Ep 33: Kava Tonga Part 2

This episode starts by contextualizing current issues and how
kava is connected to them. I also confront some of the various
impacts of commodification and commercialization within a larger
context of ecological and economic crisis. Is kava threatened of
being gentrified? Do you know where your kava comes from and how
it was processed, what it contains, or how it got to you? Have
you thought about the different varieties of kava, their parts,
or its chemical composition? I conclude with an ancestral Tongan
kava story and a contemporary song that seeks to remember it.