Episode 133 RELLA : Radio personality & Media Production

Ever wondered how a MySpace persona could spark a thriving radio career? Join me as I catch up with Rella, my long-time friend whose journey from "Pimperella" to a beloved radio personality is filled with humor and nostalgia. We take a delightful trip down memory lane, exploring the transformative power of early social media platforms like MySpace and Asian Avenue, and sharing stories that underscore the enduring bonds these connections created. From the amusing origin of her nickname to her rise in the radio industry, Rella's story is a testament to the unexpected paths life can take.

Changes in the radio industry can be as unpredictable as our daily lives. I open up about the highs and lows of her career, from the excitement of working with co-host Chris Stiles to the abrupt challenges that came with an unexpected layoff. Imagine the whirlwind of emotions and the uncertainty of losing medical coverage for your family overnight. Yet, amid the turmoil, the overwhelming support from my colleagues and the industry shone like a beacon, sparking new adventures in starting a radio station and live streaming. The journey was fraught with obstacles, but it was also a canvas for reinvention and new beginnings.

As our conversation culminates, I share the exhilarating and sometimes chaotic process of launching my own internet radio station, Rella Radio, on Live 365. From managing playlists and navigating copyright hurdles to hosting community-focused events like craft fairs, the challenges are abundant but so are the rewards. The station's success is evident in its growing listener base, plans for a dedicated app, and efforts to support local communities. Through heartfelt exchanges and cherished memories, this episode is a celebration of friendship, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of dreams.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Okay, this week on my show issomebody.
Honestly, since I started thisshow I wanted to have as a guest
on my show.
If somebody and I just lookedthis up I've known for over two,

(03:03):
20 years, over two decades, and, uh, I'm not trying to shout
out our age, but, um, you'vebeen my friend for that long and
and someone that I really docare about, um rella from the
radio.
But I don't know why I'mcalling you rella, because I

(03:23):
know you're a pimper.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Rella oh my gosh, you did not.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's secrets I put you on blast when, uh, chris
styles was on my show and I'mlike because you guys were
together on the radio everymorning and I was like, um, yeah
, I know her as pimper rella.
So, I don't know what thisrella, shit is she's trying to
claim.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
But oh my gosh, pimperella, that's, yeah, that
that's, that's far, far behindus.
My space, oh my, yes, my space,okay, so do you know?
How?
Do you know how I got that?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
stupid name.
I remember you telling me but Iforgot.
But I know you told me thestory, but you can tell it to me
again.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay, so Myspace for you youngins who are watching
this is kind of like an outdated.
I guess Instagram, instagramand Facebook had a baby or or or
had a grandfather, and it wasmy space, if you want to go even
older.
There was something calledFriendster, there was something

(04:33):
called Asian Avenue and Ithoroughly.
I thoroughly, in fact.
I think we met on Asian Avenue.
I don't know, maybe it was inthe club, I'm not sure, but
whatever it was um, yeah, I justthoroughly showed our age.
And I say our age, um, but yeah,there was, I think, at this one
time.
There was this guy.

(04:53):
He was messaging me and he waslike, so what is your ethnicity?
Because he couldn't tell whatmy ethnicity was and so I shot
off all eight, ninenationalities and he's he's like
wow, he's like your ancestorsmust have been pimps then.
And so he goes, I'm gonna callyou Pimperella, like Cinderella,
but the pimp version.
So I renamed my MySpace pagePimperella.

(05:16):
And then when I got into radio Idid a whole bunch of overnights
and stuff like that, and Ithink it was I heart when I
first started.
And then I got a middayafternoon show, but I was just,
I was the traffic person, so Iwould go in from one station to
the other and at the time it wasMcCunney who was doing Island

(05:38):
985.
And McCunney nicknamed me theRella, like I was an object, and
Makani nicknamed me the Rella,like I was an object.
So, for short, he called me theRella.
And then when I finally got myown middays, I kind of just
dropped the, the, and then Ijust became Rella.
So it's kind of odd, because myhusband doesn't even know what
my real name was until we gotmarried, he's like, like wait,

(06:04):
who is this on the marriagecertificate?
I'm like, oh, that's mygovernment name, so he had no
idea because we didn't call yourella, we called you pimper oh
my gosh, that's right.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's right, and I think you dropped the wrong part
oh, yeah, of course, heidirenames all my friends None of
my friends have a regular name.
Nope, no, not at all.
It was good times back then andI sent you a picture of us in
Zanzibar I don't even know howlong ago that was, gosh, because

(06:43):
I was looking up old picturesof because, um, tati came up and
I was looking for old picturesand that picture came up and it
was you and tati and me and the.
I sent it to tati and the firstthing she said was oh, she
didn't have any tattoos and shesaid she said you and I still
look the same, so I'm claimingthat awesome I'll take it.

(07:09):
I didn't realize that you didn'thave any tattoos back then, I
think you might have a trampstamp or some ghetto, ever beach
tattoo, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I did have a small little scratch pad, one that was
like here, but of course it'scovered.
And then I did have like atribal that went across my back.
You know me way too well, butyeah, and that is still there,
but it's somewhat like a rashit's.
It's spread a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh, yeah, yeah, you went full tatted up, but it it
matches you like you can pullthat off like it.
It looks definitely cool.
Yeah, oh gosh, I do rememberwhen you were on the radio for
the um, for the traffic.
I remember you.
And oh, what was tati'sfriend's name that was on the

(08:04):
radio?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
um, shantilly did it.
Shantilly, that's the one yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Shantilly and I would always try to get Shantilly to
play Linkin Park on the um.
Hawaiian radio station and whois it a big tease.
I forget what it was, but I betthem one time and I ended up
owing them Jamba Juice becausethey actually played it on the
Hawaiian music station would behim, if any, if you.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
He doesn't like to lose dares, so yeah, I should
have told you that ahead of time?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
yeah but that was um, when we used to hang out every
single weekend at Zanzibar andPipeline Back in the day, we had
, like the white, I remembergoing to Macy's in Ala Moana
because it was white night orblack night and we'd have to buy
like certain color clothes andwe would all every single

(09:02):
weekend we'd be hanging out,especially with my sister and
will and our whole little crew.
It was, uh, definitely goodtimes back then.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Um, definitely way more carefree and less
responsibilities than we havenow oh, yeah, definitely, yep,
and that was before the whiteparty was a white party.
Yeah, before it was a thing.
Yep, yeah, we were before ourtime, I think yeah, it was, it
was good times.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
And she I mean, like I said, I've known you for 20
years and it's been cool, Ithink, over over the years.
Um, we always like we'll runinto each other, but it's always
the same Like I'll see you andit's like, oh, I just saw you
last week.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, always the same Doesn'tskip a beat, yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
But I do know you also from through my friends who
are racers, because you used torace.
Right, you're midnight orinsane, I can't remember
midnight.
Midnight, yeah, it was like abattle right and my boys were
insane.
I never got into that but I, myclose friends were like frankie

(10:20):
dem and you guys like had asquabble and they made it cool
or whatever.
But I remember you're known asthe midnight uh girl I'm.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
I'm a midnight mama.
I'm the only female.
I was the only girl on the, Iguess, in the club before me.
Their nights consisted ofmeeting up at Millionaire
Walmart, racing to KahalaChevron and then racing to
Campbell and then racing back toMacaulay Zippy's just to have

(10:51):
early morning breakfast and thenthat's it.
They spread out and they gohome After I came on board.
So how I got with them was theguy I worked at Fluger Acura.
I started dating one of the lotboys.
He was in Midnight and I becamepart of the group when we broke
up and went our separate ways.

(11:13):
I still stayed with the group.
So I was the one, because I'vealways been.
I like to think of myself asone of the boys.
So you know I'm an only child.
Growing up I was my dad's sontill I was about 16, stripping,
rebuilding engines.
I almost thought at one point Iwas the ugly duckling Cause.
I remember one day my dad wakesme up, he goes okay, girl,

(11:36):
we're going outside, we're goingto rescreen the screens.
Today I said what, dad?
He goes, we're going torescreen the screens.
I had no idea what he wastalking about and I was like oh
okay, so the old school screens.
You could take it off of thewindow.
You take the little rubberthing off, right, and then you
cut the thing and then you gowith the screwdriver and you put
them all back in and he goesyeah, I teaching you this

(12:00):
because if you never get marriedyou can do them on your own
house.
And I was was like so what doyou say?
Who said I'm not gettingmarried?
Right, so, apparently.
But anyway, when I got intoMidnight I started making our
nights a little bit moreinteresting instead of just
wasting gas.
I did treasure hunts where theyhad a list of things like you

(12:25):
need to get a receipt from7-Eleven in Waikiki, you got to
grab sands from the beach inNanakuli, or something like that
.
You got to bring three matchesfrom such and such restaurant or
something.
So it was a long.
It was a long one Before I didthat.
I just made a treasure hunt.
Whoever got the first, whoevergot the best treasure, wins.

(12:47):
I never did it again because onthat first treasure hunt we had
to meet up at midnight at acertain place.
One person brought themcdonald's drive-thru sign.
They undrilled it, unscrewed itfrom the floor and brought the
whole damn sign.
Um, and at the time that was awhole 3d one where it's bolted

(13:11):
into the ground Right and itsays drive-thru.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Somebody came to the meeting with that.
Someone came with a stolenAcura, oh, borrowed it, went
back borrowed, um, and there wassomething else.
But I never did it againbecause I can't trust them.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
You provoke illegal shit.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
I did not.
I did not.
I was like treasure, not stolengoods, treasure, it was a
treasure hunt.
So after that I did stuff likethat we would do laser tag as a
team, we would have picnics,volleyball tournament.
That I did stuff like that, wewould do laser tag as a team, we
would have picnics, volleyballtournament, that kind of stuff.
So and now you know, we've allgotten older, we try to have
reunions every couple of yearsor so.

(13:55):
Um, nobody's racing.
I'm the only one with a stupidsupercharged truck, but
everybody else is like, you know, families, so family vehicles,
and, and you know, half of someof them are cops, you know, and
they've all made.
They're all respectable peopleand here I am not, not, not like
them ready for race through itwas, it was good times, it was

(14:18):
good times.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I definitely uh , remember hearing about all
those and and, like I said, myfriends were your guys' rivals.
And then it was yeah, I heardabout you before I even met you
guys.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
I didn't even know that.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, wow, but that was a long time ago.
I think that was when I wasstill competing and fighting,
and not even that.
I never, hardly ever, went tothe clubs and stuff.
Yep, and then there we were,and there we were in all our

(14:56):
splendor.
Yes, they're still still doingit.
It's crazy.
Actually, we're taking a breakright now, but I don't know,
things might get interesting inthe near future with artists.
Okay, I can't get away I wantto.
It's like it keeps driving meback and it's not like I even am

(15:16):
enjoying it nearly as much as Iused to.
It's just good money, and forme the creating something out of
nothing is more fun thanactually being there and looking
at all these young, stupid kidsthat are learning stuff I'm
trying to forget.
Yes, been there yeah I justcan't have an event that my

(15:39):
daughter shows up to that's ohmy gosh, I gotta well, I mean,
you have you.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
You have some time before that happens.
Yeah, yeah and, and hopefullyyou'll be retired by then yeah,
definitely hope, hopeful eitherthat or just manage it to the
point where other people arerunning it for you and you don't
have to be there anymore I, Itried that and then I get into
the most trouble because myemployees or the people I have

(16:07):
working, just they're they, just.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean, you know how promoting goes.
Some people can handle it,sometimes it goes to their head
and then once you got to dealwith that, it's like then they
can't do it.
It's yeah, and plus too I'm.
It's hard to trust ourreputation that not I, that I
help, um, keep going.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
I didn't even build it.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
You know, I mean like it's ronnie and I'm legacy, so
it's very important to me tokeep it a certain way and do
business a certain way, and Ican't be letting these young
kids that are trying to fuckchicks and do drugs.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's what it is.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, oh my.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
God.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
You got to do it discreetly.
You know what I mean, maybe notthe drugs, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, you can't.
You can't be a full fledged man.
Whore, you got to like keep itunder wraps somehow.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
It's got to be a secret, so you don't look bad.
Yeah, that's funny.
Be a respectable man, whore.
You gotta, like, keep it underwrap somehow.
Yep, it's gonna be a nice man,you don't look bad.
Yeah, that's funny.
Be a respectable man, whore.
Yeah, piss everybody off andthen nobody wants to come.
Oh gosh, yep anyways.
But, like I said, you've beenon the radio for such a long
time and I really enjoylistening to you on the radio

(17:25):
and throughout the years I'vealways been a fan and and
watched your career and once youhad that morning show at
cristal's, in my opinion thatwas the best because you guys
both together were like theperfect storm.
You guys played off of eachother super good.

(17:45):
I know both of you personallyand I was like fuck, that should
have been done years ago,because you guys honestly worked
the best together and that wasthat was something unique.
It's like lanai and and augie t.
It was like one of those gemsthat was.
That was just there.

(18:05):
And how did you like workingwith chris every morning?
Because he.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
It must have been good fun to wake up knowing you
be working with him in themorning you know, I had so much
stuff going on that at that time, when they asked me to move
over from bomb to high 93 and domornings with him, they hadn't
even asked me the full questionyet and I was already saying,

(18:29):
yes, yes, I'll do the morningshow, yes, I'll switch over.
I couldn't wait and I didn'tneed.
At the time I didn't need thejob either.
Island Craft Fairs was doingwell.
I had some other things thatwere, you know, I had going on
on the side.
So if you don't need the money,what's going to keep you going

(18:52):
back to a job that you don'tconsider a job is that you make
it fun and that you look forwardto being with the person that
you're working with.
And being with Chris was.
It was family, there wasnothing fake, it was we played
off of each other really, reallygood to where it was, to the

(19:13):
point where we would have peoplecome in for interviews, or the
comment was always wow, you guysmove really fast.
Because in radio I was alwaystold you don't have dead air,
you don't stop talking, youdon't say um, I say I'm all the
time, but you don't.
There's certain things that youdon't do, right, and, uh, you

(19:36):
don't talk about poop on air,you don't sing a sing to a song,
and we broke all the rules.
Oh yeah, but it was very.
He made it comfortable.
I looked forward to getting upat 3.30 in the morning to go to
work for just a couple of hours,and it was.
I liked it.

(19:56):
We fed off of each other and itwas a good.
I think I liked that it wasorganic, that we knew each other
for a long time too and that wecould do something together.
And we had the same idea, whichwas making it a family show, at
least until the kids go toschool.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, so that's what I kind of liked about it.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
So I enjoyed working with him.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, shout out to Chris Stiles.
Unfortunately your time at theradio was cut to an end and
super disappointing as a fan,and I'm sure the radio station
got bombarded with like what thefuck and I don't know what

(20:38):
happened.
If you want to talk about it,sure.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
So I thought I was getting called in for another
reason September 30th it was aMonday I got up, went to work.
About an hour into work I hadsent in a vacation request for
the end of the month, for theend of October.
Every year I travel and I go tothis Great Dane National Dog

(21:06):
Show.
It's a dog show, just GreatDanes.
I'm the vice president for theGreat Dane Club of Hawaii, so I
go and I represent Hawaii and I,small kind, look for dogs that
I may or may not want to bringhome or look at the line.
So I know when it's time tobreed, because I only have girls
.
I know what popsicles to shipback and popsicles are like

(21:28):
frozen straws yeah, that's whatI call them.
They're cute, I didn't want tocall it like.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
That's some Heidi shit right there.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, you know what?
Then?
That's the inner Heidi I haveright now, because I didn't want
to call it dog jizz.
So I'm still, I'm still in likeradio mode, right, so I gotta
be careful on what I say.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
So say whatever you want on this show.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I know I can tell you drop F bombs and everything but
um what's your call?
So I see the dogs that I likeand I, you know, order, and then
the popsicles come in on a cryotank and then you can store
them for so many years untilyou're ready to use it.
And then the popsicles come inon a cryo tank and then you can
store them for so many yearsuntil you're ready to use it,
and then it gets AI'd.
But I sent in my vacationrequest and I sent it to my

(22:11):
immediate boss and I sent it toHR.
Within 15 minutes I get anemail from HR and they're like
can you come see me after theshow?
I thought because I didn't haveany more vacation.
I thought my boss was going todeny my request.
So, that's what I thought it was.
So I went in during a halftimepart of our show and they're

(22:36):
like you done?
I'm like no, I got one morehour but I don't have to be back
on for another hour.
They said, oh, just come see us.
After I said why are we goinginto another office?
She says yeah, and I said did Ido something wrong?
And she's like no, I don'tthink so.
I said okay, so I did the restof my show.
So I did my midday and then Iwent into the HR's office.

(23:00):
She's like okay, let's go.
So she grabs this big, thickfile and I follow her.
She passes my immediate boss'soffice and she goes into the
general manager's office.
The first 30 seconds of ourmeeting I thought it was fake.
I thought he was joking.
But I go in the office, theyclose the door.

(23:21):
Hr passes the folder across thedesk.
My boss looks at it, puts itaside.
He says I have very bad news.
I said yeah.
He says unfortunately, salesdidn't do their job and we have
to do cutbacks and you're partof it.
And I said okay.
And he says I didn't want to dothis.

(23:43):
We're going to pay you to theend of the year and he slides me
this envelope.
He says this is your paperworkfor Cobra.
I said all right.
He says I'm really sorry.
Again, let me know if there'sanything I can do.
I said all right, short andsweet, thank you.
And I walk out.

(24:04):
I get into the studio, I startpacking my stuff and I tell
Chris I said all right, shortand sweet, thank you.
And I walk out.
I get into the studio, I startpacking my stuff and I tell
Chris I said well, I'm done.
And he goes you quit.
And I said no, I got laid off.
And he's like what?
And I said did you know?
And he never said no, he kindof just stared at the screen and
he looked shocked and he's likeI told him what happened and

(24:25):
he's like that's why so-and-sofrom sales was saying that they
weren't making their mark.
And I said yeah.
I said it's fine, it'll be okay.
He says what are you going todo?
Are you going to go to anotherradio station?
I said radio is a dying breed.
Listen to all the morning showsthere are out there.
I was like there's really notmuch.
You have one that's alreadysyndicating a show from the

(24:47):
mainland.
I said there's not much.
I said but don't worry, I'llfigure it out.
He goes you want to do apodcast?
We can do a podcast.
I said I don't know.
I said I'm considering thisvacation for the next three
months and then I'll figure outwhat I'm going to do.
He's like, okay, so he helps mewith my stuff.
We go downstairs, he hugs me by, I leave and at first in my

(25:11):
head I'm going ah, it's fine,you know, it's a, it's a
vacation for me.
Sometime that night somethingtold me to open up the envelope
and I've never been laid offbefore, so I didn't know about
Cobra paperwork.
Well, this paperwork says yourtermination date is September
30th.
You have till September 30th tosubmit this paperwork in order

(25:35):
for you to continue medical.
So the next morning I woke upwith no medical for my entire
family.
Holy shit.
So then I went from being okayto being pissed and I was in.
I was.
I wasn't pissed, I was in panicmode because my husband has had
two surgeries on both shouldersin the last year.
I have a heart condition, Ihave diverticulitis, so every

(25:58):
six weeks I'm having to go intoemergency so I can get my meds.
My daughter just had surgery ona torn ACL.
She goes to PT twice a week.
So I'm like what the hell am Igoing to do?
So I was panicking, called HR.
I'm like, hey, I have nomedical.
How are you guys going to cutme on the last day and I only

(26:19):
had hours to fill out thispaperwork.
Me on the last day, and I don't, I only had hours to fill out
this paperwork.
She's like oh no, you have aweek to do it.
Um, but I called Kaiser andKaiser was like no, you don't
have medical.
So I had to figure out somethings.
Um, the other thing was I triedto apply for unemployment and I
couldn't because the severancepay that they're paying me is in

(26:41):
the form of a paycheck.
So it looks like I'm getting apaycheck, like I'm still
employed.
So that kind of screwed me,because when they let me go.
All my endorsements stopped.
In addition to my salary I alsohad cricket wireless as an
endorsement, navy federal.
I did some other stuff, so thatcut all that extra income.

(27:02):
So throughout the next week, um, the sales from that company
called me, called me, text me.
They're like we're sorry, wedidn't do our job.
Um, you know, we were shocked,we didn't think that they were
laying you off.
Um, they said, uh, other jocksfrom other stations called,

(27:25):
other jocks from our stationscalled and text to you.
Know, check on me, see how Iwas doing.
And um, I found out, probablyabout two days later, that the
same time they let me go, theylet mj go from the bomb but she
was part-time.
So they let her go and didn'tgive her any notice or anything
either.
She was a lot more upset than Iwas about it.

(27:46):
Um day after that my dadfinally calls and this is how my
dad knows if I'm okay or not.
If I'm not on air for two daysand I didn't tell him I'm on a
vacation, he starts calling me.
So he's like um, I didn't hearyou.
The last two days is everythingokay?
So I kind of told him whathappened and then this is where
the anger set in.
My dad says, wait, sales didn'tdo their job, but you did your

(28:13):
job.
I said yeah.
And he says but you got, let go.
And I said, yeah, he goes.
Why didn't the sales managerswho are in charge of the sales
pit get let go?
yep I said I don't know, but nowI'm mad about it.
So you know, first week went by, nobody noticed because the
listeners thought, oh, she mustbe on vacation, maybe kids got

(28:35):
tournament.
Week and a half goes by andthen that's when all the people,
all the listeners, starttexting me and they're asking
what's going on.
Three weeks later somebody tookto reddit and went to the
hawaii division of reddit andasked where I was.
And that's when somebody hadsaid oh, you know, rela and mj,
they got fired.
And I was like whoa, didn't getfired, got laid off.

(28:57):
There's a difference.
You get fired when you dosomething wrong yeah, so I ended
up going on instagram and I wasreally nice about it.
I said thank you, reddit.
And yes, after 18 years, umthrough uh, visionary related
entertainment to ohana broadcastto pacific media group.

(29:18):
Due to cutbacks, I've been laid.
So thank you for the messages,thank you for helping me with
two number one morning showsthat I've been a part of, a
longstanding number one middayshow that I've been a part of
and I'm excited for what's next.
So everybody's telling me do apodcast, do a live stream.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I even told you to do a podcast.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, and I'm like oh man, I don't even know how I'm
going to do this.
I don't have any materials forthis or equipment or whatever,
and I know he's going to watchthis, so I'm going to put it all
out there.
And this might be the wrongplace to put it because he
doesn't know.
But everybody contacted me,everybody from the station
contacted me Um and for threeweeks, chris Stiles didn't
contact me.
Oh, after we said our goodbyesin the parking lot, I never
heard from him, um, from what Ihear he had some other things
going on.
So I understand, um, but threeweeks later, to emcee an event
at my daughter's school and hesaw my daughters, and only then

(30:28):
did he send me a text messagethat said boy, I saw your two
things.
But I didn't reply because theonly reason why I feel he sent
that text message was because hewas worried he was going to run
into me and feel guilty that hedidn't check on me for three
weeks.
But now you want to send me amessage making like it's okay.
So that happens, you know, youwanted to know.

(30:51):
I'm telling you.
Yeah so the end of October I goand I go to Wisconsin, I go to
this Great Dane Dog Show and twodays in Wisconsin a listener
sends me a message and goes,somebody put the radio station
on blast.
They picked up a live phonecall and they asked where you
were and I said oh, yeah, shegoes.
Yeah, but they declined to sayanything.

(31:13):
They kind of danced around thesubject and I said oh, I said
yeah, they probably.
Um, chris doesn't like to putmy business out there unless he
knows.
It's okay with me, so he'sprobably not going to say
anything.
And so she was like well,they're probably going to replay
it at nine o'clock and I said Idoubt it.
I'm sure there was a lot ofpeople who were calling and

(31:34):
saying stuff and it wasn't aired.
But sure enough, nine o'clockcomes and they air it again.
I'm in Wisconsin so I'm noteven paying attention.
I'm looking at dogs in a dogring and this listener sends me
a screen record of the nineo'clock hour and it's my cousin,

(31:56):
osna with Stacey, and somebodycalls and asks where I was, and
he was.
Chris basically said you know,I'm not at liberty to say all I
can tell you.
Is she good?
That number one ticked me offbecause you don't know if I'm
good.
You haven't checked on me, sothat kind of ticks me off, but
it wasn't too bad, I mean it'sminor.

(32:18):
And then he was like, yeah, youknow, know, um, you know, just
know that she's good.
And my cousin Osna jumps in andhe goes yeah, you know, might
sting a little bit, because youknow, her cousin me is sitting
in her seat right now taking herplace.
And I was like, oh, okay, butit's all for jokes, right,
they're making fun.

(32:38):
And Steezy's like you cannotsay stuff like that.
And he and osna was saying youjust had me battle rap, so I'm
in that mode, so it was valid.
And so steezy goes.
Well, you know, if you don'talready, you can follow her on
the radio, on instagram.
She does island craft fair.
She's out and about everyweekend.
And osna chimes in and says, ohwell, maybe she changed her

(33:01):
name to Rella off the radio andagain.
So another dig towards me.
But I know he's making jokes,I'm not taking it personally.
And Chris is again telling himcome on, stop, you got to stop
doing that.
And then he says why she's notlistening?
Anyway, she gets to sleep in.
So after that I came home Isaid I showed my husband the

(33:27):
video.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
he was not happy um, and someone you want on their
bad side, yeah, yeah he's likeI'll go broke his neck.
I was like no, it's okay, he'sfamily alone.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
You know, he's 130 pounds, soaking wet, just it's
fine.
So my son comes in and he'slike okay, you want to do this
podcast, this live stream.
I said, yep, I want to do it onthese platforms.
You know, just during themorning ride and he's like, okay
, and we came into some kind ofissue, some kind of problem, and

(34:04):
so he did a couple, a littlebit more searching and he was
like I found something for you.
And I said, okay, he goes,you're going to love it.
I said, tell me already.
He says live 365.
It's a radio station, it's a,it's a full fledged radio
station.
So you can be live like a radioand it's just, it's yours.
You can name it whatever youwant and you can do this and
that.
And I was like, oh, you knowwhat I do, love it.

(34:28):
So we started it and it's crazy.
I didn't realize all of the workthat it entails.
I didn't realize that it is abare bones station.
So when I bought it I was like,okay, let's get started.

(34:49):
I'm going to put music in here.
There's this little search tabat the top and I'm like, okay,
search for music.
So let's put in this title.
Nothing comes up.
Hmm, okay, let's put in thistitle.
Nothing comes up.
I go to the frequently askedquestions and then I realize
that this is a bare bones radiostation that has no music I have
to install.
I have to upload my own, whichwill only be my music.

(35:11):
This live 365 gives mecopyright protection, so
whatever I play is copyrightedunder them.
But when I upload the the music, I need to enter the correct
spelling and info as far asartist title, release date,
album date and the album cover.
That way, that system will pullwhat I'm playing and submit the

(35:38):
royalties to the right artistsokay so that in itself was crazy
.
That took me a lot to a longtime to do, still didn't even do
it.
I didn't realize that theminute I uploaded one song, it
instantly made my radio stationlive.
Oh wow.
So if I didn't upload, if Ionly upload one song, you would
hear that one song on auto djjust playing.

(35:59):
That'd be the shittiest stationever and this is this is me, not
just as a listener, but someonein radio my pet peeve has
always been through decades anddecades and decades of music.
Why do we play the samefreaking song every 70 minutes?
Okay, I get it because such andsuch record label is going to

(36:23):
play.
You pay you extra for certainamount of spins, which I'm not
supposed to say because that'sillegal.
I think it's called payola,whatever it is, but that's what
happens.
Oh, you know, we'll pay, we'llgive you extra money for this
concert you're going to throw ifyou play this artist so many
times.
Well, guess what?
I'm not getting any payola.
I, I can play whatever the hellI want.
So I finally get a chance tolisten to whatever music I want.

(36:50):
It's like listening to my iPod.
But I started to upload themusic and I'm like, okay, I got
to do different genres, I diddifferent genres, but I wasn't.
I couldn't organize.
I have OCD, so sometimes my OCDwill kick in and there is a
certain order that things needto happen.
So the music got to go in whenthe music goes in.

(37:11):
Okay, I got to schedule a log,but I need to have sweepers
saying this is Rella radio,listen to this at this time we
got to do our morning shows.
What are we going to talk about?
And until I get a log in like aschedule where I schedule the
song, the sweeper, the legal idtalking in between, another song

(37:31):
talking in between, until I getall of that done, my play, my
library is just going to shufflemusic.
Yeah, and I was like, oh my god,it's bipolar, it's going to
play all kind of, it's going toshuffle music.
And I was like, oh my God, it'sbipolar, it's going to play all
kinds of.
It's going to go from MarilynManson or it's going to go from
like Lincoln park to, I don'tknow, willie K down to like I
don't know um black 808.

(37:54):
It's like oh my gosh.
But after listening to it for acouple of days I was like I
kind of like this mix ofeverything.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Remember Radio Free back in the day.
Radio Free Hawaii.
That's exactly what thatreminds me of.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, I liked it.
But the new stress then becameI feel my ears getting red.
The new stress then became thatif every song, especially the
new songs nowadays are likethree minutes, I need 20 songs.
I need 40 songs for an hour.

(38:29):
I need 480 songs in order tocycle through a 24-hour period.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
I didn't have anywhere not replay a song.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, and not replay so that's my thing, right?
I don't want to play a song.
I want to replay a song in 24hours.
I want all different stuff andI was like, uh, I only got 200
uploaded and it takes a while togo through all of that and make
sure everything is right.
So at this time I probably onlyhave like 700 of and after the

(38:57):
first four days of us being upkind of sort of fully, at least
having the morning and themidday show up, I'm already over
to songs.
So I got to find more music.
But to find more music I needmore hours in a day, because
I've got soccer games to go to,I've got island craft fairs that
we're doing, I'm going toschool right now to be a

(39:19):
personal trainer, so I have twoclasses that I'm taking right
now.
So it's a lot to handle.
And then it's the added stressof I don't have this extra
income coming in now, so how amI going to pay for the house I
just bought?
So it's it's.
It's been the last, the last, Iguess.
Two months or so have beencrazy, more so since we launched

(39:41):
the radio station and I don'tknow, you know what.
I can say this.
And going back to the radio,I'm very careful in what I say I
would never disrespect any ofthe companies that I'd work for.
One because you don't want toburn bridges.
Two, because it's just, it's acorporation and that's what they
do and no matter how much acompany says, oh, we're family

(40:06):
oriented, you're family oriented, but you let go of somebody who
had a family to feed, andthat's because it's mainland
owners.
And 30 days after I was let goand at their track record
they've been letting people goon the last day of the month.
The general manager that let mego, letting people go on the
last day of the month, thegeneral manager that let me go,
got let go on October 31st and Idon't know if he knew it was

(40:29):
coming probably not, but youknow he was just doing his job.
I don't know whether I waschosen or not.
I do know that the week that Iwas let go that something was
said by my general manager andsaid it was something to the
effect of we need to look foryounger so-and-sos.

(40:50):
So there was somebody thatreplaced MJ on the morning show
and she was a younger girl andthey said that they needed to
sculpt for more young girls likethat because they work for
cheaper.
So I don't know if that hadanything to do with it.
Probably not, but I wasn'trelieved.
It didn't make me feel any typeof way when the general manager
was let go.

(41:10):
When I told my husband he gotmad, I was like why are you mad?
He says don't you think theyshould have let him go before
letting go the talent meaningyou guys.
And I said yeah, yeah.
So then I got mad all overagain.
I was like you're right, youshouldn't let him go.
I can't be angry all the time.
Just I've let it go already.

(41:30):
Just let me try and concentrateon this godforsaken station.
That I thought was going to beeasy, and it's not, because now
I'm the station manager, I'm theprogram.
I'm the station manager, I'mthe program, I'm the music
programmer, I'm I'm theproduction person that's doing
all the sweepers and everything,because I have to make it legit
.
You know, I am, I'm the DJ.

(41:51):
This is not what I signed onfor, but on average, since we
started the morning show, devinfrom, who used to be on Kumu,
devin from 94, seven Kumu.
He got laid off July 29th andhe's been doing the morning show
with me.
He's been nice enough to driveall the way from Kailua, come to

(42:11):
my home and do the show here.
But since we've been on I don'tknow since November 7th or so
we average about 500, 600 peoplewithin the 24 hour period.
So we have people listening andthe analytics is cool.
The system I have, it pingswhere everybody is listening

(42:34):
from.
So we have like listeners inAlbuquerque, vegas, california,
texas, kansas, maryland, andthen, of course we have big
Island, maui and a lot of peopleon Oahu, so it was nice to see
that people have followed me orjust curious listening in,
seeing you know how I'm doing orif it's any different than

(42:55):
regular radio.
And, like I said, radio is adying breed.
So now that you can listen toyour Spotify or your iTunes on
your phone, people don't listento regular radio.
And if you want to listen totalking, you can listen to a
podcast.
We can listen to you at anytime of the day.
So mine is a live radio show,but it's internet based.

(43:18):
I have less overhead, I haveway more stress, but it's.
I mean.
I love it for the most part.
I love having the control overbeing able to play what I want
to play and I can make it.
I can make it explicit if Iwant to, but I still want it to
be family oriented and I stillwant kids to be able to listen,

(43:41):
and so my hope is that this willbe a regular thing, at least
when the families are driving toschool, and we can
reincorporate.
When I was on high 93, it was mything which was the whose kid
is this?
Because the one thing myhusband had said when I was on
the bomb with Ding Dong, he saidI cannot listen to you.

(44:02):
You I got the kids in the car.
You guys are doing stupid,second date updated, talking
about this and that and it'sinappropriate for the kids.
So when I moved over the number, one thing I wanted to do was
make sure that it was familyfriendly and parents didn't need
to worry about having to um,having to change a station or
being worried if we were goingto say something inappropriate.
So I'm still going to take thatavenue and once I figure out

(44:27):
the live stream thing and beingable to well, not the live
stream, but being able to takecalls on the system that I'm
using, then we're going to getthat whose kid is this thing?
Started all over again so thekids can participate.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Oh, that's super cool .
So, how proud are you?
How proud are you to get thisthing started?
Because, shoot, I've seen youat one of the craft fairs.
What I feel like was a monthago and I was trying to talk you
into doing a podcast, and nowyou're doing this, which is 20
times more your, but it's, it'sin your wheelhouse.

(45:01):
This is definitely way morerela than a pot, just a podcast.
This is you and it's all yours.
It is all yours.
So you have creative control,you have the marketing and you
will be able to get your ownsponsors and it's all yours.
And able to get your ownsponsors and it's all yours.

(45:26):
And shoot one, you're getting500 listeners a day and you've
been on how many times likesince november 7th, so like less
than a month, less than likethree weeks.
Yeah, you gotta be proud, likeI'm proud for you.
That's um, thank you.
That's pretty remarkable andfrom that it's gonna grow,
because I assume once peoplelisten to you, then they're

(45:47):
always gonna listen to you.
That's just how your shows are.
If, um, you can grow now, it'snot just in hawaii, people
driving from hawaii, it's peopledriving all over united states
and probably the earth.
If it's internet based and Ididn't even know, that's, that
such a thing existed.

(46:09):
I couldn't do it becauseeverybody would be listening to
Metallica all day there'snothing wrong with enter sound
man yeah but I would be my ownlistener no, I mean it's being
proud.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
No, I, I do get excited.
Like the first day I was like,oh, there's 30 people listening
and then, like you know, themorning show will end and it'll
go down to like 12 and then I'llhave like a steady eight people
that listen all day and nowit's like a steady from the
morning show throughout the day.
I have like 30 somethinglisteners that listen all day
and now it's like a steady fromthe morning show throughout the
day.
I have like 30 somethinglisteners that listen all day

(46:46):
long.
And how I make my money withoutgetting the sponsorships or the
paid advertisements yet isthere's already commercials that
are scheduled in there, andevery time it's listened in I
get certain amount.
I it's split, it's like a 50 50share with me and live 365.
So if I've got 20 peoplelistening for 24 hours, that's

(47:12):
for, you know, 480 listeninghours or whatever the heck it is
, and they're listening to fourminutes of commercials each time
.
Every time I get like 20,000commercials that are listened to
.
It's not much.
I mean it's like YouTube.
You get like I don't know 20bucks, whatever it is.
But just with that alone andonly having maybe 30 listeners

(47:35):
on a After a month it would paymy one-year subscription.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Oh nice.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
So it adds up.
But what also adds up is theyhave different brackets.
So if I have more listeninghours, they put me into another
bracket.
Oh, you need to pay more forthis, but we'll give you this
and we'll give you that.
You need to pay more for this,but we'll give you this and
we'll give you that.
So, for example, I've alreadysurpassed in the first week I

(48:06):
surpassed my regular amount oflistening hours, which is you
shouldn't get more than 1500listening hours in a week.
In a month I did that in a weekand it might have been me and
my son listening to the show, Idon't know but or just my
relatives, I don't know, or justmy relatives, I don't know, but
we surpassed it.
So I had to upgrade.
But with the upgrade it gave mebetter quality music that I

(48:29):
could upload.
It also gave me I forget whatit's called, but it enables
Alexa to let people search forme.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Oh, wow so you can go .

Speaker 1 (48:43):
I just submitted a little paperwork for it, so it
should probably be up andenabled in a couple of weeks.
But basically you would justsay, um, alexa, enable live
three, six, five.
And then when it says livethree, six five opens, you go um
, alexa, play rela on the playRella radio.
And it'll Go playing Rellaradio and it plays.

(49:04):
And if you're like on, ifyou're on the computer or
whatever, and you're Doing Alexa, that way too, you Can search
for it and, like my, my graphicWill pop up and stuff like that.
But that's being worked on.
A Rella radio app is going tobe worked On.
So instead of having todownload the Live 365 app, you
Download.
The Rella radio app is going tobe worked on.
So instead of having todownload the live three six five
app, you download the Rellaradio app, you click on it and

(49:26):
hit play and then it plays it.
So kind of cool, that's supercool.
I thought my oddly enough, mymost exciting moment was okay,
my OCD right, I gotta be a fullfledged station.
I got to be legit.
I don't want all these otherdocs who were happy that I got

(49:47):
laid off or whatever.
I don't want them to downplaywhat I'm doing.
I don't want them to discountit, so I need call letters.
Is that like a real thing?
So I looked it up and you canbuy call letters for your
station, radio station, internetradio station.
You can buy legit call lettersthat make it your own and at the

(50:08):
top of the hour, like how 939is KIKI, high 93 is KQMQ, and by
legalities you're supposed toannounce that at the top of
every hour.
I bought mine, so I searchedfor, I searched for K Rella.
So if you're on the West coast,everybody's call letters start

(50:28):
with the letter K.
If you're on the East coast, Ithink all your letters start
with like a W or something likethat.
So I was looking for callletters that were like K-A,
k-r-l-a, but there's a LA radiostation that already has it, so
I named my station K-R-E-L,k-r-e-l, so I bought it and I'm

(50:53):
a legit radio station with callletters and everything via the
internet with less overhead, andso that was.
I was proud of that.
I was proud that I had callletters and that made me legit
is, or at least in my mind.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
So that's all that matters.
If people were to listen to it,going like, say, if I want to
listen to it in the morning, theway I got it was it was on
Instagram.
You posted it and I went toyour link and then I followed
the links, but if I were to wantto listen to it while I'm
driving to work, how could I dothat?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Okay, so there's a couple of ways.
If you have a newer vehiclewhere you can activate your
Android Auto or your AppleCarPlay, you already have Live
365 on your dash, so you can dothat.
Live 365 on your dash, so youcan do that.

(51:48):
You can download the live 365app from Apple, the App Store or
Google Play, okay.
Or you could log on tolive365.com.
You don't have to sign into anyof these things.
You can go to the website, youcan download the app.
It never asks you to sign in.
Once you're there, in any ofthose three outlets either the
website, android autoplay onyour car or the app on your

(52:09):
phone you just go into thelittle search box and type in
Rella, r-e-l-l-a, and thenyou'll see my little icon pop up
that says Rella on the radioand says K-R-E-L because I'm a
station, and then you press itand you hit play and then that's
it.
So that's live, um.

(52:30):
And we've also been doing videobecause I invested in these
cameras that thank you forsuggesting um.
And now I'm forced to use itbecause I'm like, okay, well, we
still have to do the video andI'll get it up on my YouTube
page when I get it, and thenwe'll do it to all the platforms
as soon as I figure out how tomake sure, you know, the videos

(52:53):
match the voice and there's nolatency, cause I don't want to
be, I don't want Devin's face tobe showing and it's my voice
coming out of his mouth and itkind of looks odd, although I do
have a deeper voice than hedoes, so so, um, but yeah, so I
have to figure out that part.
We'll still be able to.
That way, people can re-watchthe shows like a podcast yep, so

(53:15):
and you?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
can upload it right now upload auto audio to all the
podcast platforms, like you.
Just pull the audio off and Iuse buzzsprout, and I put it on
buzzsprout and then boom, itgoes to everything.
It's just nice yeah, I'll teachyou how to do it.
But it if you go on buzzsprout,I'm sure you could figure it
out.

(53:36):
But they give you a rss number.
You plug it into each one andit's all on the website.
You plug it into all to eachone.
When you launch it, boom, likeyou go to sleep.
You can schedule when itlaunches, it's like it's there
in the morning and that's whatI've been doing and you.
You have the content.
You just pull off the audio andlike then people can listen to

(53:59):
your audio without the music.
With the music don't matter,it's um, it's what?
Uh, like you said, that show umon one of the stations that's
outsourced to the mainland, thewoody show.
They pull off all their audioand put it as a podcast and
people listen to it as a podcastyep, yep.

(54:19):
Well, I'm super proud thatyou're doing this.
I I thank you.
I knew you're going to dosomething cool, but I didn't
know it was going to be thiscool.
I thought it'd be just apodcast and people can listen to
it and, of course, you outdidmy expectations.
So that's kind of the trend.
Having your own radio stationis definitely something I could

(54:43):
see you doing and running andshit.
In one month you've been lessthan a month.
This is how far you've come.
I want to talk to you again inabout a year and see what
happened.
And yeah, my dream when I was alittle kid was to be a DJ, dj.

(55:10):
So I want dibs as one show atone part or moment in your uh
week yes, on your radio stationthat would be sick and I get to
pick the music, that's rightthat's right, super dope.
Wow, I didn't even yeah, andI'll be the only one listening
to it.
I'm so proud of what you'redoing.
That's super amazing.
Thank you, Wow, my mind isblown.

(55:30):
I didn't know.
I didn't even know that was athing I didn't Like.
Fuck all these other radiostations Like you have your own
Like.
Why wouldn't you Like?
You know how it runs, you knowwhat works and doesn't work.
You have no corporate overheador boss or anybody to answer to,
and you're the fucking talent.

(55:53):
You're the reason why peoplelisten anyway.
So it just makes sense.
You know what I mean.
Why should someone above youcontrol the reason why people
are even listening to the radio?
That you can do it all?
That's, that's sick.
Wait, do I tell Heidi whatyou're?

Speaker 1 (56:18):
doing so.
I saw her when I flew out toWisconsin.
She was in the United ClubLounge.
They were going to thePhilippines.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Oh, okay, yeah, they just came.
Yeah, they just came yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah.
So I saw her when she wasflying out and I didn't know I
wasn't doing the radio stationyet because I hadn't heard that
clip about my cousin clowning me.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
So I told her about the podcast thing.
I told her about the podcastthing.
I told her about how I ran intoyou and, um, all the
suggestions that you made andeverything like that.
And she's like, oh, you'redoing really good and it was
nice to see her.
We gotta do lunch now but, um,but yeah, it's, uh, I'm, I'm
waiting to be able to.
I think the great thing aboutbeing in radio for that long was

(57:03):
I learned how it was run, howthey ran it.
I learned about the logs andhow it should be scheduled, um,
and I learned what not to do.
So I'm not a pro at it, um,I've never had to schedule music
at the radio station when I wasthere, but now I'm forced to
because I decided let's make aradio station.
So, but it definitely helped mebeing there all those years

(57:27):
through all those differentcompanies.
It's definitely it was.
It was a good, good thing tolearn, a good experience, and
now I can apply it in my ownways.
And once I have gotten the logthing down pat and I have all my
day parts and all theeverything's, all the everything
scheduled the way it should be,I need to wait.

(57:48):
Personally, I want to wait for30 days and when my analytics
shows this is how many listenersI have during this time from
these areas of you know regionof the U?
S and UK and Canada andeverything, um then I'll feel
comfortable going to solicit, tosell ad spots and have people
advertise on the show and getsponsorships and all that kind

(58:09):
of stuff.
Until then, doesn't matter howlong I've been in radio, I'm
still nobody.
Nobody knows how much listenersI get and how long they really
listen for, and if it made adifference if I was on the High
93 show or on the bomb show orhaving a number one morning show
when it was me, sam and Ryanand everybody else.

(58:30):
Now, now I have the reins, whichI can say this as well, because
it's not frowning on thecompany, it's frowning on who my
immediate boss was.
Every time it was posed that myname should go first or maybe I
should be the lead, theresponse was females are not
leads in morning shows.
So now we'll see whatdifference that makes.

(58:55):
I'm doing it all now.
I have no choice.
It's not what I wanted to do,but we'll see how.
We'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
That's super cool, I'm yeah.
I definitely we'll see whathappens.
That's super cool, I'm yeah, Idefinitely want to see what
happens.
Wow, that's, that's huge, and Ididn't even know that that was
a possibility like that's.
That's insane how the internetworks and yeah you.

(59:23):
You did your work, your sonhelped you out.
Like I'm blown away.
That's like a full-on radiostation.
That's, that's gonna besomething, and leave it to you
to be the one that fucking tellsme about it.
That's crazy.
Good for you.
That's that's.
Yeah, that makes my littlepodcast uh, freaking.

(59:46):
Um offered to just not even bea real thing like that.
That way out does that like I,I thought you'd be amazing just
doing a podcast.
Now you're gonna do this andyeah, that's that's crazy.
You're gonna.
That's I.
I can't wait to see how thisblows up and I want your first

(01:00:07):
bumper sticker.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
I hope it does.
I hope it's not just a trend.
I hope I don't give up, becauseit's a lot of work and I have
times where I'm having meltdowns.
I'm getting up at 3.30 in themorning for this stuff and I
don't know how somebody who isunemployed takes on another job
that still doesn't pay them.
So you know, I'm gotten forpunishment like that, yeah, so

(01:00:33):
I'm hoping it's, it'll getbetter, um, and the reward will
come, hopefully sooner thanlater.
Uh, but yeah, and and thepodcasting people still ask oh,
so it's live, but can youre-listen?
Because not everybody is awakeat that time.
They still want to listen.
So it's still it.
We've got to do both avenues.

(01:00:53):
I want to keep everybody happy,so, but whenever you want to
take on a day shift, you knowanytime you let me know, because
that's the last amount of timeI gotta talk.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
I'd be down for that.
Definitely down.
Yeah, that'd be super cool.
As long as of time I got totalk, I'd be down for that.
Definitely down.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Yeah, that'd be super cool.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
As long as I could do it from my house, I'd be super
down.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Yep, you can do it.
You can do it anywhere.
As you can see, we broadcastfrom my house, so you can have
an internet radio stationanywhere.
That's super cool.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
I'm impressed.
I know you touched on it reallyquickly, but I've known you to
do this from back in the day andit was I forget the name
something etched glass, right?
Oh, it was OK so when I firststarted my etched glass business

(01:01:45):
, it was called Etched in Hawaii.
Ok, I knew it was somethingetched glass business.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
It was called etched in Hawaii.
Okay, I knew it was somethingetched and then I changed it and
then went about three, fouryears and then I changed it to
midnight glassworks becausemidnight racing yeah midnight
mama.
So I changed it to MidnightGlassworks and it's been
Midnight Glassworks from 2007till I kind of sort of stopped
doing it in 2019.

(01:02:11):
And I stopped doing it thenbecause I had a falling out with
a promoter.
I was doing craft fairs asMidnight Glassworks and I had a
falling out with a promoter thattreated my son terribly when he
was working for me and then shetried to get me fired from the
radio station.
So my way and challengeaccepted, so my way of getting

(01:02:34):
revenge was to start an eventpromotions company and take all
her vendors.
So I started Island Craft Fairsin 2019.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
That's what I'm talking about.
Wait so you get fired from theradio station, so you start your
own radio station.
You get drama with a craft fairpromoter so you can start your
own craft fairs.
There seems to be a patternhere, now that I think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Yeah, there's a pattern.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
So, yeah, let me know about your craft yeah, because
I see it all the time, and Iseen you at the one in the mall,
one at pro ridge and because ofthat I haven't had a chance to
have my own booth.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
As midnight, as midnight, glass works, I have a
warehouse full of glass that'sstill blank.
And you know, when I got let gofrom the radio station, I was
like, well, I have time now Ican make product for Christmas.
This'd be the perfect time, butno, no, that would be too easy.
Let's start a brand new radiostation with no music in the
library and start from scratchand have sleepless nights.

(01:03:41):
Let's just do that, because iflife is easy it would be boring.
Remember that, oh yeah 100%.
So yeah, so I haven't.
I haven't done the edge glassor the water bottles or you know
any of that kind of stuff.
I want to start getting into itagain.
But I need to just like withyou and the promoting.
I need to leave it in the handsof people that I can trust.

(01:04:03):
That's not going to tarnish myname.
That's going to treat thevendors with care and respect,
like I treat them.
Because, at the end of the day,being a promoter at least being
a promoter for craft fairs andevent promoter your job is to
make sure that your vendors aresuccessful.
You know and like for you.

(01:04:24):
Your job is to make sure thatall of your people, that all of
your patrons, are having a goodtime.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
And they're paying you a cover at the door to make
sure that you're giving them agood time.
You know, whether it be to theadvertising, to make sure
everybody comes, paying the DJthat's going to play good music,
the servers that are in therethat are going to get out good
because they're doing goodservice.
For me it's the same thing thepromotions, the marketing,

(01:04:51):
having good staff, buying in yes, I did, buying an ATM machine
so that your old kupuna who havebusinesses, who do not do the
little square thing or don'tknow how to use credit card
machines and only accept cash,will have their, their shoppers,
go to my atm machine and gotake money out so they can go

(01:05:12):
buy from the kupuna that made alittle handcrafted crochet,
something or other.
And so when my staff, when Ifeel confident that my staff can
do the logistics, thescheduling, run the event on
their own without me being there, then I'll feel comfortable
doing Midnight Glassworks as avendor at that event and selling

(01:05:32):
my stuff myself.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
So yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Well, it's Christmas time right now, so what events
do you have coming up?
Because this is like your breadand butter time of year.
Right, it pretty much is itsecures?

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
it secures me and my staff financially at least the
first quarter of the next year,because it's so crazy with
events and people shopping andand vendors wanting to make
money too on this time of year.
So, depending on when you'regoing to release this, we have
black friday weekend at theformer toys r us space at pearl

(01:06:12):
ridge.
Oh, wow, that's going to benovember 29, 30th, december 1st,
okay, um, after that we haveyou ready.
Ali'i olani Elementary School,december 2nd.
That's a Saturday.
The following weekend.
Every second Saturday of themonth we do Kamakana Ali'i.

(01:06:32):
Now this one at Kamakana Ali'ithe second Saturday in December.
This is our Mahalo'i KaukumuHoliday Gift Fair and School
Supply Drive for teachers.
Mahalo I ka kumu, halare gifereand school supply drive for
teachers.
So mahalo I ka kumu means tothank your educator or thank
your kumu, and a lot of theseeducators pay out of pocket for

(01:06:56):
school supplies.
At the beginning of the yearthey already get paid crap, so
to have to buy school suppliesfor the Kiki that come without
that's more money out of theirpocket that they can afford.
They can use to.
You know, supply themselves,support their families.

(01:07:17):
And it's not just schoolsupplies that these educators
are buying.
They're buying slippers,they're buying snacks, because
some of the kids come to schoolhungry.
They buy plain T-shirts in casethe kids are coming to school
with dirty shirts or rippedshirts.
Backpacks, board games to playin school with the kids.

(01:07:40):
Now, by the time December comesaround and all the kids go home
for a couple of weeks, whateverthe teachers had bought at the
beginning of the school year hasalready depleted, whatever the
school supplies were.
So we're doing a school supplydrive for our teachers and what
we do is we target the schoolsthat just missed a cutoff.

(01:08:02):
They have this thing calledTitle I funding.
I'm probably going to get thiswrong, but I think it's if
there's at least 44% of thestudents are on Section 8, then
the school will get this Title.
I funding extra money to helpwith these kids.

(01:08:23):
Now there are some schools thatdon't make the cut.
They had 43% or 42% of the kidsthat are section eight.
So I go and I find thoseschools that miss the cutoff and
we give to those schools Nice.
So we'll be doing that SecondSaturday of the month that's
December 8th I believe, and it'sfrom 11 to 5.

(01:08:46):
If you come and you drop offschool supplies to center stage,
you sign a little um entryblank and you enter to win a
hundred dollar visa gift card.
Not much, but it's a thank youyeah um and then we go and we
deliver the supplies to theschool.
But we have that, we have.
We have Ala Moana.
No, I lied, kamakata isDecember 14th, but we have Ala

(01:09:10):
Moana.
We have a holiday pop-up shopthe last week just before
Christmas, december 18th to the23rd.
All of those can be found onthe website.
So if anybody's interested, youwant to get some Christmas
shopping done and find a one ofa kind gifts, then you can check
it out, island craft fairsorgand then just click on featured.

(01:09:30):
There's.
Each Island um has a tab, butthe featured tab is the tab that
has all the events that I puton um.
All the other Islands will haveour events too, but I also put
other notable events on there sothat you know maybe if I'm not
doing something on a certain day, there might be someone else.
That's doing something so theshoppers and the vendors can

(01:09:53):
find out more information on it.
But yeah, island craft fairsthat work that's super awesome
shoot.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
We've been going for over an hour and I'm gonna have
to get you back on eventuallybecause I got way more shit I
want to talk to you about.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
But I think we're good.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
Sorry, I'm put a gi I'm just blown away, I think,
yeah, I really didn't understandthat whole radio thing to now.
It's super detailed and yeah,I'm I'm, but yeah, these craft
fairs this time of year, um,where can people find you on
social media?

(01:10:29):
So if people want to check outyour radio station and also your
craft fairs, Ooh, okay, so mostof it is all done.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
So craft fairs you can check out Instagram or
Facebook look for islands craftfairs for me or Facebook.
Look for Island Craft Fairs Forme.
You can look up Rella on theradio, instagram or Facebook,

(01:10:58):
and right now, that's the infofor the radio station too.
I just got the website, krellradio.
I also have Rella on theradiocom.
So right now there's way toomuch stuff going on, but, um,
for the most part, rela on theradiocom and Instagram rela on
the radio.
You can find all the detailsthere.
Um, everything else is in theworks.
My own app is coming out.
Um, the website.

(01:11:18):
I need it to be a legit websitefor a legit radio station.
That way I can sign on to allthese outlets that let me
download music for free.
So I have to be legit so I canget free music nice, so working
on it right on.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
And for us, as always , you can find us on instagram
at above the bridge podcast.
Um, our youtube's above thebridge podcast.
My website is atbpodcom becauseI need to be legit, like her,
and my Instagram isthaddydaddyhi.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Isn't it cool to make your own website.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Mine is very cookie cutter.
But when I first launched itand I put in our website and it
pops up and I use wix I don'tknow what you use but I'm like,
oh, it's pretty cool to.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
It's cool, yeah, and um, inside a joke.
Um, since my husband is nothere and your instagram is fatty
, daddy, do you know that whenyou text me I didn't realize
that your phone number is stilllisted as daddykins?

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
oh, that's very hidey-ish also.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
I remember that yes, oh my gosh.
But yeah, daddykins, I was likeokay, I gotta change this, I'm
gonna get in trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Well, I appreciate you taking time out and, as um
always, it's good to talk to you, I know when I seen you at pro
ridge.
Um, my fiancee was like, oh yeah, that's your, that she must be
your really good friend.
I'm like yup, that's somebodyI've known for a very long time
and she can talk for a very longtime and that's how we are and

(01:13:05):
I think, um, I the sky's thelimit for you, and, honestly,
everything you've, you've beendoing, especially as a mom too,
and I guess the next time youcome on I'll talk to you about
being a mom, because I wanted tohit on that, but we're running
out of time and I'm yeah, I'm soin tune to how you are as a mom

(01:13:26):
, because you probably thefunnest mom out there, just like
I'm the funnest dad.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
My teenager doesn't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Yes, you are the funnest dad.
You're the cool dad.
Yep.
Anyways, thank you again forcoming on.
I definitely want to see howyour radio station is in the
future and if, given theopportunity, I'm definitely want
to see how your radio stationis in the future and if, given
the opportunity, I'm definitelydown to do something on it.
That would be that's.
One of my lifelong dreams wasto be a DJ, and this podcast is

(01:13:53):
the closest thing I've got,being that I do still sound like
a little toddler or a littlekid.
You do not, but I'm gonna holdyou to it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
You're going to have.
You're going to have a shift.
You do not, but I'm going tohold you to it.
You're going to have a shift,I'd be super down for that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
But thank you again.
Hopefully your craft fairs dowell and happy holidays to you
and your fam.
Tell your husband I said what'sup.
He used to always be in theclub too and I definitely
remember him at Pipeline and allthose days back then.
Yep, right on, well, shockersfor the cameras.
Right on, we're out.

(01:14:33):
Shout out to the Artist GrooveNetwork Aloha, thank you.