The Worst Things About Hawaii

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:05]Welcome back to the Ninth Island where we've got another special episode of the Careful Boys and we got our homie Kamaka right over here. Y'all >> hang loose, bro.

[00:00:15]>> Hang loose, brother. Dude, you >> got to get real tense, right?

[00:00:19]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You want to be very stiff. [laughter] >> I don't even think I can my >> Yeah.

[00:00:26]Look at this guy. [laughter] >> Yeah. All right. They love >> Cadillac margarita. Thank you so much.

[00:00:32]>> Those are bomb.

[00:00:33]>> Wait, this has to catch on like to where everybody knows to do it like that that the locals start to do it like this again.

[00:00:39]>> Yeah. Cuz if all the tourists are doing it like that, THEY'RE LIKE, >> "NO."

[00:00:45]>> WAIT, DO YOU GUYS KNOW THE HISTORY of the Shaka?

[00:00:47]>> I watched the documentary on >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is just one account. There's multiple ones, but one was this this guy. He was working at the plantation. He got his fingers chopped off.

[00:00:56]>> Yeah.

[00:00:57]>> Or I think it exploded. I forget how, but it was some sort of accident. So he had it like this. So he would wave people like this and that's how the >> Yeah, cuz he only had three. So it looked like that.

[00:01:06]>> Yeah.

[00:01:07]>> And then the kids the kids would copy him.

[00:01:09]>> Yeah.

[00:01:10]>> The kids would copy him like that.

[00:01:11]>> Oh. So So it's like based on like the style of Hawaiian roasting people for [laughter] >> We [clears throat] had no idea it was just roasted.

[00:01:18]>> That's like a foundational thing of Hawaiians then, huh?

[00:01:21]>> Yeah.

[00:01:21]>> Jokes on people that with misfortunes.

[00:01:24]>> Now that you say that, I just realized that. Yeah.

[00:01:27]>> Yeah. That's kind of crazy.

[00:01:29]>> Yeah, there's a statue of him at the Polynesian.

[00:01:30]>> Oh, it's a They know who it was.

[00:01:32]>> Yeah, he's famous. And in >> Yeah, he dug it too, right? He probably dug it.

[00:01:35]>> Yeah, probably.

[00:01:36]>> What's his name?

[00:01:37]>> Um, >> Mr. Shaka.

[00:01:39]>> I want to say Buttons, but I don't know if that's >> Buttons.

[00:01:44]>> Wasn't it he was working on the train?

[00:01:47]>> I know his name. I don't know why I can't think [laughter] of it. Yeah, he worked on the train. Shak.

[00:01:53]>> Wow, that's so dope. Why can't I think of his name? I don't know how it come to me.

[00:01:57]>> Obviously, it mean the story means a lot to you.

[00:02:00]>> This means a lot to me. [laughter] >> Cool, man. That's >> pretty funny, though. That >> is crazy.

[00:02:05]>> Just like generations later, everybody understands it, but doesn't know that they're just mimicking a disable.

[00:02:10]>> They're just making fun of some dude.

[00:02:11]That's dope, though. That's so Hawaiian, right?

[00:02:13]>> Don't tell white ladies about >> they'll cancel with white ladies.

[00:02:17]>> Don't do that anymore, guys.

[00:02:19]>> God, man.

[00:02:20]>> Ban the shaka. [laughter] That's That's like the inverse of like turning this into white pride.

[00:02:27]>> Oh my god. White power. Oh my god.

[00:02:29]Stupid, >> right?

[00:02:31]>> That got claimed. You can't do it no more.

[00:02:32]>> So when you do the game like that?

[00:02:34]>> Yeah. You can't do the game.

[00:02:35]>> No. No. Because that's a M. That's MP >> my power. [laughter] >> It was just a bit though that forchand did.

[00:02:43]>> Do your other one. The one that you know.

[00:02:44]>> I don't know how to do that one. How do you do it?

[00:02:46]>> Do this one.

[00:02:48]>> The gay one.

[00:02:48]>> Bar for sure know how to do that one.

[00:02:50]>> Yeah, that one.

[00:02:50]>> No. Ask him to show you the LA one.

[00:02:52]>> I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:02:53]>> It's this one, right?

[00:02:54]>> Don't Don't let the video move on until he shows you the LA one.

[00:02:57]>> You swear to God. [laughter] >> This one.

[00:03:00]>> We all grew up in the same area.

[00:03:02]>> All right. We all know what's up.

[00:03:04]>> He's trying to ask me to do blood. I could never do it.

[00:03:07]>> Oh, that one.

[00:03:08]>> It's cuz I practice finger touchs. It's different. Dexterity comes in.

[00:03:11]>> He's trying to do it so fast, though.

[00:03:13]Some of us were born with privileges that we can't explain. You know, >> look at your hands. They got to practice a lot cuz then it's kind of lame when you're like, "What? What's up, fool?"

[00:03:23][laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:03:25]>> Yeah. Fool.

[00:03:26]>> Yeah.

[00:03:27]>> You know, like that's the lamest part, setting up the fingers.

[00:03:29]>> Yeah.

[00:03:30]>> And be like, "Don't look. Don't look.

[00:03:31]Don't look. Don't look. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[00:03:33]>> Don't look yet. Don't look yet.

[00:03:34]>> I'm not ready. I'm not ready. [laughter] I'm not ready. I'm not ready. Hold on.

[00:03:38]Hold on.

[00:03:39]>> ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S UP, BOY?"

[00:03:41]>> A. All right. Well, you got to press it against yourself so it doesn't move.

[00:03:45][laughter] >> I'm not ready. I'm not ready. Hey, hold on. Hold on. Where you from? I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW.

[00:03:49]>> YOU'RE ALL SHAKING.

[00:03:50]>> I'll tell you right now. Yeah, cuz you have adrenaline. You're all like going to fight and [ __ ] Hold on. I'm ready.

[00:03:54]I'm ready. I'm ready.

[00:03:55]>> Oh man.

[00:03:56]>> What's up? That's where I'm from.

[00:03:57]>> Damn, dude. [laughter] >> You got gang signs on the island. What's up?

[00:04:01]>> No, but the shock was this guy Hamana Khalil. That's what it was.

[00:04:05]>> You just looked that [ __ ] up, dude.

[00:04:06]>> I just wanted to make sure. Yeah, I got the name. Honest.

[00:04:09]>> It was a male. It was a male accident and that's how he >> So, it's not even a Buttons at all.

[00:04:13]>> No, no. I think Buttons is a surfer. I was thinking this is this historic >> mill m i l l. So it got cut off and then this was to signal like all clear to the trains and then the kids was >> Oh, that makes so much sense actually.

[00:04:27]>> Yeah. But um I don't know if we ever really got uh signs. Yeah. But like in school I'll go hilo boys like >> HB for me not [laughter] just for you.

[00:04:38]>> That's a that's a big >> remember there was a a company called Wesk. It's like a >> Yeah. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. I would like make my hands like somehow.

[00:04:47]>> You used to represent Wes.

[00:04:48]>> I would like No, I would just try to like make the sign cuz I like the shirt.

[00:04:53]>> It was like this.

[00:04:54]>> Yeah. Yeah. I tried to do something like that. Or >> I used to love that brand, too. That's funny. Is does Hilo have like a rival town?

[00:05:01]>> Yeah. I mean, there's like what? Kona.

[00:05:03]>> Well, the school is like Yeah. Kona is the opposite side of island like coffee comes from.

[00:05:08]>> Oh, is that [laughter] coffee?

[00:05:10]>> Yeah. A lot of Mexicans working on those. uh >> those those uh what what are they called? Kono um coffee farms.

[00:05:17]>> Coffee farms.

[00:05:17]>> Yeah, there's a lot of Mexicans there.

[00:05:19]>> I don't know if I supposed to say that.

[00:05:20]>> What do you think's kind of whack about Hawaii?

[00:05:22]>> We we've been talking awful nice about it.

[00:05:24]>> Uh huh. What's whack?

[00:05:30]>> Why don't you tell me what's whack, Joe?

[00:05:31]>> It's [ __ ] heaven there. Like >> I mean, you got to work so much. You got to work way more jobs than a normal person.

[00:05:37]>> Yeah, everybody has like three different jobs.

[00:05:38]>> Paradise. Paradise tax.

[00:05:39]>> Yeah, paradise tax, dude. Yeah. I mean, but like you can struggle over there.

[00:05:44]You can struggle in >> God dang positive, man.

[00:05:47]>> Oh, that you No, you're right. You're right. Yeah. There's there's so many.

[00:05:49]>> If you want to get rid of a car, you could also just drop it off on the side of the road. Just let plants grow all over it. [laughter] >> Yeah. I mean, it's it's like you could it's easier to be homeless in Hawaii.

[00:06:00]You can't be homeless in New York. And like I'm not trying to say come be homeless in Hawaii, but I mean it's like the nice weather most of the year. You got the beaches. There's a lot of free things you can do. Surfing. People are nice.

[00:06:11]>> A bum's watching this like, you know what? [laughter] >> I'm going they send they would send people to Hawaii. Homeless people to I know we >> I I I heard about that.

[00:06:21]>> Did they really do that? Did they send homeless people to Hawaii?

[00:06:24]>> I don't know for sure. It's one of the conspiracy theories, but I I believe it >> cuz how else did they get there? That's expensive.

[00:06:30]>> Yeah. And Micronisians, too. They >> I don't think they traveled there. I think they just lost their jobs and [ __ ] >> Oh, you Oh, you think that?

[00:06:37]>> I don't know. You think those are all Native Hawaiians that just got down and out?

[00:06:41]>> Oh, doesn't it kind of make sense? Cuz I know the economy got rough for them over there.

[00:06:44]>> To be fair, let's say you got like, you know, your life is is [ __ ] tanking, right? And then you're it's going down.

[00:06:50]Your bank account's going down. Your debt's going down. Bless you. All this stuff is happening. And then you're like, "Well, I got like >> like 500 bucks left.

[00:06:57]>> If I'm going to go out, then where where am I going to last long and have a good time?"

[00:07:01]>> Your final >> Maybe. Yeah. Maybe it's your last. Well, if I'm going to go broke anyway, let me just move over there to be broke.

[00:07:07]>> Cuz like in New York, you could freeze to death on the streets.

[00:07:10]>> Yeah, that's why everybody comes to Cali.

[00:07:11]>> I met a JK fan that works in the like homeless industry, I guess, like where you're he's helped in Hawaii. And he was like, "Oh yeah, it's funny when you guys talk about homeless people and all that." There's like some stuff is true.

[00:07:23]And he goes, "And some stuff isn't." And I was like, "So what is that thing about like the conspiracy of people being sent here?" And he goes, "Most of it is people coming on vacation and then [clears throat] they lost their pills or something happened and they're skitso or something is holy shit."

[00:07:39]>> So they're like or like >> most case a lot of >> by themselves.

[00:07:43]>> I mean we do have a lot of crackheads.

[00:07:44]So that too >> there's that many skits people on.

[00:07:47]>> No, but like that. [laughter] When he SAID THAT, >> BRO, WHAT?

[00:07:51]>> ONCE HE said that, I started realizing it because he's like, if if they look like if they don't look homeless, but they're like fresh new clothes and then they're kind of like dirty and they're talking to themselves, you [snorts] most cases they they lost their medication or something and then like um you know, if they get into the system, they get back on their meds, they get back on their feet, and then they just go back home.

[00:08:15]>> What? So, is the rumor they just put a shitload of homeless people on a [ __ ] boat and sent them all the way?

[00:08:20]>> No, the the the >> they buy oneway tickets.

[00:08:22]>> Yeah, the conspiracy is one way tickets, but I thought they actually found that to be true, so they sued other cities for it >> cuz they do that to California all the time, >> right?

[00:08:32]>> I don't know if they do it to Hawaii the same way.

[00:08:35]>> I think I read something about like they sued some actual cities. What if they have seen hella crazy ass people on the plane?

[00:08:43]>> They they stagger them. take a normal flight.

[00:08:45]>> Yeah, that's true.

[00:08:46]>> Unless they do it all at the same time.

[00:08:48][laughter] >> That's when you expect it.

[00:08:52]>> That's what they did to That's what they did to Glendora, you know, during co cuz there was like a hell of uh homeless people walking around my neighborhood. I was wondering where it was coming from and it's LAPD in downtown LA. They don't want to deal with them. So, they packed the the subway or the train and they would just send it all the way down. And at that time, the stations stopped off in Isusa. So, they all just come out like zombies. train is different from like overseas. That's intentional dropping like >> Yeah, overseas is >> But I don't think they um they're sending the the the ones that are like they need meds and they're it's people that are like >> ones that have meds that lose them.

[00:09:26]>> No, they're sending the people that are like almost >> It's crazy.

[00:09:31]>> You don't know like they're they're they're they're cleaned up and then they're going to start a new life and then they can't make it. So they so they send them out. So, like let's say you get like cleaned up and and then you're like with the with the with the organization that helps you out, right?

[00:09:45]And then they're like, "Oh, why don't you just Yeah, whatever. Yeah, that's a conspiracy." Is >> Oh, so they kind of disguise them and then they revert back to their natural state when they get to the [ __ ] >> like the people that are just [ __ ] jacking off and like talking to themselves. They first extreme makeover them. That's >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:03]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:04]>> That's crazy. we see online of like they go with the homeless person, come have a meal at my house, and then the one we don't see is they're sending them to Hawaii.

[00:10:13]>> What if the conspiracy theory is that tourism isn't our number one industry?

[00:10:17]It's homelessness. Cuz we have a lot a lot of homeless people, but the other states are just paying us to take out their homeless people.

[00:10:22]>> That too. I heard that like Yeah, because isn't it like per capita?

[00:10:25]There's actually more.

[00:10:26]>> We have a lot of homeless people.

[00:10:28]>> There's a lot. Dude, the idea of the commerce behind getting paid to take homeless people in your state sounds wild.

[00:10:35]>> Like countries in Asia take garbage, >> literal trash, >> burn those into other fuel sources.

[00:10:42]>> Well, they could burn homeless in Hawaii, man. How you think they [laughter] >> dude? That theory though. Can we [ __ ] talk about that?

[00:10:49]>> Which one?

[00:10:50]>> That that all these people are just vacationers that lost their pills.

[00:10:53][laughter] >> The sk all the schizophrenics that happen to want to go on vacation. Most of them is [ __ ] crazy.

[00:10:59]>> I'm in Hawaii. I'm going to go up to a homeless guy and be like, "I'm sorry you lost your meds."

[00:11:02]>> No, I I almost believe you because you see a lot of people like talking to themselves and like yelling.

[00:11:07]>> It's those. He says it's those. It's not It's not typically the ones that are like all there.

[00:11:11]>> Yeah.

[00:11:12]>> He's like, if you see someone with clean clothes and like they just look like they just fell or they had a drunk night, he goes, "It's typically that."

[00:11:21]But if they're like [ __ ] you know, how some people look like they're just real bums. Like you consider those guys homeless. I consider the guys are homeless when they look like they've been in the sun for like 6 months.

[00:11:29]>> Oh yeah. The ones >> that to me is homeless home >> with a dusty backpack.

[00:11:32]>> Yeah.

[00:11:33]>> With a Dude, we got this one guy in Wiki. He looks like he's from Castaway.

[00:11:38]Like his clothes look like burlap sacks put together.

[00:11:42]>> The guy that always comes by your shop.

[00:11:44][laughter] >> Wait, wait, Jimmy.

[00:11:48]>> I thought you told me there was like a guy that would always come by.

[00:11:51]>> There was a guy. He doesn't show up anymore, but he used to do kung fu a lot in our place. Like, I don't know why homeless people all know kung fu.

[00:11:58]>> Kung fu guy in the LA River. You know what I'm talking about.

[00:12:01]>> Like, I actually know what you're talking about, >> dude. There was cuz you know all the [ __ ] influencers and [ __ ] We would always go to the LA River to like shoot videos or whatever, right? And there's always one guy who's got the [ __ ] sticks and the swords and the chopsticks and the chopsticks. Nunchucks.

[00:12:14]>> Oh my [laughter] gosh.

[00:12:16]>> The nunchucks. But he would just go off like he's practicing for war.

[00:12:20]>> He's famous though. He was like all the Ninja Turtles put in one.

[00:12:23]>> Yeah. [laughter] >> Who's How is he famous?

[00:12:26]>> Cuz everybody for whatever reason that goes down there to shoot videos or productions, every >> person that like we ever shot with, >> he's like infamous in that area. Oh, >> you remember in Venice Beach, the guy with the guitar and the roller skates and he would go around. Yeah.

[00:12:40]>> It's kind of like kind of like the naked cowboy at New York. Like that kind of famous.

[00:12:44]>> You know what the difference is though about the homeless people versus the ones here? They don't panhandle in Hawaii. Oh, they don't talk to you for nothing.

[00:12:51]>> Nope. They don't ask for money. They don't They just They just there.

[00:12:54]>> Get any money then?

[00:12:56]>> I don't know. But >> you see somebody with a sign every night, but it's not like over here.

[00:13:00]>> No. They don't ask you. They don't bother you. They just >> they're just chilling.

[00:13:05]>> And then it's almost like I don't know like they treat them more like human there. It's different. Like they'll talk to you.

[00:13:11]>> What a concept.

[00:13:12]>> Yeah.

[00:13:12]>> Yeah. Or if you see somebody outside and you're at a 7-Eleven, you just like, "Oh, you want anything?"

[00:13:16]>> Yeah. They get fed and stuff. Like people give them stuff.

[00:13:19]>> People who are selling candy bars, I'm like, at least you're this is commerce a little bit. I don't want the candy bar.

[00:13:24]So here's a little here's a little scratch. But >> yeah, >> you know what's actually really good marketing is giving homeless people your merch.

[00:13:32]>> Really?

[00:13:32]>> No, I'm not joking.

[00:13:34]>> This guy's so good. This guy's all over it.

[00:13:36]>> No.

[00:13:36]>> Catfish marketing 101. Dude, >> my friend has has this his sweet enemy.

[00:13:40]I always see this one homeless guy walking around with a sweet enemy shirt.

[00:13:44]>> What?

[00:13:45]>> Is that good for the brand? I know. make you want to buy it though. [laughter] Like you're like, "That's a dope design."

[00:13:51]>> Huh?

[00:13:52]>> Cuz you'll be like, "Well, maybe maybe it's not a clothing brand."

[00:13:55]>> But but then but then maybe you're just like, "Wow, that's a cool shirt." And you look it up. I [laughter] don't know.

[00:14:00]It's just you see them everywhere.

[00:14:02]>> It's like opposite brand association >> systems. It's like obviously it's not a it's not a clothing [laughter] brand. So if you saw it, it's not about buying clothes. You're just like capable made it out here.

[00:14:10]>> I'm only going to put on buff homeless guys.

[00:14:13]>> Oh, that's right. Oh, you got to be creative then, huh? You just put >> whatever you want them.

[00:14:17]>> Oh, why is pretty like you got to be pretty tricky then, huh?

[00:14:22]>> You never seen a billboard against >> Why do they Why do they like follow that rule though? If >> it's it's it's a beautifification thing.

[00:14:29]>> Cuz then like aren't fireworks illegal?

[00:14:32]>> Yeah.

[00:14:32]>> [ __ ] every Fourth of July. Come on.

[00:14:34]>> The billboards a little >> billboards versus fireworks, Ryan.

[00:14:39]>> But then like everybody's doing it there.

[00:14:41]>> Yeah. In LA, too. It's non-stop all night long.

[00:14:44]>> That's true. I never thought about.

[00:14:46]>> You guys wouldn't believe this either.

[00:14:47]There's a rule where you can't build a building higher than a coconut tree.

[00:14:51]>> What?

[00:14:51]>> We have those for signs out here. Yeah.

[00:14:53]>> Coconut tree.

[00:14:55]>> I don't know. Yeah, skyscraper.

[00:14:57]>> Not Not everywhere. Big island. Big island has that.

[00:14:59]>> Oh, okay. That makes sense.

[00:15:00]>> Not every island, but there is a rule >> maybe. Is the max coconut.

[00:15:05]>> It's going to go the tallest coconut tree and it be like, "All right."

[00:15:08]>> And it's like, "Hey, it grew last year.

[00:15:10]Fuck."

[00:15:10]>> Yeah. But then >> somebody they use coconut tree as a measurement.

[00:15:14]That's crazy.

[00:15:16]>> Maybe certain areas. Maybe certain areas.

[00:15:18]>> I know Maui has a rule like that.

[00:15:20]>> Yeah, cuz I looked it up one time and they said some places >> they got a GMO coconut tree then.

[00:15:24]>> I heard your carryon can't be bigger than a turtle.

[00:15:28][laughter] >> Honestly, it's probably similar.

[00:15:31]>> Yeah.

[00:15:32]>> You think it's real [ __ ] if you take sand from the Hawaiian beaches? Like you're you're cursed and [ __ ] like that.

[00:15:36]You think >> I don't mess with that stuff.

[00:15:38]>> And I have like take a lava rock or something. I believe in that stuff. But that sounds I just I just like don't mess with it.

[00:15:46]There's no point of messing with it.

[00:15:48]Yeah.

[00:15:48]>> You think is real [ __ ] >> Yeah. So I would return your margaritas.

[00:15:50]Don't take the cups home.

[00:15:52]>> Souvenir cup, brother. They gave it to