title from.
Speaker 2: We will do what anything actually you create then and
Speaker 2: we'll just facilitate. That's all we want.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason we'll come back.
Speaker 2: Well, is there anyone else? No tail Swift, but she's
Speaker 2: not really the people were speaking to.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can do your carpool carrier.
Speaker 2: It's I hope she's a bed driver too though.
Speaker 1: Sweetest, thank you everyone for listening, and we'll see.
Speaker 2: You when you see this is it?
Speaker 5: Bye bye