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One of my personal idols growing up, Juhi Pande, sits with us in this wonderfully reflective episode to talk about her eclectic career as a TV host, presenter and VJ on Channel V, and what exactly prompted her to leave that career and make the move from Bombay to London.We dive into the highs of early media life (casually interviewing the likes of Rakhi Sawant and Sanjay Leela Bhansali as part of the job), the quieter shifts that followed, and the deep grief of suddenly losing her best friend and business partner; a moment that changed everything for her. Juhi shares how she slowly began to rebuild, grounding herself in the act of making with her hands, eventually founding Skunk, a line of beautifully crafted soaps made with intention and care. And then, the whirlwind that was becoming a mother at 39 and how that's transformed her life in beautiful ways she had never imagined.This conversation is nostalgic and full of the kind of honesty that will stay with anyone trying to figure out what comes after the pivotal moment.Explore Juhi's work on: Website: https://skunksuperstore.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skunksuperstore/
This is in many ways a surprising and unusual podcast. Not the least because it features a celebrity we know from @channelvindia1 once upon a time. @rubybhatia123 has been one of the iconic names as a #veejay during her time at Channel V and also as an actress in a few well-known shows and movies. Her conversation and new avatar is shocking and charming in equal measure. Her take on life is sure to astonish you - but what will perhaps not, that she still has the vivacious vibe, we know her for. I do not ask easy questions, but she answers them all breezily without hesitating. She has taken to her new chosen role of helping people seriously and can be contacted on 9892312531. For all of us on the path, here is one more aspect of life to look at. Beyond the glamour, beyond success, and authentically, beyond the mask. Do check it out. For the video, check www.youtube.com/c/thevaluesworkshop
The first half of this ginormous double episode features Garth Franklin and a chorus of OHM Discord (David, Jacob, Marco, Rob, Marisa and Alex) racing with Will Graham to Francis Dollarhyde's lair. "The main difference [between MANHUNTER and CRUISING] is that [in MANHUNTER] blue lighting means isolation and safety whereas blue lighting in CRUISING usually means someone's getting fisted." When I ask for internet movie news, trailblazer - and one of my dearest friends - Garth Franklin to be on MINHUNTER he brings his whole self. GARTH FRANKLIN - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, DARKHORIZONS.COMOne of the very first online entertainment journalists, Sydney-based Garth Franklin has clocked up more hours, stories and experience in this field than the entire staff of various other sites combined. Respected and well-regarded amongst his peers, Franklin created and designed the very first Dark Horizons® incarnation on geocities.com back in April 1996 and has steered it through at least four major re-designs, two recessions, hundreds of interviews, thousands of screenings, and tens of thousands of articles.Franklin, who is also a ‘Top Critic' on Rotten Tomatoes and member of the Australian Film Critics Association, has also contributed columns for several outlets including Empire Magazine Australia, Cinescape Magazine and AOL, served as a film critic on both Foxtel's Channel V and ABC Radio 702 with Angela Catterns, contributed content or towards pieces for numerous outlets ranging from IGN to USA Today to the U.S. Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, and guested on several podcasts including The Leaky Cauldron, Smodcast's Team Jack, Pod Save Our Screen and Hell is for Hyphenates.Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month to receive an exclusive weekly podcast and access to the OHM Discord here.ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONSWEBSITE: ONEHEATMINUTE.COMPATREON: ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONS PATREONTWITTER: @ONEBLAKEMINUTE & @KATIEWALSHSTX & @OHMPODSSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Joining us today is special guest Kayley Atkinson, writer, director, producer and assistant director based in Brisbane Australia. Kayley is in post-production for her new short film 'Sentient', which focuses on the perils of social media and what happens to a group of friends whop decide to forgo their smart phones during a getaway trip, but nothing is as it seems! Kayley joins the podcast to discuss Sentient, how it came to be, the incredible cast and crew, how Kayley fell into the filmmaking world and we muse on The Substance, Smile 2, horror franchises and more. Follow Kayley on social media below ↪ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundvisions_ Keep up to date with Sentient the short film below ↪ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sentient.thefilm CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 00:50 Tell us about your career in the Film, TV and Radio industry? 02:22 Video Hits, RAGE, Channel V inspiring a career as a music video director 04:42 Trusting your gut instinct, networking 05:40 Sentient the short film 07:42 Dangers of misinformation, the internet, AI and social media 14:50 Sentient behind the scenes and the importance of colour grading 19:45 Social media insecurities and anonymous cyber-bullying 26:37 The cast and crew behind Sentient 27:50 The 48 Hour Film Project 30:55 Dynamics on set 34:11 How Kayley cast the lead actress for Sentient 36:30 Casting the ensemble 38:07 Filming in Federal NSW, Logan and Bundaberg 41:47 How a Facebook group created a spectacle while filming 45:04 Parallel parking is hard to do 46:35 Plans for Sentient's release including the film festival circuit 49:20 Thoughts on the Australian film industry 52:15 Cinemas are going extinct 53:25 Gaining experience on film sets 54:55 Creating content from a genuine vs. false intent 56:57 What is the best advice you've ever received? 1:00:32 Should you follow a creative or corporate career path? 1:02:00 The impact of YouTube and ARG on mainstream horror including Skinamarink 1:04:00 Constructive criticism and first-time screenings at film festivals 1:07:45 What are your favourite horror movies? 1:08:25 Hereditary 1:09:40 The Substance 1:11:09 Mulholland Drive 1:13:00 Seeing Hereditary at a premiere screening 1:16:02 Horror movie remakes, sequels, reboots and requels 1:17:00 The curse of Blumhouse 1:24:10 Smile was originally a short film called Laura Hasn't Slept 1:28:30 Scream 4 is the best in the franchise 1:31:45 The Halloween franchise 1:34:20 Dennis Quaid is the most horrifying part of The Substance 1:38:47 mother! 1:40:10 Watching Requiem for a Dream on edibles 1:41:15 Seeing It Follows in NYC while paranoid off bad weed 1:43:45 Follow Kayley, Profound Visions and sentient on social media SHOP OUR STORE https://completeguidetohorror.threadless.com/collections/new/ Follow the Complete Guide to Horror Movies podcast on our social channels below. ↪ TikTok ↪ Twitter ↪ Facebook ↪ Instagram ↪ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ↪ Shop our Store! ↪ Tip us $5 ↪ Linktree ↪ Letterboxd Prefer the podcast version? Download via Spotify, Apple, Anchor, iHeartRadio and more below; https://linktr.ee/completeguidetohorror #sentient #shortfilm #australia #48hourfilmproject #sydney #brisbane #kayleyatkinson #profoundvisions #australia #australianfilmindustry #film #production #filmfestival #completeguidetohorror #podcast
Welcome to Cyrus Says! In this episode of Cyrus Says, actor and comedian Ranvir Shorey takes us through his fascinating journey of becoming one of Bollywood's most versatile performers. Born to Bollywood producer Krishan Dev Shorey, Ranvir began his career as a video jockey & producer on Channel V before breaking into the world of acting. He shares memories of working alongside his close friend Vinay Pathak on Ranvir Vinay Aur Kaun? and The Great Indian Comedy Show—two shows that cemented their place as comedic icons. Ranvir recounts his debut film Ek Chhoti si Love Story and his memorable roles in films like Khosla Ka Ghosla, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Fruit & Nut and Titli. He also talks about working with industry legends in films like Ek Tha Tiger& Sonchiriya reflecting on the different phases of his career. Beyond films, he dives into his experiences in the OTT space starring in popular series like Sacred Games. Lastly, Ranvir opens up about his recent stint on Bigg Boss OTT Season 3, where he emerged as the second runner-up, sharing insights into the challenges and intense dynamics of the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ranvir Shorey, from Jalandhar, is an actor who started his career as a VJ on Channel V and later moved into acting. He's known for his roles in films like "Khosla Ka Ghosla" and "Bheja Fry." He's also played memorable roles in movies like "Singh Is Kinng" and "Chandni Chowk to China". He has appeared on TV shows and in web series as well. Recently, Ranvir was a contestant on Bigg Boss OTT, where he gained popularity for his honesty and straightforwardness. In this episode Vinamre and Ranvir talk about: - What living in Bigg Boss is really like, contestants conspiring against him - How the incident in the 3rd week changed everything in his Bigg Boss journey - Extreme conditions in the Bigg Boss house, what made him do Bigg Boss - Toxicity in entertainment journalism, life after Bigg Boss - Views on hedonism, advice for aspiring actors and filmmakers. If you're a fan of Ranvir's maturity and how he handled the situations in the Bigg Boss house, then this episode is for you. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 0:57 - How Bigg Boss is all about survival of the fittest 04:37 - Extreme conditions in the Bigg Boss house 06:20 - What does one look forward to in the house? 10:42 - Learnings from social media stars 12:37 - How he was only nominated once? 14:52 - Relationship with Lovekesh Kataria 16:35 - Friendship with Armaan Malik 21:32 - What motivated him to join Bigg Boss? 24:50 - What does he do besides acting in movies? 26:48 - Why did he choose to become an actor? 28:11 - Does being an actor make it difficult to feel real emotions? 31:12 - His most challenging role 32:17 - His ambition to be an actor 37:34 - The “craft-first” culture in Bollywood 40:46 - The toxicity of entertainment journalism 43:07 - The most unexpected messages he received 45:15 - More work offers after Bigg Boss? 47:00 - Keeping in touch with Bigg Boss contestants 50:00 - Advice for actors and filmmakers 55:37 - Teachings from his parents 1:01:41 - Views on Hedonism 1:04:40 - Why going out, and experiencing life is important 1:12:44 - Conclusion ==================================================================== This is the official channel for Dostcast, a podcast by Vinamre Kasanaa. Connect with me LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinamre-kasanaa-b8524496/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinamrekasanaa/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/VinamreKasanaa Dostcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dostcast/ Dostcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dostcast Dostcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557567524054 ==================================================================== Contact Us For business inquiries: dostcast@egiplay.com
The Mohua Show is a weekly podcast about everything from business, technology to art and lifestyle, But done and spoken ईमानदारी सेConnect with UsMohua Chinappa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohua-chinappa/The Mohua Show: https://www.themohuashow.com/Connect with the GuestAnita Horam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitahoram/The Mighty Muse: https://themightymuse.co/Follow UsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMohuaShowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themohuashow/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/themohuashow/For any other queries EMAILhello@themohuashow.comEpisode Summary: In this captivating episode, we sit down with Anita Horam, a distinguished figure in the media and entertainment industry with over 25 years of experience. Anita shares her remarkable journey from a college freelancer to holding influential roles at Channel V, Condé Nast India, and Netflix. She reveals the meticulous blend of logistical rigor and creative intuition required to build a successful video division at Condé Nast India and offers invaluable advice for aspiring media professionals.The conversation transitions to Anita's acclaimed work on "The Big Day," a six-part Netflix documentary series capturing the grandeur of Indian weddings. Anita delves into the complexities of pitching and producing for a major platform, and the significance of design and art in elevating visual storytelling. She also discusses the importance of cultural representation and the editorial expertise needed to create globally resonant content.Later, Anita introduces The Mighty Muse, her initiative aimed at supporting independent creators by providing resources, networking opportunities, and a safe environment for nurturing creative ideas. She highlights the growing recognition of Indian documentaries and the positive shift towards more integrity in filmmaking. Anita concludes with inspiring words for new creators, emphasizing the endless opportunities in today's interconnected, technology-driven world.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction03:17 - Anita Horam's Journey in Media and Entertainment07:56 - Pivotal Roles at Channel V and Condé Nast India15:59 - The Creative Process Behind "The Big Day”22:16 - The Mighty Muse Initiative33:21 - The Potential of Cultural Narratives in Indian Documentaries39:38 - Innovating India's Cultural Identity through Media43:36 - The Power of Trust and Sisterhood in MediaDisclaimerThe views expressed by our guests are their own. We do not endorse and are not responsible for any views expressed by our guests on our podcast and its associated platforms.#TheMohuaShow #Podcast #AnitaHoram #Creators #Indian Stories #TheMightyMuse #CreativeJourney #CondéNastToNetflix #EmpoweringCreators #TheBigDayNetflix #VisualStorytelling #IndependentFilmmakers #IndianDocumentaries #CulturalNarratives #MediaAndEntertainment #WomenInMedia #FilmProduction #GlobalStorytelling #CreativeThanks for Listening!
From being ‘canceled', to alcoholism and post-natal depression, Yumi Stynes knows how to get vulnerable in the Vulnerabilitea House. Starting as a magnetic, music presenter on Channel V, Yumi's career spans more than 20 years on our screens, on the radio, or in the very successful books she's written. However as she shares with Hugh, Ryan and Josh, there were times when the phone simply didn't ring and her career felt like it was at a stand-still. In this episode, Yumi shares stories from her childhood, from feelings of isolation; to being the victim of racism in 1980s Swan Hill; we discuss the loss of her father and how that experience shaped her perspective on life; to what it was actually like being 'cancelled' and the role friendship played in her lowest moments; above all, Yumi tells us of her struggles with alcohol, and how her decision to quit transformed her life. So buckle up for a big one! We know you'll love this chat as much as we did!
Osher is quite simply, one of the most recognisable faces…and voices…in Australia.From his early days on Channel V to hosting The Batchelor and The Bachelorette - Osher has been the face of Australia'a biggest TV shows for over 20 years.More importantly, for the sake of our podcast - Hamish was lucky enough to sit down with Osher on the day he celebrated his 14 year soberversary.When we talk about 'doing the work' - not many have done quite as much as Osher.Osher is a man who has turned his complex mental health issues into his greatest strengths. Social anxiety, depression, PTSD, psychotic episodes and suicidal ideations are just some of the challenges that he has overcome.And he sites his sobriety as being the key factor that enabled him not only to survive but to thrive amongst all this.The man that I met is one who has lived a life but continues to smile and share his story with humour!I would encourage you to listen to this episode with a pen in your hand because there are more nuggets of wisdom in this single conversation, than Hame and Vic have managed in over 100 episodes!Enjoy!RESOURCESwww.cuppa.communityJOIN PATREON! and buy us a Cuppa so we can keep being awkward!https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81897291www.cuppa.community – The Free Social Network for the Sober and Sober Curious - Sober Events – Therapy – Sobriety Courses – Sober Groups, Tea and loads more.Buy Sober Awkward T-Shirts and Tea at: www.cuppashop.com@soberawkward @drunkmummysobermummy@cuppa.community @hamishadamscairns @patreon @spotify @budsandbeadsteaIf you are struggling with your relationship with alcohol please reach out to your local doctor, a therapist, AA Group or just chat to a close friend. Don't feel shame, just get the help you deserve. Contact us! If you have a topic you'd like us to cover then please email us -vicandhamish@soberawkward.comCheck out our website at: https://www.soberawkward.com#soberawkward #soberawkwardpodcast #drunkmummysobermummy #cuppa.community #sober #sobermom #sobermummy #sobriety #soberaf #sobermovement #sobercurious #alcoholfree #mummybloggers #writersofinsta #soberfamily #greyareadrinking #addiction #soberissexy #soberwomen #sobermomtribe #sobrietyrocks #soberlifestyle #alcoholfreelife #wedorecover #sobernation #mumblog #mentalhealth #motherhood #wineoclock #sobermums #selfcare #womeninrecovery #sobercommunity #soberdads #1000sundays Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Buckle up for a soul-stirring session as former sponsored skateboarder and current World Skate judge Russell Grundy takes us through a mind-expanding traverse of the skatepark known as life. Russell unveils his own version of that profound connection between the skate life and personal growth. We explore the emotional richness of scaling the peaks of elation on tours with the likes of Billabong and Channel V to finding beauty in the troughs of sorrow. Russell opens up about his early years on the Central Coast of NSW Australia, the thousands of train rides he did back and forth to Newcastle and Sydney as a teenager, USA adventures, competing on the hallowed grounds of the Tampa Am in Florida USA, opening skate shops, leading community initiatives, his approach to parenting, his innate desire to progress, and much more. This isn't your standard skate talk; it's an exploration of Russell's philosophy on staying centered, listening to your heart, and learning from experiences. Enjoy,ShanTHT gets by with a little help from these friends... (Intro) Music by Def Wish Cast.Song: ForeverAlbum: The Evolution Machinewww.defwishcast.com.auhttps://defwishcastofficial.bandcamp.com/INDOSOLE - Sustainable footwear Code: THT(15% discount shipping is WORLDWIDE and fast).Sandals made from recycled Tyres. Timeless footwear for the conscious consumer.BELLMOTT - Ready to drink CoffeeCode: THT(Get 15% off your first two online purchases).Pre-mixed cans of coffee goodness, Iced Lattes and more. Ethically sourced coffee beans, made in Australia, made my Musicians, Skateboarders and Artists. It's all about caffeinating culture, inspired conversations and shared creativity.KRUSH ORGANICS - CBD oils and topicalsCode: THT(Get a HUGE 40% Discount...shipping is WORLDWIDE and fast).Purveyors of the finest CBD oils and topicals. I think long and hard about who I want to be affiliated with. Do the research yourself, the health benefits of CBD are unquestionable. It's done so much for me, especially during times of stress and anxiety, it's improved the quality of my sleep and sped up my recovery-time post workouts, surfs and skates... and it's all natural.Get your latte's online! Use code THT at checkout for 15% off. Bellmott are caffeinating the culture. Best pre-mixed coffee.Support the showBecome a SUBSCRIBER of THT. Only pay what you feel the show is worth to you!Follow on Instagram: @terriblehappytalksCheckout the website: terriblehappytalks.com
Welcome to Cyrus Says!This week on Cyrus Says, Cyrus is joined by Gaurav Kapur! The episode delves into the intriguing moment when Gaurav first crossed paths with the legendary Cyrus and Gaurav also reflects on the memorable first conversation with Cyrus.As the episode unfolds, Gaurav shares anecdotes from his time at Channel V, offering a trip down memory lane to the golden era of music television.The episode reaches its pinnacle when Gaurav opens up about his first encounter with the cricketing legend, Sunil Gavaskar.Gaurav sheds light on the inception and evolution of his acclaimed show, "Breakfast with Champions”.This episode is a must-listen for fans of Gaurav, enthusiasts of spoken fest, and those curious about the fascinating world of sports commentary. Follow Gaurav Kapur on Instagram at @gauravkaps Subscribe to the Cyrus Says YouTube Channel for video episodes!Listen to Cyrus Says across Audio PlatformsIVM Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Gaana | Amazon Music | Jio SaavnEmail your AMA questions to us at whatcyrussays@gmail.comDon't forget to follow Cyrus Says' official Instagram handle at @whatcyrussaysConnect with Cyrus on socials:Instagram | TwitterAnd don't forget to rate us!-x-x-xDisclaimer: The views, opinions, and statements expressed in the episodes of the shows hosted on the IVM Podcasts network are solely those of the individual participants, hosts, and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of IVM Podcasts or its management. IVM Podcasts does not endorse or assume responsibility for any content, claims, or representations made by the participants during the shows. This includes, but is not limited to, the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any information provided. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. IVM Podcasts is not liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages arising out of or in connection with the use or dissemination of the content featured in the shows. Listener discretion is advised.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Belinda Chapple. She was a member of the massive Australian girl group Bardot. Bardot formed in 1999 on the reality TV series Popstars on Channel 7. Popstars filmed the whole process, from auditioning thousands of ladies, down to the top 25 and then eventually the top five that formed Bardot. From there they moved into a house together and we watched their every moment for the first three months of Bardot. Bardot released two albums, were nominated for three ARIA awards and had two national tours, before their abrupt end in 2002. The band then consisted of Belinda Chapple, Sophie Monk, Sally Polihronas and Tiffany Wood and an official statement was released to say “Bardot confirm their mutual decision to end the group's career.” Wildly I was there for the band's final ever performance on the Channel V stage - the 2nd of May in 2002. Which I didn't actually recall until getting ready for this interview, I was still drinking at the time and dealing with a lot of PTSD shit. It makes sense I don't remember it. But when I watched it, you see all four women in tears, marking the end of a once close band. Belinda has released a book to tell us what really happened. The end of the band was not mutual and despite the band reportedly earning up to 26 million in its first 12 months what the ladies actually got paid was a long way from that. But it's not all about money. It's about friendship, trust, and in some ways - betrayal. Belinda Chappell is a brilliant human, and her story is one I know you'll get a lot out of. Got suggestions for Better Than Yesterday? I'd love you to get involved in our listener survey! https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/osher Stay up to date by joining the mailing list here: Osher Günsberg - Better Than Yesterday Podcast | Linktree Come check out our shiny new Instagram handle, just for this podcast - https://instagram.com/ogbetterthanyesterday Anything else? Come visit us on discord. Join the oshergünsberg Discord Server! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Watch on Youtube Instagram You'll know Danny Clayton from Channel V where he ruled our TV screens for many years. These days, in his words, he does whatever puts a smile on his face. Whether that's MCing, Djing, content creation or getting in his budgies smugglers to swim across the ocean, he's a vibrant chap with a gift for storytelling. In this chat you'll hear some hilarious stories from Danny's Channel V days, we talk about how social media has shaped the music industry and get an idea about what makes Danny Tick. Stick around for my wrap-up after this great yarn with my mate Danny Clayton. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becomngwithnickslater/message
Interview by Kyra-Jade Coombs Magic Dirt released Young and Full of the Devil 25 years ago and has celebrated with a double LP re-release.This era of Magic Dirt is a special time for the band with Raul stepping in as their new guitarist, that would turn into a lifetime of friendship and shows together. HEAVY caught up with frontwoman Adalita to reflect on the past and delve into the future. As well as releasing a wild purple-colored vinyl, they decided to hit the road on a monster tour to play their album in full. If you haven't had the chance to watch Magic Dirt live, they have this amazing and wild energy that they've carried on as a trademark since their early days.“We're animals. Love playing loud and love the riffs”. I really wanted to reflect and take Adalita back to the ‘golden age' of Aussie rock/punk music, the 90s and 00s. If anyone has cool stories, it's got to be these guys, right?We talked about being on the road, the Big Day Out festival days, the Channel [V] era and what it was like to be right in the guts of it all.“So many lost brain cells in and blur of awesomeness”.Living in a time when you could fully immerse yourself in a world without social media certainly had its rewards and perks.“We used to drive around and guess where the venues were. Living life actually and not virtually”.Can't sit here and say I'm not envious of the lifestyle having grown in the internet world… At one point I asked if Adalita still resonates with Young and Full of the Devil's lyrics and content and what it's like to play the songs today. In response, she explains that she understands and knows exactly who that person was and where the emotion and lyrics came from, and it's amazing to be able to play these songs again and re-live those memories and experience the songs through who she is today with all the life lessons she's learnt along the way. Which I personally think is a beautiful thing to have.Imagine having a record with all your angst from the 20s as your living diary.I wondered if she had any advice she would give her younger self to which she said she would actually rather receive the advice. A cool thought to have. This weekend Magic Dirt are heading to Byron Bay on their tour for the first time since the 2000s, promising to rip it up and have a hell of a time! You can find the full tour guide on their website, grab some merch and a copy of Young and Full of the Devil for yourself. Do it!!
Join us on this special episode of Triple M Homegrown as we welcome back the multifaceted Jane Gazzo to our studio! Alongside Matty O, Jane reveals her latest initiative to support the legendary Australian musician, Ollie Olsen, who's battling a rare, incurable autoimmune condition - Multiple System Atrophya, a terminal disease similar to Parkinson's. Discover Ollie's remarkable career, where he performed in 19 bands, including the iconic Max Q with Michael Hutchence - who himself was in awe of Ollie's talent. In this episode, we dive deep into the crowdfunding campaign aiming to reach $30,000, with already an impressive $29K raised. Visit the GoFundMe page here and be a part of this heartfelt cause. Jane's journey hasn't been only about music; her diverse career takes us through her time hosting Recovery and Channel V, working at the BBC in the UK, and much more. Get ready for a rollercoaster ride as Jane shares humorous anecdotes from her days as Courtney Love's PA, her adventures sharing a flat with the Prodigy, and even opening for Hugh Jackman on his national tour.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Join us on this special episode of Triple M Homegrown as we welcome back the multifaceted Jane Gazzo to our studio! Alongside Matty O, Jane reveals her latest initiative to support the legendary Australian musician, Ollie Olsen, who's battling a rare, incurable autoimmune condition - Multiple System Atrophya, a terminal disease similar to Parkinson's. Discover Ollie's remarkable career, where he performed in 19 bands, including the iconic Max Q with Michael Hutchence - who himself was in awe of Ollie's talent. In this episode, we dive deep into the crowdfunding campaign aiming to reach $30,000, with already an impressive $29K raised. Visit the GoFundMe page here and be a part of this heartfelt cause. Jane's journey hasn't been only about music; her diverse career takes us through her time hosting Recovery and Channel V, working at the BBC in the UK, and much more. Get ready for a rollercoaster ride as Jane shares humorous anecdotes from her days as Courtney Love's PA, her adventures sharing a flat with the Prodigy, and even opening for Hugh Jackman on his national tour.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Imagine stumbling into a world you know nothing about and finding wild success. That's exactly what happened to Kieran Powell when he helped a tech CEO raise $1.2 million in a week without even knowing what PR was. From there, he discovered the power of storytelling in generating media attention and became an expert in creating awareness for retail technology companies. In this episode of the RETHINK Retail Podcast, host Gabriella Bock sits down with Kieran Powell, executive vice president of Channel V Media, a leading PR firm for retail tech companies. During their conversation, Kieran reveals why many retail tech startups struggle capture the attention of media and potential clients and highlights how adopting a strategic approach to PR and brand awareness can set companies apart from competitors, particularly when it comes to exhibiting at large trade show events. In a bid to help retail tech startups amplify their brand's voice and presence at trade events, RETHINK Retail and Channel V Media have teamed up to introduce the Retail Awareness Accelerator. This comprehensive PR and media package aims to assist tech companies in maximizing their visibility and reach before, during, and after major trade events. The initiative starts with NRF 2024, and the program will provide companies with essential tools to engage industry professionals effectively. By utilizing the power of PR, brand identity, and innovative marketing strategies, the Retail Awareness Accelerator is designed to enable participating companies to stand out among the competition and achieve successful outcomes at trade show events. Learn more about Retail's Awareness Accelerator: https://channelvmedia.com/expertise/public-relations/awareness-accelerator/ If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Hosted and Produced by: Gabriella Bock
"Osher Günsberg" is probably the most recognisable male TV presenter in ‘Australia.' He started off on ‘Channel V' in the 90's, became a household name on ‘Australian Idol' and currently hosts ‘Network Ten's' most celebrated Reality-TV-Shows. Osher Günsberg "I have been very lucky to have been able to work with some very amazing people." Osher joins me on this episodes to talk about how ‘The Bachelor' and it has changed. Osher Günsberg "Different seasons of 'The Bachelor' has been produced by different people and each producer of the show has a different way of telling this story." We will talk about his dedication to his career and what it takes to host live-television and high-pressure hosting jobs. Osher Günsberg "I take it very very seriously that I am as professional as possible in those moments." I'll ask him which one of the three new Bachelors he would date? Osher Günsberg "He is sunning and his swagger is confident!" I will also find out exactly how he felt with 'Australian Idol' returning to our screens and if he was asked to be involved! Osher Günsberg "Jim and I were the undeniable choices to host that show, alright? There was nobody who had more credibility to host that show than us." We will also get some pretty exclusive stories that only 'Osher' would know and be willing to tell. 'The Bachelors Australia' launches on Monday, January 9, 2023 at 7:30pm on Network 10 and 10Play on demand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For so many of us we grew up watching Osher on Channel V, he introduced us to our favourite bands, watched him talk to the worlds biggest bands at the BDO.It's been such a crazy journey and tonight we talk about it all AND how he helped Kickstart Matty O's career!Will he remember?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For so many of us we grew up watching Osher on Channel V, he introduced us to our favourite bands, watched him talk to the worlds biggest bands at the BDO.It's been such a crazy journey and tonight we talk about it all AND how he helped Kickstart Matty O's career!Will he remember?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can't believe it has taken has 87 episodes to get around to discussing a Mike Patton project. Well, it's more a Duane Denison project. But yeah, Tomahawk. Producers of one of the best live songs on Channel V, featuring members of Helmet, Melvins, The Jesus Lizard and Faith No More. A true supergroup that somehow got booed when they opened for Tool, despite being an absolute favourite of Adam Jones. We'll get into that and more on this soon to be award winning episode.
Kunal Kamra sits down with Shashanka Ghosh, director and former creative head of Channel V. “Channel V was the cool guy around,” Shashanka says, “and saying ‘ye dekh, ye dekh' from around the world.”They talk about what made the channel relatable to urban Indian youth, organisational challenges in an age of analog, and how fun it was to create homegrown content that wasn't an imitation of the west. Shashanka describes the process of creating popular Channel V characters like Lola Kutty and Simpu Singh, and his transition from the small screen to the big screen.Listen or watch the full episode by being a subscriber on newslaundry.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
He's back and this time he has stories about touring with Marilyn Manson, supporting P.O.D, playing with Killing Joke and a whole heap of tales from the set of Queen of the Damned, including hanging out with Aaliyah. We also go further into Jerk - the recording process of their album When Pure Is Defiled, playing those Channel V bus shows and how he ended up being the singer of the band. Again, another awesome chat with Johnathan that is well worth your listening time.
In this episode of Last Drinks with Osher Gunsberg, get ready for the REAL Osher! You remember him from Channel [V], he told us who our our first Australian Idol was, he exposes the singers in the wild masks and has us in tears at the rose ceremonies. Osher is a household name and one of the most recognizable and successful t Aussie television hosts and a powerhouse podcaster too. In this honest and candid conversation, Osher explains the nature of his 'allergy' to alcohol and how one final blackout in the New York City led him to a special kind of meeting that equipped him with the tools to tackle sobriety and make it stick. Osher lost everything because his relationship with alcohol had become unmanageable, but he has, through a lot of hard work and honesty, rebuilt a beautiful life, one he is present, in, proud of and one I am so grateful to have had a peek into. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Det här är berättelsen om en säregen popmusiker som förtrollat en hel värld, som exotifierats och hyllats och som alltid har gått sin egen väg. Men kändisskapet har också ett pris. Det är måndagen den 16 september, 1996 när polisen bultar på dörren till en liten lägenhet i Hollywood, Florida.Det är helt tyst, och när ingen öppnar tar poliserna sig in på egen hand. De ser sig om i den stökiga lägenheten. Det är instängt och golvet är täckt av kläder, tomburkar och bråte.I soffan ligger en man, till synes livlös.Han är naken, har grön och röd färg i ansiktet och har skjutit sig själv i huvudet.Framför honom står en filmkamera, och på väggen bakom honom hänger en handskriven skylt där det står: The best of me. 12 september.Det är till en början svårt att förstå vad som har hänt, men snart förstår polisen att allt kretsar kring en specifik person. Den isländska superstjärnan Björk.I 11 inspelade videoband och en 803 sidor lång dagbok beskriver mannen sin besatthet av henne, och fyra dagar tidigare har en brevbomb skickats iväg till en adress i London. Vid den här tidpunkten är Björk Islands nationalklenod, en säregen musiker som tagit sig långt utanför den lilla öns gränser. Under sin karriär kommer Björk aldrig kompromissa med sin särart och det tar henne ända upp till toppen. Men kändisskapet har också ett pris.P3 Musikdokumentär om Björk handlar om popmusikern som förtrollat en hel värld, som exotifierats och hyllats och som alltid har gått sin egen väg. Som research för det här avsnittet har vi använt oss av biografin Björk - Wow and Flutter" av Mark Pytlik.Medverkande: Margret Atladottir, Kaine Pieri och Lisa Wall.En dokumentär av Siri Hill. Producent: Hanna Frelin Exekutiv producent: Anna Johannessen Tekniker: Fredrik Nilsson Programmet gjordes i april 2022 och görs av Tredje Statsmakten Media.Ljudklippen i dokumentären kommer från dokumentärfilmerna Rokk í Reykjavík (1982), Inside Björk (2003) och Janis: Little girl blue (2015) samt filmen Dancer in the dark (2001), Channel V (1995), TV-serien The Southbank Show (1997) och MTV (1988 samt 1996).
BIO: Mahesh Murthy has helped launch Amazon, over 60 startups, a few hundred brands, and a few satellites. He's a marketer, entrepreneur, and investor. STORY: Mahesh invested close to $400,000 into a startup only to discover that one of the founders was siphoning money via his sister and mother. LEARNING: Verify startup founders before investing in them. Hire someone to monitor your investments if you cannot do it yourself. Invest in a minimum of 10 startups instead of just one. “Never give your entire investment to one person.”Mahesh Murthy Guest profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/maheshmurthy/ (Mahesh Murthy) has helped launch Amazon, over 60 startups, a few hundred brands, and a few satellites. He's a marketer, entrepreneur, and investor. As a marketer he: Worked on Amazon, Pepsi, and Nike Helped launch MTV and its rival Channel V. Founded ad firm Pinstorm. Wrote ads, including ‘Asia's best ad of the decade.” As an entrepreneur he: Failed in his first three ventures. Is taking a company public soon Has taken another into space: Asia's first private firm to launch satellites As an investor he: Has run three venture funds Was voted India's “Best VC of the Year.” Twice. Worst investment everMahesh was lucky to be in the US at the start of the Dotcom revolution working at one of the early digital advertising firms in Silicon Valley. He read about a small startup in Seattle that wanted to sell stuff online. Mahesh went to his boss and told him about the startup, but he dismissed him. But he prevailed, and finally, the boss allowed him to meet the startup's founders. The startup was Amazon. Mahesh started working with Amazon, and in the process, he learned a lot from Jeff Bezos. After a few years, Mahesh decided to return to India and take his e-commerce knowledge there. He also started doing a lot of angel investing. Through this, he met two founders who wanted to teach students outside India online. Mahesh was very excited about the idea and was ready to invest. The two founders hired teachers, and the teaching started. Mahesh was pretty much hands-off and would write a check every three months. The founders would update him on the progress and insist they had everything under control. Soon, Mahesh noticed the company was spending so much money renting computers and an office space bigger than necessary. He kept asking why the founders were doing this instead of buying the computers and renting a smaller space. The founders insisted that they just wanted to be flexible and not invest in assets they knew nothing about. Mahesh just bought into all this. Finally, after about two years of pumping so much money into the company without much progress, Mahesh decided to look deeper into how things were running. He went to the office, and while looking at the financial books, he noticed that the people renting out the computers and the space were related. He dug a little deeper, did a few Google searches, then figured out that the computers belonged to one of the founder's sisters and the space belonged to his mother. This partner was taking a chunk of money from the company and putting it into his own pocket through his mother and sister. Mahesh was incensed. When he asked the founder about it, he exited the company. When the second founder heard about it, he also left the company. Now Mahesh had very little money left, a company with no leadership, about 25 staff, and no customers. He and his partner jumped in and did what they could to find some customers, paid the teachers full pay, and slowly let them off. About two years later, they sold the company to another company building an education giant and got some shares in it. Up to that point, Mahesh had invested close to $400,000, and he only managed to get about $40,000 back when the new owners took the company public. Lessons learnedNobody's a good judge of character, so don't trust people blindly. Being hands-off may be easy and...
In today's Episode of Figuring out With Raj, we have Varun Duggirala. He is an entrepreneur, podcaster, content creator, co-founder of Glitch, and author of the book - Everything Is Out of Syllabus: An Instruction Manual for Life.Varun has worked in broadcast production at MTV and Channel [V] before founding Glitch. He made a swift move from being an entrepreneur to a podcaster with Advertising Is Dead. Varun's other popular podcasts are Useless Information, Take a Pause and The Varun Duggi Show. In this episode we have discussed: his journey from entrepreneurship to podcastinghis views on stoicism and what is stoicism in simple termshow to make people listen to you and how to create your brand through content creationhis fitness journey and much more. Watch the complete episode to get amazing insights on podcasting, stoicism, fitness, advertising, content creation and much more.
How does MX Player succeed in a market where even Netflix is struggling? What are all the different layers of market within India? How did MX Player use AVOD to bring premium content to an untapped audience? Jack Davison discusses all of this and more with Mansi Shrivastav, SVP Content Acquisitions & Partnerships, in this new exclusive episode of Inside Content! For over two decades, Mansi has been a professional and leader in Media & Entertainment space working with India's biggest Media Conglomerates. As SVP Content Acquisitions, Alliances & Distribution, MX Player she has been instrumental in creating India's biggest VOD service that's transformed the current digital landscape by building first in-kind, path breaking & unique content strategies to expand market size with a robust and diversified content portfolio. Having been the catalyst in changing the Digital Content game in India, her vision is to further expand consumption across international dubbed & regional content categories as well as providing relevant & strong content offering across global markets of MX Player-creating an entertainment destination for the digital-first viewer across geographies. She has also conceptualised & laid foundations for some of India's leading TV channels – Movies Now, Romedy Now, MN+ & Channel V overseeing the Programming & Content Strategies which ensured market leadership in respective segments. Blending a meticulous focus on the consumer with a vision for compelling content has been her biggest enabler in creating long-lasting market trends & noteworthy products/brands with a strong value proposition. 3Vision Website: https://www.3vision.tv 3Vision Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3vision 3Vision Twitter: @3Vision
If you put people before profit, will your business be a bigger success? Cliff Ho thinks so. But you need to be profitable and self-sustainable, too. That's when you can make the biggest impact on communities and the environment. Ho is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Commons, the wildly successful creative coworking spaces. When they opened their third location in Sydney in 2017, they filled the 3,5000sqm space with 550 members in just ten weeks. They have a waitlist on most of their sites today. But it hasn't all been smooth sailing for Ho. After tanking at an early presenting gig in front of 100,000 people, he got over it and got better. He honed his craft, practicing relentlessly in front of the camera until it felt natural, and went on to interview Kanye West, Miley Cyrus and Usher in his role as a host for Channel [V]. Listen in as Vince and Cliff discuss how to bounce back after a fall from grace, the time Kanye came off stage and asked him, “was that OK?”, and the importance of putting community first. This episode is part of our ‘Design Your Life: Business for Good' series focused on B Corps around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
James Mathison has been my friend for over 20 years. We presented on Channel [V] together, hosted Australian Idol and more recently reunited for our podcast Idle Australians.James is going to change the world. In 2016 he contested Tony Abbott's federal seat of Warringah and is one of the most informed and intelligent people I know.He joined me at my kitchen table on the day of the last Australian Federal Election in 2019. We discussed democracy, social media and James presented some interesting solutions to political problems that we still have today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On Cyrus Says today, Cyrus is Joined by Suchita Salwan and Varun Duggirala, hosts of the 'Think Fast' podcast. They talk about how they started the podcast and the idea behind it, what the conversation on the podcast are like, how they have never met each other other than over video call, and lots more. They also talk about Suchita working with Wizcraft, Varun's upcoming book 'Everything is Out of Syllabus' and what its about, and both the guests share stories of launching of LBB and The Glitch. They also discuss the qualities they like about each other, and what both would change about the other. Further, Suchita gives us her views on why Elon Musk is being persuaded by many states in India to come and invest, what Varun has to say on ASCI's study of what Indians find 'offensive', and more. Tune in for an amazing episode. Follow 'Think Fast" Podcast on website: https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/show/think-fast-with-varun-and-suchita-j3rd-R1TlLHtCesjirRuv Check out Varun Duggirala's upcoming book https://www.amazon.in/Everything-Out-Syllabus-Instruction-Manual/dp/0143455028 You can follow Varun Duggirala on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/varunduggi and on Instagram at https://instagram.com/varunduggi Follow Suchita Salwan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/suchitasalwan and on Instagram at https://instagram.com/suchitasalwan Subscribe to our new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmY4iMGgEa49b7-NH94p1BQ Also, subscribe to Cyrus' YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCHAb9jLYk0TwkWsCxom4q8A You can follow Amit on Instagram & Twitter @DoshiAmit: https://twitter.com/doshiamit and https://instagram.com/doshiamit You can follow Antariksh on Instagram @antariksht: https://instagram.com/antariksht Do send in AMA questions for Cyrus by tweeting them to @cyrussaysin or e-mailing them at whatcyrussays@gmail.com Don't forget to follow Cyrus Broacha on Instagram @BoredBroacha (https://www.instagram.com/boredbroacha) In case you're late to the party and want to catch up on previous episodes of Cyrus Says you can do so at: www.ivmpodcasts.com/cyrussays You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios
Alysha Percy is a young and passionate dancer. She started dancing at 2 training in all styles but was drawn to the world of hip hop.She has a wealth of experience in the entertainment industry having appeared on productions for the Disney channel, Saturday Disney, Channel V, ABC 3, and much more.Alysha has spent her time training both in Australia and LA. Alysha has experienced worldwide training including being the Advanced International Elite Protege on The Pulse On Tour in 2016-2017 She was recently appeared in the world famous Monsters Show “REBIRTH. As well working extensively in Australia, Alysha has performed and trained regularly throughout America, Spain, Italy, Mexico and New Zealand. She enjoys teaching and choreographing . With one of her highlights being teaching at the Australian dance festival as well as workshops all around Australia. However her career highlight so far would have to be not only Dancing for but also Choreographing for the one and only 50 CENT! When he travelled to Australia in 2019.We are excited to see where her future takes her.
当节目热火朝天的聊了KTV之后，8090有限公司的嘉宾们又坐不住了。在他们动议下，策划开启了今天这期节目的主题：那些年都有哪些记忆深刻的MV？于是，我们坐在电视机前，畅聊起被音乐影像所打动的真情时刻，好不快乐。 所以我想问，哪只MV？在你心中循环播放，还记得吗。 让我们跟着Chris和Nadia，重新认识那些有趣的导演和他们所创作的MV，还有我们爱过的歌手与MV之间的Connection，来听听吧。 温馨提醒：收听本期节目37分钟以后，建议找到对应的歌曲MV，边看边听。：D 加入8090有限公司听众群的方法 +VX ：Frankie461 飞飞申请加入8090有限公司的听众群 Show Notes： 00:00 苏慧伦《929》 03:32 MV开端，英国、美国的国家广播公司音乐频道的创立 06:48 小时候对MV的记忆之初 08:49 MTV天籁村和Channel V节目引进原因 10:10 中国音乐电视的开始 12:00 早期内地导演的MV作品讨论 14:16 MV节目在内地的发展 15:00 MTV天籁村节目的包装 17:00 湖南台包办内地歌友会 17:45 那英《雾里看花》 19:15 Channel V 与港普 20:33 港台MV的导演和特色 22:46 孙燕姿《奔》 26:45 MV导演黄中平 27:12 MV导演们普遍使用的拍摄技巧 30:33 黄中平拍摄《记得》MV的技巧分享 33:55 张惠妹《记得》 36:42 邝盛与周杰伦 37:08 周杰伦《开不了口》 38:28 《开不了口》MV 40:37 童安格《看未来有什么不一样》 41:56 《看未来有什么不一样》与2021的时事新闻 43:47 五月天《干杯》 43:49 导演周格泰的MV特色 44:48 《广岛之恋》MV的电影化 49:22 梁静茹《勇气》 49:53 《勇气》MV 51:42 那英《心酸的浪漫》与MV 56:39 阮丹青《有染》与MV 58:43 李玟《Di Da Di》与快歌MV 1:01:19 Spice Girl 《wannabe》 1:02:27 《流年》MV 1:06:37 《香奈儿》MV 1:10:05 张信哲《爱就一个字》与MV 1:12:05 《用情》MV 1:12:38 张信哲《用情》 1:14:54 MV拍摄地的探讨 1:20:01 范玮琪《因为》 1:22:54 陈绮贞《躺在你的衣柜》 1:32:40 伍思凯《秋天别来》
From her breakthrough role as a VJ on Channel V in the early 2000s to her wildly popular podcasts and best-selling books, Yumi Stynes has been a pop culture fixture on Australian screens and airwaves for the past two decades. Here, she chats with Edwina Throsby about her rich and varied career: moving from country Victoria and into the media spotlight, the heady days of the early millennium music industry, and that time she called out Kerri-Anne Kennerley on national television. Buoyed by her hard work, fierce wit and sense of justice, Stynes emerges as an inspiration, whether it's as a parent, podcaster, or someone who isn't afraid to speak the truth to Australia's racism. - Watch this talk and others with best-selling author, podcaster and businesswoman FlexMami, Sydney-based sex-worker and feminist activist Tilly Lawless, and popular Australian presenter and author Yumi Stynes, on stream. The new streaming service from the Sydney Opera House. Register for free now and start watching. Follow the Sydney Opera House on: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
Get ready to be swept away by the stories of a seasoned broadcaster, Nick Bennett. With a career spanning 35 years, Nick has tales to tell from his early days in radio, influenced by his mom's work in the 40s, to his current transition to working from home amidst the pandemic. Join us as we journey through the vibrant music scene in Wollongong, Australia, and learn how it sparked Nick's creativity. We'll dive deep into Nick's career, from his first gig at Fox FM to his stint at Triple M. Hear the behind-the-scenes stories of the Rock 40 Countdown with Greg Smith at 2Day FM, and reminisce with Nick about his interviews with personalities like Milli Vanilli. Then, buckle up as we follow Nick's transition from radio to television and how it reshaped his career. Nick's journey doesn't stop there. We delve into his ventures with Channel V, the ARIA awards, and the Blue Mountains Film Festival. We also uncover the launch of thebasement.com.au, one of the first Australian online radio stations, and his foray into teaching young people about the media. Listen in as Nick shares his love for Tamworth and country music, his bucket list dreams, and his advice for aspiring broadcasters. It's a ride you won't want to miss!Support the show
On this episode, Cyrus is joined by Shifa Maitra, host of the Smile India podcast and Creative Director at Brands & Stories, to talk about what led to the idea behind a good news podcast, how she was sick of hearing just bad news on all the news outlets, how she curates these amazing happy stories, and lots more. Shifa also shares some of the great feelgood stories from the first season of her show. Cyrus and Shifa also talk about working together at Radio Mirchi, Shifa having worked in radio, TV and film, how she got working on her own production house 'Brands & Stories' with her husband, and tons more! Tune in for an amazing conversation.You can follow Shifa Maitra's page "Good News Indians" on Facebook:(https://www.facebook.com/GoodNewsIndians/)You can follow Shifa Maitra on her Instagram handle: @shifamaitra(https://www.instagram.com/shifamaitra/ )Follow Shifa Maitra on Twitter: @ShifaMaitra(https://twitter.com/ShifaMaitra?s=09 )Also, subscribe to Cyrus' YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCHAb9jLYk0TwkWsCxom4q8AYou can follow Antariksh on Instagram @antariksht: https://instagram.com/antarikshtDo send in AMA questions for Cyrus by tweeting them to @cyrussaysin or e-mailing them at whatcyrussays@gmail.comDon't forget to follow Cyrus Broacha on Instagram @BoredBroacha (https://www.instagram.com/boredbroacha)In case you're late to the party and want to catch up on previous episodes of Cyrus Says you can do so at: www.ivmpodcasts.com/cyrussaysYou can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/androidor iOS: https://ivm.today/ios
What do tickling, swimming lessons, haircuts, and medical treatments have to do with consent? Well, more than milkshakes, apparently. When she started writing her latest book, Welcome to Consent, Yumi Stynes had no idea that she’d be releasing it the midst of a national conversation about sexual assault. But, she says, this conversation has "always been urgent". It’s just that now, finally, we’re actually talking about it. For the Millenials listening, you’ll remember Yumi as the host of Channel V, starting back in 2000. She’s since forged an incredible and varied career as a TV and radio host, podcaster, and cookbook author. And you’ll probably know her co-author, Dr Melissa Kang, by her very famous pseudonym: Dolly Doctor. The two have paired up to write this incredible guide for children and their parents, about how to talk about consent. As adults, we have a hard enough time saying no - so how can expect our kids to do it? And does a culture of ‘niceness’ make it even harder for them to advocate for themselves? In this episode we ask Yumi all of this and more. She tells us why her family have a safe word, why people pleasing is dangerous, and why it’s so important to get in there with the conversations before the puberty hormones kick in. And given she has her own podcast titled ‘Ladies, We Need to Talk’, we’re doing just that. Let’s talk... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're building a video time capsule for someone who first stepped into the spotlight when she was crowned Miss Thailand World in 1996. Since then, she has been a top runway and print model for over 3 decades. She was known regionally as a VJ for Channel V and as the Host of Asia's Next Top Model. She's acted in numerous Thai series and international feature films. And if that wasn't enough, she is also an author, and an activist – she founded of the Don't Tell Me How To Dress movement against gender based violence. Let's welcome CINDY BISHOP to Dear Future Grandkids! And you can watch the weird thing Cindy does with her eyes, plus her amazing DIY "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" mask on the video versions: The IdeaFirst Company's Facebook page: https://fb.watch/47nYUBVP3N/ The IdeaFirst Company's YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/R6Eksqa6GaA And check out The IdeaFirst Company on Instagram for updates on future guests, highlights, behind the scenes and more! Thanks as always for watching - we do read every review and comment and we'll love it if you could rate and review us. Tell us how we're doing, our dear podcast friends, we're still experimenting and trying new things! © 2021 Percival Intalan, Angela Cheung, Soo Kui Jien
In this episode, we meet the incredibly funny, bright and brilliant Gabrielle Scawthorn who went from Ipswich school girl to Channel V presenter and contender in one swift kick. An overnight baptism of fire saw Gab rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in entertainment and presenting on live TV, while competing for an ongoing position with the station. Gab shares some of her more precarious moments as an underage girl who found herself backstage and in hotel rooms with musicians almost twice her age, and the experience of being on reality television before there was social media. Gab talks frankly about the impact this had on her mental health when the show ended as abruptly as it began, and the dark places this took her through. Needless to say, Gab had plenty more to give and what followed was training at the prestigious NIDA and a stellar career on the stages of Australia and the UK. This young firecracker has also been hosting a new podcast called Back From Reality, deep diving into the muddy waters of reality TV from every perspective. Gabrielle is an absolute delight with magnetic energy and I could have spent all day unpacking the problems of the world with this lovely one! Gab is also starring in a one-woman show called The Apologists, at the Old 505 Theatre in Sydney after two highly successful seasons in London. The Sydney season is running from January 20-31. Click here to get your tickets! You can follow Gab on Instgram here. If you love this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it, please leave us a rating or review on iTunes or send us screenshot with your thoughts on Insta @thecuriouslifepodcast. As always, this episode was edited and voice-overed by the wonderful Julie Reynolds of Audio Lemonade. www.audiolemonade.com
Varun Duggirala is co-Founder of The Glitch - a digitally-led creative agency that's worked with clients like Unilever, Netflix, Nokia and others, and is now under the WPP group. Varun is also the host of the podcast, ‘Advertising is a Dead'. Each week he discusses the changes and developments in the business of advertising and marketing. Varun has had a fascinating career path - an engineer turned PR & Marketing student, he worked at MTV and Channel V before starting The Glitch. In this conversation, we run through all things brand, content, experience, and creator-led marketing. We talk about the gradual morphing of advertising into becoming part art, part science. We were also curious about his point of view on podcasting and where the medium is headed, and his experience building his personal brand through his podcast. There's a lot of tactical and applicable advice in this episode - enjoy
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DJ Chozie Ma is the top selling EDM artist in China and Taiwan. Chozie, an Australian by birth, has spent over 22 years in Beijing, building the EDM scene from scratch, beginning with clubs and albums, as well as partnering with the man behind the music at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, to VVIP travel experiences, interactive domes, and organic skincare line Greenerways Organic. Show Notes Greenerways Organic Follow Chozie on Instagram | Facebook | WeChat "One Night in Beijing" (feat. Peyton) Video Theme music by: Ruel Morales Audio Transcript Brian Schoenborn 0:01 Hello, hello. Hey everybody. Our guest today is, he's had a pretty epic life. Let's put it that way. Truly a man of many hats from being the top selling electronic music DJ in both Taiwan and China, to owning some of the top clubs in Asia, as well as an expert, top of his game with vvip experiences. We're going to get into all of that stuff, as well as some other stuff that he's got going on. This dude's got so much stuff happening. It's kind of hard to wrap our arms around all of it. We're going to dive in as much as we can. So give it up for my friend, Chozie Ma. Brian Schoenborn 0:41 My name is Brian Schoenborn. I'm an explorer of people, places and culture. In my travels, spanning over 20 countries across four continents, I've had the pleasure of engaging in authentic conversations with amazingly interesting people. These are their stories, on location and unfiltered. Presented by 8B Media, this is Half the City. Chozie Ma 1:09 What's up? How you doing? Brian Schoenborn 1:11 Good, man. How are you? Chozie Ma 1:12 Happy to be here in LA. Brian Schoenborn 1:13 Dude, I'm so happy to see you, man. It's been it's been a minute, man. Chozie Ma 1:16 Yea, totally. Brian Schoenborn 1:17 Yeah. So guys, so first, let me take it back. We're having a little bit of technical difficulties. We're going mano today. We're improvising, adapting and overcoming. My, one of my dongles for my mic broke. So we've got one mic instead of two. No big deal. We just fucking roll with it. Right? So you might be hearing some background noise and stuff like that some cars going by or whatever, here and there. We're actually on location in Venice, Venice Beach, California. We're actually 100 yards from the beach. Chozie Ma 1:42 You can see the beach. Brian Schoenborn 1:43 You can see the beach. Chozie Ma 1:44 Yeah, it's sweet. Brian Schoenborn 1:45 We're right here. Chozie's in LA for business. Chozie Ma 1:50 Business and play. Brian Schoenborn 1:51 It just so happened that Chozie saw one of the first episodes out and I'm like, dude, I haven't seen I haven't talked to this guy like a year and I'm like, and he's like, yo, fuckin A. He liked it on my WeChat the Chinese social media, Chinese Facebook, whatever you wanna call it, like, dude, let's do this. Chozie Ma 2:05 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 2:05 And he's like, yeah. And then he messaged me, he's like, Yo, I'm in Venice doing something. I'm like, dude, I'm in LA. Let's get together. You know, the whole concept of the show anyways is you know, I'm talking to people all over the world with amazingly interesting stories. And on location, right, so we're chillin, we're chillin in his place here, his studio here in Venice Beach. You can hear somebody doing some construction work behind us in the background. All good. No, it's all good. I don't care. I don't even care, man. It's the content. Chozie Ma 2:33 Yeah, that's it. Brian Schoenborn 2:33 You know, it's the authenticity of it. But I've known Chozie for four, four years? Chozie Ma 2:39 Yeah, it's been a minute. Brian Schoenborn 2:39 Three or four years, something like that. Chozie Ma 2:41 Yeah. From Beijing. Brian Schoenborn 2:42 Yeah, from Beijing, baby. Yeah, I've known Chozie since my time in Beijing and if you guys have been listening, you know, I spent four years there doing some stuff on my own, but Chozie…I mean, you look Chinese. But your English is so good. Do you like? Chozie Ma 2:59 Yes, I'm Chozie. Okay, so it stands for Chinese Aussie. So my father's Chinese my mom's Aussie. Grew up in Sydney. Graduated there, then made the move over to the mainland back back to the roots in 98. Brian Schoenborn 3:13 98? Chozie Ma 3:14 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 3:14 Dude. So you're hitting what your 22nd year? Chozie Ma 3:16 Twenty-second year, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 3:17 My god, man. Chozie Ma 3:18 Zero to Hero. Brian Schoenborn 3:20 For real, like I can't even imagine like the changes. So, if you if you've never been to China, you've never been to Beijing or any of the other major cities. Ever since the, who was it? Who was, Deng Xiaoping? Chozie Ma 3:34 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 3:34 When Deng Xiaoping started opening up the country. It was closed off for years, decades, right? It was just its own nationalist, no access in or out type country. And around the time of Deng Xiaoping, who was the leader of the Chinese party, back in the time with Nixon, I think Richard Nixon, the American president. Chozie Ma 3:55 Kissinger, I think, to make the formal transition. Brian Schoenborn 3:57 Well, he was a diplomat, the foreign relations guy. Chozie Ma 4:00 Right. Brian Schoenborn 4:02 But they started opening up, it was the great opening. So this was like 30, 40 years ago. And since then the growth in China has been explosive. Chozie Ma 4:10 Yeah, donkeys and carts to Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Brian Schoenborn 4:12 Yeah. Chozie Ma 4:13 Just like that. Brian Schoenborn 4:13 It's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy and like so you see these areas like in Beijing for example. There's been so much growth that you know, one block you'll see these one story, they're called hutongs. They're like one story buildings that are anywhere between 600 and 1000 years old. Really cool spots. Chozie Ma 4:29 Really cool. Brian Schoenborn 4:30 History culture, all that good stuff. But a block away you'll see these skyscrapers with like neon lights that light up all night just like super like, I don't know you think like… Chozie Ma 4:40 Concrete jungle. Brian Schoenborn 4:41 Concrete jungle, but like to the extreme. like super super. Chozie Ma 4:44 Weird-ass designs, like the pants building that do things that hang over…I don't know. It's just Yeah, really. Architecture. But cool. You got the old and the new, in one city. Brian Schoenborn 4:57 It's kind of weird though. Like I feel like you know, in my time there, one of the things that I noticed was like, as modern as they become so quickly, as global as it become so quickly, from a technology, that kind of standpoint, money standpoint, I feel like there's still, like, there's still a transitioning period, in terms of maybe mentality, stuff like that. Like, you know, for example, um, you know, not good or bad, like, a lot of the stuff I talked about are constructs, right? Like, nothing is good, nothing is bad, just kind of what it is. But like you still see people like on the on the sidewalks of Beijing, that maybe do things that one culture might be like, whoa, like, what's going on? Like your jaws dropping that sort of thing. I'm not getting get into that here. But I get into it on my, on my other show, relentless, which is coming out, starting to come out in another month or two. Chozie Ma 5:49 Right. Brian Schoenborn 5:50 But there are things that might make your jaw drop, right, we're just like, but it's because it's so far removed from what you're used to with your culture in your constructs. Yeah, you know. But I just think it's interesting. As you know, things are happening. Things are changing whatever. Chozie Ma 6:04 Well you got to. I mean, that's the whole point of travel. Right? You want your jaw to drop. Brian Schoenborn 6:08 Right? Chozie Ma 6:08 Good or bad. Brian Schoenborn 6:09 That's, I mean, that's the thing, right? Chozie Ma 6:10 You're going to go somewhere and be like, Did you see that? Oh, wow, look at that, you know, it's just part of the whole cultural experience. Brian Schoenborn 6:16 Absolutely. Chozie Ma 6:16 And especially taking your kids out there and seeing just saying, you open your mind is the world like closed off into one bubble, right? Explore, travel. Brian Schoenborn 6:25 Dude, absolutely. Like, I'll never forget. The first time I came back to America. When I moved to Beijing. I grew up in a small town in Michigan, right. And so I so I went back and I bumped into this lady that I knew from a very young age, and she goes, Oh, Brian, she's like, What are you up to these days? What are you doing? And I go, Oh, you know, I'm living in China right now. I'm living in Beijing. And she goes, she looks me. She's like, China? China? Brian, I'm so scared for you. What do you are safe Ba ba ba ba it's communist Brian, all this stuff. I look at her husband, her husband standard that I look at I go Actually, it's pretty amazing country. I mean, it's super safe, feel safe. Chozie Ma 6:44 Yeah, real safe. Brian Schoenborn 7:03 People are welcoming. You know, if you try if you take a stab at learning a language that goes miles, you know, it goes such a long way. You know, it's a good time. And then her husband's like, brothers like, honey, you know, I was stationed in Japan and the Navy, right? He's like, I bet he's having the time of his life. Chozie Ma 7:25 I thought he was gonna say, Oh, honey, I have a Japanese wife. Or we have a half son now coming up. I mean, those things can happen. No, China is great. I mean, it's 22 years, as you said, and you know, I've seen it go from, you know, really, like I would say it wasn't really colorful when I was there. But it was exciting because I got there in 97 on a tour, and it was the last stop on an Asian tour. And we were in this club called Vogue 88. Henry Lee was the owner. And he basically just said, Why don't you move out here and take over my club? I was like 19 years old or something like that. Brian Schoenborn 8:06 Really? Chozie Ma 8:06 I had a crew called Yum Cha Cha. So there's five of us. We went back to Australia, we all looked at each other and said, why not? Brian Schoenborn 8:14 Fuck it. Chozie Ma 8:14 We're young, we can't speak the language. I mean, I'm Chinese, but I spoke Cantonese when I was growing. So when you move to China, it's Mandarin. And Cantonese was it was like non existent there. So it didn't really work. Brian Schoenborn 8:26 I mean, they're completely different languages. Chozie Ma 8:27 Totally different languages. So kind of were like, you know what, let's just give this a go. The crowd seemed quite International. It was it was it was like, you know, there wasn't that many foreigners there then. But every foreigner that was there was working for the embassy or a corporate job, right? Or students. And we were like, you know what, let's do it. So we went, we went through it. Three months later, we packed up things moved, Mom and Dad laughed. Dad's the Chinese that, you know, he's from that generation that left China back in the day, to give a better life to, you know, myself and himself. Brian Schoenborn 8:57 So he's like, what is this, some sick, sad joke? Chozie Ma 9:00 He was like, he'll be back. So they, they kept my car for about five years and then realized it's been five years keeping respect wasting space in the garage. Can we sell it. I'm like, yeah, go ahead, man. I'm already I'm settled here. So, so it's kind of funny because that generation, a lot of the kids, ABCs: American Born Chinese, Australian Born Chinese, Canadian Born Chinese. As they graduated and got older that you started seeing opportunity in China, and went back. And those times from like, 99 all the way to you know, the Olympics was just like this epic journey. Brian Schoenborn 9:33 2008 Olympics? Chozie Ma 9:33 2008 Olympics and it was just this epic journey of like, wow. And you could just use it as your oyster and do whatever you wanted if you had some creativity, and especially if you had something culturally valued valuable for the scene, dance scene or entertainment or like, you know, anything related to culture, culture and heritage, or bringing investment into China. Bringing foreign brands into China. Brian Schoenborn 9:58 Yep. Chozie Ma 9:59 You just kill it. Alright, so we're doing really well, I decided to go into the entertainment space and do clubs, music, things like that. And develop that that market, which has become more like, I look at it as probably one of the biggest in the world. Now, if you look at every DJ, they're all trying to go every Western artist is trying to collaborate with an Asian artist. Brian Schoenborn 10:15 Oh, absolutely. Chozie Ma 10:16 You know, so that's the volume, right? With volume comes money, monetizing products, things like that. Yeah, there's a lot of tricky things that go on in the market. But if you can maneuver through it. And I think the one thing that you just got to know about going to China is a lot of foreigners move there. They're still very hard headed, well, what would you call it? Brian Schoenborn 10:38 They're set in their ways. Chozie Ma 10:39 They're set in they're ways. Brian Schoenborn 10:40 Yeah, because I've lived in that bubble or whatever their culture is, and they expect everywhere to be just like that, right? Chozie Ma 10:45 So it's like, you know, maybe they have a good brand or a company or they've been bought out by a big expat company and getting that package that they didn't get somewhere else. The thing is, China's not going to change for you. You gotta change for China. Brian Schoenborn 10:57 Yeah, that's a hard lesson to learn. Tell you what, like I you know, because I think about you know, like I did a couple of or I had some I did some business in China myself. You know one thing I did, for example, was I produced this the soccer match right between Manchester United legends and Liverpool legends so these guys are 35 and up recently. Chozie Ma 11:18 Big game, I remember that. Brian Schoenborn 11:19 Big game, right? We put that on and we put out a four or five aside tournament Adelaide, and then an 11 a side friendly, in Melbourne. Chozie Ma 11:29 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 11:31 And we and then we live stream that into China and Europe and other places. And we worked with Tencent, which is one of the biggest like they're bigger than Facebook guys. Like there's 10 cents huge. Chozie Ma 11:38 $1 trillion company. Brian Schoenborn 11:41 Yeah, they're one of the big three tech companies in China. But we live streamed through them. Great, you know, big reception. They're like, Oh, this is one of the best live streams we've ever we've ever had as far as quality and all that stuff. Awesome. Can't wait to work with you more. So then I take that information like all right, these guys want to get into China, right? These players want to play a match in China. I get something setup where we're getting ready to do a deal in Shenzhen, near Shenzhen. I forget the name of that, I kind of blocked it out, because it's a bad experience. But in a city right next to Shenzhen which is one of the you know this is tech hub one of the big tech hubs, right? Like that's where Apple products are made and suck that's right right across the tributary from Hong Kong. Chozie Ma 12:23 Right. Brian Schoenborn 12:25 And I went down there and I you know, we're going to put on this match was gonna be great. met up with this guy. Four different times flew down the middle of the four times he's he puts me up in this hotel that he owns. This guy's a big businessman. We're drinking like crazy because that's that's an important part of Chinese culture, right? Chozie Ma 12:41 Oh, yeah. By the way, a lot of people think Chinese can't drink. Brian Schoenborn 12:44 Oh, no. That's not true. Chozie Ma 12:46 They get the Asian glow whatever. Oh, no, no, the ones that are born there. Especially Beijingers and the girls drinking a session with him we Chinese rice wine. Brian Schoenborn 12:53 Dude. Baijiu? Chozie Ma 12:54 They will put you under the table so hard. Brian Schoenborn 12:55 Oh my god, dude. But that's but that's the whole point. Right? Like part of the part of building relationships and China is all about, it's called guanxi, right? Chozie Ma 13:03 Face. Chozie Ma 13:03 It means relationships or face or whatever. And it's Chinese people would rather do business with people that they've got a strong relationship with versus Chozie Ma 13:10 Or just put them under the table and made them vomit and then they're like, Okay, cool. You can hang. Brian Schoenborn 13:14 Yeah, exactly. That's exactly that's how you build it. A lot of times you sit on this new set of these plastic chairs and tables outside a restaurant eating like, you know, 20 cents of stick, barbecue kebabs, chuar. Drinking cheap beer, out comes the baiju like 12, one o'clock in the morning is rice wine and which is like 40 to 60% alcohol like it's unregulated so it could be anywhere between there. Chozie Ma 13:39 Yeah, 60, yeah, definitely. It's strong. Brian Schoenborn 13:41 shot after shot after shot after shot there's no like there's no time wasted. Chozie Ma 13:48 Yeah, I'm glad I've got my mom's liver I say the the western side liver. Yeah, cuz I'm half half so that's helped me a lot drinking in China. Brian Schoenborn 13:57 But yeah, but so like, you know, I'm doing that whole thing with this guy. Big businessman, he's got connections to the stadium and the local government and like all the thing, checking off all the boxes that you really need to do to conduct business in China. And we get to a point where we sign the contract, he's got to give us a 10% down within a week or 10 days or something like that. We can secure the players. Sign the contract, dude never shows up. Disappears, disappears. No money sent, not responding to anything. And it's like, you know, that was one of the hard lessons I learned about doing business in China. Is that by Western standards, or at least American standards, I'm sure Aussie is not not too different. But like you get that contract signed, it's a done deal. Chozie Ma 14:37 Yeah, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 14:38 Right? Whereas in China, it's a different set of rules. Chozie Ma 14:41 Yeah, I've definitely it's definitely going down that route route many times. But it's that same saying, you know, you get knocked down, get up again, I'm already situated there. My house is there. My friends are there. Businesses there. Brian Schoenborn 14:54 Yeah. Chozie Ma 14:55 I've just learned over the years how to maneuver through it and it's and yeah, I've definitely lost investment and time. Time is the most important thing. Brian Schoenborn 15:04 Yeah. Chozie Ma 15:04 And, you know, it's it's, it sucks. But you just got to kind of learn how to be better than that. And I tell you over the last couple of years, the whole IP and legal system protection for that is it's really good. Brian Schoenborn 15:19 Oh, dude, it's gotten a lot better over the last few years. Chozie Ma 15:21 They just really they've smartened up and it's like, this is business, get it done. The shitty part is like when you are pitching for a job, like in one of my businesses, which is the event business. Obviously, a lot of proposal work needs to be done. Brian Schoenborn 15:33 Yeah. Chozie Ma 15:34 So a lot of these companies or clients have different departments, like procurement departments. And they're very traditional. So you might have a full Western team, say, for example, in Volkswagen or something like that you're in a big Western company. So when you meet with them, you get the job you're talking to, obviously the more Western minded simio and things like that, sure. Love your technology. They love that your Western and Chinese and they love that you get the concept. Yep, boom, okay, I'm going to launch this and you're going to do this and that and like Yes, I'm going to do it. That for you. And I'm going to do that for you. Chozie Ma 16:02 And then it trickles down through the system to procurement in the German they usually bring in because it's kind of I think it's legal when you have, it's the law that you have to have a local Chinese as your, your finance department, to head that department right to sign the bills. And that person is trained in a way where the job is to save money for the company at all costs and save money, which means: no, I don't understand that concept, why is it cost that much? Because I can go online and look for I can go to five other companies and they say it costs this much, because other companies are trying to take your idea or they're fake faking the, the tech or something like that, the smaller companies. Brian Schoenborn 16:36 Uh huh. Chozie Ma 16:36 And so you get into these things where it's like now the budgets low and then this a few months later goes back to the big boss, and they call you, Hey, why are you Why have they changed the company? or Why are you not doing the job? You know, you said that this was way too expensive…and he's like, but I approved it and then and then it goes back again. So most companies will have like a second budget because of that fuckup. Brian Schoenborn 16:55 Right, right. Chozie Ma 16:56 And so they kind of like contingency, they know that that's going to happen. So that's a little bit tiring, but it is getting better. What I found is when I, we were doing all the proposals, we're a smaller boutique team. So we spent a lot of time and you know, proposals to that magnitude, the 3d they renders the videos that cost you about, you know, $20,000 to make good decent proposal, but you're getting a million dollar job. Brian Schoenborn 17:18 Right. Chozie Ma 17:18 Or a $2 million job at the end of it. Brian Schoenborn 17:19 Right. you know, that's a modest investment. Chozie Ma 17:20 It makes it makes sense. Yeah, but you don't know that. That's gonna wait, they keep asking you to change it. Someone's uncle has an event company, that's… Brian Schoenborn 17:28 That's the guanxi all over again. Chozie Ma 17:30 That person, right? So you're gonna like shit, then then your event pops up with all your ideas. And, you know, this is what I went through years ago. Brian Schoenborn 17:39 It still happens though. Chozie Ma 17:39 It still happens, but we just instead of going for it, my partner I just said, You know what, let's just deal with the ones that put a designer feet down. Put that basically that 10% down before. Brian Schoenborn 17:53 Yeah. Chozie Ma 17:53 And then if we get the job will deduct that from the main fee. So if you even take it away from me, at least I can pay for myself. If I can pay for my time. Brian Schoenborn 18:01 Yeah, exactly. Chozie Ma 18:02 I lost more than 50% of my clients when I started doing that. Brian Schoenborn 18:05 Oh, sure. Chozie Ma 18:05 Because they're like, oh shit, we can get free work from all these agencies, there's about 100 interns that are doing free work for them. Right? And then they're okay with that, because they've got so many other jobs. So we tailored it down, we lost a lot of clients, but then we just filtered it to good clients, and they're more than happy to give us that 10% because they know we're going to do the work for them. Brian Schoenborn 18:23 Yeah, exactly. Chozie Ma 18:24 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 18:25 You know, if you're dealing with good client, legit companies, ones that understand the value of good design or, you know, high quality work, I think, you know, things that anybody can do, like, anyone can say, Hey, I'm gonna put a proposal together, right? But it's the design element, it's the craft work. It's the expertise that, you know, comes with a long, you know, many years of experience, many years of success and being able to develop your own personal brand to, right? On top of all that, I mean, that's kind of where, where there's a separation, right and yet, good companies will see that and they'll say, okay, we're willing to put that kind of money down because this person or this company, whatever has consistently been able to produce, right? Chozie Ma 19:08 And this and the speed of efficiency, everything right? There's no other uncle's company involved. I mean, but again that guanxi things is super, super important thing in China. It is all about face. And it is all about, like having that connection. And I think how I got those connections is I started, well, I went to Taiwan in 2000 with Avex records. Brian Schoenborn 19:33 Okay. Chozie Ma 19:33 I got sent over with the manager. And then he was just trying to pimp me off to different record labels. So I was just kind of like new to the music business. I've been DJing for many years. I wasn't really fucking with record labels, and I could write music, and I was already doing TV on Channel V. And then he was just like, he was literally pimping me from Sony to BMG to hear and that and then was sending me these 60, 70 page contracts in Chinese and they kind of knew I couldn't read Chinese. Brian Schoenborn 20:00 Oh shit. So they're like, sign your life away. Chozie Ma 20:02 He was saying sign sign sign. And this is like 10 year contracts, and I'm thinking that's= a bit weird. Now everyone signs 10 years and that's just really crazy? But um they didn't realize that my father after a few of these different careers he decided to study law and he's an academic scholar so he studied the entertainment law, pharmacy law, everything kind of law. So his way of saying well he's a traditional Chinese man so he doesn't really say, I love you son, and give you a hug. But his way of saying I love you is like send me that contract let me review it for you. So these major record labels didn't know I had that ammunition behind me. Brian Schoenborn 20:36 The secret weapon. Chozie Ma 20:37 And he just go through it and just rip it apart and send it back and then look at it and be like, Yeah, no, we can't sign this you know, he knows too much about it. So the manager was getting pissed. He's just kind of like, I'm gonna lose my my meal ticket here because he was just literally like, that's what he wanted from me. Brian Schoenborn 20:55 Oh, yeah. Cuz I mean, he's, he gets you signed and he gets his contingency fee or whatever. Right? Chozie Ma 20:59 Yeah, and and I was young and naive I didn't know the extent of the deal. He was probably signing the 80% of my royalties to him, I didn't know I was 20 something, right? And then I made a pretty famous celebrity there, this girl and she and we just within a week started dating and then within two weeks I moved in with her and she's like massive star. I didn't really know who she was, like, that's why I think she's she liked me because I didn't give a fuck about celebrities and and they will use that because I had my club in China two years before that. Chozie Ma 21:26 And all the celebrities: Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone. Everyone would come there, it was like the Viper Room of Beijing where everything went, right? Brian Schoenborn 21:32 Nice. Chozie Ma 21:33 So but I never talked like whatever I saw whatever was happening there I just was like treating everyone like a normal person so that's where it made a lot of artists want to work with me. Brian Schoenborn 21:41 Yeah. Chozie Ma 21:41 Oh shit, you're DJing? Maybe you want to write a track with me? Oh, let's do that. So kind of went along. and a month later Avex Records from Japan just kind of hit me up personally. Yo, we want to work with you. I'm like, yeah, I'm kind of turned off by the whole music thing you know, and it's all this melancholy tired like Taiwanese pop and Chinese pop. At that time, there wasn't really much dance music. The Pop is not even, like, pop it was like everything was sad song… Brian Schoenborn 22:06 Like sad love song. Chozie Ma 22:08 Everything was a love song, and I'm like shit. You want me to get in this game I want to, I want to change it. I'm wanna perform some house music, some breakbeat like, they looked at me and they're very progressive. Avex is a big progressive record and they had a label called house nation which was like all these cool Japanese female DJs and it's doing cool stuff trance that are in club. So they're like, What do you want? And luckily, the girl I was dating at the time, her team advised me on a few things. So I was very fortunate that they helped me they just said just do one year, one album deal with option to sign on for other deal, like other, but you're free. Own the royalties. They gave it to me. It was like what? After that, those people kind of clued up, and they're like, we're gonna sign this stuff for 10 years. Brian Schoenborn 22:50 Yeah, right. They're like we're locking him. Chozie Ma 22:52 Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna invest this much. If he doesn't make enough his first album. He's gonna work for us. He's even if he that album doesn't work. He's gonna work in the office writing songs for the next artist. Brian Schoenborn 23:00 Oh, really? Chozie Ma 23:00 Yeah, you brought, you owe money to the record labels. Like, if, everyone's hungry in China in Asia, right? And you're good looking. And you can write a song. But you can't act, you need to be a triple threat. They need to make revenue off you from everything, right? So a lot of these artists would come in, they invest a couple hundred thousand, the album would come out, wouldn't do so well. And then you'd find them just sitting, like they've got to pay off their debt. So they're still working. It sucks for a lot of people. Brian Schoenborn 23:26 That's crazy man. Chozie Ma 23:27 You know? So now the new Brian Schoenborn 23:28 Can you imagine what a slap in the face that would be? Like, I mean, you were you were successful. So you I don't think you've experienced that, right? But can you imagine… Chozie Ma 23:35 I saw it. Brian Schoenborn 23:37 I mean, me like somebody Yeah, somebody like one of your buddies or whatever, right? Like, maybe they had like an album that maybe a one hit wonder or something right? Like that one song went, but then everything else just kind of shit the bed and you see them sitting, sitting behind a computer, or whatever, you know, like Chozie Ma 23:52 It's tough. I mean, when we started label in 97 called Party People Committee. It was the first dance labeled in China for electronic and hip hop, and one of my boys that was coming up, amazing writer, composer, producer, rapper. He can rap in Chinese, English, and even in German, like awesome. Young Kin, his name is. When that happened, they promised him to release his album and mine at the same time with dance and Hip Hop one. They went with mine and unfortunately, he didn't get it. But he worked it. He worked and pushed me. And then, you know, you could see it. He wanted it. Like, you know, oh shit it's my time. Brian Schoenborn 23:53 Yeah, yeah, for sure. Chozie Ma 24:18 I've worked so hard at this shit and I'm talented, but young writing. He just flipped the switch. He just said, You know what, I'm still young, and I'm fucking great. I'm gonna go get my MBA. And then everyone looked at him going, you're gonna fucking own a record label. Now this guy's like, moved to Boston. still writing music, has a flipping house company, a real estate agency, killing it. You know what I mean? So he turned it into a positive a lot of other people just get depressed and be like, shit, man. I was I was good at that. All right, and then I've got this shows you your character. You've just got to fucking keep keep going man. Brian Schoenborn 25:02 Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely, man. Chozie Ma 25:03 You'll get that break. Yeah, it's just tough. Brian Schoenborn 25:06 But it's one of those things like, whether it's the music business or whether it's like, film and TV or this shit or anything you do, right? Like, it's not, it's not about how many times you fall or get kicked in the face or whatever. It's about how it's how you respond to that. Brian Schoenborn 25:21 Right? It's like, how do you get up? Do you get up and say, okay, that was a fucking speed bump. I'm going to get over that shit and move forward, because this is what I want to do. Chozie Ma 25:21 Right. Chozie Ma 25:28 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 25:29 Or does it happen so many times where you just like, all right, maybe this isn't for me. Maybe I should shift gears a little bit. You know, maybe this passion of mine is more of a hobby. Right? Or for whatever reason it's not working. Go another route. You know? Chozie Ma 25:44 Yeah, the girl that was like we had to do my album in 2007. And we had an artist coming from Taiwan, but she was a good friend of mine. She was like, Yeah, cool. I want to jump on your album. It's the first solo album in China for dance music. I love to be part of it. Then her mom, being the manager, found out that we were under kind of a bigger label. She saw some dollar signs. And we couldn't afford her at the last minute. She's like, I'm so sorry, man, at the end of the day, the managers getting there. And yeah, we can't do anything. We can give you a mate rate, but that's about it. Still expensive, because she's bit star. And we had the studio booked and we only had one month to use. And a friend came in and said, Look, there's this girl. She's still currently signed to a 10 year, she's still got about four years left on that, but she hasn't been doing anything because she got screwed over by the record label. But she can come sing vocals on you just you know, don't really mention her artist's name because her artist name is still owned by a label, right? Brian Schoenborn 26:39 But do you put your actual name? Chozie Ma 26:41 Just put her name. Brian Schoenborn 26:41 Or do you just anonymize it? Chozie Ma 26:43 Put her actual name, because she had an artist name but what's your actual name? And then we did that and she killed it. She came in the studio. I gave her the song, the lyrics and I just said you know what, just keep record on. She nailed it. I didn't even record the second take. We just edited over it. I was like, wow, this girl's great. Brian Schoenborn 26:58 Yeah. Chozie Ma 26:58 I like I have four more songs. With female vocals, could you do this for me? No worries. I'd love to do it so she smashes this out. Then she goes kind of dark for a while she she's still doing music. She's playing in club gigs with a little band stuff. Just you know keeping it going keeping her passion. Brian Schoenborn 27:13 Yep. Chozie Ma 27:13 Once that four year contract lifted off those record labels way. She, she was just like, boom and then…now her name's Tia Ray. I'm not sure if you heard her she's massive. Massive. Brian Schoenborn 27:25 Huge in China. Chozie Ma 27:26 She just stuck through it. Brian Schoenborn 27:27 Yeah. Chozie Ma 27:27 But she could see how hard that is. You know, you you you're stuck when you have with all these opportunities and you get out of it. Brian Schoenborn 27:33 Yeah. Chozie Ma 27:33 But she waited and now she prevailed and she's killing it to her respect to have and thank you for coming on my album. Brian Schoenborn 27:40 Shout out to Tia Ray, man. Chozie Ma 27:41 That's it. Brian Schoenborn 27:42 Respect. Chozie Ma 27:42 But um, you know, it's it's the industry it's and obviously now it's become so big, that they got all the…What is it? There's multi big groups with over like 10 guys or… Brian Schoenborn 27:53 Oh, yeah. BTS for example, there's like 8 dudes or something like that? Chozie Ma 27:56 Yeah, obviously before it was Japan…Taiwan would follow Japan, so they were the trendsetters and then China will follow the Taiwan. And now Taiwan's kind of fading out a bit. They're still good. They still got they still got their stars and megastars. But now China's started to create their own culture. Brian Schoenborn 28:11 Yeah. Chozie Ma 28:12 With hip hop. And hip hop, it's becoming huge. I mean, it's huge. But they creating their own culture. Brian Schoenborn 28:17 Yeah. Chozie Ma 28:18 Which is great, because it was more of a copy before. Brian Schoenborn 28:20 Oh, of course. Well, you know, I mean, that's kind of what China does, though. Or they've done you know, everyone thinks Oh, copycat China. But, you know, a lot of what they've done with that opening is like, they just haven't had, they haven't experienced a lot of these things. So a lot of it's like bringing this stuff in. Chozie Ma 28:33 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 28:33 Kind of learning about it. And then taking it and making it their own. Chozie Ma 28:37 Yeah, right. It could be done so wrong in so many ways. Brian Schoenborn 28:40 Yeah, for sure. Chozie Ma 28:41 But at least now they've kind of they, they did it that way, then I think the government saw it was becoming too adapted from the American or Western hip hop culture, in ways of like, maybe they'll word it's kind of getting too out of control. Brian Schoenborn 28:55 Yeah. Chozie Ma 28:56 So they kind of banned it for a minute which is really crazy, right? Who bans hip hop like they banned the stuff. But they banned it and then they kind of cleaned it, right? So they cleaned it in a way. So now the guys that are on these big shows like China's Got Hip Hop, or, like, you know, these these kind of big shows, then now seen as like the ambassador's of clean hip hop. Brian Schoenborn 29:16 Yeah. Well, right. Because, because when they banned it was a couple of years ago, there's like that the China's Got Hip Hop show or whatever, right? Chozie Ma 29:22 Yeah, yeah, right. Brian Schoenborn 29:22 Like there was, I think the winner was like singing about like, I don't know, drugs, or gangs, or whatever it was, I mean, who knows whether he like actually meant the words that he was saying, or whether it was just taking the influence from Western hip hop culture, but it was something like that. And China's like, drugs, nope. Banned. This is bad for our culture. We don't want anything to do with hip hop and you're right, who does that? But…China can do that. Chozie Ma 29:45 It's hard because he pop is an expression of that. Right? Of what you want to say and and the street, you know, kind of Brian Schoenborn 29:51 Right. Yeah. Yeah. Chozie Ma 29:52 So I think that, you know, they've got now the commercial, pop hip hop, where they kind of just keep it a bit more tame. They go on the edges of things, but has made the underground scene so much stronger. So you got you got the clubs that are doing like these big nights and the tours with these, the hip hop groups, and they're still hardcore and good, because I think they do it more like online, where it's not on TV. When it's on TV, when it hits TV, it has to have that little bit more edge, you know, it's a bit more cleaner. So that's good because it created this whole subculture that's becoming very popular and you can see like the, you know, you go to Chengdu and you'd swear you think you're in Mexico, like everyone's kind of tatted up and… Brian Schoenborn 30:32 Really? Chozie Ma 30:33 They've just adapted that culture the style and they've got their own fashion brands that are using it and they're walking around with the pitbulls and all this kind of stuff, but it's that, and they got all the girls that follow them and it's this kind of thing and it's it's more of a fashion thing. That's their that's their lane and then they've got you know, everyone's subculture is becoming more defined. Brian Schoenborn 30:51 Yeah, yeah. Chozie Ma 30:51 And your crews are becoming more defined as electronic music you know all these kind of everything's got us got a scene now, huh? Yeah, solid seen a money making scene now. Brian Schoenborn 31:00 Yeah, for sure. Yeah, sure. That's crazy. I've never been to Chendu, man. Like that's one of the places where like, I really wanted to go when I was over there, you know on a consistent basis. I mean I just haven't made my way. I think I'm gonna get back there soon so yeah, it's supposed to be really cool i mean that's pandas are, right? Chozie Ma 31:17 Yes. Brian Schoenborn 31:18 Kind of mountainous it's like a small city of what 15, 20 million people? Chozie Ma 31:26 It's a small city. Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 31:27 Spicy food. I mean, that's, that's why I love that's my favorite food is like the, you know, spicy hot pot. You know, malaxiangguo. Chozie Ma 31:36 Oh. It's a it's spicy. Oh, yeah. You gotta be prepared for that. Yeah, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 31:40 Yeah, I've met so many chunky girls like all Brian, they're like, Can you eat spicy food and I'm like, give it to me. And they're like, they're always so impressed. I'm like, as you know… Chozie Ma 31:49 and because this a beautiful too. So when they say can you eat spicy onion? Yeah. The next day I was like, yeah, to to your assistant. I think you need to cancel my meetings. Just keep me close to a toilet. Brian Schoenborn 32:01 Exactly. That Chengdu spice is always a good idea coming in, but it's never a good idea coming out. Chozie Ma 32:11 It's it's real tough. Yeah. I mean, there's other food there, people, but like, it's just yeah, you gotta definitely try this. Brian Schoenborn 32:22 That's funny. You were saying earlier, you got the best selling dance album of all time in Taiwan and China, is that what that is? Chozie Ma 32:31 It was about 2002. When I was at Avex, so they gave me that idea. Brian Schoenborn 32:36 Yeah. Chozie Ma 32:37 I could have gone with, you know, so many options, but I thought, well, I'm playing house music and house is kind of new in Taiwan. Breakbeat hadn't reached Taiwan yet. So like Finger Licking, Stenton Warriors, you know, like, so Adam Freeland, like it was just kind of really cool. Brian Schoenborn 32:54 Yeah. Chozie Ma 32:54 Nu-school breaks. Basics is funky and it's got beats and it's just vocals and, so I was doing like three turntables sets and clubs and it's just mixing it up mashing it up. So the album itself is is one is, it's an EP of my Isle Formosa which is the first dance album, a dance song with a music video for an artist in Taiwan for dance music. Brian Schoenborn 33:16 Nice. Chozie Ma 33:16 In that category. And then the second CD was full live three turntable break beat mix for an hour. And then the third one was a live house mix of some of my favorite artists in the world but house music funky house vocal house classic house. Brian Schoenborn 33:33 Yeah, all of this would be called EDM now. Chozie Ma 33:35 Well, yeah, I mean, electronic dance music. Back then. Like, and still to this day, but you know, we had styles okay. That's a techno DJ. That's breakbeat DJ. That's a trance DJ. All that stuff, yeah. Brian Schoenborn 33:47 Jungle. Chozie Ma 33:47 Jungle, drum and bass. Everyone was defined, or like, this guy's a bit more versatile that Carl Cox, he can play everything. Brian Schoenborn 33:54 Yeah. Chozie Ma 33:54 He's known as the techno DJ, but the guy will go and fucking smash the classics of the house or hip hop. You know? It's more about being versatile. But as time went on, and I think just society dumbing down into things and just needed things more simplified. People came up with oh let's just call it EDM but that that EDM came up with that whole like that Ultra sound or that, like it's more of that yeah very commercial media. Brian Schoenborn 34:19 Right. Chozie Ma 34:20 It's not techno, it's not trance. It's not this. I don't know what is this is noise to me. Everybody fucking jump. There's no like this for me. There's no talent in that I like to see a DJ that actually produces something or like they're sets are not programmed. Brian Schoenborn 34:34 Right. Chozie Ma 34:34 Um, you know, so I kind of went a little bit disappointed in that culture. But then a good friend of mine that does some pretty big festivals and clubs in around the world. He basically was just like, look, it's still a business. Brian Schoenborn 34:47 Yeah. Chozie Ma 34:47 People are into it. I'm like, fuck, how do I flip the switch. I'm definitely not going to DJ this stuff. Brian Schoenborn 34:52 Well, right. Because if you're I mean, if you're not feeling, the creativity of that, or the creation of that, I mean, you still you made it but you've been in the business for you. Right. I mean, you can still flip that the mindset right and still, you know, rather than being in the creativity side of it, you can be more on the promotion or… Chozie Ma 35:09 Yeah, or be more of us behind the scenes in the tech. Because, I have a tech company, right? So we originally using those for high end events and projections and mapping and stuff like that. So like, why don't we just design the festivals and give tools to these EDM DJs? Brian Schoenborn 35:25 Oh, hell yeah, dude. Chozie Ma 35:25 Like, even though I don't like the music, but hey, why don't we make it more visually, right? Brian Schoenborn 35:30 You can help create the experience. Chozie Ma 35:32 Right? So if you look at it, like ultra know that they started a bit more, they went really big with it, Tomorrowland, big EDM sound, but then they started adding all the different stages. Carl Cox has rennaisance in there, which is doing more techno so then it's obviously like people for first few years. They're listening to the EDM, but then they'll they'll venture over to that stage. They're like, Oh, this is all right. So then the slowly changing and you can see it in the scene that it's moving. People are kind of like steering away. They want more quality and technology. They want more trance. IOr they want more this. So just giving them the promoters giving them more options. Brian Schoenborn 36:03 Yeah. Chozie Ma 36:03 It's better. If it's just giving them one sound and dumbing down the whole world. This is what it is. And unfortunately that's what happened in China. They didn't go through transition. They just went from Oh, let's just stop all house and techno most of the big clubs now and just put in these mainstream are because he's number one, that must be the music right now, or number two and that's what the sound is, noise. Right? So these clubs just followed it but now you can see it's been going like that for a couple of years in China. They're slowly sleeping in every now and then they'll flow in a really good techno DJ, or a really good underground DJ, and people are like digging it they're feeling it, oh this is good. I don't have to just stand there and from my hand in the air I like I can actually groove I can actually feel it you know kind of thing. So it's good. But yeah, we just and obviously the DJ's are all programmed. So they like the big festivals. And I get it because you paying so much money for the ticket. And the DJ needs to know when the fireworks is gonna go off, and it needs to queue and everything's queued up. And so it's very kind of rehearsed. But that's what like a normal concert is anyway, like if you went to Madonna whenever you're painting that she's live, but she knows exactly how cute. So that's how the, you know the big EDM DJ is emergency cue DJs. Brian Schoenborn 37:13 Yeah. Chozie Ma 37:13 So last year in Macau, we will part of, we designed an EDM festival could Jigsaw, some big names, Steve Aoki, all those guys were up there. But what I noticed is from the rave days back in the day, the DJ would never stop. It'd be 12 hours non stop music. Chozie Ma 37:28 the Djs would just go into play on play on blue yonder. And each DJ knew that they knew their time. If you're a warm up your warm up, yeah, if you're 10 pm, you're 10pm. Don't bang out music like it's 4am. A lot of these days in Asia, in China especially, I'll be doing my main set at 1am, and a new DJ would come in and he'd be like, shit, I'm gonna bang a 3am set out before Chozie goes on and I'm just like, dude, you're killing me here, mate. You know what I mean? So that's where we come into most DJs will have their warm up DJ tour with them, because they know this guy's gonna warm it up well, and it's respectful to be a warm up DJ for someone. Or if you're closing after someone, you close out for them. Brian Schoenborn 37:28 Yeah, sure. Brian Schoenborn 38:04 It's like an opening act like the comedy stage, or the band, you know, whatever. Chozie Ma 38:07 Exactly. Yeah, a lot of bedroom bangers, a lot of the younger DJ and I get that. Yeah, it's a transition it takes time. So this festival, we had, you know, 7, 8, 7, big name DJs. And each one of them had like a 10 to 12 minute gap between each show for changeover. I'm like, you know what, man, let's just keep the flow going. Brian Schoenborn 38:24 Yeah. Chozie Ma 38:25 But how do we do that? Because they're still gonna do the change of a sub kind of set up a whole hologram system. And I had DJs, two DJ is on left and right, DMC scratch styles and, we produced the technology where when the DJ scratches, we've got a camera on a hand and she can control the eight foot high hologram, so he or she's scratching. Brian Schoenborn 38:43 Oh really? Chozie Ma 38:44 I mean, the middle on drum pads. So we like we produce these 10 minute, 12 minute segment shows so the audience would just see this flow going through and then the next DJ would be ready then goes on. You know, so there was this awesome interaction of immersive experience. Because I think people are getting bored at these big festivals now like it's the same, same thing. Brian Schoenborn 39:04 It's the same shit. Chozie Ma 39:04 It's the same DJ, same DJs, at these festivals, but like they just reversing that sets around or the next stage is playing something similar or something like that. So I think I think now people just need more, more interaction. That's why bringing more technology into the shows is very important these days, people like now getting smarter. I think I think it got dumbed down. And now it's getting smarter because they're getting so big. Brian Schoenborn 39:25 Well, it's kind of like it gets dumbed down because that's, as much as I hate to say it, it's kind of like, you bring it down to a level where a lot of people can understand, right? A lot of people just easily get it. Then they come in and then as they get used to it, then you can start getting a little more nuanced with it or whatever. Brian Schoenborn 39:42 Getting a little smarter about it. Do you have do you have? Can you show me something like? Chozie Ma 39:42 Right. Chozie Ma 39:47 Oh, yeah, yeah, I can put up with those videos. I'll give them to you. Brian Schoenborn 39:49 Yeah. Chozie Ma 39:50 We can send some links up. Brian Schoenborn 39:51 Okay. Sure. Yeah, no, I'd love to check some of that stuff. Chozie Ma 39:53 Yeah, it's very cool. Brian Schoenborn 39:54 So this Jigsaw? Chozie Ma 39:56 Yeah, it was in Macau. So it was the second year. So we just Brian Schoenborn 39:59 When was that? Chozie Ma 40:00 That was December. Not, ninth last year. Brian Schoenborn 40:03 Oh, so a year ago. Chozie Ma 40:04 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 40:05 Okay. Chozie Ma 40:05 So we, we will not be selector of the artists and we were the design team and the production team. So we came up with this, I have always I've always had this idea of designing a rave, but in a super high end concept so that the VIP areas were like, made it look like a TV rooms like that. Brian Schoenborn 40:25 Oh, sweet. Chozie Ma 40:25 So they were like they were made out of velvet, and they had all these crazy stuff. You had your own bar in each one. And so on the main stage on the left and right, I built to 60 meter VIP booths built into the stage. So you're on the same level as the stage but you can't get in like you've got a glass barrier. Brian Schoenborn 40:43 Oh, yeah. But you're that close though. Chozie Ma 40:45 But you're that close. And they went for a million renminbi each table and they were the first tables to sell out. Brian Schoenborn 40:50 What? Dude. Chozie Ma 40:50 In Asia whenever you got the highest table. It sells out the first… Brian Schoenborn 40:54 Wow. Chozie Ma 40:55 …and you can have I think it was 70 guests. Came with drinks. Came with girls. came with…it's Macau. Brian Schoenborn 41:00 Yeah, that's nuts. Chozie Ma 41:01 Came with everything. So they sold out. You had those and then it went down into different tiers. So you had like the end. I think it was 800,000 and the 500,000, then the four then two, and then one and 40,000, something like that. So but it was designed in the Venetian Convention Center. Massive. Brian Schoenborn 41:04 Oh yeah, dude, the Venetian's huge in Macau. Chozie Ma 41:21 It's the biggest… Brian Schoenborn 41:21 It's so big. Chozie Ma 41:22 I think its biggest, biggest Hotel in the world or something like that. Brian Schoenborn 41:24 It might be, yeah. Chozie Ma 41:25 13,000 rooms or something. Brian Schoenborn 41:26 Yeah, it's huge. Chozie Ma 41:27 The Convention Center is massive. So we were like, I wanted to feel like a rave. Because that's where my passion comes from. Brian Schoenborn 41:33 Yeah. Chozie Ma 41:33 But like you wanted to give it that super high end service. Brian Schoenborn 41:36 Yeah. Chozie Ma 41:37 So we went in, and we just, we just did this crazy design and made it all cool. And it was cool, man, people just like digging it. But I had that rave feel. Brian Schoenborn 41:44 Yeah. Chozie Ma 41:45 The technology and the Holograms and the lasers. And the LED is all over the place and interactive tables for ordering drinks and stuff like that. So it's cool. So we're just tried to take that technology to another level. Brian Schoenborn 41:56 Yeah, I want to back up a second. I just want to explain because a lot of the listeners are Western, so maybe they haven't been to China. So I want to explain a couple of things real quick. So first, he's talking about selling a table for 1 million RMB. That's Chinese, that's the Chinese currency. If you…rough, rough. Chozie Ma 42:12 Rough conversion? Brian Schoenborn 42:15 Is probably about 200,000ish? $200,000, something like that? Chozie Ma 42:24 143,000 for one table. Brian Schoenborn 42:27 143,000 for one table, right? That's, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculously expensive. Okay? So that's the first thing. Second thing is he's talking about how it's kind of KTV styled. Right? So KTV is not really a big thing in America. Chozie Ma 42:41 Right, right. Brian Schoenborn 42:42 Yeah, you might find out a few spots. Like there's a couple of spots in LA, a couple of spots in New York, really where they were the Asian populations are, you might find a few here and there. But KTV guys essentially, like Americans know karaoke, right? Chozie Ma 42:54 Right. Brian Schoenborn 42:54 The karaoke that we're used to is we go to a bar and there's a karaoke night. So like one night, there's a microphone and the words and like one person at a time sings in front of the entire bar and, you know, in front of strangers and whatever else, right? KTV is just like that. Except there's, there's these buildings like in China, there's these buildings all over the place with dozens of rooms. Chozie Ma 43:16 Like three, 400 rooms. Brian Schoenborn 43:18 Three, 400 rooms in one building. And each room has its own karaoke place. Tables, couches, three microphones, just you and your friends or whatever it is, you know, it could be anywhere between like two and like 20 people something like that. Chozie Ma 43:32 Yeah, you got small rooms and you got themed rooms. Brian Schoenborn 43:34 You sit around you play games, and you drank. Chozie Ma 43:36 Oh, then there's even a free buffet. Like you got meal times. Brian Schoenborn 43:40 Yeah, it's it's super like it can be super cheap to like, you can pay like 20 bucks for like four hours. Chozie Ma 43:45 Yeah, yeah definitely. Brian Schoenborn 43:45 Something like that. But KTV is a huge thing in China. So when he's talking about doing these super high end KTV rooms, right next to the stage, you know, separated by nothing but a glass wall. Chozie Ma 43:57 Well just kind of like a fence. Brian Schoenborn 43:58 Yeah, whatever. It is. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's like, that's like the perfect thing for like that crowd. Chozie Ma 44:05 You know, you've, you've kept the KTV experience to the listeners very PG. Brian Schoenborn 44:09 Oh yeah. Chozie Ma 44:10 So there's a, Brian Schoenborn 44:11 There's dirty KTV too, of course. Chozie Ma 44:13 So the KTV that I designed off is not the dirty side, it's just that you've got these crazy rooms that are, you know, you still paying in up to like 20,000, $30,000 on a night and you go in there and it's like kind of very…hyou could all it gaudy. It's kind of like very velvety. Brian Schoenborn 44:33 Gaudy is a good word for it. Chozie Ma 44:33 And very like chandeliers and, Brian Schoenborn 44:36 Like a 1970s club. Chozie Ma 44:37 Yeah, so you've got that and then you've got the more modern ones. But then it comes in with you get girls. I mean, they come in and you can't sleep with them or anything like they're just hosts. Just like a strip club. Brian Schoenborn 44:48 They are hoooosts. Chozie Ma 44:48 They don't take the clothes off. They don't, you can't grab them. They just come in and they drink with you and they sing for you. Brian Schoenborn 44:54 Yeah. Chozie Ma 44:54 So it's more about a business entertainment. It's more about taking your clients there. Brian Schoenborn 44:58 Yeah. Chozie Ma 44:58 You're drinking there and all you take You just get to buddy thing you just go hang out. Brian Schoenborn 45:03 It's like the boys club kind of thing. Chozie Ma 45:05 It's a boy's club, but, in saying that, you think you think like maybe the wives and the girlfriends would get angry. But in China, they don't, because they have yadian, which is the KTV for women and Ya means Duck, so it's a duck house. So chicken means the girls in those places, this is a Chinese translation, so I'm not trying to say that to where it is and, and discuss people but it's just a translation. Brian Schoenborn 45:29 Yeah. Chozie Ma 45:29 So what I'm saying is that the men have their place to go for entertaining. And I'm telling you can't sleep with them. Brian Schoenborn 45:35 No, you don't, you don't. But the interesting thing about Chozie Ma 45:38 The women have their version. So they go out and have a girls night. Brian Schoenborn 45:42 Right? Right. Chozie Ma 45:42 And the guys go out and they have thier guy's night. Brian Schoenborn 45:43 And then they get these male or female hosts, whatever. Like I remember I've been to a couple of them too. And it's like right after you get situated in the KTV room, whoever works there, they open the door, just this parade of women goes through Chozie Ma 45:55 Yeah, the mama sun. Brian Schoenborn 45:58 Here comes this parade of women and basically, they're all pretty much wearing the same outfit, like the uniform, right? Chozie Ma 46:02 Yeah yeah yeah. Brian Schoenborn 46:03 But it's like this, you know, like I remember seeing like this little like, like dress like a yellowish dress, it was kind of form fitting at the top and maybe like a like a roughly thing. I don't want to say like a two two, that's a bit extreme, but you know, kind of like something like that. Chozie Ma 46:15 Yeah, their version of sexy. Brian Schoenborn 46:16 Fluffy or whatever. Where it's, you know, a little fluffier on the bottom. This is what I'm recalling. You know, it's been a year since I've been back, since I've been there. But yeah, so they bring out this parade of women and you basically you point and you pick pick which one you like, and they'll they'll hang out with you the whole night. And they'll pour drinks for you. Chozie Ma 46:32 I mean, it might some people might be getting put off by this but that they're not there. Brian Schoenborn 46:38 It's not it's not a brothel. Chozie Ma 46:39 Yeah, prostitution, there's a working there. Brian Schoenborn 46:42 It's just straight up entertainment. Chozie Ma 46:43 It's completely legal, like they've got benefits. It's a job you know, so so but it's like it is a good place for business and things. But my point is I they're very extravagant, the rooms, so I wanted to take that extravagance not the girls, the extravagance to a rave because I think the ballers that would buy that table are used to that kind of situation. So you have to dump like, you have to demographic, Brian Schoenborn 47:07 You got to go with what they like. Chozie Ma 47:08 With that like that like so I was like, how am I going to sell these tables for a million? Brian Schoenborn 47:11 Yep. Chozie Ma 47:12 Okay, the clientele the guys that go to these kind of places. As soon as I advertised that, that style of K, of that VIP they sold out in like a minute both of them. Brian Schoenborn 47:23 Hell yeah. Chozie Ma 47:24 You know what I mean? Like boom, done. And then all the VIP sold out, and so it's kind of like, all right, we're on the right track here and designing. So design has become a big thing for us for events and things like that. Brian Schoenborn 47:33 Well, that's cool, too. Because like once you have success with something like that, I mean, that concept that's gonna be pretty easy to duplicate, right? Chozie Ma 47:40 Yeah. Brian Schoenborn 47:40 I mean, so then you're just like, okay. Chozie Ma 47:42 For us. We've done it once we got it. We want to do the next thing again. Brian Schoenborn 47:45 Sure, yeah. Chozie Ma 47:46 More tech into it, or we add more, but I think it's all comes down to service. I think the biggest thing lacking in festivals in China, no matter they've got the budgets and the people. The service seems to be a little bit off. So we try to spend a bit more time on training and investment on the on the server. So we tell our clients, you know what, maybe drop one of the DJs. And you got another couple hundred thousand there. Brian Schoenborn 48:09 Yeah. Chozie Ma 48:09 Like, let's put that into really good bar management, better drinks into better food, you know, because I think you need that. Brian Schoenborn 48:15 Real alcohol. Chozie Ma 48:16 Real alcohol. Exactly. Because there's been a lot of fake alcohol. Brian Schoenborn 48:18 There's a lot of fake alcohol in China. Chozie Ma 48:20 Yeah. So, you know, just like trying to make the experience better for people. And I think that's just, it just goes with anything. It should it should be like that. If you're paying for something good. You need to be that lead with what you pay for. Brian Schoenborn 48:34 Nice. So are you working on anything else experience wise right now? Chozie Ma 48:38 Yes. So. So I mean, people might be thinking, What was he talking about experience and DJing, so… Brian Schoenborn 48:44 No, that's, that's awesome. Like, it's incredible stuff because Chozie Ma 48:46 No, so I'm trying to get to where I'll experience the experience in the tech comes from. Brian Schoenborn 48:50 Oh, okay. Chozie Ma 48:51 So I have a company called Article Projects International. And we started in 1995 doing rave parties in Sydney. So it was Chris Sefton. The founder was just doing lasers. I was the kind of guy breaking into the warehouses and, and and bringing like the DJs and just doing these underground raves, right? Slowly making money as teenagers and turned it into a business. So we've started we've started doing attractions, entertainment venues, and Chris started developing more and more technologies and we became into, into Asia. We built the Fountain of Wealth in Singapore. Suntech City as an attraction, world's largest water screen projection mapping. Brian Schoenborn 49:27 Nice. Chozie Ma 49:28 And then we just kept going and going with in 2005, Zhang Yimou, the director of the Beijing 2008 Olympics and China's claim to fame of most famous director in China. Most respected. Brian Schoenborn 49:42 He was the one
Welcome to November beautiful people, this year has just flown by I can't believe we're already thinking about Christmas! Still on a total wedding high and getting used to the new name - we're actually in Byron Bay this week for our mini moon so it seemed the perfect week to release this episode with Mullumbimby girl, Renée Bargh. I was lucky enough to record this one in Renée's beautiful home in Venice Beach when I was in LA on the way to Necker Island a few weeks ago and she had literally just come out of the ocean, what an absolute goddess. Despite an incredibly successful career over in the US, she remains a down to earth, Aussie beach baby whose family and friends mean more to her than anything. Having always lived for the performing arts, presenting was not Renée's first or even second love. After studying at Brent Street, Renée first set her sights on a career in dancing but then got picked up by Sony as part of a girl band (very originally called Girlband). It was a happy accident that got her into presenting with National Bingo Night on Seven then Surfari on Channel 9, followed by Channel V which then led her to her current position in LA as host on Extra TV alongside co host Mario Lopez and this is her ninth year on the job. Holding her own in Hollywood on the most fancy of red carpets, Renée's charm and talents have won her TWO Emmy awards that you'll hear I made her whip out during our chat. She speaks candidly about making it, homesickness and finding balance and I hope you enjoy as much as I did. + Follow Renée at @reneebargh + More about our videographers, Moon and Back Co + Announcements on Insta at @spoonful_of_sarah + Subscribe to not miss out on the next instalment of YAY!
I've been pretty blown away by ALL our guests so far, but I'm truly in awe of this one. I am so grateful to have the legendary Osher Günsberg (aka Andy G, Spidey, Batchie host, etc.) on the show to chat about his new book, Back, After the Break, the accompanying live show, and the heart wrenching story that both tell more candidly than most would expect. Starting with the more conventional story, there aren't many Aussies who have had a more successful TV and radio career starting with Channel V, through to Australian Idol and now Australia's favourite The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. Osher also has an incredible podcast of his own, the Osher Günsberg Podcast, lots of other highly sought after gigs, a family and now of course a book deal. But what the book has revealed is the tumultuous battle with mental illness and addiction that lies under the effervescent and charismatic demeanour of Osher's TV persona. From his name change, to rehab, to going plant-based, to becoming a father, it's a moving and honest memoir that sheds light on the unfortunately still stigmatised issue of mental health and goes a long way to breaking that down. It's an inspiring example though of how you can find your yay again and I'm so grateful to have had him share so openly and generously in this episode. It's a little longer than usual and I could have gone for hours longer, but it's a ripper with lots of laughs, almost tears, dog woofs and cameo appearances from Nic too. I was so worried about doing his story justice and I hope it's gone some way to doing that and showing a VERY different perspective of seizing the yay.... + Show notes are available here + Announcements on Insta at @spoonful_of_sarah + Subscribe to not miss out on the next instalment of YAY!
He is a man with a resume, spanning 34 years' of experience as a marketer, being an entrepreneur for over 2 decades and an investor for the last 19 years. He has worked on brands like Amazon, Yahoo, Pepsi, Microsoft, Nike, Unilever, Kraft, across the US, China, Europe and India. Mahesh has been instrumental in the launch of MTV in India and then ran its rival Channel V. But, lately there is a cloud of doubt engulfing this very influential man who has been allegedly charged for sexual harassment. We have with us, Mahesh Murthy. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Yumi Stynes is a name you know well if you grew up in Australia. She's been on tv screens and in radio speakers for close to 20 years; as host on music network Channel V and MAX. These days she does a great podcast on sometimes taboo topics called Ladies, We Need To Talk. In between she's also published a cookbook, written newspaper columns, and likes to do fun runs in her spare time. And, she's a massive music fan. I love Yumi Stynes, and this Take 5 made me love her even more. Her theme was “lessons in song” and over five picks she shared some pretty incredible stories from her own time here on earth. From redefining what Regurgitator songs are actually about, to the power of representation on stage, and memories of wild times traveling around Australia making a music show. This is wall to wall great storytelling, from a living legend. Regurgitator - ‘Don't Go 2 Sleep' Magic Dirt - ‘All My Crushes' Rihanna - ‘SOS' Dua Lipa - ‘New Rules' Janelle Monae - ‘Pynk {ft. Grimes}'
The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview EXTRA Cohost Renee Bargh. Renee kicks off the 24th season of "Extra" as co-host alongside Tanika Ray, AJ Calloway and host Mario Lopez. This is a promotion for Bargh, who has been a correspondent and weekend co-host since joining the show in 2010. Cementing herself as one of Australia's most visible talents, Renee has made a name for herself in the U.S. during her tenure with "Extra," having interviewed all of Hollywood's biggest stars. In addition to her skills as an interviewer, Renee has covered all the major events in Hollywood and has become a red-carpet staple at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, among others. Hailing from the beautiful Byron Bay, Renee relocated to Sydney to fulfill her dream of becoming a full-time performer. Bargh graduated from Brent Street Performing Arts College, where she honed her skills as a dancer, singer and performer. During her career in Australia, Renee's first hosting gig was on Channel Nine's surfing adventure series, "Surfari." This was a dream job for Renee, who cut her teeth on the getaway-style format, profiling the very best surfing locations around the Pacific. Renee became one of the most popular television presenters on Channel [V] and co-hosted "What You Want," Channel [V]'s studio countdown show; was host of the weekly V Rater and the V News; and presented two series on B430, Channel V's youth travel show, taking her to Budapest, New Zealand, New York and Los Angeles. Additionally, Renee has hosted numerous red carpet events, movie premieres, the Arias, the Astra Awards and an array of festivals, including two live broadcasts from the Big Day Out; a ten-hour broadcast from Sound Relief; Splendour in the Grass; Homebake; and Good Vibes.
James Mathison is a television presenter who rose to fame as the host of Australian Idol. James' very first television appearance was on Channel 10's, The $20 Challenge but his career really started when he won a VJ search for Channel V on Foxtel. After working at Channel V with Osher Gunsberg the pair were offered a gig hosting a brand new show called Australian Idol. Little did he know it would end up being one of the biggest shows on Australian television. In this episode, James Mathison talks about the perils of fame, what it was like hosting a juggernaut like Australian Idol, why early success can give you a warped sense of reality and what it's like to go from media to politics. Episode show notes: https://rachelcorbett.com.au/ygss/james-mathison/ About the host... My name is Rachel Corbett and I've spent almost two decades working in media professionally, creating and hosting radio shows and podcasts for Australia's largest media organisations. I'm also a regular on Channel 10's The Project and have worked as a TV host and panelist on shows including Q&A, The Roast, The Today Show, Studio 10, Hughesy We Have A Problem and Have You Been Paying Attention. I'm currently Head of Podcasts at Mamamia and I host a number of other shows including Lady Startup, Before The Bump, Paul & Rach, PodSchool and Sealed Section. I also founded the online podcasting course, Podschool.com.au, to help budding podcasters create a kick-arse show. Contact... Twitter: @RachelCorbett Facebook: @RachCorbett Instagram: @_RachelCorbett Website: www.rachelcorbett.com
The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview EXTRA Co-Host Renee Bargh. Renee kicks off the 24th season of "Extra" as co-host alongside Tanika Ray, AJ Calloway and host Mario Lopez. This is a promotion for Bargh, who has been a correspondent and weekend co-host since joining the show in 2010. Cementing herself as one of Australia's most visible talents, Renee has made a name for herself in the U.S. during her tenure with "Extra," having interviewed all of Hollywood's biggest stars. In addition to her skills as an interviewer, Renee has covered all the major events in Hollywood and has become a red-carpet staple at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, among others. Hailing from the beautiful Byron Bay, Renee relocated to Sydney to fulfill her dream of becoming a full-time performer. Bargh graduated from Brent Street Performing Arts College, where she honed her skills as a dancer, singer and performer. During her career in Australia, Renee's first hosting gig was on Channel Nine's surfing adventure series, "Surfari." This was a dream job for Renee, who cut her teeth on the getaway-style format, profiling the very best surfing locations around the Pacific. Renee became one of the most popular television presenters on Channel [V] and co-hosted "What You Want," Channel [V]'s studio countdown show; was host of the weekly V Rater and the V News; and presented two series on B430, Channel V's youth travel show, taking her to Budapest, New Zealand, New York and Los Angeles. Additionally, Renee has hosted numerous red carpet events, movie premieres, the Arias, the Astra Awards and an array of festivals, including two live broadcasts from the Big Day Out; a ten-hour broadcast from Sound Relief; Splendour in the Grass; Homebake; and Good Vibes.
Hear Jay John interview one of Asia's most loved radio personalities Dom Lau, host of Asia Pop 40. Asia Pop 40 is the first regional weekly chart countdown radio show produced in Asia specifically for Asian radio and now in Australia with thanks to iHeartRadio. Each week Asia Pop 40 counts down the most popular downloads on iTunes across Asia, both in the English version with Dom Lau and the Mandarin version with Max Lim. Jay speaks to Dom about his work with E News Asia, Channel V and Asia Pop 40. Top4 ways to listen to Asian Pop Radio. 1. Subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes and never miss an episode. 2. Our free APP for Asian pop tunes 24/7. Download here: goo.gl/nRFtjy 3. Online at asianpopradio.com 4. Or search Asian Pop Radio on Tunein Photo Source: Phuket News
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