Today’s guest Anthony Pignataro is fresh off a career stop at MauiTime for the last 15 years, back in California as a freelance journalist. Also an author of a series of noirish novels set on Maui, Pignataro allowed us to pick his brain about ….

Why are he Lakers the favorite team of Hawai’i?
Should surfing deserve to be the official sport of California (or is it not a sport, or is skateboarding a sport, or …)
And about at about the 30 minute mark, we take a deeper dive into a piece he did for the OC Weekly about coming to grips with losing a childhood friend all these years later when new evidence appears to be a suicide instead of an accident.
(There’s also a reference to the W. Kamau Bell series on CNN called “United Shades of America” that just did a piece on native Hawaiians.)
Running time: 44 minutes: