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♪ ♪ >> anthony: hawaii is america, as american as anything could possibly be. yet it also never shed what was there before and the layers and layers that have come since. it's a wonderful, tricky, conflicted, mutant hell broth. in what, for lack of a better word, you'd have to call paradise. >> paul: nowhere's paradise. paradises don't exist. paradise is, kind of, in your head. >> anthony: wait, wait a minute. you look out your window here and you look at those hills, those mountains, all that green, that blue sky, and gin clear sea. it, it sure looks like paradise to me. this guy knows, h...

Turned taro into poi. you know what i mean? we did everything to the best of the best. so if you're going to introduce spam to us, we'll do it the best. you introduce christianity to us, we gonna do 'em the best. whatever you're gonna introduce to us, we're gonna do it the best! >> anthony: our christianity's better than yours, i love it. so, you've really disappointed me you have in no way lived up to your reputation as mean, unwelcoming, inward looking, hostile. admit it, it's a calculated strategy. >> hano-hano: yes. >> anthony: and i'll leave with a message. if you're watching this show, i...

Molokai did not have a reputation for being welcoming. that it was dangerous to go over there. that those molokai dudes were mean, inward looking, unfriendly, tough as iron, and quick to get pissed off. as it turned out, that was not my experience. >> walter: so we like to brag about what we don't have. we don't have traffic lights. we don't have a building over three stories. we don't have traffic. >> anthony: nice. walter naki is a skilled fisherman, and today we're headed out for some octopus. >> walter: you know molokai's nickname, right? it's called the friendly isle. >> anthony: yeah, bu...

>> andrew: korean, japanese, hawaiian. love child plate of awesomeness. >> anthony: right. the food is some bone-deep hawaiian stuff, my friends, which is to say a delicious mashup of, well, look -- take taco rice, it's a dish created in okinawa to approximate tex-mex for homesick american gis that was then appropriated in a post-ironic way by younger generations of okinawans and japanese, and has now found its way back to hawaii, got that? >> andrew: goin' right in there. >> anthony: wow. >> mark: identifying and seeing my best friends who are native hawaiian helped me to realize the pride of...

Of all the places he's been, all the places he's seen, he chose hawaii to live. and he's lived here for twenty-five years. does it matter that it's america? >> paul: no, that's a big thing, that it is america. it has elements of the third world. the nicest elements of the third world. >> anthony: right. >> paul: which is funky. there's this self-respect, this pride. there's things that don't work at all. and then it's main street, usa where we are now. i mean, there's pta meetings here. they get together and watch the super bowl. and it's the most main street, usa. or as much as you will find....