Above the bridge
Above the bridge
Episode 159 BRAD MIRA ( UNKOHOLICSPUPUS )
Brad Miura—known to thousands as "Unkoholics"—has transformed Hawaiian social media with his simple yet compelling "what's your name and where you from?" food sampling videos. Behind this viral sensation lies a profound story of cultural preservation, entrepreneurship, and the true meaning of aloha spirit.
From his day job as a construction project manager to his evenings spent meticulously preparing lomioio, Brad reveals the exhaustive behind-the-scenes work that goes into his seemingly effortless content. "Every day I come home from work doing something—shelling, scraping fish, chopping vegetables," he shares, highlighting a dedication to craft that's becoming increasingly rare in Hawaii. While critics occasionally question his pricing, Brad's straightforward response—"I paid 13 grand last year in taxes just from fish"—underscores the legitimate business beneath the social media persona.
What makes Brad's approach particularly significant is how he's preserving traditional Hawaiian food culture while adapting to modern platforms. In an era where many content creators chase controversy, Brad has built his following through positivity and cultural appreciation. His videos serve as mini-documentaries of Hawaiian food culture, capturing authentic reactions to traditional foods that might otherwise fade from public consciousness. This dedication extends beyond content creation to community building, with Brad frequently collaborating with other local vendors and creators.
The conversation takes unexpected turns, revealing Brad's previous life as a youth softball coach who built a non-profit program in Waipahu, providing affordable opportunities for low-income families. These glimpses into his character illuminate why his current social media success resonates so deeply—it's built on a foundation of genuine community service and aloha.
Looking ahead, Brad hopes to expand his reach across the mainland, bringing a taste of Hawaii to displaced locals while introducing new audiences to Hawaiian cuisine. His mission transcends business growth; it represents cultural ambassadorship that keeps Hawaiian traditions vibrant in an increasingly homogenized world.
Follow Unkoholicspupus on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok at @unkoholicspupus to catch his next pop-up location or simply enjoy a daily dose of authentic Hawaiian culture and community.
Aloha, welcome to another edition of the above the bridge podcast. I'm your host, darius park. Thank you guys for tuning in. If this is your first time, just so you know you can find us wherever you get. Your podcasts are pretty much on every single platform our youtube channel, so please like, subscribe, leave a comment, it matters, and thank you for tuning in. Aloha. Okay, this week my guest is, uh, been taking over social media. Everybody knows him as uncle hollix brad mirror. What's up, man? Thank you for coming on my show.
Speaker 2:Mahalo brother. Thank you so much for the invitation, brother, Ted Awesome.
Speaker 1:Bro, I was telling you earlier that I watch your stuff when I shouldn't be, but when I'm at work I watch your stuff and it lightens the mood. It pretty much kind of brings laughter to the moment. And what I like about your instagram page versus a lot of the ones that are coming out in hawaii, it's pretty much all fun and positivity and good energy.
Speaker 1:It's not negativity and all, right on, right on, I try yeah it's not clickbait kind of stuff where it's like showing like brothers scrapping and like doing all kind of pelikia is has some fun behind it and and planning aloha right on, right on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I try. I mean, I'm one of the more old school guys right out there, so yeah, try, try to show that the love and respect to everybody yeah, it shows.
Speaker 1:How did you even get into being social media savvy? Because, like the ogs, they, they they're not as um quick-witted, you know I mean yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, um, I don't know. I always been uh up and up and up with uh technology and stuff. I mean for work. I'm a project manager for construction, so I'm always on a computer. Yeah, um, yeah, so like um, even back in the days I used to coach softball and um used to have to send out all the messages, texts to everybody, programs and whatnot yeah, wow.
Speaker 1:So that's how, then what? You always been cool in front of the camera. You always been the fun guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been loud from. However, I remember.
Speaker 1:Bro, your stuff is pretty fun to watch. I think you kind of blew up from just having people taste your poopoo.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, what's your name and where are you from? That's the main one that came out. Yeah, everybody like to see their friends, their neighbors, their family sampling the goods and they like try after that. Yeah, right on, and it's taking off.
Speaker 1:Yep and bro, it looks good. I got a sample and I love Lomio Eel.
Speaker 2:But that stuff is on pain in the ass. For me it is. It is yeah, yeah, you gotta try sample. I wish I had gotten you some. Well, you know you could have did on sample video radio guarantee, no worries, we'll make that happen.
Speaker 1:I like taste them, my pops um loves lo mio eel and like we eat them raw, but with poi or whatever. But he also, he likes to like, make Like fish cake yeah. Flash, fry them and ho that bugger's winning with kimchi and rice.
Speaker 2:I get on good recipe for make patties and stuff, yeah, and you can always make them, like you know, on hot pot For make soup. You just scoop them and put them inside. Yeah, even with, like your saimin, you boil it in the water. Just scoop them inside, yeah.
Speaker 1:For me the ting never lasts. For do all that kind, it's just as soon as it's in the house. It's gone. You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what? You, the one scraping them, doing them all yourself.
Speaker 2:So, like my dad, he helps me scale them. Um, I pretty much got them, had them take off the head and then I scrape on my own. Yeah. So every day I come home from work like doing something um shelling a piece, scraping fish, chopping that's Peas, creeping fish, chopped vegetables. I get my dad for chopped vegetables for me, but yeah See, always hot.
Speaker 1:Yup, that's what it is, because I know, like I've known for years, like somebody bring me OEO, it's like, bro, I don't like clean this, fuck it.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean? Yeah, after how, after how many years? And thousands of pounds already. That's like second nature. He just dooming his sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so who's catching the fish for you guys?
Speaker 2:So I get guys out there and you know I got to weed them out. Yeah, I got to make sure. Hey, where are you catching the fish from? You know, because plenty of guys is like, oh, uncle, he catching them from Chocolate Beach or something. It's like, no, that's not where I get my stuff from. But whatever, they can say what they like. But I got to make sure the team clean the fish.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and you just sell them off the internet. You just make orders and then people just come by and grab them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'll just post throughout the week saying, hey, I'm going to be over here. Or like a sister from BRS Central, sister Rita, she's selling her place. Or Palm 808 in Waianae get this week. Or Rice Bookly Shack we'll have. But yeah, it's pretty much continuously posting and that's the thing with the algorithm. If you're continuously posting and then people out there they watch your video, they like your video, it'll come up more on their feed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you. You get consistency, like you dropping like multiple videos a day, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I try to drop like five videos a day or something. That's work bro, like five videos a day or something, bro. That's work, bro. So yeah, I mean it can be a repost or it can be like today I repost new ones that I had from Kawai.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I try to go out of island at least once every month. I try to go to a different island or mainland or pop up some place.
Speaker 1:And you just Ship the fish with you, or I?
Speaker 2:put them on a plane With me. Yeah, okay, I get one technique To really get them down.
Speaker 1:My boy. He the kind when he does that. He'll Load up Costco coolers, take them Well, he brings Venison home, okay, or access deer, whatever it is, yeah, he'll go maui and bring choke back and then, as soon as he's he brings them home, he takes the coolers to costco and return them I get the um.
Speaker 2:I get the sternal, the red sternal cooler bags.
Speaker 1:I got them from Sam's.
Speaker 2:Club and those is good for taking off playing soft bags.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so when you go mainland, how much do you bring? Because you got to make it worth it, huh.
Speaker 2:So I take about 250 pounds of OEO plus my other products. But when I go Vegas and stuff, stuff, it's, it's basically okay. I'm planning my, my vacation, you know, my wife's birthday, my birthday, whatnot, and then, um, I'll do a sale. In the beginning, like the first day, I try to get rid of everything so that way we could just vacation after that oh yeah, that's, that's smart.
Speaker 1:But how do you keep them cold? Just dry ice or ice packs?
Speaker 2:When I travel I freeze them. Oh, that's smart. So I freeze them and then, because I prep everything, I put them all in a sealer meal, show them in a freezer and then I know exactly how much I have to sell. That way, when I go up there the thing's still frozen or starting out when I do the pickup or the meetup, yeah and um, uh, not to honk my own horn or anything, but I know mine aren't frozen. I think still tastes better than some of the other guys oh yeah bro, I noticed that you post a couple times.
Speaker 1:I I've been watching and, like you, gotta put the deposit down. I I figured some people are no show and then you just left, stuck with them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so outer Island sales or mainland sales I've been doing that lately was um putting down just one $20 deposit just to make sure that these guys keep them honest, instead of just ordering and then no show? But, um, always, always, get one handful, but, um, you know it, everybody's adults. Yeah, so they should be able to put them in the calendar, you know, put one little pin, you know one, uh, sticky note someplace. Yeah, don't forget one alert, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean it's up to them for remember the 20 bucks yeah, but hold like if you were to bring this, when you bring this to vegas, that thing must go quick because planning local guys not going, not going to have that kind of fresh, fresh action like yeah, so when you come must be like on hot item, huh pretty much hot item.
Speaker 2:Um, I usually do Pick up at the At the hotel I staying at Either Orleans or Sunset Station. Yeah, but Planning one, I planning one California sale At Long Beach, oh wow. So that's coming up November 1st.
Speaker 1:Oh mean when you just gonna do them Out of your hotel.
Speaker 2:This one I gonna do them Cause of your hotel. This one I'm going to do them because the hotel get like gated fucking lot, so I'm going to do them at a park Five minutes away from the hotel.
Speaker 1:Oh, and it's all through. Social media. Is your advertising? That's all you do, yeah.
Speaker 2:Pretty much. That's my thing. That's why I like the videos I ask the people for do the videos, yeah, the first first time taste, does you know?
Speaker 1:hey, what's your name, where you from, and um to me, that's my, that's my um commercials yeah, well, the thing is actually you get kind of a lot of local celebrities trying to murder yep, yep, get planning guys.
Speaker 2:Um, in fact, um, fiji fiji tribute concert coming up. Yeah, yeah, I got one booth secured for the inside. Oh wow, hopefully I can rub some more elbows with everybody. I mean, I know a bunch of the guys already, but yeah, hopefully can rub elbows with some, uh, some new ones oh, that's gonna be cool, cool.
Speaker 1:How did you even meet them, like you met Bretman Rock, and I just seen you just dropped Ian Tonguey.
Speaker 2:So Bretman Rock, I've never met him personally, but the sister went and did that, Princess May went and did that video for me.
Speaker 2:And then they tagged me in a video and I, you know, screen captured that Ian Tongue Tongi, his uncle, works with me and they brought him to the Christmas party one year the company Christmas party and then, ever since then, like he get on concert someplace and just so happen when the era, hey we go, I hit him up, hey, I coming down, I get some oil for you. Yeah, just like Kelly Boy them. Yeah, always, if I can, if I can, you know we'll have to have some good stuff right on, okay, I want to take a short break to shout out our sponsor, defend Hawaii.
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Speaker 2:So I always want to ask you this, like you ever had somebody try them and they wasn't about it and they're just like oh, um, I've had um, especially like the some kikis oh, yeah, like they'll, they'll eat it and then like for for me too, right, I'm not, I'm not too big on, uh, raw onions, but but they spit out the onion or something like that, and you know. It's not for everybody Like.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I prefer mine uncooked. But yeah, yeah, I got a sample. Gotta taste some. Gotta make sure good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you do some Howley tours they might not have.
Speaker 2:The taste.
Speaker 1:They might not be owner for that kind, you know, I mean yeah, yeah, I mean they're not.
Speaker 2:I mean, if they're not into poke then they're probably not going to be into it already, but they may try some other guys. Lomeo eel and it's going to be different from mine. I mean, I honestly my, my recipe is different from old school style. So you know, there's plus and minus. I had one guy came out and pretty much gave me a zero out of ten and I'm thinking like, oh, who is this guy? What is his credentials to be giving out ratings on food? You know, just like all these other mainland guys come, oh, I came toaii, I had this and that and I gave it a five out of ten. It's like, well, really, who are you to be rating people?
Speaker 1:yeah what's your? Culinary experience, but what's your, what's your baseline like? What is 110 like? How are you gonna know? You know what I mean. Yes, yeah, yeah. So what you ever had hangups like that, when somebody just, oh, this is no good, and you're standing there with your phone.
Speaker 2:I've never had one hangup like that. I had people they will sample it. They're like, hmm, it's different, but it's not my thing. Mean that's to me that's like respectful, yeah yeah, that's honest, yeah, but there was always with um, always with somebody else who really wanted to try it and they loved it oh yeah so yeah, and and with anybody, they're not gonna post the the negatives, yeah yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I know I don't post that time, but I did post the one. They had the baby, the mother name was grinding and then the baby went sample, it went spit out the onions, like it happened. You know, kids tell the truth yeah oh yeah, there's no, there's no.
Speaker 1:The kind, especially with food. If they don't like it, they're not gonna pretend yeah, but I had to do that One time with natto. You ever ate that, oh I have not tried natto. Oh bruh.
Speaker 2:I like try Cause it's like Cheese and I think Tastes like Parmesan cheese or something.
Speaker 1:No way it tastes like ass sap Bruh. It's like Ass Bruh Was's like Ass Bruh Was straight Fermented soybeans and I never knew I was getting into. And we're At Japan and my friends Was videoing. They're like, oh, try this. And ho, I was super pissed Cause I never knew what it was and look, look alright. But then you lift them up and it's all slimy. It look like Hanna butter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah and oh, like I was not ready Like If that Whoever made that it was, if they were making videos For their Instagram, they wouldn't use mine.
Speaker 2:So I mean I would try, I would try.
Speaker 1:I don't know. They sell them the kind At times and stuff like that once in a while.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay, I know my friend always posting that he's eating them. But yeah, I would try them, just like Malot, right, you ever tried that.
Speaker 1:I did. I got my mouth, got me into trouble. So I'll tell you the story. I used to work gas station in kaneway and back in the day I had gas station attendance. No more that anymore, right, but I was a gas station attendant and this old filipino man would come every time and he would have one pot of balut and he would always um, talk about it and all the boys we we'd always like joke or whatever. And one day I was running my mouth and I was telling my friends, my coworkers, like oh, if that guy come, I'm going to eat him, bro, this time. And I was like I promise I'm going to eat him, not thinking he's going to come. And sure enough, tata comes in with his truck. And oh, bro coming, sure enough tata comes in with his truck.
Speaker 1:And oh brah, I honestly it wasn't as bad as I thought, but wasn't good because the the feathers like get little pieces of feather but yeah crunchy and yeah was like and the filipino man was loving, like he was super stoked. He's like go and make you lettuce, bro. I was like that's what I learned. I got to not run my mouth as much because it gets me into trouble. Have you ever ate that.
Speaker 2:I have not tried it yet, because when I came across him I was like okay, I need, I need some beers first oh god, you're on case. Okay, it's like that for drink that one I would try them, though, I would try them okay, I'm gonna bring uh going to a fiji concert on pot balut and on Pan Nato. It's a trade.
Speaker 1:Oh, but I look at your OPs. You look fresh too. You got some big boys In there too, get some Get some good sized kind, yeah Cause.
Speaker 2:I get my, I mean, here's the thing. I don't, I don't pick on myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause Hard to get on Oahu and and you gotta know when to go. I get mine from. He looks like uh, somebody up there picks them and then they sell them to somebody else and then I buy them from them oh, you treat tree, tree, middleman, brad it's yeah markup, gotta be up there I lost my good contact.
Speaker 2:So not up. The price went up, up higher. It's hard to get, yeah. But you know, honestly, I never liked to sell OP in the beginning. How come I just got it? Well, because I mean you're planning guys, oh, you're raping the land this and that, and you know, I get it, I get it, the conservation and all that. So I started selling only the topping for OEO, yeah, yeah. Everybody asking what you can get OPE, you can get OPE, okay. So by demand, I started selling and that's how I started selling OPE. It wasn't because I was just out there trying to make a profit. I only make what dollars? What dollars? You know?
Speaker 1:minor dollars per container, if that well, it kind of shows you doing them for the aloha and honestly, that's part of the culture. Like that culture gonna be gone soon, you know. I mean like if, yeah, if the ogs don't do it or teach the younger people, how, then right, it's gonna be gone.
Speaker 2:And yeah, most young, most younger generation, they're not scraping on you, I tell you that oh, guarantee, guarantee, yeah, yeah, a lot of people nowadays they're more into okay, I'd rather just pay for it and yeah rather than do the hard work yeah, and that's where I get coming, I guess yeah, yep, true.
Speaker 1:So so what, your business is kind of taking off you ever going like not be able to supply the demand.
Speaker 2:Um, that's a good question. As for right now, I cannot see me not supplying the demand. I get one good source Get, get planning guys out. They always hitting me up Um, yeah, is coming in and then. And then I get my other poo poo stuff which is easily accessible at the the cuttlefish, the sweet yeah, that kind of stuff always gonna get there oh yeah, squid is bugs at the ocean, bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, always get that, bro. It's like nowadays, the divers and and stuff like that, they, they because of how, the how the internet is plenty of their spots is getting poached because people finding out all the good spots. Like one of my best friends, he's on mean diver, like he that's, he's like one of the best and like he'll he'll. He told one of his, his friends, like one certain hole, I get ulu or whatever. And then that guy bring like couple guys and now, now it's no good already. It's like yeah, plus, so you can geo tag everything or you can go on your phone and put the coordinates and go go to the exact spot.
Speaker 2:Yeah or people can see you diving and then they're gonna come and check, check them out. Yeah, same thing with fishing too, right you know? Like nobody touch your honey hole.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you've been getting kicked back. I never thought of that, like you kind of brought it up a few times, like people like give you kind of a kickback or give you negativity because of, of, or you poaching auto phe or something like that um, some I get.
Speaker 2:I guess some guys every once in a while on instagram will pop up. Oh, you get his stuff from, uh, from chocolate peach or something like that. It's like, yeah, whatever you know. Delete the comment.
Speaker 1:But oh, you know, oh, you don't engage with them.
Speaker 2:I don't engage, not worth my time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because then that's only going to bring bad review to your page. Yeah, so just delete them. Get rid of them. No need to mess with them. I mean, it's not what the best outcome of that? It's not going to be best for me, it's only going to benefit the guy, so I just block him, whatever. But I noticed TikTok the planning guys. They ramble about everything you know they make like they shit no stink. I don't know if you heard about the um, the next breezy stuff it was trash about I seen something that.
Speaker 1:What happened with that? I knew her for a long she used to go out with my best friend hopper she's that was his girlfriend.
Speaker 2:So so next, actually breezy, she um her clothing line and whatnot. They was kind of trashing on her because she sells her stuff at her price and she gotta pay people. That's what people don't understand is you gotta pay your workers, you gotta pay for your lease, you gotta pay taxes, all this in that. And they're like, oh, she paid. You know, she charged so much for a dress and I think, made it in china. It's like material water from china. Oh yeah, they don't understand it. You know, people small-minded, that's that's what they see yeah I had.
Speaker 2:I had one guy, um, on one of the comments on my friend's page was like um, oh, how come he stay ripping off the people, he charging this much and and you know I make mine for so much dollars. But it's like, brother, you probably retired, you catch your own fish, whatever, I don't know, you lay net someplace. Whatever you do is your business. But then he started come talking about my stuff and it's like bro, you don't understand. I paid 13 grand last year in taxes. Yeah, just from fish, just from the OEO and my side business, yes, and they don't understand that it's like that. There's a reason why my stuff costs what it costs.
Speaker 1:And you're doing them the right way, Like just for pay.
Speaker 2:You don't have to pay tax. You can do them under the table you know what I mean Exactly. I get one certified teaching. I did all the classes. Oh wow, you know. And all these other guys talk smack because they don't know. It's easy for talk smack, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I always thought, like you're not paying for just one bowl of fish, you paying for all the years, all the work, all the education the experience, the lineage of how you make your product and, like you said, you took classes, you took. You get on certified kitchen, Like all that is is time and money, but it also brings value to your product.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, like I do giveaways. Yeah, I get Yeti coolers, whatnot. I get pans of O'Neal, and that's part of my what you call that Commercials and production too. Right, I mean that brings. Okay, you tag one friend and follow this account, that account, whatnot. And you know, I try to help other guys too, like my other friend, landon Highgrinds. I did a contest one time where all he did was hey, I'll follow. He's doing one giveaway, follow the rules in the instructions below and whatnot. And one of the things is they gotta follow his account and follow my account and follow this account and you know, help it helps other people, other influencers grow Like get you on a show, we do the video, what not? Tag you in, we bushi followers too.
Speaker 1:I mean it's not that hard yeah, and that's that's what Aloha is and I feel like that's the. That's what kinda attracted me to your stuff is is the Aloha, and yeah it's getting kinda watered down now and I feel like the new, the younger generation isn't pushing it as hard, but I think they're going to figure it out eventually.
Speaker 2:Get one handful of guys out there. I see they, they try, they try to keep up with that, they try to keep the Aloha spirit and whatnot, and then get those out there. That is, you know they'll. They'll say Alohaa this and aloha that, and then their, their actions, yeah, show on different. Yeah, the fruits of their labor show different yeah, yeah, okay.
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Speaker 2:Oh well, my wife is driving a truck and I'm still, you know, either working, doing work on my phone or posting on social media, and people will pump their horn and pull up next. So, yeah, uncle, are you, and stuff like that. Yeah, and then, uh, I don't know if you've seen the one video I I was at um Maui airport okay, oh oh, no, no, no different.
Speaker 2:Oh, I went up to the TSA work off so I give them my ID and stuff like that. And the guy is like hey, you the guy from Facebook, the uncle. I was like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I tell him, yeah, for a lo-me-o-yo. He says no, I see you making beef stew and some other cooking stuff. I said, hey, fucker, cookie stuff. I said hey, fucker, that's Uncle Ted. I never tell him but I just walk away like this fucker wrong guy, brother wrong guy but hey, we both went.
Speaker 2:We both went Whitehall.
Speaker 1:We you know he was classmates right now, brah, we had my cousin we was at, we were at Kapilani Hospital and we was in a CAF and we was cruising and this big Samoan guy Not Samoan, but big Hawaiian, pan-nijan looking guy, long hair, everything and he cruised in and my cousin said, bro, I know that guy, I know who that is, I'm going to tell him hi. And looking at him I was like bro, I know who that is. And he go up to him and he's like, hey, you the guy, nah, super, fly snooker. And the guy look at him. He go no, I'm Henry Capono and I would lose it. Bro, it was so funny and I knew that wasn't him, but I still wanted to see him ask him. Looked kind of similar when Harry Capone was younger, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was on clickbait right there, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, I never had phones back then, bruh. That would have been major oh man. He's like you, the kind huh Superfly snooker, and I would fall off.
Speaker 2:I was laughing so hard could see the similarities, uh right, right, yeah, yeah, apollonese with the long hair, but oh man that would have been good fun for post that would have been a good one. Alright, I got a question for you. Yeah, what's up? Who is the most interesting person that you interviewed?
Speaker 1:Sam Choi.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sam Choi.
Speaker 1:I had. I had Augie was good fun Tamu.
Speaker 2:The weirdest one I had, and it was Good fun, tamu.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, the the weirdest one I had and uh, it was. I don't know if you remember, maybe like a year and a half ago, the Damien football coaches had some drama.
Speaker 2:Okay, so um uh, ron Delmasio yeah. Was him and um coach bones, so you so ron ron is, uh, married to my classmate. We all went white power together oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:So I'll tell you this story. We is okay, we is um they. They had all this drama going on with like some funding, and then they got fired and they had all this pushback, like all the kids, parents and everything.
Speaker 1:And I graduated damien and I played football for damien, so I get ties. So one of one of the alum hit me up and said, hey, um, the coaches like come out and talk if you could put them on your platform. And I'm like, oh, yeah, right on, I'll be down for that. Let me talk to them first. I'll like hear their story. And, bro, they told me their story. They get all the receipts, all the emails, and it was a legit gripe and I was like, okay, I believe in these guys, I'm down to do it. So then B bones tells me like, oh, we're gonna do them at uh, if you don't mind, we can do them at ron's, uh, his restaurant, he got a restaurant, yeah yeah and um for me.
Speaker 1:I've I hardly ever go live or in person. I always go through zoom, like how we are now. So we go over there and I he told me like, oh, gonna have, we're gonna have one small area on the side, the restaurant gonna be open and we're gonna, we're gonna have, uh, maybe like my mother gonna be there and maybe one other. I say, ah, okay, I asked my friend, we set up the cameras, but I shit you not, we get there. The whole restaurant Is packed. Alumni, the football team, the Hawaii News Now is there and I'm just like, oh shit, this is one show At home, bro, my heart's beating, I'm just like I never did this before.
Speaker 1:I never know what I sign up for I gotta, I gotta yeah and I was like, okay, well, I gotta, I gotta show out this is this is this is the chance for the coaches for tell their side of the story. And rob, we sit down in front of all these people and they do their thing and said their piece and was chicken, skin was heavy and they had all the receipts and what was nuts is they gave me all the emails, all the screenshots, and they wanted me to put that in the video shots. And they wanted me to put that in the video. And holy I, I've never been more prouder to be a damien alum than that. That night. Right, I see all the students and parents backing up the coaches and and oh, it was just amazing, like bro and tear up a couple times. Yeah, and bruh, I I just remember I put everything together and put all the video together and I I hit up the coach as I care, I'm gonna drop this thing, but I like you watch them, your lawyers watch them and you tell me when to drop them first yeah yeah, and then then maybe like the next day, it's okay launch them, and I was, like you, sure now, because once this is on the internet, you cannot put them back in the bag that's right
Speaker 1:yeah and and uh, we when launch them hold, it was on the news and everything and and it was. It was something that I believed in. So it made me feel good. And what happened was the president of Damien he got fired and the coaches got reinstated. And for me I was like one of the most feel good moments for me from doing this show was that moment Because the good guys won. Like you never, ever, see something like that get overturned and and the the coaches get reinstated. Like it's just. I mean, it's happening now at kohoku, like right, and for it to happen and for the good guys to win and for me to be part of the, the process that put them on on they got yeah that did dirty over there oh yeah it was like three votes for something I political agenda that the, the head of demon, had at the time.
Speaker 1:But that was dirty yeah, it was kind of kind of like it made me feel good and made me realize like, oh, I'm I'm doing this for a purpose, but for me I love doing like my conversations with you, but just for local businesses that people don't know about, because everybody has a movie, everybody's life is a movie and everybody has trials and tribulations and inspirations and how they overcome stuff.
Speaker 1:And to hear some of these people's stories and, oh, it just motivates me to be like a better person or to take my game to another level or to like sometimes, yeah, I'll hear some of these stories and I like run to a wall after I had like couple athletes, um, one, uh volleyball girl and she's she's gonna start next this week. I think they start up that money, yeah, taylor money, yeah. And she told me her story of how she got all the way up to where she is and she had to go to a JC and was in the freezing cold and she never knew if she was going to play again. But she kept at it and I was like, oh, my daughter is in the same situation. She's a sophomore and she just made the varsity and she's on that grind and that stuff inspires her and I was like, bro, those kind of stories don't get heard and people need to hear them because it could motivate them like, like even you.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean like, um, I get, I give you one story. Um, so my daughters, I started them, started coaching them Little League time. You know, I got them into Little League 10 years old, nine years old, and never have any Bobby Sox or girls softball in Waipou. So I got together with a couple of the parents, we got together talk story. But you know me, when I get something in my head, nothing gonna stop me, I'm gonna, I'm gonna push and I'm gonna, you know. So I, I made one, um, one girl softball team in waipahu and then, um, slowly, I'd grow, I got up to like 10 teams.
Speaker 2:I started coaching at the high school level. I got our softball club to become a non-profit and that is not easy. I kind of again, I'm not meaning to blow my own horn, but I kind of did that on my own to get our club non-profits. Who was able to get grants and whatnot? Oh, wow, yeah. So yeah, we was able to get grants and whatnot. Oh, wow, yeah. So yeah, we had like 10 teams, did them for so long up to the high school level, and then when my daughters had graduated, it was like, okay, I'm done, really, I'm out.
Speaker 2:And then went back to fishing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you did your job, bro. Does that club still exist?
Speaker 2:No, the club is done already. But people, people in the um, the community, they kind of remember me and stuff and napalm is football club. I used to umpire and everything oh, and those that changes.
Speaker 1:Those girls lives like with sports when they they're giving those opportunities, like brah is life-changing life-changing.
Speaker 2:Oh, the the um. The issue with the kahuku boy and a coach. Yeah, the boy, the captain um helms.
Speaker 1:I used to coach his sisters oh, oh, what and what their parents never complain to you.
Speaker 2:The mom. The mom was One of my biggest supporters Because her daughter Was on my team, like that, but I think I think it was the dad. They were separated already. I think it was the dad had the issue with the coach, so Thank God he was in here.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I even question, since you was coaching and this comes up kind of often, and because my daughter plays club and they're coaches, how often is it an issue with the parents about kids playing time? Because, bro, I know, bro, I've seen people beefing on the football sidelines now.
Speaker 2:There's had them, them right, the one from yeah or st louis, and it's crazy. Um, a lot of parents will will get involved with the coaches and you know it's. It's not easy for a coach to do with the parents. Um, it's a lot of give and take, a lot of respect between each other. Um, yeah, and that that might be part of that um, whole routine too. So with the parents it's like, okay, do you guys come out to every practice and watch what your child does? Do you see how they actually perform during practice? Because, because practice makes permanent. Yeah, and the way they talk back to their parents Because at least nowadays they talk back, you know 15, 18, whatever they make. Like the adults, they know better. So you know they get personality and some of the parents you know whatever the kids tell them, that's what they're going to believe first. And the coach get you know volleyball. What do you get? Like 10 kids on a team.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like for me softball you had maybe 16, 15, 16 kids on a team and, oh my God, it was. Some parents can get out of hand, yeah, but hopefully they can work them out. The parents need to understand that the coach is trying to do the best thing for the team. Just because they don't get the play time, maybe it's because of a certain thing that happened during that week at practice. The parents don't see that. Okay, your child wasn't shagging balls as good as the other kid. Maybe this kid was better that week.
Speaker 2:They don't know, I mean, unless they come out and out and you know the parents can always help with the team too. Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's something that that some parents don't understand. But in the coaches, like I don't know what the deal was with the one, but maybe to put a kid one-on-one and talk to him like that wasn't in his best interest, yeah, like for us when we was coaching at the high school, we would always have two coaches, one to back that up. And you know us guys project manager at the construction, we did planning union guys. So we always approach the worker with confidence. Like me as a project manager, maybe I get a superintendent or I get a foreman with me, because that way no can be, he said.
Speaker 1:She said yeah, yeah, that makes sense. I do feel. A lot of times parents kind of put their kids on a pedestal or may not understand. And I've been around sports my whole life and what I teach my daughter is if you're not playing, that means you're not working hard enough, like the coach gonna put the best person in because they like win.
Speaker 1:If you're not the best person, then you got to do something for be the best person right right and then just because you starting doesn't mean you're the, you're the best person next week, like you're gonna have to earn them all over again. And I feel like kids nowadays is a little bit more entitled. It's like, oh well, I'm this or that or I did this. It's like, yeah, but you never come practice for two weeks, or like, why are you, you going to start? Or it's just that kind of mentality and I always teach my daughter like talent, was it? Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
Speaker 1:So you, you gotta do both, like you could be talented but you gotta back it up with work and it's kind of cool to see when it plays out and when, as a parent, whatever you teach them, when they listen and follow your instructions, and then it works out for the better. It's kind of cool to see, like my daughter last year she was a freshman and my daughter's tiny she's only 4'11" and she tried out for the varsity for high school and she never made the team and she's all upset and I was. And I told her, like you, crying now, but what you did from the end of club season to get ready for tryouts, like you was playing on your phone. You never go outside, you never do nothing. So you don't even earn the right for for cry, you don't earn the right to feel bad because you never, you never put give it your best chance right.
Speaker 1:And I told, I told her this year, like from that moment, you're gonna do extra work with me or I'm not even gonna sign you up for varsity. You can play jv again if you want to do it. You're gonna do the extra work. And she promised me. She shook my hand and every weekend we do extra. She'd do plyometrics, we'd go gym or do whatever and come tryout time.
Speaker 1:I told her if you make the team, that's cool, if you don't, that's that's cool too, cause I'm so proud of the work you did to get yourself ready and to me that's all that matters. And fortunately she made the team and she was all stoked. But I told her this also, which is what she's experiencing now. I said you made the team and that's good, that was your goal. But all that means is you just got to the starting line and now you gotta do the work, forget on the court and like she's getting playing time, but not as much as the starter and she I know she wants to start and I'm just like, well, you gotta do the extra work and she's about it. So we'll see. But it's cool that they'll listen and then react accordingly, because most times, like when I tell my daughter something, she don't listen. You know what I mean, but somebody else could tell her exact same thing and you say, oh, it's a fucking epiphany my oldest daughter was like that too.
Speaker 2:You know she don't listen to me, but somebody else tell her the same thing. Yeah, so, like what what you're saying? You're supporting your daughter and stuff. But there there is like other parents that are just sitting on bleachers and just talk smack, oh my god, I can't stand that. It's like, oh, my daughter should be playing and this and that, and you know, they just, they just, oh, so negative, just brings down the whole morale of the whole team. Yeah, oh god, that that to me is the the worst part for the parents. When they think they they keep, you know, their, their the kids, shit, no, stink, and they just, they just down the other kids, they just talk down or talk shit about them and oh yeah, to me that's the worst thing you can do as a parent. Oh, the kids probably hear them when they're driving home from the practice or the game, like, oh, you seen the other one like that, and oh God, as a coach, how did you navigate through that stuff and keeping everybody cool?
Speaker 2:So I wasn't cool. I would catch a couple of parents in a van all the time when they leave. In practice, hey, you know what? You see? When your daughter got run over, I was the first one on the field to go over there and check on her. But yet you still be talking shit about my daughter. But it was a good thing, I was sober back then.
Speaker 1:You would have been the one scrapping in the parking lot. Possibly. I get it. I experienced a little bit and I just said whatever. And I told my daughter you don't need you worry about them, you don't gotta prove everybody else wrong, you just gotta prove yourself right and just do your work.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Awesome, that's awesome, but we see she should be granny she played for for ho'omau and then um so in local Y Manalo club and then, they go, they travel, so we go like mainland couple of times a year. They they play nationals and all that.
Speaker 2:And then my brother-in-law mate used to coach. I wore his last name. Oh, okay, so he had that. He's all his daughters, the twins and whatnot, yeah.
Speaker 1:Bro, the freaking volleyball is unreal. I know I tweens and whatnot. Yeah, bruh, the freaking volleyball is unreal. I never. I'm not into volleyball, I never was, and hold up like some of these local tournaments. And I didn't know what we was getting into when my daughter first started. Oh, bruh it's an expensive spot bruh, we slinging donuts and crispy cream and freaking we said, selling noms and all kind of about to sell blood.
Speaker 1:I get lomioteal fundraisers okay, I'm gonna hit you up because I know yours gonna sell. We're gonna be easy for sell for real. That's what you do yeah, I can help out, yeah okay, because we go in walmart in a couple weeks, bro, that would work, oh okay, okay, yeah, my wife make pickle onion all kind bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, because you got to First, you get all the. You got to pay for the referees, the courts, all the practice courts. You got to. Yeah, you know, farms of travel, the tournaments, yeah, yeah. See, like when I was doing the coaching at Waipawa, I made one of the cheapest programs because we had the grants too, so I could ask for money. Get that. Okay, you know what? I will try to make payment programs, whatnot oh, that's good.
Speaker 2:That way the parents put the thing you know help afford. Yeah, because you know low income areas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but kids with with skills take them out of the street, animal tryouts, or just take them off the street and then, you know, classify them. Okay, oh, you're going to be on this higher team and you're going to be on this lower team. Now, with that being said, would you rather your child be the star player on the B team, or would you rather have them sitting on a bench on the A team? Sitting on the B team, or would you rather have them sitting on a bench on the A team?
Speaker 1:sitting on the bench that's kind of what's happening now. Because she's because the coach gave her the opportunity said if, if you want to play JV, you'll start like you did last year, but we can develop you on the vars, you probably not gonna get as much playing time, but you do have opportunity to win the spot. But if that's the case, what would you want? And my daughter was like well, I like be on vars and and earn it. And I was like that's, that's how it's supposed to be. You always like play up and you always like, um, let level you're playing to to match the level that you want to be, because you can be the best. It's like being the biggest fish in the smallest pond. You know what I mean. That's cool and all, but you be on shark in the ocean, which is better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you're only going to be as good as your weakest player and you're not going to elevate yourself if you're playing with lower caliber people, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's cool. That's cool you're a coach, because I don't know much coaches for Asta kind of stuff and, bro, especially in Waipahu you probably had all the kind of aunties yelling at you, oh bro.
Speaker 2:I had to, god I had to. I ran four feet One game, I know for sure. When we was at Milan, I was like you know what I'm done we're going to cancel this game. I cannot deal with this BS right now. We're done.
Speaker 1:That's nuts. I can't even imagine so. I never. I used to coach Taekwondo and kickboxing and that was the easiest, because you cannot bullshit when you're in the ring. Yeah, like the truth gonna come out. And if you is bullshitting your practice you can get lickings and I don't have to do anything. And then if the kid is acting up, we just pit them with one ringer and they get lickings and sparring.
Speaker 2:But it's not really on team sport too, right? Yeah, one-on-one, yeah, when you get team for depend on you, then oh God, you got to put yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get that way too like, especially club Like. When one girl keeps hitting the ball in the net, I'm just like get her the fuck out.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. The worst is when you get favoritism, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It happens out there when the coach's daughter or somebody like that oh, that is some of the worst when you see them like bro, she just made three errors in a row, solve them out, or something. Yeah, I don't know, and that's on the coach's discretion. I mean the one calling the shots.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but sometimes they got to work through it. Yeah, not when you're in the mainland and you spend like three grand. Forget there and this kid keeps you in a ball in the net.
Speaker 2:But then again, you never know, you might sub them out and then the next one do, yeah, the worst. But you're not gonna know until you try.
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Speaker 2:So yeah, just just driving around thinking like, like, um, the one was uh yesterday I posted like hey, so what 20 to 30 bucks? You get Ohana coming over what you gonna make. I mean Jeez Spaghetti, bro Spaghetti all day Spaghetti that was what I was thinking Was the main one.
Speaker 1:Spaghetti, chili, yeah, yeah 30 bucks, that's some pot spaghetti, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Or you think like Fundraisers or pot locks.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's. That's pretty much it right yeah.
Speaker 1:What was the craziest ones you got for the? What would be the the weirdest thing For, say, I would lap dance.
Speaker 2:What Sissy like by Lomio you.
Speaker 1:What you smell like Lomio you.
Speaker 2:I guess I'm good. I mean, I can get kind of raunchy on my questions sometimes but, it's meant to be all in fun, you know yeah nah, that's how.
Speaker 1:That's how engagement is right, right, right, yeah, and you just being yourself and like that one was a good one. I was thinking about that, or the interview one. What would be the worst thing to say during an interview?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, I had some. Hey, what get drug test, or hey.
Speaker 1:I don't like weekends you know, but your daughter isn't so, and so I used to bang her on the weekends the one on the left hand was like hey, how's your mother and father doing? How's Uncle Jerry?
Speaker 2:That would be kind of typical for Hawaii, right? Yeah, smiling it happens. I know your mother there.
Speaker 1:They know you're out here doing this kind. I had a question for you, a random one what would be your go-to karaoke song?
Speaker 2:What would be my Go-to karaoke song? Yeah, so I Really like the oldies Because I was raised on KI KI From a modern day. So I really like the oldies because I was raised on KI KI from a modern day. So I do like 16 Candles, or Only you.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:What else? But nowadays you can do the YouTube, you can search the local artists and stuff. So I'm all into the Cenas and Ka'au Crater boys.
Speaker 1:That's mine's. One Mine's would be you Don't Write from Ka'au Crater. Oh, there you go. Yeah, that was always my goal, because I could play them on the U, so I could jam down. Oh, that's kind of cool I never would have thought that's kind of cool. I never would have thought. But you know what I just seen recently that's making, who's making a comeback is Bulaia.
Speaker 2:Yes, I just seen that too, people posting up about that. He's coming back, which is cool bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just added me and I was like, bro, is this really him? Kawi Hill? What's his name? Kawi Hill? I think he get one um hula ear official page. Yeah, somebody just should comment yeah and yeah, and he's legit with the wig and everything. Back in the day I was right, he has cds and everything.
Speaker 2:when he got all cracked out, uh yeah, yeah, he got hooked up and all that. I mean, hey, who wasn't doing that kind of stuff back in the days? But you know, I mean I get my own past like that.
Speaker 1:So but he was. He was funny bro like he. He was a legit funny dude. He had his own tv show. Like it was cool to see him back at it and he and yeah, that's the kind of stuff, yeah yeah, that's the kind of Hawaii needs. Is that kind Fun? And Remember back in the day had Booga Booga and Booga Booga Raps, oh, Raps is a classic.
Speaker 2:I just went and reposted One from Frankie Lima, and and oh what is his name? My favorite guy. So what, lucio, you're going to leave me now?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, Mango season, not Paul.
Speaker 2:Melka Bang oh Melka. Bang he was one of my favorites because he's raunchy too. Yeah To anything, but no, all those guys all my favorites, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, frank DeLima, he grabbed Damien, so every now and then he would come to our lunches and try out some new material.
Speaker 2:He used to go to all the schools.
Speaker 1:He's awesome, he's still dressing up like when Tutu went on the commercials. You're not giving Damien boys a good look, bro, you dressing up like on one one chick.
Speaker 2:Well, they're letting girls in now, right?
Speaker 1:so oh yeah nowadays, they never do that. When we was there, which is probably a good thing, I'd probably have more kids in your flask over there just water oh just water yeah, I drink beers while I'm doing this kind of I don't know, I'll get too stupid, or then I'll yeah I, when I came home from work, I started pre-gaming already. Oh what are you drinking? But like, but like, yeah, I do um, yeah, I do ultras, I do, yup, I do Ultras, ultras, that's the one.
Speaker 1:That's my go to and I'll just do Crown on the rocks, crown Apple or straight regular Crown, straight regular Crown.
Speaker 2:I used to do that Back in the days. But yup that and Tequila Shots With the. I used to do Budweiser Back then.
Speaker 1:Or the Firecrackers.
Speaker 2:Oh, yup, yup. That was back in the days I used to do Budweiser back then. Oh the firecrackers, oh, yep, yep. That was back in the days Used to work moving company and all that Yep.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's the oh yeah, I remember. Oh, it was Primo, and then Primo, what a girl's. Remember Zima All the girls was drinking Zimas.
Speaker 2:That was it, that, and Bartles and James.
Speaker 1:Oh, the wine coolers. Huh yeah, wine coolers, that was it. Yeah, when we was growing up we Right you know I tell this story when we was in high school we had you know how the back in the day they kind of my dad, them still do this. But Christmas time they leave cases of beer out for the garbage. Men, yup, oh, we'd come with our truck and we'd rake the neighborhoods. Bro, just take the cases funny story.
Speaker 2:My dad was a mailman. Oh, he used to come home with cases and and so much goodies.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, mango season, we get choc mango pickle mango and just people just eat him and oh, we were just for broke yo the christmas time but but they just leave them on the trash can. Yeah, we'd drive around and just hunt for cases or just grab them Early morning. Yeah, we'd go before school, whatever, like Christmas time, their vacation, we'd just go. We get a couple cases for high school kids, that's plenty. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's like P, you know what I mean. Yeah, that's like Pops. Get me Pahinui, my wife's uncle, george Iwohe. He used to tell us a story. Pops was on Refuge Band 2 back then, so he would have cases, cases of beer and stuff like that at his house. So all the musicians would come by, all the guys that hang out. They just said you know what it appears over there. All you gotta do get your own cooler and ice just clean up when you guys power.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:So the guys would come jam session. He come outside play. You know couple songs Jamming outside. You know Smoking, doing whatever.
Speaker 1:That must have been good fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I hope, hopefully I like Maybe not one podcasting but Maybe interview, like my uncle To go Tell some stories the whole school yeah.
Speaker 1:That would be super cool.
Speaker 2:That's.
Speaker 1:That's the kind of stuff that the younger generation Gotta hear, and we cannot lose it. We cannot lose it. We cannot lose it, bruh, because once all that ages out, then it's going to be gone forever.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:No more of that nostalgic and that vibe. I mean I'm sure you've seen it, especially in town. I drive around town and my dad would tell me, like in town. I drive around town and my dad would tell me like, oh bro, it's, it's not like how it used to be and it's so different now. And now I find myself telling that to my daughter and like kaneo changed so much since I was growing up and get a couple old school buildings and oh, I see them tearing some down and it it's like no more that old vibe. It's everything is getting new and we cannot lose our history and our culture, cannot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and yeah, more so the younger generation. On social media they pretty much just no more picture of their own self. They get some tag name, they just pop on like FU, this and that. They talk smack and you know the parents don't know what they're doing. So they're not, they're just doing whatever you know, like they copy their friends or not. Then you know it's not like they can. You know they go see your face to face and give you one crack.
Speaker 1:It's not like they can go see you face to face and give you one crack, bro. That is the definition of what this generation doesn't have. They don't have the instant accountability you can talk shit to somebody and they never going to touch you. You guarantee you wouldn't say that stuff to their face, like when we was growing up you didn't talk shit. Then you got to be able to back it up because they're going to see you tomorrow. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Or especially if their parents, their parents, hear man, it's like, hey wait, what you said to who you know, that's so-and-so's nephew and stuff and stuff like you know they went To us with the emu or they went. You know they donate To our fundraiser, you know you don't know who you talking. Smack to, yeah, all this kind of stuff, these guys, they don't know. So no more respect like that, no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and. I feel like Kids nowadays. They not in the moment Like bruh, for one thing. Bruh, these kids is spoiled. They get freaking these e-bikes and shit. They're not paddling, bruh, they're not paddling.
Speaker 2:Yup.
Speaker 1:And they.
Speaker 2:Yup.
Speaker 1:They get phones and Access to whatever.
Speaker 2:Like we never had that. And clubbing though, they get iPhones yeah.
Speaker 1:Yup and Back in the day We'd leave in the morning On our bicycle and just gotta be home when the light, the sun, is down.
Speaker 2:Or we can get licked when the street light turn on. Yeah, you gotta be home and Kids.
Speaker 1:Nowadays, they're more in tune To showing people the things that they're doing Than enjoying what they're actually doing.
Speaker 2:You know what you know? What I I suspect is happening is the parent is like this oh yeah, and I keep, hey what you did your homework? Yeah, okay, all right, so. So it's like that too the parents hook on on social media, hook on the phone, whatever, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I feel like For as adults, we find balance. I'm sure you find balance too, and the stuff you post Reminds people of Aloha, reminds people of the old vibes and and you kind of mash it up With new stuff and I think For the younger generation I'm hoping that that's what they're drawn to do you get a lot of the younger generation uh, following your stuff and kind of engaging with you I?
Speaker 2:I would like to hope so. I I don't really know a lot of accounts, unless they comment and stuff like that. Then I can comment and return the bite. I used to try and follow one. I think that's a big difference between me and some of the other social media guys. But some of those other guys they get so much responses it's hard to keep up with everybody.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I try at least. You know, like the high fives or the shakas, but I read the comments. I think Tomoe is like that. He will. Maybe he not correspond, but he read the comments on his page. That's why I think he did the tea thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because everybody's brah, I don't know, he shouldn't have a funny story.
Speaker 2:We went to Maui for doing a sale I think it was two years ago or so and then we was staying at Maui Beach and then we talked to a car who was coming back to the room and I seen I seen what is her name the girlfriend.
Speaker 1:Rachel.
Speaker 2:Rachel. I seen Rachel over there and I was like heyachel, are you and she? You know she turned, she smiled, she had the daughter with her. Then later on, um, I seen uh, two more walking with rachel and stuff like that, and she, she seen him and he she didn't give him a kiss and stuff like that, as like well, I can kiss. And then two more came around. Hey how's it how you doing? It's like hey right on what I gonna kiss for. Nah, just kidding, I never say that.
Speaker 1:Well, who's some of the kind of bigger name people that you met through doing what you do?
Speaker 2:Oh, doing what you do, so like for me. Couple of my old school heroes like that, like BJ Penn.
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:I continue to pray for him and stuff like that. But I met him. Kelly Boy is always you know one and raise growing up with him. Another big one was Young Tongi yeah Him, shucks. I met Magic Mike, oh yeah, yeah. James Mane, oh yeah, I had him on my show.
Speaker 1:I had all those guys, he's from Italy. Viral Got a mark. Oh yeah, I had him on my show.
Speaker 2:I had all those guys, he's from Italy, viral Got a mock. Oh, yeah, yeah, who else I know? I'm forgetting plenty of guys already. How was meeting BJ? Bj was mean, bj was. We did one pop-up at his Waikele UFC gym and I gave him a sample and he was like, oh, this is Aki Aki. I was like I don't know, let me know. He kept branding it. It was cool, it was alright.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's going through some rough patch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's going through some rough times and I keep praying for him. But uh, some of the the local brother and sister kind vendors out there is like the Pockash man um, oh, nice, rice Pocky Shack. You know we always collaborating and doing stuff and you know, get, get plenty people out there, they're real nice. And and um, you know, get, get plenty people out there, they're real nice. And and um, you know they support, they support you and I, I like to support them too.
Speaker 1:Do you, do you ever try to approach somebody and they're like ah, nah, I don't like, or whatever.
Speaker 2:Um, like when I ask them if they like, do the video.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't like be on. I don't like be on a video. I don't like be on. I don't like be on a video. I don't like do the video. It's like and that's cool. But I mean like we had one in Kauai. I just told him you don't like do the video. He's like nah, I don't like, but it's like, oh, but that's cool oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1:Oh, kelly Boy must have been good fun. Huh who, kelly Boy D Lima?
Speaker 2:yeah, oh, kelly Boy, yeah, always. So we went, we went to Vegas and we found out, oh, he's doing a concert at the bar, oh, he's doing a capela, capela going to, he doing them with Kapena, kapena going open. So we went over there Check them out and what was really cool was After, after the show we saw. We saw Kelly Boy, elo and I think the grandson Was walking out and then he seen us and you know he's like hey, brad, how's you? And I was like Holy fuck, he remember my name that's cool bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like oh, right on, right on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we run into each other every once in a while, yeah oh, that's cool when we were when we, when I was working gas station because he lived kaneohe he would come and we like in between cars, we, we would jam you. And one time he came and he came out his car and jammed with us for a little while. But back then it was like the biggest deal, Like oh, we just like oh, like he never had to do that.
Speaker 2:And it was just like when you're that young and impressionable like that, to me that was such a cool moment for us, you know, for when you get somebody that you hold like on that pedestal and then, and then they're just sharing one moment with you, one-on-one, that is awesome. So yeah, like um, he was coming back from kawaii had this brother come on a plane. I was sitting in the front. He's like, hey, alcoholics. Like hey, how's it, give them knuckles like that. And I never have poopoos with me. But I gave him one sticker afterwards because I mean, yeah, I mean I just want one guy, I to me, I just think on regular guy. But if these kids like tell hi and whatnot, hey, that that just warms my heart, that I can, you know, talk, story, shake hand, whatever.
Speaker 1:Yup, that's, that's awesome. Um future wise. Where do you see you're taking your not just your content creation, but like your brand and your and your business?
Speaker 2:Ah, so I would like to spend more time traveling and sharing with people out there, locals that have transplanted to the mainland and whatnot. I mean some Hawaiians. They say the continent, and you know I'm a Pijing guy, so I mainland, you know. So I would like to share, you know, across the mainland, the continent. What not to go and meet new people and stuff. That's where. That's where I'd like to go is broaden or widen my scope oh, that's cool.
Speaker 1:well, I think you get the personality for it and you just are not an ambassador of Aloha. And, like I said, that's what this world needs, man you to change in the world. That's how it's got to be. If you're taking this to the mainland and engaging with people and people are going to take notice.
Speaker 2:You might help one person become a better person, and I mean what this world is about if you can just like, just like with the coaching team, right, you trying to coach them not just for beyond better player, but for beyond better person too. So, yeah, that's that's where it leads to. I mean, I I may not always follow what I I preach, but I try, yeah. Yeah, but it's all good. But thank you, bro right on.
Speaker 1:Well, we've been going for over an hour and I, I, I know you gotta go scrape some wheel, because that shit is hard I was actually Sharing our PEs Before, before we got on a zoo. But I appreciate you Taking time out. I'm Definitely Inspired by your Representation Of what you do and it would be cool To meet you in person, give you a hug and, for sure I like, try your fish. Hopefully, hopefully, not this coming weekend, but the following weekend meet you in person give you a hug and and for sure, bro, like I like, try your fish, hopefully, hopefully.
Speaker 2:Um, not this coming weekend, but the following weekend, um I may pop up in kanehue.
Speaker 1:Oh, let me know I'll be here. I'm always in kanehue, yep for sure that would be cool. Right on right on, right on um on social media. Where can people find you they?
Speaker 2:can find me at Alcoholics Poo Poo's On Instagram, even on Facebook, alcoholics Poo Poo's Even on TikTok.
Speaker 1:There you go, I'm always out there Posting Well, you're not doing those TikTok dances.
Speaker 2:I don't do the dances, whatever you see On Instagram Is kind of what I post on TikTok.
Speaker 1:Right, these kids I catch them doing dances everywhere my daughter's volleyball tournament in between games but they doing them in the freaking aisles at Target. It's like, bro, nobody cares. If you can do these dances, okay and for us. You can find us on Instagram above the bridge podcast, our youtube channel above the bridge podcast. Our website is atbpodcom and my personal instagram is daddy daddy hi. Please like, subscribe, leave a comment. It matters. I appreciate you guys For tuning in. Oh, right on, bro. Well, I appreciate you, man Shaka's for the cameras.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, mahalo Aloha.
Speaker 1:Right on, we're out. Shout out to the Artist Groove Network Aloha, aloha, mahalo.
