Waters here from the Waters Wake Up call.
Thanks for joining me in Hawaii, Iowa this morning as we were celebrating Hula in the Kula Day in all things Hawaii.
The only Hawaiian
song I can think of is the one that Don Ho sang.
Tiny bubbles?
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, I don't know if
that was ever a hit though.
Well, I don't know if it was hit, but I heard it popping enough.
You
know why?
Because he was on every TV show in the 70s, because I think every TV show did a Hawaii episode.
And if Don Ho wasn't in there, you'd be banned from Hawaii.
forever I think that's how that goes that could be yeah tiny bubbles in the wine I can hear the whole song in my head too so I I definitely know what you're talking about I'm old so the 70s was around yep that's right that's right and
don ho was our God well not quite there you
go
When I think about Hawaii, I think about the theme, the original Magnum PI.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Tom.
I think Hawaii
5-0 is
the more classic of the themes.
Yeah.
But you're right, Magnum is such a
big 80s show.
I always kept hoping that in Magnum PI they'd have somebody from Hawaii 5-0 show up.
Like
Jack Lord just pops in.
Yeah, just pops in in a cameo.
That would have been so cool.
Oh, that would have been.
Booking Magnum.
Oh,
there.
Do you think all cops in Hawaii say book them Dano if they arrest somebody?
I bet they do.
I bet every single one of them does.
At least the rookies.
Maybe, but probably what more happened, he grabbed some shoplifter and he said, please, please say it for me.
Yeah.
I shoplifted so I could hear the line.
Please say the line for me.
Please say the line for me.
Yeah.
I'll go with you willingly if you say the line.
So we have this great John Kline, Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian.
Yeah, I know the song.
Yes, I mean, I could sing it, but that's gonna make your ratings go down.
Oh, come
on.
I
don't
care.
If I do it, you have to promise to play it.
Well, if you sing it right now, well, then I guess I'm playing it.
OK.
OK.
I'm gonna sing
it all.
Bada.
All right.
OK.
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian.
Whiffer in my ear.
Ika, pika, mawa, hili, all the words I long to hear.
Let your coconut on my teeth see where it's in the yogi yogi yogi, dear.
Okay, that's not
bad.
Yeah, I love that.
That's great.
All right.
I never want to hear John Prine again.
No,
you didn't need it.
You do.
So you spoke dirty in or you're saying dirty in Hawaiian, I guess.
So do you know what those Hawaiian words mean?
No.
Okay.
Hello, I just wanted to tell you that there are other kinds of beaches in Hawaii.
Tell me about the beaches.
The regular sandy beach, white
sand, black sand, even a green sand beach.
Really?
Lovely.
Is it naturally green, naturally black?
Yes.
What creates that?
The black is volcanic and the green is from a mineral called olivine.
Olivine?
Yeah, like olivine.
Olivine.
See, I would have never guessed that.
I've never seen a green beach, never seen a black beach, just regular and white.
I hadn't either.
It was great.
Wow.
I'm going to have to Google pictures now.
You realize
that.
Do
it.
I'm good.
I'm good.
Thanks for letting me know.
You're welcome.
When you go to Hawaii, there is actually a magic sand beach that sometimes the beach is there and sometimes it gets worked back out into the
ocean.
So sometimes a beach and sometimes not a beach?
Right.
It's just rock.
Weird.
So hopefully you go and if you want a beach, it'll be there.
Hopefully fingers crossed.
During like
It's just all rocks.
It's all rocks?
Yes.
So probably not a big popular beach then.
Although people will probably go see it if they hear the beaches there or whatever.
Right.
We took pictures when the beach was there.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A wild mysterious place, Hawaii.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
Well,
Happy Hawaiian Day
to you.
Well, Happy Hula In the Hula Day to you.
So are you celebrating?
Well, I am, but I can't find any Paco
Lolo.
Well, where have you looked behind the couch?
Yeah, I even checked out the old box and I can't find any Paco Lolo in there.
The last I saw, I think Billy had it over at the, uh, the skating pond.
He twisted it all up.
Yeah, I know.
That's a good, that, that Kona Gold?
Yeah, the gold in the streets, as it were.
I lived there three years.
Yeah, did you get a loco on the Lolo?
We used to
go up to the
North Shore, we used to get so high we could hunt ducks with a rake.
Let me just say, don't do drugs kids.
That's drunken.
So I get in my car.
Hey, it's the Hawaiian.
And I
turn it on, and I'm hearing, come on, Aina and Keena, wait, I'm like, what the heck's going
on?
Of course, it's hula in the hula day, Hawaiian.
And I knew you would be calling.
I knew you would be.
So it's, have you heard being that you lived in Hawaii for a long time?
Have you ever heard of hula in the hula day?
No, I have not.
Oh, well, it's a day to just toss all of your winter cold into the winter winds and think about Hawaii, put your mind, you know, just go there in your mind.
And it's also about really exploring the hula dance.
That I can get
along with.
Yeah, the hula?
The hula.
Everybody can do the hula.
Everybody.
It's in the curriculum, in school elementary school.
Yeah.
The huge costler, a dance, and I do it at the end of the year.
So what is, so being that I'm assuming now you know the hula, what is the dance?
I mean, everybody thinks of, you know, the girls in grass skirts and just, you know, wiggling their hips.
What else is there, I guess?
Well, storytelling.
Okay.
You know, your hands, your hands and the motions that you do.
tell an awesome story.
So, you know, it's communicating.
It's hard to explain, I guess.
But you
really want to watch something.
There's the Merry Monarch Kola Festival that goes on every year.
And if somebody wants to go ahead and take a look at it, they have videos on YouTube just to watch it.
It explains it to you because they do all the different types.
The awana, which is the one the old fashioned one.
So that's the hula skirt, some things like that.
Yeah.
And then there's the monarch.
Well, that's interesting.
So what was that?
The Mary Monarch?
The Mary Monarch Festival.
OK.
And the M-E-R-R-I-E Monarch.
OK.
I'm going to look for that.
I'm going to look for that.
And I'm going to learn the hula, Hawaiian.
OK.
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
It's all in the head.
It's just how you bend your knees.
OK.
All right.
Well, I'll keep those tips in mind.
And does hula mean something in Hawaiian?
I don't remember.
All I know is it's just, like,
Expression destroyed.
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