January 27, 2026 • 41 mins
Are you ready to die laughing?? In this episode of Jugni, I sat down with actor Sachin Mahashi AKA Sunny from the TV show Late Bloomer. We talk about his journey to acting from a completely different 25 YEAR career, life on set, the gap in representation for South Asians in TV and much more. Sunny is a true entertainer, I could not contain my laughter so I'm so excited for you guys to listen to the episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wh whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So then that's why even today, well they'll probably find
out if they see this podcast. But even if they're
watching this podcast, my mom will not get this far
any No, she'll watch two minutes and then stop. Nothing
against you or me. It's just her attention spack honestly. Same. Yeah,
so they allowed family on set, like I think almost
everyone's family came on set. But then mine asked. I said, no,
(00:35):
it's not allowed.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Why don't you just have them come on set for
a day that you're not on call? Like is it
call sorry on the shotlist or whatever?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No, because then you have to like, then you're responsible
for their happiness that day. No, you are. That's a
lot of pressure. That's your mother. She's responsible for you
being here, I know, but like, I don't know. I
don't like that kind of stuff. Then you got to
like make sure they're walking around, is everyone talking to them?
Property are they bored? And then knowing my mom, they'll
be like okay, quiet on set and she'll like you
(01:03):
start yelling something like I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Hi everyone, and welcome to Jickney with Pribleen.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm Pribleen and I am so excited for this episode,
I got the chance to sit down with such a
mushy also known as Sunny Funny Enough. He also plays
Sonny on the show Late Bloomer. Guys, I had so
much fun filming this episode. Sunny is the funniest, most
entertaining person ever. Like I had my friend helping me
behind the scenes and she was dying trying not to laugh.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
So the mic couldn't pick it up. He also has
so much dimension.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He's lived like so many lives already, so he had
a lot of great advice to give. We talked about
his creative journey, his approach to acting, life on set,
and so much more, including season two of Light Bloomer,
which is streaming now on Pray TV.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So make sure you check that out.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
But you're in for a treat, So get comfortable, grab
a snack, just you know, don't choke, and let's get
into the episode.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
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Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I've always wanted to be a part of something
like this, But where's us with our outreach to sit
with them and say, hey, guys, this is what's culturally
acceptable here. This is kind of frowned upon. Nobody's telling
them that they don't have parents here.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
No, they And that's the other thing I feel like
when you were saying, oh, like the Pindubbies, here are
the ones like criticizing them and doing all of that.
Like I find that a lot of those kids were
brought here by their parents. Yeah, and they had They
don't understand how much harder it is. And like, these
people need to find community for themselves, and this is
how they're finding community. This is how they're funding community
(02:52):
because they don't have parents to rely on.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
They don't have any elder. And then when they do
see elder, they just start making fun of them for
wearing tupola. It's like, bro, you grew up wearing chaplain
and the band, and now you're gonna laugh at these guys.
First of all, chapla are comfy. I don't have I
love the sound that click click click click click.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, you'd ask anybody all summer long. As soon as
it's possible for me to go outside with my chapplin, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Me too, I'll papa. I was in Thailand. I jumpled
all over the place over there.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That sounds like a perfect place to both.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The greatest country. You know. One thing it made me
realize is that we get lied to here a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
About what the what the East is like yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Like we get we almost like get told that their
third world quote unquote, and we're like advanced and then
there and say that we saw.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
This is so off topic. But I actually recently went
to a event at the RAM at the Royal Ontario
Museum and because you know, they're dedicating an entire section
of the museum to South Asian arts.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, and they're doing a.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Whole thing for sick arts, for gen Msaki Good dav
G like they yeah, yeah, so it's gonna take a
while because it's under construction and stuff. But they started
doing programming right where they're going to have events and
things like that. So I went to one and this
is the entire topic. He was showing us these like
stereographs or whatever, and they're like these pictures and it
was God going to these countries light somewhere in like
(04:15):
the Middle East, India, places like that, and they were
orchestrating and directing these photographs. So like for example, there's
like a kid farming the land in India, right, they
had the machinery, the advanced machinery that they had in
the West, but they would make them take like an
old like way of farming, some old tool or something
(04:36):
and make yeah, and they would make them stand there
to like, and they would direct the whole thing. And
then the photographs that you see of like Paris and
whatever they had, it's all clean, clean roads, everyone's dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Nicely, middle class.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, they would have artists go there to paint what
it looks like, and they would make them paint the
buildings as broken down and ruged. When you go and
see them building, they're fine, it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Funny, but isn't it hilarious kind of like. But that's
how like even when I heard of pieland I thought
it was gonna be like.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So, you're one hundred percent right. They are doing that,
and they've been doing that for years years.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, because you know why, because they don't want us
to realize that we're paying all our taxes, we still
don't live the way we should. York University when I
started there in nineteen ninety five or ninety six, I
don't remember. I was born Oh my god. Yeah, so
so when I started university before you were born. I
remember there was a sign that's had subway coming soon,
(05:36):
not the not the sandwiches, like the actual subway, right,
because they already had a subway sandwich spot. But I
was like, oh great. So I was in first year.
I'm like, and by the time I'm third year, there's
gonna be a subway station that goes to York. Right.
That thing didn't open until like twenty ten or twenty
twelve I had graduated. It was ten twelve years after
I graduated, Okay, and then you Deli makes a subway
(05:57):
system with double or triple the amount of stop to
Toronto in eight years. So it's like we're falling so
far behind and the only way they try to control
the narrative, but they really can't anymore because now people
are traveling, yeah, and people are going to like add
a friend go to China and Homie goes dude. It's
like there's one hundred years in the future.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And the Internet, like we have access to so many
people and so much information now it's like you can't
if you're if you don't know that, you're choosing to
be ignorant.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yes, but I still didn't know about Thailand until I landed,
and then I.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Was like, that's normal because you were raised here.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. The cars are nice, like all the buildings are nice.
That well, the people are nice. Yeah. So like I'm
actually going to start living two or three months of
the year there, and then two or three months of
the year in the Bend, and then I'll be here
for the summers only because I can't perfect. Yeah, the
winter's here suck. I just can't do it.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Did you see the weather today?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It was snowing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I know, I heard I base have no windows in
my room.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That explains a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, this shut door and then like I don't know
what time of day it is, yeah, and anything like that.
It's great.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So how did your parents feel about you doing short
films and like pursuing this on the side before while
you worked full time?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well at that point, by that point, like my mom
was too cool with it.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Because you had a job, you had your degree. Yeah yeah,
so wait what was your degree again?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I did civil engineering.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Civil engineering from York York Damn.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Planning and then and then I used to work for
a place where we did like warehouse design and then
we would sell forklifts and stuff. So I never worked
on like a residential side of things.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Okay, so you were designing forklifts.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
No, we would design the warehouses, and then I was
selling the forklifts that would go into the warehouse, and
then pretty much anything material handling based. So we would
do forklifts, we do the racking, we would do dock plates,
so like we would set up your whole warehouse.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Wow, and you so you worked in the industry twenty
five years. Yeah, that's insane. Do you feel like there's
anything that you take from your twenty five year career
when you're on set that you feel like actually like
kind of transfers.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
When you're on set. It's very easy for me too
to everything seems fun, right, Yeah, And it's very easy
to like just kind of think everything's fun in games, right,
But then having a career, you start realizing what business is, right,
and then in the end it's just it's a business.
So I think from my career it's like just the
ability you have to lock in and you got to
(08:26):
get rid of distractions and you got to like, for me,
I had problems when it was time to shoot the
scene and I'd look around and there were like thirty
people watching.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And then I remember the first time I was like
the first scene, I shot out like, holy shit, is
it can be like this all the time? And then
I realized, dude, you do that work. You do presentations
in front of thirty people. Yeah, So that's what I
started treating it as, like, oh, it's a presentation, and
instead of trying to sell a forklift, I'm trying to
sell this scene to these thirty people watching. Yeah. And
then so that I remember thinking right away that that
(08:57):
translated over so well, and I was like, if I
never did presentations all the time at work, this would
be really hard for me to do.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So that was probably the number one thing. I think.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's really cool. I know, you're literally you finished one
career and you're you're doing another one.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I know. The worst part is I'm retired now. That's
not to say I'll never go back to the industry,
but if I do go back, I'm only going to
go back to the company I work for because I
love those guys, right, Yeah, but I don't plan on
going back because it's one of those Also, as you
get older, you start realizing, so I'm not married I
don't have kids, so I can make money. But then
(09:34):
to what end and who do I leave it to? Like,
what's the point of it? You only need a certain
amount to survive, and you plan on never doing that,
never getting married, never having a family. No, I think
it's kind of too late.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Really. Yeah, I feel like that's the luxury as a man.
You can do it whenever.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, but see yes and no, you don't want to
have a kid, and then you throw a baseball at
him and your arm comes out of its socket, you
know what I mean. And they're like, well, look at
this bord want to be with your kid at the
school And they're like, hey, you're Babba's around the corner.
He bought your lunch. You don't try to say plus
is not fair to the kid, because you're gonna die
(10:10):
when the kid's like maybe twenty, you know what I mean,
Like you're basically setting and then not only that. Okay,
if I ever meet I shouldn't say never. If I
ever meet a woman who is brilliant and smart enough
that I know that together just because of her, yeah,
we're gonna have exceptional child. Yeah, then I might consider it.
(10:33):
But for me, I know that my child is gonna
be average, dude. He's just gonna be like bumping into
people and like doing stupid shit and breaking someone's heart.
Like like the world has a ton of average people. Wow, Yeah,
we don't need to add to that average total. He's
just gonna be traffic being one hundred percent realistic.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, I don't know. I mean, are you average
if you're over here and you pursuing a second career
and you know, no, I think not necessarily average.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
No.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I think maybe that's the average man. Maybe the woman
is for me.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I don't take anything seriously, and then stuff just happens.
But like I think I told you that once the
second in my life started getting fixed. It's not great,
but it's getting fixed. Is the second I decided I'm
not going to try to control shit anymore. Yeah, whatever
happens happens. Like now, I'll nudge things in certain directions,
(11:30):
but it's your The universe is experiencing itself through you,
and if it wants to show you something, you look
at it and you observe it, and then once you
just start kind of going with the flow, things just
start working out. Also, I don't think I said son,
I wouldn't want a son. If I had a kid,
I don't want a daughter. I probably just want one kid.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
A lot of guys say that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, well because I think, like, so you also hate man?
Well yeah, I think everyone does. That's the pomper thing
that do. Yeah. No, I think like just when I
see my mom as she's getting older and then the
way like my sisters are with her and I try,
but I like, I can't give her the same support.
(12:13):
Like I think as a parent when you're getting older,
you're much better off if you have a daughter than
if you have a son.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh just about you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, that's the lens I have to see things through. Right.
When people say that kind of stuff, Oh that sounds
very selfish, I'm like, dude, I can only see things
through my own lens. So in my lens, it's like,
if I did have a choice between the two, it
would probably be a daughter. Children are expensive, They're gonna
have to do something for you. And then dudes do
dumb stuff too, they crash your car and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I know you're still right, that's you know what thinks.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I would get confused. I'm like, why do they always
want girl? Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
How did your parents react with Late Bloomer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Oh, so my mom when I when I got the show,
I didn't tell her like I think we started shooting okay,
and then she's like shooting and then no, she didn't
say that in my mind she did. So then I
was like, no, I got to roll on this TV show.
(13:13):
So I think I don't think she realized how big
it was, yeah, because she was just kind of like oh.
And then it was like a couple of weeks into
shooting is when I showed her. I'm like, it's just
rained and she's like who. And then I showed her
the picture and then my mom was like, ah, it's
like YouTube the video and blah blah blah. I was
like yeah. Then my mom's like, oh, can we come
(13:33):
on set? And I'm like no, No, families are a
loud even though they are allowed, Like everyone's family has
been on set. You just hate your mom? No, I
just I don't want to act in front of them.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh honestly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah. Because so Whenya's family came on set and it
was like a very big like scene for her that day.
There's a couple of scenes and I told her I'm like,
it was like her mom and her sister and everyone.
I'm like, dude, how are you doing that? Like if
my mom and sister in them were here, I would choke.
I would not be able to act.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
No, I know, I can't film it. Yeah, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Film in front of my mom. Oh I feel weird.
But she killed it. So then that's why even today,
well they'll probably find out if they see this podcast.
But even if they're watching this podcast, my mom will
not get this foreign not She'll watch two minutes and
then stop. Nothing against you or me as just her
attention span, honestly.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Same.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, so they allowed family on set, like I think
almost everyone's family came on set. But then mine asked.
I said, no, it's not allowed.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Why don't you just have them come on set for
a day that you're not on call? Like is it
sorry on the shotlist or whatever?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, because then you have to like then you're responsible
for their happiness that day. No you are, that's a
lot of pressure.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
No you are, that's a lot of pressure. That's your mother.
She's responsible for you being here, I know, but like
I don't know, I don't like that kind of stuff.
Then you got to like make sure they're walking around,
is everyone talking to them properly? Are they bored? And
then knowing my mom, they'll be like okay, quiet on
set and she'll like you start yelling something like I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So what was her reaction when she found out how
big it was?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
She was she was like very happy, but it wasn't
until I think it actually came on.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Tv M then in for her, right, yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
The first episode I was kind of like, uh oh,
but she was like totally cool.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
The first episode is always like, even when I was
thinking about showing like Bloomer to my parents, because like
there's just so much there that I'm like, you could
totally relate to or like understand my perspective about things,
you just skip the first episode. Bro.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, I saw the first episode just because it was
during the premiere. Yeah, but that's when I saw it.
I was like, yeah, was that this is okay? My
mom can watch this. She's watched worse. And then yeah,
she loved it. Like when the show came out, she
loved it. Her favorite character on the show is Ahamed. Oh,
of course, yeah, my mom loves him. My mom cannot
(16:19):
be bubble not nice. Yeah, this and that, and she
goes like he's so cute. Yeah he's actually that guy
is extremely funny, is he? Yeah? He does stand up comedy,
does he?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I don't think I've seen any of his sets. There's
a lot I gotta watch. I actually spent some time
talking you oh where on the internet, obviously, because I
was thinking, I'm like, looking at your filmography, there's like
a huge break. There's like a ten year break and
then like you told me you were working, and I'm like, okay,
maybe because he was working. Then I was like, no,
(16:52):
he was working.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I married a couple of times in there too, did
you actually? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Ah, okay, so you've tried it and that's why you know.
You're like, I've done and it's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, I know it's me. I don't know if it's
I don't know, you know what I'm trying to say.
But after like the second one, you gotta kind of
start pointing at yourself, you know, that's that's the first
one' mulligan, the first one's but I'm mull again, Like
you can. It's a you can do a redolf. I
(17:23):
don't pay golf, but so mulligan just means you get
to reshoot, so you get to take another shot. And
then I took another shot. And then now I got
a letter from the girls WATA and they said you've
hit your ar maximum and you can't get married again.
So I was like, what if I bring one of
them here and walk the other way four times? I
(17:46):
was not going to deduct it. And I think they're
sending at and they're going to see what they can do.
That's jokes, bro okay.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So the ten year yeah, other than getting married, and
I realized that that ten yuere gap was actually filled
by the YouTube channel that you are a part of.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I think it's called People of Community. Yeah. So I
don't know if you guys remember, it's probably a little
bit before your time. But they see comedy. They used
to do the prank phone calls and stuff like that. Yeah,
I think that was before you. Yeah, so Darshan and
those guys are they see comedy? Oh okay, right, So
how that happened is Sun was in the Pajab International
Film Festival. Then one of the guys on that podcast
(18:28):
to me, so he told me, he said, hey, dude,
we're starting a podcast. We want you on as a guest. Yeah.
So I came on as a guest. Yeah. And then
I think two weeks after that, one of their guests
canceled or something, so they're like, hey, do you want
to come on again as like a guest host. So
I was like cool, and then I came on again.
And then after that they were like, Okay, do you
want to just come every week? And then I was
(18:48):
like cool. So then it was one of those like
literally every week I got to shoot something and your creative,
Like I didn't feel the need to do a short film.
And then that podcast, all of us just became like
good friends.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It was to the point where like we weren't even
doing a pod anymore, Like we're just sitting there with
the camera on, yeah, and shooting the shit.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I listened to a couple episodes and yeah, you guys
are just like yeah, kiking.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Because I was going to ask that YouTube channel and
your friends for people of the community, they were making
content around the same time, just Meath was yeah, and
it's very similar content too, So I was what I
was wondering was like, you know, if you had worked
on a lot of those skits and doing that, did
you see that kind of crossover when you were working
on like.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Blouemer when they were doing the sketch things. I wasn't
really involved in anyo. So both like just me, he
does give you creative control. But at the same time,
what I find is when I look at the dialogue,
he's written it so well that there's really nothing else
you can add. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
So I'll look at it and be like, Okay, what
do I add here? But it's written so well that
(19:49):
you're like, you know what, this one sentence says everything
it needs to say, right. So I didn't really need
to bring that for me on that show. I think
I'm surrounded by so many talented people. It's kind of like,
just you know what, just don't mess up, you know
what I mean, because then like sometimes you're doing a
shot and then if you mess it up, then you
feel bad because the other person delivered like a crazy
(20:11):
line and stuff, and they're like, oh man, I messed
this up for everyone, right. Yeah, So that's what I'm
scared of the most on that scene, and then there
was a couple of no, I can't. I can't talk
about that. I don't want because i'mout not giving away
anything about the show at all. Okay, I no one,
no season two spoilers, none, none. The last thing I
want is Ricky to call me none. What is this
(20:34):
podcast you went on?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You just spilled everything.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I'm in it. I can tell you that. That's it. Yeah,
I'm in it. You'll see Nils in it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Still, I think we got one little spoiler.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Which one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That you guys kind of cover that whole international student.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, that's a topic they cover, and that's one of
the main reasons why I'm excited about this show. But
this show is actually covering are our topics exactly like
stuff that other people won't say. And I mean, if
you go online right now and you look at anything
with an Indian person in it, the first forty five
comments are racist. Yep, some of them are funny.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Hey, racist doesn't mean not funny.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah. One time we were sitting there, me and my
cousin's true story, but we were sitting there talking about
all the stuff we've been called, obviously the P word
and everything going on and on and on and on,
and then one of my cousins used to wear a
vodka so where everyone's dropping, Oh, I've been called this before.
I've been called that before. And then he goes burger
and then to keep going and I'm like, hold on,
did you just say burger? And he's like yeah, I'm
(21:37):
like what. He goes, oh Clem Brown, and I have
a bun on my head. I'm like, hold on the
second here, can we take a minute just appreciate how
great that was? Like that kid that came up with.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That, I'm surprised a good Bige kid has not made
that their Halloween costume yet.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, can you just imagine?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Just let us.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Until seriously, but I was like, can we just take
a minute to appreciate how good? And he said it
so casually. I've never heard that before in my life.
He's like burger.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I'm kind of like sour though about racism to a
certain extent, because that's a great way to start a sentence.
We need our own slur. What do you mean like
when Dubb's Indians in general, it's one point two billion people,
but they call us like we're not Pakistani. Yeah it's true,
or not like we deserve our own slur. You're thinking
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of one right now?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, because I'm like, what do we get called?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And I'm like smelly no, But like we don't have
our own slur. Everyone else has their own slur, and
we get grouped in with Pakistan, which is I love them,
but it's a different country.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You know what, think on that if you think of one.
But before the end of us filming this, let me know, well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I got a couple. I was not gonna say him.
I don't want to get in trouble, but I do
have a couple. I've read some on the internet that
were great. Okay, so you found some on the Reddit
my top vote one. I don't want to do it,
like I'll go to all the racist stuff and downvoat it.
But there was one guy I rolled with something I
was like, oh shit, okay, yeah that's too bunny. Yeah
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take top vote.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
The funny overtakes the racism.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, every day, late Bloomer.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I feel like it's such a like representation of what
we were talking about, which is like South Asian creatives
tend to find themselves and like it takes a bunch
of detours to get to being able to pursue whatever
creative like passion that you have. Do you feel like
you relate to that whole concept of.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Being a late bloomer?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, because your story lines up so well with that,
like twenty five year career doing civil engineering and urban planning.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And now I'm getting into acting and I have my
hat on backward. I'm in my forties. You know, I'm
trying to say, yeah, I got my ears pierced last month. Yeah,
so yeah, like I honestly, I even said it when
we're doing the interviews with Belle, I'm like, I relate
to this show because I feel like I'm a late bloomer.
And I know, just meet in this show is in
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his early thirties. Yeah, and I'm like, no, you ain't
blooming late. That's probably on time. Like I'm in my forties. Yeah,
I'm on my forties and I'm kind of coming to terms.
The thing is, you never really figured out you never do.
And now the older you get, the more you realize
(24:26):
that that you spend your whole life trying to figure
something out. You don't know what you're trying to figure out, Yeah,
but you're trying to figure it out. And then you
start realizing that whatever it is, it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Essentially, what you're saying is it's about the journey and fact.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's what I was trying
to say. I was more poetic, and I've never told
this to just meet but like, look at the mark
he's left for our community if you look at it,
like we've never like this is a show that's a
job be based that doesn't just lead with that, like
it's a family based show that's on a major Canadian network.
(25:03):
Like I remember when season one came out and his
commercial was on during the Super Bowl. Oh, I don't
even know that. Yeah, so the Canadian broadcast because they
had a commercial for Late Bloomer Under in the Super Bowl.
I remember looking at that and then right after that,
I'm like, man, like this guy, like look at what
he did, Like he should be proud of he he is, probably,
(25:24):
but like him and everyone around him like, like, dude,
we have a TV show. Like when I was young
and we saw a brown person on TV, we got
so happy, even if it was a pooh and we
didn't even get to voice him. It was a go
voiced him, right, But even if it was a poo.
We'd be like, oh my god, look, juvenile had a
(25:44):
music video back in that back that ass up or whatever,
there was a guy with a bug video. We were
freaking out. Dude, there's a guy with a bug in
that video. Holy.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Any like scene that you see or YouTube video or anything,
if a sing comes up, the comments sing sing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Everyone got so excited back in those days that oh
my god, we're on TV, even if it was just
in the background, yeah, or even it was a taxi
driver in a TV show, and like just me put us.
He put us in a position where we have a
show on a major network that's not only one season,
like it got renewed for a second season. So now
any brown person that comes up now these networks are
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going to pay attention.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So like, and I don't know if he realizes that.
He probably does, but I've never had that conversation with him,
but I admire him a lot for that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Even when I was like doing some research for this
and like reading into it, there were a lot of
people that aren't been Dubby that really really found the
show represented them right, Like a lot of South Indian
like you know, just Filipanos. Yeah, So many other people
that can relate because I think that there was a
need for this, right, like there was a gap in representation.
(26:53):
I don't know if you think about this lot, but
I think about it as a brown woman. Every brown
woman you see in TV. Right, we're talking like Mindy Kailing,
like all of her representations, it's a brown girl who
is self loathing. She hates being Indian, and she is
obsessed with white guys.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah every single time. Yeah, it sounds like me, I'm joking, No,
but you're right, it's the sat character always. It's like
a self hating brown person. Yeah, exactly, And that's why
I love this show. Like, I remember one time there
was a line I had to say and I kind
of put an accent on it while we were just
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like practicing and reading and stuff. And then I was
told that we're not doing accents. If you don't have
an accent, you're not doing a line with an accent. Oh,
he's got a really good thing. He's so talented, Like
he directed a couple of episodes to this year.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Hoti Ready Hot Daily, Christy Poka, you're listening to Ruckus
Avenue Radio.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Okay, fsting checking.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And to see him like do that movement from like
direction to like then he shoots the scene and in
the like in front of the camera, Like, dude, what
the hell? Like I have to say two lines and
I'm freaking out and you're directing the thing and you're
going in front of the camera.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah no.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
But even like when you see the set and if
you play close attention, if you zoom into different aspects
of the set, like that is what appen. Jumpy Home
looks like that is like we have those magazines we
have like we have.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Random Well he kept it authentic, even the taking your
shoes off part. Yeah, of course, yeah, that was like
he's like, you cannot have your shoes on in the house.
It's a joy to work on. And the thing is,
I'm looking forward to more seasons of it me too.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
After season one of Late Bloomer came out, what was
like your craziest fan experience or the first one?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What was the first one?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Nothing crazy, But the thing is the first one is
the one that caught me the most off guard. Yeah.
So I was at a market selling colognes and there
was these two girls and they come up to me.
They go, hey, you're a late Bloomer, and I was like,
what the hell, like people like, like, I knew people
were gonna watch it, but I didn't know i'd get
(29:22):
recognized for it. And then they asked for a picture,
and that to me was just like because I never
expected that to happen. And then I said, I'll do
a picture, but you have to do that filter with
the bunny ears and the puppy thing. So I made
him do that. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Other than that, I think everyone I've kind of ran
into it's been great. But I do notice that there
were people like you were saying that I did not
expect would watch the show that came up to me.
So that pizza, what's it called super point? It's not ausington? Yeah,
So I was there, like I lived right around the corner,
so I went there to get pizza. You're just scaring
(30:04):
tell people where we live.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We're just going to tell people who whatever, what's some
I'm gonna do. Okay, cool with me.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I forget you're not a brown girl.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, like, yeah, well I'll tell you something about Thailand
in the second. But so then I walked in and
there was just this average dude, and he had a
hat and long hair and looked like a hockey bro
and me and were talking hockey and then he goes, hey,
you're in that show Late Bloomer. I'm like, you watched it? Yeah,
Like that happened a couple of times where people that
I thought wouldn't watch the show and they're like, of
course we did. I used to watch Jesser and videos
(30:34):
way back when. Then I went to there's a Filipino festival, Yeah,
and we were selling colognes there and a lot of
people recognized me there. And then I figured out after
I told just me, I go, you have a lot
of Filipino fans because they're like, the family dynamic is
the same. So they said the same thing. They go,
we can relate because our dads were like that growing up,
and our moms were like that, like overly caring, and
their dads were like you don't trying to say yeah,
(30:56):
and then even misogynistic elements where like the man the
boy can do this.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
And yeah, wow, the impact is so much bigger than
maybe he anticipated or that anyone else would understand, because
like I think it's someone watching it as a juppy
person obviously, I'm like, I.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Relate, yeah, right, But a lot of people relate. And
that's what I think. I think because if you're an immigrant,
you relate. Yeah. Like I remember growing up, I had
friends that were Italian. Yeah, and if one of their
sisters went to the club, it'll be just like brown guys.
Their friends would walk up like, yo, I saw your
sister at the club yesterday. They'd be like, no way,
dog like like they it was the same type of setup.
(31:32):
Like I never used to say anything to my sisters
for going to a club because my sisters are savage.
I was like, yo, I feel sorry for a guy
that goes up to the ut Like I didn't feel.
I didn't feel like I ever needed to protect them
that way.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, you wanted to protect other people from.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Them, yeah, yeah, and you were saying the brown girl things.
I never understood that because as a guy, like sometimes
my friends will come over and they'll be like, hey,
can you go with us, We're going to go up
Bossington to have a beer whatever. And then I'd be like, Okay,
why just come with us? You know, creepy guys whatever,
And then I'd be like, oh, I went to Thailand.
I understood because I would walk out alone and the
(32:11):
massage places they would just be like massage and then
they would grab you and start dragging you in, dude,
and you'd be like, no, I'm good, I'm good, and
they'd be like, just don't you we see inside. I'm
like no, I'm good, and they would be like dragging you.
But then if I had a girl with me, because
I went we went as a group of friends, they
wouldn't do that. So I'd be going out at night
going yo, your dog, can you just walk with me
(32:32):
up the road? I just want to go to seven
eleven and they'd be like they'd be like, no, what
do you mean. I'm like, no, dude, I get it.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Anytime you want me to go up passing tonight, well
this please just walk with me. I gotta go get
a diet coke. But they would like lunch you. They
would attack you, dude. And I told the girls, I go,
I finally get it. They're like, you don't get ship.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That is that is the world giving you karma right there?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, straight up, that's the world. Wasn't safe in Thailand
for a single dude.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
No, what kind of advice would you give a kid,
like a brown kid right now, who wants to get
into acting, and like, you know, obviously the parents want
them to pick a stable career and do that.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
What advice do you think? Just don't stop. A lot
of people give up way too soon. And the thing
is like, you never know when it's gonna happen for you,
and you know what, it might not. Chances are it's
not gonna let's be honest, chances are it's not going
to Like does that mean you're not gonna try? And
then for a lot of people, like you know, the kid,
their parents want a stable career, do it. You can
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do both, like there is enough hours in a day.
And I know, I hate hustle culture. That's like one
of my biggest pet peeves when people do that oll
hustle this like shut up, dude, Like like you know,
sit down, smoke some weed, have a good time, Okay,
But you can do both. You can do their career
and just on the side, make friends with people that
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are into film, learn about cameras, like like, do little
little things that will keep that part of you sad.
If you're in there enough and you start talking enough people,
eventually things are going to happen for you. It's inevitable.
And if it doesn't happen, that's okay too. Not everyone's
supposed to make it. Not everyone's supposed to be on TV. Yeah,
(34:14):
well I don't think I've made it. But I'm just saying, like,
even in general, when a lot of people are like,
like success, what does success mean to you? Money? Because
everyone can't be rich. Yeah, so then you're trying to
say that majority of the people aren't, so that you're
trying to say majority the people failed. No, they didn't.
They've had Like I've met rich people that are miserable,
and I've met poor people that are having the time
(34:36):
of their lives. So yeah, just just stay at it,
don't give up, and don't put yourself in a position
where you feel like you need to give up. Don't
like put all your eggs in that basket where if
it's not working out for you, you can't pay your bills.
Don't quit your day job, straight up, That's all I'm
trying to say. Don't quit your day job. Like, there's
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a lot of people out there that worked and rest
while they had a TV show running. Yeah, yeah, as possible.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I think that a lot of people just think it
happens like this. They assume that, you know, someone just
wakes up something one day and they're on late Bloomer.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah, it's not like that, right. It takes a.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Long time to get there.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, to get there, Like, you can't expect to put
a year in and then give up.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, that's the thing, like, if you stick with it,
if you think of it. I started, I did work
on my first short while I was still in university.
I don't even remember the name of it. But I
was just doing a film Television Society class and there's
some guys in there that we're doing a short. Night
went on set. I think I had two lines in it.
That was twenty seven years ago. Yeah. Yeah, if I
decided that there's like I took breaks in between. But
(35:46):
if I had decided in between that, you know, I'm
not doing this anymore, then my friend wouldn't have sent
me the link to audition because he would have been like, oh,
he's not doing this anymore.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
So just and don't look at it as that that
you need to get some for it to be the
endgame for you. Just have fun with it. Yeah, and
if you're really doing it, just because you enjoy it,
then it doesn't matter where it ends up. Yeah, it
could end up on TV, it could end up on YouTube,
it could end up you watching with your friends. That's
(36:15):
another thing I tell people all the time. Everyone wants
to make something perfect. Nothing is perfect, and then people
will make stuff and not release it, and then I'll
look at it and be like this is great. Yeah,
well we don't like this and we don't like that.
Who cares progress over perfection? No one's gonna like everything
you do. Yeah, you got to just put it out
there and then you'll find people that like it, or
you'll get feedback on how to do better next time. Exactly.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You're in a unique position where you got to kind
of see this like South Asian creative scene start to
develop in Toronto in the GTA. How different is it
now from when you were younger?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Well, it's way more opportunity now, I think. Yeah, right,
it's like just beginning. Yeah, like now when you even
watched like TV shows like We're in them, even the
space ones, Like I was watching what's that show called Expanse? Yeah,
like shit, they took us to space?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, Like like that guy Saith, he's actually in season two,
but he's he's on Expanse or something or one of
those shows I forgot the name. But it's like, you
see so many more brown characters and representation on TV.
Is it where it needs to be based on how
much of the population we are?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
No, No, is it getting better? Yeah? That's all you
can really ask for is like where is the Is
it moving in the right direction?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I think it is. We still haven't really monopolized beer
commercials yet. The thing is, we drink a lot of beer,
right yep. But then I have a feeling too that
if we started getting into many beer commercials, then our
community would probably have a problem with that too.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Oh everything.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, but then they'd be like, oh, they think we're alcoholics.
It's like nah, dude, it's just like go to a
hall party and then you tell me what you think
at the end of the night. Like nobody wants to
admit that that's a problem in our society. Like I
remember Eve when Son came out, some people were a
little like if he that we bought up alcoholism and
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spousal abuse and stuff, like you're telling me that doesn't happen.
It's a huge issue huge issue. Like, I don't know
anyone my age that didn't know of either their own
moms or their aunts, or somebody that was abused by
their husband. I don't know anyone my age that could
sit there and say I didn't have no who some
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everyone knows one thing and it was just considered culturally
acceptable then, yeah, which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yeah, sorry, this is such a did not expect to
end on this note.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, on that note, on that note's punch through.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Well, thank you for coming out and taking taking the
time to come out.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Don't shake your hand now or what? Like? How does
this said?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I don't know, we can I guess like, dap you up?
Is that a dap? That's this is a dab?
Speaker 6 (39:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No, no, okay, hold on, you gotta show this to you.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Lived in Brampton, how long? I'm I'm also old this
is a dab.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Oh, okay, that's a dap.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
You learned that she's raising Brampton as well.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I'm gonna dapt people the whole way home. I'm walking up. Queen,
got no way.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
You've never adapted. How do you meet your friends?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I don't touch people. That's a good that's a good
role for you.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
To have.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
No, thank you for coming on the show, thank you
for saving me sometime. I'm excited for Lake Bloomer season two.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Do you know? Wait? What's what's the release date? April eleventh?
April eleventh, right around the corner.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Season two Late Bloomer. I can't wait to see Sunny
back on screen.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
I can't wait either. And guys, come on, man, get crave.
I know i PTV has it, but right to wait
wait right there, Yeah, guys, get crave. I know I
p TV has it. I know it's hard out there.
There's tariffs and there's like kind of like a recession happening.
But if you guys want to see more content from
our community get aired on channels like that and shows,
you have to support it. I get it, though times
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are tough.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Are they talking about distribution outside of Canada? I don't
know yet, because every single time, like I remember, I
posted something about Late Bloomer too, and people are always
just like, well, I can't watch this. I'm in Australia
or I'm in Europe.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Probably have something that's coming, but I'm not privy to that.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
They should because I feel like there's so many.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Well, I think they will, like that's eventually where they'll
probably go with it. Yeah, for now, it's Canada only. Damn. Hey,
look we finally have a benefit for being Canadian. That
was so Canadian. I know I can turn that on.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It's almost like you're an after.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
You're listening to rock US Avenue Radio, the world's most
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Wh whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So then that's why even today, well they'll probably find
out if they see this podcast. But even if they're
watching this podcast, my mom will not get this far
any No, she'll watch two minutes and then stop. Nothing
against you or me. It's just her attention spack honestly. Same. Yeah,
so they allowed family on set, like I think almost
everyone's family came on set. But then mine asked. I said, no,
(00:35):
it's not allowed.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Why don't you just have them come on set for
a day that you're not on call? Like is it
call sorry on the shotlist or whatever?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
No, because then you have to like, then you're responsible
for their happiness that day. No, you are. That's a
lot of pressure. That's your mother. She's responsible for you
being here, I know, but like, I don't know. I
don't like that kind of stuff. Then you got to
like make sure they're walking around, is everyone talking to them?
Property are they bored? And then knowing my mom, they'll
be like okay, quiet on set and she'll like you
(01:03):
start yelling something like I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Hi everyone, and welcome to Jickney with Pribleen.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm Pribleen and I am so excited for this episode,
I got the chance to sit down with such a
mushy also known as Sunny Funny Enough. He also plays
Sonny on the show Late Bloomer. Guys, I had so
much fun filming this episode. Sunny is the funniest, most
entertaining person ever. Like I had my friend helping me
behind the scenes and she was dying trying not to laugh.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
So the mic couldn't pick it up. He also has
so much dimension.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He's lived like so many lives already, so he had
a lot of great advice to give. We talked about
his creative journey, his approach to acting, life on set,
and so much more, including season two of Light Bloomer,
which is streaming now on Pray TV.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So make sure you check that out.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
But you're in for a treat, So get comfortable, grab
a snack, just you know, don't choke, and let's get
into the episode.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
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Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I've always wanted to be a part of something
like this, But where's us with our outreach to sit
with them and say, hey, guys, this is what's culturally
acceptable here. This is kind of frowned upon. Nobody's telling
them that they don't have parents here.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
No, they And that's the other thing I feel like
when you were saying, oh, like the Pindubbies, here are
the ones like criticizing them and doing all of that.
Like I find that a lot of those kids were
brought here by their parents. Yeah, and they had They
don't understand how much harder it is. And like, these
people need to find community for themselves, and this is
how they're finding community. This is how they're funding community
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because they don't have parents to rely on.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
They don't have any elder. And then when they do
see elder, they just start making fun of them for
wearing tupola. It's like, bro, you grew up wearing chaplain
and the band, and now you're gonna laugh at these guys.
First of all, chapla are comfy. I don't have I
love the sound that click click click click click.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, you'd ask anybody all summer long. As soon as
it's possible for me to go outside with my chapplin, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Me too, I'll papa. I was in Thailand. I jumpled
all over the place over there.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That sounds like a perfect place to both.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The greatest country. You know. One thing it made me
realize is that we get lied to here a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
About what the what the East is like yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Like we get we almost like get told that their
third world quote unquote, and we're like advanced and then
there and say that we saw.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
This is so off topic. But I actually recently went
to a event at the RAM at the Royal Ontario
Museum and because you know, they're dedicating an entire section
of the museum to South Asian arts.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, and they're doing a.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Whole thing for sick arts, for gen Msaki Good dav
G like they yeah, yeah, so it's gonna take a
while because it's under construction and stuff. But they started
doing programming right where they're going to have events and
things like that. So I went to one and this
is the entire topic. He was showing us these like
stereographs or whatever, and they're like these pictures and it
was God going to these countries light somewhere in like
(04:15):
the Middle East, India, places like that, and they were
orchestrating and directing these photographs. So like for example, there's
like a kid farming the land in India, right, they
had the machinery, the advanced machinery that they had in
the West, but they would make them take like an
old like way of farming, some old tool or something
(04:36):
and make yeah, and they would make them stand there
to like, and they would direct the whole thing. And
then the photographs that you see of like Paris and
whatever they had, it's all clean, clean roads, everyone's dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Nicely, middle class.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, they would have artists go there to paint what
it looks like, and they would make them paint the
buildings as broken down and ruged. When you go and
see them building, they're fine, it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Funny, but isn't it hilarious kind of like. But that's
how like even when I heard of pieland I thought
it was gonna be like.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So, you're one hundred percent right. They are doing that,
and they've been doing that for years years.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, because you know why, because they don't want us
to realize that we're paying all our taxes, we still
don't live the way we should. York University when I
started there in nineteen ninety five or ninety six, I
don't remember. I was born Oh my god. Yeah, so
so when I started university before you were born. I
remember there was a sign that's had subway coming soon,
(05:36):
not the not the sandwiches, like the actual subway, right,
because they already had a subway sandwich spot. But I
was like, oh great. So I was in first year.
I'm like, and by the time I'm third year, there's
gonna be a subway station that goes to York. Right.
That thing didn't open until like twenty ten or twenty
twelve I had graduated. It was ten twelve years after
I graduated, Okay, and then you Deli makes a subway
(05:57):
system with double or triple the amount of stop to
Toronto in eight years. So it's like we're falling so
far behind and the only way they try to control
the narrative, but they really can't anymore because now people
are traveling, yeah, and people are going to like add
a friend go to China and Homie goes dude. It's
like there's one hundred years in the future.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And the Internet, like we have access to so many
people and so much information now it's like you can't
if you're if you don't know that, you're choosing to
be ignorant.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yes, but I still didn't know about Thailand until I landed,
and then I.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Was like, that's normal because you were raised here.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. The cars are nice, like all the buildings are nice.
That well, the people are nice. Yeah. So like I'm
actually going to start living two or three months of
the year there, and then two or three months of
the year in the Bend, and then I'll be here
for the summers only because I can't perfect. Yeah, the
winter's here suck. I just can't do it.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Did you see the weather today?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It was snowing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I know, I heard I base have no windows in
my room.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That explains a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, this shut door and then like I don't know
what time of day it is, yeah, and anything like that.
It's great.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
So how did your parents feel about you doing short
films and like pursuing this on the side before while
you worked full time?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Well at that point, by that point, like my mom
was too cool with it.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Because you had a job, you had your degree. Yeah yeah,
so wait what was your degree again?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I did civil engineering.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Civil engineering from York York Damn.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Planning and then and then I used to work for
a place where we did like warehouse design and then
we would sell forklifts and stuff. So I never worked
on like a residential side of things.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Okay, so you were designing forklifts.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
No, we would design the warehouses, and then I was
selling the forklifts that would go into the warehouse, and
then pretty much anything material handling based. So we would
do forklifts, we do the racking, we would do dock plates,
so like we would set up your whole warehouse.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Wow, and you so you worked in the industry twenty
five years. Yeah, that's insane. Do you feel like there's
anything that you take from your twenty five year career
when you're on set that you feel like actually like
kind of transfers.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
When you're on set. It's very easy for me too
to everything seems fun, right, Yeah, And it's very easy
to like just kind of think everything's fun in games, right,
But then having a career, you start realizing what business is, right,
and then in the end it's just it's a business.
So I think from my career it's like just the
ability you have to lock in and you got to
(08:26):
get rid of distractions and you got to like, for me,
I had problems when it was time to shoot the
scene and I'd look around and there were like thirty
people watching.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And then I remember the first time I was like
the first scene, I shot out like, holy shit, is
it can be like this all the time? And then
I realized, dude, you do that work. You do presentations
in front of thirty people. Yeah, So that's what I
started treating it as, like, oh, it's a presentation, and
instead of trying to sell a forklift, I'm trying to
sell this scene to these thirty people watching. Yeah. And
then so that I remember thinking right away that that
(08:57):
translated over so well, and I was like, if I
never did presentations all the time at work, this would
be really hard for me to do.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So that was probably the number one thing. I think.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's really cool. I know, you're literally you finished one
career and you're you're doing another one.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I know. The worst part is I'm retired now. That's
not to say I'll never go back to the industry,
but if I do go back, I'm only going to
go back to the company I work for because I
love those guys, right, Yeah, but I don't plan on
going back because it's one of those Also, as you
get older, you start realizing, so I'm not married I
don't have kids, so I can make money. But then
(09:34):
to what end and who do I leave it to? Like,
what's the point of it? You only need a certain
amount to survive, and you plan on never doing that,
never getting married, never having a family. No, I think
it's kind of too late.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Really. Yeah, I feel like that's the luxury as a man.
You can do it whenever.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, but see yes and no, you don't want to
have a kid, and then you throw a baseball at
him and your arm comes out of its socket, you
know what I mean. And they're like, well, look at
this bord want to be with your kid at the
school And they're like, hey, you're Babba's around the corner.
He bought your lunch. You don't try to say plus
is not fair to the kid, because you're gonna die
(10:10):
when the kid's like maybe twenty, you know what I mean,
Like you're basically setting and then not only that. Okay,
if I ever meet I shouldn't say never. If I
ever meet a woman who is brilliant and smart enough
that I know that together just because of her, yeah,
we're gonna have exceptional child. Yeah, then I might consider it.
(10:33):
But for me, I know that my child is gonna
be average, dude. He's just gonna be like bumping into
people and like doing stupid shit and breaking someone's heart.
Like like the world has a ton of average people. Wow, Yeah,
we don't need to add to that average total. He's
just gonna be traffic being one hundred percent realistic.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, I don't know. I mean, are you average
if you're over here and you pursuing a second career
and you know, no, I think not necessarily average.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
No.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I think maybe that's the average man. Maybe the woman
is for me.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I don't take anything seriously, and then stuff just happens.
But like I think I told you that once the
second in my life started getting fixed. It's not great,
but it's getting fixed. Is the second I decided I'm
not going to try to control shit anymore. Yeah, whatever
happens happens. Like now, I'll nudge things in certain directions,
(11:30):
but it's your The universe is experiencing itself through you,
and if it wants to show you something, you look
at it and you observe it, and then once you
just start kind of going with the flow, things just
start working out. Also, I don't think I said son,
I wouldn't want a son. If I had a kid,
I don't want a daughter. I probably just want one kid.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
A lot of guys say that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, well because I think, like, so you also hate man?
Well yeah, I think everyone does. That's the pomper thing
that do. Yeah. No, I think like just when I
see my mom as she's getting older and then the
way like my sisters are with her and I try,
but I like, I can't give her the same support.
(12:13):
Like I think as a parent when you're getting older,
you're much better off if you have a daughter than
if you have a son.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh just about you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well, that's the lens I have to see things through. Right.
When people say that kind of stuff, Oh that sounds
very selfish, I'm like, dude, I can only see things
through my own lens. So in my lens, it's like,
if I did have a choice between the two, it
would probably be a daughter. Children are expensive, They're gonna
have to do something for you. And then dudes do
dumb stuff too, they crash your car and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I know you're still right, that's you know what thinks.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I would get confused. I'm like, why do they always
want girl? Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
How did your parents react with Late Bloomer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Oh, so my mom when I when I got the show,
I didn't tell her like I think we started shooting okay,
and then she's like shooting and then no, she didn't
say that in my mind she did. So then I
was like, no, I got to roll on this TV show.
(13:13):
So I think I don't think she realized how big
it was, yeah, because she was just kind of like oh.
And then it was like a couple of weeks into
shooting is when I showed her. I'm like, it's just
rained and she's like who. And then I showed her
the picture and then my mom was like, ah, it's
like YouTube the video and blah blah blah. I was
like yeah. Then my mom's like, oh, can we come
(13:33):
on set? And I'm like no, No, families are a
loud even though they are allowed, Like everyone's family has
been on set. You just hate your mom? No, I
just I don't want to act in front of them.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh honestly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah. Because so Whenya's family came on set and it
was like a very big like scene for her that day.
There's a couple of scenes and I told her I'm like,
it was like her mom and her sister and everyone.
I'm like, dude, how are you doing that? Like if
my mom and sister in them were here, I would choke.
I would not be able to act.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
No, I know, I can't film it. Yeah, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Film in front of my mom. Oh I feel weird.
But she killed it. So then that's why even today,
well they'll probably find out if they see this podcast.
But even if they're watching this podcast, my mom will
not get this foreign not She'll watch two minutes and
then stop. Nothing against you or me as just her
attention span, honestly.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Same.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, so they allowed family on set, like I think
almost everyone's family came on set. But then mine asked.
I said, no, it's not allowed.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Why don't you just have them come on set for
a day that you're not on call? Like is it
sorry on the shotlist or whatever?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, because then you have to like then you're responsible
for their happiness that day. No you are, that's a
lot of pressure.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
No you are, that's a lot of pressure. That's your mother.
She's responsible for you being here, I know, but like
I don't know, I don't like that kind of stuff.
Then you got to like make sure they're walking around,
is everyone talking to them properly? Are they bored? And
then knowing my mom, they'll be like okay, quiet on
set and she'll like you start yelling something like I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So what was her reaction when she found out how
big it was?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
She was she was like very happy, but it wasn't
until I think it actually came on.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Tv M then in for her, right, yeah, and then.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
The first episode I was kind of like, uh oh,
but she was like totally cool.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
The first episode is always like, even when I was
thinking about showing like Bloomer to my parents, because like
there's just so much there that I'm like, you could
totally relate to or like understand my perspective about things,
you just skip the first episode. Bro.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, I saw the first episode just because it was
during the premiere. Yeah, but that's when I saw it.
I was like, yeah, was that this is okay? My
mom can watch this. She's watched worse. And then yeah,
she loved it. Like when the show came out, she
loved it. Her favorite character on the show is Ahamed. Oh,
of course, yeah, my mom loves him. My mom cannot
(16:19):
be bubble not nice. Yeah, this and that, and she
goes like he's so cute. Yeah he's actually that guy
is extremely funny, is he? Yeah? He does stand up comedy,
does he?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I don't think I've seen any of his sets. There's
a lot I gotta watch. I actually spent some time
talking you oh where on the internet, obviously, because I
was thinking, I'm like, looking at your filmography, there's like
a huge break. There's like a ten year break and
then like you told me you were working, and I'm like, okay,
maybe because he was working. Then I was like, no,
(16:52):
he was working.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I married a couple of times in there too, did
you actually? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Ah, okay, so you've tried it and that's why you know.
You're like, I've done and it's not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
No, I know it's me. I don't know if it's
I don't know, you know what I'm trying to say.
But after like the second one, you gotta kind of
start pointing at yourself, you know, that's that's the first
one' mulligan, the first one's but I'm mull again, Like
you can. It's a you can do a redolf. I
(17:23):
don't pay golf, but so mulligan just means you get
to reshoot, so you get to take another shot. And
then I took another shot. And then now I got
a letter from the girls WATA and they said you've
hit your ar maximum and you can't get married again.
So I was like, what if I bring one of
them here and walk the other way four times? I
(17:46):
was not going to deduct it. And I think they're
sending at and they're going to see what they can do.
That's jokes, bro okay.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So the ten year yeah, other than getting married, and
I realized that that ten yuere gap was actually filled
by the YouTube channel that you are a part of.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I think it's called People of Community. Yeah. So I
don't know if you guys remember, it's probably a little
bit before your time. But they see comedy. They used
to do the prank phone calls and stuff like that. Yeah,
I think that was before you. Yeah, so Darshan and
those guys are they see comedy? Oh okay, right, So
how that happened is Sun was in the Pajab International
Film Festival. Then one of the guys on that podcast
(18:28):
to me, so he told me, he said, hey, dude,
we're starting a podcast. We want you on as a guest. Yeah.
So I came on as a guest. Yeah. And then
I think two weeks after that, one of their guests
canceled or something, so they're like, hey, do you want
to come on again as like a guest host. So
I was like cool, and then I came on again.
And then after that they were like, Okay, do you
want to just come every week? And then I was
(18:48):
like cool. So then it was one of those like
literally every week I got to shoot something and your creative,
Like I didn't feel the need to do a short film.
And then that podcast, all of us just became like
good friends.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It was to the point where like we weren't even
doing a pod anymore, Like we're just sitting there with
the camera on, yeah, and shooting the shit.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I listened to a couple episodes and yeah, you guys
are just like yeah, kiking.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Because I was going to ask that YouTube channel and
your friends for people of the community, they were making
content around the same time, just Meath was yeah, and
it's very similar content too, So I was what I
was wondering was like, you know, if you had worked
on a lot of those skits and doing that, did
you see that kind of crossover when you were working
on like.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Blouemer when they were doing the sketch things. I wasn't
really involved in anyo. So both like just me, he
does give you creative control. But at the same time,
what I find is when I look at the dialogue,
he's written it so well that there's really nothing else
you can add. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
So I'll look at it and be like, Okay, what
do I add here? But it's written so well that
(19:49):
you're like, you know what, this one sentence says everything
it needs to say, right. So I didn't really need
to bring that for me on that show. I think
I'm surrounded by so many talented people. It's kind of like,
just you know what, just don't mess up, you know
what I mean, because then like sometimes you're doing a
shot and then if you mess it up, then you
feel bad because the other person delivered like a crazy
(20:11):
line and stuff, and they're like, oh man, I messed
this up for everyone, right. Yeah, So that's what I'm
scared of the most on that scene, and then there
was a couple of no, I can't. I can't talk
about that. I don't want because i'mout not giving away
anything about the show at all. Okay, I no one,
no season two spoilers, none, none. The last thing I
want is Ricky to call me none. What is this
(20:34):
podcast you went on?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You just spilled everything.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I'm in it. I can tell you that. That's it. Yeah,
I'm in it. You'll see Nils in it.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Still, I think we got one little spoiler.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Which one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That you guys kind of cover that whole international student.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, that's a topic they cover, and that's one of
the main reasons why I'm excited about this show. But
this show is actually covering are our topics exactly like
stuff that other people won't say. And I mean, if
you go online right now and you look at anything
with an Indian person in it, the first forty five
comments are racist. Yep, some of them are funny.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Hey, racist doesn't mean not funny.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah. One time we were sitting there, me and my
cousin's true story, but we were sitting there talking about
all the stuff we've been called, obviously the P word
and everything going on and on and on and on,
and then one of my cousins used to wear a
vodka so where everyone's dropping, Oh, I've been called this before.
I've been called that before. And then he goes burger
and then to keep going and I'm like, hold on,
did you just say burger? And he's like yeah, I'm
(21:37):
like what. He goes, oh Clem Brown, and I have
a bun on my head. I'm like, hold on the
second here, can we take a minute just appreciate how
great that was? Like that kid that came up with.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
That, I'm surprised a good Bige kid has not made
that their Halloween costume yet.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, can you just imagine?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Just let us.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Until seriously, but I was like, can we just take
a minute to appreciate how good? And he said it
so casually. I've never heard that before in my life.
He's like burger.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I'm kind of like sour though about racism to a
certain extent, because that's a great way to start a sentence.
We need our own slur. What do you mean like
when Dubb's Indians in general, it's one point two billion people,
but they call us like we're not Pakistani. Yeah it's true,
or not like we deserve our own slur. You're thinking
(22:38):
of one right now?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, because I'm like, what do we get called?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And I'm like smelly no, But like we don't have
our own slur. Everyone else has their own slur, and
we get grouped in with Pakistan, which is I love them,
but it's a different country.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You know what, think on that if you think of one.
But before the end of us filming this, let me know, well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I got a couple. I was not gonna say him.
I don't want to get in trouble, but I do
have a couple. I've read some on the internet that
were great. Okay, so you found some on the Reddit
my top vote one. I don't want to do it,
like I'll go to all the racist stuff and downvoat it.
But there was one guy I rolled with something I
was like, oh shit, okay, yeah that's too bunny. Yeah
(23:16):
take top vote.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
The funny overtakes the racism.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, every day, late Bloomer.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I feel like it's such a like representation of what
we were talking about, which is like South Asian creatives
tend to find themselves and like it takes a bunch
of detours to get to being able to pursue whatever
creative like passion that you have. Do you feel like
you relate to that whole concept of.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Being a late bloomer?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, because your story lines up so well with that,
like twenty five year career doing civil engineering and urban planning.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And now I'm getting into acting and I have my
hat on backward. I'm in my forties. You know, I'm
trying to say, yeah, I got my ears pierced last month. Yeah,
so yeah, like I honestly, I even said it when
we're doing the interviews with Belle, I'm like, I relate
to this show because I feel like I'm a late bloomer.
And I know, just meet in this show is in
(24:05):
his early thirties. Yeah, and I'm like, no, you ain't
blooming late. That's probably on time. Like I'm in my forties. Yeah,
I'm on my forties and I'm kind of coming to terms.
The thing is, you never really figured out you never do.
And now the older you get, the more you realize
(24:26):
that that you spend your whole life trying to figure
something out. You don't know what you're trying to figure out, Yeah,
but you're trying to figure it out. And then you
start realizing that whatever it is, it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Essentially, what you're saying is it's about the journey and fact.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's what I was trying
to say. I was more poetic, and I've never told
this to just meet but like, look at the mark
he's left for our community if you look at it,
like we've never like this is a show that's a
job be based that doesn't just lead with that, like
it's a family based show that's on a major Canadian network.
(25:03):
Like I remember when season one came out and his
commercial was on during the Super Bowl. Oh, I don't
even know that. Yeah, so the Canadian broadcast because they
had a commercial for Late Bloomer Under in the Super Bowl.
I remember looking at that and then right after that,
I'm like, man, like this guy, like look at what
he did, Like he should be proud of he he is, probably,
(25:24):
but like him and everyone around him like, like, dude,
we have a TV show. Like when I was young
and we saw a brown person on TV, we got
so happy, even if it was a pooh and we
didn't even get to voice him. It was a go
voiced him, right, But even if it was a poo.
We'd be like, oh my god, look, juvenile had a
(25:44):
music video back in that back that ass up or whatever,
there was a guy with a bug video. We were
freaking out. Dude, there's a guy with a bug in
that video. Holy.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Any like scene that you see or YouTube video or anything,
if a sing comes up, the comments sing sing.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Everyone got so excited back in those days that oh
my god, we're on TV, even if it was just
in the background, yeah, or even it was a taxi
driver in a TV show, and like just me put us.
He put us in a position where we have a
show on a major network that's not only one season,
like it got renewed for a second season. So now
any brown person that comes up now these networks are
(26:22):
going to pay attention.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So like, and I don't know if he realizes that.
He probably does, but I've never had that conversation with him,
but I admire him a lot for that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Even when I was like doing some research for this
and like reading into it, there were a lot of
people that aren't been Dubby that really really found the
show represented them right, Like a lot of South Indian
like you know, just Filipanos. Yeah, So many other people
that can relate because I think that there was a
need for this, right, like there was a gap in representation.
(26:53):
I don't know if you think about this lot, but
I think about it as a brown woman. Every brown
woman you see in TV. Right, we're talking like Mindy Kailing,
like all of her representations, it's a brown girl who
is self loathing. She hates being Indian, and she is
obsessed with white guys.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah every single time. Yeah, it sounds like me, I'm joking, No,
but you're right, it's the sat character always. It's like
a self hating brown person. Yeah, exactly, And that's why
I love this show. Like, I remember one time there
was a line I had to say and I kind
of put an accent on it while we were just
(27:32):
like practicing and reading and stuff. And then I was
told that we're not doing accents. If you don't have
an accent, you're not doing a line with an accent. Oh,
he's got a really good thing. He's so talented, Like
he directed a couple of episodes to this year.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Hoti Ready Hot Daily, Christy Poka, you're listening to Ruckus
Avenue Radio.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Okay, fsting checking.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And to see him like do that movement from like
direction to like then he shoots the scene and in
the like in front of the camera, Like, dude, what
the hell? Like I have to say two lines and
I'm freaking out and you're directing the thing and you're
going in front of the camera.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah no.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
But even like when you see the set and if
you play close attention, if you zoom into different aspects
of the set, like that is what appen. Jumpy Home
looks like that is like we have those magazines we
have like we have.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Random Well he kept it authentic, even the taking your
shoes off part. Yeah, of course, yeah, that was like
he's like, you cannot have your shoes on in the house.
It's a joy to work on. And the thing is,
I'm looking forward to more seasons of it me too.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
After season one of Late Bloomer came out, what was
like your craziest fan experience or the first one?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What was the first one?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Nothing crazy, But the thing is the first one is
the one that caught me the most off guard. Yeah.
So I was at a market selling colognes and there
was these two girls and they come up to me.
They go, hey, you're a late Bloomer, and I was like,
what the hell, like people like, like, I knew people
were gonna watch it, but I didn't know i'd get
(29:22):
recognized for it. And then they asked for a picture,
and that to me was just like because I never
expected that to happen. And then I said, I'll do
a picture, but you have to do that filter with
the bunny ears and the puppy thing. So I made
him do that. I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Other than that, I think everyone I've kind of ran
into it's been great. But I do notice that there
were people like you were saying that I did not
expect would watch the show that came up to me.
So that pizza, what's it called super point? It's not ausington? Yeah,
So I was there, like I lived right around the corner,
so I went there to get pizza. You're just scaring
(30:04):
tell people where we live.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We're just going to tell people who whatever, what's some
I'm gonna do. Okay, cool with me.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I forget you're not a brown girl.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, like, yeah, well I'll tell you something about Thailand
in the second. But so then I walked in and
there was just this average dude, and he had a
hat and long hair and looked like a hockey bro
and me and were talking hockey and then he goes, hey,
you're in that show Late Bloomer. I'm like, you watched it? Yeah,
Like that happened a couple of times where people that
I thought wouldn't watch the show and they're like, of
course we did. I used to watch Jesser and videos
(30:34):
way back when. Then I went to there's a Filipino festival, Yeah,
and we were selling colognes there and a lot of
people recognized me there. And then I figured out after
I told just me, I go, you have a lot
of Filipino fans because they're like, the family dynamic is
the same. So they said the same thing. They go,
we can relate because our dads were like that growing up,
and our moms were like that, like overly caring, and
their dads were like you don't trying to say yeah,
(30:56):
and then even misogynistic elements where like the man the
boy can do this.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
And yeah, wow, the impact is so much bigger than
maybe he anticipated or that anyone else would understand, because
like I think it's someone watching it as a juppy
person obviously, I'm like, I.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Relate, yeah, right, But a lot of people relate. And
that's what I think. I think because if you're an immigrant,
you relate. Yeah. Like I remember growing up, I had
friends that were Italian. Yeah, and if one of their
sisters went to the club, it'll be just like brown guys.
Their friends would walk up like, yo, I saw your
sister at the club yesterday. They'd be like, no way,
dog like like they it was the same type of setup.
(31:32):
Like I never used to say anything to my sisters
for going to a club because my sisters are savage.
I was like, yo, I feel sorry for a guy
that goes up to the ut Like I didn't feel.
I didn't feel like I ever needed to protect them
that way.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, you wanted to protect other people from.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Them, yeah, yeah, and you were saying the brown girl things.
I never understood that because as a guy, like sometimes
my friends will come over and they'll be like, hey,
can you go with us, We're going to go up
Bossington to have a beer whatever. And then I'd be like, Okay,
why just come with us? You know, creepy guys whatever,
And then I'd be like, oh, I went to Thailand.
I understood because I would walk out alone and the
(32:11):
massage places they would just be like massage and then
they would grab you and start dragging you in, dude,
and you'd be like, no, I'm good, I'm good, and
they'd be like, just don't you we see inside. I'm
like no, I'm good, and they would be like dragging you.
But then if I had a girl with me, because
I went we went as a group of friends, they
wouldn't do that. So I'd be going out at night
going yo, your dog, can you just walk with me
(32:32):
up the road? I just want to go to seven
eleven and they'd be like they'd be like, no, what
do you mean. I'm like, no, dude, I get it.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Anytime you want me to go up passing tonight, well
this please just walk with me. I gotta go get
a diet coke. But they would like lunch you. They
would attack you, dude. And I told the girls, I go,
I finally get it. They're like, you don't get ship.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That is that is the world giving you karma right there?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, straight up, that's the world. Wasn't safe in Thailand
for a single dude.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
No, what kind of advice would you give a kid,
like a brown kid right now, who wants to get
into acting, and like, you know, obviously the parents want
them to pick a stable career and do that.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
What advice do you think? Just don't stop. A lot
of people give up way too soon. And the thing
is like, you never know when it's gonna happen for you,
and you know what, it might not. Chances are it's
not gonna let's be honest, chances are it's not going
to Like does that mean you're not gonna try? And
then for a lot of people, like you know, the kid,
their parents want a stable career, do it. You can
(33:33):
do both, like there is enough hours in a day.
And I know, I hate hustle culture. That's like one
of my biggest pet peeves when people do that oll
hustle this like shut up, dude, Like like you know,
sit down, smoke some weed, have a good time, Okay,
But you can do both. You can do their career
and just on the side, make friends with people that
(33:54):
are into film, learn about cameras, like like, do little
little things that will keep that part of you sad.
If you're in there enough and you start talking enough people,
eventually things are going to happen for you. It's inevitable.
And if it doesn't happen, that's okay too. Not everyone's
supposed to make it. Not everyone's supposed to be on TV. Yeah,
(34:14):
well I don't think I've made it. But I'm just saying, like,
even in general, when a lot of people are like,
like success, what does success mean to you? Money? Because
everyone can't be rich. Yeah, so then you're trying to
say that majority of the people aren't, so that you're
trying to say majority the people failed. No, they didn't.
They've had Like I've met rich people that are miserable,
and I've met poor people that are having the time
(34:36):
of their lives. So yeah, just just stay at it,
don't give up, and don't put yourself in a position
where you feel like you need to give up. Don't
like put all your eggs in that basket where if
it's not working out for you, you can't pay your bills.
Don't quit your day job, straight up, That's all I'm
trying to say. Don't quit your day job. Like, there's
(34:56):
a lot of people out there that worked and rest
while they had a TV show running. Yeah, yeah, as possible.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I think that a lot of people just think it
happens like this. They assume that, you know, someone just
wakes up something one day and they're on late Bloomer.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah, it's not like that, right. It takes a.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Long time to get there.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, to get there, Like, you can't expect to put
a year in and then give up.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, that's the thing, like, if you stick with it,
if you think of it. I started, I did work
on my first short while I was still in university.
I don't even remember the name of it. But I
was just doing a film Television Society class and there's
some guys in there that we're doing a short. Night
went on set. I think I had two lines in it.
That was twenty seven years ago. Yeah. Yeah, if I
decided that there's like I took breaks in between. But
(35:46):
if I had decided in between that, you know, I'm
not doing this anymore, then my friend wouldn't have sent
me the link to audition because he would have been like, oh,
he's not doing this anymore.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
So just and don't look at it as that that
you need to get some for it to be the
endgame for you. Just have fun with it. Yeah, and
if you're really doing it, just because you enjoy it,
then it doesn't matter where it ends up. Yeah, it
could end up on TV, it could end up on YouTube,
it could end up you watching with your friends. That's
(36:15):
another thing I tell people all the time. Everyone wants
to make something perfect. Nothing is perfect, and then people
will make stuff and not release it, and then I'll
look at it and be like this is great. Yeah,
well we don't like this and we don't like that.
Who cares progress over perfection? No one's gonna like everything
you do. Yeah, you got to just put it out
there and then you'll find people that like it, or
you'll get feedback on how to do better next time. Exactly.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You're in a unique position where you got to kind
of see this like South Asian creative scene start to
develop in Toronto in the GTA. How different is it
now from when you were younger?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Well, it's way more opportunity now, I think. Yeah, right,
it's like just beginning. Yeah, like now when you even
watched like TV shows like We're in them, even the
space ones, Like I was watching what's that show called Expanse? Yeah,
like shit, they took us to space?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah, Like like that guy Saith, he's actually in season two,
but he's he's on Expanse or something or one of
those shows I forgot the name. But it's like, you
see so many more brown characters and representation on TV.
Is it where it needs to be based on how
much of the population we are?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
No, No, is it getting better? Yeah? That's all you
can really ask for is like where is the Is
it moving in the right direction?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I think it is. We still haven't really monopolized beer
commercials yet. The thing is, we drink a lot of beer,
right yep. But then I have a feeling too that
if we started getting into many beer commercials, then our
community would probably have a problem with that too.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Oh everything.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, but then they'd be like, oh, they think we're alcoholics.
It's like nah, dude, it's just like go to a
hall party and then you tell me what you think
at the end of the night. Like nobody wants to
admit that that's a problem in our society. Like I
remember Eve when Son came out, some people were a
little like if he that we bought up alcoholism and
(38:10):
spousal abuse and stuff, like you're telling me that doesn't happen.
It's a huge issue huge issue. Like, I don't know
anyone my age that didn't know of either their own
moms or their aunts, or somebody that was abused by
their husband. I don't know anyone my age that could
sit there and say I didn't have no who some
(38:33):
everyone knows one thing and it was just considered culturally
acceptable then, yeah, which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yeah, sorry, this is such a did not expect to
end on this note.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, on that note, on that note's punch through.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Well, thank you for coming out and taking taking the
time to come out.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Don't shake your hand now or what? Like? How does
this said?
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I don't know, we can I guess like, dap you up?
Is that a dap? That's this is a dab?
Speaker 6 (39:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No, no, okay, hold on, you gotta show this to you.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Lived in Brampton, how long? I'm I'm also old this
is a dab.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Oh, okay, that's a dap.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
You learned that she's raising Brampton as well.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I'm gonna dapt people the whole way home. I'm walking up. Queen,
got no way.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
You've never adapted. How do you meet your friends?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I don't touch people. That's a good that's a good
role for you.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
To have.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
No, thank you for coming on the show, thank you
for saving me sometime. I'm excited for Lake Bloomer season two.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Do you know? Wait? What's what's the release date? April eleventh?
April eleventh, right around the corner.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Season two Late Bloomer. I can't wait to see Sunny
back on screen.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
I can't wait either. And guys, come on, man, get crave.
I know i PTV has it, but right to wait
wait right there, Yeah, guys, get crave. I know I
p TV has it. I know it's hard out there.
There's tariffs and there's like kind of like a recession happening.
But if you guys want to see more content from
our community get aired on channels like that and shows,
you have to support it. I get it, though times
(40:12):
are tough.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Are they talking about distribution outside of Canada? I don't
know yet, because every single time, like I remember, I
posted something about Late Bloomer too, and people are always
just like, well, I can't watch this. I'm in Australia
or I'm in Europe.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Probably have something that's coming, but I'm not privy to that.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
They should because I feel like there's so many.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Well, I think they will, like that's eventually where they'll
probably go with it. Yeah, for now, it's Canada only. Damn. Hey,
look we finally have a benefit for being Canadian. That
was so Canadian. I know I can turn that on.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It's almost like you're an after.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
You're listening to rock US Avenue Radio, the world's most
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