1 Tonight on Sunday, the amazing story of how the life of rugby coach Andrew Strawbridge was saved. MEN CHANT HAKA The game Andrew Strawbridge never got to. I had more chance of winning Lotto than I did of this happening to me. The eye infection that nearly killed him. He was on this rapid descent towards death. The Kiwi doctor who fought to save his life... He was sedated with the Michael Jackson drug. ...and those who helped bring him back. Sonny Bill came up to me and asked whether Andrew could hear them, and I said, 'Yeah, he probably can.' Dave said, 'I don't know what's going to happen with Andrew.' My name's Kevin Osborn. I'm here for domestic violence. Men who abuse their partners. Something bad happens, the feelings don't go away. You still love your husband. I didn't want to see him get in trouble. A new way of dealing with domestic violence. We take a no-nonsense approach. Hard line? Yes, as hard as we can get it. What happens in this court is extraordinary. And the results speak for themselves. < Are you making a difference in the world? I hope so. I believe so. Oh, Joseph, wh-what do you do in the neighbourhood? I'm a kinetic artist. A kinetic artist?! His YouTube videos have captured millions of followers. Oh yeah, I made a machine that helps me get dressed. The wacky world of this Jewish Kiwi called Jiwi. Yes! Wow. (LAUGHS) Captions by Desney Shaw and Ingrid Lauder. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2015 Kia ora. I'm Miriama Kamo. He was on a flight, on the way to help Manu Samoa at the Rugby World Cup, when he caught an eye infection. And, suddenly, rugby coach Andrew Strawbridge was fighting for his life. How on earth could that happen? Well, if it hadn't been for a Kiwi doctor, David Galler, in Samoa, things would have turned out very differently. Here's John Hudson. Good to see you. You right? Yeah. Yeah, good. Nice little patch. Yeah, thank you. How's this going? They should both be at the Rugby World Cup. Oh, yeah, no, I was supposed to be at the World Cup now. But All Black Aaron Cruden has an injured knee, and coach Andrew Strawbridge has lost the sight in his right eye. I had more chance of winning Lotto than I did of this happening to me, but it did happen. I was incredibly lucky. That's because three months ago, Andrew Strawbridge came as close to death as you can get. MEN CHANT HAKA July the 7th, a day Samoans will always remember. The challenge is laid down and accepted. In the nation where rugby comes a close second to God, the All Blacks had finally come to play. Again the flag kick from Carter. Moala coming quickly. And Moala now. Can he keep going, George Moala? But Andrew Strawbridge missed the game. He remembers that day for a very different reason. I remember, at some point, going to the bathroom and vomiting an enormous amount, and, um, that is the last thing I can remember. He was in intensive care. He was on this rapid descent towards death. Dr Dave Galler heads Samoa's intensive care team. Was there a time when you thought you might lose him? Yeah, there were a few moments like that. Untidy ball, Strawbridge. Andrew Strawbridge has played and coached rugby for 35 years. He's assistant coach for the Chiefs' Super 15 team,... He's back on his feet quick. ...a father of three children... Teaghin, who's 6, and Libby's just turned 10, and Connor's 12. ...and husband to Laura. We have three very active children, so we spend a lot of time getting them around, and, you know, as most parents do, getting them around and following them and driving them to places, and it's great. But Andrew nearly lost it all. On Monday July the 5th, Andrew left his family behind in Hamilton. He was off to help coach the Manu Samoa rugby team in Apia. Going up there was going to be the start of the campaign with them leading into the World Cup, so I was` I was very excited, you know. But during the flight, he felt crook. I started shivering and shaking. I couldn't stop. And when he landed in Apia, he became so ill, he needed urgent medical attention. Well, Andrew called me from the ambulance on the Monday night, and he said, 'I've cut my eye on the plane, and it's a bit swollen, and I'm off to hospital, but I'll be fine.' At first he was. He took antibiotics. He sought appropriate help, did everything that he could to try and fix himself, but the infection did not go away. I didn't hear from him all day on the Tuesday, and I was just` I was starting to get quite frantic. By Tuesday night, a powerful bacteria had invaded Andrew's body, releasing toxins into his blood. He had an overwhelming infection that started, as I understand it, from a skin infection around his eye. There was staph, which is what did all the multiorgan damage, and there was another bug that they` that no one is used to dealing with, and we don't know where that came from. The infection caused a condition called sepsis. I was pretty worried about him when I saw him. He looked pretty sick, actually. By Wednesday morning, Andrew Strawbridge was in intensive care. I remember seeing Dave Galler. I remember a couple of people being around my bed, and that's about it. His breathing was pretty hard, and his blood pressure was pretty low. Sepsis can progress to septic shock, but Dave and his team felt the situation was under control. He was, you know, on a good amount of oxygen. His brain was working really well. He was oxygenating well. His blood pressure was much better. He was on dialysis at that point, because his kidneys had failed, and he looked pretty stable. He was sedated with the Michael Jackson drug, you know ` propofol. And at one point, he said to me, before he finally went off to sleep` he said, 'I need to speak to Laura.' Do you remember telling Dave, 'I need Laura,'? No. I don't remember that. < You don't recall that? < Yeah. It's pretty romantic, isn't it? (LAUGHS) It is, isn't it? I'm glad you said that. LAUGHTER 'Tell Laura I love her.' You know? LAUGHTER Exactly. But Andrew's condition became critical. Wednesday morning, making the sandwiches for the kids, you don't kind of expect to hear, 'You need to come to Samoa today.' Um, it's the worst possible situation you can imagine. Dave Galler is such a very clear person that I was left in no doubt on that Wednesday morning that I was flying to somewhere with not many resources for something pretty awful. I thought we'd halted it, actually, on Wednesday morning, to tell you the truth. And I was feeling pretty confident. We had some good cover here, and I went to the first half of the game. Now Pisi. Good running ball here. Dr Galler knew his colleagues would call him back from the nearby rugby if Andrew needed him, which he did. He was starting to deteriorate then. What did Andrew look like? What was his condition? He was quite pale, and it looked like he was beginning to struggle to breathe at that stage. And those are critical signs? Very critical signs, yes. And so we started ringing around to see if we could get David back into the hospital. Why was it critical that David got back to hospital? Well, because he's the only intensivist on the island. Dave Galler had borrowed a machine to support Andrew Strawbridge's failing kidneys, but only he knew how to use it for acute dialysis. So we really needed his expertise in guiding us through that. And here's a chance out wide. But there was something Dave Galler didn't know. They had been trying to call me for a while, but, um, the cell phone I used was not working. In Samoa, cell phones don't always work at large rugby matches. So Dr Dave Galler is sitting here in the stand watching Manu Samoa, his favourite team, take on the mighty All Blacks, when at half time, he sees his colleague running across the field waving frantically at him trying to get his attention. So there's a lot of security and things but I said, 'I've got to get to the doctor. 'He's needed straight away at the hospital.' Was this a matter of life and death? Yes. We would have lost him. His freefall towards death had accelerated, and all of his organs were failing. He had become delirious and unable to communicate with any kind of sensible fashion at that point. He was already on dialysis, but his condit` his renal function was still terrible. Then Andrew's heart stopped; his blood pressure plummeted. Mine just shut down to` its way of coping and... So it wasn't a coronary; it was just your body reacting to what was going on. To being poisoned, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And everything in your body shut down. Yeah. (CHUCKLES) Yes, it did, apparently. Was he dying? No, no. < Pretty close to it? He was` No, he was not looking great. After the break ` Dave said, 'I don't know what's going to happen with Andrew. 'I don't know whether he's going to make it and what state he'll be in if he does.' If you had not been here, he would have died, wouldn't he? It's not the first time I'd seen this, so I knew what might lie ahead of us. 1 UPBEAT ISLAND MUSIC Samoa is a developing country, a beautiful country. Strong communities, lots of churches and a new hospital. But trouble is there's a shortage of medical specialists like Dr Dave Galler. You're a modest man, I know, but if you weren't there, he would've died? Yeah, probably. It's experience, John. I've been an intensive care doctor for 24 years, so it's not the first time I've seen this, so I knew what might lie ahead of us. The ICU team restarted Andrew's heart, but he was still vulnerable. What happened after the game, a couple of the coaches and all of the All Blacks who were in the Chiefs' franchise came to spend some time with Andrew. And Sonny Bill came up to me and asked whether Andrew could hear them, and I said, 'Yeah, I think he probably can.' And individually, they went up and they spoke to him, which was kind of nice. It was very moving, actually. Laura's plane got in that night. Dave Galler told us that just about everything in Andrew was breaking down all at once, every organ. Did you ever think you might lose Andrew? Of course that was something that crossed my mind. I remember feeling very very strong. I was resolute. No matter what happened, it might have been Andrew in bits, it might have been no Andrew, it might have been Andrew as well as he is now, which isn't extremely well, but it's pretty well. By borrowing equipment from other parts of the hospital, they had managed to save Andrew, but it was a close call. In Samoa, people were rifling through empty drawers trying to find things. There were the wrong-sized tubes to fit on the syringe pump. There were nurses looking after the machines, because the machines were so rickety and expecting to fail. And from what Dave has told me, people going into ICU weren't usually expected to come out again. The constraint here` Yeah, you've got enough stuff for some things. Yeah, enough stuff for some things, but not a lot. Yeah. Yeah. The supply chain is not secure. Uh, many of the simple things that we need, like, uh, syringe drivers and pumps for the delivery of fluids and drugs, you know, we have very few of those. Their success rate isn't as good as here in NZ. Oh, nowhere near it. So it's a brand new hospital, but it's lacking vital equipment? They just need so much, and so much of it is basic. Dave Galler volunteered to work in Samoa without pay. His mission ` to give away his knowledge. Dave is such an amazing physician, but he's also an amazing teacher. Do you want to have one more go? Yep, one more go. Everything he did, he spoke the staff through, and they were learning, basically, on the job. He was the ultimate guinea pig, really. Two days after his heart stopped, Andrew Strawbridge was well enough to be transferred to Waikato Hospital. I could see that he was in there. I could see that he was fighting. I felt before he was flown back to NZ that it would` it would be OK. So what do you remember? While I was out, I think I went to some dark places. And it was just a different reality,... an unpleasant reality. (LAUGHS) < Yeah. Yeah. So tell us about your recovery now? Oh, it's been` Oh, it's a slow and steady process. 'Um, I feel pretty good now.' It takes over the other eye, and I start walking into the things. I've just got to learn to look at things slightly differently ` literally. (LAUGHS) Will it be permanent? Yeah. I've been told it probably will be. How did you deal with that? Losing the sight of one eye? I'm a pragmatist, I think. I'm going to have to learn to drive. My 6-year-old daughter can now catch a ball better than I can, so I'm going to have to get better than her. I don't know how effective I'm going to be as a demonstrator any more, but I'll get there. Well, you just have to look at Graham Henry to realise you don't have to run around to be a good coach. Oh, that's` that's right. Sorry, Graham. That's right. LAUGHTER Is he 19? Andrew Strawbridge is back scouting for the Chiefs, back to being a dad. GIRLS: # Come out and play with me. # My eldest daughter's telling me what's what, and my youngest daughter's trying to get things past me. I must be close to recovery, cos... (LAUGHS) ...they're stroppy again. > Yeah, exactly. But actually the consequences... But he and Dave Galler still have unfinished business in Samoa. We're going to work to have the All Blacks play Samoa in Apia again, and we're going to go to the game together. (LAUGHS) And there's another mission ` improving the equipment in Samoa's ICU. You know, it would be great to have the big, shiny, flashy, beepy machines that we have in the Waikato ICU, but, you know, let's just get some, you know, talcum powder for people after they have baths. And let's get some sheets and some towels and some syringe pumps so that you can give those drugs in intensive care to people in the right doses. Because that` that's the most important thing, and, you know, that's what they're lacking. Their Give a Little website has already raised more than $40,000 to provide better equipment. It means an enormous amount to us in the hospital, and I think, actually, it means a lot to the Samoan people. It's really been an initiative that everybody is deeply grateful for. KNOCKING It's you! LAUGHTER Hello. How are you? Nice to see you, my friend. Oh, it's nice to see you. Good. It's nice to be seen too. Last month Dave Galler and the Strawbridges were reunited, an informal debrief to check out his patient's progress. So has that swelling gone away? Nearly. Nearly. It nearly has. Yeah, it has a bit. It's a bit sunken, eh. I wonder if that's going to change still, because there's that sort of thing, isn't it? It's there forever. (LAUGHS) They'd come to Dave's place to watch Manu Samoa play in the World Cup,... Were you involved in the selection of any of them? ...but they were in for a surprise. Are you ready? I am ready. Watch that screen. OK, you ready? Take two. Oh, go! TEAM: Hi, Straws. Wish you were here. All the best, from the Manu. (CHEER, LAUGH) (CHEERS) From the Rugby World Cup in London, Manu Samoa wanted to tell Andrew how pleased they were that he had made it. I was incredibly lucky. I was incredibly lucky that Dave was in Samoa. I was incredibly lucky that there were people there who were prepared to give up their time and effort. You know, there were nurses who came and helped who'd retired, that they called into the hospital, and they were prepared to come, and I'm a lucky man. Well, I'm gonna donate. I love Samoa. Love that story too, obviously. If you'd like to donate to the Strawbridge Give a Little campaign for the Samoan hospital, you can find details on our Facebook pages. And, of course, last night Samoa lost heavily to Japan in their pool match. Looks like they could have done Andrew's help. Well, later, we enter the wonderful and wacky childhood of Kiwi artist Joseph Herscher. He started making things when he was little. He had this lolly machine thing that people had to put money in and a gobstopper came out. And if it didn't quite make it, then, 'Sorry, you lost your money.' I made a machine that helped me read my book in bed so I didn't get sore arms reading, like, a heavy book. He made this contraption and then he could just reach up and turn the page. Up next, though ` a new way of dealing with domestic violence, where more women feel confident about reporting their abusive partners. Victims are now feeling more empowered to come out, and what used to be in the shadows, what used to be behind closed doors, now they feel like, ' OK, if I trust the system, maybe something will happen.' My name's Kevin Osborn. I'm here for domestic violence. 1 The busier I got, the more time I found myself wasting on the phone for hours, ordering parts, rechecking job sheets at home, keeping track of jobs and staff. PHONE RINGS But now with a few little changes around the place, I'm ready for whatever is around the corner. You would know to look at it, but I reckon we're more geared up than anyone around here. And now I've got more time to spend with the old girl. Take our free test and be great today and ready for tomorrow. 1 'We can't allow this to happen any longer.' That's what High Court judge Mark Woolford said just this week about domestic violence. There's no doubt we're failing to protect women from violent partners in NZ, but what can we do to stop it? Well, tonight, we look at one model ` the Dallas Solution. It's a Texan initiative which has come close to stopping men reoffending. Could this programme hold the answers for NZ? This report from Melissa Doyle. COUNTRY MUSIC You all ready to take off? Let's go. OK. Let's go. In a quiet, leafy pocket of suburban Dallas, Roberto Canas is doing what he loves best ` Well, if I go any faster, I'll be breaking the speed limits. hanging out with his young family. I guard my weekends very religiously. You know, I want to be with my kids. Is that too high? With his wife and two children, he looks for all the world like the ultimate softie. You're gonna be OK. But if you thought Roberto Canas was a pushover,... What flavour do you want it? ...you'd be wrong. Blueberry. Blueberry? Very wrong. Having a daughter, being a father of a daughter, very much is in my mind when I do my job. So if I can work to make a change on the community that violence against women is not acceptable, then I'm hopeful that I can make the world a tad safer for my daughter and also, you know, for my son. Good morning, everybody. My name is Judge Roberto Canas, and I'm the presiding judge of county criminal court number 10. I want to set a good example for my son, because 10, 20 years, you know, when he decides to start dating, you know, a young lady, I want him to be able to understand what it means to be a man that doesn't use violence in his relationship. OK, this is cause number MA152. I've come to Dallas to see how and why they're managing to deal effectively with a problem... ...of assault family violence. ...that's simply out of control back home in Australia. What happens in this court is extraordinary. Did you understand? Yes, sir. So you heard your attorney enter a guilty plea on your behalf? Are you doing this because you want to or is someone forcing you to do this? Because I want to do this. > Than I am going to accept your plea. I'm gonna find you guilty, and I will make an affirmative finding of family violence in your case. Good luck to you, sir. Thank you. Roberto's court doesn't deal with robberies or drug crime or any other of the usual courtroom dramas. I understand you have an agreement with the state of Texas, where, in exchange for your guilty plea... Here the focus is wholly and solely on dealing with men who abuse their partners. I'm gonna find you guilty, sentence you to 90 days in jail. And the results are phenomenal. And I will make an affirmative finding of family violence in your case. Good luck to you, sir. The numbers that we show here is that 94% of our individuals who complete the programme did not reoffend. > 94%. That's extraordinary. It's something that we're very proud of, but more importantly, we're proud of` is the safety that we're providing the community. Why should Australia look at what you're doing? I'm a big believer that, um, domestic violence in the US probably looks a lot like domestic violence in Australia. So just in the practical sense that if Australia wanted` if a judge in Australia wanted to do what we` what I'm doing here, wouldn't want them to recreate the wheel. It's a specialised law-enforcement system. And it begins on the front line, with cops like veteran patrolman Al Kalota. Suspect lashes out at the individual that's never been exposed to that, there's literally sheer terror. He's worked the Dallas suburb of Mesquite for 31 years, and in that time, has seen domestic violence become a top priority. How do the cops handle it differently now than you would've, say, 20 years ago? It was more of a negotiation type of atmosphere, where the officers would go in, separate the two, uh, parties, and try to negotiate who was going to leave voluntarily or could this be resolved? When Al gets the call, there's no ifs or buts ` violent men are arrested and taken to jail. We take a no-nonsense approach. Uh, we go the full limit to what we can do for the victim. Hard line? Yes, as hard as we can get it. It's another busy day ahead in county criminal court 10. Judge Canas and his team of five sort through the schedule. Alvaro Ramirez, the programme. OK. Almost 250 cases a week. The next one ` Jonathan Bishop. That's because almost every reported attack results in an arrest... And he's in jail now. He just hit jail last week. Right. ...and because more and more women feel confident about reporting their abusive partners. Victims are now feeling more empowered to come out, and what used to be in the shadows, what used to be behind closed doors, now they feel like, 'OK, if I trust the system, maybe something will happen.' Judge Canas accepts only guilty pleas from offenders. I'm going to accept your plea. I'm gonna find you guilty. Face up to the crime, and the men get a lifeline ` OK. I've talked about your case with my staff, < and want you to get into, um, a batterers' intervention and prevention programme. < So it's a class designed for guys in your position. You're a young man. We want to help you. It's not going to be easy. It's not supposed to be easy. the opportunity to confront and change their behaviour in a six-month intensive counselling and anger-management programme. My name's Kevin Osborn. I'm here for domestic violence. If the courtroom's uncompromising, this is relentless. That's part of our change process was ` we've gotta be accountable for what we do. A room full of violent men all being encouraged to defeat their demons. How do we make choices? But incredibly, very few will fail. Even if many of them start out reluctantly. I struggled with, uh` with my anger and didn't want to do the programme. I didn't want to do it at all. I didn't think anyone could complete it with how rigorous it is and how... It's very demanding. It's` It's every week. It's... It keeps you on point. So what happens when Kevin tangles with the Dallas Solution? Up next, Kevin and his partner, Shanae, face up to the consequences of what he did. Yeah, I` I hit her. How did you hit her? > Uh, with my fist. Blood started just pouring down my face. The cops hunted Kevin down. The police picked me up. 1 Four years ago, Kevin and Shanae fell in love. She already had three sons. February 2013, the couple married. Did you scream at people? Yeah, I screamed. Yeah. Did you yell at your kids? > Yeah, I yelled at 'em. Yeah. When he was little, Kevin Osborn saw his violent father make their home a dangerous place. Did you grow up being fearful that you might be a violent man like your dad was? I` I did. I went through a lot of time thinking, 'Will I be like him? or, 'Will I do these things?' In July 2013, while driving home after a family day out, Kevin answered that question. I started shouting at the boys in the backseat. And I was getting way too aggressive with them, and... so she defended them. < As we were getting out, she had my phone, and,... um,... yeah, I` I hit her. And, uh... How did you hit her? > Uh, with my fist. I had a cut on the side of my eye. I believe it was a combination of the hit and my glasses. And blood started just pouring down my face and on to my clothes, down my body. I was shocked. I didn't think he would ever do anything like that towards me. Um, it had never gotten out of hand like that. The boys were around, and I didn't want them to see me like that for long, um,... and, um,... so I just, uh, went and kind of hid in the bathroom behind a closed door, and it was the neighbours who actually called the cops. Why didn't you call the police? Mainly because I didn't want to see him get in trouble. Of course, you know, something bad happens, the feelings don't go away. You still love your husband. You still, you know,... don't want to see harm come their way. Were you just prepared to... clean up, push it under the carpet, and move on and pretend it never` Yeah, cook dinner for the boys and just go on about my day. Not in Dallas. The cops hunted Kevin down. The police picked me up. There was a warrant issued for my arrest. After fronting Roberto Canas and pleading guilty, this became Kevin's life for six months. Guys come in here all the time and one of the things that they say is, uh` is, uh, 'David, that's the only thing I could do. You know, I ended up slapping her, because that was it. 'That's the only thing. She pushed my buttons, and therefore, this is how I responded.' Right? So even if it's reactionary, that's what I said a while ago ` you're here to learn how to respond. That's a choice. Is he not going to be here today? No` Monday's his check-in. Oh, Monday's his check-in. Yeah. Kevin Osborn has been on probation for about six and a half months, and he started on our programme. He has done real well. So we're gonna do a check-in with him this afternoon? Yes, sir. OK. < OK, I'm ready for Mr Osborn. Kevin is in the final phase of his rehabilitation. Good afternoon, Mr Osborn. Good afternoon. You look like you've come a long way. Yes, sir, I have. > In a good way. Thank you. Thank you, Judge. > Oh, it's been the best thing that's happened to me. I mean, especially with my marriage,... (CLEARS THROAT) without that, I don't think I'd be with my wife right now. And, uh, you know, compared to sitting in jail not learning anything at all, and what this has really brought to my attention, and is not brought to attention enough to other males and spouses, that this could be prevented. You're definitely the` what we want to see happen with this kind of programme. So I'm very happy that you've taken advantage of it, cos it's not us... who have made the change for you; you've done it. You've done the hard work yourself. Thank you. That means a lot. And so you ought to be proud about that. Yes, sir. Well, I hope the next time I hear your name it will be when you're successfully completing your probation and you're done and I'm signing your papers letting you off your probation. All right. Thank you very much. Other than that, we'll, uh` Well, I'll keep progress of you through Mr Reynolds. OK. OK. Have a good day, Mr Osborn. Thank you very much. Why did you shake Kevin's hand? Kevin had done such a good job. And, I mean, it was so genuine, the change in him. I was just glad for him, and I` I wanted to shake his hand more on a` as much as a judge-offender kind of relationship but just as much as a personal relationship, you know, a personal feeling. And then just let it` let it go. Let go of this. Let go? And it's just gonna fly out. All right? OK. OK, here. Do you want me to hold it? Not every ending is a happy one. Anger and violence in some men are intractable. Let it sink to the bottom. OK. But Kevin says he's determined never to return to his violent past. Shanae is hoping she has a new man. Would you stay if he hit you again? He knows and I know I would not stay. I did give him a chance to prove that, and he has. And so I'm happy with who he's become today and is a great husband. < Are you making a difference in the world? I hope so. I believe so. Uh, it might be one family at a time, um, but I think, uh` I think, uh, I'm very happy with that. And that initiative, led by Judge Canas, is working so well in Dallas that Australia's Gold Coast has last month begun trialling a dedicated Family Violence Court. Now, if you know someone who may need help, there are agencies listed on our website. Up next, this Kiwi doesn't want a real job, he wants his job ` a job that's all about serious fun. Oh, Joseph, what do you do in the neighbourhood? I'm a kinetic artist. A kinetic artist?! I just put it on YouTube just for fun, because you can, you know. I did not expect it to go viral and get several million views. 1 Welcome back. Ever wished you had a machine that could butter your toast, pour you a cuppa, dress you in the mornings? Well, in Joseph Herscher's world, all that is possible. The Kiwi artist says he's a failure when it comes working a 9-to-5 job, but he has successfully turned childhood dreams into a career making serious fun. And as Ian Sinclair discovered, this Jewish Kiwi, known as Jiwi, now has millions of followers worldwide. QUIRKY MUSIC I make machines, contraptions, devices that usually do a simple task for me to make my life easier. Welcome to the magical, if slightly crazy, mind of Joseph Herscher. I made a machine that turns the page of a newspaper for me. I've made a machine that crushes a chocolate egg. Very useful. Oh, yeah, I made a machine that helps me get dressed. That was useful. From his imagination comes a world full of bits and bobs, of ups and downs and round and rounds. So, of all these machines that you've built, what's the one that's really driven you nuts? Oh my God. They all drive me nuts. But it does seem to work. This kid from Grey Lynn is a hit in New York. I love New York. It's a great place. The best thing about it is the energy of the place. And any idea you have, no matter how crazy, everyone around you's gonna say, 'Yes, do it. We can help you. We know the right people.' Ow! Shit. (LAUGHS) Oh, Joseph, wh-what do you do in the neighbourhood? I'm a kinetic artist. A kinetic artist?! What's a kinetic artist? I got on Sesame Street because the lead writer from it saw one of my videos, and he was just, like, 'This is cool.' They only gave me four hours on set to set it up and run it. Yes! Wow! (LAUGHS) Normally, my machines take months to set up, so that was a challenge. To know where his crazy genius comes from is to know Joseph's mum and dad. So, all these madcap machines ` whose fault is this? > Hmm. Well, don't blame it on me. Spot the accent. Hershal is a Jewish New Yorker. Linn Lorkin is a Kiwi. He's always making machines and making things. # We could paint your portrait on the ceiling. Linn and Hershal are both artists in their own right. Their band ` the Jews Brothers. My parents gave me the freedom to do what I wanted to do as a kid and not think it was weird. I could really experiment. # Ooooh. # I saw this photo recently of when I was 3 years old, and I had this line of about 300 paper plates all over the floor in tracks throughout the house, and, obviously, my mother had just let me do that, you know, whereas other parents might have been, like, 'You're making a mess. Stop.' He started making things when he was little. He had this lolly machine thing that people had to put money and a gobstopper came out, and if it didn't quite make it, then, 'Sorry, you lost your money.' I made a machine that helped me read my book in bed so I didn't get sore arms holding a heavy book. He made this contraption, and then he could just reach up and turn the page. That was it. Then he'd just lie there and read the next page and so on. QUIRKY MUSIC It's amazing. The best thing he ever did was when he was about 12 or 13. He wanted to get one of those big games on the table ` the hockey or... Was it hockey? I made a foosball machine. I used garden sticks, and I made little men carved out of wood. I loved foosball, but they're really expensive, so I spent, like, all summer holidays making my own. Then he grew up and left the machines behind. I originally went to New York to get a better job as a software developer. And I always wanted to have a well-paying, good, solid job and the security that that would bring, cos I didn't grow up with that, having parents that were artists, musicians. Fat chance. I tried to have a 9 to 5, but I couldn't keep it up. I needed to` I needed to do something else. Suddenly the machines were back and going viral. The first machine that I made as an adult, I just put on YouTube just for fun, cos you can, you know. I did not expect it to go viral and get several million views. And that was just the beginning. Eight million viewers of one YouTube clip ` that's an awful lot of people. Yeah. Well, it's just comedy as well, you know ` people seeing a machine that does such a silly thing in such an overly complicated, serious way. Next step ` a live performance, North Carolina. After a year in the making and two months of testing,... Oh! ...Joseph debuts his latest and most complicated machine. QUIRKY MUSIC So, to do something live where you have an audience watching you,... ALARM CLOCK BEEPS ...you can't have it go wrong in the middle of the show, cos the whole show comes to a grinding halt. LAUGHTER I can't just step out of character and fix the machine, so it's extremely stressful. QUIRKY MUSIC LAUGHTER MUSIC CONTINUES TRAM BELL DINGS Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology, where Joseph himself became a MOTAT exhibit. This is totally plausible. That angle that I've got it on right now from here, seeing it close up... Oh, yeah, in close up, yeah. Visitors could watch his making of a web series. It's about a guy called Jiwi who makes machines to make his life easier. Jiwi? What's a Jiwi? Well, my original name on my birth certificate was Jiwi,... (CLICKS TONGUE) cos of 'Jewish' and 'Kiwi'. And... my mother did end up changing it, cos her sister was, like, 'You can't call your son Jiwi. 'He's gonna be teased.' So the show Jiwi's Machines lets him reclaim the name. So, the first machine in my show is a machine that gives me breakfast ` toast and orange juice. All that from a conglomeration of cheap everyday objects. The breakfast machine had three toasters, it had 12 billiard balls, 12 jam jars, 12 jam jar covers, a lot of string, bicycle wheel, a green cup, wooden tracks, a book, pencil for writing while I ate my breakfast. QUIRKY MUSIC Look Sharp Emporium in suburban Auckland ` to us a typical stock of kiddies' novelties and everyday objects. Not to Joseph. You see something else here, don't you? To me, it's a world of kinetic potential. For example, this vase is not just a vase; it also rolls. And I'll start looking around me to see what it connects with. There's an apple, which, of course, also rolls. You're seeing the potential magic in all the everyday objects around you, and any object, you know, anything at all, everything has other potentials. Thinking like that is the kind of thinking that you need if we want a generation of inventors that don't just see a car as a way of getting from A to B, but they think, 'Maybe it doesn't have to guzzle gasoline and pollute the environment; 'maybe there's another way to do that.' Done. Inspiring young inventors ` the serious message behind his Jiwi web series. I certainly take what I do very seriously, but it's serious fun, do you know what I mean? For the chain reaction to work, every component must be measured and placed with scientific precision. And action. Oh dear. Did that hit anyone? Oh, how did`? Why did that happen? < Once more. Keep going. I want to know why that happened. It's so stressful. Like, the last machine we filmed for this show that I'm making, we had a very expensive camera filming it, and I only had one day to film it, and I'd spent months and months preparing for that, and it wasn't working, because we had a parrot in it, and the parrot was supposed to eat a grape at a certain moment, and he just got sick of grapes after a while. How many grapes can he eat? The grape would come along, and he'd sort of look at it and look back, and we're all staring at him, like, 'Come on, eat the grape.' We're running out of time. No pressure (!) And the parrot isn't feeling it either. And if he doesn't eat that grape, our whole production is at a standstill. HAIRDRYER WHIRRS, CHEERING, APPLAUSE < And when people say to you, 'Have you ever thought of getting a real job,' now what do you say to them? I laugh when people say that. Like, I don't want a real job. I want my job. (CHUCKLES) So money for jam? Money for jam. Yes, a real job is a job you do and love. Now, what you haven't seen is one of Joseph's machines do its thing from start to finish uninterrupted. So, have you ever wanted a machine that'll make you coffee and lay on freshly baked bread in the morning? Here's one of Joseph's contraptions doing the whole thing from go to whoa. QUIRKY MUSIC Utterly delightful, isn't it? Joseph's latest documentary ` called The Dresser ` is going online right now. Check out our Facebook page for more details on how you can watch it. And that's our show for tonight. Do join us on Facebook and Twitter, Sunday TVNZ. And thanks for joining us this evening. Nga mihi nui, hei kona.