Jay Pukepuke
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Podcast Appearances
So she wasn't too mobile.
I was too mobile.
So we kind of worked out there.
Yeah, she brought me out for a few years.
I kind of like pushed it away.
She was very strong, her and my grandfather, very strong in the community, in Te Ao MΔori and Te Reo.
And I just had no bar of it for no reason whatsoever.
It just wasn't relative to me at that time.
Why?
Just wasn't.
Yeah, it just, you know, other things were.
It's the same reason, you know, why didn't I go to school?
Why didn't I stay at home?
Yeah, there was no really particular reason.
I really regret not taking advantage of that now.
I wish I did because now it's three times as hard to get what I could have grown up with.
Hindsight's a wonderful thing, though, eh?
Oh, household names, Monty Betham, Ali Lautiti.
It was that era, you know, Henry Falfilli, Francis Malley, Clinton Torpey.
We were like under 13s, Auckland, age grade.