She’s is really skating around not tying to say “Hawaiians don’t like white people who move to Hawaii”. 😂😂

She should run for political office. It was pretty impressive how she spoke for nearly 10 minutes without saying anything of substance

I grew up in northern Idaho and and got addicted to alcohol and crack.. moved to Kauai in 1991 through 2001. The spirit of the island and the people in the recovery community on the island literally saved my life. I then moved to Colorado and have been clean and sober ever since. Forever grateful to you Kauai! Going back for a visit in 2 days :-)

I lived in Hawaii for 2 years from 1985-1987, I was 5-7 years old and still cherish them memories. My grandma had remarried a native Hawaiian who owned land in Nanukuli. Definitely dealt with a lot of racism but also felt love by many! I remember going to school with out shoes and on big Island boys didn't have to wear shirts to school. Nanukuli elementary was right on the beach. Hawaii has a powerful supernatural presence there also

I really hate when people are like "oh there a warrior culture" if eveybodys ancestors werent warriors in some way you would not be here

Basically she saying Hawaiian wants everyone to gtfo their lands 😂😂😂

🏄‍♂️🏄🏻‍♀️ I so appreciate Laird and Gabrielle because of all their amazing accomplishments and because of all the fundraising that they have done to fight the disease Cystic Fibrosis. My son passed away from it. Blessings from California. 🕊

I lived on Maui, worked remotely and tried to do freelance photography. Being there was super cool, until I found out my roommates were selling drugs.. Took a dark turn. I moved out and camped, or stayed at my 2nd job. I would work using Wi-Fi at Starbucks. The various Starbucks locations decided to close earlier, which forced me to stop working in the middle of my shift and rent was so expensive.. I couldn’t find a roommate which was difficult. I wasn’t sleeping more than 4-5 hours a night.. Homeless people tried breaking into my car while I was sleeping.. Ended up flying back home. It probably was the craziest 4 months of my life.

Hawaii: Poverty with a view!

When you’re trying to be so sensitive in your answer that people have no clue what you’re actually talking about

Give respect,be generous with the waves,humility and kindness.Will help you a lot living in the beautiful hawaiian islands.

Australian opinion here....was only there for a week or so back in the mid-'80s ....but can, honestly say that it was, without doubt, the most idyllic place I have ever been to. The climate in Honolulu is superb. I can remember lying down (or should that be "laying" down ?) in the shade of a tree in a patch of green somewhere near the Honolulu docks. A beautiful warm day with a gentle breeze blowing. I fell asleep ....I mean...totally out like a light, mouth opened...snoring. Was woken up four hours later by a friendly cop ..."Just checking to make sure that you're still with us".Travelled a lot, all round the world in those years. I became convinced, then, and remain so that the Pacific is the place to be. But , yes, island life (eye ee living on any Pacific island) can certainly present challenges. Looking forward to setting off again to rediscover the places of my youth...like Tahiti, Fiji , Hawaii etc..etc.

Everyone's making fun of how she's addressing this, but to me she's talking exactly like someone who has to go back there at some point 😂

Boredom on Hawaii? Try living in North Dakota

I recently visited, I know visiting vs living there is different but from my experience there were so many different types of people from all over. Everyone was extremely friendly. I did see the huge homeless population & talked to many locals about the high expenses living there. It’s just a beautiful place with beautiful people but we don’t get to hear a lot about the negative parts. I do feel a stronger appreciation for the land & environment there though.

Very informative! 👏

Listening to her talk is like watching a man tiptoeing through a minefield

A friend of mine lived there for almost a year before moving. He said its a really expensive place to live, which he expected. But he did not expect the amount of drug use, homelessness and crime. Their economy is massively dependent on tourism yet they dislike white people in general.

As A Born And Raised Hawaii Boy From Waianae I Appreciate How Much Respect She Showed Even Speaking On Our Worst Qualities!

The spirit of the island is just magical… every island is different in the best way possible ❤

I wonder how many times she rehearsed explaining why Hawaii "is also very difficult", without mentioning race... haha

Bored, do meth... She pretty much just described every small town in America

Thank you, Gabriel! You articulated some things that are challenging to get a finger on.(about Hawaii)

This was an interesting conversation. Many ways to delve further into this.

She’s trying to in a non offensive way to say the locals can be aggressive if they don’t like you. I live on Oahu. The cost of living is too high for regular folks to have a decent middle class quality of life. If you don’t bring in $100k a year you’re going to struggle.

Gabrielle "What do you love about Hawaii?" Joe "Killing deer on Lanai"

Interesting topic. Thanks Joe for making this happen

4:20 "After a while you get bored." LOL Very much true.

Joe should have an actual hawaiian come in and talk about life in Hawaii since hes so interested

As someone that lives on Maui i can say that Hawaiian's are way more accepting than you might think, it's all just about how much respect you have for their culture and their land. I've lived here for years and have only had positive experiences with the native people. The energy you put out is what you'll get back.

I love Hawaii and especially Hawaiian music. Hawaiian music just hits me in a different way, and it completely lowers my blood pressure and puts a smile on my face. I have visited Hawaii more than a dozen times and love it there. But I don’t think I would ever feel comfortable living there because I know enough to know it just wouldn’t be right. I will stick to California, where I know I am welcome and I feel at home.

She was very diplomatic and described the Hawaiian's plite without being rude or getting into too much detail. Ignorant as I am, having been there myself twice, I know exactly what she means. Class act Gabrielle Reece. I wish the best to Hawaii and their people.

Joe “Chillen on the big island” Rogan

That was the most beaten around the bush explanation for saying there are some drug addicts in Hawaii

I was born and raised on Hawaii for 33 years now and seeing someone talk positive about Hawaii is very rare lol

I went to the big island in January I can't speak for the other islands but it's so underappreciated and everyone was super friendly!!

She is being very careful with her words

Joe: "But what if--" Gabrielle: *"No."*

Most people like Maui , it’s freaking awesome there . If you are only lucky enough or able to get to Hawaii once in a lifetime , choose Maui .

been to hawaii 7 times (maui 5 and Kauai 2) and the people there, especially the hawaiians, are so welcoming and sweet.

I'll never forget the first time I got to Hawaii with my friends for a vacation. We got in our uber to get to our hostel and we were talking to our driver, asking him all about the stairway to heaven, various cliff jumping spots, the usual, asking how sick it was to live there. He told us it was kind of like a prison. You have a few hundred square kilometres and once you've seen it you've seen it. Leaving is expensive, living there is expensive, you can't take your car or anything with you because the only way off is a plane. He told me that it can get old quick. I thought he was insane. It was so beautiful and fun there. But you know? After 10 days there of the exact same weather and having toured the whole island... I get it now. It's not all sunshine and rainbows. You are ISOLATED in Hawaii.

“Think about when your kids have to stay home for one day.” I have some bad news for you 2019 Gabrielle Reece.

I was born and raised on Maui, I lived there for 23 years. Joe you need to have someone on the show that’s actually from there & the best person would be Max Holloway or hand pick someone that was born and raised there or even still lives there. I would say Dwayne but he used to live there back then & when he was a kid. Max would be your best option, and have him tell the truth about Hawaii, it’s sad. A good song to listen to about over there is Ryan Hiraoka - How Come. That song explains it all. When she’s talking about the wind surfing, the most windiest beach in the world is Kanaha. I used to paddle there, it’s amazing, sand whips your leg & body but you get used to too it. Majority of the time it’s really nice there but then there’s days it’s overcast but summer is the best time to go it’s super hot too so the water feel good.

Anderson Fuller's comment down below, about that uber driver, resonated with me. I have spent considerable time researching the history of the Islands, the people, the Culture. Even made myself a list of reasons why I would want to live in Hawaii, my preferred Island(s) to live on. But then I decided to make a 2nd list as to why I think I probably wouldnt enjoy it as much. Which included the high cost of living- of course. But the one that stood out the most was what that uber driver revealed: from my home I would walk north, south, east, west and in a short time I would encounter an ocean. Would I feel so limited as to what to do, what to learn, what to experience? I would perhaps compound that by viewing life back here on the mainland as more advantagous. Where there is so much more to do, more opportunities, more places to visit, leading to a desire to just go back to the mainland. Lesson learned: Hawaii, with all of it's spectacular beauty, can be a great source for "escapism", or a repreive. But that in and of itself may not equate to becoming your home. If you want to choose Hawaii to "escape", aks yourself what it is you want to escape from? Maybe you do better on improving or adjusting your outlook about where you are in the present right now. I conclude that the most beautiful thing about Hawaii, isn't the beautiful surroundings- it's the native people, the culture. It will be an adjustment, but if you can learn to adjust with effort and patience over time, yes Hawaii can be a great place to live in. And a relatively small peice of land surrounded by a huge ocean need not disuade you. As for the people? The same thing applies with life on the mainland- treat people with the utmost respect, courtesy and be willing to learn from them, and you will do great!

Rogans buying a Hawaiian Island with that Spotify deal! 💯😂

I’ve lived here since 1969 and was Hanai’d ( adopted) by hawaiian families and grew up with love, I was a small haole girl from California, adopted in California by a lady who didn’t want me but her husband did so when we moved here it was my saving grace

i was in hawaii for 3 months last year for an internship and it was the most beautiful experience to me, especially being an avid surfer it was epic lol

My taxi driver in Hawaii hated his own state. He doesn't like water sports so he complained that there was nothing there for him and he was bored out of his mind

I lived on the Big Island for two years and I can tell you it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth. It's also very expensive. The Big Island is among the cheapest for cost of living. However, there is a huge drug problem in Hawaii. I lived in Hilo, HI for 2 years. And she's right. Every island is so different. So do your due diligence and enjoy the aloha of the islands.

Its rare to find a pure Hawaiin now days..They're mix up of Portuguese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and so on..

Very interesting input.

Because of this one video that just happens to be talking about something on curious about, I’ll be getting these videos in my feed despite never watching it in the past.

"can you train alone every single time?" I TRAIN ALONE I EAT ALONE I SLEEP ALONE!" - Clubber Lang

I was stationed in Oahu for 5 years. Very pretty place but I was shocked by how much crime there was

As somebody that goes to Kauai every year, it’s pretty awesome to hear this from her but she’s 100% right about everything

i think no one has really looked at hawaii and it’s history of how our kingdom got illegally overthrown by America by force. Us hawaiians are not lazy, it literally is hard to thrive when prices for a single 5,000 sq foot house goes for at 1 million and up and that’s the poor side of the island.

I spent my early childhood on Oahu. I returned in the eighties and just wanted to cry. Damn hotels! We wanted to dine at the Sheraton but it us an hour to get there. I thought that we were in the twilight zone with all one way streets. All I can say is that the Hawaii of the fifties was a very fond memory.

What she doesn’t say is priceless

Warrior’s are one of the most essential aspects of a thriving society. No nation will stand without warriors ready to stand for it.

As an introvert, laying on the beach and staring at the mountains sounds amazing! 😊

In this whole conversation she is speaking to her native friends and neighbors . " PLEASE DON'T HATE ME BECAUSE I'M WHITE " She is terrified of saying just one wrong word .

I married a Hawaiian man 14 years ago, I’m a happy woman. He’s taught me (Irish blooded) how to relax and enjoy life more fully. The culture is beautiful

she tap dances around that subject like a champ! LMAO

love how this young lady carries herself friendly without coming off as flirting, at some of the best level I’ve ever seen!

The biggest thing that shocked me about Oahu is the amount of homeless that are there.

When I went to Honolulu it felt like Skid Row on the beach.

I was station there in the marines... I used to stand on mountains and look down and clouds raining and it be 50 degrees and go back down to the beach is 95 degrees .... loved it..most beautiful place I've ever seen .

One of my earliest memories was when hawaii gained statehood! My grandpa was a friend of the queen and bitterly opposed dole co takeover of the island! Today one of my friends is from the dole family! I'm hoping to visit and just learned from this vid as to how climate varied the islands are! I'm sad though that homelessness and meth have become major concerns for the island!

I'm a Las Vegas native (my father was an engineer at the Nevada Test Site) and we have the largest Hawaiian population outside of the islands. I've known many and lived next to them too and let's just say they are VERY tribal and stick to their own kind.

Go to the Greek islands, Locals love everybody. No issues

I went to Kauai absolutely loved it for holiday. It was amazing . It felt like the whole place was in HD so colourful and bright. So clean to. The locals had two or three jobs I think it was hard work for them just to live.

Joe! That was exactly what I got so interested in when I visited Hawai’i the first time…how it had all the climates except arctic. Also the fact the there are no snakes - I didn’t even realize that was a thing.

I lived in Hawaii for a number of years and found most native Hawaiians to be a warm and welcoming people. What most mainlanders don't understand is that when mainlanders from the U.S. and the rich Japanese, in the 80's, bought homes in Hawaii they drove up prices so much that native Hawaiians could no longer live in Hawaii. Most Hawaiians share there homes with 2 or 3 generations to help keep costs down. Except for Honolulu, which is the only large city and a lot like the mainland, most people grew up in Hawaii work 2 or 3 part time jobs to make a living. So what has happened is more native Hawaiians live on the mainland than live in Hawaii, because they can no longer afford to live there. An extreme version of gentrification. Imagine instead of having to move a few blocks away you are forced to move 3,000 miles away. I imagine you would be angry too.

Life on O’ahu: my quickest tip: if the city starts with a W, don’t be there at night. General rule of thumb. A nice house is $1M+. A half decent livable house is $500K. A studio apartment is $350K. Just bend over. Gas is too expensive. Groceries are outrageously expensive for produce and meat and dairy. Traffic is just ridiculous. Homelessness and drugs are rampant in nearly every city. Most locals are extremely friendly as long as you don’t act a fool. I’m white. Never been called haole in 3 years. At least not in a derogatory way. Just “yeah da haole surfer guy” The water is clean. The hikes are beautiful. But I’d rather live in certain spots of Florida tbh.

born and raised, and still on Oahu now. Been to every island also. Maybe that might make my input one-sided, and i think it can be hard to find a local hawaiian who can articulate what she is trying to say with words like "simple" and "warrior", but I will try. It isn't about what/who we dislike. Many of us feel innately connected to nature - be it the ocean, or the garden, or the food. This foundation simplifies a lot of our behavior because it makes us feel (1) we ought to act based on our intuitions, and (2) we feel like we are perceptive people. That connection also give us a sense of responsibility to nature - that we are the voices of that which have no voice. Makes us protective BY nature. At the risk of being pretentious, I believe there are other cultures in the world with this sense of kuleana, or responsibility. With th is understanding that I have tried to piece together - even for myself - I think it can be plain to see the sort of interactions you can expect from us. "Warriors" is a flattering word, and I believe other Hawaiians would embrace it. But they would much more identify with the title of Protector. And once you enter the Islands, there is a level of reverence that we hope to see

As a Korean living on Oahu for 16 years I leaned to live with filipinos (there are a-lot of them here) and I love those people and their amazing culture. Very humorous, emotional, honest fun loving and forgiving people. They dance as good as Koreans :)

I have lived in hawaii on the big island for the past 22 years and there are far more positives then negatives. its all about respect. I love it here.

Just came from a week in Maui. The locals just seemed so angry all the time, it actually got kinda weird after a while. You would just think that they’d be happier people... Surprisingly I found the people on Oahu to be much friendlier.

Worst part about the islands is that Americans have destroyed the housing market for the locals, all while bringing California culture.

I had a sort of a weeklong survival trip on Molokai 22 years ago, and it was awesome 👍 we actually had to boat out and swim to get to the beach where we camped.

Maui is the most beautiful place I have ever seen on this earth its just that amazing

"Nihihau" bruh I'm dead

Much like NZ. There's the same issues suffered by pretty much all indigenous people worldwide, but Polynesians are large, physically powerful people and tend to have a low threshold for violent activity. They're great at sport, but that physicality is often used against others when things aren't going well. As Reece said, there's a lot of wonderful things about Polynesian culture... the generosity and sharing of resources among the extended family, which can include iwi (tribe) and hapu (sub-tribe) and adoption of kids (hanai/whaangai.... the simillarity of many words in Maori and Hawaiian is amazing, considering the time between them both and their root language). But where I live in NZ, it's a very poor area, with limited permanent, stable employment, with the resultant problems of drugs, gangs, family violence and obesity and other poor health outcomes. And if it's like what Reece is saying, there's something of an unspoken ethnic divide, where each side tends to socialise mainly with their own people. It's far from absolute, but it does make it much easier to see them as "the other" and exacerbates problems.

The toughest part of living in Hawaii is the cost. If you like the beach and the ocean, outdoor activities... you will rarely be bored.

After seeing Dog the Bounty Hunter, we knew Hawaii was no paradise.

What I got from this video: “Hawaii’s cool....pretty cool...” *awkward smile* “Interesting”

Born and raised on the Big island. Hilo boy. Definitely depressed economy. Think of it as a fish bowl. I can go home 20 years later, and everyone is still going in circles. Same people, same places. There are exceptions of course. Got to say, incredibly awesome to grow up there! Greatful to my Parents. Aloha all!

I lived in Hawai'i for years myself. Some of the local natives were the most kind, open, generous and amazing people I've ever met. A psychic dream brought me there and when it was time for me to go I got the message loud and clear. It's a magical place but it doesn't feel right to live there anymore, for me. What the U.S. has done to those islands is unfortunate. Most recently the Red Hill water contamination on a military base.

For the record, I live here; it’s will take you just shy of a entire (winter’s hours of daylight) day to drive (speed limits and traffic lights and traffic) the entire paved circumference of the Big Island.

A good male friend of mine lived on the big island in the 80s and went through grades 4,5 and 6 there: he was so bullied by the natives that he had to move back to California and ended up living with his grandparents. He even went so far as to say he feared for his life at a few points. I met him in my 30’s and he exhibited many signs of a trauma survivor.

Extremely interesting 🙏

I’ve lived in Haena on Kauai for 11 years. The flood of 2018 was very challenging. I came from Seattle. We get together and help each other when we are in hard times.

whole lotta racial tension in hawaii

You can't go to Niihau is because it's privately owned. It has been for over 150 years.

I am here in Kaua’i as I wrote this and Gabrielle put it so well about the people and life here. The locals seem to come off rude and they are but when she explains their life, it lightens it up a bit. A sad situation for a lot of people. We just want to visit and respect it too though, as a tourist.

I'm a writer/journalist in Colorado and am thinking about making the move to Hawaii after a few more years of experience. Definitely good to hear this perspective.

I spent 10 days in Kauai. I found out quickly that in California, I'm a fat Mexican. But in Kauai, I'm a little Hawaiian. 🤙🏾 While I was there, speaking of racism. I spent my days without gel in my hair, no shoes or shirt on. I'd wear board shorts and I always seemed to have sand on me. So by the end of our stay, I was dark and living the Aloha style to the core. On our last day there, I walked into Starbucks, barefooted no shirt, hair not combed wearing Billabong board shorts and I bought a Venti cup that read Aloha, Hawaii on it. I got to the front of the line to buy the cup, she charged me. And then I asked to have it filled with iced green tea with 2 splenda. I went to pay her and she said, no thanks. I don't charge the locals. 😎 I answered with a big smile 😁 MAHALO SIESTA! She smiled back and gave me my drink. My wife was standing there with me and said, I'm with him. I will have... And she ordered and this polynesian girl said, that will be 6.19. Blah hahahaha!! She charged her. Why? Because she didn't look like a local 😜

I loved Oahu, Waikiki was legit! Definitely gonna go back to visit all other islands for sure!

So bascially you need alot of money and be a very productive chilled and laid back type of person

I’ve been living on Oahu since 2012, it was the best move I’ve ever done in my life.