 Everybody, aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I'm the host of Law Across the Sea. And today I'm changing the title again as I do when I have my friend Matt Love on. We're calling our program Love Across the Sea. Matt and I are friends since we met at Namea, Hawaii where Matt performs regularly. I have asked him to come in today and share some royal Hawaiian music. A few songs written by royalty. And today we're going to focus on Queen Lilio Kalani. But let me tell you a little bit about connections between the law, music, love and royalty. First, King Kalakawa. We'll just talk a little bit about King Kalakawa. King Kalakawa, many people might not realize, was a lawyer. In a newspaper clipping dated February 5, 1870, the following was written. By the following list of attorneys licensed to practice in the courts, published by the clerk of the court, it would appear that the people of this kingdom are not likely to suffer for want of legal advice. And if you count down on the right hand side, about ten names, the tenth one is Kalakawa David. That's before King Kalakawa became the king, of course. And he practiced law. He had a few cases in Hawaii. Most people don't know about that. And King Kalakawa also wrote music. He wrote Hawaii Ponoi, Hawaii's national anthem. And he was very instrumental in bringing back hula and Hawaiian music to the kingdom. I've asked Matt to share a few of his songs. Welcome, Matt. It's good to see you. Good to see you. Please, what's your first song going to be today? This is by Queen Lilio Kalani. Well, yeah, this song here by Queen Lilio Kalani, you get to do it at Queen's Jubilee. It's always like a get together and be a joyful evening for everybody that attended this Jubilee. Composed over 165 songs in chance. She was very prolific. Many of her songs are played today, still today. Matt, what are your thoughts about the Queen? It makes me think that I'm glad to be what I am. To think that we had such a Queen like that. Trying to make the best for us, our white people. Of course, I guess you know, men against the women's things don't go too evenly. We had a Queen like that with such a beautiful heart for the people. She wanted to take care of the people. Lawyers need a lot of love too. The Queen actually had some lawyers as friends. One of her friends was the first president of the Hawaii Bar Association. She had many friends, lawyers, law makers. It was beautiful. I remember that we had made a movie. I was part of that movie with all the well-known celebrities. I talked about her life when she was a Queen. I really enjoyed that. It was a heart-touching moment every time we go on the set. Just to be involved in it was something. In 1883, a lawyer from the mainland came to Hawaii. His name was Paul Newman. It's not the movie star, but Paul Newman. He became a citizen of Hawaii. Later, as I was mentioning, he became the president of the Hawaii Bar Association. He got into government. Eventually, he began to represent the Queen, Lilio Kalani. He went to Washington, D.C. as her representative to oppose the first attempt at the next Asian of Hawaii by the United States. Two years later, he was her attorney, defending her when she was put on trial. He continued until his death to be her lawyer. It makes you proud of something to be proud of as a lawyer. Oh, yes. We got King Kalakau as a lawyer in Hawaii. We got lawyers from the Bar Association, the first president. Defending the Queen. We're standing up. There is that connection. What's our next song by the Queen? The Queen's Prayer. This goes to the time when she was in prison. She was in prison. She wrote that because she felt so downhearted about other people. Being meditating and praying was the only thing left. In fact, the Hawaii people had to do, and I can do, to fight against things like these which are. You can't see what is happening. Prayer was a very strong thing that kept the Hawaii people going. Every time I hear this song and I read about it, I say, wow. It makes me think about me. What I'm going through. And what she went through, you can kind of relate. Because at that point, she was trying to say what was on her mind, in her heart. She got to the point where words cannot fight anymore. Prayer is the next thing that falls into place. She ended up writing the song, the Queen's Prayer. Please come back and finish. Thank you. This is Steven Phillip Katz. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. And I'm the host of Shrink Rap Hawaii, where I talk to other shrinks. Did you ever want to get your head shrunk? Well, this is the best place to come to pick one. I've been doing this. We must have 60 shows with a whole bunch of shrinks that you can look at. I'm here on Tuesdays at 3 o'clock every other Tuesday. I hope you are too. Aloha. Welcome back, everybody. We're back here with Matt Love. I'm Mark Shklav, host of Law Across the Sea. And we are Love Across the Sea today. And we're talking Love Across the Sea. And Matt, I got a picture of you from a long time ago. Let's put that up and see. Hey, wow, who is that guy? I think it's Kalakal. So what is the story behind this picture, Matt? Well, I get to do it a lot with my wife. She just decided that I should show people what I really am. She said, I'm just on how I'm walking around on the beach. She made me go and do this picture. I went ahead. When it comes to over, you don't argue. Yes, dear. I hear you. Well, that's the same in all cultures, I think. You just do what you're told. Yes, but I really love the culture, the how I culture. I love it very much. She was one of the most beautiful dancers. Once in a while, I do. I look at her lowly and down and I miss her. Maybe any way she goes, she's better off in there than she was. She was okay. Okay, so we talked a little bit about Paul Newman. We talked a little bit about King Kalakala, lawyers in Hawaii, many years ago, and the queen and her imprisonment and defense she had by lawyers. She continued to write songs, continued to have hope, I think. She was a very great composer, as far as I'm concerned, reading some of her songs. I think she also had some hope in the princess, Kailani, that she would eventually... Yes, she was a great writer. Just being daddy's, greated off and off. Now, one of the queen's best-known songs we're going to talk a little bit about, Aloha Oi. Aloha Oi, I'll tell you just what I know, okay, what I've learned about it, but then I want you to tell me what you know about Aloha Oi. Aloha Oi, as I understand, the queen went over to her home in Manawili. In Manawili, that's where I live. And so, apparently, the queen had a home over there, a cottage or mansion or something, because I went and looked back and we found the road and we found the trees and it looked like at that time, in those days must have been quite nice. So, as I understand it, the queen was in Manawili and she was about to return over the poly to Honolulu and she saw maybe an officer and a young lady looking at each other in love. And they were about to part. And that must have struck the queen because then she wrote this beautiful song. There was a whole point that thought she had in her heart is love and it teaches us, or as Hawaii people, please try. Try your utmost best to love one another, regardless what you had, what kind of discussion you had before. Put it all aside and just put the word love in front of it. And that's what actually, that's what she's trying to tell us. But there's still a few there that don't really look at it that way. Well, you know, as a lawyer, I'm always dealing with people. And not always on the best terms and not always people that have love in their hearts. But as a lawyer, sometimes we got to remember that it still exists. And maybe it's something that we should be reminded of. That's why I like to do this show with you every so often to give us a little bit of insight and a little bit of love for lawyers here and a little bit of knowledge about that there's more than just fighting that we can perhaps look for some good things. I would look at the lawyers, they're just doing the job like anybody else, you know? You come out of the window, whatever, it's still a job. And that's what it's all about. Understand that what you went through. Once you understand what you went through, then you can find out what it's all about. Okay, so you've been over to Manawili, right? Oh, yes, I've been there. I've seen that place. I can picture as a place how beautiful it was. But by the time I got there, I didn't look at the place or just about going down little by little. I never thought it had such a place like that existed. It's such a big driveway coming up on a white, pure white car. And Aloha Oi is kind of a good song for all occasions in a way. It's good for many different things. So give us the song. Okay, I just love that. It's beautiful. That song is really beautiful. It means a lot, but Aloha Oi's got to learn how to take it in and use it and work on it. Always remember the song because that song really takes you where you ought to go. It takes you where you want to go. Thank you so much for today. What I take from this, too, is that the queen was looking for things to love. She was looking for things, and she found it, which maybe we should all do a little more of. Maybe we should, yeah. Alright, Matt, Aloha. To me again. Thank you.