>> i don't know what's been happening with jim nabors in the last 40 years. [laughter] >> but what about poi? poi is still a very prized food amongst the hawaiians. it's not just a staple food. it's an object of almost religious devotion. it's the mashed tarro root. i personally -- let's say i haven't craved it for a while, since i left hawaii. i mean, there's a whole story there, you know, one of the -- one of the people i interviewed, a doctor, who's grandmother had worked for the last queen of hawaii. he walked me through the creation myth. i sat down to interview him and i asked him a question about the overthrow of the queen in 1893, and he answered by going back to the beginning of time. [laughter] >> as you can imagine, it was a very long interview. [laughter] >> and during that -- during when he was talking about the beginning of time he talked about, you know, the earth mother mating with the sky father and all that and -- the object of the union was this stillborn. and when that child was buried up sprouted the first tarro plant and then the next si