Comments by "Wakeup and Sniff the Coffee" (@Wakeupandsniffthecoffee) on "Peter Santenello" channel.

  1. Growing up in Maui, there were plenty of Baha'i. They hung around chanting, even at the airport. They used to be at the airport and shopping centers hoping for donations.
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  2. I was a haole, blonde haired kid in grade school on Maui. One other haole boy was at the school. But I was the only one in my grade school with blonde hair. My sister's and brothers were in the lower grades there. I definitely had to learn a lot to learn about being on Maui. But all my friends eventually were of every island nationality.
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  3. 41:32 good man and father.
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  4. 48:34 back in the hippy days on Maui, so many would just pick people's fruits and then when confronted, it was the "God made it for us all" excuse. It wasn't that they picked my guavas, mangoes, avocados or plumeria that hung over the fence or in some cases we're inside the fence, it was the idea that they felt like they had a right to the plants we grew and maintained. Just ask and most people would give and even give more.
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  5. I feel the same. I'm in Virginia now and spent most of my life in Maui, Hawaii and his Hawaiian islands videos really took me back.
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  6. Think about the early south. The slave owners were democrats and the republicans were against the slavery. Early Hawaiian like Prince Kuhio were republicans. The plantation days and the turn around to democrats. Now democrats have reversed and made them seem like the republicans were. Democrats are a majority in Hawaii and in that money was the god. Money drove all the politics and today it is the way it is because politicians followed that money and made it possible to sell off Hawaii. And yet, the dems are blind to this. The people think they are for the people upfront, but behind the scenes it's how they each can set themselves up in office to be millionaires when they leave office.
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  7. 22:55 grew up at Hookipa park. Never had wild chickens or even turtles on the beach back then. We would go on weekends, barbeque, swim, dive and surf. Before I left half the beach was mainland windsurfers and local people into drugs and alcohol. Families weren't going anymore. At one point in the 70's and 80's there was a lot of tension between local people Kamaaina and newcomers malahini. Many fights went on there.
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  8. 9:22 I wish I was younger and would love to open small stores around towns like this. Growing up my dad and mom moved us all to Maui Hawaii. Not long after my dad and mom bought an old Japanese man's store named Nakatsukasa store. They renamed it Halls store and it wasn't much bigger than an average bedroom and a small room for some stock, but the people that lived in the camps surrounding it patronized it. Most had worked for the pineapple companies and the canneries that all shut down Originally the store also had a butcher shop across the street, which had a walk in freezer and butcher tables. We used the freezer for groceries and mainly beer. They eventually sold it and started one of the first new movie theaters on the island. The store went to another proprietor and eventually shut down and was torn down and a house put up. Having a nice store in a place like this easily can become a community centered place. People come around and visit with each other. That's one of the beautiful things about a small community store.
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  9. 58:43 he is quite a historian.
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  10. Nice! I lived in Grants Pass for two years.
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  11. 36:36 growing up on Maui, we had all sorts of old bottles we dug out of the gulches and old burn piles before trash service. We had boxes of them. I'm not sure where they all are after my dad passed away.
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  12. 39:58 all that stuff is so cool. I had stuff for years and finally got rid of everything to move and travel light. I really have to stop myself from trying to collect stuff like this, especially in this region. The key is to have a nice area to display it all in an organized way.
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  13. These ranches could offer an experience to people with a bnb or a small cottage to rent and be able to get the experience of that life.
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  14. Growing up and eventually having my own two way radio shop for 14 years and later working for Maui Electric, I spent so much time on Molokai. I travel up and down the coast at times that I stayed for days at a time. Back when it was full of pineapple and many small farmers, the ranch took over. I've taken 4x4 up into the mountains, just never did go to Kaluapapa, except in a small plane that stopped for passengers. 6:36 those beaches had major currents. My brothers good friend Randy California a musician from the old group spirit drowned there while saving his son that was swept out. Molokai had its fair share of bad times. I remember a small plane of kids and coaches crashed and perished. That was devastating for Molokai. 7:29 welcome to the land of Kiawe thorns.
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  15. Growing up in Hawaii and finally leaving after retirement to Virginia, I really enjoyed hearing this guy talk. His explanation of what is an Hawaiian was in the money.
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  16. Peter Santenello you sure hook up with great people in all these stories. This sheriff is great. Frankly I'm surprised that in these times you can find anyone that is allowed to speak out.
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  17. It's too bad the drama that is coming from his good these days.
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  18. 33:55 cops will ticket the cars, but look the other way with the addicts.
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  19. Working on Molokai or even Lanai, the shower runs red after work from all the iron rich red soil.
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  20. 48:24 great video! That store owner and the lady that took you around were great, as was everyone you spoke to, especially on camera.
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  21. I live down in Newport News Virginia and some parts have some really cool old architecture, yet it seems those neighborhoods tend to be crime drugs and shooting. Such a shame. I love all these old homes you are showing. I'm retired and my home here has appreciated a lot. Maybe one day I'll strike out and see if I fit in with some of the older people like me. 67 and a decent guaranteed income, don't drink and single. If I was concerned about my health, then I would be good where I am, but I would love to just move from town to town and stay a month or so to see what they are like.
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  22. I first heard of "Food deserts" here in Virginia. When a supermarket shuts down, it leaves all fast foods and gas station foods.
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  23. In those areas, such as Mobile Bay, I think, the Indians talk about a tribe called the Welsh that supposedly predated the indians and built rock fortresses, almost like the Mayans. The elders related this story and called them moon face people with white skin. It's very likely European people had been to America before the indians got there.
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  24. The waiting list has Hawaiian people on it for years. Its just a waiting game for the people to die off before being given properties.
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  25. Is this guy part Italian? He reminds me of an italian, now Hawaiian friend of mine.
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  26. Over 40 years ago the meth or ice as it was called came to Hawaii and destroyed families and took the life and health of many of my friends. Suicide, heart attacks and even using it until they were crippled and looked like twice their age, before finally dying.
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  27. "Sacred not secret" I love that. As a haole, caucasion white person, I grew up from grade school In Haiku on Maui until I retired and moved to the mainland. Partially to follow my kids, but also because of the drama and real estate and cost of living. If not for those things, I may have stayed and died on Maui. I was fortunate enough with friends of all races and a job that took me to special parts of Maui, to see many places. Over the years the access and the hospitality began to close off. As tourist came just bumbling through places without permission or causing problems or just not honoring the sacredness of places, many local people grew weary if it and many places changed hands to people with the money that bought it from the locals or corporations. Over time, there were very few places we could go anymore. People got upset if you were on THEIR land. An example in Makena on Maui is million dollar homes built right up to the ocean. Owned by rich people as a second or whatever home and they weren't always there. The had cameras around the property and looking at the beach in front of the home. The would see someone walk on the beach, not their property and immediately alert caretakers or police that someone is on their beach. That is a good example of how Maui felt when I left.
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  28. 9:49 exactly! It can be as simple as needing pain meds to get through an injury and then you have the monkey on your back. At first you don't think you're addicted, but the withdrawals are painful. 12 years of using them myself and finally Kratom saved me and allowed me to get past the withdrawal and eventually able to stay off it, as well as alcohol, ambien and anti-anxiety meds. I tried for 12 years and finally did it with Kratom. Is that why they are trying to stop Kratom? It's because it can help and the powers that be don't want that. The major population of drug addicts started innocently enough. Not because they wanted to be addicts.
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  29. There are ways to build fans for power and still allow the fish to thrive. It just wasn't done that way originally, but it can be.
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  30. I am wondering if Nick Johnson has jumped into doing Hawaii videos after seeing yours?
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  31. Locally in Virginia on the nextdoor app, neighbors post about guys coming in their yards and stealing chickens and pets. The cameras show they look maybe Latino. If people are hungry, we have dozens of food banks and churches feeding people. They laughed at Trump saying people are eating pets, but they ignore videos, even from police cameras that show this is definitely a thing.
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  32. You might also talk to Vincent Mina, president of the Hawaii Farrmers Union United, HFUU. He, like Alika, has been very active with small farmers on Maui. He ran many conferences annually with speakers from around the world that helped bring their insight to Maui's small Farmers.
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  33. The people in power and with money do a quiet title. This was common practice for major land owners. The American legal system was foreign to Hawaiian understanding. The money people were close to the royalty and if royalty didn't do what they wanted, they used the United States military to help them over throw the royals. Most of the families changed names when it wasn't cool to have the original full Hawaiian name and shortened it. So many local people didn't recognize their name on the kuleana lands. The major corporations ran the sale through, published the notices for quiet title and since no one really knew and spoke up, legally they quieted the title and now it was determined that the deed could be transferred. Just like sista says, there were a few generations that should have understood this, unlike the elders, but those generations became alcoholics and drug users and many died from it or sat in prisons.
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  34. For a while 13:48 drugs took its toll. You have to go to get pastry at midnight. 13:48 so many people want to change places they move to. That doesn't go over well on Molokai. The guy that created Norton's antivirus owned up in the east end. That was a whole story in itself. 13:48 I was fortunate to be going to Lanai back when it was a pineapple plantation and had dinner with the big managers. It was old school for sure.
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  35. Looking at Google maps, I see big box stores and many different places. I am having a hardtime realizing just where you are.
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  36. My problem with all Peter's videos is that I am not along for the ride. It's fascinating how he makes all the connections.
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  37. 50:54 shadow is fighting in Butler. The spot Trump was shot.
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  38. 32:22 so many people in this country are victims of the people that pushed the pain pills legally. Once hooked, it was nearly impossible to stop because of the mental and physical pain the body goes through. I did 12 years in it and it nearly took me out. I found kratom and it killed the cravings enough to just get off of it, by that time everyone was shutting down the doctors for pushing it. Not that doctors had to push it, once hooked people will use their prescription up too quickly and start begging and hounding the doctors for a new prescription or to prescribe more than before. Many older people on fixed income, would get it, not take it and sell them. If they took them, they wouldn't want to sell them, they couldn't 😢. It's great to hear how, with the help of family members, he got off of it.
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  39. 37:18 they sure have a nice home. It seems like it would be just full of dirt from the ranch.
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  40. I grew up in Haiku on the east side. From grade school until retirement. The high cost of living, combined with high home prices had me owing nearly $500k for a basically beat up home in Kahului. Disability, bankruptcy and foreclosure had me leave, but I recovered financially and now own a way bigger place for half the price in Virginia. I spent decades going to Lahaina at least once a week to service two way radios for hotels, the sugar and taxi companies. My family is still on Maui and my older brother has been a musician playing in Lahaina for many years. The whole way of life on Maui has changed drastically over my life and now Lahaina burns up. So many people whose family went back generations have left Maui in my lifetime to live where there was more opportunities and better pay and jobs. Most never return. A few tries, but not until retirement and usually if their family still has property to come home to. Otherwise it's way too expensive.
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  41. There is something afoot in Hawaii. The Lahaina Maui wildfires have way more questions than answers and very little knowledge that makes sense coming from the government. Biden gave individual households, NOT people, $700 in a one time payment. Most households probably had five people living in one household. People with the power to shine the light on the situation now, before it fades from view and gets relugated in five years to a 5000 page investigation. One that hints of conspiracy, but hasn't got the facts to prove it, is too late. People need to record and keep the light shining on Lahaina Wildfires or this will happen in everyone else's backyard. https://youtu.be/YvB84424jJ4?si=YbKZyo6RRhr5Sakr
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  42. 51:06 a great open street shopping mall spot.
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  43. 25:48 this will just get worse with Kamala Harris gets in the president office. Their liberal policies led up to this. This is the world of diversity and letting people just do what they want or actually do as the criminals what them to do. The idea of inclusion is only for the people they want and it's exclusion for these people. Using people on drugs for the money and allowing them to steal and do what they want to get their drugs and keep the money flowing to the drug dealers. Trump has the best opportunity to turn this around.
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  44. 11:03 I would come to stay and ride atv. Tourism related business is good if promoted right, but it can be rough as we witnesses with the pandemic. Coal mine industries that have shut down can have a lot of tourist appeal too.
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  45. 45:12 Peter you are bringing the real people to online. Online and media is like spawning people that believe that fantasies are realities. You and other similar YouTubers doing this work will at least create a record of reality.
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  46. I'm glad I saw it before you had to edit it.
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  47. How long have deer been an issue there? Im in Virginia now and just noticed some of my fruit trees had broken branches and the young leaves eaten. Dang deer. I feel for him losing his plants from an invasive like deer. I can imagine how hard it would have been for old Hawaiians if deer had been there. On Maui, growing up, I saw the decline of all the river based creatures. It was sad. But Maui lost alot if its stream water that was diverted for sugar and use in central Maui and that ked to the decline.
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  48. One of the issues I had with both locals and newcomers in the 70's going forward, is what I call the "hippie mentality" and found it's way into how people interpret the old Hawaiian ways. People would get high and then alter their thinking and develop some other,what I call "whoo whoo" ideas. Often stretching the idea and reforming them into what they think it should be. In turn, many people, just because they look Hawaiian, would sort of appoint themselves as a person that can interpret the philosophy of the Hawaiians. This led to many opposing views among Hawaiians and who they chose to follow. This divided way of thinking had an impact on Hawaiians overall. Various groups felt like their family was related to royalty and that they should have a ttitle. This didn't sit well with other groups. The results kept them divided.
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  49. Sam sounds like people I grew up with on Maui. A lot of the same attitudes with Hawaiians.
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  50. 2:20 haha, my old house fence.
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