While I was hiking the Florida Trail, I got sick and ended up in a motel room in Palatka, Florida. I was hanging out in the motel, flipping through stations, when I happen upon a show featuring large women with very long hair and long skirts singing and playing the guitar. Then a large older woman stands up at the podium and starts talking. Only every once in awhile she just starts talking gibberish. Like, ” yokumah, leakum, radooo, vohalla! Oh yes, Lord, vuhallah!” . After she was done talking/gibbering the other women would start singing and playing the guitar for awhile.
I had never seen anything like it and couldn’t turn away.
Someone told me his parents use the term “going to Palatka” as a euphemism for death.
Sounds like it was a Christian channel/show where the older woman was exhibiting glossolalia (aka: speaking in tongues)? Weird stuff indeed.