 Aloha o Inala. Welcome to Hawaii is My Main Land, exploring the Hawaiian archipelago every Friday at 3pm. I'm Kaui Lucas. It was in the unlikely venue of an attorney's office in downtown Honolulu that I met Waimanalo native Matt Love. Mahalo Kea Kua and Mark Squav for putting this beautifully unpretentious man where I could hear him. Yesterday, watching the mean-spirited boycott Hawaii posts appearing after federal Judge Doug Chin successfully blocked President Trump's revised travel ban, I realized Matt Love's story was the perfect response. The Department of Business Economics and Tourism forecasts 9,079,709 tourists for Hawaii in 2017. A 1.5% increase over last year. While such growth is heavily subsidized by the government and generally applauded, we rarely pay attention to the collateral damages of tourism. Our inability to control who or how many US citizens come to Hawaii, where and how long they stay, if they buy land or find jobs, displacing locals. This underlies most of Hawaii's problems. It is the elephant on the lanai. 25% of real estate sales in 2015 were to non-resident US citizens. The Hawaii of Matt Love is what people flock to Hawaii to experience and perhaps with innocent ignorance is what the traveling hordes are systematically extinguishing. But today, we celebrate that Hawaiians yet survive and Matt's music gives voice to the invisible ties to our ancestors through us and into the future. I'm going to die, never coming back again. Far on the low mountain soil, far on the country. Birds on the wings were getting their way, so I'm headed for the wicked side. Where all of your dreams, sometimes is there, since I'm just a log for the life. Someday you'll cry because they're bright, for someone who'll love or die. Time and one, I woke up this far, found that I was confused. I spun right around, found I have lost. I say that I couldn't lose. The beaches they said to build a hotel, but far to as high was new. Birds on the long side like a dog, say get by the dollar. That song got all the meanings of it. So your buddy Liko Martin wrote that song? Yeah, a good friend of mine. We had our hot ties and we hated changes as time went by. I say why we sit down and talk about it. It's sad that we say no and they say yes, what can you do about it? Not very much. It really doesn't make sense at all. Liko has been doing whatever he could, certainly, very actively. And you have to do because you are keeping alive that precious thing, the culture, the music. And being true to your music, whether or not it's a wine, because you do all kinds of things. Liko Martin is a very active person in the Hawaiian culture. He just gets changes that come in about. Build all kinds of things that just spoil our island, the beauty of the island. There's no beauty as a keep on going. I agree with him. So you keep adding beauty to the world every day with your music. I was very surprised to hear about the first instrument you learned. The accordion. Who would have thought an accordion for a women all over? I always wanted to play an accordion. But I had no choice but to go back to my second band. The guitar and the ukulele. Back there, that's what I was brought up with. Nothing else, just guitar and ukulele. Because there was, I think, I would say, that's the most cheapest instrument you can come across compared to the every other instrument that I know. How did you learn music? How? How did you learn music? Well, it's a man of his that teaches me in dreams. My wife and me, she used to go crazy with me. Because I'm jumping out of bed about like two o'clock, one o'clock in the morning. Because I hear a melody, so I just have to give the guitar a try. She shows me the hand position. How to turn the guitar to hold such a position. I tell people, some of them don't believe in that, but it's okay. You believe what you're going to do. Because when there's nothing you're going to do, you just let it go. Just continue what God gave you. Make your world happy. Make it beautiful with your songs. You dance. One of my gifts I always give it to me to do that. Fine. So I will just continue on doing it. One of your original songs for us? My original? Well, you don't have to. But if you have one you would like to play. Okay, let me just do this number. Like I was telling you yesterday I played the conch and the head with the ukulele. My high nice sister. And I learned the song from her. I didn't care much for the song, but after a while I started to like it. Because at that age I always played the rock and roll stuff that they have. After I got older, it came along. I said you probably love this song. And I always remember her body. My name is John Wahee. And I used to be a part of all the things that you might be angry at. I served in government here and may have made decisions that affects you. So I want to invite you in. I want to invite you in to Talk Story with me and some very special guests. Every other Monday here at Talk Story with John Wahee. Come on in, join us, express your opinion, learn more about your state, and then do something about it. Aloha. Hi, I'm Cheryl Crozier Garcia, the host of Working Together on Think Tech Hawaii. Join us every other Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 4.30, when we discuss the impact of change on employees, employers, and the economy. Welcome back to Hawaii is my mail-on. I'm Kaui Lucas here Fridays on Think Tech at 3, from 3 to 3.30. Today we're doing something a little different. Thanks to Serendipity Akua, I don't know. Matt Love, who is an, I think of him as an endemic Hawaiian. He is a native of Waimanalo. And he's the kind of Hawaiian that really only exists in Hawaii, and only survives in Hawaii. Obviously he's a musician. His life has been guided by his music. He has no recordings, amazingly enough. I couldn't even find a still picture of you on the internet, although there are some videos. So Matt has a regular gig at Namea Hawaii, which is the wonderful shop that sells things made by Hawaiians, or in Hawaii anyway, at Wardware House. So Matt can be found at Namea Hawaii at Wardware House on Fridays and Saturdays, sometime usually noon to four. He does have a few other gigs in town, and you just have to be on your toes and check in with him, because he doesn't have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. But he has a beautiful heart and amazing music. It was extraordinary as we were sitting in this office building in downtown Hululu. I'd never met this man, and there's an attorney I don't know, sitting at the table saying, look, you should listen to him. I'm like, okay. Well, and then of course he was right, because after playing for about five minutes, I was ready to cry. This is the music that I know from my brothers who play music, who, even though they're my brothers, they're 20 years older than me, so they're maybe around your age. It is what accompanies us in our life, in our dreams, as you mentioned. I hope someday, somehow, Matt will have the ability to record some of this music, because none of us lives forever. And besides, he's hard to find. So I know you'd rather play music than talk, but let's talk for just a little bit. Okay, Matt? Play another song if you'd rather. I don't mind. There's a different song. You are there. Stuck on the Queen's Jubilee. But I'm flexible. Hello, Nicole. Why are you running here? So that was written by Lili Uokalani to celebrate the jubilee of Queen Victoria. And so she made it very royal, and complicated, and beautiful. It's not really complicated. If you love music as much as I do, nothing is complicated. You just bounce right through it. It's like how you have your talent. You just write it. So it's the same thing. Or it's a different fashion, yeah. So being a Waimanalo native and resident, have you always lived in Waimanalo your whole life? Yes, all my life. Wow, okay. All my life. And I will be crazy to live that place. I mean, it changes, it changes a lot, but you got so used to it, it changes. But the Waimanalo changes are so slow. I'm just waiting for the days when it stops. It changes a lot. And I think it would be the greatest day of all of us. Although it's still a country, but such life changes, it's a big thing. Well, let's think of changes we'd like to see, and then work towards those. Instead of, you know, sometimes there can be good changes. We haven't seen a lot of those in Waimanalo too recently. I'm trying to think of one. Well, the roads are better than they were a few years ago. But is that a good thing or not? Oh, the farmers, the co-op, that's nice. That's pretty good, right? Oh, yes, farmers, yeah. It's more farmers in Waimanalo growing food than there were 10 years ago or so. That's just quite a bit of a Monday, Waimanalo are doing the same thing. You know, they're looking forward to the future, as far as food consumption and so forth. They said if they don't do it, we'll be in bad shape. Do you grow food too? How? You grow too? No, my icebox is out in the ocean. So you fish? Yeah, it's in the ocean. So it's in the mountains too, you know? We have refrigerators both sides. It's okay. Well, believe it or not, we're almost to the end, but I would like another song. So it's up to you. I don't know. Bye. More times again. Next time in Waimanalo. I just had a little chat with Jay and he gave me the thumbs up on a little project, so we'll be talking about that after the show. Okay. You're welcome.