Above the bridge
Above the bridge
Episode 161 LANDON ( HI Grindz)
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Ever wondered what happens when your dinner companion whips out their phone before you can take your first bite? In this captivating conversation with Landon from High Grindz (@high_grindz), we dive deep into the world of food content creation in Hawaii, revealing the fascinating journey from casual dining to influential posting.
Landon shares how his Instagram account began as a simple suggestion from a friend to document the restaurants he was already visiting. What started as casual food photography has evolved into a nearly daily content creation schedule, filming approximately five days a week at eateries across the islands. Unlike many mainland influencer scenes characterized by cutthroat competition, Landon describes Hawaii's creator community as uniquely supportive.
The conversation takes unexpected turns as Landon reveals his double life - creating mouthwatering food content while maintaining a full-time career as an orthopedic physical therapist at Queen's Hospital. This balance between passion and profession offers listeners a refreshing perspective on content creation as an extension of genuine interests rather than a primary career. From his nostalgic collaboration with Crazy Shirts to his viral Botox experience video, Landon demonstrates how authentic content resonates with audiences beyond just food posts.
What makes this episode particularly insightful is Landon's candid approach to content ethics. He explains his philosophy of only posting positive experiences rather than criticizing disappointing restaurants - a stance that reflects the spirit of aloha while maintaining credibility with his audience. Using nothing more than an iPhone and simple editing apps, Landon proves that compelling content stems from genuine passion rather than expensive equipment or technical expertise.
Whether you're a foodie looking for your next great meal, an aspiring content creator, or simply curious about the people behind those perfect food shots delaying your dinner, this episode offers a satisfying glimpse into the evolving relationship between social media, food culture, and authentic Hawaiian values. Follow @high_grindz on Instagram to discover your next favorite eatery!
Aloha. Welcome to another edition of the Above the Bridge podcast. I'm your host, thaddeus Park. If this is your first time to the show, you can pretty much find us wherever you get your podcasts. Hit that subscribe button. We're also on YouTube and you can also find us on our website at atbpodcom. Thank you for tuning in, aloha. Okay, this week my guest you see him on Instagram. He's a food influencer, high Grinds, landon. What's up, brother?
Speaker 2How's it, my man, how you doing? Thanks for having me, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1Thank you for coming on, bro. I've been watching your stuff and, honestly, at work you get me hungry. You know what I'm saying. Like you, put some good food.
Speaker 2Yes, thanks, thanks, we try.
Speaker 1Bro, I wanted to ask you you just randomly go to any kind of restaurants and start filming, or, like you have it set up before you even get there To be honest, both Like, sometimes we just roll up.
Speaker 2Like me and my homies, we just want to check out on spots, so we can just roll up Whatever. Yeah, but a lot of my friends too, they're foodies, but they're not like big on Instagram. So whenever they like want to check out on spots, they're like, hey, throw me a group message, hey, we'll check out this spot. The boys you know, and so we'll go check them out. Um, but yeah, other times too, yeah, you know restaurants or they reach out, or a lot of my foodie friends that reach out. Hey, like, I got an invite. You like check out this spot.
Speaker 1I'm always down for eat, so I'm always game that's the best, bro, plus maybe I'm hoping you get free food, you know okay, that's the best kind that makes it taste better oh yeah, all day bro but what you started off uh instagram doing content. How did it all start?
Speaker 2hey, not gonna lie. So it's actually one of my good friend, chelsea though it was her idea, because, since we're already all going out, like when group Group Bunch was like me, chelsea, mari Winston, we're always going out trying new places, and Chelsea's the one that told me hey, bro, you should just start up one account, like one Instagram account, so people can see all the places you check out. So I was like ah, I'm not really good at social media, not really good with technology, to be honest, from Hilo right, so a little bit slower, a little bit. But she told me I should chant some, so she helped me come up with the name High Grinds and yeah, we just kind of ran with it at first. Just no in the beginning, no invites because he's so new to the game. So we just checked out new spots, cruise zone, see how it is, and yeah, kind of went from there.
Speaker 1Oh, that's cool. My wife, always like bruh, drives me nuts Every time we go to eat. I cannot touch my food until she takes pictures or whatever. Oh, the bucket's like cold, huh Bruh. It's like nobody even watching her shit anyway, it's like I just like eat my food, Like nobody cares that we eating at haliva joe's today.
Speaker 1Nobody cares if you got freaking, but I could see how people do and then it kind of inspires them to go follow and eat the same places. I just get annoyed with it. But I was wondering if that's how you started out, or does your? Girlfriend get annoyed when you kind of do that kind of shit all the time, bro, I should pull it out here.
Speaker 2She can tell you hey, don't make my dad her up ready okay, okay, relax right.
Speaker 1I see a lot of people doing it, but are you having fun with it or starting to become like a tedious thing, like whenever you eat you gotta record, you gotta kind of put in the work?
Speaker 2good question, you know, uh, to be honest, um, because I got, I found a good group of people that they make it fun. Yeah, so it's not like you know before. Sometimes you know it it seems like a job, so I can see how it can come like cumbersome and like you get kind of like frustrated, stressed out and becomes another job yeah but you know, it's the kind of people you surround yourself with.
Speaker 2If the people around you make it fun, just keep it. Good vibes and, ah, you know, it becomes just hanging out more than like work, right? So yeah so I kind, of you know, keep the the group kind of small. And yeah, like, like you mentioned earlier, you had even the cool brothers on, like uh, brad and brother joe all those guys are cool guys, you know. So he's for just cruise with. It's just like you're just hanging out. Yeah, it's not really work.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, and they're. They're awesome, with the content creator freaking um, they go all out bro joe, he's like he turned into yeah, he turned into like a whole production before. It's just his camera, not? I seen him like recording stuff at Kahala at the the cell phone tricked out accessory place and I was like bro. I seen him at Kaneohe Market filming stuff. I was like, oh, he just turned into one big time internet or instagram freaking thing. You know what I mean. Like an influencer.
Speaker 2That guy's gonna hammer, he knocks it all out. Yeah, yeah, actually in the beginning he helped me out plenty, like joe, joe, guys ho, kelly shiroma, uh, melissa chang all those guys all day. And brad mura helped me out plenty when I first started too, all those guys. And Brad Muriel helped me out plenty when I first started too. So all those guys, they know how the process goes and it's all streamlined. They get all. They're pretty badass at everything they do. Yeah, me, I'm taking like 20 shots of one thing. They're just flowing, oh you just use your phone.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, I pull it out so I use your phone.
High Grinds: Creating Food Content
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I pull it out, I use my phone. That's it, bro. I get it, bro. Honestly, these iPhones nowadays, bro, it's better than most cameras. You can edit and do everything on top.
Speaker 2Yeah, I should go. I guess we buy wherever I go. So yeah, no sense changing man, Spend more money.
Speaker 1That's true, it works. And you have that always to me, that iconic introduction how's it, fam, with your voice and everybody knows that's you. And when I first talked to you on the phone, when you answered, I was like, oh, brad, as he, it is how it is. Like that's, that's how he talks.
Speaker 2Hilo, hilo. That's why.
Speaker 1Bruh, you grew up Hilo.
Speaker 2Hilo. Yeah, bruh, born and raised.
Speaker 1So you're a BJ Penn fan.
Speaker 2Oh, bruh, something up with that guy. But nah, he wrote through our Help us out On our practices Couple of times. So yeah, you know, growing up I kinda the guy.
Speaker 1He was a legend, yeah, and he.
Speaker 2Opened up his own gym. He didn't help out the community Plenty, so no knocks Towards him, cause he didn't do Plenty. You know Before yeah.
Speaker 1I don't know, Bruh, I mean A little bit. I don't know if that's CTE or something else, but it's, I don't know. He honestly he gave me an opportunity back in the day when because I do nightclub promotions and he just dropped. Bjpencom and he wanted us to go to people in the club and kind of film them, say log on to bjpenncom to help promote his, his website. And, to be honest, he sponsored my company and that was like one of my first sponsors back in the day and that's cool.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, back in the day, yeah, yeah and that was like right in the mix when he was like winning belts and fighting GSP and all this kind, and yeah, I hate to see what's happening now. I mean, he ran for governor. Like what if he won, bro?
Speaker 2I didn't know how he is now. We need some shit. Yeah, you know, I remember Back in the day, no cap, like we went to this one bar and he little Kind of Small, kind Hole in the wall it's called Cokies.
Speaker 1yeah, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2We're there for my friend's birthday, we all was drinking, chilling, and then he walks in Super cool guy, like oh, nonchalant, like nothing, yeah, just his other friends, just shaking everybody's hands, buying everyone drinks. And you know, I was, I mean, that's all I remember. Yeah, like when I was young, like oh, he has a cool guy down to earth, yeah, yeah. And then, you know, I came to our one time he came to our one of our wrestling practices. Boss everybody up, you know. But yeah, cool guy, cool guy, that's cool.
Speaker 1Well, he know they. They used to have this club. What was it called Karma's? Was it called Karma?
Speaker 2Oh, karma's. Yeah, hold on. This used to be the spot, but it shut down.
Speaker 1Oh, it shut down we did a concert Over there a couple times. I forget where we did it, but everything Everywhere in Hilo Closes early yeah 6 o'clock.
Speaker 2Yeah, but they had Hold on, they closes early.
Speaker 1Huh, yeah, bro, 6 o'clock, bro, yeah, but they had, they had Karma and then they had one place where you can go eat like breakfast, like oh, ken's House of Pancakes, yup.
Speaker 2Like early in the morning kind yeah you get the drum cheese, you go Ken's Yup. Got some pancakes, yup, action.
Speaker 1That one is cakes action action.
Speaker 2It's good you can use the sumo special over there so you can um, it's like you know. Sumo size, yeah, yeah, oh, everything's huge. You need that acting sumo special guarantee you tap out, guarantee all right, I gotta go.
Speaker 1How often you go back to hilo?
Speaker 2ah, not as much as I would like before. I see, go planning every couple months, fly home, uh, but nowadays at work and stuff, oh, super busy. So give me like twice a year, yeah, oh okay.
Speaker 1Well, he was laid back too. I like hilo. It reminds me of from where I'm from. Kaneo is always raining, uh oh same, same then.
Speaker 2Yeah, and the people so like kaneo hey, kaneo hey, and like hilo people so cool, help out each other. It's, and, like Hilo, the people are so cool, help out each other. It's like real mom and pop style communities. Yeah, so yeah, it's really good to grow up in that environment. Everyone is chill, mellow.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, hilo is cool. You ever cruise Kona site.
Speaker 2A little bit. I mean, costco is in Kona so we always have to make out the trip corner side. Forget all the big kind of items, yeah. Oh, wow, but to our drive our, our 15, if you flying over Saddle Road.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, saddle Road is nuts at night right, I went over there one time and we in stop, pull over, drink couple beers and browse like the. It's like a dome of stars out in knots.
Speaker 2Yeah, I can see everything. It's it's dangerous, but oh, it's nice up there bro. Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah when's the last time you've been oh, I go a lot to kona because like my hanae brother, dj hopper boy, he he's from there, so we visit his family and stuff. So maybe like every I don't know yeah yeah, he's from kona so we go there maybe like I'll check him out over there maybe once or twice a year and cruise with his family and stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh, right on yeah kona's hot though, bruh.
Speaker 1oh yeah, it's hot, but they get a good vibe. Oh, they get Pine Tree Inn or Pine Tree Cafe. They get the katsu dip Mean yeah. But do you ever do food stuff in Big Island?
Speaker 2You know, when I go home. But it's hard, yeah, because you know when we fly in it's kind of late already and I spend time with my family. So you know, in Shiloh we kind of hit up like the usual spots. So my dad and mom, they're big foodies too, so they always like go out and grind, but all the same spots.
Speaker 1So when you're doing your like, you're trying to assess where you're going to eat. Have you ever went to a place that you didn't know and you's filming, and the food was rubber like no good?
Speaker 2yeah. So about to be honest, I don't, I don't, I don't bash, yeah, I don't bash nobody. So if I don't like it, I I just don't post them and say like they get other good stuff though I just I don't talk about what was shitty and I just talk about what was good and you know what went well. You know, I just I don't like back, especially was shitty, and I just talk about, oh, what was good and you know what went well, you know, I just I don't like bad, especially if it's like the kind Mom and pop's kind. I don't like, you know them shut down or you know. But yeah, I just talk about the good stuff.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, your pose is Shut them down. You feel guilty. Yeah, what was like? What was some of the stuff that was like oh, this is not good you don't got to name names, but you could just tell me what was.
Speaker 2One time with this one restaurant, we were sitting there for literally a little over 30 minutes just for the waitress to come, and then they're like oh yeah, we get I'm not going to mention the place but we get only one of this entree left, you know, if you like it. And then, okay, you know, okay, we get them because there's only one left. Okay, shoot, shoot, shoot. Then I hear them telling the guys in the back of us oh, we only get one of this special left if you guys like, get them. I was like, ah, rob all these guys.
Speaker 1There's over soupy, though we got one left bro, and what?
Speaker 2was it good? It was not bad. It was not bad, but you know it wasn't worth the price. It wasn't worth the price of it, but it was good. It was good, Just oh, the wait time was long and then kind of, you know, sell us out like that.
Speaker 1So I was like oh, that's their marketing bro.
Speaker 1That's their marketing, bro, I was at a bar in town I'm not going to say the name, but they was hyping and my friend is the manager there and he's hyping me up for this steak, how they garlic and mushroom, all this kind, it's like the best in the island. They brought them out, it's like the best in the island. But it brought him out. It was burnt, never even had flavor. And then he's like I'm just like I'm not feeling it. He said for real. Then he brought another one out and wasn't any better and I was like I know you are telling me this, just so I could shout you out or whatever. But I was like, ah, I'm going to lie.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, I want to take this short break to shout out our sponsor, defend Hawaii. They have a store in Witter mall called no one, but if you look on their website, they got some new stuff. For the end of summer, back to school, they have some new drops. If you go on their website, defend hawaiicom and use promo code atb pod upon checkout, you'll get 15 off your entire purchase order. Give them a look. Let them know. Atb pod sent you defend hawaiicom. Now back to the show aloha. You have people like hit you up and say, hey, you can come film and we'll hook you up and… yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Like I mean, you know, when they do that, though, like I feel weird just taking stuff. So a lot of times we kind of tip kind of close to what we think the amount is, or you know, try like help out some other way too, because we're just taking stuff. Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, yeah. Like I mean, if, like, they comp stuff and it's like not so good, then yeah, we just, you know, talk about what wasn't good and just be like, oh, the atmosphere was good, or get like no the night at the front, yeah get good protein in the back hey, you can find the good in everyday though.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's why I model bro stay. Hey, you can find the good in everything. Yeah, that's why I'm auto-browsing.
Speaker 2Positive yeah.
Speaker 1Last year for my friend's, for Hapa's birthday. His dad is tiny, Tiny to Donnie.
Speaker 2So big time.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's big time.
Speaker 2I never know that.
Speaker 1Yeah. So he hit me up. He's like, hey, we're going to cruise for taylor's birthday at um.
Speaker 1I think it was, oh, maharani's oh yeah, he said, come down, all I gotta do is film what you guys eating and they're gonna comp the whole thing. And I'm like, oh yeah, we can put it down. Tonight we went over there and, bro, they went hook up almost every single dish. I got to try everything, bro. I've never been that full, the kind where we're like he is filming and we're trying to talk about it. I can't even focus, but it has so much food and I was like, bro, this is how these foodies live. Bro, that's a good gig. Bro, I'll be fucking fat.
Speaker 2That's the hard thing, bro. Hold the weight gain is not, bro. Oh, but yeah, you gotta have one. You gotta have on stomach.
Speaker 1You gotta have on stomach, for sure, bro yeah, how often you guys uh going out and and making content to be honest, almost… Almost… I want to say five days a week about oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I mean, not all of it is like new stuff, right, it's like some stuff we did Just collecting content, and sometimes I… A lot of my friends either like run restaurants or bars and I just go check them out, shoot a little bit, not necessarily gonna post On the next day, kind Just get a content, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, so you're pretty consistent.
Speaker 2I try to be. It's an excuse for getting out.
Speaker 1You know more kids, I assume.
Life in Hilo and Island Connections
Speaker 2Oh no, just one dog, my fur baby, yeah Cheap.
Speaker 1How do you?
Speaker 2deal with Everything and the kids, you and daughter you have volleyball. Yeah, I get on, daughter, I am super busy.
Speaker 1That's why I got to allot my time where I can record. Then I kind of make a schedule so I can edit. I try to be convenient to where I can kind of go in a better time frame for my guests, because it gets crazy and I work too. I can kind of go in a better timeframe for my guests because it's yeah, I get it gets crazy and I work too, so it's it's been interesting, but I always try to make time and then at the end of the day, once I record and and I talk to people like you guys and I get super inspired and then it is like, bro, it's worth it for me and then my listeners can get value from our conversations and bro like, Come on, one time we all collab.
Speaker 2I am super down.
Speaker 1You've been. I know because I always get invited to those things, because you're part of the Hawaii collab, hawaii creators and all that. They always invite me. I always can't go. It's always at this time like, oh, come here at this time, like bro, my daughter, your own game, or come here at this time on our own island. I was like I just. But I get to see them every now and then in different situations. I got to hang out with them at a concert one time, always the canoeing night market, and they are as advertised. They're as genuine as they are online. Not as silly, of course, because they're not in front of the camera, but, uh, when I have conversations with them on the podcast, it it's, it is as advertised. Some of these people are so nice and it's just crazy to to see how much these creators support each other and for me that's aloha and and that's what you guys are doing, that's what all of us are doing, and it's cool that there's a group for it.
Speaker 2You know, I mean oh, I'd super appreciate that and good you mentioned that, because you know that's that's what all of us are doing and it's cool that there's a group for it. You know what I mean. Oh, I super appreciate, and good you mentioned that Because you know it's so true. Like any other place you go like not going to be the same like the Hawaii community, especially like smaller niches, like you know, like us we're just like a Hawaii group supporting like all Hawaii creators, like it's like everyone you meet so far. I mean you know everyone's so nice, so chill, help you out, kind, um, you know, like I mentioned earlier, like brother Joe, oh yeah, plenty, cat, help me out, plenty.
Speaker 2Brad, kelly, melissa, they all help me out, choke with everything. And you know I was in different industries before. Like I was in way back in the day I was a personal trainer and you know you get into that personal training scene. Oh, but everyone like, not like a personal trainer, and you know you get into that personal training scene. Oh, bruh, everyone like, not, like knock you down, you know, and everyone like it's like dog eat dog, yeah, so it's kind of nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, this white community real different. Yeah, everyone like real help out each other.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, and I def, I definitely noticed that and you can tell from the vibes on your guys content it. You guys are having fun, like you said, like hanging, hanging out with your friends, you know okay yeah, and just crimes yeah, that's the thing, bro.
Speaker 1I seen one of your videos and I wanted to ask you about this. And I know nothing much about it, but and of course you probably know what it's going gonna be is the botox one, because oh yes, that looks pretty nuts, but I don't like for one. How come you even got that? You don't look like you get wrinkles or I don't know what is it even for?
Speaker 2all my friends like what? Yeah, no, bro. So, yeah, one of my friends actually, uh, her, her friend, dr Argentina. You know she started a real small clinic, you know, close by in town, and I was like they're like, oh, you know, they like have one guy like because it's all. You know, the whole scene is all marketed, all towards women and you know they like tell guys, oh, it's okay for not just Botox, but like B12 injections, skin products, skin care, just they're like, hey, you know, you like being one of the first guys Like you and Dustin, for, you know, show them, hey, guys can do them too. Yeah. So I was like, oh, yeah, down bro. And then I was like, oh, brother, all the wrinkles stay gone.
Speaker 1Can you feel your, like say, you touch your forehead, you can feel them, or oh yeah.
Speaker 2I can feel the bugger. Yeah, I can feel the bugger, like just no more wrinkles, and I tell the thing work. I still ugly, though, but the thing work.
Speaker 1So what does it do it just like it just flattens out Whatever wrinkles you have.
Speaker 2It relaxes all the muscles, yeah, on the front, wherever. Relaxes all the muscles on the front. Wherever they inject so the muscles they don't crinkle, because when they contract they crinkle up and that's what gives you all the wrinkles. So they go inject them right in the bigger muscles in front so they stop wrinkling.
Speaker 1Yeah, Was it sore or?
Speaker 2what? No, I know from nothing. I just feel like something… Like… no, bro, I know from nothing, I just feel like someone like that's it For real, Kai.
Speaker 1I don't know. At first I was watching him. I was like, ah, he's not doing them for real. And then, oh, I seen him stick them in and I was like oh he's doing them for real.
Speaker 2Yeah, bro, I was like, ah, chance, yeah. But yeah, no, she. Yeah, I know you know my wrinkles, but go try it. I don't know, bro, you got baby skin yet.
Speaker 1Bro, I don't know, Maybe, maybe like over here part, but I feel like, bro, you ever see those ladies who get all that work done and they look surprised All the time.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, I seen the kind like All plastic kind, yeah, yeah yeah, or the lips.
Speaker 1That's not the ones they put in the lips, huh.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, not the filler like that. Yeah, it's super different kind.
Speaker 1Some of these ladies, bruh. I see them with their lips and I feel like you could stick them on the glass window, because they look like when suction cup.
Speaker 2Or stick them somewhere else, I don't know they overdo it, bro, oh yeah they go for broke, yeah, so what would you action?
Speaker 1yeah, would you get it done again?
Speaker 2uh, maybe like next year or like once a year, kind yeah. Yeah, I know they said like ah, like every, like three to four months, but yeah, maybe next year, yeah, yeah yeah, I was like oh, this guy do anything for content bro, yeah bro, champs him. Show everybody what's up, how it is.
Speaker 1Hey, bro, it was. It was worth the watch. I mean I'd check him out. I was like I yous go do them for real.
Speaker 2But as the video progressed, oh, this is really doing them. Yeah, no, they're super cool over there. So, dr argentina, she's super cool, so she make you feel at ease, comfortable. Yeah, yeah, it's not like she gets shaky hands, you know. It's like oh, okay, okay, I just yeah I guess.
Speaker 1I guess they know what they're doing, but I don't know, for me I don't know. I don't know. I thought Botox is like a, a bacteria, correct?
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, it's a toxin. It's a toxin, botulinum toxin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the thought of it. Oh, you inject it with toxin To your head. Oh, yup, yup, yup.
Speaker 1Hey, that's the mentality you got to have Bro. So watching all your videos, I did kind of check out. Something that brought me back to like when I was a little kid was the Crazy Shirts.
Speaker 2Oh, thanks bro. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1Bro, is that a collaboration you did working with them, or you just went in there?
Speaker 2Is that a collaboration? You did working with them or you just went in there? Yeah, To be honest, so Crazy Shirts actually reached out to some, you know, like local influencers and stuff, and you know, since growing up and stuff, my family, you know these type of Hilo one, Ala Moana yeah, I see all this girl Kruzum. I was like, oh shoot, that's nostalgic, Just some throwback. So I was like, oh shoot, that's nostalgic, Just some throwback. So I was like, oh yeah, I'm down for that. And then my friend used to go there plenty, she used to work there. So I was like, oh yeah, automatic. And then, you know, they kind of after kind of touched bases, they're like, oh yeah, we can do one partnership kind. So I was like, oh shoot, Everything kind of coming together.
Speaker 1Okay, everything kind of caught me together okay, so I ran with him and you know, I hope, I hope, I hope you liked it. Yeah, it was cool, like I seen their primo shirt. Used to have a crazy shirt in winter mall in kaneoi and my uh dad then would always wear crazy shirts. You know they'd have like the sumo cat and the musubi oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the old school, yeah.
Speaker 1So I was like that's cool that Influencers are supporting that brand. I hardly see it, but I know it's still around. It's it's a Hawaii based company, correct?
Speaker 2Yes, it is, and been there for decades, yeah, decades. But the reason I like them, though, is like they support a lot of the local, like Artists and stuff. Yeah, you know the different artwork and like all kind of weird stuff Like you see that back in the day, you see like that Maui dirt, like Kona coffee Stained kind of stuff, local grapes, you know it's all kind of weird stuff. That's kind of cool to me, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, the red dirt shirts. You seen those ones back in the day.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, I see it in the magazine. I see all the like people in Maui repping them.
Speaker 1Bro, they stain them with real red dirt, bro.
Speaker 2I was like how did they freaking? Yeah, look at my workout clothes already Gross, I know.
Speaker 1I was like bro, you're selling dirty clothes, bro, it works though, hey shout out it works though.
Speaker 2Hey, shout out Anyone like buy my workout clothes, bro? $3.99. Let me know.
Speaker 1Okay, I want to shout out our sponsor, Medicinal Mushroom Hawaii. They're your locally based medicinal mushroom company. They're based out of Hawaii. They have five different extracted mushrooms. They have lion's mane, chaga, red reishi, turkey tail and the newest one they have is cordyceps. I take all of these mushrooms every single day. If you don't know the functionality of these mushrooms or medicinal properties, go to their website, medmushroomhighcom. It'll explain to you the properties of each one of these mushrooms. I take them all every day. I take the first three in the morning. I take the red ratio at night to help me sleep, the cordyceps I take as a pre-workout. Go to their website, medmushroomhighcom. If you use promo code ATBPOTUPON, check out all capital letters You'll get 45% off your first tincture of extracted mushrooms, MedMushroomHighcom. Now back to the show. So creating content. Where do you see yourself taking this in the future?
Speaker 2You know, hopefully I honestly ended up liking it way more than I thought I would. Honestly I thought thought, ah, this, whatever, this chanso man, oh, sorry, picking up, like I'm still, honestly, I'm still one of the much smaller guys. I'm gonna start a while ago but I'm just you know, I never picked up on the reels and stuff till later because I wasn't good with like talking. I wasn't good with like talking. It wasn't good with like you know, like technology and stuff and all the newest apps and editing stuff. So I was real old school and then finally my friends kind of helped me out with the whole editing tools and videos and I hope, you know, one day I can kind of make this one like you know, small kind career action, kind. We'll see where it takes me, just go with the flow, yeah.
Speaker 1That's cool and you're putting out a lot.
Speaker 2How, what do you use to edit like honestly just, uh, I use cap cut because, uh, that's what my friends kind of introduced me to and it's been using that. I know there's a lot more like. You probably use a lot more high powered kind of stuff, but I just use capCut and Instagram for edit, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Oh, that's cool, Bruh. I trip out how accessible it is. Like I mean, growing up, there's no way you could do that on your phone or anything like that. Like for me, I use Final Cut Pro because it's an editing tool, but a lot of the stuff. I would edit my daughter's videos. I would go to her volleyball games and bring my camera and all this kind of, and then her friends Would be videoing with their phone, Go on CapCut and looks way better than my stuff and I'm thinking, oh, this is waste time, right, I just go do that, but these young kids.
Speaker 2They good at that stuff. Yeah, oh yeah, unreal. And all these Bro back in the day when I was a kid. Hey, just go grow outside playing the dirt. You know what I mean, exactly, you know. Offer your cell phone.
Speaker 1Yeah. Then my daughter said hey, dad, just give me the clips, I'll do them, I'll make them better than you. Yeah, it's it's kind of crazy, but for you you're building your brand and you're building like followers and stuff. Do you understand all the algorithm and all that kind?
Speaker 2no, you know that sounds hard like my, my, a lot of my friends, especially those like I have a big following, like you know they tell me like, oh, it's hard, you just gotta be consistent and post quality stuff and uh, put like a face to your account, your name, so people know you. But you know harder with the algorithm. Like sometimes I post one one, one of my easiest, quickest edits and that thing didn't blow up and then I want to spend like hours on that thing, got like no views, bro. I was like all bummed, all butthurt.
Speaker 1For me. I don't understand it. I got a lot of my followers because I'm a nightclub promoter, so it's mostly people wanting for getting free to the nightclub. You know what?
Speaker 2I'm saying oh that's cool.
Speaker 1It grew. But like a couple of times. One time in particular, I posted a video of my daughter working out getting ready for her volleyball or whatever, and I dropped it like in may. And then she had a volleyball tournament in florida in july and out of nowhere that video I posted made just blew up, had like 500,000 views. All of a sudden I started getting all these followers. I'm like I didn't do anything with it. I posted it like months ago and first I don't know if somebody reposted it and that's what kind of slinged it. But then I'm thinking like, oh okay, I got to post more of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2And then nothing happens. I, it was so confusing to me. No rhyme or reason.
Speaker 1Yeah, sometimes, yeah, frustrating and they always say you gotta uh interact when, when it's posted, kind of interact and I feel like the hawaii creators kind of support each other in that aspect. Yeah.
Speaker 2I kind of don't… yeah. I got the kind of time. I got flagged as spam, you know, by Instagram.
Speaker 1Oh, for real.
Speaker 2Yeah, because you know, when all my friends post… you know how like… you comment, they comment back. You're like real back and forth friendly kind. So I was like oh, all my friends posting comment, like, like, like, comment, comment, like, like. Oh bro, I got banned for like two days, oh really, yeah, from like. Instagram blocked me and I had to wait like 40 hours before I could like… I don't know if it's called like a shadow ban, they call it something funny, but like… I had to wait until like maybe 40 hours, until I could comment and like again. Oh, wow, so now I know.
Speaker 1Oh yen, oh wow. So now I know, oh yeah, like gotta go chill kind little bit, yeah, because, honestly, if that's your brand, you gotta gotta protect it, and I seen a lot of people talk about um, buying followers or bots or stuff like that. I, I don't know how that works. You, oh you, so you experienced stuff like that too, or?
Speaker 2no, like. So, honestly, uh, I, me and my friends me and joe were just talking about this like we're like, oh, brad, we got. We like, stay organic, you're not gonna buy no followers, just just keep going and just see where it takes us. Because, yeah, you know, I feel like it's, that's cool. Yeah, you, you can buy people. You know, buy followers, but people are going to, after all, going to figure it out like who's like legit, who's not. Yeah, and also too like I feel like you buy followers, it's good for like social proof. Yeah, like they're like, oh, yeah, when restaurants see, oh, this guy get choked followers, but then you look… oh, I only get like two comments and ten likes. You know, like… oh, something small kind of off.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, but you get like 3,000… 100,000 followers 200,000 followers.
Speaker 2Yeah, I only get two likes. You know what I'm saying.
Building a Brand on Instagram
Speaker 1I honestly don't know how or where you could buy it. Like is it an Instagram thing where you just pay for it? Like, I don't get it.
Speaker 2I think there's like third-party kind of Third-party sites that actually can do that for you.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, that's kind of weird, I don't know, that's kind of like being a poser, huh.
Speaker 2Yeah, but, bro, you'd be surprised Cho people do. You know Cho people do and everyone knows. Bro, we don't say anything because that's not how it is. Yeah, we all know though.
Speaker 1I'll put them on blast. Nah, nah, nah.
Speaker 2Yeah, you took followers already bro.
Speaker 1I feel like I could get more. I feel like you are get more. I feel like, like you, I'm growing mine Organically and there's no way I'm gonna pay for somebody To look at my shit. That would feel weird. You know what I mean and I feel like If people wanna check me out and follow me, that's the people I would want anyway, you know what I mean. Do you ever get like noticed or like seen outside?
Speaker 2uh like just on the street or doing your thing and be hey, you're the high grinds dude no, I honestly only when I go to restaurants, like now, when I'm like out and about, like I still I'm not, I'm not big timers, I'm still small time. You know, I consider myself super small, but you know, when I go to restaurants and stuff, just I go. Often, like you know, they recognize me when I walk in and stuff and talk stories small talk, because you know most people they are friendly and so we all kind of know each other's faces, you know, but I just go. If I was just on the street, I just another Local Asian guy, you know what I mean. Look like everybody else.
Speaker 1Yeah, watch, bro, you can, you can blow up and you can get recognized. Everybody Like wanting to Take pictures. Uh, I think.
Speaker 2They'll be like oh hey, you're the guy On Daddy's Podcast, oh yeah.
Speaker 1That'd be cool. I had A couple people Like that they, um, they get, or my or my friends will meet them and be like, oh, he was on thad's podcast or something and I was like, oh, that's kind of cool you link? People together. But yeah, I feel like with social media there's no cap, there's sky's the limit, like you could blow up tomorrow and people would know you in california and stuff.
Speaker 2You know I mean yeah, bro, all it takes is like a few viral vids, hopefully boom. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I don't know, what about you? Oh sorry, what is that? No, no, go ahead. What got you onto like podcasting before, like during the pandemic and stuff?
Speaker 1For me it was something I was always drawn to from listening and I always thought, ah, I'm gonna try that one day. And I always said I was gonna try it. I mean, oh, I could do that one day. I like to talk to people and I like to learn about people or hear people's stories and kind of get inspired by different people. And I said this before, but I everybody get one movie right. Their life is a movie and everybody's movie is different and everybody's movie could be inspiring to other people.
Speaker 1So if I gave a platform where people that aren't usually showcased could share their movie, it might inspire other people. And for me that was one of the goals and for the most part, for the for years I was talking shit like, oh, I'm gonna do this one time. And then what happened was is hoppa was on somebody else's podcast because he's a big time dj and he was invited on somebody else's podcast and at the end of the show he made a comment. He said oh, I'm grateful for you to having on my show, to be on your show.
Speaker 1One of my close friends been talking about it for years and I'm still waiting, and that was kind of yeah, he kind of put me on blast in a way where it was like he didn't put me on blast but he called me out on my own bs. So I was like that was that was when I was like, okay, I'm gonna do it. And then I lined up whatever I had to do and just kind of took the steps necessary and kind of started it up. And then it's been fun. I I have like I'll meet people I've never met before like with you. I I just talked, started talking story with you and the vibes I've been getting from like random people that I have on my show is super cool and then I become their friend and then now I can have conversations with people or I get to know people kind of like on an intimate level, because I'm talking story with you one on one, we're not getting interrupted by kids or cell phones or anything like that, and it becomes.
Speaker 1It becomes a real conversation and and for me it's been super cool and I I yeah, and I had a lot of local celebrities, plenty fighters, plenty different uh industry people for um, the nightlife and stuff like that and a lot of times and friends, a lot of times. I will never have opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation with my own friends for about an hour without being interrupted, and it's been a blessing. One of my friends passed away and the mom hits me up every now and then Like, oh, I listened to that podcast to hear my son talking story and it's super cool and yeah, at the end of the day, my daughter will have all these episodes to watch when I'm gone.
Speaker 2And then oh my, oh my, that's mental a little bit. Oh yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1I was thinking like, oh yeah, she, oh my dad's mental a little bit, oh yeah, a little bit. I was thinking like, oh yeah, she couldn't get to know her dad not as her dad.
Speaker 2You know what.
Speaker 1I'm saying she made a whole Skype, he nuts, yeah. You'll be like oh, there's no wonder he's like that. But for you, what do you do for fun, when you're not doing all this content and stuff?
Speaker 2Oh, you know, I love working out, I love traveling um. My girlfriend and I would like to go vegas, like going japan, um, honestly too, though, I mean that's how we bonded, like she used to work food and beverage. I love eating, I love drinking, you know, I like, I love food, like yeah, yeah. So I mean I, I just yeah, I love trying new things. I know it sounds broad, but just trying new things, just having fun. You only get one life to live, so just live them up, do everything you can.
Speaker 1That's cool, bro, and it seems like you found the right partner for them. Just keep that energy. When you have kids, bro, make time to do those things right yeah, not saying you're gonna anytime soon bro and be like oh yeah, when we're gonna have some kids.
Speaker 1But that's what you're right. That's what life is about is experiences, and seems like you got a good thing going. Okay, I want to take this time to shout out our sponsor, irep detail supply. They're your one-stop shop super store for everything you need to detail your vehicle. They have a store in temple valley shopping center. They also have one in vegas. Go on their website, irepdetailsupplycom. They have a whole bunch of things you can use to get your car looking brand new, smelling clean. Go to their website, irepdetailsupply. If you use promo code atbpodupon checkout, you'll get 15% off your entire purchase. If you go down to the store, their crew there is very helpful. They're knowledgeable about all their products and they'll get you right to whatever you need to do to detail your car, getting it to look brand new. Irep detail supply aloha, oh, that's one thing I want to ask you. You went to the cat cafe, oh, yeah, yeah. Are you like a cat person or you just was making a video, or you actually go check?
Speaker 2So my mom… Okay, I'm on dog person straight up, I just want dog person. But after you know me and my sister move out. My mom got lonely. So she actually went and adopt whole cats. Oh no, you know, before she used to talk shit. Yeah, like I hate these cats. They're shitty, gross. You know. They like dick themselves, they shit wherever. And shit and gross. You know they like dick themselves, they shit wherever. And and you know, I came back home. What the fuck is this she's like.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, I got like six cats. Now what these cats?
Speaker 2crazy cat lady she became that crazy. If you saw one of my stories, I'm like coming home, what the fuck is this all like six cats on her doorstep waiting to get fed, and she even took one into her house, something, you know, 10 years ago she would never do, bro. So now she's that crazy old cat lady, you know. So I actually grew appreciation for cats now, so I love cats too Cats and dogs. Dogs are my first love, but you know true experience, learn to love cats.
Speaker 1And yeah, so the cat cafe was so cool vibes, cool vibes. So is is pop. There's a bunch popping up everywhere now, huh oh yeah, it's a thing, yes, it's huge in japan.
Speaker 2and oh you know, uh, sasha from um, one of the media companies, so she's actually one of my friends, so she reached out to me to check it out and I was like cat cafe, what? And then before that I had no idea what that was. Yeah, yeah, so we didn't check them out and I was like, oh yeah, you get to like cruise, they give you drinks so you can drink, you know, like coffees, lattes, chill with the cats, feed them, play with them, and it's actually pretty zen, bro, pretty chill yeah. And it's actually pretty zen, pretty chill yeah. So I can see how I had to choke people on the outside Watching and coming in and out. I never thought this would do that good. I choked people there. It was mean. There's a community for that.
Speaker 1Alright, because my wife is all about cats and I'll explain that to you.
Speaker 1She like go I keep, are we going in Bro? She like go I keep taking we going fucking cat. Like I'm not going to pay for a pet when I'm not a cat. I cheated on my cat, but it was the same. I was anti-cats Because we kind of get choked running around. They crap in the yard, they make all kinds of noise at night, they beef. I hated them. And then she brought one home, one little stray, little freaking scrawny. The tail was cut off and brah, I fell in love with that little thing and like she's all mad because the cat loved me more than her. The cat comes on me and cuddles me and he cruises with me the whole time. Unless you're a Mahu cat, I don't know.
Speaker 2Don't make me brown smoke like that.
Speaker 1Well, I tell her the cat likes me Because she had his balls cut off. Oh brutal, that's probably why. But anyway, the cat cafe, that's probably why. But anyway, the cat cafe I've been noticing. I had one, parij, who is in International Marketplace, had one and I'm thinking like how is there a market for this? And it's like nice cats. It's nice Like exotic, kind cats.
Speaker 2They take care of them. All kind different breeds. You get something like super manini kind and something like like 70 pounders huge monsters. It's wild, bro. Yeah, all right, but it's crazy how you can like I never thought like cats could be so well behaved, you know, especially with like all these different like humans coming in interacting, because usually in my in my head I'm like oh, he's cashing, yeah, they're not nuts, but no, they're so well behaved it's unreal.
Speaker 1What they do over there. Yeah, yeah, I wanted to ask you If that was like, like If your experience Was legit, because Actually no that actually was legit.
Speaker 2At first I was like I had my, I had my Reservations out. But no, bro, I was my, had my you know reservations out. But no, bruh, I was okay, pretty chill. Plus I'm a coffee addict, so they give you coffee okay worked out then worked out. Bruh come down. Yeah, we go. I take you, we go one day I'll be down. We take some shots and go fuck with some I got you bro, I got you me, or brad we got you?
Speaker 1yeah, bruh, do. Do you have a regular like nine to five job?
Speaker 2yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I work as an orthopedic physical therapist at the queen's hospital.
Botox Experience and Brand Partnerships
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah, it's my day job, but yeah oh, so you help rehab people that have injuries or, like sports injuries, kind or any kind of injury most of it.
Speaker 2Now it's more controlled. It's like um surgeries and after trauma, after like total hip or total joint replacements, um, yeah, like you know, when you get rods or like they fall down, stuff like that. Yeah, easy, kind oh that's insane.
Speaker 1I used to work at the castle joint care center and it was, yeah, they would have. We would help rehab people who had total knee and total hip replacement guarantee we know all the same people 100 yeah, was dr rasmussen, she was rasmussen yeah, she's still over there? Yeah, yeah, did you watch that? Have she let me go into the surgery and watch? Have you been?
Speaker 2Yeah, not over there, but oh, in Oregon Plenty. I did see plenty surgeries. Bruh, it's nuts yeah.
Speaker 1The hip one. I If I don't think they let their patients see the surgery, because if you see the surgery, I don't know who the hell would sign up for that thing.
Speaker 2You see how they porked the leg down under the table. I was like, oh, that's going to hurt tomorrow.
Speaker 1Guaranteed they had like power tools. And Dr Rasmussen, she's a big burly, howly lady and like she's no nonsense. She had one. I swear it wasn't drill on cheese grater ball at the top of it and she was boring out the hip socket and you can smell it and I'm like holy, that's somebody, bro, like, that's not one car, that's not one piece of wood mantle, yeah, like, yeah, I don't know, go ahead bro no, no, like you said, it's like they use like almost like hardwood kind tools, yeah, like power tools.
Speaker 2My first time I would go I was young. Yeah, because at that time I just went intern Long time ago, like 15 years ago. Yeah, oh bro, I'm like oh, and in the background they're playing like hip hop music and it's going. I'm like, oh, bruh, this is nuts.
Speaker 1How do you prepare yourself for that? I was thinking I don't know if I should be Watching this. I was thinking this is a human being Right on that table and you're, you're on power at home. They put the the rod in the titanium rod at the hip. She's pounding it in holy brah like one mallet. Yeah, they pound them in yeah, like a rubber mallet what is this cuz yeah? I'm so happy I have someone. I can talk to about this because People won't believe you.
Speaker 2Yeah, people won't believe you, bro yeah.
Speaker 1I was blown away. And then I'm taking care of the person that I just seen all this happen to and I'm thinking like, oh, that's not your leg not sore, right, I seen what they did. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, how, that's not your leg not sore? I've seen what they did. You know the kind like yeah. How are you walking? Yeah, yeah, but, bro, the turnaround is pretty quick, like those patients were Next day.
Speaker 2We get them out the next day, hey, bro. You know, I remember back in the day, like 15 years ago, bro, it used to be like A week or longer right, it would take a week. Now it's like Day of surgery. They stay walking. Some I discharge them. The day of surgery I send them home. Unreal nowadays the technology. Yeah, like oh, it's crazy. I mean it's still crazy to me. Like you just had an implant Six hours ago. I send you home Right now. It's weird, but it's cool, you know, like oh.
Speaker 1That's the evolution of medical science, I guess oh, what got you into that? Um, I right now I'm a med tech for cancer research, so I was a cna at the time, which was all you. I was a nurse's kind of doing vitals and for us they hired me to work in the joint care center so I would help those patients start rehabbing and, like you said, it would take a week. So they would come get their surgery Monday and they had a program and I would help with that program.
Speaker 2When was there?
Speaker 1Oh, it was like 97.
Speaker 2Oh, shoot, shoot, I was there. I was there in like 2011.
Speaker 1I was there for a short stint and then yeah yeah, yeah, at the joint center or joint center bro oh yeah, was Rasmussen Han Wakasuki. I forget all the doctor's names. Yeah, I remember Rasmussen because she let me watch the surgery and I was like, oh, I was just doing my internship, so I was like a noob.
Speaker 2I never know nothing. Yeah, oh, they just forget your feet wet kind.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I was like following everybody. That's crazy. So you help the people now and at queens and that's inpatient.
Speaker 2Inpatient, yeah.
Speaker 1Oh, that's awesome. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2Bro, what Same same.
Speaker 1Yeah, so where are you going to take that career?
Speaker 2To be honest, I'm not too sure I love what I do. I have my coworkers on the floor, my close friends, so it's you know, know, I mean I love it there, uh, but at the same time too, I mean you are, you know, in a in a huge like corporation, you know, I mean, yeah, so you're kind of limited as to like what you can personally do, like you know, say like you wanted to grow as a therapist and do more. You're kind of locked into what that corporation, that company wants. But I mean, hey, I mean it's good stability, the people are great. But you know, like, I mean one day I did want to open up my own clinic, but in the state I am now, I mean the place I am now mentally, I feel like what my mindset is. It's like, you know, like just it's stability. And you know, like just it's stability. And you know, my love right now is like it's food, it's marketing, that whole like instagram and stuff, like that's where my passion is. It sounds so weird, right, so opposite.
Speaker 1But yeah, like for now, just like stability for me, yeah, so, yeah, hey, I get it, bro, I'm I'm a nightclub promoter, but I have a medical lab technician job doing cancer research. The stability.
Speaker 2Oh, so same same, yeah, yeah, oh, nightclub promoter, I never get no call bro.
Speaker 1Yeah, we get something Me and Hoppa get something cookie soon, bro, I'll let you know. We're doing a day party in November. Yeah, it's going to be good, good, good, good fun. But yeah, I did that for years. But we just kind of what got you to that.
Speaker 1What is that? I got into nightclub promotions because my friends were, and then I just kind of got brought in and then next thing, you know, I'm bringing people to the club. And then next thing you know they're hiring me. And then next thing you know, I get my own company. And yeah, for years, bro, I ran it for a long time we were doing. Yeah, we were doing. I saw I met my wife. She's a bartender at district and we were promoting there yeah, right on kind of cliche.
Cat Cafes and Unexpected Passions
Speaker 1Yeah, you know kind of like promoter meets bartender and they get married. That's kind of cliche, something I thought I was never do, but well played bro, well played for real. Ah, it's good because you know the industry. You know I mean, like it get you get the respect of the industry. Like I would watch dudes and girls hit on her all the time and she'd watch girls hit on me and we're cool at the end of the day, we know each other and we know the industry and for me it was kind of fun, like when dudes hit on out.
Speaker 1And I understand what you're saying, when you have a passion about something. But you gotta, you gotta be stable, especially here in hawaii, and you want to travel. You need money to do that, you need a place to live and all that. And with stability comes opportunity, and with your stability you'll be able to have opportunity to do your passion. So I think that's that's what maturity is.
Speaker 1That's because, but there are times where my nightclub promotions I'm making way more than I do at the lab and I'm thinking, why am I waking up early for go here, I don't need to do this, and it's like I get insurance.
Speaker 2I get, uh, stable jobs what I went to school for, but that's.
Speaker 1That's the thing I. I do have goals and dreams, and you gotta be able to use your stability to Grow your goals and dreams.
Speaker 2But you have a solid foundation. You know what I'm saying that's true, yeah, and it's hard, yeah, because, like I mean, you know you have that itch. It's like I just like, I just like go, just run with it, but at the same time too, you gotta, you gotta be smart about it too. Yeah, you gotta have. You got to be smart about it too. You got to have, like you said, a good foundation, just in case you always have that base For now. That's where I stay.
Speaker 1That's good, bro, and, who knows, you can grow this content to where you can just bank off it. For me, if I could do podcasting my whole life, and that's all I got to do. I get on big title sponsor, like T-Mobile Sponsors, above the bridge and I don't need work. That would be my dream I could just Do multiple episodes a week and have my own studio, and that's my goals for the future. But I'm not going to quit my job and just run it.
Speaker 2You know what I mean, my daughter not gonna eat.
Speaker 1Okay, that's true, yeah, hey, good man, good man, bro. But to hear you say that made me realize, like it, I heard a little younger version of myself, and that's maturity, bro, and to to know that now is is good and you're, you're in a good, good direction, because, bro, hawaii, cheap, bro, it's so expensive, hard to survive sometimes.
Speaker 2But you know it's so good direction because Hawaii ain't cheap bruh. It's so expensive, Hard to survive sometimes, but I'm so grateful we're here. Glad we're here Each day, be grateful.
Speaker 1But definitely chase your dreams and don't be scared, bruh. Bet on yourself and don't especially, like you said, that's your passion. If you and that's very it takes a lot or it. People don't always get to find their passion.
Speaker 2So if you, passionate about something if you're oh sorry, oh no, no sorry bro, sorry.
Speaker 1No, if you're passionate about something, then don't ever lose that and keep pushing it. That's the stuff you got to keep going. You could do anything, whatever you want to do, but as long as you have that good stability, it'll give you opportunity to do that for sure.
Speaker 1That's so true, bro, so true Good true, uh, good man, good man, oh okay I was gonna bring come on good man, ah, but you know, we've been going for an hour, bro, and I definitely appreciate you taking time to talk story. I definitely want to have you back in the future and honestly, just for talk story, but I want to see how far you take this in the future and we definitely gotta link up and have a couple drinks, bro, that'd be sick okay, not just hit, we're gonna do them.
Speaker 1Okay, I'm down. I have super doubt, get you guys out out. But on Instagram and stuff. Where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 2Instagram, Facebook. You know I'm kind of a noob on like TikTok so kind of stuff. Should figure that out. So mostly mostly Instagram. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's your call? Oh, hi, underscore grinds G-R-I-N-D-Z. Yep.
Speaker 1And for us, as always, you can find us on our Instagram Above the Bridge Podcast. Our website is atbpodcom, you can go on our YouTube channel and my Instagram is thaddaddyhi. Well, I appreciate you taking time out. Yeah, I want to see how far you can grow and I'll definitely have you back on in the future. Shaka's for the cameras.
Speaker 2Yes sir. Bless sir Chee. Right on, we're out Appreciate it, chee. Yes sir.
Speaker 1Shout out to the Artist Group Network Aloha.
Physical Therapy Career and Balance
Speaker 2Alohas shout out to the artist group network, aloha.
