known as squid luau. fresh poi. you ve got to have it fresh, believe me. it makes all the difference in the world, freshwater snails called, i believe, hihiwai, harvested from streams from way up in the mountains. it s a bounty, the bounty of our ocean and our mountain. that s squid, octopus, the one you caught. oh, that s octopus. oh! hey! oh! you bit its eye. right there, right there. i recognize you. anthony, when somebody steals this, it s easy for us to say, you re stealing our stuff.
i mean, who qualifies as hawaiian in your view? to me a hawaiian is a kanaka maoli, is a native of the land. it s in your blood, your koko. you come from a lineage of native hawaiian people. what s your feeling here? i do feel like i m hawaiian in a sense, you know, because it s, like, my place, but culturally it s a different story. well, let me ask you this. you re saying you re not hawaiian? no. what s your feeling about spam? i love spam. so you re hawaiian. i m from hawaii. i m born and raised, gonna die 808. the owners of ethel s are a sort of typical hawaiian mix. okinawan ryoko ishii, aka mom, mainland japanese husband yoichi, daughter minaka, who i guess would be japanese, okinawan, american/hawaiian, and son-in-law robert, who is, of course, mexican. it s the pig feet. oh, nice, that s pretty. oh, wow, look at that. that s the tripe. that s the tripe, that s the
right? but all of this stuff is dependent on a healthy environment and ecosystem. all right, but, then let me ask you, just because i m a bit of a [bleep] i have to ask this question. i have to ask! no, go for it. bring it on, bring it on. i have to ask, all right. so we have like 12 more beers and i pull out some nice spam musubi. i would eat them, right? look at me, i would eat them, but that doesn t mean it s right and that doesn t mean that s what i m gonna feed my children. our culture made everything we did the best of the best. hawaiians are the only ones that turned taro into poi, you know what i mean? yes. we did everything to the best of the best, so if you re going to introduce spam to us, we ll do it the best. you introduce christianity to us, we gonna do it the best. whatever you re gonna introduce to us, we re gonna do it the best! our christianity s better than yours, i love it. so you ve really disappointed me. you have in no way lived up to your reputat
hano-hano: anthony, when somebody steals this it s easy for us to say, you re stealing our stuff. right? but all of this stuff is dependent on a healthy environment and ecosystem. anthony: all right, but, then let me ask you, just because i m a bit of a dick. i have to ask this question. i have to ask! hano-hano: no, i, go for it. eddie: bring it on, bring it on. anthony: i have to ask, all right. so, we have, like, twelve more beers and i pull out some nice spam musubi. hano-hano: i would eat them, right? look at me, i would eat them. but that doesn t mean it s right and that doesn t mean that s what i m gonna feed my children. our culture made everything we did the best of the best. hawaiians are the only ones that turned taro into poi. you know what i mean? we did everything to the best of the best so if you re going to introduce spam to us, we ll do it the best.
hawaii is america, as american is anything possibly could be and yet it never shed what was there before and the layers and layers that have come since. it s a wonderful, tricky, conflicted in for what lack of a better word you have to call paradise. nowhere is paradise. paradises don t exist. paradise is kpiend of in your head. you look out your window, those hills, mountain, all that green, that blue sky and clear sea, it sure looks like paradise to me. this guy knows. he s been everywhere.