Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection right here on K one,
Speaker 1: the one you and we've got our friends here from
Speaker 1: the Delaware Tribe of the Indians. Day and Devin, how
Speaker 1: are you doing.
Speaker 2: Bud fantastic? How are you well?
Speaker 1: I'm doing okie doke, but I understand we could get
Speaker 1: a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Weller, Yeah, no joke.
Speaker 1: You brought friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So I've got Cody Blackman with me here, the wellness
Speaker 3: director for the Delaware Tribe.
Speaker 4: Are you doing, Cody doing all right? How about yourself?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, like I said, I could, I could
Speaker 1: be a little bit better on the well side. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be taking notes here today because I get
Speaker 1: the fil she's smart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and she knows a thing or two, especially
Speaker 3: whenever it comes to getting you fit.
Speaker 1: We'll tell us a little bit about what's going on
Speaker 1: with the wellness program.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: Well, Saturday, we will be having our first annual five
Speaker 5: K back to school bash.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a fun run walk.
Speaker 5: Also, it's for us that don't like to run, and
Speaker 5: we're gonna have a lot of activities and stuff for kids.
Speaker 5: Just make it fun before they have to go back
Speaker 5: to their nine to five just like we do.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like a hey, let's go we
Speaker 1: before we let's go study. Yea, So this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. But then again, you get
Speaker 1: a lot of movement, you get a lot of exercise,
Speaker 1: and it looks like the weather's going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit a little bit more well better for all
Speaker 1: this because we're going to be in the eighties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Beats one hundred degrees, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Anytime, anytime. So this is going to be a big
Speaker 1: to do. But what do we do on the regular here?
Speaker 1: As far as the wellness program? How available is it
Speaker 1: to the tribal members and to anybody else?
Speaker 5: All right, Delaware and Cherokee they are free to join.
Speaker 5: Other tribal is ten dollars a month and non tribal
Speaker 5: is twenty dollars a month. We're two dollars every time
Speaker 5: they want to come, and we don't do no contracts,
Speaker 5: so it's just pay as you go. Peyton, when you
Speaker 5: want to come, you can come.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, I like that. You know, you have that
Speaker 1: wonderful facility down there on the Tuxedo. The East part
Speaker 1: of town right across kitty Corn from the fire station.
Speaker 1: That is a beautiful campus. How blessed are you?
Speaker 4: Very blessed? We we have a lot to offer the tribe.
Speaker 1: I understand that they've been expanding there in the wellness area. Yes,
Speaker 1: what's been going on, Well.
Speaker 4: Just a lot. There's a lot going on.
Speaker 5: We hopefully to be having a new facility in the next.
Speaker 4: Couple of years. I'll leave it at that. I don't
Speaker 4: want to get well.
Speaker 1: I understand where you yet to turn. Yeah, he kind
Speaker 1: of hit gave me the hint that.
Speaker 5: The Yeah, I am super stoked. I'm ready for some
Speaker 5: more room to offer more and bring a younger generation
Speaker 5: in also with our elders.
Speaker 4: And I think it'll be very helpful.
Speaker 5: I guess teaching people, you know that it's okay to
Speaker 5: be healthy. We grew up a lot of us in
Speaker 5: a generation where that wasn't taught.
Speaker 1: O what he even thought of it days it is
Speaker 1: all good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, vegetables, yeah, yeah, fried chicken, Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm in the room. That's my favorite thing
Speaker 1: of all. But I have to, you know, limit it
Speaker 1: to three times a week instead of every day. But
Speaker 1: you know the thing is is that wellness is basically
Speaker 1: a plan for life, yes, and long life is that.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's a lifestyle. You know a lot of people
Speaker 5: say I'm gonna go on a diet. You need to
Speaker 5: go for lifestyle change instead of a diet. A diet's
Speaker 5: easy to quit and you want to do a lifestyle change.
Speaker 1: I prove it.
Speaker 5: Yes, So yeah, it's it's nice to be able to.
Speaker 4: Share that with others and help others. I really enjoy that.
Speaker 1: And you've been with the tribe for a good long
Speaker 1: time in shop young man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when of our work there, I was a housing specialist,
Speaker 3: and you know, I've there's always stuff going on with
Speaker 3: the Delaware Tribe, and so now to be in this position,
Speaker 3: it's amazing to see, excuse me, it's amazing to see
Speaker 3: that nothing ever quits there, Like there's something always going on,
Speaker 3: plans in the works, and so I'm super thankful to
Speaker 3: still be a part of it and help them grow
Speaker 3: because like, for instance, to kind of get back into
Speaker 3: the back to school bash. You know, it's not easy
Speaker 3: to get up and show up to a place at
Speaker 3: seven thirty in the morning to go do a run,
Speaker 3: but at the end of it, you feel so much
Speaker 3: better and I think that's something that a lot of
Speaker 3: people forget, is that after you're done exercising or going
Speaker 3: through that that hard part, you get the relief and
Speaker 3: satisfaction of knowing that you put your best foot forward
Speaker 3: and your body responds to that, and something like this
Speaker 3: with the five K also the phone run as well.
Speaker 3: I'll be a part of that one because look, it's
Speaker 3: been a while since I've been running. But it gives
Speaker 3: people an opportunity in the community to be able to
Speaker 3: come together and do what's most important, which is take
Speaker 3: care of your body.
Speaker 2: So it'll be fun to see.
Speaker 1: Now with our big to do coming up on Saturday,
Speaker 1: do we register at the point or can we go online?
Speaker 1: Or how do we do this?
Speaker 4: You can go online. You can go to run sign
Speaker 4: up dot com.
Speaker 1: Run sign up dot com.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you can register there to Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: You'll get a free T shirt if you go online
Speaker 3: and sign up though, oh yes, that's important to know.
Speaker 1: On Yeah, good, Well, this is gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun and you've got to probably see a lot
Speaker 1: of new faces, absolutely, and you know the area where
Speaker 1: you are, it's absolutely beautiful, folks. If you've never been by,
Speaker 1: please do and you know, the tribal headquarters is a
Speaker 1: very welcoming place. You've been putting together that cooling station here, Yes,
Speaker 1: over there, that's been getting little bit of work out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been staying pretty steady.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has been.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They they offer a lot there and a lot for
Speaker 5: our community.
Speaker 4: And it's not just for tribal members either.
Speaker 5: We like to help anybody that we can in different departments. Now,
Speaker 5: different departments they offer different things. So yeah, they it's
Speaker 5: a good place to work.
Speaker 1: Now. You you were setted there for quite a while.
Speaker 1: Once you get inside the doors, there's a lot. There's
Speaker 1: a lot no going on, but it's actually kind of
Speaker 1: bigger on the inside and it looks on the outside.
Speaker 3: Every department I feel like has the number one. That's
Speaker 3: a never ending job because there's always something new that
Speaker 3: comes up or takes place, and so being able to
Speaker 3: make adjustments. I feel like it's a major part of
Speaker 3: what they do. And you know you were talking about
Speaker 3: cooling off. That is actually something that people will be
Speaker 3: able to do on Saturday because we're gonna have snow cones,
Speaker 3: bounce houses, dun't tank, so it'll be a great time.
Speaker 3: Not just run your heart out. You know, you can
Speaker 3: also relax and enjoy some time with your family.
Speaker 1: Very good. Anyway, it comes to the campus there, not
Speaker 1: only do you have your resources there too, don't you
Speaker 1: have a little place in there where can maybe spend
Speaker 1: a little money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that would be a great point for the
Speaker 3: Lenape Reserve.
Speaker 1: There you go and do a little run and do
Speaker 1: a little shopping.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you that place.
Speaker 3: We just had the Bartlesville radio station auction weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and everything that they put up, you know, sold like
Speaker 3: it was hotcakes. And I don't know, there's so many
Speaker 3: unique items down there. I personally love their hats h
Speaker 3: and also the shoes are are amazing.
Speaker 1: But either way they check out those those look pretty fly.
Speaker 3: It is like, and my thing is, I don't have
Speaker 3: much style, but I know if I wore those, you know,
Speaker 3: I can pull it off.
Speaker 1: Let's get back into wellness. You've got a website there.
Speaker 1: The companies are just about everything the tribe does. Do
Speaker 1: you do We have a special wellness section on the website.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is bringing in here big time better wee.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, there is, and it breaks everything down, like
Speaker 5: what I just told you that, you know, non tribal
Speaker 5: and tribal, and uh, I do believe it has the
Speaker 5: cost on there, sure, but.
Speaker 1: When it comes to a day in and day out,
Speaker 1: I mean it's more than just a little bit of extra.
Speaker 1: So you said, it's a plan for for for being
Speaker 1: alive and enjoying life too, adopting a different lifestyle.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: People don't really realize how kind of easy that part
Speaker 1: can be. But once you get going for about two
Speaker 1: or three days, you're wondering, why was I doing that
Speaker 1: other stuff?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Because you feel yeah, yeah, you you you feel so
Speaker 6: much better instantly almost you change tweak, you know, just
Speaker 6: your diet a little bit, and you can see a difference,
Speaker 6: and you add a little you know, physical activity in there,
Speaker 6: and it'll start changing in your body.
Speaker 4: I have this posted in my office that.
Speaker 5: In four weeks you can change, you can feel a difference,
Speaker 5: and in six weeks other people can start telling that
Speaker 5: you've you know, changed something and you're doing something different.
Speaker 1: I keep them talking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but it is most definitely you find what
Speaker 5: fits you and what works best for you, because there's
Speaker 5: all kinds of stuff out there and just you know,
Speaker 5: the main thing is is be moving, get your cardio in,
Speaker 5: you know, get you in twenty minutes cardio every day
Speaker 5: at least if you don't want to lift weights or
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 1: That is very important. I didn't realize that until I
Speaker 1: had become kind of sedentary at one point in my life.
Speaker 1: I've did an athlete hard to believe, but I was.
Speaker 1: And after a while, you know, I got kind of
Speaker 1: used to just kind of slowing down and I don't
Speaker 1: have to run two miles every day just because some
Speaker 1: coaches told me I got to run two miles every
Speaker 1: day something. I gotta run two miles every day? How
Speaker 1: do you like me? Now? And then you know all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and I went through all that kind of
Speaker 1: withdraw and then all of a sudden, you know, you
Speaker 1: go from one eighty to two twenty. It didn't take long.
Speaker 1: It's like, how did this happen? Right? In two miles
Speaker 1: a day? That was part of it. But the other
Speaker 1: part was I wasn't moving at all. You know, if
Speaker 1: I didn't, I was a bona fide certified and had
Speaker 1: papers on me. Test pilot for lazy Boy. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: I could comment here that that recliner like you never
Speaker 1: would think, but getting back into moving. My doctor had
Speaker 1: long talk with me. You know, you got to move.
Speaker 1: I said, well, how much? She said, as much as
Speaker 1: you possibly can without killing yourself, because the difference between
Speaker 1: being able to get in a chair and out of
Speaker 1: a chair is the difference as to whether or not
Speaker 1: you're going to be living at home or assisted living.
Speaker 1: And I'm starting to think, oh, well, it's that stark,
Speaker 1: and it is that stark. It is just if you
Speaker 1: can just walk around the block, you can do you know,
Speaker 1: a little this and a little that. Little like you said,
Speaker 1: little changes along the way can lead to bigger changes
Speaker 1: down the road.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, a lot excited again, Yeah, well, as you should.
Speaker 4: You should be excited to feel better. Start small.
Speaker 5: A lot of people set goals that are unrealistic in
Speaker 5: the beginning and then they get discouraged.
Speaker 4: Start small and build your way up.
Speaker 5: Twenty minutes a day, like you said, walk around the
Speaker 5: block as long as you get your blood pumping and moving,
Speaker 5: which helps all your organs, and you'll just feel a
Speaker 5: lot better.
Speaker 1: And for all you folks who have a treadmill at
Speaker 1: home or one of those gazelle things, that's not for
Speaker 1: hanging your clothes, all right, right. Oh what, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: got a different function. When it's too darn hot or
Speaker 1: too darn cold, those things come in handy.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just too dang dark and you didn't get
Speaker 1: it in. But those things they don't cost a whole lot.
Speaker 1: But if you've got one hanging around, and lord knows,
Speaker 1: most of us kind of do one way or another.
Speaker 1: Take the clothes off there, get the hangars off there,
Speaker 1: and get your fantany.
Speaker 4: On it for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh my, how can we find out more about what's
Speaker 1: going on? You got a Facebook page too?
Speaker 5: Yes, we have a Facebook page. It's on the Delaware
Speaker 5: Tribe of end Ends. And then there's a wellness face
Speaker 5: page and Facebook page, I guess face page, and then
Speaker 5: you can also go to the run sign up dot
Speaker 5: com and there's information there also.
Speaker 1: Saturday seven o'clock right, the five.
Speaker 5: K starts at seven point thirty and the fun run
Speaker 5: walk is at seven.
Speaker 1: Wonderful.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for being with us, absolutely, thanks for having
Speaker 4: me