 ThinkTek Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Hi. Welcome to Seymour's World on ThinkTek Hawaii. We had such a great show last week with Randy Morris. Everybody said it was one of their most favorite shows of the year so far. And I liked it because I felt like I was six foot eight as I stood up on the chair to be equal to Randy. I have found that he is now busier than ever and we are planning our basketball camp for 300 kids for the month of August and we'll be announcing which of the NBA players are going to come to join us. It's just wonderful to be able to give. And that I wanted to continue in that vein because it's something that is so close to my heart as most of you know. So I want to introduce my guest, Dana Lan. Dana, welcome to Seymour's World. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you. And you have been here before as my guest, but you looked a little different the last time you were here. Oh, did I? You were who, the Rosie? Was that it? Was that it? Maybe. Maybe she took my place that morning. Oh my God. You had this characterization and you were speaking in a different language or tongue. Mind you, you were just as sexy then as you are now. I'll let her know. She's in my closet right now. So I'll make sure I pass that along. She'll be very happy to hear that. Are there other people in your closet as well? Yes, there's Sylvia Agnes Griebel. She's hanging out there with Hula Rosie right now. They're having martinis for breakfast. Aha. Yes. And Lola Zirashin undercover operative. She's in there too. She probably tied them up because she's tired of them. Well, Dana, I'm looking forward to the show because I'm cracking up as we speak. Now, you have been with the Make Him Smile program, my foundation for the last two or three years now. Yes. And you are one of the best performers that we have because you put your heart into it. Tell us about it. Tell us what makes you play. Well, thank you for that, but I think all the musicians really put their heart in it. I mean, that's why we do this, right? Well, I love working with all ages, but my very favorite demographics are really seniors and children. So I love doing Shriners, Children's Hospital. Tell us about that a little bit. My favorite. Well, I realized back when I was doing jazz presentations in the schools in Northern California and then here on the Windward side when I returned back to the island about five years ago that the idea is to get the kids engaged in the music. So we do that by giving them all a shaker or a little drum or something that they can keep tempo with and create some sound. So with Shriners, it's no different. You know, even though the kids may have some physical limitations with their hands or their arms, they can always figure out a way to make some noise and participate in the music. And you have the caregivers participate and the parents participate. Absolutely. No, everybody has to participate. There's 20 or 30 people that are banging around. Yeah. I just, I love that. It's joyous. And it makes the kids forget about all the reasons there are Shriners for. You got it. You got it. That's what music does, you know. And so we'll make sure that we have them sing along, too. So we'll do some day-o. Misade, misade, misade, misade, misade. And I get the kids singing right along with me, you know, Come Mr. Taliman, talimi banan. Daylight, come and me want to go home. So it's just fun. I have a whole chorus, actually, and I always kid with them, Okay, I'm taking you guys on the road with me. Oh, that is so cool. Well, you know. Thank you for having me as part of the wonderful Make Him Smile organization. It's a really gift for us, you know. Thank you very much. It's something I do from my heart, and I know it's in your heart, too. And we never stop. You know, we keep going. Just before we came on air, we talked about expanding it to senior citizen centers because it's such a natural thing for them. And we'd love to do it, but we're already in eight hospitals, and we have calls for many more hospitals, not just here, but on the mainland that want the Make Him Smile program. So for us, it's a gift that we can share. And thanks to people like you, Dana, we're able to continue growing. And right now, we're at 48 musicians. Wow. Eight hospitals, over 4,000 kids a year that we play for. So it's wonderful. You're doing a brilliant job. That is just... It's not me. It's really not me. It's you. Well, I know, but you are spearheading this, and that's what it takes, is somebody just decide to do it and to do it and continue doing it. Thank you. I really feel I play a very minor part in this whole thing. But let's go on to what you came for. I was so intrigued when you said to me, about a month ago, I think, or even six weeks ago, you said, Seymour, I'm embarking on something else to give back. And of course, my ears perked up because you know that's part of my foundation. That's what I wanted to do. And the audience can see if we can get a close-up of the book that you are coming out with a book called How to Make Good Choices. Now, this is for the Hawaii Marketplace. Tell us about the book, how it all started, and where it's going. Be happy to tell you about it. Well, it's a small yet very mighty book, and it's being used all over the world to affect positive change, not only for children, but also for adults, to give them a roadmap, if you will, a guide to how and why it's important to make good choices in life. So, we've got 21 common-sense values in this book, each with a little bit of a description as to... Could you give us a couple of examples in case... Sure, absolutely. Be faithful. Help children. Set a good example. Be truthful. Don't do anything against the law. Support the religious beliefs of others. Do not steal. Be worthy of trust. Help those who help you. Keep yourself busy and get things done, which is along the same lines as being competent. Let's see, try not to do things to others that you would not like them to do onto you, the golden rule, right? There's two parts of that. Do well and succeed. I mean, how many times do we get to tell children, you know, honey, if you do well, this is going to increase your ability to be happy. So, how are you distributing this book? Well, I am now... It's a volunteer project of mine and... Another volunteer project of yours? Antula Rosie's. And what I do is I take presentations into youth organizations, schools, YMCA's, Boys and Girls Club. And I first go in and we all dance to a little Bruno Mars music, because that gets everybody happy and moving. And then we all settle down. Everybody gets their own book and they put their name in the book. And then Hula Rosie just reads through the entire book with the children. Now, it may mean going back two or three times because it's kind of a long book, you know, and we don't want to... What age group are you? This particular book is for six through 14. Although I did give it a copy to my girlfriend who's in her sixties and she said, you know, Dana, I think I could learn a little something from this book. But there is a more advanced book called The Way to Happiness. And this is a direct translation from that book. And the book was from Robert Browning? The book, The Way to Happiness, was actually written as a separate work by Elron Hubbard, who I'm sure a lot of people have heard of. He founded Scientology. Of course, yeah. But when he traveled around the world, he realized people needed a guide to help direct them to a place where they would feel like they were doing better and could actually achieve some level of happiness. I mean, because don't we all want to be happy? Of course. Basically? Of course. I mean, we're not always happy, you know, of course. Except for you. No, even me, I'm not always happy. No. I've never seen you without a smile on your face. Well, you know... You hide it well. You know, I don't hide it, but, you know, when you're on the road to enjoying what you're doing... Yeah. ...and you love people, you genuinely love people and want to help to whatever degree that is, it helps. The happiness quotient. You're right. You know, it really does. Yeah, we share that feeling. Both of us share the feeling of helping others being happy. Make them smile. Make them smile. We both have that. I know. And I love to say aloha begets aloha. Right. Because, you know, when you're willing to put good energies out there to help others, then, you know, it makes them feel better and life is just happier that way. So, maybe we can put up on the screen how people can get this book or make donations to... Because you're distributing these books, aren't you? Yeah, yeah. So, there's the sign. It's howtomakegoodchoices.org. Yes. And you'll have a place for them to donate money or a place where they can order the books. Yes, I'm working on all of that now. So, if somebody is interested in doing something today, call me. My phone number's on the back there. That's how passionate I am about it. Crazy me. What am I thinking? I put my phone number there. So, anybody who wants a free presentation for any group of kids or even adults, I mean, I plan on taking this into drug rehabs and prisons with the way to happiness. I think it's a very good idea. And guess what, Seymour? There are free curriculums for any educator, business person or a correction facility. And, you know, maybe I'll even go sit down with Susan Ballard and see if maybe the Honolulu Police Department might be interested in doing this curriculum. I think the idea... What do you think? I love it. The idea, when you first presented it to me, I said, this is fantastic, because if there's anything we need to teach our kids, and, you know, I teach that when I do my Holocaust speeches, I teach about the choice that they have of doing something good or watching somebody doing something bad. So, we're talking about bullying. We're talking about harassment. These are all choices that you have. Sit by and let it happen, or are you going to make the choice of getting involved and doing something about it? Exactly. And, of course, making the right choice is really critical to whether you're going to be a good person. Absolutely. It starts with that first pebble that goes into the water. If you make the right choice at the beginning of your life and you decide you're going to do the right thing to help others, that first choice is going to lead you to a much better life. You got that right. And, I just want to say young children instinctively know right from wrong most young children, you know, five, six, seven-year-olds. What happens is that as they get older they start getting influenced by older siblings or cousins or peers, and that's when they can go off the rails and start making some bad choices that can just lead them down the wrong path. But your book is going to lead them into understanding the difference between a good choice and a bad choice. Exactly. I love that when I read that book. Exactly. It explains, it doesn't just say this is a good choice, it gives you what happens if you take a bad road, if you go down the wrong road. I love the book. Exactly. It can mess you up for life. I know. Now, we have some photos. Can we show a few of the photos? Absolutely. Let's see the first one and maybe we can, ah, tell us about that to you. Oh, well, this is at our beloved Shriners Children's Hospital. Yes, and Patrick. With my dear friends, Patrick Von Wiegen and Mark Hazard. And you can see in your hand, you're getting ready to give out a whole bunch of toys to the kids. Yeah, we've got some go-clubs. Yes, yeah. I see. They're actually pods. And it's just, it's such a fantastic thing you do. It is so wonderful. Let's see the next one. Ah! Oh, look at that. There's Hula Rosie. Yeah. And this is actually in Aruba. She had a gig there for a private client. And I went there to entertain. And they actually had the way to happiness in Papamento, which is the language of Aruba, which incorporates four different languages. Aruba, by the way, is next to Curacao. Yes, it is. Which is in the Caribbean. In the ABC Islands. Yes. Oh, cool. So it was translated into how many languages so far? About 115 languages. Oh, my gosh. The way to happiness, which is the more advanced copy of this, which is for older teens and adults. And there is a teacher I met in Waikiki. Now, that's not Hula Rosie, is it? That's Hula Rosie. Again, Hula Rosie has different outfits. Well, she does. Of course. She has to have. Now, can I call you sexy there? What's covering the left and the right? Never mind. Go ahead. It's her name tag. Oh, it's her name tag. It just indicates anybody forgets. Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. So this is a teacher who teaches in California. And I had a lovely conversation with her. And she wanted to know about the book. And she said, that's it. I'm taking it back to my class. Wow. I want to teach the kids some common sense values. This could be part of a curriculum. It really could be. Oh, absolutely. Well, it has its own curriculum. I know that. But it should be in the school system. That's my feeling. And I'm going to help you with that, because I know some people in that area. So I think it's a wonderful thing to do. Can I let you in on a little secret? I won't tell names, but I was talking to the president of a very fine K-12 school here in Malahulu. And I asked him, do you guys have any sort of ethics or morals classes throughout the 12 grades? And he wasn't quite sure. And he said, well, maybe we have some ethics class in the grade. He wasn't sure. So I'm going to be calling him up. Excellent idea. Yes, Mr. I'm going to offer this to you. I happen to know a lot of them, because I lectured a lot of these schools. It'll be a wonderful way for me to give you back some of what you do for me. So we'll have a quick break. Well, we'll be giving back together, right? Together. It's such a beautiful thing. Now, I hear some members of our audience are asking us to sing, but we're going to hold off on that, because I want that to be the beginning of the second half of the show. All right. I think I have to get my voice ready to accompany you. Would you like me to accompany you? Of course. Do you want everybody to turn off their televisions and their computers? Because when they hear my voice, they will not want to do it. Oh, no, no. It's all about the spirit of play. Okay, we're going to do it for you. Okay. All right. I'm Seymour Kazimurski with Dana Land on Seymour's World of Think Tech, Hawaii. We're going to be back in a minute, and you will hear me sing for the first time with Dana Land. Aloha. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I'm the host of Think Tech, Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea comes on every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join us. I like to bring in guests that talk about all types of things that come across the sea to Hawaii, not just law, love, people, ideas, history. Please join us for Law Across the Sea. Aloha. Good afternoon. My name is Howard Wigg. I am the proud host of Code Green, a program on Think Tech, Hawaii. We show at 3 o'clock in the afternoon every other Monday. My guests are specialists both from here and the mainland on energy efficiency, which means you do more for less electricity and you're generally safer and more comfortable while you're keeping dollars in your pocket. Hi. Welcome back to Seymour's World on Seymour... I'm Seymour Kazimurski. It is Seymour's World and it's on Think Tech, Hawaii. So we have Dana Land with us today who has been my guest before as this famous character named Hula Rosie. She also has some other characters in the closet, and I mean in the closet. So we have to be very careful. I'm trying to be, you know, calm around Dana. It's not easy. Dana, welcome back to this show. Do I have that effect on you? Yes, you do. Yes, yes. You absolutely have that effect. All in fun. I promise the audience we're going to start off with a song. Okay. All right. Now I know you don't have an accompanist here. No. But you have me. I do. And is that good or bad? Oh, that's excellent. That might ruin your reputation. No, no, no. You might have a lot of canceled gigs after we do this together. I am going to help you with the chorus. Great. I love it. So introduce the song and what we're doing. Okay. Well, I have a show called Dana Does Frank, Tony, Dean, Mel and Bobby. Okay. And of course these are all the old crooners from yesterday year. We love them. Of course Tony Bennett is still alive and well and singing beautifully. At 90? At the, I think, yeah, at least 90. Yeah. I think he had his big 90 birthday. What's that? Lady Gaga? Lady Gaga. What a pair. Awesome pair. Anyway, so I have a show that I do. I do have a show coming up at Jazz Mines on the 21st of this month. And so this is a Dean Martin tune that I will be reviewing in the show, which is a fun, fun song that I love. Okay. And I'm going to help you with it. And it goes like this. Go. And I go into my Isabella Anne-Marie and Sophia Albert Gatti Laurent Schwartz character. She's from Sicily, of course. Oh, Sicily, Italiano. Oh. You know her. Very much. You have a foundation shop in Sicily. Oh, yes. Yeah. A foundation shop for real foundations. Yes, exactly. She fits all the women of Sicily with the nice Lacey Holmes. Oh. You might know about her. Oh. And then she give mumbo lessons right next door. At the same time. Yeah. And all the young boys, they file up after school. And then all of my women friends, they come to help teach the young men how to dance. I remember I was in Sicily a long time ago. And when I went to Sicily, I remember looking in a window and I see this woman with the foundation. Oh, never mind. Never mind. Go ahead. Sing a song. Sing a song. Okay. I sing in this song. Okay. A girl went back to Sicily because she missed the scenery. The native dances and the charming songs. But wait a minute, something's wrong. Two, three, four. Hey, mumbo. Mumbo, Italiano. Hey, mumbo. Mumbo, Italiano. Go, go, go. Joy you mixed up. Siciliano. All your calibres they do to mumbo like a crazy. Hey, mumbo. Mumbo, Italiano. Hey, mumbo. No more a mozzarella. Hey, mumbo. Hey, mumbo. Italiano. Check it in chalata with the fish. Bacalata. I love how you dance. Roomba. But take some advice pison or learn how to mumbo. If you're gonna be a square, you ain't gonna go nowhere. Hey, mumbo. Mumbo. Mumbo. Italiano. Hey, mumbo. Mumbo. Italiano. Go, go, go. Joy you crazy Siciliano. All your calibres they do to mumbo like a crazy. Hey! You were singing very good. Very, very good. Thank you. Absolutely. You have an accent. You come straight from Sicily. Oh. I can tell you come straight from Sicily. I like that. Thank you. Perfecto. Perfecto. I should mumbo. Perfecto. Ah. Grazie. Merci beaucoup. No, no, no. Grazie. Merci beaucoup is the wrong language. Grazie, grazie. Just changing it up a little bit. Just beautiful. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for joining me. Me? I just ruined your whole song. No, you did not. No, it was great. Added the icing up. Well, let's go back to what we're here for and we'll be making you guys laugh too because if you don't laugh, you're not having a good time in life and that's what our make and smile is all about. That's what our whole, that's what I think when you get later on in life a little bit, you get a little older and you start realizing that all this stuff we're seeing this negativity in this world, everything that we're seeing in the newspaper and television, everybody's trying to sensationalize everything towards the negative. I just noticed on the news the other day that they were talking about the weather and they could only point to all the bad weather. They didn't say that 80% of the country is in beautiful spring and the cherry blossoms are out. No, they said there's a storm here that's going to affect 3 million people. Another storm there that's going to affect 8 million people. Isn't that crazy? Oh, it's all negative. So we have to turn around. And even with social media there's a lot of emphasis on the negativity and what I try to do when I'm posting things, Instagram is all about Hula Rose and friends and also Facebook is, you know what, let's highlight there's so much beauty in the world and there's so many people doing great things to help others and there is so much beauty. If you allow yourself to be sucked into the news you'll think that we're going to hell in a handbasket. You are correct. And it drives us down and it's very unfortunate. I say turn off all that stuff, go out, take a walk, help somebody who's less fortunate, go out and clean a closet. You know, smile as you pass people. I mean there's so many simple things that all of us can do to not only positively affect others but also positively affect ourselves. You know we talked about it before the show when I told you that everybody smiles at me and I said, oh, maybe I'm a handsome guy or something. Maybe I'm looking good or maybe they like bald men. I have no idea. But the real reason is because I'm smiling and when I smile and somebody sees you smile they smile right back at you. It's such a common factor that I see now that if you are scowling or you're looking at your telephone and anything like that you're not going to get a reaction from people but if you're looking at somebody and you smile at them you're going to get a smile back. Absolutely. In most cases. In most cases. What's better than that? And that's why Hula Rosie was born. I know. She's a little crazy, right? Well, you know what? She just loves people. I mean really, I mean it's like me but on a whole higher level because people would really think I would be nice if I went out and did the things that Hula Rosie does but because she's dressed up crazily people can say, okay, well she's a little bit of a character so we'll allow her to be crazy. Where can people see Hula Rosie? Oh my gosh. Where's your next event? You'll find me on the streets of Waikiki and I do some corporate work and private work with a show that I have called Hula Rosie. So people can meet you though at your org, right? How to make good choices.org and then they can ask you about the Hula Rosie. Oh through social media. You'll have a lot of people calling you and asking you especially since I told them that you're crazy. I meant that Hula Rosie is a little girl. Crazy fun. Let's look at some of the photographs again. Who's that? Okay, so that's a dear friend, Tim Melchior. This was taken out in front of the Elks Club when he was here visiting from Glendale where he lives and he was the person who translated the way to happiness into how to make good choices because he wanted to be able to teach his daughter, his eight-year-old daughter, common sense values but the way to happiness is for more advanced readers and so he took the time to actually translate it. That's not cool. He's all about getting this out into the world. Terrific. Let's see the next one. Okay. There's the book. So explain the cover. You redid the cover for Hawaii. Yeah, just some simple changes. I added the subtitle, Bringing the Aloha Spirit to Life because that is what this is all about. People will say, what is Aloha Spirit? Well, it's a lot of things, all good of course but how do we teach that to our Keiki? Keiki is our children. Our Keiki is children. Yeah, children in Hawaiian and so by having a guide that gives children some ethics and morals, a foundation of ethics and morals, they will go off to do well and something very exciting that I am doing is I'm aligning a junior ambassador of Aloha certification program with this book. It will be a check sheet and if every student can demonstrate that they understand all 21 chapters then we'll have a special celebration. Excellent idea. And I have some very exciting ideas at my sleeve for these kids. You're going to have to come back. Yeah, I will. Absolutely. I'd love to. Thank you. Because I love this kind of stuff. Let's see the next one. We only have a couple more minutes. Alrighty. There's some of my favorite neighborhood kids. Who have read the book with Hula Rosie and they love it and it's just kind of a perfect example of a really cute group of our Keiki. Wow. And the next one. I love them. I think we only have a couple more. Okay, so this was a Honolulu police department outreach program called Coffee with a Cop. It was at the Starbucks in Kahala Mall and I went and had numerous conversations with them about six or seven different police officers. I gave them copies of the book and I asked them what they thought about it and they said, hurry up and get this out into the community. Right. It's sorely needed. I mean, there's increase in teen depression. You know, there's teen suicide. There's a lot of problems. Drug addiction going on here in Hawaii. I think as we wrap up, Dana, I'm sorry the show is over. It's okay. As we wrap up, I have to tell you how impressed I am that you've taken this on amongst all of the other things that you're doing because making good choices is something that we learn from where we're very young and too many of us, of course, make bad choices and don't realize the consequences of those bad choices. Right. So the important work that you are doing is absolutely necessary and I'm behind you 110%. Thank you so much. So I'd like to offer you my assistance in any way that I can. Thank you. And I want to give back to you the way you've been giving back to make him smile. Oh, you are doing so much already, Seymour, but thank you so much for your generosity. My absolute pleasure. You are the most generous person. Thank you. Thank you very, very much. And I thank you. I love you too. And I thank you for coming on the show today and spreading this message of making good choices is the right thing to start your life. Yeah. Absolutely terrific. Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure. And thank you all for watching Seymour's World of Hawaii. Great show with Daniel. I love having her come here. I can speak Italian, no? Or French or whatever seems to come to us at the time when we're talking. And it's something we all need to realize that making good choices from the beginning we start the beginning of our day until the end of the day is really critical in living a better life. Aloha from Seymour's World. We'll see you next week.