What's up? Drive is like the heartbeat, and so a lot of what we do starts with the black lump. Music, whether it's just in the background of our fellowships or it's part of our communicating together with dance and and rhythm. Native Indigenous grandma raising me in the midst of a very urban environment or I grew up in the Bay Area, so it was an urban experience. I didn't really understand the cultural parts of it. I just understood that I was part of it. But what that meant, I didn't know. So I began the journey. We move to Oklahoma with our family and now it's real. The Osage relatives, the Pottawatomie relatives. I'm out here in the culture. Another round of applause for MC1. Man, while we're proud of you, bro, my day job, if you will, is I have a youth consulting company where I work with Indigenous youth programs nationwide. That's such a like a full circle moment to be able to work with the Thunder and the youth that I serve and all the other communities. It's like you're a conduit. So as you water, you get watered in the process. The payoff of a hot timeout and the places electric is still. Not as exciting as a young person seeing hope for the first time and realizing that maybe their trajectory could change for the positive. The fact that the Thunder is not just making representation at the show level, but being willing to do that for the youth and invite them into the arena and let them touch the hardwood, let them shoot a goal. I mean that's that's that special. These are dreams coming true, slowly but surely pointing in the right direction. We try to also be unapologetically indigenous even in non-native spaces once you tap into. Who you are, it's who you are, wherever you are. It's so fulfilling to have an organization the size of the Thunder and the NBA to take the time to make sure that representation space is made for you. Thankful for the Thunder that we get to do it full blast.
