Ep.15 - Yo Samo's Samson Folau and Harris Mata'afa - Friends, Youtube stars, Mormons

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

One year ago, Harris Mata'afa and Samson Folau started the YouTube channel Yo Samo. They blend LDS culture, Polynesian culture and brilliant scenarios in to hilarious and entertaining videos. On this week's episode, we discuss family, Polynesian culture, how they started Yo Samo, applying their video skills to marketing and how being members of the church affects it all. It is a warm, fun, funny conversation you are sure to love!

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:07.8	Day Saints. Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and
0:12.8	guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:20.8	Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode of Latter Day Lives.
0:24.5	This is episode 15.
0:26.4	I am your host, Sean Rippier, and we have got a tremendous show for you.
0:31.0	Samson and Harris started a YouTube channel about a year ago called Yo Sammo, and it has
0:36.8	become a real sensation. Just hilarious.
0:40.8	I have been a fan for quite some time and there's just so, so funny. Special thanks to my
0:47.4	friend Brian Emery, who's been in some of their videos. He is a friend of theirs and a friend of
0:51.9	mine and connected us together. Thank you, Brian.
0:54.5	We appreciate that.
0:55.9	I'll tell you, we put this meeting together very quickly within a day of reaching out to them.
1:01.5	They were coming over.
1:02.7	But because of travel schedules and work schedules, the only time we could do it was five o'clock in the morning.
1:08.7	So at the beginning, considering, I often get up early,
1:12.8	but I had gone to bed at one the night before. I think I had three or three and a half hours of
1:17.8	sleep. So please forgive me for how sleepy I am at the beginning of the interview, including
1:22.3	asking Samson a question and then apparently just not listening to it at all. You'll hear it all in the interview.
1:28.7	Samson and Harris are two of the best guys I have ever met. I love these guys. They are everything I
1:35.2	love about awesome members of the church and we just have a fantastic conversation. You're
1:40.8	going to love them as much as I do. And then in the My Latter Day Life section,
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