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I Tell Stories Podcast covers a wide range of topics discussed by Colt Draine and Owen "The Mic" McMichael. From the scourge on humanity of violent business hippies and Scott Baio to peculiar Serbian Mother's Day traditions,the boys offer their unique perspective. Revolutionary artists,legends of folklore and bizzare following of fast food items are just a few of the subjects touched on. I Tell Stories aims to bring attention to individuals and occerrences that are too interesting to be forgotten. Two long time friends who keep each other laughing give listeners their take on the world. Everyone has a story, these are ours and those of many others.
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Graduation Traditions: The World is Yours?
Ahoy, hoy, ahoy to you, my friend and uh. Congratulations, man, uh, I guess, on all you've accomplished and you know all the things you've learned over these years. You have applied it into your shop, which is Boogie's Bodega, located on First Avenue North in Billings, montana, and I just you know. I think it's something to celebrate.
Speaker 2:Well thanks, man, I appreciate it. And something to celebrate. Well thanks, man, I appreciate it. And I appreciate the shameless plug Clowns. And it was recently the one-year anniversary. But more recently, colt's daughter, damara, graduated from high school.
Speaker 2:Yeah she did. Congratulations, kiddo. I couldn't be prouder of you. I feel the same way. Hell, yeah, that would be it from the time we were building forts to now you're off to college and, yeah, just can't overstate how awesome I think you're doing. And, uh, yeah, thank you for always being a pleasant child to be around too, because because some are not, but Tamara was always awesome. I think we were more childish than she was when she was five.
Speaker 1:But that's yeah, that's pretty realistic there Also the fact that I think she was like about five or six when she Wu-Tang Forever and throwing up the W.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can't forget these things. Or her incredible combination of words when she was coming at you A tackle I remember that one was pretty good. Wow, yeah, so we're talking. We sound like old people.
Speaker 2:But congratulations, kiddo. We kind of are old people Owen. I suppose we are yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever, fuck it Denial ain't just the river in Egypt, right? For real, though, I agree with that statement. So we're talking about graduations, people. So now you've graduated in your knowledge of knowing what this episode is about, and congratulations to you. Out there in podcast landia Yay.
Speaker 2:Oh, and I must say and I can't confirm this, but you know, I think it's a good thing that DeMar graduated in Washington, because I think in Montana it's tradition that they beat you with a log for going to that damned learning place.
Speaker 1:So or you read about books, or in books what? What are books? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Anyway, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if they've removed any books from schools in Montana, but it seems like it's a thing that would happen there.
Speaker 2:Just the ones with words, sorry. Picture books are fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all you need to know is keynote symbols, anyway. Anyway, all right guys. Hey, montana, how you doing today? The first graduation ceremonies. They're very formal, religious and Latin-filled affairs. Okay, owen, they date back to medieval Europe, kind of. So they say specifically in everything I read that it was around the 12th or 13th century. The earliest universities like Oxford, paris and Boulogne, they were founded around that time.
Speaker 1:My friend, the stuff that they would do, you know, were more closely related to like religious stuff, I guess, like so, like clerical rituals is what they call them, you know, were like priests and and scribes that were just regurgitating quotes from the bible or whatever they thought at the moment in time and believed in, and all these things and whatnot.
Speaker 1:So that's, that was the beginning of the sort of graduation as we know it, except for it was more of like a one-off thing, you know, because they didn't have I don't know if that's even the right way to say that, but they didn't have like big classes. It would be like, you know, a bunch of monks, you know, and one of them would complete their quest for knowledge, and then maybe he'd go on some sort of travel where he would, you know, preach and do things or find a new place to occupy beyond the monastery where they learned everything, and that was basically graduation. I think, like with a lot of this stuff, especially with, you know, the Catholic church style, which is what it was back then, it was more, like, you know, they would get like some sort of relic-ish type thing, not even a relic, like a scarf. That was like, hey, you know these things, you're allowed to tell people about God in these ways, right? So I don't know if you read anything about that, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:What do you think about that? That sounds about spot on, does it not?
Speaker 2:That sounds about spot on it does. Yeah. And then I did see, you know, moving forward to I think it was 1912, the Naval Academy, the US Naval Academy, apparently started the tradition of throwing your hat or your cap. I should say Before that it was not yours, you had to give it back. So it would be frowned upon to toss the academy's cap, but apparently that's where that tradition began. And then, of course, pomp and circumstance is always played, and that started with Yale University.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I seem to remember like having to give back something at my graduation, like they gave us something we weren't allowed to keep. That I thought we really should have, but I can't quite recall, to be honest with you, because you know, as we, I'm old.
Speaker 2:I don't know. One of my last days at high school was planting schwag seeds all over, just hoping at least one would grow.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, yeah, we that's. That's amazing, I think the statute of limitations on that is yeah, and you were a minor.
Speaker 1:It's california yeah, for real, right. Yeah, we used to. We had an urban egg class in horticulture or whatnot, and, uh, there was a greenhouse. Well, of course, we would be like finding little spots to plant seeds all the time. The teacher would always find them, though, and you know they couldn't do anything about it if nobody said who did it. So, like we just kept doing it. It's like what do you expect? All right, like, hey, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Give us the old college try in high school Right.
Speaker 1:Like what would we have even done if it started like budding and just stinking? And then like what are you going to do? You know, we were thinking that we were just trying to like see if we can grow some weed in school kind of guys. All right, give us a fucking break here, yeah. Yeah, so that doesn't sound, you know. It sounds like quite the transformation from the religious order which, like I said was wasn't even necessarily academic all the way.
Speaker 1:A lot of it was more about like rituals and such you know, so and basically, like the degree was the license to teach and whatever right I I understand that you did. Did find a couple other ones there. You know, the one, the one about yale, was slightly disturbing and I wanted to hear your version of it because I had kind of heard another one in a way, but very, very, very similar for real.
Speaker 2:Well, there's a statue right of a former president of Yale, or a bronze statue.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was the President, theodore Dwight Woolsey's bronze statue.
Speaker 2:And not like entirely clear, but something about not just like rubbing the foot but upper class and hoping to graduate with dead and urinate on the foot of the statue. And I didn't dive too deep into it as I didn't want to vomit up lunch. But hey, traditions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't want to be attacked by any Yalians, so no, yeah, that that's pretty much what I heard the in their pamphlets uh, pamphlets, I read that they state that like the tradition or on their website, wherever the fuck it is. Does anybody have pamphlets anymore? I don't know anyway, only the space is fake people. Yeah, those guys and their cardboard signs.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So what they say is that when people graduate they kiss the foot. Oh, right, right, yeah. But that's not the case in all reality. Everybody that went to Yale or knows of these things like from somebody they know or whatever. They all piss on the foot On the statue.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, yeah, and they said that it's been happening for so long that the on the foot On the statue yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then they Fuck that, yeah, and they said that it's been happening for so long that the bronze statue has a very distinct yellow discoloration. The reasoning behind it. Mama kept falling yeah, yeah, right, I know, isn't that interesting? Pretty fascinating Us humans, you know. Think about your dogs, guys, you know. Pretty fascinating us humans, you know. And think about your dogs, guys, you know.
Speaker 2:Think about when you get all mad at them. Here we are peeing on statues, all right, we're not. I'm not, I don't know. I haven't even been to yale. I can't speak for cult but I have not either.
Speaker 1:I did not attend and I've never even. No, none of it. Uh, I have definitely. I don't know if I've ever peed on a statue I've definitely don't think I have, I do not recall I've peed on a lot of things though a lot of tires, and this is taking a very educational.
Speaker 1:Third, hey, you're on the side of the road, you know it is what it is. Guys, uh, cooey can testify. Owen's a friend, a friend of the show. We've heard many stories he's he travels a lot, so he has plenty of holy shit. I have to go the bathroom stories, just like me. Uh, the, the, the legend of the, the well, woosley, I don't even know how to say this guy's name. I'm sorry, guys, my bad. Uh, when he was president, he would attend like a regatta, uh, to support the yale crew team, and every during that he would kick off a boat with his left toe to start the race, and then, and they, it became a good luck thing that when he would do that, the Yale team would win. So that's basically where that comes from, although it has been said in multiple things that I that I read that it. It has no basis in fact. So all right. Anyway, argentinians take a similarly lighthearted approach. Owen, to commencement from university Graduates are not gifted with cards or flowers, but with a barrage of eggs, bottles of oil and bags of flour and anything else.
Speaker 1:The messier the better. But this reminds me of what we just read about weddings. Um, it's like a. Basically, they just yeah, this sticky, uh, this show, sticky pandemonium is a way to tease and draw playful attention to the graduates. That's what I, uh, that's what I discovered on my mission, but yeah, so apparently they pelt them with eggs and flour and oil. It sounds like they're getting ready to fry some chicken, like they're making like you know, I don't know bread, some chicken or something. My friend, let's see what else we got here on this fine day. We are in summer officially, aren't we now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I think we're a week into it. Yeah, I did see one that's fallen out of favor. Graduates of Notre Dame University would smoke with their professors on a porch of sorts.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, like weed.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so. It's in Indiana and I don't think Indiana's still cannabis-friendly. But, yeah, like pipes and cigarettes and cigars, I believe. But it is with smoking becoming, yeah, frowned upon. But that was an interesting one. I think, in New Jersey at least, when you graduate high school you're supposed to learn how to launder money for the principal. Again, I can't confirm that. What did?
Speaker 1:you say now which one? What school just anywhere in New Jersey? The principal Again, I can't confirm that. What did you say now which one? What school Just anywhere in New Jersey? Oh, I was like wait what I was like glancing at my notes and I caught that, All right, Woke up this morning, yeah, so that's entertaining. In Mexico they serenade their graduates with mariachi bands, which just seems badass. I bet you that would be fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and again anywhere with tacos and enchiladas and señoritas, I'm fine with attending. Well, not, although, yeah, most anywhere.
Speaker 1:Most anywhere. Well, that's, these are thoughts of Owen McMichael.
Speaker 2:Okay, guys, this is what he thinks about people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, deep thoughts, Not with Jack Handy. Owen McMichael huh, Jack Handy, what a guy. Not a real guy, but what a guy. No, he's a real guy. Yeah, but no, but wasn't his name different.
Speaker 2:No, he was a writer and they were making jokes about yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it was a pen name or something is what I'm getting at.
Speaker 2:No, I think it was his actual name.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they just like used his name to make fun of him. I cannot confirm that either, because we cannot confirm if our sources are functional, reliable, credible or even real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ty, you know, jeez, I'm with you. These days, you know, everybody acts like that's a fucking new thing, like people fibbing about things, or like, you know, having an article that's false or biased or whatever, like pretty sure, if you look into it, that shit's been going on forever. Sorry, just thinking about it, I would have to go as far as like saying that there's been times where it was possibly worse, but maybe not. Nonetheless, oxford in the UK does a similar thing to what they do in Argentina, but they call it trashing. So it has to do because because of the opulent nature of the university it's kind of controversial. But then also they do it to like kind of you know, just, I guess at the end of the day they do it just to kind of like make a mess and be like, hey, fuck, you guys Go succeed, it'll get better from here. I guess. I don't know, but they make sure nowadays that all their trash is biodegradable because it became so controversial at Oxford University.
Speaker 2:Dang.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which? This is something everybody knows by now. So I'm going to regurgitate some Internet crap. Think everybody knows by now. So I'm gonna regurgitate some internet crap. Uh, oxford university was uh around, uh during the same, around the time of the height of the aztec empire, so they were operating at the same time actually. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense, though I mean it's like you know, they just said right there, oxford, I said, and they said, well, it came about around, you know, in the 1300s and you know columbus didn't get over that way to discover the americas, supposedly, which he only landed in jamaica. People just saying a bunch of jews discovered america. A lot of people don't know that. But at the end of the day, that was like 1492, so ox Oxford University had been around for a couple hundred years before Europeans even discovered the Americas.
Speaker 2:And before Billy passed the third grade. Oh, which was what a glorious day, Dude.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:Graduation cannot be mentioned without Billy Madison and the epic ballad. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, I'm glad you worked that in because you had mentioned it when we first brought up the episode. Billy Madison, you know now that I've matured slightly. I guess some of the stuff is coming out or whatever and it's an era thing, but overall that movie is great. I like a lot of the dumb humor in there, you know. It's just fantastic. Nonetheless, sorry. And plus Norm MacDonald's amazing. Anyway, oh, always.
Speaker 1:God rest. God rest indeed. Good old Norm MacDonald, american Treasure. He had some very weird jokes, yeah. I mean like one was like 9-11. Yeah, it reminds me of that other tragedy, me, and it's like what. But how he would do stuff like that. It was like a whole different style of comedy and it wasn't like meant to just be purely offensive, I guess, but it came off that way quite a bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've never heard that one yeah, it's from his stand-up stuff.
Speaker 1:I was reading actually about norm mcdonald jokes, just uh, in preparation for this episode for some reason. No, I'm just joking, anyway. So you know, I don't know, I graduated from high school. You think you did? I'm just joking.
Speaker 2:It's undetermined, but I definitely didn't walk Like well walked away, yeah, right before I graduated Grad. Like well, walked away, yeah.
Speaker 1:Right before I graduated, graduated from the school of hard knocks oh yeah, me too. Definitely, to an extent, I feel.
Speaker 2:I've lived places without imported prosciutto okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, alright, my bad dog, my bad, yeah, before graduation, that was, that's very American of you, owen McMichael. Before my graduation they weren't going to let me Like, for whatever reason they just didn't because I had been in trouble and stuff. I don't know if I was on probation at that time or anything like that, but they just randomly were like nope, you're not able to because whatever reason I can't remember. And then like, so I was't remember. And then like, so I was there. And then they all like, like about five minutes before it all started, they told me I could come in the building and so that's kind of how it worked out. So I went from not being able to to being able to and that's my yeah, that's my graduation story, guys.
Speaker 1:Also. Uh, these days it's kind of crazy. I'm not trying to discourage anybody from like graduating high school, because I do believe like it is an accomplishment for real. Like going through school and finishing it to the full extent is a thing, guys, it really is. But I also know that there's plenty of people who just say they graduated high school when they put in job applications and it just nobody double checks that shit, dude, they really don't. And also, unfortunately, I don't feel that, uh, you know, being a high school graduate is a requirement to having a successful life or a happy one either.
Speaker 1:So, uh, if you didn't graduate high school or something of that nature, out there, my, my friends, don't let it hold you back. There's plenty of shit you can do, including lie on your job application. It may be the only time I encourage you to lie, but go ahead and do it on that one. So, hey, man, thanks for doing this episode. It was cool. We've been touching on some of our more real-life experiences. Owen, we're trying to get our fans out there, if you want to call them that, I mean, or I don't even know Whatever you guys are out there in podcast land, our friends.
Speaker 2:Our people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would like that better. I don't want fans. I like folks, man, in general I like our people. So all our people out there. We're trying to do these stories that are more in touch with what's going on in our lives. We're getting up close and personal ITS. I tell stories for life. You can check us out at pitlocksupplycom Maybe cop a shirt. If you're in Billings Montana, stop at Boogie's Bodega Cold Smoke. Boogie's Bodega you look up Cold Smoke because it is a newer business and it was you know under that for a while.
Speaker 1:So that's what it is. Uh, check owen out and hopefully just have a good day indeed much love everybody.
