Kiwi Talkz

Joel Douek is a television and film composer who has a background in Neuroscience working for the UN. He has composed over 9 David Attenborough documentaries. #davidattenborough #manhattennight #film SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - www.joeldouek.com WEBSITE VR www.echoer.com TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - How Joel Became A Film Composer/Editing For Pokemon 03:05 - Doing Revisions 05:51 - Removing Ego/Egos In Film 07:51 - Finding Efficiency Under Tight Deadlines/Music Templates On A TV Series 12:00 - Reusing Motifs 13:23 - Mistakes That Piano Players Make While Composing/Understanding Orchestration 16:25 - Joel Doesn’t Like The Idea Of Hobbies/Balancing Out Different Endeavours 19:04 - How Neuroscience Has Affected Joel’s Music 21:54 - Melody Is Secondary To Emotion/Joel’s Composing Process 23:39 - How Joel Ended Up Composing For David Attenborough 26:50 - Meeting David Attenborough 29:11 - Networking Is Bad/Building Friendships Is The Way To Look At It 32:22 - How To Get The Word Out About Your Music Portfolio 33:33 - Before Doing A Project Follow 3 Rules 35:18 - Why Joel Is Quite Philosophical/Joel’s Previous Work At The UN 37:41 - Joel Doesn’t Consider Himself An Entertainer 39:13 - How Travelling Has Influenced Joel’s Music/Have Experiences 42:38 - Travelling To Get Experiences/You Don’t Learn Anything As A Tourist 45:38 - Creators Are Fearful/Embracing Fear/Weight Of Expectations 48:45 - How Joel Deals With Anxiety/Vision Quest 50:54 - Fight Or Flight Relating To Music 52:41 - Doing The Music For Manhattan Night 56:05 - What Joel Is Looking To Musically Going Forward 59:29 - Staying Up With Technology 1:01:53 - Where To Follow Joel Douek

Mike Wikan is a Game Designer who has worked on Duke Nukem, Donkey Kong and DOOM. He is most well known for being Lead Designer on the Metroid Prime Trilogy during his tenure at Retro Studios. He is now Creative Director at Booz Allen Hamilton WEBSITE - https://www.boozallen.com #metroid #metroidprime #gamedesign TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:27 - How Metroid Prime Was Developed/Techniques That Were Used 07:06 - Working With Nintendo/Language Difficulties/Translators 08:11 - How Nintendo Operates 09:09 - Shigeru Miyamoto Story From Donkey Kong Country Returns 11:12 - Tanabe Was The Reason For Spider Ball & Boost Ball Guardians Difficulty 12:17 - Fixing Things In Metroid Prime Trilogy 13:14 - Nintendo Analysed Every Bit Of Text In Metroid Prime Trilogy 14:03 - Who Was Responsible For The Lore/Luminoth Language 15:56 - Sketching Background /How Mike Learned Coding, 3D Models, Design etc. 19:45 - Growing Up In The Military/Taking Military Experiences Into Metroid Prime Development 22:16 - Mike Had To Do Non Detailed Sketches Before Handing Them To Artists 24:10 - How Quadraxis Boss Was Designed/Gameplay Ramping/Game Engine Camera System 30:28 - MP2 and MP3 Didn’t Have Crunch 31:09 - The True Story Behind Metroid Prime 2’s Initial Development 32:20 - Metroid Prime 1 Crunch/Management Of Retro Studios Changed After Metroid Prime 1 34:00 - How Booz Allen Hamilton Gaming Development Works/Avoiding Crunch For Creatives 36:35 - How To Manage Creative Staff Properly 39:05 - How To Prepare For Curve Balls In Game Design/The Pillars Of Game Design 40:52 - Meta Ridley Boss Fight In MP3 Inspired By Lord Of The Rings/Original Meta Ridley Design Fight In MP1 42:26 - Mike Wikan Loves Lord Of The Rings 43:15 - Mike Is Very Introverted/How He Breaks Through It 46:35 - Being A Lifetime Learner 47:18 - The Problem With AAA Game Studios & Lack Of Leadership 49:01 - Breakdown Of Gaming Studios Profits From Game Sales 51:28 - How Nintendo Operates In Terms Of Managing Staff 52:03 - Eastern Game Design Vs Western Game Design 52:53 - Gameplay Trumps Graphics/Story Never Sells A Game 54:22 - AAA Games Designs Flaws/How Mike Guides Game Designers 57:10 - How Management Works Once You Have More Than 45 Staff 57:47 - No Excuse For Western Developers Not Adapting To Eastern Game Methodology 58:58 - Mike’s Managing Style At Boon Allen Hamilton 1:02:35 - What Games Mike Wikan Plays/Bullet Echo 1:05:31 - Mike Will Play Metroid Dread & Prime 4 1:06:40 - Where To Keep Up With What Mike Wikan Is Working On 1:07:44 - What Was Being Fine-tuned With Metroid Primes Audio/Clark Wen 1:09:45 - Mike Is Extremely Thankful To All The Metroid Prime Fans To This Day

Dr. Ben Peters is a Professional Practicer at the University Of Otago and has a PHD in biochemistry, he is an avid spokesman for Gene Editing and is a political MP for the TOP party in Dunedin. SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK - https://m.facebook.com/BenPetersTOP/ TWITTER - @benapeters #geneediting #plasticeatingenzymes #crispr TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Bringing Back The Wooly Mammoth 04:01 - What Gene Editing Is And Its Utilisations 06:26 - What Is Deemed Natural In The Gene World 09:12 - Applications Of Gene Editing/Gene Editing Plants/Enzymes 11:02 - Why Politicians Haven’t Updated Legislation On Gene Editing 12:20 - Politicians Aren’t Scientists 13:49 - Plastic Eating Enzymes And How They Work 16:50 - How Side Effects Are Prevented From Editing Enzymes 17:51 - Using Gene Editing To Make Pests Infertile 20:52 - Cane Toads/ Destabilising Pest Species 23:32 - Protocol Before Gene Editing Can Happen In Food 28:34- How The Covid Vaccines Work/Why Anti Vaxxers Exist 33:51 - How & Why The Covid Vaccine Was Fast Tracked 38:10 - Long Term Effects From Covid Vs Vaccine 40:43 - Gene Editing Can Be Used For Diseases Such As Diabetes 41:56 - Still Unknown Whether Gene Editing Can Help With Brain Diseases 43:20 - Gut Microbiome/Fecal Transplants 45:03 - Bliss Probiotics 46:01 - Diabetes And When Gene Editing Should Apply 49:26 - How To Avoid Chain Reactions From Gene Editing 51:38 - Cytokine Storms Are Unlikely To Happen From Gene Editing 52:50 - How CRISPR Changed Gene Editing 54:11 - How Much Time CRISPR Saves 56:25 - CRISPR Has Opened The Flood Gates Of Gene Editing 58:08 - Chinese Scientist Who Removed HIV From Babies From Gene Editing 59:54 - NZs Foolish Legislation Around Gene Editing 1:04:20 - Why Dr’s & Scientists Avoid Getting Into Politics/Why Ben Joined TOP 1:07:55 - Ben Will Often Self Diagnose Due To Understanding So Much About Science 1:10:14 - Where To Follow Dr. Ben Peters

Elik Alvarez is a composer who got his start in the industry composing for 4Kids Entertainment on series like TMNT, Yu Gi-Oh, Kirby, F-Zero and more. He has composed for a number of David Attenborough documentaries and has been composing for films as of late. #tmnt #yugioh #davidattenborough SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - www.elikalvarez.com FACEBOOK - Elik Alvarez INSTAGRAM - @elikalvarezcomposer TWITTER - @elikalvarez TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:51 - Working At 4Kids Entertainment 02:44 - Composing For Cartoons Is Like Bootcamp 06:07 - The Process Of Scoring At 4Kids Entertainment 08:39 - Writing Music Using Themes Others Have Written for TMNT 2003 10:00 - Gratification Of Being A Composer/Never Getting Bored 11:09 - Elik Got Allocated A Lot Of Action Cues For TMNT 2003 12:26 - Elik Having To Research Various Genres For Composing TMNT/Collaboration 15:00 - Elik Isn’t An Audio Engineer/Mixes While He Composes/Deadlines 19:07 - Elik Didn’t Take Music References From Japanese Score Of Yu-Gi-Oh 20:09 - Temp Tracks/Referencing Other Composers 22:07 - Applying Degree In Business Administration To Music 23:34 - Freelancing/Negotiating Contracts/PR Agents 25:25 - Soundtrack Releases Of 4Kids Entertainment Shows Could Be On The Horizon 28:58 - Collaboration With Freddy Sheinfield & Joel Douek 31:22 - Friendship With Freddy & Joel/Competitiveness 33:53 - Elik Wants To Meet David Attenborough 35:31 - Composing For Documentaries 39:05 - Direction From Project Director 41:00 - Chasing Projects 43:41 - Royalties Are How Composers Survive Between Projects 45:06 - Kingdom Of Plants Gave Elik Credibility/You Need Validation To Get Work In California 48:00 - You Have To Be Competitive In California 50:00 - Elik Isnt A Networking & Party Guy 51:30 - Elik Hates Composing For Commercials/Concert Music 53:22 - Action Cues In Yu-Gi-Oh Would Make it Easy To Do Superhero Film 55:22 - Where To Follow Elik Alvarez/What Elik Is Working On

Vanessa Goodson is the winner of The Apprentice Aotearoa and runs the party business OMGNess. SOCIAL MEDIA Website - OMGNESS.co.nz Instagram - @_vanessagood, @omgness.co.nz #theapprentice #mikepero #omgness TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - How Vanessa Maintains Her Energy/Not Shutting Off 02:50 - No Phones Were Allowed On The Apprentice 06:33 - The Reason Vanessa Auditioned For The Apprentice/Audition Process 08:08 - Watching Herself Back On The Apprentice 09:36 - 16 Hour Days On The Apprentice/How A Lifestyle Tagline Came About 10:43 - The Apprentice Was Real And Not Misdirected With Edited/Living At The Apprentice House 11:48 - Building A Camaraderie With The Other Contestants 13:02 - Duration Of The Board Room Meetings 15:00 - Getting Mentored By Mike Pero 17:34 - Applying Her Business Plan 18:48 - Brand Exposure/Covid Affecting OMGNess 20:25 - Favourite Challenge On The Show 22:15 - Business Pitch/Presentation To Panel 24:47 - Apprentice Being An Emotional Roller Coaster 26:14 - Lawnmowing Challenge 29:36 - Getting Used To Cameras Always Being Around/Micd Up All The Time 31:03 - Vanessa Having Her Small Cry 32:44 - Best Prizes 33:52 - Hamilton Challenge 35:57 - Getting Breakfast & Lunch Everyday 37:10 - Driving Around To Challenges/Camera Guys In The Car 39:12 - No Forewarning At All 40:43 - Mike Pero Was Physically There To Give Out Challenges 41:15 - Vanessa’s Plan Going Forward 43:46 - How Big OMGNess Team Is 45:57 - West Auckland 47:05 - Going National With OMGNess 48:25 - Talking Fast/Bad Storytelling 49:47 - Where To Follow Vanessa Goodson

Gareth Coker is a video game game composer who came into prominence for composing Ori And The Blind Forest and Ori Will Of The Wisps. He has also scored for ARK, Immortals Fenyx Rising and he is currently scoring Halo Infinite. He is well known for his catchy melodies. SOCIAL MEDIA YOUTUBE - @Gareth Coker TWITTER - @garethcoker #ark #oriandthewillofthewisps #haloinfinite TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:49 - Gareth Being A Veteran/What Constitutes Being A Veteran 01:35 - Smoke & Mirrors Of Game Design 02:30 - Game Scores Vs Film/TV Scores 04:05 - VST Ethnic Instruments Vs Live Ethnic Instruments 07:33 - Underworld Track On Immortals Fenyx Rising 09:44 - Gareth Reasons For Using Orchestras 11:20 - Differentiating Yourself In Gaming Music 13:27 - Memorable Melodies Is A Lost Art 15:24 - Ginzo Tree Escape Sequence Music 17:05 - Implementing Music In A Game Correctly/ 18:29 - Gareth Debating With Developers Over Music Implementation In Ori Game Sequence 21:27 - Gareth Prefers To Implement Music In The Game Himself/Implementation Of Music 24:20 - Sackboy Music Implementation 25:09 - Scoring Halo Infinite/Living Up To Expectations 30:26 - You Cant Please Everyone/Referencing Older Halo Music 31:50 - Halo Infinite Composers Working Together/Collaboration 33:00 - Music Supervisors Role 36:17 - Being In Japan And How It Affected Gareths Approach To Composing 39:50 - Don’t Get Comfortable With Success/Communicating Your Ideas 41:20 - Japan Made Gareth Less Shy 42:15 - Gareth Is Unlikely To Return To Japan/Teaching Rugby In Japan 43:15 - Speaking Japanese/Japanese Game Companies 45:05 - Ori Putting Gareth On The Map/Working On Minecraft 46:54 - Working On ARK 50:00 - How Gareth Writes A Melody 56:02 - Doing Melody For TV/Film 59:08 - Composing To Game Visuals/Writing Process 1:02:05 - How Gareth Finds Time To Play Games/Gareth Doesn’t Play Multiplayer Games 1:05:29 - Gareth Watched Streams Of Will Of The Wisps After Release 1:07:28 - Monitoring Gamers To Gather Data To Make A Game Better 1:09:25 - Gareth Excited For Next Generation 1:10:06 - Possibly Scoring Assassins Creed/Dream Project 1:11:11 - Where To Follow Gareth Coker

John Callen is a NZ Actor who has been acting for over 40 years. He is most well known for playing Oin in the Hobbit. #thehobbit #oin #peterjackson SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - John Callen TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Feeling Old Well Shooting The Hobbit/Weight Of Dwarf Suits 03:23 - Getting A Hernia While Shooting The Hobbit 06:19 - Scottish Accent For Audition/Auditioning For Smaug 07:26 - John Redoes His Smaug Audition Voice 08:15 - Voice Acting Got John Into The Industry/Time As A Journalist 11:44 - What Peter Jackson Is Like/LOTR’s Affect On NZ Film/TV Industry 16:28 - John Is For A Union In NZ/Hobbit Law 21:51 - Different Views On Hobbit Law/Camaraderie Of Actors On Set 23:42 - Debate Over The Hobbit Law/John’s Secret Spy/ 27:20 - John’s Experience On Set/Jed Brophy 29:58 - Having To Wait Around On Set/Getting Free Wine 31:59 - What John Would Do While Waiting Around To Be Used 34:23 - Adam Brown/How John Prevented Rashes From Dwarvf Beards 35:39 - Hair For Dwarves Was From Yaks/Food Getting Stuck In The Beard 37:58 - John’s Arthritis/Dwarf Hands 40:34 - Beorn’s House Set/Set Design 42:54 - Bag End Shoot Between The Dwarves And Gandalf/Ian McKellen Story 45:34 - John Talks Working With Martin Freeman, Billy Connolly and Ian McKellen 48:57 - John Dealing With An Unprofessional Actor While Directing Shortland Street 51:03 - Difference Between Stage Vs Film/TV 53:16 - John’s Directing Style/Shortland Street Actor Requirements 55:20 - Time Constraints 57:10 - Comparing Directing Style To Peter Jackson’s 58:39 - Peter Jackson’s Plans Sometimes Not Coming To Fruition/Lake Town Set Change 1:00:00 - Producing/Story Of Producer Losing Everything 1:04:25 - Unions Vs Non Unions 1:05:26 - Working On The Hobbit Was An Amazing Experience 1:06:41 - Voice Acting On A Star Wars Game 1:09:18 - John Took A Drama School To Voice Acting Sessions 1:10:14 - Doing Audio Books For The Blind 1:11:10 - Where To Follow John Callen

Tiffany Cook is a boxer, businesswoman, fitness coach and host of the Roll With The Punches Podcast. She was featherweight victorian champion in 2019 and has certificates in Fitness, Conscious Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - https://www.tiffaneeandco.com.au FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/TiffaneeAndCo/ LINKEDIN - Tiffany Cook TWITTER - @TiffaneeCook INSTAGRAM - @tiffaneeandco YOUTUBE - @Tiffanee Cook #rollwiththepunches #pootransplants #neurolinguistics TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Australia/NZ Relationship 01:05 - How Tiffanee Got Into Boxing 02:36 - Tiffanee’s First Boxing Training/Sparring & Fight 05:35 - Psychology Of Boxing 08:14 - Dealing With Physical Pain/Performance/Inner Critic 13:38 - Self Reflection/Having A Wall Up 16:49 - Not Being Self Aware Of Issues 19:25 - Self Diagnosis/Tiffanee’s Psychologist Mate/Getting Therapy 22:00 - Worry About Changing And It Affecting Her Boxing 23:51 - Tiffanee’s Workshop 25:01 - Tiffanee’s Podcast With A Psychologist 26:24 - Hypnosis/Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) 28:50 - Suppressing Emotions/Getting Angry For No Reason 31:08 - Colour Black Being Directly Connected To Anger 32:40 - Fun Anger/Having The Looks 34:30 - Seeking Attention/Not Being Real 35:31 - How Tiffanee’s Podcast Came About/Podcasting 40:36 - Reece Talking About His Podcast 42:15 - NZ/Australia Being Isolated 43:15 - Learning So Much From Podcasting/Editing Podcasts 44:23 - Hating Courses/Ways Of Learning/Audio Books 46:17 - Tiffanee’s Fitness & Nutrition Regime 48:30 - Food Is Connected To Mental Health/Neuro Chemistry 50:29 - Tiffanee’s Diet/Sweet Tooth 51:18 - Epigenetic’s/Health Types 53:02 - Your Body Is A Filtering System/Self Awareness Of Your Body Talking To You 55:35 - Enema Kits 56:22 - Poo Transplants 1:00:32 - Neural Networks 1:01:49 - Where To Follow Tiffany

Jason Graves is a video game composer who is known for composing a number of high profile video games from Dead Space, Until Dawn, Tomb Raider, Far Cry and more....he has also won a number of academy awards for his composing. #tombraider #farcry #untildawn SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - jasongraves.com TWITTER - jgmusic FACEBOOK - Jason Graves Music INSTAGRAM - jasongravesmusic YOUTUBE - @Jason Graves Music TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:39 - How Jason Formed His Style/Creating Scary Music/How Jason Got Into Music 05:38 - Working Under Jerry Goldsmith/Elma Bernstein/Christopher Young 07:57 - Order 1886 Score/Strings Ensemble 10:18 - Coming Up With New & Unique Music 11:35 - Aftermath Of Deadspace Success/Developers Contact Jason Far Before Development 13:20 - Having To Be Secretive About Composing New Projects 15:28 - Implementing Music For A Jump Scare 17:35 - Creating Music For Dead Space 21:30 - Implementation Of The Music In The Game 24:23 - Collaborative Process Of Game Design 25:58 - Working On Music For Television 28:10 - Working On Music For Far Cry: Primal 31:37 - Being Brought On Late In Far Cry: Primal Development/Jason’s Assistant For Far Cry:Primal 33:35 - Being A Drummer Influenced Far Cry: Primal Music 35:00 - Vocals Of Tribes Were Based On Jason’s Music 35:39 - Working On Tomb Raider/Not Referencing The Older Tomb Raider Games 38:04 - Gameplay Capture Is Imperative To Composing/Finding Time To Play Games 39:53 - Being A Good Listener In Meetings 41:21 - Initial Tomb Raider Demo/Discussions With Directors 42:30 - What Game Director’s Style Doesn’t Gel With James 44:21 - AAA Games & Indie Games Comparison 45:07 - Working On Until Dawn & The Dark Anthologies 47:30 - Being Typecast To Do Scary Games/Graves Being Jason’s Real Surname 49:53 - Working On Moss/Breaking Through Scary Composer Stereotype 52:29 - Staying Grounded Despite Success 54:24 - Jason’s Drama Background/Award Speeches/Presentations 55:44 - Composers In L.A./University Of Southern California 57:39 - Library Tracks Used For Television 59:08 - Royalties 1:00:36 - Jason’s Work Was Never Affected By Covid 1:01:45 - Jason Would Love To Work On Fantasy And Work On Naughty Dog 1:03:27 - Jason Wouldn’t Want To Compose Middle Earth Games Due To Howard Shore’s Music Being iconic 1:04:30 - Where To Follow Jason On Social Media

Louise Wallace is an actress, tv presenter and director. She is most well known for being in The Real Housewives Of Auckland and being the cold emotionless host of The Weakest Link. #realhousewives #weakestlink #treasureisland SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram - @louisewallacenz Facebook - Louise Wallace Website - tadpoleproductions.co.nz TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Real Housewives Of Auckland Shooting Duration 01:27 - Setup Of Shooting Real Housewives Of Auckland 02:41 - Real Housewives Is Planned In Advance/Reality TV Is Unethical 04:08 - Louise Has Thick Skin/Young People Don’t Have Resiliance 05:13 - Louise Isn’t That Engaged With Social Media/Louise Blocks Trolls 06:16 - Social Influencers Are Bullshit 06:52 - Louise Was Involved In Casting Real Housewives/Louise Originally Didn’t Want To Be On It 07:59 - Producers Of Real Housewives Were Trying To Catch Louise Out 09:16 - Starting Controversy At The Beginning Due To The Show Being Boring 10:01 - Season 2 Was Never On The Cards 10:24 - The Boat Incident Had No Affect On A Potential Season 2 11:33 - Louise’s Family Largely Not Involved/Julia’s Family Being Affected From Real Housewives 13:12 - Louise Is On Good Terms With The Cast 13:55 - How Louise Ended Up In Journalism/TV Presenting 15:01 - News Readers Follow Teleprompters/Presenting Gigs 16:01 - The Weakest Link 18:00 - How Louise Got Weakest Link Gig 18:38 - Shows Being Affected By Where They Were Placed On TV 19:10 - Weakest Link Protocol Was Very Strict 19:30 - Shooting Weakest Link/Celebrity Shows 20:52 - Louise Said Everything Off The Cuff 21:23 - Experience On Celebrity Treasure Island 23:42 - Directing Celebrity Treasure Island 25:35 - Louise Loves Doing Theatre/Tadpole Productions 27:13 - Theatre Requires A Lot Of Work/Tadpole Doesn’t Get Funding 28:14 - Making Mistakes During A Show 30:15 - Learning Lines 31:02 - How Tadpole Productions Was Setup/Actors Having To Chase Work 32:25 - Covid Affecting Tadpole Productions/Doing Theatre Outside Of Auckland/Campervan 35:09 - Drama School In London/How Drama School Breaks You Down 38:28 - Most Actors Louise Knows Are Down To Earth/Snobby Actors Never Make It 39:40 - Louise Doesn’t Audition People For Theatre, She Goes Off There Work Ethic 40:46 - How Louise Stays Relaxed 42:00 - Louise Wants To See Her Son In UK But Cant Due To Covid/Living With Covid 43:30 - Travelling 44:14 - Audition Process For Real Housewives 46:00 - Anne Helped Louise Get Through Real Housewives 47:12 - Master Interviews After The Day Of Shooting/Speaking In Present Tense 48:05 - Louise Thinks The Show Wasn’t Edited To Change Things/ 48:38 - The Apprentice New Zealand Is Tame/Contestants On Apprentice Will Be Careful Due To Work Prospects 50:08 - Most People Enter Those Reality Shows For Fame 50:42 - Louise Thinks If Season 2 Of Real Housewives Happened It Would Of Blown Up 51:17 - Being Noticed In California 51:54 - Louise Doesn’t Care About Fame & Being Noticed 54:36 - Dont Take Yourself To Seriously

Nathan Grigg is a video game composer for Monolith Productions and has worked on franchises like F.E.A.R and Shadow Of Mordor. He has also assisted on various other games under the Warner Bros. umbrella such as the recently released Mortal Kombat 11 #fear #mortalkombat11 #shadowofwar TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:43 - Previous Work/How Nathan Ended Up Working On F.E.A.R Series 02:50 - Direction Taken With F.E.A.R/How Music Was Created 06:39 - Sustaining Tension/Blurring Music & Sound Design 08:07 - Field Recordings/Sample Libraries/Convolution 10:59 - Nathan’s Mum Painting Technique/Composing Techniques 12:48 - Music On The Cutting Room Floor/Emotional Music 15:49 - Creating Music And Evolving As Time Goes On 17:33 - How Nathan Expands On An Idea/Idea Process 20:00 - Nathan Doesn’t Think He Is A Lord Of The Rings Nerd 20:30 - Collaborating With Garry Schyman/Not Copying Howard Shore’s Score 24:00 - Nathan & Garry Were Only Ever In The Same During Recording/Orchestra & Choir 26:15 - Garry & Nathan’s Scores Blending/Collaboration Process 28:54 - Nathan’s Work With Inon Zur 30:56 - How Nathan Ended Up Working On Mortal Kombat 11 33:35 - Differences Between Working On Mortal Kombat 11 And Shadow Of Mordor 35:08 - Lore Of Mortal Kombat 11 35:58 - Opportunities Working Under The Warner Bros. Umbrella/Interaction Cues For MK11 39:25 - Energy Of Mortal Kombat 11 Music Cues/Atmosphere To MK11 42:50 - Nathan Is Open To Working On Film Scores/Game Cinematics Are Different To Film 47:19 - Warner Bros Film & Gaming Don’t Have Much Crossover 48:30 - Evolution Of Music In Video Games 50:15 - Getting Into The Game Industry Back In The Early Days/Ambiguity Of Music 53:45 - Nathan Doesn’t Use Social Media/How To Contact Nathan 55:31 - Where To Listen To Nathan Grigg’s Game OST

Tom Salta is a recording artist, producer and composer for film/television and video games with the latter being his most known arena. He has composed for PUBG, Killer Instinct, Halo, Prince Of Persia and more.... He hosts his own Masterclass series in teaching about composing for video games. SOCIAL MEDIA Website - www.tomsalta.com Twitter - @TomSalta Instagram - @TomSalta #masterclass #pubg #princeofpersia TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:43 - How Tom Got The Name Atlas Plug 04:21 - Tom’s Original Plan Before The Video Game Industry/Record Industry 07:38 - Learning How To Composer For Video Games/Working On Need For Speed 2 08:40 - Submitted Music Getting Rejected 10:16 - Trying To Followup Music From Marty’s & Michael’s Halo Score 12:53 - Trying To Follow Up Mick Gordons OST For Killer Instinct 15:10 - Mick Gordon’s Mixing/Avoiding Copying Him 16:32 - Tom Salta’s Mixing Process 18:45 - Removing Instruments & Layers While Mixing/80’s Mixing 20:32 - The More Fatiguing The Mix The More Breaks You Need 23:18 - Difference Between Deadlines On Television/Film Vs Video Games 25:28 - Tom Salta Absolutely Loves Video Games 26:14 - Playing Video Games While Exercising 27:43 - Writers Block/Creative Process 30:50 - Meditation/Tom Doesn’t Meditate To Music 34:15 - Tom’s Masterclass Course 38:41 - Consolidating Masterclass Information Into A 3 Hour Course 39:32 - Other Courses Are In The Pipeline 40:53 - Working On PUBG Main Theme 45:35 - Building Relationships In The Age Of Covid/Networking 48:50 - Tom’s Story On Working Of Prince Of Persia/Collaborating On Prince Of Persia 52:44 - Prince Of Persia The Forgotten Sands Being 2 Games 56:00 - Type Of Games Tom Would Like To Work 58:00 - Where To Follow Tom Salta/Signing Up For Tom’s Masterclass Course

Prof. Jan Lindsay is a volcanologist and a professor at the University Of Auckland and her expertise is the in research of volcanic hazards VOLCANOLOGY RESEARCH PAPER - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S03770273210011 16 AUCKLAND UNI PROFILE - https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/j-lindsay TWITTER - @GeoJanUoA Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 00:54 - What A Volcanologist Does 05:12 - Working In The Field/Past Activity Of A Volcano 07:24 - Volcano’s Have Small Activity Before A Big Eruption 08:28 - If Taupo Were To Erupt It Would Be A Small Eruption In Our Lifetime/Super Eruption 11:20 - You’d Have A Warning Before A Super Eruption 11:51 - Warning Of Taupo Erupted 13:25 - Speaking With The Government & Civil Defence About An Eruption 14:41 - Auckland’s Volcanic Field 17:07 - Evacuating Auckland If An Eruption Happens/Immediate Effects 21:09 - Uncertainty Of Knowing When Eruptions Being Over 23:13 - The Probability Of An Auckland Eruption Is Extremely Low 25:27 - Earthquakes Triggering A Volcano 27:43 - Why Mudpools Randomly Appear In Rotorua 30:46 - White Island Tragedy Eruption 34:10 - Debriefing Since The White Island Tragedy/Investigation 37:05 - Reasons GNS Want To Revisit White Island 37:46 - Tongariro Crossing Eruption/Why It Wont Be Like White Island 39:52 - Jan Lindsay Remembering Mt Ruapehu’s Eruption 40:50 - Mt Taranaki’s Inevitable Eruption/Taranaki’s Effect On Auckland 44:08 - Ash Entering The Stratosphere 45:13 - Parts Of Zealandia Rising To The Surface From A Volcanic Eruption 48:25 - Ring Of Fire And How It Works 51:48 - Where To Find Prof’ Jan Lindsay’s Work 52:50 - Volcano Films Are Not Realistic/Walking On Lava In Goma

Garry Schyman is a multi award winning video game composer. He is most well known for his scores to Destroy All Humans, The Bioshock Trilogy and Middle Earth games Shadow Of Mordor and Shadow Of War. He is also a lecturer at the University Of Southern California SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - www.garryschyman.com FACEBOOK - Garry Schyman #bioshock #destroyallhumans #shadowof war TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:53 - How Garry Got Started In The Film/Video Game Industry 05:04 - Garry Was Somewhat Aware Of The Advancement Of Games When He Started Composing Destroy All Humans 05:50 - Involving Himself In Games 07:06 - Playing Bioshock/ Playing Games While Composing/Finding Time To Play Games 08:49 - Composing For Games That Aren’t Pick Up And Play/Garry Getting Destroyed Online 09:58 - Destroy All Humans Always Had A 1950s Music Direction 11:50 - Garry Was Hired Specifically For His 1950s Sound 12:37 - Destroy All Humans Got Garry Job On Bioshock 13:13 - Developers Of Bioshock/Bioshock 2 13:44 - Garry Mostly Worked Remotely On Bioshock From L.A. 14:59 - Garry Is Working On A Japanese Game Without A Translator/Translations 16:40 - Garry Was Unaware Of Licensed Music While Scoring Bioshock 17:24 - Cowens Masterpiece/Playing Piano 19:37 - How Garry Ended Up Teaching At University Of South California 21:41 - Gaming Industry Is Less Stressful Than Film & Television 23:45 - Garry Prefers Scoring For Games 24:29 - Gaming You Have To Much Free Time With Scoring Compared To Film/Television 25:48 - How Garry Composes 28:04 - Walking Away From Music And Coming Back To It Later 29:43 - Finding Bioshock’s Distinctive Sound 31:37 - Pressure Of Composing Bioshock Infinite 32:37 - Television Is More Ambient These Days/Garry Composing More Unique Stuff In Games 35:35 - Garry Wouldn’t Know What To Do If He Wasn’t Composing 36:58 - Garry Was Specifically Advised To Not Reference LOTR Film Score In Shadow Of Mordor 37:20 - Garry Hasn’t Watched LOTR So Music Wasn’t Tainted By Film Scores 38:53 - Garry Didn’t Have Much Direction With Shadow Of Mordor & War Scores 39:53 - Garry Had To Get Clearance From Tolkien Estate 41:09 - Garry Would Like To Work With Peter Jackson 41:40 - Tolkien Estates Approval Process 43:30 - Various Opportunities Came Up From Bioshock/Bioshock Imitation 45:35 - Working On First Person Shooters 46:01 - Garry Would Like To Work On A Western Game Or Something Creative 48:27 - Garry Still Chases Projects And Gets Shotdown/Getting What You Need Not What You Want 49:55 - Garry’s View On Voice Acting 53:23 - Garry’s Wife Is A Therapist/Actors Working In Video Games 55:20 - Video Games Continues To Grow/Hypocrisy Of People Saying Video Games Are Violent 56:57 - Younger Film/Television Directors Approach Garry Based On His Video Game Scores 57:40 - A lot Of Students At University Of Southern California Are More Interested In Scoring Video Games Than Television & Film 58:50 - Garry’s Advice For Young & Upcoming Composers 1:04:11 - Where To Follow Garry Schyman 1:05:33 - Garry Bought A Car Off Facebook/Pros & Cons Of Social Media

Claire Chitham is a well known NZ Actor who has been in well known NZ Shows such as Shortland Street and Outrageous Fortune and in films like Netflix's 2019 Film Falling Inn Love. She has recently released a book called Good For You which details her battle with Crohn's disease and contains tips on health. SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - @Claire Chitham Twitter - @clairechitham Instagram - @clairechitham #shortlandstreet #outrageousfortune #fallinginnlove TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - How Falling Inn Love Film Got Off The Ground/Auditioning For Falling Inn Love 02:00 - Working On Falling Inn Love 03:43 - Working With Christina Milian 05:07 - Recognising The Difference Between The Australian And NZ Accents 06:01 - Differences Between Acting In Television And Film 09:18 - Not Knowing A Characters Arc/How Television Funding Works In NZ Vs America 13:59 - How Shortland Street Is Filmed 17:20 - Memorising Lines 20:41 - Getting Sore Facial Muscles/Claire Tells Shortland Street Fiji Story 22:01 - Jacinda’s Facial Muscles 22:55 - Outrageous Fortune House Being Demolished 24:33 - Working With John Rhys Davies On Fresh Eggs 30:00 - Gut Inflammation/Claire’s Battle With Crohn’s Disease 32:19 - Ignoring Pain & People Ignoring Health 34:20 - Inflammation Is Number 1 Cause Of Disease In The Body/Claire Loves Learning About The Body Now 35:54 - Claire Speaks On Good For You Book 36:28 - Tips On Cutting Back On Bad Food 37:51 - Food Diary/Food Alternatives 40:55 - Turmeric/How To Cook Turmeric To Get The Most Out Of Its Anti-Inflammatory Properties 42:29 - Pros And Cons Of Spices/Talking About Poo/Eastern Diets 43:53 - The Food We Consume Doesn’t Match Our Lifestyle 44:36 - Everybody’s Gut Bacteria Is Different/Food Produce 46:28 - Meal Preparation/How Claire Monitors Food While On Set 48:28 - Avoiding Sugar/Stevia 50:25 - We Are Not A Tube That Food Just Passes Through 52:10 - Claire Looking So Young/Smiling 52:51 - Projects Claire Is Working On Currently 54:30 - Small Things Can Turn Into Big Diseases

Inon Zur is a video game composer who is most known for composing a majority of the Fallout series as well franchises like Dragon Age, Prince Of Persia, Lord Of The Rings and more... SOCIAL MEDIA Website - www.inonzur.com Twitter - @Inon Zur Youtube - @Inon Zur Instagram - @inonzurofficial #fallout #dragonageorigins #princeofpersia TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:41 - What Inon Zur’s Name Means In Hebrew 01:25 - How Inon Kept The Fallout Franchise Music Cohesive 03:40 - The Fallout Theme Songs Are Always Written First 04:38 - Direction Inon Will Be Given From Bethesda/Development Process 06:20 - Inon Started Writing Fallout Music From Early Development 07:17 - Adjustments In Music As Visuals Change 08:25 - Inon Can Compose Fast & Maintain Quality Because Training In Film/Television 09:35 - Why Video Game Scores Are Different To Television/Film 11:07 - Inon Is Open To Returning To Film/Television 11:51 - Microsoft Acquiring Bethesda Has Not Changed How Bethesdas Operations 12:34 - Inon Has A Great Relationship With Bethesda 13:03 - Inon Does Chase Some Projects/Working With Different Studios 14:12 - How Inon Got Job To Work On Dragon Age: Origins/Title Theme Process 15:59 - When Inon Will Work With Orchestra Vs Synthesisers 17:35 - Creating A Language For Dragon Age: Origins Title Theme 20:29 - Writer’s Block/Getting Inspiration 21:36 - Revisiting Music That You Feel Are Terrible 22:59 - Lord Of The Rings: War Of North/Warner Bros’ Originally Wanted To Use Film Score 26:17 - Inon Avoided Referencing Howard Shore’s LOTR Score But Was Inspired By It 28:03 - Inon Likes To Engage In New Musical Ideas 30:02 - Tapping Into His Israel Upbringing For Ideas For Prince Of Persia 31:05 - Researching Musical Genres/Japanese Music 32:16 - Inon Would Like To Work On James Bond/Jazz Music 33:28 - Ambient Music/Minimalism 35:38 - Royalties/Royalty System & How It Works 39:00 - Forgetting About Royalties And Then Happiness From Receiving A Payment 41:03 - Working On Multiple Scores At Once 42:18 - How Inon Composes 44:04 - Different Mixes Of Music In The Game/Music Cues 45:02 - Audio Director Implements Musical Score/Implementation Process 47:33 - Implementing Music For Looping

Sam Dillard is the founder of Samos Studios and is known for turning video game soundtracks into cinematic scores he gained huge attention for his Metroid Cinematica project as well as his Zelda and Chrono Trigger Cinematica projects. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - https://samo-studios.com TWITTER - @SamoStudios YOUTUBE - @SamoStudios FACEBOOK - SamosStudios #samostudios #metroidcinematica #zeldacinematica TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - Sam Being Buff 01:06 - Martial Arts 01:49 - How Sam Got Into Martial Arts 03:38 - Sam Is More Interested In Health & Self Defence/Martial Arts History 07:10 - Sam Critiques Martial Arts Films 08:55 - Applying Disciplines From Martial Arts To Music/Feeling 11:10 - Sam Created His Own Sample Library 13:19 - Sam Thought Obsessing Over Sample Realism Was Normal 17:25 - How Metroid Cinematica Came Together 21:34 - Making Metroid Cinematica A Cohesive Package/Plot Outline 25:25 - Chrono Trigger/ Chrono Cinematica 29:42 - Zelda Cinematica 36:46 - 3D Animation/Beyond The Glass Animation 39:13 - Being A Perfectionist/Time It Takes To Make One Song 41:19 - Sam Doesn’t Have Much Of A Social Life/Trial & Error For Work Ethic 43:40 - Sam Originally Learned Game Development 47:24 - Indie Games Blew Up Just As He Moved Away From Game Development 48:04 - Game Remixes Have A Built In Audience 49:12 - Building On Each Music Project 50:34 - How Sam Was Affected By Covid-19/Texas 53:25 - Benefits Of Zoom/Martial Arts Through Zoom 55:37 - Post Covid/Remote Working 58:20 - Why Sam Loves Texas 1:00:27 - Sam Does Take Holidays/Nice Things To Do In Texas 1:02:52 - Where To Follow Sam Dillard/Samos Studios 1:04:25 - Sam Plays Zelda On His Keyboard/Shows Off Keyboard

Shai Navot is the interim leader of NZ political party The Opportunities Party (TOP). SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - www.top.org.nz FACEBOOK - facebook.com/topnz TWITTER - @top_nz INSTAGRAM - @top.nz YOUTUBE - @The Opportunities Party #nzpolitics #politics #housing TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - Shai’s Views On Governments New Housing Policy/Problems With The Policy 04:13 - Rent Caps/Supply Issues 05:36 - No Silver Bullet To Solve Housing 06:24 - Distortion Of The Tax System/Infrastructure Funding 08:33 - Allocating Resources To The Right Place/Infrastructure Commission 11:10 - Northern Express Should Be The Standard For Public Transport 12:10 - New Zealand Is Decades Behind Due To Governance Short Term Thinking 13:38 - NZ Didn’t Build Up Instead Build Out 15:52 - Examples Of Mistakes In Infrastructure 17:45 - NZTA & Kiwirail 18:45 - Media Are Gatekeepers Of Democracy 20:01 - Media Weren’t Giving TOP A Voice 21:51 - Polls/Wasted Vote Argument 24:01 - Labour & National Are Similar 24:25 - Reason TOP Was Excluded From 2020 Election Debates 24:54 - 2020 Election Debates Were Stupid 27:19 - Media Prefer Celebrity Leaders/Next Leader Of TOP/Marketing Strategy 29:59 - What UBI Is, How It Works And Who It Benefits 33:58 - UBI Trial Showed Lowered Rates Of Depression 34:38 - How UBI Would Be Funded/Effects Of UBI 37:10 - Why Wealthy People Would Receive UBI 38:49 - Minimum Wage Wouldn’t Be Abolished From UBI 40:11 - Crime Is Caused Is Interlinked With Housing & Poverty 41:03 - Reece Tells Story Of Customer Walking Out Of Grocery Store With Groceries And Not Paying 43:10 - Theft Is Usually A Result Of Societal Problems 44:59 - Reoffending Statistics And What Causes It 46:44 - Nutritional Food Being Out Of Reach For Some People/Junk Food Tax And What It Would Fund 49:07 - Removing GST From Fruits And Vegetables 50:28 - Lack Of Competition In NZ Is A Problem 50:34 - TOP Social Media

Ken Lampl is a long time film composer who was trained under John Williams and recently got international attention for his score for Australian film 2067. He has composed for over 90 films as well as other forms of media such as television and commercials. He is currently a lecturer at the Australia National University School Of Music. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - www.kenlampl.com Twitter - @KennethLampl Youtube - @KenLampl #schoolofmusic #2067 #filmscores TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:26 - Ken Lampl Being Underrated 01:17 - Doing Music Scores For Terrible Films 05:07 - Australia Workforce Is Used For Filming Hollywood Productions Not Composers 06:02 - Australian Film Makers/Seth Lardi 08:38 - How Ken Got Music Job For 2067 11:05 - Australian National University/School Of Music Programme 14:46 - Balancing University Teaching With Film Scoring/Scoring Music Quickly 17:40 - Australian Films Aren’t As Rushed As American Films 19:30 - How Ken Records Choral Music/Choir Work 20:50 - 2067 Choir Was Synthesised/ Sample Libraries 22:01 - Ken Learned How To Get The Best Out Of What You Have 23:12 - Midi Guitaring/Software Plugins 24:12 - Film Scores Combining Orchestra & Sample Libraries/Alan Myerson/Hans Zimmer 26:20 - Ken Lampl Feels He Has The Skillset To Do A Blockbuster 28:02 - 2067 Is Kens Breakout Project 29:30 - How Hans Zimmer Got Discovered 31:06 - It Took 40 Films Before John Williams Got Discovered/George Lucas Originally Didn’t Want A Score For Star Wars 32:25 - Early Space Movies/Ken Being Influenced By John Williams/Star Wars 34:10 - How Ken Got To Study Under John Williams 36:18 - John Williams Speaks About Music In Psychological & Philosophical Terms 38:28 - John Williams Is Far Greater Than People Think He Is 42:09 - Doing Music For Pokemon Films 46:33 - Collaborating With Mick Gordon 48:10 - Mixing Different Genres/Mix With The Masters 51:25 - Ken Teaches Mixing At School Of Music 53:33 - Never Stop Learning/How Ken Up Skills 56:08 - Differences Between Australia & America/Tall Poppy Syndrome 1:00:11 - Ken Has More Opportunities In Australia 1:01:30 - Ken Loves Australia 1:03:25 - Where To Follow Ken Lampl

Dilz is a well known NZ rapper who has worked with other well known local acts such as Ty, Sid Diamond and J Williams. He got national attention for his court case with Tom Francis. SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - Dilzmusic Instagram - @DilzMusic Youtube - @DilzMusic Tiktok - @DilzMusic Snapchat - dilzmusic #dilz #isnap #metamorphosis TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - Hamilton Event 01:24 - Dealing With Difficult Promoters 02:59 - How Ricky Became Dilz Hypeman 04:58 - How Covid Affected Dilz & Tours 06:30 - How Dilz Style Has Changed In The Last Year 07:33 - Knowing What Songs Are Better For LIVE 09:04 - Dilz Is Still The Same Person/Ricky Mistaken As Dilz 10:55 - Auckland Gig Drama 14:15 - Promoters Reach Out To Dilz/How Auckland Gig Came About 15:02 - How Long A Gig Takes To Organise 15:46 - Creatively Getting Burned Out/Dilz Working 24/7 16:45 - Well Known Rappers Still Working Full Time Jobs 17:37 - Rapping Will Never Be A Full Time Job For Dilz 18:02 - You Can’t Make Money In Music In NZ Doing It Full Time/Side Hustles 19:41 - Ricky Is At Every Single Dilz Gig 20:54 - Dilz Wants To Go Back To Australia 22:56 - Dilz Doesn’t Want To Battle Rap & Views On It 24:06 - Tom Francis Court Settlement 25:27 - Reece Doesn’t Want Tom Francis On The Show 26:29 - Sexual Allegations Possibly By Tom Francis 28:06 - Dilz Does F*** Tom Francis At His Shows 29:11 - Tiktok/Facebook/Snapchat 31:00 - Trying To Find New Stuff To Write About/Dilz Is Always Writing 33:22 - Dilz Feels He’s Always Improving 35:45 - New Music Sucks/Marketing 38:23 - Dilz Struggles To Sleep 39:42 - Dilz Tore His Pec/MRI Scan 41:27 - Googling And Youtubing Injuries Is A Bad Idea 42:15 - Dilz Tried To Avoid Seeing A Doctor 43:15 - Dilz Future Projects 45:39 - Where To Follow Dilz & Ricky 46:30 - Dilz & Ricky Perform ISnap

Suzy Cato is New Zealand's most well known Children's Television Presenter who came into prominence with shows like You & Me, Suzy's World and 3pm. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - suzy.co.nz Instagram - @suzy_cato Twitter - @suzy_cato Facebook - Suzy Cato Tiktok - @suzy_cato Youtube - @TreehutTV #youandme #kidstv #suzy'sworld TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Had To Record It’s Our Time Song Every Episode/Recording Episodes 02:00 - Suzy Did Most Episodes In One Take/Structure Of Every Episode Of You And Me 03:57 - Pauses During Questions 04:49 - How Suzy Got The You And Me Job 08:30 - How Suzy Prepared For Being In Front Of The Camera 10:20 - How Suzy’s World Came About 12:13 - Suzy Was Heavily Involved In Behind The Scenes For Suzy’s World 13:10 - Suzy Learned Roles Well Doing The Job/Can Do Attitude For Childrens Programmes 15:10 - Avoiding Being Typecast/Writing For Women Magazine 16:21 - Other Projects Suzy Did 19:07 - How Dancing With The Stars Happened/Dance Training 20:50 - Work Post Lockdown/Doing Home Film Work 23:23 - Suzy Says Yes To Things Then Learns It After/Suzy’s Research For Dancing With The Stars 24:33 - Memorising Dance Moves/Working Within Limitations 25:59 - Suzy Isn’t Competitive/Sense Of Family In Dancing With The Stars 28:02 - How Suzy Protects Her Children In The Age Of Technology & Social Media 30:30 - Suzy’s World Website Often Created Problems For Parents & Kids 31:12 - Educate And Communicate With Your Kids 32:52 - Netsafe/Protecting Kids From Explicit Content 34:54 - Cyber Bullying/Talk With Your Kids 36:33 - Be On The Same Social Media Platforms As Your Kids/Connect Four 38:19 - Feeling Old/Kids Keep Yon On Trends 39:26 - Suzy Has To Be On Social Media For Work Reasons/Analytics/Youtube 40:17 - Lockdown Bedtime Stories 42:05 - YouTube Analytics/Social Media Demographics 43:16 - Suzy Cato Doing Her Own Marketing 44:10 - Taking Time Out To Spend With Kids/Balancing Work & Kids 46:11 - Aucklands Traffic/Downsides Of Working From Home 49:43 - Suzy Has Had A Home Office For A Long Time 50:49 - Suzy’s World Production & Home Sets 51:53 - Suzy’s Books & Future Projects 53:41 - Writing Songs That Leads To Books/Suzy’s Book Stories 57:28 - Suzy Has A Vault Of Ideas 1:00:00 - Where To Follow Suzy Cato

Synamax is a composer who is best known for obtaining the drums and music sample for the Metroid Prime Trilogy and has used his Youtube channel to recreate tracks from the trilogy, other Metroid games as well as breakdown the specific samples. SOCIAL MEDIA Youtube - @SynaMax Facebook - Synamax Twitter - @Synamax Instagram - @Synamax #metroidprime #metroid #samples TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - How Synamax Started The Path Of Finding Metroid Prime Trilogy Music Samples 03:38 - UNCIVILISED GROOVES Samples Are The Percussion For Metroid Prime Trilogy 04:50 - Drum Samples For Parasite Queen Track Is Played 05:35 - Very Little Editing Was Done To Original Percussion Samples For MPT 09:29 - Even Great Composers Use Samples 10:40 - Synamax Changed His Music Approach After Learning How MPT Music Crafted 13:23 - Synamax Loves Sound Design 15:14 - Synamax Reverse Engineered The MPT File Format/HEX Editing 19:34 - Writing Music In HEX Is A Massive Skill/ 22:10 - How Synamax Found The Specific Metroid Prime Music Samples 23:53 - Synamax Plays Metroid Prime Music Samples 24:40 - Agon Wastes Pad Was Slightly Modulated From Original Sample 25:35 - Working Out How A MPT Sample Is Changed Is Guess Work 27:34 - Orbit 3 Sampler Is Very Rare/Samplers Kenji Yamamoto Used 30:40 - Would Be Difficult For Synamax To Recreate The Whole MPT Soundtrack With A Day Job 33:11 - Synamax Initially Hated Being The Metroid Guy/Crowdfunding 34:01 - Worries Of Legal Ramifications With Nintendo Of Recreating MPT OST 35:00 - Approaching Retro Studios 36:19 - Tallon Overworld & Torvus Bog Use Similar Presets 39:09 - Synamax Feels Some Good Stuff On A Horizon 39:29 - Reece Relays Advice Mick Gordon Gave Him To Synamax 40:19 - Synamax’s Dream Is To Do Game Composing/Synamax’s Revelation 42:26 - Covid-19 Hasn’t Affected Synamax Work/Music Wise 44:18 - Synamax Plays Agon Wastes Theme 45:04 - Synamax Plays Frigate Orpheon Escape Bells/Shows Different Octaves Of Sample 46:51 - Synamax Plays Frigate Orpheon Melody/Torvus Bog Chords/Phendrana Pirate Labs 47:56 - Synamax Plays Phendrana Drifts Intro/Drone Ambience 49:06 - Metroid Prime Title Theme Background Melody/Ambience 50:32 - Korg MS2000/Phendrana Drifts Ice Theme 52:09 - Synwave/Whistle Sounds 54:09 - Phazon Mines Drum Track/Strings 55:46 - Synamax Found It Hard To Recreate Phazon Mines Due To The Drums/Being A Perfectionist 57:10 - Game Designers Seeing All The Flaws In There Games/Trial By Fire With New Developers 58:38 - Metroid Prime 2 Facts/Metroid Prime A Fusion Of East & West Design 1:00:46 - Metroid Is Nintendo’s Black Sheep 1:01:52 - Gamers Can Be Hyper Critical 1:02:56 - Retro Will Do Metroid Prime 4 Justice 1:03:28 - Synamax Would Love To Work On Metroid Prime 4 And Under Kenji Yamamoto 1:04:34 - Where To Find Synamax Social Media And Metroid Prime Work

Arun Jacob is the CEO and founder of AJV Global a immigration consulting company which helps people migrate to various countries around the world from New Zealand, Canada, UK etc.. SOCIAL MEDIA YOUTUBE - @AJV Global @Arun Jacob FACEBOOK - AJV Global INSTAGRAM - @AJV Global LINKEDIN - @AJV Global TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - How Arun Became An Immigration Adviser 03:00 - Why Arun Moved To NZ 04:04 - Coming From India Where Its Very Cut Throat 04:45 - How Arun Founded AJV/Moving To Hamilton 06:59 - Common Questions Immigrants Ask Before Moving To NZ 09:10 - LOTR Shaped Migration In NZ 11:02 - Migration Differences Between Different Countries/Skill Shortages 13:42 - Helping Migrants Deciding Which Country To Migrate To 14:35 - Migrants Having Unrealistic Expectations 16:00 - Migrants Trying To Cut Corners 17:00 - Migrants Not Researching Enough 19:43 - Qualities Entrepreneurs Need/How Arun Became An Entrepreneur 22:30 - Teaching Young People To Be Fearless/Ray Kroc 25:06 - Adversity Is Always Around The Corner 25:51 - Arun Stays Motivated From ‘The Pale Blue Dot’ 28:07 - Covid’s Affect On Migration To Other Countries 29:02 - Prioritisation 30:16 - Thinking Ahead When Living In Uncertain Times 31:42 - Reasons Arun Hasn’t Dropped Any Of His Team 32:44 - Different Between Mission & Vision Statement/Foresight 34:08 - Indians Who Don’t Leave Their Shell Even After Migrating 34:57 - Arun Can Speak Te Reo Maori/Stepping Out Of Your Bubble 36:29 - Learning To Speak English Is Vital/Research The Country You’re Moving on 39:02 - Adjusting From Indian Culture To NZ Culture/Assimilation 41:41 - Arun’s Words To Indians Who Complain About Food In NZ 42:46 - Benefits Of Indian Food In NZ 44:42 - Where To Follow Arun & AJV

ToxicxEternity is one of Youtube's most prolific Video Game Cover Guitarists. He has done metal covers for many games including Mario, Mega Man, Final Fantasy and more. You can support him via his Patreon page where you can pick which cover he does next. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/toxicxeternity SOCIAL MEDIA Youtube - @ToxicxEternity Twitter - @ToxicxEternity Facebook - ToxicxEternity Instagram - @ToxicxEternity #videogamecovers #videogames #metal TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - How Reece Came Across ToxicxEternity 01:30 - How Toxic Got Into Doing Video Game Covers 04:00 - Managing Time To Complete Covers Weekly/Early Days 05:29 - Recording Takes The Longest Part To Finish/Recording Process 06:30 - Toxic Is A Perfectionist 07:04 - The Cover That Was The Hardest To Get Right 08:16 - How Toxic Decides When And When Not To Stick Close The Original Music 10:40 - How Toxic Made Metroid & Mario Mashup 11:40 - Doom & Animal Crossing Mashup 12:30 - Ratio Between Communities Song Requests & Toxic’s Choice 14:05 - Requests Through Patreon/Patreon 15:40 - Toxic Never Intended To Make A Living Off Video Game Covers 17:54 - How Toxic Learned To Mix Well/URN Academy/Nail To Mix 22:39 - When Toxic Decides To Guitar Shred And Not To Shred/Tallon Overworld 24:15 - Ultimate Bowser Cover 25:10 - Not Shredding All The Time Is Critical For When Performing LIVE 26:42 - Performing LIVE 27:40 - How Collaborations For Covers Come About 29:06 - Collaborators Working Out Of Different Studios 30:43 - Transcribing Music On The Spot Via Twitch 32:59 - How Toxic Is Allowed To Have Covers On Spotify While Avoiding Copyright Problems 35:26 - Toxic Open To Scoring Music For Video Games 37:30 - People Making False Promises To Toxic In His Early Career 38:33 - Covid Hasn’t Affected Toxic To Much 40:30 - Toxic’s Travel/Tour Plans 41:55 - Where Toxics Fan Demographics Are Based 43:00 - Toxic Really Wants To Perform On Stage 43:24 - Touring With FamilyJules & Insane In The Rain 44:45 - Games Toxic Still Wants To Do Covers For 46:30 - Covers That Get Requested For The Most 47:30 - Having Wrong Expectations With Youtube Views 50:37 - Filming And Recording Are Done Separately 52:40 - Metroid Prime/Metroid Prime 4 54:36 - Toxic Doesn’t Often Take Breaks 54:59 - Where To Follow ToxicxEternity On Social Media & Patreon

Fit With Nit aka Nita is New Zealand's biggest Indian Fitness Influencer. When she first moved to NZ she suffered from depression due to the culture shock but went onto become a fitness instructor and a big social media sensation SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram - @FitWithNit Facebook - Fit With Nit TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - Why Nita Migrated To New Zealand 02:17 - Difficulties Of Adjusting To New Zealand Culture/Depression 05:06 - Being Unable To Adjust Back To Indian Culture After Living In NZ 05:54 - How Nita Got Into Fitness & Became A Personal Trainer 11:43 - Nita’s Family Didn’t Know What A Fitness Instructor Was 13:00 - Mistakes People Make When They Get Into Fitness/Nutrition 15:35 - Muscle Mass Is Important 17:15 - Making Meals Plan Around Lifestyle 18:35 - Nita’s Fitness Regime/Structure 20:50 - Duration Of Nita’s Workouts/Rest Cycle 22:22 - Nita Likes Training By Herself 23:16 - Nita Goes To Other Gyms Where She Doesn’t Get Recognised 24:12 - Nita’s Meal Plan 26:36 - Nita’s Supplements & Water Intake 28:31 - Same Approach To Lose & Gain Weight With Approach To Calories 30:03 - Nita’s Guilty Pleasure Is Coffee 31:14 - What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health/Gut Problems 33:45 - Nita’s Diet Changed Dramatically After Moving To NZ/Diet In India 35:30 - How Nita Got Big On Social Media 36:30 - Indian Community In NZ Know Who Nita Is 37:34 - Meeting Jacinda Ardern 38:10 - Differences Between NZ & Indian Culture 39:10 - Advice For New Immigrants 40:40 - How Nita Motivates Herself When She Is Feeling Down 42:27 - Nita Feels Kiwis Need To Be More Open With Feelings 44:46 - Nita Loves Travelling/Queenstown 45:46 - Nita Will Launch A Youtube Page Soon 46:25 - Where To Follow Nita/Fit With Nit 47:04 - Nita Isn’t To Familiar With Herbal Medicine

Mick Gordon is a video game composer who is most well known for scoring DOOM and DOOM Eternal. He has also composed numerous other games like Killer Instinct, Prey and Wolfenstein. He is widely praised for his unique composing style as well his tight mixing of video game music. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - mick-gordon.com TWITTER - @Mick_Gordon Facebook - Mick Gordon Instagram - @mick_gordon #Doom #DoomEternal #KillerInstinct TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:14 - How Mick Ended Up Scoring For Killer Instinct/Failing Demos 04:35 - The Direction Mick Was Given For Killer Instinct 05:53 - Learning Throat Singing 08:31 - Jago Theme Set The Direction Of The Music For Killer Instinct 10:45 - The Reality Of Deadlines & Crunch 12:40 - Doing Overnighters/Domino Effects Of Problems 14:34 - Micks Mixing Tips 16:38 - Micks BFG Division Mixing Breakdown 18:39 - Bands Having Unrealistic Expectations For Mick To Master It Like BFG Division 19:20 - Selecting Particular Instruments To Use Based On Frequency Range/Layering 21:30 - The Synth Wave Melody For BFG Division 23:20 - Originally No Guitars Were Allowed In DOOM 24:19 - Rip & Tear Was Originally Rejected/BFG Division Added Late In Development 26:25 - Implementation Of The DOOM Music 27:58 - Expectations Of DOOM Eternal/Direction Of Music For DOOM Eternal 30:16 - Writing The Music And Refining It 31:50 - Into Sandy’s City Remix Being Cut From DOOM Eternal 34:54 - Getting Feedback From Rejected Demos/Seagull Managers 36:20 - Mick Gordon Remixing DOOM For Smash Bros 37:15 - Mick Doesn’t Get Royalties 38:30 - Anonymity 40:25 - How Covid Changed The Game Industry 41:20 - Difference Between Composing For Indie & AAA 42:26 - Mick Hearing His Own Music In The Gym 43:12 - Mick’s Performance At The Game Awards 48:34 - Mick Tells Game Awards Smoke Story 49:27 - Mick Wants To Work On MK/Work Mick Has At The Moment 50:15 - Reaching Out For Projects/Challenge Of Making Games 52:49 - Designers Aren’t Sure What They Want From A Composer 54:10 - Mick Actively Moves Away From Doing Projects To Similar 55:58 - Working With Bring Me The Horizon 57:33 - Differences Between Working On Music Projects As Opposed To Games 59:41 - Spinals Theme Process 1:01:10 - Mick Shows Off Kangling instrument Used For Spinals Theme 1:02:41 - Analysing Robin Beanlands Spinal Theme For Killer instinct 1:03:24 - Sampling Killer Instinct 1:04:00 - When To Keep Themes Close To The Original Tracks And When Veer Off Course 1:05:55 - Cinders Theme 1:06:25 - Robin Beanland/Recording Of Original Killer Instinct 1:07:15 - Playing Music By Ear

Jack Wall is a video game/film/television composer he is mostly known for composing for a majority of the games in the Call Of Duty, Mass Effect and Myst franchises. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - www.jackwall.net TWITTER - @jackwallmusic INSTAGRAM - @jackwallmusic FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/jackwallmusic/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:36- Jack Walls Music Evolution/Process Of Writing 03:42 - How Jack Comes Up With An Idea 05:55 - Jack Walls Process Of Composing Mass Effect 1 & 2 07:19 - Implementation Of Music ME1 Different From Jack’s Intention 09:10 - The Reason Jack Didn’t Return To Score Mass Effect 3 10:29 - Scoring Various Call Of Duty Games 12:33 - Working Under Deadlines 13:33 - Jack Doesn’t Get Writers Block 14:55 - Why Jack Prefers Live Orchestra Vs Synthetic Orchestra 17:00 - Game Publishing Covering Live Orchestra 18:05 - Jack Has A Team To Help Write Orchestra Notations 19:45 - Why Jack Left Civil Engineering To Do Music Full Time 22:20 - How Jack Got Work In The Music Industry 27:27 - Jack Didn’t Play Many Games Before Composing For Video Games/Myst 29:08 - Jack Wouldn’t Want To Compose In The Older Days 30:40 - Jack Doesn’t Have A Favourite OST That He’s Worked On 31:20 - Jack Doesn’t Aspire To Work On Any Particular Franchise 32:54 - Lost Planet 3 33:50 - John Williams/Meeting John Williams 36:12 - Jack Loves Having Anonymity/Being Respected By His Peers 38:00 - Jack’s Career Has Always Been Steady/ 38:47 - Getting Burned Out/Composing In Portugal Due To Covid 40:00 - How Jack Prevents Himself From Getting Burned Out/Travelling 41:29 - Getting Royalties/Jack’s Music In The Olympics 44:22 - Freedom To Compose/Being Hired For Collaboration 47:50 - Jack Wants To Be Challenged With Music/Not Having A Signature Sound 50:20 - Its Hard To Be Hired For Composing For Film/Jack Prefers Scoring Games 52:06 - Difference Between Composing For Television & Film Vs Video Games 54:04 - Where To Follow Jack Wall On Social Media

Dean Hall is a video game designer who came into prominence for his game DayZ. He has founder video game company Rocketwerkz and are releasing Icarus there first AAA game in 2021. SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter - @rocket2guns Instagram - @thedeanhall Website - rocketwerkz.com Twitch - @rocket2guns TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:34 - How Serving In The Military Influenced Dean’s Video Game Design/Military Training 01:55 - How Day Z Idea Came About 03:01 - When Dean Realised Day Z Would Become Big 04:47 - Online Hate/Criticism That Hurts 06:45 - Social Media Is A Necessity 08:07 - Pros & Cons Of Social Media 08:41 - What Dean Focuses On First On A Gaming Project 09:48 - How Long Icarus Has Been In Development/Release Date 12:11 - Why Cyberpunk Is A Success/Mistakes CDPR Made 14:05 - Difference Between NZ & Singapore Military/Trying To Psych You Out 17:40 - Kiwis Good & Bad Qualities 20:59 - NZ On Air Should Fund Kiwi Gamers & Youtubers 22:54 - Competing For WETA Staff/Cashbacks For Films 25:26 - Dean Isnt Good At Playing The Political Game 26:20 - Tencent’s Involvement In Rocketwerkz 27:48 - Dean Approaches Gaming Differently Now Compared To Day Z 29:15 - How Covid & Lockdown Affected Rocketwerkz & Development Of Icarus 32:10 - Rocketwerkz Developed A Plan When Covid First Appeared 33:50 - Cybersecurity Is Important 34:40 - Dean Thinks NZ Was Lucky In Handling Covid/Capitalising On Luck 37:34 - NZ Accountants & Lawyers are Terrible Advisers Of Risk 39:03 - Kiwis Don’t Know How To Deal With Failure 42:05 - Being A Product Of Your Environment 43:12 - Kiwis Need To Be More Pragmatic 44:20 - Dean Does Introspection 45:33 - Icarus Is influenced By Skyrim And Ark 46:49 - Game Design Is About What You Dont Put In 49:27 - Game Design Is A Team Effort 51:07 - Where To Follow Dean 52:30 - Dean Wont Release Icarus Until Its Complete/

Tiffany Vollmer was the original voice actress for Bulma in Dragonball Z. She now mentors a lot of young people at MediaTech. In 2020 she went through the ringer as she caught covid and her life fell apart around her. SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theogbulma/​ Twitter - @TiffanyVolmer Instagram - @theogbulma TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - Previous Pandemics/Pandemics Without Internet 02:27 - How Tiffany Got Into Performing Arts 05:05 - Feeling Good When You Prove Someone Wrong/Losing Friendships 07:09 - 2020 Was A Bad Year For Tiffany 08:49 - Tiffany Gives Her Backstory 15:15 - Tiffanys Life Came Crashing Down Due To Covid/Friends Dying 17:05 - Tiffany’s Symptoms When She Had Covid 21:34 - Coming Out Of The Otherside Of Covid 25:28 - Mentoring/Giving Back/MediaTech 27:05 - Tiffany’s Students Knowing She Voiced Bulma/Teaching Performing Arts Classes 30:20 - Tiffany Loves That She’s Not A Celebrity/Bringing Joy To People 32:40 - DBZ Not Paying Well 34:10 - Being Replaced For DBZ Kai 36:55 - Christopher Sabat/ Tiffany Has Moved On Now 38:04 - At The Time Tiffany Thought Her Career Was Over/Opportunities Arose In Hindsight 39:00 - Tiffany Is Grateful For Bulma Role/Tiffany Gets Mistaken For Amy Schauer 40:30 - Anonymity 41:14 - Backstory Of Tiffany’s Bulma Audition 46:02 - Tiffany’s First Recording Of Bulma 46:50 - Realising Bulma Is The Main Female Of The Series 47:58 - Carol Burnett Inspiration For Bulma 49:18 - Screaming As Bulma/Lost Registers Of Her Voice 52:00 - Raising The Pitch To Play Young Bulma In Dragonball 53:34 - Tiffany Doesn’t Remember Dragonball GT 54:24 - Recording Vocals For Video Games Is Tedious 56:40 - Reece Commends Tiffany For Not Being On Her High Horse 57:45 - Evolution Of Make-Up 1:00:06 - Digital Make Up Classes/Future Of Acting Classes 1:03:01 - Evolution Of Technology & Creative Arts 1:03:57 - Tiffany Got To Do Everything She Wanted To Do 1:06:18 - Where To Follow Tiffany/Facebook Is Bigger In NZ 1:08:16 - Reece Gets Emotional About Tiffanys Story

Rob Vickery is a venture capital investor who has been primarily based out of Silicon Valley for the last 10 years. He moved to NZ in 2020 to help start up businesses in NZ to thrive. He is on a mission as managing partner at Hillfarrance to help create a billion dollar NZ business. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - https://hillfarrance.com Twitter - @VickeryRob LinkedIn - Rob Vickery #Investing #Entrepreneurs #Startups #VentureCapital 00:00 - Intro 00:32 - What Is A Venture Capitalist 02:55 - Having A Good Bullshitter Meter 05:05 - Rob’s Reason For Moving To NZ From California 07:57 - Cultivating NZ Entrepreneurs/NZ Capitalising On How It Handled Covid 09:53 - Trying To Educate Government On Venture Capitalists 11:37 - Rise Of E-Sports/Why Rob Doesn’t Invest In E-Sports 13:58 - Difference Between Entrepreneurs Of NZ Vs California/What NZ Entrepreneurs Don’t Do 17:57 - Rob Loves His Job/Honour Of Working With Entrepreneurs 20:05 - Venture Capitalists Are Entrepreneurs As Well 20:29 - Working With Maori & Pasifika Entrepreneurs/Maori & Pasifika Are Amazing Salesman 23:18 - Hillfarrance Will Be Opening In Hamilton 24:21 - Roadshow With Entrepreneurial Community Over The Next Few Months 25:35 - Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make 30:07 - Thinking Global Instead Of Local 32:17 - Things About NZ Rob Was Surprised By 33:44 - Rob Was Surprised By NZ’s Poverty & Housing Problem 35:01 - Tall Poppy Syndrome Is A Huge Risk To Entrepreneurs In NZ 38:38 - Tall Poppy Syndrome Exists In Britain 39:40 - Combatting Tall Poppy Syndrome/Entrepreneurship Schools 43:44 - Covid Has Divided People 44:20 - Why America Is Divided 46:28 - How Trump, BLM & Covid Affected The Entrepreneurs In California & Silicon Valley/Why Rob Left America 54:50 - Arranging To Come To NZ Took Quite A Long Time/Rob Is Thankful To NZ 59:24 - Rob Doesn’t Like American Billionaires Taking Refuge In NZ Without Investing In The Country 1:03:25 - Gabe Newells/James Cameron Investment Into NZ 1:04:48 - Wealthy People/How Much Wealth Do You Realistically Need 1:06:30 - Northland Needs More Investment/Investing Into People 1:07:34 - Where To Follow Rob Vickery/Hillfarrence

Martin O'Donnell is a video game composer who has worked on numerous game but is famous for composing the original Halo up until Halo Reach, he also was audio director and oversaw sound effects and dialogue. He is considered one of the greatest video game composers of all time for his work on Halo. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - http://www.martyodonnellmusic.com TWITTER - @MartyTheElder YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7ivNZIEmepeJ3YhrkK7PJQ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MartytheElder/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Marty Being In GOAT Conversations 01:06 - How Long It Took For Marty To Realise The Impact Of The Halo Soundtrack 02:53 - Entertainment Conventions 03:32 - Marty’s Method To Composing 04:38 - Working Well Under Deadlines 05:57 - Writers Block 07:30 - Marty Open To Remixing Halo Themes For Smash Bros 08:57 - Evolution Of Work Environment At Bungie 12:09 - Microsoft & Bungie Initially Fighting Over Game Development 15:07 - Bungie Fighting With Activision 16:26 - Game Developers Becoming The Men In Suits 17:45 - Martin Thinks In Hindsight Microsoft Deal Was Ideal 18:30 - Halo Was The Golden Egg & Bungie Was The Golden Goose 20:23 - Marty’s Employee Contract With Microsoft 21:42 - Marty Butted Heads In His Last Year/Was Somewhat Aware He Would Get Fired 24:03 - Marty Was Shocked & Relieved At The Same Time From Being Fired 25:33 - Working On Sound Effects & Dialogue 28:29 - Marty Never Changed Any Of The Music By The Higher Ups 32:12 - Marty Open To Scoring For TV & Film 33:19 - Marty Met Peter Jackson For Halo Film 34:06 - Background Behind The Halo Film 37:19 - Halo Film Ideas Ended Up In District 9 39:20 - District 9 Being A Great Film 40:29 - WETA Designs For District 9 41:39 - Marty’s Relationship with Bungie & Microsoft These Days 43:30 - One Individual Can Influence A Whole Company/Bill Gates/Steve Jobs 45:66 - Geniuses Still Being Flawed 46:43 - Marty’s Future Endeavours/Highwire Games 48:59 - Tolkien Estate Contacted Highwire About Golem Game 51:00 - The Pain Of Trademarks/Copyright 52:20 - Getting Royalties For Halo Soundtrack/Music Publisher Tried To Pull Marty’s Own Music 54:40 - Marty’s Early Demos/Advice To Young Composers 58:01 - Marty’s Inception Stage 59:34 - Meeting Fans Expectations/Going Viral 1:03:58 - Marty’s Wife Keeps Him Grounded 1:05:06 - Where To Follow Marty/Highwire Games 1:05:45 - Marty Wants To Come To NZ

Fraser Grut is on an ambitious mission to film 10,000 peoples dreams and isn't due to finish this task until 2044. SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram - frasergrut TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro/Technical Difficulties 00:54 - How 10,000 Dreams Project Started 02:25 - Fraser Has Wanted To Quit Multiple Times 04:30 - Family & Friends Forced Fraser To Keep Going 06:32 - What Fraser Does Behind The Scenes/Fraser Loves Talking To People About Dreams 07:50 - How Fraser Got Celebrities To Do It 08:44 - Guessing Emails/How Many Emails Fraser Sends A Day 12:05 - Time Of Day Fraser Sends Emails/App So You Know When People Have Checked It 13:56 - Kaley Cuoco Blocked Fraser 14:30 - Domino Effect Of Getting Celebrities 15:33 - Wording Emails Correctly/Being Turned Down Multiple Times 16:50 - How Reece Gets Guests On Kiwi Talkz 17:51 - How Reece Got The Composers Of Dragonball Z On His Podcast 20:02 - The Guests Reece Would Like To Get On Kiwi Talkz The Most 21:05 - Fraser Uses An Email Template/Name Drop 22:25 - Reece & Frasers Email Screw Ups 24:11 - Fraser Screwed Up With Jack Goodhue 25:26 - Being A Perfectionist Filming Dreams 27:51 - Doing 10,000 Dreams Took A Toll On His Relationship 29:00 - Having Deadlines Can Be A Good Thing 32:07 - How Fraser Gets Out Of A Negative State Of Mind 35:04 - Fraser Tells Story About Mark Cuban 37:19 - Dreams Randomly Appearing In His Email Inbox 38:32 - Having To Complete The Mission Of 10,000 Dreams 39:56 - Being Young And Playing The Long Game 40:56 - Doing 1 Year Was Harder Than Doing 4 Years/Making The Impossible Possible 42:29 - Fraser Got Hate For His Camera Style/Reaction To The Project 44:00 - People Giving Up On Podcasts/Advantage That Fraser Has 47:43 - People Who Dont Have A Dream 49:14 - Fraser Runs A Freelancing Film Company 50:09 - A Lot Of People Reach Out To Fraser Now/Bigger It Gets The Lesser The Chase 51:50 - Fraser Only Wants To Film One Person A Day So It Takes Longer/Being An Historian 53:44 - Covid Can Be An OpportunityAdapting To Zoom 55:42 - Took Fraser A Long Time To Realise Its About The Dream Not About The Filming/Wiggles Story 1:00:34 - Taking NZ For Granted 1:01:31 - Where To Follow 10,000 Dreams/Fraser Grut

David Wise Is considered one of the greatest video game composers of all time primarily for his score on the Donkey Kong Country games, he is also one of the sampled video game composers as artists such as Drake & Childish Gambino have sampled his music in songs. SOCIAL MEDIA Website - www.davidwise.co.uk Twitter - @David_Wise TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - NDA’s 01:12 - Work Post Donkey Kong 01:58 - David Didn’t Realise How Big His Donkey Kong Soundtrack Was Until The Internet Blew Up 02:29 - OC-Remix 02:47 - Donkey Kong Country 2/Pushing The Tech For SNES 03:52 - Jamming Sam Miller/Compressed Sounds 06:06 - Delay Had To Be Simulated 06:52 - Chucking Grant Kirkhope In The Deep End With HEX 07:48 - Haunted Hall 09:43 - Being Isolated/Covid 10:14 - David Would Hum Tunes Before Recording In HEX 11:05 - Krooks March/Castle Theme 12:15 - Problem Solving 12:45 - Tropical Freeze Is What DKC Would Sound Like Without Limitations 13:29 - Live Instrumentation On Tropical Freeze 14:04 - Collaboration With Retro 14:45 - Kenji Yamamoto’s Involvement In Tropical Freeze 15:56 - Translators With Kenji Yamamoto 17:08 - David Praises Kenji’s Music On Metroid 17:47 - Time David Would Spend At Retro 18:28 - Writers Block 19:20 - Visual Cues To Composing Well Working On Donkey Kong 20:55 - Time It Would Take To Compose On One Track 21:33 - High Tide Ride 22:36 - David Was Largely Left To Do What He Wants 23:23 - Felt Nice To Do Tropical Freeze As Donkey Kong Put Him On The Map 24:14 - Doing Different Genres 25:34 - David Would Like To Work On Film/Advantages Of Scoring For Film 26:50 - Film Scoring Process Vs Game Scoring Process 27:40 - Escaping The Stigma 28:05 - David Would Like To Score For Smash Bros 29:00 - David’s Time In Japan/Nintendo Are Secretive 29:46 - Rare & Retro Culture Difference 30:40 - So Many Rappers Sampling His Music In Hip-Hop 32:05 - David Is Working On Multiple Projects Right Now 32:50 - Covid Has Caused Him Delays 35:40 - David’s Process To Compose 38:30 - What Instruments David Uses To Compose 39:06 - Collaborating With The Former Rare Composes 40:25 - David Tries To Outdo His Previous Compositions 41:45 - Working Under Pressure/Mixing 43:39 - A Lot Of Different Instruments Used In Tropical Freeze/Quantising 45:26 - Stickerbrush Symphony Credits Music In Tropical Freeze 46:33 - Nintendo Told David When To Remix Previous DKC Tracks For Tropical Freeze 46:55 - Aquatic Ambience 48:17 - How Remixes In Tropical Freeze Ended Up There 49:58 - No 2 Days Are The Same When Composing 50:39 - Aquatic Ambience Took 5 Weeks To Write 52:38 - David Will Never Go Back To HEX 53:20 - Saving Time When Composing 55:17 - Where To Follow David Wise

Jim Johnston was the main composer for over 30 years at WWE and is responsible for some of the iconic themes from Ultimate Warrior & Undertaker to Stone Cold & The Rock. WEBSITE jimjohnston.com TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Jim Johnston Wants To Come To New Zealand/Lord Of The Rings 01:19 - Yellowstone Park 02:46 - How Jim Composed At WWE & Post WWE/Having To Many Ideas 05:33 - Jim Realises In Hindsight He Needed WWE’s Strict Deadlines 06:17 - Jim Doesn’t Get Writers Block 07:27 - Vince McMahon/Information Jim Got About WWE Superstars 09:00 - WWE Superstars Would Try To Pitch Music To Jim 10:33 - Jim Wasn’t Approachable 11:38 - Deadlines To Compose/Jim Liked The Pressure 14:10 - Jim Didn’t Just Compose The WWE Entrance Music 14:52 - Jim Johnston Would Love To Compose For Hollywood Films 16:40 - Jim Always Wants To Convey Emotion Through Music 18:08 - Politics Of Hollywood/ Jim Is Confident He Could Score Well For Hollywood 20:22 - Stigma Of Composing For WWE 21:32 - Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson 24:29 - How Jim Johnston Is Able To Easily Write Different Styles 27:50 - Every Instrument Jim Can Play 29:06 - Jim Johnston Rarely Collaborates/Jim’s Stage Fright 32:10 - Stage Fright Hasn’t Improved Over The Years 34:38 - Jim Would Be Less Nervous Performing Virtually/Jim Is Anti Lip Singing 36:06 - Jim Does Want To Perform LIVE 36:43 - Jim Hasn’t Been Asked To Be In WWE Hall Of Fame 37:31 - Jim Doesn’t Understand Why He Hasn’t Been Asked In WWE Hall Of Fame 38:39 - Jim Was A Contractor/Workforce System Between NZ & America 40:57 - Jim Composed To Cope After Being Fired From WWE 43:31 - Jim’s Daily Schedule 45:02 - Ultimate Warriors Theme 48:10 - Simple Ideas Are The Most Effective 48:50 - Undertakers Theme 51:50 - Undertaker Walkout Wouldn’t Work Without The Theme 53:41 - Wrestling Isn’t Fake/The Ring Is Hard 57:18 - Social Media/Being Stopped In The Street 59:00 - Jim Still Loves Composing 59:40 - Jim Is Doing An EP Of Themes 1:01:48 - Jim Open To Composing For Video Games 1:03:58 - Melody Isn’t Heard As Much In Film These Days/Jaws 1:06:06 - Jim Likes Normal Conversations 1:07:30 - Cliche Interviews

The Armageddon Expo is NZ's biggest Multi-Genre Entertainment/Comic Book Convention and has been running for over 20 years. Bill Geradts is the founder of the expo. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - https://www.armageddonexpo.com/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/Armageddonexpo TWITTER - @Armageddonexpo INSTAGRAM - @Armageddonexpo TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - How Armageddon Expo Was Created 01:50 - Bill Is Surprised By How Big Armageddon Became/Contemplating Retirement 04:34 - Why There Aren’t More Conventions/Armageddon Isn’t A Corporate Company 07:29 - Regional Shows Vs Auckland Shows/Negative Comments 09:07 - How Bill Decides Guest List 10:20 - How Covid Changed How Armageddon Was Planned/Positives From Covid 13:45 - Things To Consider For Guests At Armageddon 2021 14:44 - Accomodation For Celebrities Guests 15:33 - Corporate Companies Prevented Proper Showings This Year 16:34 - Cons Of Singular Events/Armageddons Expo Advantage Of Diversity 20:01 - Armageddon Foot Traffic Annually 20:55 - How Long It Takes To Organise Auckland Armageddon Expo 22:20 - Bill’s Daily Schedule/Holidays 24:02 - Bill Is Inspired By Other Conventions Overseas/Comic Con 25:25 - Bill Cuts Off Trolls On Social Media/Fans Don’t Appreciate Jeopardising Business 27:02 - Dunedin Armageddon Expo Didn’t Make Money/Bad Press In Dunedin 28:34 - Armageddon Expo Wouldn’t Have Survived Without Wage Subsidy 29:35 - Armageddon Barely Breaks Even 30:29 - Balancing Business Vs Accomodating Fans 30:58 - Guests Bill Hasn’t Managed To Get Yet For The Expo 31:36 - Getting NZ Based Guests Is Difficult/Peter Jackson/Agents Are Difficult 33:40 - Cost Of Bringing Guests Over 35:07 - Certain Agents Are Difficult 36:51 - NZ Is Not Unique For Actors 37:28 - Armageddon Expo Is Limited By Small Venues In NZ 39:35 - Bill Could Get More Celebrities If Venues Were Bigger/Exploring VR 41:20 - Corporates Entirely Revolve Around America 42:04 - On Investors Buying Armageddon 42:40 - 2020 Has Been A Stressful Year For Bill 44:01 - No One Else Could Start A Convention Like Armageddon 44:56 - Armageddon Expo Usually Runs Very Well/Last Minute Problems 46:49 - Sponsors 47:53 - Bill Delegates A Lot Of Work 49:53 - How Bill Stays Up With Whats Going On 53:50 - Blocking Out Negativity/2021 55:08 - Where To Follow Armageddon Expo On Social Media

Jed Brophy is a great Kiwi actor who is most well known for working on a majority of Peter Jacksons films, most prominently multiple orcs in Lord Of The Rings and the Dwarf Nori in The Hobbit Trilogy. SOCIAL MEDIA Website - https://www.jedbrophy.nz Twitter - @BrophyJed Instagram - @jedibrophy TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:24 - How Jed Got The Jedi Name 00:57 - Jed Is Open To Being In Star Wars 01:36 - Agent In America/How The American System Works 02:46 - Jed Doesn’t Like L.A./Jed Believes NZ Is Amazing 04:10 - Jed’s Mental Health Takes A Downturn From Big Cities 05:09 - Jed Contemplated Living In Vancouver 05:35 - How Jed Became Peter Jackson’s Go To Actor/Peter Jackson’s Direction 08:10 - Playing Orc’s In LOTR 08:40 - Prosthetic Work/Jed Tells LOTR Prosthetic Work Story 11:27 - Different Voices For The Orcs/Fangorn Forest Story 13:40 - Shooting Differences Between LOTR & The Hobbit/Green Screen 15:41 - Sketches & Miniatures To Help Actors/Rohan Set/VFX 17:06 - Jed Interviewed Peter Jackson About Post Production 18:23 - Motion Capture 19:18 - Steven Spielberg Directing Tin Tin Via Satellite 20:08 - NZ Needs To Invest More In Technology/Film Industry Works Together In NZ 21:20 - Avatar 2/James Cameron/James & Peter Are Geniuses 22:13 - Jed’s Work On District 9 24:15 - Adlibbing On The Hobbit/Martin Freeman Loved Adlibbing 25:44 - Effort To Make Cast & Crew Bond During LOTR & The Hobbit 27:09 - iFit Job/Graham McTavish/New Zealands Beauty 29:25 - NZ Becoming Polluted/Underfunded Infrastructure 31:20 - NZ Should Fine People For Littering/Educating People 32:30 - Kiwis Not Appreciating New Zealand 33:01 - Film Crews On LOTR Made Conscious Effort To Protect Environment 33:58 - Jed’s Favourite Place To Visit In NZ 34:47 - Jed’s Fitness/Jed Lost Roles For Being To Fit/Competition 37:17 - Voice Acting Work/Mimicking Getting Jed Into Trouble 39:47 - Jed Doesn’t Rate Himself/What Jed Did During Lockdown 41:08 - Stand Up Comedy 42:00 - Positive Effects Of Covid-19/This Generation Suffering 43:30 - Problems Within NZ/Problems With Solving Housing 47:00 - Educating With Film 48:31 - Shooting Films Now On A Phone 49:44 - Staying Up Technology/Younger People Knowing Tech 50:39 - NZ Doesn’t Have A Mobile Film Festival/Film Commission Behind The Times 53:10 - Making The Film Commission Understand Shooting On Mobile Phones/Mobile Phone Films 57:19 - Warner Bros Interfered With The Hobbit 1:00:05 - Horse Gallop Scenes In LOTR 1:01:00 - LOTR Is Synonymous With NZ/Tourism From LOTR 1:02:30 - NZ’s Landscapes 1:03:44 - Martin Freeman Was Annoyed By NZ’s Beauty 1:04:19 - The Beauty Of NZ Is Unparalleled/Glenorchy 1:05:05 - NZ Offers Amazing Beauty In Close Proximity 1:06:41 - Where To Follow Jed Brophy On Social Media

ZAP is a hip-hop artist hailing from Tauranga who is a master of rapping double time. Rap Beat Produced by Dr.Hayden SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - Zap Instagram - @zap_nz TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:46 - Zap Asks Reece Questions 01:50 - How Zap Got Into Hip-Hop 03:22 - American Culture/Gang Culture 05:17 - Who ZAP Is Inspired By/Scribe 06:21 - How ZAP Writes 07:18 - How ZAP Wrote Pieces/J.Dot & Hooligang 08:32 - Bad Mixing 09:20 - Who ZAP Would Love To Collaborate With/David Dallas 10:05 - Assholes In Hip-Hop 11:42 - Martial Arts 12:00 - One Main Source Income With Side Hustles/Unmotivated People 13:15 - People Not Understanding How Long It Takes To Write One Song 14:07 - People With Fake Lifestyles/Social Media 16:00 - How the ZAP Name Came About 17:07 - Being A Good Or Bad Judge Of Character 19:07 - Multicultralism Of Auckland 20:00 - ZAP Is A Fan Of Kiwi Talkz 20:32 - ZAP Interacting With Different Walks Of Life 21:51 - Pasifika & Maori The Main Demographic Of Hip-Hop 22:48 - Which Ethnic Group Has The Most Weirdos 23:52 - Reece’s Views On Religion 26:22 - Being Accepted As A White Hip-Hop Artist 27:42 - Reece’s Top Artists/Kendrick Lamar 28:29 - New School Hip-Hop 29:40 - What Impresses Reece/Club & Gangsta Songs 30:57 - Bone Thugs & Twista 31:40 - How ZAP Constructs His Bars 33:06- How Reece Writes/Chronicles Of Cancer/Sexy Doctor 35:52 - Songs Of Substance 35:30 - Battle Rap 37:52 - Skolar Vs Diz/Humiliation In Battle Rap 38:45 - Dlar 40:15 - Difference Between Studio & Zoom With Kiwi Talkz 41:20 - Reece Doesn’t Want To Just Do Hip-Hop Episodes 41:50 - Tyson Tyler 43:08 - Lockdown 44:20 - Wellington 45:05 - Feeling Old Clubbing/Clubs In Hamilton 46:23 - Living In Auckland/Immigrants In Auckland 47:22 - Traffic In Mumbai/Reece Tells A Story About India 48:40 - Meth/Why People Drink/ZAPs Drinking 50:40 - Chloe Swarbrick 51:21 - Reece’s Views On The Cannabis Reform 52:35 - Pesticides On Cannabis/Cannabis Legislation 53:38 - Frog In The Boiling Water Analogy 54:45 - ZAP Thinks Reece Eats Frogs 55:37 - Battling Chloe Swarbrick 55:25 - People Turning On Jacinda Ardern/ Reddit NZ Being Left Leaning 57:30 - Conspiracy Theories 58:45 - The Future For ZAP/Mai FM 59:33 - White People Being Disadvantaged In Hip-Hop In NZ/White Privilege 1:01:53 - Hip Hop Summit 1:02:25 - Where To Follow ZAP 1:03:28 - ZAP Praises Reece/Fake Personalities 1:04:23 - How Reece Gets On The Same Level As His Guests 1:05:44 - What Podcasts Reece Listens Too 1:06:21 - Reece’s Communicating 1:08:10 - ZAP Spits A Verse

Graeme Norgate was a former composer at video game company Rare. He is most well known for composing for a majority of Rare games such as Goldeneye, Killer Instinct & Blast Corps. He is also the main composer of Timesplitters. SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - Graeme Norgate TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:15 - Graeme Norgate’s Setup 01:11 - Evolution Of How Graemes Composing 03:20 - How Graeme Ended Up At Rare 07:00 - How Composers At Rare Were Picked To Compose Games 10:25 - Graemes Way Of Working At Rare 12:29 - Goldeneye’s Music/Bond Theme 13:37 - Egyptian Temple Theme 14:56 - How Graeme Composers 16:02 - Goldeneye Pipe Sound 18:43 - Composing For Killer Instinct 25:45 - Mick Gordons Killer Instinct Soundtrack 26:52 - Relationship With Robin Beanland 28:06 - Good Camaraderie With All The Other Rare Composers/Robin Helping Graeme 30:32 - Composing Timesplitters/Perfect Dark 35:26 - Audio Director At Crytek/What Is An Audio Director 38:39 - Graeme Is Currently Working On Mobile Games 40:56 - Graeme Doesn’t Work To A Routine & Doesn’t Know His Method Of Composing 43:44 - Writers Block 45:28 - Rare Staff Not Knowing How Well They Were Regarded 47:50 - Graeme Wasn’t Approached For Killer Instinct (2013)/ 49:25 - Music Becoming Dated 50:16 - Mick Gordon 51:22 - Travelling To Research Music Not Possible In The Olden Days 52:55 - Graeme Doesn’t Want To Work On Film 55:35 - Game Music Is Diverse/Game Music Has Faster Turnaround 58:03 - TV & Film Industry Is Cut Throat/Differences Between Game & TV Music 1:00:15 - Gaming Is Only Increasing/Older Generation Don’t Understand Gaming 1:01:41 - Grant Kirkhope/Its Who You Know Not What You Know 1:05:03 - Where To Follow Graeme Norgate

Kimberley Crossman is a well known actress, author, presenter, producer, writer, director, dancer, stand-up comedian (Basically ridiculously talented). She also hosts a podcast called Pretty Depressed. SOCIAL MEDIA Website - kimberleycrossman.com Instagram - @kimcrossman Facebook - Kimberley Crossman TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 01:12 - What Kim Has Been Doing During Covid-19 02:56 - L.A. Humbled Kim/Realities Of L.A. 04:43 - Dealing With Rejection/What Takes A Toll On Kim 06:32 - Kim Believes She Is An Intense Person 07:47 - Kim’s Depression 09:40 - Chloe Swarbrick 11:50 - Interviewing Celebrities 13:13 - Celebrities Kim Gets Nervous Around 14:04 - Kim Prefers To Audition Rather Than Trying To Get Favours 14:43 - Taika Waititi/NZ On The Map Now In L.A. 15:35 - Kiwi Accent 16:55 - Kim’s Time In Syria & India And How It Shaped Her 23:05 - Clean Air In L.A. During Lockdown 24:24 - How Kimberley Ended Up On The Project 25:22 - John Campbell 26:03 - Kim’s Swearing/Brownyn Directing Kim’s Career 27:35 - How Kim Became An Actress 29:15 - Reece Tells His Shortland Street Audition Story 30:31 - More Opportunities For Men In Acting 31:07 - What Roles Kim Gets 31:51 - LL Cool J & The Rock Aren’t As Big As Kim Thought 33:00 - How Kim Sees Herself On Screen 33:30 - Sometimes A Director Cant Convey What They Want 35:08 - Things Kim Hasn’t Done But What She Would Love To Do/Hollywood Hierarchy 37:24 - Hollywood Vs NZ People 38:34 - Kim Has Been Offered Roles But Auditions If She Doesn’t Feel Right For The Role 40:05 - Kim Improvises Without Permission 41:54 - Kim Wants To Be In Amazons Lord Of The Rings 42:38 - Learning The American Accent 44:05 - Fake It Till You Make It 45:05 - Boundaries/Kim’s Bad Eating Habits 48:25 - Dealing With Fame/Politics 50:12 - Kim Was Disappointed By Kiwis Giving Her Shit About BLM 51:20 - Social Media/Kim Tries To Understand A Different Perspective 53:04 - What Reece & Kim Learned During Covid/Lockdown 54:57 - Where To Follow Kim Crossman

Stephanie Nadolny is a well known voice actor who is widely praised for her role as Young Gohan In Dragonball Z and Young Goku In Dragonball. SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter - @StephVox Instagram - @stephanienadolny Facebook - Stephanie Nadolny TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:47 - How Stephanie Got Into Voice Acting & Got Cast In Dragonball Z 04:22 - Stephanie Was Always Singing, Playing Music & Mimicking Voices 06:10 - The Audition Process For Gohan/Working On The Early Episodes 08:36 - Playing Young Goku In Dragonball 09:40 - Syncing Vocals With Mouth Flaps 12:13 - Stephanies Directing Opportunities/Singing For Funimation 13:14 - Funimation Expanding Over Time 14:42 - Stephanie Is Not Very Tech Savvy 15:59 - Difficulty Of Doing Gohan Yelling 18:26 - Stephanie Was Notified Of Story In Advance/How Director Would Guide Stephanie 20:18 - Stephanie’s Favourite DBZ Moments To Voice 23:33 - Stephanie Tried To Lobby To Be Adult Gohan As Well 24:15 - Voicing East Kai 25:22 - Background Voices 26:48 - Why Stephanie Was Replaced On DBZ Kai Going Forward 29:58 - Going To Anime Conventions/Cameo 32:23 - Stephanie’s Time In New Zealand & Australia For Conventions 37:18 - Stephanie Loves New Zealand 39:20 - Perth 40:58 - L.A. Based Industries Moving To Texas 42:22 - Stephanie Originally Wanted To Move To L.A. Before Dragonball Z 44:40 - Covid-19’s Effect On Stephanie’s Work 47:35 - Stephanie Loves Fans And Talking 48:29 - The Hardships Stephanie Had Growing Up 51:04 - Anti Bullying Campaign 53:22 - Stephanie Tells A Personal Story 55:21 - Reece Tells His Story On How DBZ Helped Him 56:32 - Stephanie Working Through Hardships And Coming Out The Otherside 58:38 - Where To Follow Stephanie Nadolny

Mark Hadlow is an NZ Actor & Comedian and is well known for his work with Peter Jackson particularly for his role as Dori the Dwarf in The Hobbit Films. SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram - @therealmarkhadlow Twitter - @mark_markhadlow TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:52 - Having A Good Work Ethic/Peter Jackson & His Effect On NZ Economy 02:52 - Hobbiton Being A Huge Tourism Attraction 04:02 - WETA/Richard Taylor/NZ Keeping Up With Overseas 05:20 - Bringing Back The Live Theatre Experience/Hamilton Film Vs Live 08:05 - Reece Speaks On His Brother Doing Live Theatre 09:13 - Film & Television Vs Theatre 12:15 - NZ Are As Good At Theatre As Everyone Else/Theatre Not Funded Enough In NZ 13:06 - NZ’s Handling Of Covid/How Film & Theatre Can Prosper Here 14:13 - Climate Change 16:32 - Travelling Expands Your Horizons/Tackling Poverty 18:24 - NZ’s Reliance On Farming 19:35 - Politics Being Tribal/Personal Attacks In Politics 21:29 - How Covid-19 Affected Mark & His Business/Wage Subsidy 23:25 - Preparations Mark Made After Lockdown 26:03 - Billy T James/What Mark Learned From Billy T James 29:03 - Working On The Hobbit 31:00 - Bonding with Jed Brophy & Adam Brown 33:22 - Martin Freeman As Bilbo 34:47 - The Dori Prosthetics & Make Up 36:47 - Dwarf Bootcamp 38:20 - Green Screen & The Burt Troll Motion Capture 41:25 - The Barrel Chase 43:40 - The Hobbit Shoot Was A Year 44:37 - Watching The Amazing Actors Work 46:24 - Staying Grounded Despite The Fame Of The Hobbit 49:13 - People Stopping Mark In The Streets 50:49 - Working On Mortal Engines 54:15 - Mark Got Autograph From Les Dawson 54:50 - Accents 57:31 - Voice Acting/Radio Ads 1:00:53 - Mark Loves An Acting Challenge/Preventing Tunnel Vision/Emails 1:02:33 - Emotional Communication Is Being Lost Due To Social Media 1:06:17 - The Older & Younger Generations Can Learn From Each Other/Hand Signal For Being Grumpy Old Men 1:07:28 - Yes People 1:08:12 - Mark Gets Anxiety About Auditions/Theatre Auditions 1:09:50 - Mistakes That Actors Make At Auditions/Musicals 1:11:50 - Jesus Christ Superstar Story/Mark Cant Do Rhyme 1:14:40 - Where To Follow Mark Hadlow 1:16:08 - MAMIL

Linda Young is a voice actor for Funimation who is well known for playing the villainous Frieza from Dragonball Z during its original English Dub. Twitter - @LindaYoungVA Instagram - @lindasorta TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - How Covid-19 Has Affected Linda’s Work 02:03 - Working With An Agent/Comic-Con 05:00 - Singing In A Band 06:04 - Linda Always Wanted To Be An Actor & Singer/Linda Didn’t Know What Anime Was 07:10 - How Linda Got The Role Of Frieza 08:14 - First Day Of Work As Frieza/The Direction Frieza Got For The Character 11:02 - Process Of Recording Voice/Vocals Recorded One Line At A Time 13:15 - Yelling And Not Hurting Vocal Chords 15:10 - Losing Your Voice Well Your Recording/How To Keep Your Vocal Chords Clear 16:52 - Avoiding Foods That Affect The Voice/Linda’s Allergies 18:58 - Linda Tells Story Of Losing Her Voice And Getting A Steroid Shot 20:15 - Recording With The Script 21:13 - Repeating Lines Over And Over 22:02 - Different Variations Of Frieza’s Voice From Transformations 23:08 - Funimation Are Great At Directing Voice Actors 26:00 - Enunciating With Voice Acting 27:02 - Alternating Between Baba & Frieza/Set Times At Work 29:05 - Particular Scenes Linda Remembers From DBZ/Lines Linda Would Mess Up All The Time 31:09 - Linda Never Believed Frieza Was Dead After Goku Killed Him/Baba Voice 32:10 - Why Linda Stopped Doing Frieza’s Voice From DBZ KAI Going Forward/Linda Was Sad When This Happened 33:25 - Comic Con Came Up After Stopping Frieza Role/Reece Wants To Try Get Linda To NZ 34:50 - Signings/Strange Fans 39:18 - A Lot Of Linda’s Friends Didn’t Know She Did The Voice Of Frieza/Linda Doesn’t Really Talk About Herself 43:21 - Linda’s Hobbies 44:52 - Mass Exodus From California To Texas/Funimation Primarily Based In Texas 46:40 - Evolution Of Funimation 48:04 - You Always Voice Record By Yourself 50:05 - Difference Between Original Dub And DVD Dub In Terms Of Linda Redubbing 52:13 - Memory/Same Process From Show To Show 54:00 - Linda Doesn’t Audition Much These Days/Fanmail 57:14 - Linda Would Like To Do Some Voice Work For Disney/Lobbying For Acting Roles In L.A. 59:05 - Linda Speaks About Her Kids 1:00:27 - Normality Has Returned To NZ As Covid Isn’t In The Community 1:01:30 - Where To Follow Linda Young On Social Media/Twitter 1:03:33 - Linda Does The Frieza Accent Thanking Kiwi Talkz 1:04:11 - Fans Putting DB Super Scenes With Lindas Voice/Dedication Of Fans 1:06:00 - Reece Plans To Visit Dallas At Some Point

Grant Kirkhope is widely regarded as one of the greatest video game composers of all time for his work on such games as Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Goldeneye & Perfect Dark. He recently became the first western composer to work with Nintendo on Super Smash Bros Ultimate & Mario + Rabbids SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter - @grantkirkhope Instagram - @grantkirkhopecomposer Facebook - GrantKirkhopeComposer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantkirk... Goldeneye OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oL7V... Perfect Dark OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jID... Banjo Kazooie OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQNAV... Donkey Kong 64 OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9hUx... Kingdoms Of Amalur Reckoning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68VE8... Mario + Rabbids OST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGgI... TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro About Technical Issues 01:05 - Crazy Times/American Elections 01:32 - Green Card/How Long Grant Has Been In America 02:17 - Indie Films Grant Has Been Working 03:10 - Agents/Struggles Of Breaking Into The Film Industry 04:55 - Game Composers Looked Down Upon Compared To Film Composers 05:33 - Only Way To Get Film Composing Roles Is Through The Director/Fierce Competition For Film Composers 07:00 - Younger Directors Have Played Video Games So More Of A Chance Of Them Knowing Grant 08:26 - Films Not Having Memorable Tunes These Days/Games Now Having Music Cinematic Sequences 10:24 - Grant’s Process Of Composing 11:52 - Grant’s Work On Goldeneye 007/How He Composed For Goldeneye 007 14:41 - Grant Only Got Small Notes About Levels He Was Composing For 15:10 - Grant Got A Few Visuals For Banjo, Donkey Kong & Perfect Dark/Approach To Composing For Them 17:07 - Spiral Mountain/ Treasure Trove Cove/Mumbo’s Mountain 18:50 - Grant Didn’t Get Told Much To Rewrite Tunes At Rare 20:22 - Working With Nintendo For Smash Bros Banjo Arrangement/Banjo Kazooie Smash Bros Trailer 23:50 - Grant Is The First Western Composer To Work On Mario & Smash Bros 24:35 - Grant Has Better Communication With Nintendo Now 24:43 - Reece Thinks Grant Could Compose For Metroid Based On Perfect Dark OST 25:22 - To Be Employable You Have To Diversify As A Musician 26:09 - Working For A Company Vs Freelancing/Living In L.A. 28:05 - Grant Is Good With Money 28:55 - Grant Works Well Under Pressure/Grant Doesn’t Get Writers Block 31:05 - Grant Doesn’t Toss Away Work/Learning To Do What Your Told By Your Boss On Rewriting Tunes 33:30 - Employment Laws In UK Vs America 34:25 - Grants Friends Losing Jobs For Arguing With A Creative Director/Creative People Are Sensitive 35:45 - Genres Grant Is Not Good At Composing/How He Researches New Genres 37:10 - Instruments Grant Can Play/Working With Midi & Live Orchestras 40:05 - Donkey Kong 64 Rap 44:17 - Competitiveness With Dav

Sara Wiseman is a well known actress who has been numerous Australian and New Zealand films and television. SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram - @sarawiseman__ TIMESTAMPS 00:40 - Working During Covid-19 01:32 - Auditioning Process 02:43 - Trying To Prevent The Nerves Overwhelming Herself During Auditions 03:26 - Sarah Impressed By Reece’s Research/Mercy Peak 04:59 - The Evolution Of Filming For Television 05:49 - Hyper Realness Of HD/Hobbits 48FPS 07:00 - Sara’s TV/1080p Vs 4K 07:46 - Sara’s Early Days As A Stuntwoman 09:43 - Meeting Kate Winslet/Working On Heavenly Creatures/Crews Work Very Hard 11:04 - Working With Peter Jackson 12:40 - Heavenly Creatures Laid The Foundation For LOTR 13:29 - Upcoming Work For Sara 14:37 - One Lane Bridge/Permanently Shooting In Queenstown 16:31 - Sydney Vs Auckland 17:20 - When Sara Is Going Back To Sydney 17:59 - Voice Over Work 20:26 - Being Paid Well For Voice Over Work 21:11 - Agent Finding All Lines Work 21:35 - Chasing A Role 22:40 - Initially Trying To Find Work In Sydney 23:35 - Craig & Sara Auditioning For A Place To Call Home At Different Times 24:20 - People On A Place To Call Home Not Knowing Craig & Sara Were Married 24:50 - Working With Husband Craig Hall 25:35 - Memorising Scripts/Shortland Street Actors 27:00 - Time On Shortland Street 27:19 - Working Well Under Pressure 27:12 - Vaparshna/Meditation 30:27 - Shooting Love/Sex Scenes/Preparing For These Scenes 34:10 - Duration Of Sex Scenes 35:19 - Getting Along With Your Partner In Those Intimate Scenes 36:08 - Sara Loves Greats Writing And Great Teams/Joy Comes From Creating On The Day 37:28 - Sara Does Teaching/Sara Unsure If She Would Want To Directing 38:21 - Watching Herself On Screen 39:10 - Improvising Vs Following The Script 41:31 - Shifting Between Accents/Sara Naturally Puts On Australian Accent When In Australia 43:02 - Researching For A Character 44:10 - Disconnecting With Carolyn 44:54 - Sara Having Anonymity/Offshore Celebrities Being Worshipped By Kiwis 46:03 - Sara Would Be Famous For An Amazing Paycheck 46:33 - How Sara Got Home Before Lockdown/Surviving Lockdown 48:55 - Introverts & Extrovert/Zoom Parties 50:22 - Sara Is A Morning And Evening Person 50:57 - Sara Had Her Own Driver For A Place To Call Home 52:00 - Arts Still Needs Funding 53:54 - Social Media Is A Double Edged Sword 55:03 - The Social Dilemma/Growing Up With No Social Media 56:50 - Where To Follow Sara On Instagram

Craig Hall is a well known NZ actor who has been a plethora of TV Shows (A Place To Call Home, Outrageous Fortune etc.) and Films (World's Fastest Indian, King Kong.) SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram - @craigalanhall TIMESTAMPS 00:55 - How Covid Has Affected Craig’s Work 01:55 - Working Between Australia & New Zealand 02:57 - Craig & Sara Wiseman Working On The Same Projects 04:21 - A Place To Call Home Time Period 05:05 - Differences Between Television & Film 07:40 - Waiting For The Next Project 09:06 - Being Prepared For An Audition 10:30 - Not Hearing Back After An Audition 11:59 - Chasing A Role 13:28 - How Craig Got Role In Worlds Fastest Indian/King Kong 18:19 - Work On World’s Fastest Indian 19:19 - Working With Anthony Hopkins 22:38 - Ad Libbing Vs Following The Script 24:10 - Thinking A Time He Was Amazing Then Sees His Performance And Thinks Its Terrible 25:50 - Over Analysing Performance 27:30 - Following The Script On A Place To Call Home/Throwing Off Other Actors 29:25 - Working With Taika Waititi 30:36 - Working With Peter Jackson On Lord Of The Rings & King Kong 33:40 - Constantly Screwing Up The Same Scene 34:36 - Not Being In Avatar/James Cameron Being An Advocate For NZ 35:50 - NZ Crews Vs American Crews 36:25 - Not Much Difference Between NZ & Australian Crews 37:33 - Learning The Australian Accent 39:36 - Taking The Piss Out Of The Australian Accent 40:50 - Accent Randomly Coming Out 42:29 - Learning Accents Under Time Constraints 44:19 - Accents/Key Accents Actors Should Learn 47:07 - Film Companies Pay For Actors Living Expenses Well On Project 49:34 - Low Budget Productions You May Need To Find Your Own Accomodation 50:57 - Networking And Being Linked Up With Friends During Certain Projects 51:57 - Learning Lines Well Driving 52:43 - Memorising Scripts 55:12 - Memorising Script Under Strict Time Conditions 59:06 - Motion Capture & Green Screen 1:01:51 - Reece Explains Virtual Sets 01:03:15 - Where To Follow Craig Hall

Duane Mutu is the Director & Founder of LPL Studios the biggest E-Sports league in Oceania. SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - https://letsplay.live/welcome/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/letsplaylivehq/ TWITTER - @LetsPlayLiveHQ TWITCH - https://www.twitch.tv/letsplaylive LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/company/letsplay.live/?originalSubdomain=nz TIMESTAMPS 00:38 - Reece’s Previous Gaming Guests/Gamers Being Introverts 02:09 - How Duane Got Into The Gaming Industry 06:10 - The First Major Gaming Event And Takings From It & How LPL Studios Was Founded 07:28 - Embracing Gaming Communities 08:41 - Covid’s Effect On LPL Studios & Positives That Came From It 10:41 - Preventing Hackers In The Digital Environment 11:59 - NZ’s Great Internet Infrastructure 13:51 - Lag/Disadvantages Competing On American Servers/Competing Via LAN 15:45 - Online Vs LAN Environment 17:02 - You Cant Beat Gaming In Person As Opposed To Online 18:05 - How LPL Runs A Tournament 19:32 - Audiences At LPL Studios Events 20:37 - Celebrities Working With LPL Studios 22:15 - David Dallas Was A Game Reviewer (24min mark fly) 24:33 - Working With Nintendo/Japanese Business Culture 27:00 - Publishers Being Spooked By Reviewers/How Publishers Would Market Games Before Social Media 30:47 - Duane Doesn’t Play Games Anymore/Scribblenauts 32:07 - What Duane Loves About The Gaming Industry/Gaming Business People Don’t Play Games 34:11 - LPL Studios Day To Day Job 37:25 - Duane Found It Hard To Attract Sponsors 5 Years Ago In E-Sports 38:53 - Rob Campbell & Others Not Understanding E-Sports But Still Investing In It 40:03 - How Duane Got LPL More Awareness/The Pitch To Skycity To Collaborate 42:10 - N.S.O/Speaking To Government About Funding Into Gaming 45:46 - E-Sports In The Olympics/The Decline Of The Olympics/Gaming Is Bigger Than TV & Film 48:10 - Gamepass The Netflix Of Gaming/Cloud Gaming 50:35 - Publishing Rights/Future For LPL Studios 52:19 - Why CSGO Is The Biggest Game In LPL 53:50 - Broadcast & Wagering Is How E-Sports Makes Money 55:38 - Publishers Dont Like Wagering For Ethical Reasons 58:35 - Keyboard Warriors Against Wagering/Pros & Cons Of Wagering 59:58 - Location Of LPL Studios 1:00:57 - PS5 Vs Xbox 1:02:18 - Where To Follow LPL Studios

Rob Campbell is a successful businessman who now is chair for big companies like Skycity & NZ Tourism Holdings. TIMESTAMPS 00:39 - Being Chair Of Skycity & NZ Tourism Holdings During Covid-19 02:54 - Being Forced To Make Decisions Is Sometimes Easier/Fatigue & Uncertainty 04:30 - Their Is No Certainty In Business/Auditing In Public Companies 06:48 - Diversifying Skycity & NZ Tourism Holdings To Cope Without Tourism 08:48 - What A Chairperson Actually Does 10:53 - Divided Boards/Stakeholders 12:34 - Rob Is Very Opinionated/Businessnesses Develops To Much Of Formal Patterns 14:20 - Making Judgements About People That Were Incorrect 15:47 - Business Leaders Try To Influence Government Policy That Benefits Them 18:01 - Good & Evil Both Comes From Business 19:23 - Objective Reality 19:52 - Why Rob Likes Working With Younger People/Younger People Need More Leadership Roles 21:39 - Generational Divide 23:19 - Learning To Trust Younger People/Young People Are More Flexible 25:36 - LPL Studios/How It Was Created/Older Heads Don’t Understand How To Monetise E-Sports 28:41 - How Skycity Decided To Invest In E-Sports 29:49 - E-Sports Is Huge Worldwide/E-Sports In Olympics 30:25 - Building LPL Studios For Live Events 31:28 - Government Funding For Gaming/Rocketwerkz Leasing The Most Expensive Commercial Property In Auckland 34:10 - Gaming Wont Need Taxation Like Film Does 34:55 - Complexity Of Capital Gains Tax(CGT) 37:26 - Social Equity/Housing Problem Is Because Of Supply & Demand 39:16 - Auckland’s Infrastructure Problems 42:01 - Capitalism Caused Environmental Crisis 43:26 - Fixing Auckland Requires Less Immigration & More Regional Development 44:33 - More Central Government Funding Needs To Happen In Auckland 45:59 - More Investment In Whangarei, Hamilton & Tauranga 48:34 - Electricity & Health Backwards Distribution Centres 49:49 - Auckland Is Starting To Build Up 50:46 - Building Up Has Less Red Tape But Planning Is Still Involved 52:56 - What Sort Of City Will Auckland Become 53:03 - Rob Would Never Get Into Politics/Admiring Politicians 53:49 - Landlords Vs Tenants Discussion 57:02 - Some Landlords Are To Entitled 58:57 - It Is Always Someone Else’s Fault/Privileged People Making Stuff Up On Social Media 1:01:11 - Echo Chambers/Privileged Peoples Echo Chambers Actually Hurts People 1:02:12 - Rob Tells Story Of How He Had His Bubble Popped 1:03:54 - Rob Being Self Aware Of His Ignorance/South Auckland 1:06:33 - Rob Believes Pakeha Still Dont Understand Maori

Mike Smith, Scott Morgan & Julius Dobos composed a majority of the English Dub of Dragonball Z produced by Funimation(Yes, Bruce Faulconer is not the main composer and composed less than 1% of the score.) These 3 have now formed a band called SSJ and perform live versions of the DBZ Soundtrack across America. Mike Smith handled over 70% of the soundtrack from the Ginyu Saga all the way to halfway through the Buu Saga, highlight tracks from him include Vegetas Themes, Goku SSJ, Perfect Cell Theme, Hyperbolic Time Chamber, The Dragon Theme and more.... Scott Morgan worked on the show from the episode Fighting Power One Million until the end of the Otherworld Tournament and a majority of the guitar work on the show was handled by him but he fully composed the Garlic Jr Saga and his highlights include Androids 17,18,19 & 20, Imperfect Cell Theme, Destruction Theme, Pikkons Theme and more.... Julius Dobos started work on the show from the Otherworld Tournament and stayed until the very end of the series so he composed a majority of the Buu Saga, his highlights include the SSJ3 Theme, Super Buu, Buu Is Fighting, Mystic Gohan and more.... SSJ BAND YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxXJkNDtZ4VCZUDhkht19qw' FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/SSJ-598921027132860/ JULIUS DOBOS/FORGOTTEN FUTURE JULIUS DOBOS WEBSITE - https://www.juliusdobos.com/?fbclid=IwAR1w0In1ezyFtvu32JLqNrdIsqjmft9qorBFecJ8Cjz91BjSkNA3W_DYBAM FORGOTTEN FUTURE WEBSITE- https://forgottenfuturemusic.com/?fbclid=IwAR1w0In1ezyFtvu32JLqNrdIsqjmft9qorBFecJ8Cjz91BjSkNA3W_DYBAM TWITTER - @juliusdobos INSTAGRAM - @forgottenfutureofficial SCOTT MORGAN WEBSITE - http://morganstudios.com/?fbclid=IwAR1w0In1ezyFtvu32JLqNrdIsqjmft9qorBFecJ8Cjz91BjSkNA3W_DYBAM YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/morganstudios? TIMESTAMPS 01:11 - Sampler/Samples Mike Used When He First Worked On DBZ 02:38 - Directions/Script From Funimation 04:19 - How The Guys Scored Music To The Episodes 06:28 - How The Guys Go About Composing/Time Constraints On DBZ 09:23 - Recording Sounds As SFX/Violin SFX Being Used In DBZ 11:31 - Keeping The Music Seamless Between All 3 Composers 14:45 - How Much Time They Had To Work On Each Episode 17:36 - Vegeta’s Hells Bells & Super Saiyan Themes 19:16 - Mike Only Realised Recently How Iconic His Themes Are 19:57 - Scott Thought People Hated The Score Until He Went On Youtube 21:08 - Super Saiyan 3 Theme/Drum Loops 25:25 - Julius Approached DBZ As Just Another Job/Core Importance Of Scoring 26:44 - Scott Morgan Foresaw The Big Themes Popping Off 28:29 - Ben Kasparek The Music Editor/Save The World Episode Ben Got It Perfect 30:14 - Episodic Trunks Theme/ How The Destruction Theme Came About 33:05 - Ginyu Voice Actors Worked On DBZ Movies Music 33:36 - Recording Destruction Theme So Loud 35:11 - Pikkons Theme 36:22 - Phillip Glass 36:52 - How Mike Wrote Buu/Cell & Frieza Themes 38:16 - Buu’s Themes 41:34 - Challenge Of Scoring To Reaction Shots 42:39 - Scott Doing The Ultimate Perfect Cells Theme 43:38 - Imperfect Cell Theme 44:54 - Experimenting With The Non Big Themes 46:30 - Great Saiyaman Theme 47:17 - Space Room

Andre Rowell has been managing Editor at M2 Magazine for over 14 years and has done of different articles and podcasts for the publication during his tenure there. SOCIAL MEDIA Website Men - https://m2magazine.co.nz Website Women - https://www.m2woman.co.nz Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/m2magazinenz/ Twitter - @M2magazineNZ TIMESTAMPS 00:51 - How Andre Got Job At M2 Magazine 02:55 - How To Write An Article/Short Opinion Piece 04:55 - Sharing Ideas 05:39 - How Reece Got Into Podcasting 07:16 - Reece Has Learned A Lot From Podcasts 08:00 - Being A Product Of Your Environment 09:09 - General Public Being Influenced By Media 11:58 - Media Being Monetised By The Audience/Validating A View Poiont 13:12 - Researching Before Writing An Opinion Piece/M2 Magazine Is Pro Business 14:09 - Negativity Becomes A Self Fulfilling Prophecy 14:56 - NZ Doing Well On The World Stage/Questioning The Government 16:45 - Negativity From Social Media 17:31 - Size Of Andre’s Team/Discussions Within The Team 18:40 - Is Printing Money Bad? 20:12 - How A Decision Is Made As To Who Is Featured In M2 Magazine 21:47 - NZ Are Underdogs 22:50 - Tall Poppy Syndrome/Praise To Someone Doesn’t Diminish Your Potential 24:50 - Failure Is Important/Andre & Reece Critique There Podcasts 26:29 - What Happens At The M2 Summit 29:59 - Andre’s Favourite Interview & Article Piece 31:30 - Celebrities Are Normal People 33:52 - Monks Dealing With Politics 34:53 - Andre’s Time In Antarctica 39:00 - M2 Summit Brings Different Walks Of Life Together 40:39 - Feeling Dumb Compared To Intellectuals 42:42 - Flying To Mars 43:18 - Spontaneity Vs Analytical 44:41 - Passion Project To Help The Cook Islands 50:45 - Fishing Industry In The Cook Islands 53:25 - Cook Islands Being Affected By Covid-19/Diversifying An Economy 56:14 - Governments Think Short Term As Opposed To Long Term 57:54 - Andre Goes To The Cook Island A Few Times A Year 59:30 - Supporting Local Economies 1:00:56 - Countries Will Change Post Covid-19/ Cause And Effect 1:02:26 - Opportunity For Business To Do What Government Doesn’t 1:03:21 - Reece Thinks Andre Is Very Genuine 1:04:00 - Where To Follow M2 Magazine 1:05:20 - Physical Vs Digital Magazines

Chad Nicholas is the founder of clothing brand Zerofux Clothing and has been operating for 4 years. SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/zerofux/ Instagram - @zerofuxclothingco Twitter - @zerofuxclothing Website - zerofux.co.nz TIMESTAMPS 00:36 - Why Chad Started Zerofux Clothing 02:12 - How Chad Came Up With The Name Zerofux/Clothing Brands 04:14 - Evolution Of Designs 05:20 - How Long It Takes To Make A Design 06:39 - Cost Of A Printing Machine/Vinyl Cutters/Graphic Standouts 08:30 - Effort Involved With Starting A Clothing Brand 10:17 - How Rappers Started Marketing Zerofux 12:57 - Reece Thinks Its Weird Kiwis Rocking New York & L.A. Brands 13:30 - People Not Paying For Quality But Paying Because Of The Brand 14:33 - How Chad Markets Zerofux/Social Media Marketing 16:36 - Zerofux Demographic 17:43 - Not Capitalising On Cancel Culture/Covid-19/Not Making Masks 19:43 - Mockup Designs That Get Scrapped 21:16 - Caps Dont Sell That Well/Shirts & Hoodies Sell Well 22:26 - Different Suppliers/China Pricing Compared To NZ 23:14 - Pricing Clothing Correctly 24:20 - Scrbbibe Wears Zerofux/Supporting People On The Come Up 25:45 - Life In Timaru/Aucklanders Not Knowing Where Timaru Is 27:36 - Chad Doesnt Sell Much Clothing At Hip-Hop Gigs 29:21 - Chad Wants To Do Zerofux Full Time 30:35 - Zerofux Podcast 31:30 - Printing & Packing Orders 33:16 - Chad Is Non-Stop Working/Time Vs Dollar Figure 34:56 - Broke Artist Podcast’s Exposure Of Zerofux/ 36:37 - Engaged Followers As Opposed To Vanity Metrics 38:52 - Being The Face Of The Brand 40:30 - Doing Posters/Wanting To Hire People 42:58 - Tall Poppy Syndrome/Kiwis Easily Influenced By Americans 44:38 - Talkback Radio/Negativity Is Everywhere 45:40 - Ryan Lovins 47:50 - Not Wanting To Live With Regret 49:09 - Positive People 50:31 - Being Influenced By Your Environment/Breaking The Negative Cycle 53:14 - Venturing Outside Of Your Comfort Zone 54:56 - Everything Is Possible But It Requires Time & Patience 55:54 - NZ Rises To The Occasion 56:43 - Zerofux Receives Orders From Overseas 57:24 - Where To Follow Zerofux Clothing