Speaker 1: You have these people that have dedicated their lives, you know,
Speaker 1: really made true sacrifices. I feel like I'm living the dream, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it just so happens that what I'm doing
Speaker 1: is also a beautiful, poetic thing. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's there are a lot of people that have turned
Speaker 1: down amazing opportunities and sacrificed a lot because their passion
Speaker 1: is that strong to to protect the island, to protect
Speaker 1: their their history, of the culture, of their way of life.
Speaker 1: So I really really do respect that. Uh there's a
Speaker 1: great quote from a rapper, Uh, that's the purpose of
Speaker 1: life is a life with the purpose. So I'd rather
Speaker 1: die for a cause than of the life that is worthless.
Speaker 1: So it kind of brings that to my mind. Definitely
Speaker 1: is very very inspiring for sure. Here give the time.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the fire Pit with Matt Chanella. Alright, we're
Speaker 1: back after a festive and compelling Masters week. Thanks to
Speaker 1: all who listened to the series of fire drills, which
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Speaker 1: even close. All right, back to Kawaiti today, I'm joined
Speaker 1: by Colton Nedler, a producer, shooter and editor here at
Speaker 1: fire Pit Collective, as well as Patrick kanig Are Drone Ninja,
Speaker 1: still photographer and producer of our fire Pit festivals. We
Speaker 1: have a bunch of guests throughout today's show, all of
Speaker 1: whom who start in our Kawaii show they've watched the
Speaker 1: episode and they're here to provide feedback, insight, and additional
Speaker 1: perspective on how and why Kawaii is so special. We
Speaker 1: start with Derek Kawakami, mayor of Kawaii since and who
Speaker 1: has a special place for the Wailua Municipal Golf Course,
Speaker 1: which is widely considered one of the best value plays
Speaker 1: in the country. Guys, fun to be doing something a
Speaker 1: little different this uh, this episode of the fire Pit.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with me, Colt and Patrick. Thank you, Matt,
Speaker 1: very much appreciated and happy to recap the whole trip
Speaker 1: of you boys and other guests. Yeah, it's a pleasure
Speaker 1: to be here and relive the magic of Hawaii. Transport
Speaker 1: back to a beautiful week in our lives. Guys were
Speaker 1: awaiting Mayor Kawakami. The way it's gonna work is we're
Speaker 1: on and we've scheduled out these variety of interviews happening
Speaker 1: kind of every fifteen and twenty minutes, so people will
Speaker 1: be popping on, popping off. Uh, we will sounding off,
Speaker 1: I guess before they pop off or pop off. The
Speaker 1: call um be a variety of things happening. But I'm
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. You know, we've we've we've we dropped
Speaker 1: the quiet episode of Journeys. It's can be seen again.
Speaker 1: Like I said at fire Pick Collective dot com, We've
Speaker 1: done a bunch of social teases. There's much more to
Speaker 1: come out of this episode, inc including some more digital shorts.
Speaker 1: But each one of these journeys is starting to sort
Speaker 1: of look and feel very more, much more episodic each time.
Speaker 1: And and we're sitting on St. Andrews is also in
Speaker 1: the pipeline, which is gonna be very exciting as we
Speaker 1: lead into the hundred and fiftieth playing of the Open Championship.
Speaker 1: But this is this is gonna be a little different.
Speaker 1: But I'm also excited about the kind of the new
Speaker 1: format again absolutely, And uh, you know, having these kind
Speaker 1: of wrap up recap podcasts to relive the trips. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's so incredible to kind of go over the lessons
Speaker 1: that we learned and lived at that time. Um, but
Speaker 1: also to sort of you know, compare across across Journeys
Speaker 1: the different lessons that we've learned all over the globe,
Speaker 1: and it's it always seems to be a different lesson
Speaker 1: from each little place. Yeah, even as this was my
Speaker 1: first journey uh with Matt um and it was I
Speaker 1: mean it was December and it feels like a lifetime ago.
Speaker 1: You know. I've been uh fortunate to go on a
Speaker 1: number of these sins then, and each one is like
Speaker 1: a little bit a little bit different, little bit better.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like I'm watching myself grow up, uh
Speaker 1: pretty quickly, and it's uh it's cool to be like,
Speaker 1: you know, the donmost guy in the room. You know,
Speaker 1: like some of the stuff I say that, you know,
Speaker 1: because you guys are all you're talking to me experts
Speaker 1: at what you do, and so it's fun to to
Speaker 1: pick some some tidbits and uh oh yeah, I would
Speaker 1: have handled that differently now, or I could do this,
Speaker 1: or like, hey man, I did a good job at
Speaker 1: that little piece. So um fun fun. Well, here we
Speaker 1: go on that note, Patrick, here comes Mayor Derek Kawakami. Mr.
Speaker 1: My friends, I gotta tell you, um, right out the gate,
Speaker 1: before you guys say anything, I want to say thank
Speaker 1: you because um, you know, there's a number of TV
Speaker 1: shows that have highlighted kite and um, I would say
Speaker 1: this above and beyond paid the ultimates. It's not even
Speaker 1: a golf sure, I would say, right, and this is
Speaker 1: coming from a guy that's a non golfer. If I
Speaker 1: thought this, if this is like the Golf Channel or
Speaker 1: anywhere else, I would have watched this and thought, this
Speaker 1: is just about us, about our way of life, about
Speaker 1: what's important highlighting I mean important people, Uncle art Uncle incident.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to say thank you you did
Speaker 1: as well that that means so much to to us.
Speaker 1: You have no idea, you know. We we pride ourselves
Speaker 1: on on our style and our format, and in a
Speaker 1: lot goes into this obviously you know better than anybody, right,
Speaker 1: It takes a team of people do anything, uh, you
Speaker 1: know worth note. But the production, the producers, the you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people went into making sure that
Speaker 1: the people we spoke to, where we went and who
Speaker 1: was articulating this this story. Uh, that always matters to us,
Speaker 1: and it obviously mattered mattered to the people of Kawaii.
Speaker 1: Each person let us into somebody else who they felt
Speaker 1: would be a great you know, uh voice to have
Speaker 1: in here. But you know the other thing is is
Speaker 1: you guys are doing the work. It's you, it's it's
Speaker 1: the people you know, and and we've you know, in
Speaker 1: talking to each person. I think each into person has
Speaker 1: taken taking responsibility to on themselves to try to make
Speaker 1: a difference. And in total, if you connect those dots
Speaker 1: Kawaii to me, we left there going if if if
Speaker 1: Mother Earth, If everybody who lived on this planet had
Speaker 1: this same kind of focus and sensibilities and commitment to
Speaker 1: a selfless kind of great or good like it seems
Speaker 1: people have on quite where would we be as as
Speaker 1: as a as as a globe. Absolutely? And I think
Speaker 1: you know, I mean in a sense when things are
Speaker 1: not right right, I mean they use the word porno,
Speaker 1: which is what is right. And um, you know, when
Speaker 1: people come into the community and they're not syncd in
Speaker 1: so to say, they really stand out really quickly, right,
Speaker 1: And then there's two paths that can either hey, I
Speaker 1: gotta get acclimated and be a part of this, or
Speaker 1: I'm always going to be kind of like sticking out
Speaker 1: like a sore thumb. And I think in a sense
Speaker 1: it's because of what you just described, and um love it.
Speaker 1: My whole office is just so happy with the entire
Speaker 1: entire production from just how you were able to really
Speaker 1: take the focus on our culture, what's important to us
Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you. I mean, you know, there's
Speaker 1: so many people on Koye that haven't experienced the sport
Speaker 1: of golf, and I hope they do, just if they're
Speaker 1: like just a person like me that goes out and
Speaker 1: you know, got to pick up my ball and keep
Speaker 1: up with everybody. But just it's a part of our
Speaker 1: island that I think everybody should be able to see.
Speaker 1: And when you highlighted ho Kuala and how they talked
Speaker 1: about how they converted part of their golf course into
Speaker 1: a farm and walking path, you know that golf course
Speaker 1: again is really near and dear to our hearts because
Speaker 1: that's where my dad hosted the Richard they called Comy
Speaker 1: Memorial Golf Tournament, one of the biggest tournaments in the
Speaker 1: state UM to raise money for organizations like Hospice UM
Speaker 1: you know, for youth sports and activities, junior golf that
Speaker 1: their program and UM. When Whole Koala decided to pivot
Speaker 1: from having to eighteen whole golf courses, what they did
Speaker 1: was they opened up these areas for the general public,
Speaker 1: so if you're not a golfer, you can go and
Speaker 1: enjoy those trails and in essence be on a part
Speaker 1: of the island that you know, previously only golfers new.
Speaker 1: So it's really cool how that came together. We felt
Speaker 1: we we've left their feelings so much smarter about about
Speaker 1: what's possible, so much hope, you know, about what's possible
Speaker 1: because you know that sustainability issue and being you know,
Speaker 1: we all have kids. We we we we want you know,
Speaker 1: we want grandkids with their generations are coming. And if
Speaker 1: we don't pay attention to what's happening to Mother Earth,
Speaker 1: we're there's not going to be a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot more generations that get to enjoy
Speaker 1: all the all the fruit of of what's happening around us.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I just you know, you're obviously
Speaker 1: doing a lot of things right. Your leadership and a
Speaker 1: lot of the leadership that's happening in that community on
Speaker 1: that island is something that I think we can learn from.
Speaker 1: And uh and thank you for your preservation and focus
Speaker 1: on Wailua. As your father said, take care of this
Speaker 1: golf course. And that was a really touching That was
Speaker 1: a really touching moment um in in a very you know,
Speaker 1: sort of a touching a show. Really no, and that's
Speaker 1: I think you know, I mean as a son and
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I think, um, what we strive
Speaker 1: to do is keep our promise to our parents, right,
Speaker 1: especially when they're not around, is like, um, that's when
Speaker 1: it becomes most important. But like I think art Fujita
Speaker 1: and Winston Agatha, and both of them are my dad's buddies. Right.
Speaker 1: You look at those guys there, I mean, those guys
Speaker 1: are their seasoned, right, but you look at you can
Speaker 1: tell how strong they are, right that mono, that power
Speaker 1: that they still have, and when they get to say,
Speaker 1: you know, they're playing like twenty seven bucks a month.
Speaker 1: You know, for our senior citizens, I think it's indicative
Speaker 1: of what we prioritize. And you know, when you've got
Speaker 1: junior golfers that can play around for a dollar, Um,
Speaker 1: it reflects to the rest of the world where our
Speaker 1: priorities are. It's with our kupuna, right, our elders, and
Speaker 1: with our kiki, with both the future and those that
Speaker 1: came before us that made a brighter future for guys
Speaker 1: like me. Col you grew up in Honolulu. What are
Speaker 1: your what are your thoughts and comments from Mr Mayor? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, Mr Mayor, thank you. We took our
Speaker 1: cat to you. I really appreciate your time now and
Speaker 1: also during our trip in coming by Waylua and sharing
Speaker 1: that time with us was really special and it was
Speaker 1: a beautiful message to share. UM. Because my question is,
Speaker 1: you know, these lessons like live Pono Malama dina and
Speaker 1: at the forefront of a lot of people's minds uh
Speaker 1: in Hawaii, all across Hawaii, but especially Kawaiti. UM, what
Speaker 1: do you think that is? It's some in the water.
Speaker 1: I think culturally, you know, um, and it all starts
Speaker 1: with you know the kanaka, right, kannaka moui, the people,
Speaker 1: the original people and how they were very much a
Speaker 1: part of Earth, a part of the ana, of a
Speaker 1: part of the ocean, and um, you know, in a sense,
Speaker 1: Native culture is always pay respect to what what sustains us.
Speaker 1: You know, if we didn't have a healthy earth and
Speaker 1: a healthy ocean, we wouldn't be able to survive. So
Speaker 1: I think we pay the ultimate respect to coexisting and
Speaker 1: understanding that we are just a part, just a part
Speaker 1: of the puzzle which we would call our entire ecosystem.
Speaker 1: And if anything is thrown off kilter, it has a
Speaker 1: resounding impact. UM. That has unintended consequences, So we always
Speaker 1: strive to to strike that balance right and I think
Speaker 1: that's where the tug of war is. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's amazing because you know, I watched that show and
Speaker 1: heard the perspectives of other people and um, you know,
Speaker 1: just to tie it back to golf and to all
Speaker 1: the listeners and watchers, I am by far never going
Speaker 1: to be considered a golfer, but I like the game
Speaker 1: and the sword of golf because of what it represents
Speaker 1: when you think about it a golfer, it's a sport
Speaker 1: that boils down to integrity, right, self governance. You count
Speaker 1: your own you count your own score, and if somebody
Speaker 1: has a divid they go back to to go and
Speaker 1: repair it for the next person. Right And and in
Speaker 1: a sense, um, I think that's why, Uh, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of parallels between the lifestyle in Hawaii and ENCOI
Speaker 1: and this sport and a lot of them um co
Speaker 1: exists together beautiful analogy their self governance. Amen, Mr Mary,
Speaker 1: I know you're busy, We're not we're gonna, we're gonna
Speaker 1: let you go. But before we let you go, you know,
Speaker 1: did it give you hope and did you learn some
Speaker 1: things about your island by by listening in on on
Speaker 1: you know, people like farmer Samuel and kay Lee E
Speaker 1: and and and uh you know Uncle Arthur of the
Speaker 1: canoe club and all the different things that are happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just incredible, Uh, the amount of different
Speaker 1: person you know, Mary B. Porter King and the efforts
Speaker 1: for junior goal. I mean, what was your takeaway and
Speaker 1: from from just the overall of and as it relates
Speaker 1: to the individuals, well, it's apparent from each and every
Speaker 1: person that we're very much tied to this place, right,
Speaker 1: I mean to hear about the history of you know,
Speaker 1: the Prince Golf Course and you know what used to
Speaker 1: be there before, you know, cattle right, the paniolas, the
Speaker 1: ranching and um, it's very apparent that our people are
Speaker 1: very much tied to our history. That where we are
Speaker 1: today and where we're going, um is very just as much,
Speaker 1: if not more important, where where we've come from, what
Speaker 1: are the origins of all of this and um it's
Speaker 1: a reminder for people like me who you know, in
Speaker 1: the scope of the job that I do as a mayor,
Speaker 1: I would be on the younger end of the spectrum
Speaker 1: and as much as we are noted for being ambitious,
Speaker 1: forward thinking, like let's move and march forward, that I
Speaker 1: have to in order for me to effectively lead this
Speaker 1: beautiful island and our people, I have to make sure
Speaker 1: that I have my feet firmly grounded and where we've
Speaker 1: come from, and to make sure that we're paying respect
Speaker 1: to to all those that came before us, that what
Speaker 1: the land was and the story of the land um
Speaker 1: is perpetuated to the next generation so that we can
Speaker 1: appreciate it. You know, if we're out there and just
Speaker 1: thinking that this is just a golf course, so be it.
Speaker 1: But it's very apparent is that there there's a story
Speaker 1: behind everything. And in tying to the golf courses that
Speaker 1: you know, we we have to make sure that we're
Speaker 1: mindful that we are um. We are on sacred land.
Speaker 1: No matter where you step on Koali, there's a story,
Speaker 1: there's a history, and it's sacred. One of the biggest
Speaker 1: messages that we try to convey to our show is,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're a visitor to Hawaii or Kuwaiti,
Speaker 1: you want to have guest mentality. But one of the
Speaker 1: most surprising things that we found was that the locals
Speaker 1: of Kaiti also have guest mentality right much so we
Speaker 1: are all just just here and and we uh you know,
Speaker 1: we all pay our respects. Thank you, respect much respect
Speaker 1: to you and uh and to your island and to
Speaker 1: all the people and uh and uh you know, we're honored.
Speaker 1: Like I said in the story, we're honored to to
Speaker 1: share these stories and for all the access and support
Speaker 1: we received throughout the process. Uh. I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you and thank you folks enough. I
Speaker 1: will end with this. You folks are um always welcome back.
Speaker 1: I tell you, um not not everybody is like just
Speaker 1: warmly embraced why they come back again. But I will
Speaker 1: tell you I probably speak for many people, but what
Speaker 1: you were able to do and the respect that you
Speaker 1: paid to our island and our beautiful people is profound.
Speaker 1: And you, you folks are always welcome back with open arms. Mohanna,
Speaker 1: we're in the Ohana, okay. Uh, thank you very much, Aloha,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's easy to lose faith and politicians these days,
Speaker 1: there's just not a lot of there's just not a
Speaker 1: lot of good. You know. I don't care if you're
Speaker 1: on the right or the left. I think it's safe
Speaker 1: to say that there's a lot of disappointment going on
Speaker 1: in the world of politics. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: of Steve Leary and winter Park, who helped Zone to
Speaker 1: navigate the redo of the winter Park nine And I
Speaker 1: always thought, man, that's that's real leader. Like what he
Speaker 1: did and how he did that was real leadershipship. And
Speaker 1: then you take the mayor of Kawaii. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: this island that is so sacred and special in so
Speaker 1: many ways, and you know, there's ten thousand I was
Speaker 1: reading seventy three thousand people on Kauaiti. The the population
Speaker 1: is almost doubled since the eighties. There's ten thousand sort
Speaker 1: of Native Hawaiians who live on Kawaii. And that that
Speaker 1: balance that he's talking about about how you make it
Speaker 1: affordable and livable for the locals and and but you
Speaker 1: also allow for you know, sort of free commerce and capitalism.
Speaker 1: And but you know, you can't just let it just
Speaker 1: run them up. Otherwise you're gonna end up, you know,
Speaker 1: overdoing it and and and ruining resources and essentially, you know,
Speaker 1: ruining the island. So I can't imagine I can't imagine
Speaker 1: the level of complexities that he has to navigate in
Speaker 1: trying to appease sort of growth but also uh protection
Speaker 1: of the past, and yet he distills it down so
Speaker 1: so neatly, his beautiful analogy between golf and community, the
Speaker 1: idea of self of governance and how that is you know,
Speaker 1: you can live that through the sport of golf, and
Speaker 1: that's how you should live your life with your community,
Speaker 1: uh and the part of the world that you live in.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was that was transcendent. Yeah, that was that.
Speaker 1: That was cool. I mean I'm trying to think maybe
Speaker 1: that that might be the best moment uh that I've
Speaker 1: had it here at fire Pit, and there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of our good moments at fire Pit, but when
Speaker 1: he came on, and you know, there's something about that
Speaker 1: moment right there that I was like, this is it
Speaker 1: getting get knowmedge from from the man for a job
Speaker 1: well done with felt as good as anything. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm giving I'm giving it the award the coolest moment
Speaker 1: right there. Well, it's not stopping there. We have a
Speaker 1: whole list of guests lined up. We've got Mary B.
Speaker 1: Porter King coming on, We've got Huilani and and Kelly
Speaker 1: from who O Kuala. We've got kay lee E. We've
Speaker 1: got farmer Samuel lined up. We've got uh jeez Zeke
Speaker 1: from Point Poo Bay. We got We're not this is
Speaker 1: no look and here we got we got Mary Be
Speaker 1: lined up in the waiting room. Good morning, can you
Speaker 1: hear me? We can? Good morning. It's not a miracle.
Speaker 1: I would have said, I would have said, you know,
Speaker 1: Mary Be, two years ago, I would have said it's
Speaker 1: a miracle. But now, given all that we've learned from
Speaker 1: COVID and the technological advancements we've made through COVID, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's not actually much of a miracle at
Speaker 1: this point. That's true. Well, I know, so I guess
Speaker 1: that might be one of the positives of COVID for
Speaker 1: you many But yeah, and as it relates to golf,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of positives because people sort of
Speaker 1: you know, uh, reimagined their love affair with the game. Um.
Speaker 1: But just speaking about reimagining love affairs, my gosh, Mary,
Speaker 1: you know, Mary Be, we we we loved spending time
Speaker 1: with you on Kawaii. So that was fun. Well, you
Speaker 1: did a spectacular piece on high lighting our beautiful island.
Speaker 1: There's always that part of me in which it was
Speaker 1: spoken in the spoken during the broadcast as well about
Speaker 1: we want you to see it and love it, but
Speaker 1: we want to make sure you take care of it
Speaker 1: at the same time. And it's it's always that a
Speaker 1: little bit that fear of UM we don't want we
Speaker 1: want to make sure we keep it. We keep it,
Speaker 1: Christine so so so do you think you know, just
Speaker 1: having seen it, do you think we we were able
Speaker 1: to communicate those types that that type of messaging that
Speaker 1: it seems to me and every person we talked to
Speaker 1: that was reiterated. You know what we were getting from
Speaker 1: you and so many others was this real concerted effort
Speaker 1: to preserve the not only the culture, but the future
Speaker 1: of of of an island so special, as special as
Speaker 1: quite he is. Really no, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: you did the best. Really. I think you really let
Speaker 1: people know that, yes, this is spectacular, and but make
Speaker 1: sure let's keep it that way for future generations. But
Speaker 1: I thought your piece on every piece of your UM
Speaker 1: I don't know which column anymore, we'll call the show.
Speaker 1: We'll call it a show sure is good. Really, it
Speaker 1: really highlighted that and the people that you spoke with
Speaker 1: had that passion and I thought you did a great job.
Speaker 1: I hope the county was thrilled with it. I know
Speaker 1: Supanovo reached out to me, but I think I'm sure
Speaker 1: the county was thrilled. Sue has been given us great feedback,
Speaker 1: and she's getting a lot of great feedback, which obviously
Speaker 1: means a lot to us. You know that there's nothing
Speaker 1: you know, there's nothing worse than feeling like you've nailed
Speaker 1: a story and then you hear back like, oh, you
Speaker 1: totally missed it. And we we pride ourselves on not
Speaker 1: missing it. What what is the nature of the story
Speaker 1: but a lot the production credit goes to alex U,
Speaker 1: Peggy and Colton Adler, who could obviously on and who
Speaker 1: you know who really pride themselves on on getting us
Speaker 1: in the right spots to meet the right kind of
Speaker 1: people so that we don't miss it. The story being
Speaker 1: what it is now and it is key to have
Speaker 1: that local person involved. Um, I think that's the biggest key.
Speaker 1: And you didn't miss it. I think you hit it
Speaker 1: spot on. Col What do you got from Mary b Well?
Speaker 1: I mean, as always, thank you, Big mahallows to marry
Speaker 1: v for for her hospitality, and being a part of
Speaker 1: this project and serving as consultant early consultant as well
Speaker 1: for us obviously as somebody who grew up in the islands. Uh,
Speaker 1: this this project was close to my heart. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess just knowing knowing sort of the
Speaker 1: local culture and in the quite easy local culture is
Speaker 1: different even somebody growing up what is it you know,
Speaker 1: forty miles away or something like that, or all of
Speaker 1: a hundred of across a hundred miles away you twenty
Speaker 1: minute flight. Um, it is very removed, right. I mean
Speaker 1: I grew up in a big city, you know, on
Speaker 1: Owahu and to somebody from Quaite if if I go
Speaker 1: to Quaiet, Hey, how's it like for me? Especially now
Speaker 1: living on the mainland. You know, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: quite even quiet at home for me, right, but but
Speaker 1: it's still you know, each island is its own culture.
Speaker 1: It's still a little separated. Um. And to be able
Speaker 1: to you know, I've never spent you know, that amount
Speaker 1: of time on quiet and really got to dig in
Speaker 1: and learn about it and meet the people and talk
Speaker 1: about the culture. Um. So it was a even a
Speaker 1: learning experience for me. Um. And uh yeah, just just
Speaker 1: more appreciative of it. And I think I guess what
Speaker 1: what really left an impression on me was, you know,
Speaker 1: guess mentality is very important, right, especially for the visitors
Speaker 1: that come to the island. But I think the surprising
Speaker 1: part was that even the locals on quite have guest mentality, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're correct. It's um, we're very so unique here. I
Speaker 1: think we're very different. And like you said, every island
Speaker 1: is different, um, and in a beautiful way. They're all different,
Speaker 1: and it's just how they've all evolved. The big island,
Speaker 1: because it's so big, is a little more separated, and
Speaker 1: we're you know, we're the smallest of the four major islands,
Speaker 1: so and so we're a little more of a community
Speaker 1: here and people know more people here where you grew
Speaker 1: up on o Wah who you're we We go there
Speaker 1: and and it's like a big city. It's like going
Speaker 1: into Los Angeles or something for us. But um, but
Speaker 1: then you get out of the big city and you
Speaker 1: see how beautiful Oa who is and and what it
Speaker 1: has to offer it really is. It's amazing. Just gonna
Speaker 1: add one thing, Quaie being the you know, one of
Speaker 1: the smallest communities, but also the oldest, which is important
Speaker 1: and I think um was it Kaylee that was really
Speaker 1: driving that point home during the show, you know, just
Speaker 1: the importance of being the oldest kind of the you know,
Speaker 1: older brother, older sibling of the other islands and just
Speaker 1: sort of the responsibility that comes with that. We we
Speaker 1: were we are the oldest and the most historical as
Speaker 1: far as UM Western civilizations concerned, since Captain Cook landed
Speaker 1: here first. Um and uh we were discovered first. But
Speaker 1: and we're the oldest. And that's why our island just
Speaker 1: the earth the way it looks, and they h where
Speaker 1: it looks so different than the other islands. And we're
Speaker 1: formed by one volcano where Maui's too, and so that's
Speaker 1: why they're all so different. H. You know. On on
Speaker 1: with us is Patrick Kaneig who you know speak of
Speaker 1: views um at pool. Ok. You might not have seen
Speaker 1: much of Patrick because he had crashed his drone at
Speaker 1: Poor k That's just why we don't have any drone
Speaker 1: footage of poor Care that that particular day. But um,
Speaker 1: Patrick would would you know any thoughts or questions for
Speaker 1: Mary b as you know now that you finally have
Speaker 1: a chance to really get to spend time with her
Speaker 1: because instead of chasing your your drone into a tree, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we we didn't land a tree at landed in
Speaker 1: somebody's backyard and it's safe. We gotta There's a couple
Speaker 1: to be watched the episode. There's a couple of quick
Speaker 1: clips that were able to so it wasn't it wasn't
Speaker 1: all for not, but uh, the great bummer about that
Speaker 1: was that, you know, flying the drones kind of takes
Speaker 1: you away from the action. And so when you when
Speaker 1: we're walking with somebody like Mary, b uh, do you
Speaker 1: want to get in there and just kind of hear
Speaker 1: what she has to say, kind of experience it. He
Speaker 1: actually plays the game. I mean, uh, it's like it's
Speaker 1: a it's a legend that you just kind of want
Speaker 1: to get closer to. So, uh that that was the
Speaker 1: great bummer about uh losing that drone and I had
Speaker 1: to leave the property actually for a quick uh like
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and you guys and I like zoomed out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I won't save the details of the technical
Speaker 1: snaf foods of that whole thing, but but I was
Speaker 1: pretty nervous for quite some time. I'm happy to return
Speaker 1: it and recover a little bit of footage, um from
Speaker 1: that from an unfortunate flight, is there I find my
Speaker 1: drone app Is that how you found it? I knew
Speaker 1: I had to land in it was kind of like
Speaker 1: a backyard area, so I didn't want to infend somebody
Speaker 1: too too much, but I had to had to go down,
Speaker 1: So I had an idea just from where I saw
Speaker 1: it and where I tried to put it down, so
Speaker 1: I knew where I was going. But um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: arrived and it was it was upside down for some reason,
Speaker 1: but it was safe. It was safe. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: The footage that you did capture throughout the whole show
Speaker 1: was absolutely spectacular. I mean, if people weren't attracted to
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about us, they're going to be
Speaker 1: blown away by seeing the footage that you captured just
Speaker 1: on every coast line that was really beautiful. Well it's
Speaker 1: a it's a treat because I mean I've flown a
Speaker 1: drone over every state in the United States and a
Speaker 1: lot across the world, and uh, I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's a better place to capture imagery um than in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: I mean, people I think they know. But the idea
Speaker 1: is to showcase maybe some of the things uh that
Speaker 1: we we didn't know or we couldn't see by this,
Speaker 1: and you know, me being the first time we're on
Speaker 1: the on the journeys with with Matt in the team,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because I've been to Quiet before and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like the first time you really don't know
Speaker 1: what you're doing and you get a lot of this
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's tourists sort of destinations, but
Speaker 1: it's tough to dig in uh and and and get
Speaker 1: to note the people. So that was probably the coolest part,
Speaker 1: aside from just capturing the imagery. Then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is this is I get it now, Like I'm
Speaker 1: you know, I had conversations with local people. We more
Speaker 1: than just surfer level, and we dug in and then
Speaker 1: you start to understand what that guest mentality is all
Speaker 1: about and the appreciation for the land uh and the
Speaker 1: you know, the conservation, all the things that are going
Speaker 1: on there. And it's much more powerful when you when
Speaker 1: you dig in below the Hey we're in Hawaii. There's beaches.
Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable, sort of like whirlwind. I think most
Speaker 1: tourists and visitors to Hawaii experience. We certainly don't have
Speaker 1: all the attractions that in a wah who has, you know,
Speaker 1: we we we attract a totally different type of visitor here,
Speaker 1: which is great because they really the people who who
Speaker 1: come here um end up you know, their outdoors people.
Speaker 1: They're hiking there in the water, there doing outdoor activities,
Speaker 1: and uh, that's the beauty of Kauai. It's uh and
Speaker 1: I don't know that. The North Shore, especially to me,
Speaker 1: is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Um.
Speaker 1: And uh, they make a little of rain, then everyone
Speaker 1: always thinks of us is getting rain. And I was
Speaker 1: disappointed that that one piece at Poipu Bay and we're
Speaker 1: on the South shore at rain because everyone thinks we
Speaker 1: rain all the time and we don't. We don't all
Speaker 1: the time. But um, it's just uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just one of the most beautiful places in the world
Speaker 1: in my opinion. And I haven't been everywhere, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you where I have been this. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything much prettier. No I've I've said all along,
Speaker 1: you know, we've we've done the cliffs some more and
Speaker 1: and the Giants Causeway in Ireland, and and uh, you
Speaker 1: know the Grand Canyon, and and there are obviously some
Speaker 1: you know, the the the mountains that the Titans or
Speaker 1: or the Canadian rockies that you know near Bamp Springs.
Speaker 1: There's some visual you know, splendors out there, some some
Speaker 1: things that that that just sort of boggle your mind
Speaker 1: when you see them in person. But the Nepali Coastline
Speaker 1: is on listing in my mind, quite frankly, is at
Speaker 1: the top of the list. It's unlike anything you know.
Speaker 1: To be at the base of the Nepoly Coastline or
Speaker 1: sort of take those boats in and out of the
Speaker 1: Nepoly Coastline as you're going into the caves is incredible.
Speaker 1: And then going back to the drone concept, Patrick, you know,
Speaker 1: the first time I ever got into a helicopter was
Speaker 1: in Hawaii, and I said to myself, oh my god,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get into a helicopter, I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: was always nervous about being a helicopter. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: do a helicopter, do it in Hawaii, because what you know,
Speaker 1: becoming a human drone to see what you were showcasing
Speaker 1: from a drone perspective is that's the place to do it.
Speaker 1: It's unlike anything I've ever seen and and you'll ever see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's tough to even capture. Like a
Speaker 1: drone does a good job of showing maybe an alternate
Speaker 1: look for those that take the boat. And but it's
Speaker 1: really I mean in person, it blows you away, like
Speaker 1: you gotta visit because it's like you see it and
Speaker 1: you the scale of it is really hard to grasp
Speaker 1: until you're you're standing there on the boat or um
Speaker 1: whatever that may be, and it's like everybody just wow.
Speaker 1: I mean I saw pictures of it and the first
Speaker 1: time I saw it, I was like, wow. It really
Speaker 1: On the subject of guests, we all know, we also
Speaker 1: have Zeke joining us. Now, Zeke, we played Poipoo Bay
Speaker 1: with the matches still all square. Zeke, You're you're on
Speaker 1: with Coltneller, Patrick Kannig and Mary Mary b. Porter King. Zeke,
Speaker 1: what are your what are your initial reactions of of
Speaker 1: what you saw from the from the show? I thought
Speaker 1: you guys did a great job with the production and
Speaker 1: showcasing coy. Nice good to hear. How about how about
Speaker 1: Point Poo Bay? Man, I mean, you know, visually from
Speaker 1: the ground as as we were you know, as you
Speaker 1: were saying, there's just a lot of wows out there,
Speaker 1: there's no houses. It's a beautiful place, but from up above,
Speaker 1: and when it came together as the show, it was like,
Speaker 1: my goodness, this is spectacle killer. The sights, the sights
Speaker 1: on this island are unbelievable. I mean just not only
Speaker 1: in plot fool, but the whole island itself. So you
Speaker 1: guys captured what what Patrick captured from the air was
Speaker 1: very very good. I heard some of the video was
Speaker 1: kind of dark, but I mean from what I saw
Speaker 1: when he was playing that day, it looked pretty incredible. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: we have Mary Mary Beond obviously, and and and and
Speaker 1: before we let you go, Mary Mary b I wanted
Speaker 1: to just get some more thoughts on on junior golf,
Speaker 1: not only as it relates to Hawaii, but Kawaii and
Speaker 1: you know, uh, in everything you've done and all the
Speaker 1: efforts you've made and the selflessness of trying to sort
Speaker 1: of give back, talk a little bit more about about
Speaker 1: the progress being made or or what some of the
Speaker 1: challenges are that that still remains to sort of truly
Speaker 1: grow the game on a place like an island. Well,
Speaker 1: just that that We're an island, um, and we are
Speaker 1: islands and where you know, I grew up many years
Speaker 1: ago in southern California and I could hop in a
Speaker 1: car and they'll play in tournaments every week and every
Speaker 1: day all over the state. Where it's a challenge here
Speaker 1: and uh for our kids to participate in events off island.
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, Colt can tell you that. But we
Speaker 1: as I may have mentioned that we started, we took
Speaker 1: over the first teach ch apter the beginning of last year,
Speaker 1: so in Hawaii, and so I'm very excited about that,
Speaker 1: just to get more kids into the game, to start
Speaker 1: them in the game. The game itself teaches you everything
Speaker 1: you need to know about life as is without words,
Speaker 1: the game just teaches us that. But Pooka is going
Speaker 1: to be our home site here on Kauai, and we
Speaker 1: hope to have um other will have the other courses
Speaker 1: around participate eight. But I just think that right now
Speaker 1: we're unlimited there. As you mentioned earlier that the game
Speaker 1: around the US has been booming and we're trying to
Speaker 1: pick up the game now. Unfortunately, we were shut down
Speaker 1: for those times during COVID, which was difficult, so we
Speaker 1: did lose kids and Uh, we're shut down in junior
Speaker 1: golf for almost two years, so we're trying to get
Speaker 1: it back up now. UM. I think seeing the Masters
Speaker 1: last week and the drive chip and pud and the
Speaker 1: things that would motivate young people and our college tournaments
Speaker 1: come to the islands now, um, that to me energizes
Speaker 1: everyone and they can see the potential. And it's hard
Speaker 1: that our kids, you know, we are isolated from the mainland.
Speaker 1: We're so they don't know what's over there. They don't
Speaker 1: know what the possibilities are for them. And you know,
Speaker 1: my goal has been to try to educate them that
Speaker 1: the sky is the limit for them and that there
Speaker 1: are there are possibilities, the possibilities of gaining that education
Speaker 1: through the game, but more importantly that if they could
Speaker 1: play the game for lifetime. Uh, the world would be
Speaker 1: a much better place for all of us. Amen, Amen,
Speaker 1: Mary B. Porter King Um. Well, always always a treat
Speaker 1: to hear your voice. Mary, be and thanks again for
Speaker 1: your for your time and cooperation and your perspective on
Speaker 1: Kauaii while we were there and and especially now. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know you're always welcome at god Hill Park here.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of friends out here. Everyone I
Speaker 1: bump into says hey, Mary May your your name comes
Speaker 1: up almost every day at god Hill Park, So your
Speaker 1: legacy is sort of UH and your roots system throughout
Speaker 1: throughout the game is UH is healthy and UH continues
Speaker 1: to grow in in with nothing but respect and admiration.
Speaker 1: So thank you for everything. My son plays. They're quite
Speaker 1: a bit and I think Eeke's taken some money from
Speaker 1: my son too, so um, you can maybe hold off
Speaker 1: on him a little bit, you know, saying parents, so
Speaker 1: you'll be nice to him, Zeke, I try to be,
Speaker 1: but yeah, thanks you guys. You're great and I love
Speaker 1: the show and I love what you're doing, and thanks
Speaker 1: for spreading the good word and good luck. Thank you
Speaker 1: so very thank you. All right, take care, Zeke, Zeke, welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome to this show, which is a follow up show
Speaker 1: on the show that you're obviously starting. Apparently I'm not
Speaker 1: the only person that you fleece out there. You're you're
Speaker 1: you're equal opportunity, you know, flee sir. I guess I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call it fleecing. It's a game of skill that
Speaker 1: we're playing against each other. So if if you need strokes,
Speaker 1: like my friend's father said, the driving Greens is at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the course and you guys can start
Speaker 1: working there. Well, I know, we pointed out, Zeke that
Speaker 1: you know in the show that you're not from Kawaie,
Speaker 1: but now call Kawaie home and uh and and you're
Speaker 1: sort of general impressions again on the show, not only
Speaker 1: beyond the visuals and popo, but just on the island
Speaker 1: in general. You guys did an incredible job showcasing the
Speaker 1: whole island, just the cultural aspect, the sense of community,
Speaker 1: the sense of stewardship that everybody on this island has
Speaker 1: to take care of the community so it's passed on
Speaker 1: to the next generation. I mean, just the hommer simon,
Speaker 1: you could see the generational um, how many more generations
Speaker 1: are going to continue that. There's a lot of businesses
Speaker 1: here that are generational. So like the gentleman said on
Speaker 1: in prince Ville, for you guys at Mackay, we're just
Speaker 1: stewards We were just caretakers of it, were taking care
Speaker 1: of it for the next generation. You know, Zeke i,
Speaker 1: I you know, I walked. I want My biggest takeaway
Speaker 1: from Kawaii was, you know, on an island and having
Speaker 1: that kind of controlled space. It makes it It's not
Speaker 1: to say it's easier, but it's a little easier to
Speaker 1: better define what the issues are. Get people aligned with
Speaker 1: a focus on sustainability and being those stewards of the land,
Speaker 1: you know, resource, you know, conserving resources. If only, if
Speaker 1: only the world think of the Earth, if planet Earth
Speaker 1: the population had the same mentality as Kawaii has about
Speaker 1: sort of the greater good of where we live and
Speaker 1: on on this planet, where would we be? Right? Like
Speaker 1: I feel like if we can say, if we can
Speaker 1: learn from Kawaii and these efforts and this community spirit
Speaker 1: and sustainability and and the stewardship man, where would we
Speaker 1: be today? As as you know, sort of society in general,
Speaker 1: society and general in a lot better shape than it's
Speaker 1: in now, that's for sure. I mean it's just ultimately
Speaker 1: it's it's everybody taking responsibility for everything that they do.
Speaker 1: That's really what it comes down to. And like you said,
Speaker 1: being on an island and being in a smaller community,
Speaker 1: people do do that here. I mean beach cleanups, you're
Speaker 1: talking part cleanups, you're talking just general taking care of
Speaker 1: the hina is done throughout the community here. Yeah, being land, right,
Speaker 1: I'd of being land, I'd not being land, Yes, Zeke.
Speaker 1: Were there any perspectives, um that we're sort of new
Speaker 1: or interesting that you learned from the show for maybe
Speaker 1: the other guests, um that either you hadn't heard of before,
Speaker 1: or we're sort of posed in a you know, new
Speaker 1: or different perspective than how you've heard them before. Sure,
Speaker 1: everybody's story you guys shared had different aspects for everybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't go to the north Shore very
Speaker 1: often just because you know, we're on such a small island.
Speaker 1: Traffic becomes a problem sometimes. And just seeing what goes
Speaker 1: on up there in the taro farms and how they're
Speaker 1: keeping everything sustainable up there, how they're taking care of
Speaker 1: the land, is you know, it's a great different perspective
Speaker 1: because I don't see it that often. Unfortunately, sometimes we're
Speaker 1: just narrow minded and not narrow minded, but narrow focused
Speaker 1: on what we're doing, that we're not opening up to
Speaker 1: everything else that's out there. And seeing your guys production,
Speaker 1: was it opened up? You know, you opened your eyes
Speaker 1: to a lot of different things than what you just
Speaker 1: see on a daily basis. Certainly introduces us to new things,
Speaker 1: and I think to a lot of people. I mean,
Speaker 1: especially when you talk about the North shore of Kuwaiti.
Speaker 1: You know how unique it is when, as Kaylee told us,
Speaker 1: the u N recognize them as one of twenty communities
Speaker 1: across the globe to do this sort of thing. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: I can imagine that not a lot of people have
Speaker 1: been introduced to that sort of way of life. No,
Speaker 1: And I didn't even know that that they had won
Speaker 1: that award. Um, that's incredible. I mean, to be recognized,
Speaker 1: that's a worldwide recognition. That's just not a national recognition
Speaker 1: or a state or regional recognition. That's worldwide. And that's incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. And yet you realize, like, if you don't
Speaker 1: put systems like that in place, or if you don't
Speaker 1: preserve those gardens like they're doing, if you don't make
Speaker 1: those kinds of commitments. I mean, it took them a
Speaker 1: long time to get there and get that up and
Speaker 1: going and get it to where it is. Now that
Speaker 1: that was a relentless and exhaust of uh you know,
Speaker 1: commitment on a lot of people's parts. But now you
Speaker 1: see it, you go, thank goodness, this is this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff is happening because again that becomes a blueprint
Speaker 1: for not only what's happening on your island Kawaii, other
Speaker 1: islands in Hawaii, other islands in the world, and then
Speaker 1: and then and then again, sort of spinning it up
Speaker 1: to the greater good. Yes, another thing I could point
Speaker 1: out when you went to many Honi fish pond, you
Speaker 1: that fish pond was overgrown by mangroves and there was
Speaker 1: a lot of effort put in by um the local
Speaker 1: councilman who organized this group to go up there and
Speaker 1: clean it all up. There was no way you would
Speaker 1: have been able to land the canoe there five years ago.
Speaker 1: That's how bad it was. And that's that That goes
Speaker 1: to show the how they're improving the land, making it
Speaker 1: better and sustaining it so that people can see it
Speaker 1: and appreciate it. Yeah, it makes me want to you know,
Speaker 1: all of this, all of this made me want to
Speaker 1: move to Kuwait. I was like, my gosh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're here in Oceanside, California. We see the efforts being
Speaker 1: made by John Ashworth to preserve and and sort of
Speaker 1: set up this community asset for the future. But it's
Speaker 1: like you know that, and and we we love and
Speaker 1: appreciate and support every all those efforts. But like you
Speaker 1: take that times a thousand, it feels like that's what's
Speaker 1: being done in Kuwaiti. You know, it's like wow, it's
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's just amazing. And I'm sure you feel
Speaker 1: the same. It's like if, like, if everybody does their part,
Speaker 1: and if everybody's is held responsible or claims responsibility for
Speaker 1: their part, that's how this that's how this happens. It's
Speaker 1: about taking ownership, that's for sure. But it's not just
Speaker 1: happening here on kuwait It's happening everywhere. You look at
Speaker 1: the Big Island, you look at Molokai, you look at
Speaker 1: the night, you look at what they're trying to do
Speaker 1: in Maui. But for me is I mean, it's incredible.
Speaker 1: Cold knows knows what Hawaii's like, the sense of community,
Speaker 1: people looking out for you. Colt knows that when he
Speaker 1: would go to his friend's house after a long day
Speaker 1: of practice or surfing, the parents always had food for cult.
Speaker 1: I guarantee he ate very very good, even if it
Speaker 1: wasn't at his own house. I mean, there's the parents
Speaker 1: all taking everybody else's kids at that point, you know,
Speaker 1: and it becomes a whole sense of community and everybody
Speaker 1: looking out for each other. Absolutely, and I think it's
Speaker 1: cool that that Kauai can you know, can be a
Speaker 1: leader in that space sort of. You know, as we've
Speaker 1: talked about it, it's the it's the oldest, most historical
Speaker 1: and you know, from the perspective of sustainability or practices
Speaker 1: like they're doing on the North Shore, hopefully Kauai is
Speaker 1: the leader for the rest of Hawaii to follow. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And I think we're the whole state in a hole
Speaker 1: is headed in the right direction. That's for ye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think for for somebody that is not super familiar
Speaker 1: with why. That's why it's so fun to tell these
Speaker 1: stories because you get in there and you kind of
Speaker 1: figure this out and understanding you're like, well, no, nobody
Speaker 1: else is doing like doing it like this. You know,
Speaker 1: there's no communities like this. Maybe there's a little bit,
Speaker 1: but like then you take it, you put in a
Speaker 1: story and you share it and you open people's eyes. Um,
Speaker 1: these things don't happen overnight, right, So it's about changing
Speaker 1: the perspective and exposing people to different ways of doing it.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I mean, I'm super proud to have been,
Speaker 1: you know, part of just telling the stories so more
Speaker 1: people can understand what it is. It's different about Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can take one little thing, uh and start
Speaker 1: something in their own community. So it's like that. That
Speaker 1: is for me was my big big takeaway from from
Speaker 1: being a part of this team and and and meeting
Speaker 1: folks like yourselves. Yeah, I appreciate it. I mean exactly.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right. If if you can take a small
Speaker 1: piece of something from this story that you guys provided,
Speaker 1: and it's a great story, and apply it to yourself,
Speaker 1: you'll see changes that you wouldn't even believe you could
Speaker 1: treat on your own. You know, it's if you apply
Speaker 1: it to other people. You bring people in with you. Again,
Speaker 1: the sense of community. You can't do it by yourself.
Speaker 1: You need a community, you need you need that village
Speaker 1: behind you, you know, to start change. Well, our our
Speaker 1: matches all square, Zeke, and you have an open invite
Speaker 1: for a little home and home we can we can
Speaker 1: continue this match at goat Hill Park. You come to
Speaker 1: my turf and uh and we'll settle this will settle
Speaker 1: this score, you know properly. I look forward to it.
Speaker 1: I look forward to a rematch. I look forward to
Speaker 1: you moving here and join the Ironland. We can play
Speaker 1: every day. And you know this, as long as you
Speaker 1: bring enough money to come around. There's there's it's good
Speaker 1: to go. Zeke's on the long con. He's he's playing
Speaker 1: the long game. Thank thank you. So so yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's the same bet for you. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway for anybody who watches the show is just
Speaker 1: just play with Zeke for fun, you know, don't don't
Speaker 1: don't bet Zeke at home. I have Venmo, I have Venmo.
Speaker 1: We're good to go, Beno Benma. Uh. Well, Zeke can't
Speaker 1: thank you enough for your time that day and uh
Speaker 1: and all of your inside and perspectives and and uh
Speaker 1: and and now as well. So thanks for joining us
Speaker 1: and uh and uh look forward to look forward to
Speaker 1: more conversations and more more courses in our future. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, guys. Thank you very much. You guys did
Speaker 1: a very good job showcasing coit it was I was
Speaker 1: very proud to be a part of it. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys very much. Thank you buddy, hellos, Thanks zan Aloha man,
Speaker 1: just bringing back good feelings, you know, man fresh all
Speaker 1: I got chills when they say we do a good job.
Speaker 1: I get all I get. I mean, I can't help
Speaker 1: but feel proud, proud of every you know, everything we
Speaker 1: do is a true collective effort. And obviously this you know,
Speaker 1: especially a journey, A journey is always like yeah, there
Speaker 1: was three of us. Jesse was another shooter with us
Speaker 1: UM who helped edit some of these scenes. We got
Speaker 1: the whole you know, Louis and Colin and Marco the
Speaker 1: edit team, Alex on the production side, Uh, Jake is
Speaker 1: going to help support a lot of the social cuts
Speaker 1: and this podcast. But you know when we say collective effort, um,
Speaker 1: that's certainly what this is. Yeah, it was fun to prepare.
Speaker 1: Last night. I just got I watched the episode and
Speaker 1: I was just like I was just a fan. You know,
Speaker 1: this is good, this is fun, um, and it was
Speaker 1: it was cool to see my you know, my contribution
Speaker 1: as part of the team, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: its own, Like this is cool that there's zazing scenery,
Speaker 1: but like can you put it to that stuff with
Speaker 1: cold Jessee and all the production effort that goes into it. Matt,
Speaker 1: you know, telling the story and leading the way, it's
Speaker 1: like wow, I mean you talk about it's community, right,
Speaker 1: so I mean if it's very well, I mean with
Speaker 1: the you know, what we created here is how Hawaii
Speaker 1: is evolved as well, so that community can create something
Speaker 1: so much more power, more powerful than any one of
Speaker 1: us can do, no matter how good we were or craft.
Speaker 1: And so it's like that kind of opened my eyes.
Speaker 1: Is a is a lone ranger for a long time
Speaker 1: on the road of golf course photography. Um, like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is this is cool. I mean it's uh it
Speaker 1: was I got there last night, just kind of looking
Speaker 1: back through it, and this is this is good TV
Speaker 1: or whatever. Good This is a good show. It's always
Speaker 1: a good thing when the end product transcends your expectations
Speaker 1: or sort of you know, the what you had in mind,
Speaker 1: how you visualized it as one person, when everybody else
Speaker 1: comes in and brings, you know, what they have to
Speaker 1: the table. I mean, just watching it last night, same thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen a few of the rough cuts,
Speaker 1: but when you see the final product, man, it's just uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I was very proud, you know, to hopefully
Speaker 1: represent Hawaii, wah and Kauaie. But it's proud of our team.
Speaker 1: I was proud of our team mostly you know, and
Speaker 1: I you know every uh everything that that each person
Speaker 1: brings a little expertise in a little you know, specialty
Speaker 1: to the to the game and it uh and it
Speaker 1: it really showed him this one. Yeah, the little there
Speaker 1: were little things. I remember that moment and I captured that.
Speaker 1: Oh that's perfect. It went and fit into the bigger picture.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, nailed it, Like I got something
Speaker 1: there it is you know, so is uh it was
Speaker 1: a walk down memory lane and then like an enhanced enjoyment.
Speaker 1: It's like a really you know, a really good memory.
Speaker 1: You got even better. Well, we got more guests coming
Speaker 1: on guys. Next up is Kelly Hinna. Welcome to our
Speaker 1: reek our journey recap to Kawaii. Um, that was so
Speaker 1: well done. You guys did an amazing job. Oh that
Speaker 1: means a lot. Uh. We just had Mary B. Porter
Speaker 1: king on, we had Zeke on from Poipoo Bay and
Speaker 1: and obviously Lani is coming on in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But um that that means a lot to hear from
Speaker 1: people like yourself who obviously love Kawaii you know, as
Speaker 1: you know, beyond far beyond, you know, just a destination.
Speaker 1: But to for a place you call home. For you
Speaker 1: to feel like we properly represented and and portrayed Kauai
Speaker 1: in a way that you're proud, makes us proud obviously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Art Art Fujita, what a classic guy, so funny, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. And then Art Chow. Oh that was hilarious. Hilarious. Yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: we're going over here as my uncle over there, my grandpa.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, was hilarious. It was so good though
Speaker 1: you went paddle before. Yeah, alright, here's here's a battle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get into the canoe. Just like golfing, Just like golfing,
Speaker 1: Just like golfing. I see I see him probably like
Speaker 1: every other day because he's walking or he's biking around
Speaker 1: the property and then he lives right around the corner too. Well,
Speaker 1: that was a beautiful That was a beautiful part of
Speaker 1: the of the journey obviously and something that was unexpected.
Speaker 1: But to see, you know, what he told us and
Speaker 1: taught us about, you know, sort of the fish, you know,
Speaker 1: the fisheries there and uh and what had been done
Speaker 1: to preserve those or bring those back into you know,
Speaker 1: expose them in a way that we can actually go
Speaker 1: and do that. You know, those are the kinds of
Speaker 1: things that you know, as as a visitor to Quiet,
Speaker 1: you would never know or understand or potentially appreciate. Which
Speaker 1: is why being able to meet up with someone like
Speaker 1: that and have that experience and be able to learn
Speaker 1: that and share that is to me as someone who
Speaker 1: you know, makes a career out of storytelling, those are
Speaker 1: the stories that are worth telling. Yeah, yeah, thanks a lot, Matt.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to be inundated by more visitors? Is
Speaker 1: it catch two? Sorry? Not sorry? Yeah, z Uncle Arthur said,
Speaker 1: I think it was his last line. Um in his
Speaker 1: scene there he goes, how many people get to see this?
Speaker 1: But Kelly talked to us Kala obviously is is um
Speaker 1: is where you hang out? But I mean, what did
Speaker 1: you did you learn anything about about the island when
Speaker 1: you watch the show? Is this is this something that
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're all you're you're all very well
Speaker 1: aware of of of the of the concerted efforts being
Speaker 1: done to preserve the culture and create sustainability for not
Speaker 1: only this generation but many more to come. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, um kay Lee was he was kind of
Speaker 1: he was spot on um with your that was that
Speaker 1: was really cool And I got to learn a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I volunteer on that side of the island
Speaker 1: um at Lima Huli, this amazing garden with the National
Speaker 1: Tropical Botanical Gardens. So you know, just working the land
Speaker 1: has really taught me a lot. And then learning more
Speaker 1: and then um hommer assignment. I didn't know, you know,
Speaker 1: I knew the family was still in there, and the woman,
Speaker 1: that Filipino woman that was there for like forty plus years,
Speaker 1: that's my classmate sister, so we you know, and so
Speaker 1: and was like, oh my gosh. But when my daughter
Speaker 1: came home, um visiting from Iowa, she's like, mom, hommer assignment,
Speaker 1: let's go, you know. And then mine mine is always
Speaker 1: a small half cook with two orders of vegetables, no spam,
Speaker 1: hold the spam, and that's that's my order over there.
Speaker 1: But that that was really fun that, you know, the
Speaker 1: hommer assigmon that was are you really cool? Are you
Speaker 1: local enough where they where you just make eye contact
Speaker 1: and they know your order or do you have to
Speaker 1: you know, that's what they were saying. I thought was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: They just look at and they bring out the sup
Speaker 1: like no words spoken. Yeah, so funny because and then
Speaker 1: when it rains on the island, and it's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: you gotta go super early, Tomma get ready because anytime
Speaker 1: it rains, bread and Deli and Hommer's Simon get slammed.
Speaker 1: That's what about the lily kuoi pie? How is that
Speaker 1: something that from time to time? Oh? Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: then people take it off island, you know, so they'll
Speaker 1: take it to a Wahoo if they're going to go
Speaker 1: visit family to outer island, and then the rain they'll
Speaker 1: bring the lily. Boy. Remember after our remember after our
Speaker 1: state championships. Uh, we played at White Lua and by
Speaker 1: one memory of that trip, one of a few, obviously,
Speaker 1: but one one one memory is going, uh we have
Speaker 1: the trophy ceremony. Thanks trophies are all posing as a
Speaker 1: team like all right, guys, you didn't and our coaches like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, gotta go, gotta go. Were like,
Speaker 1: what casey, we just won? What are you talking? I
Speaker 1: gotta go home right before a flight, let's go, So
Speaker 1: we go drop by him road. I remember the parents
Speaker 1: just carrying trades of like fried noodles and stuff like
Speaker 1: onto the airplane to bring back home to Hullelulu. Yeah, there.
Speaker 1: It's gosh, it's such a classic place and they've made
Speaker 1: you know, the changes in the seating area and I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's any pictures of the way it
Speaker 1: was before, but the the table or the owner went
Speaker 1: completely around. It was like a U shape and the
Speaker 1: cook was in the middle. So we always like to
Speaker 1: sit in the back and watch the cook, you know.
Speaker 1: And they would be open at two in the morning,
Speaker 1: so after going to back, then the discotheq, and then
Speaker 1: we would go go over and have assignment to help
Speaker 1: that hang over. The next morning we went a classic
Speaker 1: We went I think three times in our trip there.
Speaker 1: I think we went there three times, right like it
Speaker 1: was it was it was it was once you get
Speaker 1: once you have that and you get exposed to that,
Speaker 1: and you think about what are your other options. The
Speaker 1: idea of just going back there just seems like, let's
Speaker 1: let's not let's not overthink this, let's just go back
Speaker 1: to Homer Run Like it went three times and I
Speaker 1: was mad it wasn't four. Uh what about the what
Speaker 1: about this? You know? I know, Uh, you do a
Speaker 1: lot of hiking and you're your outdoors pretty much everybody
Speaker 1: in Hawaii is, but um, the spectacle that is kawaii,
Speaker 1: I mean to me is just mind boggling. And to
Speaker 1: be able to get that many drone shots, the visuals
Speaker 1: not only of Ho Kuala, but you know, the Nepoli
Speaker 1: coastline and all the other you know, the Poipu Bay
Speaker 1: looks spectacular from the air. I mean, you just can't
Speaker 1: go wrong now. And you don't see it right when
Speaker 1: you're playing the hole coming down, you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: see those clips unless you're hiking it and then coming up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was really really beautiful. And your parents
Speaker 1: obviously their ashes, their ashes being out there on that
Speaker 1: green and give me a birdie, Mom would give me
Speaker 1: a birdie. Dad? Is like that was it was. That
Speaker 1: was a very you know, the spirituality of it all,
Speaker 1: uh and what's reverberating out of that land and that
Speaker 1: water and that's floating around in the air is just
Speaker 1: it's very addicting. It's a very special thing. So I'm
Speaker 1: jealous that you called that home. Yeah. The other last Wednesday,
Speaker 1: my girlfriend and I we paddle canoe, so we did
Speaker 1: got in our one man and we met at six
Speaker 1: in the morning and we went by the sixteenth hole.
Speaker 1: So I said, hi, mom, Dad, Charles, Rita, all, everybody's
Speaker 1: all over there. And then we paddled out to the
Speaker 1: buoy out by the lighthouse and in ninny and you know,
Speaker 1: it's still kind of early, but A l A I
Speaker 1: did my A l A greeted the sun. It was
Speaker 1: it was so cool. That was really cool. But then
Speaker 1: this Wednesday there was a big swell. So then I
Speaker 1: met Sherry at Waialua River, so we went up Wailua
Speaker 1: River and re greeted the sun there. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a tough life over here on the islands, and that's
Speaker 1: that's your background is that's that's wow. My my daughter
Speaker 1: will call the one in Ireland and she goes, mom,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. I go, I'm on the by
Speaker 1: ride or I'm hiking, and she goes, yeah, that's Kelly
Speaker 1: o'kanna's life must be hard. She's in Ireland. You said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Ireland. You said in Iowa. Going to school okay, cool? Cool, yeah,
Speaker 1: going to school. Well, can't thank you enough, Kelly obviously
Speaker 1: for for for for the time spent at Hokuala that
Speaker 1: that day and sharing your your perspective and uh thoughts
Speaker 1: on on your home and the island and the just
Speaker 1: general soul of the culture itself. And uh and also
Speaker 1: thanking you for your time now, so I really appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no problem, you guys all right, have a three day
Speaker 1: thank you okay, yeah, and then come on over and
Speaker 1: we'll all go hiking. Yes, yes, yes, hiking and canoe
Speaker 1: there we go alrightee yeah on the big screen, man,
Speaker 1: the visuals of journeys quite incredible on the big screen. Um,
Speaker 1: it holds up, man, it holds up. It's what thirty
Speaker 1: thirty three minutes or something like that. Grab a beer,
Speaker 1: sit down, enjoy it. You can kind of it's it's
Speaker 1: worth hooking it up to the big screen. Whatever you
Speaker 1: have to do, it's worth it. It feels like a
Speaker 1: little mini doc. Alright. So one of Kelly's colleagues at
Speaker 1: Hokuala is uh Hulani. Who Lani is going to be
Speaker 1: joining us now? Guys, here she comes our next guest
Speaker 1: to this live ish kind of fire pit production. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and of course she's in a golf cart. Hulani. Did
Speaker 1: you get a chance to see the show yet? Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you guys are amazing. Wow. Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's um as as someone obviously who really helped lead
Speaker 1: us into the right path right out of the beginning.
Speaker 1: Obviously the you know, the song to the sunrise and
Speaker 1: then everything that transpired after that, but um, you, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody left the lasting impression on us, but you you,
Speaker 1: maybe more so than any But just because you you
Speaker 1: you allowed us and offered us so much connection to UH,
Speaker 1: to the land and UH and sort of the spirituality
Speaker 1: of what's happening around that land. But it means a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, to hear back from someone like yourself and
Speaker 1: everybody that we've had on so far, that makes us
Speaker 1: feel like we we were able to kind of capture
Speaker 1: the essence of Kawaii. Total chicken skin, dude, total chicken skin.
Speaker 1: It just brought tears to my eyes of of all
Speaker 1: that you guys expressed from our from what we do
Speaker 1: here and the things we are with, um, all of
Speaker 1: our money. He needs to come visit us, you know,
Speaker 1: it will become our guests and our ohanna. Like you guys,
Speaker 1: you know, when they come, it just really shows and
Speaker 1: and and shares all that. So you know, our heart,
Speaker 1: our heart is just full at warmth and and goodness
Speaker 1: and mohaala to you guys that was just simply amazing,
Speaker 1: simply amazing. Thank you so much, well, thank you obviously,
Speaker 1: thank you, and and oh koala was was a special day.
Speaker 1: I mean that was the only you know, of course
Speaker 1: and property that we got to spend a full day at,
Speaker 1: you know, from the golf course with you and Kelly,
Speaker 1: to the farm the farmer Sam, who's gonna come on
Speaker 1: here in a little bit, as well, all the way
Speaker 1: through dinner at Huailani's no less at the end of
Speaker 1: the night. I mean you, as Matt said, you set
Speaker 1: the tone not only even for the show, but you
Speaker 1: set the tone for a trip as well. We really
Speaker 1: you took that with us moving forward throughout the whole
Speaker 1: week in I wanted to add one thing. I was
Speaker 1: just kind of going through some photos of the different
Speaker 1: people that we met and a lot of people smiling.
Speaker 1: And it's unofficial now, but I ordered you best smile,
Speaker 1: best smile at the trip. So congratulations there, all of
Speaker 1: you guys and anyone of us you know that that
Speaker 1: shared that genuine aloha. And when you have genuine aloha,
Speaker 1: that smile is just automatic, automatic, and I see it
Speaker 1: all the faces. Yeah it Hulani. When you we've been
Speaker 1: asking everybody. But you know, as you watched that show
Speaker 1: and you know were you did you learn? Did you
Speaker 1: learn more about about your island that maybe you didn't
Speaker 1: already know, or learn more about about individuals and their
Speaker 1: efforts to try to also preserve and and and create
Speaker 1: a sense of sustainability for future generations to come. Yes, definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: so a lot of these you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: knew um and knew some of the people and just
Speaker 1: just uh knowing that you guys were connected to those people,
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, um it really it really um
Speaker 1: um talk to my heart and that it just um
Speaker 1: express while so so Jack doing you know that these
Speaker 1: guys coming and sharing what we have to share to
Speaker 1: the world and for our future, you know, just for
Speaker 1: not just for us, but for our children and your
Speaker 1: children and everyone else's children they come. It was a
Speaker 1: true blessing, true blessing. So thank you so much for
Speaker 1: hoping up with those guys. Um, yeah, blessings, total blessings.
Speaker 1: And what you guys shared on the island and stuff,
Speaker 1: it was like really amazing. So mohala doing to Mohammad,
Speaker 1: come back, guys, We're coming. We're coming for sure, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. That's already confirmed. How about how about Kelly
Speaker 1: and in the north that the Mackay course, and you
Speaker 1: know the connection to the land and the and the
Speaker 1: UH and and the farming that's being done, and just
Speaker 1: sort of I mean, you know, everybody, everybody had their
Speaker 1: own sort of perspective and touch point on two onto
Speaker 1: onto the general narrative of of what's being done. But um,
Speaker 1: he really he really hit. He really hit our hearts
Speaker 1: as well. My favorite, my favorite hit home, Um the
Speaker 1: sustainability as far as our color. Yeah, color that that
Speaker 1: shares you know, what we what we need to sustain
Speaker 1: and how it continues on our life every day. He
Speaker 1: was just totally awesome. And and what was that? Did
Speaker 1: you were you one of him on that one? Or
Speaker 1: were you guys? Were you guys tied at the very end?
Speaker 1: I forget, but but oh my gosh, he was. He
Speaker 1: was amazing. So he and I was a team. He
Speaker 1: and I were partners against the pro there and and
Speaker 1: I think we pulled it out. I think we pulled
Speaker 1: it out the end or or I hit that put
Speaker 1: to to end in a tie, I think is what
Speaker 1: it was. I think I had to have that put
Speaker 1: to tie. The match and I had gone in the
Speaker 1: water and still was able to salvage Birdie. After the
Speaker 1: after the after the after the water bowl. Yeah, hands
Speaker 1: down the most excited ever seen Matt. I've got a
Speaker 1: couple of pictures. He was screaming, he was pumped. He
Speaker 1: wanted that putt and he got it. And I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure it was for that the half. You're correct, it's
Speaker 1: for the half yet. But that was that was fun.
Speaker 1: He he uh. We're still trying to track him down
Speaker 1: where we're hoping to get him to be a part
Speaker 1: of this podcast, just because you know. When he he said, oh,
Speaker 1: I said, um, oh, we we hunt there? Oh what
Speaker 1: do you hunt o? Wild boar? Oh you hunt wild boar?
Speaker 1: You know, with a bow? He says, no, not a bow.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking when he says not a bow, I'm thinking, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: he hunts with a gun like the natural. I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: he would be more natural than that then a gun.
Speaker 1: But okay, he goes a gun and he goes no, no, no,
Speaker 1: dog and knife. I go dog and knife. He went
Speaker 1: backwards from a bowl. I was like, dog and knife,
Speaker 1: what does that look like? And he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the dogs hold him down. And you come in and
Speaker 1: you get that, you know, and we were like, I
Speaker 1: took me two holds and cover from the dog and
Speaker 1: knife story. And then and then he goes, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: first tea, your honor. You're like, might be the hardest,
Speaker 1: you know, the first tea. Yeah, I didn't rattle you. Well, Lonnie,
Speaker 1: while we have you, why don't you You know what
Speaker 1: we didn't get the show was was a lot of
Speaker 1: what you guys are doing with your staff there and
Speaker 1: you got you got foot golf and you got so much.
Speaker 1: You know, we did what we were able to touch
Speaker 1: on the farming and the hiking trails and what you've
Speaker 1: done with the other what was the other eighteen holes,
Speaker 1: but talk more about just how many things you guys
Speaker 1: are doing there at Hokawala to kind of enrich the
Speaker 1: experience not only for guests but employees as well. Yeah. So, um,
Speaker 1: just the other night we did a Ohana night Ohana
Speaker 1: rocking blow. Um. Remember when you guys came and we
Speaker 1: did like all our our employee event, but we did
Speaker 1: our rocking blow with them where we lit up the
Speaker 1: range with um with neon lights and um, we had
Speaker 1: like a volcano type type fire on each on each
Speaker 1: um not tea box, but the holes, and we had
Speaker 1: globe balls and we're hitting onto and we had live
Speaker 1: music and food and we had so much fun and
Speaker 1: had the employees come and enjoy that. They had a blast.
Speaker 1: I don't know what time we went at home that night,
Speaker 1: but we had a blast. We had loungese and everything
Speaker 1: in cards and it was amazing. I kept thinking, dude,
Speaker 1: you guys should have been here for that, totally having fun. Huilani.
Speaker 1: We dined with Huilani at Huailani's from with food from
Speaker 1: farmer Samuel on the other golf course. It's become I mean,
Speaker 1: it was like that was that was the perfect day. Yummy, yumm.
Speaker 1: It was delicious. Can't thank you you. You know who
Speaker 1: was there right you know who was there right behind us?
Speaker 1: Did you not? Yeah? That it was David Robinson, who
Speaker 1: you know when we're in the middle of shooting. By
Speaker 1: the way, he's an avid golfer, a big golf fan.
Speaker 1: When we're in the middle of shooting, he let his
Speaker 1: family go and he was It looked to me very
Speaker 1: uh you know, I feel very comfortable saying this. He
Speaker 1: was trying to sort of stick around and say hello,
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm I'm pretty certain that he was
Speaker 1: a golf channel watcher, so would have have seen maybe
Speaker 1: some of what we were doing. He's obviously saw we
Speaker 1: were shooting. He stuck around, and but we were so
Speaker 1: immersed in the actual shooting of that last scene. He
Speaker 1: eventually gave up and kind of walked away and was like,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna miss these guys. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I felt like the Admiral David we wanted to talk golf.
Speaker 1: The funny thing about that is, if you watch it back,
Speaker 1: you can see him. He's in the background, but he's heavily,
Speaker 1: heavily blurred out in the scene. I was like, I
Speaker 1: think that's something we're just blurring out David Robinson and
Speaker 1: carrying on having ourselves time. Just good glass, good lens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was Hulani and Farmers, Samuel boxing out one of
Speaker 1: the greatest, you know, one of the greatest inside players
Speaker 1: in history. It's like, you know about defense, Yeah, good defense,
Speaker 1: good defense, and we appreciate it. I'm trying to protect
Speaker 1: that Portuguese being super we had, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: thank god, Yeah, yeah, that was what thanks you guys
Speaker 1: for this time and this day, I gotta I got
Speaker 1: a head, I got a not a call to go on.
Speaker 1: But you guys are all right on visit us to
Speaker 1: get hello, thank you, Okay, bye bye. I mean with
Speaker 1: golf in general, you know, they say you develop a
Speaker 1: connection to the land, right, but we literally, jest did
Speaker 1: its food and it tasted amazing. I've never had that
Speaker 1: sort of connection to you. I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like hunting, right, you know, you you developed that connection
Speaker 1: with your food. It's through the process of hunt, you know,
Speaker 1: going out there, taking your dog and knife. I guess
Speaker 1: you know, it's your relationship with the animal. And then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a special experience to to then eat
Speaker 1: it and nurse your body with it. We did that
Speaker 1: with vegetables and through the hands of farmer sam but
Speaker 1: very similar Hulani. Obviously. We we had dinner at Hulani's
Speaker 1: with Hulani and we ate the food that was submitted
Speaker 1: by grown, cultivated by none other than and driven over,
Speaker 1: driven over by driven over by farmer Samuel and farmers
Speaker 1: Samuel is joining us now, Farmer Samuel, can you hear us?
Speaker 1: How's it going, guys? Farmer Samuel, Um, I've i certainly
Speaker 1: we won't take this personally. But have you have you
Speaker 1: had a chance to watch the show yet? Oh? I
Speaker 1: watched it twice yesterday, back to back. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna play it in my car when I was
Speaker 1: driving home, but Ronnie gave me the common sense to
Speaker 1: not do that, so I I anxiously away as soon
Speaker 1: as I got home, like this is going on the TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was still. I I really really thought it was
Speaker 1: awesome and I I had no idea what exactly it
Speaker 1: was gonna be, and I was I was very you know,
Speaker 1: surprised and pleasantly surprised. It was really good. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we've heard, we've heard, we've heard from a
Speaker 1: couple of people now, but nothing means more to us
Speaker 1: than to hear from people like yourself who obviously care
Speaker 1: so deeply about about this. You know, your reality, you know,
Speaker 1: in part became you know, the larger narrative of sustainability
Speaker 1: and and cultivation of natural resources and and then utilizing
Speaker 1: you know, those resources in a in a practical way
Speaker 1: that you know that that benefits more than just you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's giving back and not just taking. And so
Speaker 1: to hear, to hear you say, uh, you know that
Speaker 1: that you enjoyed it, and that that it was that
Speaker 1: it was true to sort of you know, the culture
Speaker 1: of Kawaii means a lot. I learned quite a few
Speaker 1: things as well, seeing the old Gulf legends and the
Speaker 1: history of the different courses and just some of the
Speaker 1: stories that were sprinkled in there. Was it was. It
Speaker 1: was just very fun for me. It didn't feel like,
Speaker 1: oh I already know everything about Kauai and just kind
Speaker 1: of you know, absent mindedly watching it. I really was.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. I think guys did a great,
Speaker 1: great job. Well, thank you. It means a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, at Patrick and Colt on here. Obviously Colt
Speaker 1: grew up in in Honolulu, and Patrick was flying the
Speaker 1: drones and getting those those up angles which are so
Speaker 1: valuable to a production like this to offer different visual
Speaker 1: perspectives of an addition to getting the perspectives from people
Speaker 1: like yourself on the ground. But uh, the the farm
Speaker 1: to me, you know, right out of the gates for
Speaker 1: us to spend that that morning with Hulani and then
Speaker 1: end up with you at the farm and then back
Speaker 1: to the dinner in which we're eating what you've grown. Um,
Speaker 1: we were saying that if we ended the day there,
Speaker 1: we felt like we had a great show. That's not
Speaker 1: counting everything that happened after that that day. For us
Speaker 1: to spend that time with you was just very special.
Speaker 1: Let's do it again. Give us an update, giving us
Speaker 1: an update on the farm. What do we got, what's
Speaker 1: going on? What's hot right now? What are you delivering
Speaker 1: to the to the to the restaurant this evening? And yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's see you guys were out here when was
Speaker 1: that December? Wow? Yeah, the time flies. Um, yeah, we
Speaker 1: got Ronnie on. I don't think she was nest working
Speaker 1: here technically at that point. Yeah, so we got she's
Speaker 1: now on the She is my the other employee. Now
Speaker 1: that's great. Um. Yeah, so that's that's been helping a
Speaker 1: lot in every single aspect. Uh. And yeah, she just
Speaker 1: she She's gonna be a huge thing to offer because
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing a lot more kind of making
Speaker 1: the farm not a background production thing exclusively, but also
Speaker 1: use it as a venue and be sure that it's
Speaker 1: part of the front facing experience of Timbers of Hokuala.
Speaker 1: So she's done a paint and sip and we did
Speaker 1: a golf event where we made cocktails with ingredients a
Speaker 1: percent from the farm, using kaloa rum and so fun
Speaker 1: things like that. And we actually have our hollay, which
Speaker 1: is uh fancy word, but it is a very nice
Speaker 1: little thing we got, but it's our old sales trailer
Speaker 1: was brought out to the farm. It has a nice
Speaker 1: lanai deck in front of it. So we have an
Speaker 1: actual permanent structure now out on the farm too, be
Speaker 1: able to really open our our horizons with what we
Speaker 1: can do out there, having a not only a place
Speaker 1: to get out of the rain and the wind, but um,
Speaker 1: a place to be able to make products on the farm,
Speaker 1: to be able to entertain and um, you know, make
Speaker 1: make memories out here and not just have it be
Speaker 1: kind of an island of the resort. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: about that. We had a long dry winter January through March,
Speaker 1: not a drop of rain, so that was tough and
Speaker 1: very hot. But a lot of our trees got shocked
Speaker 1: and so we have mangoes galore coming right now, great
Speaker 1: citrus this year. Um. Yeah, that we're we're really renovating
Speaker 1: the entire field, changing it up. Half of the field
Speaker 1: is now going to become a community garden for tempers,
Speaker 1: guests and owners. So we're gonna be filling up these
Speaker 1: raised beds and have half that field dedicated to um
Speaker 1: basically a community garden. So lots of stuff going on.
Speaker 1: It's overwhelming, but really really exciting stuff. That's so that
Speaker 1: is so cool to hear and and you know, to
Speaker 1: watch you in action, you and Ronnie in action, and
Speaker 1: to see all the different things that you're cultivating, and
Speaker 1: and uh and and your vision uh and uh to
Speaker 1: hear that even just since the December, how much, uh,
Speaker 1: how much you've been able to advance advance the ball
Speaker 1: there is just I don't know, it's exciting. I I.
Speaker 1: We were saying, you know earlier that if only, you know,
Speaker 1: if you used kauaie E as a as a micro
Speaker 1: cause of of sort of the greater you know, mother Earth,
Speaker 1: and if and if we could take the messaging from
Speaker 1: from what's happening on kauaie not only what you're doing,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the other people in the show
Speaker 1: that we talked to in their efforts and what they're doing,
Speaker 1: if we could, if we could sort of instill that
Speaker 1: into the mentality of of what's happening on planet Earth. Boy,
Speaker 1: wouldn't we be in a lot better place than we
Speaker 1: are right now? I think if more people have that
Speaker 1: mentality that you had right there, the world much much
Speaker 1: much better place. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I couldn't
Speaker 1: agree more. And yeah it can. It can be tough,
Speaker 1: easy to lose hope. But you know why, why focus
Speaker 1: on anything you can't control. Focus on what you're doing
Speaker 1: with your own two hands in front of you, and
Speaker 1: that is make that your entire reality and worry about
Speaker 1: nothing else. That's kind of what I try my best
Speaker 1: to do. Much easier said than done. Did he give
Speaker 1: you any? Did he give you any? A little more
Speaker 1: inspiration to know that a lot a lot more people
Speaker 1: were had the kind of same mentality and and and
Speaker 1: passion that you do, uh throughout the island. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It is really inspiring. Um. It makes me feel uh
Speaker 1: like there's so much more I could be doing and
Speaker 1: should be doing because you have these people that have
Speaker 1: dedicated their lives. Uh, you know, we really made true sacrifices.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm living the dream right. I Mean,
Speaker 1: it just so happens that what I'm doing is also
Speaker 1: a beautiful poetic thing. But um, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: the There are a lot of people that have turned
Speaker 1: down amazing not tutunities and sacrifice a lot because their
Speaker 1: passion is that strong to to protect the island, to
Speaker 1: protect their their history, of the culture, of their way
Speaker 1: of life. So I really really do respect that. Uh
Speaker 1: there's a great quote from a rapper, Uh that's the
Speaker 1: purpose of life. Is a life with the purpose. So
Speaker 1: I'd rather die for it cause than of the life
Speaker 1: that is worthless. So it kind of brings that to
Speaker 1: my mind. Definitely is very very inspiring. For sure. I
Speaker 1: love that. I love it, and I love your other
Speaker 1: quote that we ended the meal with. You know what
Speaker 1: what what is it? What is above and and so
Speaker 1: below or yea, as above, so below, as within as without. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all it's wherever you can, you know, find a
Speaker 1: pattern in one place, you're gonna find that pattern reverberating
Speaker 1: throughout the entire universe. And it is this, this fractal
Speaker 1: universe we live in. And uh, yeah, I wish I
Speaker 1: could have gone a little more in depth at you
Speaker 1: guys and think I think it was a little overwhelmed
Speaker 1: at the time when you guys visited. But yeah, just
Speaker 1: how you know, you look at how how soil we've used.
Speaker 1: Soil is living, its living matter, But really what what
Speaker 1: makes soil better than other soil? Usually it's you have
Speaker 1: more decomposition and decay of once living things breaking down
Speaker 1: and these these microbes and bacteria breaking it down and
Speaker 1: turning that death into a positive fresh start for new
Speaker 1: life to come out. Uh. And I do think that
Speaker 1: that is this beautiful story that we can apply to
Speaker 1: the universe at at large, that while our life here
Speaker 1: might seem insignificant and our death may be such a
Speaker 1: scary thing, we are part of this beautiful cosmic scale
Speaker 1: that you know. We we are absolutely crucial our lie
Speaker 1: and our death is crucial for everything. Man, It's about
Speaker 1: what you leave behind. Boy, I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1: After hearing you and watching you in the field and
Speaker 1: doing what you do, I definitely feel very insignificant. I
Speaker 1: need to doired, fired, but insignificant. I need to do more.
Speaker 1: I am informed, I am inspired, but I am insignificant.
Speaker 1: So uh, I can't thank you enough. How many people
Speaker 1: get that experience. It's so cool that the guests are
Speaker 1: you know, get that experience. Um as did we Uh,
Speaker 1: it's something that I feel like it's sort of inherent
Speaker 1: in everybody, Like you want to get your hands dirty
Speaker 1: and in the dirt and eat food that you've cultivated yourself.
Speaker 1: And when it's it's it's a fantasy for us, you know,
Speaker 1: for for of people. And to get that experience, especially
Speaker 1: with you, to be able to get in the dirt
Speaker 1: and learn about it and uh, you know, consume the
Speaker 1: fruits of our labor. Was was inspiring and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to do it again. I would love to have
Speaker 1: you guys back out. Congratulations to Ronnie uh coming on board,
Speaker 1: give her, give her our best and uh and hugs
Speaker 1: all around, and and thanks again for your time that day.
Speaker 1: And thanks again for your time now. I know you're
Speaker 1: probably one of the busiest guys on the island, but
Speaker 1: UH appreciate you and all your efforts and uh and
Speaker 1: and your heart and your soul and what you're pouring
Speaker 1: into what you're pouring into giving back and then and
Speaker 1: and what you're producing that um that I know, as
Speaker 1: as Colt says, the fruits of your labor are delicious.
Speaker 1: I can I can vouch and the the size of
Speaker 1: that thing that radish or whatever that was that we
Speaker 1: pulled out of that ground. I still. I mean, that
Speaker 1: could have fed us for for a year alone, like
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving turkey. Yeah, so that was the size of it,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Um what with what Cold was saying,
Speaker 1: If I could just add one thing to that, I
Speaker 1: I really a theme of my life has been in
Speaker 1: all or nothing mentality, and I think that that is
Speaker 1: handicapped me time and time again. It's either a dent
Speaker 1: or it's not worth doing at all. And well, you know,
Speaker 1: I know, I remember both. I mean I came from
Speaker 1: Orange County and sugar An, Texas, these these very nice,
Speaker 1: polished suburban areas, and I remember the romanticizing, you know,
Speaker 1: an episode of Survivor or seeing these things that seem
Speaker 1: so out of reach. Look at these people living in
Speaker 1: the moment, completely immersed in what they're doing. But I
Speaker 1: think it's it's so important to not be extreme with it.
Speaker 1: If you just go out and put your feet on
Speaker 1: some grass, you're grounded to the earth. Smart start a
Speaker 1: small little raised bed garden and you're you know, apartment,
Speaker 1: you know, get some lights, whatever, just the little things
Speaker 1: that bring us back out of this this electronic system
Speaker 1: that we're living in and back into what God intended
Speaker 1: for us. Every little step towards that, even if it
Speaker 1: benefits nobody other than yourself, that's really what matters, because
Speaker 1: it will send ripples throughout. If you benefit yourself with
Speaker 1: something real and pure, you will then have that realness
Speaker 1: and that pureness to give out to other things in
Speaker 1: the universe and it will make an impact. So anyways,
Speaker 1: like I said, informed, inspired and insignificant. That's why I
Speaker 1: feel anyway, So thank you, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: that time. Farmer Shamuel. God speed on all your efforts,
Speaker 1: and uh, I cannot wait to see you again. I
Speaker 1: really look forward to that opportunity right back at you.
Speaker 1: Love you guys, and aloha. Wow wow. I love doing
Speaker 1: these because I mean it totally. You know, we learned
Speaker 1: a lot while we were there, but you know, the
Speaker 1: sort of reflection, especially to get that chance to reflect
Speaker 1: with the people that we were there with. Man, it's
Speaker 1: just another level, you know, just kind of refocuses recenters you.
Speaker 1: It brings me right back into the arm learning just
Speaker 1: like learning from like from he's like he's farmer, he's
Speaker 1: like father Samuel. I mean that last little bit I
Speaker 1: was like it was very relatable to me. It's somebody
Speaker 1: that's like in an alcoholic So I'm like, oh this way,
Speaker 1: Oh this way. It's like, actually, how about some balance
Speaker 1: in your life? You just try one little thing. I
Speaker 1: was like, I mean, it was so well said, and
Speaker 1: it was a good reminder and I don't know that
Speaker 1: obviously came from It was a piece of realness that
Speaker 1: he passed along to me. And I'm just looking at
Speaker 1: It's like, now I'm feeling better just having talked to him.
Speaker 1: So now I'm more equipped to go out in the
Speaker 1: world and spread that. Um So this Zoom call is
Speaker 1: like he's He's infusing positive vibes through Zoom and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go send out to ocean side here. Now I
Speaker 1: believe that that was cool the less a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think we're onto something here with fire Pit Journey recaps,
Speaker 1: bringing on s from the journeys after they've seen the
Speaker 1: show to be able to reflect and fill in the
Speaker 1: gaps and get our get an opportunity to kind of
Speaker 1: think back on on the trip. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is as rich for a listener or and
Speaker 1: or a viewer as it is for us, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you right now like this. This feels as good
Speaker 1: as anything I've I've ever done, being able to kind
Speaker 1: of check back in and here feedback and then you
Speaker 1: know again get get additional. As he said, well, I
Speaker 1: was overwhelmed by you here, but I would like to
Speaker 1: reiterate a few things. It was like, Wow, giving giving
Speaker 1: people another chance to kind of uh communicate a message
Speaker 1: beyond what the you know what ended up in the
Speaker 1: edit is really cool experience and it is overwhelming. You know,
Speaker 1: the whole idea of making the planet a better place,
Speaker 1: that's overwhelming. How the hell do you do that? And
Speaker 1: for you know, to have him give us the homework
Speaker 1: assignment of hey, start small, take your shoes off, walking
Speaker 1: the grass barefoot, you know, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've picked rocks when they were redoing the range
Speaker 1: at at goad Hill Park, or you know, going out
Speaker 1: with Uncle Ashy and and kind of jumping in on
Speaker 1: on some of what they're doing whole by whole as
Speaker 1: they continue to improve that land, and that experience, you know,
Speaker 1: just just a little you know, taking one of the
Speaker 1: caddies from the Junior Caddy Academy, that in a way
Speaker 1: is is giving back to the future when connecting with
Speaker 1: kids you know will crop out there. Running the junior
Speaker 1: academies on Saturdays at three o'clock in the afternoon is
Speaker 1: an inspiring visual of just you know, it doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: have to be land per se. It can be next generations. Um,
Speaker 1: and that there's something to be said for all this.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. I think about this trip and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be thinking about a lot more that that community spirit,
Speaker 1: all those individuals and what they're doing. Uh. But if
Speaker 1: and if you connect all of those dots who alan
Speaker 1: the spirituality, the name of the buildings, Farmer Samuel and
Speaker 1: cultivating the land, and Uncle Arthur with you know, his
Speaker 1: eighty years playing, while Loua the mayor trying to take
Speaker 1: care of and preserve affordable golf at Wailua, Mary B.
Speaker 1: Porter King trying to help and inspire junior golf through
Speaker 1: First Tea, kay Lee E and all the efforts of
Speaker 1: those gardens that they're doing. Uh and uh, there's sort
Speaker 1: of the Tarot roots and the cultivation of all that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it just keeps keeps going, It
Speaker 1: keeps going on. In the Mackay Course, Principal Mackay, you
Speaker 1: know with um, the albatross birds and all the efforts
Speaker 1: that are being made there to make sure that they
Speaker 1: have a safe place to to continue to exist. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, um uncle Arthur and and uh and and
Speaker 1: the canoes and what they've done to preserve the fisheries
Speaker 1: there on. I mean the men you know, knocking back
Speaker 1: the mango plants. You connect all those dots and and
Speaker 1: then not to mention the the the sigement and the
Speaker 1: little quoit pie, but you connect all those dots and
Speaker 1: it's like that now it makes you feel like it's
Speaker 1: a bunch of individuals working towards one greater good and uh,
Speaker 1: really impactful stuff. All right, guys, Kelly now in the
Speaker 1: waiting room here he comes coming in? Are you but
Speaker 1: I'm man? Yeah, Kenny? And how it killing good? Bro goood?
Speaker 1: And that I was watching a video last night when
Speaker 1: when a That was when a bah Keylee? Where are
Speaker 1: you right now? Right now? I'm at my base yard
Speaker 1: right now and kill a whale? Can have my equipment?
Speaker 1: You hunting? Hunting, hunting a wild board, dog, dog and knife.
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish, bro, Where were you this week?
Speaker 1: What have you been up to? Um? I uh was
Speaker 1: in my week Hulu and we were m helping that
Speaker 1: community community there to get their fishing rules together to
Speaker 1: um go to legislature proposal. They're they're proposing their rules.
Speaker 1: We met with the state. There's a senator, there was
Speaker 1: the mayor, everybody there and so now it's the next
Speaker 1: step forward to go into the BLNR board and then
Speaker 1: from there they do their last public hearing and then
Speaker 1: hopefully the govern the signs off Achilles. That's the sort
Speaker 1: of build a community there. Uh, like you guys haven't Hagenna. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: they managed their fishing area, they didn't. They that's their place,
Speaker 1: you know, everything about their place, you know, not necessarily
Speaker 1: everything is the same, you know on each island, so um,
Speaker 1: they they gotta do. Is really really a nice meeting, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people showed away, like EIGHTI is something
Speaker 1: people there, Yeah, Kiley, I think that you know obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, spending time with you and hearing your background,
Speaker 1: your family history, the history of the island as it
Speaker 1: relates to, Yeah, where it was, but more importantly sort
Speaker 1: of where it is now and where it's going and
Speaker 1: people like yourself, and then obviously that the other we
Speaker 1: talked to like Huolani and the both uncle Arthur's and
Speaker 1: and uh and the farmer Samuel and and all these
Speaker 1: different you know, Mr mayor all these different touch points
Speaker 1: of how each individual is doing their part to try
Speaker 1: to create a sense of sustainability and a and a
Speaker 1: realistic future in which you know, you're not you're not
Speaker 1: you know, sort of over over using resources and sort
Speaker 1: of running the island in the in the ground. What
Speaker 1: was your overall take of seeing how all these different
Speaker 1: all these dots are being connected as a part of
Speaker 1: a greater good for Kawaii that then can be used
Speaker 1: other islands and even on the mainland, and and and
Speaker 1: sort of the greater global effort. Yes, so, um, watching
Speaker 1: watching the video, like even with Pola on the end,
Speaker 1: I mean that was really nice to see that, you
Speaker 1: know that everybody is on that same pages. We have
Speaker 1: to take care of our place. Um, it was like
Speaker 1: that before, you know, before you didn't get all these
Speaker 1: uh supermarkets that you have today. You know, So for me,
Speaker 1: I I I like what I like what everybody was
Speaker 1: really aware of. You know, well, we gotta be prepared
Speaker 1: if anything, you know, we get we get generations to
Speaker 1: come and if we don't set a good example and
Speaker 1: and do what we're supposed to do, then we're gonna
Speaker 1: be lost. We're gonna be lost, you know. Um So
Speaker 1: saying like this community that I went, we went to
Speaker 1: go and support h and they're on Maui, so that's
Speaker 1: a different island that that. We're all the dogs all connect, right,
Speaker 1: you know, from from here on. I mean, it's all
Speaker 1: when we connect. It is getting everybody there while doing
Speaker 1: what you just did, you know, but doing this interview,
Speaker 1: doing you know, getting all the knowledge and and uh
Speaker 1: from each and every one of us, best practices, lessons learned,
Speaker 1: sharing information, uh, you know, winning that award. You know,
Speaker 1: we we documented that in the in the show and
Speaker 1: the award that you want, and you know, some people
Speaker 1: didn't know. We've talked to a lot of other people
Speaker 1: who have who were on the show, who learned a
Speaker 1: lot by watching you and understanding you know, like you
Speaker 1: might have learned something from watching them. They're learning from
Speaker 1: you these lessons, learning best practices then can then be shared,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, yeah, and that's what it is. You know,
Speaker 1: when we went to the Equator Prize award, I mean,
Speaker 1: if people's had seen these people, how they were struggling
Speaker 1: in the world and they still got picked out of
Speaker 1: door countries top twenty two. You know, they're doing something right,
Speaker 1: but they're struggling to you know, it's sat in my
Speaker 1: heart in in a couple of like Brazil um um.
Speaker 1: These people living at Amazon, you know, they cannot talk
Speaker 1: good they cannot talk good English. They can they didn't
Speaker 1: even have money to come out of the hotel room
Speaker 1: to go buy stuff. You know, that's how way back
Speaker 1: it was. And to watch to watch them express themselves
Speaker 1: in what they they're going through, you know, oh man,
Speaker 1: it really is toff man. And that's why we say,
Speaker 1: you know, we we need to get on board and
Speaker 1: do ours, do our things, you know, so we don't
Speaker 1: we don't get in that realm. We're gonna teach, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we we have everything put on a patty there
Speaker 1: for us by all couponas you know. We gotta take
Speaker 1: advantage of what they had shall with us, you know.
Speaker 1: But it was amazing, It was unbelievable. Mhm. Choin might
Speaker 1: be a small spot, but it seems like everybody there
Speaker 1: has really expanded their horizons, you know, mentally kind of
Speaker 1: thinking taking themselves out of the present. Yeah here and
Speaker 1: now all about me, me, me and really thinking about
Speaker 1: the past and the future. Yeah, it's a lot. I
Speaker 1: like that. What what Matt? What was saying to you know?
Speaker 1: It's and was it Matt with pool any and I
Speaker 1: think it was. I forget who it was. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't about me. It's about we. And that's the point there.
Speaker 1: It's about we, we all, not me. I know. That's
Speaker 1: all out. That's that. That's you. You're on the wrong
Speaker 1: page with with us, you know. Yeah, that was with
Speaker 1: Zeke at at poi poo bay. I think we were
Speaker 1: kind of having that conversation. Yeah, it was about uh
Speaker 1: and you know that that's we've talked to you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people again, even just on this podcast
Speaker 1: after they've watched the show and and and it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, and we've talked about it also. How to
Speaker 1: try to make global change can get really overwhelming. You
Speaker 1: can kind of easily say, ah, screw it, Uh it's
Speaker 1: too much, I can't have I can't make any change.
Speaker 1: But if you start with your own community, and if
Speaker 1: everybody starts in their own community, and eventually those dots
Speaker 1: get connected, just like you guys are doing in Kawaii right,
Speaker 1: used the island of Kawaii as a microcosm of the
Speaker 1: greater good. And if people like you and Farmer Samuel,
Speaker 1: and Hulani and and and and and Zeke and and
Speaker 1: the mayor and everybody has that Mary b Porter king
Speaker 1: about the kids and I want to give back, you
Speaker 1: know to what if everybody has that mentality in their
Speaker 1: own community, well then that becomes a state mentality, which becomes,
Speaker 1: you know, a country mentality, which becomes a global mentality. Yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's the goal, man. You know, that's the goal
Speaker 1: to get we can go global even better, you know,
Speaker 1: and like like we're saying, you know, we we we haven't.
Speaker 1: Uh we have people that are thinking on the same
Speaker 1: page as we all are, and that would be something
Speaker 1: we could you know, and it will come. I I
Speaker 1: believe it will come. It has to. Yeah. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: farmer Samuel give us a nice little piece of advice.
Speaker 1: We just talked to him. Uh, you know, we said,
Speaker 1: what what can we do? You know? He said, start small,
Speaker 1: take your shoes off, walk barefoot on the ground. Start there.
Speaker 1: You know, it kind of just become grounded. Bird. You
Speaker 1: gotta get grounded with the land, get grounded and really
Speaker 1: look at the whole picture. You know, sometimes you need
Speaker 1: to sit down and just look around your look around
Speaker 1: you you know what what you have. You know, like
Speaker 1: I come here to my my base yard, you know,
Speaker 1: every morning, and this is where I spent all my time.
Speaker 1: So being grounded to the to the area, being grounded
Speaker 1: to life in all this is what we do when
Speaker 1: I come back down here, growing our own food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And and that's what it's it's all about.
Speaker 1: I mean again, it's we get people behind us coming.
Speaker 1: I have grandchildren, I have my my children, and so
Speaker 1: we gotta put him in that steps and we gotta
Speaker 1: do the right we're supposed to appreciate that, you know.
Speaker 1: Um uh, what was his name? The farmer, farmer Samuel.
Speaker 1: When my wife, my wife watched this yesterday when I
Speaker 1: got back, we watched this. She knows him. He used
Speaker 1: to work with my wife at the Elti Hut in Kilue,
Speaker 1: and so when my wife saw him on that, she
Speaker 1: was like, yes, boys, so cool. And you guys can't
Speaker 1: see this, but I'm as a no deparmer fam. I'm
Speaker 1: doing this podcast with my shoes off, bare feet, it's
Speaker 1: working already, Okay, Kelly, so give us, give us. You
Speaker 1: know I love the dog and knife thing is just
Speaker 1: killing a wild boar. So give us a little quick
Speaker 1: glimpses to how you kill a wild boar with dog
Speaker 1: and knife. Well, the first thing is training the animal
Speaker 1: to trust you, the dogs to trust you, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you know they're in a battle with with this wild boar.
Speaker 1: And and if they don't have trusting you in being
Speaker 1: a team to work together, you're know we're gonna get
Speaker 1: closer that peak. What if you you take care of them.
Speaker 1: It's like my kids, their family of us. We take
Speaker 1: care of them. And when you put when you take
Speaker 1: them out, it's bread in them. Yeah, it's the bloodline
Speaker 1: that they have in them to to go do that.
Speaker 1: And it's taking them out and teaching them how you
Speaker 1: want them to hunt. And then when they went once
Speaker 1: they get to a certain age, it's like raising a baby.
Speaker 1: You know, when they get older, you don't have to
Speaker 1: feed them all the time or show them whatever. You
Speaker 1: know they need to know. They're gonna know already I
Speaker 1: start my cup Saturday morning. They know where we're going,
Speaker 1: you know. So um, it's getting the trust in an animal,
Speaker 1: and they know where to hold the pig and you
Speaker 1: go you, you go on, you know you. We usually
Speaker 1: go from the back of the pig and then we
Speaker 1: poke them in the hot on the side and we're
Speaker 1: right in the back of the right shoulder. That's where
Speaker 1: you bleed them with this where the heart is. So
Speaker 1: you need good the good dogs. They're gonna trust you
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah. What kind of breed of dogs?
Speaker 1: What kind of breed of dog are we talking about? Um,
Speaker 1: we use a lot of we gotta cross with air
Speaker 1: Dale with a little bull in them, the aggressive, but
Speaker 1: Airdale is is really a good a good breed along
Speaker 1: with a little hound in them. M hm. How fast?
Speaker 1: How fast are these these boards and these dogs of me?
Speaker 1: Are they? It's a pretty good chase and you gotta
Speaker 1: run to get up there or they get them down
Speaker 1: and you have some time to kind of compose yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes times it's like when we go to the area
Speaker 1: and um, you know you again, then you know where
Speaker 1: to go where you know they move in every week
Speaker 1: they're in a different spot, so if you kind of
Speaker 1: get their route, how they're moving. Yeah, sometimes it takes
Speaker 1: us five minutes, so it takes us an hour, but um,
Speaker 1: usually we we go and you know, we spend It's
Speaker 1: kind of in a way, it's not fun when when
Speaker 1: it's over in five minutes. You know, you get to
Speaker 1: see the mountain and all that. But it's it's that's
Speaker 1: part of hunting. Believe the next part next time we
Speaker 1: come back. Listen, we're gonna we'll be right behind you
Speaker 1: on this on this hunt will be way behind you,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, We'll be we'll be we'll
Speaker 1: be there. But we gotta I gotta see this. You
Speaker 1: gotta be in a front with us, followly seeing everything. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's really need to watch. And you know,
Speaker 1: especially when you raise the young dogs and and there
Speaker 1: putting out man, that's you know, like this this is
Speaker 1: the first pig they're battling, you know, and the way
Speaker 1: they move and the way they fight with the boards,
Speaker 1: it's really like two boxes, you know. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a pretty it's a pretty what what a what a
Speaker 1: talk about being grounded? I mean, you know out there
Speaker 1: in the wild dog and knife wild boar, I'm not
Speaker 1: he gets more natural than that. You guys always welcome
Speaker 1: me on, man, when you guys call them you need
Speaker 1: my help. Well, we appreciate, we appreciate, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: We appreciate that day we had together. I'm glad we
Speaker 1: were able to uh have that match. We didn't we
Speaker 1: know we might not have one, but we didn't lose,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I think we title man, Well,
Speaker 1: I tell you what you what you did when you know,
Speaker 1: I handed a couple of awards after going through the
Speaker 1: photos here and you you you hands down best on
Speaker 1: course style. I mean, you had the hat, the color
Speaker 1: scheme was good, and some of the photos I got
Speaker 1: were of you or some of my favorites. You just
Speaker 1: you're an animated character on the on the golf course.
Speaker 1: It was cool to watch. I mean that was that
Speaker 1: was enjoyable to to watch back and and and look
Speaker 1: at the photos. Um. I mean, if nothing else, you're
Speaker 1: you're blinding him with style and there there's a huge
Speaker 1: advantage there. So congratulations on the on Course of Style award. Again,
Speaker 1: thank you guys. Man. You know it was really not
Speaker 1: it was. I really enjoyed myself. I love sharing this
Speaker 1: kind of history. I love sharing our our way of life,
Speaker 1: you know, and do it in on the golf course.
Speaker 1: In that way. I mean that was really I had
Speaker 1: a touching moment when you know, we went back and
Speaker 1: we said, you know, on the ranch, I was I
Speaker 1: was young Roman. This land here on horseback, this is
Speaker 1: all cattle. I mean now thinking back, yes, that was
Speaker 1: like wow, man, you know, I thought back, how how
Speaker 1: it was then, and and so it we got to
Speaker 1: move on with our life. We have to move. It's
Speaker 1: never going to stay, to say, but we have to
Speaker 1: find the right way to do it, the best pot
Speaker 1: no way that is everybody benefits you. Really. We found
Speaker 1: some some great photographs in the Hawaii State Archives of
Speaker 1: Color LAO, and we put them there in the video.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of black and white ones, and there's
Speaker 1: the one kind of you know with the mountains and
Speaker 1: the background the horse there a little little canoe kind
Speaker 1: of tied up there. It's from like the fifties or
Speaker 1: sixties or somewhere somewhere in that time frame. But anyway,
Speaker 1: kind of you know, talking with you really brought us
Speaker 1: back there. It's cool to see some of the photos
Speaker 1: from back in the day as well. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know I should have told you, folks, maybe I try
Speaker 1: to find the the art ball my dad. But when
Speaker 1: he left the ranch, the ranch it grows down. He
Speaker 1: got into the fire department and back there. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we didn't have the helicopters to do rescue, so that
Speaker 1: the rescue the helicopter was all the horses. That's how
Speaker 1: the trail to my dad, I always when we need
Speaker 1: to go do a rescue. Now going back in his
Speaker 1: he's growing up there, the horse was was a car
Speaker 1: for him from cold. They would put a bag of
Speaker 1: taro on the horse, let him out in the evening
Speaker 1: and when they hike out and the wanting the horses
Speaker 1: waiting waiting for them at the end of the road
Speaker 1: down the cave m with the bag of taro. So
Speaker 1: that's how they used to That was the delivery truck.
Speaker 1: You know. That's incredible. If I ever come across this,
Speaker 1: I'll try to find it, but it may be in
Speaker 1: the old if you maybe go back to the fire
Speaker 1: department Fireman of the Year. They have a beautiful article
Speaker 1: my dad and he's on the horse and his name
Speaker 1: is Samson Mahoike. But I'll try to see what I can.
Speaker 1: If I do, I'll just get back beautiful Kelly. What
Speaker 1: a pleasure to to be able to connect with you
Speaker 1: catch up again after the after the show. It was
Speaker 1: great to see you at the time. Uh, I'll partner
Speaker 1: with you any day. Uh. And my my wife thinks
Speaker 1: you look like Bruno Mars, so I think I was like,
Speaker 1: he looks it looks like you know. And uh, just
Speaker 1: hard not to hard not to be impacted by your
Speaker 1: passion for your land, for your for your island, for
Speaker 1: your culture, and for your people. And uh, anything we
Speaker 1: can do to try to help spread the word or
Speaker 1: celebrate some of your successes and accomplishments, and you're hyper
Speaker 1: focus on the future. We're here for you. So thank you.
Speaker 1: Mollow's killing you. Thank you, thank you. I like the
Speaker 1: clothing that you guys did on that on that on
Speaker 1: that US project that we did, you know, the closing
Speaker 1: the very end way. We need to teach the people
Speaker 1: the respect and and that was really beautiful. That was nice.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for teaching us. I'm here. You
Speaker 1: guys got my number. We'll go do it, okay, Thank you, Bud,
Speaker 1: thank you, Kelly, appreciate, thank you, love you, but love you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes, these people are so special, you know, yeah, unbelievable. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we get and he's walking around his yard.
Speaker 1: He shows us the plots of of garden that he's
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's gardening and growing his own food.
Speaker 1: He shows us the smoker where he you know, he
Speaker 1: smokes the pigs that he goes hunts with dog and knife.
Speaker 1: It's not just saying it. This guy is living. These
Speaker 1: people that's none of none of these people that we've
Speaker 1: spoken to just say it. They live. It's a great point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like we know, it's not like he's
Speaker 1: playing any of the stuff. We just kind of hey,
Speaker 1: let's let's chat. What are you doing? And then at
Speaker 1: any given time he's doing something. He's out, you know,
Speaker 1: working on a fishing project for the community. He's he's
Speaker 1: you know, growing stuff right there. I mean it's, um,
Speaker 1: it's proof that at any point in time you could
Speaker 1: you can ring these folks up and they're they're they're
Speaker 1: living in you know, Arthur Chow from Kyola wasn't able
Speaker 1: to jump on the podcast because he's building somebody's house
Speaker 1: like that is it's just a definition of community. Well,
Speaker 1: look at Hulani out on the golf course, you know,
Speaker 1: almost getting hit by a golf ball. Um, we have
Speaker 1: farmer Samuel the only quiet place I can talk. Let
Speaker 1: me leave the farm and go hang out in my car,
Speaker 1: you know, Kelly College, from college, from the from his
Speaker 1: yard where you know, next to the pig smoker. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just, uh, it's amazing. It's a full spectrum of
Speaker 1: one side not knowing what the hell is going on
Speaker 1: or what you're doing, and the other side is these
Speaker 1: guys experts living that lifestyle or somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1: At least we're aware and we're out there trying to
Speaker 1: learn these lessons. And I think that's that's an important
Speaker 1: first step, you know. It's Uh, every time I go
Speaker 1: to Hawaii, I feel like, I mean, it's such a
Speaker 1: vast contrast from most of the United States, and when
Speaker 1: I go there, I do feel like it's another it's
Speaker 1: another country and they've got a different mindset compared to
Speaker 1: a lot of folks in the US. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you like you said, it's like we're aware, Um, but
Speaker 1: it's we're not immersed in it like like it is
Speaker 1: when you go over there. Um you would you would
Speaker 1: absolutely change your ways and fall into that. Like he's
Speaker 1: like I think it was. The mayor said you're gonna
Speaker 1: stick out like a like a sore thumb, and very
Speaker 1: quickly I think you would, you would fall into that
Speaker 1: culture and change your your behavior, your way of thinking. Um.
Speaker 1: So it's it's cool to showcase that because they're onto
Speaker 1: something special and un quiet. But you know, again, it
Speaker 1: comes down to that island is a is a it's
Speaker 1: it's a small space compared to you know, the the
Speaker 1: you know, sort of North America for example, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like California, you know, so but if
Speaker 1: if we shrink, you know, look, and I bring this
Speaker 1: up all the time, but in our community, look no
Speaker 1: further than John Ashworth who saved go to Hill Park.
Speaker 1: Like when I say the people are living it, you
Speaker 1: don't go out to go to Hill Park without seeing
Speaker 1: John with a shovel in his hand or a rake
Speaker 1: or he's out there. He's the last man and the
Speaker 1: maintenance crew parking the maintenance cart. Like you know, he's
Speaker 1: doing something about his community. And I think it is
Speaker 1: happening here in the mainland. You know, we're trying to
Speaker 1: protect you know, municipal golf from being churned up and
Speaker 1: turned into low income housing. But it doesn't it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean we don't support low income housing. Where can we
Speaker 1: find low income housing to help people who are struggling
Speaker 1: to find a place to live. The answer to me
Speaker 1: is not churning up municipal golf. But John's point is,
Speaker 1: but let's try to figure out a better solution. Let's
Speaker 1: stop the the assault on municipal golf, which is accessible
Speaker 1: golf that leads to you know, the the affordable golf
Speaker 1: that leads to these life lessons that teach people to
Speaker 1: have integrity, and and and and and connect with the land.
Speaker 1: But let's also try to figure out where we can
Speaker 1: put people low income housing that to me an ocean
Speaker 1: side is an issue. Is let's protect municipal golf, but
Speaker 1: let's solve this homeless. This homeless problem mental health issues
Speaker 1: that are around us in our community everywhere we turn.
Speaker 1: I think the key there that you said is leads
Speaker 1: to right, these are macro issues, but as we see,
Speaker 1: you know, through all of these guys on Kauaite, through
Speaker 1: John Ashworth, they're taking care of it at the micro level. Right,
Speaker 1: it starts small like Kwaite, as you said, is a
Speaker 1: very small place. Yet the point I brought up earlier
Speaker 1: is like their mindset is on a different level than
Speaker 1: everybody said is wide. It is massive, you know it
Speaker 1: it uh, it includes the past, the present, and the future.
Speaker 1: You know, we only think about here now. You know,
Speaker 1: like they might be living small with their but their
Speaker 1: minds are you know, at a different level. And he
Speaker 1: said it my kids, my grandkids. You know, think about that,
Speaker 1: like if everybody thought about the quality of life, not
Speaker 1: for you now and not necessarily even for your kids now,
Speaker 1: but for their kids. If we started thinking about every
Speaker 1: buddies third generation from now, we would live so much
Speaker 1: differently and we'd be on the right path. Well you
Speaker 1: know the answer that's right there in front of us.
Speaker 1: And these guys are you know, these guys are kind
Speaker 1: enough to to show us the way. Yeah, they're they're teaching.
Speaker 1: It was a it was a learning lesson and experience
Speaker 1: for the visit and and you know, hopefully the video
Speaker 1: does that for the viewer, which is a powerful thing,
Speaker 1: um that we can do. So it's cool to feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, small steps. It's like, hey, we took some
Speaker 1: small steps here. We did we did we did a
Speaker 1: thing um that might matter. So and I agree with
Speaker 1: your your optimistic outlook Patrick, where you know, if you
Speaker 1: find yourself in that environment, then you adapt to it.
Speaker 1: I think it's all innate in us. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just up to us to actually put ourselves in that situation.
Speaker 1: And it starts with taking your shoes off. Barefoot pod
Speaker 1: could be a new thing, can it? Can it? Can
Speaker 1: it start by taking our shoes off and going to
Speaker 1: go to Hill Park on mandatory golf Friday, on this
Speaker 1: beautiful Friday afternoon and ocean side man, the timing, perfect timing,
Speaker 1: am over over and out. That sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: Put another log on the fire. Nobody here is get
Speaker 1: the time.