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October 2, 2024 32 mins

This week’s guest is Tongan comedian Opeti Vaka.

He lives in Foxton, a rural town tucked away in Manawatū - where there’s more fish and chip shops than Islanders. He did his first stand-up show in 2018 and in 2019, won the Wellington Raw Comedy Quest. Until Opeti reaches a point where he can comfortably live off comedy mahi, the grind’s on for his family.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Flavor podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Network, Island Roots Auckland Ways. This one's for the Brown
brothers and sisters who want to be one with themselves,
their culture, their identity, their roots. This is Island Roots
Auckland Ways.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
What's up everyone, and welcome back to Island Roots Auckland Ways. Hi. Hello,
how are you doing, Alyssa?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm good? How are you by? Dying?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Very well because today we have all Betty Vucker and
this guy is the man. He's gay actually he's also
AM's gang. He's going to tell you all about his
Don and Maudy upbringing, as well as how he got
started in comedy. So this was twenty eighteen he started
stand up and then the rest is saystue pretty.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Much pretty much. We won't hold you back any further
because the chat is just so good here it is now.
We are so excited today because we have the incredible,
very very talented Mildy Tongue and comedian or fifty Bucker
with us today. Hey, we always wish we had cool

(01:03):
sound effects so we could do something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm sorry there was no red cap here, Mirror Fox.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
How are you today?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, I'm good, I'm good a little bit tired, but
going pushing.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Through push nice. We had a big weekend here in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, I ended up at four Shells cover lounge.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh man, I think we need to go out to
four Shells. Yes, me and I also have.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Never had to give up from one time in the studio.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, but down at four sells. Shout out to those
guys putting it off for our people. Well, every episode
we share what we love about home, so we ever
you currently live, where you were born, we were raised,
where you feel most grounded. What is home to you
and what do you love about it? We'll start off first,
and what I love about home this week is this
food establishment near my house called two seven five Kai. Oh. Yes,

(02:00):
this place is like soul food to the max. They
sell this dish and it's panco crumbed chicken with mushroom
sauce on top and it's like on a bed of fries,
a nice little slaw on the side. You can order
like a loaded chocolate milkshake and I just feel like

(02:20):
that heart ARII clogging kind of food a speaks to
me and that is one for me this week. There's
also another place that used to be in Autara, it
was called JJ's Eatery that's also a really good spot.
And then there's other places, like we've mentioned it before
on the podcast, ever Lena's Grown. They hold us down. Yeah,

(02:43):
we love food here on IROL, but you really do sucks.
We never got a food sponsor. No, I'm saying that though.
If you'd like to shout us, we'll take it. Yeah,
holl app the social.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
What I love about home this week obviously Money Dealer
two six Cemen is where I've grown up, where I
still live. I love hmhmm Fu Kitchen, which is outside
South Mall. I probably talked about it on the podcast before,
but I went there recently and I had their twitted
chicken middle soup and it's just so good. It's like

(03:16):
soul food. But I feel like a souper is lighter
than something of mushroom sauce. So I don't feel like
likest was getting to that. So that's we're all about
home this week. I love as well, we love I
think there is one in Autun now.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, they've just opened it up. It's so good Vietnamese food.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
What about you.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Home at the moment? Is Foxton absolutely school of hard
knocks and for me, home is where my family is,
my partner and kids. We could be anywhere, but as
long as I'm with them, I would feel at home.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
So lovely, beautiful.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
And there's only five fish and chip shops there. The
food's not that great.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Was that like the biggest adjustment that you had to
make when you moved to Foxton? The food options?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, the food options there was one of them. I
need to always complain about it. Every time we didn't
want to cook dinner. It's like, what are we having
fish and chips?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Awesome? Foxton? Where is Foxton for everyone listening who doesn't
know where.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's between living and Palmerston North and the Lower North Island.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wow, quite remote any Islanders and Foxton.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
There's only one other someone girl at my kids' school,
so that's that's how rare rare.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
We are. Nice people though, down in Foxton.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, nice people. I played rugby down there about ten
years ago.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh wow, okay and.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Pretty It was pretty hard because I was one. I
was the only Islander on the team. Every time if
you made a mistake, you'll hear that racist from Ox
like small town.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, has it gone been there? No racist?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Nah?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I didn't play Rugby anymore.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Just traumatized you there. Oh man, oh well.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Okite, you've just popped up on our radar. But you're
not new to comedy. You've been doing it for a
few years now. Could you tell us what your journey
into comedy and like how long you've been doing it
for because I was scrolling through Instagram and I was
like here, I was thinking I had discovered someone right
at the start of his career. But a bit about it.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, I first started comedy. My first time on stage
was that opened Mic Night in Wellington and at the
end of twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
And that's so I've did well there and I think
my very next gig was a pro gig.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh yoah.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I just kept I've just been keeping at it, just
keep trucking along. And there's been an interesting journey. It's
taking me to some places that I've never thought I
would go and visit. I've been to Kitty Kitty. There
was a shock for me, like my first time catching
up plane because of comedy, a motel, hotel, so like

(06:17):
that like gives me my little frills at that time,
absolutely what comedy is like. But yeah, I've been doing
it since twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
When you first started. I guess, like what got you
into the scene? Were always the performative.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Type, not yes and no? Like around my family, yeah,
around other people, not so much. But I just wanted to.
I was like content with life, like I was just chilling,
like doing not doing much, not bad, You're just getting by.
And I wanted to try something new, and I was

(06:53):
taking off things that what would I be good at?
What would I be good at? My mum always told
me your your stand up comedian, So I thought, give
it a give it a try. I went to watch
open mic night, and I was watching I was like,
these guys suck. It gave me the confidence to sign

(07:15):
up for open mic at the same place. I went
and did it and went well, and I've just kept
going from there.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Before the open mic, did you like rehearse? Did you
like write down jokes that you wanted to say? Or
did you just kind of get up there and ref
I wrote.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I wrote six minutes when I was practicing hard out
and I was because I'm even at school school speeches
and that I never did them, Like I wasn't out
there enough person to go and do speeches or family
speeches and stuff like that. So I was never says, yeah,
I was practicing hard out even YouTube audience. Oh yeah,

(07:51):
practice to like the audience that we wasting.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's so smart.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
What was your what did your first shiit cover? Do
you remb remember what those six minutes entailed?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
My kids? My family? I had some about my dad
because it was a week after my thirtieth birthday. Okay,
so I had jokes about the birthday and pretty much
the same topics, life stories, the same topics that I
do now. Yes, it was pretty much the same stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, so twenty eighteen, now it's twenty twenty four, many
many years later. And how do you feel when you
go up onto that stage? Are you used to it now?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, I'm more relaxed like when I first started. When
I watch it now, it's like quite speedy. Like I
wasn't used to the silence, So when it was quiet,
even though people were interested, I always took it as
it's not no one's laughing, hurry up to the next jrig,
So I try and speed it up to hit that
next chrick, to get that next laugh. But now I'm

(08:54):
a bit more experienced and stuff I didn't do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yo, And sometimes silence can just people like listening or
captivating with what you're saying, like they're waiting for the jokes,
and when you're speeding, they're like wait, wait, wait, wait,
I'm still like three seconds behind.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Agree. That's why I could never be a comedian. Do
you reckon you could be a comedian? I reckon you could.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Maybe I don't know stand up. I'd have to like
do what you were doing and like really practiced beforehand though,
because I don't think I could just get up there
and just be like, hey guys, oh man, well I

(09:40):
recently saw you perform at the Comedy Mixtape and immediately
I was saying time. I was like, this guy is
the bisch Jacks of anyone tonight.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
This guy. She came to me and she was like, bro,
I found.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
This guy for the podcast. So yeah, I think because
I like jokes that are funny, but I'm I can
be a little bit conservative and so so times when
like jokes are really dirty, Like love a dirty joke
every now and then, Yeah, but I love like the
it's kind of like a wholesome quality to your jokes,

(10:09):
like it's I can laugh with it because I can relate,
but it's not like super inappropriate. I don't know, does
it make sense?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know what you mean?

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, Like I heard the Australian comedians are like dirty.
Oh I've got a mate over in Melbourne and she's
finding out because they're real dirty. Yeah, but that's like myself.
For me, like a little bit is okay, but it's
not that funny.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's not all.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's not my kind of joke. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Maybe it's like the Islanders. 't us who have been
like taught like that. That's kind of stuff. Just keep
it at home. I don't know. Yeah, but I guess
with performing, is there an aspect of it that you love?
Like do you much refer the performing or do you
like the riding of the jokes? Like what part of
the comedy? Yeah, what part of the comedy process do
you like the most?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
I enjoy both of them. Writing is becoming more and
more of a challenge these days, just because when I
first started, it's all new material. Yes, you get it
all out, you got your whole life, yeah, with your stories,
and then you've got that out and then it's like
and now what Yeah? Yeah, But to answer that question.
I enjoy both aspects of it. The performing I enjoy

(11:21):
it because you get a bit of a buzz when
everyone's laughing, so you get a little high. And the
writing that's good because when you get a new joke,
you get like a like a little buzz as well,
oh this is gonna work. And yeah, But if I
could choose between both of them, I would rather just write.

(11:44):
I can't do that at the moment. I have to
the joy.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Do you ever write something and you're like, this is
it and then you go for it and you're like,
that was really good?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah? I have.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Actually, that's the funniest thing to me when it doesn't land,
you know, they have an awkward chuckle to yourself. Yeah,
I find that hilarious.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
How do you recover in moments like that when it
doesn't then do you just laugh at yourself?

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, and just move on to the next year, go
back to our material that you know that's going to
make them laughing. Just use that.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Have that type of resilience. I would not like.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Saying and no one laughed. I think I would just cry.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
You've had some quiet nights I've had early on in
when I was doing comedy, early on in their career.
I did a gig. It was a fundraiser for Island
based soccer club Okay, and a lot of them were
Greek Christians. Oh and I went there and I didn't
have much material. I was doing all these Jesus jokes
and it was just quiet, like no one was laughing.

(12:46):
That was a hard It was a long eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's something about like a comedy sit it's actually not
that long, like at least you have a whole hour.
It can just be like ten minutes or less.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Then yeah, most of the lineup shows you're doing eight
to ten and then headline twenty.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Wow, oh buzz.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
So fifteen sometimes you get a fifteen slot or twenty
a year.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
My gosh, what do you prefer longer or shorter?

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Both? I like longer because you get paid more, but
like short because it's easier.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Good answer. What have been your some of your career
highlights stuff for or BT? Are there any gigs that
come to mind and you're like, man, I ate that up.
That was one of my faves. Any moments like that.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
My favorite gig that I look back and really I'm
really happy about is when I performed at the Wellington
Opera House. Oh, and my father was there. So my
dad came and watched and that's the only show he's
ever come and watched, and so he was happier. I know,
he was proud of me. So that always sticks out
to me that time. And also the final of the

(13:55):
Warrington Raw Comedy Quist and my brother came up from
Christian to watch and he watched this and I won
that one.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
That was whoa.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh man?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So cool.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah. What what do your family think about you taking
up this career path? You said earlier that your mom
had suggested it, But how about everyone else? How have
they reacted to you being a comedian.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
They're all good, They're all good with it, like they're
happy and stuff. But I'm sure they're sick of it now,
Like every time I'm like, can you drop me off
to this gig? When I come up talking and they're like, oh,
I'm not again again. But they always wished me luck,
like they're like, good luck with your dig tonight, good
luck with your dig. My partner, she's sick of it,

(14:42):
sick of hearing my jokes?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Because are you practicing these?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah? I was just around the house. Can you be quiet?

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I gotta try.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I was gonna say, you are a dad and you
don't include some of the stories of your kids and
your comedy. Do you ever two such your about them
on them?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
I get them to time me ladies and gentlemen comestairs,
they head start and then yeah, they know most of
my sets, like if I sometimes it's swearing in it,
and I catch them swearing, like don't swear, like, but
you swear in your comedy. No, no, no, just still

(15:24):
different different.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Are they a tough crowd or are they easy to
make laugh?

Speaker 3 (15:29):
They're pretty tough. Yeah, they're pretty tough. They didn't really laugh.
They just sit there and stay waiting for times up.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
They're like the jokes. How many good do you have?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
I've got three. I got a liven year old who's
born on the same day as me, nine years old,
and a five year old son. So the two eldest girls,
and then I got my son.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
At the Yeah, I bet there naturally, uh in itself
to a lot of material things.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, yes, mist of it because I just do talk
about things I know they yeah, yeah, so obviously I
know about the kids. I do a lot of kids story,
kids stories around the kids, and also stories when I
was a kid.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
You were telling us before of Mike that you actually
moved to Tongel for a year when you were younger.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, when I when I was thirteen went there.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Why why were you saying there?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Now? I just wanted to go there.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh jeez, you don't hear about that.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I got pushed into it.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
So I said, yeah, did you necessarily know what you
were getting yourself into by taking that lip of faith?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Not at all? Nothing, nothing but regrets now okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I told me a lot in a good life experience.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Would you even make your kids do that?

Speaker 3 (16:58):
I would, but I would go and stay within there
by themselves.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah. That is very because you hear these stories of
people being sent off to the islands and they have
to be schooled and the motherland, and then it just
really builds character, doesn't it, Because it's very different to
go to New Zealand. What what age? I was thirteen

(17:24):
year okay, start of teenager? How was that adjustment?

Speaker 3 (17:29):
I was, Yeah, I got mocked a lot.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah how did you take that? Were you a little
bit shell shocked by at all?

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Not really? It was okay, but it was a boarding school.
And then I need to get teased a lot because
my tongue really was really poor at that time, and
I need to get teased for being the mo over
seized kid. And until one night I got into a

(17:59):
fight with the one of the boys and then after
that they left me alone.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
We've had quite a few like soundone Maudy on our podcast,
but not tongue and Maudy was moving, I guess kind
of connected to moving to tonge. But was there an
aspect of like either of your ideenities that you were
closer to growing up and then like, did you become
closer to your tongue inside by moving to tongue or no?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, a little bit Like I always because I'm quite dark,
I'm not fair skinned like my mother. My mother's the
Modi Modi irish one. I always related more to my
tongue inside. But then as I got older, I realized,
you're just both. Yeah, You're just it's o key to
be both. Yeah, And so now I'm a lot more

(18:44):
comfortable with my own skin than I was as a teenager,
where I felt like I didn't fit in quite with
this group or quite with that group. Yeah, yeah, but
now it is what it is, and I'm happy with that.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah. I think that's a similar journy that we have
both been on in the past, feeling like not enough
of either when actually it's like you are enough of
both in it's all good just to be both, you know.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, it's a beautiful realization. Often, like I feel like
if you more than one culture, you'll always ask that
question eight are you closer to the side or that side?
And you kind of feel like cornered because it's like, oh, am,
I supposed to feel closer to one side, But it's
all well and good to be well and well attuned
to both sides of your car. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.

(19:29):
And your kids are a fruit salidy.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, they've they've mixed hard up nice.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
They're there, the brown kids along with the same one girl.
That's amazing. I think it was actually telling us the
story off the mic about a tongue and Language Week.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
My partner came home from dropping my son off from
the kindy and Oh, they want you to come in
and do something for a tongn Language Week. I said,
what do you mean I volunteered?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
You?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
I was like, oh, and I had no idea. What
was I going to do. I just went there and
did that like tongue on alphabet and told some stories
about tongue and stuff like that. But it was good.
I was glad I did it. But it's like I
would never be that person to have to do that anywhere,
only in Fox and I wouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
That those ones got volunte hold.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I was going to say, maybe you're the representation the
other tongue and kids need, but the only tong kids
are your kids, like they're doing a joke.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Skin.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Is there anyone in the industry who you feel like
has really like put you on to help you in
the comedy process.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, you trend your housing. He's done in wanting to
and he's helped me a lot. He's put me on
a lot of his gigs and even sometimes when he
offers me a gig sometimes I say no, but he
just reassures me, come on, you can do it. Yeah,
and just push me in that way. And also Janay Henry,
she's good like I can if I have any problems

(21:06):
about comedy or things like that, I can just shoot
her a message and she will help me out. And
Gabby she's good Oran. And there's also a group of
five of Us, Maori and pacifica comedians period and we've
called Chocolate Humor show. We've got a show called Chocolate Humor.
And those are those boys. I can ask anything, ask

(21:27):
them for help, advice or their thoughts on different bits
of the comedy. Yeah, that's Richie Favesi, Cajun Brooklyn, Shady
Tupu and Luke Tawi. Yeah, you know, and we've been
going good. People have been loving our shows. We even
took it to a marii the first time performing.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
At a marai okay, And yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
We took it there and they absolutely loved it.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
I think that's a testament to how much we need
you to take space. Yeah and comedy. Yeah, yeah, this
space for you guys. Yeah, I love that. Who do
you look up to on comedy? Who were your kind
of inspirations influencers when you started back in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Dave Chappelle, Oh bless, he's my favorite. I like different
comedians for different reasons. Like I like Bernie Mack. Yes,
like some of his jokes, not so much, but his confidence,
say the way he's so confident in his jokes that
I really liked that about him.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, when you were starting comedy. Was there anyone that
you were looking to be, Like, I want to emulate that,
like the confidence of Bernie Mack and like, I know,
the cadence of someone else.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Not really. There was one thing when I first started,
a comedian came up to me in caves, Bro, you're
so good because you're just your son, because I didn't
really start watching stand up until I started doing so good.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, I think that such a I don't know, not
trying to ever be like someone else.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, you know, just be yourself? Yeah, so important, not
being a try hard Yeah I guess. Yeah, you've just
been an authentically yourself. You had these life experiences and
maybe it is so good that you started not long
after your thirtieth birthday because you had like thirty years
worth of material to Oh man, that's so good.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
You also run a screen printing business.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, when did you.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Get into that? And then like, wh do you look
for creative your creative inspiration?

Speaker 3 (23:31):
So I got into that. I think it was two
and sixteen, Yeah, I think. So I wanted to start
a T shirt brand, like I was thinking if it
was one thing I could do, like a new idea. Yeah,
oh yeah, I'll start a T ship brand. I googled
how to do it, and screen printer kept popping up,

(23:51):
So I googled all the screen printing shops in my area,
and I went into the first one and I asked them, Oh,
can I work for free in the exchange for some
T shirts and you teach me how to screenprint? He said, oh,
I got nothing at the moment, but here's my email address.
Give me an email and I'll see what I can do.
So I didn't even bother going to any other screen

(24:13):
printing shots after that. I just went home emailed them,
and I emailed them every week for about three weeks,
and then he finally said, come come on down.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's like okay, fine.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Ended up working there for three months and then I
told him I'm going to have to go find the
job because I need money, and he told me, don't
worry about it, you can start working here. So I
worked there for about five years.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
There's the way to go about things.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
I have to try it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Are you the only screenprinter?

Speaker 3 (24:45):
And foxed and fox and I think, So, I've just
got all my equipment in the garage and I've just
been doing my own T shirts on the side. But
I haven't seen anybody else doing screen printing. I know
there's a couple that do heat press.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Oh yes, but not screen printy. Shall we create some
T shirts?

Speaker 2 (25:06):
We can do a collection?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yea made?

Speaker 1 (25:10):
And moving ahead? What are your goals and aspirations with
your comedy?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
I just want to get to the point where I
can live off comedy absolutely. Yeah. So I could quote
an antifier and just do comedy. That's yeah, that aim
for me at the moment.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
That's a big goal. And I feel like the progression
for comedians is that they do something like Celebrity Treasure Island.
But you're just talking about would you want to go
on a show like that ct.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
I, of course, yeah, it will be a good experience.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, you do have your charity picked.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'll do something for kids without fathers something like that. Yes.
I feel like my dad was around, but he wasn't
the best role model for me, and I feel like
the lack of our relationship really that wasn't easy my

(26:13):
teens early teens and teens, and I wouldn't want another
kid to go through this to trying to help them
at that point of their life. Yeah, do something like that.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
There's so many cool like organizations out there who are
doing that kind of work. Yeah, so impactful and influential.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
So TV incid if you're listening next season, c T
I opened the Endless. The biggest fan of literally would be.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Your charity maybe of course. Yeah, supporting l g B
t q I plus Pacific communities in Auckland and rural areas.
But I don't know. There's so many. Yeah, there's so many.
But that's my infect for now.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
See see I I couldn't do that show.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
I feel like you could. It seems like.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
The challenges and the rice and beans. I can't do that.
I love.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I would want to do, like a show like The Block.
I could see us on the Block. Yeah, I love
a little home reno situation.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Do you think you and your partner could do the Block?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
She always talks about it. We should, thought we should
do it, but I didn't think I'm very useless doing
dry stuff. I started and then about five minutes and
I'm like, I can't do this. She takes over. She's
she's quite good at doing that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I feel like living in lockste living in Foxton. You
guys would be on like, what's it called country calendar.
Yeah only tongus. We are going to move on to
our rapid fire now now o pity. This is a

(28:08):
game that we've come up with called funny Joker. We
want you, as a comedian to judge our jokes or
in fact, how dry our jokes are. So Alice is
going to say a joke. I'm going to say a joke,
and you just have to judge which one's being. Okay, okay,
un let's say you go first. I don't even have
a joke here, so stupid.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
I'm laughing because it's dumb. What did the c say
to this end? What nothing had just waved? Okay? Quality specifically, Oh.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
I don't have a joke, per se. I have a story. Okay,
So the story is card I'm a bed driver.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Oh wait, you're doing like legit?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Okay, this is this is a set, so everyone for
coming to my comedy sat Okay, So this is a
story I like to call I'm a bed driver. So
I have been saving for more than a year. Actually,
I've been saving for a car because I crashed my
last car and it was a beautiful car, Mitsubishi Lancer.

(29:22):
Got into a car crash like at the airport Auckland Airport,
which is like the busiest place in the city, and
I crashed into this rich white guy who was screaming
at me. And luckily I had insurance, but I had
what is it? Third party? Is that third party? So
if you're at fault of the crash, you don't pay
you don't get paid for, you don't get paid out

(29:44):
by the insurance company, only the affected person. So that
car's written off. I'm saving, saving, saving, And then I
get this new car finally after a year, real happy
about it, move into a new house, and then I
crash it almost straight away, I think. And this was
driving out of the driveway, and then I hit these

(30:04):
like trees that line the side of my fence. I'm
just bad at reversing, so that happens. And then I
hit my neighbor's car, because how did that happen? Because
shared driveway, shared driveway, and where the house at the
end and the house in the middle. They parked their
cars perpendicular to the garage, so there's like not much

(30:26):
space in between their cars and the fence. This is
a very long story, trust me, And getting to the bit.
So I hit that guy's car that's dramatic. And we
almost crash with a Lissa of the car because we're
on ways to a wedding. So we're just around the
corner outside the Flavor Studio pull out, and then like
we're all having akata, having a fun time, having a laugh,

(30:49):
and then I turned out, and then and then the
list of things that we're nearly going to die. Didn't
worry really going to die?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yes, And then you keep going, I didn't see him, I.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Don't see him. I don't see him, and then yeah,
that happened. And then I've crashed like three times since then,
so that's called I'm a There was a long story
in conclusion, sugar daddies, if you're going to come through,
I need a chauffeur. Thank you so much. Okay, okay

(31:25):
for you to judge.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
A long winded story or just a straight to the
point joke, Mary, very very.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Good.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yes you want to pick a way, I.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Have to go with street to the point.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Thank you for I win every game.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah yeah, I think yeah, so not talented as a.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Photographer or comedian, one job.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Thank you so much for joining us and for judging
us this way. Can now people find you on like
social media and stuff.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
On Instagram and the score vaka and that's probably just
the place to find me or foxing or foxing the
turks factory, working working away from Richard.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
That's the storyline that we're going to be pushing.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, thank you so much for joining us today, my friend.
It's been a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Thank you, Thank you guys, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
And that is the end of Island Roots Auckland Ways
this week. We'll see you on the socials at Island
Roots Auckland Way.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
That's right. I'm on the Instagram and TikTok to me
and message and I might reply our.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Social media queen trying otherwise.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
We will catch you guys next week, next Thursday.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Bye bye
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