14 DAYS into the 2nd Term of PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. So many Executive orders and moves by this President has electrified the National and International scenes. Jason’s opening look into Trump AND some local issues of UTMOST importance, including OLOWALU “Temporary” TOXIC SOIL Waste Location now more than 1-1/2 years later….
Summary & Transcript
The video transcript is from a February 3, 2025 broadcast of “The Neutral Zone” on Maui, a local community media program that covers a wide range of social, political, environmental, and economic issues affecting Maui and the broader United States. The host opens with personal anecdotes about technical difficulties due to a phone factory reset and quickly transitions into a critical commentary on the early days of the Trump presidency, highlighting concerns with his policies and actions, both locally in Maui and nationally. The discussion covers a laundry list of issues such as devastating wildfires in California and Maui, environmental damage and toxic waste concerns particularly surrounding the Olalo landfill site in Maui, the rising cost of housing and rental markets, political instability including firings and cleanouts within the U.S. government, and controversial social policies such as immigration crackdowns and the rollback of civil rights protections.
The host touches on tariffs and their complex effects on American manufacturing and consumer prices, as well as the broader economic implications of Trump’s administration’s decisions. Environmental challenges dominate the conversation, with specific focus on Maui’s rebuilding efforts after natural disasters, the challenges of affordable housing, and the environmental threats posed by toxic waste and flooding. The show also delves into social issues such as birthright citizenship, transgender rights, and the broader political polarization in America.
Despite the gravity of these topics, the host encourages resilience through local self-sufficiency, such as growing food and fostering community support, while also advocating for innovative social programs funded through real estate commissions. The broadcast concludes with musical interludes and a hopeful vision of cultural and environmental sustainability led by local efforts in Maui, including the role of the Maui Arts and Music Association. The host emphasizes the importance of community engagement and awareness as tools for navigating turbulent times.
Highlights
- [02:00] Discussion on the devastating wildfires in California and Maui, highlighting personal losses and ongoing recovery challenges.
- [04:30] ️ Analysis of recent rains in Maui causing damage and flooding, especially near the Olalo toxic waste landfill.
- [10:00] Insight into tariffs under the Trump administration, their impact on American manufacturing, consumer prices, and global trade relations.
- [17:30] Deep dive into Maui’s escalating housing crisis, rental market inflation, and the struggle for affordable local housing.
- [19:00] ⚖️ Political upheaval with firings in the Department of Justice and elimination of inspector generals, raising concerns about governance and legal accountability.
- [24:00] Critique of immigration policies and the proposal to set up camps reminiscent of concentration camps, sparking fears over civil rights erosion.
- [52:00] Highlight on local culture and music as a means to foster community resilience and fund social and environmental programs in Maui.
Key Insights
- [02:00] Environmental disasters expose systemic vulnerabilities: The discussion of the California and Maui wildfires underscores how climate change and poor land management practices have intensified natural disasters. The personal losses shared by the host reflect the deep social impact beyond economic and environmental damage, reminding communities of the urgent need for comprehensive disaster preparedness and recovery planning.
- [10:00] Tariffs as a double-edged sword in economic policy: The transcript illustrates the complexity of tariffs as a tool to boost domestic manufacturing. While intended to encourage American production, tariffs risk increasing prices for consumers and straining international relations. The host’s analysis suggests that lowering corporate profit margins and executive salaries might be a more viable approach to balancing production costs without burdening consumers.
- [17:30] Housing affordability crisis fueled by market dynamics and disaster aftermath: The rapid rise in property values and rents in Maui reflects broader national trends exacerbated by the 2023 wildfires and economic pressures. The mention of luxury housing and vacation rentals competing with local housing needs points to systemic market imbalances, underscoring the urgency for policy reforms and community-driven housing solutions.
- [19:00] ⚖️ Government destabilization threatens rule of law and democratic institutions: The firing of DOJ personnel, inspector generals, and federal prosecutors raises alarms about the erosion of checks and balances. The host frames these actions as an attempt to undermine judicial independence and accountability, suggesting a dangerous concentration of power that could have lasting impacts on governance and civil liberties.
- [24:00] Immigration policies risk human rights violations and social unrest: The discussion on family separations, deportations, and the establishment of detention camps likened to concentration camps reveals deep ethical and legal concerns. The host warns that these policies could fuel social divisions, provoke civil unrest, and damage America’s moral standing globally.
- [52:00] Culture and community initiatives as foundations for resilience: Despite the heavy political and environmental challenges, the show highlights local arts, music, and cultural programs as vital for social cohesion and healing. The Maui Arts and Music Association’s efforts to integrate environmental solutions with cultural promotion reflect a holistic approach to community sustainability and empowerment.
Additional Notes
Throughout the broadcast, the host maintains a critical and often frustrated tone toward the Trump administration, while also emphasizing local solutions and community empowerment. The intertwining of national politics with local issues creates a comprehensive picture of how global policies impact small island communities like Maui. The inclusion of music and cultural references provides a counterbalance, suggesting that even amidst chaos, cultural identity and local initiatives remain sources of hope and stability.
Timestamped Transcript
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[Music] well good morning everyone it’s 11:00 on Monday February 3rd 2025 and this is the neutral zone you on television will have heard and seen our opening music but on radio isn’t it the third oh February 3rd I didn’t play the music today and the reason I didn’t play it is I uh brought my phone in because I was having a problem with the battery and when I did they replaced the battery but it’s interesting until you use something you don’t think oh yeah I need to download that program and
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load all those things again from scratch because they did a factory reset which was quite a move so uh you’ll probably hear it on the uh internet if you go to Maui neutral zone.com you’ll see all of our shows and you can go to uh Maui stream which is aaku and kaku’s online platform where you can listen to all three of the akaku stations and K KU and you can also go up to YouTube and put in uh dream Maui and the number one you can put in all anything dream Maui you’ll find us but
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dream Maui one is where most of the shows from the neutral zone live and everything from the website are just linked to it well this is the first show that I’ve been here with you guys since we uh brought in this new guy this new old guy named Trump and I could be respectful but it’s getting harder and harder by the moment I am just in a bit of a shock only in that I haven’t heard people that are uh ones that voted for Trump coming up and applauding his moves in fact I haven’t heard that much at all and
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that’s because we have a laundry list since since Trump took presidency that was 13 days ago and I think that’s pretty meaningful because uh Lucky 13 we’ll see what he does today I mean we had a wildfire in California that dwarfed the uh destruction but I don’t think it dwarfed the number of people that got killed our problem here in lahina uh with the fire from 2023 is one thing uh August 8th was it 8th or 7th yeah I forget but I do know I had a friend who lost her husband and I’ve lost a couple of
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personal friends over there and um I’m just amazed because the world keeps getting bigger and bigger problems that kind of hide how big the problem we had here was and still is like we just had a rain a few days ago go for those of you that aren’t on Maui thank you for joining us here at the neutral zone we’re on K 88.5 FM the voice of Maui Radio simal cast on akaku channel 55 aaku Maui Community media um we’ve had rain that really I want to say destroyed keii the Lower Road there in
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keii has been demolished and covered over with dirt and um I spoke to someone that was involved with the Ki Community Association but they haven’t been here quite as long on Maui as I have and um way back when I was fully involved in residential real estate in Kei I learned that there was a title swap that happened between a realtor and a developer that Realtor owned land that was in fact Thousand-Year flood plane rain area near the uh Beach between the highway and the beach and uh by doing that Swap and
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having that developer build his whole complex it re-rooted the channel That brought water from way up on the Hills down and to the ocean but by moving it over like it did the rain when coming into keii goes now down a couple of major streets and picks up dirt along the way now if you want top soil just go to keii Road you’ll find it you know in some areas deep and they’re you know taking it off and working on it but it is rerooted kii and it was already crowded and even when it isn’t crowded
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it looks crowded because we lost the major roadway and um they’re working on that that’s good to hear but what about olalo our temporary dump site for the toxic waste that and soil and everything that was from lahina and then we had a problem bringing it to our chosen site that supposedly people voted on near the Central Maui landfill but there was a problem there what that owner wanted in title so it’s still sitting in olalo and with the rain that just came overflow happened now I haven’t
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seen the video of the Overflow that’s going to be coming maybe next week we’ll see but you know it’ll be out there the videos we saw that showed what was going on in he we know that in the west side from the last big rain we had where there was just about overflow this rain was bigger and worse and when we talk about temporary I don’t know how long you consider dirt sitting temporarily with a plastic Shield between it and the open ground which will seep into the water table and can destroy the I want to say
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spawning area I don’t remember the word but down there in olalo cuz sharks and other not only sharks but that is a spawning ground that’s why the sharks are coming around there um for lots of fish and that’s now in our future W was going on and still going on we look back to just a couple of weeks ago it’s amazing how time just runs and I even forgot it till this morning the California fires in Los Angeles wow Los Angeles will never be the same so let’s look at our soil and let’s look at their soil and have we
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heard anything about the toxicity from all the burning there I haven’t heard that in the news maybe it’s being spoken about in Los Angeles or that area but uh we know fir and that that is going to be a major problem so if any of you in Los Angeles want to move to Maui I I have a plan for you I’ll tell you maybe later in this show but maybe in another show we’ll show you why Maui could well get solutions for its environmental problems by using revenues in that whole process that I was just talking about
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and that’ll be interesting to talk about I’ll bring a guest or two on uh how about now tariffs you know the word tariff everyone thinks oh we’re going to tax that country so that uh when goods are coming in these vendors now are going to have higher basis on prices so that’s going to get American companies to start creating all the products here in America again well here in America our prices are high our people people are greedy and that’s the reason we went out to the other
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countries originally many may remember the word the Meador program program with Mexico down in um Texas there was the El Paso um connection that went down into Mexico and used their workers I remember Sylvania TV and was one of the early ones and and Phil TV where they had all of it assembled in Mexico and then brought into the United States because labor was lower well we in America have enjoyed those lower prices so the idea of tariffs has been cleared a lot of people but you know this group uh it’s
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pretty broad you know some some of the things that Trump was talking about in the election cycle which we’ve heard repeatedly are extremely right Wing kind of ideas one of them is tariffs because you can well imagine if we can’t get companies to start making things here and bringing the prices down maybe that means lowering their profit margins and doing things so that we can rebuild in America and not have to raise the prices to all Americans because of these tariffs that were charged who’s paying
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them the manufacturers and the people that are here that are getting those products some of them are people directly you know Walmart and Target and all the big big importers a lot of importers from all over but big importers that have shown low prices over the years now are going to be adjusting and we hear you know Trump in his words has you know pointed to Canada and pointed to Mexico as horrible uh abusers of this American system and so he’s talking about huge I mean 25% tariff is Big 10% tariff is Big
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it wouldn’t be as big if the people that are here that are earning monies in their companies would bring their profit margins down and bring the salaries of those that are running these companies down and be able to uh work it out so that we can deal with things without causing upset throughout the whole world and also upsetting all Americans who buy products so that one is a giant middle we’re in the middle of it oh I’m going to wait a month before uh we tax Mexico with Tara s and Canada you know the Canada the
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Canadians are getting ready and putting tariffs on things we get so much of our food product from Mexico we get so much of our oil from Canada we get all kinds of stuff from Canada we get all kinds of stuff from Mexico but we also what about China why was there only a little bitty Tariff of only 10% with China you know it’s it’s like and now you’re going to use it as a negotiating Tool uh I think that Trump we know that many of the businesses he had he brought into bankruptcy never mind a couple of
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casinos in New Jersey I can say that because I was from New Jersey but and how about Birthright citizenship most Americans do not agree that we should take away Birthright citizenship it’s in there in the 14th amendment in our constitution about when you are born here you become a citizen unless you like a diplomat aren’t controlled by American law right but yeah we go there’s a big issue and who’s jumping on and supporting that very extreme people what about the thing about being
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transgender and de diversification all that being thrown out Elon Musk being made an adjunct part of the government here through Trump already making moves that are crazy and horrible never mind some of these things are also illegal but you know again they’re experts that talk about these things in more depth and we’ll let them do that um because all I do is get angry but there are many solutions how about here in Maui we are allowed to grow produce in places where we weren’t able to grow produce before you know
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many of the um senior centers I live in a senior center in koui we uh can only have a certain number of plants on our balconies or uh backyards and uh I think we need to start changing those rules and making it possible for people to become even partial more self-sufficient and we might want to uh think about negotiating with some of our produce Growers to be bringing more to our local market but we’ll see how all that develops you know I mean without even thinking about off Island we could
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fill this hour with challenges that are happening in Maui one is the the price of real estate is going up so high because of not enough housing and the demand is still high not only for luxury housing and vacation rentals but for local housing when you go in kahalo I remember it doesn’t seem that long ago where houses were 100,000 150 200,000 now they’re 650 750 1 million 1.4 along kaha Kamehameha Avenue in kah Louie 1.4 million 800,000 who’s being able to buy those people that are working here well unless
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they’re putting an extraordinary amount of money down what are they doing maybe they’re trying to get their kids back so they take a big amount of money they maybe take a mortgage on their primary residence they put a huge amount down and they also charge amazing rents after FEMA came in and helped us in so many ways like they like to say they put down huge amounts of money or put it out to um people that have properties to get some of the fire victims in there and they’re paying $5,000 a month
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$7,000 a month and it is and more and it has moved into the rest of the rental market and then this whole talk here about wanting to change some of these short-term rentals to long-term rentals and all the impacts of that and a council that is some say out of balance you know five and four to uh really not get the details you know the devil is in the details the impacts on the people in these areas from making those changes I spoke to one council person I was uh exploring ways of taking real estate commissions I’m going to be
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back doing real estate for this reason maybe alone I’m not really big on houses otherwise I’d be I would have been buying them here but I bought them on the mainland and got exploded when that mortgage explosion happened and so here I am now older and poor and living in senior housing but it wasn’t that way a little while ago well all this is all a giant mess and Maui needs to bring in big revenues well we have houses that get taxed at high rates and we also need lowincome housing so
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there are ideas that I have to develop art and music and housing all from uh well from what from having very generous real estate commissions being rerooted but it has to be done voluntarily so that’s why I’m going back into real estate we know that there are lots of people that um still would like to be buying here but they’d like to be contributing to long-term Solutions here so I’m going to show them away that’s going to be coming up um I just look at this list of these were things I jotted
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down to make sure I wouldn’t forget do you know that the government firew workers they say have started a great deal of the large wildfires that have happened that was interesting that the government workers were doing it well that’s one area of government workers what about the fact that we are right now uh our president Trump is trying to be eliminating all the people in Department of Justice that had anything to do with not only his case in court but all the 1600 people he released from the January 6th
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activities that happened way back when when he was turning over his presidency to Joe Biden and uh can you imagine that all the people they the FBI doesn’t have people that choose which cas cases they work on they’re assigned so remember all the people that were working were assigned to work on this and they got convictions not because of anything they did but went through a whole court system whole legal system so it’s not them and yet here it is President Trump trying to fire them and he’s doing a
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cleanout through the Doge program the government deficiency adjunct to the White House there so many of these things that are going on are going to be tested in court but they’re uh coming out like a machine gun from the White House and many things have been happening before they can get into court before there can be rulings about them so the levels of disruption are horrible the levels of protection for the United States against other countries that are quote trying to do things here in America is being diminished because of
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this President a president who thinks that the Congress doesn’t really matter that they’re not the ones that control what happens with the money in the budget so he’s talking about blanket elimination of all aid program and then he the president will choose um there are many historians specifically again we’ll see where they’re on the guy that’s on here before uh me David Pacman you’ve seen him and Tom Hartman another guy there are lots of people out there talking about midest touch well you could name
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all the names and then there are more right-wing people talking also but seems to be there’s no way we can get around it what’s going on now is causing disruption in our economic markets in our food in our gas in our social programs in Grants and things that help nonprofits and all kinds of different Services be delivered to the people here in the United States and here in Hawaii and Maui specifically it is a show and um I find it incredible to see the how about Pete hegseth to run the Department of Defense do you think that
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Pete Heth is up to speed on knowing what what going on in global Military Affairs huge huge number of people and budget being run and controlled how about Marco Rubio going down to Panama to talk to them about uh yes we want this area back you think Panama is going to sit there passively while America makes aggressive moves or Greenland never mind it’s you know affili ated there with Denmark and has been Trump wants that what’s this it’s like wait a minute these kind of aggressive moves are reminiscent of
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Adolf Hitler yeah there I’ve said it nice and out there I think that U many people will fill in the details but I just want to be sure to make sure everyone understands you saw Joseph Biden and the whole group giving major help to Ukraine because as we’ve seen immediately Trump and company has cut off the aid to Ukraine will it be back we don’t know what about all of Europe and the affiliations there what kind of a mess is he going to be creating there well we’re only a couple of weeks in now
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right 13 tomorrow makes 14 days two weeks pretty incredible it’s pretty incredible what kind of chaos can happen quickly all the lies that Trump gave that he didn’t know anything about project 25 and he didn’t recall knowing Steph Miller and those that drafted project 25 he didn’t have any idea about that you know he what a lying piece of work is our president and you know I don’t like to pick on people but he is worth picking on I think we should have a an impeachment proceeding and somehow create a new
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election because I think what’s going on here very soon whether you were red or blue or green or democrat Republican independent whatever you were you can see that this country is gr is gaining in problems what about this thing with immigrants even when we talk about just the surface of these issues we can see how off they are they’re breaking up families they are people that have been here decades and are working and are helping our system and many of them have taken jobs that Americans didn’t get
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enough money they didn’t want those jobs the working in the fields the working in kitchens across restaurants all kinds of things that when people come here take jobs of lower salar some of them are skilled and take higher salaries but we’re going to find this shift is going to be outrageous what about the fact of setting up camps as we’re going to deport people put them in Guantanamo Bay guantan Mo Bay right that has been a monster of an idea doesn’t that sound like concentration camps to you oh yeah does
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doesn’t it I mean it is beyond anything anyone could have imagined I know so many people that are making their sights on getting out of this country because of what’s been happening here and some say they’re going to stay and fight I don’t know what fighting means I hope we’re not talking about on the streets in a civil war but we’ll see how about the move of getting rid of all the inspector generals I don’t know how many there are but got rid of 17 inspector generals that are supposed to keep check
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on what’s going on with all these different agencies when that that’s been gone and how about the federal prosecutors being fired I mean what are we doing here we’re having elimination of anyone and everyone one that could anyway question this King likee role that Trump is bringing in and giving himself it’s a scary world now we can kind of not look at it and look at all the other things we can do and we’ll look at that because just because all that’s happening doesn’t mean we can’t live normal lives
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you know like tighten our belt cuz food’s going to be higher and uh don’t think that credit is going to get any easier you you we saw that already the lowering of the interest rate promised by Trump he didn’t have authority to be making claims like that but he did people believed he’d bring Brown frood prices improve the economy it sure doesn’t look like that and it sure doesn’t act like that what’s that expression if it looks like a duck it’s a duck and we all better duck we better
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start growing our own things we ought to understand how important self- sustainability is especially here we’re way out on the edge we may not become important to them maybe militarily we’re a nice place but we’re way out in the Pacific so let’s just see as things are developing I’ve heard conversations in the Hawaiian Community about this may be the time for the Hawaiians to rise up and take possession of territory for the Kingdom of Hawaii it’s going to be an interesting time you know and Russia
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Russia praising Trump for and giving him a lot of Applause for winning this election it was just by you know million people is a little margin two million people that’s a little margin Trump didn’t have any kind of landslide not at all like I say when you listen to polls about some of these things that his group have done you find that there is no Landslide except people not agreeing with what he’s doing it’s impacting all kinds of people and even when it doesn’t it’s impacting
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people who couldn’t afford to be impacted before you know it’s just a crazy time I mean I wanted to just keep going down this list but I feel like I should take a break I’ve been already talking can you imagine I someone said to me you talk a lot okay well I was going to play some music for you and let’s see now this thing is plugged in and so I I am going to bring up some music and we’ll see what we want to play today how about oh here’s one that you haven’t heard in a while I bet I hadn’t heard it
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in a while oh it’s not playing is it I don’t hear it so if I don’t hear it you probably can’t hear it it says it’s playing maybe it’s not anyway um last week you were uh listening to Scott medcafe that was he’s a surfer who lost the limb but he was working for the county and now now um he’s been out in World Championships and um that’s he was on last week it was actually supposed to be a rerun of the interview I did with Gabe Johnson last year Gabe Johnson one of
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our Council people from Maui we were talking about the olalo among other things I am very concerned about the olalo toxic landfill and how with all the things going on it’s somehow taken a back seat in the uh news cycle but it is a really important one and uh you never mind all the people that talk about lahina and how it’s slowed down and how many houses maybe three or four houses have been built and they’re bringing in temporary housing how’d you like to live in a steel tube house that they brought in there in the
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H and they’re so so proud of that and they use tremendous how do they keep them cool electricity wow how crazy is that there have many Alternatives that have been proposed and there’s really been very little emergency solutions that have been implemented at what point do we call it emergency and do things differently and try things differently I don’t know I I mean I just see a very conservative stance being taken and know affordable housing takes money and our budget may not have it and if we’re not
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having grants and we’re not getting solutions from others helping us it’s going to be a long time as insurance companies are getting overburn they have reinsurance so they share the risk but as the world is having problems before our eyes we see that it’s going to be impacting everyone’s rates and some people don’t have any insurance at all how about California where insurance companies pulled out and the law was changed but you didn’t have to have insurance in different areas then we
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have a massive fire and there’s no insurance for many people and waiting for insurance and for many people and confusion about who’s going to get help from a $4 billion settlement here in Hawaii for the people first we thought it was only people in Lina side now they’re talking Laha and keii I know a lot of people that have suffered from this whole thing that were in kii well how are the people in kii involved as it affected their businesses and their homes and their work all kinds of people have been affected all over
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this island it’s still going on now it’s caused just a massive Confusion by people that are in positions of power not having the ability to bring the most important sector my part besides public will we need to have the money and why would we lower taxes on the big guys we think they’re going to voluntarily the very rich are going to voluntarily give the money to help the things that we need here at the scale that we need them I don’t think so do you think that Mark Zuckerberg that one really is a
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mindblower how about Facebook stopping fact checking can you imagine that I I can’t imagine that that means anytime something is said by Trump or whatever remember when they put him off the uh platform and now Mark Zuckerberg’s giving 25 gave $25 million to Trump I’m sorry we cut you off I’m sorry now we have no factchecking we rely on community opinions and the great number of opinions that outweigh the truth are up there so we are finding ourselves in a crazy crazy spot it’s funny when my phone doesn’t
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have music to play it’s really waiting for um me to put on music let’s see if I can put another one on because you know I what did you think about last night did you see beyon Beyonce don’t you always think of her as a country music singer well maybe there are too many lines drawn between categories because if you listen to country music these days you hear rap music involved you hear rock music involved and Jazz so uh it’s uh get the music business is getting much more overlap in what they’re doing I
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personally find that Beyonce is super talented really glad to see that but I wonder what’s happening and how by all this uh integration didn’t that why the Hawaii Lions lost their category there wasn’t uh enough I I don’t know why they really put them in with World music I thought that was a ridiculous thing some of the people here that we know and love aren’t in a separate category I just am mind blown by how the world is you know as big companies by little companies everything is getting to fewer and fewer
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choices in where prices can go up where choices can go down how about that how about AI we think oh AI is going to be great I I’ve used it and I think it’s terrific it’s like having uh someone to do a lot of the heavy lifting in research and then using some of that information to again with references of where it came can be uh used and makes things more efficient well do we we have a skilled people to take over to be able to work in jobs using AI no not yet are we cutting jobs and putting up things
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that you go into Costco now that there’s a machine there to see if you’re coming in right and on their screen need less people we are watching everything get automated and that means if we have things to do in our leisure time we better start developing those because our jobs are getting homogenized we’re losing more people we’re losing more people that know how to multiply and divide because we’re all using calculators all the time we’re not using our brains to do what they could do
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we’re not thinking about the world we’re thinking about only us seems like we’ve rolled backward I kind of thought that when Barack Obama became president Prejudice would slowly or quickly be gone and people would learn to appreciate each other for the quality of who we are and what we do and how we are and act but that sure didn’t happen you know I’m looking here at the clock wow I got a lot of time to go I am GNA put my headphones on and go hunting around for music to see what I want to play for you I had things
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chosen but they were Gone With the Wind when I um had my phone factory reset that was quite a move so let’s just take a quick chat a quick look I’m G to play in my music remember this song here it is oh maybe you can’t hear is that President Poker Face I think so Lady Gaga oh did you hear that I just had the arm of the law come down because there were expletives in that song you know I never heard an exploitive in that song oh that’s interesting all right we won’t pay that let’s play something without
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expletives let’s play the news there we go that’s an expletive for you um I’m going to play something else that has no exploitive Zack Brown Band you know I’m chicken Fri beer on Friday night a pair of jeans to fit just right and the radio [Music] well I raised up shade of a Georgia and that’s home you know sweet homemade wi where the peaches grow and my house it’s not much to talk about but it’s feel love just grown andn and a little bit of chicken FR night aans right and the
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[Music] radio to [Music] see [Music] child it’s funny it’s little things in life that mean not where you live you drive the tag on youres there’s no dollar sign on Ace of mind come to know so if you agree have a drink with me raise your glasses for toast to a little bit of chicken fried and cold beer on Friday night a jeans to fit just right and the radio to see sun rise see the love in my woman’s eyes feel the touch of my precious child and no [Music] mother I than God for my life for the
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Stars and Stripes May Freedom Forever fly let it ring salute the ones who died the ones that give their Liv all the things we love like our chicken and cold beer on Friday night a pair of jeans to fit just right like to see the S see the love and M’s eyes feel the touch of my precious child and know Mother’s Love get your little chicken fry and cold beer on a Friday night a pair of jeans that fit just right and a radio I to see song see love in my woman’s eyes feel the touch of my precious child and no
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mother’s love [Music] Zack Brown Band I like that song uh I found that I never knew this that the song Pokerface that was on the radio uh freely and openly uh suddenly someone listened closely and it was sort of like the Beatles you know if you play it backwards I the I on The Walrus nope but it’s uh in the lyrics deeply hidden but not hidden and so that’s un explodable I never heard that here’s a song I really like I know you like too I think the word is Eric Clapton Stevie Winwood Ginger
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Baker this one a live version I can’t find my way home enjoy it [Music] [Music] [Music] come down up your thr and leave your body alone [Music] some you are the Reas been [Music] away just oh I’m wasted find my [Music] come down on your and [Music] leave deep you are the reason been so long [Music] just the time oh find my way home [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] k a KU 88.5 FM the voice of Mai [Music] I find my way [Music] home I find my way [Music] home I [Music] oh but I can’t find my way
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oh I can’t find [Music] my but I can find my way home [Music] yeah that’s the kind of music I like can’t find my way home well U you’ve heard me kind of unload on the uh Donald Trump thing and um I guess that gave a little bit of room to forget all the things that are going here locally would not think about them but we have enough to keep us busy here with things going on on Maui that we don’t even have to look further to see big issues that have to be addressed and we’re going to do it right
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you bet we’re going to do it well we only have a few minutes left I was thinking should I play some music or should I just keep talking well we were going to have a guest today that happened to be out of town at the moment and we were going to talk about the Ola Walo situation because I still think that’s front and center and should be addressed for generations to come that want to be living here and don’t want to be full of toxic problem Los Angeles I think it’s already has a level of
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toxicity we’ll see what they do the problem exists there also but here out here in the middle of the ocean we need to really protect ourselves more than than anywhere else cuz we’re going to be more and more on our own if we want to make things comfortably affordable for the people here we have to find ways of creating interaction between our social and our economic and our political political not really it’s more social and economic integration and be able to do things that make sense
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on an island that maybe don’t make as much sense on the mainland and there’s lots of people here that have lots of opinions you’re going to see them here on the neutral zone like we like to say it’s the neutral zone it is anything but neutral and you can hear that from my mouth today yeah um next week we’ll see who we have I was thinking the second half to be music next week I was speaking to uh Maryanne Anderson her and her husband Ames and John darling and Rita Massie have a band
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called Simple Pleasures but Maryann may be coming by maybe with Ames a lot of room a lot of things in a little room here but um we’re going to be start doing some shows out there in the community bringing more musicians together and trying to put it together with u what we’re going to do do with some of the money and that’s why the Maui Arts and Music Association was formed way back one way back 1991 to promote art and music and the culture of these islands and take some of that money to create programs that’ll be on
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The Cutting Edge of Environmental Solutions that we can Implement here and be an example to the world of a model of self- sustainability and we’ve had some chances to do that along Ong the way and there’s been lots of people doing all kinds of pieces but integrating it and bringing it to the world’s attention about what we’re doing that’s again we go back to that idea I had about real estate some of the more expensive real estate has huge real estate commissions huge huge huge and so
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the thought of how I might use some of those real estate commissions to implement social programs here and music programs and do more art and things that we don’t need to push the budget of the state or the county we want to be able to do this and bring it into existence because of the will of us the people and that’s what I’m hoping to see implemented now normally I might be going to the soundboard and hitting our closing me music pretty soon coming up soon so you can look at this show again
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in all our shows at Maui neutral zone.com you can go to akaku Maui stream you can go akaku dorg you can go to YouTube and you can see dream Maui and the number one and find shows there and of course Maui neutral zone.com well we only have 20 seconds so I’m going to be bidding you farewell I hope that you will come back back next week and uh look up there on the net and become part of what we do we appreciate you thank you f
