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From Viral Graduation Speech to Social Media Stardom: Peter Bui's Journey
Ever wondered how a viral high school graduation speech can kickstart a career in content creation? Join us as we sit down with TikTok star and Instagram sensation, Peter Bui, who shares his extraordinary journey from Arlington, Texas, to social media stardom. Hear firsthand about Peter's family business in Fort Worth, his upbringing, and the pivotal moments that defined his path. We open up about the early days of our podcasting adventures and the trials and triumphs that came with it, setting the stage for a conversation filled with authenticity and inspiration.
Family interactions can be a wellspring of humor and personal growth, and Peter's stories about filming with his family are nothing short of heartwarming. We navigate the nuances of different cultural upbringings, share laughs over parental quirks, and discuss how childhood fears evolve into mutual respect and playful banter. From talking back to parents to navigating the pressures of academia, our anecdotes highlight the importance of understanding and adapting to varying family dynamics. Peter's tales of a mother going shot-for-shot with her son to curb his drinking habits will leave you laughing and pondering the unique approaches our families take in shaping us.
Balancing talent and management in business isn't always easy, but Peter offers a unique perspective on building strong teams and seizing opportunities. We explore the organic growth of diverse ventures, the unexpected ways personal history surfaces online, and the vital role of mentorship. Stories about Peter's past in football and modeling add a humorous twist to the discussion, and we celebrate the inspiring journey of individuals like Mary, who turned a modest idea into a successful venture. As we wrap up, we reflect on the importance of gratitude and the spirit of rock and roll, reminding everyone to stay good and keep on rockin' the state.
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Chad:Crazy. You think football is just football. But I guess not. Right Like you got all these different things that you learn from it. Right, you got to pull away what you got to pull away from no.
Tim:I had a coach that just threw clipboards.
Chad:Yeah, most of the Cal State coaches just like yell and fought kids. It was weird and got fired for fighting kids. It was a whole different thing that we had going on.
Tim:They also made kids fight each other. They put money on it. They had this whole fight club thing going on A whole thing. All right, so should we get into it now? Let's do it, let's get into it.
Chad:Get in here. We got to start the show. Cheers. Oh hello everyone, and welcome to the Funky Panther Coming to you from Fort Worth, texas. We have got a hell of a show for you here on episode 175.
Javier:Every time, every time, every time you think that you're like I'm sorry.
Tim:Am I missing?
Javier:something.
Peter Bui:What's going on?
Javier:We usually have kids cheering Hooray, Come on man.
Chad:We have got a phenomenal guest here tonight. Peter Bowie is here in the building. You want to say hi, hey, what's up? Y'all? We have got the TikTok star, instagram famous, got videos all over the place here, yeah, yeah, and so we're going to talk about him and all the things that and other that he's got going on. So sit back, relax and enjoy. Let's get into it. I'm Chad.
Tim:I'm Javier and I'm Tim. We are, let's get into it. I'm Chad, I'm Javier and I'm Tim, and we are the Funky Panther.
Peter Bui:And it's smooth again. I felt so left out just now. Y'all it's okay. Y'all did not tell me that was a part of the intro.
Chad:So it's usually us. But unless you're Michael and Danny and they're like, no, include us. We want to be included now, and so we're like, okay, okay, so we had to do it again, so at the end we'll include you we definitely want to be included, y'all I like that vibe, though it's like if you're gonna do it, I want to fucking do it oh, yeah, get me involved.
Tim:I like it the thing is, is that coming up with that that took us like five or six takes the first time we ever did a podcast.
Chad:Why that doesn't make so we we did so many bad podcasts before we finally put out our first episode not that it's and then we did so many bad podcasts before we finally put out our first episode Not that it's great and then we did so many bad ones after that. The first ones were so bad we would just yell won't keep answering. That was it, that was the whole thing. So we eventually got to this thing. It took a bit.
Javier:Building up the chemistry, absolutely Building up the brand.
Peter Bui:Exactly right.
Javier:So, speaking of brands, let's get into you. You so, like, speaking of brands, let's get into you. I mean, you're here, You're from Cali, right?
Peter Bui:I'm from here, you're from here, yeah.
Chad:I'm from here. He just said that a little bit ago.
Javier:I was getting him drinks, I wasn't paying attention.
Peter Bui:I was born in Arlington, born and raised in Arlington, but I worked in Fort Worth. My family business was always in Fort Worth.
Javier:No shit.
Peter Bui:Yeah, and raised in arlington. But I, I worked in fort worth. My family business was always in fort worth. No shit, yeah, where uh, off eastwood, okay. So, uh, it was called oceans mini mart and, um, that was like my family business for a really, really long time, from the time I was born to maybe when I was like 10, 11, I was like that, that little asian kid working the cash register man, I know that you know, yeah, nice.
Javier:So that work ethic, like I mean, did that currently what you're doing right now? You're doing really great on TikTok, doing really great with promoting yourself and your brand and also what you have going on with Ampersand, like all that stuff that hat is pretty sick, by the way.
Peter Bui:For sure I love it. It's actually my favorite hat as well. I don't know why.
Javier:It's pretty badass. I wish my big ass head couldn't fit in a hat like that, yeah.
Chad:So let's go back to kind of, you know, after the family stuff, and when did you start getting into making content and videos and things like that? Because that's kind of what jumpstarted the rest of it. Am I wrong?
Peter Bui:No, for sure, for sure. I think my first viral moment was actually on Twitter. Okay, my senior year of high school, I did a graduation speech and I was stupid man, I was so stupid, I don't know. I was like quoting rappers and like hitting on girls in the crowd. I was just having a blast and basically it went viral on Twitter.
Chad:So this is live at a high school graduation.
Peter Bui:Yeah, I gave like the commencement speech.
Chad:Okay.
Peter Bui:And I just had a blast with it. You know what I mean.
Chad:Did they choose you or you were like I really need to do this.
Peter Bui:They chose me. Okay. So I was the student body president. Okay. So then, at the end of the year for graduation, whoever the student body president Okay. So then At the end of the year For graduation, whoever the student body president is Gives like a Intro speech or something like that.
Peter Bui:Okay, and I was just talking and it went viral and I think after that I was like Alright, is it that easy to go viral? You know what I mean. Like I I thought you'd have to be like A more special person. You know what I mean. Like I thought you'd have to be like a more special person. You know what I mean. I thought you'd have to have looked this way, be so charismatic, whatever. But like, when I you know I just posted a video went viral, I was like oh, like, these people aren't untouchable. It is possible. Yeah, you know it could have been anybody. Yeah, but it just happened to be me. So I was like, and the fact was that I didn't really put as much effort as I should have. You know what I mean. Not that I'm not grateful that it went viral, but I was like I could do way better, yeah. So then from then on, I was like all right, let me try this again. And I tried taking on.
Peter Bui:I think at that time it was my freshman year of college and I was trying to do TikTok because I was was trying to do um, I was trying to do tiktok because I was just, I was just trying to prove that I can do it and I went about it all the wrong ways because I was like you know what I think the point of social media, if I could go viral without trying, let me, let me try harder. So I started trying. I started, I went the thirst trapping, like like I was thirst trapping, doing trends, I was doing everything that I could to go viral, but it just didn't work. And then, in the end, I was starting to give up. And you know what I did. I just went on my Snapchat memories and I just started posting old Snapchats that I made and it just went crazy. That's wild.
Peter Bui:And I feel like that's kind of when I realized, like social media or just anything in general, it rewards authenticity, yeah, and it's it's like females you know what I mean like if you want females, you're not gonna get it. You know what I mean. You want money, you're not gonna get it and so it's like, if you're in it for the long reasons, all you want is the clout. You just want this Like you may get a little bit. You know I was like I did this thing. That's kind of an ick, but y'all know what icks are by the way, absolutely yes.
Tim:What's that one thing going on?
Javier:I'm so hip, I know I know what's that thing going on, right?
Tim:now Ew.
Tim:I'm just I'm still trying to figure out the sigma and all that stuff that's happening. Hold on.
Chad:If you missed the first 30 and you're listening to us On the podcast, just keep in mind Peter's considerably younger Than we are, so this kind of question Might come up a lot In the podcast. So sorry, continue For sure.
Peter Bui:What was I saying, oh?
Tim:Ick, ick, ick, and we all know what it means.
Peter Bui:I was like Following and unfollowing people and like Just trying to get followers the wrong way. It just came down to like Make good content, be yourself, and you know the people who blow up. They probably didn't Start it to blow up. They were probably just In it Because that's who they are and they got rewarded for it, you know so, yeah, so then I started doing that just posting, making videos with my family, just basically documenting my life and people loved it, yeah dude.
Tim:Okay, so that that brings me in the first 30. I asked how is your, how how's your parents not killed you yet? Because my favorite video that I that I stumbled across was, um, you dumping the water on your head and it was your dad or somebody spraying like he was holding my dad and it sprays your mom, yeah. That, just that. In the salt prank with the soup yeah. Those two just cracked me up and I'm like if I did something like that, Poor, poor family man. I think my mom would have killed me.
Peter Bui:Yeah, I think what it is is whatever y'all see on camera. I've done 10 times worse. Something like that poor, poor family man. I think my mom would have killed me. Yeah, yeah, I. I think what it is is whatever y'all see on camera. I've done 10 times worse, 10 times worse off camera, like I. I think I've primed them for these moments like this, like you think that they're gonna get mad at this whole spring roll video. What do you think I've got caught?
Peter Bui:doing before you know what I mean so, like when they see me making little videos like this, they're like, ah, it's so cute, like he's just doing his little TikTok thing. You know, like we've seen way worse.
Tim:They're like, ah, he's at it again.
Chad:But you still get swatted from time to time.
Peter Bui:Yeah, all the time, all the time. And my parents are also like very supportive, very supportive. That's awesome. I mean not always, but I kind of forced them to be supportive, yeah, yeah.
Javier:If you can talk about it, what's that? One thing that they, that they didn't support. Like I mean ask for a video idea, like hold on, I think, cause they're all funny, I mean they're all like, like, I mean the ones where you've been rolling, like that's what I was talking about earlier, yeah, like, and you were like hiding and like let's sit the.
Peter Bui:Let the damn, it was spring roll right well, my dad's the president of a catholic vietnamese church, right. The most love y'all, by the way, but the most judging community there is like ever like growing up in that community is just like tough. And he's like this is what you want to put out in the world, peter, like is this what you really want to be known for?
Peter Bui:and I was just like dad, like you just got to trust me, like it's it's just, it's just controversial, it's just gonna build up hype, but it's all strategic, like people are gonna forget about it. People still haven't forgot about it but trust the plan eventually it's gonna work out. And I just always tell him that when he's like yo, I'm not in the mood to film this right now, or my mom's like yo, I don't wanna do this, I'm like just trust me, like just trust me, and they ended up.
Chad:They ended up doing it yeah, and then that video ends up.
Tim:I think Michael told us on ridiculousness right on rob durdick's mtv show ridiculousness yeah, they reached out to us to uh license the video and I was like that's wild I feel like um your parents, or just your family in general, are just as much of stars as you are and that, like they, are more, way more, uh, way more and okay, uh, filming inside of a hospital too. I mean, I'm just like dude. This.
Javier:This guy has no like, it's just like man, content, content the caption was this is gonna be great at the worst times, or something like that yeah like that was. I don't know, I couldn't. I've done that before. My dad thought he had a heart attack and I was like look at this little baby, this baby thing. He's having a heart attack and he's laying down with these fucking diodes on him so I was like okay I get it.
Peter Bui:I get it okay I'm gonna be honest, I feel like I'm like the least star player out of my entire family, like, like, not even trying to be humble, but if you just sat down and had a conversation with them you realize I'm the least funny, the least talented, like the least smart, the least hard work like. These guys are stars, they just don't have a platform you know.
Tim:So what we need to do is we need to uh, get a kickstarter or something like that and start pushing like we need a reality show oh damn, I promise you, they would crush it like those looks man, those little side glasses they give you man.
Javier:I think that's some of the funniest parts of the video. Yeah, like I think it's just because it takes me back too, because, like I like, I mean, I think I feel like like uh hispanics and uh asians kind of like the way they were brought up is kind of the same, like they expect a lot from us. But like I'm growing up, I was a fool man, I was a fool right, I was doing dumb.
Tim:I can confer.
Javier:Yeah, you can confirm that I threw, I I was throwing busseys, out windows, I was doing dumb shit, but like I know that feeling and like the way, like my mom will, I'll say Hail. Satan and we're Catholic too.
Peter Bui:Why would you say that? I know, get a rise out of her.
Javier:But I would do that with my nephew. He's like he was at the time like three or four years old. I'm like Satan, ass know my mom would be like quit saying that stuff stupid. And like I, I just like live to just make her kind of like yell at me and hit me.
Peter Bui:So you know. What's so crazy, though, is if you just had the courage to post that online, you would inspire so many kids to like hey, like I want to say yeah, or I just I have the courage to mess with my mom right and like push the boundaries a little bit.
Peter Bui:So I get a lot of messages from like kids like yo, like Peter bro, like you really taught me to like mess with my parents, like they're not as scary as I thought it was, like especially all that fear that they instill in you as a kid, like they think that's what they're supposed to do, but they don't realize that when you get older, that fear kind of carries on you know fear kind of carries on. You know what I mean. So it's like, as kids get older, even a lot of my friends, like my friend bocce, he's like yo. I cussed in front of my mom the other day and she was just like she just laughed it off and it's just like I feel like little things like that, like that's, that's all I'm doing. I'm just showing the world like, hey, like y'all could mess with them, like they're. They're human, just like y'all, they ain't that bad like you are absolutely 100 correct.
Javier:Because, like, like you said, like growing up I remember, like I tell the story to my friends sometimes where I'm like my mom's yelling at me and she's turning around walking away and I'm like like fuck you, mom. But there's a mirror, she sees me do that and she just looks and turns right around. I run to the room, lock it, bro, but like now, like doing that kind of stuff with my mom, like it's cool because she will hit me, she'll slap me, but like it's all in fun, it's all in love, you know.
Javier:So I love that could you imagine if that was caught on camera, though oh my god, that would have been hilarious shit. I would go, I'd make that video now, like being a 38 38 year old man it's, it's still, it's still run from your mom. But you're right, though, man, because because the support now I have for my mom well, both my mom and my mom, mostly because she raised me and my dad both of them Shout out to my dad too. She's caring though, but yeah, yeah.
Javier:So now it's always like oh, are you hungry? What do you want? I'll bring you some corn in a cup. Are?
Tim:you all okay.
Javier:What can I do for you? But even joking around too, I'll do anything for my mom, Anything. But that fear younger me. It went away as soon as I grew up, like you're saying, man.
Peter Bui:You got to look at it like that now, but there's a lot of people where that fear just never goes away.
Tim:That yeah.
Peter Bui:That's like why you should put that out there. That's why you should tell people about it.
Tim:There is a stark difference. There is a stark difference between like white families versus like Hispanic and Asian families and stuff like that, and the dynamic with like the parents and everything, because there's a lot of stuff I could get away with, like saying to my mom that I know for a fact if he was my, you know, when we were teenagers, if he said the same thing I said to my mom, to his mom, javier wouldn't exist. That'd just be end of it what would you say?
Tim:well, I mean, it was you know, just like yelling back at you. Just that general talk back, right just racist shit he's like oh my god go mom go eat a bean burrito. Wow my mom's white. Why would I say that to her, not to your mom?
Chad:because she might like bean burritos. Why wouldn't she? What's wrong with you, tim?
Tim:what's wrong with?
Javier:anyone can like bean burritos a little bit of latin flavor I just said.
Tim:Just said just that general like talking back right, like um that quote-unquote disrespect or whatever, but I watching like my hispanic friends growing up, and if they said something like that, it was like, straight up, you were gonna get smacked right then and there, I guess.
Chad:I guess it's all kind of different because, like I feel like you mentioned, kind of prime your parents a little bit, like you do awful things and then the things that you do on video are not quite as bad. Like I was raised by my mom, who's a single mom, until I was a teenager, and so I would do some wild stuff because I didn't know, like going to the grocery store and like yell because there's no one on our aisle and I'd be like stop hitting me, mom. And then we'd come around the other aisle and everyone's looking at us and she's just like he was, he was joking and I'm just smiling like I'm a little idiot, but like you know little things like that.
Chad:To get to the point, where we can have crawfish boils with 30 people, everyone talking shit and getting crazy and she's just like normal now. But like I don't know, it is different. It is is different.
Tim:Yeah, I had to ease into the drinking around my parents. Growing up they didn't drink. It was like grew up in a really religious household didn't drink. That was a big no-no. And now my mom will have a couple glasses of wine. I'm just like yeah.
Chad:Your parents drink or do anything.
Peter Bui:My mom doesn't drink at all, but my dad that man could drink.
Javier:Yeah, for sure he enjoys himself. Oh, he enjoys himself. He's a man of leisure, that one.
Peter Bui:Actually, I seen my mom drink one time, one time, and it was frightening, all right. So basically I was drinking in front of her and usually she's like hey, control yourself, especially when I'm around, please. But that day all the boys are around. I'm like Come on, like they're all Hyping me up. They see my mom Sitting across from me and they're like Slam it back. Like, if you don't Slam it back, like you're a pussy bro. Oh, my god, I'm like, alright, whatever. So we start drinking Aggressively. My mom looks at me In my eyes, she For every shot, you take one too. Let's see how you feel about it.
Chad:That is the coolest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Peter Bui:I thought she was bluffing, bro. Like I thought she was bluffing, I take one to the head. She looks me in my eyes, takes one to the head and I was like, okay, like if she takes one more she's gonna die. Like this, this woman turns purple, like literally like my brother and my sister got the same jeans as her. They'll get so red and I'm like yo, she's like 4'10 with heels on. You know what I mean? She's a little lady. She does that two more times, oh wow, and just looks at me in the eye every time and I'm just like bro, you know what I'm done.
Chad:It was funny. That's one way to stop you. You proved your point mom, yeah, for sure I'll stop.
Tim:Our friend Chase Did the same thing with his mom. What Did that? Shot for shot With Jameson?
Chad:Yeah, but Maria can drink him Under the table. Maria's a different breed. She's better than him. In most ways, she's a good lady. That one Alright, hey yo.
Tim:To Maria, to Maria.
Chad:Hey to Maria Alright, she's a police officer, um, so, uh, even better. So the videos content starts taking off. It's organic, it's real and so that's why it works, not because you're thirst trap videos, which I guess we need to just keep scrolling and find those eventually, maybe please don't please, please, is your? Is your uh graduation commencement thing still on like twitter or somewhere out there?
Peter Bui:it should be somewhere out there the full videos on youtube.
Chad:Okay, I'm curious so okay, videos are going. What is it? What years like what? How long? 2019, 2020, okay, yeah so then, what goes on from there?
Peter Bui:um, I have this uh on the mic. Oh, I, uh, I move away to college, away from my family, for the first time, and uh, I'm in. Uh, I went to saint mary's university, a private school. Um, full ride for pre-med you know, so I thought that my life was made out for me at this point I'm like there's really nothing else that I have to do.
Peter Bui:But I really don't know what kind of triggered it, but I got the worst case of like imposter syndrome, like I do not deserve to be here. You know what I mean. Like I would get FaceTime calls from my parents and my dad, humble man, but he fried fried chicken for like from I don't know, like from 7 am to 2 am every day for the last like 20, 30 years of his life. And, um, he would face on me every day and, uh, I'd be at a private school. Man, like it, life was so great I don't know how to describe it, but life was so great. It was. I had a girlfriend. Uh, I had my own place. Uh, everything was paid for. I didn't have to work and like food like they would make my omelets in the morning, make custom pasta, like it was that type of private school. Yeah, my life was just made for me.
Peter Bui:And uh, each time I call a checkup on my parents, my dad would be like frying chicken and um, my sister, my mom, I won't get into it, but there was a lot of family issues and, um, my dad would lie to me about it. Yeah, and he would just be like, oh, everything is great, everything is great. But then my sister would tell me another story. So then I was like you know, like I really can't keep doing this, because I know my dad just wanted me to kind of like weather. The storm is like hey was like you know, like I really can't keep doing this, because I know my dad just wanted me to kind of like weather. The storm is like hey, bro, like you could be a doctor, you know what I mean like don't worry about us, just just go be a doctor and like, live your dream. But then I it just made me kind of think, like, is this really what I want for myself, or is this me living my dad's dream? Yeah, right.
Peter Bui:So then, um, at that time, uh, covid happened and then it gave me an excuse to go home. And then I was like, oh man, like god works in wondrous ways, like it gave me excuse not to drop out of school and go home at the same time. But then, uh, when I went home, um, I was able to kind of like see where I fit into my life at home and like kind of see what it is I like and what I don't like. And then I dropped out because I realized that my whole life, my dad was always trying to push me away from entrepreneurship Right, so it's like he just didn't want that life to me.
Peter Bui:For me, now, three years in, I get why he doesn't want that life. This, this shit, is hard man and there's no guarantees, and I understand 100% why you should take the safe path. If you have the talent, you have the patience to stay in school, I understand why you should stay in Like. This is not something I would wish on anybody, but yeah, I decided to pursue it. He gave like. I moved to Oklahoma for a summer to do like door-to-door sales. I was listening to a lot of podcasts. I don't know if y'all listen to other people's podcasts- oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Peter Bui:Yeah, so I was listening to Andy Frisilla, or like.
Javier:Yeah, yeah, I follow him.
Peter Bui:Any of those guys, any of those big entrepreneurs. They're always like yo, like get your sales together, get like if you can't communicate thoroughly with people, look at people in the eye, negotiate confidently, you should probably go work on that. So then I moved to oklahoma and pursued a door to door in the middle of covid.
Javier:It was it was awful dude, yeah damn imagine.
Peter Bui:Imagine the asian guy during covid knocking on doors with masks on.
Tim:Everyone's wearing masks, I'm sure you sound like a glutton for punishment.
Peter Bui:Man, man I actually do kind of seek that out yeah I wrote that on my whiteboard last week. I said uh, a man in chaos is chaos first and I realized that's like it's me, like it's the second.
Peter Bui:I feel like my life is starting to stabilize. I find some sort of way to fuck it up as soon as I'm like okay, my time is freeing up, maybe I'm starting to show up early, I'm going to the gym on time, I'm having lunch with Michael, whatever it's like. Let me fuck this up somehow. Let me say yes to a project I probably shouldn't say yes to and throw myself right back in the fire, and it's like I think I've kind of learned to accept that.
Tim:Well, what is it? Diamonds aren't formed, but under pressure, right?
Peter Bui:Right.
Tim:So I mean you got to put some pressure on yourself in order to create something great.
Chad:You have to, you have to. You also have to pick and choose. True the battle.
Tim:You can't say yes to everything, right, right, yeah.
Chad:Because you're going to be so overextended that you know you've got to choose which ones are going to actually be beneficial. But at the same time, you only learn from your mistakes, right?
Peter Bui:And I feel like I've kind of been born into a very blessed situation where it's like you know, my family wasn't by any means poor or anything like that, whereas, like a lot of people, they don't get to choose when to suffer, right, they're just gonna suffer, you know what I mean and they have to either drag themselves out of it or they're gonna be stuck in it forever. Whereas, like with me, I get, I get to be patient, I get I have my safety net and I get to pick and choose, like I right now, if I wanted to settle down, I feel like I have the means, I have the team to live a good life for the rest of my life and maybe probably not have to work anymore and just be chill.
Chad:In your 20s. That's pretty fucking good man.
Peter Bui:I mean, it wouldn't be an amazing life, but it's possible, it'd be a very humble life, but I feel like now it's like okay, if I don't choose to suffer. There's a kid out there, there's somebody else out there that's coming. He's going to take it all from under me.
Tim:Yeah, I mean there's people that go their entire life without you know they're chasing that retirement right and it's like 60, 70, sometimes even further than that, and they never really get to that point and to be able to like just yeah, be, it'll be humble, but like you're at a point now like you could coast if you wanted to and live a humble life. Dude, that that's. That's. That says a lot. That says a lot about your, about your work ethic, um, especially at 23 years old but I can also tell that that's not your character.
Chad:Is to stop or slow down. It doesn't seem like that's very much you right never, yeah, so michael mentioned that you had multiple businesses going like what all do you have other than you know?
Peter Bui:funny family videos and smoking, uh, spring rolls um well I actually haven't been making content now for the longest time. Yeah, I don't know what it was, but I remember when I first met Michael, I met him as talent and I was like yo, like I want to learn business. And he told me from the beginning he was like yo, you're either going to be talent, you're going to be on the management side, pick one. And I was like bro, like fuck you, dude, I'm not side, pick one. And I was like bro, fuck you, dude, I'm not gonna pick one. Bro, don't put your limitations on me, I'm talented. And over the last three years I've started to kind of understand why. I thought I was being smart and doing everything, but I was just kind of like soul spread thin right and I was trying to keep my content spread thin right and I was trying to keep my content up. But then I was also having my obligations as a businessman and um.
Peter Bui:I just, I was just kind of half-assing both and both weren't popping off um, but I kind of called that. Like you know, that was my chaos period, yeah and um. Now I'm trying to control it a little bit and with the right team, with the right organization structure, I can do both. So fuck you, michael Watch this Watch this. I'm going to do both.
Javier:I like seeing those videos where y'all are all together, or even you at the airport promoting the brand, or even the pictures behind the scenes. What's your next step? Where do you think you're going to jump off from this point? I mean from representing your brands, opening up businesses? What do you hope for for the future?
Peter Bui:That is a very open-ended question. I would say each brand that I've created it's kind of like a baby, kind of like a child, right. So it's like um, in the last couple years I feel like I try to like force things a certain way. It has to follow my vision, whatever, right, but it's more like I know my vision and it's going to be a part of it, but you kind of got to let the brand take off on its own.
Peter Bui:It's very hard to to say like whatever the next step is for a business, but I know that that each one like, say, for example, my social media I know what the next step I have to take is is dishing out content. I have no idea where it's gonna go. I know what I have to do for ampersand and their team. Like I don't know where they're gonna go with it, and then same with the rest of our concepts. Like I feel like each one of them have like their own, like separate teams. Like, for example, mary is a part of eclipse. This is no longer just what is. What is my next step? It's like what is our next step together? You know what I mean. Like I can't do this without my team. I can't do this without michael, I can't do this without mary. So, um, whatever it is, I just know that whatever step we're going to make is going to benefit all of us, and we're going to take it together.
Chad:I will say I'm extremely jealous of your whole crew, like all of you getting together.
Chad:Like I love being around people and I like being around like minded people. It's something that I've always like thrive when that kind of environment and I see y'all in these videos, these pictures and all of you are like obviously you're all different, right, everyone's going to be different. That's what you bring, your kind of complexities, at the table. But people to have that kind of like sit down, like I saw a video of you and like some other guys like whiteboarding some stuff in some office or something like that, I'm like that's the life I want to live. I'm much older so you know, maybe someday, but like that is so legit. Like just be able to sit down, whiteboard some shit, brainstorm, execute and then move forward and kind of like pivot along the way, but like I love that y'all have such a cool cohesive group and I'm sure it's not always that way but to be able to do the things that you want to do and really run with them, it's, it's pretty fucking awesome I mean, he already said that michael didn't want him to be talent.
Chad:He's either talent or management, so michael was just jealous of the talent he's like you got to pick one because that's what it is.
Javier:This man can straight up be a model.
Chad:I'm a talented businessman. See both.
Tim:Didn't you model a little bit though?
Peter Bui:I wouldn't count it. I wouldn't count it.
Chad:This man has an eight pack.
Tim:I believe whenever I was looking in, doing a little research on you, I saw that not only were you a football star, man has an eight pack, I believe whenever I was looking in like doing a little research on you, I saw that not only were you a football star at martin high school, but you were also. You got into modeling as well for a brief period. Right you were.
Chad:You were represented where did you find fans right? Are you on only fans too? No, no, no, so there is a there.
Tim:There is like it was weird. Um, I don't know if you're, do you Google yourself that much? No, so you pop up under this, like it's kind of like Instagram famous or TikTok famous, like birthdays, like famous influencer birthdays and stuff, and it has a short bio on there and I was hoping there was a Wikipedia page on you. Who?
Chad:puts that stuff together. If you don't even know, it's there who puts that stuff together.
Tim:I have no idea. Let me, I'm going to see if I can find it real quick.
Chad:Y'all keep talking, I will say that whenever I Googled your name because I was trying to like find I don't know the quickest way to get to your Instagram like an idiot, but like I Goog or something like that, I was like, where is this picture coming from?
Tim:Hang on, you were under famous birthdays. Did you know that? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. So I'm going to read just a little bit of about they reached out For like an interview.
Peter Bui:I just never got to.
Tim:So about you, tiktok star. Known for creating videos with friends and family, he has earned more than 1.4 million followers on his Peter Bowie with three eyes account.
Tim:He has been managed by Eclipse Management professionally, as a model, that's where I got the model aspect right there, right, ooh, and let's get hang on, let's get before his fame.
Tim:Before his fame, he launched his account in 2019. He also posted a YouTube video of the graduation speech that same year. Now, if you want some trivia, his TikToks have featured artists including Wiz Khalifa and Kanye West. He has gained over 70,000 followers on his Peter Bowie Instagram account, a popular TikTok featuring his family reacting to scary filter or to a scary filter and has earned over 7 million views. Family life his father, mother and sister appear in his social media posts You're associated with. Uh. He appeared in a reaction video by justin bieber about tiktok lip syncing uh, lip sync to the song peaches my brother was a part of that does that cover everything that okay, so that's all true well, what's?
Chad:the deal with with khalifa and kanye I think I just use their sound.
Peter Bui:Oh okay, you know I've never met these guys in my life. I probably just use their sound. Actually, Kanye's marketing team had reached out to us to use their sound or to use a song in a video. We got paid for it.
Tim:Wow, maybe that's what they're talking about Nice.
Chad:That's cool. Yeah, so essentially, you're working with them.
Peter Bui:I'm not a model.
Tim:Come on, but the fact that he ended up on famous people's birthdays, basically.
Javier:Wow, cool stuff, man. Come on, you're a handsome man.
Chad:I should have wore something nicer. What am I doing tonight? I feel like it's like I'm sorry, I'm sorry to let you down Whenever Danny was here.
Javier:I was like oh, I've got to iron my shirt. I've got to look nice and and. Tonight I'm like okay, yeah, what shoes am I going to wear? Like, what are you? You're wearing Hoka's. Are you a shoe man? You don't.
Peter Bui:Michael bought me these. Oh wait, no, no, matthew bought me these.
Tim:Are those your running shoes?
Peter Bui:Yeah, are you part of?
Tim:the Ampersand running team running club.
Peter Bui:I don't know if I would say I'm a part of the community, for sure. Yeah, yeah, but to join them as much as possible. They'd be running in the rain and stuff.
Tim:Dude, I had to run on Saturday. I had to run a little bit. Do a sprint.
Peter Bui:Yeah, I sprinted and I quickly realized.
Tim:Michael, I'm going to have to join you at some point and start running, because, my God, I was so out of breath.
Chad:They do more than a block. You know that right.
Tim:Starting small, I'll do a block, block and then we'll keep growing, okay he'll go back, have a coffee and wait for you to end hey, y'all did great good job he'll cheer you on, I'll applaud.
Peter Bui:It's actually nothing like y'all think it would be like. So they had already been doing the whole running thing for the longest time. And then he convinced me to sign up for like a half like cow town. I signed up for like a half like Cowtown or something like that Half marathon. No way, I'm like, bro, I'm going to dust you, old man, you know what. I mean no training needed, A half marathon no training needed.
Chad:Okay, cool yeah.
Peter Bui:I was coming off of a bender. Again, it's becoming a recurring thing.
Javier:That's what happens when you're young man.
Peter Bui:I'm saying you know I say I'm just a social drinker, I only work. I only drink when I work.
Chad:It's becoming a weekly thing, but when you're a social animal, that's all you end up doing.
Peter Bui:I think I've become accidentally like an alcoholic. You know, you're an alcoholic if you admit it.
Javier:But still, I'm not an alcoholic Social drinking. That's right If you're drinking by yourself before it's noon. Noon o'clock, yeah, before it's noon, before it's 12 o'clock, um, then you got a problem. Yeah, I think you just need it. Your, your brand is growing man, so you just gotta keep that thing going. This needs some feel, absolutely yeah. So where how did you meet the crew? Like, how did you meet everybody?
Peter Bui:the crew. Uh, I'm gonna be honest, these are probably like perfect two people to join me today, two of the most inspiring people in my life right now. Um, it's uh, let's start with michael. But no weird shit, no glazing, michael, keep your dick in your pants. I feel like it was destiny for us to to meet, right. So michael dropped his concept ampersand. Um, I don't know like six, seven years years ago when I was like 15 years old. So kind of same thing I'm doing now Michael used to do back then, but it was towards the end of his career.
Peter Bui:He was transitioning to an owner. He wasn't really a promoter anymore. So he was at this point where he would hire sub promoters to promote for the club, and he happened to at the time the Lambdas were like the coolest Over there at Westland, over there at UTA, okay, all right, yeah. And he would hire them to do his college Thursdays at Ampersand. Me as a high schooler, I would get a fade at their frat house every Friday. I just happened to meet one of the barbers and he would fade my hair every Friday, and every Friday I would come in for a haircut and all they would talk about is bro, last night was so crazy. We met timothy de la ghetto. All the asian girls are here, this and that, and you know I would be like what are y'all talking about?
Peter Bui:like y'all throw parties for a living yeah, bro like we make money throwing parties at this club called Ampersand. I'm like man, like I'm 15 years old. I'm like what's Ampersand? That sounds so weird, like who names a club Ampersand, you know, and they're like well, ampersand during the day is a coffee shop and at night it's a club. I'm 15 years old, that's the craziest thing that I've ever heard in my life.
Tim:Those things don't mix Right.
Peter Bui:And they were also one of the first. You know like dual concepts here or anywhere, whatever. And I was like yo, that's insane. And me and my barber would just. You know, you know how barber talks are. You know we would just always talk shit every time I come through. And we're like yo, one day we're going to open up our own dual concept, like that too. It we're going to open up our own dual concept like that too. It's going to be a barbershop in the front, you're going to run the barbershop, I'll run the club in the back, and we're going to do the same thing. And we're like okay, let's think of a name for it right. Day and night, you know, day concept. And then barber Like what about Eclipse, eclipse Barbershop.
Peter Bui:Right Day and right day and night eclipse yeah, like barb eclipse yeah, and we would just always talk shit when I was like 15 and he ended up moving to california, right, but that, that, that concept of like a day and night concept, just always stuck with me while I was in high school. I was pushed away because I was supposed to be a doctor, but if I ever were to pursue entrepreneurship, I would want a dual concept. Yeah, um, fast forward to um. Now, um, after the whole social media thing kicked off, uh I got a deal with uh to do an event. Never considered that ever, but I used to throw parties in high school, probably influenced by the lambdas and lambdas probably influenced by him you know.
Peter Bui:So, um, I got the opportunity to throw an event. Um, the first venue didn't work out and somebody connected me to with michael. Keep in mind, this, this, this. I've never even thought about eclipse for the last like six, seven years of my life, whatever. And uh, when michael kind of booked me at, uh, ampersand for the first time, um, you know, I asked him. I was just, I was just a curious kid. I was like how much money are you guys making off of this? If, like, how does this work? How does this game work? Like, how can I get into the business side? I don't want to be a tiktoker, I don't. This isn't, this isn't it for me, you know, it's like, okay, like I'll teach you. Like, think of a name, think of a name for yourself. And for some reason I was just like, maybe my subconscious something, I was like eclipse.
Peter Bui:And, um, a year later, after like a year of working with michael doing all these events, my barber moves back from california. His name's james. He comes to our event at ampersand. He started shaking me. What the hell wrong with you he's. You did it. You did it, bro. Like this is ampersand. I was was like what does that even mean he's like this is a club I told you about when you were a kid. Like this is it.
Tim:We used to work for.
Peter Bui:Michael and I was like huh, full circle, isn't that kind of weird, like a full circle moment. This dude was mentoring me before he ever met me, before I ever met him, that's.
Chad:If I recall, Michael said that he put your ass to the fire on that first time that he was with you oh such an asshole Such an asshole.
Peter Bui:Yeah, I probably hated him for like the first four months. I met him. Well, first of all he was just like me and you know, seeing that for the first time, it's really weird.
Tim:I don't like this.
Peter Bui:Yeah like this is weird. It's a reflection of everything you're about and he's all competitive. He's challenging me. I'm like I don't like that, you know. But yeah, he gave me like three days To do an event. I'm like, fuck you, watch this, you know. Yeah, you proved him wrong. Yeah, you proved him wrong, but I realized over time Like this dude actually cares about me yeah, and it freaked me, the fuck out man, like he would just keep on doing moves that wouldn't make sense to me.
Peter Bui:I was so used to like I grew up vietnamese and like how people do business, it's it's transactional. There's nothing wrong with being transactional, but I was just expecting that when somebody helped me I'd be okay. What do they want from me? Somebody offered a man like before michael, there was 10 other people like trying to take credit for what I did in my life, like I was, I was doing before all this. So they're always like, hey, I want to mentor you, but I know what you want out of me. You want to claim credit for what I do. Like, fuck you. But this dude Michael, he just kept helping me and each time I would offer him something he would turn it down. And I remember I was even telling my partners at the time like, watch out for this one.
Chad:I remember I was even telling my partners at the time like watch out for this one. He doesn't want anything.
Tim:He's a snake.
Peter Bui:There's something wrong, he's looking for the big prize. You know what I mean.
Javier:So that first time was like a leap of faith.
Peter Bui:It was just like yeah, honestly, I can't explain it. Everything just lined up at the perfect time and I even remember that night there was an, an eclipse. I was just like what? Like it's the strangest thing. I can't explain it, do you?
Javier:believe in that. Do you believe in like, like I said, it was written like I mean do you believe?
Chad:do you believe in fate? Do you think that?
Javier:things happen for a reason. Do you think that? Things were placed in front of you for like again. When you were in school, covet happened. It stopped you from having to drop out of school. Gave you the other option if you wanted to pursue it.
Peter Bui:Yeah, it just like 100%, but COVID happened to all of us.
Tim:Yeah, it depends on how you took it, though I think that you have your opportunities right, like you could either look at it as like I'm granted this opportunity to pursue what I've been thinking in the back of my mind, or you could suppress it and be like no, that's not it. I'm meant to go be a doctor or whatever. You have that decision and I believe in that kind of predestination in a sense. There's opportunities that the universe just gives you and it's up to you to actually recognize it and have that, have that mindset of like all right, there's too many factors that are pointing in this direction.
Tim:I need to go pursue this because I mean you could have gone a completely different different route right for sure and done the whole and we'd be talking, talking to dr, dr peter here instead of yeah, maybe it would have been better off, but doubt it doubt it would have been as entertaining.
Chad:I think there's a lot of people I think what you said, tim, was right on I feel like a lot of people predestined or not, like these opportunities come out and some people just don't want to see them or don't see them or just skip right over.
Tim:I don't think you're like predestined. I think like there's opportunities that are predestined for you, right, and it's up to you to like choose those. Yeah, it.
Chad:It's like a 50 50 deal, right? Like, are you going to make the decision to do what you want to do and what you feel like is going to be best for you and your future and life and family's life? Right? And it sounds like, despite COVID happening to everybody, right, you still took something that was a situation that you could only deal with and you went a whole other direction with it and it seems to be working out in your favor.
Peter Bui:I feel like that's going to trigger a lot of people. Y'all, I'm not going to lie. I feel like people don't like hearing that it didn't happen by this. Guy just has something that I didn't, my God. The point I'm trying to make is I feel like as much as everything lined up, I also have the humility to say that nothing that I did like is that special. Everything that I, every action, every step that I take, is replicable and anybody can do it right.
Peter Bui:But then at the same time I kind of have to also respect myself and respect the actions that I've taken in my life to say that people didn't make the same choices that I did. So it's like I guess that's what makes me special, but it's also I got to know that this path that I've taken, a lot of people could take it as well. So it's like don't get cocky you know what I mean.
Javier:You put could take it as well. So it's like, don't, don't get cocky. I mean you put that work in you put that work in. Yeah, that's what it is. At the end of the day, if you have that path in front of you, either you work on it you don't and you fail.
Chad:That's what it is. Yeah, but taking action is the hardest part. People talk people think people have some of the best concept and best ideas that'll never come to fruition because they're too scared to take the action or execute, and you are not, and so you're right, and that's a very humble and nice thing to say. However, bullshit, because you're actually doing it. You know what I mean. And so people, maybe some of that stuff others could do, but they're not, and so that's the whole point, right, I don't know.
Tim:So you touched on something earlier and said K-pop division Rolling way back. I want to roll way back because we actually had somebody comment earlier. Yeah, what is this K-pop division?
Peter Bui:K-pop division.
Tim:Like what's going on with that?
Peter Bui:Something I thought I would never be involved in in a thousand years. We have Mary here, lovely Mary, and she was an intern with us. We have Mary here, lovely Mary, and she, she was an intern with us. I would say she was like my first official intern that didn't have anybody stick their neck out for her, turned in a resume, like really put herself out there like not to bash on her, but this girl didn't have any friends. She was the least, the least likely prospect like to go through this and, uh, I just kind of watched this girl like grind her way from the bottom, yeah, to the top. And and keep in mind that when joining a startup, like like as much as she started from the bottom, I was the worst leader ever. Like I didn't know how to sandwich.
Peter Bui:Y'all know what sandwiching is, by the way, it's like good, bad, good oh yeah, okay, yeah I know that's where y'all's experience are coming in. I didn't know that was a thing, yeah, and I would just straight up say, and then my employees would just start crying. I was like I don't understand, I don't get it, um, but yeah, she put up with it for the last three years and then, um, one day, uh, she was like she had.
Peter Bui:she had, basically, after learning the system, she, uh, she was like yo, like I want to try something. I feel like a k-pop after party would go crazy me being the awful boss that I was k-pop after party what the hell is a k-pop after party? And she did her first one and and it did uh, I guess this is the inspiring part it did okay, it didn't do as crazy as it did and, um, I wasn't as supportive as I should have been, but she still had the courage to be like, can I try it it again? Like she made her case, she said yo, like the first time, this is what happened. This is what I can improve on. I want to try this again. Probably one of the first times she probably looked me in my eyes and was like you know, challenge me and I'm like okay go for it.
Peter Bui:Pops the fuck off. The craziest thing that I've ever seen like. Imagine like 500 people doing the same choreography like they. I don't know how to explain k-pop dude it's.
Tim:It's weird, I've got a co-worker who's who's so into k-pop and I don't know what her group is. I'm sorry, I would tell you if I did, um, but she has this one group that she follows and like so k-pop or like they. They really this one group released like a very limited number of of actual vinyl records. Yeah, but each record had like special things inside of it and then, like they have like trading cards, I mean it's all this other stuff. The k-pop groups all live together in a house, like it's like reality tv. Yeah, yeah, it is the craziest thing, but it has this. I didn't realize it had such a huge falling here in the united states, oh for sure, and I mean selling out these. You know big, you know arenas and all that stuff. And she showed me some of the core.
Chad:You know the, the choreography yeah, choreography, um, and some of the you know stuff that I'm like blown away I remember when there was some k-pop group that was performing downtown I want to say it was the convention center, it was only. It wasn't even, but like three or four or five years ago, something like that Wasn't that long ago and downtown was packed like crazy, packed with people, girls with, like you know, little outfits and things like that all over downtown. I'm like this shit is a big deal. This shit is a big deal, and I feel like the biggest correlation is Swifties and how diehard they are. You've got K-pop fans that are just like that is what they love and they are going to go all in. So I'm glad it worked out the second time, because I feel like that's a huge untapped market.
Tim:I feel like there's probably a K-pop fight club, though, where the people that love this group and the people that love this group would get together and actually battle each other she's saying yes, she's writing down your idea, like I'm telling you like you could. You could, you know, start some sort of boxing club on that for sure.
Peter Bui:That's awesome. One of the things I always think about when I uh. So at first I was, I was a hater. I'm sorry, but I was a hater. Um, but now when I kind of go to her k-pop events, I look out in the crowd and I just kind of think to myself like do you know how much work it takes to like learn this choreography, to learn each song?
Tim:Yeah.
Peter Bui:And keep in mind, nobody in the crowd is Korean, not a soul no, and they know it word by word.
Tim:Yeah.
Peter Bui:And can you just imagine them practicing this with no outlet to ever let it out? You know what I mean and then you throw an event these are kids that probably would never go to the club ever. They probably would feel like they always. They never fit in, they never have a community where they could truly be themselves, and Mary, single handedly, created that that's awesome, that's crazy.
Tim:I don't think you could do like a full on, just like a club that's dedicated to k-pop, like I don't know how well that would that would do. But doing these events sound like you said, like it just gives you that outlet, and like these pop-ups and stuff. I mean it's a it's a really cool kind of way to market something that obviously mary is passionate about and then kind of build off of that well, I think enemy frontier, whenever they were here the past two years, had an event at a.
Javier:Uh, what's that one over there? Uh, I'm sorry, dude you're doing really good cambui, the uh place you used to watch metal bands perform originally they had they had um two nights where they had a k-pop night and they would shuttle people from the convention center over to Rid the Ridgely.
Tim:Yeah.
Javier:And even at Dickie's Arena they had a couple of K-pop groups perform over there.
Chad:Yeah, they kill man, they really do, yeah, but I think that it's awesome that she's able to do that and I think it's awesome that you learned that you probably don't always know what's right, right, because learned that you probably don't always know what's right, right like, because that's a hard thing to do, especially as, like a manager or a leader that was my sister, by the way who was like k-pop, because she that's one thing she loves.
Javier:She loves k-pop and she loves korean dramas. That's her thing, she loves it nice.
Chad:I feel like you know, we've learned that a lot in this group, just between the three of us. We've been doing this for like four years now is the three of us, even though we've known each other for 20, 30 years?
Chad:we are very different if you haven't been able to tell so far the three of us have very little in common and we've had to figure out like his idea might suck, but yours is great and mine might be good next time. And like trying to figure out like what works and it's hard because you automatically want to go well, my idea is definitely better, you fool right, but like you got to figure out how to collaborate and sometimes like step back and see if they can take off with it right.
Peter Bui:I can't like. Sometimes I'm like I can't believe I'm wrong right now and then sometimes you have to just it like destroys my identity do you still lose sleep that it did so well?
Chad:you're like I can't believe she did it it is.
Peter Bui:It doesn't make sense. Why didn't I think of this? I just have to see it for yourself. Sometimes it's insane. I don't. I don't understand it one bit when you when I'm sorry.
Tim:Okay, whenever you started getting into um, like the doing the videos and all that stuff and doing the content, were you discouraged by the negative comments that you would get, or did you just like this is fuel to it and not?
Peter Bui:at all. I wish there was more yeah, kind of embrace that whole troll style, you know, and yeah, I think that's where I'm gonna have to bring it back to shout out coach sharon from martin football. But uh, I, I, I really uh respond well to like a negative feedback loop. I always tell michael because mich Michael is so supportive man, he's such a sweet guy.
Tim:I'm like Michael stop that shit, bro.
Peter Bui:Tell me how I suck I'm like bro, text me right now and tell me I'm not enough. Tell me I'm dirt, yeah. Tell me I suck. Tell me I need to work harder. He's like okay. He tells me that I'm like like that's exactly how I responded, that's just how my coaching style was. Back then, like They'd always get in my face and say oh, like you don't got this, you don't got that and it. That's just how I respond, and the hardest thing Was realizing that Other people don't respond that way.
Chad:Oh, yeah, talking shit to people.
Peter Bui:Most people do not.
Chad:Oh my god.
Peter Bui:Like Try to encourage people, that like need encouragement and actual support and not shit talk.
Javier:Oh my god bro, I love that positive affirmative, affirmative, affirmative affirmation I love that shit.
Chad:I don't like the word.
Javier:But I love that shit, like if that's why, that's why I fail, because my dad never tells me that. He never tells me like, oh, good work, son, you're doing great. He's like what the fuck where's? Where's this where's?
Chad:this going? Yeah, you do like great working for his dad.
Javier:Yeah.
Peter Bui:Oh, my parents are. I love it.
Tim:I had to learn, learn how to not like do the do the sandwiching technique. Whenever I was training people, cause I would flat out be like what were you thinking? You know, why'd you do this? And and some people respond and they're like oh yeah, I was thinking that. And other people take that as like oh my gosh, you hate me. They start crying and then you feel bad because you made someone cry.
Chad:And I'm like man. You realize that people are just different people.
Tim:Right, you got personality styles.
Chad:You know like it's hard, how they how they can be coached properly.
Tim:And you've got to kind of transform, depending on how many people you're kind of like leading or coaching, to be like different with each person. Right it's, it's a whole thing, dude, I did a whole year like we had a whole year of like teaching styles at work, like how to how to teach to certain teaching styles and like instruct people and like to personalities and stuff.
Tim:That was one of the most difficult it's hard, because I mean, and then being able to recognize, like how you flourish and how you flourish are two totally different things.
Chad:Yeah.
Tim:And then having to pivot and adjust to that.
Chad:Yeah, it's a lot of work.
Tim:Yeah, it's crazy I don't like it.
Chad:So how many businesses? So what all do you have right now Like brand names? Where could people find them on social media and all that kind of stuff? What all do you have out there?
Peter Bui:Currently I don't want to speak on too many of them because, um, I am like a silent partner.
Chad:Okay, well then you could be silent on those Give the ones that you are that you're not a silent partner.
Peter Bui:Yeah, so I'll plug in my family's Right. So, um, we have cache nail lounge, um, which is a nail salon, maybe 10 minutes from here. Um, we have peter's chicken, which is a uh chicken joint not so far from here and then um. Last one we'll shout out is eclipse group. Hell yeah, which is a? Uh, I still don't know what eclipse group is, but I know I'm very passionate about it it can ever be evolving, you know, like it doesn't have to be one thing, I think we're actually thinking about naming it that, but it's an everything company yeah
Peter Bui:and I think I'm okay with it. At first I was just like so I gotta find a niche, I gotta figure out what this is, but I think our branding is the fact that we don't care and we're okay with being in the gray area. And Eclipse produces concepts, that's all it is. We're a collective of people that produces concepts like our K-pop concept, our dance concept, our R&B concept, and we're okay with being behind the scenes. We don't really need the credit for what we do and all we want to do is build and bridge communities.
Tim:Yeah.
Peter Bui:That's all it is. I don't know how to explain what it is that we do and you don't have to.
Chad:I feel like so much of your conversation has been like things that have happened organically throughout your time. Who knows, like five years from now, you could be doing 12 different things, and it's like this thing works. I love this thing. Why don't we really focus on this thing?
Tim:You know, you never know and I'm over here just thinking about peter's chicken his head is like I need to go get chicken chicken sounds good, all right I'm down, awesome man you get me, bro, you really do.
Chad:He gets the chicken I get, I get the chicken. Yeah, you talk about food.
Tim:I'm I'm down for it. Um, before we end, I wanted to get everybody's reaction. This has actually been. I don't know if you've seen this or not, but have you heard about the Thomas Jefferson University incident?
Peter Bui:No.
Tim:So during their graduation, someone was reading names and butchered them horribly.
Chad:So I want to get everybody's reaction Because it is like graduation season.
Tim:Yeah, within the past few weeks. So I want to get people's reactions to this Are you going to play audio. I'm going to play audio. We're going to get your reaction, and here it goes. Oh, I'm going to play audio. We're going to get your reaction, and here it goes. Oh, hang on.
Javier:I messed that up. Is it a video or is?
Tim:it a. It's a TikTok, but it doesn't matter, You're just doing audio. Yeah, let me get the volume up on this While you're doing this.
Javier:I'm Googling Peter's Chicken right now. Ooh that looks good. Is it Peter's? Chicken, burger, wings and Seafood?
Peter Bui:That's the one.
Javier:It's actually.
Peter Bui:Peter's Burger Wing with no S Burger.
Javier:Wing no S and seafood.
Peter Bui:Yeah, that shit looks bomb man. Yeah, we're working on it. It'll probably be ready in like a year.
Tim:Let me refresh this real quick, all right.
Chad:Sorry about that and your dad runs that.
Peter Bui:Yeah, yeah.
Chad:Yeah, nice, very cool.
Tim:So he also doesn't hone into one thing.
Chad:He's like I want this restaurant to make all of these things.
Peter Bui:I don't know what my dad does, I agree.
Tim:But I support him.
Tim:Efuni Batista Santos, Okay so what do you think she's saying? Efuni, I I mean santos, uh was pretty clear. But efuni, that was a stephanie batista santos.
Chad:How is she butchering this so bad?
Javier:or they can't hear it.
Tim:Lin bower masuku it Jessica Lynn Bauer.
Peter Bui:Masuku, I'm about to say Nigerian descent.
Tim:That was Jessica Lynn Bauer.
Chad:How is she butchering these so bad?
Tim:Sarah Virginia.
Peter Bui:Brennan.
Tim:Sarah Virginia Brennan oh that was good.
Javier:How did you get that? What is this, sarah Virginia?
Chad:Brennan I.
Tim:Virginia Brennan. Oh, that was good. How'd you?
Javier:get that? What is this? Sarah Virginia Brennan.
Peter Bui:I think what she's doing. Have y'all ever seen like the dictionaries?
Tim:where they have like the.
Peter Bui:Yeah.
Tim:I feel like she's probably just. That's exactly what she's doing. What's going on?
Tim:Tom moved me.
Tim:This is my favorite.
Tim:Thomas Thomas.
Chad:You hear the guy in the back.
Tim:He's like it's Thomas, it's not that hard so this lady, like she, decided she didn't need the real spelling and just went with the dictionary phonetic spelling right and decided to read everybody's name. Based off of that and in fact it got to a point where they they removed her. And then someone else took over and apologized for it.
Javier:Imagine spending like $300,000.
Chad:Because this is a university On a university.
Tim:I don't know if Thomas I'm assuming Thomas Jefferson University is a private. It sounds maybe private. Either way, it's college. Right, it's college. Yes, it's college.
Javier:And like your parents are there. They had to fly out of town to watch you graduate walk the stage and you're like they're going to say my name and she just like butchers the shit out of it. I'm like what are you? Do you expect anything? Like, bro, give me money back Like I wanted to walk.
Chad:And now the meme. Did they reset and do their names over again?
Tim:No, they just like started from you know wherever they were at.
Chad:This is like a real life Key and Peele sketch.
Tim:It is A-Ron.
Chad:A-Ron.
Tim:It is 100% like we are living in that world where a sketch has become reality.
Javier:This is what funny when I saw. It's like uh, you guys read it. He's like uh, shithead.
Tim:It's like it's pronounced shithead. I just wanted to get you. I've been holding on to that one because I wanted to bring it up a couple of episodes ago and I was like man, it just never worked out and I'm like you know what. Let's get a reaction to this peter, how pissed would you be.
Javier:Your, your let's say future, your, your past has changed your doctor. You're walking the stage and she's seeing pay to or like. I'll be fucking pissed. I'd be like, oh girl I snatched the mic your parents just be like hey, fuck this, they run up on the stage. Your mom will run up there and slap the back of her head so hard my parents already struggle like with English.
Peter Bui:Man, y'all gotta do all that like no, bro, no man no, sir man well, thanks for sharing that.
Tim:Yeah, I just wanted, I just wanted to end this with something kind of funny to put in there one more thing what are you watching right now?
Javier:What am I watching? What are you watching? What are you watching?
Tim:Do you have time to watch anything?
Javier:Do you have time to watch a?
Peter Bui:show I just watched Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Oh, how was that? How was it Coolest shit I ever watched, really.
Javier:That series of movies are fucking good man.
Chad:Have you watched the previous ones?
Javier:Oh wait, I saw of y'all doing the ape walk.
Peter Bui:Is that what that was? Is that what that was? Yeah, that's exactly what that was. But I just kind of viewed it as a metaphor and it made me like it kind of rewired my brain on religion. But that's a story for another time, wow. But yeah, y'all have been. Y'all's chemistry has been great. Like I kind of been sitting back watching. You guys have been great facilitators for conversation.
Javier:I appreciate that, like this guy is the dad, that kind of brings everybody back in.
Peter Bui:You never know what this guy is gonna say.
Tim:Hell, that's exactly what I am, yeah, and you could count on this guy to uh get us away from.
Chad:He's very business savvy away from the bullshit.
Javier:Yeah, of course he's an educated man he has the master's degree and no, I do not Working on it.
Chad:Peter, thank you so much for coming on.
Tim:This has been so much fun.
Chad:Really appreciate you Again. If you want to plug anything, shout anything else out. This would be the time.
Tim:Actually, where can people?
Peter Bui:find you, peter Bui, p-e-t-r-b-u -I.
Chad:You can Google him. You can find all sorts of crazy stuff out there for them. Please don't.
Peter Bui:Please, guys, I'm a better person now. Leave me alone, thank you.
Chad:Well, thanks for coming on. I appreciate you. Thank you all for hanging out with us on YouTube in the first 30.
Peter Bui:Hold on hold, on hold on the outro guys. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Javier:You're going to be in it last one, okay.
Tim:And I'm Peter.
Chad:And then what.
Peter Bui:And we are the.
Javier:Funky Panther Now you may continue.
Chad:Thank you for the permission, peter. Thank you all for hanging out with us. We appreciate you. If you don't want to do so, please make sure you follow the Funky Panther at the Funky Panther on all things social media and TheFunkyPanthercom. You can also call text. Leave us a voicemail. 8. Leave us a voicemail 817-677-0408. 817-677-0408. Now ready for the outro. Stay good, everybody. I'm Chad. I'm Javier. I'm Tim.
Peter Bui:I'm Peter and we are the Funky Panther.
Tim:Woo.
Peter Bui:Nailed it, that's what America's about y'all.
Tim:That's right baby. That's right baby, and keep on rockin' the state. Shout out to the Listers the Funky Pampers team.
