We decided to tie in our two episodes prior to this (militarism and RIMPAC) by highlighting the illegal occupation of the united states here in Hawaiʻi. We share our own gist of the genealogy of this fake "annexation" as well as explaining how unjust and corrupt our history with the united states is. We broke down main contributing historical dates such as January 17, 1893 (Illegal Overthrow of The Hawaiian Kingdom) and August 21, 1959 (FAKE "state"hood day) that shaped Hawaiʻiʻs complicated corrupt history. We also took the time to discuss a common statement we are often faced with when we tell folks who are not as educated in Hawaiʻiʻs history: "If America didnʻt take over Hawaiʻi someone else would have". We hope you all learned a little something from this episode as we try our best to use our platform to educate as well as start the conversation to such complexed ideas we were spoon fed to accept. Mahalo Nui Loa for listening.

In today's episode we decided to highlight RIMPAC or "Rim of the Pacific Exercise" and how it affects our oceans, land, marine and wild life animals, and our people here in Hawaiʻi as well as other places in Oceania and around the world. We hope you all learned a little something from this particular episode, and we hope this helps to push many of you folks to open up about this particular topic with your friends, family, and loved ones. Stay tuned for Friday's episode as we connect militarization and RIMPAC to Hawaiʻi's illegal occupation of the united states on of course, FAKE statehood Day. Mahlo Nui Loa for listening!

The beautiful artwork was created by the one and only Kautious (with a K).

In this episode, we decided to highlight COVID-19 by talking about health practices, self-care, and going out for essential shopping. We also took the time to talk about some very current issues involving COVID-19 such as the protest for no masks and mandatory quarantine, Hawai'i going into yet another lockdown, and reminiscing about things before COVID-19 hit. Mahalo nui loa for listening.

We highlight cultural appropriation by defining what cultural appropriation means by exploring different areas of examples of cultural appropriation that we have knowledge on and that we have experienced. Mahalo nui loa