Above the bridge
Above the bridge
Episode 137 MR COCONUT (Digital Creator)
Join us for a laugh-filled chat with our guest, Mr. Coconut, as we swap stories about the quirks of unexpected podcast invitations and the oddball questions that come with them. Mr Coconut's infectious humor sets the stage for a lively exploration of cultural contrasts and the life of a budding content creator.
Passionate about storytelling and creativity, we journey through Mr Coconuts aspirations of crafting a superhero universe inspired by childhood loves like comic books and animated series. The conversation highlights the transformative power of digital tools like CapCut, which are reshaping the landscape of content creation. He shares the balancing act of keeping humor engaging, along with the thrill of personal projects videos that resonate with audiences alike.
Social media's impact on young minds and personal integrity is a recurring theme, as we giggle over TikTok antics and the unique social fabric of Hawaii. We touch on the art of growing up in tight-knit communities while navigating the digital age’s challenges and opportunities. Amidst the laughter and storytelling, this episode offers a heartfelt glimpse into the creative journey and the pursuit of authenticity in today's digital world.
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Speaker 2:All right, if you're new to the podcast, I would appreciate it if you could like, subscribe, comment on our youtube channel. Um, whatever platform you listen to the podcast, go like, subscribe and leave us a comment. It's greatly appreciated. Um, thank you guys for listening and aloha. Okay, this week my guest is somebody I I've watched grow on Instagram and with his content creating. He's someone who's very funny and I'm super excited to have this guy on my show. I'm very happy that he said yes when I shot my shot. He's Sarah, also known as Mr Coconut. What's up, man?
Speaker 1:Hi, how's it going?
Speaker 2:I'm great, I'm super stoked you were down to come on my show and your content's been. It's funny, bro, your stuff is funny.
Speaker 1:I'm very shocked that you even asked me to be on here. I was like ah, it seems like a very friendly place. I don't want to ruin it.
Speaker 2:No, we can ruin it, man.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, thanks for having me on man, because I don't get much invites places, you know, so it's crazy are building your content.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure you're gonna, you're gonna blow up and, uh, you're gonna be getting asked to do many podcasts and shows and videos and a whole bunch of stuff, if you not already well, it depends on who asks.
Speaker 1:Really, I probably might say no, I have no idea, you never know you know what I'm saying, hey you want to be on my podcast.
Speaker 2:No, well, good, I'm glad you said yes. I had some people ask me to come on theirs and when I went on theirs it was like some weird questions and I'm kind of already committed, so I had to answer them and then I'm just just like I really hope you don't have a following yeah right, they ask some of the weirdest questions.
Speaker 1:So the economy how do you think that's going to? What's your answer on that? I don't?
Speaker 2:I got asked what do I do if I didn't wipe my ass? Good, and I'm at a friend's house and my ass was itchy and I'm thinking like, well, I wipe my ass, good, I don't usually have that kind of situation.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't know, I guess I do. I don't know. Two-ply I don't know, I guess I do, I don't know, two-ply, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was weird, bro, it was fun. That one was actually a fun one, but that was one of the weirdest questions I ever had. How was your New Year's man?
Speaker 1:New Year's. It was fun. We didn't do much, we just watched the entirety of the West Side explode Bruh. It's like we don't have to go anywhere to enjoy New Year's. We could just literally walk out right to our driveway and just look at everybody popping fireworks all over the place. It's great. It's even better than anywhere else on the island, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:We're just going honestly that's good, I mean, granted everything that happened, but it was. It was such. I was in New York and nothing bro they had. We were on the promenade by overlooking from Brooklyn, overlooking like the water, and we seen the Statue of Liberty and it had like a couple of fireworks in the side of it and for me, for what I'm used to, being locally born and raised nothing bro I was. It was mega disappointed and we were with my fiance's family and I tried to explain to them how it is in hawaii and, of course, in new york I had to wait like a couple hours before hawaii went off so I could show them videos. But yeah, I guess it's just a hawaii culture man I'm surprised new york didn't like explode too.
Speaker 1:Like yes, that's, yeah, that is kind of wild, but they just their. Their firework law is a little serious, it's like ours. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:like yeah, I guess not, but it's like they they have that whole ball drop thing. But we went to times square the day before and it was already packed and people were lined up getting ready for the next, for new year's eve, and it was the day before and they told me, like some people wear diapers, some people like pack food. I'm just like I'm not trying to be about that.
Speaker 1:No, okay, yeah. So yeah, ynai was definitely pretty lit when New Year's took off, so we didn't really have to go anywhere. We just sat out front and then we just watched as like World War III was popping off in the West Side. Yeah, it was fun. It was really really fun.
Speaker 2:You think they'll ever be able to contain that, that shit. Like they're saying they're gonna change the laws, but I thought they had laws already listen, they can crack down all they want.
Speaker 1:They're not gonna contain this at all. They might as well go back to crime.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like they should be. They should be focused more on crime rather than focused on people with fireworks. That kind of makes me laughing stock. When it comes to fighting crime, I mean we already have TV shows here. We have a TV show about lifeguards in Hawaii. We should definitely have one where cops are focused on people with fireworks rather than actual crime. I think the ratings would go up, honestly.
Speaker 2:I think so too. Obviously, you're not doing a good job.
Speaker 1:I think the ratings would definitely go up. For sure People would watch it. Oh, it's so suspenseful.
Speaker 2:Have like raids at the freaking, like on the docks and stuff. Hey man, that would be something that you guys should create. Content like that.
Speaker 1:Fireworks PD. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, guarantee.
Speaker 1:Bring that in front of producer on like cbs or something they'll definitely fund it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I might have to edit this out before someone steals your idea but you've been you've been doing a whole bunch of stuff and you created what is the Polyverse, because I've seen that's like your production company, or what is that about?
Speaker 1:So the Polyverse is something that me and my wife, tui, we decided to create to pretty much tell stories, not just like superhero stuff, you know, it's more like you know, stories from like Polynesian perspective. So, yeah, we decided to create that together. I'd say Tuli is more of the like the writing creator. You know, like the creative writer, I can't write for shit, you know what I'm saying. I'm more of a man of action and you know, I film. I do all this crazy stuff when it comes to the writing is definitely my wife. She's like the the brains.
Speaker 1:She just puts everything together in such a some, in such a way I could not put it together I could put it together on film but, like she's the big brain, for sure, and that's how, like our dynamic, we work together on that and uh, mostly it's it's just been her, it's just been her. So it's uh, yeah, it's been a fun ride so far that's cool.
Speaker 2:It seems like a good balance. You guys can play off each other's strengths and weaknesses. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty much it. I got nothing else on that one. It's just like a collective thing that we wanted to do. We just decided to bring a lot of our friends on it and, you know, just kind of share that kind of success. But we're just a bunch of people that just want to film stuff and have fun doing it. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:I did like um I. I seen one of your quotes and it was um, if you have the power to was. If you have the power to visualize it, you have the power to create it. For some reason that stuck with me, because that's not just with content creating, that goes with life. If you have the vision, whatever your vision is, you have the power to create it. How did you even get inspired to get into film and stuff like?
Speaker 1:uh, it's been, um, that's been something I wanted to do since I was a kid. Ever since I, you know, when I was a kid, I read comic books, I read anime, I watched anime. You know it was, uh, it was pretty lit for me as a kid, you know so I used to.
Speaker 1:I just watched superhero stuff, I read superhero stuff. I wanted to do it to a point where, like I wanted to create my own kind of uh universe. Once marvel started doing their own universe thing, I was just like Marvel started doing their own universe thing. I was just like I'm sold. You know, I grew up on loving comic books as a whole and you know just superheroes as a whole and I just wanted to like kind of bring that to Hawaii. I'm not entirely sure if it has been brought already, but I just wanted to bring it again. You know what I'm saying? Yes, it's just all who. I needed something a little different, you know. So I just had like a lot of motivation from my childhood, just everything that I grew up on, like Dragon Ball Z, justice League, batman, the animated series it was my whole childhood. I just wanted to do that.
Speaker 1:Just like through my vision.
Speaker 2:That's super dope and you learned how to create video and edit just from like university or YouTube or you went to classes and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was definitely YouTube. I did research on YouTube. It's not that hard, but turning it into my thing was definitely what I took everything that I learned. I learned from certain people on this island too how to, you know, do all that all that crazy? You know how do I say like VFX type of stuff. And then I did more research on YouTube. You know, just like watching friggin thousands of videos, turning everything that I've learned into something that I wanted to do for myself. And I'm still learning, as a matter of fact, like I just, you know, I'm just scratching like as much as I've learned, I'm just scratching the surface and it's, it's, it's just this vast universe that I'm trying to get into.
Speaker 1:So I'm not done yet, so it's just. Uh, I can't, I can't fathom to you how much like I want to fucking just learn everything as much as possible and turn it in, like enhance that for with my vision and just like put it out there, you know, for that's super way to see that's super cool and I mean honestly learning.
Speaker 2:You don't stop learning till the till the day you die, and that was one of my mom's biggest um that's. It's on her tombstone. It says you don't stop learning till the day you go to heaven, because she was an educator. But a lot of people, especially with learning digital stuff, it's always evolving.
Speaker 2:Like I'm trying to do videos for my daughter's volleyball and I'm like cutting clips and doing all this stuff and learn yeah learning how to do it, yeah and then my friend hits me up with dj hopper boy who does a lot of video editing, and then he turns me on to cap cut and I could just throw videos up there and it makes it look way nicer. And I'm just like bruh Every time I learn something. Then now there's an easy way to do it and it's like oh, I should have just waited.
Speaker 1:It's definitely. Editing and whatnot is definitely getting more easier for people. That's why we're seeing a lot of content creators coming out of the woodwork now. I'm not working with cap cut, you guys know, like actual editing software. So it's just, it's just crazy how, like, how many people find success off of like the easiest stuff. But I, you know, I'd rather take the. I feel like taking the, the harder road, is definitely going to be more worth it.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying I agree, and I use um. I use final cut to edit um, my daughter's volleyball videos. I do some stuff for my friends that that dive and of course, I do editing on that same software for my show. But it's evolving and and, just like you, I get inspired to learn more and it's like hold is, it's like you said a vast world of knowledge that keeps changing. And once you think, oh, I got this down, then something else comes up and say oh, that's cool I can try that yeah there's more and more.
Speaker 1:You know, just like when, just when you think you're finished, you know it's like I don't know if I have anything else to learn. There's a lot to learn. There's a lot to learn. Just shut the hell up and learn this, you know. But I, I've seen, I've seen, uh, your, your daughter's, uh, volleyball videos that you're doing. I like it, it's cool that's cool.
Speaker 2:that makes me feel good because I know you're legit, so you can appreciate the time I put into it. Because, bro, it's like what you see in that. One minute is like about three hours of cutting the ball, hitting the ground or girls fucking up Like, yeah, it's interesting but fun and the girls appreciate it and everybody likes to see themselves on a little video, especially athletes. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Everyone likes seeing themselves, as you know, cool and every once in a while, on their videos, you know. So, like I, try to do that. It's fun.
Speaker 2:But you do a lot of collaboration with friends. I guess and, bro, some of your content comes out so funny Is your wife writing that stuff or you guys just sit together and just brew it up?
Speaker 1:As a matter of fact, she's the one who tells me to like not get too offensive.
Speaker 1:So it's like the limiter, the chain, the you know the leash anchor, like yeah, ok, pull it back. We don't need all that. You know, because you know you see me on social media. Sometimes I'd have like a, like a, not give a fuck, demeanor. You know what I'm saying. So when it, when it comes to those type of videos, like you know, sometimes I get a little pullback from tuey, but you know I'll just be like all right, fine, whatever you ever get pushed back from people watching it and start like haters or people talking shit oh yeah, dude, all the time it's I I don't care, I really don't give a fuck about that, because you know it's just.
Speaker 1:You know it's just people who like make fake accounts but like think about like how long it takes for the process to make a fake account, and then you gotta go and, like you know, pull some hate comments that you know that I'm probably not gonna fucking see, you know, so you're just wasting your time, I'm not wasting mine exactly that's a good mentality to have, and I always said I always say this if you got haters, then you know you're doing something right.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's uh, it's just funny to me. It's just like I don't really get mad. I think about like just when, when I get a fake cop, like when I get a hate comment from a fake account, it's just like I wonder how much time it took him to make that fake account. And then I think about it. I'm just like this poor guy, like I feel bad, like he's gotta he's gotta jump through all these hoops just to tell him.
Speaker 2:Tell me he hates me and he's probably some dude in his mom's uh empty bedroom. He's probably like 40 something with cheeto fingers freaking. You know I can't really.
Speaker 1:I can't really hate on somebody who's living with his mother, because that's like a trend here. Yeah. I'm not even going to hate on that. It's like everyone lives with their mom here. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:That's true, I don't want to tease him about that.
Speaker 1:Clearly he doesn't know how it is living here.
Speaker 2:That's true, I'm a mama's boy.
Speaker 1:True, I'm gonna tell you that much right now.
Speaker 2:okay, yeah I think navigating through hate is you're doing it perfect, because that's exactly. It took me a while and I would get mad at first and then realize what you realize is a waste of time and definitely not worth my time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a. It's really a waste of time. The good have done anything else with that 10 minutes worth of work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I see one of your videos. You were you a story time and you were talking about meeting a local celebrity and you don't have to name names. But I have been in situations like that many times where some of these guys think they're hi, maca, maca and too cool. And yeah, it's just some. It's say bro, you're not that famous, you're just famous on instagram. If instagram gets shut down, then what?
Speaker 1:there are. There are a lot of locals. I don't want to say they're all of them. Yeah, you know, I've met my fair share of local celebrities who are by far one of the most down-to-earth people, of local celebrities who are by far one of the most down to earth people, but at the same time, like, I've met some pretty shitty ones too, like they've.
Speaker 1:They've like, if you're not if you're a nobody they will remind you you're a nobody, like it's that you know, and they'll get offended that you don't know who they are, which happens to me all the time. Like you know, it was just like. I don't remember watching you as a kid. You know they be like you don't know what. Yeah, I'm just be like, uh, no exactly I've.
Speaker 2:I've experienced that many times. I'm a club promoter and if I'll be outside of the door and some Joe Schmo comes in, you don't know who I am. I've been on this show. I had NFL players come in and be like, oh, you're going to charge me. I was like, yeah, you got money, you play in the NFL. I said you're not a Niner, so I don't give a shit. You're not getting in for free.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, what's that? I don't know who you are. Yeah, go fuck yourself, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:And then, um, I had some celebrities who were more than gracious and like, oh no, I'll pay cover, I don't, I'll wait. In line with the same aloha that we're accustomed to is like, wow, is those the kind people I wouldn't mind meeting and take care of? And and I've met my share of local and kind of popular people from the mainland and, yeah, it blows your mind for some of these people to treat people a certain way either super nice or super like shitty. And I always thought if I was ever famous, I'd be the coolest dude ever.
Speaker 1:I would seem like an asshole, but really I'm a cool guy, you know you know it's just fuck uh. Local celebrities is just uh. I, I, I sometimes think that it's like unnecessary. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Cause you gotta understand, not everybody on the island is going to know who you are and you gotta, you gotta be okay with that. I don't know why people just have this like notion that they're higher than their status-unquote status yeah so it's, it's, it's wild.
Speaker 2:To me, it's really wild bro, the worst ones, in my opinion, are the instagram model influencers. Oh, oh, geez.
Speaker 1:That is Don't Holy crap. You don't know how many Instagram models I wanted to kick in the face lately. Crazy.
Speaker 2:It's like oh what do you do? It's like I'm a model on Instagram. I'm like oh, right on, I'm a running back in Madden.
Speaker 2:you do squats in the gym, all you do, wow you put on makeup in front of the fucking phone, like, like people care, I don't know. Yeah, I get, I don't get it, but I get it. I just feel like, with the way social media is now, a lot of these people are trying to live their life to impress other people on social media and they don't live in the moment that they're in. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 1:Well, that's how life passes you by, so you know people need to of relax. I'm trying to impress everybody else with their whole lifestyle.
Speaker 2:That will probably only last for like 10 minutes, but yeah, you just say you don't see what's in front of you you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:You could lose all with this whole lifestyle you're trying to have. So the people in front of you are important you know, unless they're trying to get you to promote your lifestyle, which is a really shitty friend, and I should. You should probably get new friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or they're probably doing the same shit.
Speaker 1:I'm very thankful for the people I'm surrounded by. You know so it's. You know nothing but support. They totally love my energy. They, you know. Mainly they encourage it, especially when I go off saying what I usually say on social media.
Speaker 2:Hey, sometimes it got to be said but, like you know, it's just.
Speaker 1:I'm very thankful and I'm thankful I have someone like tui with me who just constantly puts me in my place.
Speaker 2:So thank god for her. That's a good thing. You've been kind of blowing up, though, and you've been getting bigger gigs and stuff doing social media like just commercials and stuff. Has that been working out for you or is just like passion projects you're just doing?
Speaker 1:It's like it's both fun. Like you know, I got to do stuff for them, but at the same time it is a bit of a passion project too. I try to like kind of think outside of the box from what other you know other content creators do for other businesses. So I just try to like put the stuff that I love into whatever it is I'm working.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, it's uh, it's pretty fun actually yeah, it's uh, it's pretty fun actually, so that's good. But you, you're um like. I was watching the video you did for chicken university and I didn't even know that place exists, to be honest, until I seen your video.
Speaker 1:It's just it's just open, so okay but I don't know if you've had it, but it's really good.
Speaker 2:It looks good, but your video that you made for it seems like high-level professional. Wasn't Joe Schmoe with his little iPhone trying to shoot a video? It was good cuts, clean shots. So you have good equipment and good kind of thought process of how to do it.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, it's just like kind of, kind of want to stand out from the usual food reviewer who, just, you know, prop his phone up here and then talk about how good the chicken is, like you know. No, I'd rather be in the kitchen filming the, the cooking and all that. You know the cooking process. How does this work? Whoa, that flaming girl looks cool. Maybe I can make a transition out of that. So it's uh, you know, sometimes when I'm, when I'm doing stuff for food places, I barely have any time to enjoy the food. So by the time I you know, the food's like cold already. So I'm just like, but I still eat it and it's really good.
Speaker 2:That's understandable. But that means you're pretty much a legit videographer, like with a real title, because now you can sell your art to businesses to have them shoot.
Speaker 1:your have you shoot their stuff for them I wish I could call myself a professional, but if people do it for me, it's fine, that's the best way it's, it's nice to be called a videographer, like, wow, you're a videographer and I'll be like, yeah, I am, I'm about that.
Speaker 2:I'm confident in my abilities, but you know, at the same time, like I'm just like very hesitant on calling myself something higher than me just being a regular dude who likes to film things, I'll call you a videographer, because it was definitely impressive to me and I kind of look for stuff like that because I know how hard it is to do and, yeah, that stuff impresses me a lot and I've know a lot of guys who do it professionally and I know guys who do it on instagram and you're like right there, man, and I think, future, wise, what do you think you're going to do to take this to the next level? Or what are your kind of goals where you want to take this?
Speaker 1:Well, I have been looking towards doing more serious work, like short films, which is something we're going to try and do this year. Tui's been writing up a script for a series that we wanted to tackle and it's it's kind of based on a true story.
Speaker 1:It's pretty much based off of her daughter, spencer, who recently passed away. So we're just going to tell a story of that. But yeah, that's pretty, that's pretty much it. Like we just wanted to try and do more, a little more serious stuff. The skits are fun, don't get me wrong, but like you know, I'm growing up here. You know it's time to do more big boy things can do.
Speaker 1:Both kids do both, of course both yeah you know, if I feel like a ranting, I'm definitely gonna rant. But or if I wanted to do another superhero thing, of course I'm gonna do. Of course I can do both. Yeah, if I feel like ranting, I'm definitely going to rant. Or if I wanted to do another superhero thing, of course I'm going to do that. But it's more of the serious stuff we're more going to tackle this year, more than anything else. So you know, stay tuned.
Speaker 2:That's super cool. I'm definitely going to want to check that out. You're good in front of the camera also. Were you always like that, like growing up? Were you like the class clown or the one always making jokes in school, or were you like uh, no, I wish I was.
Speaker 1:But really when I was young I was. I was a weirdo. A lot of kids didn't like me, didn't think I was funny. I tried to be an oddball. Actually I was an oddball, but a lot of the kids didn't think I was funny. Although today a lot of the kids that I used to go to school with they see me and they're just like you know what. We kind of knew this is what you would be doing. They're acting for me type of thing. So you know, it's good to see old people, people from like your childhood who didn't do all of a sudden is like hey, you're doing great, like thanks, but yeah, I was definitely an oddball when I was a kid but you're pretty comfortable in front of the camera and you don't hold back Like you're just as silly as can be, like you're not shame.
Speaker 1:No, just like I got to change my personality Like yeah, so you know, this is what we're doing, like no, fuck that. I like to kind of, yeah, I just like to be myself and yeah, I don't try to kind of, yeah, I just like to be myself and yeah, I don't try to change my whole. Look on anything Like try to tackle it as me. Pretty much I was like, well, if I didn't change as a kid, I might as well just tackle life as an adult as me as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of stuff, a lot of a lot of changes I had to go through, but I usually just be myself.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's always the best thing, and I think that's why you have that mentality. If people don't like me, then they don't have to.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's it. That's exactly it. Like you don't like my stuff, just scroll that simple. Like you don't have to sit around. Like scrolling up is definitely easier for everyone.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Roll.
Speaker 2:Remember that shit and I've done it like if I don't like something I don't have to fucking, I don't have to watch it. How do you think right now social media is affecting the younger generation? Do you think it's in a positive way, negative way or kind of could go either way?
Speaker 1:it could be positive, but in my opinion, I think social media has destroyed a lot of young lives and it's destroyed our young minds today. I you know, in my opinion, I feel that kids should not have access to social media or the internet. They should be like, out there, playing outside, you know, like normal kids do I agree, my recent interaction with a 13 year old went as not as expected as I thought it would how did that go?
Speaker 1:they're talking about like adult things, like the economy and politics, and I was like, dude, shut the, go outside, get out of here, give me your phone go chase some rocks or some shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, rocks dude yeah, what these kids need is lickings too. Half of these kids never get lickings.
Speaker 1:Blame the parents yeah, I have a plan in the parents. They don't do much for their kids. I don't know Whatever it is, it's not working. I agree. I just feel that kids should not have Internet access or social media things or should be worrying about politics. They should be worrying about what they want to be as a person, you know, as an adult.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It starts when you're like what like when you're 13, when you're kind of in a rebellious phase. But you're wondering what the hell's going to go like, what's going to happen when I'm an adult, you know? So it's a. I feel kids should just experience a childhood and stop trying to be adults, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:yep, and that's for us to experience, not you.
Speaker 1:The adults are out here working so you can have a childhood, childhood. We don't have.
Speaker 2:You know, we didn't I don't remember growing up with a phone.
Speaker 1:I remember going outside and you know playing sword fight with sticks that we find on the ground. You know, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I heard texting was screaming out at your friend's house to come outside.
Speaker 1:Like when your friend's screaming your name to come outside and play. That's cool. Tell your parents my kid has friends, like I forgot, like you know not exactly oh wow, jay paul just posted on.
Speaker 2:You know this like nobody fucking cares, go outside you know, I agree, I made my daughter do that her whole life and I would go outside with her if she she didn't want to you. Yeah, this it's weird. I feel like it's sad. I think that a lot of kids learn a lot and they learn a lot of different trends from social media. I'm kind of happy they're talking about the tiktok ban because, dude, I cannot watch my daughter and her little group of girls do these tiktok dances anymore oh yeah, the teenage girls who do tiktok dances in like empty parking lots late at night.
Speaker 1:What are you doing out here anyway?
Speaker 2:go home stolen. Yep, stupid. I rolled up to a bunch of girls in target doing it in the aisle and I was like, oh, what are you guys doing? Like just to embarrass them?
Speaker 1:and they're like on a tiktok accounts, like panicking, like trying to get people to follow them on instagram. You know like it's hilarious because I'm barely on tikt so you know, I'm surprised I have the following that I have on TikTok, but I just assume they're all Chinese.
Speaker 2:They're watching your shit, trying to learn how to do Captain America stuff. Someone went, superman, you know man you know like oh jeez, you're gonna get abducted bro. Oh, that's too funny. Yeah, is it? Is it really?
Speaker 1:gonna happen? They're really gonna ban it? Uh, I I don't know. Honestly, I don't. I don't keep up with TikTok news, so going down and everybody's like panicking, trying to get their followers to Instagram they're on the bubble right now yeah, yeah, like you know all that work I did on TikTok, you know doing all these cringy dances, man, I hate it so much oh yeah, it's so annoying. They had.
Speaker 2:It's like some meaningful shit to them, their facial expressions. They're performing in front of something cool. It's like no girl. You're in the middle of Target by the diaper section looking like an idiot.
Speaker 1:I can take you nowhere. I'm over here trying to shop for groceries and your dumb ass is over here doing TikTok dances, looking like you're getting defrauded by a ghost. Get over it.
Speaker 2:What the damn fuck, I've seen these YouTube guys on Instagram and stuff. They kind of punk people or do kind of rude stuff to people and sometimes it blows up in their face Like they'll throw like a bag of toilet papers at somebody or like, and then they hide like in in stores and stuff and I'm like, bro, you can't do that shit in Hawaii, maybe in the mainland, but you do that in hawaii, you're gonna get it's a small place.
Speaker 1:You're gonna get jumped bro, yeah you're gonna catch some cracks that's what I appreciate about why you're being so small is when, like you know, people try to do that. You know stupid thing on social media, where they like mess with random people in public yeah, but that's so big to a point where, like every you know, once you get posted on hunger, hunger, hawaiian, everyone's gonna try and find you three aunties and two cousins gonna be like, hey, they're gonna tell on you bad enough already, but people will do their due diligence and try to find some instagram detectives out there, man yeah there are, which is crazy.
Speaker 1:Like you know, I'm like thank God I'm not on a hungry, hungry.
Speaker 2:Exactly that's why I, that's why I'm with my girl, I don't cheat or anything, cause, bro, I don't think I'm smart enough to get away with it, especially who it all enough to get away with it, especially with all the instagram freaking uh, detectives, I'm probably being detective.
Speaker 1:Anyway, as long as you're doing what you got to do as a father and as a man, you don't have to worry exactly what everyone else says.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, like you know you're doing what you got to do for your kid and yourself and your entire family, you know.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I think it's. You don't have anything to worry about, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I don't know. I just think with social media like you can get framed too for a bunch of shit that you don't even involve with.
Speaker 1:Someone once tried to tell me I had an OnlyFans, which was cruel, what they were like. Yeah, I saw you on OnlyFans.
Speaker 2:I don't have an OnlyFans. What was I doing on it Showing?
Speaker 1:one nut. What's the name of this account? So coconut? So you immediately assumed it was me. What the fuck?
Speaker 2:no, you stupid ass, it's not me, some dude with big balls, yeah oh god, oh my god, I panicked for a second.
Speaker 1:I was like did someone like take my face, whatever?
Speaker 2:imagine making like choke money too. Yeah, yeah, right, like you owe me, you owe me money, yo guarantee. That's just crazy. Some of these girls like just put pictures of their feet or something on there and bank you know the money to like. Put that money to good use, buy me a new camera, right new camera right now Bro, if I make like $100,000 in a month and stuff like bro, I'd be like lassoing my shit around like a windmill, for that much I don't care.
Speaker 1:I don't think I could $100,000 a month?
Speaker 2:I don't know you.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't know what I'd be able to do On OnlyFans if I had one.
Speaker 2:I can't.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think it would just get weird.
Speaker 2:That's crazy, but you Were telling me you grew up in waimanalo, you went kailua um high school and on on this side of the island so I've like, I've kind of been like all over the place, but the place I like had the most years that was definitely Wamanalo.
Speaker 1:So I went to Wamanalo Elementary and then Kailua Elementary and Kailua Intermediate and then I ended up going to Moanalua High School, which was a change?
Speaker 2:Yeah it was a whole change. That's crazy.
Speaker 1:I went from the countryside to townside real quick, and you know, it was just weird. For me Waterloo was nice. It wasn't so bad, lots of Asians over there, but it wasn't bad.
Speaker 2:Did you play sports?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I did. I played football. I wasn't a starter, so you know Me neither. Yeah, see, like I just played football just to, just to hit someone.
Speaker 2:It was fun so I got hit, but yeah, same thing yeah it was just to pretty much keep myself in shape.
Speaker 1:So, uh yeah, I went to Mauna Loa and it was, uh yeah, I played football. Surprisingly, I joined the japanese club that's different yeah, different, like people just ask like are you from salt lake? No, I'm not, that's just, I just lived there four years were you into videography in high school or like? Um, I was, but foolishly enough I didn't take the classes. I didn't really take the opportunity to see what I could do if I started that early. I was dumb enough to join the military, but it was whatever.
Speaker 2:How was that man? Which branch Marines you were in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it was, but I think I should have taken videography classes in high school, I think. I definitely would have gotten my footing over there, but instead I took acting classes.
Speaker 2:Okay, Well, you're kind of doing that. Yeah, I feel like my whole life was an acting class. I think mine is too man or some kind of fake shit but you know what the acting class was.
Speaker 1:Uh was a bit of a shock for me because you see people you would not expect to be in acting class. Like you know, you see some of the silent type of people in there and they don't talk much when they're outside of acting class. But when we're in acting class it's like we're in our own little world and you know people can express themselves and be who they want to be. It was sad to me because I was just thinking to myself like it's sad that they can't be like this outside of class. I can't give a fuck. What would the other people say?
Speaker 2:And plus, I'm bigger than most people anyway, so that's a luxury.
Speaker 1:I just slap them, but I was like you know it was just something that's sad to think about, but I'll always treasure my time with these guys in acting class. It was fun for me.
Speaker 2:Did they ever hit you up and want to try and collab with you or try to try to work with you on any videos?
Speaker 1:Well, some of these guys are doing way better than I am in broadway, which? Is shit yeah, which is amazing to see. Like I think what I do is kind of like, uh, it's kind of a little different, a little low bar, you know. So yeah, but my friend, my acting friends, they see what I'm doing and they're just like super amazed and they're happy that I'm doing it. And I just see them going through life and I'm just like wow, you're in broadway. That's crazy it's just.
Speaker 2:I just seen a broadway show. I seen aladdin, like two weeks ago on broadway and the bro, the guy who played the genie like I would want to be that dude's friend. That guy had so much talent. And like bro, like he knew that he was the shit when he came on stage. Like one of his lines was the. The um aladdin asked him like who are you? And he? He looked at the crowd and he goes I'm the guy that's about to steal the show. And I was like, yeah, you are. Like it's watching.
Speaker 1:That level of talent is crazy I think it's because, like you know, robin williams, when he did the genie like he stole the movie, like everyone only see robin williams do his thing, and I was just like, if you're gonna play as genie and broadway from aladdin, you better steal the show, like this isn't about aladdin, no more this is the show yeah, and bro, he killed it.
Speaker 2:And it was like I I am like looking up the guy's name on instagram, looking at his content and I'm like, bro, this guy is like I've never seen that kind of talent right in front of me and it was like watching someone act in a movie with special effects, live. And I was just like, oh, I want to check out other Broadway shows. I seen the Harry Potter one, but that wasn't singing and dancing and stuff. This talent was. I didn't know people could do this on a whim, it was, it was. I'm just, I was blown away did you?
Speaker 1:did you happen to get an interview with that guy?
Speaker 2:no, I there's. No, I don't even know what I would say. I'll just be like like he's, like this big bald black guy that's gay. But I'd just be like sign my boxers or something.
Speaker 1:I don't know just asking for an interview on a zoom call. This seems strange. I thought I'm not going to lie. I thought I was being strange, not gonna lie. I thought I was. I thought I was being or something, but I was like I don't think he'd scam me. So I totally go with it, because that's the first thing people ask for is like what's your email and phone number?
Speaker 2:I know I've, I have done that. And then I get ghosted like people are down to call my show and then I would, um, oh, send me your email and phone number. And then they're like. And then I get ghosted Like people are down to come to my show and then I would, oh, send me your email and phone number. And then they're like. And then I'm thinking like I got to approach this differently. Maybe if I send them my phone number, I'm like how do I do this without coming across weird? I have like proof that is legit, but I don't know. Yeah, I was like, yeah, a couple of times I ran into that problem, especially if it's a girl. I said, oh, just send me your email so I can send you a Zoom link and give me your phone number and I'll call just to touch base with you. And then ghosts gone.
Speaker 1:I was like oh, maybe I scared them away. I think it's like they don't expect it to be on a zoom call, because they're just like maybe it has like a like some kind of studio or something you know you.
Speaker 2:This is my studio here. Look at this oh, wow. I'm literally in between my bed and my computer wow, you know what that's.
Speaker 1:That's the beauty of filming wherever you want seems professional it's not about the equipment, it's about the content.
Speaker 2:Although I have a cool mic I got a cool mic I gotta say that I don't have oh, I'm just sitting here stepped on his room so see, it's not about where we are, bro, and that's what one blessing that I have.
Speaker 2:With zoom, I can get guests and make it super convenient for them. They can do it from anywhere. I have guests that are from the mainland. I had a couple fighters that live in the mainland and it's um, they're able to come on my show and they would would not have that opportunity if, like it was in person. I do some stuff in person but, yeah, most, most of it's been through zoom and I mean it's perfect for me.
Speaker 1:Like I said, being the people you've interviewed and stuff, and like it's really impressive, like it's just you have such a large following. Like how, like, how did you know that was gonna like pop, like, pop off I didn't, bro.
Speaker 2:I was most, um, most times I'm just trying to throw shine out people I know or friends of friends, or people that inspire me and like, like I'm having with you a conversation and, bro, if, if it resonates, it resonates, and if it doesn't, it doesn't just like how you think with your stuff. It's like I can put this out and if two people watch it or a thousand people watch it for me, I had an awesome conversation with this individual that impacted me in a way that I'll keep with me forever and basically the biggest plus for these uh, podcast videos I have and content is that when I'm gone, my daughter can watch these episodes and kind of get a graphs of who her dad was, not just as a parent but as someone having conversations, and I hope or she could not even give two shits and never watch it, but I hope like that. That would be my goal. You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean yeah.
Speaker 1:I think she'll totally watch it, but then she'll see like some of your guests were complete weirdo.
Speaker 2:Oh bro, I had some guests where it's like I had some I'm not gonna mention names, but some pageant girls where I'm talking to them and they're just like cookie cutter answers, like I'm the fucking guy on stage trying to get them to be like a pageant champion or something it's like just be yourself, ask you what your favorite show is on Netflix, and well, due to the something, it's like oh fuck, what do you watch? Oh jeez.
Speaker 1:You should have just hung up, yeah.
Speaker 2:But then I won't have a show that week. Yeah, I had to drop some duds once in a while.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I was just thinking about that. I was like man, what if I was like a cutie? Cutie, like I was just giving you a cuter answer.
Speaker 2:Bro, I had like sometimes I struggle. It's like trying to. It's like I asked them like a full on hard question. They're like yes. It's like oh fuck, give me something.
Speaker 1:Are you going to elaborate on what you were answering? See, that's why I can't be a podcaster interviewer man like I don't have the fucking impatience for that I think you could create cool content like your ones with with your boys.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like a podcast when you guys are all sitting on a couch and you stole mr memes equipment so mark really didn't know we were using that.
Speaker 1:I was. I was looking at my friend bula. Uh, bull is like. I didn't ask uncle mark for this. I was like, uh, I'm sure you'll be okay with it. Like I was just like why don't we just do this?
Speaker 2:anyways, we'll see what he's watching a video and he's like wait a second. That looks like my stuff mark texted me.
Speaker 1:He was laughing. He was like dude. That's so funny I don't know about these and we just decided to use them in bullet's defense.
Speaker 2:It was in his house, so oh okay, so you're in the clear then, yeah we're totally in the clear. I was like, well, we found it, we might as well use it bro, those kind of episodes like that could be a podcast and you could drop those and I think a lot of people would watch it. I would definitely watch it.
Speaker 1:I hope so. I mean, we're just three guys just talking. It's nothing important that we're talking about. Sometimes we'll just like, like, talk about things that's happening right now. We were just talking about like the whole um josh green cracking down on fireworks and stuff and like we thought that was the stupidest thing that he could be doing, like so much better things he could have been doing yeah, like timing.
Speaker 1:The timing was just like out of nowhere. This guy just came back in the beginning of the year out of nowhere. He's like I'm the governor, like like, is it like? Okay, yeah, where have you been? Like we haven't exactly, but like the rest of 2024, then you come back. Oh, this firework now he has.
Speaker 2:Now he has something to aim at all these fireworks are dangerous.
Speaker 1:They're terrible. It's like where have you been these past few months? Like past six months? Dude, like he was in japan that's where he was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably, or he got paid from those fireworks, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm just making trouble he came out like a, like a character that you don't see after like a couple of seasons, just to remind us he's in charge, like yeah exactly same thing with mayor blangiardi.
Speaker 2:Didn't see him at all I don't know, yeah, I, I don't care, for I think our best politician is probably augie, because he's probably the only real one there, at least, and he came on my show well, I mean, if I was blanchiardi I would go into hiding too, after I tell the community fuck off and yeah, exactly, I don't want.
Speaker 2:I wanted to ask you. I have, like, this little problem and I've been fighting with my fiance about it because I gotta solve this. So my neighbors I live upstairs and then we the house next to us is like on a ravine downstairs or down behind us, and they have a kid there that is practicing on one of them. You know those recorders, those little fucking bro, this fucking kid, like 6.30 in the morning on a weekend and bro for one, my fiance is a bartender so she don't get home till like five and this kid, mary, had a little lamb fucking three hours on that thing, dude, and I'm like the parents, I don't know how to handle this. Bro, I'm trying to think of a creative way to get this to stop because I'm going to choke a kid pretty soon, are?
Speaker 1:you sure you want my advice? Yes, because I feel like you'd be creative. Yes, I'm not entirely sure I'm the best person to tell this.
Speaker 2:I think you're the best person.
Speaker 1:Well, it would mostly involve knocking on their door and asking them to shut the fuck up. You know what I'm saying. Like yo going out for three hours, the fuck are you doing? Go outside and do that shit. You don't have to be in your house exactly bro I I don't, you know, I don't want to give you guys this location away, but like what area is this area safe to go outside the building?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah in carnegie, yep, for sure do they have like they? Go to the fucking park, man, or to the bridge.
Speaker 1:Park nearby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they could Pied Piper with that thing and get all the rats to leave the bridge area.
Speaker 1:It's mostly like you know, just God. I'd hate to live next to someone like that. Right, it's like the parents bro, I go to my neighbor's house and tell him please shut the fuck up. I'm trying to sleep. It's 12 in the morning. What are you doing? Playing a recorder.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking, bro, I'm going to get like fucking 15 of my friends and I'm going to give them all kazoos. I'm going to wait until like 3 in the morning and fucking kazoo it up like right outside the parents window and be like that's how I feel you don't want me at your house because I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna sneak into their house and kazoo in his, in his room like do it and I'm cool, like I'm super nice about stuff like that, but bro, like mary, and they're not even playing those different songs and it's brad, who's bro?
Speaker 2:I can't like the only reason why I brought it up, because there's playing it just now and I'm like fuck oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, honestly, just, tom, shut the fuck up. I mean honestly this isn't everyone's building, it's not just yours, alright, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, my Fiance is like Super nice and she doesn't want me to Like Stir the pot. They're just neighbors. They live in the house behind us and I'm just like I don't care. They weren't here when I was. They weren't here long. I have no emotional tie to them.
Speaker 1:Sometimes assertiveness is what will help everyone else in the building, because I'm sure you're not the only one who wants to put the work over.
Speaker 2:Bro break it.
Speaker 1:There's probably like three other neighbors who can hear that shit too.
Speaker 2:Guarantee it. It's just like what if this kid, like when he gets older, takes up the trombone or some shit? I'm going to whip his ass.
Speaker 1:I'll put that trombone out the window, then I'm going to rip the car. This is, you know, know, it's ridiculous. This is what I don't miss about apartment buildings.
Speaker 2:You know the wildest shits from your neighbors exactly, bro, exactly, although I've uh, definitely, um had had a lot of people mad at me because of certain things throughout the time living in apartment buildings.
Speaker 1:I can't imagine you being any kind of distractive towards your neighbor.
Speaker 2:Very. I shot my AK off the fucking balcony one time. Oh I can't believe. I just said that, yeah, I've done stupid things when I was younger. That definitely pissed off the neighbors.
Speaker 1:I'm lucky, some of my neighbors are scared of me. So you know, because, like there have been times I've walked out of my house with a the natch in one hand and just like in my underwear filming content with one of hawaiian spike clubs or no, no, walk out anyways. Sometimes I just do it, just to do it and see what. You know what the reaction is like.
Speaker 1:You know what will know, sometimes I get the fake blood from one of my filming stuff. I just douse myself in blood and then walk out with an axe. So they go check my mail like it's all normal. Maybe go back in their house.
Speaker 2:Fuck, I want to try that.
Speaker 1:It's fun, dude. Sometimes the reaction is just the one you want you gotta film that stuff, brah.
Speaker 2:Well, man, we've been going for about an hour and I definitely appreciate you taking time to chat with me. I definitely gotta have you back on because this was fun, bro.
Speaker 2:I needed to laugh, I was having a long day and I needed some, uh, laughter, so I appreciate you for coming on and cheering me up, man seriously, this was really fun yeah um, social media wise, where can people find you and also hit you up, like if they want to use you for marketing or like to promote their business or just to do a collab with?
Speaker 1:Well, they can. They can find us on Instagram. Just hit up the Polyverse and you know we can take things from there. Or if you want to hit up Mr Coconut, that's fine.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm just working on other other things, but I'm pretty sure we'll get back to you yeah, and for us, as always, you can find us on our youtube channel, above the bridge podcast instagram, above the bridge podcast websites, atbpodcom. And mine is thaddydaddyhi all right, man. Well, like I said, I appreciate you for coming on and, brah, I gotta meet you in person. I gotta give you a hug. I gotta definitely chat it up with you. Brah, you can sign my boxers too, if you wanna. Oh snap, oh, what the fuck.
Speaker 1:I don't know why that happened. Sorry about that. I guess my light died.
Speaker 2:Why did that happen, right when I said you can sign my boxers? I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:You can sign my boxers. All I know is that it's.
Speaker 2:Right on man, We'll shock us for the cameras. Right on man, we're out. Shout out to the Artist's Group Network Aloha, Thank you.
