Merrie Monarch

Spooked

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s a spring night in Hilo, Hawaii. Lei-Ann and her hula sisters are about to take the stage at the 1986 Merrie Monarch Festival. They’ve been practicing for months. But the gods have other plans.

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0:00.0	BOW your head to me.
0:07.0	I'll make you better.
0:09.0	But how long will I live?
0:12.0	Eternal life and forever.
0:15.0	But would I be the G that I was?
0:18.0	So much more than you could imagine and dream of. So relax your soul.
0:22.6	Give me control. Close your eyes, my son. Well my eyes are closed.
0:31.6	You've crossed over the spooked. Stay true. I'm Nine years old, sitting in this church, angry, and my parents, angry at these brethren
1:09.4	in this place, now they're preacher.
1:11.6	All puffed up, red face, bug-eyed, steps to the podium, commands us to open your Bible to Exeter 32.
1:20.6	Here!
1:22.6	Brethren, Moses climbs the mountain to see God.
1:28.3	Do the people wait patient?
1:30.3	They do not.
1:32.3	Instead they work with their forages, their ovens, with wickedness in their hearts, with evil.
1:37.3	Look here, look here, look here, look here.
1:39.3	They pull a golden calf from the flame.
1:42.3	What did they do then?
1:45.8	The very worst thing you can do.
1:49.8	They call this thing, this abomination, a god.
1:55.1	Who needs that other god?
1:57.9	When this one gleams golden,
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