Hawaiian Christmas

A special Hawaiian Christmas Music celebration with 5 time Grammy winner and Hawaiian Legacy award winner, George Kahumoku. He sings and we talk and share lots of Aloha with some of your favorite Christmas songs.

Transcript

Hey,

I have a special Christmas show.

My favorite guy,

George Kamoko is here today to do our Christmas music and to talk about his latest adventures and travel and it's a wonderful honor just receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award.

How amazing is that?

The Lifetime Achievement Award from Nahoko Hanahanu.

And you went over there on December 5th on Sunday and it was quite an honor.

It was quite an honor,

Especially when I figured the guys,

They gave out five awards and one was for huapala.

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So that's a huge organization and that wahine passed away.

Another one was for my friend Randy Fong and we actually wrote a couple songs together when I was a principal for community schools at Hale Pono Pono back in 1974-75.

And then they also honored this Mona Joy and she was one of the people who was on Broadway and stuff.

She was like 92 years old or something.

It was crazy.

So it felt really great to be amongst all those different guys who got the awards and I was really honored to be there and very humbled by the fact that I was honored by these other icons of like huapala.

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She started recording all of the songs and having the lyrics and all of the words and everything in the correct Hawaiian format and all of that and talking to the.

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She's been doing this for like 20-25 years already.

And she passed away so her son actually was there to receive the awards.

Was it done in a ballroom?

Where did they hand out the awards?

It was at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and you know that hotel is still there.

It's right down on.

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And you can see Kaimana Hilo,

Diamond Head in some pictures and stuff.

Beautiful.

They have great pictures of the old Hawaii and some of the history there.

In fact,

In one of the hallways,

They had a picture of a great great grand uncle from 1915.

He was the court chanter for King David Kalakaua in the 1860s,

70s until Kalakaua died.

So he was still alive and he taught my grandma,

My tutu Emily Ho'opali Dulé Harudan Sohula and Auntie Iolani Lohine.

She was a makikau lohine and she both.

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And Auntie Iolani didn't have kids so she kept the hula going and my grandmother had 13 kids so she got out of the hula.

But that was my court chanter,

Antoon Ka'o'o and the name Ka'o'o is in our family genealogy as well so I got aunties who named after him.

Antonia,

You know,

Auntie Mary,

Maile,

Antonia Ka'o'o named after him.

Well it was a very special occasion,

Very very special honor which you well deserve.

I mean at this point you have so many albums.

I think I've lost track,

About 40 albums?

Well if you count,

You know,

We were putting out in the beginning it was 8 track,

Then we had 45s,

33s,

Then we went to cassette,

Now into CDs so if you count them maybe 150 different things that I've been on.

That's amazing.

Maybe about 30 or 40 solo things and my mother about 8 to 10 albums and with Dancing Cat I think I put out 3 or 4 albums with him.

And was it 5 Grammys or 4 Grammys?

I've been nominated 7 times and I got 5 Grammys for Best Hawaiian Music Award.

I mean I was just talking with Cindy Schumacher who's here,

She's going to do an article for the Lahaina News on you for Christmas and about this wonderful honor of you receiving this award.

I was just telling her I think sometimes we tend to take for granted the most amazing people like you that have done so much because you're so busy George.

You work so hard,

You just came back from a tour.

You were in?

Santa Cruz,

California last week.

And where else?

And I did an 11 state tour with Daniel Ho and Tia Carrera in 11 states,

40 gigs in 23 days.

Wow.

And we sold out most of the shows and some shows they added on shows so like in Napa Valley we added on 4 more shows.

I've heard Napa's gotten big,

Is that the Blue Note you did?

Yeah the Blue Note is fantastic and plus they get good food.

And actually I met some of my family friends,

My great grandfather back in the 1800s,

He was born in 19,

Well maybe 18 something but he had 26 brothers and sisters and I met one of his younger sisters,

She left Hawaii in 1920 and married a naval guy from I guess World War I or something.

So they settled in Napa,

They own a whole winery,

Her name is not Kahumuku,

Her name is Wilson because she made it and then the Beteloni Farms or something like that.

It was amazing.

Did you get to see them?

Yeah,

Not only did I meet them in Napa at the Blue Note but then they were so,

Throughout the fact that we made a connection,

10 of them caught planes and they came to the Lifetime Achievement Awards in Honolulu.

I felt so bad because I was,

Right after the awards I had to come back over here because I had another gig over here so I couldn't stay in there.

They rented a whole house and all this kind of stuff and they brought their family.

There's only 10 who came to the awards but there's about 20 or 30 of them with their kids and all,

They all came back to Honolulu.

I said if you guys came to Maui then I could take care of you guys but they went to,

And they just rented,

I think they stayed at Elizabeth Taylor's house right down there by Coco Head.

I didn't know about that one,

That's a good tip.

And they had swimming pools and everything like that.

I didn't know Elizabeth Taylor had a house in Oahu.

They had about 44 rooms or something so they took up the whole mansion.

Oh my gosh and you couldn't stay.

Well you just came out with another one,

This is so perfect,

You have a new CD.

But this is called Maui's Slacky Christmas and I actually did this a few years ago.

I used to do a lot of gigs down at Keaauwalai Church,

This is like a sister church of ours.

So we're lucky.

So I wrote some songs on there as well and things like that.

What's some of your favorite Christmas songs that you do?

Well of course my favorite is a song called Pula I E which means Silent Night and then of course Mele Kaliki Maka.

And there's so many songs that I wrote,

I should have brought my songbook too because I,

There's some songs that I wrote for Keaauwalai Church and stuff like that.

And then there's also,

I gotta look at this,

What I got on this album too because I haven't seen it for a while.

Okay,

Ua Mau,

That's a really great song.

And well and then there's O O U O,

That's a Maury song and Feliz Navidad.

I learned that song from my students when I taught at La Hena Luna High School.

I had lots of Mexican students so they taught me how to sing that,

Yeah,

Feliz Navidad.

So yeah,

So I don't know,

You wanna bust into a song?

Yeah,

Yeah,

Bust into a song.

Always love your songs.

Okay,

We're gonna do,

This is the most famous of all Hawaiian songs.

Mele Kaliki Maka is a thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day.

That's the island's greetings that we send to you from the land where palm trees sway.

Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright.

Sun will shine by day and all the stars at night.

Mele Kaliki Maka is Hawaii's way to say Merry Christmas to you.

Mele Kaliki Maka,

Merry,

Merry Christmas to you.

It's one of the great ones.

I was talking to someone the other day about Mele Kaliki Maka and the fact that most all of the world that listens to music can now say Mele Kaliki Maka because of that song.

And no,

You know how words are mispronounced and no one knows how to say Merry Christmas in other languages except Feliz Navidad,

You know,

Because of the song,

Right?

But you know what,

No one's done,

Maybe it's time to do this,

Uncle George,

No one's done a New Year's song so no one knows how to say Happy New Year in Hawaiian.

I don't think there's one Hawaiian song that says Happy New Year.

Can you think of any?

Well,

Like,

You know,

This Happy New Year,

If you would say is haole la niu,

Is no.

Haole no la o,

Haole la no,

N-O-U,

Which means new,

You know.

I've actually written a song,

Like la no,

But I didn't finish it.

Like I said,

I wrote hundreds of songs in chants.

I thought it was Aloha Makaikiho.

Aloha,

Maybe.

Makaikiho is another way,

Yeah.

Makaikiho is like the New Year,

But then that Makaikiho actually starts in October.

Yes,

Because that's what we did last year for Thanksgiving.

Yeah,

For Thanksgiving,

The Thanksgiving Makaikiho.

I got Cindy in the studio,

But the mic's not close enough,

So if you hear someone rumbling in the back,

They have to talk more into the mic.

Yeah,

And that Makaikiho starts with the moon and the stars in what we call makali'i.

Speaking of the stars,

There's so many songs.

I have to give you,

Before you leave,

My new book called The Christmas Gift,

Which I wrote about,

You know,

A lot of it is about the Christmas star.

And one of the great songs about the Christmas star,

There's a couple of great,

Many of Christmas songs actually,

But Oh Holy Night,

The Stars Were Brightly Shining,

You know.

I know those in Hawaiian,

But I got to go look up the words.

Do you know that in Hawaiian?

Yeah,

But I got to go,

See,

I hope you,

I got to take notes,

Write that down,

I got to write Oh Holy Night in Hawaiian,

Because I have it in some place.

Oh Holy Night,

Silent Night,

Of course,

The stars.

Can you do Silent Night in Hawaiian now?

The stars were brightly shining.

I can do Silent Night in Hawaiian.

Oh yeah,

Let's hear that.

You want to hear Silent Night in Hawaiian?

Okay.

This is a song I learned as a kid,

You know,

We would sing,

Actually when I was a boy growing up in South Kona,

Kealia,

We only had two cars,

And the cars were used for taxis,

But most of the time we rode horse,

When I was three years old,

I manifested getting a horse,

And by the time I was five,

You know,

Just by using that huna,

You know,

Thinking about it,

Dreaming,

Visualizing.

Feeling it.

And then actually went over to shovel manure,

So I would know what it smelled like and everything,

So I got a sense of it.

What kind of horse did you get?

I was an old Hawaiian horse,

And I'm,

You know,

Spanish breed,

But what happened is my uncle saw that I loved the horse so much,

He had a string of horses,

So the next time a horse gave birth,

When I was about five years old,

He gave me a horse called Jimmy Boy,

I named him Jimmy Boy.

Oh,

Isn't it always special,

Your horse?

So at Christmas,

Believe it or not,

In our village,

You know,

We had a small village of about a thousand people,

But we would jump on our horses,

Or donkey,

Whatever you had,

And we'd go from house to house singing carols.

And then people would give us money or food or something,

And we'd take it down to the church,

And there would be a makana to the church,

And those who were as fortunate as we were.

I love that.

What a great story.

So when you play songs like Silent Night in Hawai'i,

Do you think of those times when you did carols on horseback?

Oh,

Yeah,

I remember being on Jimmy Boy,

You know,

My tutu would be on her with a ukulele,

My great-grandfather with his guitar,

And there'd be a whole bunch of us,

You know,

On horses,

And maybe about 20,

30 people going from house to house to sing.

Oh,

How wonderful.

And then people would gather on the porch,

And then they'd bring out,

You know,

Makana gifts.

And they'd sing along?

Yeah,

They'd sing along,

Yeah.

And then we'd go to the next house,

And we did this for a whole week.

Wow.

It wasn't only one night.

We just did this for a whole week,

And then whatever we gathered,

You know,

We'd give it to the church over there,

And they would distribute among our community.

I love that.

Kupana Church,

Yeah.

Well,

Let's imagine we're all together back in the day when you were on Jimmy Boy,

And the village is coming out because they hear the horse is coming up,

And you start singing your Christmas carols to the village.

Okay,

So this is the first one I sing.

We've got to get Mickey ready.

We're walking out.

We're walking out.

We're walking out.

We're walking out.

We're walking out.

We're walking out.

Now we do it in English.

Silent night,

Holy night.

All is calm,

All is bright.

Round yon virgin,

Mother and child.

Holy infant so tender and mild.

Sleep in heavenly peace.

Sleep in heavenly peace.

Why make a mouth lullaby.

Oh,

That's so beautiful.

There is a piece about that song that makes it so timeless.

Something about that song you really do feel the energy.

Not a lot of songs talk about silence,

You know,

Except the sounds of silence.

But that one captures that magic of Christmas.

It really does.

What's some of your.

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Play a favorite Christmas song you have.

This is a song that my friend Ernie Kamai wrote.

It's kind of an English Christmas,

But he wrote this way back in the 70s,

You know.

I was in college.

Merry Christmas.

I love Christmas,

Candies and toys.

Bringing up joy to all girls and boys.

Bring me a gift to enjoy.

For all to enjoy.

There's a feeling of happiness coming close from afar.

Oh,

Don't forget.

Shelly and Fred,

Mary and Lou,

My dog Blackie too.

Merry Christmas,

Candy and toys.

Eddie Kamai and Myrna Kamai wrote that song.

Actually,

Uncle Eddie mentored me in music and I did a film with him way back in.

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It's got to be about 86 or something.

I had connections in the Senate,

So we raised almost a million dollars to do a movie called The Hawaiian Way.

It's a Stockings movie.

I got first Hawaiian bank to match it.

It was a $2 million film.

In those days,

They used real big film,

You know,

35 millimeter.

You could only go for 10 or 15 minutes and you have to cut and everything.

I remember doing the.

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I couldn't handle the.

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We had like one year of recording and we had to put it probably about 3,

000,

4,

000 hours.

Just to see them cut it and throw it on the floor and throw it away was just like.

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It was nerve-wracking for me when it came to editing.

I remember that film with Eddie Kamai.

That was one of the great films,

Actually,

One of the wonderful films.

If you're just tuning in,

I'm talking to the great Uncle George Kahamoku,

Who just received the Lifetime Achievement Award from HARA.

It's a great,

Great honor to be in the family of Hawaiian musicians.

You've gotten many Nahuku Awards,

But the Lifetime Achievement is special.

It was beautiful to see you in the company of those.

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Some have passed on.

Yeah,

Like the one for Hua Paula.

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She passed on.

And then her son was there,

Martin,

To receive the award.

And we had Jay Linkner,

And he was in a wheelchair.

And then we had another auntie,

Mona Joy,

And she was 90-something years.

But she still had a voice,

Man.

Really?

She actually played at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel years and years ago.

When it was in the 20s or something.

And then here she is,

And she was playing on the same stage.

Wow.

At 93 years old.

Can you believe that?

Chicken skin.

Yeah,

So it was really something to see her.

And then,

Of course,

A little bit younger than me,

Randy Fong and I worked for Community Middle Schools as a school principal.

And we wrote several songs together when I was a school principal.

And he still stayed with Community Middle Schools.

And all the song contests,

He was the guy who did all the choreography,

Everything.

That's huge.

Did you make a speech?

Basically,

My speech was,

You know,

I felt really honored,

And I felt humbled to be listed amongst these guys.

And I did the song about Kama Fua and Pele.

Well,

You want to do that?

I saw you did that in Santa Cruz.

It's such a great song.

Let's talk a little bit about Pele,

Because it's very auspicious that we've got the two volcanoes going off,

Kilauea and also Mauna Loa,

And that there's the ice and the ice goddess,

And also Pele.

And Puliahu,

And yeah,

There's all these wars going on.

Yeah.

Well,

You know,

These are stories that I went to community middle schools,

So they had a storyteller,

Miss Caroline Curtis,

Who'd come around,

And she wrote books about these legends too.

But I also heard the same legends at my house.

My tutu would tell me the same stories,

And my grandmother,

And my Greek.

And then all of the Polynesians,

Even the Micronesians,

Had stories.

Explain the stories so people in Pātai.

Well,

Basically,

The story is about Kama Fua,

Whose Kama means man,

And Fua means pig.

He's part man,

Part pig.

And he also has another form of a fish.

When he jumps into the ocean,

He changes into a fish.

Oh,

I didn't know that.

Kumu kumu nuku nuku a pua.

That's right.

You take that fish and you throw it on dry land,

And it starts to go,

Kru-kru-kru-kru,

Starts to grunt like a pig.

I didn't know that.

So these are all kinola forms of Kama Fua.

Then there's,

And Pele has,

She has a beautiful young woman,

You know,

Voluptuous,

Beautiful black hair,

Dark eyes,

Long flowing hair,

That she can turn into an old witch,

You know,

With dark black,

Like a,

You know.

And she has a koila stick,

It's a digging stick,

She digs,

That she,

It's a magic stick,

She hits into the ground and it causes a volcano to erupt.

And then she also,

You know,

And she's ugly,

Witchy,

And everything like that.

And then she can turn into a white dog.

So she has these three kinola forms,

You call it.

It's like shape-shifting,

You know.

I've never heard about the white dog.

Didn't know about the white dog.

So what we're trying to do here,

You know,

They tell the story about Maui,

You know,

Disney World,

And about,

You know,

And Lilo and Stitch and all.

And to me,

Those guys are nothing compared to Pele and Kama Fua.

The legends of Pele and Kama Fua is in the Maori tradition,

The Samoans,

The Tongans,

The Micronesians,

They're all,

Even in some places of Thailand,

I've heard of Pele,

And even the Philippines of Pele and Kama Fua.

You know what's also interesting?

Pele,

The famous soccer player,

Has been in the hospital.

Oh,

My gosh.

Isn't that strange that he's been in a very serious condition in the hospital?

What a coincidence.

Why Pele is going off,

Yeah.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or not.

So I want to tell you how I wrote this story.

They have these battles that go on for years and years and years.

And actually,

The story is told to me that Kama Fua came from the island of Kauai and he had a dream about this beautiful young woman who was Pele.

But he didn't know she had shape-shifting forms,

Too.

So from Kauai,

He goes to Nabiliwe Hala.

And it's a young man.

He jumps into the ocean.

Immediately,

He turns into the fish.

And as a fish,

He swims past the Oahu,

You know,

Past Diamond Head and past,

What's that?

It's also,

This story is in geography,

Too,

Because it actually goes to a kind of point past Waianae Coast,

Past Pearl Harbor,

Past Waikiki.

It's over at the Sandy Beach,

And he shoots all the way to Molokai.

Goes to the backside of Molokai,

Past Kalaupapa,

Pelikunu Valley.

Then he shoots across to Maui,

And he goes to Honokohau Valley and shoots across towards Kanapali.

Kanapali goes to Kie,

From Kie goes all the way across to Hana,

And from Hana,

He shoots all the way across to the Big Island.

So this is how we learn our geography on the pathway.

I'm learning these kids,

These songs,

This story at three years old,

You know.

And then from Hanako,

He goes past Waipio Valley,

And then past La Pohue,

Then he goes all the way into Hilo Bay and lands at Hilo Bay in a place called Moku'ola,

The Island of Life.

And then he changes into his pink form,

And he treks 30 miles up the mountain to meet with Pele.

Now,

These are stories that I wrote down and stuff.

Now,

Eventually,

They meet up,

And when he reaches the edge of the caldera,

He looks into Halema'uma'u,

Which means the House of Mau Mau Ferns,

And he sees an old lady teaching these young maidens how to dance the hula.

And then he immediately changes to his handsome young form.

He's extruding with all,

You know,

Muscles and veins popping out of his neck and his legs and his thighs,

And all the ladies get all so enthralled by him.

They're not paying one bit of attention to the old lady,

Who's Pele,

Trying to teach them the hula.

So they get all googly-eyed,

But she has special powers too,

Pele.

So she looks at him,

The old lady looks at him,

And she says,

Oh,

You're nothing but an old,

Ugly pig.

And it is.

When he's in pink form,

He has 40 tusks,

40 eyes,

And he's drooling all over himself,

You know,

Chomping his books,

And he's drooling all over himself all the time,

So that's what she sees.

And then he calls her a bad name in Hawaiian.

You cannot fool around with Tutu Pech.

So she went to,

Kawila stick.

She stomps the ground,

And all the meetings go,

Oh no,

They know how about her bad temper.

So they all run away and scoot away,

And the ground cracks open,

And the ground starts to,

Lava starts flowing all around Kamapua.

Now he has another shape shift.

He can go small like a mouse,

But huge like a mountain,

So he's just getting huger and huger.

And if you ever have any animals,

I like this part of the story.

This is the only time you could talk about stuff like this in school or at home even.

So Kamapua gets really scared in his pink form,

And he starts to shh.

He starts to urinate,

And naturally he starts to defecate,

And this is making mountains and mountains.

It's putting out Tutu Pele's fire.

This story goes on,

And they go from centuries to centuries,

From island to island,

These battles.

Now they eventually decide to make peace,

And when they make peace,

They divide up the island.

So each island has one side that's Kamapua's side.

It has nice valleys and the river streams.

Imagine a pig huge like a mountain digging up those valleys.

The other side is always Pele's side with the rocks and the volcanoes.

So at the end of the story,

Mr.

Curtis says,

So what part of the island do you live on?

So if you live on the windward side of the island,

That's Kamapua's territory,

And if you live on the leeward side where Damien Hayes is,

That's Pele's territory.

So anyway,

Getting back to the story,

How I wrote this song is I actually went to school from 68 to 79,

No,

68 to 74 at California College of Arts and Crafts.

Some of my classes were at UC Berkeley.

At the same time,

There was a lot of demonstrations going on at Telegraph.

That's where I got to play with Janis Joplin at a place called Cody's Bookstore.

And on 7th Street,

There's a blues bar.

I worked construction,

So one of my friends owned a blues bar,

Sylvester Marshall.

So I got to play there with B.

B.

King.

Oh my gosh.

And also met Norton Mufflow and Elvin Baird Sheppard.

We were all young in all those days.

And the other thing that we had in common besides music,

We loved to eat.

So I can go on and on.

Even B.

B.

King,

He had six suitcases and his guitar,

I think,

Lucille.

But only one suitcase had clothes.

The rest of them had pots and pans.

And then he carried his own stove,

Cooking stove.

I'm not kidding.

He would cook up this big stove.

He'd go down to the 9th Street farmer's market and they'd have ham hocks.

And he'd buy,

Like,

20 pounds of ham hocks,

Put it in his big pipe,

20 gallon.

And he'd boil ham hocks.

And in Hawaii,

We were used to eating beans,

But out of a can.

But he went out and got beans that was raw in a bag,

And then he boiled them.

And he soaked them in water.

It's a whole process.

I didn't even know you had to go through that overnight.

You take out all the pebbles and all it is.

And he had stuff.

And he made turnip greens and chitlins and sweet potato pie.

I mean,

He made this all in his cooking stove.

I know.

I believe it.

I did an interview with him when I was in Santa Rosa,

And he did that same thing there.

He did.

And that was years ago,

Of course.

Oh,

Really?

Yeah.

So I want to hear that song,

Though,

That you did the song about Palais.

Oh,

Yeah.

Okay.

So here I am.

So one of the things that I got arrested to at People's Park,

And we did a lot of demonstrations for She's Our Bears with Safeway stores and all that.

So anyway,

One of the things we learned to do is sit down and meditate.

I learned this thing called,

You know,

Ummm,

Ummm.

It's kind of like slow down your heart.

So after I graduated,

I had a bachelor's in fine arts.

I had a master's in sculpture.

I took a teaching credential,

Went home to the Big Island,

No job.

Story there,

Yeah.

So I went up to Mauna Ulu,

Sat on the edge of the volcano,

And I just meditated.

I went,

Ummm,

Ummm.

And after about 20 minutes of meditating,

Up came,

I'm not kidding,

From the middle of the volcano from Mauna Ulu came a,

Whoosh,

Whoosh,

Chhhhhh.

Tutu Pili started erupting.

Oh,

Wow.

And the fountain went about 5 feet,

10 feet.

When it reached 1,

000 feet high,

I said,

I better get the heck out of here.

This is serious business.

So I was the old chain of Creators Road.

This is back in 70,

Got to be 70,

I came back 74,

Around 75.

So I headed up the chain of Creators Road.

It took me about two and a half hours.

And when I looked back,

There was now a curtain of fire going 13 miles long,

12 miles into the sky,

And from meditation,

Ummm,

I got inspiration.

And I wrote this song about Tutu Pili.

And this song was number one on KCCN for almost six years.

This song launched my whole music career because of this one song.

And George Winston heard this song on the radio,

And that's how he contacted me and my brother to be on his recording.

So it just goes on and on and on.

And then from there,

You land up meeting Nancy,

Who's now your wife.

Yeah,

Yeah.

And then I met Nancy,

Who's not my,

It's just like,

One thing,

You know,

Some people call it coincidence or something,

But I just say I was at the right vibration at the right time.

Yes.

So what's the name of this song?

The song is called Ho'okupu,

And it's a gift from Kama Pua to Pili.

He's asking her for forgiveness,

You know,

Because he gave him two spats.

And he says,

Oh,

I'm sorry about that.

I'm just turning,

I had to turn it first.

You like that ringtone,

Yes?

I don't know how to turn it off.

Just silence it.

Just turn it down.

Okay.

Well,

I'm just going to turn it off.

I don't know what to put.

So anyway,

So I wrote this song,

And from meditation,

Oh,

I got inspiration.

I wrote this song about Tutu Pili.

It talks about.

.

.

I think,

By the way,

You did this at a famous radio station called KPIG,

Which kind of made sense as well.

Oh,

Yeah,

Yeah.

And when I did this at KPIG,

They loved it.

In fact,

I'm doing a joint now for KPIG.

So they think they know about pigs,

But I raised pigs for 20 years.

I told them I know all the sounds,

Even the mating sounds,

The calling sounds,

The hungry sounds,

You know,

Like the one for if the sow's in heat.

This is the heat sound.

Mmm.

Mmm.

Mmm.

This is when they're hungry.

Mee,

Mee,

Mee,

Mee.

Back to mmm.

That's the horny sound.

Mmm.

And the males actually go over there with their nozzles.

They actually go up and down the wahine's breasts to stimulate them.

And then so I actually mimicked that,

And I used to AI pigs.

You know,

I don't know if this is getting too deep or too much information for you,

But I used to auto-fish and serve with pigs,

And I used to breed 15,

20 pigs.

Just go down,

And I put them in a bottle and went right down the line and fed them all.

But I would run a boar scent in front of a boar to get them all stimulated.

And I used to go down and breed like 15.

Let's play the song.

Okay,

Play the song.

It's a song about kama fua and the part man,

Part pig,

And Pele.

Okay.

♪♪♪ Hey,

No,

No.

Don't get me started talking about hey,

Kama fua.

I'm a farmer,

You remember?

♪♪♪ She moves all she touches.

She moves towards the sea.

She's a mover of mountains.

Really moves me.

Hey,

No,

No,

Kama fua.

Hey,

Me.

Kalama he oe.

Burning eyes of desire.

It's like burgundy.

Sparks of hair blowing through the breeze.

She really moves me.

Hey,

No,

No,

Kama fua.

Hey,

Me.

Kalama he oe.

Red and black are her colors.

She's burning to the night.

I can see her in the distance.

She really moves me.

Hey,

No,

No,

Kama fua.

Hey,

Me.

Kalama he oe.

I can see her in the sunrise.

I can see her when the sun sets.

Burning urgency in her eyes.

She really moves me.

Hey,

No,

No,

Kama fua.

Hey,

Me.

Kalama he oe.

Walking near the edge.

Guided by her light.

I can feel her presence.

She really moves me.

Hey,

No,

No,

Kama fua.

Hey,

Me.

Kalama he oe.

Yay!

Yay!

Funny,

Don't get me talking about pigs,

Though.

I want to show you.

Yes,

Please do.

So what I've been doing,

Spending my time doing the songs,

But doing the illustrations,

This is kama fua in his handsome young man form.

This is Tutu Perry,

A beautiful woman.

And this is kama fua in his fish form right here.

So that's what we're doing.

And the song's called Ho Kupu,

Which means the gift.

Oh,

The gift,

Of course.

And then this is the black and white version of that.

Now,

Just for you that don't know,

I mean,

George makes sure he gets all of these.

He does all these pictures himself.

Isn't that amazing?

Yeah,

And then,

So I'm trying to concentrate more.

And this is the table of contents,

The story of kama fua.

And then this is the alala bird.

This is actually almost extinct now.

And then I'm going to have booklets made.

And 10 of these books is going to be into one thing.

And this is the story.

We've got more time,

I can tell you.

And this is kama fua in his ugly pig form.

He has 40 eyes and 40 tusks.

I didn't put the jeweling part.

I figured you've got to use that imagination to the stories.

But these are stories.

I actually drew these from my own pigs that I caught.

And this is his journey.

Oh,

The journey around the islands.

Yeah,

From Niihau,

Then he goes around,

He goes around Oahu,

And then he goes all around over here,

Over the big Maui,

And he lands in Hilo Bay and then trucks it all the way to Halema'uma'u.

And this is kama fua in his handsome young man form.

You see all the muscles and the veins popping out.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

So you captured the legend.

Yeah,

And then this is Tutu Pele with all the Hawaiian bats flying around her and the alala bird,

And this is her kauila stick.

Her branch is called a jiu-jitsu,

Dig up and fire.

Wow.

Yeah,

And then the story.

So I wrote the story and,

You know.

You could make that as a children's book,

As a coloring book as well.

Yeah,

Yeah,

And then the other thing,

What's even more important,

Now I have the sheet music to go along with the story.

Before we speak sheets,

Sheets.

And my friend David Holes,

And David Holes was a programmer for all the Star Wars movies that I made for Daniel.

And then this is the last.

And the story I just told you about the song,

How I wrote the song.

Beautiful.

And then he finally has the left over.

I love it.

So it'll be a booklet.

So it'll be in a few weeks,

Yeah.

And then,

Yeah,

This is actually the last copy.

I just got it from the printers yesterday.

How exciting.

So I'll have the booklets,

And then I'm actually doing,

Each of these will be postcards.

You know,

CDs are moving to grade now,

So I'm making postcards of all the different pictures and stuff like that.

They make great prints,

Woodblock prints as well.

Yeah,

Yeah,

Yeah.

So let's play another song off this wonderful album,

Which is a perfect gift to give for Christmas,

And to play as you're decorating your Christmas tree.

We're playing it,

I think,

On our sister station,

KEWE,

And I'm going to add it to my station in Sedona,

K-U-O-S.

Valerie says,

Where does Uncle find the time and energy to do all this?

He's an amazing man.

Well,

That is true.

You know,

I don't know how you do all this.

You get up very early in the morning.

Well,

The thing is,

I'm trying to,

I've been listening to a lot of stuff.

I've been,

Actually,

All these years,

I didn't realize it,

But I was A-H-D-H,

Probably autistic,

On the skin,

And also bipolar.

I just started taking medication,

And I only needed three or four hours sleep.

I'm almost 75 years old,

And just recently,

I started getting diagnosed for all of this stuff.

I mean,

I taught kids for,

I think that's why I related well with the at-risk kids.

A lot of them were autistic,

A lot of them were bipolar,

And I didn't realize that,

Gee,

All the symptoms they take.

I'm taking this medication called Lexapro that actually helps me to get more balance.

But before,

I was always manic,

Especially during COVID.

I got manic about farming.

I had to have set things down a certain way.

Before that,

I would always get up at 3 o'clock in the morning,

But then I would jump into the farm.

But now,

Instead of jumping right into the farm,

I go and I draw and I write first for two to six hours.

I'm changing my habits so I can get back into the farming.

So then,

Of course,

That means that a lot of the farming,

I mean,

You wouldn't believe there's so many small things that I do.

Like this morning,

I cooked 100 pounds of taro,

And we're making poi for what you call a lahaina bakery so they can make poi rolls,

You know what I mean?

And then we got the Maui Food Hub.

We sell between $500 and $2,

500 worth of vegetables and foods from our farm.

We also pick up farms from other farms that I've mentored,

So they can move the sweet potatoes,

The cucumbers,

So I'm moving it for them.

And then I'm selling it to Tante's and T.

S.

Restaurants and all of that.

And then what took me,

I have a couple of part-time workers,

So I'm actually trying to find somebody to take over the day-to-day operations of our farm.

I'm looking at moving my operation over to Watsonville.

My wife's birth daughter,

Her husband works at Watsonville schools,

So we can do workshops and stuff like that.

So nine months out of the year,

I think I'm going to be probably eight months,

And when it becomes makahiki season,

Then I'll come back to Maui.

We have five minutes,

So I would love a couple of Christmas songs to go out with.

Okay,

This is a song called,

Well,

There's several.

This is a song that says,

You are the one,

You are a,

It's actually a Maui song.

I'm going to sing it in Maui first,

And then I'll sing it.

It's a Maui song?

It's a Maui song.

Oh.

And you are the,

You know,

And when I sing it,

I remember the words in English.

♪♪♪ You're the source of things.

♪♪♪ You're my Lord,

My Savior.

♪♪♪ Higher than the highest mountain.

♪♪♪ Hawaiian note.

Since Cindy Shimako is here,

I want to write one,

I mean,

Sing one of my favorite songs.

It speaks about aloha and love.

Which by me love it,

Queenie Kalani.

Thank you.

♪♪♪ Join me in singing.

♪♪♪ A fond embrace,

Oh,

Ee,

Oh,

Yow.

Until we meet again.

Until we meet again.

♪♪♪ Aloha to everyone until we meet again.

So beautiful.

Merry Christmas.

So beautiful.

Merry Kalikimaka everybody.

How will they get this beautiful piece that you're working on when they want it?

How will they be able to get it?

You can go to my website,

Kahuvuku.

Com and order it.

And you can also get the album too.

Anyway,

Here's us going out for my Mexican disease.

♪♪♪♪ I want to wish you a merry Christmas.

From the bottom of my heart.

I want to wish you a merry Kalikimaka.

I want to wish you a merry Kalikimaka from the bottom of my heart.

Merry Kalikimaka everybody.

Love you,

Love you,

Love you.

Thank you for all you do so much.

Love you,

Uncle George.

And thank you,

Cindy,

For all you do as well.

There will be an article in Lahaina News about this that you can do.

And she did a nice story that will be out on the 21st also about my book,

The Christmas Gift,

Which I'll give you as my gift.

Much love to you always.

Aloha.

And big hugs.

How do you say big hugs in Hawaiian?

Big is nui.

Nui?

Hugs.

Honi honi.

Definitely.

Nui nui.

Nui nui.

Honi honi.

Yeah.

Nui nui.

Honi honi.

Thank you.

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