
Aloha Alive: The Dawn O'Brien Podcast
Why Aloha? the whole world knows what aloha is--love in Hawai'i--but better to ask WHY ALOHA? the answer is as essential as breath & as fun as whistling, so LET'S GO!
Aloha Alive: The Dawn O'Brien Podcast
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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Aloha ohana. Welcome to Aloha Alive. I'm Auntie Dawn O'Brien. I am super stoked to have not only some of the best, most well-loved musicians in the state of Hawaii, but I also call them Ohana. It's Kelly Boy and Leolani de Lima from the band Top 10 Nights. Yeah, I gotta confess and Mark is my witness, who is my videographer? I had Masese stuck in my head all morning and I started from the beginning right.
Speaker 1: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. Aloha, alive in our hearts and putting aloha all over. Now we recognize the both of you and I had you come on together specifically because about five years ago and correct me where I'm wrong, by the way leo lani dima is my best, best friend. In fact she has a nickname blessed lady, because she knows how to bless all over the place. Thank you, blessedie, but correct me where I'm wrong, blestie.
Speaker 1:About five years ago we were on a certain series called the Aloha Ha. It was music melee, lots of LOLs, hence the Aloha Ha. During lockdown. And as a culmination of that, kelly Boy, you shared a very personal testimony about being Mr 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 your beautiful bride she turns to me as soon as you were done and we just hugged and cried and she said praise the Lord, bless God.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, first of all, congratulations on the new podcast.
Speaker 1:Yay, Thank you, my old hon and I just wanted to know when did?
Speaker 2:you become auntie.
Speaker 1:All right, thank you, brother. Thank you, same time you came, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I remember Dawn, when she was not auntie. Yes, but anyway, yes, yes, we shared that we were together. Was that at Pastor Cal's house?
Speaker 1:Cal Chanan. Yeah, so that was With two hurricanes bearing down.
Speaker 2:I'll go tell you the truth, and this is the honest truth, because this is the Dawn podcast, thank you. I never knew what was going on, Dawn. I never came inside there saying that you got ambushed by Jesus, saying that I was going to share that testimony.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that thing just came flying out, yeah, and it needed to be exposed, exposed yeah, yeah, totally, and yeah really, it was just something that was at that time that God was gonna deliver me from, you know, and a breakthrough was happening. You know what I mean and it was a dark secret. It was not really a secret, I mean if the whole family knew.
Speaker 3:No, I mean, only Akana knew that, not the world.
Speaker 1:Because us, kelly Boy and I and your sister you know I love both of you as Ohana we had no idea. So when you busted that that night I, literally I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head, my jaw, was dragging on the floor.
Speaker 2:Your face, ando's face, was the only face that I saw and you was like, I mean you had your head down buried, you know, and um, it was, um, it was really. It was breakthrough, even for me. You know, after the thing finished, um pastor cal said oh, kelly boy, you know, um, come eat and stuff. I couldn't even eat. 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.
Speaker 2:I went home, I looked at leo and I said let's go home. I mean I I felt you know what I mean, I know you've been through it, but you know I explained to people that, haven't? You know? You feel so spiritually drained after something like that. It's like it, it's like something. You know what I mean Like something left. You know what I mean Definitely a demonic possession. You know what I mean Kind of like tired, and you know what I mean Like like you've been spiritually battling. You know what I mean. And like when it, when it's finally gone, it's like what happened. You know what I mean. And I had to go home and watch that back on on facebook. Yeah, and, and I and I was. It's so awkward, you know, it's like I was like ministering to myself, like thinking to myself. Oh my god, you know what I mean and kelly boy.
Speaker 1:Forgive me, but there may be one or two people who did not see that confession and that testimony. Can you share it? Because I, I, as I said, you are 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:well, it wasn't really. I was carrying it every everywhere. It was just masking. Masking it, you know, and um, just masking the whole thing. Um, yeah, you know, just just anger from all kinds of stuff. You remember we did a show back in the day with pastor wayne. It was um, what was it during christmas?
Speaker 3:the holidays christmas or something yeah, I love little things that you know what I mean with gritty um had affected me growing up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, trauma, trauma that I've been through and I learned, like through my wife, you know, because she does a lot of studies. You know, on top of these kinds of things, like you know, trauma and what um, maybe um affected me, uh, that I carried all of my life. That just you know what I mean. And when it affects you, like when you were a kid and stuff, you know these certain traumas that happen to you. You start carrying these things yes, you know what I mean through your whole life and you know you don't realize it, but the more you carry it, the more the thing visits you and comes back and checks in like you know what I mean, checks, you, you know, and um, um, bro, people cut me off on the road.
Speaker 2:I wasn't hiding or masking it, bro, I'll go full bang on me what I mean and they all know I got capenna on top of the side of my truck and I'm like you know I'm, and um, especially I, I think you know because the walls was around my house and you know everything was all. You know he's like I could let myself go and I never had to. You know what I mean be one certain way or something, you know, a carnival in public and stuff like that that maybe my anger had had. Um, you know, uh, didn't really pour out on my family. You know, at home, you know, and um, and may I ask you?
Speaker 1:yeah what did that look like towards the end because I remember you sharing that you were sitting in a big empty house. You were reconsidering you're 37 years married. You were reconsidering all of that and you couldn't talk to the kids. You couldn't talk to your grandbabies, they couldn't come visit. What was that moment like for you?
Speaker 3:um. Terrifying, because you don't ever live your life with the love of your life, thinking that's how it's going to end, and your best friends to this day, but in that moment, yeah, it wasn't going well.
Speaker 3:No, um, you ever heard that saying like it gets worse before it gets better? That was the worst. And, um, sometimes we have to really yield and submit to the lord's work and sometimes, like when, uh, the bible talks about him being the potter and you being the clay, you ever saw a clay on on a wheel? It's spinning. It's spinning and being molded and punched. Yeah, and that's what it is. When you're, when God's bringing your character flaws to the, you know it feels like that, like it's not going to be good, you know, but God promised me 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 so that was my husband's molding part on the potter's wheel.
Speaker 2:Amen, you know and you know for me if I can just jump in um I got to the point where, um my control you know what I mean was my where my anger was yeah, it was out of control.
Speaker 2:And you know, um, you just get to one point where you know, I just got to that breaking point and that's what you saw. You know that breaking point, that there's nothing that I'm going to control. I cannot control my family, my kids, my wife, my life. I'm with anger. You know what I mean. That this thing that it don't work. 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:Yes, they're not my little kids anymore, that I can and they did leave.
Speaker 2:You know they all left One, each one at a different time, you know, and I saw her at the most breaking point. You know what I mean, that she had and I had, and uh, it was that one night.
Speaker 2:We're sitting at the dinner table and just her and I and she buried her head in the table and she just cried like I never heard him cry before and she said you chased all of them out of our house. He chased them all out. And we don't have they're not here, we don't have our children. I said all we have it is big empty house, you know? And I stood up and I said you know what, let me do you one favor. I'm out of here, I'm leaving, you know. And I said I'm, I'm, I'll do you and I'll do you a favor and get out and get out of your life.
Speaker 2:And dog never took me to, never took me 10 minutes. And I was going down the road and in Kaneohe, we, we go down down an area that is called uh, lillipuna, um, there's a flashing yellow light on this one 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 he goes where are you gonna go? You tell me where you think you're gonna. Where can you run? Where can you go? Whose house you can go? Stay at where you think you can go, fly off to that you think all your problems is gonna be gone.
Speaker 2:You know, he said, you're gonna turn around right now. You're gonna first, you're gonna call her and you're gonna turn around right now and every day of your life. From this point, you're gonna bow your head lower to the ground than you ever have in your life and you're going to get rid of all of this. Wow, you're going to get rid of all of this stuff.
Speaker 1:I audibly heard God say that to you and a yellow blinking light Stop caution. The yellow light is still there.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And man, no sooner than that, that words came to me. Man. I was on the phone and I said honey, I apologize, I'm sorry, anything that I can do. You know, you get to one point in life where you say to yourself you know what, this is the one that I'm supposed to be with, this is the life that I'm supposed to be. You know what I mean. You just think to yourself. You know, sometimes you're chasing life, you know, and it's like, man, there's gotta be more. You know what I mean, but god got more for you. All you have to do, yeah, is put all that junk away. Yeah, you know what I mean, and focus on him. That's good kid. You know really just, yes, you know what I mean, because only he can give you the more. Yes, only he can give you the joy.
Speaker 1:Come on now, you know, and um, and this is from and kelly boy, I know you would never say it because you're a humble Hawaiian. I am not Hawaiian and I'm not humble, but I'm going to say it for you.
Speaker 1:Is that you know you're a massive celebrity and you just said that. You just said you can chase a lot of things in this life. I mean, it could be money, it could be other women, it could be fame, it could be a lot of things. But the Lord's going to give you more, and so he put a stop, hold, cease and desist and turn back to the wife of your youth, god showed me our entire life how we were so good together.
Speaker 2:Yes, huge, you know what I mean. You are one, you know the two become one.
Speaker 1:Your nickname for her is Honey Lonnie. I love that about Honey Lonnie. I use it with your Honey Lon lonnie. I'm not even her husband, but I'm like, oh, I like that, so kiss, okay now yeah, a week okay wow, okay but you are with me and to this day, the two of you are best friends and you just you just know it's right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: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:She came from a whole different world than I came from, huge, you know and um, if I might interject, kelly boy, what you're saying right there and and there's this thing, because you confess there was childhood trauma. It manifested or bears this fruit, right, it was a transgenerational curse of anger and abuse and it came in and it messed up your home. But the opposite of aces or adverse child experiences, which is a big word for trauma, is m-a-m-a. Meaningful adult, meaningful activity. So we recommend and we try to help children with trauma. Find a coach, a teacher, a counselor, find an auntie or uncle. For me it was my grandma, ketty, you know, it was my volleyball coach at Hilo High School who saw this messed up girl and helped her not to start drinking with the rest of the crew at state championships. For you, who is that MAMA? Because for you you were using drugs early. You were running the streets of Waikiki, you were running drugs and other things. But who's your MAMA? Meaningful Adult, meaningful Activity it's always been my wife Come on.
Speaker 2: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:Well, tell me on your part because you was of age.
Speaker 2:Hold up. Well, tell me on your part, because you was of age.
Speaker 3:She was rocking that cradle of love.
Speaker 2:But you said it.
Speaker 1:Sorry, no really, we're all about confessing sin too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I always tell Leo she was the only solid rock in my life. Come on Like she was that life preserver. You know what I mean? Yeah, I didn't know it. I mean I, I knew what was good. Yes, even though I was going back for many years, I was still on crystal met. I was out there, I was right.
Speaker 1:You said at one point your testimony, and one of the ones we've done that you had your crack pipe in your pocket front row of her father's church. He was the kahu, and you excused yourself to the bathroom to go soak and come back. And that's how vigilant and it was. I was smoking drugs while I was in the house of god, you know. But god and but the fact that and and your wife isn't for those of you who are sitting in with us right now having a talk story with these two beautiful people who I love is ohana, she's not perfect either. Necessarily we can whip out a bible, 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 was um pregnant and getting married, right, and she's even looked at you and said yeah, I don't remember him asking me, get chance. And you said I never have to ask, I had plenty chance and chance and I was like oh fuck.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you know sitting there, but you guys are perfect.
Speaker 2:That was my like. She was like my accountability.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, in my life she's a rock. You know what I?
Speaker 2:mean Like my rock you know, yes, like that's why I would go to church, that you know what I mean. That's the only good Dawn.
Speaker 1:I had in my life.
Speaker 3:Come on, there it is.
Speaker 2:In all. Of you know, yes, eventually I learned that God is good, amen. But you know, he puts people in your life, like you were saying. What is that adult Meaningful, adult Meaningful, adult Meaningful activity To their kind? And you know, for her, until today, I still try to talk to her and tell her. She goes, yeah, but I felt like you just stepped on me and I said you know, honey, I always tell her today and we both agree that today we look back on our lives and she says you know what I said? You were the only one that never gave up on me.
Speaker 1:Come on.
Speaker 2:You know, like my mom gave up on me. He would just, he would tell me good for nothing, he would call me, kill him more, and I believe the translation to that was you know, you useless, you know, and um, he would. So those kind of words when you would get mad at me, you know, in my, in my life as a matter of fact, you know um, don't get me wrong, I love my dad I know I'm not trying to throw him under under the bus or anything or my mom.
Speaker 2:But my mom told her the truth. She said before we got married she pulled leon on the side and she said do not marry him oh, bro, he tried to hurt me.
Speaker 2:Not only that, not only that but when I got married to my mother-in-law, at the bottom of the steps after I got on our wedding day, she looked at me and she goes. She goes. If please don't beat her and if you don't want her anymore, please just bring her home. We'll take care of her. Like like they all knew, like they could see. You know what I mean. You know it was almost like you know what I mean and you know what darn I'm not. This is not one pity party.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm trying to say that was the truth. It was the truth because I was pilau. And it speaks to so many local boys, but men around the world who might think, or partners.
Speaker 2:That's all I saw Right Anger, and this is how I'm gonna do it right I see my dad beat my mom trot the car while the car's still rolling on the road, her screaming like you're not getting his still hear the screams in my, in my head, you know, and I said I would never be like that.
Speaker 1:But I became just like that, wow you know, but then, but god, then you have this rock of a woman who loves you sacrificially.
Speaker 3:That's pure, true aloha everybody I tried to leave, donnie, trying to leave, you know, I tried to leave, but god told me a few short words and changed my mind.
Speaker 1:And what were those few short words, because I know them but our audience may not have heard? Yes, and it was pretty shell-shocking. Yeah, world rocky the day I I decided like this is it?
Speaker 3:yeah, I'm leaving. And he said he said you're gonna leave. And I said yeah, and he goes. He said the blessings and the harvest that was meant for you. Another woman will come in your place and take the harvest and the blessings and she's going to see all your prayers that you soaked into him coming to fruition. She's going to get to have that version of him. And I said no, she, no, she not.
Speaker 1:I'll stay, I'll stay, I'll stay, I'll stay.
Speaker 2:Hey guys, I'm not the biggest prize. That's the whole point that I'm trying to make, and she's from liminal. Oh so.
Speaker 1:Jesus will punch your face and he's against the Jesus.
Speaker 2:You know God has the perfect person for you. He has the one that works with you. Amen, he's the one that you're supposed to be doing life with. Yeah, I'm so glad that I came to that realization. You know what I mean and that I'm I'm living that you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's like we would not have kelly boy if we didn't have honey lani, leo lani, we would. The two really are one. You're the full package together. As you're saying, god designs this.
Speaker 2:They see you up on stage shining the bright lights and stuff. It's somebody that is at home watching your kids. That's right, there's somebody at home watching Making dinner for me when I come home from those bright lights Making sure you have families to be when you're at the Nahoku.
Speaker 3:Matahano.
Speaker 2:Awards, but we won't get into that one.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Kelly Boy, for saying that. So since that confession five years ago, how's it been Awesome. It's been.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. You still go through the hills and valleys of life, but more understanding, more clarity, thank you, you know more grace.
Speaker 1:More grace. Yeah, and there was, as you said, kelly boy, when you made that confession, I believe, a spirit of anger. We're not to have a spirit of anger, but a spirit of aloha. It broke off with you. You went home. You had to watch your own testimony to know what you said. Your wife had the same experience and she is your. As we understand in the hebrew language, azar is like under armor. It's like an armor that is so close and it's not just a term used for women, it's a term of a woman made in the image of God, that we are his protector and you allow him to be Kelly boy. He is your guardian, he is your protector, 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 the minister to his soul and that is a power package right there. So I love that. Five years later, tell me what happened at christmas this year and I think was it a rumor or a trumer?
Speaker 2:you got to go and be with one of the kids who left the house, which was kalanaku and her husband can I just, you know, just share one thing is that, sir, you know from that five years, you know the anger that that that had left and stuff. You know, guys, it's not like you know, um, you're not gonna get angry again, thank you. You know what I mean, you know. Yes, thank you, um, you gotta really watch, because everybody think, oh, is that trusting Jesus?
Speaker 2:and yeah turn your life over to the lord, and you know.
Speaker 1:Now you're in whitewash roles every day.
Speaker 2:You know you gotta watch you, but you gotta be really aware, because you know those past traumas, those things. They always gonna come back and they're gonna come knocking. Come on, oh, kelly boy, I'm gonna do something. You know what I mean and you know something. Um, it's good, like I said, about clarity. Now you know and and with god exposing this whole thing quicker you know what I mean. I see where the thing coming from, you know.
Speaker 1: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 moment of anger comes? Because I've heard the opposite of anger is aloha in action. Right, it's the opposite of anxiety is taking action. So do you take a breath? Well, this is what I do.
Speaker 2:I look at it and I'm like. You know what I says. You have no right to take away my joy Come on.
Speaker 2:You know with this anger, yes, you know what I mean. I'm not going to give you know what 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 my life and to make me so upset. You know what I mean and have you know what I mean any credit to have you know what I mean and give him any of that?
Speaker 1:No, we're not giving him a foothold.
Speaker 2:We're not giving him a toehold, a hold, a choke hold.
Speaker 1:Get out, not today, sir, to me and to the person and you love, your best friend. Yeah, you're not trying to hurt her, but I hear you that those old thoughts, which is but they're going to always come check.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know the spirit of um um drug addiction. Well, the team, always come back well, you're out in clubs, you're at concerts, you're in vegas, my wife was, was loved alcohol and she, you know she abused it a lot of times in her in her life. But and we played down at the Hale, kolani and every time on Mai Tai or some it's floating by right she's like there's no right because we've been set free.
Speaker 2:Thank you, lord the joy of not having to go through all of that. Yes, sir, the payment is way more greater than what we were paying the reward of the Lord.
Speaker 1:And here's what I hear you saying, kalee. But I love that you made that important point that it doesn't just you, don't just become this whitewashed 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 on your wife's beautiful show, your beautiful life show. On a little I said it's Kardashian Christian, we look perfect on the front and but we got a whole lot of junk in my trunk.
Speaker 1:I'm still entertaining a whole bunch of sin because I had a massive alcohol problem. I just figured it out yesterday. I had been drinking for 31 years of my life. I know I look 21, barely ready to order drinks, yeah, but I had been drinking for 31 years and basically dealing with a lot of I was self-medicating. Right, I was trying to forget those childhood traumas of still hearing certain things, of still here seeing certain images, like you, kelly boy, because we had so much trauma from early kid time, probably before we were more, and curses were being spoken and we're not special family. There's a lot of you struggling with the same thing, but God once again, and we can pick up and keep moving forward. I can think to myself. Boy, I sure want to drink. I had this thought the other day, but I see I'm always accountable to you. But I thought I really want to have 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's done and then I'll go tap some more. But, kelly boy, as you said, we continue to choose christ, and what I hear you say is giving grace to ourself because it's worth it. Yeah, look at you guys now.
Speaker 1:We traveled and I'm going to come back to that christmas story, but I want to tell a quick story about my bless tea. We traveled to Lahaina after the wildfires thank you for letting your way. Oh, I minister with me with the Red Cross. Actually, it wasn't with the Red Cross, was it? Salvation our feet. Let me be distinctive. And we also had a friends going out there. We work with Kings Chapel, kings Cathedral, with the Morocco's and my bless tea.
Speaker 1:At the end of a long days of working out there in Lahaina, she would leave our hotel room. She say, okay, well, I know you want to rest on, donnie, so I'm gonna go outside talk to my boyfriend. I was like never be Kelly boy and she's like Kelly boy and she was outside talking to her boyfriend for a couple hours. I mean to the point it was like 11 o'clock. I'm looking at going blessed II. Are you gonna come in? Are you still with your boyfriend? But you guys will talk for hours. 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 back two hours. Right, what is that? What is a day in the life of kelly boy and leolani and you guys really are best friends? But tell us about christmas last year, because you were at Kala'e and Kalihasa's house.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was our entire family actually. We all went up there and just celebrated Christmas with the family and we we had so much fun together that we didn't even open gifts till like three days after 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 more having more fun playing volleyball and singing and playing music and just enjoying each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this is a picture of the spirit of unity which the good book, which we all love, the Bible, says in Psalm 133, verse one. How good and pleasing it is when God's children live together in unity and some versions say harmony. And Kelly boy, when you laid down your life that night and your wife has been laying down her life for 37 years, but you broke off that spirit of anger and 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 and we're going to start talking about how you learned Aloha, cause you are Mr Aloha bro, I love you. I loved watching you get healed and delivered that night. I'm so proud of you, kelly boy. I'm sure there's many people who are proud of you today.
Speaker 1:We still love you plenty, kelly boy, I love you too Is there a scripture verse that you folks stood on during that whole time. That can help someone who's just saying I need something to hold on to. Please give me a scripture verse, because I love this testimony. But what can we hold on to from the bible? Hope it can hold it along. I'm like what is this? Good? She rocking her brain. I've seen the gears movie. She rack, you know. I was thinking maybe second um corinthians 5, 17, and it says that we are new creations in Christ. The old has died, mock it died dead. Yeah, would be our version, right, why not? The old of me has died, muck it died dead. And the new creation of Christ. That.
Speaker 3:I no longer live. Yeah, because I want to make a point about like yeah, long time ago and he was smoking in church, right? So that was Kelly Boy with no reverence, come on.
Speaker 1:No fear of the Lord.
Speaker 3:But this whole journey wasn't without prayer, fasting, reading our word. We had to confront really hard things in me and him.
Speaker 2:Well, I just want everybody to know that you know, do not be a people, pleaser.
Speaker 1:Okay, come on, there it is.
Speaker 2:Because I was trying to do. I wasn't please trying to be there to please God, I was trying to please my father-in-law.
Speaker 2:You know, to look good yeah and please my wife you know, you know good, walk the walk in Christ and please my wife that I'm here. You know what I mean. Wow, you know it wasn't about God in those days. I never grew up in church. I never knew nothing about God. The only thing I knew about God was the guys on Lahaina Street, that Pentecostal church that was super loud. And I told my dad one day hey dad, 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, we we don't go church because, well, we just don't go church, but we believe in god yeah, that's all I knew about minister.
Speaker 2:So everywhere I went I believed it, god, that's because my dad said, right, there it is. But you know, it was always the kind of stuff, yeah, and and I did not, yeah, have on reverence from god until hebrews 10 I read, papa showed me, you know, he goes. No, get to the point where you step 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 kind bra, and when I think stepping on the blood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, when I I have never heard that. I've heard it said a sloppy agape or greasy grease.
Speaker 2:No girl, you're going to just say sorry after you're done drinking like what you're doing when you're clean, that's powerful street with a broken leg in a motorcycle accident, yeah, and god breaking your leg and waking you up, and daniel kikawa calling kavika kaiyapo and telling them I have a revelation for kelly boy, because I gained that testimony many years ago about.
Speaker 3:I didn't break your lengthy God allowed a lot of that.
Speaker 2:Excuse me for that right clarifying. Thank you, just a clarification in my life. I don't want. She got gangsta Jesus, she wants to make sure he's nice and they get Jesus, okay, I use that phrase because or I use that because in the Bible, daniel Kikawa told Kavika you know, in the, in the when, when you get that land, that always running away, yes, that's right. Who break the leg? The shepherd breaks the leg.
Speaker 1:That's right, I'm going to select the land is true, it's not run away and I believe that too right, thank you, kelly boy.
Speaker 2:And he puts that lamb around his neck and he carries him. Amen, you know. And when he told me that guess what street I, I, I ate it on, I got my leg broken on kahawipa street, which means shepherd hallelujah, come on on shepherd street. Anyway, yeah, getting back to you know, what I was saying is that you know I never had reverence for god when I was doing that during that time. So you know, god's grace, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Praise the lord I'm not be sitting because, if I knew don yeah, yeah and uh.
Speaker 2:I stepped on the blood of the Lord. You know what I mean. Yeah, during that time guess what? Yeah Would not be when broken lay Come on, there would be no Kelly boy. Yeah, because the wages of sin my bike skid in a police report a hundred feet. That's how fast I was going, a hundred feet.
Speaker 2:My bike went up the road, isn't that a whole football field, almost, I guess? Oh, and I was on the ground and I was blacked out and all over while I was coming to you know what I mean my senses all I heard was, you know, friends of mine was across the street at the spa and there was an auto body shop that another couple of my friends was hanging out at and all I've heard was my name it is Kelly boy, you know, and I'm on the ground and all I remember is ambulance and then going in the ambulance and going to the hospital and that was the waking point of that was one, that was part one.
Speaker 1:That's a really chapter shout at you to get your. And you were talking about not pleasing people, and that was the scripture I was reading this morning from Galatians 1. And Paul is writing in verse 10 he says if I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. Kelly boy, when I look at you today, you are done pleasing man. Oh no, you and your family please the Lord. That's why every single venue you go to becomes an altar for the Most High God you are sharing that up a little bit, he.
Speaker 2:he said you know what, when you please your Father in Heaven, you please everybody else. Come on, your father on earth your mother on earth, your wife.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yes, Just look to God, just keep pleasing Him in the way you live. And like you said, how is everything? Is it better? Yeah, but everything is it better yeah, but every day you live a lifetime in it. Out we're working. In a lifetime you're walking in it it's. It's way better because, yeah, we have a greater understanding of what Christ absolutely is and the role that he plays in our life as Lord, you know as.
Speaker 2:Lord and Savior, you know, and in that part it's way better, but do you walk around and still not go to the trials and the tribulations and the thoughts and the traffic?
Speaker 1:and the bills and the temptations.
Speaker 2:All the things Still the kind, but God is the great, he's the great.
Speaker 1:He's the overcomer, he's the strength, and you get faster to choose him, you go faster to forgive, you go faster to confess Faster right.
Speaker 2: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:Okay, I see this it's not my first right now. I love this and and as we switch into the aloha, I would say as a capstone for what we've discussed, you shared that beautiful. It really shocked hell and it rocked heaven and your family has come together.
Speaker 1:It did, and you're no longer a pleasing man at all. And therein lies the fruit of God's, the Lord's rewards, because now you have your children. You know, you've got Lilo and Kopenabu. 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:You know, dawn. You know getting back to family. You know family is complicated.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's messy too.
Speaker 2:It's a messy thing, but you know something, yeah, when we, you know, when my kalanaku and kala'e, you know, went through their the loss of their baby, you know. So everybody always tell me how many grandbabies Five I have, four here on earth and one angel baby, Our kabakoa parish it was hard for them, yes, it was hard for our family. You know, and, and you know, hurt people, hurt people man.
Speaker 1:Come on, our family, you know and and you know, hurt people hurt people, man you know and um you know. But yeah, the other people heal people and today we are healed and you drew both of you drew a straight eye, because the whole time you're sharing about this kelly boy thinking about when we went to tennessee, we went to the johnny cash museum, and when you were talking about your wife being the straight line, that's the movie that they made based on their life story.
Speaker 1:Cause Johnny Cash as you know, he walked the line and that line was introduced to him by his wife, june Carter Cash. And then the same thing in your situation. Not only were you healed from going crazy kooka-munga all over the place, but this woman drew that line. Now you can draw a straight line 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 humdinger of a season. 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 so against the design of the lord. But here's the deal. You kept drawing as hurt people were hurting people.
Speaker 2:You kept healing people were healing people but and aloha, yeah, it was coming from both sides I'm not saying that they hurt. You know what I mean. You know I said things that I've that I shouldn't have said. You know, sometimes we've got to watch all of our you know, especially nowadays. You know, you just just, sometimes you just gotta hold back and you gotta pray yeah slow to speak.
Speaker 2:Sometimes no words are the best words and today, you know we prayed and we've just prayed for two years. You know we just prayed and soaked prayer and today we have the best relationship.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:And I love my son-in-law, Kala'e.
Speaker 1:You guys are all in the house.
Speaker 2:I love my yeah for Christmas. I know 20 something people 23, I think they counted.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it was weird, beautiful, and you know even Kapena and my daughter-in-law Rocky.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, I mean shucks. We all been through battles. And then even with my little Lilo. You know, my love, my love family's exempt from you.
Speaker 3:Know, I tell people man me and Lilo in the, in the in the living room.
Speaker 2:Bro, that's the first kid man she went. She went square off with me and we 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:But then you guys wrote right into kauai and this woman stood up and shared the testimony she goes one of my kids has a black eye. Right now we're just going to deal with real because jesus is a gangsta. I'm going to tell you the true of the truth and that's why I love my waimanalo girl, and that's what we're about on this podcast let's be honest, I don't need to be a kardashian christian.
Speaker 1:we all got junk in our trunk and we're all walking to each other. This is how I say it. On my testimony, when I was in Healing Hearts, I said you know, we're all just children trying to find our way home. Yes, lord, and some of the days I stumble and I reach out for my friend and she grabs my hand she dragged me forward, and some of the other days she might call me and I'll sit there and I'll listen to her for a couple of hours and then we're good, we get back up, right. Well, we're not going to have any kardashian christian in this house and we're going to be fully honest, because then god can do the surgery. Yeah, he, he's worth it.
Speaker 2: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:I mean, you know she's, you know she's 30 years old but always your babies.
Speaker 2:You know that one, she always. And you know what, after what we've been, you know we got into it and she, you know she's the sweetest, she's like her dad, you know like she can be the sweetest, right, but then, oh no, get her upset right. Once you cross that line, you know you, you know you crossing the line and you know today, I mean she, just she's such a blessing, she's like, just like her mom, she is, she's named Leolani, like.
Speaker 1:Leolani, the second. Yeah, and now you have Leolani, the third.
Speaker 2:She's always calling us hi, mom, dad, you want something to eat, or can I do know she's such a good child? I?
Speaker 1:seen her at um easter, when we were out at chinaman's hat we were doing our baptism for ekklesia church, which is your founding church. Now four generations and with winter them gonna be five generations. And um, there's lilo holding um mama kahoot tracy's hand to escort her out to the water, making sure the seats are every, because she always serves. She is a sweet.
Speaker 2:She is a deaconess, she got ordained in our church and she loves the Lord and she raises her baby. Amen To serve, to serve, you know, in that little winter man and Riley, those, two babies. They just, they just love the Lord because they see what their parents you know and now in serve. You know they're exactly it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what we were gonna switch into for the next few moments before we bring this in for a landing, and we gotta have you back. I already gave you the Hana whole we not even how yet. How good is that? But what you just said, kelly boy, that you raised up your children. Both of you raised your children. Now the children are raising the children with the aloha spirit. Right that I can come to a Coliseum any given Sunday. I promise you what Garen's ball bearings to God and back. I will see a child up on that stage getting a scripture memory verse. I will see worship team and they may not even know how to worship some of them, right, like they're so small. Amber's little girl how old is she? What's?
Speaker 3:her name. She's four. Yep, um, she's four. Yeah, she's four.
Speaker 2:Two and then you got tesame yeah, tesame, she's older she's like nine yeah, prophetess also.
Speaker 1:But here's what I'm saying family, you raise up a child in the way that they should go. They're not going to depart from it. And this is the aloha alive podcast, because part of the controversy we see nowadays is oh, where's the aloha? Right inside of you it is, and and, as as imperfect as we might be, I'm still going to raise my. My jujubu is seven, but he knows how to walk up to auntie. You go, honey, auntie. Right, you're gonna kiss and greet auntie properly. Um, when we are at home, we pull it before we eat. Right, we, there are certain things. How did you learn aloha? What's one of your favorite memories? Because, kelly boy, you know the the other side of your dad was. He trained you, he saw a gift in you and you won the brown bags to stardom statewide, and a lot of that was your dad's encouragement. As hard as he was, he also had goodness to him. What was your favorite memory with your dad?
Speaker 2:my favorite memory was, um, I think, what I made him proud, you know, like I was telling him, you know, it was the music. It was the music that made him proud that I was doing something. You know, I had to been. What is, how old are you when you're like seven, eight grade, oh yeah, so eight, yeah. Team, yeah, capenna is in the east now 13, oh yeah, so 13, 14. You know, when I was in intermediate school, um, I, um, I entered the, um, the brown bags to start them. Well, my dad took me the year before and he said, hey, kelly, he goes. Boy, we go to the high school. You know what a visionary.
Speaker 2:Oh you went to Shell I went to the. Waikiki Shell and I saw I think it was, oh I forget who was up on stage. But I looked at my dad and I said, 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 like that can be it was.
Speaker 1:It was a sarcastic kind you know, yeah, you never go positive like that right, and I was, but that made him really really young.
Speaker 3:How old were you?
Speaker 2:Oh, that was high school man, that was like at that point I was at about 15.
Speaker 1:And you won the statewide Brown Bags.
Speaker 2:I only won for my school. That was a year we played. We um uh. Naleo was on uh, so he was 84 and Naleo came out with you know little boys, and smashed it. Yeah, he couldn't, he couldn't even. No, there was no, probably saying we sang kauluvaihi o kekai. But we put a dent in, in, we made an impression.
Speaker 3:We made an impression, you know, because it was the.
Speaker 2:I was the only haole boy up there. You know they're looking at me and my dad is Hawaiian. My mom is holy, but I look like my mom. You know they mean and.
Speaker 1:I love how you say there were two holy people in Makaha at the time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know, she's a.
Speaker 1:Canadian lady that married on how a local boy and you know and look at the wonderful result we all enjoy, but my dad always.
Speaker 2:You know that I, you know I always disappointed of. That's why I mean I went to psychiatrists, I went to all kinds of programs, alc programs. I was kicked out of school, I was heading to detention home and I was heading in in you know what I mean in the wrong direction. You know as a kid, you know and you so they would put me.
Speaker 1:Alc is one step shy of detention. Yeah, alc, if you don't know, is alternative learning Center or another bad word.
Speaker 2:Last chance, then it's detention center and prison so you know my dad, um, you know all my life, you're not getting into trouble and stuff like that. When he saw me get into the music, you know, and uh, he was the one you know. I just told him one time, don. I said, dad, I met my friend james willis and kunia gaudera. That really, you know, changed my life around and and I saw them play that ukulele and I said, 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 Kamaka Ukulele and he bought me a brand new 8 string and at that time it was big dollars, it was 260 dollars wow, that's still big dollars.
Speaker 2:That was big dollars back in those days in the 80s, you know what I mean that, but that's the real deal now it's not an eight string you said it was on, eight string was on full on.
Speaker 1:I was like you were going for already.
Speaker 2: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 my entire life, like I could feel something like shift, like wow, what is this? And I would never forget the words he told me. He said, bro, this thing better not be collecting dust in two weeks. In other words, you better look at them and the kind and put that thing in the closet and forget them. That thing never, ever, got let down done, do you still that thing? Oh yeah, I still got them. Wow, thank you, chris, come walk up and you come up with family. They redid it, you know, many years ago. Uh, the thing was boss. I brought, I mean, I rode my skateboard, I was down the beach the beach boys, all the beach boys, are shooting.
Speaker 3:Did he watch the chords?
Speaker 2:and he's going back, all the beach boys to grab my ukulele and, um, that was a wonderful investment and it was a prophecy.
Speaker 1:it was a vision your dad had for you and I can see that you say he was impressed and he was proud of you. But I'm sure it was like the clicking in of a vision that he got, and sometimes guys really get it great because God has given them vision and he had that free and, like you said, your whole spirit shifted when he gave you that eight stream.
Speaker 2:Even as of like just a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I was driving to Holonopua and she said you know what God just told me. I said what? And she goes, you know, like King David, yeah, he had his harp, yeah, and he would play to Saul's.
Speaker 1:You know tormenting spirit or whatever it was. It's a lyre yeah, yeah, yeah, which is an instrument, an instrument.
Speaker 2:She goes that's what your ukulele is for you. Yeah, you know, because there's been, you know, countless times that we just played um over and on um. What is the place in carioca, the? Um, no, the um, no, the habilita habilita, yeah, yeah, we got asked to go play and I just took my guitar and I took my ukulele by himself and then people was singing along I meanabilah town.
Speaker 3:It's a weapon in his hand.
Speaker 2:Hallelujah, it's a certain, you know like you remember when the Bible talked about King Saul, when he would get those tormenting spirits right and then he would come call David and they would just run. Yes, anyway, she told me that and it made sense. You know, after all of these years, and this was just as of two weeks ago, that she shared that with me. She's going to tell you a revelation.
Speaker 1: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 was invested into you, not just by your dad and your community. And yeah, there was hardness, there was roughness, because the terminator always tries to come back in time and take you out before you reach the fullness of god's? Yes, so there was hardness, but god allows those things to bake in the goodness of resilience as I look back.
Speaker 2:Don god was up in all that stuff, wow, even someone yes, one k time he allowed all the things we went through. He was up in all of that man. All I had to do is get to the maturity of my walk with the Lord to really look back in my life and see all the places that God was with. So we don't regret anything All the time.
Speaker 3:Because it was necessary.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 3:Yeah For the growth.
Speaker 1:It was spiritual surgery. Yeah, surgery is going to hurt.
Speaker 2:You're going to get cut, they're going to kick you out. Yeah, I'm thankful for everything that I went through my heart, my good, the good and the bad, because you know, even in like revelations 5, that you see, 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 saint over there, and and and they, who is worthy to open up my scrolls? That's right, right. Who's worthy?
Speaker 1:And nobody could stand up and open up and he said, oh, but look the Lamb of God.
Speaker 2:And how did they know that he was worthy? Because look all the stripes and everything that he went through. You know it's the only reason how 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 and he says, brah, look all the scars and all the boss up this guy. Get on top of him. That's good. Come here, my good and faithful servant we all have wounds.
Speaker 3:I can use you, yeah, whether it be spiritual or physical wounds of the things we've been through, but God's going to take us through. But I did want to go back to you getting your gift from your dad, the ukulele, because this guy, every single child of ours, whenever they were in a new instrument he would get the best piece of it. Wow.
Speaker 2:My dad said that in motion right yeah, the kamako ukulele. He never just buy me an ABC store four string.
Speaker 3:Right, he bought the best and this guy would buy the best for the kids, like the best instruments, the best private lessons. And just recently Lilo did it forward 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:you pay for. And I think what we heard and your point being and please make it is that my dad used to say you get what you pay for. So certain things invest the best and you're worth the best. And the child noticed that he kicked pride.
Speaker 2:Yes, he kicked pride, and these are instruments that you can pass down?
Speaker 1:yes, to your next.
Speaker 2:Like you still have your kamaka h drink, I still got the kamaka. That one I'm going, you know I'm hanging on to but my kanilea ukulele um, my first custom-made kanilea ukulele. I just um passed that down to my my grandson and brought a buga king for him. So you know, that's the kind of stuff that you get, you know what.
Speaker 1:I mean that you pass them down. That's the living legacy. Yeah, yeah, it is His second kanilea ukulele.
Speaker 3:he gave it to me and you know, you don't know, you just borrow things oh okay, waiting for the leolani.
Speaker 1:Hey, that's Tongue in Style right. Blessy. I can borrow, I can borrow and then the owner has to come ask me for?
Speaker 2:the lighter bag. His brand is hers. His hers is hers.
Speaker 3:But you don't know what you have until you use a regular ukulele off the wall that's not custom, right the tone, the sound and you're like ooh. And so sometimes you, you know, we don't realize that we're being gifted the best. And I feel like this is how god is with us sometimes we don't realize we've been gifted with the best until you kind of walk another way and you try something else and you're like oh, and there I want to go back home, to where? Yes?
Speaker 1:really make that point. Slay it, queen, queen, come back home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, god wants the best for all of us. God wants to give you his best gift 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 for some people, but that's not the way our god is. You know, it's just a. You know, just something that you know he gives his very best.
Speaker 1:He gave his son because he loved us so much he don't give you the best I love you guys so much. Is there a last word you want to give and and our heart is part of?
Speaker 2:thank you so much this was so rich I just want to talk for like five hours.
Speaker 1:We can do a joe rogan right now, but um, no, he does three. No, I want to go on, but we'll have you back for sure cannot go out. But also, do you have a last word? Because this is the aloha alive podcast and we know a lot of people are saying, oh, where's the aloha nowadays? You know why are you so different? The world is crumbling. We randomly are hearing, hearing World War III, but how do we share the aloha?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, dawn, I learned a long time ago yeah, aloha comes from you, you know. Yeah, I remember looking back at my past life and saying to my wife yeah, but I saw my father beat my mom. I saw my uncles, you know, do drugs, drugs. I seen the kind, so that would be my excuse, right?
Speaker 2:you know that'd be my excuse to her and she said you know something she told me one day. She said you know what? You got to be accountable for you. Wow, she said you gotta be, you gotta make the change. You know, yes, and I looked at her and brad made so sense, think about it. Yep, you make the change. Yes, everybody looking around it goes well when they're all going to get aloha there it is when you all going to have aloha when is the state capital going to everybody else?
Speaker 1:going to have all the highs?
Speaker 2:and you give all. Yeah, you know, hey, they cannot steal that from you. No, you'll make that that will steal that from you. Come on, you make that choice and that's it's your power.
Speaker 1:It's your personal power. I would either choose life or death, right you like this, somebody else, that power, right?
Speaker 2:no, right you got. You cannot take this from me, kelly boy, you cannot take this from me. I don't walk with aloha, come on, 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 of the shuttle bus when I'm going from gate to gate traveling or whatever. That looking. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:I don't stand up still yet for her.
Speaker 2:We're in Las Vegas and you go into the rental car place and get one old lady come on, Nobody stand up for other auntie come. You know what I mean? That's what you got be the aloha, you know.
Speaker 1:and they and they sit around and then the other people that is the kind they all look at you strange and that used to be common courtesy but not so common anymore that men would get up and give their seat, or young people I would get up and give a kupuna older person a seat and I've seen kelly boy do this and I won't share specifics but we were in a um, kind of a contesting type of situation where we were sharing testimony about something and we were 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 the opposition, I gave on my mouth because, like you said, I can be real nice. I'm Auntie Dawn, but you got a piece of me. You want a piece of this? Let's go. I'm going to use my mouth as a sword. And I sat down.
Speaker 1:I was very proud of what I had done on behalf of this family. But when we were all said and done and they wrapped up the proceedings, this man stood up and went to the other side. Yeah, and you blessed the very people I was giving the eye. I was like bye, I'm using my mouth, but I will use my body next, just try me. But you walked up and you honey them. You said god bless you. I hope it all works.
Speaker 3:He's so nice it's irritating because allah comes from you.
Speaker 1:That's good, it's what you aloha comes from you and that's where we're gonna land, and that's hey, you know what that's where you got.
Speaker 2:You gotta start somewhere, amen. Start with you, absolutely. You know what I mean. Don't just keep looking at the world and thinking there it is, you gotta get it.
Speaker 1:I can't choose all of that, but I can always choose my response.
Speaker 2:And I can always because only you gotta go home with you there it is only you gotta live with you and thank you.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? Yes, and not just us single people. You hear what he's saying to you right now.
Speaker 2:That's why, when I see all of these same comments you know what I mean on the, you know social media and stuff where people lashing out, oh you should have this and that right. You, kelly boy, billy muck, make a comment. I have never. You know what I do I pray and you bless. I said, lord, we're going to just bless, just bless and make, make it that's no class you know work it out work it out, lord and you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: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:Well, his whisper in the house, they'll be shouted what?
Speaker 2:would you like to say bless?
Speaker 3:see, how do we keep you eating aloha in our own. So this just happened to me. Like a week ago we were in LA and we were checking out of the hotel and I was telling the front desk helper that it was so fabulous, I had a great time and their, their food was good and everything was good. And he goes did you try our biscuits? I said no, I didn't, but I ate everything else and it was so good and I was just.
Speaker 3:There was an exchange, but there was 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 christian and I'm from hawaii and this is how we all speak yeah and she said well, you know, I'm a teacher, I teach gratefulness. And I looked at her and I said we live gratefulness. Yes, and then I walked out and I told my husband do you think that was sassy what I said?
Speaker 2:yeah, that was a little hard my husband.
Speaker 3:Do you think that was sassy? What I said yeah, that was a little hard, but what I meant to say and then you know interaction was that we don't, we don't, this is not fake and phony. Yeah, this is who we are and we should be so proud to be that. And we've been privileged and honored to be the bearers of aloha, yes, which is the light of the lord into this darkened world. And so we, we should, we should, we should be so proud to be the bearers of that light, and we should bear that light wherever darkness is, absolutely. And so I try to live that way in every realm, whether people see you or don't see you, you have to live aloha.
Speaker 1:I love that and living the light of the lord, being honored to have the privilege to bear that light and to be the light of the lord being honored to have the privilege to bear that light and to be the light of the world. You married a good one, kelly boy. She nailed that right there, sewed it up well. Thank you again to my delima family, five, fives all the way around. Um, we just, I just thank you and I bless you a hundredfold for all that you've shared today and and so transparently, so truthfully, and we can't have trust if we're not truthful. So thank you, kelly boy and leo lani, your other half, two or one for sharing such a powerful. I bless you as you go out and continue to shine and bear the light of a local rock we received that and thank you everybody for all our prayers.
Speaker 2:You know, and uh, we just start we be, we belong to uh god's network.
Speaker 1:His community is just so glorious and thank you for the prayers, donnie oh god's ohana or as sorry lest he says I love it donnie only killy boy and only his wife can call me Darnie.
Speaker 2:Darnie, yeah, yeah yeah, nobody else can it's.
Speaker 3:Auntie Darnie Aloha Shaka's out. Thank you for coming on in. Thank you, Dawn Cheehoo Bye.