December 24, 2024 • 42 mins
Welcome to another edition of the War Cry Podcast. On this episode, Yahola discusses his favorite Christmas songs, movies, and traditions.
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tiger. What's going on?
Y'all. And welcome to another edition,
the 51st edition of the War Cry Podcast.
I'm your host Chihuahua Tiger, and on this episode we're going
to be talking about some Christmas stuff and not really
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so much spooky, but just Christmas stuff in general.
Man, I've been fighting to get this episode out to y'all been
kind of sick the last few days. My whole household's been sick,
so bear with me. But we're going to get, we're
going, you know, we're going to get this episode out to y'all or
I am going to get this episode out to y'all.
And but you know what? This time of year, Christmas is
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being, I guess when this releases, it's going to be two
days away. I believe we got Christmas Eve 1
1/2, I guess. Well 75 anyways, who knows, 75
hours, whatever it is. And and on this, like I said on
this episode we're going to be talking about movies.
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We'll talk about a little bit ofmusic Christmas related and
we'll talk about some things, you know, maybe some Christmas
gifts that I had back in the back in the day or you know here
recently and and you'll just talk about this different
Christmas things and kind of keep it kind of light.
I know last Christmas if you guys I did a folklore of
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different kind of spooky things that go on at Christmas.
There's a lot of it. But I talked about you know kind
of in broad terms of the different European philosophies
of Christmas and different things like that and and the
folklore behind Christmas and not to be a damper but you know
I know people always talk about it's the birth of Jesus, birth
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of Jesus. But you know, it's just also
very interesting that, you know,the people always kind of get
mad about the Pagan type religion and and this is
something that kind of hidden history that nobody really knows
about Christmas, really all holidays but the Pagan calendar,
what back in the old days, the Catholic Church and all these
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big, the the Catholic Church mainly, But these churches, you
know, realize that the people were celebrating these holidays
and sometimes the people didn't really know what the holiday
meant, but they still celebratedit.
Well, the church back in, I wantto say it was like the 13
hundreds, 1400s. I had to, I had to look it right
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back up. But anyways.
But anyways, back in the day, they was just like, well, let's
go ahead and make these into Christian holidays or holidays
that that have a semblance to, you know, our religion.
And that's kind of where the birth of Jesus.
I mean, do we know when Jesus was born?
I mean, I guess some people can say, yes, we do.
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But that's kind of, you know, how that was turned and the
Pagan holiday basically was off the equinox or the winter,
winter solstice or, yeah, not equinox, winter solstice.
And so there's a lot of weird things if you look into
Christmas and how the church hadkind of turned it on its head a
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little bit when it comes to Christmas.
And we celebrate Christmas as like a like a festive, you know,
type thing. And there's a lot of things that
I could say about religion, about organized religion that
would make a lot of people unhappy because there are a lot
of, there's a lot of things thatI guess it's hypocrisy, I guess
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you could say. But we're not going to talk
about that. We'll get, we'll get that down
the road, you know, you know, we'll we'll talk about that on
another day. But Christmas, one of my
favorite movies that I watch every year with Christmas is
definitely. I haven't watched it this year,
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but one of my favorite Christmasmovies ever is definitely the
first Santa Claus with Tim Allenand that if you all us us, I
guess it's 90s babies. You know we was raised on Santa
Claus three when he was facing that ice demon or whatever the
guy with the ice froze or whatever Frost or whatever his
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name is, if you all remember that.
But the first one is the classic, and I I enjoyed that
one a lot growing up. And like one thing I like about
Christmas movies that make me feel good inside, because
there's sometimes throughout theyear that I'm kind of a Scrooge
on things. Like I really am.
I'm very particular about certain things in my life and
certain way that I do things. And it can be kind of annoying
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to some, you know, to people or,you know in to my household or
to my family. But I'm very particular on
things and this movie, as I've gotten older, has reminded me of
who of that. Like it's kind of me like I'm
like Nah or like or the Scrooge I guess the Scrooge guy
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whatever. And so I.
So I kind of relate to that a little bit when you're kind of
like, Nah, I really don't want to.
You know, I'm. I'm over this or you know, I
don't really care about that or.But it puts it into perspective
till you kind of finally have toaccept it like, hey, maybe this
is your path. Maybe this is where you're
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supposed to go. And with the Santa Claus, first
one, man, it's just it's a classic to me.
And now it's even more of a classic now because I can see
myself not in about Christmas. I absolutely love Christmas.
But just certain aspects of thatjust make me kind of like Dang
OK, you know, but kind of do a reflective look at, you know,
maybe I'm kind of like that too a little bit.
I think we all, I think we all kind of are in some aspects.
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But but, you know, like when I get over to kind of like music,
like Christmas music also makes me feel like, you know, makes me
kind of remember all the like the good times.
Like, you know, I think about and I know as you're listening
to this, you're probably hearingme, you know, you're probably
thinking of your favorite Christmas song or or a Christmas
song that reminds you of someonethat's past.
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But one of my favorite Christmassongs ever in in the world.
And it's it's Blue Christmas by Elvis.
And I remember, I remember beinga young guy.
You know, it's kind of crazy story.
I might have told this before, but, you know, we we wanted one
Christmas. It was snowing like crazy and we
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had just moved to where my parents live now.
And we're making that trek to I can't lose my We're making that
trek to my grandma's house, up in up in, over there by 10
killer, 10 killer schools out inthe middle of nowhere.
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And we're making that trek. And I remember it, it wasn't
snowing. We got there, but it started
storming so bad and snowing and and we we, you know basically
listened to all the Christmas songs over the radio.
And I that's just, I know it wasannoying for my parents because
they had to like drive in that. But I remember sitting in the
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back seat of our of our red Chevy Truck 98 and you know just
kind of cruising along on this. The back, you know, kind of
making our way through as a storm is hitting and snowing
like crazy. You know, it just kind of makes
me feel happy inside because I was like man, that's that that
was the golden time, you know that you know that time where
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all the and all my grandparents on my dad's side were alive and
and we, you know, we just basically, you know, visited
them and I remember my grandma was cooking, man.
She had a way with like with different things with different
meals and and man, she she can cook some stews, she can cook
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some beans, cornbread, like all that stuff.
And I remember eating a ham overthere and it's just it was a
good, it was a good time. All my uncles are there and and
cousins and and she had Elvis song playing in the background
real low. And I remember it was a blue
Christmas and you know, when shepassed, I know that was
something that was played at herfuneral.
But that's something I always think about, you know, I know
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it's probably a minute detail orminute memory and I really
don't, you know, being a young guy going over there and you
know, I remember I think football was on that night or
football or some type of something going on with.
And I'm a huge Rams fan and the guy, his name was Al stayed with
my my grandma. He was a 49ers fan.
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And so if you know Rams and 49ers and they've been rivals
for a long time and so we'd always be arguing and it's just
it just reminds me that that that blue Christmas by Elvis
just reminds me of those times. And it also reminds me of my my
my aunt and my mom, my aunt on my mom's side.
And my mom is they is kind of crazy, but they believed that
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Elvis was, you know, still alive.
I mean, I don't know. You know, that's something we're
going to talk about eventually, the conspiracy.
But you know, they, they thoughtthat Elvis didn't really pass
away. They faked his death and he was
still alive, running around because he was so tired of fame
and fortune and his manager, leaky, leeching off of him and
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all that stuff. But yeah, it just reminds me of
them too, because I remember, you know, something, Elvis was
real big and they had all the albums and things like that.
But, but kind of going back to another movie that, you know,
kind of hits, kind of hits I guess hits for US 90s babies.
But also if you were a kid in the early 2000s or if you were
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like a middle school kid, man, the classic, another classic is
The Grinch. That's another one of those
Scrooge type movies where he's like, man, I hate this, I hate
that and Bah humbug and all thatstuff and turns out, you know,
getting his heart back and it's just a classic movie, but
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another movie that kind of, you know, that I don't think a lot
of people have heard about or really seen.
That's Christmas movie. It's called Silent Night and
it's with Keira Knightley. I watched it this year.
I start watching Christmas movies in like November.
And when, when, like when Thanksgiving, the day after
Thanksgiving is when I start watching Christmas movies and I
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start listening to Christmas music and then I stopped
listening to it like right, likethe day after Christmas.
But so I get about a month. It's like my my nostalgia month
is what I call it. But but the the movie Silent
Night, it happens basically on Christmas and they're all
getting ready and there's a there's a mysterious disease
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basically taking over the the country of England.
And Keira Knightley and her husband basically are trying to
put on this last feast. But it's a good movie.
Go check it out. I'm not going to give it away
because there is a A twist at the end and there's kind of a
interesting plot point that I don't want to ruin but go check
it out. I believe it's on shutter but I
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also believe it was on if you have the AMC channel might be on
there too if you have the streaming or but that's why I
saw one was was shutter but super good movie man.
It was like that movie reminds me of, like those movies of all
where like everybody in the family can't stand each other or
everybody's beefing or somebody's got this with
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somebody or this. And but it's a good movie.
I'd go check it out. It's called Silent Night Another
as I'm just kind of thinking about music and movies here and
kind of traditions. Another Christmas song that I
have grown like that I love is that I listen to by different
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artists. But it's Merry Christmas Baby by
I think Otis Redding sings it. Brett Eldridge, If you like
country music, Brett Eldridge sings that.
If you like the indie, like the girl music.
I think Colbie Callais sings it too.
But that's a great one of my favorite songs and one of my
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favorite versions is that sloweddown version by Otis Redding.
I'm a huge Otis Redding fan. He's not hasn't been on my top.
I kind of keep him away because I'll listen to him for like 6
months straight and then kill it, you know, kind of get tired
of him. But classic music, another one I
Another song that comes to mind is Santa Baby.
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I think one of them is by TaylorSwift.
Hey you Swifties out there. Y'all got me on one Chris Y'all
got me on one Swift Taylor Swiftsong.
I like Santa Baby from from Taylor Swift.
That's a great song, which is kind of crazy, but I'm not a
Swifty, you know, that's just not my thing.
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But that's a great song. Another song is Baby, it's Cold
Outside and I like that one fromLady Antebellum, but I also like
the classic too. I think that's with, I don't
know if it's Dean Martin. I think I like those two.
The classic Baby, it's cold outside and you know kind of
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just thinking about, just kind of thinking about different you
know, you know Christmas, you know Christmas in here in
Oklahoma we we rarely get like winter weather.
Christmas, I think the year thatwe had the the ice, the ice
storm. I can't remember if it was like
O6O7O8I can't remember exactly but but we hardly ever get a a a
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white winter or snowy winter or snowy Christmas.
And you know it's and I didn't mean White Winter.
I was thinking of Game of Thrones too at the same time
when I said that winter's cominganyways but we never see a White
Christmas and or we hardly ever see one And so it was it's been
kind of cool you know when as I reflect back on kind of young
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young people days and when I wasa young guy one of my favorite
presents that I ever received and for us basketball players
former Hooper's or current Hooper's of your Hooper that
listens to this. You know, I was a huge soccer
player, basically cut like, but as soon as I can play sports, I
played soccer and I was really good at it.
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I had good footwork. I can move side to side quickly
and you know, it was one, it wasmy favorite sport to play.
But one year, my parents, I might have been first, second or
third grade. I can't exactly remember what
what year that was. But they had this big old box
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and I was like losing my mind because I because when you're a
little kid and you try to like, you know, you wake up after your
parents go to bed, you kind of or like, you know, everything's
settled and you wake up and it'slike 4-5 and six in the morning,
you're like, what is that? And you're looking and and there
was this big old box sitting in front of that Christmas tree
that year and I'm like, what is it?
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I was so excited, you know? And every year it was like me
and my brother took turns like one of us woke.
He woke me up or I woke him up or and then as we got older it
was like, Dang that it was like Nate wake up boy like let's go
like I was like maybe middle school or trying to see what
what was dropped off underneath the tree.
But that year might have been myfavorite Christmas.
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And the reason why is it shiftedmy love for soccer over to
basketball and my parents got first ever basketball goal that
we ever got. And that basketball goal has
meant a lot to me because as I think about it now, there was
blows, a bunch of blows done andand fights and game-winning
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shots on that goal. But we we put that goal out near
our trailer house where we was living in Tahlequah.
And you know, we played on that thing every day and it shifted
my love from playing soccer to basketball.
And I remember being in second grade, basically, I wasn't first
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grade, 2nd grade started when you started school ball for
Woodall. And I remember telling my
parents I want to play basketball.
Well, then they got me that basketball goal right in the
middle of the season. And from then on I I was a
student of that of the game of basketball.
You know I can I would dare to say that I know more about the
actual fundamental game of basketball than anyone besides
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people that have lived longer than me, people my age.
Like the game is kind of lost. Like I I can kind of see the
game for like what it is and kind of find different
strategic. And for you people that play
Mark Coma and you're listening Mark Coma League in Tahlequah at
the Cherokee Nation gym. Y'all know Dang well.
I was taking old men and young high school kids, putting them
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on my back and winning games. Y'all can't y'all can't deny
that Dang eyes. I hear Michael Jordan.
No, I'm just kidding. But but that.
But that present, that Christmaspresent changed my life forever.
And I can't see myself being a soccer player.
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I'm a little like I'm a Husky dude.
Like I'm not a I'm not by any means a little scrawny guy and I
wasn't when I was growing up I was always kind of had had a
strong body to me that's not kind of crazy but anyways but
but but now that gift changed mylife forever and like I said I
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played on that thing. I remember we used to have this
little baby toy, this little baby toy chest.
And the goal only went down like6 foot.
And I'm like 4-5, like 4 feet, 5inches tall at this time,
second, third grade. And I'm jumping on this thing to
try to dunk it and I just ain't had the bunnies like that.
I didn't I ain't had the. I ain't have, I ain't have the
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the gift, the gift to jump. But I always tell, you know, I
mentioned this on the last episode, you know, dribbling on
grass is like if you have a kid and they're like a younger kid
and then they're trying to like work on their game, dribble on
grass because that grass is unpredictable.
And it, you know, there's times in the game where you're like
having to move your body and somebody tries to reach and you
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know, it just makes it easier tocontrol that ball.
But. But that's one of the my
favorite gifts ever. And another, I guess, favorite
gift that I've ever gotten on Christmas was when my parents
bought us the first ever PlayStation.
Like, that was a crazy moment inmy life because before we were
just playing, you know, whateverwe was playing Nintendo or I
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remember, I remember. Playing hours and hours and
hours on that Nintendo 64. But when that first PlayStation
PlayStation came out and we werelike Nah, we don't want to
shift. And then we got the PlayStation
two, man those are those are thethose are the dream days.
And then Xbox came out and then another favorite gift I got was
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the Xbox 360 that I still have today that I maintain and I make
sure that it's in great working shape.
I'm all I'm always going to Vintage Stock here in Oklahoma
City looking for the next part to replace on this on this bad
boy. But you know when I think about
you know getting to the PlayStation and all that stuff.
I I remember one year for Christmas.
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I remember I got really sick. It's crazy but I got really sick
for Christmas one year and all these kids are like you know all
of us grandkids and we're over at my mom's, my mom's parents
house, my grandpa my Nana, Nana and Papa.
We're over there and I'm sick asa dog in that bed man.
You know throwing up and I'm like I can't drink nothing.
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I'm like I just want a sip of bug juice.
Dang. I threw that bug juice all up,
man. I had purple throw up all over
the place. But hey man, that's that's news
the breaks. It feels like I always get sick
around holidays or now I guess I'm kind of sick now but but
Christmas means a lot to me and and it has it has always you
know meant not really more for the the religious aspect more
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for the you know seeing family and you know it it.
That's one thing about growing up that I always have AI kind of
have an issue with is is I'm notI don't get to see the family
that I get to see hardly anymoreLike it's not really.
It's mainly because I have my own family now like I have my
own kids and I got to buy Christmas for and you know
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there's more. There's other factors then that
that that negate going to certain things.
And I was, I always miss the olddays where I, you know, being a
younger kid and being a kid where you know, you get to see
both sets of grandparents and and now one set of grandparents
is gone. So it's just makes me sad.
But at the same time, it's like I'm happy because, you know,
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hopefully I get to impart on my kids, you know, a feeling of
like tradition and how we do things.
Because one thing that, you know, my mom, she never really
could because we always went everywhere else.
But you know what she's done When we were younger, she
started cooking for Thanksgivingand and Christmas.
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And so, you know, I always, I always appreciate her for that.
And you know, I still do and I'mhoping to, you know, make that
because I'm the, I'm the cook. Like I was cooking at like 5
years old like soon as I can learn how to know how to turn a
burner on or like know how the microwave work.
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I was cooking. Like I was literally cooking.
You know kind of a funny story. It's not really Christopher Lady
but I used to I so my grandpa mymy paw paw tiger.
He he would come over and watch us during the summer times and
he I'm like, hey, I always be like, hey paw paw are you
hungry? He's like, yeah I could eat and
he could always eat. Every time we go to Chinese
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buffet man he had to undo the had to undo the.
He had these little flannel things I guess they're like
little dress shirts that he woreand they're always like
different. It was the same pattern but it
was like always different colors.
But he had to undo and he's likeboys I'm, I'm done.
But I made him French toast and I'm making you know pancakes or
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you know I'm probably 6-7, eightyears old you know I'm a young
guy you know. But I miss those days and that's
that's kind of what Christmas isfor me is kind of just
reflecting bag, but also to the same time making sure that we I
push forward and you get some things going.
But I'm also kind of thinking ofother movies that I've seen.
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I know we got Elf, I know that'sa classic for everybody.
Will Ferrell, there's another movie, he's in here, you know
recently it's called Spirited. It's on Apple TV.
Plus we have that. If you do have go check it out,
it's pretty good. But jeez, I'm trying not to
sneeze on y'all but but a coupleother kind of Christmas songs
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that I really love. I'm a I'm I'm really into kind
of southern rock bluesy type music.
When there's a guy named Casey James he's I guess he's
considered country in some songsbut he has a song called I Like
Christmas, Such a classic great song.
It's you know it's got that twain to it but also has a
little solo in it. Something about any any songs
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with solos. You know I'm a I'm a listen but
you know sometimes they maybe cheeks but that song was great
man. A couple couple couple other
songs that I'm thinking about off the top of my head.
A few country songs I know I know everyone you know likes Run
Run Rudolph by Chuck Berry. That's a that's a good song.
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Chuck Berry's kind of wild rightnow.
You know some of the stuff he was doing.
But like, it's a good song, you know, Another classic for me is
please come home for Christmas. I know Hall and Oates did a a
song on that. Blake Shelton I believe did a
song for that. I know Joe Nichols did a song
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for that. I know Rod Stewart did a song
with that. But like I said, there's so many
different songs out there. And when you guys hear this
episode and when if you listen on Spotify, I'm going to, I'm
going to ask you a question if so.
Once you like you see that you're you're viewing the
episode Scroll down and you'll see two questions I'm going to
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ask you I'm going to it'll be one question but it'll be a poll
too. I'm going to ask you what's your
favorite Christmas song is and then and then I'll have a poll
down there as well Make make sure you comment and like and
subscribe and and like I said guys this is just kind of a kind
of just a thinking back and hopefully this episode gets you
thinking about you know your your maybe your best times on
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Christmas and hopefully you knowhopefully everybody's had you
know good times at Christmas. I know sometimes things are
don't go your way in life and and you know just know that hey
I was I was looking at it this way and I I've always been told
this for my dad and and my grandpa pop all Tiger he always
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always just say it's you know it's going to be rough now but
ain't going to be it ain't always going to be rough and
you're all you know and you justgot to keep moving forward And
and like I said if you if you haven't had the best Christmases
or you know things have been kind of tough.
You know, just my. You know my thought is is just
keep going you know keep going. I know sometimes you know with
soldiers and military people youknow they're gone in a way for
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specific holidays or they're gone for multiple years.
But you know I would be thinkingabout those people too.
That's another thing that I I dothink about and I do.
I do you know I do do my thing when when I, when I, when I
think about them I my thoughts and kind of sending that energy
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to them and and things like thatand prayers and things like
that. Because that's rough, man.
I I just couldn't imagine being you know in a different country
and you're like thousands of miles away from your family,
man. It's just that's brutal.
I mean so like I said, you know I was thinking about for about
the military people that you know they go over there and they
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do what they got to do for us. And you know maybe sometimes
this podcast comes comes across as not you know of like oh
they're you know whatever they're doing over there is bad.
But now they're, I don't think, I don't think that's the case
but but I just, I just always think about them especially in
holidays. You know, I had my grandpa and
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you know YTYT senior and junior both served and then before
that, you know, multiple family members, you know, kind of
branched out after that. So I always think about them and
I have a it's funny I always have this saved to my phone but
I used to think my dad has the actual paper cutting if you fall
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a a newspaper doing a thing on your whole senior and but yeah I
just like I said I was thinking about them military people
during Christmas. But one last thing before we go
on this on this episode I'm I went longer than I expected to
go but hey that it is what it is.
It's how this podcast roll you know so everybody's seen kind of
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the latest on Bacon college and you know I've I've shared a few
opinions on Facebook and you know different things like that
but I'm going to give you all myopinion on that.
I think one thing that's very frustrating to me about Bay Cone
it's always been frustrating since my grandpa worked there
and I went to school there for about a year.
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Well a little over a year because I had summer summer
camp. One thing that's very
frustrating is that we've that that school has always had
administrators who have not cared about the students there
and and some of the faculty. You know a famous story that my
I always I tell when I I call itfamous because I tell it so much
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and it's been a known story but like when people were getting
laid off in the 90s at Bay Cone you know they were trying to get
rid of everybody. They were.
I mean just now even today they're they cut 45 instructors
because they can't meet bills orand then you know then they go
back and hire people or hire more people than they get back
into the same circle. But my grandpa he was he used to
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laugh because he said yeah, I don't I never got fired from
there. He said I have this way of
disappearing. I I can, I can kind of fade into
the background and lo and behold, man, they were firing
people left and right. And they were like, you know he
was just he was just laying low just it wasn't saying much just,
you know, helping the kids out and keeping them moving.
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And one day they're all in a meeting.
Here they go. Tiger, I thought we fired you
and he said I laugh. He said you ain't gonna get rid
of me that easy. And so he laughed and he always
told that story. But that's just goes to show,
man. It's like the administrative
people at Baycona just have let that school down.
Like, man, I can't tell you how many and people that have went
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to school there. If you, you know, you listen to
this and you're like, man, I went there back in the 90s or
80s. I went there in 2013 and it was,
it was in bad shape. Like some of the stories I can
tell you all about that day in school and just seeing the
craziness going on. I mean, you could walk around at
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that school at night, man. You couldn't like people be
taking your stuff or unless theyknew you that you know, they
leave you alone. But if you were somebody who was
visiting a relative or if you were visiting your cousin or
your sister brother, man, they they would, they would do all
types of crap to you man. Like they mess with you and just
do all types of stuff. And I've seen it first hand on a
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few occasions, people getting their stuff stolen or breaking
into their dorms. And if y'all remember y'all from
the Muskogee area, they used to have this old hotel that
converted into the dorms for thebasketball players.
And I believe some football players and different people
like that. And man, I mean one, I'll tell
you a crazy story. But like, I was in the dorms one
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night. We were fall playing.
I think we're playing 2K and we're all just hanging out after
practice. And I'm like, what does that
smell And mine at the time, one of the guys who was a freshman
with me, he was like, yeah, he'slike, we smell that from kind of
time. We don't like, we think people
someone's over there cleaning. And I'm like, I don't know about
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that. Like I've smelled, I've smelled
that before. Like, I've like just didn't
like, not saying I like did it or anything.
But I like you can tell when somebody smells that way,
they're doing something crazy. Well come to find out like a
couple days later they end up getting like a complaint filed
on them and somebody was in the bathroom cooking but large bat
batches of meth in that in thosedorms.
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I was crazy. I was like man.
And it was like the next it was like the the the adjacent dorm
and these dorms they they have outdoor outside doors.
So it's not like you're it's a hallway.
It's like you. It's like, you know, outside.
Like one time I had a like at the end of the semester for the
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winter. Everybody's kind of moving out
and moving their stuff because sometimes you get replaced and
Bacon was always weird about that.
They send you over here, send you over there and one guy has
his TV outside. It was like a 3534, maybe 46.
It it wasn't like a monster TV, but it was big enough.
And I'm sitting out there waiting for picking one of my
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teammates who who lives out in Olmolgi.
And we was hanging out and we, we watched this guy get his TV.
He basically set it outside, went to turn the door and
somebody had come by and and took the TV just like took off,
man. He was like, he was looking
around. He's all like, what?
What? Like literally just turned
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around and locked the door and TV was gone, nowhere to be
found. But that that was back home,
man, that was the cone. And you know there's a crazy
story about a teammate of mine who was on the run for like 2
weeks. Maybe three weeks.
I can't remember how long but hewas on the run for a while and
and he slapped a girl in in front of everybody at the
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cafeteria. Then he gave her that pinky slap
too off Friday, Friday after next is another good Christmas
movie. Dang that pinky slap double
backhand and took all boy and hehe was playing a game still was
crazy was I think he the night he got arrested he dropped like
25. I mean he had a good night that
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night but he got he got arrestedafter the game because they
finally caught him. But it's just crazy stuff like
that man. There's all types of crazy stuff
but but yeah, I hope, I hope theBay County College in Muskogee,
man, I hope, I hope something happens.
I know that they called, recalled the auction.
And now that there's different people reaching, you know,
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different people and different tribes and you know, different
things like that are basically kind of begging people to see
what they can do to help this this college because the college
is so historic, the first ever college, it used to be a
residential school back in the day.
And you know as it's formed intothe college you know Merle Merle
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Home Children's I think it's children's housing is over there
kind of on the opposite side noton the Main Street not on
Shawnee but it's on that side street York I believe and you
know they're still going you know I I told this on Facebook
but I believe my my great grandpa the whole of senior and
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his and his brother were there there live there.
So my family has connections to all over that area and Merle
Home and it's Merle Home children's housing not the park
in Tahlequah and then Bay cone. So if I hope the cone and I
think yeah I hope the cone hangsaround.
I remember hearing some stories.You know, like my grandpa was
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like he was an academic advisor there for a while and he always
tell stories about some people he, you know, running around
with and Co workers and Dang, I'll tell you a crazy story.
So I had a It's not crazy, but it's just kind of like, you
know, at the time I'm, you know,I'm, I'm like 1819 years old and
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I had this math teacher who knewmy grandpa really well.
Like, they were friends. And man, I was flunking out in
that class. I was barely eligible to play
basketball. And I just, I'm so terrible at
math guys. Like when it comes to like like
1 + 1, obviously. Come on now, I ain't that dumb.
I ain't slow. But like when it starts getting,
you start getting into like the the fractions and the like, the
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little number, what do they callexponents or whatever.
Y'all lost me. But math is just math is just
crazy. But basically she passed me.
And this is terrible to say this, but I'm I'm sure.
I'm pretty sure she passed me because she knew my grandpa and
she's like, man, we got to get you out of here.
Like college algebra means like,here's another thing too.
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What? What is the point of college
algebra? I'm not going to be using none
of this mess unless I'm going toaccounting anyways.
But yeah, but yeah, just just I hope that college man I hope
back on colleges continues to keep going.
I know that there's plans to continue the spring and and
basically graduate the seniors and then they're looking at
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maybe doing a full revamp maybe going to online only hopefully
like I said that college. I just hope that college
continues to run and and that's kind of my thoughts.
You know, I got some, I guess, really not all my thoughts.
But you know, one thing I don't really like about the situation
is I don't understand why Bayconhad to go all the way up to Utah
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to find contractors. And then better yet, the guy who
owns that did work on Baycon without their authorization.
He just came down and did it. And the former president, I
don't know what. I don't know what he was doing.
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I do. Is Walla now?
I don't know. There's just a lot of weirdness
about that. And for him to try to take over
and be like, you know what? I'm going to buy it and just be
like, I'm going to make sure, you know, we want to make sure
that these Indians have their plan in place because they can't
do nothing on their own. I'll make sure that they, they
handle their finances correctly.That's just a nasty line to me.
That's a nasty. That's a nasty statement.
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Because for me, I think that's one thing that I get irritated
with just in my professional life is I think some people got
this opinion of Indians that we don't know how to do nothing.
All we know how to do is bead and do all this other stuff.
Like we just like we just stick to our culture and we all know
nothing else. And that's not true for any of
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us. And I think that's one thing
that makes me irritated about that, that that line that he
said. And I think it was in news on
four I believe is well, you knowI'll look at their, I'll look at
their business plan and I'll approve whether they can
continue or not. Like the key is like he holds
the key to that. I just don't that whole
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situation is just rugged to me. And I just hope, like I said, I
hope that they get out from underneath this dude who's
trying to buy bacon. Like, I see some people pushing
back, like that's not colonization, but that's how
colonization was. That's how that's how that
that's how that takes off. Oh, well, we're just going to
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buy this, this land from out, out out front of these stupid
Indians. That's what they did.
Y'all can we can call a spade a spade, but some of y'all
ancestors did that. We're not going to talk about
the Drummonds up in Pawska. We ain't going to talk about
them. Well, we.
I ain't going to talk about themon this episode, but this is
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very, it's very dicey to me. That that this is what this is
the route that he chose to do, you know, and the route that you
know this new administration basically was trying to figure
out payments of this guy and he was like, Nah, it's just another
stall tactic. I see what y'all Indians are
doing to the governor. I ain't feeling all that, you
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know, but that's my opinion on it.
And like I said, I hope back home continues and I hope you
guys continue to listen to the podcast because we're going to
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I'm reading it, I'm not like messing up and trying to like
make it not into what this person saying and but like I
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like, oh, something's off. And I'm just like, man, I'm
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waiting to hear something you know, is mystery your homo
tiger. What's going on?
Y'all. And welcome to another edition,
the 51st edition of the War Cry Podcast.
I'm your host Chihuahua Tiger, and on this episode we're going
to be talking about some Christmas stuff and not really
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so much spooky, but just Christmas stuff in general.
Man, I've been fighting to get this episode out to y'all been
kind of sick the last few days. My whole household's been sick,
so bear with me. But we're going to get, we're
going, you know, we're going to get this episode out to y'all or
I am going to get this episode out to y'all.
And but you know what? This time of year, Christmas is
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being, I guess when this releases, it's going to be two
days away. I believe we got Christmas Eve 1
1/2, I guess. Well 75 anyways, who knows, 75
hours, whatever it is. And and on this, like I said on
this episode we're going to be talking about movies.
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We'll talk about a little bit ofmusic Christmas related and
we'll talk about some things, you know, maybe some Christmas
gifts that I had back in the back in the day or you know here
recently and and you'll just talk about this different
Christmas things and kind of keep it kind of light.
I know last Christmas if you guys I did a folklore of
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different kind of spooky things that go on at Christmas.
There's a lot of it. But I talked about you know kind
of in broad terms of the different European philosophies
of Christmas and different things like that and and the
folklore behind Christmas and not to be a damper but you know
I know people always talk about it's the birth of Jesus, birth
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of Jesus. But you know, it's just also
very interesting that, you know,the people always kind of get
mad about the Pagan type religion and and this is
something that kind of hidden history that nobody really knows
about Christmas, really all holidays but the Pagan calendar,
what back in the old days, the Catholic Church and all these
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big, the the Catholic Church mainly, But these churches, you
know, realize that the people were celebrating these holidays
and sometimes the people didn't really know what the holiday
meant, but they still celebratedit.
Well, the church back in, I wantto say it was like the 13
hundreds, 1400s. I had to, I had to look it right
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back up. But anyways.
But anyways, back in the day, they was just like, well, let's
go ahead and make these into Christian holidays or holidays
that that have a semblance to, you know, our religion.
And that's kind of where the birth of Jesus.
I mean, do we know when Jesus was born?
I mean, I guess some people can say, yes, we do.
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But that's kind of, you know, how that was turned and the
Pagan holiday basically was off the equinox or the winter,
winter solstice or, yeah, not equinox, winter solstice.
And so there's a lot of weird things if you look into
Christmas and how the church hadkind of turned it on its head a
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little bit when it comes to Christmas.
And we celebrate Christmas as like a like a festive, you know,
type thing. And there's a lot of things that
I could say about religion, about organized religion that
would make a lot of people unhappy because there are a lot
of, there's a lot of things thatI guess it's hypocrisy, I guess
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you could say. But we're not going to talk
about that. We'll get, we'll get that down
the road, you know, you know, we'll we'll talk about that on
another day. But Christmas, one of my
favorite movies that I watch every year with Christmas is
definitely. I haven't watched it this year,
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but one of my favorite Christmasmovies ever is definitely the
first Santa Claus with Tim Allenand that if you all us us, I
guess it's 90s babies. You know we was raised on Santa
Claus three when he was facing that ice demon or whatever the
guy with the ice froze or whatever Frost or whatever his
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name is, if you all remember that.
But the first one is the classic, and I I enjoyed that
one a lot growing up. And like one thing I like about
Christmas movies that make me feel good inside, because
there's sometimes throughout theyear that I'm kind of a Scrooge
on things. Like I really am.
I'm very particular about certain things in my life and
certain way that I do things. And it can be kind of annoying
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to some, you know, to people or,you know in to my household or
to my family. But I'm very particular on
things and this movie, as I've gotten older, has reminded me of
who of that. Like it's kind of me like I'm
like Nah or like or the Scrooge I guess the Scrooge guy
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whatever. And so I.
So I kind of relate to that a little bit when you're kind of
like, Nah, I really don't want to.
You know, I'm. I'm over this or you know, I
don't really care about that or.But it puts it into perspective
till you kind of finally have toaccept it like, hey, maybe this
is your path. Maybe this is where you're
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supposed to go. And with the Santa Claus, first
one, man, it's just it's a classic to me.
And now it's even more of a classic now because I can see
myself not in about Christmas. I absolutely love Christmas.
But just certain aspects of thatjust make me kind of like Dang
OK, you know, but kind of do a reflective look at, you know,
maybe I'm kind of like that too a little bit.
I think we all, I think we all kind of are in some aspects.
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But but, you know, like when I get over to kind of like music,
like Christmas music also makes me feel like, you know, makes me
kind of remember all the like the good times.
Like, you know, I think about and I know as you're listening
to this, you're probably hearingme, you know, you're probably
thinking of your favorite Christmas song or or a Christmas
song that reminds you of someonethat's past.
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But one of my favorite Christmassongs ever in in the world.
And it's it's Blue Christmas by Elvis.
And I remember, I remember beinga young guy.
You know, it's kind of crazy story.
I might have told this before, but, you know, we we wanted one
Christmas. It was snowing like crazy and we
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had just moved to where my parents live now.
And we're making that trek to I can't lose my We're making that
trek to my grandma's house, up in up in, over there by 10
killer, 10 killer schools out inthe middle of nowhere.
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And we're making that trek. And I remember it, it wasn't
snowing. We got there, but it started
storming so bad and snowing and and we we, you know basically
listened to all the Christmas songs over the radio.
And I that's just, I know it wasannoying for my parents because
they had to like drive in that. But I remember sitting in the
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back seat of our of our red Chevy Truck 98 and you know just
kind of cruising along on this. The back, you know, kind of
making our way through as a storm is hitting and snowing
like crazy. You know, it just kind of makes
me feel happy inside because I was like man, that's that that
was the golden time, you know that you know that time where
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all the and all my grandparents on my dad's side were alive and
and we, you know, we just basically, you know, visited
them and I remember my grandma was cooking, man.
She had a way with like with different things with different
meals and and man, she she can cook some stews, she can cook
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some beans, cornbread, like all that stuff.
And I remember eating a ham overthere and it's just it was a
good, it was a good time. All my uncles are there and and
cousins and and she had Elvis song playing in the background
real low. And I remember it was a blue
Christmas and you know, when shepassed, I know that was
something that was played at herfuneral.
But that's something I always think about, you know, I know
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it's probably a minute detail orminute memory and I really
don't, you know, being a young guy going over there and you
know, I remember I think football was on that night or
football or some type of something going on with.
And I'm a huge Rams fan and the guy, his name was Al stayed with
my my grandma. He was a 49ers fan.
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And so if you know Rams and 49ers and they've been rivals
for a long time and so we'd always be arguing and it's just
it just reminds me that that that blue Christmas by Elvis
just reminds me of those times. And it also reminds me of my my
my aunt and my mom, my aunt on my mom's side.
And my mom is they is kind of crazy, but they believed that
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Elvis was, you know, still alive.
I mean, I don't know. You know, that's something we're
going to talk about eventually, the conspiracy.
But you know, they, they thoughtthat Elvis didn't really pass
away. They faked his death and he was
still alive, running around because he was so tired of fame
and fortune and his manager, leaky, leeching off of him and
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all that stuff. But yeah, it just reminds me of
them too, because I remember, you know, something, Elvis was
real big and they had all the albums and things like that.
But, but kind of going back to another movie that, you know,
kind of hits, kind of hits I guess hits for US 90s babies.
But also if you were a kid in the early 2000s or if you were
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like a middle school kid, man, the classic, another classic is
The Grinch. That's another one of those
Scrooge type movies where he's like, man, I hate this, I hate
that and Bah humbug and all thatstuff and turns out, you know,
getting his heart back and it's just a classic movie, but
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another movie that kind of, you know, that I don't think a lot
of people have heard about or really seen.
That's Christmas movie. It's called Silent Night and
it's with Keira Knightley. I watched it this year.
I start watching Christmas movies in like November.
And when, when, like when Thanksgiving, the day after
Thanksgiving is when I start watching Christmas movies and I
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start listening to Christmas music and then I stopped
listening to it like right, likethe day after Christmas.
But so I get about a month. It's like my my nostalgia month
is what I call it. But but the the movie Silent
Night, it happens basically on Christmas and they're all
getting ready and there's a there's a mysterious disease
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basically taking over the the country of England.
And Keira Knightley and her husband basically are trying to
put on this last feast. But it's a good movie.
Go check it out. I'm not going to give it away
because there is a A twist at the end and there's kind of a
interesting plot point that I don't want to ruin but go check
it out. I believe it's on shutter but I
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also believe it was on if you have the AMC channel might be on
there too if you have the streaming or but that's why I
saw one was was shutter but super good movie man.
It was like that movie reminds me of, like those movies of all
where like everybody in the family can't stand each other or
everybody's beefing or somebody's got this with
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somebody or this. And but it's a good movie.
I'd go check it out. It's called Silent Night Another
as I'm just kind of thinking about music and movies here and
kind of traditions. Another Christmas song that I
have grown like that I love is that I listen to by different
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artists. But it's Merry Christmas Baby by
I think Otis Redding sings it. Brett Eldridge, If you like
country music, Brett Eldridge sings that.
If you like the indie, like the girl music.
I think Colbie Callais sings it too.
But that's a great one of my favorite songs and one of my
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favorite versions is that sloweddown version by Otis Redding.
I'm a huge Otis Redding fan. He's not hasn't been on my top.
I kind of keep him away because I'll listen to him for like 6
months straight and then kill it, you know, kind of get tired
of him. But classic music, another one I
Another song that comes to mind is Santa Baby.
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I think one of them is by TaylorSwift.
Hey you Swifties out there. Y'all got me on one Chris Y'all
got me on one Swift Taylor Swiftsong.
I like Santa Baby from from Taylor Swift.
That's a great song, which is kind of crazy, but I'm not a
Swifty, you know, that's just not my thing.
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But that's a great song. Another song is Baby, it's Cold
Outside and I like that one fromLady Antebellum, but I also like
the classic too. I think that's with, I don't
know if it's Dean Martin. I think I like those two.
The classic Baby, it's cold outside and you know kind of
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just thinking about, just kind of thinking about different you
know, you know Christmas, you know Christmas in here in
Oklahoma we we rarely get like winter weather.
Christmas, I think the year thatwe had the the ice, the ice
storm. I can't remember if it was like
O6O7O8I can't remember exactly but but we hardly ever get a a a
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white winter or snowy winter or snowy Christmas.
And you know it's and I didn't mean White Winter.
I was thinking of Game of Thrones too at the same time
when I said that winter's cominganyways but we never see a White
Christmas and or we hardly ever see one And so it was it's been
kind of cool you know when as I reflect back on kind of young
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young people days and when I wasa young guy one of my favorite
presents that I ever received and for us basketball players
former Hooper's or current Hooper's of your Hooper that
listens to this. You know, I was a huge soccer
player, basically cut like, but as soon as I can play sports, I
played soccer and I was really good at it.
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I had good footwork. I can move side to side quickly
and you know, it was one, it wasmy favorite sport to play.
But one year, my parents, I might have been first, second or
third grade. I can't exactly remember what
what year that was. But they had this big old box
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and I was like losing my mind because I because when you're a
little kid and you try to like, you know, you wake up after your
parents go to bed, you kind of or like, you know, everything's
settled and you wake up and it'slike 4-5 and six in the morning,
you're like, what is that? And you're looking and and there
was this big old box sitting in front of that Christmas tree
that year and I'm like, what is it?
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I was so excited, you know? And every year it was like me
and my brother took turns like one of us woke.
He woke me up or I woke him up or and then as we got older it
was like, Dang that it was like Nate wake up boy like let's go
like I was like maybe middle school or trying to see what
what was dropped off underneath the tree.
But that year might have been myfavorite Christmas.
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And the reason why is it shiftedmy love for soccer over to
basketball and my parents got first ever basketball goal that
we ever got. And that basketball goal has
meant a lot to me because as I think about it now, there was
blows, a bunch of blows done andand fights and game-winning
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shots on that goal. But we we put that goal out near
our trailer house where we was living in Tahlequah.
And you know, we played on that thing every day and it shifted
my love from playing soccer to basketball.
And I remember being in second grade, basically, I wasn't first
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grade, 2nd grade started when you started school ball for
Woodall. And I remember telling my
parents I want to play basketball.
Well, then they got me that basketball goal right in the
middle of the season. And from then on I I was a
student of that of the game of basketball.
You know I can I would dare to say that I know more about the
actual fundamental game of basketball than anyone besides
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people that have lived longer than me, people my age.
Like the game is kind of lost. Like I I can kind of see the
game for like what it is and kind of find different
strategic. And for you people that play
Mark Coma and you're listening Mark Coma League in Tahlequah at
the Cherokee Nation gym. Y'all know Dang well.
I was taking old men and young high school kids, putting them
(18:29):
on my back and winning games. Y'all can't y'all can't deny
that Dang eyes. I hear Michael Jordan.
No, I'm just kidding. But but that.
But that present, that Christmaspresent changed my life forever.
And I can't see myself being a soccer player.
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I'm a little like I'm a Husky dude.
Like I'm not a I'm not by any means a little scrawny guy and I
wasn't when I was growing up I was always kind of had had a
strong body to me that's not kind of crazy but anyways but
but but now that gift changed mylife forever and like I said I
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played on that thing. I remember we used to have this
little baby toy, this little baby toy chest.
And the goal only went down like6 foot.
And I'm like 4-5, like 4 feet, 5inches tall at this time,
second, third grade. And I'm jumping on this thing to
try to dunk it and I just ain't had the bunnies like that.
I didn't I ain't had the. I ain't have, I ain't have the
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the gift, the gift to jump. But I always tell, you know, I
mentioned this on the last episode, you know, dribbling on
grass is like if you have a kid and they're like a younger kid
and then they're trying to like work on their game, dribble on
grass because that grass is unpredictable.
And it, you know, there's times in the game where you're like
having to move your body and somebody tries to reach and you
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know, it just makes it easier tocontrol that ball.
But. But that's one of the my
favorite gifts ever. And another, I guess, favorite
gift that I've ever gotten on Christmas was when my parents
bought us the first ever PlayStation.
Like, that was a crazy moment inmy life because before we were
just playing, you know, whateverwe was playing Nintendo or I
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remember, I remember. Playing hours and hours and
hours on that Nintendo 64. But when that first PlayStation
PlayStation came out and we werelike Nah, we don't want to
shift. And then we got the PlayStation
two, man those are those are thethose are the dream days.
And then Xbox came out and then another favorite gift I got was
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the Xbox 360 that I still have today that I maintain and I make
sure that it's in great working shape.
I'm all I'm always going to Vintage Stock here in Oklahoma
City looking for the next part to replace on this on this bad
boy. But you know when I think about
you know getting to the PlayStation and all that stuff.
I I remember one year for Christmas.
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I remember I got really sick. It's crazy but I got really sick
for Christmas one year and all these kids are like you know all
of us grandkids and we're over at my mom's, my mom's parents
house, my grandpa my Nana, Nana and Papa.
We're over there and I'm sick asa dog in that bed man.
You know throwing up and I'm like I can't drink nothing.
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I'm like I just want a sip of bug juice.
Dang. I threw that bug juice all up,
man. I had purple throw up all over
the place. But hey man, that's that's news
the breaks. It feels like I always get sick
around holidays or now I guess I'm kind of sick now but but
Christmas means a lot to me and and it has it has always you
know meant not really more for the the religious aspect more
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for the you know seeing family and you know it it.
That's one thing about growing up that I always have AI kind of
have an issue with is is I'm notI don't get to see the family
that I get to see hardly anymoreLike it's not really.
It's mainly because I have my own family now like I have my
own kids and I got to buy Christmas for and you know
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there's more. There's other factors then that
that that negate going to certain things.
And I was, I always miss the olddays where I, you know, being a
younger kid and being a kid where you know, you get to see
both sets of grandparents and and now one set of grandparents
is gone. So it's just makes me sad.
But at the same time, it's like I'm happy because, you know,
(22:33):
hopefully I get to impart on my kids, you know, a feeling of
like tradition and how we do things.
Because one thing that, you know, my mom, she never really
could because we always went everywhere else.
But you know what she's done When we were younger, she
started cooking for Thanksgivingand and Christmas.
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And so, you know, I always, I always appreciate her for that.
And you know, I still do and I'mhoping to, you know, make that
because I'm the, I'm the cook. Like I was cooking at like 5
years old like soon as I can learn how to know how to turn a
burner on or like know how the microwave work.
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I was cooking. Like I was literally cooking.
You know kind of a funny story. It's not really Christopher Lady
but I used to I so my grandpa mymy paw paw tiger.
He he would come over and watch us during the summer times and
he I'm like, hey, I always be like, hey paw paw are you
hungry? He's like, yeah I could eat and
he could always eat. Every time we go to Chinese
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buffet man he had to undo the had to undo the.
He had these little flannel things I guess they're like
little dress shirts that he woreand they're always like
different. It was the same pattern but it
was like always different colors.
But he had to undo and he's likeboys I'm, I'm done.
But I made him French toast and I'm making you know pancakes or
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you know I'm probably 6-7, eightyears old you know I'm a young
guy you know. But I miss those days and that's
that's kind of what Christmas isfor me is kind of just
reflecting bag, but also to the same time making sure that we I
push forward and you get some things going.
But I'm also kind of thinking ofother movies that I've seen.
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I know we got Elf, I know that'sa classic for everybody.
Will Ferrell, there's another movie, he's in here, you know
recently it's called Spirited. It's on Apple TV.
Plus we have that. If you do have go check it out,
it's pretty good. But jeez, I'm trying not to
sneeze on y'all but but a coupleother kind of Christmas songs
(24:43):
that I really love. I'm a I'm I'm really into kind
of southern rock bluesy type music.
When there's a guy named Casey James he's I guess he's
considered country in some songsbut he has a song called I Like
Christmas, Such a classic great song.
It's you know it's got that twain to it but also has a
little solo in it. Something about any any songs
(25:06):
with solos. You know I'm a I'm a listen but
you know sometimes they maybe cheeks but that song was great
man. A couple couple couple other
songs that I'm thinking about off the top of my head.
A few country songs I know I know everyone you know likes Run
Run Rudolph by Chuck Berry. That's a that's a good song.
(25:29):
Chuck Berry's kind of wild rightnow.
You know some of the stuff he was doing.
But like, it's a good song, you know, Another classic for me is
please come home for Christmas. I know Hall and Oates did a a
song on that. Blake Shelton I believe did a
song for that. I know Joe Nichols did a song
(25:50):
for that. I know Rod Stewart did a song
with that. But like I said, there's so many
different songs out there. And when you guys hear this
episode and when if you listen on Spotify, I'm going to, I'm
going to ask you a question if so.
Once you like you see that you're you're viewing the
episode Scroll down and you'll see two questions I'm going to
(26:12):
ask you I'm going to it'll be one question but it'll be a poll
too. I'm going to ask you what's your
favorite Christmas song is and then and then I'll have a poll
down there as well Make make sure you comment and like and
subscribe and and like I said guys this is just kind of a kind
of just a thinking back and hopefully this episode gets you
thinking about you know your your maybe your best times on
(26:34):
Christmas and hopefully you knowhopefully everybody's had you
know good times at Christmas. I know sometimes things are
don't go your way in life and and you know just know that hey
I was I was looking at it this way and I I've always been told
this for my dad and and my grandpa pop all Tiger he always
(26:55):
always just say it's you know it's going to be rough now but
ain't going to be it ain't always going to be rough and
you're all you know and you justgot to keep moving forward And
and like I said if you if you haven't had the best Christmases
or you know things have been kind of tough.
You know, just my. You know my thought is is just
keep going you know keep going. I know sometimes you know with
soldiers and military people youknow they're gone in a way for
(27:20):
specific holidays or they're gone for multiple years.
But you know I would be thinkingabout those people too.
That's another thing that I I dothink about and I do.
I do you know I do do my thing when when I, when I, when I
think about them I my thoughts and kind of sending that energy
(27:42):
to them and and things like thatand prayers and things like
that. Because that's rough, man.
I I just couldn't imagine being you know in a different country
and you're like thousands of miles away from your family,
man. It's just that's brutal.
I mean so like I said, you know I was thinking about for about
the military people that you know they go over there and they
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do what they got to do for us. And you know maybe sometimes
this podcast comes comes across as not you know of like oh
they're you know whatever they're doing over there is bad.
But now they're, I don't think, I don't think that's the case
but but I just, I just always think about them especially in
holidays. You know, I had my grandpa and
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you know YTYT senior and junior both served and then before
that, you know, multiple family members, you know, kind of
branched out after that. So I always think about them and
I have a it's funny I always have this saved to my phone but
I used to think my dad has the actual paper cutting if you fall
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a a newspaper doing a thing on your whole senior and but yeah I
just like I said I was thinking about them military people
during Christmas. But one last thing before we go
on this on this episode I'm I went longer than I expected to
go but hey that it is what it is.
It's how this podcast roll you know so everybody's seen kind of
(29:11):
the latest on Bacon college and you know I've I've shared a few
opinions on Facebook and you know different things like that
but I'm going to give you all myopinion on that.
I think one thing that's very frustrating to me about Bay Cone
it's always been frustrating since my grandpa worked there
and I went to school there for about a year.
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Well a little over a year because I had summer summer
camp. One thing that's very
frustrating is that we've that that school has always had
administrators who have not cared about the students there
and and some of the faculty. You know a famous story that my
I always I tell when I I call itfamous because I tell it so much
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and it's been a known story but like when people were getting
laid off in the 90s at Bay Cone you know they were trying to get
rid of everybody. They were.
I mean just now even today they're they cut 45 instructors
because they can't meet bills orand then you know then they go
back and hire people or hire more people than they get back
into the same circle. But my grandpa he was he used to
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laugh because he said yeah, I don't I never got fired from
there. He said I have this way of
disappearing. I I can, I can kind of fade into
the background and lo and behold, man, they were firing
people left and right. And they were like, you know he
was just he was just laying low just it wasn't saying much just,
you know, helping the kids out and keeping them moving.
(30:43):
And one day they're all in a meeting.
Here they go. Tiger, I thought we fired you
and he said I laugh. He said you ain't gonna get rid
of me that easy. And so he laughed and he always
told that story. But that's just goes to show,
man. It's like the administrative
people at Baycona just have let that school down.
Like, man, I can't tell you how many and people that have went
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to school there. If you, you know, you listen to
this and you're like, man, I went there back in the 90s or
80s. I went there in 2013 and it was,
it was in bad shape. Like some of the stories I can
tell you all about that day in school and just seeing the
craziness going on. I mean, you could walk around at
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that school at night, man. You couldn't like people be
taking your stuff or unless theyknew you that you know, they
leave you alone. But if you were somebody who was
visiting a relative or if you were visiting your cousin or
your sister brother, man, they they would, they would do all
types of crap to you man. Like they mess with you and just
do all types of stuff. And I've seen it first hand on a
(31:47):
few occasions, people getting their stuff stolen or breaking
into their dorms. And if y'all remember y'all from
the Muskogee area, they used to have this old hotel that
converted into the dorms for thebasketball players.
And I believe some football players and different people
like that. And man, I mean one, I'll tell
you a crazy story. But like, I was in the dorms one
(32:09):
night. We were fall playing.
I think we're playing 2K and we're all just hanging out after
practice. And I'm like, what does that
smell And mine at the time, one of the guys who was a freshman
with me, he was like, yeah, he'slike, we smell that from kind of
time. We don't like, we think people
someone's over there cleaning. And I'm like, I don't know about
(32:29):
that. Like I've smelled, I've smelled
that before. Like, I've like just didn't
like, not saying I like did it or anything.
But I like you can tell when somebody smells that way,
they're doing something crazy. Well come to find out like a
couple days later they end up getting like a complaint filed
on them and somebody was in the bathroom cooking but large bat
batches of meth in that in thosedorms.
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I was crazy. I was like man.
And it was like the next it was like the the the adjacent dorm
and these dorms they they have outdoor outside doors.
So it's not like you're it's a hallway.
It's like you. It's like, you know, outside.
Like one time I had a like at the end of the semester for the
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winter. Everybody's kind of moving out
and moving their stuff because sometimes you get replaced and
Bacon was always weird about that.
They send you over here, send you over there and one guy has
his TV outside. It was like a 3534, maybe 46.
It it wasn't like a monster TV, but it was big enough.
And I'm sitting out there waiting for picking one of my
(33:35):
teammates who who lives out in Olmolgi.
And we was hanging out and we, we watched this guy get his TV.
He basically set it outside, went to turn the door and
somebody had come by and and took the TV just like took off,
man. He was like, he was looking
around. He's all like, what?
What? Like literally just turned
(33:56):
around and locked the door and TV was gone, nowhere to be
found. But that that was back home,
man, that was the cone. And you know there's a crazy
story about a teammate of mine who was on the run for like 2
weeks. Maybe three weeks.
I can't remember how long but hewas on the run for a while and
and he slapped a girl in in front of everybody at the
(34:17):
cafeteria. Then he gave her that pinky slap
too off Friday, Friday after next is another good Christmas
movie. Dang that pinky slap double
backhand and took all boy and hehe was playing a game still was
crazy was I think he the night he got arrested he dropped like
25. I mean he had a good night that
(34:39):
night but he got he got arrestedafter the game because they
finally caught him. But it's just crazy stuff like
that man. There's all types of crazy stuff
but but yeah, I hope, I hope theBay County College in Muskogee,
man, I hope, I hope something happens.
I know that they called, recalled the auction.
And now that there's different people reaching, you know,
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different people and different tribes and you know, different
things like that are basically kind of begging people to see
what they can do to help this this college because the college
is so historic, the first ever college, it used to be a
residential school back in the day.
And you know as it's formed intothe college you know Merle Merle
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Home Children's I think it's children's housing is over there
kind of on the opposite side noton the Main Street not on
Shawnee but it's on that side street York I believe and you
know they're still going you know I I told this on Facebook
but I believe my my great grandpa the whole of senior and
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his and his brother were there there live there.
So my family has connections to all over that area and Merle
Home and it's Merle Home children's housing not the park
in Tahlequah and then Bay cone. So if I hope the cone and I
think yeah I hope the cone hangsaround.
I remember hearing some stories.You know, like my grandpa was
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like he was an academic advisor there for a while and he always
tell stories about some people he, you know, running around
with and Co workers and Dang, I'll tell you a crazy story.
So I had a It's not crazy, but it's just kind of like, you
know, at the time I'm, you know,I'm, I'm like 1819 years old and
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I had this math teacher who knewmy grandpa really well.
Like, they were friends. And man, I was flunking out in
that class. I was barely eligible to play
basketball. And I just, I'm so terrible at
math guys. Like when it comes to like like
1 + 1, obviously. Come on now, I ain't that dumb.
I ain't slow. But like when it starts getting,
you start getting into like the the fractions and the like, the
(36:56):
little number, what do they callexponents or whatever.
Y'all lost me. But math is just math is just
crazy. But basically she passed me.
And this is terrible to say this, but I'm I'm sure.
I'm pretty sure she passed me because she knew my grandpa and
she's like, man, we got to get you out of here.
Like college algebra means like,here's another thing too.
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What? What is the point of college
algebra? I'm not going to be using none
of this mess unless I'm going toaccounting anyways.
But yeah, but yeah, just just I hope that college man I hope
back on colleges continues to keep going.
I know that there's plans to continue the spring and and
basically graduate the seniors and then they're looking at
(37:43):
maybe doing a full revamp maybe going to online only hopefully
like I said that college. I just hope that college
continues to run and and that's kind of my thoughts.
You know, I got some, I guess, really not all my thoughts.
But you know, one thing I don't really like about the situation
is I don't understand why Bayconhad to go all the way up to Utah
(38:06):
to find contractors. And then better yet, the guy who
owns that did work on Baycon without their authorization.
He just came down and did it. And the former president, I
don't know what. I don't know what he was doing.
(38:26):
I do. Is Walla now?
I don't know. There's just a lot of weirdness
about that. And for him to try to take over
and be like, you know what? I'm going to buy it and just be
like, I'm going to make sure, you know, we want to make sure
that these Indians have their plan in place because they can't
do nothing on their own. I'll make sure that they, they
handle their finances correctly.That's just a nasty line to me.
That's a nasty. That's a nasty statement.
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Because for me, I think that's one thing that I get irritated
with just in my professional life is I think some people got
this opinion of Indians that we don't know how to do nothing.
All we know how to do is bead and do all this other stuff.
Like we just like we just stick to our culture and we all know
nothing else. And that's not true for any of
(39:12):
us. And I think that's one thing
that makes me irritated about that, that that line that he
said. And I think it was in news on
four I believe is well, you knowI'll look at their, I'll look at
their business plan and I'll approve whether they can
continue or not. Like the key is like he holds
the key to that. I just don't that whole
(39:37):
situation is just rugged to me. And I just hope, like I said, I
hope that they get out from underneath this dude who's
trying to buy bacon. Like, I see some people pushing
back, like that's not colonization, but that's how
colonization was. That's how that's how that
that's how that takes off. Oh, well, we're just going to
(39:57):
buy this, this land from out, out out front of these stupid
Indians. That's what they did.
Y'all can we can call a spade a spade, but some of y'all
ancestors did that. We're not going to talk about
the Drummonds up in Pawska. We ain't going to talk about
them. Well, we.
I ain't going to talk about themon this episode, but this is
(40:18):
very, it's very dicey to me. That that this is what this is
the route that he chose to do, you know, and the route that you
know this new administration basically was trying to figure
out payments of this guy and he was like, Nah, it's just another
stall tactic. I see what y'all Indians are
doing to the governor. I ain't feeling all that, you
(40:41):
know, but that's my opinion on it.
And like I said, I hope back home continues and I hope you
guys continue to listen to the podcast because we're going to
be cranking them out. This is creepy.
Part five, I'm I'm getting all the stories, you know, collected
and and written in a way that I can read them.
Not saying anything, but sometimes autocorrect kills us.
(41:04):
And so you know, I always got tomake sure that you know, when
I'm reading it, I'm not like messing up and trying to like
make it not into what this person saying and but like I
said, stories are coming in. So if you have a story, you can
message me on Facebook. You hold a tiger TikTok war cry
pod, Instagram war cry pod. And then obviously on Facebook
(41:27):
you hold a tiger Also war cry podcast on on Facebook.
And the e-mail if you want to send your if you want to send a
long e-mail with no you know restrictions on your characters
is real REAL war Cry pod@gmail.com.
(41:47):
Like I said guys 2024 is going to be a big year for the work I
podcast. You know I'm I'm right now I've
had a few people reach out aboutbeing a guest and like I said
we're going to be doing more guests in 2024.
Eventually I'm going to try to get out to different you know
locations and and like I said who knows what's going to happen
in 2024. I got some some professional
(42:08):
things that I'm I'm moving into in 2024 and so I may be less on
the podcast, might be like once every three weeks.
I don't know. We'll see how it shakes out.
But I could. I appreciate everyone that has
continued to support the podcastand you know, I guess I'll catch
you all the next one.
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