Name: BJ Penn on The Issues That Made Him Run for Governor of Hawaii
Uploaded: 2022-04-27T17:19:19.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'BJ Penn on The Issues That Made Him Run for Governor of Hawaii' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'BJ Penn on The Issues That Made Him Run for Governor of Hawaii' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-27. Transcript available.

I was so enthusiastic about this and and and I said people say don't talk
about it but I said no I'm so I'm not here to take the people the people's
money you know the money the money that comes in from the government I want to
put it to two programs and I want to make make this make this this government
administration this governor's administration is powerful as it can
possibly be and I want to you know I it's about holding on to that power too
I've only planned to run for to run for one term because I'm not here though I'm
not here to be I want to be with the people the mana is with the people we
have the power I want to be with the people I'm only planning on going in for
for one term can I ask you this though what if you don't accomplish everything
you want to get done in one term what if it's more difficult to get through the
maze of bureaucracy and I'm here to work with that I want a strong lieutenant
governor I have the lieutenant governors that I see that are coming in I want
to
work with well with everybody and endorse who I have to if the people need me
and
they say BJ let's do it we need you one more time of course I'm going to come
and
stand up for the people you know and that's why I have no problem even doing
this in the first place I would have never had the life that I had if the
people of
Hawaii didn't support me the way they did I would have never got to this
success and
and all of these things I didn't win every fight I would come home with my face
beaten and battered and and the people from Hawaii the people of Hawaii would
say
hey you gotta fight again BJ you can do it you're our hero come on let's show
them you
can show all the kids show everybody we can don't mess with Hawaiians you know
we can do
this and they've always stood behind me and I got no problem doing this for
them and
it's for our children and for everybody so I'm just you know I'm in and they're
gonna
keep coming after me they're gonna keep throwing whatever they can at me and
let's go let's go
BJ you got to get together with Jerry uh with um Jesse Ventura I I yes I need I
need to talk to I
was I had him in mind Jesse the body and Hawaii's got so many different
problems with our housing problem
our energy problems now everything with the gas and I and I really want to
invite Elon Musk to
come over and and see if he could help us with Hawaii because it's it's a landlocked
state and
you know everything comes in off the boat and you got everybody talking about
the Jones Act do you
know what the Jones Act is no that's that's an act that makes all international
boats go to
California first before they come to Hawaii they can't just come to Hawaii this
was made back when
Hawaii was a territory so all kinds of different things that a lot of different
people talk about
you know I'm so inefficient the they um you know Hawaii is the most unionized
state but our families
all work in those unions we're all together so we all have to figure out how to
update all of these
different things and make them work properly do we just bring the boats from do
we do we build our
docks bigger so they can take international boats but just have our unions be
the ones to take to take
all the stuff off their boats so our unions still you know control the docks
and not other people not
international people controlling our docks because of course we want our people
from home those are our
cousins those are our family right you know so what whatever you know you hear
all kinds of different
stuff from you know the big things in Hawaii right now the housing the rising
cost of living you know the
education and and the this the rising cost of living is is what's killing
everybody right now and and and we
we have no self-sustainability you know you see you know how big the big island
is I believe we could do the
right thing and you know from from Wailuku River to Waipio Valley that's 50
miles of water and farmland and
and they're talking about growing a hundred million trees for the climate I'm
saying every tree better
have fruit on it then every tree better have food on it you know we're stuck
dependent on a boat coming
in and out and even more we have to protect our waters you know all the water
is held in perpetuity to the
people of Hawaii but we almost need to go one step further and and make it a
national treasure I didn't
say a federal treasure I said the national treasure to the people where you can't
just start diverting
waters and doing all these things and I mean you take half the water from a
stream coming down you kill
half the life that was around in that stream you know and these are all things
that I've seen growing
up and that we have to think about ours our sustainability and sustainability
right sustain is you're staying
in the same place we need to thrive we need to move forward the airplanes come
in full they drop
everything off and they go back empty why why why does that happen it doesn't
make any sense
how much change would have to be done for Hawaii to be completely self-sustainable
like like what kind
of industries would you have to put there where you never have to get anything
off of a boat is that even
impossible well I don't know what we would have to figure out what we're going
to do with petroleum
but that's right that's why I want to talk to people like like Elon you know
that's why I wanted
people who who know different things you got a lot of sun but I think solar and
we got a lot of sun
we got a lot of sun I think solar in its current form um is is great but I don't
think it's really
capable of running a whole city yet you know we got a I don't I don't know what
we have out there you
know we have to figure out I mean the gas is expensive the gas is expensive in
Hilo yeah gas
expensive everywhere it's uh it's weird I've never been able to understand that
right is that did the
oil disappear overnight where did it go where did it all go you know you want
somebody tried to explain
it to me and I glazed over I was like I can't pay attention whenever we go to
any of those like
there's a lot of like speaking meetings right and I think I hey this is some
real mixed martial arts
this stuff because not only do you have to know what what you got to do when
you get in well there's
a lot of black and white stuff and that's like freedoms or like basic stuff and
then there's state
budgets you know what I mean that gets gray yeah yeah gray areas you know that's
that's where that's
where you gotta have a lot of people helping you out right you know what I mean
right right