- Yeah, when you have nothing, you want everything, but when you have everything, you actually want nothing. - Yeah. - That's it. That's our whakatauki. SPEAKS TE REO: - Oh! Um... SPEAKS TE REO: - Ooh. - (GASPS) - Ohh! - Oh! - (LAUGHS) Uh... Oh, bro. - LAUGHS: Oh-ho-ho! - # Things have definitely changed since the last time you saw me. # I been changin'. # No more complainin'. # It's all on me. # www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2021 - # Hey! # (UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC) - STAN: For the first time, me and my best mate, Fender, we're going to the East Coast, Te Tairawhiti, meeting all our whanau. We're both going back to the same place from where we come from. SPEAKS TE REO: Um... I had to talk, and I got nervous. Fender was supposed to back me up, the little dog, and he didn't back me up, and I looked at him ` I was like, (GRIMACES). I'm just blown away (LAUGHS NERVOUSLY) just to be here. I got nervous. I don't like talking. (CHUCKLES) Nah. Even though I talk for a job, and sing. But, um... - (TITTERING) - Just seeing all the whanau that even came... - Kia ora. - Kia ora. 'They just wanted to come and tautoko.' And then just seeing the vast, like, view of just ocean and, like, whenua ` it was beautiful. Oh, so, the nanny that did the, um` the karanga? - Yeah? - Yeah, I met her at, um,... Alex's nanny's tangi. She goes, 'I'm your whanau. We're from Ruataupare.' Being in Tuparoa, to see where my tupuna physically lay, so that I can actually be there and I'm, like` I'm standing on the ground where they're resting, felt like, 'Whoa. This is my home.' 'It's actually hard for me to, kind of, find that feeling.' To be honest, you know, you definitely take sides of your whanau. I'm proud of all sides, but I've always just been drawn more so to my Tuhoe side as an adult. I dunno, it's just a pull that I get. And, yeah, I felt that pull too going there, to Tuparoa. - What I want you to know most of all today, Stan, is that you come from wonderful stock. - (LAUGHTER) - You do. - Knowing how passionate my dad is about that place and how proud he is of being from Tuparoa and being a Walker... like, it just made me even more proud. Cos he don't really care about anybody else. (LAUGHS) (LAID-BACK HIP-HOP MUSIC) - (BIRDS TWITTER) - Where is he, anyway? - Here. - Oh. - He's coming. Baby! - Yeah? - Hine's got something for you. - I came all this way to make you (CHUCKLES) a special dinner. Offered to make him a roast chicken ` 'No.' Ribs? 'No. Baked beans it is. The impact that Ross' current diagnosis has had on` on both of them, I guess, has been quite significant. He has always been fit, and he's always been healthy, so it's been a little bit of an adjustment for the two of them to see him in this light, being quite unwell. - ROSS: Yeah? - Yeah. Just show you that I like you. A little bit. - (APRIL LAUGHS) - Just a little bit. Ross, we have a very... a really interesting relationship ` I will try to hug him, he doesn't wanna hug me; he tries to hug me, I don't wanna hug him ` but I love him. But we don't really like each other. (LAUGHS) - It's like the tomatoes, you know? Cos you have tomato... thing in the, um` - ROSS: Oh, I thought it was ready. - Oh, did you hear that? - What? - I thought it was ready. - Oh, man, you better shut the hell up. - (APRIL LAUGHS) - (SIGHS) You're damn lucky I'm even bloody here. 'I have seen significant stress in both of them.' Of course, Ross is really great at looking at positives and trying to look for a positive way forward, but it has had a direct impact on April, and I've had multiple conversations with her that've, um` you know, where she has engaged in lots of tears and, um... and heartache too. - You said, 'Oh, something's here.' - It's coming! Jeez. - Wow. - 'Wow.' - Wow. - Lucky I gave up my Saturday afternoon (!) - (HINE, APRIL LAUGH) - APRIL: OK! (UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC) - 'STAN: Faa, the meanest thing, eh? Some of the cuzzies 'that'd went for a dive, and they were on their way past the marae,' and then one of our other cousins, he went down, and he's like, 'Oh, cuzzy, can we have a few kinas, a few things for the boys?' - By the feel of it, that wouldn't be the... that wouldn't be the best. - And they were fat kina, too. That's what I love about, you know, being Maori ` and especially down there. That's the one. Fender, where are you? - Hiding. - SINGS: Fender! I asked Fender to promise me ` 'Bro, while we're down here, you're gonna try a kina for the first time.' - Come on, bro. - Does he know what he's doing? - No, I don't, cos I use the spoons! - (LAUGHTER) - Argh! - I'd use your palm. Use your palm, but... Yep, that's the one. - Just gotta tickle it. (CHUCKLES) - And then you gotta twist it. - Yeah. - When you go down, and then twist. - Yeah. Too much? - Yeee-ah! Ara. - Can I just have a little bit? - D'you want the black stuff? It's the best. - (LAUGHTER) - Nah, G. Don't give me that. - Oh, too much, you. - Ooh, that's yum! - Peaches. It's peaches. They're just peaches. (LAUGHS) - 'Honestly, Fender doesn't like seafood at all. Like, the thought of seafood ` the thought of fish,' the thought of any seafood ` he can spew. Like, he can't even be in the same room if you're cookin' it. - I'm gonna try and eat it with, like, a different mindset. All the other mindset is, 'Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.' 'It's nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.' Nah. - But don't eat those little seeds here. Pick them out. - CHILD: Yummy. - Bro, what am I up to? - Aianei, ake nei. Amine. - (LAUGHTER) - Go. Go. - Far out. - No, no, no. - Go. - (LAUGHS) You're over there cos you know. - Go, man. Come on. - Go. - (WOMAN GIGGLES) - Yummy (!) - (MAN IMITATES RETCHING) - (LAUGHTER) - It's all good, eh? - Yah, bro, it's all good! - Have some more, then! (LAUGHS) - Good, eh? - Oh, you`! (LAUGHS) - See? You missed out. - See? It's all good, G! And the punk liked it. He liked it, and I was just like, 'Faa.' I was like, 'See, mate? You been missing out.' - Bro, I'm so stoked. WHISPERS: I'll have another one. - Yep. - 'It was mean. It was mean as, and when he told his wife,' she was shocked. (LAID-BACK HIP-HOP MUSIC) - WOMAN SPEAKS TE REO: - Kia ora! - (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) - It was supposed to be just an interview in the studio, but I thought to myself, 'How can I just meet this fulla on my own?' And I thought` (LAUGHS) - I think it was important for me to be there, and just to be able to be a voice. 'And, like, a lot of these people are gonna be my whanau.' - SPEAKS TE REO: ...and I'm pretty sure that's where his singing voice comes from. - (LAUGHS) - (LAUGHTER) - Straight up, my dad looks like he's from down there. Cos I've seen so many fullas and so many people looking like my dad, and then so many familiar faces. I've always loved singing, and it's always been, like, my passion, but I didn't know that I could actually... it could be my life; it could be my job; it could take me to the world ` it could take me to places and meet people like Beyonce... There was, like, videos going up, and my dad was just on the other end in Melbourne going, 'Son, did you see that little girl? That little Pakeha-looking girl? Yeah, that's our whanau. 'Did you see this one?' Like, you know, he was just buzzing, cos he's been waiting for me and wanting me to go down there for, like, years. Everybody say 'Ngati Porou'! - ALL: Ngati Porou! - WOMAN ON MIC: And Tuparoa ha! - ALL: Tuparoa ha! - Awesome, whanau. Nga mihi nui ki a koutou... (UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC) (UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC) - Did you get the house you guys were... wanting? It was so beautiful. - Yeah, it was the bomb. 'Today I'm meeting up with Taran. She's like a sister to me.' I knew Taran years before I knew Stan, and she was one of the first people that I introduced him to when we first started dating. No, we didn't get that one. Um,... we couldn't get the finance across the line in time. - Well, everything happens for a reason. - Yeah. - And then at least you've got more time to, kind of, really think about it, cos you're kind of... rushing it. (LAUGHS) - Cos we're, like, impulsive as. - You just got a bit excited. - We're like, 'Oh, we're gonna do it! Oh my gosh, let's put in the`' - (LAUGHS) 'Here's a house; let's get it.' - Nothing sorted, eh, financially. Just like, 'OK, run with it.' - But I just thought you just... get a house, buy it, and that's it. - Nah. - I didn't know you have to do all the` (LAUGHS) - You have to do all this stuff. - All the paperwork and... - Like, you've gotta get all these different reports... Yeah, nah. We're looking at different options too. We're like, 'Shall we just hold off and just rent?' Me, in my numbers mind, I'm like, 'Oh, but then we're just paying money for something else,' but you can't put a price on, like, being home and being, like, chill... - Exactly. - ...in your own space. Yeah. (PENSIVE HIP-HOP MUSIC) - (SEAGULLS CRY) - Faa, that's on, eh. - Strap it to you like this. And you chuck those on your` - (YELPS) Man, look at us ` we're lookin' little city slickers, eh? - (CHUCKLES) - 'Chur, my bro. Up to?' 'What've you been up to?' 'Oh, nah, nothing.' 'So, today, me and Fender, we're at Waipiro Bay with his side of the whanau ` 'which is still my whanau.' The cuzzy Trev's house. Um, he's a mean hunter, gatherer, fisher ` everything. And we're gonna go and ride some horses. Some old race horses. - (HORSE SNORTS) - (GRUNTS) 'So, I ride horses ` I ride horses in Ruatoki all the time.' Fender, well, he's not even a novice. He's like a child. Nah! He's a, like, amateur. Like actual amateur-amateur. - Sweet, bro. - It's that all good? - Just try and tuck in your legs. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Hold your legs in tight to the horse. Bro, put your feet like this! - (YELPS) - Heels down! - I can't even reach them properly! (HIP-HOP MUSIC) - Bro, that one's, like, pingin' out. Ah, ah! I dunno about that horse. One horse was going crazy. It was, like, running around, rolling on the ground, bucking, getting too close. I was like, 'Oh, oh, oh, oh! Don't come by me.' Oh, I dunno. I'm not ready to get chucked off. - You wanna try, brother? - 'Uh, I'm not about to fall off in front of all these hardsies.' Bro, if I fall off, my bones'll break just like that. 'So I've gone off ` I've got my arse off ` and I was just like, "Nah, bro."' - Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Come on! - Let him thrash him for a bit and come back. Cos he just started playing up when my nephew come over, eh? - Oh, true. Fender, he went around the corner, from` away from everybody. I'm seein' this fulla walkin' around the corner, and he's just, like, walking the horse ` him and the cuzzy. What happened? Fall off? - Eh? - You fall off? Bro. - CHUCKLES: This one, bro! We were going, (IMITATES CANTERING) and he just randomly went... And I was like, 'Whoa!' - Far out. - (LAUGHS) - LAUGHS: Got bucked off, G! I knew I was gonna think` Once I seen him go... like that, I was like, 'Uh-oh.' (LAUGHS) - You got the sand all in your face. (LAUGHS) I was like, 'Faa, you're selfish ` you didn't even do that in front of us so that we could all laugh.' - TARAN: When you coming back after New Year's? - Coming up here on the 2nd` well, on the 1st, probably,... - Uh-huh? - ...cos he's gotta fly out to Aussie. - Are you gonna go over? - Nah. Cos I'd have to, um, isolate for two weeks. - So how long are you guys gonna be a part? (CHUCKLES) - Oh, shit. - LAUGHS: You haven't even thought about that, eh? - Nah, I think I'll be all good. - Yeah? - I just miss having an extra pair of hands around. - (LAUGHS) - I miss him, obviously, (LAUGHS) but, like... - It's cool talking to Taran ` what it's like when Stan's away and stuff, it's cool talking to her about that sort of thing, because she gets it. She's known us for so long. Well, it's` Our whole relationship and our break-up as well. - I was, um, talking to his mum yesterday. I didn't realise it's been almost a year since they've... - She hasn't been... - That's crazy. - She hasn't seen her son for like nearly a year. I would die. - Yeah, but her, too. (LAUGHS) Like` - Yeah, hard out. (LAUGHS) She's doing very good. - She was like, 'Can't wait to get my Stanny back.' I was like, 'Yeah.' - She's doing very well. - Yeah. - But guess what. - What? - I think they're both coming back at the same time, (LAUGHS) so they'll have to isolate together, I think. - (LAUGHS) (HIP-HOP MUSIC) - So, we're gonna go put our feet in the awa to, um` to centre ourselves, you know. - Cos this is where our tupuna washed their teros. - (CACKLES) - (CHUCKLES) And we're gonna go wash ours too. You go first. - I would sum up the trip as, um, I just feel whole. I came out... came back from that trip feeling whole; I came back feeling like my cup was full. Ooh. (SHUDDERS) Oh-ho-ho! - Oh, that's... - That's... - OK, OK. - OK. - OK. - OK. Yeah, we're clean as now. I'm out. I'm out, I'm out. - Yep, done. Oop! - Nope, yep. - Whoa, whoa, bro! - (YELLS) Get out! I felt connected to a place that I've always known about but now I know ` now I've seen, now I've experienced. - Let's go. Yep, boom. - CHUCKLES: Oh! - Oh-ho-ho-ho! - You know what that one is? - Wait, wait, wait! Yeah, that's right, cheater. - (BOTH LAUGH) - Tuparoa. This is for you, Matere. - (BOTH LAUGH) - One, two, three. - Oh no! - Yes! (LAUGHS) - Faa! - I came back from that trip just judging everybody in Auckland. I was entitled as. I told all my mates ` I warned them ` I was like, 'Whanau, I'm coming back with a mighty attitude.' They were like, 'Just get out of it.' I was like, 'I can't. I can't. 'I'm just too hearty from the Ngati.' (UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC) (LAID-BACK HIP-HOP MUSIC) - Um, we had a good Zoom meeting on Sunday for the tour. Everything's running very well. Just doing extra bits and pieces here and there. - 'My mum, she's the tour promoter.' She's really good at it. She loves it. Like,... she's good at getting anything down to nothing. She could sell a... dead rotten cow that's got maggots in it. - Oh, I just` I just... You know, like... I feel stink, cos... it's... well, it's your tour, but it's my tour, and I'm not even coming on it. I hate that. 'I've done everything from here with the tour `' you know, where we're going, the run of it, just getting stuff ready... You know, organising stuff. - Oh, I'm` I'm... It's no sweat off` - (LAUGHS) - It's no water off my back. - You'd better shush your mush, boy. - Love you, Mummy. - I love coming with those things, that's it. What? - I said, that's` yeah, that's` that's all good. - (LAUGHS) It's like, oh, I don't get to see my baby... evolve. - I gotta message Jakes, cos I` you know, with random last-minute stuff. I gotta message him. - Yeah, that's something I was` we were trying to do. - OK, I've gotta go. Let's just` Can we please organise this before I gotta go? - Yeah, hang on` - I gotta go and feed the dog and just make sure that the house is locked up. - Oh, jeez. What time's your call? - It's at 6-something, but I gotta go and get it all sorted now. - OK, love you, my baby. - Yeah, love you too, Mummy. Love you. Bye, now. (QUIRKY HIP-HOP MUSIC) - SIGHS: Sweet, that's us. Let's go. (MUSIC CONTINUES) - 'To be honest, I don't really know much about the tour. I know that it starts today,' and that's about it. I know that we start in Invercargill. I know the` where you get tickets from... It's all I really know. - Always wanted to be a singer. You fullas are lucky. You guys are lucky. You get... You get panties chucked at you when you're on the stage. That never happens when you're a comedian. Oh, there was that one fulla. - (LAUGHTER) (MUSIC CONTINUES) - (CATTLE LOW) (LAID-BACK HIP-HOP MUSIC) - Oh... - So, what's the` what's the auditorium called? - Glen` Glenroy? - Glenroy. - Glenroy? Oh, OK, cool. Thank you. - Aua. - 'So, this tour is a booked tour.' Don't know what's gonna happen. Don't know how it's gonna roll. I have no clue or no idea. I know that I'm gonna sing and talk, and that's about it. But lucky I'm a master` I have my` like, I have a doctorate in just making things up and freestyling. - (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (GROANS) 'The man, Mike King ` the man, the myth, the legend `' our matua, chief ` yeah, he's coming on, and he's gonna emcee the whole tour. 5.30? - Yeah. Oh, it should be in the brief. - (GROANS, YAWNS) Far out, is it earlier? Yeah, I feel like I'm probably the most tired I've ever been leading into a tour. I think it's... my mahi requires so much of me and so much of my energy and so much of my life. And that sounds so dumb ` like, 'Oh, just do what you've gotta do;' like, 'you're not like doing physical stuff.' But, man, it's a different thing when you're, like, serving the people and giving your whole life. - Hour and a half nap. - Yup. You mean hour and a half to get myself sorted. (CHUCKLES) Get my voice back. (LAID-BACK HIP-HOP MUSIC) - They're all on. - Check. Check. Check. Check. - Is this thing on? - (SOFT, JAZZY PIANO MUSIC PLAYS) - APRIL: OK, can you go closer to the stage so I can have a good look? - (QUIET CHATTER) - See the lamp? The plant? (CHUCKLES) - (LAUGHS) The tour, it's very different, but amazing how it's evolving now and, you know, how it's working out, so, yeah. - The boys are out the back. - OK. Where will they be standing? They could stand on that rug. - There, look. Can you see the two mics? - Yep, yep. Yep. - Yeah. And there's a mic right in the middle ` that stand. - Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Looks cool. Looks cool. Just a small little team that I work with while I'm over here. I, you know, allocate them jobs. Just for tonight, eh? - Yep, we're all sorted. All ready to roll. - Ooh, yes. Faa, that's nice and quick. That's no stress. - That will come later. (CHUCKLES) APRIL: 'You know, you just give them something to do. They're just amazing and really on to it.' - All right. Ka kite. - Yup. I'll ring you later. - All right. - (LAUGHS) Love you! Bye! - Love you too. Bye. - # We gonna get it. # New takeover. # We gonna get it. # New takeover. # And I wanna hear you all be sayin'... - I brought you a gift. - MUFFLED: Oh, thank you! I need that, because` Oh! You read the book? - (BOTH GIGGLE) - Yeah. - # And I wanna hear you all be sayin'... # We're a little bit, uh, unprepared, but I feel like this is gonna be mean. This is gonna be something different, obviously, than what we've ever done on a tour. Yeah, just thank you. Bear with me. Um, we're just gonna go with the flow. And we got a basic structure of what we're gonna do, but you know what I'm like in the spur of the moment. - (CHUCKLING) - But, um, nah ` appreciate you, brothers. Appreciate our whole team. And, yeah, thank you, Mike, for being a part of this tour. 'It's something we've never experienced, but I'm excited to do our thing ` 'share our stories, share our gifts. 'You know, there's gonna be a lot of people ` and you've seen in all the shows that we've done before 'how many people have been saved 'by these shows that we try and entertain, 'but ultimately, we're trying to bring hope, life and joy to people. 'So, yeah, I just pray...' I just thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for our team. Give us strength. Give me strength, God, cos I'm a bit tired. You know me, Lord. - (CHUCKLES) - But, um, yep, just thank you for a mean-as tour. Thank you for our brothers, thank you for our team and thank you for those people out there. In Jesus' name. Amine. - Amine. - Amen! - (SIGHS) - Cool. (CHUCKLES) - (SNIFFS, SIGHS) - Yeah, (BLEEP)in' go nuts. - (ALL LAUGH) - (AUDIENCE ROARS) - Please welcome Stan Walker! - It is my duty, it is my job, to give all of me. - We're not the game masters today ` my daughter's gonna run the games ` but we will win. - You know the... - Ah-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa! - Auntie! - My mother is the biggest cheating dog, from way back. - You have nice eyelashes. I'm gonna practise on you. - They already look girly,... - Exactly. - ...and I don't want them to look more girly. - Yeah, and then we can put it on Instagram, and they'll look like girls' eyes. - APRIL: What is that?! - What does it look like?