A Night of Comedy and Music for B.R.A.V.E Hawaii with Augie T.

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ADRIENNE: 
Welcome to the Team Lally Real Estate show home of the guaranteed sold program or we’ll buy it if you have any questions, just give us a call at 7999596. Or you can check us out online at Teamlally.com.

ATTILIO: 
Well, hey, this is going out to my mom and the other three listeners, my sister’s at the beginning of the show, if this is your first time tuning in, we always like to give you something right in the beginning of the show. That is, I would say is good advice. It’s research is data. It’s something you can use in your everyday life to and more importantly, if you use it, you got to execute. Because you can hear a lot of information and don’t do anything with it. Right, Adrienne? And that would be called? Oh, we’re not gonna say it. Don’t say it. Anyway, we’re doing a clean radio show today. You can clean one letter that’s why don’t you spell it first. So you don’t so people don’t get upset spell it first. A S K, which stands is ask an Askhole, askhole, don’t be an askhole. If you take information and you don’t act upon it. You’re asking questions and you’re not acting upon it. So

ADRIENNE: 
don’t do that.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah. And so here is what I will be sharing with you today. This is from Ted Radio Hour. It’s one of my favorite podcasts that I listened to. And it they interviewed a researcher that studied how the computer is is one of the things that is bringing a lot of pain in your body. Not when you slamming the keyboard because you can’t figure out how to get that virus off of it. I’m talking about just the way that we sit is causing hip pain, back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain,

ADRIENNE: 
is it causing hunchbacks too Yeah,

ATTILIO: 
quasi moto effect is what it’s called. No, I don’t know. It just sitting like that for long periods of time having indices started from the 80s forward. And what’s even making it worse now is we’re going away from desktops into laptops, and laptops. As you know the keyboards there’s no ergonomic with you taking them in the bedroom and you take them you know, maybe when you in the bathroom don’t do that when you’re in the bathroom. That’s gross. One time we saw that on a live CEE class. Yeah, realtors when you’re doing your continuing education, don’t take your laptop into the bathroom. You know we’re required to keep the camera on if we’re gonna get our CEE and this one guy did. I’m telling agents like this is how this is how exactly doing the thing I’m communicating I mean, direct messaging Yeah, he was committed. He was committed shortly thereafter we committed him. He Mahalo. No.

ADRIENNE: 
He didn’t know that he left his camera on but he brought us all to the bathroom. Oh, him.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah. So we was all on bathroom break with that realtor. We’re not gonna say his name here that will remain forever. though. I’ll take that name to me with my grave in my grave. So anyway, what I was talking about the computers besides taking your laptop in the bathroom when you’re doing your continuing education? Is that the state so how do we what’s the solution? That’s the question right? We’re getting all these back. You know, all these pain. By the way, sitting is the new what smoking sitting is the new smoking. And so what they recommend every 30 minutes, take a five minute walk every 30 minutes take a five minute walk. They have done studies. This is not anecdotal. Oh, that sounds like a good story. I saw it on Tiktok, you know, Tiktok is 100% valid right? Everything on Tiktok? No, my kids learn

ADRIENNE: 
everything on Tiktok. Yeah. And Tiktok,

ATTILIO: 
maybe he’s Tiktok started handing out some slabs maybe that would be helpful for these kids nowadays. They should have been slapped on the computer for the phone down, do your homework, do your chores. So and they drew blood from these people a big huge study. Here’s was the this is actual factual information. Your blood levels were reduced by 40% 40 to 60%. By the way, your I’m sorry, your Yeah, you just drained our blood all over the ground level blood sugar level levels, your sugar in your blood levels reduced 40 to 60%. sugar in the bloodstream is the cause for onset diabetes for adults. It actually is can develop is the it has been known to be the responsible for rheumatoid arthritis, joint pain, bad for your liver, it’s just bad all the way around. So I’m not talking about skipping the snickers event. By the way and Augie said, Don’t go on your five minute walk to the vending machine that’s kind of kind of counteracts that but reduces your blood sugar levels by 40 to 60% your blood pressure level by five to eight points. By getting up every 30 minutes your mental acuity you actually are sharper because when you have all of that stuff built up in your in your system, they actually show that by not getting up you have more signs of depression,

AUGIE T: 
man you’ve just solved the problem and that’s it. Have you seen some of our committees that go for like five six hours I would just

ADRIENNE:
problem every 30 minutes you’re gonna be a little five minute

AUGIE T: 
break. If you watch any of the council meetings I’m always up standing up Stand up behind my chair because sound

ADRIENNE: 
better you sound better too when you’re standing. I

ATTILIO: 
think I think we should put it in the budget. get you guys some treadmills down there at city council. Anybody that wants to come up and address the City Council they gotta get on one treadmill

AUGIE T: 
has to be a gift to the city, you know

ATTILIO:
connected to electricity and batteries. I seen some of these people’s presentation down at city council we would be taking care of all the brownouts and blackouts if put these people on a treadmill because it took forever and my hat’s off to you city council people. By the way, you you know you have that voice that’s recognizable. So people already kind of picked up who it is that we have in studio but Adrienne, who do we have in studio?

ADRIENNE: 
You got Augie T.

AUGIE T: 
Hey, nice to see you guys felt like we’ve been hanging out with each other the whole day. Yeah,

ADRIENNE: 
we have seen a lot of us

AUGIE T: 
lately. Yes. Yes. Which is good.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah, radio guests are better than house guests because house guests are like fish after a while they go bad but radio Yes, the interaction is very short. Before stuffs going sideways, you’re like boom, gotta go. So Augie you know I’m gonna read your let’s read Augie’s intro. Do you have it? I do. You read the first part. I read the second part. Go. All right.

ADRIENNE: 
So our guest today grew up in the Kamehameha 4 housing project in the Kalihi Valley. Yes. proud graduate of Farrington High School. Yes. And furthered his education through professional development offered by Kapiolani Medical Center where he worked

AUGIE T: 
Yes, 16 years. I started there when I was 16 years old,

ATTILIO:
16 years old. And then you’ve been been at the core of local comedy since the beginning performing stand up for audiences in Hawaii across the United States more than two decades, three decades now three decades. Beyond entertainment. He and his wife serve as Directors of the Miss American scholar Hawaii pageant I’m having a reading challenge empowering young women and offering scholarships for further education. Please welcome our guest, Augie. Thank

AUGIE T: 
you guys.

ADRIENNE: 
You forgot your reading glasses. Yeah. I get it.

ATTILIO: 
My grandfather always told me tell you don’t get old. I said okay, grandpa, and then he dropped it. I’m enjoying.

AUGIE T: 
I’m enjoying waking up at like, you know, at 55. You know, asking myself, what can I conquer today? Yes. You know, I think watching my dad and my mom worked hard. Really helped me like have a different perspective. And like, you know, as soon as my dad stopped,

ATTILIO:
he got sick. Yeah. You know. So, moving.

AUGIE T: 
Keep moving. Like you said, right. Maybe that’s what we should do. Maybe every 30 minutes stand up. Yeah. Maybe even walking out in

ATTILIO: 
the middle of the night, though. Your wife is gonna get very upset. If you’re getting up every 30 minutes. She’s like, well, that’s one other reason. Yeah, that’s fine. Yeah, you get old age. Now. When you get up in the morning. Yes. Are you popping out of bed? Or you got one of those those those bagels?

AUGIE T: 
No, I’m popping on a bed, they pop out. And I started like, really? You know, I’ve been doing this now for almost 30 years. So I do morning radio.

ATTILIO: 
What time you up?

AUGIE T: 
I’m up at 4am or four. I know it’s bad. Yeah. But like when I’m not doing four and I’m doing five six, especially on vacation. Yeah, and I get mad I cannot function the rest of the day. It’s just like my body. I get so lethargic that it’s hard for me to move. So this waking up at four it’s really helped me and I you know I started meditating. It’s just something that Attilio and you

ADRIENNE:
know to you look very trim. Yeah, thank you.

AUGIE T: 
Good. Yeah, you know, because things are happening to my body that I never thought would and at 55 I’m making sounds that my dad made told myself I would never ever be like and I’m becoming a guy the sounds

ATTILIO: 
the sound dads of dads we all make them that’s why we wear loose pants when we sitting down to dinner. So we Oh gotta release couple

AUGIE T: 
stomach like sitting stomach. Yeah. cuz I watch it myself and see the counselor when they go on the angle and you know, that stuff is just hanging over. Like, I just want to sit down some of you have sit down stomach. I’m good.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah, I think, can I make a suggestion from all about mandatory naps 2pm. All across the state of Hawaii,

AUGIE T: 
you know, prod tam introduced that really, some maybe 1520 years ago, he was a counselor, and everybody, including myself made fun of that. And now we know because of, you know, science that is so important. Just take a nap sometime. And as part of the thing that I do not just take a nap, you know, that’ll a walk. And I’m listening to a lot of meditation, nice music, you know, I’m doing writing my stuff down making sure that I’m on schedule. So yeah, that’s very important

ADRIENNE: 
secret. That’s your secret to remaining so sharp. And funny. Oh, yes. Yeah. You

ATTILIO:
know, people a lot of there’s TED talks on it that sleep research is important to get that rest. Yeah. Because and, and people will say, you know, you see a baby that’s taking a nap. You’re like, Oh, that’s so cute. But you see a human being taken a nap. Oh, that lazy son of us. So you never call one baby lazy for taking a nap. So you should maintain that same person. I think most

AUGIE T: 
importantly, like, you know, you should be listening to your body. Yeah, so I started doing like, when my body tells me they’re asleep. Guess what? I’m gonna go take a nap. Yeah, you know, when my body’s not telling when it tells me a lot. And I go, You know what I’m trying to take away because you remember how loud it gets in my head? Yeah, until then I would have long conversations about how much this and I’m trying to like, calm, calm the noise down. But I’m really trying to listen to my body. Because I think that’s so important right now. Like the pace that I’m going in, I get an up for dinner radio show, go to console, and then still doing all the things that I do on a weekend? You know, in my family? Yeah, you know, I gotta give everything all that same balance. And, you know, took time, but I am slowly learning.

ATTILIO:
Now, let’s add on what are the things that we can or cannot talk about, we can talk about anything,

AUGIE T: 
anything is one, like, well, I’m you know, we really working on trying to bring up property taxes so that we can build affordable, which is really nice. But at the same time we got to watch because if our whole the reason why we have city programs is because of taxes. Yes. And it’s because of great homeowners that buy homes in Hawaii, and rent homes to residents that we can collect the taxes, we needed to, you know, do programs fill positions in the city. So, you know, we try to find that balance right now. And, and giving breaks to homeowners. And at the same time, you know, making sure that we have enough money to you know, meet the needs of the community else. So, yeah, it’s an interesting time. And, you know, the three years have been eye opening for me. But I’m excited to be there that I can be a part of amazing conversations on like, how to make people’s lives better in the city. Yeah, you know, so it’s exciting.

ATTILIO: 
Now they do they have term limits. Term limits? Yeah. How many? So two two Yeah, second, no, no, I am. But you said final, I thought maybe he was

ADRIENNE: 
gonna be getting ready to campaign. Next. I’m excited. We support you

AUGIE T: 
know, I’m excited about that. Because, you know, you hear like, you cannot do just one because you put stuff in that you like, see get through. And then about the third year like stuffs that, you know, like, oh, wow, you know, you sitting there you have wow, I have so many wow moments now. Yeah. Because everything sounded alien. Like for almost a year and a half. Now you learn the language, right? So you’re hearing it and you go, okay, so if I did this, put this together, bring these people together, maybe we can get stuff done. And that’s the exciting part, like City Council is one of those jobs that like it’s really hands on, you know, we work hard and making sure that we listen to the people in our community, ever. Waipahu? growing so fast, right, and the needs are changing. You know, there’s challenges like every community parking, yeah, public service or public safety, you know, a police, you know, we got to find a way to, like, encourage people to become police officers, because, you know, we still live in a very safe state. I don’t know. Yeah, narrative, like, you know, it’s a job job. You know, it’s a great job. If you love serving the public. You know, I encourage you to, you know,

ADRIENNE: 
the police they were there that 24 Hour Fitness and Kapolei just recruiting, recruiting, and there’s some really attractive sign on bonuses and programs. Absolutely. You don’t even need to be 21 You could be like 18 years old, they haven’t programmed as long as you’re 18.

AUGIE T: 
It’s good, like, the Explorer program. So like, you know, it’s a way of like, cram like, you know, in and out of the military come back you, you know, you come out of the military, you’re now an officer. Right? You you learning

ATTILIO: 
going through the ranks for a loan to buy one house,

AUGIE T: 
you know, if you love serving the public. Yeah, you know, a lot of the police officers, of course, every job will get bad eggs, but majority are good people. Yes, that does protect you. And the two biggest things in my communities, parking, homelessness, public safety.

ATTILIO: 
Well, we don’t like it when we’re getting a speeding speeding ticket. But we love them when the neighbors is going on knots. And we need them to come calm them down. Right. So I always deep respect for law enforcement. Honolulu Fire Department, obviously with my dad. Yeah. But you mentioned I’ll go back to what you talked about, you have an opportunity, you’ve learned the language. In the beginning, you were like Cliff and Mildred, when from Minnesota and then went to to Laura’s in Waianae. And you’re like, Honey, I don’t understand what any of these people are saying to me. Oh, can we use an Apple Pay? Yeah, shoot, you can use that to in whatever way you like pay. I don’t understand what they’re saying. No, but now you

AUGIE T:
assimilate, right. And then I’m like, loving the island and finding ways to like, how do I make my community better? Same thing, same thing. I went, wow. You know, this is a complicated place a lot of challenges. But I believe that, you know, everybody has the right intention. Right. And, and, and you can find it like, I think in the city council, you can really work hard in helping you community, you know, because at the end of the day, people want somebody to take a listen. And, you know, feel like they’re working for the community. Yeah. So, yeah, it’s been an amazing honor. And, man, I’m so thankful that I, you know, now made that decision. Because I remember how challenging it was, everybody was like, You’re gonna hire, because like, like a comedian. Yeah. And I heard that and it got discouraging, but like, you know, all my life was like that, you know, being dyslexic, or, you know, my mom being, you know, blond hair, blue eyes, my dad Filipino, we got picked on a lot a while you had to fight. You had to defend yourself,

ATTILIO: 
we talked about earlier, you have to either punch them or work harder

AUGIE T: 
to like, prove them wrong, you know, without being a bragger. You know, my dad always told me like, you know, be honest, work hard. You know, and when you wrong, submit you’re wrong. Yes. You know, something hard, like for an entertainer to take in. But at the same time, like, man, you know, going through that, that life of being an entertainer, easy to be a people person, easy to be a people pleaser, easy to be, you know, not get learning how to say no, I had a hard time saying,

ATTILIO: 
you know, people I know the opposition’s to your campaigns and stuff like that. And being in the office, people would be like, Ah, he’s one comedian, what are you gonna do in this role? And then, I mean, I don’t know, some of the people. So many people already in the role or been in the role for a while thinking they’re funny, too, but not in the funny way that we like. And that so how would you what would be the holy the skills that you brought from comedy in a serious way that has helped you in your political role?

AUGIE T: 
Well, I think the biggest thing is like, you know, as a comic, we have to be very observant, right. Yeah. And as a comic, there’s no black and white area. Obviously. You guys saw the Chappelle. Yeah. Right. We work in that gray area. Yes. You know, that. We know that the people they’re coming to see you, they love you, they like you come I don’t care what you say, make me laugh. And then if you bring somebody who maybe, you know, have difficult time, and they still have jobs, they’re gonna have a hard time. Yeah. But you know, I know that the majority of the people that I was there to see me 30 years, they weren’t, they wanted to laugh. They came there to not pass judgment. They wanted to hear what I felt, you know, with this, it’s kind of the same way. But I’ve become more empathetic because you see it firsthand. Yeah. You know, you hear the stories, you get the emails, you you know, you’re in conversation where, you know, people’s lives are affected, affected, so you gotta you gotta make tough decisions and a tough decision is really based on honesty. And, and being very open if you don’t understand people. Okay, would you say, Hey, can I get back to you? Yeah, because I like to make sure that I’m answering you correctly, right. So from me when I’m when I’m, when I’m looking or attacking everything. Like I just sit back, observe, listen, and I get people most importantly, and you guys know how important this is having people around you that you trust. Yes. And I will give you the right advice your team, my team like your team Lally the reason why you guys so successful because you have a team, my team Marsha, my chief of staff by the director of policy, Laurie Monroe, monotype, the director of communication Aaron Hall, my office manager, Tiffany, Tiffany changed the name because she got married. But, and Reyes, Tiffany Reyes. I’m Michael Hipulido, little Malia Zimmerman, my communication and my social media team. Like they said something

ATTILIO: 
that you mentioned

ADRIENNE: 
a team here at Salem. Yeah, every morning. Yes. Yes.

ATTILIO: 
And we are like coco plus from Liliha. It’s very distracting.

AUGIE T: 
Like minded people, you know, that like it take a like, and have the same motivation to steer the ship. One way, amazing things happen. You know, and I’m always open to like, even when I’m wrong, like, I tell myself, you got to tell me. Tell me I’m

ATTILIO: 
wrong. It’s like the Emperor there’s that Emperor with no clothes and no, if people are too scared to tell him.

ADRIENNE: 
Tell you tell Augie? And then he turns it into a story where a joke that he’s going to on

ATTILIO: 
this, like we’re getting real. We’re getting down to hang authentic. And there’s no pretense here. Right. I like what you said the other day that you come in on a Monday and you tell them we need to achieve these objectives. Or beatings will commence on Friday again. No, you just your people are there to support you. And they got your back. Yeah, no, it’s

AUGIE T: 
awesome. Like, I think that’s the that’s the exciting thing when you get smart people around you that challenge you that that have the same vision and goal. Yeah, man, it’s hard to fill. And even when you failing, you know that the correction or the mistake?

ATTILIO: 
Is that correct? Yes. We call it failing forward. As opposed to failing, stopping and just give up? Yeah, right, every everybody. Everybody’s gonna have mistakes. Adrienne, I think also, we are about to take a break. But I think the two big things we want to talk about when we come back from our break are going to be what do you think is going to be part of your platform for your next election? And then we

AUGIE T:
know what this button is you guys can I can ask him.

ADRIENNE: 
You got this show coming up with aloha. Coming up the benefits show we’re gonna talk about that too.

ATTILIO: 
Those two things we want to talk about when we come back with our break. Stay with us.

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ADRIENNE: 
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ATTILIO:
Well, hey, everybody, if you’re just tuning in, we have awesome guest in the studio. Who do we have? Adrienne?

ADRIENNE: 
We have a Augie T.

ATTILIO: 
All right, so City Council man, you are the deadlifting champion for Waipahu No, I just making

ADRIENNE: 
a boxing champion.

AUGIE T:
Oh, gosh, I gotten to it because of my younger brother who was an amazing person, he passed away, he you know, he committed suicide when I was just out of high school, but like he introduced me to boxing and man box had taught me so much, you know, values, and no idea that it was gonna be something that was going to help me as a man. As you know, I owe a lot to my boxing coach was kind of like my sick and dad who invested his time in So people always ask me, Well, you know, good train kids, I go, you know how much dedication, it takes him I saw this guy, you know, every day, and some of my most biggest fears is, you know, was helpful. Because this guy was more than a coach. It was it was a second that he knew that I made my girlfriend pregnant before my parents, and he kind of helped me adjust, like how you’re going to deal with this. But he also told me that if I came to the gym first and I left less than I was gonna do amazing things in life. Not thinking I thought about was about boxing, you know, but it was more than big life lesson. And, you know, I was able to, you know, be you know, the PL box national boxing champion. I won the 8586 ABF and Golden Gloves championships in Hawaii, was ranked seventh one time in the United States. Wow. And I had six professional fights. So, you know, I got learned lots of great lessons. You know, even with combat and, you know, you know, like, I like a lot of a lot of fighters will tell you if you lose the fight outside of the ring. Yeah. You know, Salah, like a lot of emotional a lot of Yeah, psychology that I learned, you know, going into battle. Yeah, you know, how to prepare, you know, even when you lose, losing was the most difficult, like I had over 140 Something fights. But I always remember the 12 that I lost, especially the last three, like, gosh, I knew I wasn’t dedicated. But I also knew that I never had the same drive that I had, you know, coming up through the ranks as an amateur. So I was like, I was easy, is some fighters I have hard time like disconnecting, because they like, journaling is the most craziest thing. You know, like we all are afraid, you know, the minutes. You know, my, the most scariest moment in a fight honestly, is where for me, you know, you walk to the Senator and you’re looking at the opponent. I know I Right. You know, like somebody’s head gonna get taken off going down, and then you walk back. That’s the most because you see the referee, look at all the judges. And you know, at any moment, if you never prepare. And you notice, yeah, you know, in your head like I did I prepare for this fight. So for me, I took that serious because I remember how it felt. You know, these Well, I knew I wasn’t prepared, and I got my butt whooped. And I stopped the greatest feeling in the world and I hate not being prepared. Yeah. So I learned those valuable lessons. And I, you know, I’m very thankful sounds

ADRIENNE: 
like you’ve taken those lessons into the city council and into your comedy very

AUGIE T: 
competitive. Yeah,

ADRIENNE: 
there’s a lot of preparing and like being ready psyching

AUGIE T: 
each other out, you know, but, yeah, you know, at the end of the day, again, if your motivation is right, and you have the right heart to serve, you will always make the right decision.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah. So and then you’re, obviously you’ve had a real successful comedy career. So you move from from punches to play. punch lines easier. Yeah.

AUGIE T: 
People yelling at you then you’re getting punched in your face. Yeah.

ATTILIO:
Mike Mike Tyson said, everybody has like, everybody’s got a game plan until you get punched in the face. Yeah. Out the window

AUGIE T: 
used to do a job where because Mike Tyson was on the, on the the traveling junior team as an amateur and I was sort of we go to training camp, and I met Mike Tyson when it was like, just out of high school setting. And everybody knew like, Mike, man, missing mic. So I used to do a joke where like Mike Tyson, my impersonation of Mike Tyson walking into the McDonald’s. Hi, Welcome to McDonald’s. Can I help you? Yeah. Can I get a Happy Meal? Don’t forget the toy.

ATTILIO:
They started laughing. I was like, Oh, yeah. Yeah, too many lawsuits at McDonald’s. They didn’t take him serious. Yeah, they don’t take me seriously.

AUGIE T: 
Amazing. Yeah. Have you ever listened to? Like, he is so tuned in with history? Yeah, yeah. No, yeah. He, I mean, he watched boxing I got he talked about, you know, a guy that loves fighting a guy that studied it. You know. And as I think about most successful people, they eat it, live it sleep in 24/7. And that’s the reason why he was the way he was, you know?

ATTILIO: 
Okay, so you going for your second term, there’s, as you’ve learned, it’s, you know, a lot of the initiatives that you put in place takes a lot of time and energy and you putting that momentum behind it. What are some key initiatives that you want to take into your next term to see to completion?

AUGIE T: 
Oh, you know, we’ve been talking about diversifying the economy. Yes. Right. Yeah. A lot. Right. On just tourism, we’ve been hearing that a lot for a long time,

ATTILIO: 
tourism, military, tourism and military, the second

ADRIENNE:
city. Right, yeah,

AUGIE T: 
we’ve been talking about how we do that. And so you know, I introduced Bill 59, which is a film studio, giving incentives, you know, to movie studio executives who like come and develop in, in Hawaii, you know, I’ll give them you know, some breaks. But more importantly, you know, we building an industry around something that can be so not only create a lot of great jobs, sometimes you only think, Oh, I’m making movies, no, you know, the craftspeople, the lighting people, the electric light guys, they’re building sensors,

ADRIENNE: 
on local people, they’re not coming in from outside all of that hiring local.

AUGIE T:
And then when you build like a, like a set, like a mini Universal Studio, what happens around that? Yeah, businesses come in, and we talking about huge Westerwald The possibilities are endless, you know, you build it, they will come. And because

ATTILIO: 
I’ve helped people to lay people understand as they come and shoot here, but then that work goes back to the mainland, correct. You’re trying to capture that.

AUGIE T: 
They do a lot of location stuff here. And they finished their projects, like in New Zealand, or in Georgia, where’s you know, we losing? You know, we, man a lot of money. We this could be a billion dollar industry. Yeah. You know, with local people making living wage so that they can buy a home from Team Lally. Yeah. You know, so, you know, for me, it’s like thinking big picture, like, you know, how do we diversify the economy, and this is just one way, like, really encouraging, you know, not only counsel but like people to like, look, this is more than a film industry, or we build around it, all the anchors that could come because of this could really, you know, turn this to like right now half a million to a billion dollar business. Yeah, you know, one series I heard on TV series equates to 33,000 visitors. Think about that one season of five oh equates to 33,000? I think so.

ATTILIO: 
I think they should do survivor in Kalihi. Oh, that’d

AUGIE T: 
be awesome. That’d be awesome.

ATTILIO:
Today, you guys gonna be chasing for the challenge today, you’re gonna have to catch some chickens.

AUGIE T: 
And continue to try to help local people, you know, with, you know, taxes. Yeah. Um, the affordable housing for me, you know, I’m the chair. I’ve been the chair of parks now for three years. And you know, it’s been my goal, like if we can really fix our parks, think about this, our values, the last place now we families can go that freeze our parks and we’re not really taking care of parks. Are we saying, you know, we’ve got to get the parks activated. We got to get people you know There’s so much good I can volunteer like we do an adapter partner bringing that back. Like, community’s got to take back that community. So I’m excited. I’m excited about win back Waipahu.

ATTILIO: 
That’s what’s that about when

AUGIE T: 
I was with the new district? Ria, redistricting, I inherited all of Waipahu. So one of the things that I went when I went around and talk was like, parking and homelessness, right? And you know, how people feel about homeless. I mean, we all I’m pathetic. We all like help, but like, so much challenges. Yeah. So much challenges. So, you know, with this, I’m trying to get public, private churches, nonprofit, let’s all go sit in a room. Yes, find solutions, and then come up with great ideas. So we know we’re gonna do walk the block, we developed a handbook. Most businesses don’t know who to call. Yes. They don’t know what to call so all the businesses will have a handbook. And it may be my whole goal is like, you know, when you go to Zippys now yeah, you buy your food so that you put the card in, they asked him for tip. You notice that? Yes, you go to Safeway, food land, if they’re listening, and I hope they are, how can we just do dollar? Yeah, win back Waipahu, then we can find maybe good nonprofits or people that like, take on the task of building a relationship with this community. So that we can help raise the mark not enable, let’s go help them right. And go take building one relationship. You know, we talked about change it from the mainland coming here. Look, we’re not gonna know if they’re familiar, we don’t build a relationship where we can have one honest talk and go. You think you can make it here because it’s harder for locals. If I’m in home, contact the family, maybe help them go home? Yes. Right on, like, maybe reconnecting local families here. And gonna take government public private working together. So right now we work with all the businesses in my power. And when we get something going something legit, then we bring in the neighborhood because a lot of times, people like calm and they’re like Jay, yell about the problems. I’m gonna say stop. We’re not gonna do that. I will let these guys come up with business issues and give you guys solutions. Yeah. Now can you go support these businesses? Who supporting you? I think that’s something that excites me.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah, I think from a layperson standpoint, and we look at the homeless is that it seems like it’s just the shuffling, you know, like they’re in Waikiki, get them out of Waikiki. Because the tourists and they’re in Waianae, then these people might out Waianae, Waipahu, it seems like they just shifting all around the island right? To where we’re giving less like not hassling them as much. And we’re solving it,

AUGIE T: 
you know, when we walked a block, that’s the same guys. Yeah. The police norm, the community leaders norm, anti norm, right. So like,

ADRIENNE: 
we see him in the emergency room over at Queens. Yeah, I went businesses.

AUGIE T: 
And when I say when, when when the community see the businesses doing it, yeah, leading by example. Right, I think we got to get back to that thinking, like, we will make anybody move, we got to lead by example. And it’s tough when we, you know, have families that we got to support. You know, a lot of us are fixing credits, trying to get back on our feet. 60 something percent of people in Hawaii live paycheck to paycheck. Right. And when we talk about building leaders, it’s part of it is like, leading by example. Yeah, it’s tough. I get it, it’s hard to come on to a town hall, or, you know, some walking event to your community. But I’m telling you after you do it, you realize why write it you realize why he won. It’s good for you. Yeah. To your community sees that you getting involved in not just you know, yapping and in

ATTILIO: 
the parks are integral with each other, right? Because they hang out, people want to the regular working people want to be able to enjoy a park. But it’s, you know, kind of, you know, if there’s like a whole pile of tents, and it’s not, why not in graduation weekend. You’re like, what’s all these tents doing over here? Correct. And it’s uncomfortable, right? And we want to help but then it’s, it’s like it’s going to take more than that family just going to the fun and helping them.

AUGIE T: 
People gotta go we have services, right? But how do we how do we help the homeless individual with the services, right? And again, it’s building a relationship with minimal enough service providers to let go, you know, then we got it. And that’s why win back Waipahu, it’s gonna be a community effort. It’s not.

ADRIENNE: 
If you’re like a website where you can go to get to,

AUGIE T: 
you know, call my office 7685009 atulba@honolulu.gov. You know, we do monthly You know, beautification. Yeah. And it’s, it’s not about like, it’s, for me, it’s just about like, we get our community activity and participating. Man, there’s so much good things that can come out of that, you know, and so some of

ADRIENNE: 
the things that you’re doing can like our listeners go to your Instagram or Facebook to find out. How did they know?

AUGIE T: 
I’ve been doing this way before I became a politician. Oh, yeah. So like, you know, becoming a public servant. Just kind of

ADRIENNE: 
made it wasn’t hard. It just kept doing what you’re doing.

AUGIE T: 
Right. You know, and, and that’s the thing that I was, I wasn’t able to address, you know, when I first ran, yeah, that the things that you see now, the motivation is something that I’ve always done. Now, it’s the title and the title, and, you know, even that feels gross. Sometimes, Councilmember, you know, like, I’m Augie. Yeah, I get it. But, you know, it’s, it’s, uh, it’s, like I said, I’m like, every time, and I’m part of a very hard discussion. You know, I’m so thankful that I get to hear it. Right. Yeah. And one of the things that I’ve learned in the last few years, we don’t educate the public enough. That’s why you guys do a radio show? Yes. If we didn’t educate our public let you guys know, we hear yes. Right. Nobody can buy homes, nobody gonna understand and, and we don’t 500 We have over 500,000 registered voters, but only 33%. Vote 1/3. Or as bad? Yeah, we

ADRIENNE: 
need any more voters.

AUGIE T:
If we want change, real change. We’re gonna get the 67 that’s listening that register by like, I believe that you can change a vote yes. And you don’t talk to your lawmakers. Ask them the tough questions like really hold them accountable? You know, because that’s the reason why I get paid the way I get paid.

ATTILIO: 
My favorite question for all politicians is when I meet them face to face, ask the one question, what exactly are you going to be doing in your role that’s gonna affect me, as as a constituent in your community? You know, tell me something. And I think you know, you’ve gone out there into the community. And listen, you’re a good listener, and you can you can you understand a story because that’s what you did as a comedian. Let’s talk about this B.R.A.V.E this comedy show that your daughter, your daughter is fundraising for? Yeah, thank you. And it’s called BRAVE. Yeah.

ADRIENNE: 
It’s a nonprofit. Yes. My

AUGIE T: 
daughter’s nonprofit. She created that when she was 11 years old. BRAVE is an acronym to Be Respectful Value Everyone is the once a year fundraiser that I do to raise money for her. Like a lot of times when you have a small nonprofit and nonprofits understand it’s so hard to get grants, that kind of grants that you wish you could get, right? So we fundraise. We do whatever we can to fund the whole thing ourselves. Yeah. And run it to zero at the end of the year, because that’s what you’re supposed to do. Yes, it’s money, you get some nonprofit, right? But you go and you hustle, you get things done. So it’s always been easy. You know, putting together a show getting great people like you guys who sponsored the shows, you know, to come on board to help. That’s it, you know, because at the end of the day, the more awareness we can bring to kids and adults, the better. So in my first term, we passed bill 50, which was an anti bullying law in the city. Right? So the people in city parks is a no tolerance for bullying, you know, and that’s why I’m saying like, it’s so awesome that I can use all these tools, right? To not only push something that I really believe in, but also like, you know, make good changes for people and kids and families in our community. So, to October 28 Farrington High School, BET will be opening for me BET has been around one of them premier Island bands over 30 years. Day like me, you know, the huge challenge they go out they perform for a huge challenge case. And then we have like, one of the hottest young boy bands Crossing Rain.

ATTILIO: 
Crossing Rain are they all Korean or what? No,

AUGIE T: 
no, like all these local kids but like, you know, it’s you automatically as you start thinking BTS and you know, all those Korean boy bands, but you know, they’re gonna be

ATTILIO: 
like, do they like kimchi? They

AUGIE T: 
realize how good kimchi is.

ATTILIO: 
It’s good for your gut.

ADRIENNE: 
So so Augie sharing with my daughter because the Campbell High School about your guys benefit and what BRAVE stood for and she goes Oh, that’s a lot like we what we learned in the Best Buddies program. And so now she’s going to get her best buddies friends involved in hopefully they’ll come out and support the man who is

AUGIE T: 
like, change your school in five minutes. Right? So like, think about this if everybody in the world took five minutes every day to do something nice, something kind, amazing, right? So like this, you know went back at school in five minutes. While we once a month it’s up to the student right? If they went out on the field and exercise together for five minutes Yeah. Or before school start walk around and pick up rubbish or remind teachers a you will have to use electricity can you can you turn off the lights so we can save electricity? How about like, you know, we like recycling, do recycling day? Yeah, maybe collect as parents or you know, get the whole school to do like a rummage sale. And you know, your rubbish can be somebody’s treasure. You know, you get all these great ways of like,

ADRIENNE: 
giving back yeah, like

ATTILIO:
some cans can go waterpark. I remember when I was in elementary school, was for most no cartoon. Yes. And I was I was gathering them all up after lunch. And then I went turn on me because I wanted one birthday party. Yeah, I slide. Yes.

AUGIE T: 
Yes. Did I remember that? You got the medical container. I remember being a part of yet to build a boat. We’re like, like a sailing contest. You have kids get

ATTILIO: 
promotions back then. Yeah, so this event.

AUGIE T: 
Live augietlive.com. Yes, hit the purchase button and boom. It’s $15, 20 and 30 $30.

ATTILIO: 
You get to VIP parking the principles Park. Yeah. And it’s free parking, free parking local people. We mentioned it earlier. They only they like Augie and parking. Yeah. Normal parking. If was Tony Robbins or Oprah they’re not gonna come. Parking. They show up?

AUGIE T: 
Yeah. This shows for $15. Yeah. Yeah. So and it’s

ADRIENNE: 
a clean show. Yes. He can bring the

ATTILIO: 
candy bar at the theater is $15 you get music, you get comedy? And then some other entertainment.

AUGIE T:
Ah, yeah, well have like a Farrington High School so that you know, can showcase some of the kids in the musical program or dance program. But yeah, you know, that’s my my alma mater. And I try my best to do things for them, too. That’s another fundraiser that I do. Like,

ATTILIO: 
what’s their mascot? Farrington the governor was the governor. Yeah. Yeah. The governor Governor

AUGIE T: 
a you know, my, my classmate is the principal Al Carganilla so yeah, you know, whenever I get a chance to help the school, he goes on can and I was like, I’m motivated to even like teach a class. Oh, like a drama class? Because

ATTILIO: 
I remember improv class. Yeah.

AUGIE T:
Dad or you know, something, I become a cool just to, you know, as maybe a sub.

ADRIENNE: 
Maybe you’ll have some future actors for this bill 59 thing. There you go. Whatever

AUGIE T: 
I can do to like, motivate the kids.

ATTILIO: 
So Bill 59 is to build a production facility. Yes. Read some incentives for the movie industry to keep some of the big money. That is fair. You know, we had a client. i We can’t say who he was. Maybe we could? No, we cannot. But he was a director of some very famous movies, a whole series of movies, and asked him one time I said, What you guys daily budget for this movie? $700,000 per day. And they shoot for like, I don’t know how

ADRIENNE: 
many days? Yeah,

AUGIE T: 
many days. Can you imagine we losing a lot of that. Right. A lot of chili dogs? Yes. You do. A lot of people we know the posts. Yeah. You know, Chief award, that Jason Momoa the biggest star right now. Right? We love to probably finish the whole movie here in Hawaii. But no, had to go to New Zealand, the rocks. Young Rock, you know, takes place when he’s a kid in Hawaii with a film that I forget where they filmed it, but I think in Canada was not here. Not here. Yeah, not here.

ATTILIO: 
The the, because the film industry is gonna go where it’s easier to do their production work. Correct.

ADRIENNE: 
Where the taxes make

AUGIE T: 
this you know, yeah, you had schools like Waianae Sea Rider Production that’s been around with two of my boys went through that program. Yeah. Right. We’ve been talking about incentives and we talking about Yeah, we losing a lot of our students who have gone through a lot of great film programs in high school to the to the mainland, and being priced out of paradise. Yeah, you got to keep them here. Yeah, we got to keep

ATTILIO:
I think that would be an excellent thing because it’s going to create housing. You know, you got whole pili out there and all those people can maybe afford those houses.

AUGIE T:
We got to we got to work yeah. I got to start talking to hope and building on building vision.

ATTILIO:
And then Jason Momoa will come off the airplane he won’t get on the rail rail a Kapolei days ago. By the way, I

AUGIE T:
myself will be on the rail.

ATTILIO:
By the way, by the way, Augie is going to be coming to the rail he’s going to do four stop tour Kapolei Up was Aiea the stadium four stop tour shows is only as long as the door is open. Here the announcement please board now.

ADRIENNE: 
This is how you’re going to increase the ridership the

AUGIE T: 
last call maybe last half

ATTILIO: 
get off and by the way, you can take the whole you can get all the stops so long as you laughing but if you’re not laughing You gotta get I’m gonna get off in Aiea and have to walk home. Okay, so we’re about a minute left. We’re coming to the end of another show like just flies. We’re having fun. We’re gonna wrap it up by telling people to go to Augie live Augietlive yes Augietlive.com

AUGIE T: 
and I wanted to learn about like clicking the button to your guys’s website and you know getting all this amazing instant

ADRIENNE: 
instant offer instant value. You don’t even need to talk to anybody yet some great technology Teamlally.com go to the homepage. It’s very very easy. And you know stress-free information

ATTILIO: 
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ADRIENNE: 
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ATTILIO: 
you know on the first day of Christmas, I went to the Team Lally website and on the 12th day of Christmas we closed escrow amazing if we had the 12 days of Christmas for our song, but I will tell you this we will write it we will write it on the first day it all the stuff after refrigerator but Alright, so we’re coming to the end of a show. Augietlive that’s all you need to know is go to that support buy tickets folks only got 300 left

AUGIE T: 
biomed give them away. Yeah, but go somebody’s happy.

ATTILIO: 
It is proven that if you when you laugh at a comedy show, it actually improves your health, your physiology and your mental well being it is a proven fact

AUGIE T: 
it is

ATTILIO: 
your life to live longer. Stop being grouchy. Come to the show and do some laughs Alrighty

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