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Well my teacher Mary Kawena Pukui told me,
“Do it now, Eddie, do it for the children,

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do it for them now.

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For it will live forever, Eddie."

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She said, "Do it now."

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She always told me, “It’s out there!”

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I couldn't figure that out at the time,
when I was with her.

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I didn’t know what it means,
it’s out there.

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(male speaker #1)
I don’t know what it means.

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-What is?
-Well see, let me tell you the story.

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Only when I went out in the countryside
to talk with the elders in the villages

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in the countryside, and the valleys,
then I found out what she meant.

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She meant it’s for me to go out
in the countryside

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and talk with the elders
and they can share their life story

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with you, and you can share it
with their children.

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Life goes on and on,
but if the children don’t know about that

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and about their mother’s life
or grandparent’s life,

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where would we be today
in the Hawaiian culture?

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That’s what she's trying telling me,
“It’s out there, Eddie, it’s out there.

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Go, go, talk with them.”

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(male speaker #1) And so you went out
and you actually found this!

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That’s how I got into filmmaking!

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When I saw, and I talk with the people,
I said, “By golly,

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I’m gonna have to do something
about this.”

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So that set my course in doing,
doing my stories about with the people

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in the villages, and the valleys,
and the mountainside.

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Because it was important.

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Because I know as time go by, those lives.

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and people, and the motion of things
will never be the same.