November 6, 2024 • 39 mins
This week’s guest is Samoan singer and actor The Western Guide.
Boasting over 80-thousand TikTok followers, he’s all the rage with the kids after playing Demetrius in ‘Inky Pinky Ponky’. The Western Guide also has his hand in a successful country music career, while being heard daily on Niu FM’s night show. His warm, go-getter vibrations show no signs of slowing down.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the flavor podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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. Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Everyone, welcome back to Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, hey, girl, I need to knows off Mike that
I was going to sing, but now I've gotten all shy.
But my favorite okay guest.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Today is the Western.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Guide Coach West, Big Shrimp Neighborhood, A man of many
titles and names, but you all know him as the
Western Guide. One of my favorite songs is ride Home,
and I'm just thinking about how embarrassing it would be
right now if I did actually try and sing the chorus.
So that's so I don't think I will. You can
go streaming on Spotify, though, and here's the chat. Hey everyone,
(00:57):
welcome back to another episode of Island Roots Book. We
are so so so excited to have this steeved. I
want to be like, I don't think I'm quite at
the energy level today, but it doesn't honor to have
everyone's favorite cowboy and Evandale legend, the Western Guy joining.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Us in the studio.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thank you for having me religion, you know, thank you
to the hood.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's assive.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know much about Evandale, but I know the
Errands from the only people I know from Evan.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
There's honestly so many people from.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Sorry, can we just pivot to before we started recording.
We were in a meeting of the studio and suddenly
someone goes, oh, who's that cowboy?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I was like, that's our cowboy. I mean to
record on outdat.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I look up at the window and then i see
Aaron cowboy hair on and I'm like, oh, ships about
it every day?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
No, it's so much. I mean, I was like, I'll
just I was just nice and low key. I have
normal hat. You know what we want to I'm going
to show them.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes every episode, Aaron? We wait? Can I can I
call you eron?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
What's the.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Coach with? You have so many names?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Very what everyone? It's fine?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Maybe just actually coach, We'll go coach?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What started coach? Actually? What started coach?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'll be honest. When we were doing morning Check, we
just didn't want to call myself like my tour or
like producer. What's a really interesting, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Cool and coach.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Just came coach because I was coaching them through like radio,
because obviously I'm the ya wow.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He is somebody, well coach.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Every episode we share what we love about home, So
whether that's we currently live, where you were born, where
you feel grounded, we ever feels like home, what is
it and what do you love about it? We'll start
off first. I think what I love about home this
week is how many parks there are around me.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh right, yes, sorry, I thought you met car parks.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh, there's a shortage of car parks, which is why
I have crashed my car many times. But recreational, yeah,
I'm serable at driving. But actually, let's not shine. I
mean that comedy set. Just yeah, I love how much
greenery there is around my area. We've got a few
(03:52):
parks and they all hold special memories, like the one
closest to my house is like the local to all
our family, so like whenever there was a Smith's Easter
with jamming, volley or basketball there. One of the other
parks is where I played soccer for a while because
I did that in primary school. The other is where
you know, we used to drink in our school, Like,
(04:14):
it's just you know, special memories attached to the parks
around me. That's what I love about her. How about you?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I love that mine is a little bit trivial. I
love celebrity Treasure Island favorite's I dream to go on CTI.
And now that it's back, I'm sure by the time
this episode comes out, it might have already finished already
and we'll know who the winner is. But what are
your recons of the season At the moment, I can't
(04:41):
say it's too early.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Three people I hate.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, three people right now?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Very well.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, but it's also my mum's favorite TV show, So like,
if I'm home on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday night,
it's just a nice chance for to like connect. So
I love ct I. But more than that, I love
hanging out with my mom. Yeah she's really lame, but
I love my mom. I love living with her. So yeah,
(05:09):
that's what I love about Home.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What about you, Coach Home Home is one of those ones,
you know, this is kind of I've kind of been
in time my whole life. I think this year, specifically,
the journey of figuring out exactly where home is has
been kind of a big question. I think, you know,
because I'm Simon and of course some more is the
motherland here obviously I'm what everyone is. But you know,
(05:30):
back home we'd be. But I think when I think
about Tomak, because that's you know, where I'm living at
the moment. What I love about it. It's actually just nature.
Like one of my favorite motorways or highways of State
Highway twenty. You're coming down from like west into the
city and there's just that big body of water right there.
And I've been lucky enough to travel to different countries
(05:53):
and I just every time I drive that specific mon
I'm like, man, it's so good to be home, well.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Proving away from home. You recently went to l a
coach with a group of pastiki creatives. Can you tell
us what that experience was, Like, I mean, off, Mikey
sbout what it might not be like, but like how
enriching was that experience?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It was actually really good. And I remember when I
was approached for it, I was just like on my
balcony staring at the moon and I get a phone
call from Xav and He's like, Hey, I really need
to ever talk to you. So I'm thinking, oh shit,
I must have done something because we had just finished
a show on the VIN and I was like, oh,
I must. You know, whenever you hear like hey we
need to have a conversation, we have a chat, damn it.
(06:31):
So I pick up the phone call. It's like, hey, look,
we're going to go to America and we think it'd
be great if you come along. Wow, So here's me
in like my very just yeah, we're going to go
partying and just have so much fun. That's all I
thought about. I'm going to eat so much food.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah that you guys are going to l a.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We were actually doing quite a bit of work. So
we're really fortunate to my bro Xavier for setting that up.
You know, we're with quite a lot of people. You know,
we had Lena, we had Van Skis, we had Frank.
You know, we had took a whole different variety of things,
and I think it was just cool to showcase Alter
all over there.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It was an interesting thing we did where we were
like trying to figure out a song to sing. Yeah,
and we're like, oh, should sing a Mouldi song because
you know we're from all But then the conversation was
like what there is no one and here's actually molded.
We all actually sund more on tongue in you know,
different like, but that's that's where we're from. Yeah, you know,
so I think it's fine that we can represent as
well as well as you know, being somemon tongue and stuff.
(07:28):
So I think it was really cool that Americans just
they loved it. They're like, wow, oh my gosh, you
guys talk so great and so great. So it was
really like eye opening. I think here in all we
tend to just feel like, oh no, they're better over there,
They've got cooler stuff over there, But actually, whendn't go
over We're actually really you know, we're really talented down here,
(07:50):
and I think we need to tell ourselves that more.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah. How was it to be inside the Water Music
Group building because that's just wow?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah wow. They didn't actually hit me till I was
like walking through. You can probably see a lot of
executives walking around. Yeah, this is real. Actually we got
to sing there as well, know, so the opportunity honestly, again,
it was it was really cool to be there and
share the stage and share the space of you know,
(08:19):
other creators, you know, especially Brianna and this is our
home crew with what their messages and then also us
just being there was amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Did you have in and Out in LA?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You're my honest opinion, in and Out.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Please, because yeah, the double double and animal style.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, everyone might be canceled for this and the dogs.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
To be honest, I heard this because one of my
best feriends is Americans, but she lives here, she studies here.
She's saying, like, in and Out is a lot like
what we have here already, because everything else. The reason
it's so like revolutionary to Americans is because these like
real food, Like it's like real food, you know, whereas
the other takeaways it's not real food. Yeah, so like
for us, it's probably just like substandard, I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So I don't care. I don't want to say dog
shick because that's dog my first three bides. I was
like that, like, you didn't get the sauce. So I
got the sauce, and I was like, Okay, the sauce
makes it bitter, but I wouldn't like run out of
my way to eat and then out every day. It's
really good though, So I don't know that'story about the place.
I don't want to, you know, hating them too much.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Because Americans don't like that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What else did you eat over there? Raising canes is
at a.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Thing we didn't get to try. I really wanted to,
but no one wanted to go. So we had Chick
fil A obviously. Yeah, chake check probably one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I've had lots of good things about Shakeshack.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But I think the number one thing I ate in
l A was the Mexican tackles streets and you have
to get to like a street windor so we were
just like it was like warm up. There was just
like a couple of trucks outside. So we're just like
pulled up and like, yeah, we'll just get a couple
of these and that was great change my life. Almost
cried because they give they give me mixed coach as well.
(10:04):
It's like a different formula.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it's in a glass and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
They were getting really frustrated because I wasn't speaking like
Spanish because.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They thought, look Spanish, get.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
It, you're over there. Terrible. They were just speaking to me,
the ladies.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I am someone.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I'm so sorry. It was I should learn some more Spanish.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Just for that, I feel that that Xavier didn't see
us as well. We are also creative. We can sing,
we can dance. Like so, coach, you've been making seeker
(10:53):
music for a while, But what prompted this pivot to country.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Music because is a big ever kind of R and
B empty.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, the pivotic country was a mixture of a lot
of things, heartbreak being one of them, and alcohol problem
being another one. Damn No, I think country for me,
I've I've listened to country for a long time, not
(11:22):
like hard out like I am now, but you know,
we we kind of just it's been in our lives
for a long time. And I think recently I because
I've been writing for my it's really important, Like even
my running back, all of those stuff. I always try
to make sure I use like some sort of some
one words because at the end of the day, we
want to make music that the world will listen to,
but we still need to have a little stamp of
(11:43):
who we are, you know. So the further I went
down their journey of trying to figure out, Okay, what
is music to me? What is someone music to me?
What do they listened to back in the days it
took me slowly back to country, you know. And so
when I started writing in country, it felt way more natural,
you know. And I think some people do say, and
this possibly me, but country is like a struggle sort
of genre. You talk about your struggles a lot. Yeah,
(12:05):
And when you think about like the old school five
star stuff, it's just their guitars and their stories, you know.
So for me, I think once I started doing that
trying to think of the stories that are about me,
which at the moment it's all like other love stories
or heartbreak. I'll probably get to a song about something
more soon. It just felt natural.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So yeah, when I think of my favorite country music,
it's all storytelling. Like I think of songs like Goodbye
Earl by the Chicks or like the Night the Lights
Went Out in Georgia by like Reaba. They tell like
this whole story, and you almost you have to listen
to the whole thing to catch all of it because
there's like plot twists and like all of this kind
of stuff. I love to hear like a narrative story
(12:45):
from you, something like like a Night the Lights Went
Out in Georgia, where it starts off with like a
murder and then you find out who did it?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
So cool, this is what I need from you?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And what was the support like to your switch to country.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
At the moment, I've been really lucky that everyone's really supportive.
There's me in like two or three comments like you're
not about that life, and I'll be honest, I'm not,
like even like, I don't really go out on my
way to call myself a cowboy, because that's a title
that belongs to cowboys, right, Like, I think the title
that I use is just I'm a country music singer
because I make country music at the moment, and I
hope too for a long time. But at the moment,
(13:39):
it's because it's it's just my my audience is here in,
you know, so it's all just like, yeah, we love it.
It's different, you know. And then you have the likes
of mister Cowboys, so it's you know, he's already really
successful and you have a lot of other people coming
up too, so it's it's a bit more well received.
But I assume in the years to come, you know,
it's the American audience or the wanting overseas that I
have to you know, not convinced, but they'll probably be
(14:01):
the ones to give me a bit of issue. Yeah,
but at the moment it's been great.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I feel like you kind of soft launched the country
career with that viral video a little more humble than that.
Did you always like that? Was that the plan, like that,
I'm going to make this, hopefully people take notice of
it and then start to go into country.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So I think the first country cover I did was
like two thousand and nineteen. Oh was me and Bonti.
Facile was just like we try to make it sound
R and B. It was really great. I loved it.
So I just had this thing of like, I'll just
cover country songs just here and there. So I had
a song called running Back, produced by Astro who want
a PMA by the way, So we had a song
(14:40):
coming out and I hadn't been on social media for
a while because I was just being a dad for ages.
So I was like, Okay, I need to put up
a cover and I was listening to that song for itch.
So that song is by a guy named Eastern Corbyn
and the original song is called a little More Country
than That. So I'd listened to that on the way
to work and every time we said country I'll say, Humble,
just quickly write it, check it on Instagram. It will
be funny as Yeah, I dropped that and Hummel like
(15:02):
went like this and run it Back was kind of
just like hidden.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I didn't realize they came out at the same time.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
So I dropped Humble on Instagram on like Wednesday, and
they running backdropped on Friday, and no one remembers run Back,
but also like running Back, but.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I didn't know that it came out at that time.
It was like a retrospective.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It was just like it was so hidden, and I
felt bad for Esher the time because I was like,
we were working on this and then Humble came out.
I was like yeah, and I didn't even try very
hard with that, so to be honest, I remember.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I just threw it on TikTok and I was like,
this is.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The q accent, I'll be honest. Other than the q accent,
it didn't sound very nice, you know, so I had
to put the twang on it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, that's hard. Well have you gotten used to it
as a well as a professional actor.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
By the way, it is actually hard because we we
have a like really distinctive accent and all so when
you're trying to musket in the song as I have
to go back and re record like certain words and
vowel sounds. So but I think the longer you do
or the better you get at it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Can we talk about acting? So, Inky Pinky Punky was
just massive, huge, like I can't even talk to like
how many kids were talking about it, Like out on
the streets, I'd walk past groups, They're all watching it.
And we had JP and Nucky in the studio and man,
that blew up. So how did you get involved with
(16:29):
that project? Did you envisage going into acting like that?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, I've been acting for a while. Actually, I think
I was an actor before a musician.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, so that came first.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Also shadowt White.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Sunday, I was.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So many times ago it's not fair, but no, it was.
It was really cool Inky specifically, I think Nucky approached
me or someone from the fresh team. They approached me
because I was doing heaps of dumb stuff on TikTok,
being like the red flag trend. You know, we're being
a little a problematic, and then hey, look we have
this character that we think could do. You think you
do really well? So when I auditioned for it, I
(17:06):
didn't hear back for a while and they're like, yeah,
well you got it, you got it, sweet, you do it.
So the whole process of just filming Inky, I wasn't
sure to expect to be.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Honest, like yeah, well you never do really, and then
it's out there, it's getting perceived, and then it just
clocks like a million views.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Now I'm just that person, like because when I meet people,
they're just like Demetrius.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The person sitting in front of us looks very very
different Demetrious.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, but they still see it, and so they kind
of like, I think, especially like the three four months
after it was released, Yeah, they just thought I was
that dude.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Was that kind of overwhelming because Demetrius is not super nice,
He's like.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
A walking Yeah. I had to do a bit of
method acting for the ice to wake up the morning
and like look and like, yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That guy, bro, and he's still like that, so you
had to be.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We had a running joke on set that I wasn't acting.
So they're like, it's great because I don't do a
lot of retakes, so I would like do a think yeah,
cool finish, And I was like, was that all right?
They're like, yeah, so that's how you know.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You must have been drawing that from somewhere. But I'm
very grateful for.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Inky, you know, and I know that story is very
like important for a lot of people out there. So
I was just glad to be a part of that.
And yeah, it's kind of what I'm really well known for,
to be honest.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, people must be surprised to go into your Instagram
and they're like, oh, Frank, he's a country singer.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You take what you get.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So when you introduce yourself, do you say you're a
musician first, because you're also like a radio host and
an actor and then also a dad, Like what is
the thing that you used to be? Like I'm the
Western guide, I'm I.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Just say hi, Yeah, I'm like high, how's it going?
I don't think, I think, because I do so many
different things, it's kind of hard to just be like,
I'm only a country singer a musician, so I don't
really really say.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I love that, but not like putting yourself in a
box that's really important.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I think I've always believed in that, and I
think that's why the genres whiches have been kind of so,
you know, because I've always told myself that I don't
want to be defined to a genre a little bit
like how Chris Brown does whatever genre he wants and everyone.
But yeah, I think it's cool for us to just
try different things. If it works, it works. If it doesn't,
then up to you. If you like it, then no worries.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I love the bottom of the video, it's so good,
as I do love all the videos you made with
Tara Patch. What's it like to work with the creative
team like that because it feels like they really get
you truly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, I think first and foremost, I got to thank
my brother Samson Rambo. That's where the connection came from.
So me and Samson were like, we're broader, so we
were like, hey, let's do this idea. I went to him,
I was like, I really want you to direct this
music video, which is save Her Mine, and so he's like, cool,
leave with me. I'll get a team together. And so
him and Teresa Tereslowe also she she produced seving My
(20:09):
They went away and then they came back. They let
me just focus on being an artist, but they kind
of gathered that whole team. You know the title Patch Team,
and that's where I initially made it one of mine.
So it was just really cool to be amongst him
because they just they just get it, really get it.
I honestly, when we were see I was like, look out,
just leave with you guys. I'll just whatever you want
to do, just thought. So when I saw the setups
(20:30):
so sever mine for the first time, I was like
losing my marbles, Like, yeah, sea was everywhere, and then
there's the water thing. I was like, okay, cool. And
so when we when we finally came around to bottom
of the bed, so Ista, the director, I was just
at the title pat as a joke, like I think
I was just hanging out and she's like, hey, let
me do a video for you. I thought she was joking.
I was like, yeah, whatever, you know, we'll do it,
(20:52):
and so she took that idea. We got the funding
and then I'm pretty much you know, shot at Esta
Vera Rachel as well, who produced it. They kind of
did the whole thing. They have all their context pulled everyone.
I'm so grateful because you know who am I I'm
just like, you know, just a little kid from.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Stalk together someone.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Thank you so it's cool, and I honestly want to
work with them, Like for every music video realistically, you've
got to, you know, try different people and stuff. So
I probably won't do that because I just keep approaching
it and watch more work. But yeah, no, I love
the title Patch and I feel like if you haven't
worked with them, or if you haven't been in the space,
(21:32):
just go there. It's great.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know, the space is amazing. Hey, it is so cool.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, it's so cool. I see it pretty much every
day because I go to the gym upstairs.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I had there my model, So you were a tiny
part of that. Because you're I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I'm like the little ship of the title Patch. Here
he is blood love my total Patch family. Shout out
to the muff Little sisters.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, incredible people.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I feel like also, your name always pops up from
people's like thank yous on like Instagram questions. I'll just
be scrolling and my friend friends will be like, thank
you so much at the Western guy for helping me
with us. Do you like, do you actively like I
can help you with that? Or do people approach you
for that kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh? I think it's just whoever's around sometimes people ask
me for help, and if I can help, I will.
If I can't, I'll maybe point them in the right direction.
I do sometimes say yes and then forget, and then
people are like, hey, you're supposed to help me all this.
I'm so sorry, man, I was asleep terrible replying to
people too, But yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I thank god that he came here.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So it was an email, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Because I was like, oh, I'd better like say something
really like proper, because I don't want to be like,
oh sorry, I'm actually like flat out right now. So
I was trying to think of either the real casual
approach all the real like that was very I was
on a conversation with my manager, so for context, we
was listening. I was asked to come on earlier on
in the year, and so I was speaking to my
(23:12):
manager at that time. I think we're getting ready to
film Bottom of the Bed. I was like, there's a
lot of things going do we have the capacity to,
you know? And so we decided maybe not right now
because there's too many things going on. It was like, okay,
so how do I say like no but very politely.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I've never such a.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Like of like you were about to say.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Some as well. I like wrote out like a drifts
into my manager and she was like, let me write
it for this cool and so I sent that out
and I saw as I was flying, I was like, damn,
I should have taken it stuck right now, thank you
for inviting.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful that you took the
We get before we get into our rapid fire. We
want to know what's next for Coach West.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Honestly, usually I have an answer for this when I
want to have this question, but I think lately it's
kind of been I don't know. That's a.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's a.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's kind of a great area right now. There's a
lot of things I've said I want to do, but
now I'm like, do I want to do that? You know,
I've been saying I was going to do a EP
this year, and the more I write, the more I'm like, actually,
I should probably like wait off because I kind of
want to put a little bit more if a little
bit more time, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
So do you see yourself creating like a body of work,
like a debut album or something. Liking the little single?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So sure, I think obviously like the industry will tell
you like don't do an album or EP until again,
like you need it, Like when people we need more,
we need more. But I think when you're in a
space and you're writing, like right now, I'm in country,
so I'm trying to like write out finding that my
writing is changing as I'm like making more music. So
like something I wrote a couple of months ago to
me now so like, ah, it's a bit old too.
So I think what's next is just to keep writing,
(25:06):
get on the pharone a little bit more, just spend
time being a dad. I think that's like my favorite
thing to do is just hang out with my kid. Yeah,
to get a karate recently, it was so fun. Oh,
I'm like I want to do this's great. I think
I think it's just that, I think just allowing myself
to just live in my moment, like just you know,
(25:28):
live life a little bit and not to be so
worried about what I got to do, what's coming up next,
what's like to get to the stage I'm going to
do this. This This is just like you know, what
if it if it comes to me, it comes, it
comes to me.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Such a wonderful answer.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
We don't chase. We attract very absolutely very so if
you're there.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The email. All right, let's move on to our rapid
fire came now, Coach. This one's called wist is Best.
So we are die hard.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Die hards outside west Side novices, don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Literally don't know anything about were stalking like another world.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
From west Side on. We were in Newland. That was terrifying.
No shady west Side. That was just not a good night.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But that's like that's a thing though, because growing up,
whenever I'd go south, I feel like it's a whole
different thing.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And you know the suburb names, but you don't know
how they connects, Like really, what is it like? Disc know,
like when you're like disorientated.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, there I say it, There I say it. But
growing up, you know this is not just me by
the way, this is what was put on to me
as a kid. We will talk that west Siders are
better than south Siders. You know, up until I was
about maybe thirteen, I was like, hold on, what the same?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, we are quite.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Growing up, we like how much?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So yeah, this gave us called wiss Best. So we
want you to tell us the best places out for
these three things. First things. First food we should we
go to for food out with.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That's a hard one. There's so many places. Again, it
comes down to like it depends, like what do you
feel like you have a lot of new feudoints have
opened up recently out you know, it's like, what's.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
The best place out west for views?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh damn, just drive around anybody who's like born and
raised in himself if you know where to is. There's
a little look out there where they usually lock the
gates after you can see the sky tower and.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Can't okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not someone taking no no, no no, someone's taking me
to mission by no, no no, just for a walk.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And I felt and seeing some things.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I want to put it to do with Bubba. It
was the first time I met her. She was a
little bit scary back then, you know, from celebrity, so
she was kind of in her like real rebellious stage.
And we're hanging out, we're trying to do a podcast together. Yeah,
and she's like, I'm just get for a drive and
drove me out to pok and were sitting at the
car and this car comes up like on the road
(28:32):
in the and I like locked the door straight away
and she starts laughing. She's like, you scaredy cat. This
guy is scaredy And I was like they were just
they wanted to light her, That's what they wanted. She
was like, I cannot believe you just locked the doors.
You racist, and like.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
This episode is going to cancel you. Yes, I was.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I was young.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Out there. It was funny, but I always remember that reason.
I was like, damn it, Bubble. She'll probably tell that
really shame me for it.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But Buba's another person that we tried so hard to get.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, we just doesn't. She just doesn't reply tonything. She's
terrible reply to my messages.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Lastly, beast place out for fun, Like where's a nice
recreational place like pools or somewhere to play sports.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I don't know. I think people might say West Wave,
you know, but West Wave pools, But I think I
think it's important to just say Past Park. Everybody knows
Past Park, you know. It's it's kind of ey, that's
kind of our big park that we have, like touch
(29:52):
the random people just jump up on the field and
play touch together and then comps used to be there
as well. The football fans. They have their like soccer
fields there. So I think past Park is like the
that's the spot. It's the spot for fun. What do
you say? Yeah, aside from the other sort of fun
things that we do, like hang a bar, but we
won't get into that.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Because I hang up is that and Henderson?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I think that's that's one of the only like main
bars that's been around for ages.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I don't know, it's really wholesome fun.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
What's sort of funny?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
No no, I didn't actually know what type of fun
bear because he did the game that's your fun, and
I was like, fun.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Fun, what's like to play around?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's that's very like vague playing around.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's also very vague. Isn't groove by out west or.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
There's like Mount Eden cross the road from Eaton Park?
Sorry the groove.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
It's just because it's on the western line. I can't drive.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I can't drive, so use both can't It's just like
a non driving show.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I have no license, no drive.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I was driving on no license for three years.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
No no, no, no, like I got any car and like
it's not good, like a phobia. It's like a phobia
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yeah, no, no, no, I'm really interested.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So I went to school in Central but live and
brought up out South, so always public transport and then
I only drove a car for the first time maybe
like a month ago. They go over ten k's. I
think the max I went was thirteen k What was teifying? Yes,
(31:42):
it was terrifying, Like some people are like that.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I want to be supportive, but it's okay.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You don't have It's okay because people always meet me,
they're like, wow, you you're you have a master's but
you can't drive. And I'm like, Rick, what would they say?
Because like very very intelligent, but the one thing that
you can't do is drive a car.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That's really in the school though, like you don't need
to drive in today's world, like we have Uber and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Like that, but it's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Just try like real small.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That's a really good idea.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Ride a bike, okay, two wheels to three wheels?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
What's the three wheel a trike?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I think it trikes like five wheels or something.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I'm sorry, no, I think that does three wheels, like
you have two training wheels at the bit.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah. Look, but I really hope you get over that
much fun. It helps, like with like when you're just
down sometimes late night truly yeah, and then you just speed.
I mean okay, I think there's two words belong together.
It'll be good.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, make it, thank you take it. This is my
new content now that the podcast is even. Then drive
do you want to be the first? And we have
to use your car as well? If you're the gift,
it's also your.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Car the first and last of course.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Wait, how did you learn how to drive? Did someone
teach you?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah? Almost crashed. It was my dad's work car. He
thought it would be funny. Were new Lin by the way,
new We're in the car park where Burger King. It's
the old cinemas, which so I get in the car
and when I driving and it's like yeah, now put
your foot down, and I just froze and my foot
was like on the floor and went straight for liss
(33:57):
and to like jump over like albow and the star
because I just froze. And then you had to like
put his hand on the brake.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
And this was the door for like Lismos and no
way one of the barrier things.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And I was like a raid Lismo.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
My dad said so many lovely words that day and
I didn't want to drive.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I didn't realize when you go to break you don't
just put your foot down at once, like like it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You have to like.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
To keep your foot on the.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
You don't just pretty square on the.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Driver.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I like that you can get that rich Oregon.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Just learn how to drive a big car. I learned
how to drive in a van because after that smoker,
I learned how to drive driving anything, and then you
start when you drive smaller cars, it's a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I feel like, being country, you should be able to
drive a manual? Can you drive a menu?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Did you do your research on this? Because I always
get asked this question. Wait, reason I can't drive a manual?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
And that's totally fine because I can't drive period.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I remember I told them I went down and saw
this farm and Raglan and he's like, can you drive manual?
And I was like, and he's like, what the fuck?
You can't be country? You're not drive? Yeah, someone wants
to teach me, please, because I want to race and
I love out my Need for Speed dreams.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I love Need for Speed. By the way, it was,
it was such a time. I love that game. What
was your favorite Need for Speed?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Underground, underground to yeah, underground to the white Mercedes with
the blue neons, blow the car a little bit, had
some side skirts and you have you have to have
the Japanese like riding on the side.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, I don't get the reference. I'm so sorry, guys.
What is need for speed?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
It's a two game.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
But I was playing like head on.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
The World Tour, so you're like, let's pay Brackett stolen.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Buzz.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
The first time I played, I was.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Like, this is so played the head on tenor game.
Or I was playing sing styles and I would always
get a million in the climb.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
So where is the you know, the fruits of your
labor christ witting.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And sitting in a memory card. No, but you know
she faked her country accents like the first five years
of her career. So the twang, it's okay that it
doesn't come naturally.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
You have to work for it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You have to work for it.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
And now she's a billionaire. So that'll be you one day,
even though your circumstances are very, very very different. I
think that will be.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah. I'm a white girl yea with my guitar.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Blonde hair. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, investment bankers.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
This is a little bit creepy, Loder. Those Hollywood tours
that we did, they were like taking us to celebrities housing.
This is a news house. These poor people like live
their lives and this is real creepy.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I am a Yeah. I went to Melvin for a
concert this year and everything it was good, it was incredible.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
And saying that is Island roots Auckland Ways with the
Western Guy. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
No, thank you for having me here, and thank you
for the platform, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You know where? Can we follow you on social media?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Okay, please only follow me on social media and that
follow me around the mall because that's really creepy and
it happens a lot.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I those Westfield Monico or the.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Westfields, the Western Guide. I love city, it's home.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
We're getting wait wait wait, wait, hold on wait question.
Where does the name of the Western Guy come from?
Just from growing up out.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
West Yeah, it kind of started like that. Yeah, before
Western Guid, I was my artist name was fifth three. Yeah,
it sounds really crazy. I went to enter fifth free
Rockstar and my I G but it didn't save so
it cut off halfway. So I just I just rolled
it that for ages and then I remember puttying nextor
came out and I go, what a dick, why would
you Why would you call it such an elaborate name.
(38:04):
I'm going to do that. What's what am I? I
live out West. I know a lot of like secret spots,
you know, So I was like, I'm just I can
show you around the West. That means so much more.
But back then that's where it started from. Now I like,
you know, tell people, it's kind of a journey into
like figuring out exactly who I am and what I am.
(38:25):
You know where we're from. We're obviously children of the diaspora. Yeah,
so that's where the wistern. It's like Western society journey.
Over the years, I've built like I'm more understanding, like
I've actually chosen the right name, and now I'm doing
country like because country wisdom. Yeah, but yeah, it was
just because the party. Hey party, if you're listening, body
checks the song. All right, thank you so much for
(38:49):
coming on, Thank you again, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And that's Island Roots Auckland Waves for yet another week.
You can follow us on the socials and Island Roots
Aukland ways And you know what, I just realized you.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I think we kind of it was implied though. It's
at the Western.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Guide, at the Western Guide on Instagram the things.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So go look him up, listen to his music, and
listen to our podcast Big Shrimp his.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Name, Damn city Side, Bobby boy Man, get out of
here with all your nicknames. Thank you Coach for coming
on yes, and.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Thank you guys for listening.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Chat later by
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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. Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Everyone, welcome back to Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, hey, girl, I need to knows off Mike that
I was going to sing, but now I've gotten all shy.
But my favorite okay guest.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Today is the Western.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Guide Coach West, Big Shrimp Neighborhood, A man of many
titles and names, but you all know him as the
Western Guide. One of my favorite songs is ride Home,
and I'm just thinking about how embarrassing it would be
right now if I did actually try and sing the chorus.
So that's so I don't think I will. You can
go streaming on Spotify, though, and here's the chat. Hey everyone,
(00:57):
welcome back to another episode of Island Roots Book. We
are so so so excited to have this steeved. I
want to be like, I don't think I'm quite at
the energy level today, but it doesn't honor to have
everyone's favorite cowboy and Evandale legend, the Western Guy joining.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Us in the studio.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thank you for having me religion, you know, thank you
to the hood.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's assive.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't know much about Evandale, but I know the
Errands from the only people I know from Evan.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
There's honestly so many people from.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Sorry, can we just pivot to before we started recording.
We were in a meeting of the studio and suddenly
someone goes, oh, who's that cowboy?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I was like, that's our cowboy. I mean to
record on outdat.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I look up at the window and then i see
Aaron cowboy hair on and I'm like, oh, ships about
it every day?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
No, it's so much. I mean, I was like, I'll
just I was just nice and low key. I have
normal hat. You know what we want to I'm going
to show them.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes every episode, Aaron? We wait? Can I can I
call you eron?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
What's the.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Coach with? You have so many names?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Very what everyone? It's fine?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Maybe just actually coach, We'll go coach?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What started coach? Actually? What started coach?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'll be honest. When we were doing morning Check, we
just didn't want to call myself like my tour or
like producer. What's a really interesting, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Cool and coach.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Just came coach because I was coaching them through like radio,
because obviously I'm the ya wow.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He is somebody, well coach.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Every episode we share what we love about home, So
whether that's we currently live, where you were born, where
you feel grounded, we ever feels like home, what is
it and what do you love about it? We'll start
off first. I think what I love about home this
week is how many parks there are around me.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh right, yes, sorry, I thought you met car parks.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh, there's a shortage of car parks, which is why
I have crashed my car many times. But recreational, yeah,
I'm serable at driving. But actually, let's not shine. I
mean that comedy set. Just yeah, I love how much
greenery there is around my area. We've got a few
(03:52):
parks and they all hold special memories, like the one
closest to my house is like the local to all
our family, so like whenever there was a Smith's Easter
with jamming, volley or basketball there. One of the other
parks is where I played soccer for a while because
I did that in primary school. The other is where
you know, we used to drink in our school, Like,
(04:14):
it's just you know, special memories attached to the parks
around me. That's what I love about her. How about you?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I love that mine is a little bit trivial. I
love celebrity Treasure Island favorite's I dream to go on CTI.
And now that it's back, I'm sure by the time
this episode comes out, it might have already finished already
and we'll know who the winner is. But what are
your recons of the season At the moment, I can't
(04:41):
say it's too early.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Three people I hate.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, three people right now?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Very well.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, but it's also my mum's favorite TV show, So like,
if I'm home on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday night,
it's just a nice chance for to like connect. So
I love ct I. But more than that, I love
hanging out with my mom. Yeah she's really lame, but
I love my mom. I love living with her. So yeah,
(05:09):
that's what I love about Home.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What about you, Coach Home Home is one of those ones,
you know, this is kind of I've kind of been
in time my whole life. I think this year, specifically,
the journey of figuring out exactly where home is has
been kind of a big question. I think, you know,
because I'm Simon and of course some more is the
motherland here obviously I'm what everyone is. But you know,
(05:30):
back home we'd be. But I think when I think
about Tomak, because that's you know, where I'm living at
the moment. What I love about it. It's actually just nature.
Like one of my favorite motorways or highways of State
Highway twenty. You're coming down from like west into the
city and there's just that big body of water right there.
And I've been lucky enough to travel to different countries
(05:53):
and I just every time I drive that specific mon
I'm like, man, it's so good to be home, well.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Proving away from home. You recently went to l a
coach with a group of pastiki creatives. Can you tell
us what that experience was, Like, I mean, off, Mikey
sbout what it might not be like, but like how
enriching was that experience?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It was actually really good. And I remember when I
was approached for it, I was just like on my
balcony staring at the moon and I get a phone
call from Xav and He's like, Hey, I really need
to ever talk to you. So I'm thinking, oh shit,
I must have done something because we had just finished
a show on the VIN and I was like, oh,
I must. You know, whenever you hear like hey we
need to have a conversation, we have a chat, damn it.
(06:31):
So I pick up the phone call. It's like, hey, look,
we're going to go to America and we think it'd
be great if you come along. Wow, So here's me
in like my very just yeah, we're going to go
partying and just have so much fun. That's all I
thought about. I'm going to eat so much food.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah that you guys are going to l a.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We were actually doing quite a bit of work. So
we're really fortunate to my bro Xavier for setting that up.
You know, we're with quite a lot of people. You know,
we had Lena, we had Van Skis, we had Frank.
You know, we had took a whole different variety of things,
and I think it was just cool to showcase Alter
all over there.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It was an interesting thing we did where we were
like trying to figure out a song to sing. Yeah,
and we're like, oh, should sing a Mouldi song because
you know we're from all But then the conversation was
like what there is no one and here's actually molded.
We all actually sund more on tongue in you know,
different like, but that's that's where we're from. Yeah, you know,
so I think it's fine that we can represent as
well as well as you know, being somemon tongue and stuff.
(07:28):
So I think it was really cool that Americans just
they loved it. They're like, wow, oh my gosh, you
guys talk so great and so great. So it was
really like eye opening. I think here in all we
tend to just feel like, oh no, they're better over there,
They've got cooler stuff over there, But actually, whendn't go
over We're actually really you know, we're really talented down here,
(07:50):
and I think we need to tell ourselves that more.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah. How was it to be inside the Water Music
Group building because that's just wow?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah wow. They didn't actually hit me till I was
like walking through. You can probably see a lot of
executives walking around. Yeah, this is real. Actually we got
to sing there as well, know, so the opportunity honestly, again,
it was it was really cool to be there and
share the stage and share the space of you know,
(08:19):
other creators, you know, especially Brianna and this is our
home crew with what their messages and then also us
just being there was amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Did you have in and Out in LA?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You're my honest opinion, in and Out.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Please, because yeah, the double double and animal style.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, everyone might be canceled for this and the dogs.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
To be honest, I heard this because one of my
best feriends is Americans, but she lives here, she studies here.
She's saying, like, in and Out is a lot like
what we have here already, because everything else. The reason
it's so like revolutionary to Americans is because these like
real food, Like it's like real food, you know, whereas
the other takeaways it's not real food. Yeah, so like
for us, it's probably just like substandard, I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So I don't care. I don't want to say dog
shick because that's dog my first three bides. I was
like that, like, you didn't get the sauce. So I
got the sauce, and I was like, Okay, the sauce
makes it bitter, but I wouldn't like run out of
my way to eat and then out every day. It's
really good though, So I don't know that'story about the place.
I don't want to, you know, hating them too much.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Because Americans don't like that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
What else did you eat over there? Raising canes is
at a.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Thing we didn't get to try. I really wanted to,
but no one wanted to go. So we had Chick
fil A obviously. Yeah, chake check probably one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I've had lots of good things about Shakeshack.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But I think the number one thing I ate in
l A was the Mexican tackles streets and you have
to get to like a street windor so we were
just like it was like warm up. There was just
like a couple of trucks outside. So we're just like
pulled up and like, yeah, we'll just get a couple
of these and that was great change my life. Almost
cried because they give they give me mixed coach as well.
(10:04):
It's like a different formula.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, it's in a glass and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
They were getting really frustrated because I wasn't speaking like
Spanish because.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They thought, look Spanish, get.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
It, you're over there. Terrible. They were just speaking to me,
the ladies.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I am someone.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I'm so sorry. It was I should learn some more Spanish.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Just for that, I feel that that Xavier didn't see
us as well. We are also creative. We can sing,
we can dance. Like so, coach, you've been making seeker
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music for a while, But what prompted this pivot to country.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Music because is a big ever kind of R and
B empty.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, the pivotic country was a mixture of a lot
of things, heartbreak being one of them, and alcohol problem
being another one. Damn No, I think country for me,
I've I've listened to country for a long time, not
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like hard out like I am now, but you know,
we we kind of just it's been in our lives
for a long time. And I think recently I because
I've been writing for my it's really important, Like even
my running back, all of those stuff. I always try
to make sure I use like some sort of some
one words because at the end of the day, we
want to make music that the world will listen to,
but we still need to have a little stamp of
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who we are, you know. So the further I went
down their journey of trying to figure out, Okay, what
is music to me? What is someone music to me?
What do they listened to back in the days it
took me slowly back to country, you know. And so
when I started writing in country, it felt way more natural,
you know. And I think some people do say, and
this possibly me, but country is like a struggle sort
of genre. You talk about your struggles a lot. Yeah,
(12:05):
And when you think about like the old school five
star stuff, it's just their guitars and their stories, you know.
So for me, I think once I started doing that
trying to think of the stories that are about me,
which at the moment it's all like other love stories
or heartbreak. I'll probably get to a song about something
more soon. It just felt natural.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So yeah, when I think of my favorite country music,
it's all storytelling. Like I think of songs like Goodbye
Earl by the Chicks or like the Night the Lights
Went Out in Georgia by like Reaba. They tell like
this whole story, and you almost you have to listen
to the whole thing to catch all of it because
there's like plot twists and like all of this kind
of stuff. I love to hear like a narrative story
(12:45):
from you, something like like a Night the Lights Went
Out in Georgia, where it starts off with like a
murder and then you find out who did it?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
So cool, this is what I need from you?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And what was the support like to your switch to country.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
At the moment, I've been really lucky that everyone's really supportive.
There's me in like two or three comments like you're
not about that life, and I'll be honest, I'm not,
like even like, I don't really go out on my
way to call myself a cowboy, because that's a title
that belongs to cowboys, right, Like, I think the title
that I use is just I'm a country music singer
because I make country music at the moment, and I
hope too for a long time. But at the moment,
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it's because it's it's just my my audience is here in,
you know, so it's all just like, yeah, we love it.
It's different, you know. And then you have the likes
of mister Cowboys, so it's you know, he's already really
successful and you have a lot of other people coming
up too, so it's it's a bit more well received.
But I assume in the years to come, you know,
it's the American audience or the wanting overseas that I
have to you know, not convinced, but they'll probably be
(14:01):
the ones to give me a bit of issue. Yeah,
but at the moment it's been great.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I feel like you kind of soft launched the country
career with that viral video a little more humble than that.
Did you always like that? Was that the plan, like that,
I'm going to make this, hopefully people take notice of
it and then start to go into country.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So I think the first country cover I did was
like two thousand and nineteen. Oh was me and Bonti.
Facile was just like we try to make it sound
R and B. It was really great. I loved it.
So I just had this thing of like, I'll just
cover country songs just here and there. So I had
a song called running Back, produced by Astro who want
a PMA by the way, So we had a song
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coming out and I hadn't been on social media for
a while because I was just being a dad for ages.
So I was like, Okay, I need to put up
a cover and I was listening to that song for itch.
So that song is by a guy named Eastern Corbyn
and the original song is called a little More Country
than That. So I'd listened to that on the way
to work and every time we said country I'll say, Humble,
just quickly write it, check it on Instagram. It will
be funny as Yeah, I dropped that and Hummel like
(15:02):
went like this and run it Back was kind of
just like hidden.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I didn't realize they came out at the same time.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
So I dropped Humble on Instagram on like Wednesday, and
they running backdropped on Friday, and no one remembers run Back,
but also like running Back, but.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I didn't know that it came out at that time.
It was like a retrospective.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It was just like it was so hidden, and I
felt bad for Esher the time because I was like,
we were working on this and then Humble came out.
I was like yeah, and I didn't even try very
hard with that, so to be honest, I remember.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I just threw it on TikTok and I was like,
this is.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The q accent, I'll be honest. Other than the q accent,
it didn't sound very nice, you know, so I had
to put the twang on it.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, that's hard. Well have you gotten used to it
as a well as a professional actor.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
By the way, it is actually hard because we we
have a like really distinctive accent and all so when
you're trying to musket in the song as I have
to go back and re record like certain words and
vowel sounds. So but I think the longer you do
or the better you get at it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Can we talk about acting? So, Inky Pinky Punky was
just massive, huge, like I can't even talk to like
how many kids were talking about it, Like out on
the streets, I'd walk past groups, They're all watching it.
And we had JP and Nucky in the studio and man,
that blew up. So how did you get involved with
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that project? Did you envisage going into acting like that?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, I've been acting for a while. Actually, I think
I was an actor before a musician.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, so that came first.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Also shadowt White.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Sunday, I was.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So many times ago it's not fair, but no, it was.
It was really cool Inky specifically, I think Nucky approached
me or someone from the fresh team. They approached me
because I was doing heaps of dumb stuff on TikTok,
being like the red flag trend. You know, we're being
a little a problematic, and then hey, look we have
this character that we think could do. You think you
do really well? So when I auditioned for it, I
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didn't hear back for a while and they're like, yeah,
well you got it, you got it, sweet, you do it.
So the whole process of just filming Inky, I wasn't
sure to expect to be.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Honest, like yeah, well you never do really, and then
it's out there, it's getting perceived, and then it just
clocks like a million views.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Now I'm just that person, like because when I meet people,
they're just like Demetrius.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The person sitting in front of us looks very very
different Demetrious.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, but they still see it, and so they kind
of like, I think, especially like the three four months
after it was released, Yeah, they just thought I was
that dude.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Was that kind of overwhelming because Demetrius is not super nice,
He's like.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
A walking Yeah. I had to do a bit of
method acting for the ice to wake up the morning
and like look and like, yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That guy, bro, and he's still like that, so you
had to be.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We had a running joke on set that I wasn't acting.
So they're like, it's great because I don't do a
lot of retakes, so I would like do a think yeah,
cool finish, And I was like, was that all right?
They're like, yeah, so that's how you know.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You must have been drawing that from somewhere. But I'm
very grateful for.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Inky, you know, and I know that story is very
like important for a lot of people out there. So
I was just glad to be a part of that.
And yeah, it's kind of what I'm really well known for,
to be honest.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, people must be surprised to go into your Instagram
and they're like, oh, Frank, he's a country singer.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You take what you get.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So when you introduce yourself, do you say you're a
musician first, because you're also like a radio host and
an actor and then also a dad, Like what is
the thing that you used to be? Like I'm the
Western guide, I'm I.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Just say hi, Yeah, I'm like high, how's it going?
I don't think, I think, because I do so many
different things, it's kind of hard to just be like,
I'm only a country singer a musician, so I don't
really really say.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I love that, but not like putting yourself in a
box that's really important.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, I think I've always believed in that, and I
think that's why the genres whiches have been kind of so,
you know, because I've always told myself that I don't
want to be defined to a genre a little bit
like how Chris Brown does whatever genre he wants and everyone.
But yeah, I think it's cool for us to just
try different things. If it works, it works. If it doesn't,
then up to you. If you like it, then no worries.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I love the bottom of the video, it's so good,
as I do love all the videos you made with
Tara Patch. What's it like to work with the creative
team like that because it feels like they really get
you truly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, I think first and foremost, I got to thank
my brother Samson Rambo. That's where the connection came from.
So me and Samson were like, we're broader, so we
were like, hey, let's do this idea. I went to him,
I was like, I really want you to direct this
music video, which is save Her Mine, and so he's like, cool,
leave with me. I'll get a team together. And so
him and Teresa Tereslowe also she she produced seving My
(20:09):
They went away and then they came back. They let
me just focus on being an artist, but they kind
of gathered that whole team. You know the title Patch Team,
and that's where I initially made it one of mine.
So it was just really cool to be amongst him
because they just they just get it, really get it.
I honestly, when we were see I was like, look out,
just leave with you guys. I'll just whatever you want
to do, just thought. So when I saw the setups
(20:30):
so sever mine for the first time, I was like
losing my marbles, Like, yeah, sea was everywhere, and then
there's the water thing. I was like, okay, cool. And
so when we when we finally came around to bottom
of the bed, so Ista, the director, I was just
at the title pat as a joke, like I think
I was just hanging out and she's like, hey, let
me do a video for you. I thought she was joking.
I was like, yeah, whatever, you know, we'll do it,
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and so she took that idea. We got the funding
and then I'm pretty much you know, shot at Esta
Vera Rachel as well, who produced it. They kind of
did the whole thing. They have all their context pulled everyone.
I'm so grateful because you know who am I I'm
just like, you know, just a little kid from.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Stalk together someone.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Thank you so it's cool, and I honestly want to
work with them, Like for every music video realistically, you've
got to, you know, try different people and stuff. So
I probably won't do that because I just keep approaching
it and watch more work. But yeah, no, I love
the title Patch and I feel like if you haven't
worked with them, or if you haven't been in the space,
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just go there. It's great.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You know, the space is amazing. Hey, it is so cool.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, it's so cool. I see it pretty much every
day because I go to the gym upstairs.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I had there my model, So you were a tiny
part of that. Because you're I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I'm like the little ship of the title Patch. Here
he is blood love my total Patch family. Shout out
to the muff Little sisters.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, incredible people.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I feel like also, your name always pops up from
people's like thank yous on like Instagram questions. I'll just
be scrolling and my friend friends will be like, thank
you so much at the Western guy for helping me
with us. Do you like, do you actively like I
can help you with that? Or do people approach you
for that kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh? I think it's just whoever's around sometimes people ask
me for help, and if I can help, I will.
If I can't, I'll maybe point them in the right direction.
I do sometimes say yes and then forget, and then
people are like, hey, you're supposed to help me all this.
I'm so sorry, man, I was asleep terrible replying to
people too, But yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I thank god that he came here.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So it was an email, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Because I was like, oh, I'd better like say something
really like proper, because I don't want to be like,
oh sorry, I'm actually like flat out right now. So
I was trying to think of either the real casual
approach all the real like that was very I was
on a conversation with my manager, so for context, we
was listening. I was asked to come on earlier on
in the year, and so I was speaking to my
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manager at that time. I think we're getting ready to
film Bottom of the Bed. I was like, there's a
lot of things going do we have the capacity to,
you know? And so we decided maybe not right now
because there's too many things going on. It was like, okay,
so how do I say like no but very politely.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I've never such a.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Like of like you were about to say.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Some as well. I like wrote out like a drifts
into my manager and she was like, let me write
it for this cool and so I sent that out
and I saw as I was flying, I was like, damn,
I should have taken it stuck right now, thank you
for inviting.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful that you took the
We get before we get into our rapid fire. We
want to know what's next for Coach West.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Honestly, usually I have an answer for this when I
want to have this question, but I think lately it's
kind of been I don't know. That's a.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's a.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's kind of a great area right now. There's a
lot of things I've said I want to do, but
now I'm like, do I want to do that? You know,
I've been saying I was going to do a EP
this year, and the more I write, the more I'm like, actually,
I should probably like wait off because I kind of
want to put a little bit more if a little
bit more time, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
So do you see yourself creating like a body of work,
like a debut album or something. Liking the little single?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So sure, I think obviously like the industry will tell
you like don't do an album or EP until again,
like you need it, Like when people we need more,
we need more. But I think when you're in a
space and you're writing, like right now, I'm in country,
so I'm trying to like write out finding that my
writing is changing as I'm like making more music. So
like something I wrote a couple of months ago to
me now so like, ah, it's a bit old too.
So I think what's next is just to keep writing,
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get on the pharone a little bit more, just spend
time being a dad. I think that's like my favorite
thing to do is just hang out with my kid. Yeah,
to get a karate recently, it was so fun. Oh,
I'm like I want to do this's great. I think
I think it's just that, I think just allowing myself
to just live in my moment, like just you know,
(25:28):
live life a little bit and not to be so
worried about what I got to do, what's coming up next,
what's like to get to the stage I'm going to
do this. This This is just like you know, what
if it if it comes to me, it comes, it
comes to me.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Such a wonderful answer.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
We don't chase. We attract very absolutely very so if
you're there.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The email. All right, let's move on to our rapid
fire came now, Coach. This one's called wist is Best.
So we are die hard.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Die hards outside west Side novices, don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Literally don't know anything about were stalking like another world.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
From west Side on. We were in Newland. That was terrifying.
No shady west Side. That was just not a good night.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But that's like that's a thing though, because growing up,
whenever I'd go south, I feel like it's a whole
different thing.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And you know the suburb names, but you don't know
how they connects, Like really, what is it like? Disc know,
like when you're like disorientated.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, there I say it, There I say it. But
growing up, you know this is not just me by
the way, this is what was put on to me
as a kid. We will talk that west Siders are
better than south Siders. You know, up until I was
about maybe thirteen, I was like, hold on, what the same?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, we are quite.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Growing up, we like how much?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So yeah, this gave us called wiss Best. So we
want you to tell us the best places out for
these three things. First things. First food we should we
go to for food out with.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That's a hard one. There's so many places. Again, it
comes down to like it depends, like what do you
feel like you have a lot of new feudoints have
opened up recently out you know, it's like, what's.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
The best place out west for views?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Oh damn, just drive around anybody who's like born and
raised in himself if you know where to is. There's
a little look out there where they usually lock the
gates after you can see the sky tower and.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Can't okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not someone taking no no, no no, someone's taking me
to mission by no, no no, just for a walk.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And I felt and seeing some things.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I want to put it to do with Bubba. It
was the first time I met her. She was a
little bit scary back then, you know, from celebrity, so
she was kind of in her like real rebellious stage.
And we're hanging out, we're trying to do a podcast together. Yeah,
and she's like, I'm just get for a drive and
drove me out to pok and were sitting at the
car and this car comes up like on the road
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in the and I like locked the door straight away
and she starts laughing. She's like, you scaredy cat. This
guy is scaredy And I was like they were just
they wanted to light her, That's what they wanted. She
was like, I cannot believe you just locked the doors.
You racist, and like.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
This episode is going to cancel you. Yes, I was.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I was young.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Out there. It was funny, but I always remember that reason.
I was like, damn it, Bubble. She'll probably tell that
really shame me for it.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But Buba's another person that we tried so hard to get.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, we just doesn't. She just doesn't reply tonything. She's
terrible reply to my messages.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Lastly, beast place out for fun, Like where's a nice
recreational place like pools or somewhere to play sports.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I don't know. I think people might say West Wave,
you know, but West Wave pools, But I think I
think it's important to just say Past Park. Everybody knows
Past Park, you know. It's it's kind of ey, that's
kind of our big park that we have, like touch
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the random people just jump up on the field and
play touch together and then comps used to be there
as well. The football fans. They have their like soccer
fields there. So I think past Park is like the
that's the spot. It's the spot for fun. What do
you say? Yeah, aside from the other sort of fun
things that we do, like hang a bar, but we
won't get into that.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Because I hang up is that and Henderson?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I think that's that's one of the only like main
bars that's been around for ages.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I don't know, it's really wholesome fun.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
What's sort of funny?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
No no, I didn't actually know what type of fun
bear because he did the game that's your fun, and
I was like, fun.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Fun, what's like to play around?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's that's very like vague playing around.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's also very vague. Isn't groove by out west or.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
There's like Mount Eden cross the road from Eaton Park?
Sorry the groove.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
It's just because it's on the western line. I can't drive.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I can't drive, so use both can't It's just like
a non driving show.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I have no license, no drive.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I was driving on no license for three years.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
No no, no, no, like I got any car and like
it's not good, like a phobia. It's like a phobia
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yeah, no, no, no, I'm really interested.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So I went to school in Central but live and
brought up out South, so always public transport and then
I only drove a car for the first time maybe
like a month ago. They go over ten k's. I
think the max I went was thirteen k What was teifying? Yes,
(31:42):
it was terrifying, Like some people are like that.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I want to be supportive, but it's okay.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You don't have It's okay because people always meet me,
they're like, wow, you you're you have a master's but
you can't drive. And I'm like, Rick, what would they say?
Because like very very intelligent, but the one thing that
you can't do is drive a car.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That's really in the school though, like you don't need
to drive in today's world, like we have Uber and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Like that, but it's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Just try like real small.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That's a really good idea.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Ride a bike, okay, two wheels to three wheels?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
What's the three wheel a trike?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I think it trikes like five wheels or something.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I'm sorry, no, I think that does three wheels, like
you have two training wheels at the bit.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah. Look, but I really hope you get over that
much fun. It helps, like with like when you're just
down sometimes late night truly yeah, and then you just speed.
I mean okay, I think there's two words belong together.
It'll be good.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, make it, thank you take it. This is my
new content now that the podcast is even. Then drive
do you want to be the first? And we have
to use your car as well? If you're the gift,
it's also your.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Car the first and last of course.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Wait, how did you learn how to drive? Did someone
teach you?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah? Almost crashed. It was my dad's work car. He
thought it would be funny. Were new Lin by the way,
new We're in the car park where Burger King. It's
the old cinemas, which so I get in the car
and when I driving and it's like yeah, now put
your foot down, and I just froze and my foot
was like on the floor and went straight for liss
(33:57):
and to like jump over like albow and the star
because I just froze. And then you had to like
put his hand on the brake.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
And this was the door for like Lismos and no
way one of the barrier things.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And I was like a raid Lismo.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
My dad said so many lovely words that day and
I didn't want to drive.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I didn't realize when you go to break you don't
just put your foot down at once, like like it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You have to like.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
To keep your foot on the.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
You don't just pretty square on the.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Driver.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I like that you can get that rich Oregon.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Just learn how to drive a big car. I learned
how to drive in a van because after that smoker,
I learned how to drive driving anything, and then you
start when you drive smaller cars, it's a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I feel like, being country, you should be able to
drive a manual? Can you drive a menu?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Did you do your research on this? Because I always
get asked this question. Wait, reason I can't drive a manual?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
And that's totally fine because I can't drive period.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I remember I told them I went down and saw
this farm and Raglan and he's like, can you drive manual?
And I was like, and he's like, what the fuck?
You can't be country? You're not drive? Yeah, someone wants
to teach me, please, because I want to race and
I love out my Need for Speed dreams.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I love Need for Speed. By the way, it was,
it was such a time. I love that game. What
was your favorite Need for Speed?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Underground, underground to yeah, underground to the white Mercedes with
the blue neons, blow the car a little bit, had
some side skirts and you have you have to have
the Japanese like riding on the side.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, I don't get the reference. I'm so sorry, guys.
What is need for speed?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
It's a two game.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
But I was playing like head on.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
The World Tour, so you're like, let's pay Brackett stolen.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Buzz.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
The first time I played, I was.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Like, this is so played the head on tenor game.
Or I was playing sing styles and I would always
get a million in the climb.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
So where is the you know, the fruits of your
labor christ witting.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And sitting in a memory card. No, but you know
she faked her country accents like the first five years
of her career. So the twang, it's okay that it
doesn't come naturally.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
You have to work for it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You have to work for it.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
And now she's a billionaire. So that'll be you one day,
even though your circumstances are very, very very different. I
think that will be.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah. I'm a white girl yea with my guitar.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Blonde hair. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, investment bankers.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
This is a little bit creepy, Loder. Those Hollywood tours
that we did, they were like taking us to celebrities housing.
This is a news house. These poor people like live
their lives and this is real creepy.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I am a Yeah. I went to Melvin for a
concert this year and everything it was good, it was incredible.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
And saying that is Island roots Auckland Ways with the
Western Guy. Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
No, thank you for having me here, and thank you
for the platform, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You know where? Can we follow you on social media?
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Okay, please only follow me on social media and that
follow me around the mall because that's really creepy and
it happens a lot.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I those Westfield Monico or the.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Westfields, the Western Guide. I love city, it's home.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
We're getting wait wait wait, wait, hold on wait question.
Where does the name of the Western Guy come from?
Just from growing up out.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
West Yeah, it kind of started like that. Yeah, before
Western Guid, I was my artist name was fifth three. Yeah,
it sounds really crazy. I went to enter fifth free
Rockstar and my I G but it didn't save so
it cut off halfway. So I just I just rolled
it that for ages and then I remember puttying nextor
came out and I go, what a dick, why would
you Why would you call it such an elaborate name.
(38:04):
I'm going to do that. What's what am I? I
live out West. I know a lot of like secret spots,
you know, So I was like, I'm just I can
show you around the West. That means so much more.
But back then that's where it started from. Now I like,
you know, tell people, it's kind of a journey into
like figuring out exactly who I am and what I am.
(38:25):
You know where we're from. We're obviously children of the diaspora. Yeah,
so that's where the wistern. It's like Western society journey.
Over the years, I've built like I'm more understanding, like
I've actually chosen the right name, and now I'm doing
country like because country wisdom. Yeah, but yeah, it was
just because the party. Hey party, if you're listening, body
checks the song. All right, thank you so much for
(38:49):
coming on, Thank you again, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And that's Island Roots Auckland Waves for yet another week.
You can follow us on the socials and Island Roots
Aukland ways And you know what, I just realized you.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I think we kind of it was implied though. It's
at the Western.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Guide, at the Western Guide on Instagram the things.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So go look him up, listen to his music, and
listen to our podcast Big Shrimp his.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Name, Damn city Side, Bobby boy Man, get out of
here with all your nicknames. Thank you Coach for coming
on yes, and.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Thank you guys for listening.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
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