May Overview & Projections 05-20-2024 Jason Schwartz expounds on where things are at and where he wishes to steer the MAMA. &. PAPA. DreamMakers vessel in these choppy global seas here in May of 2024
Summary & Transcript below
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Introduction and Overview of The Neutral Zone Show
Jason Schwarz, host of The Neutral Zone on Maui (88.5 FM and Akaku Community Media TV Channel 55), opens the program by welcoming listeners and viewers. He explains the show’s mission to engage the Maui community with interesting and mostly fun conversations featuring a variety of guests. The show is accessible live and on platforms like YouTube and Akaku.org, with an evolving website that includes a search engine for past shows.
Jason highlights that the operation is still growing and refining its online presence and organizational structure. The show is part of the Dream Makers Foundation Maui Arts and Music Association, a 501©(3) nonprofit chartered in 1991, focused on promoting visual art, healing art, music, culture, and educating about environmental solutions and renewable energy technologies. This foundation aligns the show’s programming and mission goals. - [05:00 → 12:00]
Highlighted Shows and Environmental Focus
Jason references previous notable interviews, including with Michael Smith, featured in the documentary The Need to Grow, who developed biofuels from algae using pyrolysis technology. This example illustrates the show’s commitment to showcasing innovative environmental solutions.
He also directs viewers to explore shows related to Olowalu, a community effort addressing toxic waste issues on Maui’s west side. These shows document scientific discussions, government involvement, and grassroots activism around the Olu Alu temporary toxic waste dump site. The People’s Council of Mauimeetings, featuring scientists and environmental officials, are available for viewing and provide important context on this ongoing environmental challenge.
Jason mentions Edward Garcia from Living Earth Systems, a key figure advocating for regenerative agriculture and sustainable solutions in the affected areas. Garcia’s work exemplifies community-driven efforts to rehabilitate damaged land and support local survivors.
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Community Engagement and Toxic Ash Issue
The show stresses the importance of public participation through live calls and social media sharing, although this aspect has been underutilized. Jason explains that despite significant grassroots funding (e.g., $40,000 raised by Edward Garcia and concerned citizens), official responses have been slow or ineffective, partly due to jurisdictional challenges involving the EPA and FEMA.
Jason discusses the complexity and danger of the toxic ash being stored and moved around Maui, referencing interviews with experts like Donnie Brown regarding chemical contamination from historic pesticide storage and industrial waste. He draws attention to the persistent environmental and health impacts on the community, emphasizing the need for transparency and effective solutions.
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Vision for Environmental and Cultural Integration Through Arts and Media
Jason articulates a broader vision in which a portion of funds generated by arts and music activities—specifically a one-third distribution model—is allocated directly to environmental projects, operational costs, and artist/musician support. The goal is to build a sustainable ecosystem where cultural expression funds tangible environmental solutions.
He envisions partnerships with local businesses such as airlines and hotels to provide sponsorships, cash, and trade support, enabling a self-sufficient model that benefits the island’s economy and environment. The Maui Arts and Music Association website (mauiartsandmusic.org) serves as a hub linking these initiatives but requires further development and webmaster support.
Jason highlights the island’s cultural wealth and talent, mentioning past and potential collaborations with notable figures in music and film to elevate Maui’s profile as a center for art, culture, and environmental stewardship.
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Community Resources, Nonprofits, and Collaborative Opportunities
The show underlines the importance of linking nonprofits and community organizations to maximize impact. Examples include the Maui Live Poets group involved in the Martin Luther King Peace Poem project, which aims to promote peace and cultural expression internationally, including presentations at the UN.
Jason stresses that funding and organizational capacity remain challenges but are crucial for scaling the impact of cultural and environmental programs. He calls for donations, sponsorships, and active community involvement to realize these ambitions.
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Media, Film, and Cultural Legacy
Jason discusses the role of film and media in portraying Maui’s community and culture, referencing local film commissioner Brian Con and movies featuring Maui talent like Willie K. He encourages filmmakers worldwide to consider Maui as a location to generate employment and showcase local culture.
He highlights the potential for creating a legacy through music and art initiatives that support environmental solutions. The Neutral Zone aims to serve as a platform to connect artists, musicians, and the broader community in this mission.
Jason expresses openness to collaborations with prominent artists, emphasizing the power of media and celebrity influence in advancing the island’s environmental and cultural goals.
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Community Challenges and Political Engagement
Jason reflects on the socio-economic challenges faced by Maui’s residents post-wildfires, including increased rents and housing disruptions. He stresses the importance of addressing these issues through local solutions that incorporate science, culture, and community participation.
He mentions plans to invite political figures, including presidential candidates, to his show to foster open dialogue on Maui’s challenges and opportunities. Jason points out the show’s call-in format aims to engage the public directly, enhancing transparency and community involvement in political processes.
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Closing Remarks and Future Directions
Jason concludes by encouraging the audience to explore the show archives, share content, and stay engaged as the program evolves to include more music and art shows with a focus on creating jobs and solutions.
He acknowledges the difficulty of building this platform without extensive resources but remains optimistic about the potential for growth through community collaboration and sponsorship. Jason emphasizes the show’s core mission: to promote peace, truth, and positive action through creative and environmental initiatives on Maui.
The closing message is one of gratitude and encouragement, calling on listeners to be part of this movement toward a better, happier Maui and world. The show will continue with guest updates and new programming designed to involve and inspire the community.
Summary Table: Key Themes and Initiatives
| Theme | Description | Examples / References |
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| Environmental Solutions | Focus on regenerative agriculture, toxic waste cleanup, renewable energy education | Michael Smith biofuel, Olu Alu toxic ash issue |
| Community Engagement | Call-in talk show format, social media sharing, grassroots funding | Edward Garcia’s People’s Council of Maui |
| Arts and Culture Integration | Funding model allocating 1/3 to environmental projects, 1/3 operational, 1/3 artists/musicians | Maui Arts and Music Association, Martin Luther King Peace Poem |
| Media and Film | Promoting Maui as a film and cultural hub creating jobs and legacy | Filmmaker Brian Con, Willie K movies |
| Political Dialogue | Inviting candidates, increasing transparency, fostering public input | Potential presidential guests, local government engagement |
| Organizational Development | Website improvements, sponsorships, collaborations with businesses and nonprofits | Website mauiartsandmusic.org, Dream Makers Foundation |
| Socio-economic Challenges | Housing affordability post-disaster, environmental health risks, community resilience | Wildfire impacts, rent increase due to FEMA funds |
Key Insights
- The Neutral Zone show serves as a multifaceted platform connecting Maui’s arts, culture, environmental activism, and community dialogue.
- Environmental issues such as the Olu Alu toxic ash site are central concerns, with the show providing a venue for education, advocacy, and community mobilization.
- A sustainable funding model is envisioned that links arts and music revenue directly to environmental projects and community support.
- The program aims to elevate Maui’s cultural profile globally through media, film, and music, creating economic and social benefits.
- Community involvement, transparency, and political engagement are essential components of the show’s mission to foster local solutions.
- Resource constraints pose challenges, but the host emphasizes collaboration and incremental growth toward long-term goals.
Recommendations for Viewers and Community Members
- Explore the Neutral Zone archives online using the website search engine and YouTube channel to access shows on environmental and cultural topics.
- Share and promote the show on social media to increase community reach and engagement.
- Support local arts and environmental nonprofits linked via mauiartsandmusic.com and neutralzone platforms.
- Participate in call-in segments or community discussions to contribute ideas and hold authorities accountable.
- Consider sponsoring or donating to initiatives that combine cultural expression with environmental solutions.
FULL timestamped Transcript
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hello everyone and good morning it’s 11 o’ on Monday this is the neutral zone welcome hi everyone this is Jason Schwarz your host here at the neutral zone Maui neutral zone.com we are 88.5 FM the voice of Maui Sim will cast on akaku I Community media TV channel 55 you will find everything up on youtube.com and you will also be able to see it at akaku org they’re going to have some selected shows there in uh some kind of a showcase directory which is great um many of you who have been
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following the show know that on the website right under the opening section that explains the reason for the show and there are some advertising sponsors please participate with them happily I’m sure you’ll see at this point there are boxes of where things can be you and um that’s why this fledgling operation is going to go through some modifications and changes to grow our presence in the community and so that’s something that you’ll be part of directly from for example every time you
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see a show and like it or not like it share it please if you’re on social media share it but I don’t think you’re going to not like it because what we do is we talk to people that are interesting and mostly fun and if they weren’t coming through the door as fun someone’s coming what’s going on my friend no keep talking we’re good oh so now you can there you go that’s good okay to me that’s interesting that’s up above the world so high okay anyway I um know that on the
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website there is a search engine so you can search if you put in the word Olu wallu o l o w l and hit search you’ll see what I see in fact let’s do it together you know my guest didn’t make it today I’ll tell you about that on the ride here but let’s go to the neutral zone page um this was built for a computer but also for the web there’s a big page and you’re going to see it on the screen but on radio you can’t see it um the logo comes in the sound is off see we’re a growing
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organization when we have the money to pay the guy to put the search engine up here instead of down here people will see it but we are a fledgling organization meaning we have more things to do than we have arms and legs or money to hire people but that’s where when the guy that precedes me every week for at least eight years here is David Pacman and on whatever day he having a campaign drive to join his thing so we could do the same because we are the Dream Makers Foundation Maui Arts and Music
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Association people aligned in positive action 501c3 chartered 1991 what was the purpose to promote visual art Healing Art music and culture and educate people about Environmental Solutions and renewable energy technologies that was 1991 and I got involved that’s a whole other story but that’s here now and with with what’s going on there’s a lot when you look at the shows you look under the search engine you’ll see it also has uh up close in personal where I interviewed political candidates
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not as a nonprofit but as a citizen Ariel’s world and interviews she’s done and going to do again uh things I did here at akaku with the live at five with Dana fton who’s now in charge of all programming I think and uh you’ll look there you’ll see all these things and shows and you can look by culture environment this was here really as a model so that when someone will come aboard and be able to redesign they’ll expand and organize all these things and be able to access these shows you know I
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put just up the name and a little description but some of these shows are extraordinary like the show I did with with Michael Smith who’s he Michael Smith Smith was um one of the main principal focuses in a movie called The need to grow which many people saw free some paid for sure um food Revolution network uh had it on free a while and it get some ungodly number many millions of people have seen it and Michael had his place burned down in um Montana but what was he doing taking waste green waste
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and then processing it wait that’s not what he did he took algae and he was processing that and he created a biofuel that when running a jet engine and taking that green waste and by not adding oxygen in they call it pyrolysis they raise the temperature and be able to siphon off different chemicals and different phytoceutical and lots of stuff at different temperatures that they can Harvest and reuse and the thing that remains is biochar which holds carbon in the soil Lots I don’t profess to be an
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expert but I know how to hear and listen and I’ve been doing it before it was fashionable my background in renewable energy business is another sub subject for another day but this was an organized plan years ago now the guest that didn’t show today you’ve seen here before he shared in a show with Leo Martin and we talked about Ola Walo that’s why I’m having you take a look on the search engine there and pull up all the shows about olalo there was a people’s Council of Maui thing that akaku arranged with a
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group of people Leo Martin John Cruz Cao Martin Cruz congratulations and um Department of Health guy was there Lauren Pang came to this thing and um there was another worker that worked in the environmental Department she was just watching and then there were scientists and all kinds of explanations and Eddie was I felt like one of the Ring leaders who brought the scientist you look at these shows and you’ll see these akaku gave me the right to use it it on this show to be able to share about this so you’ll see
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these on these shows with commentary from me remembering we’re a call-in callout talk show which is an aspect that we haven’t really explored the call out part but that might have happened today with Edward Garcia Edward Garcia Living Earth Systems has a farm just below the temporary toxic waste dump in Olu ALU and uh through what I perceive as his [Music] team they’ve done a lot of good still doing a lot of good for uh survivors and folks from the west side in housing and agriculture regenerative regenerative
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agriculture and the whole form of living to get abundance out of a what comes and was a wasteland anyway if you look at the shows that we have not only we have Ola wal but you might been interested when Ariel interviewed Auntie doll or maybe you were interested when I was talking to a guy he was the road manager for the Grateful Dead now he’s his old the guy it was like my fourth show Ron Fogle um there very interesting times that uh have been shared or how about the um harmonic convergence where a big thing
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happened out in ha coup and well we were there videotaping sometimes I look at these things and people say to me you have unbelievable footage that really covers an amazing time on Maui yeah well hopefully that’s what this is doing it’s going to let you know how to go find it you can go up on YouTube and you’ll see things if you put up Jason Schwarz Maui lots of stuff comes up and before I even knew what channnel were I just I maybe have three or four with shows here and there and some weren’t you know and I
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didn’t really want to keep accumulating these political shows it’ll show people’s um I want to say how over time they thought about things and over time they oh they’re on the opposite side or you know that kind of side I didn’t want to get too much into long-term political things but I uh have dozens of interviews up there of people that are in office and that you know well I’ve had um uh Our Guest last week Paulo Paulo Paul O’Brien who wrote intuitive intelligence and the Visionary eing
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and he has a show for 40 years called Pathways which you can find through divination tocom his nonprofi setup after after his incredible story and and how he made um something that wasn’t good into something great and that’s a that’s a great story that’s a show to see look up and you put Paulo in there or O’Brien or intuitive intelligence and all the shows were those were the key words see we we need to fine-tune a lot of the things online and you’ll see there’s a part in
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there for you and as we’re doing this you’re going to hear me probably talking about it take a look at that website I’m going to take a minute I was going to put in the word olalo just to let you know in more detail about these shows let’s see how I do it ol Olo and hit done and hit search select the category we’re going to let it go and do all categories come on search yes Solutions regarding the dump site that was uh April 1st wow and then we had him before 226 and um my own numbering March
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11th that’s so funny you know what’s so funny is we do all these shows and we hope that people see them live or even call in cuz we would like input that’s the whole point we’re Public Access television but Public Access is a two-way street so I think the public wants to access with witness as we try to call out we don’t do it much but when we do it um we’re doing it with purpose and so um um Edward Garcia who is our guest going to be here today Living Earth systems.net if you look at
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Instagram you’ll see a bunch of posts and uh for the most part he’s been I say for the most part he’ll tell you what he’s been doing because he was as I see it the force behind this people’s Council of Maui and they wanted to show what was going on there and the toxicity happening and solutions to the Ash and ways to do it and he and a bunch of money behind it from concerned citizens mostly him some $40,000 put together a a something to go to the council and the mayor and it got didn’t get Sidetrack it
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was not read because the decisions they’ll tell they why they haven’t told us but in our co-host Scott Bushnell very smart capable guy who also knows the system from having been part of it in different ways over these years and you know the EPA and FEMA control the area and so our mayor can be as Brave as he wants but then there’s no money and the council has that same thing and why we were ask why was their activity to prepare olao uh to be a site or temporary site as somehow has been planned but this is
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a long time there’s doing a lot of damage by what they’re doing now Eddie was going to give us an update on that and I wanted to ask him about Bobby Kennedy because we know Bobby Kennedy was an environmental lawyer I’d like to know what things are going on there because I hope they are going on there at some level but if not I thought that was really an important issue that we want to keep going on until we get the solutions to heal what’s gone on in the CH what’s going on now in
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olalo and what’s going to happen all the way wherever those trucks go and whenever they start caring it to Central Maui if they ever get full um rights to a site that is going to solve all the problems here or they use eminent domain it’s a crazy subject because many of us will say box it up box it up if you never used you do first box it up oh no that controlled from somewhere other than here and um it’s hard for me to say that because I haven’t spoken to anyone directly but I can tell you that they’re still doing
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what they’re doing taking things to olalo with this Ash and I shouldn’t be calling it toxic Ash it’s Ash the what it is when you measure things in parts per trillion and you understand what this is and what it means you’ll see a show in there you know I interviewed uh Donnie Brown Federal Reserve Brown uh he he lived in New Zealand and a Clos down Dow plant that used to make agent orange which is dioxin uh they buried some 10,000 I don’t remember the number huge number of barrels of this stuff and then they
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built a h whoever did built a Housing Development over it and birth defects and all kinds of problems and seepage into the water seepage into the they used it and sprayed the whole country you know um we are fortunate that we’re still alive after all the abuses that happened through accidents here on Maui was it an accident that they stored those chemicals after they were outline outlawed that they could use them over time as long as they had them so there was large storage here of pesticide
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Westside and remember when there was having an algae bloom and remember all the thing well wait a minute why don’t we someone somewhere is not putting this all together oh that’s not true wait on page three of the Department of Energies annual report I read where they talked about algae bloom in West Maui because of the um the chemicals coming down from the fields so I always find it intriguing very intriguing that we report things in the news and then they go away we report things more and
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they go if they don’t get like this the blood bath was too much or so many people that show you these people dying and suffering we want you to know how horrible it is and we want you to fight so they stop doing that and then there’s the other side that says well look look at these pictures of what the slaughter happened and why we’re and now we even just want the bodies we we also want the live people now and what we’re doing they justify all that is so big so powerful they cover it all your emotions
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get all stirred up and not that those things aren’t super important but what if our Focus was on Solutions what if our Focus was on things going on here things that we could do well my next guest Eddie I like to think he pointed out about the olalo problem and the toxic Ash and gathered gathered for you the people of Maui the people’s Council of Maui different scientists and different things that made the ideas that they put into the hands of the mayor and the council and and and way before any of
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this moving thing started you know so I commend him he’s doing things to help generate out of the earth and show people that that whole thing with Michael Smith and need to grow that was a great show or I interviewed Ted Bowman what’s that water from Air there are a couple of people doing that now on the island but what does all that mean we where and how we have different shows about different Technologies about different people that are very interesting some have money and use it and they have amazing power
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through the ability to have an idea and gather a team and they have the resources to also help fund some of these things and that all kind we have those kind of people on we have people that we have all kinds of people I know that what you see me doing here is part of a plan this is really like the the beginning to have you maybe realize that’s just me as the master host if you will showing the science going on and music going on and the art because Mama presents Maui Arts and Music Association
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presents was started to Showcase visual art in L and music the Hawaiian music and the culture the the other musics going on and cultures from here in America and around the world and be able to have from that a number a third still of the money coming in to go directly into environmental projects another third to run this whole thing an organization that means to be able to all the Techno and the third third to go to the artists and musicians so this plan again that’s for another day if you
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look at the Maui artsand music.org website from there you’ll see it links to these TV shows here but we need a Web Master to help redesign it and make it even friendlier and make you better understand what you’re looking at and we you can imagine sponsorship happens I can’t go around and do it I’d much rather have a team and a crew approach the airlines approach the hotels do cash and trade food and wait we can build lodging we have a a lot of possibility to be able to do things or we don’t
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really want to do things we want to point it out and align things that are here to accomplish these things and where do we get the money to do all these things we’re talking about music and art remember a third of everything we’re create going into this fund to be able to create and finance if you will all kinds of things for environment Al Solutions and be an example to the world you know these words are Hollow I didn’t particularly at all want a situation like happening in L and the West Side to happen but it’s
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it’s affected the whole island it’s affected all the Hawaiian chain you know if you look at all the things going on in the world we saw Miss Maui and Miss Maui teen all them and first place and first place and second place became first place Maui is a place with tons of talented people and their art and their music has been a rich ingredient like I was talking this show that I’m doing here is like to be a boilerplate to spin off a David Gallagher and a comedy show and and a talk show to spin-off Scott
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Bushnell it’s almost like we’re watching The Jeffersons that spun off from All in the Family and all the TV shows of yester year you know well we’re a family here and if imagine please the numbers we’re talking how many people that already are in a legacy position that means people that already maybe they’re older musicians maybe they’re from here maybe it’s May I’m going to make names up here that aren’t so made up maybe Mick Fleetwood would like to come and
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play or speak or do something here and all that we’re going to do we’re going to dedicate just like we’re doing because musicians and artists don’t want a pay cut of a third but what if we can create more of what we’re doing and fill the different auditoriums both local and small venues and large venues and make it where people coming know that money is going to save and solve masterful Level problems that there they enjoying music and enjoying art and learning about culture and their involvement will
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create the resources that we need before it was just going to create these resources that we need but not need need need now we have the need need need and with all the holes that happen through different kinds of help super numbers of people way more than people are acknowledging I’m afraid are are struggling I heard a a gall I know for a long time alen anyway got a cottage in wuku for 2,000 a month I said wow yeah FEMA money and all the money paying for these things have driven rents up all
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over the island any kind of moratorium of what you can’t do and can do isn’t maybe a gray line but the people that are affected by these things are very aware of these lines and are making moves that are bringing the climate and the prices up and it’s also it’s majorly disrupted our whole world and on an island maybe you have to think differently than on the mainland maybe when there’s waste being moved in what it does these things are important and they should be addressed differently
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but again see how from where I sit the money that we bring in is going to to be going out a third of it right immediately going out to these environmental projects and I can show you and name them they’re on the website and more to come right you’ll see but we also want to link nonprofits in different ways that you will see so the use of all these different nonprofits and for-profits is that other third when you don’t have greed and I have no I me know expenses is in a car and I’m a happy guy why CU I’ve learned
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to live lightly by the nature of having lived lightly working hard on Maui to deliver a freedom of this akaku has been virtually my television home you know internet and all that stuff when you wonder what is going on I’ve been doing this a long time you don’t get a name like team Aloha at iCloud without having been around a while because people grabbing those kind of names or you know the Maui Arts Maui artsand music.org wow or I the one that I thought was so interesting is dream Maui was dream
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maui.net dream.org that’s where we’re going to be building visually again we means as this team will grow and sponsors the see that’s where money goes not to me but to to make these things happen will all the that’s where we’re going to put the Matrix which shows this dream Maui what can happen if our goal is peace and integration and use of our resources and regenerate and all that stuff all this is a longtime vision and sometimes Vision needs the right time the right Circ cumstance the right people and I believe
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that’s what this show and some of the people you’ve been seeing on our shows that’s what this is about if I had the management skills to put this all together without help I would have already been doing it but what kind of resource we have shows to could create a podcast a link and network we need money to do that right right to build the website we need need that to be able to be I went for example to be able to take another nonprofit here’s one the Maui Live poets they get together and think
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they’re the Mau 25 years ago Melinda gone GN Melinda and her hubby Gary Kubota her sweetheart and well we know that name he’s a guy that did a whole Musical and yeah that G and our um other people there bear Wilson and Frank Rich who’s been wide Garcia as his non the plum for uh years and Tim Kelly who are these people these are people at the core of a 25y old growth of the international Martin Luther King peace poem which is about 200,000 lines right now and growing and they’re going to want to be presenting
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it again at the UN and one of my friends I told him I was going to speaking he already got in touch with them so maybe he’ll be sponsoring maybe he will maybe he’ll help them you know money see people do things he’s got other things going on he’s one of these guys I told you as the money he can do a lot more with money so we need money too so we just don’t speak about it a lot because we believe I believe we welcome donations but through doing music shows and art shows and getting the public to understand what
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we’re doing where they go and have fun and realize they’re really making a concrete difference in the future of good things happening here on ma we can label and that’s what we’re doing and that’s what this show has been about it really got started when they said you know where we got a radio station here and there’s this spot 11 o’clock and we’re going to have some people and um so 11 o’clock Monday how’s Monday okay Monday sounds good I um know that we’re not really promoted
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specifically and unless there’s a reason seeing it live isn’t as important to me maybe our guest if they want to have their people seeing them live and they’ll promote that but after the show is done I should have written a contract that said look if you’re on my show you need to show me that you’ve shared it with 50 people with a link and told them to watch it and share it but I don’t do that so I I haven’t been paid for shows once in a while someone gives me a donation that’s
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nice but we’re going to formalize in different ways with other people other than me I’m the product if you will anyway at this Martin Luther King peace poem thing which was Saturday uh davo who was the artist lived in line lost everything in gallery where he was at there Gallery Beal everything he’s done for more than 25 35 years wonderful guy gave me a painting that he was going to give to the mayor but the mayor didn’t come so he said um you have the guy get it it’s a beautiful
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big heart he used to do things I want to say like Peter Max he davo was his own and is you’ll see his stuff his own unique artist he shows but he has a style i w don’t exactly know how to describe it but he would he in fact he has a book coming out and we’re going to have him on the show and we’ll um we’ll look at his book cuz all the paintings are gone all the other ones from before that’s just horror and know think of all those artists right well years ago when I talked about a gallery Without Walls
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showcasing Maui artists and musicians through a central portal and before that it was on CDs what why did that never happen well we don’t worry about that that’s story for other shows but it can happen now it’s going to happen by those out there who listen and people that we speak to that see this vision is large and that there are millions and billions of dollars that can and will be spent by Art people purchasing art and music and coming to shows and enjoying things all over the world from all over the world
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some of you may tou your feet on Maui Shores and some of you may not but you know what’s going to happen you’re going to be helping rebuild here and be that Global example place of things and help bring up the standard and quality of living for local community that needs your support needs your support by buying music and buying art needs your support by yeah you want to do a movie come on here the guy that’s now our um film commissioner Tracy Bennett had left for another opportunity for himself
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and Brian con who is a really brilliant writer and director of a couple of movies one was called get a job with now passed away but great guitar player and singer Willie K Willie KY and and Gilliam they were the cast was filled with all kinds of people that if you were from Maui you saw them and it was great Brian Brian’s now film commissioner so if you’re around the world and you want to do a movie you can help us by coming in a range and doing a movie here in Maui and employing our people and using and sharing what we’re
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doing here so we hope to have TV series that are going to be sharing and doing here that um uh show us to the world that are I want to say science and fiction but not as science and non-fiction along with the fiction that Brian did with that movie he did another movie called kulana that um I think it’s been renamed Maui which is out there there’s all kinds of talents there’s someone who has a show up now that’s involved actually here at our station who has a um a comedy show and you know I remember
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Chino when he was I just beginning thinking about doing comedy he’s always been a funny big guy nice guy we have a beautiful Community here and we want to share it with the world and when the world sees our community also has people who want to help what we doing I am not opposed if uh Billy Joel comes here and wants to get up and sing one of the songs with me or with someone else here that we’re doing things why because we are looking for a legacy we want to create something that shows that musicians and artists
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together can create Solutions through the power of the incredible power of media you know Taylor Swift first of all you’re welcome if you feel so inclined to give us a financial leg up but just just be part of what we’re doing here you know there’s so many good people that come through here but also there are people all around the world involved in culture and arts all around the world so we hope to spark that by showcasing from here and having this website that’s really a becomes a a directory if you
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will of and linking of nonprofits like uh friend Genesis who has a Taran young Foundation they have a teenage Youth Shelter for troubled situations like temporary and when that all happens well it has to be coordinated and publicly seen and shown you know when the Maui Live poets do the Martin Luther King peace poem Awards it has to be seen that’s what araku does well we do some of the conversations with some of the people that do these things you [Music] know we need to stand on our own and as
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a for-profit wait we’re not for profit no what’s nonprofit is the nonprofit that’s going to do these Environmental Solutions and that can build build what if every time a realtor did a deal they said they were going to give a percentage to oh I for your feedback they gave a percentage percentage to the environmental programs think of so I’m going to that’s going to be from buyers and sellers who see what we’re doing especially now in this climate of every buyer has to have a signed
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representative there’s a whole potential here of you know remember our guest from last week talking about Karma coins we have resources of people here mentors who with Good Will may be helping actualize some of the things that just need more arms and legs that already have experience to help and get involved so I’m very encouraged when Eddie Garcia said he couldn’t make it I checked in with um our major co-host Scott Bushnell Scott’s going to be here next week updating you on some of the things that we’ve been
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talking about about Offline that we’re going to be talking about and bringing up here on the show I know that um he he couldn’t make it today he’s busy doing all kinds of things too he’s a terrific guy you know I must say um I’ve met some I’ve never really been very personal in getting personal and knowing people over the years that intimately you know but I have gotten to know some guys through this mankind project which again you’ll look on there you’ll see couple of times I’ve
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interviewed people from the groups who were very interesting people um but that there’s tremendous resources here that can do things by moving a little shoulder or or point us or give us access to people that have resources and would love to help whether it’s money or whether it’s they have the skills or the technicians or the whatever think of how many jobs can be created with a focus on creating solutions for our Island and our world and be able to have our people here being part of it and leading the
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way I see it as a way to elevate the Hawaiian culture throughout the world and and showcase the amazing culture that it is and the amazing culture that we on Maui and that that Aloha spirit that has been I want to say hasn’t been forced on me it’s like a glow that comes from here I think it’s just a a spiritual Mecca of all kinds of people and all kinds of ideas and I’ve run into some political I want to say roadblocks I was never a politic itical animal but things could have happened
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sooner but it might not it’s like wine things could have happened sooner but then it would have just been Ripple wine but now by letting the years go by we didn’t plan on making Brandy but we’re now at a point where every sip of what we’re going to do will have that much more meaning because the world has got so screwed up you allowed to say screwed up I guess I don’t like saying it I’m would love to only talk about good fair weather things and I try to be positive and I’m blessed I have loved
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living on Maui I’ve just really found it to be amazing now some of you are saying Bo you’re talking too long yeah I guess so I I think that it was important that I got to get this laid out somewhat so you know that we’re going to be doing a series of shows you don’t know where we’re taking it yet but that’s the great part we are taking it and these ideas are long been baking when we Infuse it with people in our community and create things in our community some are going to be going out and getting sponsors
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some are going to be cash some are going to be trade we’re going to be able to employ people well but in ways that they already know in in music shows in art shows with a purpose then we’re going to be able to share the people that are going to be helping with the technology and this is just an exciting time because we’re going to be able to integrate who and what we are and launch into a global positioning through a horrible catastrophe and suddenly Global focus on Maui and L and all this I didn’t create
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toxic Ash but I have enough hopefully wisdom to focus on things that we can do even we can create the money to even to override some of these we believe not so great decisions for the long-term future override them by having businesses emerge out of resources because we’re able to share and fund Technologies to find Solutions just like we want to do with Michael Smith and the need to grow and growing these technologies that can help save not only here locally but all over the world that’s who and what we are we are
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looking to be a pivot point to link different people different organizations but only in those recommendations here locally are we going to be that but we could be Central directory not of all the directories but we’ll be able ble to be the resource to point them out and that kind of a thing that can also have Revenue stream from art and music and cultural shows as well as donations as well as advertising sponsors without doesn’t need a lot of administration it can be at a minimum so you remember I talked about two-thirds
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the other third that’s what’s so fun that’s money that I want to say extra that’s where normally I might run an operation can run an operation very streamlined so that 606 70% more if you will will go into things for our community and World very lopsided from a I’m going to run about money but that money that’s left over you know I’m not a young kid and I don’t really have much need so that is going to be yet another Foundation these are all dreams you’ve seen some of
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the characters here on these shows all these weeks so this has been an unusual show I’m sort of putting it together with the times that we’re in we’re just about ready to set up a schedule to do music shows and then we’re going to do art shows but again until we have financing financing backer people don’t take us seriously so the beginning becomes a a chicken and mouse thing or what do you do first so we’ll see how that plays out but we’re going to be doing these shows because they’re going
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to be involving you you know I see guys like Eric Gilliam and I think to myself and Vince well we’ve seen the growth Eric Gilliam when we start sh and get a job again however that looks you know he was terrific in that you know and Willie Kay who knows that Willie Kay could be a straight man when Willie Kay was the cut up of the world and just this guy with so much life and so much smoke and yet in this movie he was the straight guy it was terrific get a job if you see it anywhere watch it and uh this other
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movie Maui also a good one but that get a job one is where I first saw this guy Brian con and I thought is he’s interesting writer and you know he’s anyway again we have time here I’m going to take a moment and remind you we are on 88.5 FM k a kuu the voice of Maui simal cast on akaku Maui Community media TV channel 55 here on Maui you can find all our shows at Maui neutral zone.com and you’ll see a directory there you can look up things by code words if you want and you’ll also find everything up on
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YouTube and on Vimeo we’ve had shows that uh again I’ve been doing them so long didn’t really even think about channels and now people switch mediums Now podcast so who knows who goes to Maui neutral zone or who knows who goes to YouTube things are um at least for an older guy like me they’re moving faster than I can keep up with them you know uh thank of I want to thank you guys that have been watching this show and have listened to this uh sometimes I call them ad Jason rant but
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others have said to me no no you’re not what you’re doing is you’re educating them you’re explaining to them what has been going on waking them up to what the plan has been and where you want to go and maybe they can hear that this is about this is about you guys this is about it’s about me only in that I’ve have seen this Vision I came here with Technologies for solar and renewable energy and co-generation and got involved and people here were too used to being the way they were and politics
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has been the way it is um I hope we can get the mayor on I think he would like to probably tell you some good things from what he’s been doing on his administration this is a political year but as long as he’s not running we can have him here so Mr Mayor I hope you will um come and sit in the it’s not a hot seat it’s a seat we did it and we did it on Zoom when during the campaign but um actually the only people that will be on my show this year either going to be running for president anyone
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running for president I can have on this show so I expect we may have Maryann Williamson Bobby Kennedy and Joe Biden Donald Trump these names sound familiar um but we could have you know some other candidates because they have the right to spend equal time on with me and so I’m never spend more than an hour and um I think it’s an Open Door or that we should have the presidential candidates on our show cuz um we are anything but neutral but we’re called the neutral zone and because we’re call-in talk show
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those could really be very valuable I mean when Bobby Kennedy and Joe Biden came here um I don’t think Donald Trump came here I don’t think so but with this fire and they both came and saw things what has happened since then what kind of awareness has put us in touch with another step to solve these problems and when but they say get out of the line of political speak and start being real we we just want to thank again all the people that have been helping all the people not only in the and not only on
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the west side but um also helping anyone that’s been affected by this wildfire and the Wild fire and coola that same day see we could explore lots of things but there are other people in the world and other subjects in the world and I hope to have you know Eric and Vince and you know Justin Maris local people Alice Cooper Mick Fleetwood I can name names but we want them here both in the studio and I keep looking at the clock because I can’t see that well but we want to both here in the studio and out in the
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field when we’re doing art shows and music shows for them to come and be supportive if they want to get up on stage they’re always welcome to but we want to open the door to them being part of the Legacy that we are going to be creating because musicians and artists and people that want to support their cultures and want to support their positive ideas to help create a better more integrated world that’s what that’s what we are and that’s what we’re doing so when you think about peace thinks about think
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about mama when you think about peace think about Papa people aligned in positive action or way back when it was participatory action patrons of the Arts because we’re more focused on the music and the culture um John scarino my old board member from way back one who help design our first quarterly magazine the whole thing I want to honor him and may you rest in peace there’s another piece but um this Vision came not to be a new vision you know we are the world and Ken kraan and Harry bellafonte and that
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whole deal John was graphic designer working then right around there in that time with Ken and so you know you hear my background the music buiness it’s long ago but it still feels deep in my heart and some of these guys that are now old Stars I’d met younger when they were young stars like when we worked on Jackson Browns um all I did was bring the players for the strings and the horns and but those are really very wonderful times and really grew our personalities and our understanding of
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the power of media the Power of star power I’m just making sure I bet I don’t have much time left I think that’s a three I hate this when it gets too close I think I have three minutes and 42 seconds something like that I don’t want to get too much up into my time clock anyway I’ve enjoyed ranting it’s not a rant I had a wonderful time I be I understood I was like Bob Newark the gal that runs the um Peace poems is really very attentive to all the details in the kids and the kids was trying to start
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his poem about peace peace and she would be there on Nick and then he’d start again peace and so it was fun and I got to be the one bringing and sharing the names and I guess I didn’t realize I am a comedian as well um two oh I can see it says two minutes and 57 seconds well that’s good because it’s time to take a rest but it doesn’t feel like an hour gone by I am very very happy to have you as an audience and I want you to go digging in the archives we’re going to be um moving
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up to another level but that means other people we want you to share this and share it and keep sharing it because it’s going to be creating jobs it’s going to create solutions for issues and things in your life whether they be Health whether they be food whether they be costs of energy whether they be housing and some of this much of it is using things that we have in different ways coupled with science that has now long been proven plus we’re open to improving as we go we are going to be uh nothing but a
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happier world and a happier m and I’m just really happy that I can be here with you we got another minute and 50 something seconds if I started thanking all the people that have helped Through The Years there just so many people that have helped me by encouraging me and keeping me smiling and remembering they are hearing me you know I had a guy in Costco Frank from lives up Country Must Be s he said hey you’re that TV guy I like what you do I like your movement thank you we are a movement
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what are we movement toward peace and truth and working together and creating Solutions creating solutions for local people first not excluding excluding but focusing on what can happen by elevating those that need elevation blasting to you all for showing up and tuning in I’m going to turn on my phone because in 50 seconds I’m going to play my exit music I feel like uh it’s been a great show next week I have Scott Bush now and then I have um we’ll see then I’ve got bod from doorway
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into light who’s also going to be talking about what’s going on oh 30 seconds well he also had ideas for housing for now all kinds of good stuff so keep tuned and remember we love you Maui neutral zone.com blessings and Aloha have a good week my friends I always appreciate that uh you keep tuning in please share bless
