{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":25.02,"endTime":27.33,"body":"Aloha mai kakou,"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":25.02,"endTime":27.33,"body":"welcome to a new episode of What"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":27.33,"endTime":30.479999999999997,"body":"School You Went? where we start"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":27.33,"endTime":30.479999999999997,"body":"every conversation with this"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":30.479999999999997,"endTime":33.06,"body":"question because, well, that's"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":30.479999999999997,"endTime":33.06,"body":"how we connect here in Hawaii."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":33.39,"endTime":36.239999999999995,"body":"I'm Ron Mizutani, and today"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":33.39,"endTime":36.239999999999995,"body":"we're talking about a status"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":36.239999999999995,"endTime":39.66,"body":"that not everyone is comfortable"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":36.239999999999995,"endTime":39.66,"body":"with. 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I want"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":44.64,"endTime":47.519999999999996,"body":"to welcome my dear friend, Mona"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":44.64,"endTime":47.519999999999996,"body":"Wood-Sword to the conversation."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":47.519999999999996,"endTime":51.629999999999995,"body":"Mona is the president of Ikaika"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":47.519999999999996,"endTime":51.629999999999995,"body":"Communications, a publicist and"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":51.629999999999995,"endTime":55.95,"body":"marketing guru, creator of Kick"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":51.629999999999995,"endTime":55.95,"body":"Okole Events, writer, editor,"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":56.19,"endTime":59.28,"body":"and so much more, and a longtime"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":56.19,"endTime":59.28,"body":"friend. Mona, welcome to the"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":59.28,"endTime":59.78999999999999,"body":"program."},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":60.209999999999994,"endTime":61.59,"body":"Aloha Ron."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":62.25,"endTime":63.900000000000006,"body":"Before we get"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":62.25,"endTime":63.900000000000006,"body":"started, what school you went?"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":65.07,"endTime":67.53,"body":"The best one,"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":65.07,"endTime":67.53,"body":"of course, Kamehameha Schools."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":67.56,"endTime":70.26,"body":"Whoop whoop, imua."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":67.56,"endTime":70.26,"body":"And that's not why you're here"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":70.26,"endTime":75.51,"body":"today. You know, I'm biased to"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":70.26,"endTime":75.51,"body":"the heights. What's up with you"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":75.51,"endTime":75.84,"body":"lately?"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":76.92,"endTime":77.88,"body":"You know..."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":77.38,"endTime":79.81,"body":"COVID must have"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":77.38,"endTime":79.81,"body":"changed your world."},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":79.38,"endTime":82.14,"body":"It was a roller"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":79.38,"endTime":82.14,"body":"coaster, and we're still on the"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":82.14,"endTime":87.27,"body":"roller coaster. So we went from"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":82.14,"endTime":87.27,"body":"zero to 60 in literally probably"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":87.27,"endTime":90.75,"body":"a couple of days once spring"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":87.27,"endTime":90.75,"body":"break hit. 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But you know..."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":114.39,"endTime":117.69,"body":"Change is hard,"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":114.39,"endTime":117.69,"body":"but change is growth and without"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":117.69,"endTime":120.69,"body":"change, without change we don't"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":117.69,"endTime":120.69,"body":"have butterflies. So..."},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":120.78,"endTime":121.53,"body":"This is true."},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":121.56,"endTime":126.53999999999999,"body":"You know, so we"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":121.56,"endTime":126.53999999999999,"body":"all we all endure, we cope. And"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":126.53999999999999,"endTime":131.7,"body":"we move forward. 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And some young Grom said,"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":146.46,"endTime":151.29,"body":"\"go uncle.\" In other words,"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":146.46,"endTime":151.29,"body":"giving me the wave. And I should"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":151.29,"endTime":155.79,"body":"have took off, but I was so"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":151.29,"endTime":155.79,"body":"offended. 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And in"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":187.04999999999998,"endTime":191.4,"body":"the back of my mind, I knew it"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":187.04999999999998,"endTime":191.4,"body":"was a sign of respect. I was"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":191.4,"endTime":194.76,"body":"probably because I think I was"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":191.4,"endTime":194.76,"body":"29 or 30 at the time, which is"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":194.76,"endTime":199.2,"body":"still super, super young. And I"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":194.76,"endTime":199.2,"body":"would just pay somebody dear"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":199.2,"endTime":204.09,"body":"money to go back to that. But in"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":199.2,"endTime":204.09,"body":"my head, I was still 19, 20,"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":204.12,"endTime":207.93,"body":"right? 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I was looked at as"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":225.09,"endTime":226.32,"body":"their parents level right?"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":225.38,"endTime":230.75,"body":"I can't say I was"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":225.38,"endTime":230.75,"body":"ever a hot chick myself. 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It still kind of picks"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":258.53000000000003,"endTime":264.08,"body":"me a little bit. 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Isn't that silly?"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":282.98,"endTime":285.5,"body":"No it's not. You"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":282.98,"endTime":285.5,"body":"know what's the worst, and I"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":285.5,"endTime":288.38,"body":"think people who are listening"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":285.5,"endTime":288.38,"body":"can relate, whether your auntie"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":288.38,"endTime":292.82,"body":"or uncle -  and it's \"uncle\" by"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":288.38,"endTime":292.82,"body":"the way, it's not \"unko\","},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":292.85,"endTime":296.15,"body":"U-N-K-O, which is another word"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":292.85,"endTime":296.15,"body":"in Japanese, all completely. But"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":296.15,"endTime":300.62,"body":"we won't get into that. But"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":296.15,"endTime":300.62,"body":"there's a right time and a wrong"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":300.62,"endTime":305.21,"body":"time to use \"aunty\". I mean, you"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":300.62,"endTime":305.21,"body":"got to know when. Especially if"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":305.21,"endTime":311.71999999999997,"body":"you're the person calling you"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":305.21,"endTime":311.71999999999997,"body":"Aunty is older than you. 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You know, now I'm like you,"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":324.67,"endTime":329.89,"body":"I embrace the days that people"},{"speaker":"Ron Mizutani","startTime":329.89,"endTime":330.85,"body":"did call me uncle."},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":330.38,"endTime":336.68,"body":"That one hurts"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":330.38,"endTime":336.68,"body":"even more. Well, so there was a"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":336.68,"endTime":340.37,"body":"period where it was just little"},{"speaker":"Mona Wood-Sword","startTime":336.68,"endTime":340.37,"body":"kids that did it. 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