Will Cain Country - Stories of Inspiration From West Maui

Episode Date: August 16, 2023

Will travels to West Maui to speak with people on the ground directly affected by the devastating wildfires as well as the inspiring stories of what people on the island are doing to help.   Will reveals how the island has become a media-free zone and the troubles he encountered attempting to cover the story with local officials.  Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stories on the ground, stories of inspiration from West Maui. Hey, what's up and welcome to Wednesday? Welcome to the Will Kane podcast. I hope you will download Ray and review this podcast wherever you get your audio entertainment at Apple, Spotify, or at Fox News podcast. You can watch the Wilcane podcast on Rumble or on YouTube. Welcome to West Maui. This episode of the podcast is coming to you from a quote, media-free zone. What I mean by that is I believe we here together at Fox News and on the Will Cain podcast

are the only national media in West Maui. This place is on information lockdown from Wa'ihe to Ma'alea Harbor. Miles and miles and miles, the entirety of West Maui, cut off from the world. Of course, the wildfire and the response to that has physically cut off West Maui from the world. But local politicians have turned this into an information-free zone. Yesterday, I was reporting from the Pili Plaza. This is a place where not government, community-based relief efforts taking place. And a stooge from the Maui mayor's office said, you have to go.

West Maui is media free. I said, no, it's not. This is the United States of America. There is the Constitution. He said, this is a media-free zone. I said, I'm sorry. You're not going to accomplish that. You may have to arrest.

But this is still the United States of America. And why would they do that? Why would they suppress information? It's led to absolutely insane conspiracy theories about what's happened in West Maui. And on the ground here, Where people don't get internet or information, it's led to chaos and confusion. Is the water good? Is the water bad? How do you get in? How do you get out? This is what happens when you suppress free speech.

You're filled with bullshit speech. Today here on the Will Cayman podcast, I want to bring you real stories from West Maui. Stick around for the end because you're going to hear one of the most amazing and inspirational stories I have ever seen. two 29-year-old young women when they saw no action from government put together the biggest civilian airlift imaginable

dozens of planes every day logistically they're guiding in from the other side of the island to bring supplies to the people five kids between them one of them has a seven-month-old and now they are the nerve center

of relief in West Maui but first I caught up with Pastor Kawi. I told you Pastor Kawi from King's Chapel in Lahaina, baptized my sons on the shores in the Pacific Ocean off of Canoe Beach. His church, his home burned down. He and his family barely survived. The difference between a left turn and a right turn. But I caught up with him and his family at a church in Kahului.

Here's Pastor Kauai. Last time I saw you, you had my sons in the ocean. Yeah, yeah. Call we baptized my sons, what? Three weeks ago? Three weeks ago. Right there in the Pacific. Canoe Beach, yeah.

You ever think maybe that might have been fate, right? Yeah. You baptized my sons that day. Now we're here together again to talk about how we can return as a community, as a country, back to you and your church. Right. Yeah, I never figured out. To me, like I just say, it's all God, you know.

You never know, but when it unfolds, you kind of see, like, wow, man, Like this was already predestined, I'd say, that we would have meat like this, you know, from what was a simple baptism turned into like a relationship slash, you know, you helping us get the word out and, you know, just rebuild Lahaina. Let's talk about what happened that day in Lahaina, Kaui. I know you lost not only your church, but you lost your home as well. Where were you that day the fire broke out? When the fire broke out, actually there was an earlier fire, and they put it out,

and then it flared up again. At that time, when the thing cleared up again, me and my family were at home. And it was windy, so we were just staying out of the wind. Things flew. Our trampoline, a big trampoline, flew right up into the power lines. So we had the electric company dumping that. But then, yeah, we were in the house, staying out of the wind. And then all of a sudden, my neighbor comes knocking my door.

And his name is JJ, JJ. But, yeah, he came knocking my door. He said, hey, man, we got to get out of here. The fire is coming. So I stepped out my front door. and I looked to my right. The fire was like heading down towards my house and then people were already coming through

trying to get out. I think homes are already on fire. So we just grabbed the kids, grab our dog, grab whatever we could and jumped in the car and started heading to town. So we went down to Front Street because that was the most accessible area at that time. So we made it to Front Street

and I was going to turn right to head deeper into Lahaina. But my wife said, no, turn left we have to get out of here we have to go to wailuku i think no we gotta turn right because people are going there no look at the smoke so i ended up turning left and when i turned left the car that was behind me turned right and at that moment got swallowed up in black smoke so that's how fast that fire move and the next thing when i looked up there was like the building the tops of the buildings were on fire already and and i think they got encompassed by the smoke and i think that's where you know the trapping happened and i mean it's it's sad i mean you know you know you

You can look at so many specifics. There was, like, you know, law enforcement directing traffic. So it was pretty chaotic. Every man for himself kind of mentality. There was, like, no courtesy. Everybody was just trying to get away. But I know that the law enforcement first responders, they were pretty stretched in because of the major fires happening.

Do you think it came down to going left or right for you? Had you gone right, be a different story? You know, when I woke up that morning, I was, you know, I looked to my wife and I started weeping and I said, you know what? I almost took the wrong turn, and it would have cost me my family, you know. And sometimes as a husband, you know, I don't know about you, but I can be stubborn. Well, like, you know, sometimes you think you know what is best, but I thank God that, you know, I listen to my wife. You know, it's like the Holy Spirit of just speaking to my wife, and I took the left.

And, you know, because I did that, we're here today. It's men all of America thinking, now I've got to listen to my wife when it comes to directions. Please do, please do. I mean, God created them as our help of, right? Tell me, Kawee, what's left of the house of your home? Well, our home burnt the ash. We have nothing left. You know, the church as well.

The church got burned up. But, you know, we can always replace those things. But, you know, I thank God that I got away with the most valuable thing. And that was my family. And, you know, sometimes, you know, it feels kind of guilty saying that because there was a lot of families that didn't make it out. You know, a lot of families died. And, you know, but it was just so fast. But as I said, you know what?

We're going to rebuild. We're going to build back a better, strong alahaina. And I'm just thankful for the support, you know, not only in the community, but here in Maui, a lot of people are just donating things. People from overseas are donating things, you know. And I just love how, you know, we're just coming together and just helping one another. I mean, it's just love, not only in words, but in action as well. What do you know of your congregation?

How much of your congregation made it? How much of your congregation have you lost? As far as loss, we have some people missing, a few that haven't contacted us, but many of them were found. In fact, they were in our services today. So we're just being, you know, believing in God that they're okay. So, I mean, majority of them are safe, though, yeah. But there's like just maybe a handful that's unaccounted for. So we're keep, you know, we're continuing texting using the social media platform.

I'm just, if you guys are out there, please let us know where you are, and we'll come. And, yeah, so we're always, we always, you know, pray for the best. Amazing conversation there with Pastor Kaui. And then I met some of his congregation, the Vaas, L.J. and Nessa Vaas. And all their children told me a story about leaving their home. And same thing. Flames on them, smoke on them. And thank God they went right instead of left.

Here's my conversation with L.J. and Nessa. i'd love to hear the story of what happened that day i mean we no warning we were at home um you know just regular day he he didn't go to work that morning so praise jesus yeah the winds i didn't i wasn't comfortable with him driving to the side of the island in that um in that weather so yeah stayed home it came out of nowhere um from our you know we just said I started a pack about 422, maybe, around that time. Just from reversing out of our car, it went from blue to gray to black. Couldn't see anything.

Yeah, I mean, but, you know, in that time of not knowing, my kids requested to listen to worship music. So, you know, I mean, that was awesome. I even have the video of us reversing out, listening to my God is awesome. You know, when everything is going crazy outside, we're listening. Oh, my God, is awesome. So, I mean, just from coming out of our driveway, going on to Baker Street, I don't know where we see this fire light up in the parking structure next to us, which jumped over to light a tree on fire, then the electrical pole,

and called it in. They said firefighters were on their way. That, just seeing that pole go on fire, light up on fire, we were worried. I mean, my kid, we have video where my child is like, Mom, it's hot, out. Like, you know, we could feel this fire from inside our car. So instantly, you know, we're talking, we're like, we got to reverse. And the crazy thing to reverse back into the second area of our apartment complex. And the crazy thing is, like, just to reverse in the dark and be able to park.

That's probably the best I've ever parked reversed. you know and um i mean as soon as we park reversed like we hear banging on the window it was a grandma next to us in her car begging us to please help her she had a baby in the car and you know i mean i mean what do you what do you say to that i'm a mom myself i'm looking at my three kids and i'm you know i tell them you know maybe this is it we gotta get out and you guys run you know don't don't look for me don't wait for me but i mean we got to out of the car he tended to the grandma and I ran around the car I pulled this I believe she's about two and a half maybe three pulled her out I grabbed this

blanket that she was sitting on I wrapped her and I ran we ran we got stuck in that corner there was we were we had our backs of the building where we gathered and where we were my kids were shook a couple of other people joined us maybe there was a good maybe nine maybe nine nine to 12 of us maybe. Yeah, about 12 of us. And, you know, at this one point, we had these people with us that had their pets. And we had our backs of this building because either way out of the building, like, you could

just feel how hot it was getting. My 9-year-old was crying, you know, my 50-year-old looked at me and that broke my heart when he was like, Mom, is this it? You know what I mean? You know, so there was like a tiny moment where I'm holding this baby, this is this two-and-a-half-year-old, however old she is. and you know my son is like you know mom you know is this it like you know and what do you say to that you know um i mean we all looked at each other and we're like you know if this is it then you know

thank you god you know i thank you for my family and you know but out of nowhere in us still you know still having faith having hope even in that time of not knowing this this young man the next complex, next apartment over, yells at us, you know, did you guys want to climb over out of nowhere? And I mean, my husband, here's my 15-year-old, we, they go and we're trying to rock this, what do you call that fence? Chain-link fence. It's a chain-link fence. So we're trying to rock it back and forth. There's just no way. And, you know, they somehow... We end up separating the top of the chain link from the top pole, just to bend it in a to where we can get we had one elderly man with us got some pets and so everybody was just

panicking was struggling to climb over so we decided that we needed to separate the fence from the pole to bend it over and get everybody through and so we finally got everybody through and then we made our way towards front street and then from front street we just you know we're going we're going to head right we're going to head to safe way let's get to safe way this is all on foot all on foot yeah all on foot and then once we get to Safeway we're like oh we look back we catch our breath and then we see that the clouds are moving towards our way so we're like you know let's let's go keep going just keep going and then we end up at the height and then she works there so we get to the height um instantly room ready for you and your family so we've been we've been

blessed um the very next morning we go down to serve yeah about close to anywhere from 15 to 2,000 guests breakfast and my husband and my kids are in our back roads I'm in the same outfit from the night before yeah we jump in and there was a shortage of employees there so we just try to get in and help serve the guests feed the guests and stuff like that so yeah what do you know what what's left of your home of your neighborhood oh we've gone back yeah we've gone back we sneaked in we sneaked in we got some nothing there's nothing yeah our um two vehicles gone our apartment gone the whole complex within our complex i think there's maybe um 11 or 12 buildings um one is standing um you guys are up

the hill a little bit Lahaina Luna up that way no oh right right by um where they had the cars backed up where the people got in the water we're by Maui outlets yeah right by the Maui outlet so we're lying on surf we're just on block up from um from um from street a blocker two up the road you talk about your party of 12 and the miracle that you all made it out what did you see around you did you see those who are less fortunate um what we've seen around us is well we we we we put out of our parking lot and then within half an hour we only moved about 40 feet so we just pulled into the parking lot in front of us and then um we went in the back of that building. There's people just running back and forth behind that building because the wind

was just blowing all the ambers over. The wind was just wicked. So everybody was just running back and forward. By the time we got to the back of the building, we was like, okay, what we're going to do now? And we've seen everybody panicking running back and forth. We just stay behind the building, try to block ourselves from the wind and the amber is coming in and the heat. I was like, oh, okay, I do this is it. Not even having the thought of trying to climb over the fence, and then this guy comes out of nowhere, you know, like God just planted him there. And at the same time for him to be, for him to be shouting Jesus saying, declaring, praying.

Yeah, all I heard my husband kept, you know, my husband was just like, amen, amen. And I'm like, oh, gosh, you know. When we got into Front Street, we just seen the gridlock. The gridlock, we've seen other people that decided to get on. on foot, start running. Some people headed left towards deeper into Baker Street. And I think that's where the mistakes were being made is where people went left. Heading back towards the harbor. Heading back to the harbor. We've seen guys climbing the fence, you know, with their vehicles,

just panicking. You don't even just mayhem chaos. I grew up coming to Maui every year in Lahaina for my entire life. I know it's a small town. I know everybody knows everybody. We hear about how many people have died and we hear about how many are still missing. How about for you in your personal life? Who you know, who's missing, who you've lost?

I mean, my cousin, I lost the uncle. I aunt, a cousin and a nephew. My cousin, actually, from what I've heard, went to go look for his parents, not knowing that his sister and nephew you didn't make it out either. They were still in their car. So, I mean, there's still more people that, you know, I mean, La Hina small.

We know everybody being born and raised from there. You know, you see all these familiar faces, and it's just heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking to, especially for kids to be at home without their parents because school got called off, you know. I've seen reports, unconfirmed reports about that, kids home without their parents. What do you know? Is that true? Were there a lot of kids home? Have those kids been accounted for?

We've seen a lot of kids running that, you know what I mean? So, yeah, we don't know how much is accounted for, but we know that Tuesday was Lahaina Luna's freshman orientation. And so they're the only kids that were supposed to. Upper classmen wasn't in school anyway. Elementary wasn't in school anyway. The middle school wasn't in school anyway. It was just the freshmen.

that was going to show up to school. So that puts everybody at home. And you saw unaccompanied kids running? Yeah, we definitely seen a handful of teenagers running on the roads. And just, at that time, we get our hands full. We had an elderly man, we had one grandma, we had one two-year-old, and we have our own kids. And just kind of having to decide what to do, you know what I mean?

I mean, we just literally, maybe not even, hours ago ran into our neighbor and she had told me did you know that you were right behind me and i'm like what so i pull up my video and she goes that's my car in front of you so i'm like so where did you go she she told me look at how god was so good to both of us we both lived but she ended up in the water so had i followed her yeah had i followed her would me and my children my me and my family would have been in the water too but you know she she said that by the time she got to the that turn to go down towards the canary, I guess apparently something was in the middle of the road where it's blocking everybody. That's where they had no choice but to turn left. That's where she got

stuck. Her car ended up with fire and she ended up in the water with, she, she, she told us hundreds. I'm going to ask you guys this. How do you feel about the church? Lost King's Chapel. How do you feel about the church? You're over here now. This is home for us, safe haven for us, you know. I mean, this is our... You went to call us. church in behind it yeah um from what you know we was sadden initially um but then to uncover that the church was under um a different you know there's circumstances and then now it changed you know so we went from a historical building and that might not be so now so now we might not we might not be limited to the historical limitations and so now um I think God is working in that

way, you know, it's going to allow us to do more out of there. Our building can go up, can go left, can go right, you know, we can pave the roads. You know, so I think in the midst of our loss, we've gained unlimited use of our land at the church down there. Yeah, so I think it's a blessing in the skies. I don't know how much of that information has been floating around, but I think in the midst of us losing our church, we're going to gain something from it. I think God's going to do something crazy down there. Yeah. Hey, I know I really appreciate you living that with me. I know

it's not easy. Thank you guys so much. Thank you guys. We'll be right back with more of the Will Kane podcast. It is time to take the quiz. It's five questions in less than five minutes. We ask people on the streets of New York City to play along. Let's see how you do. Take the quiz every day at thequiz. Fox. Then come back here to see how you did. Thank you for taking the quiz. This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason in the House podcast. Join me every Monday to

dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcast.com. Or wherever you download podcasts. And then just the other day I met Eton Krupni. Family's been here for 200 years. An ongoing

story here in Maui will be What happens to the land? What happens to the Hawaiians? Hawaii is not Hawaii without the Hawaiians. His 200-plus year, multi-generational plantation-style home, deep in the heart of Lahaina, burned to the ground. So what happens now? Who gets the land? This is where we find the root of conspiracy. Eton's here to ensure that the people and the culture of Hawaii remain.

You know, one of those burned-out cars, one of those burned-out homes belonged to my new friend. here, Etan Krumpnik, who has a story, sadly, Eton, that is harrowing, but also common for what happened that day in Lahaina. Your story is one, just like everyone else, left, not here today. Instead, took a right, and you're here to tell me your story. I am well, yeah. So what happened that day in Lahaina? I'm scared out of my life, just like all my other community members, you know, and neighbors, and we just, that fire, that wind was, it was mutant, you know. know, and whoever got out there alive is the lucky ones. Like I said, 30 seconds, seconds, it wasn't even minutes, you know.

You just had to go. Two points that we've been talking about this morning, Aton. We talk about leadership a lot, and one of the things that's not been said is that there were high winds, like 80-mile-an-hour winds, 65-mile-hour winds that morning. There was no warning on that. We talked about no warning on the fire, but there was no warning on the winds that were a failure of leadership as well. I want people to understand this about Lahaina.

Okay, Eton, tell us multi-generation, the home that you lost, an old plantation home. You've been here for how long? Tell me about your family. I'm 39 years old. My family's been here for, you know, 200-plus years just directly right here in Lahaina. The house that we lost was my grandma's house. That's what we call it my grandma's house. We've had that land for over 200 years ever since the Great Mahele, and we're going to stay here.

We're not going anywhere. Yeah, my family's ready to restore, rebuild. And that's what all the Lahaina people need to do. We need to stay home. You know, we need to stick together, like how we already are doing. And we need to just keep on it and keep the elders motivated because the young generation, my generation, we're not going anywhere, and we're going to keep Lahaina in Lahaina.

As just saying, Hawaii is not Hawaii without the Hawaiians. And while you lost your home, you know, you are so dedicated to making sure that whatever comes next, Lahaina reflects the people, the culture that made Hawaii. Yes, Lahaina is Lahaina because of the people. And I'm speaking here, but there's everybody, our community is solid, yeah? And I just wanted to thank all the community members, all the Lahaina people, Napili Kahana, you know, and outer islands and neighboring neighborhoods, you know, of Maui. They're just coming together, you know. We're proving that, like, there is hope in this world, yeah?

and we're proving that like our leadership should be following our our path you know how how to move forward you know and how to help each other out what do you think of the leadership in maui and in the united states it's it's been it's been slacking for sure majorly leadership has been slacking they just haven't been giving us hope or proven to us that like you know you guys are doing what needs to be done you know all over the states especially here in hawai you know you need to step it up and just prove it right now prove that Lahaina is going to come first over everything right now you know that the people of Lahaina will not get this place that you will be there with us walking to restore this beautiful town yeah the capital of Hawaii

we need them you know let's collaborate collectively I'm really I'm really sorry for what you've lost but I'm so blessed that you're still here with us still here in Maui still here in West Maui I just want to thank Jesus Christ for just saving my life

you know, my family's life, you know. To be alive right now is a blessing. Thank you. Thank you, Eitan. We're going to step aside here for a moment. Stay tuned. Listen to the all-new Brett Bear podcast featuring Common Ground. In-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle,

along with all your Brett Bear favorites like his All-Star panel and much more. Available now at Fox News Podcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Now finally, I want you to meet the most inspirational young women that I can think of. Sierra Leavitt, Andrea Fawcett, and their original pilot, Christian Martin, on the day after the fires, just jumped into action.

There's government failure everywhere on this island. I can tell you, I'm here. Nobody is happy with leadership. But they're all filled with love, Aloha, in the community response very well symbolized by Sierra and Andrea and Christian. They hopped into action. They started because one was on one side of the island, the other was here in West Maui,

getting supplies from Kahului, making friends with pilots, flying it over the mountains here to West Maui, and unloading it, water, diapers, food, medicine, unloading it in the Pelea, where I was attempted to be censored by the mayor of West Maui, unloading it to the people. They're not in the military, Sierra, Andrea, and Christian. They're not logistics experts. They're moms. and pilot instructors, and they jump into action to a point where they are now coordinating a dozen planes and helicopters a day from one side of the island to the other. Here's my conversation with Christian, Sierra and Andrea.

Everywhere I go, people say you've got to meet Andrea and Sierra, and now you are. These two young ladies have put together the biggest that I can imagine so far, private relief effort right here on West Maui. Planes running in out of Capuletero Airport all day long. Okay, Andrea, how did this start? Yeah, so it pretty much happened where we, our family was here and Sierra's family got out to Kohalui. And Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning after the fire, it's like no one can communicate with each other. I go to Napili Plaza. Moms are crying and don't have formula.

And we're like, what is going on? Where is the help? How can we get people what they need? And then Sierra. We, our family left on Wednesday to go get a generator and supplies for some of our friends that are up here when the roads were still open. When we got all the spies, we were trying to come back. They had closed the roads. So we had no way of getting any of the supplies back to anyone.

You start out in the beginning and where are you, Napili Plaza? Yeah, Napili Plaza, talking to the Maui Food Bank. I'm like, what's going on? They're like, we don't have enough. They're telling families, like, one water per family. And we're like, okay, how can we fix this? So it was like the craziest thing to see what happened. We started with one airplane.

And then all of a sudden, we were getting connected with all these other pilots, people. On the Big Island, mainland. And they're like, hey, we want to bring stuff into. And I'm like, okay, so we just start getting shipments. Like Wednesday, I think at one point we had 10 helicopters on the tarmac, all landing at one time. And so then we're like, okay, we got to have a place to take it. So we recruited drivers in the community to start coming with trucks and trailers. We then set up distribution hubs, pods we're calling them a now point of distribution, all throughout the west side.

How many? We have seven right now. And then if you add independent, like people that have set them up in little communities that people can't get out of, 11 total and then we just take it here we sort it we distribute it we have the drivers take it to where it's needed and then the community can come out and get it and the craziest part is this was all done without cell phone service yeah and so you have to come up to the hill right there to get one bar yeah to you're like hopefully they see this message in an hour and you're doing this with a fleet of aircraft that you've put together in a couple days time that is how many how big is the fleet at

this point you've had coming into this airport we've had yeah paradise helicopters and they're from big island they're from big island like it was helping distribute that he's one of the main guys over there and he's still continuing to get stuff over there didn't you tell me the other day and you were talking about how many helicopters were on the pad over there like 10 or 12 a day yes and that's a cool thing like air maui mocculele from oahu all of the different um people and now once we set up the possibility to bring supplies in and get them distributed people could start sending so a lot of them i'm like i'm not even in touch all i know is an airplane shows up I say, is this open donation?

They say yes. I'm like, okay, we have drivers. They load it and they take it. And then our pod leaders tell us every night. Like I have someone run around to all the pods get a list of what they are needing so that we can request Sierra, Micah, Paradise, all of those people now know what we need. And then they bring it back. So, Sierra, you're on the other side of the mountains, getting the supplies.

First time in Capulua in a week. We haven't been able to get through in the roads. So I've been in my homes here right down the street. And we haven't been able to get in. My husband's been on this side as well, and so we just get the list over here. I get it to Chris and the other pilots where Chris takes off to, they have tons of little airplanes. It's like an example was set where everyone starts doing it together. And it's not just Andrea and I.

There's huge communities now that have come together and do this, like other groups, you know, on Oahu, Big Island, the boats that are getting across here. This is all community-based, and it's all community outside health. Who told you to do this? Ourselves. I was like, I need to get my friend's food, and we're going to get it and get over. over there. I want someone to tell me what to do at this point. I know. I'm like, we need to be done. Well, I'm just like, am I going to get in trouble for this? The decisions we're making, but no. For helping people? I know, right? But it's cool. Thank you. If somebody gets you guys in

trouble, they're going to have trouble with America. This is absolutely amazing. How old are you, Andrea? I'm 29. How old are you, Sierra? I'm 29 in two weeks. And you are basically running the largest civilian relief effort by air that I have seen in West Maui. Absolutely incredible. What does Barbie have to teach to America about Girl Power? I haven't seen it yet. Really? It's because you've been helping the people in Maui. It's a great movie. We're also, like a lot of us, people keep asking like, what companies do you work for? There's no companies that are hiring us or anything. Like, well, both of us are entrepreneurs. We're also stay-at-home moms. Like, we have five kids in between us and we're doing this while our kids are still with us as well.

And it just shows that you don't need to have someone to tell you what to do to get things done. Yeah, and I just want to make sure, too, like, I could name for hours just community heroes. Everyone wants to do the glorious work. And, yeah, we get to tell you this now, but, like, there are so many people that, like, put me in tears every night just showing up every single day nonstop. And they're the ones getting it out to everyone. And it's just so cool to see everyone come together, even without outside support at this point. It's an amazing, amazing effort, an amazing story. Thank you both.

Yeah, thank you. Of course. Thanks for getting our story out there. There you go. I hope you enjoyed that conversation. I hope you enjoyed that story. I'm going to try to keep bringing you some more stories from West Maui as we begin to turn back to national news. I'll come back from West Maui later this week. I got to swim from New Jersey to New York, so I got to get ready for the seal swim.

I think I've slept four hours and 48 hours. But I'll be trained. I'll be ready. And I'll be back stateside here in a couple of days with more stories from West Maui and take you to the New York City seal swim. I'll see you again next time. Listen to ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members, you can listen to this show, ad-free on the Amazon Music app.

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