Five, four, three, two, one.

Boom, and we're live. Hawaii in the house.

Aloha.

Good to see you.

Thanks for doing this.

Thanks for having me.

What a great place to be a Congress person? The best.

You're in paradise. Yeah, it's hard to leave to go to Washington. I tell you what.

That's one place. If it wasn't for the storms and the fact that it's really a volcano.

Yeah.

As we've seen all too evident just recently.

Yeah, I have a friend who goes to the Big Island every year for Thanksgiving.

He convinced me to go two years in a row. It was awesome. I loved it. But then this year I'm like, yeah, I don't know, bro. It seems like it's shooting rocks into the sky and half of it's on fire. Yeah, that's been, so that's my district.

My district in Hawaii covers basically the whole state except for the densely populated

urban corridor of Honolulu.

Oh, so you're lucky.

You cover everything except the problem spot.

The city, the city.

So no, it's been tough.

It's been a tough year because of those folks in the district of Puna at the volcano.

Yeah.

We have gone through a few near misses with hurricanes, some big flooding on Kauai and now we've got another one that's knocking on our door.

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