Ep. 4: Aloha Crushes Anger: Kelly Boy DeLima / Kapena

What happens when Mr. Aloha is actually Mr. Angry? Hawaiian music legend Kelly Boy De Lima & his wife Leolani open their hearts in this raw, powerful conversation about transformation, healing, & the true Source of ALOHA.

Kelly Boy, beloved frontman of Kapena, shares the shocking journey that began five years ago when he publicly confessed to being "Mr. Aloha" on stage but "Mr. Angry" at home. With raw vulnerability, he reveals how childhood trauma created patterns of anger that drove his children away & nearly ended his 37-year marriage. His "come-to-Jesus moment? A divine encounter at a yellow traffic light that changed everything.

Leolani, Kelly Boy's rock & "straight line," adds profound insights about standing firm in storms, choosing redemption when leaving seemed easier, & watching God restore what anger had broken. Together, they paint a masterpiece of grace, forgiveness, & second chances that resonates with anyone who's ever felt trapped in destructive patterns.

This episode tackles tough questions about generational curses, accountability, & daily choices to embody aloha. As Kelly Boy powerfully states, "Aloha comes from you... they cannot steal that from you." His testimony proves transformation is possible, but requires humility, surrender, & a willingness to "bow your head lower to the ground than you ever have in your life."

Whether you're struggling with anger or working thru family healing, this  offers hope & practical mana'o (wisdom). Subscribe, share, & join the movement to keep aloha alive in our hearts & 'ohana!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Aloha ohana.
Welcome to Aloha Alive.
I'm Auntie Dawn O'Brien.
I am super stoked to have notonly some of the best, most
well-loved musicians in thestate of Hawaii, but I also call
them Ohana.
It's Kelly Boy and Leolani deLima from the band Top 10 Nights
.
Yeah, I gotta confess and Markis my witness, who is my

(00:36):
videographer?
I had Masese stuck in my headall morning and I started from
the beginning right.
It's like, oh my, eh,tongue-a-bye, oh right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:00):
Aloha, alive in our hearts andputting aloha all over.
Now we recognize the both ofyou and I had you come on
together specifically becauseabout five years ago and correct
me where I'm wrong, by the wayleo lani dima is my best, best
friend.
In fact she has a nicknameblessed lady, because she knows
how to bless all over the place.

(01:20):
Thank you, blessedie, butcorrect me where I'm wrong,
blestie.
About five years ago we were ona certain series called the
Aloha Ha.
It was music melee, lots ofLOLs, hence the Aloha Ha.
During lockdown.
And as a culmination of that,kelly Boy, you shared a very

(01:40):
personal testimony about beingMr Aloha in public but then kind
of Mr Angry at home.
Can you recap that a little bit?
And then we want to hear how?
How has it gone since then?
Cause that was huge.
Like I was sitting next to yourbeautiful bride she turns to me
as soon as you were done and wejust hugged and cried and she
said praise the Lord, bless God.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah Well, first of all, congratulations on the new
podcast.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yay, Thank you, my old hon and I just wanted to
know when did?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
you become auntie.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
All right, thank you, brother.
Thank you, same time you came,I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I remember Dawn, when she was not auntie.
Yes, but anyway, yes, yes, weshared that we were together.
Was that at Pastor Cal's house?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Cal Chanan.
Yeah, so that was With twohurricanes bearing down.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'll go tell you the truth, and this is the honest
truth, because this is the Dawnpodcast, thank you.
I never knew what was going on,Dawn.
I never came inside theresaying that you got ambushed by
Jesus, saying that I was goingto share that testimony.
Yeah, that thing just cameflying out, yeah, and it needed
to be exposed, exposed yeah,yeah, totally, and yeah really,

(02:51):
it was just something that wasat that time that God was gonna
deliver me from, you know, and abreakthrough was happening.
You know what I mean and it wasa dark secret.
It was not really a secret, Imean if the whole family knew.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, I mean, only Akana knew that, not the world.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Because us, kelly Boy and I and your sister you know
I love both of you as Ohana wehad no idea.
So when you busted that thatnight I, literally I thought my
eyes were going to pop out of myhead, my jaw, was dragging on
the floor.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Your face, ando's face, was the only face that I
saw and you was like, I mean youhad your head down buried, you
know, and um, it was, um, it wasreally.
It was breakthrough, even forme.
You know, after the thingfinished, um pastor cal said oh,
kelly boy, you know, um, comeeat and stuff.
I couldn't even eat.

(03:43):
I never knew what happened.
Yeah, I don't know what I said.
You know what I mean.
You have to go home to watch it.
I went home, I looked at leo andI said let's go home.
I mean I I felt you know what Imean, I know you've been
through it, but you know Iexplained to people that,
haven't?
You know?
You feel so spiritually drainedafter something like that.

(04:03):
It's like it, it's likesomething.
You know what I mean Likesomething left.
You know what I mean Definitelya demonic possession.
You know what I mean Kind oflike tired, and you know what I
mean Like like you've beenspiritually battling.
You know what I mean.
And like when it, when it'sfinally gone, it's like what
happened.

(04:23):
You know what I mean.
And I had to go home and watchthat back on on facebook.
Yeah, and, and I and I was.
It's so awkward, you know, it'slike I was like ministering to
myself, like thinking to myself.
Oh my god, you know what I meanand kelly boy.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Forgive me, but there may be one or two people who
did not see that confession andthat testimony.
Can you share it?
Because I, I, as I said, youare mr aloha out in public.
We all love it.
You are mr aloha after that,but you are kind of mr angry at
home.
Can you share a little bit?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
well, it wasn't really.
I was carrying it everyeverywhere.
It was just masking.
Masking it, you know, and um,just masking the whole thing.
Um, yeah, you know, just justanger from all kinds of stuff.
You remember we did a show backin the day with pastor wayne.
It was um, what was it duringchristmas?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
the holidays christmas or something yeah, I
love little things that you knowwhat I mean with gritty um had
affected me growing up.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, um, trauma, trauma that I've been through
and I learned, like through mywife, you know, because she does
a lot of studies.
You know, on top of these kindsof things, like you know,
trauma and what um, maybe umaffected me, uh, that I carried
all of my life.
That just you know what I mean.
And when it affects you, likewhen you were a kid and stuff,

(05:46):
you know these certain traumasthat happen to you.
You start carrying these thingsyes, you know what I mean
through your whole life and youknow you don't realize it, but
the more you carry it, the morethe thing visits you and comes
back and checks in like you knowwhat I mean, checks, you, you
know, and um, um, bro, peoplecut me off on the road.

(06:08):
I wasn't hiding or masking it,bro, I'll go full bang on me
what I mean and they all know Igot capenna on top of the side
of my truck and I'm like youknow I'm, and um, especially I,
I think you know because thewalls was around my house and
you know everything was all.
You know he's like I could letmyself go and I never had to.

(06:32):
You know what I mean be onecertain way or something, you
know, a carnival in public andstuff like that that maybe my
anger had had.
Um, you know, uh, didn't reallypour out on my family.
You know, at home, you know,and um, and may I ask you?

Speaker 1 (06:49):
yeah what did that look like towards the end
because I remember you sharingthat you were sitting in a big
empty house.
You were reconsidering you're37 years married.
You were reconsidering all ofthat and you couldn't talk to
the kids.
You couldn't talk to yourgrandbabies, they couldn't come
visit.
What was that moment like foryou?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
um.
Terrifying, because you don'tever live your life with the
love of your life, thinkingthat's how it's going to end,
and your best friends to thisday, but in that moment, yeah,
it wasn't going well.
No, um, you ever heard thatsaying like it gets worse before
it gets better?
That was the worst.
And, um, sometimes we have toreally yield and submit to the

(07:33):
lord's work and sometimes, likewhen, uh, the bible talks about
him being the potter and youbeing the clay, you ever saw a
clay on on a wheel?
It's spinning.
It's spinning and being moldedand punched.
Yeah, and that's what it is.
When you're, when God'sbringing your character flaws to

(07:53):
the, you know it feels likethat, like it's not going to be
good, you know, but God promisedme a long time ago that he said
I'm going to make you a new pot.
You know, and I really believe,for all of usians, that he's
constantly molding us, and sothat was my husband's molding
part on the potter's wheel.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Amen, you know and you know for me if I can just
jump in um I got to the pointwhere, um my control you know
what I mean was my where myanger was yeah, it was out of
control.
And you know, um, you just getto one point where you know, I
just got to that breaking pointand that's what you saw.
You know that breaking point,that there's nothing that I'm

(08:35):
going to control.
I cannot control my family, mykids, my wife, my life.
I'm with anger.
You know what I mean.
That this thing that it don'twork.
They all grown up, they all.
You know what I mean.
This thing it don't work.
They all grown up, they all.
You know what I mean.
They're going to get offended,they're going to get.
They can leave.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yes, they're not my little kids anymore, that I can
and they did leave.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You know they all left One, each one at a
different time, you know, and Isaw her at the most breaking
point.
You know what I mean, that shehad and I had, and uh, it was
that one night.
We're sitting at the dinnertable and just her and I and she
buried her head in the tableand she just cried like I never

(09:15):
heard him cry before and shesaid you chased all of them out
of our house.
He chased them all out.
And we don't have they're nothere, we don't have our children
.
I said all we have it is bigempty house, you know?
And I stood up and I said youknow what, let me do you one

(09:36):
favor.
I'm out of here, I'm leaving,you know.
And I said I'm, I'm, I'll doyou and I'll do you a favor and
get out and get out of your life.
And dog never took me to, nevertook me 10 minutes.
And I was going down the roadand in Kaneohe, we, we go down
down an area that is called uh,lillipuna, um, there's a

(09:58):
flashing yellow light on thisone bend and I saw that flashing
light and, all of a sudden, man, I, I heard god's, god's voice,
just like we're talking and hegoes where are you gonna go?
You tell me where you thinkyou're gonna.
Where can you run?
Where can you go?
Whose house you can go?

(10:19):
Stay at where you think you cango, fly off to that you think
all your problems is gonna begone.
You know, he said, you're gonnaturn around right now.
You're gonna first, you'regonna call her and you're gonna
turn around right now and everyday of your life.
From this point, you're gonnabow your head lower to the

(10:42):
ground than you ever have inyour life and you're going to
get rid of all of this.
Wow, you're going to get rid ofall of this stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
I audibly heard God say that to you and a yellow
blinking light Stop caution.
The yellow light is still there.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
And man, no sooner than that, that words came to me
.
Man.
I was on the phone and I saidhoney, I apologize, I'm sorry,
anything that I can do.
You know, you get to one pointin life where you say to
yourself you know what, this isthe one that I'm supposed to be
with, this is the life that I'msupposed to be.
You know what I mean.
You just think to yourself.

(11:17):
You know, sometimes you'rechasing life, you know, and it's
like, man, there's gotta bemore.
You know what I mean, but godgot more for you.
All you have to do, yeah, isput all that junk away.
Yeah, you know what I mean, andfocus on him.
That's good kid.
You know really just, yes, youknow what I mean, because only
he can give you the more.
Yes, only he can give you thejoy.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Come on now, you know , and um, and this is from and
kelly boy, I know you wouldnever say it because you're a
humble Hawaiian.
I am not Hawaiian and I'm nothumble, but I'm going to say it
for you.
Is that you know you're amassive celebrity and you just
said that.
You just said you can chase alot of things in this life.
I mean, it could be money, itcould be other women, it could
be fame, it could be a lot ofthings.

(11:59):
But the Lord's going to giveyou more, and so he put a stop,
hold, cease and desist and turnback to the wife of your youth,
god showed me our entire lifehow we were so good together.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yes, huge, you know what I mean.
You are one, you know the twobecome one.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Your nickname for her is Honey Lonnie.
I love that about Honey Lonnie.
I use it with your Honey Lonlonnie.
I'm not even her husband, butI'm like, oh, I like that, so
kiss, okay now yeah, a week okaywow, okay but you are with me
and to this day, the two of youare best friends and you just
you just know it's right, youknow what I mean.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It was god's god you know, and, and even though you
know they say opposites attract,I mean totally, we're totally
opposite.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
She came from a whole different world than I came
from, huge, you know and um, ifI might interject, kelly boy,
what you're saying right thereand and there's this thing,
because you confess there waschildhood trauma.
It manifested or bears thisfruit, right, it was a
transgenerational curse of angerand abuse and it came in and it
messed up your home.

(13:10):
But the opposite of aces oradverse child experiences, which
is a big word for trauma, ism-a-m-a.
Meaningful adult, meaningfulactivity.
So we recommend and we try tohelp children with trauma.
Find a coach, a teacher, acounselor, find an auntie or
uncle.
For me it was my grandma, ketty, you know, it was my volleyball

(13:30):
coach at Hilo High School whosaw this messed up girl and
helped her not to start drinkingwith the rest of the crew at
state championships.
For you, who is that MAMA?
Because for you you were usingdrugs early.
You were running the streets ofWaikiki, you were running drugs
and other things.
But who's your MAMA?
Meaningful Adult, meaningfulActivity it's always been my

(13:51):
wife Come on.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
And how old were you guys, as teenagers, when you met
her?
I got married at 20 years old,you know I met her.
Sounds illegal, baby, hold on.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Well, tell me on your part because you was of age.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Hold up.
Well, tell me on your part,because you was of age.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
She was rocking that cradle of love.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
But you said it.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Sorry, no really, we're all about confessing sin
too.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, I always tell Leo she was the only solid rock
in my life.
Come on Like she was that lifepreserver.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I didn't know it.
I mean I, I knew what was good.
Yes, even though I was goingback for many years, I was still
on crystal met.
I was out there, I was right.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
You said at one point your testimony, and one of the
ones we've done that you hadyour crack pipe in your pocket
front row of her father's church.
He was the kahu, and youexcused yourself to the bathroom
to go soak and come back.
And that's how vigilant and itwas.

(14:54):
I was smoking drugs while I wasin the house of god, you know.
But god and but the fact thatand and your wife isn't for
those of you who are sitting inwith us right now having a talk
story with these two beautifulpeople who I love is ohana,
she's not perfect either.
Necessarily we can whip out abible, and I can look at all the
ways I've fallen short.
Today, my blesty was with you,not yet married, and she always
says, oh, yep, six months we wasum pregnant and getting married

(15:17):
, right, and she's even lookedat you and said yeah, I don't
remember him asking me, getchance.
And you said I never have toask, I had plenty chance and
chance and I was like oh fuck.
But yeah, you know sitting there, but you guys are perfect.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
That was my like.
She was like my accountability.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yes, sir, in my life she's a rock.
You know what I?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
mean Like my rock you know, yes, like that's why I
would go to church, that youknow what I mean.
That's the only good Dawn.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I had in my life.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Come on, there it is.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
In all.
Of you know, yes, eventually Ilearned that God is good, amen.
But you know, he puts people inyour life, like you were saying
.
What is that adult Meaningful,adult Meaningful, adult
Meaningful activity To theirkind?
And you know, for her, untiltoday, I still try to talk to
her and tell her.
She goes, yeah, but I felt likeyou just stepped on me and I

(16:07):
said you know, honey, I alwaystell her today and we both agree
that today we look back on ourlives and she says you know what
I said?
You were the only one thatnever gave up on me.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Come on.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
You know, like my mom gave up on me.
He would just, he would tell megood for nothing, he would call
me, kill him more, and Ibelieve the translation to that
was you know, you useless, youknow, and um, he would.
So those kind of words when youwould get mad at me, you know,
in my, in my life as a matter offact, you know um, don't get me
wrong, I love my dad I know I'mnot trying to throw him under

(16:48):
under the bus or anything or mymom.
But my mom told her the truth.
She said before we got marriedshe pulled leon on the side and
she said do not marry him oh,bro, he tried to hurt me.
Not only that, not only that butwhen I got married to my
mother-in-law, at the bottom ofthe steps after I got on our

(17:09):
wedding day, she looked at meand she goes.
She goes.
If please don't beat her and ifyou don't want her anymore,
please just bring her home.
We'll take care of her.
Like like they all knew, likethey could see.
You know what I mean.
You know it was almost like youknow what I mean and you know
what darn I'm not.
This is not one pity party.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's what I'm trying to say that was the truth
.
It was the truth because I waspilau.
And it speaks to so many localboys, but men around the world
who might think, or partners.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's all I saw Right Anger, and this is how I'm
gonna do it right I see my dadbeat my mom trot the car while
the car's still rolling on theroad, her screaming like you're
not getting his still hear thescreams in my, in my head, you
know, and I said I would neverbe like that.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
But I became just like that, wow you know, but
then, but god, then you havethis rock of a woman who loves
you sacrificially.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's pure, true aloha everybody I tried to leave
, donnie, trying to leave, youknow, I tried to leave, but god
told me a few short words andchanged my mind.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
And what were those few short words, because I know
them but our audience may nothave heard?
Yes, and it was prettyshell-shocking.
Yeah, world rocky the day I Idecided like this is it?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
yeah, I'm leaving.
And he said he said you'regonna leave.
And I said yeah, and he goes.
He said the blessings and theharvest that was meant for you.
Another woman will come in yourplace and take the harvest and
the blessings and she's going tosee all your prayers that you

(18:52):
soaked into him coming tofruition.
She's going to get to have thatversion of him.
And I said no, she, no, she not.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
I'll stay, I'll stay, I'll stay, I'll stay.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Hey guys, I'm not the biggest prize.
That's the whole point that I'mtrying to make, and she's from
liminal.
Oh so.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Jesus will punch your face and he's against the Jesus
.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know God has the perfect person for you.
He has the one that works withyou.
Amen, he's the one that you'resupposed to be doing life with.
Yeah, I'm so glad that I cameto that realization.
You know what I mean and thatI'm I'm living that you know
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
It's like we would not have kelly boy if we didn't
have honey lani, leo lani, wewould.
The two really are one.
You're the full packagetogether.
As you're saying, god designsthis.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
They see you up on stage shining the bright lights
and stuff.
It's somebody that is at homewatching your kids.
That's right, there's somebodyat home watching Making dinner
for me when I come home fromthose bright lights Making sure
you have families to be whenyou're at the Nahoku.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Matahano.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Awards, but we won't get into that one.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Thank you, Kelly Boy, for saying that.
So since that confession fiveyears ago, how's it been Awesome
.
It's been.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
You know what I mean.
You still go through the hillsand valleys of life, but more
understanding, more clarity,thank you, you know more grace.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
More grace.
Yeah, and there was, as yousaid, kelly boy, when you made
that confession, I believe, aspirit of anger.
We're not to have a spirit ofanger, but a spirit of aloha.
It broke off with you.
You went home.
You had to watch your owntestimony to know what you said.
Your wife had the sameexperience and she is your.
As we understand in the hebrewlanguage, azar is like under

(20:51):
armor.
It's like an armor that is soclose and it's not just a term
used for women, it's a term of awoman made in the image of God,
that we are his protector andyou allow him to be Kelly boy.
He is your guardian, he is yourprotector, your pastor, your
provider.
He is the father of your keiki,your ma'opuna, but you are his
helpmate, you are the mother,you are the minister, you are

(21:13):
the minister to his soul andthat is a power package right
there.
So I love that.
Five years later, tell me whathappened at christmas this year
and I think was it a rumor or atrumer?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
you got to go and be with one of the kids who left
the house, which was kalanakuand her husband can I just, you
know, just share one thing isthat, sir, you know from that
five years, you know the angerthat that that had left and
stuff.
You know, guys, it's not likeyou know, um, you're not gonna
get angry again, thank you.
You know what I mean, you know.

(21:44):
Yes, thank you, um, you gottareally watch, because everybody
think, oh, is that trustingJesus?
and yeah turn your life over tothe lord, and you know.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Now you're in whitewash roles every day.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You know you gotta watch you, but you gotta be
really aware, because you knowthose past traumas, those things
.
They always gonna come back andthey're gonna come knocking.
Come on, oh, kelly boy, I'mgonna do something.
You know what I mean and youknow something.
Um, it's good, like I said,about clarity.
Now you know and and with godexposing this whole thing

(22:17):
quicker you know what I mean.
I see where the thing comingfrom, you know.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
So when I feel that anger coming on, it's like okay,
okay, okay yeah, yeah all right, calm down, brother and just
what do you do when that momentof anger comes?
Because I've heard the oppositeof anger is aloha in action.
Right, it's the opposite ofanxiety is taking action.
So do you take a breath?
Well, this is what I do.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
I look at it and I'm like.
You know what I says.
You have no right to take awaymy joy Come on.
You know with this anger, yes,you know what I mean.
I'm not going to give you knowwhat I mean the devil what you
know what I mean, that glory.
You know what I mean To take.
You know what I mean to take mylife and to make me so upset.

(22:58):
You know what I mean and haveyou know what I mean any credit
to have you know what I mean andgive him any of that?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, we're not giving him a foothold.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
We're not giving him a toehold, a hold, a choke hold.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Get out, not today, sir, to me and to the person and
you love, your best friend.
Yeah, you're not trying to hurther, but I hear you that those
old thoughts, which is butthey're going to always come
check.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yes, you know the spirit of um um drug addiction.
Well, the team, always comeback well, you're out in clubs,
you're at concerts, you're invegas, my wife was, was loved
alcohol and she, you know sheabused it a lot of times in her
in her life.
But and we played down at theHale, kolani and every time on
Mai Tai or some it's floating byright she's like there's no

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right because we've been setfree.
Thank you, lord the joy of nothaving to go through all of that
.
Yes, sir, the payment is waymore greater than what we were
paying the reward of the Lord.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
And here's what I hear you saying, kalee.
But I love that you made thatimportant point that it doesn't
just you, don't just become thiswhitewashed robe before the
throne of heaven.
You're still working it out,we're still a work in progress.
I've called it and I've been onyour wife's beautiful show,
your beautiful life show.
On a little I said it'sKardashian Christian, we look
perfect on the front and but wegot a whole lot of junk in my

(24:20):
trunk.
I'm still entertaining a wholebunch of sin because I had a
massive alcohol problem.
I just figured it out yesterday.
I had been drinking for 31years of my life.
I know I look 21, barely readyto order drinks, yeah, but I had
been drinking for 31 years andbasically dealing with a lot of
I was self-medicating.
Right, I was trying to forgetthose childhood traumas of still

(24:42):
hearing certain things, ofstill here seeing certain images
, like you, kelly boy, becausewe had so much trauma from early
kid time, probably before wewere more, and curses were being
spoken and we're not specialfamily.
There's a lot of you strugglingwith the same thing, but God
once again, and we can pick upand keep moving forward.
I can think to myself.
Boy, I sure want to drink.

(25:03):
I had this thought the otherday, but I see I'm always
accountable to you.
But I thought I really want tohave a drink and I went.
Don you know, it's not just one, it's going to be a couple
bottles of choose.
I'll drink this bar until it'sdone and then I'll go tap some
more.
But, kelly boy, as you said, wecontinue to choose christ, and
what I hear you say is givinggrace to ourself because it's

(25:24):
worth it.
Yeah, look at you guys now.
We traveled and I'm going tocome back to that christmas
story, but I want to tell aquick story about my bless tea.
We traveled to Lahaina afterthe wildfires thank you for
letting your way.
Oh, I minister with me with theRed Cross.
Actually, it wasn't with theRed Cross, was it?
Salvation our feet.
Let me be distinctive.
And we also had a friends goingout there.
We work with Kings Chapel,kings Cathedral, with the

(25:46):
Morocco's and my bless tea.
At the end of a long days ofworking out there in Lahaina,
she would leave our hotel room.
She say, okay, well, I know youwant to rest on, donnie, so I'm
gonna go outside talk to myboyfriend.
I was like never be Kelly boyand she's like Kelly boy and she
was outside talking to herboyfriend for a couple hours.
I mean to the point it was like11 o'clock.

(26:07):
I'm looking at going blessed II.
Are you gonna come in?
Are you still with yourboyfriend?
But you guys will talk forhours.
You're gonna you go, minister,on the north shore and you,
you're talking in the car there.
You're talking in a car backtwo hours.
Right, what is that?
What is a day in the life ofkelly boy and leolani and you
guys really are best friends?
But tell us about christmaslast year, because you were at

(26:28):
Kala'e and Kalihasa's house.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, it was our entire family actually.
We all went up there and justcelebrated Christmas with the
family and we we had so much funtogether that we didn't even
open gifts till like three daysafter Christmas.
No, that's right.
Yeah, because we just it mean,it was there and we knew we had
to do it, but we were morehaving more fun playing

(26:53):
volleyball and singing andplaying music and just enjoying
each other.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, and this is a picture of the spirit of unity
which the good book, which weall love, the Bible, says in
Psalm 133, verse one.
How good and pleasing it iswhen God's children live
together in unity and someversions say harmony.
And Kelly boy, when you laiddown your life that night and

(27:18):
your wife has been laying downher life for 37 years, but you
broke off that spirit of angerand you opened up, I'm gonna
humble myself down to the ground.
I, because it's worth it.
She's worth it.
Is there a scripture verse?
Before we switch gears andwe're going to start talking
about how you learned Aloha,cause you are Mr Aloha bro, I
love you.
I loved watching you get healedand delivered that night.

(27:39):
I'm so proud of you, kelly boy.
I'm sure there's many peoplewho are proud of you today.
We still love you plenty, kellyboy, I love you too Is there a
scripture verse that you folksstood on during that whole time.
That can help someone who'sjust saying I need something to
hold on to.
Please give me a scriptureverse, because I love this
testimony.
But what can we hold on to fromthe bible?
Hope it can hold it along.
I'm like what is this?

(28:00):
Good?
She rocking her brain.
I've seen the gears movie.
She rack, you know.
I was thinking maybe second umcorinthians 5, 17, and it says
that we are new creations inChrist.
The old has died, mock it dieddead.
Yeah, would be our version,right, why not?
The old of me has died, muck itdied dead.

(28:20):
And the new creation of Christ.
That.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
I no longer live.
Yeah, because I want to make apoint about like yeah, long time
ago and he was smoking inchurch, right?
So that was Kelly Boy with noreverence, come on.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
No fear of the Lord.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
But this whole journey wasn't without prayer,
fasting, reading our word.
We had to confront really hardthings in me and him.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Well, I just want everybody to know that you know,
do not be a people, pleaser.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Okay, come on, there it is.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Because I was trying to do.
I wasn't please trying to bethere to please God, I was
trying to please myfather-in-law.
You know, to look good yeah andplease my wife you know, you
know good, walk the walk inChrist and please my wife that
I'm here.
You know what I mean.
Wow, you know it wasn't aboutGod in those days.
I never grew up in church.
I never knew nothing about God.
The only thing I knew about Godwas the guys on Lahaina Street,
that Pentecostal church thatwas super loud.

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And I told my dad one day heydad, how come we don't go to
church?
And and I told my dad one day,hey dad, how come we don't go
church?
And he said you know, boy, wewe don't go church because, well
, we just don't go church, butwe believe in god yeah, that's
all I knew about minister.
So everywhere I went I believedit, god, that's because my dad
said, right, there it is.
But you know, it was always thekind of stuff, yeah, and and I
did not, yeah, have on reverencefrom god until hebrews 10 I

(29:50):
read, papa showed me, you know,he goes.
No, get to the point where youstep in on the blood of jesus
wow, you know what I mean.
And you go backwards, you know,because he cleans you.
And you go back, you know.
And when I heard that the kindbra, and when I think stepping
on the blood.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, wow, when I I have never heard that.
I've heard it said a sloppyagape or greasy grease.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
No girl, you're going to just say sorry after you're
done drinking like what you'redoing when you're clean, that's
powerful street with a brokenleg in a motorcycle accident,
yeah, and god breaking your legand waking you up, and daniel
kikawa calling kavika kaiyapoand telling them I have a
revelation for kelly boy,because I gained that testimony

(30:34):
many years ago about.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I didn't break your lengthy God allowed a lot of
that.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Excuse me for that right clarifying.
Thank you, just a clarificationin my life.
I don't want.
She got gangsta Jesus, shewants to make sure he's nice and
they get Jesus, okay, I usethat phrase because or I use
that because in the Bible,daniel Kikawa told Kavika you
know, in the, in the when, whenyou get that land, that always

(31:02):
running away, yes, that's right.
Who break the leg?
The shepherd breaks the leg.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
That's right, I'm going to select the land is true
, it's not run away and Ibelieve that too right, thank
you, kelly boy.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
And he puts that lamb around his neck and he carries
him.
Amen, you know.
And when he told me that guesswhat street I, I, I ate it on, I
got my leg broken on kahawipastreet, which means shepherd
hallelujah, come on on shepherdstreet.
Anyway, yeah, getting back toyou know, what I was saying is
that you know I never hadreverence for god when I was

(31:37):
doing that during that time.
So you know, god's grace, youknow what I mean.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Praise the lord I'm not be sitting because, if I
knew don yeah, yeah and uh.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
I stepped on the blood of the Lord.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, during that time guesswhat?
Yeah Would not be when brokenlay Come on, there would be no
Kelly boy.
Yeah, because the wages of sinmy bike skid in a police report
a hundred feet.
That's how fast I was going, ahundred feet.
My bike went up the road, isn'tthat a whole football field,
almost, I guess?

(32:09):
Oh, and I was on the ground andI was blacked out and all over
while I was coming to you knowwhat I mean my senses all I
heard was, you know, friends ofmine was across the street at
the spa and there was an autobody shop that another couple of
my friends was hanging out atand all I've heard was my name
it is Kelly boy, you know, andI'm on the ground and all I

(32:32):
remember is ambulance and thengoing in the ambulance and going
to the hospital and that wasthe waking point of that was one
, that was part one.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
That's a really chapter shout at you to get your
.
And you were talking about notpleasing people, and that was
the scripture I was reading thismorning from Galatians 1.
And Paul is writing in verse 10he says if I were still trying
to please man, I would not be aservant of Christ.
Kelly boy, when I look at youtoday, you are done pleasing man
.
Oh no, you and your familyplease the Lord.

(33:02):
That's why every single venueyou go to becomes an altar for
the Most High God you aresharing that up a little bit, he
.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
he said you know what , when you please your Father in
Heaven, you please everybodyelse.
Come on, your father on earthyour mother on earth, your wife.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yes, Just look to God , just keep pleasing Him in the
way you live.
And like you said, how iseverything?
Is it better?
Yeah, but everything is itbetter yeah, but every day you
live a lifetime in it.
Out we're working.
In a lifetime you're walking init it's.
It's way better because, yeah,we have a greater understanding
of what Christ absolutely is andthe role that he plays in our

(33:43):
life as Lord, you know as.
Lord and Savior, you know, andin that part it's way better,
but do you walk around and stillnot go to the trials and the
tribulations and the thoughtsand the traffic?

Speaker 1 (33:55):
and the bills and the temptations.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
All the things Still the kind, but God is the great,
he's the great.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
He's the overcomer, he's the strength, and you get
faster to choose him, you gofaster to forgive, you go faster
to confess Faster right.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Faster to get away that anger to forgive and you
see that thing coming faster,yeah, yeah, you know what I mean
.
It's like whoa okay.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Okay, I see this it's not my first right now.
I love this and and as weswitch into the aloha, I would
say as a capstone for what we'vediscussed, you shared that
beautiful.
It really shocked hell and itrocked heaven and your family
has come together.
It did, and you're no longer apleasing man at all.
And therein lies the fruit ofGod's, the Lord's rewards,

(34:41):
because now you have yourchildren.
You know, you've got Lilo andKopenabu.
You even have your grandson,one of the best drummers in the
state of Hawaii.
He's like 11 years old, oh wait, he just turned 12.
He's 13.
Oh, he's tall he is.
I seen the photo yesterday.
I was like brah.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know, dawn.
You know getting back to family.
You know family is complicated.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yes, it's messy too.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
It's a messy thing, but you know something, yeah,
when we, you know, when mykalanaku and kala'e, you know,
went through their the loss oftheir baby, you know.
So everybody always tell me howmany grandbabies Five I have,
four here on earth and one angelbaby, Our kabakoa parish it was
hard for them, yes, it was hardfor our family.

(35:27):
You know, and, and you know,hurt people, hurt people man.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Come on, our family, you know and and you know, hurt
people hurt people, man you knowand um you know.
But yeah, the other people healpeople and today we are healed
and you drew both of you drew astraight eye, because the whole
time you're sharing about thiskelly boy thinking about when we
went to tennessee, we went tothe johnny cash museum, and when
you were talking about yourwife being the straight line,
that's the movie that they madebased on their life story.
Cause Johnny Cash as you know,he walked the line and that line

(35:58):
was introduced to him by hiswife, june Carter Cash.
And then the same thing in yoursituation.
Not only were you healed fromgoing crazy kooka-munga all over
the place, but this woman drewthat line.
Now you can draw a straightline for your children and your
grandchildren.
So as kalae, who I love dearly,and kalenaku right lost baby
girl and she's in heaven.
They went through a humdingerof a season.

(36:20):
Loss of a baby is hard.
They, statistically speaking,most couples don't survive the
longest term of child.
It's so anti-god, it's soagainst the design of the lord.
But here's the deal.
You kept drawing as hurt peoplewere hurting people.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
You kept healing people were healing people but
and aloha, yeah, it was comingfrom both sides I'm not saying
that they hurt.
You know what I mean.
You know I said things thatI've that I shouldn't have said.
You know, sometimes we've gotto watch all of our you know,
especially nowadays.
You know, you just just,sometimes you just gotta hold
back and you gotta pray yeahslow to speak.

(36:54):
Sometimes no words are the bestwords and today, you know we
prayed and we've just prayed fortwo years.
You know we just prayed andsoaked prayer and today we have
the best relationship.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, wow.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
And I love my son-in-law, Kala'e.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
You guys are all in the house.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I love my yeah for Christmas.
I know 20 something people 23,I think they counted.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, and it was weird, beautiful, and you know
even Kapena and mydaughter-in-law Rocky.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
You know, yeah, I mean shucks.
We all been through battles.
And then even with my littleLilo.
You know, my love, my lovefamily's exempt from you.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Know, I tell people man me and Lilo in the, in the
in the living room.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Bro, that's the first kid man she went.
She went square off with me andwe was going, oh my gosh and
she was trying to crack me,maybe that's why?
And I was like yes, train boys,my own, you know.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
But then you guys wrote right into kauai and this
woman stood up and shared thetestimony she goes one of my
kids has a black eye.
Right now we're just going todeal with real because jesus is
a gangsta.
I'm going to tell you the trueof the truth and that's why I
love my waimanalo girl, andthat's what we're about on this
podcast let's be honest, I don'tneed to be a kardashian
christian.
we all got junk in our trunk andwe're all walking to each other

(38:16):
.
This is how I say it.
On my testimony, when I was inHealing Hearts, I said you know,
we're all just children tryingto find our way home.
Yes, lord, and some of the daysI stumble and I reach out for
my friend and she grabs my handshe dragged me forward, and some
of the other days she mightcall me and I'll sit there and
I'll listen to her for a coupleof hours and then we're good, we

(38:37):
get back up, right.
Well, we're not going to haveany kardashian christian in this
house and we're going to befully honest, because then god
can do the surgery.
Yeah, he, he's worth it.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
he's worth it but you know my, you know she's special
that one I love you, you know,out of all of my children you
know um I love them all the same, but that little one.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
I mean, you know she's, you know she's 30 years
old but always your babies.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
You know that one, she always.
And you know what, after whatwe've been, you know we got into
it and she, you know she's thesweetest, she's like her dad,
you know like she can be thesweetest, right, but then, oh no
, get her upset right.
Once you cross that line, youknow you, you know you crossing
the line and you know today, Imean she, just she's such a

(39:25):
blessing, she's like, just likeher mom, she is, she's named
Leolani, like.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Leolani, the second.
Yeah, and now you have Leolani,the third.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
She's always calling us hi, mom, dad, you want
something to eat, or can I doknow she's such a good child?
I?

Speaker 1 (39:39):
seen her at um easter , when we were out at chinaman's
hat we were doing our baptismfor ekklesia church, which is
your founding church.
Now four generations and withwinter them gonna be five
generations.
And um, there's lilo holding ummama kahoot tracy's hand to
escort her out to the water,making sure the seats are every,

(40:01):
because she always serves.
She is a sweet.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
She is a deaconess, she got ordained in our church
and she loves the Lord and sheraises her baby.
Amen To serve, to serve, youknow, in that little winter man
and Riley, those, two babies.
They just, they just love theLord because they see what their
parents you know and now inserve.

(40:24):
You know they're exactly it.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, so what we were gonna switch into for the next
few moments before we bring thisin for a landing, and we gotta
have you back.
I already gave you the Hanawhole we not even how yet.
How good is that?
But what you just said, kellyboy, that you raised up your
children.
Both of you raised yourchildren.
Now the children are raisingthe children with the aloha

(40:47):
spirit.
Right that I can come to aColiseum any given Sunday.
I promise you what Garen's ballbearings to God and back.
I will see a child up on thatstage getting a scripture memory
verse.
I will see worship team andthey may not even know how to
worship some of them, right,like they're so small.
Amber's little girl how old isshe?
What's?

Speaker 3 (41:05):
her name.
She's four.
Yep, um, she's four.
Yeah, she's four.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Two and then you got tesame yeah, tesame, she's older
she's like nine yeah,prophetess also.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
But here's what I'm saying family, you raise up a
child in the way that theyshould go.
They're not going to departfrom it.
And this is the aloha alivepodcast, because part of the
controversy we see nowadays isoh, where's the aloha?
Right inside of you it is, andand, as as imperfect as we might
be, I'm still going to raise my.
My jujubu is seven, but heknows how to walk up to auntie.

(41:36):
You go, honey, auntie.
Right, you're gonna kiss andgreet auntie properly.
Um, when we are at home, wepull it before we eat.
Right, we, there are certainthings.
How did you learn aloha?
What's one of your favoritememories?
Because, kelly boy, you knowthe the other side of your dad
was.
He trained you, he saw a giftin you and you won the brown
bags to stardom statewide, and alot of that was your dad's

(42:00):
encouragement.
As hard as he was, he also hadgoodness to him.
What was your favorite memorywith your dad?

Speaker 2 (42:06):
my favorite memory was, um, I think, what I made
him proud, you know, like I wastelling him, you know, it was
the music.
It was the music that made himproud that I was doing something
.
You know, I had to been.
What is, how old are you whenyou're like seven, eight grade,
oh yeah, so eight, yeah.
Team, yeah, capenna is in theeast now 13, oh yeah, so 13, 14.

(42:30):
You know, when I was inintermediate school, um, I, um,
I entered the, um, the brownbags to start them.
Well, my dad took me the yearbefore and he said, hey, kelly,
he goes.
Boy, we go to the high school.
You know what a visionary.
Oh you went to Shell I went tothe.
Waikiki Shell and I saw I thinkit was, oh I forget who was up

(42:54):
on stage.
But I looked at my dad and Isaid, hey, dad, next year, year
I'm gonna be on that stage.
And he just called me.
Haha, all right, you know.
Good, okay, he doesn't likethat can be it was.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
It was a sarcastic kind you know, yeah, you never
go positive like that right, andI was, but that made him really
really young.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
How old were you?

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Oh, that was high school man, that was like at
that point I was at about 15.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
And you won the statewide Brown Bags.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
I only won for my school.
That was a year we played.
We um uh.
Naleo was on uh, so he was 84and Naleo came out with you know
little boys, and smashed it.
Yeah, he couldn't, he couldn'teven.
No, there was no, probablysaying we sang kauluvaihi o
kekai.
But we put a dent in, in, wemade an impression.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
We made an impression , you know, because it was the.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
I was the only haole boy up there.
You know they're looking at meand my dad is Hawaiian.
My mom is holy, but I look likemy mom.
You know they mean and.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
I love how you say there were two holy people in
Makaha at the time.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Yeah, but you know, she's a.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Canadian lady that married on how a local boy and
you know and look at thewonderful result we all enjoy,
but my dad always.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
You know that I, you know I always disappointed of.
That's why I mean I went topsychiatrists, I went to all
kinds of programs, alc programs.
I was kicked out of school, Iwas heading to detention home
and I was heading in in you knowwhat I mean in the wrong
direction.
You know as a kid, you know andyou so they would put me.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Alc is one step shy of detention.
Yeah, alc, if you don't know,is alternative learning Center
or another bad word.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Last chance, then it's detention center and prison
so you know my dad, um, youknow all my life, you're not
getting into trouble and stufflike that.
When he saw me get into themusic, you know, and uh, he was
the one you know.
I just told him one time, don.
I said, dad, I met my friendjames willis and kunia gaudera.

(45:15):
That really, you know, changedmy life around and and I saw
them play that ukulele and Isaid, bruh, this is what I like
to do.
And I told my dad once I said,dad, I like going to ukulele
Because my friends play.
And he went down to KamakaUkulele and he bought me a brand
new 8 string and at that timeit was big dollars, it was 260

(45:41):
dollars wow, that's still bigdollars.
That was big dollars back inthose days in the 80s, you know
what I mean that, but that's thereal deal now it's not an eight
string you said it was on,eight string was on full on.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
I was like you were going for already.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Um, when he gave me the gift, he gave me the thing
and he said here you go, boy.
And I opened this thing, I myentire life, like I could feel
something like shift, like wow,what is this?
And I would never forget thewords he told me.
He said, bro, this thing betternot be collecting dust in two
weeks.
In other words, you better lookat them and the kind and put

(46:18):
that thing in the closet andforget them.
That thing never, ever, got letdown done, do you still that
thing?
Oh yeah, I still got them.
Wow, thank you, chris, comewalk up and you come up with
family.
They redid it, you know, manyyears ago.
Uh, the thing was boss.
I brought, I mean, I rode myskateboard, I was down the beach
the beach boys, all the beachboys, are shooting.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Did he watch the chords?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
and he's going back, all the beach boys to grab my
ukulele and, um, that was awonderful investment and it was
a prophecy.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
it was a vision your dad had for you and I can see
that you say he was impressedand he was proud of you.
But I'm sure it was like theclicking in of a vision that he
got, and sometimes guys reallyget it great because God has
given them vision and he hadthat free and, like you said,
your whole spirit shifted whenhe gave you that eight stream.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Even as of like just a couple of weeks ago, my wife
and I was driving to Holonopuaand she said you know what God
just told me.
I said what?
And she goes, you know, likeKing David, yeah, he had his
harp, yeah, and he would play toSaul's.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
You know tormenting spirit or whatever it was.
It's a lyre yeah, yeah, yeah,which is an instrument, an
instrument.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
She goes that's what your ukulele is for you.
Yeah, you know, because there'sbeen, you know, countless times
that we just played um over andon um.
What is the place in carioca,the?
Um, no, the um, no, thehabilita habilita, yeah, yeah,
we got asked to go play and Ijust took my guitar and I took
my ukulele by himself and thenpeople was singing along I

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meanabilah town.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
It's a weapon in his hand.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Hallelujah, it's a certain, you know like you
remember when the Bible talkedabout King Saul, when he would
get those tormenting spiritsright and then he would come
call David and they would justrun.
Yes, anyway, she told me thatand it made sense.
You know, after all of theseyears, and this was just as of
two weeks ago, that she sharedthat with me.

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She's going to tell you arevelation.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
I know, you know In the spirit of worship, but it's
a spirit of aloha with which,it's a spirit of aloha right.
That's what I believe wasinvested into you, not just by
your dad and your community.
And yeah, there was hardness,there was roughness, because the

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terminator always tries to comeback in time and take you out
before you reach the fullness ofgod's?
Yes, so there was hardness, butgod allows those things to bake
in the goodness of resilienceas I look back.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Don god was up in all that stuff, wow, even someone
yes, one k time he allowed allthe things we went through.
He was up in all of that man.
All I had to do is get to thematurity of my walk with the
Lord to really look back in mylife and see all the places that
God was with.
So we don't regret anything Allthe time.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Because it was necessary.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Yeah For the growth.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
It was spiritual surgery.
Yeah, surgery is going to hurt.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
You're going to get cut, they're going to kick you
out.
Yeah, I'm thankful foreverything that I went through
my heart, my good, the good andthe bad, because you know, even
in like revelations 5, that yousee, you know, always use that,
that scripture reading, you know, like, you know, you had all us
, you had um.
What was it?
It was a um, it was a saintover there, and and and they,
who is worthy to open up myscrolls?
That's right, right.
Who's worthy?

Speaker 1 (49:44):
And nobody could stand up and open up and he said
, oh, but look the Lamb of God.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
And how did they know that he was worthy?
Because look all the stripesand everything that he went
through.
You know it's the only reasonhow we can get to where we're
going is because of your journey.
That's good.
You know, that's the journey.
You know what I mean.
You know God look upon you andhe says, brah, look all the
scars and all the boss up thisguy.
Get on top of him.
That's good.

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Come here, my good and faithfulservant we all have wounds.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
I can use you, yeah, whether it be spiritual or
physical wounds of the thingswe've been through, but God's
going to take us through.
But I did want to go back toyou getting your gift from your
dad, the ukulele, because thisguy, every single child of ours,
whenever they were in a newinstrument he would get the best
piece of it.
Wow.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
My dad said that in motion right yeah, the kamako
ukulele.
He never just buy me an ABCstore four string.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Right, he bought the best and this guy would buy the
best for the kids, like the bestinstruments, the best private
lessons.
And just recently Lilo did itforward because Winterine's
studying piano lessons at four.
She bought a new keyboard.
She bought a new keyboard.
She didn't play it once See,but you get what?

Speaker 1 (51:03):
you pay for.
And I think what we heard andyour point being and please make
it is that my dad used to sayyou get what you pay for.
So certain things invest thebest and you're worth the best.
And the child noticed that hekicked pride.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Yes, he kicked pride, and these are instruments that
you can pass down?

Speaker 1 (51:21):
yes, to your next.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Like you still have your kamaka h drink, I still got
the kamaka.
That one I'm going, you knowI'm hanging on to but my kanilea
ukulele um, my firstcustom-made kanilea ukulele.
I just um passed that down tomy my grandson and brought a
buga king for him.
So you know, that's the kind ofstuff that you get, you know

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what.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
I mean that you pass them down.
That's the living legacy.
Yeah, yeah, it is His secondkanilea ukulele.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
he gave it to me and you know, you don't know, you
just borrow things oh okay,waiting for the leolani.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Hey, that's Tongue in Style right.
Blessy.
I can borrow, I can borrow andthen the owner has to come ask
me for?

Speaker 2 (52:02):
the lighter bag.
His brand is hers.
His hers is hers.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
But you don't know what you have until you use a
regular ukulele off the wallthat's not custom, right the
tone, the sound and you're likeooh.
And so sometimes you, you know,we don't realize that we're
being gifted the best.
And I feel like this is how godis with us sometimes we don't
realize we've been gifted withthe best until you kind of walk

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another way and you trysomething else and you're like
oh, and there I want to go backhome, to where?
Yes?

Speaker 1 (52:36):
really make that point.
Slay it, queen, queen, comeback home.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yeah, god wants the best for all of us.
God wants to give you his bestgift yes, his best you know what
I mean?
He's not going to just give you.
Everyone Broken, you know,whatever kind Boss up baby
sister.
You know, which is all good.
It serves a purpose.
You know what I mean for forsome people, but that's not the
way our god is.
You know, it's just a.

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You know, just something thatyou know he gives his very best.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
He gave his son because he loved us so much he
don't give you the best I loveyou guys so much.
Is there a last word you wantto give and and our heart is
part of?

Speaker 2 (53:14):
thank you so much this was so rich I just want to
talk for like five hours.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
We can do a joe rogan right now, but um, no, he does
three.
No, I want to go on, but we'llhave you back for sure cannot go
out.
But also, do you have a lastword?
Because this is the aloha alivepodcast and we know a lot of
people are saying, oh, where'sthe aloha nowadays?
You know why are you sodifferent?
The world is crumbling.
We randomly are hearing,hearing World War III, but how

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do we share the aloha?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Well, you know, dawn, I learned a long time ago yeah,
aloha comes from you, you know.
Yeah, I remember looking backat my past life and saying to my
wife yeah, but I saw my fatherbeat my mom.
I saw my uncles, you know, dodrugs, drugs.
I seen the kind, so that wouldbe my excuse, right?
you know that'd be my excuse toher and she said you know

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something she told me one day.
She said you know what?
You got to be accountable foryou.
Wow, she said you gotta be, yougotta make the change.
You know, yes, and I looked ather and brad made so sense,
think about it.
Yep, you make the change.
Yes, everybody looking aroundit goes well when they're all
going to get aloha there it iswhen you all going to have aloha

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when is the state capital goingto everybody else?

Speaker 1 (54:27):
going to have all the highs?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
and you give all.
Yeah, you know, hey, theycannot steal that from you.
No, you'll make that that willsteal that from you.
Come on, you make that choiceand that's it's your power.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
It's your personal power.
I would either choose life ordeath, right you like this,
somebody else, that power, right?

Speaker 2 (54:45):
no, right you got.
You cannot take this from me,kelly boy, you cannot take this
from me.
I don't walk with aloha, comeon, I don't.
I don't stand up for the auntie.
Yes, that might come on top the.
You know what I mean on top ofthe shuttle bus when I'm going
from gate to gate traveling orwhatever.
That looking.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
I don't stand up still yet for her.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
We're in Las Vegas and you go into the rental car
place and get one old lady comeon, Nobody stand up for other
auntie come.
You know what I mean?
That's what you got be thealoha, you know.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
and they and they sit around and then the other
people that is the kind they alllook at you strange and that
used to be common courtesy butnot so common anymore that men
would get up and give their seat, or young people I would get up
and give a kupuna older persona seat and I've seen kelly boy
do this and I won't sharespecifics but we were in a um,

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kind of a contesting type ofsituation where we were sharing
testimony about something and wewere at odds with other people
in the room and you you folks,know what I'm talking about and
I got up there and I gave theopposition, I gave on my mouth
because, like you said, I can bereal nice.
I'm Auntie Dawn, but you got apiece of me.
You want a piece of this?
Let's go.
I'm going to use my mouth as asword.

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And I sat down.
I was very proud of what I haddone on behalf of this family.
But when we were all said anddone and they wrapped up the
proceedings, this man stood upand went to the other side.
Yeah, and you blessed the verypeople I was giving the eye.
I was like bye, I'm using mymouth, but I will use my body
next, just try me.
But you walked up and you honeythem.

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You said god bless you.
I hope it all works.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
He's so nice it's irritating because allah comes
from you.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
That's good, it's what you aloha comes from you
and that's where we're gonnaland, and that's hey, you know
what that's where you got.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
You gotta start somewhere, amen.
Start with you, absolutely.
You know what I mean.
Don't just keep looking at theworld and thinking there it is,
you gotta get it.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
I can't choose all of that, but I can always choose
my response.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
And I can always because only you gotta go home
with you there it is only yougotta live with you and thank
you.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
You know what I'm saying?
Yes, and not just us singlepeople.
You hear what he's saying toyou right now.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
That's why, when I see all of these same comments
you know what I mean on the, youknow social media and stuff
where people lashing out, oh youshould have this and that right
.
You, kelly boy, billy muck,make a comment.
I have never.
You know what I do I pray andyou bless.
I said, lord, we're going tojust bless, just bless and make,
make it that's no class youknow work it out work it out,

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lord and you know what I mean.
Let the truth be told, you know.
Let this truth be seen.
Amen.
You know what I mean.
It's going to be seen.
Whether you comment or not.
The truth, what do you say?
It's always come out.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Well, his whisper in the house, they'll be shouted
what?

Speaker 2 (57:40):
would you like to say bless?

Speaker 3 (57:41):
see, how do we keep you eating aloha in our own.
So this just happened to me.
Like a week ago we were in LAand we were checking out of the
hotel and I was telling thefront desk helper that it was so
fabulous, I had a great timeand their, their food was good

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and everything was good.
And he goes did you try ourbiscuits?
I said no, I didn't, but I ateeverything else and it was so
good and I was just.
There was an exchange, but therewas a woman next to me
listening to me talking.
She goes it's so nice, scary,someone speak with such kindness
and I said oh.
I said, well, I'm a christianand I'm from hawaii and this is
how we all speak yeah and shesaid well, you know, I'm a

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teacher, I teach gratefulness.
And I looked at her and I saidwe live gratefulness.
Yes, and then I walked out andI told my husband do you think
that was sassy what I said?

Speaker 2 (58:37):
yeah, that was a little hard my husband.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Do you think that was sassy?
What I said yeah, that was alittle hard, but what I meant to
say and then you knowinteraction was that we don't,
we don't, this is not fake andphony.
Yeah, this is who we are and weshould be so proud to be that.
And we've been privileged andhonored to be the bearers of
aloha, yes, which is the lightof the lord into this darkened

(59:00):
world.
And so we, we should, we should, we should be so proud to be
the bearers of that light, andwe should bear that light
wherever darkness is, absolutely.
And so I try to live that wayin every realm, whether people
see you or don't see you, youhave to live aloha.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
I love that and living the light of the lord,
being honored to have theprivilege to bear that light and
to be the light of the lordbeing honored to have the
privilege to bear that light andto be the light of the world.
You married a good one, kellyboy.
She nailed that right there,sewed it up well.
Thank you again to my delimafamily, five, fives all the way

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around.
Um, we just, I just thank youand I bless you a hundredfold
for all that you've shared todayand and so transparently, so
truthfully, and we can't havetrust if we're not truthful.
So thank you, kelly boy and leolani, your other half, two or
one for sharing such a powerful.
I bless you as you go out andcontinue to shine and bear the

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light of a local rock wereceived that and thank you
everybody for all our prayers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
You know, and uh, we just start we be, we belong to
uh god's network.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
His community is just so glorious and thank you for
the prayers, donnie oh god'sohana or as sorry lest he says I
love it donnie only killy boyand only his wife can call me
Darnie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Darnie, yeah, yeah yeah, nobody else can it's.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Auntie Darnie Aloha Shaka's out.
Thank you for coming on in.
Thank you, Dawn Cheehoo Bye.