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Far Off Sounds Ep 12 - Hollerin'
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First held in 1969 in Spivey’s Corner, North Carolina, the annual National Hollerin’ Contest is a daylong celebration of Southern American cultural heritage and preservation of an archaic means of long distance communication. Originally a method of delivering messages to workers out in the fields, contestants project their loudest, most entertaining vocal exclamations out into the audience to be judged accordingly. The result is a confounding mix of sophisticated vocal technique and wildly free outbursts.
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Ooh, wow.
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You heard.
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Yo, yo
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yo yo yo.
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Oh.
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Yo, yo.
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Hey, hey.
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Good morning, spouse\'s car.
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How is everybody today?
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Yes, yes.
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All right.
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I\'m here to talk
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a little bit about Paul Ryan
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and how we would love
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to have any or all
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of you when I finish, go
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over and sign up
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to holler your favorite
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part.
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I\'m a six time champion
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here and we need some familiar
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faces and blood and horses.
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And this contest
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is part now of the Hollerin
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Heritage Festival, where we\'re
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celebrating her past
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in ways the block that we
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enjoyed and treasured
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and appreciated.
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But we also want to remember
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hollerin was fun
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and everybody had their all cohesive
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way of communicating and
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brace yourself.
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My name is Tony Peacock.
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I\'m its Far East Corner, North
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Carolina, and I grew
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up about 10 miles from here
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where we started the National
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Hollering Contest in 1969.
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We try to preserve the traditional
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form of hollering that farmers
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used to communicate
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with one another.
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And today we\'re having the 47th
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Annual National Hollering Contest
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and National Hollering Festival.
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Ivey Henson from Fayetteville, our
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final contestant in the ladies
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column, is contestant
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number five and three from
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Ludington. CeeLo Frye,
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Ladies Juice many calls or
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hollers to communicate with family
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and community.
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They use functional calls to
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call me and from the fields for
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dinner first to get their attention.
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Well.
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And then the message to.
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Do.
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Do.
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And that would listen for a.
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Oh.
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Oh, and that let them know
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the message was received, who?
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What?
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Well.
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Oh, who?
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Oh, would.
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Oh, whoa,
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whoa, whoa, whoa,
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whoa, whoa.
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Oh.
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I\'m now going back to the Pyrenees
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mountains to do my holler where my
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holler originated from.
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It\'s a base for Cry
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You.
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Moby, I did.
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It was the way of life to say
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good morning, to say I need
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help, to let your girlfriend
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know you are coming over to her
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house
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and to say I\'m glad I\'m alive
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and make it through the workday.
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And now we\'re going to start the
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2015 men\'s
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national Hancock Towers,
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so we\'ve got not just as a share.
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Let\'s go ahead. Get started.
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PROTESTER number six a one
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from Fayetteville Jim Grass.
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Yes. Well, let me start off a little
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bit. When I was a youngster,
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we used to be out playing in the
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cotton mill village is back home
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and the grandma used to call us in
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for supper.
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So something like this?
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And when I saw back then who?
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Let her know that I was on the way
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in,
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I told my wife about his daughter,
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the Hollywood contest, and she said,
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Do you know how to?
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I said, Yes, all the best to you.
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She said, Who told you?
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I sent you?
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But I must start out with my
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friends, all my friends, Harlots
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when my momma used to work
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in the bar.
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Bah, bah,
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bah.
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But the sorting out
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is where we\'d be rather hard in
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dollars out. Yeah, and I\'m counting
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the dollars, obviously around
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eight
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eight
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eight eight eight eight
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eight.
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I became
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the first
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ladies general willing to trade
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going the
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competition over, but we got one
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more person. They\'ll come up here
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and holler going, Hey, you don\'t
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try to see if they can reach from
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many to Murphy.
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He didn\'t make it in time.
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He\'s no Lord.
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He got louder.
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George Bell, can you believe he got
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lost? Well, we know we are in the
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country.
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We\'re in downtown Chicago.
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I believe the very first empowering
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contest and mapping six to nine of
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our cars.
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You know, as I look back on
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the opening hollering
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and that\'s what we\'re trying to
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preserve, holler our.
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And some people say it\'s lower,
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but you know, what we\'re trying to
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do is bring back and preserve the
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old Tommy Howard of Harlem.
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This is what America.
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This is true.
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Rural eastern North
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Carolina.
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Ow, ow,
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ow, ow, ow,
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ow, ow.
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Oh, boo, hoo
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hoo hoo.
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Oh, oh.
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Oh.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
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Men\'s national hollering contest
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winner for 2015
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goes to from Don
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Larry Jackson.
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Oh, yeah,
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oh yeah.
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Oh, remember, preserve the heritage
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of it, holler, and we want to see
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even more of you next year.
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God bless you.
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Oh.
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Oh, whoa, oh,
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whoa, whoa.
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Oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh,
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oh,
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oh, oh,
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wow.
Distributor: Means TV
Length: 8 minutes
Date: 2018
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10-12, College, Adults
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