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Chapter 1: Why does nobody panic when the local musician goes missing?
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Chapter 2: What leads to the search for the musician in Kawaihae, Hawaii?
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Chapter 3: Who is Martin Booth and what is his background?
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Chapter 4: What evidence connects Martin Booth to the missing musician?
Doesn't matter. So do that. Get yourself Patreon. And that said, I think it's time to sit back, everybody. What do you say here? Let's all clear the lungs here. Arms to the sky. Let's all shout. Shut up and give me murder. Let's do this, everybody. Okay. Let's go on a trip, shall we? Where are we going? Someplace nice. Yeah? We are going to, oh, man, Kauai, Kauai, Hawaii. Hello, Hawaii.
Hello, Hawaii. Yeah, we've been in different places, but we're going to Hawaii. It's been a long time. God, I'm butchering that pronunciation.
Yeah, I'll never understand how to do that language.
That's one of those where I'll say, how do you pronounce this? Someone will say it to me and then I can't repeat it back to them. It's the craziest thing in the world that my mouth does not make the noise correctly.
It's like Native American, like Tahoe to Odom or some shit like that.
It's hard. It's hard. It's so hard. This is K-A-W-A-I-H-A-E. I don't know. I've heard it pronounced 12 times, and that's the best I can come out with. I don't know. It's on the north side of the Big Island, Hawaii. Hawaii is the Big Island. It's the southernmost of the islands, and this is on the north side of the island. So this is the dry side of the island. There's a dry side and a wet side.
How do you have that? Not sure.
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Chapter 5: How does the musician's family react to his disappearance?
I think because one side has mountains because there's volcanoes there, I know. There's lava fields and all that. And then on the other side, it's lower. Yeah. So the weather with the volcanic shit cuts down the humidity? I have no idea. You're asking the wrong guy now. Who the fuck would do that? I got to know about murders and comedy and legal shit. Meteorology is really not my strong point.
Let's get weather patterns involved.
Yeah, I don't know anything about it. But on the north side of the island, the dry side. Now, I tried to do like the time we do drive times. Hawaii is a totally different thing. My guts are off. To our last episode, which, by the way, was so long ago, episode 474. This is 706. It's been... 300 shows. Over two years since we've done an episode in Hawaii. That was in Hana, Hawaii.
That was twin-powered craziness. Remember the twins that did, like, yoga stuff? The twin blonde ladies? That was crazy. Yeah, it was...
Oh, we've only done like three here.
We've done like four or five episodes, I think. Yeah. So this is to Hana. It's a 40 minute flight to another island, followed by a three and a half hour drive from the airport to Hana. So that's how to get there. This is in Hawaii County. Area code 808. Population, that's all of Hawaii is 808. Population here, 742. Not many. This is not a real tourist spot. This is kind of a local spot.
Well, it's not tropical because it's dry. I mean, it's still Hawaii and nice, but it's not constantly raining. That's the thing. Because some of Hawaii is like a rainforest kind of. It rains all the time. Do they have desert? They can't have desert, right? I don't know if it's like desert, but it's dry. Close enough. Yeah.
Median household income here, about $97,500, which is well above the national average, about $69,000. But you'd need it. Well, here are the median home costs, $444,700, which for Hawaii is low. That's not bad. This is not a real... Hugely desirable area. You know what I mean? It's not like Maui or something. It's not that kind of place, but it's very nice.
More desirable than fucking Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Chapter 6: What discoveries are made during the investigation into the musician's case?
That sounds awesome. So history of this town, little bit here of history. Basically, well, there's the King Kamehameha stuff here where his rival cousin arrived here, and then his cousin's many followers were killed and sacrificed here. The cousins were? Yes, to fulfill the prophecy and gain spiritual power. That's the king.
This event somehow paved the way for a bunch of Kamehameha's conquests leading to the unification of the Hawaiian kingdom in 1810. So I guess any rival leader, including his cousins, he's going to cut them out.
Feels like something you would do. Anybody that comes to visit you, you'd just sacrifice.
Sacrifice, like Vlad the Impaler? Yeah. Yeah, don't come to my house. Well, I wouldn't invite you to be sacrificed. That's the thing. You show up unannounced. That's a whole other.
That's what it feels like happened here.
Yeah. If Vlad the Impaler did all that because all those people showed up for dinner unannounced, I'd go, I understand what he's doing. Yeah. Fucking call before you come. What are you doing, bro?
Send a messenger. His cousin showed up with his family. He's like, throw them in the volcano.
I love my cousins, but call first. That's all I'm saying. You know what I mean? That's it. This was also a filming location for Waterworld, which is the famous Kevin Costner bomb. So there are no reviews for this town of any kind. They are not telling a soul. Couldn't find them. So let me try one. Okay. Here. It's going to be hard. All right. Um, It's goddamn paradise.
Smoke a fatty, grab a snorkel, and shut the fuck up. Five stars. There you go. There's a review of the town. It's probably still fucking amazing. It's great. Things to do here. Well, it's Hawaii. Do I seriously need to tell you about some, you know, festival that's going on? It's all a festival. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What are the circumstances surrounding the musician's tragic fate?
The bands that will be playing there. The New Salts. Funky Jams, which seems like someone would have taken that by now. At least in the 70s. Regular old funky. Yeah. I feel like someone in 1973 took that, right? Blaine Azing. A-S-I-N-G. Kingside. We also have the Johnny Ness Band. Jesus. Tomi Asobi. The Savory Brothers, not savory like a taste with an E, savory. Tavana, it's Johnny Shot.
Who or what? Johnny Shot.
I would have gotten that one by now.
Bald head, looks like Bill Goldberg with a guitar, which is an odd thing. DJ Overflow. Hell yeah. And let's see, Pete Sawyer and the Left Hand Monkey Wrench Gang.
What?
Their logo is basically like it looks like a Grateful Dead logo, but there's a wrench in there instead of a skull. That's a lot of words. A lot of words to put on a marquee of a small place. And then Brother Noland, who looks like a very old man with white hair and a white beard, standing in this field and smiling. I feel like this is all locals, right? A lot of locals, yeah.
This is a long flight into... Do a bar and get paid $180. Muse Aquarium. Muse Aquarium. That said, let's talk about some murder. What do you say here? All right. Let's talk about a young man first here. Or a man, I should say. Robert Kiaway Ryder. R-Y-D-E-R. He goes by Lopaka. L-O-P-A-K-A. Lopaka. Everybody calls him that. That's his name.
It's probably his Hawaiian name, yeah.
Well, it means something, as we'll get into later. His family all calls him that. Now, he's born in Honolulu, but he didn't grow up there. I feel like Honolulu is where the good hospital is. In 1976, so that's where you go. But he grew up on the other side of the big island, on the wet side, where it rains, in the Puna district here, which basically is a lot of jungle and lava.
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Chapter 8: How does the community respond to the musician's murder?
It was after Pearl Harbor. And then that's when – if you look at like in the 50s and 60s, there was a million like tiki bars. And like that's southeast – southwest or southeast Pacific shit. South Pacific shit became real popular. And then Hawaii became a state. And then it was – Yeah. Cause we were vacationing there a lot. So, um, now his mother's name is Deborah or Debbie.
Um, his father is Roy Ryder jr. Oh, Roy Ryder jr. Um, So he's got brother named Wailau, W-A-I-L-A-U, and Kawai, K-A-W-A-I. But he goes by Buddy. Perfect.
I would, too.
Okay. He's like, I'm tired of people fucking my name up. That's enough. It's too much. So LaPaka and his brother Wailu, of course, the one who has a not called buddy that I have to try to pronounce his name is the one that is going to be involved in this. They were very musical, both of them. Oh, they're both musical guys. LaPaka is all music all the time. He's got his ukulele, and he plays.
Is that what he's playing? That's what he's playing, and he plays all sorts of shit. He is Mr. Hawaii. Yeah. So their aunt is a – oh, Jesus. Le'ohu. Le'ohu? L-E-I apostrophe O-H-U Ryder. That's their aunt, and she's a very famous Hawaiian singer from Maui. She was singing for 30 years. She's known as a spiritual leader and a healer and a singer-songwriter and all that shit.
Big deal, huh?
Yeah, everything on the island. So she got the Gandhi King Peace Hero Award, the United Nations Peace Educator Award.
Mm-hmm.
And she teaches healing and chant to audiences in Miami and Amsterdam and at the United Nations.
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