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We've got to have some kind of ceremony.
Wait, wait, wait.
Ross, Ross, hold on.
We've got to acknowledge it.
You know, we've got to get to make ceremony, you know?
No, don't leave, I'm just saying, you know, we've got to make it somewhat, right?
Is she about ready to do this thing?
And we've got a camera up here.
And ladies and gentlemen, this gentleman right here has a very difficult job.
He has to get Ross's prince in the cement without looking up her dress.
You have no idea how difficult and professional he has to be.
I want some outtakes a little later.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Ross Baker will now apply her hands to the cement for
the rest of Prosper- Oh, look at that.
Huh?
Oh, she's chilled.
First she'll be signing her name.
And later on there will be a cement check.
Oh, here we go.
There's the snow.
Let's get in focus.
We're buzzing a little bit there.
Oh, look at that.
You know, Ross, I can tell you didn't grow up in a poor neighborhood or you would have
this more wired.
You know, there's some graffiti kids, hey, bruh, watch this, foo, foo, foo, foo, foo.
You know what?
Maybe she needs some inspiration like we used to have in a neighborhood.
Hurry up!
The cops coming!
Hurry up, stupid!
There we go.
Ross Baker, there she is, Senator Ross Baker.
Okay, there you go, Ross.
Now the hands thing.
Now we're going to do the hands.
By the way, I was just joking about the, you know, the video of the skirt because you
know, she was a local girl, you know, underneath get shots, you know what I mean?
Oh, here.
Oh, look at that.
First, you got to put your feet in, what is that, metamucil.
Oh, yeah, there we go.
Oh, here, here comes the one foot and then the next foot.
Oh, this is going to come in handy or every shoe salesman on the island.
I get your size.
Oh, yeah.
How does that feel?
I'm not, how are you going to do this one?
How are you going to do this one?
Why don't you just leave the other one before you put this on?
Everybody's going to say, wow, look how far her feet are apart.
There she goes.
Okay, there's the feet.
Good job, bruh.
Oh, the thing is, no, I thought we'd go, you know, all cave in, but it's working good,
bruh.
Anybody got a dog run through here that can be, you know, wow, look, when dog was on
Contributa.
Okay, now here comes the hand part.
Oh, hey, hey, never mind down the skirt.
I mean, there we go.
Oh, man.
Oh, imagine if you like didn't press.
No, I better not.
There you go.
No, I was going to say.
Oh, I got to learn them jokes.
I learned them jokes.
No, no, I'm serious.
Now look, get a shot of that so everybody can see it on the screen there.
Look at that.
Don't put the wire in the sweatshirt.
See what I'm saying?
Everybody is, you know, we saw her do it, right?
Hand, hand, feet, feet.
Everyone else is going to think she did this.
Oh, man, I don't know if that's right for my Santa Clara.
Let's have a nice warm round of applause as she washes her feet.
That went pretty well.
Two more of these.
Oh, look, what a perfectionist.
Can I try the hands again?
Oh, hey, put a third hand.
Everybody got years from now.
You know, you remember I sent it to her with three hands.
Oh, she could do a lot of work.
Okay, here, George.
George is signing his name now.
Now, be honest, ladies and gentlemen.
Be honest.
When they put their feet in, you're secretly hoping.
They'll go, help!
I can't get out!
Right?
Look how we come here two o'clock in the morning.
How are you doing, brother?
You need food.
But you help.
George.
There you go, brother.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, he put his, look at that.
How cool.
7, 8, 11.
Oh, brother.
Hey, hey, oh, George, come on.
Come on, do it, brother.
You know.
Hey.
Look out, feet, look out, feet.
Oh, look at that, brother.
Don't make wiggle.
They're going to take you some more in, brother.
What's the biggest feet look now?
How you getting out, brother?
How you getting out?
No, no, don't hit them with water.
Yeah, splash water on them.
Oh, there you go.
Oh, how you going to get out, George?
Huh?
Whoo!
Oh, George.
George, you shouldn't have wiggled, George.
Those footprints look like they're missing link.
When Crow Magnum was here in 400 years BC,
and now Sean McLaughlin, who has had the insight
to roll up his trousers.
Sean, you should dip your glasses in.
Okay, first of all, here comes the signature.
Sean McLaughlin.
Left-handed, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't know why that makes any difference.
Here goes the...
Sean, yes?
More comedy?
Okay, after this, more comedy.
Oh, that's good.
Whoo!
Don't tell me two things in a row.
I went to public school.
Sean McLaughlin.
Oh, did you put your middle name?
Oh, take care of that, yeah.
That's your wife's last name, too, huh?
How the heck that happened?
Where's your wife?
Oh, hi!
How you talk to him into that?
Mary and cousin Joyce.
Let's bring them all to their feet in a cement.
Come on.
They got a family affair.
Boy, you know, just you and your wife,
you could do something, everybody going, oh, no!
But we'll stop there.
Are we on the air?
Let's take the camera and swing around
to all these people who couldn't get in.
Can we just get a shot of all these people over here
who just couldn't afford to be part of this?
Yeah, there you go.
Look at that.
There's the crowd.
Let's look how that looks on TV.
Oh, right, right.
Oh, here's Sean.
Hands.
Feet.
Feet.
Okay.
I'll just stop now.
Here's the hard part.
Now you stay there.
What?
There you go.
Ah, good job.
Look at that.
Look at his.
Look at George.
No, you did a good job.
Look at that.
Look how big your toe looks.
You have big toe, man.
Really?
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a nice, warm round of applause
for Ross Baker, George Kahumoku, and Sean McLaughlin.
The first time.
I got to tell you.
And look, and just like Jay said, get used to this.
See all this here?
In 10 years, we will have completely destroyed the property value.
One score for 20 years ago.
Daylight saving.
Well, actually, not daylight saving.
Our forefathers.
Well, not those forefathers.
MEDB founding fathers Colin Cameron and Dodd Malcolm brought forth upon the county of Maui
a brand new idea.
It seems people weren't talking to each other about Maui's economic future.
Don and Colin thought it might be a good idea to get them talking.
Colin Cameron came over and lobbied a little bit.
In fact, he lobbied quite a bit.
He's a great lobbyist, and he had tremendous commitment from Maui.
And of course, Don.
Don Malcolm is the one that breached the subject of high tech.
Well, back in 1982, they meant very little to me if I did not know them.
I was worried about, you know, how high was the surf today?
Do I have enough money for the weekend to go dancing and things?
But it's commitment of people like them that we're truly grateful.
With the help of then mayor Hannibal Tavares, historic meetings and conferences were held.
And in 1982, a new baby was born.
It was called MEDIB, short for Maui Economic Development Board.
And it would grow up to change the face of Maui's economy forever.
MEDB's first office was located in the Maui land and pine building next to food land in Kowloon.
Next, they moved to the same building as Kihei wine and spirit.
And eventually, to its present location in the tech park.
But the journey there was not easy.
The centerpiece of the MEDB vision was to build a Maui research and technology park to attract high tech business.
This made some cows very nervous and they weren't the only ones.
We don't know, you know, whether we can convene some peers in the legislature
that Maui should be getting all this money for high tech park
when maybe they should be getting it for something else.
Not to be denied, Don Malcolm implored that Maui must develop a technology industry
to rely solely on tourism and agriculture could cause our future to go up in smoke.
Maui needed a three legged stool economy to keep it alive.
One being agriculture, the other being tourism.
And the third would be high tech.
Their vision of a three legged stool is a right one and in the future there will be four and five.
But we really need to show up this third one, high tech.
It was springtime again in Kihei.
It appeared MEDB's hard work was paying off.
Just as everything seemed back in bloom and it looked like the tech park would finally get built,
storm clouds formed on the horizon.
They first, then a second developer pulled out of the project.
A dejected Don Malcolm turned to Colin Cameron and said,
That's two strikes, looks like we're out, but Colin would have none of it.
In baseball, he said, you get three strikes and MEDB began putting together a string of hits.
A new partnership was formed, made up of Maui's own movers and shakers.
MEDB.
And the Maui Research and Technology Park, which started as a dream, became a reality.
Attracting several of the world's most innovative high tech clients,
like Textron, Boeing, Ocean It, and Trek's Enterprises,
makers of advanced high tech CMOS silicon chips.
Anyone want chips?
And at the summit of Haleakala, House of the Sun,
the Maui Research and Technology Park supports an impressive array of Air Force and research telescopes,
where scientists search deep space to try to look at choked stars,
choked galaxies, choked black holes, and other marvels of the universe.
The park is also home to the Maui supercomputer.
One of the more powerful electronic brains the world has ever known.
It was not so long ago, a Michael Boutin thought it should be so.
A supercomputer for Maui would help the scientists to see
that Maui is a place to get work done in spite of the lovely sea and sun.
Hawaii Senior Senator agreed, and if there's appropriations, they did the deed.
And now with Slazner, Sukimura, and Baal, who must rise up to the call
and show that people in Hawaii have the right stuff for all to see.
They must show that massively parallel is not such a hard thing to sell.
And with the help of UH President O'Bell, they'll send New Mexico back to Albuquerque.
Supercomputer is a fantastic gift to Maui.
Basically, Senator in Norway who brought the supercomputer here.
So all of a sudden, from this very rural agricultural community,
he writes back into the world of high tech.
The people of MEDB know how to get the attention of the business world.
People like MEDB presidents, Dandy Don Malcolm,
Dancin Mike Boutin, Bobcat Hepcat Johnson, and the fabulous Jeanne Scope.
In addition, MEDB chairs, Colin Cameron, Mike Lyons, and Alan Hunter.
It's not all about me.
It's about MEDB.
MEDB means Maui Economic Development Board.
That's what it really means, but its true spirit is preparing our community for the future.
By bringing federal funds, state funds, county funds, different players to the table.
So we'll all talk together about the problems that we need to solve today to prepare for the future.
It's not all about Ed.
Who's Ed?
It's about MEDB.
And MEDB shows the world how to use Maui's unique geographical position
to conduct their affairs across multiple time zones
and deal with New York and Tokyo in the same business day.
We can even do business on Maui time.
We can do business in behind the time, Molokai time, Lanai time, Hunter time.
Let me hilly on.
And although MEDB was started by a rather fetching bunch of handsome guys,
the outfit is now run for the most part by a flock of smart and fabulous ladies.
I don't have any lipstick on.
I'm too sexy for my hair.
These women are armed with good ideas for Maui's future
and can be considered very dangerous to outmoded ways of thinking.
Their crime is helping to make Maui's economy thrive.
But it is not just the people, but the programs they support that sets MEDB apart.
The programs, like economic literacy, get us up to speed on what else?
Economics.
The future scientists and engineers program is helping to nurture our island's geniuses.
And the women in technology program is preparing our women and girls
for careers in high technology business.
After 20 years of accomplishments, MEDB is far from finished.
MEDB is far from over.
Attracting high tech business and nurturing Maui's 21st century workforce will continue.
I feel kind of lucky because I saw something grow.
And I've never had that experience before because all of the prior jobs I had,
it was already grown or already mature and you just came in and you were a piece in it.
And in this case, I was a part of it growing and to see it have any kind of impact at all
is just amazing. It's just amazing how it's evolved.
Don Malcolm and Colin had a lot to do with it, but it's just great to be part of it.
I can wish MEDB a happy birthday.
I can wish MEDB longevity.
And I can wish MEDB the best of luck.
And I really don't think they need luck because they got a proven system.
And I just want to say happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday MEDB.
Happy birthday to you.
This is a celebration.
A celebration of a miracle.
And I'm one who now believes that miracles can happen
and men and women of goodwill, men and women of industry,
and men and women of commitment get together.
Nothing is impossible.
When I didn't have any money for editing equipment for cameras to even experiment
to try to learn how to do this craft, Akaku was there.
I was just a kid who loved filmmaking and was just eager to learn as much as I could about it.
And I had no other way of doing it except this one place on the island
that proudly proclaimed that anyone can come in and use their equipment,
take their classes, and actually touch a camera, touch an editing suite.
And that was when my love for this craft began and my love for storytelling.
And I started my healthy addiction there.
And it is because of this place that I am where I am today.
And I'm doing what I love.
A huge thanks to Akaku for that.
Akaku inspired me at an early age and allowed me to get my hands on the tools necessary
to spark my love for filmmaking.
And because of that, I went on to go to film school in California to learn even more.
And now I've shot four feature films and my latest one is premiering around the world,
around the country, and opening up in my home theater at Kahahumanu this weekend.
So, all thanks to Akaku.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you guys.
Thank you.
