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Let's Play a Game: Which of these Hawaiian Pidgin Phrases is Fake?

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0:05 Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys. We have Kamaka Dias with us today. Kamaka, white. Okay, so you would say you're born and raised in Hawaii, right? So you know a pretty good amount of pigeon. Yeah, I mean that's it's actually an official language. So people could actually say they're bilingual. Okay, linguist. He learned Hawaiian. Well, yeah, I grew up speaking Hawaiian. Oh, perfect. Okay, and these guys Hawaiian, not pigeon. >> Hawaiian Hawaiian. Hawaiian the language. Like that. Yeah, yeah, maybe that's a little closer than that. Thank you. Okay, that's that's even better. >> High School Musical they had that. >> [laughter] >> He's talking about Mount Waialeale. All right, we're going to play this game then because none of these guys, except for maybe you, might know a pretty good amount. >> Yeah, I want to I want to see how much you know. But the game is that I have here like a

0:55 bunch of different pigeon phrases, right? You're going to read them off out loud one at a time and you're going to just and you're going to say what the meaning is on here. Um in this stack one one of them is some ████ one that I made up. Okay, nice. You guys get one chance to figure out which one that is, but if we pass it, it's safe. You know what [snorts] I mean? I'm going to win. I live on the ninth But you get eliminated if you get eliminated if you choose the wrong one. So you you each get one shot to say that that's the one that's ████ It all sounds made up to me, so I'm toast. You're eliminated though. You're you're just out. Yeah, you're out. Yeah. But you can still you can still help others. >> [laughter] >> I'm going to I'm going to win. I live on the ninth island. We all live here, fool. Who do you Who do you think's going to win? Who do you think's going to win? Shh, I don't know. He's a sleeper. His family's actually local. >> You can actually like show them or if you need to or you could just say the

1:45 word the phrase and the meaning. Okay. Go ahead. Wow, you you prepped really well. Okay. All right, make big body. Make big body. What? Say it one more time. Make big body. >> Say more more pigeon-y. >> [laughter] >> I got to be used to it. >> What? You make big body. No make big body. You you think that's fake? [laughter] >> No, no, no. No, no. I I thought we got to answer what we want. Or they could pick one of us, no? >> You could say what it means. You just have to say whether you believe it's real or Oh, so I can say what it means? >> Tell them what it means, yeah. >> Okay, so it's like strut your stuff in public. It's like you're acting all Big make big body. Is that real? >> All right, cool. All right, go next. >> Yeah, I think it's real. >> Okay. I think it's like older generation. >> it's real. Uh no, you you you're basically you you basically uh all of

2:36 them are real to you as you say them. Okay. So, we don't know so we don't know. Until later. >> I say even if it's fake, if you know it's fake >> Okay, okay, okay. Act [laughter] like it's real. You're like, We're supposed to say the definitions. No, you don't have to say definitions, no. You just have to tell You just have to be able to tell if I made it up. >> Ah, I see. Okay. This one is uh that place that hamajang. So so the the the pigeon word is hamajang. I believe it. It's a real one. I don't know what the ████ it means though. Broken ratchet. Is that correct? It means like something's broken, something's like broke down? Yeah, it's like it's it's all messed up. Like all it's all hamajang. Or even if like your hair was messy, it's all your hair's all hamajang. Oh, okay. Cool. All right, next one next one. Garen barbarian. >> [laughter] >> Does that mean like um

3:27 where the body's bang but the face is ugly? >> [laughter] >> That's a butter face. Butter face, yeah. Butter face. What's the definition? So so it's it's basically like guaranteed like you know you say say something like Garen barbarian. >> Yeah, Garen's barbarian. Like let's go. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Like guarantee Oh, like you're going to guaranteed to win or is there anything Or are you going to win your fight? Garans ball barans. Oh, okay, okay, all right, cool. Then next one, next one. >> [laughter] >> I feel like you need you I can hear your voice while reading this. This ████ all high maka maka. Okay, that's a real one. That's a real one. That just sounds like Subi. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. ████ high maka maka. >> Yeah. He thinks he's all that or some

4:17 ████ right? Like High maka maka is like yeah, stuck up. Like Snobby. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a big head. Yeah. So they would do with joke sometimes like my family oh high kamaka maka. Oh, okay. Okay, okay. >> [laughter] >> We stay bolo head. That's real. Bolo head is the is the word. It's real? What does it mean? I don't know but I've been called it. Bolo head? >> [laughter] >> I don't know why you'd be called bolo head. It's like bald. Oh, bald? So what So what when you cut off all your hair you're like oh you bolo head. Oh. That's like you day one peace core, huh? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bolo head. All right, cool. All right. You guys are pretty confident these are all real, huh? Yep. All right. Penga, how did you know this one? [laughter] Chocho he get chocho lips. Chocho lips? What is that like DSL? Yeah, like dick sucking lips. >> [laughter] >> I guess it would it wouldn't be bad to

5:08 have these. >> [laughter] >> Chocho lips is like It's like that. >> [laughter] >> That's DSLs. Yeah. Chocho lips. Big lips. Wait, are we supposed to call that out when we're like this is not right? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. If it pass if it like gets by you, then I win. Oh. If a fake one gets by you. So I have all the definitions on there. So even if it's made up, he's going to read the definition. Oh, yeah. ████ I think I think we passed one. Do you want me to report? >> Okay, okay, okay. [laughter] I hele to the hale. That's ████ fake. YO, WHAT? HELE TO THE HALE? I DON'T KNOW, MAN. You think he's a that's You think that's real? I think real. Cuz those are real words. Go go home going home. Yeah. Means Yeah, it means like I'm going home. Sounds like I'm late to the holiday. Hale is the Hawaiian word for go. Yeah. And then hale is hale's house.

5:58 >> So people be saying it just like that? Yeah. Uh Close, yeah. Yeah. Close, yeah. How do they really say it? I would say like we hale it to the hale or hale [laughter] it to It's really close. Yeah, yeah. You want to use that one? Asher >> No, no. I lost. I'm I'm out. I'm out. Are you out? >> Yeah, for sure. I I I thought that was a fake one. Now >> You didn't actually think that was a fake >> Now I have to sit here silently and or just suggest things. >> [laughter] >> That was your pick? >> Yes, you didn't even pick that. I'm I'm a man of my word. I really I really thought that was a real one. >> He's out. >> crazy. Randall no can handle. Randall no can handle? What the ████ >> [laughter] >> It means you can't hold your liquor. Randall no can handle. >> [laughter] >> Like you you you you you you and your friends all I think that's the one.

6:50 Randall no can handle. I think that was the one. >> [laughter] >> I think that was the one. Like keep going. Is it Is that a Is that a real one? It's a REAL ONE. OH! YOU'RE OUT. THAT WHOLE THAT WHOLE COUCH IS OUT. >> He's such a Randall. >> [laughter] >> No can handle. Randall no can handle. So you you wrote Randall no can handle. We always add like the o's like Randall handle. Oh, he wrote it wrong? >> No, he wrote it just regular Randall no can handle. But we like like instead of brother we say brada. But what what What does that mean though like Randall? Like is he talking about >> because it rhymes with handle. >> [laughter] >> That's the only reason? So Randall no can handle. >> Cuz I was like how many Randalls ARE ON HERE? >> [laughter] >> I'M LIKE THERE'S THERE CAN'T BE THAT MANY RANDALLS. What else rhymes with

7:40 What rhymes with handle with handle? >> true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's got to rhyme. That's true. All right, all right. And though, I don't know. All right, Bar Bar and Anthony are out. All right, keep going, keep going. Just buck a loose. >> [laughter and clears throat] >> Just buck a loose. I THINK IT'S THAT ONE. THAT one sounds kind of real though. You think that one's fake? >> Yeah. Just buck a loose. I think it's that. It means don't stress. I would say this is we don't really use it. This might be like real old school pigeon. >> Oh, so it's like old people's? Like I would maybe see a shirt with a shaka that says just buck a loose. Oh. It says don't don't stress. I'm out. I'm out. >> Steve's the last one. I might win this. LAST ONE. WHAT IF HE WINS? >> [laughter] >> BUT YOU NEVER KNOW. I COULD HAVE ALREADY won because I could you guys might have all thought of fake one was real. I thought the I

8:30 thought I Yeah, this is really like it's a language. No, not good. But >> [laughter] >> these are no, these are good one. You did your research. Okay. Hold up, Bar. I'm going chicken skin. That's real. Chicken skin. Yeah, chicken skin. They getting cold? Like I got I got chicken skin. Hold it, I gave me chicken skin. Like goosebumps. Goosebumps, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Goosebumps, yeah. Oh, wow, you're good. Yeah, okay. We got to go do one, kukulu kumuhana. That sounds legit. >> [laughter] >> Damn, bro. You can't get this guy. What does that one mean? It said you wrote down gather support. Um, this isn't I don't know if anybody actually says this, but kukulu is these are Hawaiian words. Kukulu kumuhana. So, I mean It's Like an intervention? What is that? It says to gather support. Kukulu to build and kumuhana is like a topic in So, I

9:20 don't know. I You might have got like a Google definition of this. So, it's not really used. Nobody nobody says this, yeah. But but it's fake. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. So, he's wrong. >> not. It's like a It's like a penny farthing bicycle. Nobody uses it anymore, but it exists. >> [laughter] >> Could maybe say this, I don't know. Can you do your best Jason Momoa impression and say it? I bet it sounds legit after. I'm not good at accents. Oh, we got to do A KUKULU KUMUHANA. >> [laughter] >> THE THE BUGGA IS MAKIDAI DEAD. Makidai dead. The bugga? It sounds like bugga bugga is like a thing like that thing. >> bugga's real but I don't know what the

10:10 makidai dead is. >> [laughter] >> What's it mean? Make it is to die in Hawaiian. So it's just saying makidai dead it's basically just saying die >> die die >> Really dead like really dead. Like oh, that that thing is makidai dead. Yeah, that thing. I'll buy it. All right, damn. All right, next one. >> [laughter and gasps] >> I spock you bombai. I spock you bombai. Spock? I spock you. I'll buy it. Damn. Can't get this guy. Yeah, um You wrote got to go but bombai is like eventually. Like oh, bombai you learn. Oh. And spock is like to see something. Like I spock you later like see you later. I saw that thing. I I would spock that that tree way in the back. What if it's like I spock your little sister when she's changing?

11:01 I DON'T >> [laughter] >> IT IT COULD BE CORRECT. I JUST DON'T know if anybody has ever used it like that. I just I just want to use it. I think they think it they don't say it. Don't say that in front of the uncles and the aunties cuz yeah, you you get lickings. All right, all right, next one. How you Wednesday? >> [laughter] >> How's your Wednesday? How you Wednesday? Yeah, can I can change it a little bit if I need Okay, yeah. How How did it stay? It It says how how did it go? Like uh Trying to think of how to do this one. How was it stay? How I'm going to >> stand? Stay stay is like oh we stay at the beach. Like we are at the beach or like how how was something like how Sounds legit.

11:52 Like you're asking how something how it went. >> I don't know if we use it in the in this way that is written. Yeah yeah yeah. A lot of these things it seems like it's old pigeon but then like people don't use it but they understand it. Yeah. It's called the same group of guys that have a fear everyone tattoo. That's supposed to be like we're afraid of everyone. >> But you could say like oh oh how how how your father stay? So I guess in a way like how how is your father? Like how is he doing? So what does it mean when you say something stay? Is is just how they doing? It's I mean different like if I'd be like I stay at the beach I'm at the beach. >> Yeah, I heard that. >> Um how you stay like how you doing? >> Oh. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah, it's yeah yeah. So like that's how you using this. Okay. >> [laughter] >> Yesterday I go shee shee and came out all June be. All [laughter] June be?

12:42 WHAT THE I SAY THAT ALL THE TIME. WHAT'S WHAT'S THE MEANING? What's the meaning? Shee shee is pee June be is bubble time. Piss turned green. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, we got him. That's the one. No, that one was legit. That one was legit. I don't know that that one was actually legit. All right, next one. >> [laughter] >> I thought it was the Karen but it was the real one. That was the fake one. >> Yeah, I I love saying this. When got home I took a massive jitsukawa. >> [laughter] >> I think I've heard Bart say this on the clips we we are shouting. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Took a massive jitsukawa. That sounds hella Hawaiian. >> When you study? When I when I got home I took a massive jitsukawa. Yeah, I came home and I studied. Yeah, that was a bit like specifically to Big Island. That's a big island in Yeah, it's big island. That's when you're taking a ████ and you

13:32 come. >> [laughter] >> At the same time. It's another legit one. Do you guys know double dragoning? No. >> [laughter] >> It's when It's when when it comes out the top and out the bottom. Oh. I did That's peace core right there. That That's peace core. >> That's what they call it? Double dragoning. Yeah, so when I had food poisoning and we we don't have toilets, so you you have the outhouse. So but in your house so so at night there's they have a belief that there's witches outside. So you have a little pool It's like a bucket with a lid on top, maybe like this big. So you just pee in that at night or if you got to go you you you go in that. So I was I had the double dragoning. I had to use a bucket that I bought to throw up and then I had the old volunteers one that he left it there. So I had to sit on that WHILE DOING BOTH. OH. THAT'S THAT'S DOUBLE DRAGONING. YEAH. That's wild. >> That's That's a cool term.

14:22 >> When I was a kid double dragon was a different. >> [laughter] >> It was? What was your What was your What was your definition? I was just a cool video game. >> [laughter] >> Red and blue, baby. Okay, um Okay. We going to JK Joe this toilet. >> [laughter] >> Blow it up? You're going to blow up the toilet? >> Clean it extremely well. >> Oh, okay okay okay. That That works. I thought it was going to be blow it up. Clean it up for free. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. Who Who Joe'd all the muumuu? Who Joe'd? Yeah. So muumuu is a they they call it like the long Hawaiian dress. >> Yeah yeah. It's It's muumuu in Hawaiian, but people read it as muumuu cuz m u u m u u. Like a muumuu. Yeah, so >> Like the yeah, the Homer Simpson one. >> But it but the actual word is muumuu, but yeah. Definition of of who Joe'd all

15:13 the muumuu? Uh when Sorry, I can't believe I forgot this one, yeah. >> [laughter] >> Getting jacked by all the milk in the store. Oh man, I don't know how many times at Costco I was like, "Who drew all [laughter] the moo moo?" Yeah. And I'm an executive member at Costco. It shouldn't happen. >> [laughter] >> When he shows up? Yeah. Yeah. ████ Joe, man. >> actually start saying >> [laughter] >> "Who drew all the moo moo?" Thought it was two sister, but only was Hannah Joe. >> [laughter] >> And married couples who look like LESBIANS FROM BEHIND. >> [laughter] >> THOUGHT IT WAS TWO SISTERS, BUT only was Hannah Joe. Hannah Joe. That actually happened to me and Hannah.

16:04 Yeah, duh. >> [laughter] >> Duh. Yeah, that's why We were walking at the boardwalk at the beach and then this guy was rolling blood, yeah. >> waiting, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, whoever. Yeah. And he was like, "Thought it was two sister." That's probably how that started out there, yeah. Two hot ████ I I I think this this is how I lost my virginity saying this. It was you going to jitsu my kawwa. >> [laughter] >> Stupid. What does that mean? It's Are you going Never mind. I Sorry, I got the wrong definition. Um, are you going to apologize to Korea for what Japan >> [laughter] >> I forgot the definition before I said that. But somehow it worked. I don't know. You going to jitsu my kawwa. >> [laughter] >> All right. This is brother trying to Anthony my

16:54 Lee. >> [laughter] >> Stupid. When dudes not only think 9/11 was a hoax, but also claim the towers never fell. Accurate. Damn, these are getting They're getting really poetic. Yeah. Damn, man. I think we learned this in history class. Yeah. These are like ancient proverbs now. >> [laughter] >> Okay. Yeah, this is I think this is one of the old Hawaiian proverbs they taught us. This June be so good broke the island. >> [laughter] >> When your ceremonial matcha is so superior, all the local owned tea shops get out of business, native Micronesians get their homes foreclosed on, and Matsumoto Shave Ice files chapter 11 bankruptcy. Chapter two bankruptcy. >> What's chapter two? [laughter] Or is it chapter 11? I don't know if it's Roman numerals. Chapter 11, okay. But two is really funny to see it like How often do

17:45 they say that? >> [laughter] >> Every other week? Every other week, huh? Wow. This June be so good it broke the island. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. By Micronesians. >> Yeah, my friend Kevin's Micronesian and I haven't [clears throat] seen him since. >> [laughter] >> Okay. The kind. >> [laughter] >> IT JUST THAT'S THE FAKE ONE. IT JUST ends with the kind. >> The kind. You know the kind. Yeah. Well, thanks for all the legit phrases. That's all That's all 100% legit pigeon. None of those are fake. >> Yeah, don't look it up. Thanks for playing. I couldn't beat this guy, but I'll get him next time.

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