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Chapter 1: What personal struggles did Tammy Davis face growing up?
Just sat down, had an amazing conversation with Tammy Davis. Definitely my favorite podcast to date. And finally, he broke a silence on what happened at Georgia Femme.
Kind of came out of the blue. I thought that I was doing everything I could to hold on to my job. He spoke about things I bet you never heard. The drugs, the alcohol, the gangs. And they were like, what do you want? I said, I want a patch and a Harley. That's all I want. Yeah, bro. Shits. Yeah. Yeah, bro.
He has yarns for days filled with laughter, tears. It was a real rollercoaster of a combo. The thing is, I think I hit it hard, but fucking showed his shit. So whether you love Tammy Davis from the movies or the TV shows or the radio, you will see a side of Tammy that you've never seen before. So don't forget to like, comment, share and subscribe. Tammy Davis. Enjoy.
Unfiltered is produced by the T-Mac Fanaticals and we are part of the ACAST Network. Tammy Davis. Kia ora, my brother. Yeah, kia ora, bro. Man, I wish we'd just finished having full-on conversations out there. I know. Yeah, so some of it we can't play on here, but we'll see where this goes, eh?
But how you been? 100%. Yeah, no, real good, bro. Real good. Real good. Just cruising. Cruising at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. Life's life.
Yeah, I was saying that we were out there. I was going, man, I like your glasses.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, they're pretty swish, eh? Everyone's got them now.
Yeah. Where'd you get them from? Let's mention them so maybe we need sponsors.
Yeah, Specsavers. No, I did a content piece for Specsavers. And I went in there and they gave me a code. for a free pair of glasses. And so I went in there and sat down and the young lady goes, hey bro, this code gets you any glasses you want. And she goes, and I said, really? She goes, yeah, any lenses and any glasses. She goes, let's get you the best ones.
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Chapter 2: How did Tammy's experience at George FM impact his career?
When I started noticing something's wrong is when I was talking to someone and they'll go, is he talking to me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did that happen to you? Oh, yeah. No, no, it's just both my eyes are the same. You know, you've got that, what is it called? Cross-eyed.
My eye was cross-eyed. So that's what I mean. I'll be sitting here and this eye's looking straight, that eye's looking over there, and the people that I'm talking to don't know if I'm fucking talking to them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, see, if we were at school, I wouldn't have grabbed your cheek, but probably behind your back, I was like, oh, Bangoa Dave. Who's our Bangoa Dave?
Is he coming?
Here he comes. Don't call him Bangoa.
You know, but that's what kids would have, you know, back in the day, you probably got a little bit of that. Oh, I got a lot of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, not by, no, nah, because you're a big guy. I don't reckon too many people would have got it. Yeah, probably more so, like, yeah, behind the back stuff. But it was more that I'm trying to talk to someone.
They didn't know if I was fucking talking to them. That was quite awkward. I know what you mean. And the more tired I got, the more cross-eyed it went. So by the end of the day, it's fucking near in my head. So before we get started, what happened at Georgia Femme?
So Georgia Femme, that's an interesting question. I'm doing this so that people can watch to the rest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just start right there. Just start hard and fast, bro. No one's asked me that question. There were a lot of people online who were asking what happened. Because I started doing my unemployed chronicles on my socials and stuff and kind of went hard into last year.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Tammy encounter after moving to Auckland?
Yeah, that's the corporate, the bosses.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there was three months of, they had to give me three months notice. And then within the first week after giving me that notice, they went, go on the radio and, you know, you need to do this and you need to do that.
They tried to kind of force it on me because they knew that I would be in a state of, you know, I'm between two miles, you know, like I was stuck in a world of going, why has this happened? Shit, you know, and then they just tried to force it on me. And I just went, hey, look, I've got to take a couple of days off.
When I spoke to a friend of mine, went back and went, until you guys tell me what the reason is, that's when I'll tell the listeners. And then, yeah, and that's basically, they took like a month or two months, bro. So I didn't even get a reason until it was almost time for me to finish my contract. Or it was a month or two months later, yeah.
And what was the reason they ended up giving?
That they decided to go in a different direction. Yeah, that's it. And so, you know... And then, of course, you know, you have a look at the show now and, you know, you can see what direction they wanted to go in. I mean, I was constantly being told that I didn't fit the demographic. You know, I'm 50 years old now.
You know, the ideal kind of, you know, their kind of audience, what they say is 18 to 34. You know, that kind of bracket. You know, you've got all the young tradies and all that sort of thing. But I don't think storytelling... has a, you know, an age gap. You know, I kind of fit into a zone where my thing was more about including people, bro.
And I just told stories about myself that included people. And yeah, I used to have this thing where I'd wake up every morning, and it happened when I was on Outrageous Fortune, when I was there, and I just felt really lucky to have the job. And when you come from a poor background, any job, I feel lucky to have.
And it's like you said, these kids these days, we were talking about this before, kids these days, they don't have that experience, but I think every job teaches you something. Every job. Whether it's about the hours you should work, whether it's about working with dickhead bosses, every job teaches you something about yourself. And if you can get to a point where that's important to you,
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Chapter 4: How did Tammy navigate his battle with addiction?
And if you can get 100 people to laugh, you get 1,000 people to laugh. And if you get a, you know, if you can, and that compounds on itself. Because what you do is a lot of people put a lot of pressure on themselves.
You know?
They go, oh, shit, man, you know, we've got 10,000 people listening and I've got to make everyone think. No, just make one person. Because if you can communicate with one person, you know, then you can communicate across a myriad of people.
Yeah. I remember Nate now, you know, from Martin, he did a lot of work with us when he was rebuilding. He's doing well again now. But he would say, you know, with... You know, a lot of the younger people that are coming into radio, a lot of them haven't lived the life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they can't relate.
And he goes, you know, when he was talking to these young, what do you call it, radio presenters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got to understand these people, a lot of people that are listening are going to a job they fucking hate.
Yeah.
You know, they're tired and they've got to listen to you about hooking up in a nightclub.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What lessons did Tammy learn from his time in prison?
then how do you expect them to kind of give you their time of day? You know, so if you don't give people the opportunity to know who you are, why should they ring in and give them, you know, and explain to you who they are? And those are the best ones, bro. Those are the best ones where you communicate with the audience and then someone calls in and goes,
Bro, you'll never guess what happened to me. And then, you know, but you have to be vulnerable. Otherwise people aren't going to get it, bro. They're just going to go and then they're just going to give you the facade of what you put up. And that's kind of what, you know, what I think is missing some days when it comes to entertainment.
What do you say to a young kid straight out of media school wanting to get into this, you know, into that industry? What advice would you give them?
Well, I mean, it's different, bro, because I come from an acting background too.
Yes.
You know, so I did all my acting stuff as well. And that was hard, bro. That's, you know, that's hard. Because you're walking away from rejection every week.
Yeah.
You know, you go to an audition, you don't get it. You do a kick-ass audition, bro. You walk out and the people are going far out. That was amazing. You still don't get the role.
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: How did family influence Tammy's journey towards recovery?
Aunties and uncles, cousins, whānau, you know, everyone around, teachers and stuff, you know, felt comfortable, felt, you know, felt close. It was a close-knit community.
Yeah.
So, like, if you stepped out of line and someone down the street caught you, you know, they'd kick your ass, they'd take you home. The old man kicks your ass, you know? You know, it was kind of that sort of thing. Yeah. You know, you learn really quickly that if you get caught, you're going to get two kicks up the ass. Yeah. But it doesn't make you not, you know, grow as a child and thing.
And then we moved to Auckland when I was about 12, 13. Yeah. Mum, there was that whole... kind of mid to late 80s urbanisation of Māori moving into the cities. And that was when we moved to Sandringham first. Lived in Mount Albert, went to Sandringham Intermediate. And then mum and the old man broke up. The old man couldn't handle the city life.
He was a country boy. What was that like coming from the country to living up here in Auckland?
Oh, it was hard, bro. It was hard. It was real hard. And... Yeah, it was tough. It was tough, because I knew, you know, I knew where I fit, you know, and I came to Auckland and I, it was just, yeah, it was a struggle. And like, I'm, and it's not like I, You know, so Sandringham Intermediate didn't feel too far away because, you know, there weren't that many brown kids.
Yeah.
And I made friends. Actually, bro, I went to school. I was in Form 1. In Form 2, I met this guy and his name was Lawrence Schwalger. And he was Samoan German. And his cousin was Beatrice Falmoina. Wow. And she was in Form 2. She was at the same school. Yes.
And she was, I don't know, I can't remember if she was doing the athletics and stuff then, but I remember meeting her because Lawrence was her cousin. And so, you know, and so, but there weren't that many brownies. It was primarily, it was probably 70, 80% white kids. So it felt like home a little bit. And then the shock came when we moved to Manurewa.
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Chapter 7: What role did acting play in Tammy's life transformation?
So what was going on?
When was this? In the 90s? Late 80s?
So it was late 80s, early 90s. Yeah. And it was... It was really hard, bro. It was really hard. And it was hard for mum and it was hard for my little brother. It was hard for me. My older sister had moved out by then. My older brother, he was 18, 19, he'd moved out. Well, he actually didn't really live with us by the time we moved to Auckland. He was off doing his filming thing and everything.
And then my older sister, you know, she kind of she was like 16, 17. And then I was 13. My little brother was 11. And yeah, I mean, he kind of went through the through the intermediate system. So by the time he got to high school, he'd kind of made a few friends at a younger age. But I went straight into third form. And yeah, she was pretty she was pretty intense.
Like, yeah, I was just getting threatened every day and people, you know. wanted to bash me getting pushed up against walls and stuff and yeah and that was just because i i just didn't fit yeah I hadn't been raised in the same way, bro. Yeah.
You know, I hadn't been raised to, you know, I'd been raised in a small community with love and, you know, and everyone was there and, you know, and it's not to say that there wasn't, you know, childhood trauma going on, that shit didn't happen around me, but I knew there was always a safe place. Yeah. And that was the first time I felt that there wasn't one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, like, mum was there, but it was the first time I felt like there was... When she wasn't, because she was at work all day, you know? Where the fuck do I go? And so I had a mate who kind of took me under his wing. And he was a tough Māori boy, but He influenced me in all the wrong ways. Yeah. And it was sad, bro, because I was a smart kid. I was doing well at school and everything.
And, you know, I love mathematics, love science and everything. And like just everything just went downhill.
That through high school.
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Chapter 8: What is Tammy's perspective on the current state of the New Zealand film industry?
Yeah, bro, it was just, yeah, it was hard, bro. It was really hard. Because, like, the guy who kind of took me in, kind of, we almost had this kind of, we had a codependent relationship, bro. You know? And he kind of enforced, he forced that on me. You know?
So he was, you know, like, he was my protector, but he was also, you know, because I needed one, bro, because it was like, you know, people were, you know, like, I'd just get threats out of nowhere. You know, someone would come up to me, lunchtime, bro, this guy's, some guy I didn't even know is going to bash your head in because you said something about him. Far out, so...
You know, I think they call it anxiety now, bro. I think they call it anxiety now. But I was anxious all the time. But I just didn't know what it was. And so, you know, there was no hiding from it. But he forced that environment on me. And when I tried to, you know, get away from it, he'd say, hey, hey, hey, hey, don't you forget who's looking after you.
you know so I'd gone from yeah bro it was it was a it was a world of turmoil and um uh yeah but it was um yeah and then and then and then I think it was sixth form like year 12 and I'd I'd I'd failed year yeah I'd failed fifth form school C fifth form it's sad bro because I was a good you know
And then I went back to do sixth form and halfway through that my mum just goes, nah bro, you can't live here anymore. Because it was just spiralling out of control.
What was she thinking when you were going downhill like that?
What was mum thinking? Yeah. And dad? Oh, I don't know. I think because my parents were both working – well, my mum and my stepdad were both working in alcohol and drug services.
Yeah.
So they were out there helping everyone else and – I think it happens for a lot of people. You know, when your parents work in the community, you know, they're out there helping people in the community.
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