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Ten months later the 114-strong guest list reads like a who's who in Honolulu, including Walter Dods, Jeff Watanabe, U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, Wally Amos, David Heenan, Dick Gushman, John Dean, Adm. Thomas Fargo, Kelvin Taketa, Barry Weinman, Connie Lau and David McClain, to name just a few.
But then again, tenacity runs in the family. U.S. Sen. Hiram Fong was Leong's uncle, and Leong deeply regrets the wisdom lost when he died. This encouraged him to document business history for future generations, "kind of like an archive."
Leong says his skills revolve around brainstorming and carrying out the "first 40 percent of a project." Kari, he said, "finishes the last 60 percent."
Currently, the initial 24 minutes of each interview are available on the Internet free. Those who want to access the last half of the show - what Leong calls the more interesting, because it's when guests finally start to open up - must pay $5.95. But he's still experimenting with format, he said, and that might change.
It's difficult to predict where the multimedia enterprise will go, but continued evolution is likely. The Leongs already receive feedback from listeners in many states, and people from 83 countries have visited their Web site.
"This guy is an amazing thinker," Kimura said. "Stay tuned, because I don't think this is the last you're going to see from them."
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