February 3, 2025 • 63 mins
Discover the transformative journey of Jachrome, a leading influencer from Hawaii, as he navigates the fast-paced and often unpredictable world of social media. We promise you'll gain insights into his rapid rise across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch, powered by his marketing acumen from UH West. Jachrome shares his strategies for keeping an audience engaged even amidst the challenges, such as managing hate comments during live streams and finding the balance between public visibility and personal privacy.
Join us as we unpack the exhilarating yet challenging dynamics of influencer life, from approaching strangers for spontaneous content to dealing with the public's changing reactions as Jachrome recognition grows. Listen to fascinating anecdotes about navigating collaborations with other creators and the unpredictable nature of such partnerships. Dive into humorous discussions about regional stereotypes in dating within Hawaii, and be inspired by his heartwarming experiences with the spirited youth of Waianae.
Finally, explore Jachrome aspirations influenced by creators like Mr. Beast, as he seeks to make a community impact through effective social media monetization strategies. We discuss the importance of consistency, understanding audience dynamics, and the responsibility of shaping community values positively. This episode is underscored by a shared commitment to humility, aloha, and genuine engagement with audiences.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
aloha.
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Aloha.
Okay, this week I'm welcomingto my show one of the top
(03:05):
influencers in Hawaii and youguys see him on Instagram or in
the clubs or on the streets orat Honolulu Hale.
Jack Rome, what's up man?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes, what's up, guys?
How's it?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Bro, I'm super stoked to have you on and I've been,
like I just said earlier, I'vebeen a fan of your content and
I'm impressed with how muchyou're putting local people in
in front of the camera and andit's been fun to watch.
Bro, how did you even getstarted doing all this kind of
stuff?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
yeah, guarantee, um, so thank you for having me.
First of all, I reallyappreciate it and I love
supporting local artists, localcontent creators and stuff.
Which is amazing, how I starteddoing this is I got inspired
from, like my other friends thatstarted to do this kind of
small stuff like YouTube, tiktok, instagram, all that good stuff
and then I just started to postkind of videos and a little
(03:58):
behind the stories with me.
I graduated from UH West inmarketing and accounting, so
marketing was like one of thebiggest things that I learned
and I developed.
So implementing that intosocial media is a big aspect,
right.
So starting to do it and thenimplementing a lot of Gen Z
(04:19):
current kind of stuff, you know,and yeah, that's just how it
started and it's going prettygood so far yeah, it is, and you
kind of blew up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You got like a lot of followers and what I impressed
the most with is how often youput out content.
I know from personal experienceit's not easy to do, and to be
that consistent is a lot of workand a lot of time.
How has it been for you doingit that consistently?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
oh it's crazy.
So, like my key um, I'll needto say my key learning points is
to always schedule it andalways just have projects lined
up.
Like if you notice from my umstories and my all my videos and
stuff, sometimes I post likedifferent types of clips here
and there is because it's alllike pre-recorded and stuff and
(05:11):
I don't want to be like thoseinfluencers were, like I keep
posting a bunch of new stuffevery time because it will burn
me out.
You know, and that's what allthe content creators do is like
we're always posting new stuffand we're getting burned out and
in 75, 75 of the time we justdon't do it anymore.
So I learned that from beforeand I just started to be
(05:31):
consistent of what I still doand still pushing out pretty
good content.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So yeah, yeah, and I've learned that too.
Consistency is the key, and asyou build momentum, momentum can
stop just with like missingcouple days or a couple weeks.
It is a thing, bro?
It's definitely a thing, andyou built up your instagram
follower, but do you have tiktokalso?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
yeah, I have tiktok and I'm starting to do youtube
on tiktok, though I I started itrecently, so I don't have much
followers they only have like9,000.
But Instagram is one of mybiggest platforms here and also
have I'm starting to do Twitchagain because it got banned and
YouTube is also there yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How'd you get banned?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, like it's, I was just streaming and then after
that there's a lot of people whohave those hate comments and
stuff and then some of myfriends just flame on it Big,
big, crazy drama and then I gotbad.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Which is what A live stream when you're playing video
games.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Playing video games or like doing online anything
online, so like you can even doIRL work and stuff, or like just
even like this you know peopledo that, so yeah shit, I didn't
know that.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So they can actually ban you.
So somebody's like kind ofwatching or somebody turned you
in yes, and it's also just liket too.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Brock Cruz got banned for like shadow ban for a bit
because he was oh, I know it washim and Ray.
They were streaming and thenthey were just like, oh, they
were just talking, bash stuff toeach other and then bang, ray
got banned.
I was like Ray got banned.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Brock Cruz goes in hard on Ray.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I don't know how he never get I know that's crazy,
but watch what you say, brock, Iguess so yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I don't know, I don't understand, like the whole
hating on people there.
I guess.
So video games like I can seehow people hate on each other,
talk shit.
I'll play Madden and somebodyfrom somewhere is talking shit
and I get super riled up and say, oh okay, where you live, and
it's some it's probably somelike eighth grader that lives in
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wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Like that's true.
The internet, bro, they justhave crazy people yeah so what
were you worried about thattiktok man?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
because my daughter was ready to fucking lose it.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, same Cause.
Well, as content creators.
You know that's people's typeof income.
I have a lot of friends thathas businesses that rely on
TikTok where they push out theircontent, and other content
creators that get paid fromTikTok.
So once I lost it too, I Ipersonally use TikTok.
I personally use tiktok.
That I personally use um capcut.
(08:29):
That's my main source ofediting my videos and with
tiktok ban, that also got bannedbecause it's affiliated with
tiktok, so that sucked and thenI didn't even know that yeah.
So like once that shut down, Iwas like, oh my god, I can't
edit my videos anymore.
How am I gonna do this?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was panicking too, so but, it's back yeah, thank
god, it was funny because mydaughter and her whole
volleyball team, they were somad and so like what are we
(09:12):
gonna do?
I was like read a book or likewhat do you mean?
Like it's a fucking app.
I I just I didn't know howinvolved, like not just my
daughter but her, like all herfriends, is, they're like this
is my life, we're addicted.
I'm thinking like I'm glad it'sbad.
And then the, the jubilationthey had the next morning when
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it was back on was next level.
It was like christmas bro Ididn't get it.
I don't get it bro yeah, no,it's these kids.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
They.
They love tiktok, bro, likethey're always on it.
Even my friends them like we'realways talking about tiktok,
we're doing all this contentstuff.
I'm like if they lose it, oh mygod, it's like.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's like something else for them yeah, and I was
the last uh person I had on myshow, like I watched girls in
the middle of the aisle intarget like making dances, and
I'm just like, bro, what is thisworld coming to?
You guys?
Don't do that shit, though,right?
Oh, I think recently, oh you dodo dances, I see them.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's right.
That was two.
I think I have some more comingup.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's in the queue, so what you got, okay, do you guys
?
I don't know, like my daughter,I for one, I don't know how
they learn the dances, I don'tknow if they're like at home,
like in the room, likepracticing or choreographing
with each other, because I knowthey learn it from TikTok.
But do you like take time andlearn the dance with, like your
(10:58):
friends?
Oh, you are one of them.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
No, my friends just messaged me.
They're like, jero, let's dothis.
Tiktok, it's a dance.
I'm like no, and then they keptpushing us.
Okay, so we went up.
We didn't even rehearse oranything, we just went out and
we just tried.
We just kept practicing andpracticing and it took like how
long did it take Like four hours, oh shit took like how long did
(11:28):
it take like four hours, ohshit, yeah.
Well, at least, she's withgirls and you like you it wasn't
just like you and your homiedoing it, yeah, so it's not like
weird but yeah
Speaker 2 (11:34):
oh, it's a group, so we're good yeah, when you first
started making content, how muchwere you nervous or not nervous
being in front of the camera?
Was it something that comesnaturally for you?
Or you're like okay, I got tofigure this out, I'm nervous.
I know putting yourself outthere isn't always easy for some
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people.
At some times, was it easy foryou?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh no, it was very hard.
So if you watch a couple of myfirst videos, I was very like
stuttery, uh, I didn't know howto talk to people and I'd even
talk to the camera, like it wasso difficult for me to even like
get my lines right.
And then I was like, oh my god,I messed up, messed up, messed
up.
It took me a while and then,like now, when I just kept doing
(12:19):
it, I kept practicing, it wentthrough like it took almost like
three to four months just tomake it like how I am right now.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So experience is a big key I would say and with
anything, as you do it more itcomes a lot easier.
But it's hard like I know justeven uh, doing my podcast out,
if I watch my first episodes,even till now, like I'm always
trying to evolve and get itbetter, but it it changes and
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you get more comfortable.
But you go up to random people,man, that's even like have you
had any kind of drama like?
Or girls, just like, wow, whatis this guy like?
Because you go up to like hotgirls or you're in the club or
whatever is like, sometimes itcould get kind of kind of
sketchy, you know, I mean likeyeah no, well, when it first
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started it, yeah, everyone waslike who the heck are you?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
why are you going up to me, you're doing all this
kind of stuff?
I'm like, oh, I just I'mstarting out doing influencing
stuff and, yeah, at first it wasso awkward, even recently till
now, like I have a lot ofrejections whenever I ask people
if I want to, if they want tobe in the video.
Yeah, it's especially like Iguess they don't know.
I guess people get scared ofwhat they're gonna say in front
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of the camera, right, becausethey get viral.
And then there's that otheraspect too, where people know me
already and then they reallywant to be in my videos.
But, yeah, it's like it's agood level right now, but before
, yeah, it was like hellarejections and I did it ever
since.
When it was like when it firststarted, it was like through
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public, like I just went up toall I'm on to random people, or
like wiki key to random people.
So, yeah, and that's mycameraman too was like nervous.
He's like oh bro, you sure youwant to do this?
I'm so scared.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm like I like me too it worked out and I think
now people I mean you got a lotof people following you and
people, like you said, arestarting to want to be on your
videos, so they're probablyseeking you out.
But also, when you ask them,they probably are stoked like oh
(14:30):
, that's the guy you know.
I mean like yeah, all right,have you been getting noticed a
lot, and not like celebrity, butkind of like a celebrity, you
know, I mean to be honest,almost every day.
Every day I go out.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'm like at first it was like, oh pretty cool, right,
but now I have to get used toit.
It's a different type oflifestyle now.
When I want to go be a normalperson and just go shopping, I
get noticed quick and I was like, oh okay, but it's good in the
(15:07):
beginning but now it's's like Ikind of miss my privacy a little
bit.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
but I have to learn from it and yeah, it's yeah well
it's what you signed up for,man I know it's part of the work
hey, it's fun to watch, though,and I think the more you keep
doing it, yeah, you're probablygonna have a lot, lot more hard
of a time not being recognized.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, big time, even though if I try hard, they still
would see.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What was the most drama or weird situation you
were in trying to do thesevideos and stuff Drama- or weird
situation there was so many andit wasn't even from me.
It was from braw cruise that Ican expect yeah, I think it was
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okay.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Braw cruise, if you're watching this guarantee,
oh, like, okay, so it was.
The most weirdest one was whenwe were at Sandy's has to be
Sandy's.
And then I don't know if youremember that one video, that 76
South girl, oh, yeah, yeah,when it blew up from that.
So right after that they had abig fight and then when she came
(16:17):
back into the show she was justsaying a lot of negative stuff,
being very oh, I'm so sorry ifshe's watching this.
She's been very ignorant and itmade the whole like workflow
like bad, and me and brock cruzwas like, oh my god, okay, we're
just getting roasted at.
(16:38):
We're like we're trying to makethis like a good podcast, but
it wasn't working out and yeahthat's nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I always think, like if you go up to a girl and then
their boyfriend is like angry orsomething.
It's like what are?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
why are you talking to her like?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I know it's so bad the drama here and I kind of
expect it in hawaii.
Yeah, yeah, hawaii.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, I do like your red flag Conversations Because
I'm always interested what girlshave to say their red flags are
.
What would be your red flagsFor girls?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
My red flags for girls.
What's a red flag for a girl?
Um, hopefully this doesn't goviral.
Um, for me, the biggest redflag in a girl is if she has
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some sort of mental illness, butnot the type of mental illness
where it's like you're crazy,crazy, I mean kind of is, but
like if you are, if you havemental illness and you're
seeking for help and you'reworking on it, that's okay,
because I know there's a lot ofpeople that grew up or like have
(18:03):
mental illness genetically.
But if you just have mentalillness genetically, but if you
just have mental illness andyou're just absorbing that into
your whole life, that's a bigred flag non-medically mental
illness.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Non-medical mental illness yes, I know exactly what
you're talking about I'm gonnagive an example.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If she is worshiping rocks like crystal rocks, trying
to say like this is myintuition, this is where my this
is, um, this is my vertical,this is my signs and stuff about
it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Big red flag all right, I, I definitely know
girls like that or zodiac we'renot the same zodiac sign and
that kind of all.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Right, y'all not not going with that, that's good
okay, I I definitely understandwhat you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I've definitely been around and in situations with
girls with mental illness notnot medical mental illness, just
dumb bitch syndrome, I don'tknow.
There you go, that's the bestway to say it.
Yeah, I'm gonna get canceledtoo.
Now I'm gonna get banned, it'sokay it's okay, it's all right
(19:31):
also okay.
You also asked the girls whatwhere, like the best dudes are
from.
So I I want to ask you the samequestion both ways where do you
think the best girls are fromin Hawaii and where do you think
the worst girls are from inHawaii?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
oh my god we gonna get.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We gonna get in tonight.
I'll tell you mine as well.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So we both going down okay, oh my god, shoot the
Current.
Okay, currently, not last Year.
Currently the best girls Willbe coming from Uh, uh, like
Shoot Waikiki side.
Oh, that's a good one.
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Okay, like shoot Waikiki side.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh, that's, a good one Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, like their form , their set.
They're very good.
Good looking, Goodcommunications, that's good.
The worst has to be oh God, Ihope people won't see.
Oh my god, I hope people won'tsee.
Um, uh, the worst would be inever beach now I'm sorry, oh,
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ever beach okay becauseoriginally my first answer the
best girls where I came from wasfrom ever beach.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Now it's after never beach something must have
happened then yeah, all becauseof that video that circulated
around oh, all the crazy evabeach girls came out the
woodwork yeah, all right, nowthey're glorifying it they
owning it.
Uh, okay, for me the best girlsI would say is probably oh well
(21:19):
, let me start with the worstgirls.
I would say I'm from Kaneohe,so guarantee Kaneohe girls no
deals drama what they're fromKaneohe, it's just in their DNA
and.
I can speak on this withexperience and I have known
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multiple tests.
I've done multiple tests withthat theory as well as my
friends, so I don't.
Yeah, kaneo girls, they're nutsum as well as the biggest one
for me is maui, maui girls.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yes, why is that?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
maui girls are for one.
They're not on the island, yeah, so their only connection to
you is internet and they can doa deep dive.
And, bro, maui girls, when theythey have zero filter and they
can scrap, maui girls can scrapand they'll hit dudes.
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They don't give a shit.
What?
Yeah, from me, personalexperience.
What is it?
Yeah, personal experienceTheoretically, but Maui girls
they'll.
Yeah, I've had situations withmaui girls that, uh, they're top
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, they're, they're the numberone.
No good that's crazy.
Yeah, and their pigeon is sodifferent, you know, compared to
us oh, they're mocha hauntusbrah like they they run the yeah
, and they, they can smile andtalk it and swing at the same
time.
Brah, yeah, they're fun, but oh, it's like the level of crazy
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is.
You know how like dudes they?
they judge the level of crazyfor how much fun they're being
like together with and yeahlevel of crazy like tilts the
scale every time, bro 100 yeah,so if you ever go, maori and you
start busting out your mic anddoing doing your thing, just oh,
(23:34):
you may get swung on and justsay, just remember, I'm telling
you now, if it happens okay,good, good, I'm gonna get
security with me yeah, yeah, butthe best girls I don't know, I
guess probably anywhere otherthan maui, and yeah, that's good
(23:54):
, that's good.
That's good Bro.
That's funny Bro.
I had a recent well, I guesslike a couple months ago, I got
to meet you in person and we gotto do some fun with the youth
in Waianae Ray.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Maraj hooked it up.
Oh bro, we own that shit.
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Didn't we do good?
Like those Waianae kids wastrying to take us out, though
yeah, oh my.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
They have speed and stamina, though.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That's the main thing wow, that's gassy now dude same
bro that was.
I had a lot of fun, though.
That was fun for me especiallybecause I got to meet a lot of
influencers that I've beenfollowing and got to meet in
person and see how they'rereally like, and it was a
pleasant surprise because a lotof those influencers are what
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you see.
They're not fake, they're notfaking it on their content and
they have that same aloha andfun their content and they're.
They have that same aloha andfun and brah.
It was fun that ray put thattogether and gave us opportunity
to connect with those youngkids and they were super stoked
that you interviewed them.
Like you could tell it was likea big deal for them.
Did they respond to you likeafter you posted and stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
yeah, after I posted they were like where's arzo?
And hurry up, post it, post it,post it and stuff.
They were like where's Arzo?
Hurry up post it, post it, postit and stuff.
They were like, oh my God, justall love for them and yeah, I
really appreciate him.
And they kind of blew up toothat one song that I put for
them.
What's your favorite localartist?
Yeah, that one kind of blew uptoo.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So yeah, oh, that's super cool.
Pretty fun it's kind of alittle awkward, like as soon as
I came home, like I had like abunch of uh, those kids started
following me and then, oh my god, what?
What do I do?
Like?
Do I follow them back, or isthat weird?
Like I just leave it alone,like I don't?
know, yeah, it's like.
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It's like even my daughter'svolleyball teammates will like
follow my instagram and I'm likeah, I don't know if I follow
them back, like maybe when theyturn 18 or something like just
yeah, keep it cool.
You know what I mean but youwant to do more stuff like that
and be out in the community andkind of, because social media is
(26:14):
such a big part of the youthnow, I'm sure a lot of those
kids are starting to take noticeof you and want to do it also,
maybe connect with them to help,help them do it the right way,
you know I mean yeah, of course,like um, that's my main project
right now that's coming up in2025 is more outreach towards
(26:38):
the community and then likehelping out with the um youth
because yeah, I think on myinstagram my tiktok like around,
was it 65 percent of myfollowers are kids like younger
than um, uh, like 20 and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So yeah, it's a it's a major big impact because a lot
of kids go on tiktok, instagramand stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
So that's a good outreach big time you ever get
nervous about what you're sayingand putting out there like, oh
shit, is this gonna?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
yeah, so like it depends to like what they really
want.
So if it is like a kid orsomething, I don't ask them the
red flag stuff at all yeah, yeah, because that's already a big
no-no.
I ask them like more umkid-friendly stuff, like what is
your favorite local artist,what is your kind, and then for
towards like the club era andall the club stuff.
(27:29):
That's where I ask my red flagstuff.
So I kind of know how to watchmy um demographic and my viewers
, just so I can make sure it isdoing the right thing, you know
so yeah, that works and yeah,it's kind of rough to navigate
through that kind of situation.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
if you were to give any advice for anyone trying to
do this and how to build afollowing, because there's so
many different, there's so manystuff out there like you can buy
followers, you can follow thisalgorithm or here's little
tricks, what you can do to growyour Instagram or whatever and
(28:09):
they have ads all the time, andwhat would be your advice to do
it kind of organically, how yougrow in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, of course, so organically.
How I've been doing it isalways network.
So once I started this, Istarted with hawaii
entrepreneurs first, and that'swhere I kind of saw your page
and other people.
Then we link up towards themand then I have other people,
not just from here, also from lacalifornia was.
(28:37):
I met businesses and otherinfluencers there from DM
messages and then they referredto me and then it just kept
spreading and spreadingorganically.
And it is true where thealgorithm is there, like you
have to keep consistentlyposting of what you do because
that's where you're going toreach out.
But if you really want to grow,grow you're going to have to
(29:05):
expand your network with thepeople rather than towards
social media.
So, like every time when I'mdoing interviews or every time
when I'm doing like some bigevents, I pull out my instagram
and then start networking andthen that's where the shares and
where it's going to goorganically.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's a lot of work and people don't understand that
and everybody thinks it's a oh,he just knows plenty of people
or something.
But you're creating it a littlebit at a time and watching it
grow.
It's definitely not somethingthat happens overnight, unless
you're like a movie star or likea pro athlete or something
(29:41):
happens overnight, unless you'relike a movie star or like a pro
athlete or something.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah it.
It takes really long time andit takes time to get where like
the highest level is, andsometimes, you know, I get
impatient where it's like, oh mygod, you know, I don't know if
I'm doing this.
Sometimes I have doubts, butyou just got to keep pushing it.
You know that's my biggestadvice because, yeah, I have a
lot of friends where it's likeoh, you know, I'm not motivated
to do this or that, so just keep, just gotta keep doing it.
(30:05):
That's the main advice.
I would say, oh, nice.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Have you ever got a pushback or hate and negative
comments and all that kind ofstuff like directed at you
personally?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
um, sometimes me personally, but most of the time
is like with the interviews.
So, like, sometimes they'relike saying like, oh, that's
broad, or like they get flashflash on me.
Sometimes they even post of meI don't know if you see it on
instagram um, yeah, I have somany and it's just crazy, to be
(30:39):
honest.
But, um, that's part of growth,to my opinion, and that's how
you know you're succeeding iswhen people are hating you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So I definitely am a firm believer of that.
How did how did you handlenavigating it?
Because I wasn't too good atfirst.
I get caught in and react andthen I'm realizing I'm just
arguing with someone whoprobably has in his mom's
basement with cheeto fingerstrying to talk shit, and yeah,
(31:12):
he's getting the best of me whenI'm and I'm letting him.
But how would you navigate thatwithout?
Would you just brush it away orlike, did it affect you at some
point?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
yeah, in the beginning it affected me at some
point because, like, I believedthat this was, this was really
good and stuff.
And then people started to bashon it and then, yeah, it
affected my toll and my mentalbeing, mental illness, but but
towards time, like it just keepshappening and then, like I'm
seeing more of like the positiveaspect than the negative aspect
(31:46):
, you know so, and right nowit's like I still get plenty,
like even like right now I'vebeen looking at it, but it's
just like it is what it is andyou just got to keep.
You just got to keep doing it,because in person you're not
really gonna, they're not reallygonna bash on you, they're just
gonna, like, judge you and lookat you.
The real people that will besupporting will be the one going
(32:08):
up to you like hey, bro, I loveyour content, that's what you
gotta go for, yeah so that's,that's the motivating factor.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh yeah, big time.
Well, in the future, what doyou see yourself taking this?
I know this is always somethingthat can grow.
Where do you want to take thisin your future?
I know you probably have somegoals and projects like when do
you want to see yourself in thenext couple years doing this
(32:35):
kind of stuff?
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Well, that is a big question Long term.
How I really want to see thisis I don't know actually,
because right now I'm kind ofworking on the small steps, like
doing a little bigger projects,getting a little step stole,
but the main like goal, goal, Iwould say, is to be more like Mr
(33:01):
Beast.
That's kind of like my main goalin Hawaii, or like I'm helping
out the community.
I'm doing what I love to do andtowards with social media,
because that is my maininspiration.
Where I got all my influencingstuff was from Mr Beast.
He did like street interviewsat first, he did YouTube, he did
all that content and now he'slike giving millions of dollars
(33:23):
to people.
So yeah that is something whereI get motivated from and it's
kind of like my end goal where Iwant to do that in an aspect of
hawaii.
Of course, you know where Iwant to support where I'm from,
but yeah, that's where I want tosee oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Can you monetize what you're doing now through
instagram or oh yeah, right noweverything is monetizable.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Like, I just gotta make sure I don't make it swear
like anything bad, um, but yeah,I check all my monetization.
It is all monetized.
Uh, tiktok, instagram, ohtiktok.
Sometimes youtube is prettygood, so yeah, currently it's
been good for monetization andum the work, so yeah so how does
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that work?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
say, you post videos on instagram, then how do you
get money like from or revenuefrom from or through instagram
or meta?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
yeah, so I can tell you all the platforms actually.
So, instagram, you have toreach a hundred thousand
followers and be posting atleast two to three times every
30 days and and then throughoutyour videos that you get, you
can get as much as I forgot.
How much, I don't know, itdepends for what kind of videos
that you've been posting out andthen you can either get it paid
(34:41):
from per video or per month.
I haven't allocated mines yetbecause I just recently hit
100,000.
So that's that.
Youtube, I think it's only athousand.
Oh, you have to hit a thousandfollowers with, I think, 35 000
(35:02):
watch time or something, andthen that's where you can get
paid, because, brock, who'sgetting paid from that now?
Oh, nice, uh, what else?
Tiktok, I think it's 10 000followers, and with, uh, 10 000
followers with 50 000 views orwatch time around there.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
So yeah, have.
Have you done research andstuff, how to kind of grow your
audience and stuff like that, oryou just been kind of traveling
there?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
yeah, I've been doing research on it because I did
marketing so I did a lot ofresearch for social media and
stuff and most of the outcome ofexponential growth would be
trends.
So like not necessarily copyingsomeone, but like copying what
the trend is and implementing inyour own stuff.
That's is where the highestleverage of your guys growth for
(35:55):
social media.
So unless if it's likesomething really really edgy,
like bra cruises videos thatcould go viral quick, then yeah,
maybe as well you know thatwould be it too yeah, it's super
random.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I had had one of my daughter's workout videos go
viral and it was like.
I posted it, maybe like in May,and all of a sudden in July it
just took off out of nowhere.
And it started getting sharedand sent around and I got a lot
(36:29):
of volleyball people startedfollowing me and I got a lot of
volleyball people startedfollowing me and it it was like
a maybe like a couple weeks ofjust people started adding me
and following that video andthen it kind of tapered off.
But I was like whoa that, howdo I reduplicate that again?
But it's just so random, Iguess I don't know I it just
(36:51):
came out of nowhere for me.
I don't know if if that's thesame for you yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
So, um, it depends what you want to post to right.
So, like, if you want to beposting more of like the type of
content such as like thevolleyball stuff, right, that
might be your niche.
And then, like, if you keepconsistently posting about more
volleyball content, then youralgorithm would change into that
market and then there will bemore loyal people going towards
(37:17):
you for that.
So it depends, because I didgym content too before and then
I had a lot of followersstarting off with gym content
and then, same thing, it diedoff because I progressed to
something different.
So it also depends on editing,like, um, watching your audience
too, so that is also a big key.
So, in that answer, it israndom where you can get like
(37:44):
those things, but to maintain ityou have to be posting what
type, what your audience want.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Basically, oh, that makes sense, because I'm so
sporadic.
I'll post, uh, like avolleyball video, then I'll post
a trailer for my podcast, thenI'll post what I ate, then you
know, I mean, it's just not yeahit's not a consistent kind of
genre I'm going at, I'm justposting thaddeus, you know.
I mean not like anything kindof targeted to one like
(38:13):
demographic.
I guess that makes sense.
I should kind of do it becauseyour, your stuff is pretty
consistent.
So, because your background isin marketing, I feel like
nowadays the marketing is soconsistent with social media,
more so than anything else.
If you don't have so manyfollowers or doing stuff on
(38:36):
social media, it's kind of hardto build a brand, in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, big time.
Like I did research Nowadays,like if you want to start a
business, if you want to growtowards like anything that you
want to do, you need socialmedia with it.
That's the only way people cansee it, see what you're doing
and see, like, how you're goingto progress it to people.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
So yeah, yeah, it's hard for people that aren't
creative but want to start abusiness.
They cannot like cross overunless they hire people.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, that's the main thing.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I guess that's how you can make money, yeah, so
what do you do for a job, or areyou just kind of focused on
this?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, so, oh, my God, I have so much things.
So I work for, I cannot say, myorganization, but I work for a
corporate organization and forthat I do financial marketing.
So what I do is a lot ofconstruction, um, marketing,
construction wait, not marketing.
I do accounting work for thatcompany.
(39:38):
So I do like financial analysis, um what's what they call
reconciliations and all that bigfinancial stuff.
Um, that's my full-time job.
I met my regular nine to fiveand then I have my marketing
business called luminary MNA LLC.
So that is where I do thein-depth kind of like vlog kind
(39:59):
style towards their marketingand towards their work and kind
of implementing my interviewshere and there for some
companies and it works a lot ofcompanies already here in Hawaii
and I'm also going gonna makeanother business coming up, so
like I'm like hella busy thisyear and that one is gonna be
(40:21):
towards the brand, like I'mmaking like clothing kind of
products and that's gonna bee-commerce oh, that's super cool
so yeah, that's yeah that, butthat's how you gotta be in
hawaii, because it's soexpensive.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I know that's crazy so brands can kind of hire you
to do social media for them orlike oh, just make a video
repping our stuff or somethinglike that.
Is that how it works?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
or yeah, so it depends like what you want or
what it wants.
So, like, if it's a big brandthat wants me to be in their
collab video, they just send mea type of merch or like a
certain amount of products andthen I just either showcase or
put it even in my videos andstuff like this.
This is, um, uh, dark sportsthat I help up so sometimes on
(41:11):
my videos are where it is alwaysfinest.
Two is a big one that it alsohelps support.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Oh, you work with lele then yeah, they're very
cool.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
And then the marketing.
The marketing girl is very fun.
She's been doing interviews too.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
She's pretty cool so yeah, oh, that's super cool.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
So what do you do like for fun, bro, on free time
and like on downtime for fun, Idon't even have downtime I don't
really for fun, I just likehang out my friends, that's like
my good time, like if I justwant to de-stress, get away from
all of this um influencingstuff, then yeah, I just hang
(41:52):
out with my close friends andjust chill that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
How often do you stream uh on twitch?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
yeah, so before before I got banned, I streamed
um tuesday, thursdays andfridays for like the whole night
and then, um, yeah, those arethe times that I stream, when I
post my videos.
I post that tuesday, wednesday,thursdays, sometimes fridays,
if it's like really that good,and uh, youtube around the same
(42:27):
time of my instagram and youtubeand tiktok.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
So yeah, so you really do have it mapped out.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, so like once I post something on Instagram,
then it'll go on my TikTok andthen my YouTube all at the same
time.
So it's just scheduled.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I guess that's how you got to be and people start
kind of expecting it certaintimes.
I know, like for my podcast,people expect it every single
Mondayay and then it's like likethis past weekend I couldn't do
it because I was at a umtournament and I had no time to
edit.
So I'm like, okay, well, I'mjust gonna drop it.
Monday everybody's like where'sthe, where's the next episode?
(43:05):
It's like that's good and bad.
It's like now everybodyexpecting it.
Now I gotta, yeah, come through.
But it's like shit, sometimes Ican't do it.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, but that's okay , you know, like it's part of
life and, like you know, people,even YouTubers and other
creators they take breaks ofwhat they're doing.
So it's totally fine, you know,and yeah you know and yeah, in
(43:39):
in your opinion.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
What do you think the generation is with handling
social media?
Do?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
you think it's in a positive?
Speaker 2 (43:42):
way or negative because it's.
It can go either way and rightnow, like there's so many
negative situations that happenwith social media and but
there's also positive ones and alot of it is just behind fun,
but there's a lot of clickbait,like I've seen murders and shit
on social media and it's likebro like, yeah, I've seen one
(44:04):
video this, uh, I think it wasin australia or new zealand and
these guys are squaring off andone guy just put on a knife in
there, soak, hit his neck andhe's like holding it and he just
dropped.
I'm like, did I just watch amurder?
Like was that real?
Like that looked real.
And then it got taken down andI was like, oh shit, that was
(44:25):
real.
And then I googled it.
I'm like, holy god, that was areal murder.
I just watched it.
I don't know.
I don't like I wouldn't want mydaughter to see that shit.
You know what I mean.
Like it's.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, I agree.
For me it is a negative toll.
To be straight up and completelyhonest, right now it is a
negative and even if you stillpost something really positive,
people will find a way to makeit negative.
Even post something reallypositive, people will find a way
to make it negative, even likemy videos.
I try like when I started.
First I put wholesome contentyou know like what is, what is
(44:58):
your favorite local artist, whatis your favorite local business
?
And then I get roasted from it.
I'm like, oh what?
I'm trying to promote thebusiness, I'm trying to like
help out people and then Igetting like told on.
So I guess it's because peopledon't really care of what they
post, because they wouldn't knowwho that person is in the end
(45:18):
of the day.
So right now it's a negativetoll in my opinion, but I'm
trying to work my way to make itpositive and be more like yeah,
because more aloha yeah, morealoha, like for me, the reason
why I post all that red flagvideos.
People say it's a big negative.
For me it's no, because I'mtrying to educate the younger
(45:41):
generation and the youngerpeople to not be a red flag.
If someone's definitely gotthat vibe from it, yeah, if
someone says if I want to golike people who don't shower is
a red flag, then you should justgo shower so you can end up
dating someone and being better.
You know, not bash on thepeople who don't shower.
(46:01):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
It's like oh, I'm like I just matched three of
those red flags.
Maybe I should change somestuff up, exactly Like that's
what I'm trying to do some stuffup exactly like that's what I'm
trying to do, I don't know.
Like because of social media,there's a lot of clickbait out
there and I always kind ofthought, like the negativity
gets more views, no matter whatyou see, you got you.
(46:26):
You see guys beefing on thestreet.
That's gonna get way more viewsthan someone giving one homeless
guy on sandwich, you know, Imean like it's just yeah, it is
what it is, but with certain uhpages it's, it's highlighted all
the negativity and that's theones that seem to do the best
(46:46):
and I don't know how to switchit around or how it can be
changed.
But what you're doing is justwholesome good vibes, kind of
stuff, and I think that'srefreshing in this day and age
and it's rough because I assumeyou don't have any kids right
now.
Right that you know yeah no, noonce you have kids right and it
(47:13):
becomes a whole new thing,because now you gotta protect
them from the negativity andit's like I wouldn't have any
problem with my daughterwatching your stuff yeah but
there's stuff out there thatit's she.
There's no filter, she couldjust wander onto some a murder
(47:34):
or some I know.
And some of these girls likethey're put oh, it's nuts.
Like I don't understand howthey put themselves out there.
I guess it's so they can linkup to their only fans and it's
like, bro, these girls are doingsome crazy shit on instagram
just to get followers to go ontheir their only fans and oh,
(48:00):
bro, they're banking out though.
But yeah, if I was a little kid, that would be so much.
That would be if I was a youngboy, and seeing all that stuff
like that would be cool, youknow, I mean, but it's
definitely not something that Iwould want my kids to see.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (48:16):
mean, yeah, exactly, and that that gives me fear too.
You know, as an influencer,we're trying to influence people
of what we want to do andcurrently, right now yeah,
you're right, there's so muchpeople trying to influence
people for the bad thing Onlyfans doing all that stuff.
I'm like you know, that's notwhat I want, how our community
(48:38):
is going to be built, you know,and trying to make it towards
something good.
But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Social media is becoming to where kids aren't
living in the moment.
To where kids aren't living inthe moment.
They're always trying to showpeople what they're doing and
not really experiencing thosethings that they're doing.
Because I'm a nightclubpromoter, I always see it.
I've seen girls the whole timethey're in the club they're live
(49:08):
on live instagram or takingvideos and pictures of their own
vip or whatever it's like.
They're not even enjoying themoment that they're in.
They're too busy showing peoplewhat they're doing and it's
kind of sad, bros, it's makes mefeel like people aren't living
in the moment or enjoying thereality of life.
(49:30):
They're just trying to showpeople that they're some kind of
status.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
You know I mean I know, I totally agree.
Yeah, that's so sad and I'mlike I see it too.
Yeah, you're right, in theclubs moani's district, valor's,
everywhere you're like alwaysposting.
I'm like enjoy, enjoy your life.
You know, like social media,it's just like a secondary
aspect.
You know, it's not, it's noteven like a big thing it's.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
It's a tool definitely, but you shouldn't be
putting your whole life towardsit, you know yeah, and then
like 90 percent of time theyhave like maybe like 300
followers, that don't give a ripwhat they're doing but it's so
important to them.
You know I mean yeah, oh, I'mhaving a not a hard time, but
(50:19):
I'm starting up.
My daughter just got instagramand, like I told her I'm I'm
gonna keep the password so Icould jump on anytime, just in
case, and oh, I kind of look andit's.
It's silly and innocent.
Right now she's only a freshman, but I could see how it could
uh go, go in a bad way and thenI gotta have to step in.
(50:41):
But a lot of these influencersdon't feel like I don't feel
like they're taking theresponsibility of, they're not
taking the responsibility ofinfluencing people the right way
or in a way to where it wouldbe kind of better for the
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community or I mean just for fun.
But sometimes you influencepeople wrong.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I totally agree with thatand it's in the word you're in.
You're an influencer.
So if you influence people bad,what do mean?
Like, yeah, I totally agreewith that and it's in the word
you're in.
You're an influencer.
So if you influence people bad,what do you think's gonna
happen?
You know I mean yeah, for real.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
and again, like people some of my friends that
started to do influencing stuff.
They started off with pranksand I'm like I am not doing that
like prank videos, likeembarrassing people in public
and stuff.
That's a big no-no for me.
And it's like it also comes towith reputation.
You know you don't want to beknown for being that guy on
(51:43):
social media.
You know you don't want to be abad, negative toll.
You're an influencer, so maybedo something a little more
better.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
And, yeah, bruh those pranks Okay, I got maybe do
something a little more better.
And yeah, right, those prankokay.
I gotta admit I watch a lot ofthose prank ones because oh yeah
, me too, it's entertaining yeah, I guess I'm part of the
problem.
but, bro, some of these guys,they oh, I don't know how they
don't get lit up because they'lllike throw something at people
and then being and like, makelike nothing, and then They'll
(52:12):
throw something at people andthen make nothing.
Some of them do some crazystuff.
I seen one the other day A guywent up to a Crips in one area
in California.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
I saw that one dude yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
He's waving his red bandana.
He's like what are you crazy?
I'm like, bro, you get shottrying to make a YouTube video.
Are you for purpose of that?
Like, yeah, those prank ones ispretty nuts, bro, those guys is
, but then you, it works becauseI'm watching them and like you
know watch the next one.
Next thing you know I would.
(52:48):
I would spend an hour watchingsome chupapi monaño guy throw
shit at people, oh him, oh myGod, that guy.
That guy is kind of funny though, but I seen one where he
pranked his girlfriend that thevet was going to steal her cat.
Did you see that one?
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Oh, my God.
Yeah, I think I saw that one ohshe was going to lose it.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Bro, honestly, why would you do that to your chick?
I was like bro, there's toomuch.
But I see a lot of influencerslike, for fun, that there's this
one couple that I follow hisname is larryl benz or something
like that and he has, like he'sthis black guy and has like
(53:33):
this Latina wife and they justhad a kid.
But they do so much fun stuffto each other and it's funny and
it's fun to watch and it's alsoa positive, it's humor and
that's the kind of stuff I like.
But it's hard to uh filter outthe content that you consume
(53:55):
because, like I said, likenegativity kind of sticks, and
then you get through the rabbithole and then you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
You know what I mean yeah, that's totally it, but,
and it's hard, I'll just sayit's hard and yeah, well, what
you're doing is good.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
I think, um, yeah, just keep putting what I like,
like I said earlier, like you'reputting hawaii people in front
of the the camera and a lot ofthose girls and and dudes get
noticed and but I could spawnsomething and I think hawaii
needs more of that and I thinkyou're kind of paving the way in
(54:37):
some aspect.
What do you?
Speaker 1 (54:39):
think, yeah, most definitely big time.
Yeah, already, hawaii has beena big toll here and helped me up
so much, you know, and like itdeveloped a lot big time.
Like I want to really makehawaii out there, because all my
friends and all the people Imet on the mainland, their
aspect still is saying like, ohmy god, grass huts, what's
(55:03):
really over there, what's like.
Even till now I'm like, okay,well, now I want to try and make
hawaii known and have more likeclarity, saying like you know,
this is not just like a rock,you know there's life here.
You know what I mean.
And I'm trying to likeimplement that and I'm slowly
getting there.
I'm getting comments and DMsfrom other influencers, from LA
(55:27):
California, all that bigmainland stuff, and yeah, it's
growing.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
And I'm trying to get some influencers here too in
hawaii, so it can grow more andnice yeah you ever think about
trying to take this to themainland and do a couple shoots
out there and kind?
Speaker 1 (55:46):
of.
Yeah, I'm already, um, so Ithink in march I'm going to la
to meet up with a couple otherinfluencers.
They kind of do more like thered flag kind of work.
Awesome, we're gonna try Dosome content there and I'm gonna
try To bring them here.
I have Another meeting withPeople in Washington and in New
(56:09):
York, those type of influencersand yeah, it's that Next step To
start to be A little more withthe bigger people.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
So oh, that's cool.
Collab and stuff with withnationally known influencers.
I think also, if you were to doyou and brad cruz would kill
this brad, if you guys went tolike uh, holo, holo fest in
vegas or like maiden oh yeah,like like those kind of shows
because they have big ones invegas, um washington, like any
(56:42):
hawaii based uh show.
Or like get together, like theygot big stuff in vegas because
there's a lot of local peoplethere.
Oh, like they would be stokedto see you guys there.
Like you and him would wouldkill that and they would be so
they would be stoked to see youguys there.
Like you and him would big timewould kill that and they would
be so.
They would be so down to be onlike part of your guys stuff
(57:04):
coming from hawaii.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
That's actually a great idea.
Let me go to that town, yeahright yeah what is?
Speaker 2 (57:11):
the big one they have like holo holo fest and um, not
made in hawaii, it's aloha fest, I forget what they call it.
Yeah, like, just go over therewith your guys mic and camera.
So how do you work it out, bro?
Speaker 1 (57:26):
you have the mic and it's like one of those little,
uh, those little pocket micthings that you stick it in the
mic like yeah, so it's a umrogue mic interview pro, so it
just sticks into the mic and itsticks into my camera and then
with the audio recording andstuff, it can go from feedback
(57:48):
from far length.
Um, I have two broad crews, hastwo too.
So, yeah, it helps so muchbefore when, when he started, I
used my phone.
That's how he started it, andthen now I grew up to like this
big professional camera, whichis pretty dope.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
Oh, you have a legit camera.
Speaker 1 (58:06):
Yeah, I have a legit camera now.
It's like a cinema camera forit, just for these videos.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
What kind of camera?
Speaker 1 (58:13):
It's a Sony FX30.
Oh, it's crazy what kind ofcamera.
Speaker 2 (58:19):
It's a sony um fx30 oh wow, yeah, people from movies
shoot it, but it's an expensivecamera.
Oh, maybe.
Oh yeah, that's, that's legitthen, and then you just upload
it to cap, cut and mess with itthere yep, upload it to cap cut,
edit it all that good umtrending features and then
upload it there oh brah, that'ssuper cool with cap cut too.
I I was talking to dj hopper boy, who's like the person that's
(58:42):
been helping me out with a lotof stuff because he does video
editing and oh nice, he wastelling me how not upset he was,
but he's done it his whole lifebecause his dad is tiny to
donnie and his his dad is um,had his tiny tv show and nobody
(59:05):
really knew.
But taylor, or dj hopper boy,is the one who edited his whole
show since he was in high schooland doing that from that early
age till now.
He's seen the difficulties itwas from then to now and how
easy it's becoming, where youcan throw up two video clips on
(59:25):
cap cut and it edits it andmakes it transition and make it
all cool, sync to music and allthat before it would take him
like an hour to do or like, ohmy god, yeah.
So with these features a lot ofpeople have tools to create and
create cool stuff.
It's just they gotta take thetime to do it and yeah, it's out
(59:48):
there for everybody to use.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (59:50):
mean, no, yeah, I, um , I can relate so much with dj
hopper boy because before, whenI went to farrington in high
school, we had to edit videosand stuff, so we were editing
towards like the oldest editingsoftware, so I understand how
hard it is editing.
Back then it was so hard andthen like cutting, extorting the
(01:00:13):
audio and all that good stuffit took hours and then now it
only takes less than two minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Yeah, exactly, he said, now I can make on video
like waiting in line at Target.
Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Yeah, so that's the good part about innovation.
So, yeah, big time yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Well, man, we've been going for an hour and I
definitely appreciate you comingon.
I definitely want to have youback because I think in the
future you're going to blow upto something different.
I want to talk to you about it.
In the next year or so, itwould be fun to have you and Bra
Cruz on at the same time.
That would be a fun show.
Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
With Ray.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Oh, ray's good right, I just seen a post he made.
He texted me today about somekind of uh, his cruise.
Yeah, I was like, oh, that's Iwould, but there's no way they
wouldn't let me on that ship,because I would have done.
I was like you're not gonna letme on.
I saw this hole in this thinglike or something like.
(01:01:14):
Yeah, I was like pissed bro andlike he flew somewhere to to go
on that cruise and yeah, oh yeah, I felt.
I actually felt some kind ofway and the amount of stuff that
guy does for other people likehe.
I I felt like kind of bad I was.
I was why I watched it at workand I'm like oh, that sucks, bro
(01:01:37):
, like I saw it, he works threejobs too.
Just yeah, I'm like yo man, Iwouldn't know, yeah, and he does
a lot for the youth and yeah,that was, that was just a bummer
, I hope, I hope it works outfor him.
But shout out to ray, yeahshout out to ray mirage and all
his glory.
That guy's fun, bro, he.
(01:01:59):
I had him on and he's like thatguy is just a whole mood he's
fun.
I love him yeah, well, umsocial media wise, where can
people find your content?
How can people check?
Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
so well, just hit me up on my Instagram.
It's going to be Jack ChromeJ-A-C-H-R-O-M-E underscore.
Yeah, I post all my contentthere.
That's my main heart and blood,so check them out.
Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Right on and for us, as always, it's Above the Bridge
.
Podcast on Instagram, youtube,my website is atbpodcom and I'm
Thaddydaddyhi on Instagram.
Um, keep doing what you'redoing, bro, as big as you become
.
What I respect about you is youseem very humble and very down
to earth, and that's what Hawaiineeds that same aloha, that
(01:02:50):
same vibe, that same humbleness,no matter how big you get, and
I think the kind of influencingthat you're doing is in such a
positive way.
Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
I hope more people follow that direction yeah,
appreciate it so much and I lovebeing here right in the future.
Yeah, let's, let's get this bigand then let's start putting
out people here.
Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
So yeah, let's get them up there Right on man,
we'll shock us for the cameras.
Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Right on, we're out.
Shout out to the Artist GroupNetwork Aloha Cheers.
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Okay, this week I'm welcomingto my show one of the top
(03:05):
influencers in Hawaii and youguys see him on Instagram or in
the clubs or on the streets orat Honolulu Hale.
Jack Rome, what's up man?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yes, what's up, guys?
How's it?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Bro, I'm super stoked to have you on and I've been,
like I just said earlier, I'vebeen a fan of your content and
I'm impressed with how muchyou're putting local people in
in front of the camera and andit's been fun to watch.
Bro, how did you even getstarted doing all this kind of
stuff?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
yeah, guarantee, um, so thank you for having me.
First of all, I reallyappreciate it and I love
supporting local artists, localcontent creators and stuff.
Which is amazing, how I starteddoing this is I got inspired
from, like my other friends thatstarted to do this kind of
small stuff like YouTube, tiktok, instagram, all that good stuff
and then I just started to postkind of videos and a little
(03:58):
behind the stories with me.
I graduated from UH West inmarketing and accounting, so
marketing was like one of thebiggest things that I learned
and I developed.
So implementing that intosocial media is a big aspect,
right.
So starting to do it and thenimplementing a lot of Gen Z
(04:19):
current kind of stuff, you know,and yeah, that's just how it
started and it's going prettygood so far yeah, it is, and you
kind of blew up.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You got like a lot of followers and what I impressed
the most with is how often youput out content.
I know from personal experienceit's not easy to do, and to be
that consistent is a lot of workand a lot of time.
How has it been for you doingit that consistently?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
oh it's crazy.
So, like my key um, I'll needto say my key learning points is
to always schedule it andalways just have projects lined
up.
Like if you notice from my umstories and my all my videos and
stuff, sometimes I post likedifferent types of clips here
and there is because it's alllike pre-recorded and stuff and
(05:11):
I don't want to be like thoseinfluencers were, like I keep
posting a bunch of new stuffevery time because it will burn
me out.
You know, and that's what allthe content creators do is like
we're always posting new stuffand we're getting burned out and
in 75, 75 of the time we justdon't do it anymore.
So I learned that from beforeand I just started to be
(05:31):
consistent of what I still doand still pushing out pretty
good content.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So yeah, yeah, and I've learned that too.
Consistency is the key, and asyou build momentum, momentum can
stop just with like missingcouple days or a couple weeks.
It is a thing, bro?
It's definitely a thing, andyou built up your instagram
follower, but do you have tiktokalso?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
yeah, I have tiktok and I'm starting to do youtube
on tiktok, though I I started itrecently, so I don't have much
followers they only have like9,000.
But Instagram is one of mybiggest platforms here and also
have I'm starting to do Twitchagain because it got banned and
YouTube is also there yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How'd you get banned?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, like it's, I was just streaming and then after
that there's a lot of people whohave those hate comments and
stuff and then some of myfriends just flame on it Big,
big, crazy drama and then I gotbad.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Which is what A live stream when you're playing video
games.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Playing video games or like doing online anything
online, so like you can even doIRL work and stuff, or like just
even like this you know peopledo that, so yeah shit, I didn't
know that.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So they can actually ban you.
So somebody's like kind ofwatching or somebody turned you
in yes, and it's also just liket too.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Brock Cruz got banned for like shadow ban for a bit
because he was oh, I know it washim and Ray.
They were streaming and thenthey were just like, oh, they
were just talking, bash stuff toeach other and then bang, ray
got banned.
I was like Ray got banned.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Brock Cruz goes in hard on Ray.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I don't know how he never get I know that's crazy,
but watch what you say, brock, Iguess so yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I don't know, I don't understand, like the whole
hating on people there.
I guess.
So video games like I can seehow people hate on each other,
talk shit.
I'll play Madden and somebodyfrom somewhere is talking shit
and I get super riled up and say, oh okay, where you live, and
it's some it's probably somelike eighth grader that lives in
(07:52):
wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Like that's true.
The internet, bro, they justhave crazy people yeah so what
were you worried about thattiktok man?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
because my daughter was ready to fucking lose it.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, same Cause.
Well, as content creators.
You know that's people's typeof income.
I have a lot of friends thathas businesses that rely on
TikTok where they push out theircontent, and other content
creators that get paid fromTikTok.
So once I lost it too, I Ipersonally use TikTok.
I personally use tiktok.
That I personally use um capcut.
(08:29):
That's my main source ofediting my videos and with
tiktok ban, that also got bannedbecause it's affiliated with
tiktok, so that sucked and thenI didn't even know that yeah.
So like once that shut down, Iwas like, oh my god, I can't
edit my videos anymore.
How am I gonna do this?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was panicking too, so but, it's back yeah, thank
god, it was funny because mydaughter and her whole
volleyball team, they were somad and so like what are we
(09:12):
gonna do?
I was like read a book or likewhat do you mean?
Like it's a fucking app.
I I just I didn't know howinvolved, like not just my
daughter but her, like all herfriends, is, they're like this
is my life, we're addicted.
I'm thinking like I'm glad it'sbad.
And then the, the jubilationthey had the next morning when
(09:36):
it was back on was next level.
It was like christmas bro Ididn't get it.
I don't get it bro yeah, no,it's these kids.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
They.
They love tiktok, bro, likethey're always on it.
Even my friends them like we'realways talking about tiktok,
we're doing all this contentstuff.
I'm like if they lose it, oh mygod, it's like.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's like something else for them yeah, and I was
the last uh person I had on myshow, like I watched girls in
the middle of the aisle intarget like making dances, and
I'm just like, bro, what is thisworld coming to?
You guys?
Don't do that shit, though,right?
Oh, I think recently, oh you dodo dances, I see them.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's right.
That was two.
I think I have some more comingup.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's in the queue, so what you got, okay, do you guys
?
I don't know, like my daughter,I for one, I don't know how
they learn the dances, I don'tknow if they're like at home,
like in the room, likepracticing or choreographing
with each other, because I knowthey learn it from TikTok.
But do you like take time andlearn the dance with, like your
(10:58):
friends?
Oh, you are one of them.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
No, my friends just messaged me.
They're like, jero, let's dothis.
Tiktok, it's a dance.
I'm like no, and then they keptpushing us.
Okay, so we went up.
We didn't even rehearse oranything, we just went out and
we just tried.
We just kept practicing andpracticing and it took like how
long did it take Like four hours, oh shit took like how long did
(11:28):
it take like four hours, ohshit, yeah.
Well, at least, she's withgirls and you like you it wasn't
just like you and your homiedoing it, yeah, so it's not like
weird but yeah
Speaker 2 (11:34):
oh, it's a group, so we're good yeah, when you first
started making content, how muchwere you nervous or not nervous
being in front of the camera?
Was it something that comesnaturally for you?
Or you're like okay, I got tofigure this out, I'm nervous.
I know putting yourself outthere isn't always easy for some
(11:55):
people.
At some times, was it easy foryou?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh no, it was very hard.
So if you watch a couple of myfirst videos, I was very like
stuttery, uh, I didn't know howto talk to people and I'd even
talk to the camera, like it wasso difficult for me to even like
get my lines right.
And then I was like, oh my god,I messed up, messed up, messed
up.
It took me a while and then,like now, when I just kept doing
(12:19):
it, I kept practicing, it wentthrough like it took almost like
three to four months just tomake it like how I am right now.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So experience is a big key I would say and with
anything, as you do it more itcomes a lot easier.
But it's hard like I know justeven uh, doing my podcast out,
if I watch my first episodes,even till now, like I'm always
trying to evolve and get itbetter, but it it changes and
(12:47):
you get more comfortable.
But you go up to random people,man, that's even like have you
had any kind of drama like?
Or girls, just like, wow, whatis this guy like?
Because you go up to like hotgirls or you're in the club or
whatever is like, sometimes itcould get kind of kind of
sketchy, you know, I mean likeyeah no, well, when it first
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started it, yeah, everyone waslike who the heck are you?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
why are you going up to me, you're doing all this
kind of stuff?
I'm like, oh, I just I'mstarting out doing influencing
stuff and, yeah, at first it wasso awkward, even recently till
now, like I have a lot ofrejections whenever I ask people
if I want to, if they want tobe in the video.
Yeah, it's especially like Iguess they don't know.
I guess people get scared ofwhat they're gonna say in front
(13:35):
of the camera, right, becausethey get viral.
And then there's that otheraspect too, where people know me
already and then they reallywant to be in my videos.
But, yeah, it's like it's agood level right now, but before
, yeah, it was like hellarejections and I did it ever
since.
When it was like when it firststarted, it was like through
(13:55):
public, like I just went up toall I'm on to random people, or
like wiki key to random people.
So, yeah, and that's mycameraman too was like nervous.
He's like oh bro, you sure youwant to do this?
I'm so scared.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm like I like me too it worked out and I think
now people I mean you got a lotof people following you and
people, like you said, arestarting to want to be on your
videos, so they're probablyseeking you out.
But also, when you ask them,they probably are stoked like oh
(14:30):
, that's the guy you know.
I mean like yeah, all right,have you been getting noticed a
lot, and not like celebrity, butkind of like a celebrity, you
know, I mean to be honest,almost every day.
Every day I go out.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'm like at first it was like, oh pretty cool, right,
but now I have to get used toit.
It's a different type oflifestyle now.
When I want to go be a normalperson and just go shopping, I
get noticed quick and I was like, oh okay, but it's good in the
(15:07):
beginning but now it's's like Ikind of miss my privacy a little
bit.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
but I have to learn from it and yeah, it's yeah well
it's what you signed up for,man I know it's part of the work
hey, it's fun to watch, though,and I think the more you keep
doing it, yeah, you're probablygonna have a lot, lot more hard
of a time not being recognized.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, big time, even though if I try hard, they still
would see.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What was the most drama or weird situation you
were in trying to do thesevideos and stuff Drama- or weird
situation there was so many andit wasn't even from me.
It was from braw cruise that Ican expect yeah, I think it was
(15:54):
okay.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Braw cruise, if you're watching this guarantee,
oh, like, okay, so it was.
The most weirdest one was whenwe were at Sandy's has to be
Sandy's.
And then I don't know if youremember that one video, that 76
South girl, oh, yeah, yeah,when it blew up from that.
So right after that they had abig fight and then when she came
(16:17):
back into the show she was justsaying a lot of negative stuff,
being very oh, I'm so sorry ifshe's watching this.
She's been very ignorant and itmade the whole like workflow
like bad, and me and brock cruzwas like, oh my god, okay, we're
just getting roasted at.
(16:38):
We're like we're trying to makethis like a good podcast, but
it wasn't working out and yeahthat's nuts.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I always think, like if you go up to a girl and then
their boyfriend is like angry orsomething.
It's like what are?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
why are you talking to her like?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I know it's so bad the drama here and I kind of
expect it in hawaii.
Yeah, yeah, hawaii.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, I do like your red flag Conversations Because
I'm always interested what girlshave to say their red flags are
.
What would be your red flagsFor girls?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
My red flags for girls.
What's a red flag for a girl?
Um, hopefully this doesn't goviral.
Um, for me, the biggest redflag in a girl is if she has
(17:40):
some sort of mental illness, butnot the type of mental illness
where it's like you're crazy,crazy, I mean kind of is, but
like if you are, if you havemental illness and you're
seeking for help and you'reworking on it, that's okay,
because I know there's a lot ofpeople that grew up or like have
(18:03):
mental illness genetically.
But if you just have mentalillness genetically, but if you
just have mental illness andyou're just absorbing that into
your whole life, that's a bigred flag non-medically mental
illness.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Non-medical mental illness yes, I know exactly what
you're talking about I'm gonnagive an example.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If she is worshiping rocks like crystal rocks, trying
to say like this is myintuition, this is where my this
is, um, this is my vertical,this is my signs and stuff about
it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Big red flag all right, I, I definitely know
girls like that or zodiac we'renot the same zodiac sign and
that kind of all.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Right, y'all not not going with that, that's good
okay, I I definitely understandwhat you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I've definitely been around and in situations with
girls with mental illness notnot medical mental illness, just
dumb bitch syndrome, I don'tknow.
There you go, that's the bestway to say it.
Yeah, I'm gonna get canceledtoo.
Now I'm gonna get banned, it'sokay it's okay, it's all right
(19:31):
also okay.
You also asked the girls whatwhere, like the best dudes are
from.
So I I want to ask you the samequestion both ways where do you
think the best girls are fromin Hawaii and where do you think
the worst girls are from inHawaii?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
oh my god we gonna get.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We gonna get in tonight.
I'll tell you mine as well.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So we both going down okay, oh my god, shoot the
Current.
Okay, currently, not last Year.
Currently the best girls Willbe coming from Uh, uh, like
Shoot Waikiki side.
Oh, that's a good one.
(20:16):
Okay, like shoot Waikiki side.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh, that's, a good one Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, like their form , their set.
They're very good.
Good looking, Goodcommunications, that's good.
The worst has to be oh God, Ihope people won't see.
Oh my god, I hope people won'tsee.
Um, uh, the worst would be inever beach now I'm sorry, oh,
(20:47):
ever beach okay becauseoriginally my first answer the
best girls where I came from wasfrom ever beach.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Now it's after never beach something must have
happened then yeah, all becauseof that video that circulated
around oh, all the crazy evabeach girls came out the
woodwork yeah, all right, nowthey're glorifying it they
owning it.
Uh, okay, for me the best girlsI would say is probably oh well
(21:19):
, let me start with the worstgirls.
I would say I'm from Kaneohe,so guarantee Kaneohe girls no
deals drama what they're fromKaneohe, it's just in their DNA
and.
I can speak on this withexperience and I have known
(21:42):
multiple tests.
I've done multiple tests withthat theory as well as my
friends, so I don't.
Yeah, kaneo girls, they're nutsum as well as the biggest one
for me is maui, maui girls.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Yes, why is that?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
maui girls are for one.
They're not on the island, yeah, so their only connection to
you is internet and they can doa deep dive.
And, bro, maui girls, when theythey have zero filter and they
can scrap, maui girls can scrapand they'll hit dudes.
(22:24):
They don't give a shit.
What?
Yeah, from me, personalexperience.
What is it?
Yeah, personal experienceTheoretically, but Maui girls
they'll.
Yeah, I've had situations withmaui girls that, uh, they're top
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, they're, they're the numberone.
No good that's crazy.
Yeah, and their pigeon is sodifferent, you know, compared to
us oh, they're mocha hauntusbrah like they they run the yeah
, and they, they can smile andtalk it and swing at the same
time.
Brah, yeah, they're fun, but oh, it's like the level of crazy
(23:13):
is.
You know how like dudes they?
they judge the level of crazyfor how much fun they're being
like together with and yeahlevel of crazy like tilts the
scale every time, bro 100 yeah,so if you ever go, maori and you
start busting out your mic anddoing doing your thing, just oh,
(23:34):
you may get swung on and justsay, just remember, I'm telling
you now, if it happens okay,good, good, I'm gonna get
security with me yeah, yeah, butthe best girls I don't know, I
guess probably anywhere otherthan maui, and yeah, that's good
(23:54):
, that's good.
That's good Bro.
That's funny Bro.
I had a recent well, I guesslike a couple months ago, I got
to meet you in person and we gotto do some fun with the youth
in Waianae Ray.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Maraj hooked it up.
Oh bro, we own that shit.
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Didn't we do good?
Like those Waianae kids wastrying to take us out, though
yeah, oh my.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
They have speed and stamina, though.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That's the main thing wow, that's gassy now dude same
bro that was.
I had a lot of fun, though.
That was fun for me especiallybecause I got to meet a lot of
influencers that I've beenfollowing and got to meet in
person and see how they'rereally like, and it was a
pleasant surprise because a lotof those influencers are what
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you see.
They're not fake, they're notfaking it on their content and
they have that same aloha andfun their content and they're.
They have that same aloha andfun and brah.
It was fun that ray put thattogether and gave us opportunity
to connect with those youngkids and they were super stoked
that you interviewed them.
Like you could tell it was likea big deal for them.
Did they respond to you likeafter you posted and stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
yeah, after I posted they were like where's arzo?
And hurry up, post it, post it,post it and stuff.
They were like where's Arzo?
Hurry up post it, post it, postit and stuff.
They were like, oh my God, justall love for them and yeah, I
really appreciate him.
And they kind of blew up toothat one song that I put for
them.
What's your favorite localartist?
Yeah, that one kind of blew uptoo.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So yeah, oh, that's super cool.
Pretty fun it's kind of alittle awkward, like as soon as
I came home, like I had like abunch of uh, those kids started
following me and then, oh my god, what?
What do I do?
Like?
Do I follow them back, or isthat weird?
Like I just leave it alone,like I don't?
know, yeah, it's like.
(25:51):
It's like even my daughter'svolleyball teammates will like
follow my instagram and I'm likeah, I don't know if I follow
them back, like maybe when theyturn 18 or something like just
yeah, keep it cool.
You know what I mean but youwant to do more stuff like that
and be out in the community andkind of, because social media is
(26:14):
such a big part of the youthnow, I'm sure a lot of those
kids are starting to take noticeof you and want to do it also,
maybe connect with them to help,help them do it the right way,
you know I mean yeah, of course,like um, that's my main project
right now that's coming up in2025 is more outreach towards
(26:38):
the community and then likehelping out with the um youth
because yeah, I think on myinstagram my tiktok like around,
was it 65 percent of myfollowers are kids like younger
than um, uh, like 20 and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So yeah, it's a it's a major big impact because a lot
of kids go on tiktok, instagramand stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
So that's a good outreach big time you ever get
nervous about what you're sayingand putting out there like, oh
shit, is this gonna?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
yeah, so like it depends to like what they really
want.
So if it is like a kid orsomething, I don't ask them the
red flag stuff at all yeah, yeah, because that's already a big
no-no.
I ask them like more umkid-friendly stuff, like what is
your favorite local artist,what is your kind, and then for
towards like the club era andall the club stuff.
(27:29):
That's where I ask my red flagstuff.
So I kind of know how to watchmy um demographic and my viewers
, just so I can make sure it isdoing the right thing, you know
so yeah, that works and yeah,it's kind of rough to navigate
through that kind of situation.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
if you were to give any advice for anyone trying to
do this and how to build afollowing, because there's so
many different, there's so manystuff out there like you can buy
followers, you can follow thisalgorithm or here's little
tricks, what you can do to growyour Instagram or whatever and
(28:09):
they have ads all the time, andwhat would be your advice to do
it kind of organically, how yougrow in Arizona.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, of course, so organically.
How I've been doing it isalways network.
So once I started this, Istarted with hawaii
entrepreneurs first, and that'swhere I kind of saw your page
and other people.
Then we link up towards themand then I have other people,
not just from here, also from lacalifornia was.
(28:37):
I met businesses and otherinfluencers there from DM
messages and then they referredto me and then it just kept
spreading and spreadingorganically.
And it is true where thealgorithm is there, like you
have to keep consistentlyposting of what you do because
that's where you're going toreach out.
But if you really want to grow,grow you're going to have to
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expand your network with thepeople rather than towards
social media.
So, like every time when I'mdoing interviews or every time
when I'm doing like some bigevents, I pull out my instagram
and then start networking andthen that's where the shares and
where it's going to goorganically.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's a lot of work and people don't understand that
and everybody thinks it's a oh,he just knows plenty of people
or something.
But you're creating it a littlebit at a time and watching it
grow.
It's definitely not somethingthat happens overnight, unless
you're like a movie star or likea pro athlete or something
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happens overnight, unless you'relike a movie star or like a pro
athlete or something.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah it.
It takes really long time andit takes time to get where like
the highest level is, andsometimes, you know, I get
impatient where it's like, oh mygod, you know, I don't know if
I'm doing this.
Sometimes I have doubts, butyou just got to keep pushing it.
You know that's my biggestadvice because, yeah, I have a
lot of friends where it's likeoh, you know, I'm not motivated
to do this or that, so just keep, just gotta keep doing it.
(30:05):
That's the main advice.
I would say, oh, nice.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Have you ever got a pushback or hate and negative
comments and all that kind ofstuff like directed at you
personally?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
um, sometimes me personally, but most of the time
is like with the interviews.
So, like, sometimes they'relike saying like, oh, that's
broad, or like they get flashflash on me.
Sometimes they even post of meI don't know if you see it on
instagram um, yeah, I have somany and it's just crazy, to be
(30:39):
honest.
But, um, that's part of growth,to my opinion, and that's how
you know you're succeeding iswhen people are hating you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So I definitely am a firm believer of that.
How did how did you handlenavigating it?
Because I wasn't too good atfirst.
I get caught in and react andthen I'm realizing I'm just
arguing with someone whoprobably has in his mom's
basement with cheeto fingerstrying to talk shit, and yeah,
(31:12):
he's getting the best of me whenI'm and I'm letting him.
But how would you navigate thatwithout?
Would you just brush it away orlike, did it affect you at some
point?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
yeah, in the beginning it affected me at some
point because, like, I believedthat this was, this was really
good and stuff.
And then people started to bashon it and then, yeah, it
affected my toll and my mentalbeing, mental illness, but but
towards time, like it just keepshappening and then, like I'm
seeing more of like the positiveaspect than the negative aspect
(31:46):
, you know so, and right nowit's like I still get plenty,
like even like right now I'vebeen looking at it, but it's
just like it is what it is andyou just got to keep.
You just got to keep doing it,because in person you're not
really gonna, they're not reallygonna bash on you, they're just
gonna, like, judge you and lookat you.
The real people that will besupporting will be the one going
(32:08):
up to you like hey, bro, I loveyour content, that's what you
gotta go for, yeah so that's,that's the motivating factor.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh yeah, big time.
Well, in the future, what doyou see yourself taking this?
I know this is always somethingthat can grow.
Where do you want to take thisin your future?
I know you probably have somegoals and projects like when do
you want to see yourself in thenext couple years doing this
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kind of stuff?
Oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Well, that is a big question Long term.
How I really want to see thisis I don't know actually,
because right now I'm kind ofworking on the small steps, like
doing a little bigger projects,getting a little step stole,
but the main like goal, goal, Iwould say, is to be more like Mr
(33:01):
Beast.
That's kind of like my main goalin Hawaii, or like I'm helping
out the community.
I'm doing what I love to do andtowards with social media,
because that is my maininspiration.
Where I got all my influencingstuff was from Mr Beast.
He did like street interviewsat first, he did YouTube, he did
all that content and now he'slike giving millions of dollars
(33:23):
to people.
So yeah that is something whereI get motivated from and it's
kind of like my end goal where Iwant to do that in an aspect of
hawaii.
Of course, you know where Iwant to support where I'm from,
but yeah, that's where I want tosee oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Can you monetize what you're doing now through
instagram or oh yeah, right noweverything is monetizable.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Like, I just gotta make sure I don't make it swear
like anything bad, um, but yeah,I check all my monetization.
It is all monetized.
Uh, tiktok, instagram, ohtiktok.
Sometimes youtube is prettygood, so yeah, currently it's
been good for monetization andum the work, so yeah so how does
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that work?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
say, you post videos on instagram, then how do you
get money like from or revenuefrom from or through instagram
or meta?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
yeah, so I can tell you all the platforms actually.
So, instagram, you have toreach a hundred thousand
followers and be posting atleast two to three times every
30 days and and then throughoutyour videos that you get, you
can get as much as I forgot.
How much, I don't know, itdepends for what kind of videos
that you've been posting out andthen you can either get it paid
(34:41):
from per video or per month.
I haven't allocated mines yetbecause I just recently hit
100,000.
So that's that.
Youtube, I think it's only athousand.
Oh, you have to hit a thousandfollowers with, I think, 35 000
(35:02):
watch time or something, andthen that's where you can get
paid, because, brock, who'sgetting paid from that now?
Oh, nice, uh, what else?
Tiktok, I think it's 10 000followers, and with, uh, 10 000
followers with 50 000 views orwatch time around there.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
So yeah, have.
Have you done research andstuff, how to kind of grow your
audience and stuff like that, oryou just been kind of traveling
there?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
yeah, I've been doing research on it because I did
marketing so I did a lot ofresearch for social media and
stuff and most of the outcome ofexponential growth would be
trends.
So like not necessarily copyingsomeone, but like copying what
the trend is and implementing inyour own stuff.
That's is where the highestleverage of your guys growth for
(35:55):
social media.
So unless if it's likesomething really really edgy,
like bra cruises videos thatcould go viral quick, then yeah,
maybe as well you know thatwould be it too yeah, it's super
random.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I had had one of my daughter's workout videos go
viral and it was like.
I posted it, maybe like in May,and all of a sudden in July it
just took off out of nowhere.
And it started getting sharedand sent around and I got a lot
(36:29):
of volleyball people startedfollowing me and I got a lot of
volleyball people startedfollowing me and it it was like
a maybe like a couple weeks ofjust people started adding me
and following that video andthen it kind of tapered off.
But I was like whoa that, howdo I reduplicate that again?
But it's just so random, Iguess I don't know I it just
(36:51):
came out of nowhere for me.
I don't know if if that's thesame for you yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
So, um, it depends what you want to post to right.
So, like, if you want to beposting more of like the type of
content such as like thevolleyball stuff, right, that
might be your niche.
And then, like, if you keepconsistently posting about more
volleyball content, then youralgorithm would change into that
market and then there will bemore loyal people going towards
(37:17):
you for that.
So it depends, because I didgym content too before and then
I had a lot of followersstarting off with gym content
and then, same thing, it diedoff because I progressed to
something different.
So it also depends on editing,like, um, watching your audience
too, so that is also a big key.
So, in that answer, it israndom where you can get like
(37:44):
those things, but to maintain ityou have to be posting what
type, what your audience want.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Basically, oh, that makes sense, because I'm so
sporadic.
I'll post, uh, like avolleyball video, then I'll post
a trailer for my podcast, thenI'll post what I ate, then you
know, I mean, it's just not yeahit's not a consistent kind of
genre I'm going at, I'm justposting thaddeus, you know.
I mean not like anything kindof targeted to one like
(38:13):
demographic.
I guess that makes sense.
I should kind of do it becauseyour, your stuff is pretty
consistent.
So, because your background isin marketing, I feel like
nowadays the marketing is soconsistent with social media,
more so than anything else.
If you don't have so manyfollowers or doing stuff on
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social media, it's kind of hardto build a brand, in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, big time.
Like I did research Nowadays,like if you want to start a
business, if you want to growtowards like anything that you
want to do, you need socialmedia with it.
That's the only way people cansee it, see what you're doing
and see, like, how you're goingto progress it to people.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
So yeah, yeah, it's hard for people that aren't
creative but want to start abusiness.
They cannot like cross overunless they hire people.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Yeah, that's the main thing.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I guess that's how you can make money, yeah, so
what do you do for a job, or areyou just kind of focused on
this?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, so, oh, my God, I have so much things.
So I work for, I cannot say, myorganization, but I work for a
corporate organization and forthat I do financial marketing.
So what I do is a lot ofconstruction, um, marketing,
construction wait, not marketing.
I do accounting work for thatcompany.
(39:38):
So I do like financial analysis, um what's what they call
reconciliations and all that bigfinancial stuff.
Um, that's my full-time job.
I met my regular nine to fiveand then I have my marketing
business called luminary MNA LLC.
So that is where I do thein-depth kind of like vlog kind
(39:59):
style towards their marketingand towards their work and kind
of implementing my interviewshere and there for some
companies and it works a lot ofcompanies already here in Hawaii
and I'm also going gonna makeanother business coming up, so
like I'm like hella busy thisyear and that one is gonna be
(40:21):
towards the brand, like I'mmaking like clothing kind of
products and that's gonna bee-commerce oh, that's super cool
so yeah, that's yeah that, butthat's how you gotta be in
hawaii, because it's soexpensive.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I know that's crazy so brands can kind of hire you
to do social media for them orlike oh, just make a video
repping our stuff or somethinglike that.
Is that how it works?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
or yeah, so it depends like what you want or
what it wants.
So, like, if it's a big brandthat wants me to be in their
collab video, they just send mea type of merch or like a
certain amount of products andthen I just either showcase or
put it even in my videos andstuff like this.
This is, um, uh, dark sportsthat I help up so sometimes on
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my videos are where it is alwaysfinest.
Two is a big one that it alsohelps support.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Oh, you work with lele then yeah, they're very
cool.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
And then the marketing.
The marketing girl is very fun.
She's been doing interviews too.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
She's pretty cool so yeah, oh, that's super cool.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
So what do you do like for fun, bro, on free time
and like on downtime for fun, Idon't even have downtime I don't
really for fun, I just likehang out my friends, that's like
my good time, like if I justwant to de-stress, get away from
all of this um influencingstuff, then yeah, I just hang
(41:52):
out with my close friends andjust chill that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
How often do you stream uh on twitch?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
yeah, so before before I got banned, I streamed
um tuesday, thursdays andfridays for like the whole night
and then, um, yeah, those arethe times that I stream, when I
post my videos.
I post that tuesday, wednesday,thursdays, sometimes fridays,
if it's like really that good,and uh, youtube around the same
(42:27):
time of my instagram and youtubeand tiktok.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
So yeah, so you really do have it mapped out.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, so like once I post something on Instagram,
then it'll go on my TikTok andthen my YouTube all at the same
time.
So it's just scheduled.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I guess that's how you got to be and people start
kind of expecting it certaintimes.
I know, like for my podcast,people expect it every single
Mondayay and then it's like likethis past weekend I couldn't do
it because I was at a umtournament and I had no time to
edit.
So I'm like, okay, well, I'mjust gonna drop it.
Monday everybody's like where'sthe, where's the next episode?
(43:05):
It's like that's good and bad.
It's like now everybodyexpecting it.
Now I gotta, yeah, come through.
But it's like shit, sometimes Ican't do it.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, but that's okay , you know, like it's part of
life and, like you know, people,even YouTubers and other
creators they take breaks ofwhat they're doing.
So it's totally fine, you know,and yeah you know and yeah, in
(43:39):
in your opinion.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
What do you think the generation is with handling
social media?
Do?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
you think it's in a positive?
Speaker 2 (43:42):
way or negative because it's.
It can go either way and rightnow, like there's so many
negative situations that happenwith social media and but
there's also positive ones and alot of it is just behind fun,
but there's a lot of clickbait,like I've seen murders and shit
on social media and it's likebro like, yeah, I've seen one
(44:04):
video this, uh, I think it wasin australia or new zealand and
these guys are squaring off andone guy just put on a knife in
there, soak, hit his neck andhe's like holding it and he just
dropped.
I'm like, did I just watch amurder?
Like was that real?
Like that looked real.
And then it got taken down andI was like, oh shit, that was
(44:25):
real.
And then I googled it.
I'm like, holy god, that was areal murder.
I just watched it.
I don't know.
I don't like I wouldn't want mydaughter to see that shit.
You know what I mean.
Like it's.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, I agree.
For me it is a negative toll.
To be straight up and completelyhonest, right now it is a
negative and even if you stillpost something really positive,
people will find a way to makeit negative.
Even post something reallypositive, people will find a way
to make it negative, even likemy videos.
I try like when I started.
First I put wholesome contentyou know like what is, what is
(44:58):
your favorite local artist, whatis your favorite local business
?
And then I get roasted from it.
I'm like, oh what?
I'm trying to promote thebusiness, I'm trying to like
help out people and then Igetting like told on.
So I guess it's because peopledon't really care of what they
post, because they wouldn't knowwho that person is in the end
(45:18):
of the day.
So right now it's a negativetoll in my opinion, but I'm
trying to work my way to make itpositive and be more like yeah,
because more aloha yeah, morealoha, like for me, the reason
why I post all that red flagvideos.
People say it's a big negative.
For me it's no, because I'mtrying to educate the younger
(45:41):
generation and the youngerpeople to not be a red flag.
If someone's definitely gotthat vibe from it, yeah, if
someone says if I want to golike people who don't shower is
a red flag, then you should justgo shower so you can end up
dating someone and being better.
You know, not bash on thepeople who don't shower.
(46:01):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
It's like oh, I'm like I just matched three of
those red flags.
Maybe I should change somestuff up, exactly Like that's
what I'm trying to do some stuffup exactly like that's what I'm
trying to do, I don't know.
Like because of social media,there's a lot of clickbait out
there and I always kind ofthought, like the negativity
gets more views, no matter whatyou see, you got you.
(46:26):
You see guys beefing on thestreet.
That's gonna get way more viewsthan someone giving one homeless
guy on sandwich, you know, Imean like it's just yeah, it is
what it is, but with certain uhpages it's, it's highlighted all
the negativity and that's theones that seem to do the best
(46:46):
and I don't know how to switchit around or how it can be
changed.
But what you're doing is justwholesome good vibes, kind of
stuff, and I think that'srefreshing in this day and age
and it's rough because I assumeyou don't have any kids right
now.
Right that you know yeah no, noonce you have kids right and it
(47:13):
becomes a whole new thing,because now you gotta protect
them from the negativity andit's like I wouldn't have any
problem with my daughterwatching your stuff yeah but
there's stuff out there thatit's she.
There's no filter, she couldjust wander onto some a murder
(47:34):
or some I know.
And some of these girls likethey're put oh, it's nuts.
Like I don't understand howthey put themselves out there.
I guess it's so they can linkup to their only fans and it's
like, bro, these girls are doingsome crazy shit on instagram
just to get followers to go ontheir their only fans and oh,
(48:00):
bro, they're banking out though.
But yeah, if I was a little kid, that would be so much.
That would be if I was a youngboy, and seeing all that stuff
like that would be cool, youknow, I mean, but it's
definitely not something that Iwould want my kids to see.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (48:16):
mean, yeah, exactly, and that that gives me fear too.
You know, as an influencer,we're trying to influence people
of what we want to do andcurrently, right now yeah,
you're right, there's so muchpeople trying to influence
people for the bad thing Onlyfans doing all that stuff.
I'm like you know, that's notwhat I want, how our community
(48:38):
is going to be built, you know,and trying to make it towards
something good.
But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Social media is becoming to where kids aren't
living in the moment.
To where kids aren't living inthe moment.
They're always trying to showpeople what they're doing and
not really experiencing thosethings that they're doing.
Because I'm a nightclubpromoter, I always see it.
I've seen girls the whole timethey're in the club they're live
(49:08):
on live instagram or takingvideos and pictures of their own
vip or whatever it's like.
They're not even enjoying themoment that they're in.
They're too busy showing peoplewhat they're doing and it's
kind of sad, bros, it's makes mefeel like people aren't living
in the moment or enjoying thereality of life.
(49:30):
They're just trying to showpeople that they're some kind of
status.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
You know I mean I know, I totally agree.
Yeah, that's so sad and I'mlike I see it too.
Yeah, you're right, in theclubs moani's district, valor's,
everywhere you're like alwaysposting.
I'm like enjoy, enjoy your life.
You know, like social media,it's just like a secondary
aspect.
You know, it's not, it's noteven like a big thing it's.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
It's a tool definitely, but you shouldn't be
putting your whole life towardsit, you know yeah, and then
like 90 percent of time theyhave like maybe like 300
followers, that don't give a ripwhat they're doing but it's so
important to them.
You know I mean yeah, oh, I'mhaving a not a hard time, but
(50:19):
I'm starting up.
My daughter just got instagramand, like I told her I'm I'm
gonna keep the password so Icould jump on anytime, just in
case, and oh, I kind of look andit's.
It's silly and innocent.
Right now she's only a freshman, but I could see how it could
uh go, go in a bad way and thenI gotta have to step in.
(50:41):
But a lot of these influencersdon't feel like I don't feel
like they're taking theresponsibility of, they're not
taking the responsibility ofinfluencing people the right way
or in a way to where it wouldbe kind of better for the
(51:03):
community or I mean just for fun.
But sometimes you influencepeople wrong.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I totally agree with thatand it's in the word you're in.
You're an influencer.
So if you influence people bad,what do mean?
Like, yeah, I totally agreewith that and it's in the word
you're in.
You're an influencer.
So if you influence people bad,what do you think's gonna
happen?
You know I mean yeah, for real.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
and again, like people some of my friends that
started to do influencing stuff.
They started off with pranksand I'm like I am not doing that
like prank videos, likeembarrassing people in public
and stuff.
That's a big no-no for me.
And it's like it also comes towith reputation.
You know you don't want to beknown for being that guy on
(51:43):
social media.
You know you don't want to be abad, negative toll.
You're an influencer, so maybedo something a little more
better.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
And, yeah, bruh those pranks Okay, I got maybe do
something a little more better.
And yeah, right, those prankokay.
I gotta admit I watch a lot ofthose prank ones because oh yeah
, me too, it's entertaining yeah, I guess I'm part of the
problem.
but, bro, some of these guys,they oh, I don't know how they
don't get lit up because they'lllike throw something at people
and then being and like, makelike nothing, and then They'll
(52:12):
throw something at people andthen make nothing.
Some of them do some crazystuff.
I seen one the other day A guywent up to a Crips in one area
in California.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
I saw that one dude yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
He's waving his red bandana.
He's like what are you crazy?
I'm like, bro, you get shottrying to make a YouTube video.
Are you for purpose of that?
Like, yeah, those prank ones ispretty nuts, bro, those guys is
, but then you, it works becauseI'm watching them and like you
know watch the next one.
Next thing you know I would.
(52:48):
I would spend an hour watchingsome chupapi monaño guy throw
shit at people, oh him, oh myGod, that guy.
That guy is kind of funny though, but I seen one where he
pranked his girlfriend that thevet was going to steal her cat.
Did you see that one?
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Oh, my God.
Yeah, I think I saw that one ohshe was going to lose it.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Bro, honestly, why would you do that to your chick?
I was like bro, there's toomuch.
But I see a lot of influencerslike, for fun, that there's this
one couple that I follow hisname is larryl benz or something
like that and he has, like he'sthis black guy and has like
(53:33):
this Latina wife and they justhad a kid.
But they do so much fun stuffto each other and it's funny and
it's fun to watch and it's alsoa positive, it's humor and
that's the kind of stuff I like.
But it's hard to uh filter outthe content that you consume
(53:55):
because, like I said, likenegativity kind of sticks, and
then you get through the rabbithole and then you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
You know what I mean yeah, that's totally it, but,
and it's hard, I'll just sayit's hard and yeah, well, what
you're doing is good.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
I think, um, yeah, just keep putting what I like,
like I said earlier, like you'reputting hawaii people in front
of the the camera and a lot ofthose girls and and dudes get
noticed and but I could spawnsomething and I think hawaii
needs more of that and I thinkyou're kind of paving the way in
(54:37):
some aspect.
What do you?
Speaker 1 (54:39):
think, yeah, most definitely big time.
Yeah, already, hawaii has beena big toll here and helped me up
so much, you know, and like itdeveloped a lot big time.
Like I want to really makehawaii out there, because all my
friends and all the people Imet on the mainland, their
aspect still is saying like, ohmy god, grass huts, what's
(55:03):
really over there, what's like.
Even till now I'm like, okay,well, now I want to try and make
hawaii known and have more likeclarity, saying like you know,
this is not just like a rock,you know there's life here.
You know what I mean.
And I'm trying to likeimplement that and I'm slowly
getting there.
I'm getting comments and DMsfrom other influencers, from LA
(55:27):
California, all that bigmainland stuff, and yeah, it's
growing.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
And I'm trying to get some influencers here too in
hawaii, so it can grow more andnice yeah you ever think about
trying to take this to themainland and do a couple shoots
out there and kind?
Speaker 1 (55:46):
of.
Yeah, I'm already, um, so Ithink in march I'm going to la
to meet up with a couple otherinfluencers.
They kind of do more like thered flag kind of work.
Awesome, we're gonna try Dosome content there and I'm gonna
try To bring them here.
I have Another meeting withPeople in Washington and in New
(56:09):
York, those type of influencersand yeah, it's that Next step To
start to be A little more withthe bigger people.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
So oh, that's cool.
Collab and stuff with withnationally known influencers.
I think also, if you were to doyou and brad cruz would kill
this brad, if you guys went tolike uh, holo, holo fest in
vegas or like maiden oh yeah,like like those kind of shows
because they have big ones invegas, um washington, like any
(56:42):
hawaii based uh show.
Or like get together, like theygot big stuff in vegas because
there's a lot of local peoplethere.
Oh, like they would be stokedto see you guys there.
Like you and him would wouldkill that and they would be so
they would be stoked to see youguys there.
Like you and him would big timewould kill that and they would
be so.
They would be so down to be onlike part of your guys stuff
(57:04):
coming from hawaii.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
That's actually a great idea.
Let me go to that town, yeahright yeah what is?
Speaker 2 (57:11):
the big one they have like holo holo fest and um, not
made in hawaii, it's aloha fest, I forget what they call it.
Yeah, like, just go over therewith your guys mic and camera.
So how do you work it out, bro?
Speaker 1 (57:26):
you have the mic and it's like one of those little,
uh, those little pocket micthings that you stick it in the
mic like yeah, so it's a umrogue mic interview pro, so it
just sticks into the mic and itsticks into my camera and then
with the audio recording andstuff, it can go from feedback
(57:48):
from far length.
Um, I have two broad crews, hastwo too.
So, yeah, it helps so muchbefore when, when he started, I
used my phone.
That's how he started it, andthen now I grew up to like this
big professional camera, whichis pretty dope.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
Oh, you have a legit camera.
Speaker 1 (58:06):
Yeah, I have a legit camera now.
It's like a cinema camera forit, just for these videos.
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
What kind of camera?
Speaker 1 (58:13):
It's a Sony FX30.
Oh, it's crazy what kind ofcamera.
Speaker 2 (58:19):
It's a sony um fx30 oh wow, yeah, people from movies
shoot it, but it's an expensivecamera.
Oh, maybe.
Oh yeah, that's, that's legitthen, and then you just upload
it to cap, cut and mess with itthere yep, upload it to cap cut,
edit it all that good umtrending features and then
upload it there oh brah, that'ssuper cool with cap cut too.
I I was talking to dj hopper boy, who's like the person that's
(58:42):
been helping me out with a lotof stuff because he does video
editing and oh nice, he wastelling me how not upset he was,
but he's done it his whole lifebecause his dad is tiny to
donnie and his his dad is um,had his tiny tv show and nobody
(59:05):
really knew.
But taylor, or dj hopper boy,is the one who edited his whole
show since he was in high schooland doing that from that early
age till now.
He's seen the difficulties itwas from then to now and how
easy it's becoming, where youcan throw up two video clips on
(59:25):
cap cut and it edits it andmakes it transition and make it
all cool, sync to music and allthat before it would take him
like an hour to do or like, ohmy god, yeah.
So with these features a lot ofpeople have tools to create and
create cool stuff.
It's just they gotta take thetime to do it and yeah, it's out
(59:48):
there for everybody to use.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (59:50):
mean, no, yeah, I, um , I can relate so much with dj
hopper boy because before, whenI went to farrington in high
school, we had to edit videosand stuff, so we were editing
towards like the oldest editingsoftware, so I understand how
hard it is editing.
Back then it was so hard andthen like cutting, extorting the
(01:00:13):
audio and all that good stuffit took hours and then now it
only takes less than two minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Yeah, exactly, he said, now I can make on video
like waiting in line at Target.
Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Yeah, so that's the good part about innovation.
So, yeah, big time yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Well, man, we've been going for an hour and I
definitely appreciate you comingon.
I definitely want to have youback because I think in the
future you're going to blow upto something different.
I want to talk to you about it.
In the next year or so, itwould be fun to have you and Bra
Cruz on at the same time.
That would be a fun show.
Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
With Ray.
Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Oh, ray's good right, I just seen a post he made.
He texted me today about somekind of uh, his cruise.
Yeah, I was like, oh, that's Iwould, but there's no way they
wouldn't let me on that ship,because I would have done.
I was like you're not gonna letme on.
I saw this hole in this thinglike or something like.
(01:01:14):
Yeah, I was like pissed bro andlike he flew somewhere to to go
on that cruise and yeah, oh yeah, I felt.
I actually felt some kind ofway and the amount of stuff that
guy does for other people likehe.
I I felt like kind of bad I was.
I was why I watched it at workand I'm like oh, that sucks, bro
(01:01:37):
, like I saw it, he works threejobs too.
Just yeah, I'm like yo man, Iwouldn't know, yeah, and he does
a lot for the youth and yeah,that was, that was just a bummer
, I hope, I hope it works outfor him.
But shout out to ray, yeahshout out to ray mirage and all
his glory.
That guy's fun, bro, he.
(01:01:59):
I had him on and he's like thatguy is just a whole mood he's
fun.
I love him yeah, well, umsocial media wise, where can
people find your content?
How can people check?
Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
so well, just hit me up on my Instagram.
It's going to be Jack ChromeJ-A-C-H-R-O-M-E underscore.
Yeah, I post all my contentthere.
That's my main heart and blood,so check them out.
Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Right on and for us, as always, it's Above the Bridge
.
Podcast on Instagram, youtube,my website is atbpodcom and I'm
Thaddydaddyhi on Instagram.
Um, keep doing what you'redoing, bro, as big as you become
.
What I respect about you is youseem very humble and very down
to earth, and that's what Hawaiineeds that same aloha, that
(01:02:50):
same vibe, that same humbleness,no matter how big you get, and
I think the kind of influencingthat you're doing is in such a
positive way.
Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
I hope more people follow that direction yeah,
appreciate it so much and I lovebeing here right in the future.
Yeah, let's, let's get this bigand then let's start putting
out people here.
Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
So yeah, let's get them up there Right on man,
we'll shock us for the cameras.
Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Right on, we're out.
Shout out to the Artist GroupNetwork Aloha Cheers.
(01:03:46):
Thank you.
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