good morning Dwayne here Dry Creek Wrangler school December 25th 2022 so I want to wish you guys a Merry Christmas hoping everybody's getting through that storm that came through the country we had a bada 45 degree drop in temperature over a matter of just six or seven hours and so we've spent the last three days out here busting up water and Hauling water and five gallon buckets and putting hay out and but I think I think for us anyhow it's uh it's about past it's doing better so I want to ask you I want to
ask you a question all right what makes you uniquely you I think a lot of times folks especially young folks who I tend to empathize with and speak to more often they're not comfortable because they're going along with a society that's around them and they're trying to fit in the framework of what everyone around them or on whatever social media they're on says that they should be how they should look how they should conduct themselves and you can't be comfortable with yourself if you don't know who yourself is and you can't know who yourself is
if you don't stop looking at how everybody around you is uh and start looking at what makes you comfortable and What Makes You uniquely you there's roughly close to I guess about 8 billion people on this planet uh but there's only one you uh would you stand out in the crowd not in a bad way uh what makes you you doesn't need to be something that's immoral or obnoxious or uh or uncomfortable but just uniquely you just you now I get a lot of comments on there on the channel a lot about my wardrobe I
spent a lot of years in Alaska a lot of years riding in Alaska and then riding you know in Wyoming and Colorado and other places and over the years I've developed me me what works for me what I like what I'm comfortable with whether it be my wardrobe whether it be the beard whether it be the hair whether it be the rifles and the handguns that I carry when I'm hunting and out in the woods whatever it is it's me and I don't ask what is everybody around me doing and so that's what I need
to do when I went and got the job in Colorado I guess it was last summer um and uh well summer before last uh when I showed up I was me and I had the Filson vests and I had a big old long beard I had the black this is my winter um hat uh resist all 7x and uh I saw no need to change I saw no need to go start buying uh short sleeve Pearl snap shirts and and straw hats Square toed Cayman boots and I saw no need to change I was me
and I could Cowboy uh being me the same as I could Cowboy trying to look like somebody else uh the eye shaved the beard after a while because during branding and that time of year we spent a lot of time out in the in the lots and in the pins with the cattle and there was so much wind and so much dust that it just stayed dirty all the time and I couldn't I couldn't keep it decent I couldn't keep it nice and so I shaved it because that's what I needed to do for me
but then when I got to where it was practical again I grew up back out why because it's me um because it's me and you'll not find um what's the word I want confidence in yourself if you don't know who yourself is you won't find confidence in yourself if you're so busy trying to figure out what everybody around you thinks you ought to be and then match that because you're not going to make people around you happy you're not going to okay um and uh so you need to be you uh young ladies uh if
there's any young ladies watching this uh right now um Society social media says that you need to dress and conduct yourself like you're making money on a street corner in L.A somewhere and you're like there's something deep inside of you that's like ah it's kind of cheap I don't know don't do it don't do it be you be you okay don't let social media and culture and television and media tell you how you should be and what you should be and who you should be now again there are people who will use that as an
excuse to be immoral or to be obnoxious or to be hateful or to be irritating I'm not talking about that okay I think if you've watched any of my videos you you know I'm not I'm not talking about that um I'll give an example here that my wife has warned me I should not give and I'm probably going to regret it because my wife is the wiser of the two and usually when I don't follow her advice I pay for it uh but I'm going today is December 25th it's Christmas Day now my last name
is n-o-e-l we pronounce it Noel but there's others who pronounce it Noel my last name literally means Christmas that's what it means now listen to what I'm saying and listen to all of my words when I say this okay I don't celebrate Christmas now we bought some Christmas gifts for the grandkids we don't I don't have a problem with Christmas I don't have a problem with Christmas I don't have a problem with those who celebrate Christmas and when people say wish me a merry Christmas I happily wish it back I hope you do have a
Merry Christmas uh it's good am I a Christian yes I am do I believe uh in the birth of Jesus Christ yes I do do I believe he was born of a virgin do I believe in Bethlehem and all of course I do absolutely I do um but I think over the years we've become lockstep and we've completely lost what it's about and I got to the point where I said you know if a Christian is only a Christian on Christmas and Easter is he really even a Christian and uh and then you know all
the other stuff I read too much I used to read a lot study too much and knowledge is a burden and a lot of our Christmas traditions I studied out where they came from and where they actually began which was long before um what we recognized today and I'm like you know what I don't I don't really want to carry on that and so but my point is not that you shouldn't do it my point is this is me and although I'm in a culture and in a society where everybody's doing it I don't do
it I'm perfectly fine with everybody else doing it but I'm just not comfortable with it I'm me I haven't had a Christmas tree in 20 years yeah my cigar went out um so you just be confident in you when when my wife and I we go when we go out we go shopping I try not to separate which means I'll follow her through the groceries I'll follow her through the vegetable aisle and I follow her through all that because um if we separate invariably with my bad knee I'm limping all over the store trying to
find her uh and uh but sometimes we get separated and she comes looking for me and she never has any trouble finding me because I kind of stand out all right I kind of stand out um I I don't look like the Sheep all right I'm me I want to wear an old black felt hat I do I want a beard I grow it oh my hair is getting kind of long yeah it is what are you gonna do nothing mama likes it I like it it's different than what everybody around me is doing is
definitely different in the cowboy world you won't find another horse trainer on YouTube that looks like I do or sounds like I do or does like I do and I'm not intimidated by that okay I'm me my videos I have folks who very kindly uh get on and say hey I I want to help you for a small fee I want to help you edit your videos don't want my videos edited all right we like the way it is we uh we get on there you can tell this cigar is half gone I usually start
a cigar when we start a video so if we get on you say doing that Dwayne cigar is about half gone and you can say they've started that video over what do we do four or five times uh We've started the video over and because we like the way we do it we get on we do one take we got something on our mind something on our heart we share it with you calm and easy we don't do a lot of cuts we don't do a lot of frenetic motion we don't do a lot of
music we don't have a lot of we just don't this is the way we like this is the way we like to do it and we've found that being us it works um it's not a bad thing to be unique it's not a bad thing to be different it's not a bad thing to be comfortable with yourself regardless of what everybody else around you is doing okay so anyhow just want to encourage you with that what is this cigar this morning this is an underground Maduro okay this was sent to me by the cigar place
I've mentioned them before in some of the videos the cigar place is is where I am now buying all my online cigars anything I don't get from a local brick and mortar I get from the cigar place um this is an underground Maduro interesting story about this this is put out by Drew Estates Jewish States also puts out what is probably my favorite um top shelf cigar which is The Leaguer provider number nine now the problem they had when these legal providers came out was the rollers on the floor was smoking them while they were
rolling cigars and so the owners came in and said hey you know we you can't be doing that Leaguer Bravada translated is Special Blend so they had special leaves and they only have them you know so often and and so they're like we you can't be doing that so the rollers my understanding is the rollers came up with this blend to mimic the legal provider with more common more accessible tobacco leaves the wrapper on this is a San Andreas Maduro and which I really like a San Andreas so it's it's a working man's League of
Bravada let's let's do it like that okay uh there's some there's similarities in the flavor it is uh a definite step down just one step down as far as the strength that's not as strong as the league of Bravada number nine but it's a really good cigar and so I wanna I wanna thank cigar place I want to thank them for sending it to me and uh so I just I hope you guys have a have a good rest of the season and we do wish you all the best and don't don't forget Mama's got
her new channel now at Dry Creek mama and she'll be putting the link in the description there I have a rumble Channel now for those who don't know yet and that's where I do a lot more of the the cigar and pipe content and we just did one today I had a lot of requests on talking about growing a beard a lot of guys said hey you know talk about growing and taking care of a beard and everything we just did one there putting that over on Rumble so if you want to go check that
out mom will be putting that link in there too and we do have a patreon account if you uh for those of you who want to to support what we're trying to do here and and we're trying to help folks so um again we wish you all the best and we'll catch you all next time
