Multi Award Winning John Cruz On Life

A fun talk with the legendary, multi award winng John Cua. Famous for Island Style, Shine one, and so many more. He played for President Barack Obama, and is part of famous Hawaiian family of musicians. We talk about the challenges of family. He plays three songs, one of which is his New One, It's Time to Build a Bridge.

Transcript

This is Cindy Palos,

This is Talk Story Maui's longest running talk show.

And I am very,

Very happy to have the legendary John Crews in studio with another new haircut looking good.

You kind of look younger with each haircut.

You're going back in ages like Benjamin Button.

That's my secret weapon.

You cut your hair shorter and you look younger.

Maybe I should cut my hair shorter.

We're going to go Facebook Live because last time I did people just loved seeing you all around the world.

It was just nice to have that.

I love that interview we did last time.

So I'm going to start this.

John Crews,

Got you.

Go live.

It's funny because I went and I don't always do that,

But I like to see what people's bios are like.

No,

I have to ask you,

John,

What would your bio be if you were not having someone kind of saying,

Okay,

You got to write your bio up and it's got to reach the most amount of people.

And it's got to tell you all the things you've won and all the great stuff you've done.

How would you,

How would you as a person,

If you weren't trying to sell yourself,

Write your bio?

Well,

I,

You know,

I,

These days it takes so long for some people to introduce me,

You know,

It's like they blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah.

I liked it when I first got back to Hawaii because people would introduce me as,

And now Ernie's baby brother.

That's how I,

That's how I,

It was real nice like that,

You know,

Just so yeah,

It was easy.

And then of course nobody knew what I looked like,

So that was perfect.

And they don't know what you look like now.

Right.

I know I keep,

I see people in the stores and they'll be like,

Anybody ever tell you you look like John Crews?

I get that all the time.

Don't worry about it.

So,

You know,

It was interesting too,

Because when you were at the Nāhoku,

You were all dressed up.

You dressed up.

Yeah,

A rare occasion.

Yeah,

Yeah.

And I have to say this,

It was an,

It could get to be a philosophical or a political question,

So I got to be careful.

I've been to a few Nāhokus and I was nominated,

I get nominated all the time,

I never win.

But it was,

This year is a little different because there was a Native Hawaiian Convention and everything.

Right.

And there was a lot of,

I was sitting at a table with people were just kind of making me feel guilty.

I hate to say it.

No,

I mean,

I know there was because I'm white,

You know,

I'm an intruder.

I'm an abuser.

No,

No,

I was,

I'm just saying how I felt.

And there was a couple of speeches made.

There was one in particular that was rather like,

Ah,

Gosh,

Maybe I'm not in the right place.

But then you come up,

John,

And you sing a song that to me,

Was so part of my heart and my soul.

And,

And not angry.

It was a song that now is submitted for Grammy consideration.

And it's called,

We Need to Build Bridges.

It's Time to Build Bridges.

It's Time to Build Bridges.

And that was a highlight for me.

When I heard that,

Because I was like,

I was really feeling like I'm in the wrong place for a while.

And then I heard that song.

And I went,

You know,

This is what we really need.

We need to build bridges.

There's a lot coming apart with anger at the seams,

Right?

Yeah,

People are like,

People are on edge,

They still are.

I mean,

The song was co-written with Mark Hursler.

I've been writing songs with him for years.

Very beginning of the pandemic,

When,

You know,

There was all kinds of differing information coming out about,

You know,

Just about the virus and everything.

And,

Of course,

The country was politically like,

Charged with people taking sides and choosing,

You know,

To express their innermost,

Outermost selves.

It's like the seams were being pulled apart in the whole world.

Exactly.

And so,

You know,

I talked to Mark,

You know,

On a weekly basis.

And he's like,

Hey,

Man,

What do you think of what's going on?

He said,

Might be a good time to finish that song.

So we started writing this song about nine or 10 years ago and never quite finished it.

So I was like,

Which song?

He's like,

Build a bridge.

I was like,

Oh,

Yeah,

It would be a good time to finish that.

So,

Yeah,

We finished it.

And I ended up recording it and releasing it.

And it is a,

It really is time,

You know.

And although myself and Mark's personal politics lean a certain way,

It doesn't matter which way,

You know,

You lean with this.

Politically,

The song makes sense and it's timely.

Well,

It is.

And it'll unfortunately always be timely.

I mean,

I hear Bob Dylan,

The times there are changing.

I hear some of the great songs that were protest songs in the 60s and 70s.

And I mean,

Stevie Nicks just rerecorded,

She recorded Ohio after Dave Baldy.

Yeah.

So it's kind of interesting how we are still learning to build bridges and we probably always will.

This is a country I think the whole world learns by lessons that are kind of hard.

But we have more people that are awakener and beautiful.

And you see your beautiful son.

I see him and I'm going,

Wow.

You know,

I see there's hope,

You know,

I see the kids and I see what they're doing and what they want.

And then I get hope,

You know,

I just did this children's album.

Well,

That's what it's all about.

It is.

It's all about like,

You know,

We experience our lives and what,

How life affects us,

How we affect it.

And we want better for our children.

So,

You know,

To be able to give them understanding,

A clear understanding of where they sit,

You know,

As far as economically,

Socially,

Ethnically,

And all this kind of stuff,

The better picture you give them,

The more clear information you give them,

The better they'll be able to navigate.

You know,

And at the same time,

I see the roots,

I see the cultural,

I see your son out there with Caillou planting taro and working in the garden.

And so there's that wonderful base of that root and stuff,

You know,

The roots there.

But at the same time,

Oh my gosh,

I saw the cutest video of him dancing.

You were playing at a club and he had chopsticks.

And he was playing really well.

Do you have a little drummer boy there?

I mean,

It's like he liked those chopsticks.

Well,

Yeah,

He,

Well,

The first thing is when he discovered that I was a musician,

Because when he was young,

You know,

Like,

Maybe his first year,

It's like,

I pick up the guitar,

Maybe actually,

Like,

Maybe between nine or 10 months and like two years old.

It was like,

I pick up the guitar when he'd be with me.

No,

Dad,

You know,

Because he just wants my full attention.

Oh,

He thought that was taking away from his intention.

Yeah,

You know,

He'd see all the instruments around and everything,

But he didn't really connect what was going on with it.

But then when he discovered,

Like,

Oh,

Oh,

You're a musician.

That's what you do.

You know what I mean?

He's like,

Oh my God,

It's my daddy on the radio.

You know,

And then like,

He came to a show and he's like,

Oh my God,

That's,

You know,

That's what you do.

Because when he was really young,

I had all the instruments around all the time,

Just kind of trying to get him interested,

But you know,

Not forcing it.

But so it's interesting now in that he just waltzes around,

Free forming,

You know,

It's just like spouting out whatever comes out of his mouth.

Oh,

Is he starting to sing?

Yeah,

Singing and writing stuff,

You know,

Which is awesome.

Yeah.

What do you mean by writing?

Just like writing stuff off the top of his head,

Just going off and doing stuff and rhyming and trying to come up with words to say,

Coming up with melodies and rhythms to express himself.

Now you didn't do that.

I mean,

You were surrounded by your dad,

Famous musician,

Your brothers,

Ernie and.

.

.

My mom was a singer also.

So we had music around.

But you didn't try to run around doing music.

He's just,

Isn't he just two or three?

He's three,

He's gonna be four in a couple weeks.

Oh,

Wow.

Okay.

I don't really know because as far as I know,

Music was just always around.

It was like more of like a natural thing that where,

You know,

Like that song Island Style,

You know,

Mama's in the Kitchen Cooking Dinner,

You know,

To actually fill in the blanks,

Mama's in the Kitchen Cooking Dinner,

Singing some song,

Right?

My sister's on the couch singing a harmony while she's,

You know,

Folding clothes,

Not really thinking about the music.

It's just kind of an I'm in the front porch,

Working on my bike.

And I'm singing a third part.

And it's just the way life was,

You know,

You just,

I figured everybody sang,

Everybody had music in their head.

I wish.

I wish.

But,

You know,

So as far as I can remember,

Just music was always around.

So I'm trying to provide that for him.

The fact that,

You know,

Music is around,

He's always listening to music and to have instruments around so that if he wants to play him,

Play music,

Then he can feel free to do it.

So what does he like you to play?

Does he make requests for you to play?

Yeah,

Of course.

Bedtime story song,

Right?

No,

Lately he wants to,

He just wants to sing his own songs.

He wants,

Isn't that wonderful?

Yeah,

He got a hold of my phone the other day.

He got a hold of my phone the other day because he came up the stairs and he heard me working on something,

Right?

Recording something with my phone,

Just a little idea,

Recording into my phone,

My voice memos.

He's like,

What's that,

Dad?

No,

I have to go cook food.

I said,

Well,

I was just recording something.

I left the phone there and I came.

Like the next day,

I'm heading down to the airport to fly to Oahu and Kiyo goes,

Hey,

Did you hear those things that he recorded?

I went,

No,

I didn't hear the things.

What things?

Oh,

He was out there recording songs.

So he found out how to record a voice recorder on the phone.

So he just started.

He knew how to push the red button.

Yeah.

He's like,

Then you left all this stuff here.

Yeah.

You know,

These are the age where it's,

You know,

Talking about doo-doo and stink poop.

Yeah.

You gotta love it.

Isn't that amazing?

At four years old,

You figured that out.

It's amazing.

Wow.

Well,

It's in the DNA,

You know.

I love you,

Dad.

Oh,

Is that the Is that so precious?

That is precious.

I mean,

But you know,

It is in the family.

Is it three generations now or are you going four generations of musicians in your family?

There are four because they do have,

My brothers and sisters have grandkids who are,

You know,

Singing and stuff like that.

Yeah.

It's just like,

My brother Guy was funny because when people would say,

Oh,

It's in the jeans,

Right?

And he'd go,

No,

No,

In our family,

It's in the t-shirts.

Yeah.

So this new song,

It's a beautiful song.

And it's interesting how the Grammys kind of different evolved.

Of course,

There's not an Hawaiian music category.

So do you have it in Roots Americana?

It's in Roots Americana.

And it's also in,

There's a brand new category this year for this year's Grammys,

A brand new category,

Which is Song for Social Change.

Oh,

Good.

So this is the song,

Which is it that we put it in that category.

Yes.

As well as the,

You know,

And I think that's a special category done by peers.

And this is one of the few ones that's,

Yeah.

Can you play it?

Can you play it so they can?

It's a beautiful song.

It's time to build a bridge.

I've heard some instigations spawned by different situations lead to altered information.

It's time to build a bridge to our posterity,

To spiritual prosperity.

Time to build a bridge.

It's time to build a bridge to our humanity,

Not based on our insanity,

Reacting to calamity.

It's time to build a bridge,

A new way of meeting you,

Helping when there's things to do.

It's time to build a bridge.

Here we are,

Different kinds of equals.

We're here to build a bridge.

We the people,

We will be acting of our own free will across the chasm,

Slanting down that long green hill.

Yes,

It's time to build a bridge,

To invite creation,

Extend an open invitation to the future generation.

If we can see this through,

Together there's so much we can do.

Our horizon always something new.

It's time to build a bridge.

Come on people,

It's time to lend a hand.

If we build this thing together,

United we will stand.

I say we give it a try.

Just look me in the eye.

We'll make those rainbows in our minds.

Cause I want to spend some time with you.

If you pull from your side,

I'll pull from my side.

If you give from your side,

I'll give from my side.

If you share from your side,

I'm gonna share from my side.

We'll find the difference between us,

It's not that wide.

It's time to build a bridge.

Cause I heard some instigations spawned by different situations lead to altered information.

It's time to build a bridge.

A new way of meeting you,

Helping when there's things to do.

Time to build a bridge.

Yes,

It's time to build a bridge.

Yeah,

It's time to build a bridge.

Yeah,

That's,

You know what,

Yay,

You've never been sounding better.

John,

You're sounding great.

It's all the singing in clubs you're doing,

Huh?

Oh no,

Actually it's all the not singing I've been doing.

But you're doing great.

No,

I find,

I'm just finding that the older I get,

The more,

The easier it is to find my tone.

Is it?

Your voice?

Yeah.

And you know what,

You're in the center,

But when you're in the center of that tone,

It just,

It just is like a ripple in the center of a pond that spreads out.

I would love you to get that.

I would love you to get that award.

It would be awesome because I would love for Mark,

My songwriting partner,

To get this award because he doesn't,

I'm going to see him.

Thursday I'm flying to the east coast,

His daughter's getting married.

Oh,

Fine.

So I'm going to see him.

First time in four years I'm going to see him.

Oh my God.

Are you going to play for the wedding?

Yeah,

I'll play a couple of songs.

Yeah.

How fun is that going to be?

It's going to be awesome.

A bunch of musicians who I have in my east coast,

The east coast gang that I've,

You know,

Who are very much a part of my whole musical development,

I'll be hanging with them for a few days.

It's going to be awesome.

How fun.

It's all family.

Steven Holdings listening.

Thank you,

Steven.

Thank you all the wonderful people that are watching on Facebook.

You know what?

This is a time,

You know,

It's interesting when you come into your own,

You had a very rough,

Hard ride with your family and some deaths in your family,

Some drug problems.

It was,

It was,

You were devastated and people don't realize,

They only kind of see you on stage as something or they listen and everyone has their own interpretation.

Just like a bio here,

But behind the bio and behind all that,

There's a lot,

There's a lot of pain you went through,

Shutting out building bridges.

Sure.

Yeah.

You know,

There's the pain thing.

It's like,

I'm learning that you need to allow yourself to feel it,

Move through it and ideally take the lessons that are,

You know,

That are there.

And because everybody experiences pain,

Everybody experiences joy,

Everybody,

You know,

And but not everyone can accept and forgive.

And those are hard lessons.

Accepting that that was something,

You know.

Yeah.

And then forgiving whatever it was that caused that yourself as well.

Well,

Well,

Well,

Yeah,

For sure.

But it's easier to forgive family members who are no longer here.

It's harder to forgive family members who are still here.

That's the hard part.

You can take the lesson from the from the from the from if the lesson is.

From loss,

You know.

If you can take the lessons and bring that into the life and hopefully not have to,

You know,

Experience that I wish I could have,

I would have,

I should have,

This kind of stuff.

And the guilt.

I just wrote a poem yesterday called Lessons Are Blessings.

We've been getting a whole bunch of them in this world in the last few years,

Especially.

Right.

Exactly.

And it's like we're accelerating.

OK,

So so forgiveness,

Guilt.

You know,

Those are two huge ones,

You know,

Just in terms of humans,

Just in terms of us just trying to transmit those things because because we're all guilty of of of of of things that,

You know,

Society or whatever would,

You know,

Deem,

You know,

Punishable.

You know,

Things.

But mainly we're all guilty of crimes against ourselves.

And that I could write I could write a song about that.

Did you ever write a song about that kind of forgiveness and that coming to terms?

I mean,

It really comes to negotiating terms.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Did you ever write a song about negotiating terms?

Well,

That thing in particular.

Yeah.

I mean,

There's a family song that I wrote that I'm not sure if I played it on your show before,

But,

You know,

Family,

It's it's it's family.

Family,

It's the hardest thing sometimes with family because you have all that history and you have all the societal thoughts and stuff about how you're supposed to treat your family and what your family is supposed to mean to you and what your family means to other people,

Especially my family,

Because we're always been in a public eye.

So it's like you have that with family and,

You know,

Family is hard enough as it is.

You know,

I just imagine just if you look at it,

You know,

Objectively,

A bunch of people stuck together by something that you had none of you had any choice in.

And you're supposed to deal with each other in,

You know,

Ideally a human way.

But,

You know,

Those just the nature of relationships and human of humanity,

You know,

Patterns develop and thoughts and feelings.

And then they can certainly get in the way of of dealing with somebody just as a human being.

You know,

Sometimes it's closer to.

Talk to somebody about you think because you say like a sibling or something,

Just take it a sibling,

You've been exposed to the same things,

Pretty much the same moral,

You know,

And all these things.

And and you would think that you're you would have similar views,

You know,

And that's not always the case.

No,

No,

It's not.

My sister passed away a couple of years ago and she was radically different in her political views of me.

And I could have easily have just said,

I cannot believe you're saying those things,

You know,

And it was to me,

Abhorrent.

But at the same time,

It's family.

She's my sister.

And I had to make boundaries being like,

Hey,

Listen,

I love you.

I want to talk to you,

But we cannot talk about this.

We just can't talk about this.

If you do,

I'm going to hang up.

She was in Texas,

Houston,

And there would sometimes go there,

You know,

Every time.

Every time it'd be so funny.

And I was like,

You didn't just say that,

Did you really?

But I'm so glad when she did die,

Finally,

That I did make peace with her about and was able to maintain some terms,

Like,

You know,

Some bridge.

That's where coming building the bridge.

You can have some things you can talk about.

Everyone's got something that they can relate to.

It isn't in the red flag zone.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And just because,

You know,

More recently,

You know,

In the past few years,

It's like everybody sort of like has kind of exposed all their red zones and everybody standing there.

Like,

You know,

It reminds me of this old Chinese man on my paper route who during the light season nighttime,

He would stand outside his yard right in front of his light tree,

All barbed wire on the light tree.

And he'd stand there with a pig's fork,

You know,

Just waiting for,

You know,

Like,

You're totally exposed.

You know,

People know what you're about and everything.

And like,

You're just like,

You know,

So people are people have exposed themselves,

You know,

Like what they're about.

And because sometimes,

Well,

Politicians have to these days.

You know what I mean?

They have to before you could kind of remained,

You know,

Whatever.

But I mean,

So in a sense,

Some things are good about it,

But some things are bad because without the education,

You know,

Without being properly educated on issues and stuff,

Then you see a lot of people who are standing behind not truth,

But just things that they can grasp hold of that,

You know,

Like,

Like,

You know,

I know.

And I have I have a prayer every morning.

I say,

Lord,

Reveal to me what needs to be revealed.

Right.

So I can heal what needs to be healed.

And sometimes I'm really sorry I say that because things I see that things pop right up.

I wish I hadn't seen that.

But then it's like,

OK,

That just is something that needs to be healed.

But you know what?

We have so many more beautiful,

Enlightened souls like you out there.

When we have more light,

We see the shadows.

When it's really brilliant light coming out,

We're going to see all those shadows.

So we're going to be a parent.

Play a song that's in the theme of what you think about this.

So I was in Ireland at the time.

Right.

And doing a handful of shows and a guitar festival and all this.

And then I got stuck there for an extra 11 days when that Icelandic volcano went off and shot all the air.

Were you on Western Ireland or were you in the East side?

No,

I was on the East side,

Which is like the grim side.

But anyway,

I got stuck there for an extra 10 days,

11 days,

And figuring out what to do.

And I heard on the radio one day when I was just driving around in a car that George Jones had died.

And so this song popped out.

Should we send this out to Loretta Lynn?

For sure.

My family is broken.

They're broken in three.

One side is right.

One side is wrong inside of me.

So much is unspoken.

The games that we play left there in silence with nothing to say.

I hear them laughing,

Sweet memory.

And I long for the way that things used to be.

But with all good intentions and in meaning so well.

Sometimes close relations can all go to hell.

And we can't share our feelings because they're not the same.

But we share the letter that make up our name.

And blood is a blessing.

Sometimes it's a curse.

So this time believe it when I tell you love hurts.

At night when I'm lonely and I go walking through town.

When it's well after midnight and there's no one around.

Not even the music can take me away from all I've been feeling.

I feel sorry to say that my family is broken.

They're broken in three.

One side is right.

One side is wrong.

Sweet memory.

Oh,

I've never heard that song before.

Wow,

That's amazing.

Not a good one to play at the family reunion is what I've learned.

Did you try?

Would you go there?

Sure.

That's why it was written for that particular time in space.

Well,

You know,

Then there's no.

Yeah.

So tell me about what you feel is from your family guardian angels.

What's watching out over you?

Who's your guardian angel or who's the one you go to when you got to talk to someone inside?

Actually,

I find that I just look at my son.

You know what I mean?

Because both my son,

My older son,

Who I've recently.

And back in touch with.

I have a grandson now.

He's got a son.

My son had a son.

My older son.

Wow.

I remember when he was born,

When he first came out and was the same experience of when my when Zane came out,

Like right at that moment,

He looked down and.

They're the wisest,

Most,

You know.

Powerful things,

You know,

Right then.

You know what I mean?

Angels.

And then and then and then then then we start filling them with a whole bunch of junk.

You know what I mean?

And and then he just started school like three,

Four weeks ago.

So so far,

He's only had to listen to my junk.

But now all of a sudden now he's going to get inundated with all this other crap that's going to be like,

You know what I mean?

So it's like a fear for him.

You know what I mean?

But at the same time,

I think he's going to be OK.

Yeah,

I hope.

Yeah.

But,

You know,

The thing is communication,

Right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's only when they get to the point where I don't think you have to write maybe is it 12 or 13?

When did you stop talking to your family in your teenage years?

Was it 12,

12 years old?

You started when do you start rebelling?

Well,

In my family,

There wasn't.

Much to rebel against.

Sorry.

I don't worry about shaming the family because my family was shamed a long time ago.

You know what I mean?

So that I get at least that pressure is off of me.

No,

You know,

It's yeah.

And we were kind of,

You know,

Allowed to do our thing,

Whatever it may be,

From an early age,

Mainly because my mom was so busy working.

You know what I mean?

That we kind of had to like look out for ourselves and check each other,

You know,

My brothers and sisters.

And because we're all so close in age,

You know.

Yeah.

It's like,

You know,

I think my mom was 20.

She was 27 when she had six kids and pregnant with her seventh.

You know what I mean?

So like,

You know,

It's like one after another firing out.

So it's like we were all kind of just sort of like,

You know,

You pick up something from that one,

You pick up something from this one.

You kind of like envy this about that one.

And you kind of just like,

You know,

What you do is accord your mark.

You just stay out of trouble.

Oh,

Good luck.

Yeah.

Or more importantly,

Don't get caught because if you do,

She got to take off work.

She got to go court.

Not one time,

Not two times,

Maybe three times.

You got to go meet up the officer,

You know,

You know what I mean?

So it's like,

Oh my God,

You know,

Like,

Please don't get caught.

Whatever you're doing.

I'm not saying you're doing anything,

But please don't get caught.

So that was like,

You know,

That there were very few rules.

That was a big one.

So what song are you working on now or which last song would you like to play here to share?

Well,

There's the counter one to that,

Which is Burning Bridges,

You know,

Which would be to the Building Bridges would be.

Oh,

The other side.

Yeah.

I was having a beer with a few of my friends.

Decided to head out around the bend.

Where we were going is uncertain to say.

But when we're in the mood,

Nothing stands in our way.

Sometimes a good feeling when there's nothing to lose.

When the trouble you find is the trouble you choose.

And our journey will take us to the dawn's early light.

We're out burning bridges,

Burning bridges,

Out burning bridges tonight.

So they tore the rudder,

Hoist up the sail.

Bat in the hatches,

Prepare for the gale.

Because there comes a time when we reap what we sow.

Yes,

There comes a time for just letting go.

No,

It ain't wrong,

It ain't right.

We're out burning bridges,

Burning bridges,

Out burning bridges tonight.

Yes,

Sir,

What's in the future is always a blur.

You say you speak truth,

But I hear you,

Sir.

There's no void in the end.

When it comes to my heart,

There is no man.

And what's broken can open up and away.

One thing for sure,

We're here today.

Though the cause may be lost,

It's been well worth the fight.

We're out burning bridges,

Burning bridges,

Yeah,

We're out burning bridges tonight.

We're out burning bridges,

Burning bridges,

Out burning bridges,

Out burning bridges.

So give me a match and I'll light it on fire.

Strike up the band,

There's a singer for hire.

And hold on to your lover,

Cause tonight's the night.

We're out burning bridges,

Burning bridges,

Out burning bridges.

Out burning bridges tonight.

My brother's joining me tomorrow night too.

My brother Tony is coming in for a bidan.

Oh,

How fun.

Go to proartsmawi.

Com to show up,

But it's a treat.

It's a treat.

I appreciate you coming in.

I appreciate you having this,

You know,

An audience to do it because it's special.

People don't have time for nothing these days,

So if people have time to listen to a song,

Then I put the pressure on.

I put the pressure on myself to write one that maybe won't be wasting their time,

Their three minutes of listening to it.

No,

I love every single one.

I tell you a real treat,

A real treat.

God bless you.

I love you.

You take care of yourself,

Okay?

And I'm going to finish up with this and it'll be on Facebook for people to watch for a while.

And I'll also have the audio I'll send to you.

Okay.

So thank you very,

Very,

Very much.

I'm going to say never delete.

It's asking me and I'm never going to delete that one.

How about that?

It'll live forever after I'm gone.

My nephew and my brother came over.

My nephew is over from Oahu and my brother Tony is over from Big Island.

We went fishing last night.

Didn't really catch much,

But my legs hurt.

Oh,

But you know what?

Don't leave your island.

Don't leave your island.

Island sandals here.

When you go to island feet and don't leave your sandals on the beach or in the truck.

They got stolen.

I heard last time.

Yes.

Right when I left.

I bought these like $80 slippers.

Went straight to the beach and went fishing.

Came back and got stolen.

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Beautiful talk and interview. His music was healing and touched my soul! A message I needed today 🙏🏼💜 Thank you!!