“I GREW UP ON A RESERVATION”

Therapy Gecko

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Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A caller raised on a Native American reservation tells me about his experience growing up around his family’s drug business. Then a caller has hesitations about meeting a guy from the internet who’s coming to stay with her for the weekend, and in a full circle moment, that very guy calls in to speak about his perspective on meeting the previous caller. The Bloomin’ Onion at Outback Steakhouse is 3,080 calories. I am a gecko.

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0:00.0	call from...
0:01.0	What's your own talk sate?
0:02.0	Hello?
0:03.0	Hi, what's your name?
0:07.0	Um, well, you can call me Cam because I mean, I'm sure my name is kind of hard to pronounce.
0:13.0	What's your name?
0:15.0	Ratiron Tug sate.
0:18.0	Raguer, say one more time.
0:20.0	Rachir,
0:21.0	Rachir, and,
0:22.0	Rachir, okay. Ratiran, Pagsate.
0:24.0	Ratiran, Pagsate?
0:27.0	Yes.
0:28.0	Why, why'd you shorten that to CAM?
0:30.0	Well, um, so it's, it's a long story. Uh, so it's a long story. So I grew up in a part of the Iroquois Confederacy and basically, I'm Mohawk native so we have names that are given to us by shaman and then
0:51.1	we have our birth certificate names which is usually Americanized.
0:56.0	Oh, okay, so your Americanized birth certificate name is CAM and your real name is the other one?
1:03.3	Yes, exactly.
1:04.8	What do your friends call you?
1:07.6	Oh, they just call me Cam.
1:10.0	Does anyone call you by your real name?
1:25.0	Um, no, because I mean, I moved out a little bit ago, um, just off the border of our reservation, uh, about nine years ago, I would say. reservation about to turn 19.
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