 And welcome to another edition of Hawaii Uniform. I'm Jose Calvin Griffin. For most of you or maybe some of you hadn't seen the program before, here we talk about a lot of issues concerning the military and veterans. And we have a guest today that's going to share some of the experiences in the military and also what he's doing to help to change the world through his community efforts. But first off, what I wanted to bring to viewers' attention is in the past we had members of the Branch 46 Fleet Reserve Association that came on and it was an effort effort to save the location. And we wanted to have President Tom Berger come on to explain how the situation is going and what the future holds for Branch 46. Mr. Berger, are you there? Yes, I am. How are you doing, Calvin? Fine, let me call you Tom. Sure. Yeah. Okay, as I mentioned before, Alex, we had a lot of guests that came on to fuel the officers from the fleet. Could you give us an update on what's happening in a little bit of history up to this point and what is about to transpire? Okay, the little bit of history is about a year ago, almost 10 months ago, I took over as the President of the FRA and had a pretty daunting task of trying to save our land and save our building and help out our veterans as much as I can. The efforts have produced a lot of good results. Other than come this Monday, if we don't finalize or get an extension from the Navy, we will be having to close our doors. The Navy has told us they're going to put a lock on Monday morning and then we'll be forced to move out. Okay, I know you mentioned there's been a very daunting task for you so far to get as far as you have. There has been some issues in the past that, of course, you're trying to address to rectify. Is there any chance that as far as national headquarters, are they getting involved in any way? Or is this something that you could do? Is there any support that's coming forth on your end that will stave off the closure? As far as national, we reached out to national and the FRA, there's many FRAs throughout the country that don't physically have a building or a home so that having a building here in Hawaii was kind of a luxury to us and because the FRA is more of a charter and what we can do for the community other than having a place. So as far as national was standing, national wasn't, they weren't going to help us out financially in any way to help save something because if they did that, they have to do it to help the nation. It was an obligation they couldn't take on so we were kind of in a way having to forego things on our own. All right. Okay. The question a lot of people may ask anyhow, if the doors do close down there, the entity itself by 46, they may not be at the physical location, but will they continue? And like I say again, if they do continue, what changes do you foresee happening? Like say to make sure that whatever is transpired in the fast does not happen again? We, if we do have to close, our charter is still here in Hawaii. We'll just have to meet once a month as board of directors and go about our business as you know trying to help veterans as much as we can, but we're just not going to have a physical site to do it from. Plus we can rent a place or something like that. To prevent things in the future, as soon as I took on as the president, I went and hired a third party accounting service to stave off any improprieties and we're going to continue to do that and just let our members know that we have taken action with those steps. Okay. I know Alexei you've been pretty busy trying to get things together today, making last minute efforts. Like say to make sure that this doesn't happen, but just in case for those who in the community who had donated money to the Save the Land Foundation, is there any way can they contact you or is there somebody that they can contact to find out what this distribution or what's going to happen like say with the monies that they had donated? Yeah, I'm just trying to make the people that if there are people that are concerned about that, they are more than welcome to contact me. I'm sure that you have my information. Like we have discussed before you and I, I'm going to play it. I'm going to play it as an open book. If people have questions, I can answer those questions. Great. Okay. Well, Tom, thank you for taking the time to come out. I know it's difficult, you know, what you've been going through, but I was, just my personal note anyhow, I know that you have worked your coldly off, like say, to do what you can. There's other people out there, like say, are just as concerned. And I know that there's been the mounting a lot of opposition in certain different ways. But the only thing I can say is like say just keep up the good fight anyhow and do what you can. And like say coming out, being honest about what's happening. Of course, sure. Like a lot of people do appreciate that. And like say, well, as far as the numbers, we'll make sure we get that out to them. But if meantime, if they wanted to call the Fleet Reserve Association down on Walkenburg or Goodhound and check things out, I guess there's a standing invitation to open doors. That is correct. Anybody's welcome to come down there. I spend the majority of my time down there trying to see what we can do. So if they want to come in, just ask for me and I'll be more than happy to put down with anybody that comes to the doors. Anything else final Tommy, you want to say before we go? Just one last note that if we do get our extension, we're going to make an absolute press and give it our full 100% effort to make sure that within that time frame that we do save our land. Great. So thank you, Calvin, for having me on today. And I'll talk to you soon. Okay. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. This is Mr. Tom Burger, like I say, the branch president of branch 46. Many of you may not know or may not be familiar with the location down on Walkenburg, right across from the fire station. But if you do have any questions about what's happening, contact Tom or just drop in and see what's happening here. But we'll keep your best of us going on if there's any finalization with the doors closed permanently. And anyhow, thank you. Okay. First off, I want to thank my guest, Mr. Shelby Biener. Aloha. Thank you, Kevin, for having me on the show. Okay. My pleasure to be here. First off, a little bit back to background, because one of the things we're going to touch on is, of course, your service and also what you're doing in the community to make it a better place, not only here locally, but even, like I say, in a much broader area, like say, the world in general. Okay. So if you can tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, military background, and then we'll transition into our other conversations. You got it, boss. So I brought some of the stuff I have with me. For some people know me, who I grew up here in Waianae. I went to Aya High School, graduated year 2000. So Y2K is me. I was in the 169 ACWS, so that's Wheeler Army Airfield for people that know that spot. We do 2E2, which is Computer Cryptographic Network Switching Systems. So people who don't know what that means, that means before Bitcoin was born, that's me. Okay. So because we're doing this, and that's why I speak Japanese, but we also do linguists because we travel the world, as we know, as veterans. So I came back here home, been in New York about seven years, because in the East Coast, you know, we hustle, we move fast. We're going to beat you, like Gary Vaynerchuk says, every day. We do a slight edge, we do everything, and now here we are today to make the world a better place. Okay. You're visiting your time on the mainland. Of course, you've seen a big difference between there and here. What do you guys, I guess you got a better appreciation of the, I mean, if you were born and raised here, the thing is, you do see that difference, that economy, or, you know, the change up. What is there anything that gave you a better appreciation of what we have here in Hawaii? Yeah, yes, absolutely. Well, you're going to love the beaches here because it's free. If you go to New York, the beaches are dirty, it's ugly, Coney Island's got all kind of plastics inside, and people have to pay for parking. Just go to Walmart parking like around here is $20 if you don't buy something. This is crazy. Now, that's all about profiteering, because if you're in the business world, now you're just thinking about profits. You don't start a business to write taxes off, you start a business to make profit. So if you're studying the capitalism like Donald Trump was my mentor, I went to Trump University, I went to Richard University, I went to Nouveau Ridge. So I went to all the top three real estate investment, you know, education companies, to try to make the world how to be financially free. So I came back home, I wrote a book, starting a philosophy of how we can do this, and that's where you start to learn the appreciation, how to make this full cycle, how do you be harmonious, but still live in a practical world, because you still got to pay bills, gas costs, money, food, groceries, and here we are today. Okay. The thing is, we just met recently, can I say, but you seem like a very dynamic individual, like say full of energy, life, everything, that you seem like you're willing to share with other people. Other things that you are involved in, you know, briefly we can talk about that, then the other thing I want to talk about that, tie in as far as with Hawaii, the history, and your perception of how things are, how to bring things back into kilter. Gotcha, thank you. So, I just got recently recruited, not by choice, but by divine chance, by anti-county of the Waianae Alliance Club. So she put this pin on me. So now I'm in charge of the Lolo, and we're doing with my buddy, Lion Kenny Sibbins, the Walk for Vision and Hearing. If you didn't know about the Alliance Club, we're the world's largest nonprofit organization. So everything you donate to the Alliance Club International is 100% used for that organization. If you donate to Girl Scout Cookies or some other things, sometimes the girls are only getting like a quarter, when the whole thing was 325. So there's been a lot of things going on there. However- They're ripping off those poor girls. Yes, exactly. And that's why you can't really trust a lot of people. The people, when you're dealing with the rich people, right, because I serve Justin Bieber, I'll pound fish just in Timberlake, we'll talk about drinks, margaritas, and we'll be fly. However, when we come back and bring it back to Hawaii, you know, people who aren't educated or haven't got further up or haven't traveled aren't used to the hustle, they're not used to what people are doing. People take it very personal here. And I want people to look beyond that. And that's what Heller and Keller was pitching the Knights of the Blind. That's what the Alliance became. So it became Knights of the Blind and Beyond to be crusaders against darkness. So if you believe in Heller and Keller, who said life is short, eat dessert first, you know, you can start to think about Gandhi, about spirituality. And I, for an eye, mixed the whole world blind. Because we know as vets, if we go to war, if you saw the enemy Naruto, you know if I drop a bomb on you, like Hiroshima or Nagasaki, are you really going to try to explain to a Japanese ancestry about this? No, right? So we don't go into this stuff because we know it's just to create more war. So what we're trying to do is create love and do the loha spirit, where the Hawaiian spirituality comes in. Right. Okay. I don't have to create, when you're talking about creating love, that's good. But sometimes, like I said, as far as history is concerned, there's a reverberating thing that happens throughout history, cause and effect and everything else. What I would like to talk about also is the fact that worse being you're politically motivated, you're involved in a lot of things. In fact, you're ready for president sometimes soon? Yes, sir. I already found my paperwork. It's on Instagram. Everyone can find it at a legendary billionaire. And I found last year, I contacted Tulsi, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, everybody to say, let's work together. Do they email back? Do they respond back? I also emailed all the senators here and the YNA neighborhood board, the community board. Everybody knows my name. But do they respond? Do they come back? No. You called me. We met. Chance. And here we are. But all of my work is documented on Olalo. Thank you, Olalo. Okay. There's one of the things that I've tried to really promote here as far as awareness. And again, like I said, we have a lot of people in the military that want to give back. And with the different ethnicities that we do have in our military, we have different perspectives. I know that at some point, like so you're deeply concerned about what's happening in the past history with Hawaii, what some of the things that may just say we're not just, okay. What are some of the things that you're trying to do with whatever organizations or as an individual? What are you trying to do to enlighten individuals who are not familiar with the Hawaiian culture, you know, about what's going on and how it's going to benefit all of us by making either the acknowledgement of certain indiscretions in the part of our government. That's a deep question, but I can handle it. So a lot of things are coming towards you, right? So what the problem is is a spiritual, it's a spiritual problem we're facing here. Like my mentor, Wayne Dyer, was saying, right now we're focused on ambition, the ambition to meaning. So right now people are focused on how can I get more, how can I be number one? I want the most gold medals. I want the biggest tower. But people forgot, our physical bodies are finite. You cannot keep this body. You're going to leave it. You know, in 100 years, 200 doesn't matter. You're not going to be here. You're going to die. Everyone's going to die. I hate to tell you this, but and that's where people forgot. What really matters is the food, the air, the water, the love you breathe, you know, the memories you have. And that's the Hawaiian Aloha culture because you're not going to keep this stuff. People have been following this materialistic way the whole time and copied the American culture about consumerism. So now we're 90% consuming because we're taking everything from China, plastics or pollutant in the ocean. We just became the greedy people. Speaking of finite, we have a finite amount of time right now. We've got to take a short break, but we'll come back and continue our conversation because again, as far as what you're trying to impart, I think it was extremely important. Stay tuned. You're here in Hawaii in uniform. Thank you. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. My show is based on my book also titled Beyond the Lines and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 AM. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Dave Stevens, host of the Cyber Underground. This is where we discuss everything that relates to computers that just kind of scare you out of your mind. So come join us every week here on thinktechawaii.com 1 PM on Friday afternoons and then you can go see all our episodes on YouTube. Just look up the Cyber Underground on YouTube. All our shows will show up and please follow us. We're always giving you current relevant information to protect you. Keeping you safe. Aloha. Okay, back with Hawaii Uniform and again the first thought at first for me. I never had a billionaire on my program but we have Mr. Shelby Billionaire. I know that you changed your name. Let's talk about like say what your original family name is or those who know your face. They may not recognize the name change. A little bit about your family. I got you. So everything's in my book Spiricality. So I started as Brown but I dreamt of becoming a billionaire. So I went and studied at Rich Dad Poor Dad. You know, Secrets of the Millionaire of Mind, T. Harvecker and that's how I got into this path about learning about options, stocks, real estate. But I realized nobody cares about how much money you have especially in Hawaii. We just don't care. When you talk about Jason Momoa that's a name to people. We don't really care because you know you still got to eat. You still got to go back home. You still got to pay groceries and stuff. So we're trying to do things is how do you still live practical? Because even though I'm a presidential candidate what are the real politicians doing? They should be here trying to solve the world issues, the pollution, the problems. We're doing aquaponics on the West Coast and helping people envision here with the Lions Club but I also want to help the Hawaiians because we're losing a lot of land. Yeah. One of the things that we mentioned about the course giving back and all that the political aspect of it also because one of the things a lot of people are not happy with either party. You know, the one thing as far as getting more independence involved you know because I see there's a lot of common sense solutions to a lot of problems but it's either you're with us or you're against this that's the attitude that a lot of the political parties have. If you're the attitude they have if it doesn't serve me it serves no purpose. You know and the thing is we have to start working together and I know like say with the spirit of Hawaii and all that like say it's something that you know we try to live. I know again making that transition from the past to the future and possibly back as far as with the attitudes you've done a lot of history as far as with the Hawaiian kingdom some of the things that again didn't pan out for the Hawaiian culture but I see that you have a copy of King Kala Kala's will. Tell us a little bit about that how it ties in as far as in the making the corrections that need to be made. Gotcha. So I want everybody to go to the Hawaii State Capitol there's the Hawaii's public access room that has everything you can file for all the Senate bills and everything you need to contact your senators. So everyone can find everybody who they need to talk to to help there for the Hawaiians all the Hawaii state archives and our history is recorded there. When I went to the Capitol Washington DC to look for the Kala Kala's will and the Bayonet Constitution you cannot find this. I went like national treasure. I am an otaku. I will research anything and figure out the truth. I was there. Veterans do not give up. So I went like a secret mission beyond like 0069 and I got in there. I went to both congresses and they all sent me back home to the Hawaii State Archives. They said this stuff is deleted. I said really? So I got the Bayonet Constitution and I got it certified and I brought it back. So what this means to people and veterans if you are Hawaiian if you'll notice this signature in the seal it says Kala Kala Rex. Yes you heard Rex just like T-Rex. Now his name is David it's not Rex. Now Rex means king back in old English but if you sign a contract that's not his name. So your contract is invalid. So if you're just looking at international or constitutional law we have a lot of member randoms. We have the will saying that everything and the state should go to Queen Kapiolani and her descendants into perpetuity. So even Queen Kapiolani all her descendants all the family should be having the ram back. But we're not getting anything back. But the problem with the Hawaiians is that it's not only Hawaii the veterans have to stand. They did the same tactic to Puerto Rico to Guam and now they're doing the same kind of cool like things to Venezuela. And we can't stop it which is why we have in the article five convention the high five for article five to have the convention of states to get the people back together. So the people make their own power. A lot of people are not aware of our history as far as the country is concerned. We see where we're going into other countries like say in the name of democracy and things of that nature but as you mentioned we got Guam, Puerto Rico and a few other territories that the indigenous individuals they are not allowed their own destiny as far as they're not allowed to vote for president things of this nature anyhow, you know and I think that that's something that really bothers a lot of American veterans who are these different cultures like why are we doing this like say we're supposed to be the good guy but yet and still we're not addressing like say the individuality the cultural respect for these other cultures okay. What the one thing I think that concerns a lot of people is that if they're not of Hawaiian ancestry it's like okay we want to if we want to do the right thing out to promote this how is it going to impact us is it going to take away from us because we want to be part of this part of the the serious that what the scenery I say scenery that's a bad word anyhow part of the the overall Hawaiian experience okay so what do you have as far as the individuals you're dealing with what you're trying to bring about I get the awareness what would allay the fears or concerns of individuals who are non-Hawaiian know that there's something that's wrong drastically wrong from the past that need to be corrected what can they do but again how is it going to impact them oh yeah so to simplify that I would get the kumus the nice Grammys and Grammas and Grant because the Grammas the female mana doesn't have hate like the male war mana the kane wants to kill they think about I'm better than you this is all about ambition this is spiritual problem because now you're chasing after fiat currency you're chasing after power now you're chasing after things they can print unlimited through the Fed if you write the book the creature from Jekyll Island you know about the money problem about fiat currency which is why JP Morgan is also having his own Bitcoin JPM but you can't just make up your own coin now because now you have to follow a crypto which is what I'm certifying for cryptographic network and switching systems so if you're in that field for all the veterans you're going to kick butt you're going to do so well if you start doing crypto businesses because that's a lot in all 49 states all Puerto Rico except for Hawaii so the finance committee all those people you actually have to call them you actually have to get involved with the Hawaii public of director of officials it has everybody's email you can even email Tosie Gabbard right here her email is right here in these books but if you care and for these issues you have to get involved if you are not involved this is how the trick they trick you this is what I realized as we went for the Senate bills they have the Senate bill hearings at 9 a.m. or 1 p.m. so if you are working at a job you cannot come here to the to the capital to stop these bills yeah so the corporate people are winning Facebook just mashed us through because they're the attorneys so the only way you can stop this or get involved is you have to become involved into this hearing into the Senate bill legislative stuff but if you're not part of it doesn't matter if you're Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese they're going to take it all yeah well the thing is we notice that when people start learning the rules they change the rules they make it difficult you know the one thing the hypocrisy that I see sometimes within the system is they say we want you to get involved we want you to be good citizens then when you show up either you're berated you know or you're trying to intimidate you things of that nature in hell and people lose faith in the system just because in a way they are treated you know how can you support a system when you know personally that you've been impacted in a negative way and discouraged from being part of the solution you know but yeah information is the key and the thing is when there are individuals who can't miss individuals are busy trying to take care of their life trying to get things together but individuals like yourself and I'm not a runner unsung heroes in the state of Hawaii and around the country are trying to go ahead and make in power people through the information information is power you know and then one thing that we all have to do if you have information you want to share it the thing is you don't want to share misinformation that's another problem that we have when the fake news things of that nature and as you talk about you know with the economic systems and everything else good this real world that we have to go ahead and deal with the bitcoins all the crypto things that you mentioned everything else but I think again what you're trying to also stress and then what put words in your mouth what the thing is about getting back to the basics being individually and communally self-sustainable so in case there is a big EMT attack or whatever it is or something happens it goes down we still have that sense of community and that will help to fuse us together so we can better survive through all the other things right and you got it right Calvin all of that's knowledge even though we just met recently everybody knows can feel our mana our manao our story feel what's going on but we all want to be prepared we all want to come home we want to relax have a nice home cook meal get a nice massage soak in half hot bath a bit of possible and relax and make sure our kids are good but now we have to figure out how do we do it on our own through our own communities so through the Lions Club we're trying to do some algal panics we have the high schools going Waianah High School Nanakuli Elementary because now the future is teaching the keiki teaching the children because we're not going to be here another hundred years the Hawaiians have been losing for over 200 years so how do we make this as a foundation to create a better planet for everybody to help heal the world and make it a better place but you have to start with healing yourself true then you start healing your ohana you know can you pay your bills if not then you start storing with that start growing your own food lettuce takes 30 days you know go start growing seeds you know teach the kids how to you know care so they grow their own lettuce their own tomatoes they make their own salad can you afford whole fruits 14 dollar organic salad with avocado no because I will sell that to you in New York I'll add sake I'll do everything razzle and douse you and I'll suck the millions out of you to fundraise but that's now what's it about it's how do we change the world make it a better place and more people should be getting on this program or getting involved and just taking care of their family yeah true that's a road we all need to go down and also like say speaking of road I noticed this big stick that you bought and I was wondering well that's about we're getting down to the wires but briefly if you can tell us what this is about and what it represents great yes this is the divine royal Hawaiian King Kamehameha holy sanctuary holy staff of life mouthful right it was blessed from the top of Mount Fuji you can only get this stamp by the priest 2014 but I do an extra from New York I also got the young aquaman Kekawa to sign with chief from the Maliki and Moku Kapu from the Hawaiian royal line from the Catholic line Master Deacon Aukai his birthday is today will serve the number one Japanese priest Nakabayashi sensei signed dead pool weapon X a cosmic ghost rider incredible hope so everyone has blessed this journey and we'll go to the top of Mount Ikea next to help free the mountain because that was the most sacred place for Kamehameha when he worshiped Lono Lono could be a Kua we say in Hawaiian or Jesus Christo okay for Christianity I was going to say you might need the rock signature on there but uh I don't you're too flipping about it anyhow I would tell you we're almost down to the wire I think we may have about a minute or less is anything finally you'd like to say I want to first off say thank you for coming in I see again being as energetic as you are you're trying to do a lot of good things out there but we're brief you've had me contact information or something that you'd like the audience to know before we go yes I would like everybody to be the change they wish to see in the world just like Gandhi if you feel the loha spread the loha the same energy you have is the same energy you give so if you feel love happiness light you're going to share that so I want everyone to be happy but you've got to find a way to finance yourself you know grow your own food start being self-sustaining again stop using the plastics I know McDonald's is cheap it's easy but we've got to find a way to be healthier because a lot of people have diabetes I saw they had for 50% and it's not good so we've got to be healthier but becoming happier I love people that drink more green tea hot water so we can lose the beer belly and that's it okay anyhow I want to thank you for coming on the program I'd like to do a follow-up and also I know that you do a lot of things out there in the media on your own but keep as impressive as happening and you know keep up the good work anyhow at this point I just want to say thanks again to Tom Burger for coming on and again check out the fleet and also Mr. Big in there for coming and showing up but also remember we're in this thing together we need to work together the Aloha spirit God bless and until that time