 Okay, this is ThinkTec, we just had a fabulous scene on the street, an event on the street for the 4th of July here on Friday, the Friday before 4th of July, with Chanella Richmond and Sandy. Gorski Bro. Okay, and what, six other people in your group. It was Sing For Life, which is really... Sing For Your Life is a native group, yes. Tell us about Sing For Your Life, Chanella. Well, Sing For Your Life is, we are a group, we rehearse at the Kilauea District Park on Wednesdays starting in September. And we travel, we like to provide, sing-along entertainment for the people that are in the retirement facilities. So we travel all over Hauahu doing these programs and it's a great joy. Our group is fabulous, they're all volunteer singers, they give of their time and their energy and it's very rewarding, it's very fun. I noticed they were fabulous, I noticed that. And those songs, you know, they're patriotic songs, you don't sing them every day really. No. When I sing them, you know, I'm just an amateur, I get so emotional, I couldn't sing along with you, I would choke up every few lines, you know, you saw that happen, yeah. Yes, I have done that. I'm just wondering why I couldn't sing is because I got choked up a couple of times. Yeah, I understand, it's happened to me many times myself, I know. Yeah, so what does it mean, Fourth of July, what does it mean these songs, what does it mean to express yourself and be free to sing these songs? To me, the Fourth of July, these songs, these patriotic songs, they are the vision, they hold the hope of what can be, it reminds me of the founding fathers, it's our potential of what we can do. So when we look at all what's going on, we get so discouraged and everybody's so bitter and fighting and argumentative, but we have to hold the vision of the greatness of humankind and I believe in my heart of hearts that America has that greatness of all the nations in the world, not to put anybody else down, but America does have that potential for greatness and I believe we can bring this forth because of our ability to express our opinions and our disagreements and there still is within all of us this passion for freedom, everything I do including Fourth of July, but my whole life is about empowering people to experience freedom, vocal freedom, freedom of expressing themselves and we can do that and we can legally do that, sort of, if we have our permits. Well, it was clear in the street today that you guys were singing to the rafters that you were projecting, not to the mall or the building across the way, but the whole world. I really appreciate it and people in the mall appreciate it too. We have to do this again. But you know, one thing, you know, we live, there's another symbolic point that needs to be discussed. We live in a time when people are dissociating from the government and the government in some ways is associating from the people. It used to be, I always used to say, the government is us, we are the government. The country is ours, we are the country. But somehow it's lost in current times and there's a lot of animosity and polarization happening. And somehow, to me, and I'd like your thought about it too, to me singing these songs, having this concert on the Fort Street Mall, somehow is a great statement. Despite all that polarization, despite the controversy, despite the animosity, we can do this and it brings us together, all of us together somehow. Yes, I firmly, strongly believe these songs, and we must wield joy. We must, our only weapon is our ability to control our feelings and to control our joy. So yeah, to radiate and to be joy and to feel joy and to express joy, it literally, we see this in the retirement homes, this, first of all, the act of singing, just to sing you have to breathe. It's atomic. You get oxygen in your body, it helps heal you, it transforms you, it releases endorphins in your brain, it stimulates your thymus gland, which improves your immune system. The words go through your mind, it alleviates depression. So we kind of wield, we wield our joy through song, like a weapon, to annihilate depression, to annihilate anger, to annihilate fear. Just as Martin Luther King did with We Shall Overcome, you know, just as Gandhi, this is like a, to sing and to feel joy in spite, to refuse to be angry, to refuse to feel fear, to take action where we can take action, and this is the way I can take action, is I can help generate joy and generate this feeling and bring, because when we sing, people's hearts open up, they're awakened, regardless of what's going on in their intellect with their thoughts and their feelings and their attitudes, their heart opens up. And when the heart opens up, it's greater than all the garbage that's around us. And this brings in joy, it brings in happiness, it brings in what, and it brings in ideas that we can do to alter things, to help each other so that we as a society can be better. It integrates us. And it integrates us with our community, our society. And the vision, these songs, these songs have the vision. And in preparation for this, we went out and did a little publicity and somebody called you. Can you talk about that? I got an email outraged. Well, how dare you, so what is this, irony is what they said. How dare you have this, what's going on in our country? How dare you, what does it propagate the status quo? Yeah, it was very interesting. What do you say to him? He's out there. He's on camera one. Where's she? What do you say to that person right now? Answer that person. Okay, so the answer to this person, I already did answer him. Look, I invited this person. It really is, the status quo is not patriotism. The status quo is hate in every side. And the real revolution right now is to create a way to feel joy and harmony and to manifest the Dalai Lama's stead. There is nothing in life that is worth losing your sense of peace over. And I agree. I agree totally with him. And so this, our ability to feel peace and to sense peace and to radiate peace is the only place that we can come from if we really want to change things and help people. And it's, well, it's what I'm doing. And so I invited this person. If you want to join the revolution and join the love war, that's the real revolution. Lovely, lovely. So tell us about your singers. Can you name them for us? So we have it on record? Yeah, I also have it on record in my brain. Okay, Pat Sullivan was on the far end. Next came Charles Yara. Next was Amy Kim. Next was Lisa Jordan. Jacob. Sorry, sorry. Lisa Jacobs. Then comes Sandy, Gorski, Brow and me. And then, wonderful. Oh, I was lip-syncing. You can hear my voice, but I didn't even get to open the microphone. That was okay with me. We have other members. Some of them are out of off island and one of our beautiful members, Margie, has got shingles. Oh, she's out for the count. And Vicki was her mom, was in critical condition. So anyway, we have more people. But you keep on trucking, though. We keep on, keep on on. They're built of strong stuff, Shanara. Sandy, what was the experience like for you today? It was good. I felt like we were reminding the world, or our small portion of the world, that we are a great nation and to remember who we are. We were looking at the crowd. What did you see? What kind of feedback? I saw people walking by, people running by, but also as they're running by the ear cocked, I saw people stopping to join in and enjoy. All sorts of things. But I think people enjoyed it. That's what my takeaway was. Yeah. I want them all to enjoy. We'll play this. We'll play your concert over and over again. Do you dream? Let everybody be free. Free. Well, it was wonderful that you came down and did this, you guys. Thank you for having us. And it was lovely what you did. You're wonderful. And the quality of the scene. What you're doing for the community with this program. We'll have to do it again, you know, the other time soon. I want you guys back. I want to do more concerts in the street. We invented a kind of pattern today. With the permit this time. We have a template going now. We can do this again. So develop your repertoire and we'll do it again. Consider us a resource. Yeah. Okay. Closing remarks. Sandy, closing remarks. What are your listeners with? Oh, thanks so much for listening to us. And I hope you share it in our joy. Thank you, Sandy. Thank you. Thank you very much for inviting us to do this. And God bless you. God bless America and have a happy Fourth of July. Thank you, Shinara. Thank you, Sandy. I'll be less emotional next time. Don't. Be who you are. Your heart is booming.