 I'm Marsha Joyner and we are navigating the journey and what a journey it is. We are going to take a deep dive with some people or creatures that we've never met, but boy are they wonderful. So let's take a dive into the underwater acts of life. And so with our new guest here, all kinds of pretty little things, and we will introduce you to the author, Mary Ann and Waikiki. And let's take a dive. Let's go deep into the water. And now we are going to meet all of these puppets. Mary Ann and Waikiki has created a plethora, a whole farm, a whole menagerie of puppets that actually sing. And they are the kind acts of kindness, the kind puppets. Right. The singing puppets. Sign language puppets. Marsha, let's get it. The kind signing puppets collection here created by Polkmanus puppets, yes. So we are going to dive into the acts of kindness book series. Okay. What are the acts of kindness? Show me. Acts. Acts of kindness. Letter K, kindness. Oh, kindness. Acts of kindness. That's wonderful. Okay. Yes. All right. So tell us a story. You've got books. This is a book club. This is the first book of our acts of kindness book series that is co-created with Suzanne Sims and I. And it has a soundtrack by Lucy Lynch and The Perfect Wave. And through meditation, I was guided I was going to write a series of children's sign language books with puppets. I kind of laughed. And I went, what? I love puppets. But anyway, Marsha, I walked down to El Moana Mall and I saw these three of amazing puppets in one of the stores. And it started coming to me. The inspiration of living on a sailboat over here and not only seeing all this floating garbage arriving around the sailboat that I've resided on. Just these ideas were just coming to me. And I had contacted the Animal Planet TV show Tanked, Wade King, where they built aquariums in Las Vegas. And we have a photo of Wade and I. I flew over to Vegas. Yeah. And I told him about the idea. He loved it. And he wanted to be a octopus, a red octopus. So now his name is King Octo VIII, who teaches what, Marsha? The signs of peace, love, happiness, and thanks tank or mahalo here. They built the wellness tank. Yeah. So this is Noah the whale, the leading character. Okay. And it's also for our amazing organization called the National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency. When I first came to Hawaii a decade ago, remember we met? Yes. I had this idea and we were talking with my deaf friend Scott. And I was reading an article from Noah. And they had talked about the sound pollution that was affecting the marine life. And they had a project and there were some acronyms. Well, one of the acronyms name was Splash. Well, guess what? Noah's wife is Splash. And the grandparents are Alpha and Beta. So we introduced them coming down on Hawaiian vacation. Who does not want to be here in Sena, Hawaii? Yeah, Sena, Hawaii right there. So we introduced the family of whales coming down on the Hawaiian vacation. Good. So let's see how does this one work? This is actually Natalie the Nautilus, the audiologist. Okay. She talks about cochlear implant. And I have a degree from Central Michigan University in audiology. And I became a social worker with mentally ill deaf adults for about five years. So we talk about hearing loss. And it doesn't matter. You can be born with a hearing loss. You can acquire it. Through a middle ear infection from swimming in a pool to loud noises and concerts. And we have a lot of military moms and dads that are coming back with a hearing loss. So we want to highlight them so that we are giving them what? Total communication skills of sign language and speaking and just gestures and everything so that we can improve their communication. And also we have a lot of military moms and dads coming back with ringing in the ears tonight as I have that myself. And it comes and goes. And you don't know when it's going to come and go. So we want to make sure that our community, our global community now is up to 320 million people experiencing a hearing loss. So this is going to be amazing stories. And we know this is really what's happening around the world. These garbage patches are floating. Now where is the garbage patch? Well, the garbage patches between Hawaii and California is one of them. But there's other ones, I think, I believe up to six other ones now that they're finding around the world. We have a big one between Hawaii and California. And we highlight this here in a chapter because in 1999, Captain Moore, who came over from California, failed in the Transpac. And this past July was the 50th race and the 100th anniversary. So they recognize this floating soupy mess of all this plastic and mess. And they are trying to assess it and clean it all up. And that's what's happening. We have Noah in the story. They're down here on a Hawaiian vacation. They have a glow-in-the-dark party with everybody. A greeting party. A greeting party, yes. Like the Aloha Ambassadors. So that's who they are. They're welcoming our Ohana for the winter. Noah and his Ohana. And that shock of the sharp. And he searches and he's very sharp with reading sign language skills. Now you can buy these? Yes. Here's Folk Manus and on Amazon. I want everybody to know I bought one big one with my great-grandson. Yeah, and here's the tag right here. Folk Manus makes them. They carry them at Sea Life Park. They carry them at the Waikiki Aquarium. Also Barnes and Nobles. And I hopefully will have a aisle in-cap with the books at Walmart. And I am online with Walmart. But Amazon for the schools, post the books. Yeah, post the books. And the classrooms can get copies of the books and the puppets from donors choose. So that shock of the shark is very sharp with the sign language skills. I think you know how to do a shocker, right? All right. So Marcia, let's do it with me. And then we're going to put two of them together. That's what that sign language sign is. It's signed for play, okay? Wow. So we want to go out and play with the kind signing puppets. That's our tagline. That's what a song by Lucy. And we have that at the back of the book. So go out and play. Right? We want to go out and play in a clean, healthy environment. Plastic-free environment. So what is this puppet? Those are in the future books when you bring me in for Rabbit Acts of Kindness. Rabbit Acts of Kindness, no bully. This is Chelsea, the courageous sign language chicken for Harry the Hard of Hearing Rabbit. And this is also Bumble Bee Eve. Bumble Bee Eve believes in finger spelling. Finger spelling for the kind signing puppets. And again, as I highlight, we have a lot of military moms and dads coming back with a hearing loss. And they can't hear their children or their family members. And we don't know when this buzzing is going to come in and go. So they come in to sign for Harry the Hard of Hearing Rabbit here. Yes. And that's in the second book. So we are going into green screen animation with Hawaii Pacific University. Again, the sharks. The professors are bringing me in. Oh, these are little puppets. Yeah. So hopefully we're going to create these books into screenplays, into bringing the book into animation, especially for the Animal Planet TV show Tank Guys. Oh, good. Yeah. It's going to be an exciting year. And we're starting the book club. And the book club starts, for this first book, is on Winter Solstice, which is December 21st when the whales are coming down here. And I hope to do some sailing with the band members. And so people can follow us along from all over the world and see scenic Hawaii and actually see the whales tail. Will that be live? Are we streaming? I'm hoping we're working on it. I'm working on it. So remember I showed you the shark. Follow me. Can you follow me a second? OK. The two of them together are play. So now this is the whale. OK. This is the whales tail. So how we sign whale is this is the beach. OK. So the whales tail here, this is a sign for whale. Isn't that amazing? Just the shotgun to play, to whale. OK. Whales. And then the dolphins is the letter D. And that's where the finger spelling comes in. And we'll learn that. Now do you do this with the children in the classes? In the classroom? Yes. Yes. Yes. So all classroom teachers can get copies of my books from donors choose. We have a big educational sponsor letter. And it's real super easy. Miss Marilyn Rogers, a friend of mine up in Kamile that I've known for 10 years, requested the books. And she got funded in two weeks. Someone came in and funded it. So she started using the books. We have a testimonial and have a three page letter testimonial. One, how easy it is for the classroom to request the books. Or anybody who wants to sponsor it, go to the stoners choose. Secondly, we have a testimonial from Marilyn. And I had received a woman of the year award too for all this amazing work. So we have that to get to the educational teachers, Department of Education, aquariums, everywhere around the world. How easy it is. Last year, Marcia, good morning, America, I had a back to school campaign for donors choose and they raised millions of dollars. And I have been posting that on my access plan, this Facebook page. I don't know when the day that they started, but I have been posting that again, hosted again. But like 1200 people donated, 600 some schools were funded. So that is so easy. So everybody in the school gets a copy of the book and the classroom gets a set of puppets. And if they want more little mini ones they can request them too. Teachers go on Amazon, I need a thousand books for the school. I want these puppets, these puppets. They post it, there is a fee on it. And we have a sponsor letter to encourage other local businesses here that are fundraising for the schools as well. That is marvelous. Now, what is this little fellow here? This is King Octo. This is actually Wade King from the Animal Planet TV show Tanks. So he's King Octo. This is a letter K, so just like a king, a queen and princess. And of course we have the King Kamehameha schools here, right? Everybody gets a book of King Octo. So they actually come down and they're on the way to the Big Island to build a tank for the Seahorse Ranch which I got to visit. And so when we find out that Noah in the general of the new army is being recruited to tackle this garbage patch, they come in to build a wellness tank for the sick fish. And that's what it's called. It's called Peace, Love, Happiness and Things Tank. Just like a children's hospital. They want their families, their school of fish back in their school just like children's in a children's hospital want to be back in their school with their friends and family as well. So that's what it is. This is how we sign peace, love, happiness up from the heart. And thanks. Thank you. Mahalo. Yes. Very good. We need to take a break. Okay. We will be back in 60 seconds. How do you do 60? 60 seconds. 60 seconds. Aloha. My name is Wendy Lo and I want you to join me as we take our health back. On my show, all we do is talk about things in everyday life in Hawaii or abroad. I have guests on board that will just talk about different aspects of health in every way. Whether it's medical health, nutritional health, diabetic health, we'll talk about it. Even financial health. We'll even have some of the Miss Hawaii's on board and all the different topics that I feel will make your health and your lifestyle a lot better. So come join me. I welcome you to take your health back. Mahalo. Aloha. My name is Victoria and I'm a host at the Adventures in Small Business. This is a collaboration between US Small Business Administration Hawaii District Office and its partners where we showcase the stories of local entrepreneurs and small businesses. Talk about how to start a business. Talk about great tips for small business owners. Please join us every Thursday, 11 a.m. at Think Tech, Hawaii. See you soon. Mahalo. Aloha. I'm Marcia Joyner and we are on an incredible journey today. We are navigating to the bottom of the sea to meet creatures that we don't get to see and we're going to talk about the big, the great garbage patch which floats around in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That's right. So, and we have books that go with it. Underwater Acts of Kindness. First tell us about the puppet and the axe, the kind. The kind? The kind. Well, they're signing puppets. So we don't get confused. The kind. Okay. The kind here is a word that's used over here for this or that, you know, the kind. But that's the kind. K-I-N-D. This is K-I-N-D. Because we want acts of kindness and we have the Acts of Kindness series and it's for our hearing world to learn basic sign language skills for our deaf community. And also we're taking a global topic such as these garbage patches, plastics and anti-bullying messages. We're going to be writing one about climate change. So all these books are written into animation movies with, again, the soundtrack by Lucy Lynch and The Perfect Wave. And Nick's guitar sounds like whales and dolphins. So when you read these books, when we are starting a book club, starting winter solstice so everybody's got time to go online to Amazon, get the books, get the puppets, the classrooms, the teachers. Then you can follow along with the sailing. So we have plenty of time to do all that. And you can go to the beginning of the book and we highlight Lucy Lynch and The Perfect Wave. So you can sit there and listen to Lucy and her angelic sounds that just is so taking you, she has a song called Soul Ship. So you are sailing away and you are living that journey and everybody, it touches everybody's heart of all ages and that's where the book is also too. It's for all ages, all ages of life. Dr. Joyful Lay. I like that. Dr. Fingers. He's a finger spelling hammer and crab. He's not with us today because he's busy. Well, he's down finding students at, again, Hawaii Pacific University. We're looking for students to want to be part of the acts of kindness internship that can create application games. I have a series to go along with that to help create the sales around the world and animation. So Dr. Fingers, the finger spelling hammer and crab, he's out finding our students to do some animation work. Dr. Angela Joyful. I like that. Angela Joyful Lay. Yes, she's an angel fish interpreter, a sign language interpreter for Harry the Heart of Hearing Rabbit and the school of Gallaudet swirls around it and starts doing the alphabet. And again, Marcia, part of this is starting from babies to start learning sign language skills, such as, I'm thirsty, I'm hungry, I need to use the restroom, I need my diapers changed, mommy and daddy, and that way they develop them and once they start signing and start speaking, that actually enhances their vocabulary. They're able to express more of sentences to say, I want to wear that blue dress today because it's Ocean Cleanup Day, Marcia. It also develops skills. We're on the social-emotional learning curriculum, mindfulness program and it also is also educating so that students may one day want to become a sign language interpreter and we are in need of them. Again, I told you there's 320 million here at Heart of Hearing Deaf people now in the world. So we need sign language interpreters. That's interesting that I saw one class on the television and because there was one little girl that they put in with the regular class, her parents wanted her in with the regular students, the other kids learned the language in order to communicate with her. And it was absolutely marvelous and you would think, well I would hope that the DOE would see the necessity in having this for all children. Because you'd never know when you might need it. Exactly. That brings us into the second book of this Axokinus book series. It's called Rabbit Axokinus No Bullying for Anti-Bullying. This is our leading lady of the kind signing puppets. This is Chelsea, the courageous sign language chicken for Harry the Heart of Hearing Rabbit. You want to put them on there? And these two here and Bubble Bee Eve is a finger spelling team together at school and they sign for Harry the Heart of Hearing Rabbit and they have other classmates too. So that's what they do. So this is the leading lady, her name is Chelsea, the courageous sign language chicken for Harry the Heart of Hearing Rabbit and this is Bubble Bee Eve who believes in finger spelling. And that's the alphabet and we'll have finger spelling bees. So I vision with these books and again I'm finding the students at HPU to help develop this to help develop this whole entire project. That's wonderful. HPU and any other schools lower grades. Whoever wants to join in I meant the lower grades because all of the lower grades now are doing all kind of scientific work. You know I'm open to anybody that can and I did meet a young woman named Phoenix who is a homeschooled high school who has created animation and who does want to be a filmmaker. She introduced me to some other filmmaking professors at UH and I went over and I met with them about presenting to Goodpitch which is coming November 6th. So I hope to use her work. She has the projects and one is the general of the New Earth Army Marsha and we have this pledge in the book and I asked her if she could make a public service announcement. So I'm open to anybody who would like to do that. It's acts of kindness. It's just an internship. We also have a song contest here again to create these characters swimming in animation and that's the goals because we want to be able to pick up the puppets and play with them and have a public services announcement for that. In regards to plastic, ocean, no bullying, hearing loss, social emotional learning, curriculum mindfulness, creativity is open just like with folk puppets, imagination just doesn't stop. NOAA, flash, alpha and beta are a happy family of Hawaiian humpback whales. During their annual winter migration in the Pacific Ocean, they learn about an enormous pile of plastic trash swirling in the waters between Hawaii and California. Together with their marine dwelling friends they undertake a heroic effort to clean it up. To succeed, they must enroll the help of concerned citizens from around the world. That's great. Calling on all land dwellers. So everybody can participate. That's right. We have the book club, we have the acts of kindness facebook page and we have an acts of kindness facebook page book club. It's open to the world. So again, winter solstice is when we're going to really highlight it and we'll be sailing and whale watching so that people can see Sena Kauai around the world. And anybody who wants to send any information they can send us and let them know their experience with the garbage patch. It's an open forum and the schools as well. We want to get into the schools, get them the books so they start talking and when the classrooms do receive the books I am going to go out with these to kind signing puppets and we're going to interact and we're going to talk about who they are. Learn the basic sign language skills. I teach ten of them and I ask also to the world, especially when we have guests here visiting our beautiful island of Hawaii. And we ask them to look around on the ground and find ten pieces of plastic. If everybody did it and put it in the trash can if we look around at the bus stops the hotels, the beaches if everybody does it what a beautiful world it is. What is the plastic? It's unbelievable and now and I don't know how you can address this but I just heard that you should not use sea salt anymore because of the plastic the miniscule pieces of plastic in the sand or the salt rather the sea salt. And when you can't and people have been using sea salt for thousands of years you can't I have a friend who is a big fisherman on the other side of the island and he informed me that eight out of ten fish that they catch are full of plastic. Eight out of ten. That's so scary and now I've gotten to the place at home everything we pick up is this plastic everything that you buy is this plastic things that you don't think of is plastic Yes, it's unbelievable unbelievable how we've come to this make believe world this plastic world Right. I am just thrilled to death about this opportunity and the idea that you should have little children not just the big girls, the big children but little ones because now they're studying from the very earliest age and they love games they can create with these puppets I am open to it as an axe of kindness if they want to create it and make it and share it with the world and make an after school program with it too and finger spelling sign language I have two hundred puppets Marcia I need all the help in the world so we can go on and on and on and this is the catalog and this is actually Huula who we do Hula with so I see I love that yeah she's in the second book so we have a song contest with Noah and I see the schools actually interacting with these puppets and signing and dancing and singing this song here for Noah the whale and we don't have any lyrics I mean we have the lyrics we don't have any melody or music so the schools can sign up and do that as well and post it and we will pick somebody a solo a classroom, a band I'm not sure but we will listen to it and decide on how we will put this in in this animation movie this is great it's absolutely great I'm going to take a second just one second to ask the control room to be sure that you get to meet Hailey she does great work awesome yes because she does animation and all kinds of wonderful things and she's in school now awesome but you will really like her like I said she's young and she's got all that imagination right they need to start swimming and moving yes remember how I did the shaka the two of them together and then that's the whale's tail yep and this is a sign for dive so Lucy has a song when I dive into the ocean the deep blue sea love comes over me that's kind of signing like hula right but it's sign language skills so it's just amazing culture to get this all going and have a lot of fun and we have several different songs in there one is called reunion and that's reunion when Noah gets reunited with his wife and we're going to have what a baby whale on the big island which bring us into the first birthday luau so I'm not going to tell you the whole entire story but we do have birthday party supplies everything to go along with that and we hope to get into local stores as well in the end there is never an ending there is only the moment here and now we heard all about it and we all doubted think about the future think about the past in the end we are all not so different we can make a difference we can make a difference and see through new eyes we can change that's right thank you so much this has been such a pleasure having you we will keep us informed and update as we move along right and speaking of that song in the end we have Lucy in the perfect way playing tomorrow at Kahala mall so we have the dates everybody can come down it's open to the public outside in the courtyard what time? 6.30 thank you so much thank you and we'll see you next time yes thank you