Humble 🐮
"Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil."
—Ministry, "Jesus Built My Hotrod"
> hayseeds for jesus | humblebrag
As I watched MAGA Dad at the Tulsa coffee shop where I worked, I thought to myself that no one could be so happy without being day drunk.
The Branson Family of Christians was clearly, genuinely delighted by what I had to say about the shop’s story and bison meat for sale.
- In an unembarrassed way, they displayed more than the usual courteousness that's a hallmark of people from my home state of Oklahoma. 🆗
We're so humble, we make it look fancy-like.
But The Branson Family seemed like their true, authentic selves.
My spirited conversation with MAGA Dad and The Branson Family moved on from the bestselling book "Killers of the Flower Moon" to historian S.C. Gwynne's "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches."
We excitedly discussed Parker's extraordinary life. Quanah Parker was a charismatic warrior from the indigenous Comanche Nation.
He relished defying stereotypes and famously built a 10-room home with 10-foot ceilings in the town of Cache, Oklahoma, to accommodate his numerous wives and children.
He also encouraged conversion to Christianity and served as a deputy sheriff of Lawton, Oklahoma, in the early 1900s.
But before you glow with Christian righteousness, Quanah Parker also embraced the religious use of the psychedelic and hallucinogenic peyote cactus plant.
- next time "It gave me a rush of prejudice."
- listening Ministry "Jesus Built My Hotrod"
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