While I’m mostly convinced that the Kai the Homeless free Hitchhiker story is eventually going to end in tragedy or at least mundane depression, a la the Golden-Voiced Hobo, for the time being, it’s still fairly uplifting. Kai went on Jimmy Kimmel last night, and in a six-minute segment (you can watch below), proved to be just as compelling as he was when he was delivering positive messages and smashing a guy with a hatchet. Besides the fact that Kai is basically a foul-mouthed, surf-bro version of the Incredible Hulk, a drifter who goes from town to town hiding from his demons while fighting crime and enforcing his own moral code, he seems suspiciously educated. For instance, in the original video, Kai described the victim of his hatchet justice as “haole, got no breath in him, you know what I’m saying?”
“Haole” being a Hawaiian term for foreigner, which some people think means “breathless,” stemming from Hawaiians’ observation that foreigners didn’t use a Polynesian greeting that includes breath sharing. It’s not crazy that a surfer might know something like that, but this time around, Kai also quotes Greek (25 seconds into the second video – something about “fileo towards sofia”) and mentions a story about the queen of England locking two ravens in the Tower of London (1:35 of the second video) - a reference to the legend that the kingdom would fall if ravens ever left the Tower of London, specifically the two ravens born there in May 2012. So, if Kai isn’t educated, he’s at the very least a hobo who reads a lot. Oh, but that’s not all.
Part 2
Jimmy Kimmel also explains how Kai gave away all the money that the show gave him, and even gave away the backpack with all his worldly possessions. Also, he apparently shoplifts to give away to poor people, saying, “I jack HELLA† shit from WalMart and Target!”
So, basically, he’s some type of multi-lingual, history-wise, monk-like freedom fighter, a combination of Robin Hood, the Incredible Hulk, and Braveheart, who talks like MichaelAngelo the Ninja Turtle after a week-long yoga seminar and dreams of building a treehouse. If you don’t think this guy is interesting, I don’t know what to tell you.
†Does “hella” indicate he’s from NorCal, or is that just everywhere now?
[Picture 2 via JessobReisbeck/Instagram]
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Ugh, if only it was still the nineties! Then we could have 90′s Keanu Reeves play Kai in a Gus Van Sant-directed movie based on his life.
Kai was made for different times.
Kai is way more Bodhi than Johnny Utah. My second Point Break reference of the day. Three and Patrick Swayze will arise. BUT AT WHAT COST?
Well Kai would have to be played by 90′s era Keanu OBVIOUSLY, but for the movie I’m thinking more along the lines of an Even Cowgirls Get the Blues whimsical road trip story.
The day is young. I’ll be watching for undead Patrick Swayze.
I can’t call it.
I’m getting a really bad Jesse Camp vibe out of this bro.
Kai is clearly waaay sharper than Jesse Camp.
that last paragraph made me laugh harder than I have in a long, long time.
Fairly sure he’s a trust fund baby. No actual homefree person would give up a meager backpack of all their “possessions”.
That is a highly plausible scenario.
I think he is the real deal…whatever that means. [www.youtube.com]
Wow, I respect him even more seeing as he has been through some straight up shit. Latch Key kids for life, brah.
Whoo! He’s from BC, I hereby claim him for Canada. He’s worth at least two Biebers and a Jepson
I think we should all stop peeling back the layers on this dudes history, because just like an onion, it’s only going to end up making you cry.
I can’t wait for Rutger Hauer to star in Hobo with a Surfboard.
He is educated!! I’m from Fresno so I was able to watch the interviews from KMPH Fox.
Look specially for: Jessob’s Exclusive In-Depth Interview with Kai [Feb 7, 2013]
[www.kmph.com]
“Phileo” = Love (According to the Greeks there are four types of love. It’s the root of our suffix “Philia”)
“Sophia” = Knowledge
Literally, “love of knowledge.” That’s where we get the word “philosophy” from.
/English major, philosophy minor. I bartend.
If I lived close by, I would definitely get my Jameson and Guinness from you.
I feel you brother. Medieval literature degree :: work in supply chain.
I think this guy is a hatchet murderer and the joke’s gonna be on us when he goes down for it. In that interview played on last week’s Frotsode, doesn’t he mention bludgeoning at least two people in the head and then chopping them with hatchets?
PST HE WAS RIGHT
Hella is widespread. Blame Gwen Steffani.
Blame Cartman.
All bad things (i.e. hella) originate in California and end up in America’s cultural drainage pond, Florida.
No waves in Florida, brah. I don’t think kai is coming to the nation’s penis anytime soon.
How bad is this going to end, on a scale of 1 to Ted “Golden Voice” Williams?
We say “hella” in LA too. Take that, NorCal!
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s a little weird to not have any suspicions over the fact that this guys killed another guy with a fucking hatchet?
He didn’t kill him. Guy lived, is currently in jail.
Oh. Well hang ten, bro.
Also, he hit the guy with the blunt end of the hatchet, when he could have just as easily chopped/killed the guy.
Saint status reinstated. Surely he carefully weighed the options of blunt end vs. sharp end vs. crazy guy.
My friends from the PNW say “hella” a lot.
Did anyone ever get to the bottom of his story about the hatchet? Something doesn’t add up if he whacked this dude three times in the head with a hatchet and didn’t kill him. He either has a very loose definition of what a hatchet is, or he’s leaving something out.
His inner Swayze ordered him to use the blunt side of the hatchet.
I think you mean inner Sandor.
If you haven’t read the Game of Thrones books that might not make sense.
The original news story showed the hatchet. It was a legit hatchet, like something you’d bring camping. He probably hit him with the butt end. Kai is no killer. Even when possibly saving someone’s life he’s cordial.
My bet is that he visits the guy he smash, Smash, SMASHED in jail and brings him cigarettes.
upto I saw the receipt saying $8709, I accept that my cousin could actualy bringing home money in there spare time from their computer.. there sisters roommate haz done this 4 only nineteen months and resently paid for the dept on there apartment and bought a top of the range Buick. read more at, … [xurl.es]
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Kai is educated, in fact he attended at least 1 year at a pretty decent university in Canada. In fact, I was in at least one of his classes and I’m almost positive we learned about a few of those topics in class. He’s a smart guy.
I don’t know if we have stopped saying “hella” in NorCal. I live in Sacramento so we’re still working our way into slang popularized on Saved By The Bell: The College Years.
‘Hella’ left SoCal 10 years ago, so it’s been gone from the legit areas of NoCal for at least 12 years.
We’ve moved on to ‘station’.
Kai’s the man. he’s doing everything i’ve wanted to do, starting with building a rad ass treehouse, jack shit from big box stores, and just give material things away. Because it seems to me like he choose that lifestyle voluntarily. it’s easy to fantasize about, it’s really hard to step off the grid and live “homefree” as he puts it. Fuck it.
Are you the snake?
I think he should be the new voice of Kraft Cheese and Macaroni.
I wonder how one gets in touch with a drifter to invite him onto a talk show.
He’s in Arcata right now.
Looks like you were right. It is going to end in tragedy. I was rooting for the kid. Sad all around. Somebody should have helped him. The guy is homeless and all we were concerned about was how entertained we were by him.
Helped him how? People were bending over backwards to help him. The guy chose to continue living as a drifter hitchhiker because that was what he wanted. How would people have “helped him” short of sticking him in a straitjacket and putting him in a mental hospital?