Community Initiatives and Personal Accountability with Augie T.

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ADRIENNE:
Um, well, I you know, I mean, we do have other things, but I know we have a guest here in studio. It’s very special guest.

ATTILIO:
By the way. First time ever team Lally Real estate radio show. We’re having an open mic. This guy was walking down the street. We told them come in, come in. Hey, you come over here. You should do an open mic for us on our radio show. Who’s our guest? We

ADRIENNE:
got the one and only Augie T.

AUGIE T:
a third time here.

ADRIENNE:
Yeah, you’re you’re threepeat. Repeat.

ATTILIO:
I have an intro for you. Okay. Okay, so, when Augie was a little boy, you know, obviously what is T stand for? Do you know Tulba told us last name. He was a little boy. He was playing football and then someone coach was like Augie Augie. Get over here. What is your last name and then Augie? Well, you know people didn’t notice but all you used to stutter. And he would be like, I’ll get it. Okay. And he couldn’t get his last name out. So the coach said you don’t want your name from now on is Augie T. And that’s how he ain’t me.

AUGIE T:
Thank you for clearing that up. Because for a long time my dad Yeah, man, you know how Filipinos we take sane and pronouncing our name serious? Yes. So I remember when I first started doing radio, someone just said a that Augie T stuff works. Yes. You know and my dad and he never liked that. Never liked that because he was proud. At one time when I fought my first professional fight. Yeah, my first box in professional fight. I went by Augusto I guess Tulba which I’m not

ATTILIO:
on your birth certificate.

ADRIENNE:
It isn’t my legal name.

AUGIE T:
Yes. My very Filipino name. Yeah. And my dad and my family members were so proud because you know prior to that I would walk into the bank. Yeah. And And ladies, look give me like why don’t you use the Augusto? Why do we want to use Augie? What that Augie T or did they use Augusto? That’s a beautiful Pilipino name and I look at her and go Well, you know, I use Augie? Because Augusto is too sexy. Yes.

ATTILIO:
And my opponents was fainting in the first round.

AUGIE T:
I don’t want to punch him. Beautiful. Gosh. But yeah, no, that’s good. Find a T because

ATTILIO:
that’s how you got the name. Yeah. And I was stuttering

AUGIE T:
because half of the time, three fourths of the guys that were playing against me were half my size. Yeah. So like.

ATTILIO:
And so let’s talk about you know, you have an AKA is right, aka is also known as City Council. City. Councilman city council person. Yes.

AUGIE T:
Is it person? Member? Council member or? Councilman? Yep. Yes. I like public servant. Public servant. Yeah. Okay. public servant.

ATTILIO:
You know, if you only like, I know, when we run for office and things and in our roles as public servants, we have initiatives that we’d like to accomplish for our constituents or people within our community. But I’m always about the word. My favorite F word is. Mother focus, is focus is my favorite word. So if you had to focus on one if this coming up in this next term that you have, and you only have two, if you could only focus on one initiative, what would it be?

AUGIE T:
Community Community?

ATTILIO:
Yeah,

AUGIE T:
I turned community. What? Well, I inherited all of Waipahu right. And we all know that Waipahu is not only an awesome community, but as his challenges, today’s newspaper, you know, the top five places for crime? Yeah. So I inherited a big portion of Waipahu it was important for me to like really engage with them so I had to go Yeah, like almost starting all over again. You know, the last year my first term I had to go knock on doors, reintroduce myself. And you know, I asked what are the issues and I really the issues is kind of like Ewa beach have, you know they want parking? Yeah, they’re worried about the cars getting breaking into. Yes. And so I really focused on community. And I realize that when you walk them, just for me, I like being in a community. People see that I’m a hands on council member. I like rolling up my sleeves. You know, because a lot of the issues at Council, if you’re not part of the majority, in a you just swimming upstream, correct? Yeah. And for me, it’s like, how do I advocate in my community? And part of the things, one of the things that I did was this went back Waipahu. I went back Waipahu Yeah. And really just bringing making

ATTILIO:
Waipahu great again.

AUGIE T:
Yes. Well, you know, all we did was like, you know, you go to neighborhood boards, and people just go they they complain about everything under the sun homelessness. No, more enough parking. Yeah, but then I get it. But like, I want to be around people that are going to help me solve problems, right? solution oriented, right. And so I made it a task of mine to talk to every single business in Whitehall go door to door, right. What are the issues? Or did you know who you have to call? In case? There’s a homeless person sleeping in your front? Yes. Door. Right. So we, we had little nights where we invited businesses, churches, nonprofits that come and, and tell us, you know, what’s on the chests? You know, it’s all the same things that people are thinking about. So we thought, this is how we’re going to do it one block at a time using public private nonprofits, right, that come together. Right? elaboration, yes. And not only building relationships with the key people in on the block, but like, really finding ways like, the little thing. So we brought in a community policing team. They told us how we can put lights here. We cut grass there, and we

ATTILIO:
have a song. Yeah. So as you guys saw, just popped in my head,

AUGIE T:
his stuff is always good. He’s

ATTILIO:
the world. We are Waipahu. Whatever, you got to bring Michael he Well, he’s dead, but maybe bring back his AI, Michael AI, Michael Jackson AI and he’s gonna sing that song for Waipahu. And what

AUGIE T:
we started doing is just starting to read, you know, really building relationships with the people there. So you know, like, I think the only way we can help the homeless is if we know what they’re struggling with. Yeah, you know, and that’s building relationship building trust, you know, and why, you know, like, go into shelter. You know, why you don’t want the help that you need?

ATTILIO:
And I know, Telltale helped me understand this. So I had, it seems to be the challenge because you have well, what am I my my niece’s or her husband, he’s with city and county with the with the parks, but what they do is they from midnight, to the next morning, he’s with the garbage trucks and hitting all the parks and dumping all the rubbish from the homeless, and talking story with them and all of that. And so you have them clearing, clearing away the junk. And then if they arcane up and stuff, you got HPD Yeah, but then isn’t all the housing program like the state of Hawaii? Yeah, so it’s like all these different entities, but if they don’t work in concert, I feel like we just playing Whack a Mole with the homeless kinda because they were like, Oh, the over here or naughty over there. And it’s the same people because like, couple of days we have smiley man. Yeah. Smiley man.

AUGIE T:
Yeah, every neighborhood has it. Right. Yeah, they would identify with as

ATTILIO:
a sign that says smile, like every time to offer it. Anyway, yeah. Shout out to smiley man. He, I don’t know if he listens to the radio. Somebody hand them a radio next time you see him. You’re the radio. Oh, but again, okay. So community and then that one initiative? Is it going to be homeless that you’re going to try and see or, again, talking to

AUGIE T:
the back Waipahu is not it’s not complex, but like, you know, what a simple well, we want to we want to try to see how we can, you know, deter crime in area. Yeah. And that’s by putting lights on buildings. Yeah, right. Maybe. suggestion was like a mural? Yeah. Nobody see footage because, you know, you go to places like Austin. I remember seeing the Austin sign for the first time. Yeah. On social media and went wow, this is kind of cool. Right that went back Austin. All the cool things about Austin. Then you go to predict the pitch and you realize it’s not as big as this wall. Yeah. But what it did, was it smartwatch. Yeah. It’s a message it sent people there, right. Yeah. And what happens when the air is activated? Less people tend to hang around Sleep, especially when fully engaged when

ATTILIO:
you have a mural of Well, first of all, it’s bringing art back into community, and people appreciate art changer, your psychology and

AUGIE T:
I think the biggest thing is that getting the business owners the non profits, and the and the churches that’s in that area. Yeah. Leading by example. Right. So if the community see these people out, picking up rubbish, yep, cutting on grass once a month, cleaning up the graffiti, because we just did one. And the neighbors across the street were watching for the whole time. There’s like, what is this a city and county project? It is. But really, it’s a community project. Yeah. And the reason why I did that is because I take as leaders in the community, and churches and you know, we have to lead by example. That’s how you bring them in. And so what happened was, at the end of the cleaning, when he realized it was just everyday people doing it, yeah, cutting the grass, picking up rubbish painting doing Oh, let us know. And that was the whole idea. And until we can get this thing solid, my goal in my next term is to make this so good that when I hand off to the next council member, yeah, it’s only has two terms. It’ll be in good hands.

ATTILIO:
It’s an established habit, a culture within the community, you got to change the culture, if you’re going to change the community. I had no, I used that. You can use that. Thank

AUGIE T:
you. That was good. When I got in the person before me, never left me notes. Not in

ATTILIO:
good luck. Basically, big shocker. I’m not here beside me. So with

ADRIENNE:
these community events, are they both in Ewa Beach and Waipahu? Who are they scheduled monthly? Weekly? Like how

AUGIE T:
we do it monthly? Well, we do cleanups monthly, yeah, either in Waipahu. Or in Ewa. So what I’m trying to do is find and why I’m calling it Winback Waipahu one block at a time, because I’m hoping that the business or the church that’s taking care of that, do it and asked me for resources where you can get the city, and we want to help. That’s the thickness city county want to help. You know, and I’ve been mad, we, if you look at my social media, we have a lot of people that come out, and they want me help the community, you know, they want to do think

ADRIENNE:
so like if our community members are listening, and they want to come and be a part of these, you know, community cleanups? How would they find out more information can

AUGIE T:
call my office 808-768-5009. Or you can always email me and, you know, you go to city council website, there’s pictures of the concert and you click my head, boom, it directs straight to my email, you can ask questions, and

ADRIENNE:
I see you put it to you on like Facebook event, like you’re really good with the social media where the listeners could go to the social media know exactly what what are you doing?

ATTILIO:
I mean, you gotta like JFK, he had a famous speech in Berlin, IQ buying something something, Arnold Schwarzenegger, BMW. And it was, I know it was that I’m totally butchering that. But it was asked not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country? So I will put it out to you people and why Paho? You want a better community? You gotta get your colleagues out there and help out. Yeah. Because, you know, I’m kind of more like Ronald Reagan. Government is, is not the solution. Maybe sometimes the bureaucracy of it is the problem. But you’re you’re getting into solution by getting in these communities and say, Hey, you want to clean your community, get your color out here and help clean up because people, like you said are going to watch right. And they’re going to be less likely to charter McDonald’s back out the window in the drive. And not only

AUGIE T:
that, but like, we also learn how we can fix policy that needed to be fixed. Yeah, you know, when it comes to crosswalks, when it comes to speed humps, speeding, you know, all these little things. Yeah, they can help design or, you know, like I said, We advocate so that we can make our community

ATTILIO:
better. By all the speed humps that should be an economic zone where you can open up a mechanic shop, because I see the scrapes on the other side, and in all these busted acts, I’ve done it like oops, my axle.

ADRIENNE:
I know that like, actually your nephew Ben had given a compliment to you. Oh, yeah, I guess there was some kind of light that had been out close to his house was very responsive and then emailed to this email that you you know, given to our listeners, yeah. And boom, it was fixed within like 24 hours. Wow. Pretty it was pretty, really

ATTILIO:
sad. It was a staff member came out with a BB gun shot off. Not at all. Oh, no. He fixed the one light right away.

ADRIENNE:
Yeah.

AUGIE T:
You know, we have a large community 168,000 So when people you know, get mad that I don’t respond right away, because

ATTILIO:
29 people ain’t all about the light. They don’t need one person So we try our

AUGIE T:
best within 48 hours will, will, you know, get back to you in form of email? Yeah. Or, you know, we’ll call we’ll push to personally call or I’ll call. Like, if it’s a really it’s an issue that, that the person just kind of want to vent. Yeah, no, it’s amazing. Hi, we just call and listen. How that helps. So, yes, but I gotta tell you, you know, in the four years, people always ask me, like, you know, why do a second term or, you know, what, what have you learned? Yeah. You know, government was made for us to live harmoniously for the people, right by the people. And we forget that. So, what I’ve learned in the last four years is, you know, government is like a 56 year old middle aged overweight guy. Yes.

ATTILIO:
Maybe you gotta get him some. You gotta take some testosterone.

AUGIE T:
Every day, I wake up and I go today, I will run. Yes. And I don’t do it. Yes, today, I will eat better. And I don’t do it. We don’t want accountability. Yeah. And until, you know, I can get better at, you know, accountability, then I know, I will do it. I know, I will get in shape. I know. But this is years and years and

ATTILIO:
changing habits out of habit. Right. Yeah.

AUGIE T:
And you know, when you’re in that hole, it’s hard. Yeah, it’s hard to come out of the hole, you need as much support as I’m thinking it’s the same thing when someone is getting out of a hold to buy a home. Yes. It’s a

ADRIENNE:
mindset. Yeah. Habits.

AUGIE T:
It’s hard. And it’s hard. And, and that’s why I commend you guys. It’s not you guys probably hear it. It’s so hard to buy a home in Hawaii. How would you do that? I hear no,

ATTILIO:
I just, you know, if you have a lot of kids start putting them up for adoption. Have them doing a plan. I mean, the ones the ones of age, make them do Uber Lyft. You know, I mean, no, gotta have a plan. If you are out there, and you want to know how to be a homeowner on this island of Oahu is very simple. 7999596 We will help you I don’t care what your credit situation is, what your income is, we will help you because we’re going to start where you’re at. Give

AUGIE T:
me an example. Because you know, there’s a lot of people listening right now. And, you know, you say that, yeah, a lot of people that hopeful and optimistic, but there’s, you know, guys, I heard a report last week, one in three kids go hungry, every in Hawaii, one in five families like we insecure. Yeah. So give us an example of someone who heard that and said, Okay, I’m gonna do it. You know, my credit is bad. I don’t know how I’m gonna do it. But help me get there.

ATTILIO:
I will tell you the very first step. So

ADRIENNE:
we did just, we just had Reina on from the Hawaii HomeOwnership Center. And that’s kind of like their specialty where, you know, they really will handhold you through the process, whether it’s like a year or two years, but it’s really like what you’re talking about with the habits, right? They’re changing those habits, changing the mindset, to, you know, decrease,

ATTILIO:
if you if, between you and wherever you want to be in life is information or knowledge that you don’t have an action on it? Because if you had the information and knowledge and acted on it, you would be there. Right? So the first there what we find, I think the number one thing holding people back from buying a home is myths, myths about oh, animal down, you know, I gotta have 20% down. That’s a myth. That’s not true. There are some places on this island, we put zero down and you don’t have to be in the military, USDA loans. They’re there with the Hawaii Homeownership Center, if you call them, it’s very affordable. What is it? 50 bucks for the education program?

ADRIENNE:
I believe it bucks. I think it’s $60. However, if you get referred from like me, or you Yeah, it’s $50 off. So it’s $10 I remember, Tell Adrienne and Attilio sent you and get your $50 off,

ATTILIO:
and you’re gonna go more money and all you can eat popcorn at the movies this weekend. Then the cost of this education program, so don’t hold me you can’t afford a home if you’re not willing to. If you overall as a movie’s gonna do the work now getting educated on home ownership.

ADRIENNE:
Change your habits? Yep. That’s

AUGIE T:
awesome. See, because I think a lot of people listening right now, you know, maybe tuning in for the very first time. Yeah, we live in Hawaii. So you know, make shaman like, show nobody my credit score. Yeah, or not that smart. Yeah, right. But we all know like, man, if we can just hold on to a piece at a rock. I think

ADRIENNE:
the other thing too, is that you don’t necessarily need to start with like a big house. You know, you just start somewhere with a small condo and then you build you build from there. You keep trading up. Yeah, so you just have to start RT. So just start somewhere with that smile. Hey, no. And

ATTILIO:
you like so many bedrooms because you get all the kids. Here’s the nice solution. Bunk beds. They also have those fold out little cushy things at Walmart. You just, you know, you got to do. People Zig Ziglar was a motivational speaker, his wife was a redhead. Interesting, right, and my girlfriend over here with red hair. And he said this. People want change in their life, but they’re unwilling to do the changes that are necessary to get there. And we always want change in life, but we’re unwilling to make the changes that are necessary. And I will tell you that being a renter, I have friends relatives renting for 20 years. And it seems like something like it seems like I never hiked a day in my life. And I’m watching Netflix every day. And then I went on a hike Mount Everest, that from doubt to that is just like, there’s no way Yeah. But I will tell you at the base of every mountain is one step. One step, get educated and start on it. But if you’re not even getting to the base of the mountain called homeownership, my grandma used to use this word porthole as Oh, anywhere that means like waste. Are you wasting your life? Are you wasting the opportunities that are before you hate? You want to talk about people that cannot afford one place to live visit a third world country visit they can don’t even have running water, clean water, electricity, toilets, let alone one house and we visited third world countries. We went to Jamaica and when you go Jamaica if you go to good if you go to cook to our group, they’ll tell you bring like basic necessity items because after you’re done you know visiting all about Marley. gift shops and the bars and everything. They’re going to take you to the off the beach area to these places where all these people are living and you’re going to be there so thankful for the toothpaste, or sunglasses, sunglasses or slippers, crayons and yeah, look at all these kids. Are these kids running around? Not sure just wear on shorts. Right? Like local kids.

ADRIENNE:
They’re all happy. They like to jump off the cliffs into the water bottle.

ATTILIO:
And they live in Jamaica and they would get you know, there’s lotteries in the world to get to in every country, there’s a lottery to get to get a visa for United States. And they consider that like, you won the Powerball for $9 billion. Yeah, getting one visa to come to the US

AUGIE T:
we still a land of opportunity.

ATTILIO:
There’s people that come here and there’s there’s a book called The Power of the immigrant. These guys come here. They don’t even speak English. Next, you know, they own two seven elevens and two apartment complexes the

AUGIE T:
Donut King. Documentary. Yeah. Man, you talk about somebody their vision?

ATTILIO:
Yeah, I mean, they’re curling on countries where their uncle got shot in the head. Yeah. And we all complain about, you know, as you know, it’s so expensive. And you know, but you know, we get interviewed on podcasts, you know, if you’re you guys are really successful in real estate. But if I dropped you in another city, will be three things you would do. And no money, no nothing. And I will tell you can drop me in a city where I don’t even speak the language. First thing I would do it was I would I would find somebody that speaks both English and the language. And I will say and then I would ask him a couple questions. Are you hungry, you hustler. And then I would just I would immediately I would just start knocking on doors with this guy or this gal. And then I say, I’m going to say this, and you’re going to translate it. And if you knock on any enough doors, you’re gonna find somebody that can help you to get to the next step. And the next step, and the next step. The problem is not the interest rates, the loan programs, the cost of homes. The problem is you people is inside your head back

ADRIENNE:
to you. Yeah, back to the beginning. Oh, yeah.

AUGIE T:
Oh, see that? I help I help you with a callback, which is awesome.

ATTILIO:
I tried it. It doesn’t work. No, you don’t work.

ADRIENNE:
Let’s take a short break. Yes. And then when we come back, I want to talk about brave Hawaii and the music gives back program with Augie? Yeah, so stay with us.

ADRIENNE:
Welcome back. And thanks for listening to the Team Lally real estate show home of the guaranteed sold program or we’ll buy it. I’m Adrienne and I’m still Attilio and if you have any questions, you can reach us at 7999596 or check us out online at Teamlally.com. Hey,

ATTILIO:
did you know that warmer weather and the end of school year encourages more people to buy and sell respectively?

ADRIENNE:
Really? Yeah,

ATTILIO:
you should probably interact with me. Oh, you’re like my co host, you know? Yeah,

ADRIENNE:
I thought we were gonna talk about this BRAVE Hawaii.

ATTILIO:
I say. I say something you just like Oh, really? Okay, let’s try it again. Did you know that there’s one talking dog in Ewa Beach? Really? See that’s how it works. buyers are looking to move and settle before the new school year begins. Don’t interrupt. Wait for the pause. Then you come in. Okay. Okay. This is called live radio that we recording but we don’t stop we just keep going. increased competition and consequently higher prices. So what does that mean? June is a big month for buying and selling homes because a lot of people try to move between school years. By the way, graduations Auggie? How many graduate we I went to like three in one day. How many graduations? You’ve had some public servant? You’ve been on 29 graduations? Well,

AUGIE T:
I have now Waipahu and Ewa so not too bad.

ADRIENNE:
Are you at the Campbell graduation? Campbell Campbell graduated

ATTILIO:
above 15,001

AUGIE T:
You know I attended a bunch of elementary middle school

ATTILIO:
graduations Okay, so here’s my new initiative for homeownership all you graduates next year you’re not getting any lays you’re gonna get one lay we can be on it the rest of the money your parents got to use for down payment for the house. Sorry. Where those lays the next day or hanging around the house in the rubbish. Oh, nice. Smells nice.

AUGIE T:
Yeah. And you know it’s I remember I put my lease I put it in my room and was there for like a year. Yeah, look kind of cool in a corner and

ATTILIO:
it does draw traditions. People are blown away when it comes to yarraka in high school graduation. Yeah. But

ADRIENNE:
sign to the BRAVE. What is BRAVE Hawaii.

ATTILIO:
That’s an acronym. And

AUGIE T:
I apologize. My daughter was supposed to be here. So she’s in San Diego. flying back. She created brave when she was 11 years old. BRAVE is an acronym to Be Respectful And Value Everyone. So brave now has been operating for almost 11 years and we Do anti bullying advocacy? You know, we cannot go in and do curriculum. But if you want us to put on a presentation, and basically, you know, we did you know, we wrote skits for kids so that they see it and they can participate in the skit and the importance of like, you know, the kind of words you use. And you know that you guys know how important you know how words can either encourage you or damage you, right? Words

ATTILIO:
are packets of emotion. Or they’re from a speaker. Yeah. And

ADRIENNE:
the tone also,

AUGIE T:
yeah, so in elementary schools, we do we put on play so kids can participate nice, and they can identify what a bully looks like, and even solve the problem, which is kind of cool. Yeah, right. And then Intermediate School all about, like, goal setting. You know, I remember when I was challenged on Intermediate School, but then that kind of led me to where I’m at right now is performing and, you know, on a Gustaf Yes. high school level, I really truthful discussion about, you know, are you going to take responsibility on that? You know, so yeah,

ATTILIO:
something interesting. I noticed I don’t I don’t know how it’s working. But I know some schools have project grad and some didn’t like couple they didn’t project graduation. And it produced not familiar what it is like, get all the kids put them in a bus so they can go somewhere and not get all bus up and drunk and Kilis. You know, I

AUGIE T:
think in the day, you got to have a parent support group. That’s what it is. Yeah. Any of the parents know, raise enough money. It’s tough. Yeah, you know, that

ADRIENNE:
400

ATTILIO:
Here’s my here’s my idea for

AUGIE T:
the dame 20, almost 24 hours. I’ve been to some graduations, like at three o’clock in the morning. Nobody wants to hear comedy at three o’clock in the morning. So I’m gonna tough his gigs. And then I’m no longer you know, I’m no longer to the 30 year old guy. Yeah, you know, they go Oh, can you come again? No, I’m 56. Who am I relating to? Besides the teachers, you know, so it’s getting tougher and tougher. And yeah, it’s just so it’s a brutal gay give you an entertainer. You know, be

ATTILIO:
like, Hey, kids are gonna freak you out right now. Put your phones down. But you cannot, you know, oh, by the way, one last public service announcement. There’s a new medical procedure sweeping across the nation. Parents are bringing their teenagers in to have the phone surgically removed from their hand.

ADRIENNE:
Okay, so back to BRAVE. Can you let’s talk about the Music Gives Back Yeah, program.

AUGIE T:
So it all came about because the art one of the arms to brave is Miss American scholar. Yeah, yeah. And a lot of the girls that participate in a competition. They like doing talent. Yeah, they like singing, dancing. They’re like, you know, doing poetry,

ADRIENNE:
if any of them do comedy? Oh, no, not yet. I’m

AUGIE T:
hoping. I’m hoping Yeah, maybe maybe with this, you know, music. The message was I gave him because, you know, yeah, well, anyway, so we thought, you know, we want to get boys involved and you know, other young men to not only do community service by feature what they love doing. So, we partner we like per each and every month, the girls God and perform, and I was like, nice, I took my hair, you know, that’s one of the reasons why you know, you love performing, you know, knowledge because you always were in pageants and it taught you confidence, it taught you how to speak well, and you know, and, you know, stage presence. So, you know, music with a message is we want the kids to not only be the most talented kids in Hawaii, but like they have something that they’re really passionate about. Yeah, you know, and they can, they can talk about it before they perform. So the whole goal next year is to do these talent competitions in all our models, okay, right, leading up to something really big, where not only are the kids are gonna win great awards, but like, you know, we get them recording grand finale or so yeah. Because, I mean, take a look at every time some kid or some guy or some girl does amazing things on the mainland. You go man, we do have the talent here. Yeah, and we want I want to not only nurture it, nurture that, but I also help them become great community leaders to brave. So

ATTILIO:
I think it’s important for kids to develop those baby steps and bigger steps into the confidence of presenting. Performing performing is just another way of saying presenting because when you go into the workplace, if you want to get into management or leadership roles, you’re going to have to be able to speak to a group of people. Yeah, and not be like all you know, just and be able to To create compelling messages to lead, right, and you know, and

AUGIE T:
it was a process because you know she’d been doing she’s been directing my daughter. Yeah, Mr. Marquez caller for 10 years but and the reason why she decided to you know, create her own competition is because what pageantry did for her, like every job interview, she went apply, there’s a performance she wants, she got a job. It’s not because you know, you know, augis the dad is because she goes in she she knows stress. Yeah, you know, she’s, you know, she’s, you know, her shoulders back confident. Yes. And she knows specifically how to look at somebody in the eye and have a conversation. Yeah, and the girls in our competition, they all learn that, but they also performers, but we don’t do talent in our a competition is more talent oriented, or community based oriented. So the girls have to do community service work, and they have to have a dream board on what they want to become dream boards are important. So a lot of the girls love performing. So that’s how we came up with the idea because we have the brothers they come out to help us do the community service work. Oh, nice. And then you know, we get kids that go, Oh, can we can we perform. So this is just another way of letting kids know that you have a platform, but we want you to use the platform wisely by getting involved with something that you’re really passionate about? Is it cleaning the community? Is it anti bullying? Is it any animation your your love for animation?

ATTILIO:
I want some barrels, so maybe your kids aren’t going

AUGIE T:
to state you can take some of these kids?

ATTILIO:
No, we’re always looking for anytime the kids they want to call us and

ADRIENNE:
we do have some interns? We have some young intern. Yeah, we do. We’ve had

ATTILIO:
interns over the years high school kids and stuff from the community, they can come out to any of the business schools in any of the public schools in area, give us a call 79995961 of the things I do is I do I’ll come out to the school. And I do a 30 minute one hour presentation, whatever you want to staffer to the students on what does it mean to be an ideal team player? Nice. And the three core core values are hungry, humble, and smart and smart. That’s why she McCall’s, yeah. Back to brave.

ADRIENNE:
So with this music gives back program. Do do you have to be involved in the Miss America? No holler No. So with this, like a segment? Yeah,

AUGIE T:
so we’re gonna team up with the DOE, but like I said, it was so difficult, um, finding time in the mid day to put on talent show. So we’re gonna send it out to all the schools. And then we’re gonna go, Look, this is when it’s going to happen, come get ready to perform in front of the judge at the mall. Right? So people can come watch it for free, and see our court afterwards. Not only that, but like get information on all the things that they’re passionate about, including brave, so Well, you know, I think that’s a great way to not only get the message out, but like really showcase our young, young men and women. So what are the what are the ages? Oh, man. To me, I think you know, if you think that your daughter who is six years old or four years old can do something magical. I do it. Yeah, you know,

ATTILIO:
I have to be potty trained, though. I got Clean up on aisle seven,

AUGIE T:
we have a girls that is in a little miss category, saying, oh, you know, they might not be trained singers, but they you could tell that they love.

ATTILIO:
But you know, and I think the audience is like, Oh, she’s so cute. Yes. She’s terrible. But she’s so cute.

AUGIE T:
That’s the issue, right? But like, in my mind, I’m going, I’m gonna look back 20 years from now. And that little girl that did that might be the opening up

ATTILIO:
for Beyonce, Taylor Swift

ADRIENNE:
give her that confidence. You know, to pursue those those dreams.

AUGIE T:
Yeah. And that’s why like, it’s so important. And at the same time, they’re learning how to give back to the community. So every contestant in the Miss American scholar, they have to do community service month nice. They have to, and they got to talk about why they’re doing it. Because there’s so much bad stigma on pageantry, you know, the bullying and you know, the competition. And it says in we try to build a family like environment created

ATTILIO:
with core values for the uplift of communities that these girls and boys are in. Yeah. And

AUGIE T:
you know, because my daughter loves the arts. You know, this is the next step. Yeah. Like the evolution of brave so

ADRIENNE:
if our listeners go to the brave Hawaii website, is there a link to that music gives back or

AUGIE T:
you’re setting up and arranging the more times? So yeah, we shouldn’t worship in state we’re trying to work with we do have courage every month. So we know we can do that right? right away we’re gonna get Windward Mall and I’m gonna

ATTILIO:
show you guys I’m talking with islands when you look down your island please okay

AUGIE T:
it’s amazing how much people come out to just you know watching some guy noticeable

ATTILIO:
porridge was getting more like local yeah like all the mainland things are really not in there it’s all local kind which is right yeah yeah to get the what is it the food trucks thing is lonely people out there by the way

AUGIE T: 
are we looking at we’re looking at bringing it back then Oh Vicki see oh nice

ATTILIO: 
comedy

ADRIENNE: 
yeah we like that

ATTILIO: 
pop up yeah we’re in the

AUGIE T: 
negotiating hey

ATTILIO: 
you people at the mall make it happen already

ADRIENNE: 
yeah we don’t like going all the way to town to town.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah Google waking here like normal parking you ain’t going Yeah, Tony Robbins

AUGIE T: 
was kinda like you know you see all these small local businesses they work hard at this they dream and hey how do we keep we

ATTILIO: 
went and Augie Augie T Boomer time frankly Lemo over a 1200 years of experience of comedy in one night

ADRIENNE: 
Gosh a lot of experience a lot of experience working at

AUGIE T: 
looking at doing a September show at the Hawaii theater. Oh nice. Here’s our beautiful shot like come up with the near like you know see us before we die too but you know Frank is that maybe she call it like out there

ATTILIO: 
about kind of cool right three coffees very positive very positive mental attitude. Yeah, frankly Mays Yeah. And why is all his relatives named Mary No I just kidding the what I think you guys should call it don’t buy any green bananas tour

AUGIE T: 
I like mean and he was like yes just before he died

ATTILIO: 
yeah you know and they know senior discounts because you watching

AUGIE T: 
I think that’s the coolest part about touring with them. Yeah. Get the Sheena discount Yep. You know we pull into like your island.

ATTILIO: 
We then between Andy and Frank Euro one young super snapper

AUGIE T: 
I mean, I have ARP now at 56

ADRIENNE: 
Yet the discounted McDonald

AUGIE T: 
do Ross yes that’s your local Ross’s

ATTILIO: 
I think she’d be doing a tour of all McDonald’s free coffee. But it’s gonna be like he wants to senior crowds gonna be like five in the morning. But then they’re all gone by like seven. Okay, we come into the show whenever we have all you want to say boom. So, vote for Augie. See the ballot.

AUGIE T: 
I truly appreciate you guys. Yeah, you guys one of the few shows early on. Yeah. That invited me on because a lot of people were you know, nervous. Yeah. Comedian. Yeah. public servant. And I you know, I’m still campaigning even though there’s no one running against me. Okay

ATTILIO: 
Is your tagline. He’s funny, but he’s for real. Picked down to bank. Write that down. kind of write it. Well, thank you for that. 

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