A blind musician swam 22 miles across open ocean. pplpod traces the astonishing, improbable life of King Benny Nawahi, a Hawaiian steel guitar legend whose biography reads like a Hollywood script that needs fact-checking. Born in Honolulu in 1899 as one of 12 children, Nawahi transformed from a kid playing for pennies in local parks into a vaudeville sensation, ukulele master, and ultimately an endurance swimmer defying human limitations. His life is a masterclass in survival and adaptability: continuously reinventing himself across the shifting cultural tides of the 20th century, he never merely rode the waves—he stayed ahead of them. pplpod explores how one man's unrelenting resilience and multifaceted talents challenged conventional definitions of what's humanly possible when  ...