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  • Anthony and Joey are two fun-loving enthusiastic actors from New Zealand who

  • love music and who loved to perform

  • Sharon is gonna show Anthony and chewy the musical side of Taiwan from the haka

  • singing to the modern saxophone to traditional moon guitar

  • this trip is going to be music to their ears it's been an amazing journey er and

  • we cannot swim ting better than this

  • space you understand everything is just unforgettable

  • Taiwan is a land full of diversity when you walk on the streets you hear all

  • sorts of accents intonation style X or even languages and why do I bring this

  • up because that nurtured the music here we have in Taiwan to set off on our

  • journey I brought to you in Anthony to me Ali to have a glimpse at how the heck

  • uh people use their mountaintops to communicate with each other it's like

  • Obama we're asking you have you eaten in Hakka language so you said soup our sis

  • all but a way to could I thank you he prepared some Hakka cuisine for us knew

  • we're gonna enjoy together this is a very Johnson ginger and intestines don't

  • be afraid we're good

  • now next one we move on to make a coil it is a pot with Yin time it's also a

  • pickled vegetable in the business - Mateo to Bhutan you can see how like how

  • people injured a lot of pickles

  • here

  • the voice that's been heard from light forth like many years now and how it's

  • been like the music itself it's been continued for generations like passed on

  • from father to son I was so powerful just hearing like his

  • voice you can still hear like a little like he's struggling but he's singing

  • from his heart you know you seem like he means at any telling us a story through

  • just maybe we didn't understand it but just from the tone and the tune and the

  • melody of it we could just feel it we just sit there quiet and just so in tune

  • like we're just like yes this is amazing I create a new hug a song but really

  • traditional hug asylum for my father yeah passes down yeah

  • yeah

  • Oh

  • yeah I should say it was a very social connection that we prematurely found

  • each other and that provides a ssin work and the way just play this guitar and

  • sang and stuff though it was not only beautiful but it was as real that was

  • served melodic I really really could feel a naturist sound of whispers and

  • birds and trees and says that they're for me they're really every hit me hard

  • and you know he really did bring a lot of energy just really keeping keeping

  • keeping that beat in their rhythm how I'll never forget ever until the day I

  • come back here and have more Burman I know they look full of energy right

  • now but this is actually how they looked after ten plus something hours a flight

  • from New Zealand

  • okay let's Anthony and I'm too weak yes finally arrived what arrived to you when

  • I first stood off the plane I just realized that we aren't a New Zealand

  • anymore we're in Taiwan the other grounding was

  • differently for weakens back at home its wharf the ground of the land of New

  • Zealand that we have it's the grasses of mountains and but only once we landed

  • there just like the only sort of walk you know it's just the lights especially

  • yeah everything was just amazing you know just enough to experience it when

  • we landed the artifact

  • Wow everywhere Italy this is actually something very special and this is wood

  • this is the adventurous place and you know this goes so many things so what

  • you haven't lost probably be here for you we're so so happy that this is your

  • first time ever outside of New Zealand and you choose Taiwan

  • absolutely yeah actually we're really embracing the nature here the people and

  • the culture especially oh really really excited to have you here and for this

  • trip in Taiwan we are giving you an allowance of a hundred thousand NT

  • mm-hmm this is for you to spend however you would like and for this trip Sharon

  • is gonna be accompanied you now if you're curious the theme of your trip is

  • are you ready yeah I'm ready hello Hannah hey would be bit shocked

  • you see like we just heard it I think we're just gonna join her we're gonna

  • join in

  • that was cool Bella Dawson we just joined in we recruiter and whether I

  • feel you I'm a bee box and I listen to so many music I'm very similar

  • I have no favorite genre of music I love everything even from different countries

  • I just love that's very something you can bring as well on this journey here

  • music performance take you around Taiwan or the different music and culture of

  • Taiwan I like that we only have one small mission for you and that is to go

  • to a city down south called time then it's a very traditional city we want you

  • to before as Street yes I suppose we can take this as the new premier sir yeah

  • musical journey for sure yeah I mean if it's like my passion making profession

  • beautiful our bodies uh you know stuff of that that's what we're gonna do

  • anyway we do we're gonna create something

  • moving on to the next city I personally like a lot you know how some places just

  • never sleeps Sleepless in Taichung Sleepless in Seattle anyone know the

  • film national title Theater is one of the most up to date performance venues

  • if you don't have any plans this weekend why don't you go take a look and enjoy

  • some art pieces also you know how some places just have the vibe to draw people

  • around hi John is the first city in Asia that held a Jazz Festival and you can

  • definitely count on me on this one I swung to the music's so bad you can feel

  • that anything so that's awesome this I'm gonna Deering it's a dairy thing I'm

  • gonna take you to this there was a Taiwanese move self-taught himself and

  • making a Western instrument okay let's take a look let's go all right snow

  • whatever guys

  • and he is the grandson of where the founders Johnny and tell us and he said

  • why should a saxophonist Illinois should I'll take you

  • like was she polio Jeremy I saxophone are you today there's a song long city

  • the way God gave you to be quick even

  • thought it is a slum girl good girl fake my holidays but under the long hey wow I

  • wonder how long this is being for I mean wow so actually dream making music since

  • then and up to now as as music soul still lives with us today and so my

  • first impression Allah sister so big ups knew John where he may be safe lots of

  • much I think I can eat your phone will you marry me it's just amazing and I got

  • to touch one which is a dream come true I want to see

  • you playing I want to try it buddy okay he will teach us Oh so to learn

  • something brush because my baby

  • tastes like fuck you Ian thank new money also cheese houses that often doesn't

  • renounce to see how does it sido with the one two three

  • oh the Stroh was real that's what I could say oh but it was with the

  • challenge

  • my first sounded like dogs crying sounded real terrible but it was

  • actually really hard like I thought you could go into it and just they actually

  • have to use like a good diaphragm and you know produce some wind from the

  • inside was actually difficult and I was actually hard but like I loved it like

  • every bit of it 1 2 3

  • but now that I've played it like a little bit missing I want to keep going

  • you know I don't want to stop want to keep going that was

  • does bring a bow for me but for many movies that I've watched you know I

  • actually really really loved it was beautiful I told my eyes at one point

  • during the performance and as I could feel like every bit of it even my

  • fingers were like acting as if I knew the song itself beautiful and I was just

  • like are so in tune and I felt connected in this song which I believe is like a

  • traditional song in Taiwan well you don't say no to beer do you and just

  • thinking of how much calories were burned spending time with my vocals and

  • we wanted a good night out you don't really need any reason for that

  • so this place where we can have really decent beers suited our needs and as for

  • what happened that night you wouldn't want a nerd when mother Vito goes with

  • how unsightly the teenager don't all your senses so like the beer here

  • they're all brewed and like in Taiwan and there are 32 of them so there's like

  • a challenge we can drink it all up and then we'll be

  • on

  • you're paving like oh I'm in it I'm in it

  • I'm in uh yeah hi guys we're not ready to drink unless you are watching yep and

  • I guess we'll cheers to the elevate elegant beginning and what happens to

  • the end we'll see good

  • I remember how we had to wake up at 5:00 the next morning it was definitely a

  • torture but one lay ahead of us kept our spirits high and are you ready for our 3

  • min expedition but just for reminders you might want to turn the volume down a

  • bit for now because really loud alright guys we are fighting here yet but not

  • quite Wow does it sound weird to you kind of okay so actually I have arranged

  • for you a very like a secret trip for you but that because you know I know

  • like in New Zealand you have like majestic landscapes for me if I think of

  • New Zealand and Taiwan we also have that too but it takes a little trip to see

  • that and but before that I have to show you a video cool it's from Janet

  • generally you yes hey Anthony hey Joey I know you Kiwis are famous for inventing

  • all sorts of crazy adventure sports so I think this next activity is right up

  • your alley when I first started filming fun Taiwan

  • it was just me and my trusty old Jeep traveling around the island and now I'm

  • about to pass over the keys - you guys have fun but please try to flip the car

  • there

  • yeah they are to use minivan IO mayhaw a tool candy been ho-hum by a power source

  • also Hong Kong docile and Samuel we're gonna go through a river like

  • river tracking with the with the Jeep y'all we staged a bucket road let's do

  • it yes of Britain in the Jeep before in the

  • coupe it's funny in the sound but I'm being serious I've read in the feet

  • while definitely they are different than mountains and just the hole in the trees

  • and the rocks and just the whole adventurous portrait atmosphere itself

  • that is really good in a girl bug for me myself wow this is something where I

  • could use it to learn to come down and you know hell away from this way and

  • then come over see us on the train you know it's difficult which makes it more

  • intensive it's not just flat where you can just simply run dude you'd see

  • struggle you'd see emotions you feel nature and you know it's like it's like

  • I can see the beauty of it all even just the smell and the freshness and how that

  • fog chased us pretty much the whole it was pretty scary

  • so we decide to give a helping hand and that was fun this is my first time

  • pushing a car out of the mud I have not done that in my life

  • sir I'm glad to say thumbs up I've made history I just have to leave it here

  • right now cookie I don't think he's gonna make it here on my boots here I'm

  • clean but yeah I gave up my best unfortunately but driving through the

  • tyres Tiger Tiger jumped out at me today looks

  • like a tree but I'm sure what the tiger cuz scratched me right here

  • now the truth the truth I just yep animal isn't that embracing I'm

  • crazy

  • and now we bring you to a link away to see a meticulous Taiwanese folk art that

  • glove puppetry and I can still remember when I was little I would sit in front

  • of temple and watch the show all night long but what surprised me more was

  • actually to weed because he saw a figure and pointed at it and he asked me it's

  • like like Blue Book is like real powerful for speed it was like whoa how

  • do you know about that so you can see how alluring this handicraft is I

  • haven't seen anything like it before similar to Shakespeare though as we have

  • theaters that are quite similar towards that type of theater in puppetry but I

  • say nothing like I've ever seen

  • I'd say I really really enjoyed how fast the transitions were in the puppetry I

  • loved how the characters were so in sync with their bodies and I love the detail

  • the design of their costumes for anyone who would comment to this I would

  • recommend it absolutely that's what I love the most about it is we may not

  • know the language we felt like you're connected to an audience and that's why

  • you want commercials for the interconnected episode and we laughed

  • and we never announce laughs we said yes and no one ever announced we could kind

  • of understand the story yet not at the same time but just through actions and

  • the voices we were all wondering so this is to make sure you have a task right

  • now for sure we'll give you ten minutes and two minutes I'll see you later so

  • exciting you know we had to poke a puppet we looked at them I observe them

  • kind of made up a story of it and then put it improvisation on the spot

  • I'm gonna need a pair of the back so the story was there was a homeless guy and

  • there's a pretty girl that came pass my name is it was like oh no it's kind

  • of hesitating you didn't want to be approached and stuff and so they kind of

  • negotiated and communicated well and stuff and they long story short I found

  • Santa I need help I don't know how I'm gonna deliver it before Christmas and

  • all kids just too much mmm and I mean that's all about that's Christmas in a

  • spirit of giving and receiving and you know loving one another where we all

  • come together and that's what you guys did to me and you guys helped me you

  • took Santa back to your house means you fit us Kiwi food New Zealand food and we

  • enjoyed it and then you help me spread the love you know spread the Aloha see

  • everyone and that's what it's Christmas is about burning

  • so we have a little present from Janet okay take a look let's have a look at it

  • hey guys I hope you're having a wonderful trip so far

  • tomorrow is your day off here in Yuling which is also really famous for things

  • like the chalten temple she low bridge historical old street and even guqin

  • coffee now have a great time spend your money meet some people and who knows

  • maybe you can even let your talents shine that sounds like like I'll play

  • with an opportunity man and that's how we do it that's how we get it done yeah

  • what do we do now it's all free days every day places that I have in mind I

  • think coming ready to explore was unexpected was something very special

  • just the fact there what we experienced today was something important to compare

  • to like a Tim Burton attempt occurs right here we are

  • I'd say like the people they just felt like you know we felt like welcome as

  • soon as I walked into the temple art say definitely saw a lot of people a lot of

  • colors and just walking in there I can see love dragons a lot of instruments

  • playing instruments that means we have no idea and we were they were going to

  • be a part of having the statues passed through and the smells of all the

  • different tendencies and you know around you do not know what's going on

  • obviously that means something but just by action

  • I was a little anxious at the start window when I was carrying the carriage

  • and now I thought you know I'll drop it but you know they were saying something

  • in Taiwanese no be strong strong you know keep cute sir and that was like it

  • pretty hard for us because we didn't understand but they're just using the

  • headlights you two even wait they're trying to speak to us and you know

  • communicate

  • we had to carry the carriage into the truck and then help them put away the

  • six and everything and that was nice to be able to give them a handbook for this

  • I think for me it was something I would say I'll take away with as as a special

  • treat all right guys are you ready for the next trip I'm ready I'm ready I'm

  • for to it but still we're going to tie nine and it's the oldest city in Taiwan

  • and architectures and the people and then you know you can sense that when

  • once we arrive actually hop in the car and okay

  • driving down south we arrived in China and went to the ten drum culture village

  • it is a place reformed from a sugar mill and with a lot of its apparatus is

  • preserved they're blending history and drum art all together

  • it's behind a gun gun well clearly haiku cylinder ah see that's a woman Theresa

  • so you see PI 1 & 2 is a cursor circle physical just wanna which is content and

  • then item table panic we fuzzy almond part was younger at Tsukuba 32 seeker

  • positive when they played the drums are like absorbs like energy from all those

  • directions they could be so calm of their movements but you know you can

  • feel that energy in tension and everything that they trying to create

  • like in a story just from drums so when we learn to play the drums the first

  • thing that they showed us is the center of the drum you said that the sound goes

  • right through it instead of hitting the sides where just bounces off the walls

  • not as powerful as a we just hit really get used to hitting into the center

  • let's see it was a part of because trying to get the center every single

  • time isn't as easy sometimes I would drum German and hit my own sticks and

  • applause I'm like but I'd still continue oh yeah this is pretty difficult and

  • I've ever been to Japan this is something simple for them but it

  • was difficult for me I don't know about that was definitely a challenge being

  • able to use my body in a different way that I would never have it expected so I

  • had to like balance like my stance

  • I saw you're slowing down otherwise change their arms a bit so those are

  • your sauce sweet or salty okay babe so how did I had to control the emphasis

  • and the balance on playing the drums was I had to really really know when my

  • right hand would come in and win my defender comment so I had to do like a

  • cool stunt so that would stick one

  • it was amazing just to be a part of them I mean yeah like you know a world-famous

  • group they've been nominated for awards and to even get the privilege to support

  • them you know great honor

  • was really looking like a really nice this is I think like the highest peak in

  • this area actually there is something happening later with Heights

  • that's right any of you scared of wise

  • guys you like you swallow me and make you speak

  • Oh JB oh my god let's do it

  • snowman's do all those about beers I

  • conquered my fears as my mason sounds he told me to say to say something cool so

  • it's like something cool help me conquer my fears when I said something and it's

  • made it more easier for me

  • I don't know why she landed like a spider but I'm gonna try my best

  • sounds good

  • followed by

  • so welcome to China and first of all thank you this is the original capital

  • of Taiwan lots of performances with really traditional instruments so we

  • just played a couple traditional songs we have another song that we'd like to

  • perform before we finish yes okay and I don't know if you would like to join

  • this audience we're gonna try to make some money so that we can eat some yummy

  • food Tainan is famous for okay ready

  • it sounds so uh so peaceful in it open string a bow to the funky with number

  • one of the song speculums and I still listen to a lot of English there's no

  • war dance like homies even go there we understand that you guys have haka

  • here too but it's a tribe performing the father but different audience was a

  • little a little bit civilian a little veteran knows they're breaking it it

  • felt cognizable each in some movements with another looking at little kids and

  • stuff and I was like oh like at the end of it I was thinking to myself I hope I

  • did a big boy by the end of the show but

  • there's something that you have to leave it all everything like the tiger that's

  • Chris my I get that leave nothing like you know lift and you have to walk out

  • like pretty much in pain you know challenge

  • yeah

  • the representing music in Hudson is sufficient and the music and melody is

  • just in me around that area the singers made a living traveling

  • around and sing singing about the smallest matters to what may be only

  • Socrates capsule they were just like balls in the West and this is Anthony

  • and two E's first encounter with our poetic singer a must

  • let's see how they react good morning

  • Sammy Sammy Khan a hunter Minya your chickadee of account which I made

  • imagine we meow come on here about okay 113 I see Tyler then change and for

  • Cincinnati detonator yeah ha ha ha

  • Maddie and she invited a party yeah am i insult variety glassy sea cherubim like

  • a TV I didn't even watch statistician Tracy yeah you told me

  • so the way that they sing the songs to express different through their past

  • life yeah it's just amazing bet it's pretty much or improvised a lot of it

  • can be improvised where you can just see about anything you can feel free and you

  • know just lay your motions run in the moon to tell you is your cheek all night

  • well the music was very different it was very unique I had different time

  • signatures and the boy would call it the tone angulating which means it is up and

  • down and certain predictable play it it was beautiful soft

  • you know it woman yo she knew ye time oh yeah oh sorry when you need me eg time

  • since I

  • you know that service is building itself which is my generation where is the

  • general vomit and then the new like little kids that are like you know being

  • for this traditional you know user poems and all of that that's good because it

  • keeps like the culture alive you know and I was actually like heart warming to

  • see all the kids from surrounding the room

  • just the new you guys I just strike me cuss to the last day of her journey just

  • the last year and it is I hope everything's so far so good

  • yeah it's been a real real journey here in Taiwan well you will you please tell

  • me like which part is more the most emotional to you like Anthony for me I

  • think the most emotional part would be the temple Vienna would have so much fun

  • there and just excitement I've never seen sooo many happy people like there

  • my life like so many people jumping around colours of such a great symbolism

  • of the word happiness and you just a landscape to scenery the people the

  • culture the food everything that with it you know kind of speechless when we're

  • talking about going home you're not really looking forward to going okay so

  • to me it's awesome I've never met someone from Tunga and I

  • don't I didn't know much about the culture but then we were talking we were

  • singing watching like videos of your culture and then I feel like I learned

  • so much there's like in exchange between us and I love that one absolutely that's

  • awesome so at last there's something more we

  • have to offer which is what should say it the song well the fans like do you

  • still remember the song we originally what they knew you well here it goes

  • so yeah way more money

  • Oh Doctor Who I am

  • kee-yai Cohutta Kyoto ha Moammar yeah oh

  • yeah

  • yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah don't sing someday

  • I feel real at this point I'm not usually a an emotional person but when I

  • am I'm uh I'm gonna be described baby in the world

  • kissing cumbia talk the old girl laughs yeah I'd say a ver ver very humbling

  • people this trip has been personal it really has so welcoming so humbling pure

  • you know just loving people just unforgettable coming here feels like a

  • lot of emotion back home we can go home and tell stories you know saying we

  • tried this in there for the first time that's been one of the greatest and best

  • adventures that means all we could have asked for and I hope that there'll be a

  • second time to Taiwan sometime soon and I love Taiwan's words

Anthony and Joey are two fun-loving enthusiastic actors from New Zealand who

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