Sep 10, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min · 21 segments
Who is Robert Rokuro Taira? When did Hawaii become a state? What did Jon find to start his newest era?? Find out all this and more as Jon and Marisa break bread with King’s Hawaiian this week On…
Jon GloverHostMarisa PinsonHost
Hawaii, you can't talk about Kings Hawaiian obviously without talking about Hawaii.
I realized I did not know a lot about Hawaii before it became a state and how it became a state.
I know that it was like the last state, but it's like, what was it before? By the way, Hawaii as a state is only 67 years old.
In 1878, so that's what, 86, 78, 88, eight years before Coca-Cola, of the 58,000 people that lived in Hawaii, only 438 of them were Portuguese, according to the census.
So because of that, there was a greater demand to have laborers to work in the sugar cane plantations.
You're telling me that if I, what, burn that and crush it and put it in my cereal, it's going to be good?
Hawaii, you can't talk about Kings Hawaiian obviously without talking about Hawaii.
I realized I did not know a lot about Hawaii before it became a state and how it became a state.
I know that it was like the last state, but it's like, what was it before? By the way, Hawaii as a state is only 67 years old.
In 1878, so that's what, 86, 78, 88, eight years before Coca-Cola, of the 58,000 people that lived in Hawaii, only 438 of them were Portuguese, according to the census.
So because of that, there was a greater demand to have laborers to work in the sugar cane plantations.
You're telling me that if I, what, burn that and crush it and put it in my cereal, it's going to be good?
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