Matthew Ridge

I was in Gisborne the other day, just a couple of days ago, and this lady came out.

She was a Māori lady.

And she just said, hey, look, I just wanted to say, hey, you know, big ups, you know.

And that's pretty much what it's been.

You know, everybody that I've come in contact with are like, hey, well, thank you.

You know, because, you know, my story's not too different to everybody else's.

You know, we all have our demons.

We all have our dramas.

We all have our life stories.

you know experiences and that sort of stuff and this is just my experience so like if you can communicate an experience and I've got a platform not that I'm like a but you know I've got a platform like you guys I can come and speak and just like you said before bro like if somebody can take away from something that you've said or glean something from that you're saying then that's a good thing right

This might help you.

I can't disagree.

And there is great power in storytelling.

That's how we learn.

So if you don't – a lot of people are –

And I get it, it's not for everybody, you know, it's like, it takes a lot to be really open.

But I think if you're open, as open as you can be, then you just learn so much more, you know, like...

Yeah, life's a real trip, hey?

It comes back to what you guys were saying before.

It's like you put on an act.